Influence of Vertical Facial Growth Pattern on Herbst Appliance Effects in Prepubertal Patients: A Retrospective Controlled Study by Maria Rita Giuca, Marco Pasini, Sara Drago, Leonardo Del Corso, Arianna Vanni, Elisabetta Carli, Antonio Manni

“…The Herbst device is widely used for correction of class II malocclusions; however, most of the researches carried out on the Herbst appliance in literature do not take into account patients with a different mandibular divergence. …”
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Intra- and Extracranial MR Venography: Technical Notes, Clinical Application, and Imaging Development by M. Paoletti, G. Germani, R. De Icco, C. Asteggiano, P. Zamboni, S. Bastianello

“…Total scanning time is reasonable for clinical applications: approximately seven minutes is allocated for the contrast protocol (most of which is due to 2D Cine PC), while the noncontrast protocol accounts for around twenty minutes. We believe that a short though exhaustive MRI scan of the whole intra- and extracranial venous drainage system can be valuable for a variety of pathologic conditions, given the possible venous implication in several neurological conditions.…”
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Anomalous Left Coronary Artery Connected to the Pulmonary Artery in a 15-Year-Old Girl: Case Report and Discussion on Secondary Prevention of Sudden Death by Jérémy Laïk, Virginie Fouilloux, Philippe Aldebert, Linda Koutbi, Jérôme Hourdain, Philippe De Swardt, Fabrice Tiger, Anne Bellemain-Appaix, François Bernasconi, Laurent Jacq

“…Cardiac MRI is an essential tool in the identification of a potential rhythmic substrate and should be taken into account in the discussion of a preventive cardioverter-defibrillator implantation.…”
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3D Nonequilibrium Ionization and Spectroscopic Modeling of Coronal Mass Ejections. I. Comparison with Hinode/EIS Observations by E. M. Wraback, E. Landi, W. B. Manchester, J. Szente

“…For the first time, we combined self-consistent nonequilibrium charge state calculations in the EUV spectral line synthesis for a CME simulation to account for the plasma departures from ionization equilibrium everywhere in the CME. …”
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Professional learning networks: a descriptive phenomenological study with primary school teachers in Greece by Ourania Maria Ventista, Stavroula Kaldi, Magdalini Kolokitha, Christos Govaris, Chris Brown

“…The key element of the participation was peer collaboration with openness of communication without attendant accountability pressures. The change was mainly identified in teacher skills and the school climate. …”
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Soil Creep Effect on Time-Dependent Deformation of Deep Braced Excavation by Panpan Guo, Gang Lei, Lina Luo, Xiaonan Gong, Yixian Wang, Baojian Li, Xunjian Hu, Haibo Hu

“…The additional lateral wall deflections and ground movements that are generated due to the soil creep effect can account for as large as 30% of the total displacements, which highlights the importance of considering the effect of soil creep in deep braced excavations through soft clays. …”
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Reported Diabetes Mellitus Prevalence Rates in the Colombia Healthcare System from 2009 to 2012: Analysis by Regions Using Data of the Official Information Sources by Noël C. Barengo, Diana Carolina Tamayo

“…Information on number of patients treated for DM was obtained by the Integral Information System of Social Protection (SISPRO), the registry of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection, and the High Cost Account (CAC), an organization to trace high expenditure diseases. …”
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A State of Charge Estimation Method for Lithium-Ion Battery Using PID Compensator-Based Adaptive Extended Kalman Filter by Zheng Liu, Yuan Qiu, Chunshan Yang, Jianbo Ji, Zhenhua Zhao

“…The simplified dynamic external electrical characteristic of LIB is represented by the one-order Thevenin equivalent circuit model (ECM) and then the ECM parameters are identified by the forgetting factor recursive least squares method (FFRLS). Fully taking into account the feedback effect of terminal voltage innovation, the combination of adaptive extended Kalman filter (AEKF) and innovation vector-based proportional-integral-derivative (PID) feedback is proposed to estimate the LIB SOC. …”
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Master’s Programs in Russia: Four Paths of Future Development by O. V. Petrova, O. R. Chepyuk, S. D. Makarova, V. V. Mariko, A. I. Gorylev

“…The authors conclude that university development programs in the field of master’s degree education should be designed taking into account the high level of uncertainty in the external environment, which means that they should provide for scenario modeling of the future of the entire scientific and educational ecosystem. …”
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The Role of Oxidized Low-Density Lipoproteins in Atherosclerosis: The Myths and the Facts by Giuseppe Maiolino, Giacomo Rossitto, Paola Caielli, Valeria Bisogni, Gian Paolo Rossi, Lorenzo A. Calò

“…This review examines the role played by oxidized LDLs in atherogenesis taking into account data derived by studies based on molecular and clinical approaches. …”
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On Fluid and Thermal Dynamics in a Heterogeneous CO2 Plume Geothermal Reservoir by Tianfu Xu, Huixing Zhu, Guanhong Feng, Yilong Yuan, Hailong Tian

