Peripheral Artery Disease Intervention: Drug-Coated Balloon vs Drug-Eluting Stent, A Long-Term Comparison by Nathan Marzlin, M. Fuad Jan, Louie Kostopoulos, Ana Cristina Perez Moreno, Tanvir Bajwa, Suhail Q. Allaqaband

“…Of the DCBs, 132 required bailout stenting at the time of procedure. The mean time for TLR in the DES group was 1,277 days (SD 546), compared to 904 days (SD 330.1) for DCB. …”
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Geographical accessibility of emergency neonatal care services in Ethiopia: analysis using the 2016 Ethiopian Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care Survey by Andrew Hayen, Getiye Dejenu Kibret, Daniel Demant

“…Accessibility to health services is a function of the distribution and location of services, including distance, travel time, cost and convenience. Measuring the physical accessibility of health services contributes to understanding the performance of health systems, thereby enabling evidence-based health planning and policies. …”
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Transformation of the value and sense sphere of the cadets from higher education institutions with specific study conditions for police training by S. V. Kharchenko, A. O. Siroshtan

“…The most important value orientations for the cadets were the following: “having good time, leisure”, “recognition and respect by people and influence on others”, “help and mercy to other people”. …”
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Comparison of Outcomes of Colorectal Polypectomy Using Traditional Snare and Rotary Snare: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial by Lu Xu, Zhixing Zhang, Jiarong Xie, Lei Xu, Weihong Wang

“…The primary outcome measure was the comparison of the average time of removing a polyp between those two groups. …”
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The Effect of a New Ligation and Venipuncture Method on Vena Basilica Vessel by Yuanhong Mao, Xiaomei Huang, Hong Yang, Shu Zhou, Aihong Yuan, Gang Lin, Guiling Geng

“…The success rate of single puncture, preparation time before puncture, time required for puncture operation, pain reaction during puncture, intravascular congestion after puncture, subcutaneous tissue injury, and vascular reuse rate after puncture were compared between the two methods. …”
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Kinetic Gait Changes after Robotic Exoskeleton Training in Adolescents and Young Adults with Acquired Brain Injury by Kiran K. Karunakaran, Naphtaly Ehrenberg, JenFu Cheng, Katherine Bentley, Karen J. Nolan

“…The bilateral loading (linearity of loading and rate of loading), speed, step length, swing time, stance time, and total time were collected using Zeno™ walkway (ProtoKinetics, Havertown, PA, USA) before and after RE training. …”
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Static Standing Trunk Sway Assessment in Amputees – Effects of Sub-Threshold Stimulation by L. Ming-Yih, S. Kok-Soon, L. Chih-Feng

“…The common notion is that a better postural steadiness, i.e. less postural sway, allows for longer time single leg quiet standing. However, there is lack of evidence how postural steadiness during single leg quiet standing changes over time. …”
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24-Hour Measurement of Gastric pH in Rural South Africa by Alastair M. Sammon, Eugene J. Ndebia, Ekambaram Umapathy, Jehu E. Iputo

“…The mean 24 hour gastric pH was 2.84 and the mean night-time pH was 3.7. 40 volunteers recorded a night-time pH reaching over 4. 33 volunteers recorded a night-time pH over 7. …”
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Mannitol and the blood-labyrinth barrier by Trung N. Le, Brian W. Blakley

“…Each animal contributed to a single time point on the subsequent pharmacokinetic curves with more than one animal per time point. …”
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Design and Simulation of a Semi–Automatic Paver Block Making Machine. by Wamani, Samuel

“…Paver block placing by hand takes a lot of time and requires experienced labor. There will be more low-width paved roadways, unsecured loads for carts, and joint fillers (locking sand) due to less competent labor. …”
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Animal Experiment of a Novel Neurointerventional Surgical Robotic System with Master-Slave Mode by Keyun Liu, Yuhua Jiang, Youxiang Li

“…The results show that the robotic system can successfully complete the cerebral angiography surgery, and the mechanical performance is up to standard. The operating time is almost the same as the physician’s operating time. …”
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Frequency Invariant Beam Steering for Short-Pulse Systems with a Rotman Lens by Andreas Lambrecht, Piotr Laskowski, Stefan Beer, Thomas Zwick

“…A concluding analysis of the realizable time domain array pattern shows the radiated pulse form.…”
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Milt-Egg Ratio in Artificial Fertilization of Pangasiid Catfish Injected by Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone-Analog (GnRH-a) and Domperidone Mixture by J. Subagja, . Sularto, J. Slembrouck

“… Study on the level of gonadotropin hormone treatments combined with latency time to induce ovulation in Pangasius djambal was conducted in the Research Instalation of Germ Plasm, Cijeruk, Bogor. …”
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Headway Optimisation for Metro Lines Based on Timetable Simulation and Simulated Annealing by Yong Cui, Qing Yu, Chenyang Wang

“…To improve the capacity of metro systems, it is important to evaluate and minimise headway, which is defined as the time interval calculated from “head to head” between two successive trains in this paper. …”
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Feature Description using Autoencoders for Fast 3D Ultrasound Tracking by Wulff Daniel, Ernst Floris

“…It is able to provide volumetric soft tissue images in real-time. However, due to low image quality, high noise ratio and high data dimensionality, real-time capable US image processing methods like target tracking are challenging. …”
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Kinematic Reliability Analysis of a 7-DOF Redundant Robot by Li Ding, Jiahui Gu, Ziyi Li, Shaopeng Kang, Rui Ma

“…The principle of the proposed method is to transform a time-dependent problem into a time-independent one with the help of the failure extreme points and endpoints, so as to enhance the operation efficiency under the premise of ensuring accuracy. …”
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Evaluation and Optimization of Downstream Process Parameters for Extraction of Betulinic Acid from the Bark of Ziziphus jujubae L. by Kashyap Kumar Dubey, Nitika Goel

“…As recovery percentage of BA by MAE technique turned out to be maximum, by using response surface methodology (RSM), three process parameters (pH, temperature, and time) were optimized by MAE and it was observed that the optimum parameters (pH 6.5, temp. 70.23°C, and time 3.5 min) gave the maximum recovery of BA (0.44% w/w). …”
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An Efficient Image Denoising Method for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks Based on DT-CWT by Rachid Sammouda, Abdul Malik S. Al-Salman, Abdu Gumaei, Nejmeddine Tagoug

“…Image denoising in spatial domain is more difficult and time-consuming for real-time processing of WMSNs applications. …”
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Construction and Application of Relationship Model between Development of Mining Industry and Carbon Emission of Energy Consumption by Lili Wei, Guangyu Jia, Xiaohui Xu, Lingyun Zhao

“…The analysis method of decoupling state assignment is proposed for the first time in the model. At the same time, the energy efficiency decoupling index and energy structure decoupling index are introduced to explain the causes of carbon emission decoupling. …”
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The Construction of an Action-Speech Feature-Based School Violence Recognition Algorithm and Occupational Therapy Education Model for Adolescents by Shuaiqing Zhang, Huan Li

“…For the characteristics of violent actions and daily actions, action features in time and frequency domains are extracted and action categories are recognized by BP neural network; for complex actions, it is proposed to decompose complex actions into basic actions to improve the recognition rate; then, LDA dimensionality reduction algorithm is introduced for the problem of the high complexity of algorithm due to high dimensionality of features, and the feature dimensionality is reduced to 8 dimensions by LDA dimensionality reduction algorithm, which reduces the system running time by about 51% and improves the accuracy of violent action recognition by 3.3% while ensuring the overall performance of the system. …”
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