Estimating the safe mud weight window for drilling operations through pre-stack seismic inversion, a case study in one of the Southwestern Iran oil fields by Mohammad Sadegh Mahmoudian, Yousef Shiri, Ahmad Vaezian

“…The pre-stack seismic inversion is conducted by constructing a velocity model and utilizing angle gather aggregation, statistical wavelet extraction, and initial model creation. …”
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Opening Wedge High Tibial Osteotomy with Combined Use of Patient-Specific 3D-Printed Plates and Taylor Spatial Frame for the Treatment of Knee Osteoarthritis by Desheng Duan, Yang Cao, Renzeng Li, Guohui Wang, Yongfei Zhang, Kui Xiang, Yanli Hu, Yiqun Li, Peng Peng, Pan Zhang, Xianzhe Liu

“…Postoperative efficacy was evaluated using the HSS knee score, pain visual simulation score (VAS), and knee joint motion (ROM), and lower limb alignment was evaluated by measuring femorotibial angle (FTA) and hip-knee-ankle (HKA). Results and Conclusion. …”
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Early one-stage posterior-only surgery for congenital cervicothoracic scoliosis in children: medium- and long-term follow-up by Cefei Zhang, Fuyun Liu, Ke Xu, Weiming Hu, Bing Xia, Yufeng Zhao

“…Radiographic parameters, including segmental scoliosis, distal compensatory curve, T1 tilt, clavicle angle, neck tilt, coronal balance distance, segmental kyphosis, and sagittal vertical axis, were measured preoperatively, postoperatively, and at the last follow-up. …”
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Capture of 3D Human Motion Pose in Virtual Reality Based on Video Recognition by Qiang Fu, Xingui Zhang, Jinxiu Xu, Haimin Zhang

“…The human body motion gesture is designed for capturing experiments, and the capture results show that the obtained pose angle information can better restore the human body motion. …”
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How do red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) explore their environment? Characteristics of movement patterns in time and space by Felicitas Oehler, Robert Hagen, Klaus Hackländer, Zea Walton, Kumar Ashish, Janosch Arnold

“…In extraterritorial areas, red foxes either moved straight with high persistence velocity, close to anthropogenic linear structures during transient movements, or more tortuously containing a higher variance in turning angles and a decrease in persistence velocity during exploratory-like movements. …”
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Reliability of the Expanded Cutting Alignment Scoring Tool (E-CAST) to Assess Trunk and Limb Alignment During a 45-Degree Side-Step Cut by Lauren S. Butler, Alexa R. Martinez, Dai Sugimoto, Charles W. Wyatt, Eryn K. Milian, Sophia Ulman, Ashley Erdman, Alex Loewen, Kristin Hayden, Amie DeVerna, Kirsten Tulchin-Francis, PRiSM Injury Prevention Research Interest Group

“…The Expanded Cutting Alignment Scoring Tool (E-CAST) includes two new sagittal plane variables, knee flexion and ankle plantarflexion angle. # Hypothesis/Purpose To assess the inter-and intra-rater reliability of the E-CAST to evaluate trunk and lower extremity alignment during a 45-degree side-step cut…”
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Dvasingumo reikšmė priimant vaiko negalią šeimoje by Skaidrė Račkauskienė, Giedrė Gelžinienė

“…Tyrime pasirinkta turinio (angl. content) analizė dėl sistemingo pusiau struktūruoto interviu metu gautos informacijos analizės ir interpretavimo metodo. …”
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Long-Term Surgical Outcomes of Glaucoma Drainage Implants in Eyes with Preoperative Intraocular Pressure Less than 19 mmHg by Shahin Hallaj, Jae-Chiang Wong, Lauren E. Hock, Natasha Nayak Kolomeyer, Aakriti G. Shukla, Michael J. Pro, Marlene R. Moster, Jonathan S. Myers, Reza Razeghinejad, Daniel Lee

“…Most cases were male (52.2%), White (53.7%), and had primary open-angle glaucoma (62.7%). Forty-four eyes had prior glaucoma surgery (68.6%) and 46 (68.6%) had severe glaucoma. …”
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Increasing the operating time of hollow fiber membrane bundles used for water ultrafiltration by Ciocănea Adrian, Simionescu Ștefan-Mugur, Opriș Florin

“…The relation between the water flow rate and shear stress along the hollow fiber membrane wires (HFMW) was studied for three geometries. Three angles (α = 900,450,00) for the intake flow pipe (di = 25 mm) against the horizontal axis of a cylinder (Dc = 100 mm; L = 600 mm) containing one hollow fiber membrane wire (dw = 1 mm) were chosen for the numerical investigation; five different water flow rates (Q = 8…16 l/min) were considered. …”
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A novel iron/zinc phosphate layered composite coating on Zn-0.5Li alloy for guided bone regeneration membrane applications by Chang Chen, Zhengqin Shi, Yanfang Deng, Xin Chu, Jun Cheng, Yixuan He, Yilong Dai