“…For obtaining a deeper understanding of CO2-geothermal system under realistic conditions, heterogeneity of reservoir’s hydrological properties (in terms of permeability and porosity) is taken into account. Due to the fortissimo mobility of CO2, as long as a highly permeable zone exists between the two wells, it is more likely to flow through the highly permeable zone to reach the production well, even though the flow path is longer. …”
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Half of land use carbon emissions in Southeast Asia can be mitigated through peat swamp forest and mangrove conservation and restoration by Sigit D. Sasmito, Pierre Taillardat, Wahyu C. Adinugroho, Haruni Krisnawati, Nisa Novita, Lola Fatoyinbo, Daniel A. Friess, Susan E. Page, Catherine E. Lovelock, Daniel Murdiyarso, David Taylor, Massimo Lupascu

“…Indonesia (73%), Malaysia (14%), Myanmar (7%), and Vietnam (2%) combined accounted for over 90% of regional emissions from these sources. …”
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Management of the Pregnant Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patient on Antitumour Necrosis Factor Therapy: State of the Art and Future Directions by Yvette PY Leung, Remo Panaccione, Subrata Ghosh, Cynthia H Seow

“…Based on a clinical algorithm used at the University of Calgary Pregnancy and IBD clinic (Calgary, Alberta), recommendations have been provided on the management of pregnant patients on anti-TNF therapy, particularly with regard to third-trimester dosing, taking into account disease characteristics of individual patients. …”
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End-of-Life Options for (Bio)degradable Polymers in the Circular Economy by Wanda Sikorska, Marta Musioł, Barbara Zawidlak-Węgrzyńska, Joanna Rydz

“…End-of-life options for plastics include recycling and energy recovery (incineration). Taking into account the polymeric waste, recycling is the intentional action that is aimed at reducing the amount of waste deposited in landfills by industrial use of this waste to obtain raw materials and energy. …”
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Tinea manuum: a 5 year retrospective study of demographic data, clinical characteristics, and treatment outcomes by Panittra Suphatsathienkul, Pattriya Jirawattanadon, Lalita Matthapan, Waranyoo Prasong, Chatisa Panyawong, Akkarapong Plengpanich, Sumanas Bunyaratavej, Charussri Leeyaphan

“…Among 50 positive cultures, dermatophytes accounted for 86% and nondermatophytes for 14%, with Trichophyton rubrum (54%) and Trichophyton mentagrophytes complex (24%) being the most frequent pathogens. …”
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Improving farming practices using multi-criteria decision analysis in geographic information system for Damask Rose cultivating by B. Shokati, M.R. Asgharipour, B. Feizizadeh

“…For this goal, several criteria including soil conditions, climatologically indicators, topography situation and agro-climatology criteria were taken into account of modeling processing. Doing so, standardization process was performed on criteria and weighting process was performed by using of analytic hierarchy process approach. …”
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Detection of ultrafast electron energization by whistler-mode chorus waves in the magnetosphere of Earth by S. Kurita, Y. Miyoshi, S. Saito, S. Kasahara, Y. Katoh, S. Matsuda, S. Yokota, Y. Kasahara, A. Matsuoka, T. Hori, K. Keika, M. Teramoto, I. Shinohara

“…Traditionally understood as a diffusive process, these interactions account for long-term electron flux variations (> several minutes). …”
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Granulomatous Lung Disease Requiring Mechanical Ventilation Induced by a Single Application of Oxaliplatin-Based Chemotherapy for Colorectal Cancer: A Case Report by Dane Wildner, Frank Boxberger, Axel Wein, Kerstin Wolff, Heinz Albrecht, Gudrun Männlein, Rolf Janka, Kerstin Amann, Jürgen Siebler, Werner Hohenberger, Markus F. Neurath, Richard Strauß

“…In addition to the known side effects of oxaliplatin-containing combination chemotherapy, unexpected serious adverse events in the form of pulmonary toxicities should also be taken into account.…”
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Parametric Investigation of Dual-Mass Flywheel Based on Driveline Start-Up Torsional Vibration Control by Liupeng He, Changgao Xia, Sida Chen, Jiwei Guo, Yi Liu

“…The vehicle start-up test is conducted and compared with the simulation results. On account of the partial nonstationary characteristic of driveline during start-up, the start-up process is separated into 3 phases for discussing the influence of DMF rotary inertia ratio, hysteresis torque, and nonlinear torsional stiffness on attenuation effect. …”
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Tailored Channel Pruning: Achieve Targeted Model Complexity Through Adaptive Sparsity Regularization by Suwoong Lee, Yunho Jeon, Seungjae Lee, Junmo Kim

“…., FLOPs and parameters), our method outputs a tailored network that automatically takes the budget into account during training and satisfies the target budget. …”
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