Is it beneficial to use lateral protective crossing K-wires during medial open wedge high tibial osteotomy? A retrospective comparative study by Hossam Fathi Mahmoud, Ahmed Hatem Farhan, Ahmed Mohamed Abdelwahab, Ahmed Mohamed Elshaer, Mahmoud Abdo Mahmoud, Fahmy Samir Fahmy

“…Both groups were assessed for rate of intraoperative lateral hinge fractures, knee injury and osteoarthritis outcome score − 12 (KOOS-12), medial proximal tibial angle (MPTA), time of union, and time to return to work. …”
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Surgical Outcomes of Trabeculectomy in Uveitic Glaucoma: A Long-Term, Single-Center, Retrospective Case-Control Study by Rina Kanaya, Riki Kijima, Yasuhiro Shinmei, Akihiro Shinkai, Takeshi Ohguchi, Kenichi Namba, Shinki Chin, Susumu Ishida

“…Age- and sex-matched patients with primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) who underwent MMC-TLE were matched by age and sex and enrolled as controls. …”
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Predictors and long-term patterns of medication adherence to glaucoma treatment in Denmark—an observational registry study of 30 100 Danish patients with glaucoma by Miriam Kolko, Rikke Faergemann Hansen, Louise G Dal, Emma Sabelström, Magnus Brandel, Andreas Hoiberg Bentsen, Anne Cathrine Falch-Joergensen

“…Glaucoma was identified from the Danish national registers by diagnosis of Open Angle Glaucoma and/or by redeemed prescriptions of glaucoma medication. …”
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Enhance Oil Recovery in Fracture-Cave Carbonate Reservoirs Using Zwitterion-Anionic Composite Surfactant System by Wei Peng, Qing You, Xiaoqiang Liu, Bojie Zhou, Xingxing Ding, Yuechun Du, Liangfei Xiao

“…Besides, the surfactant system possesses excellent wettability (wetting angle changed from 135° to 42°) and certain emulsifying abilities. …”
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Jackknife versus Lithotomy Position for Hemorrhoidectomy Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Sina Ghasemi, Behzad Imani, Alireza Jafarkhani, Ashkan Karimi, Ali Yamini

“…Also, based on the chi-square test, there was a statistically significant relationship between the surgical position and the surgeon's satisfaction with the angle of view, so a better field of view was reported in the jackknife position (exact p-value = 0.001). …”
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Complex Cloud-Sea Background Simulation for Space-Based Infrared Payload Digital Twin by Wen Sun, Yejin Li, Fenghong Li, Guangsen Liu, Peng Rao

“…Specifically, for reflection angles below 60<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$^\circ$</tex-math></inline-formula>, the root mean square error between our results and MODTRAN results is about 12.3&#x0025; in the 3.0&#x2013;5.0 &#x03BC;m band, and around 3.7&#x0025; in the 8.0&#x2013;14.0 &#x03BC;m band. …”
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IMU Sensor-Based Worker Behavior Recognition and Construction of a Cyber–Physical System Environment by Sehwan Park, Minkyo Youm, Junkyeong Kim

“…In particular, methods such as using accelerometers and gyroscopes within MEMS sensors to acquire data based on workers’ angles, utilizing three-axis accelerometers and barometric pressure sensors to improve the accuracy of fall detection systems, and measuring the wearer’s gait using the x-, y-, and z-axis data from accelerometers and gyroscopes are being studied. …”
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A radiomics and deep learning nomogram developed and validated for predicting no-collapse survival in patients with osteonecrosis after multiple drilling by Fan Liu, De-bao Zhang, Shi-huan Cheng, Gui-shan Gu

“…ARCO classification, bone marrow edema, and combined necrotic angle were identified as independent risk factors for collapse. …”
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Finite element stress analysis to evaluate and compare the effect of splinting in periodontally compromised teeth having 55 % bone loss with different materials by Shivangi Joshi, Prakash Talreja, Prajakta Rao, Nilesh Joshi, Vinayak Thorat, Ruhi Mohta

“…Composite and metal wire splints provided moderate stress reduction, with performance varying depending on the load angle. PEEK splints demonstrated good stress reduction under vertical loads but showed increased stress levels under oblique forces. …”
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Older Fallers’ Comprehensive Neuromuscular and Kinematic Alterations in Reactive Balance Control: Indicators of Balance Decline or Compensation? A Pilot Study by Ringo Tang-Long Zhu, Timmi Tim Mei Hung, Freddy Man Hin Lam, Jun-Zhe Li, Yu-Yan Luo, Jingting Sun, Shujun Wang, Christina Zong-Hao Ma

“…<b>Results</b>: Compared to non-fallers, fallers had significantly: (a) smaller activation rate of the ankle dorsiflexor, delayed activation of the hip flexor/extensor, larger activation rate of the knee flexor, and smaller agonist-antagonist co-contraction in lower-limb muscles; (b) larger knee/hip flexion angles, longer ankle dorsiflexion duration, and delayed timing of recovery in joint motions; and (c) earlier downward COM displacements and larger anteroposterior overshooting COM displacements following unpredictable perturbations (<i>p</i> < 0.05). …”
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Surface Modification of TFC-PA RO Membrane by Grafting Hydrophilic pH Switchable Poly(Acrylic Acid) Brushes by Muhammad Asad Abbas, Shehla Mushtaq, Waqas A. Cheema, Hazim Qiblawey, Shenmin Zhu, Yao Li, Runnan Zhang, Hong Wu, Zhongyi Jiang, Rehan Sadiq, Nasir M. Ahmad

