VATS Lobectomy: Surgical Evolution from Conventional VATS to Uniportal Approach by Diego Gonzalez-Rivas

“…The conventional triple port triangulation creates a new optical plane with genesis of dihedral or torsional angle that is not favorable with standard two-dimension monitors. …”
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Numerical Simulation of Ground Effect on Circulation Control Airfoil by Quanbing Sun, Zhiwei Shi, Weilin Zhang, Zhikun Sun, Yongliang Chen

“…Simulation results show that the ground effect changes the lift increment per unit jet momentum coefficient, and CC can reverse the polarity ground effect. The effective angle of attack αE and the downwash space downstream airfoil are altered by the ground effect resulting in variations of airfoil surface pressure and lift. …”
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Effect of CaO on the Autogenous Shrinkage of Alkali-Activated Slag Mortar by Dengdeng Zheng, Tao Ji, Guojie Wang

“…The hydration products of the pastes were determined by Fourier transform-infrared, thermogravimetric analysis, X-ray diffraction, and 29Si solid-state magic-angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance. The results show that the amount of portlandite increases as CaO content increases. …”
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Development and Characterization of Soy Protein Isolate/Xylose Film by Mingqiao Chen, Qinghua Yuan, Zhidan Lin

“…Mechanical properties, contact angle measurement, water vapour transmission rate, optical properties, and thermal performance were used to determine the film’s fundamental properties, and the interaction relationship between soy protein isolate, xylose, and glycerol was studied using infrared spectroscopy. …”
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Design of Two-Regional Flexible-Route Bus Systems considering Interregional Demands by Siqing Wang, Jian Wang, Lang Song, Zhipeng Niu, Xiaowei Hu

“…In the case of the joint optimal solution, the parameter values of region side width, region angle, and cost components are compared. Results indicate that regional flexible transit is suitable for operation in areas with low demand density. …”
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Comment la connaissance de la diversité posturo-locomotrice des primates a-t-elle transformé la compréhension de celle des hominines ? by Mathilde Lequin, François Marchal

“…With a history and philosophy of science angle, this article aims to analyze the contribution of primatology to the transformation of the theoretical framework used in paleoanthropology to think about the evolution of bipedalism. …”
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Devenir électeur en Tunisie. Sociologie du vote bourgeois dans un quartier résidentiel (élections à l’Assemblée nationale constituante du 23 octobre 2011) by Jérôme Heurtaux

“…The neighborhood is an upscale, suburban residential neighborhood where one might expect recently politicized voters to be engaged in celebrating their emancipation and focused on constitutional reform. Employing three angles of approach, our investigation discussed the analysis in terms of a tabula rasa approach, evaluating the logic and forms of political engagement and the assumption that after a long period of apathy voters would become be massively interested in politics. …”
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Real quartic surfaces containing 16 skew lines by Isidro Nieto

“…For each test example we specify a parameter, the viewing angle of the image, compilation time, and other visual properties of the real surface and its real double 16. …”
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Predictive Differential Game Guidance Approach for Hypersonic Target Interception Based on CQPSO by Fan He, Weiyi Chen, Yang Bao

“…Numerical examples are given to verify the performance of the proposed guidance law in various engagement scenarios, including different target maneuvers, initial heading angles and target overload. Moreover, the performance of the algorithm is validated comparing with traditional and state-of-the-art guidance laws.…”
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Short-Term Outcomes of Totally Extraperitoneal and Extended Totally Extraperitoneal Repair of Ventral Hernia by Santosh D. Thorat, Rajeev P. Bilaskar

“…Distribution of median duration of surgery for among the cases studied was significantly higher in Laparoscopic e-TEP repair group as compared to Laparoscopic TEP repair group. e-TEP has advantage over TEP owing to less steeper learning curve, with wide angle view, more degree of movements for instruments, and ergonomically better operative experience. …”
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Transient Dynamic Response of Delaminated Composite Rotating Shallow Shells Subjected to Impact by Amit Karmakar, Kikuo Kishimoto

“…Parametric studies are performed in respect of location of delamination, angle of twist and rotational speed for centrally impacted graphite-epoxy composite cylindrical shells.…”
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Experimental Study on Mechanical Behaviors of Loess Based on Two Different Modes of Oil Contamination by Rongjian Li, Shibin Zhang, Rongjin Li, Weishi Bai, Lei Wang

“…The compression modulus, friction angle, and unconfined compressive strength of diesel oil-contaminated loess using the second mode of oil contamination are larger than those in the first mode of oil contamination at the same oil content and dry density. …”
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Scattering of Antiplane SH Waves by Complex Landforms by Menghan Sun, Hui Qi

“…The results show that due to the multiple reflections of the incident wave between complex landforms, surface displacement amplitude is affected by the incident angle, incident frequency, and the distance between the isosceles triangular hill, semicircle depression, and isosceles trapezoidal hill. …”
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Identifying the Factors Affecting Science and Mathematics Achievement Using Data Mining Methods by S. Ahmet Kiray, Bilge Gok, A. Selman Bozkir

“…For this aim, the study deals with the relationship between science and math in terms of different angles using the perspectives of multiple causes-single effect and of multiple causes-multiple effects. …”
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ACCELERATED ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION OF PHANTOM «ROZI» BY OS-SART METHOD USING ORDERED SUBSET PROJECTIONS by S. A. Zolotarev, M. M. Mieteeg, A. N. Al-Nadfa

“…These algorithms are often used when the projection data contains a large amount of statistical noise or has been obtained from a limited range of angles. One of the popular approaches used to increase the rate of convergence of these algorithms is to perform a correction of the current approximation of the reconstructed object on subsets of the projection data. …”
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An Overlapping Cell Image Synthesis Method for Imbalance Data by Yi Ning Xie, Lian Yu, Guo Hui Guan, Yong Jun He

“…Secondly, random functions are used to control the rotation angles of the nucleus and the distance between the centroids of the nucleus, increasing the sample diversity. …”
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Shear Behavior of Wheat-Concrete Interface during Monotonic and Cyclic Loading by Changnv Zeng, Yuke Wang

“…It is observed that the cyclic loading and preloading normal stresses result in an increasing peak strength, internal friction angle, and apparent cohesion, whereas a decrease in interface contraction deformation.…”
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The Changes in Electrical and Interfacial Properties of Polyimide Exposed to Dielectric Barrier Discharge in SF6 Medium by Hafiz Z. Alisoy, Murat Koseoglu

“…The surface potential was measured to determine the effect of the space charges on the sample. Then, the contact angle values were measured to obtain the relation between the surface energy and the surface charge density. …”
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The measurement of the vertical relief on metal-graphic microscopes of production of OJC «Optoelectronic systems» by A. G. Anisovich, A. S. Buinitskaya

“…For the microscopes MI-1 and MICRO-200 a technique for determining the height of the relief is considered, which is based on the relationship between the angle of rotation of the drum tincture of precise focus and vertical movement of the object table. …”
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Path-Tracking Control of Tilting Quadrotor UAV Based on Variable Structure Sliding Mode Control Method by Qinghua Liu, Ke Zhang, Yunfan Pan, Huan Zhang

“…Due to the special flight mode of tilting quadcopter unmanned aerial vehicles, in transition mode, as the tilt angle changes, the control process of the drone becomes more complex, and the difficulty of control also increases significantly. …”
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