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Traditional open surgical approaches for hypopharyngeal carcinomas carry a great risk of developing treatment-related morbidity.Transoral robotic surgery (TORS) is an established treatment modality for head and neck cancer and can minimise this morbidity.Owing to the access and improved flexibility of the robotic system, hypopharyngeal tumours can

Spin foam vertex amplitudes are the key ingredient of spin foam models for quantum gravity.These fall into the realm of discretized path integral, and can be seen as generalized lattice gauge theories.They can be seen as an attempt at a 4-dimensional generalization of the Ponzano-Regge model for 3d quantum gravity.We motivate and review the constru

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