“…Surface morphology, permeation flux, salt rejection, and pore sizes were investigated. The contact angle for water was reduced from 50° for a pristine membrane to 27° for the modified membrane due to a modification with the hydrophilic functional group and its brush on membrane surfaces. …”
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Excitation of ULF, ELF, and VLF Resonator and Waveguide Oscillations in the Earth–Atmosphere–Ionosphere System by Lightning Current Sources Connected with Hunga Tonga Volcano Erupt... by Yuriy G. Rapoport, Volodymyr V. Grimalsky, Andrzej Krankowski, Asen Grytsai, Sergei S. Petrishchevskii, Leszek Błaszkiewicz, Chieh-Hung Chen

“…It is shown that oscillations at the first resonance frequency in the Schumann resonator can simultaneously cause noticeable excitation of the local ionospheric Alfvén resonator, whose parameters depend on the angle between the geomagnetic field and the vertical direction. …”
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As-cast microstructure characteristics of K439B nickel-based superalloy thin- walled castings of different thickness by ZHOU Depeng, SUI Dashan, MA Jinyuan, GUI Daxing, DONG Anping, SUN Baode

“…Comparative analysis of the as-cast microstructure of the castings shows that the growth directions of the dendrites in both 1 mm and 2 mm thin-wall are along the shell wall pointing to the center， the difference is that the growth directions of the dendrites in the 1 mm thin-wall are closer to the vertical angle with the wall. The average primary dendrite arm spacings （PDAS） are 60.64 μm for 1 mm thin-wall and 46.23 μm for 2 mm thin-wall， respectively. …”
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AgIn2 thickness on void rate, microstructure, IMC growth, thermal and mechanical properties of fluxless In@AgIn2 joint by Jing Wen, Guoliao Sun, Jinyang Su, Yi Fan, Linzheng Fu, Zhuo Chen, Wenhui Zhu

“…The results showed that In@0.4AgIn₂; had a contact angle of 26.2°, which was 2.6° lower than that of pure In solder. …”
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Optomechanical Gyroscope Based on Micro-Hemispherical Shell and Optical Ring Resonators by Jamal N. A. Hassan, Wenyi Huang, Maoyuan Wang, Senyu Zhang, Guangjun Wen, Yongjun Huang

“…Numerical simulations demonstrated the optomechanical micro-hemispherical shell resonator gyroscope could attain a calculated scale factor of 77.9 mV&#x002F;(&#x00B0;&#x002F;s) and total angle random walk of 0.0662 &#x00B0;&#x002F;h^1&#x002F;2 for a micro-hemispherical shell mass of 212 ng at an input laser power of 5 mW. …”
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Mechanism of Coal Bump among Mine Group under the Control of Large Geological Body: A Case Study of Yima Mining Area, China by Yizhe Li, Shankun Zhao, Qingxin Qi, Pengzhi Pan, Xiangzhi Wei, Yin Wang, Ningbo Zhang, Yang Zhao, Haitao Chai, Qilin Hao

“…Under the condition of nonsynchronous mining in adjacent working faces, there is a comovement effect similar to lever’s “prying” phenomenon in thick conglomerate beam—the conglomerate strata above larger goaf side induce an overall uplift movement of the corresponding strata above smaller goaf side, and uplift length of the conglomerate strata is related to the mining length, coal pillar width, caving angle, and coal-conglomerate distance. The results of surface subsidence, microseism, and stress in the two working faces verify the conglomerate’s phenomenon of comovement effect and disturbance range and further explain the role of active movement of F16 fault and overall causes of huge thick conglomerate on the coal bump. …”
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Supplementation with essential amino acids in the early stage of carbohydrate reintroduction after a very-low energy ketogenic therapy (VLEKT) improves body cell mass, muscle stren... by Giuseppe Annunziata, Ludovica Verde, Vincenzo D’Orsi, Massimiliano Caprio, Stefania Gorini, Silvia Savastano, Annamaria Colao, Giovanna Muscogiuri, Luigi Barrea

“…At the end of the fruit reintroduction phase, the supplemented group showed greater magnitudes of reduction in weight, waist circumference, fat mass (FM) and hs-CRP (p < 0.001 for all) and of increase in muscle strength (p < 0.001), phase angle (p < 0.001), body cell mass (BCM) (p = 0.001), and muscle mass (%) (p < 0.001). …”
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Design and testing of a posture-adjusting precision metering device for high-speed maize planting by Jianxin Dong, Xiaojun Gao, Zhouzhou Zheng, Pengfei Zhao, Yubin Bi, Yuxiang Huang, Yuxiang Huang, Yuxiang Huang

“…The best metering performance was achieved with an opening angle of 21.6° and an opening width of 8.4 mm; this resulted in pass, repeat, and leak rates of 94.8%, 1.3%, and 3.9%, respectively. …”
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Reconfigurable mmWave Planar Phased Array Featuring Wide Elevation and Full Azimuth Spatial Coverage for 5G Vehicular Application by Saiful Islam, Hanvit Kim, Tuyen Dinh Nguyen, Sunwoo Kim, Hyoungsuk Yoo

“…Furthermore, the subarray achieves beam scanning at angles of &#x00B1;32&#x00B0; while maintaining a gain exceeding 8 dBi. …”
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Classification and Statistical Trend Analysis in Detecting Glaucomatous Visual Field Progression by Cristiana Valente, Elisa D’Alessandro, Michele Iester

“…Twenty Caucasian patients (mean age 73.8 ± 13.43 years) with open-angle glaucoma were recruited in the study. Each visual field was assessed by Humphrey Field Analyzer, program SITA standard 30-2 or 24-2 (Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc., Dublin, CA). …”
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