Robotic-assisted surgical systems in treatment of breast cancer: applications and prospects by ZHAO Xin, GAO Peng, CHEN Jie

“…In recent years, minimally invasive surgical techniques represented by endoscopic techniques and robotic surgical systems have become a new trend in the development of surgical treatment. …”
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Phenotype control and elimination of variables in Boolean networks by Tonello, Elisa, Paulevé, Loïc

“…In particular, we look at the impact on minimal trap spaces, and identify a structural condition that guarantees their preservation. …”
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AC Optimal Power Flow: a Conic Programming relaxation and an iterative MILP scheme for Global Optimization by Oustry, Antoine

“…We address the issue of computing a global minimizer of the AC Optimal Power Flow problem. We introduce valid inequalities to strengthen the Semidefinite Programming relaxation, yielding a novel Conic Programming relaxation. …”
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Pesticide Emergencies: Contingency Planning by Frederick M. Fishel

“… In the event of a pesticide emergency, having an emergency response plan can help protect the health and welfare of employees and the community, minimize environmental damage, and potentially reduce liability. …”
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Pesticide Emergencies: Contingency Planning by Frederick M. Fishel

“… In the event of a pesticide emergency, having an emergency response plan can help protect the health and welfare of employees and the community, minimize environmental damage, and potentially reduce liability. …”
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Mathematical model for energy savings in blood donations at the Cienfuegos Blood Bank by David Lorenzo Calles, Manuel E. Cortés Cortés

“…It is extremely important to determine the number of blood donors who minimize electricity consumption, and statistical-mathematical methods are used to do so.…”
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A Note on Two-Agent Scheduling with Resource Dependent Release Times on a Single Machine by Peng Liu, Lini Duan

“…Two agents share a common single machine, and each agent wants to minimize a cost function dependent on its own jobs. …”
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Pricing of American Put Option under a Jump Diffusion Process with Stochastic Volatility in an Incomplete Market by Shuang Li, Yanli Zhou, Xinfeng Ruan, B. Wiwatanapataphee

“…By employing a risk-minimization criterion, we obtain the Radon-Nikodym derivative for the minimal martingale measure and consequently a linear complementarity problem (LCP) for American option price. …”
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Mutation Ant Colony Algorithm of Milk-Run Vehicle Routing Problem with Fastest Completion Time Based on Dynamic Optimization by Jianhua Ma, Guohua Sun

“…The objective of vehicle routing problem is usually to minimize the total traveling distance or cost. But in practice, there are a lot of problems needed to minimize the fastest completion time. …”
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Local Interactions and p-Best Response Set by J. Durieu, P. Solal

“…We consider the concept of minimal p-best response set to analyze distributions of actions on the long run. …”
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Nanoparticle-Based Therapies for Management of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, Neurotrauma, and Stroke by Grace Hey, Ilyas Mehkri, Yusuf Mehkri, Hasan Maqbool, Mubariz Tahirkheli, Samuel Woodford, Brandon Lucke-Wold

“…Despite numerous therapeutic modalities that are available to minimize neurologic damage and secondary injury, the prognosis can still be dismal and unpredictable. …”
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Comparison of Immunological Characteristics of Mesenchymal Stem Cells from the Periodontal Ligament, Umbilical Cord, and Adipose Tissue by Jin-Hee Kim, Chris H. Jo, Hang-Rae Kim, Young-il Hwang

“…Unlike the other two types of MSCs, UC-MSCs showed minimal expression of HLA-DR after activation, suggesting that they pose minimal risk of initiating an allogeneic immune response when administered in vivo. …”
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Monitoring square and circular fields with sensors using energy-efficient cluster-based routing for underwater wireless sensor networks by Arshad Sher, Nadeem Javaid, Irfan Azam, Hira Ahmad, Wadood Abdul, Sanaa Ghouzali, Iftikhar Azim Niaz, Fakhri Alam Khan

“…A depth threshold ( d th ) value is also used to minimize number of hops between source and destination for less energy consumption. …”
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Preoperative uterine artery embolisation before hysterectomy in women with giant uterine fibroid and HIV-associated nephropathy by Filip Szkodziak, Sławomir Woźniak, Łukasz Światłowski, Emilia Maleszyk, Piotr Szkodziak, Krzysztof Pyra, Viktor Berczi, Tomasz Paszkowski, Tomasz Jargiełło

“…Current treatment options include surgical procedures, pharmacological therapies, and minimally invasive procedures. The most commonly applied and accepted minimally invasive procedure used in the treatment of symptomatic uterine fibroid is uterine artery embolisation (UAE). …”
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Robotic surgery in gastrointestinal surgery: History, current status, and challenges by Yu Liu, Qingyang Feng, Jianmin Xu

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Minimum effective concentration 90 (EC90) of ropivacaine for Femoral nerve block: A biased-coin up-and-down sequential method study by Ahmed M. Taha, Manjusha Mohanan, Sebastian Orduna, Ahmed F. Alalwi, Mohamed I. Badr, Ahmed M. Abd-Elmaksoud

“…Background and Aims: The femoral nerve (FN) is commonly blocked using ropivacaine to provide postoperative analgesia after knee surgery. However, the minimal required concentration has not yet been defined. …”
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Pengembangan dan efektivitas model konseling behavioristik teknik role playing serta modeling untuk meminimalisir perilaku bullying siswa by Ni Nyoman Diastrimarina, I Ketut Dharsana, Kadek Suranata

“…The aims of this study is to (1) compile and produce a behavioristic counseling guidebook, (2) determine the content's validity of the behavioristic counseling guidebook, (3) find out the practicality of a behavioristic counseling guidebook, and (4) determine the effectiveness of a behavioristic counseling guidebook using the role playing technique. as well as modeling to minimize bullying behavior of junior high school students. …”
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Molecular Resonance Generator (MRG) Assisted Tonsillectomy - An Innovative Technique by Hamsa Shetty, Gangadhara KS, Sridhara S

“…Results:In all the 12 patients favourable outcome was recorded .None of the cases had post operative bleeding and there was minimal intraoperative bleeding.Post operative pain showed a decreasing trend with very minimal post operative pain on day 3. …”
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A note on logharmonic mappings by Zayid Abdulhadi

“…We consider the problem of minimizing the moments of order p for a subclass of logharmonic mappings.…”
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Fertilization of Strawberries in Florida by Shinsuke Agehara, George Hochmuth

“…Fertilizer is becoming a more significant portion of strawberry production costs, hence, proper fertilizer management is important for minimizing production costs and maximizing yield and fruit quality, while minimizing potential negative impacts on the environment caused by leaching or runoff of excess fertilizer nutrients. …”
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