“…The microstructure, bonding strength, water contact angle, tribological properties, corrosion resistance, and biocompatibility of the coated samples were comprehensively investigated. …”
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Physical impairments in Adults with Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip (DDH) undergoing Periacetabular osteotomy (PAO): A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Michael J M O'Brien, Julie S Jacobsen, Adam I Semciw, Inger Mechlenburg, Lisa U Tønning, Chris J W Stewart, Joshua Heerey, Joanne L Kemp

“…Prior to PAO, patients with DDH walked with a lower peak hip extension angle, compared to asymptomatic participants (SMD 0.65 (95%CI 0.21-1.10). …”
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Methods of Additive Manufacturing for Dental Co-Cr Alloys: Systematic Review by Evan Hussain Alwan, Sabiha Mahdi Kanaan

“…A manual search of pertinent article citations was also carried out; inclination angle, stress relieving, heat treatment, cobalt-chromium, selective laser melting, selective laser sintering, and powder bed fusion, dentistry were some of the keywords utilized. …”
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Dynamic Stabilisation in the Treatment of Degenerative Disc Disease with Modic Changes by Olcay Eser, Cengiz Gomleksiz, Mehdi Sasani, Tunc Oktenoglu, Ahmet Levent Aydin, Yaprak Ataker, Tuncer Suzer, Ali Fahir Ozer

“…Furthermore, the mean preoperative and 1 and 2 postoperative angles of lumbar lordosis and segmental lordosis were not significantly different (P>0.05). …”
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Design and Test of a Cone Dielectric Elastomer Actuator Driving Hopping Robot by Yunguang Luan, Huaming Wang, Ling Zhou, Haichao Song

“…Its hopping height is related to the pre-compression angle of the torsion spring. The DEA can drive the rigid hopping mechanism, and the maximum hopping height of the robot is up to 2.5 times its height. …”
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Evaluation of the effect of temperature on cyclic fatigue resistance of three types of Nickel-Titanium rotary files with various alloy properties: An in vitro study by Dara H. Saeed, Fadi A. Rafea

“…Twenty files for each instrument were tested for cyclic fatigue at (20°C and 37°C) temperatures and rotated until fracture occurred in a simulated canal with an angle curvature of about 60°, a radius curvature of 5 mm, and a canal width of 1.5 mm. …”
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Bender–Knuth Billiards in Coxeter Groups by Grant Barkley, Colin Defant, Eliot Hodges, Noah Kravitz, Mitchell Lee

“…We prove that finite Coxeter groups, right-angled Coxeter groups, rank-3 Coxeter groups, affine Coxeter groups of types $\widetilde A$ and $\widetilde C$ , and Coxeter groups whose Coxeter graphs are complete are all futuristic. …”
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Demographics, Presenting Features, and Outcomes of Adult Patients with Ocular Trauma by Leanne M. Clevenger, Jessica L. Cao, Megan S. Steinkerchner, Amy S. Nowacki, Alex Yuan

“…The most commonly reported finding on initial CT scan was globe deformity (30%), on B-scan was choroidal detachment (20%), and on ultrasound biomicroscopy was intraocular foreign body, ciliochoroidal effusions, or angle recession (21% each). Worse vision was observed for patients positive for retinal detachment on initial B-scan compared to those negative for this finding at 6-month (median logMAR 2.7 vs. 0.5; P<0.0001) and at final post-injury evaluation (median logMAR 3.7 vs. 0.4; P<0.0001). …”
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PASYVIOSIOS MAGISTRALĖS PANAUDOJIMAS OPTINĖS PRIEIGOS TINKLUOSE by Rimantas Plėštys, Jurgita Dabulytė-Bagdonavičienė, Gintaras Butkus

“…Taip sudaryti tinklai vadinami FTTx (angl. Fiber To The x). Darbe ištirta tinklo konfigūracija, kurioje vartotojų įrenginiai nuosekliai gali būti prijungti prie tos pačios optinės skaidulos, kuri pavadinta magistrale. …”
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Biomimetic Rotary Tillage Blade Design for Reduced Torque and Energy Requirement by Yuwan Yang, Jin Tong, Yuxiang Huang, Jinguang Li, Xiaohu Jiang

“…Herein, the optimal blade was selected by considering three factors: (1) the ratio (r) of claw width to lateral spacing, (2) the inclined angle (θ) of the multiclaw combination, and (3) the rotary speed (n) through the soil bin tests. …”
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Hop Distance Symmetry Moderately Reflects Knee Biomechanics Symmetry During Landing But Not For Controlled Propulsions by Stefano Di Paolo, Naoaki Ito, Kayla D. Seymore, Haraldur B. Sigurðsson, Laura Bragonzoni, Stefano Zaffagnini, Lynn Snyder-Mackler, Karin Gravare Silbernagel

“…Correlation (Spearman’s ρ) was computed between clinical LSI and symmetry in peak and initial contact (IC) knee flexion angle during propulsion and landing phases of each movement…”
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