A Day in the Life of a Surgical Instrument: The Cycle of Sterilization by Robert E. George, MD, Caroline C. Bay, BA, Ellen C. Shaffrey, MD, Peter J. Wirth, MD, Venkat K. Rao, MD, MBA

“…There, instruments are decontaminated before being sterilized by heat, chemical, or radiation-based methods. Following this, they are stored before being brought back into use. …”
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Study on Surface Heat Budget of Various Pavements for Urban Heat Island Mitigation by Hideki Takebayashi, Masakazu Moriyama

“…In this study, the thermal characteristics of pavements are examined using data from observations. The net radiation, surface temperature, temperature under the surface, conduction heat flux, and core weight for each experimental surface are recorded, together with the weather conditions at the time of observation. …”
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A Case Report of a Pregnancy Complicated by Sigmoid Volvulus in the Extreme Preterm Gestational Age by Naghmeh Kian, Atefeh Moridi

“…Performing radiological and abdominal surgery are also areas of great concern in this field; since radiologic studies inevitably expose the fetus to radiation and the treatment options mostly involve surgery that is worrisome during gestation. …”
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A Case of Metastatic Adamantinoma That Responded Well to Sunitinib by Andrew D. Liman, Agnes K. Liman, Jenna Shields, Becky Englert, Rashmikant Shah

“…The patient received radiation therapy to the lung with partial response. …”
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Central Nervous System Lymphoma: The Great Mimicker—A Single-Institution Retrospective Study by Danielle A. Bazer, Ewa Zabrocka, Nicholas Koroneos, Agnieszka Kowalska

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The Study for Saving Energy and Optimization of LED Street Light Heat Sink Design by Chi-Chang Hsieh, Yan-Huei Li

“…LED lamps are characterized by high energy efficiency, high luminance, and long lifespans. However, the heat radiation problem caused by the extra high power shortens the lifespan and reduces the luminous efficiency of such lamps. …”
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Oral Cavity Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Impact of Clear Margin Distance on Locoregional Control in Patients Undergoing Postoperative Radiotherapy by Erkan Topkan MD, Efsun Somay PhD, Ugur Selek MD

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The Third Finger Middle Phalanx Maturation (MPM) Method to Assess Timing of Functional Treatment for Skeletal Class II Malocclusion: Report of Three Cases by Giuseppe Perinetti

“…With the aim of reducing the radiation to the patients and to follow longitudinally individual growth phases, the use of the sole third finger middle phalanx maturation (MPM), as a 5-stage method, has been proposed. …”
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Specific Roles of MicroRNAs in Their Interactions with Environmental Factors by Juan Wang, Qinghua Cui

“…Increased number of studies have shown that miRNAs can functionally interact with a wide spectrum of environmental factors (EFs) including drugs, industrial materials, virus and bacterial pathogens, cigarette smoking, alcohol, nutrition, sleep, exercise, stress, and radiation. More importantly, the interactions between miRNAs and EFs have been shown to play critical roles in determining abnormal phenotypes and diseases. …”
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Uncertainty Quantification for the Transient Response of Human Equivalent Antenna Using the Stochastic Collocation Approach by Anna Šušnjara, Dragan Poljak

“…The paper deals with the uncertainty quantification of the transient axial current induced along the human body exposed to electromagnetic pulse radiation. The body is modeled as a straight wire antenna whose length and radius exhibit random nature. …”
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A Comparative Performance Analysis of Two Printed Circular Arrays for Power-Based Vehicle Localization Applications by Mohammad S. Sharawi, Farooq Sultan, Daniel N. Aloi

“…Measured and simulated results were compared. Radiation gain patterns were measured on a 1 m diameter ground plane that resembles the rooftop of a vehicle. …”
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High Isolation Millimeter-Wave Wideband MIMO Antenna for 5G Communication by Fei Wang, Zhaoyun Duan, Xin Wang, Qing Zhou, Yubin Gong

“…The transmission coefficient is under −20 dB within only 0.4 mm space between antenna elements. The radiation pattern also shows the stability within the wide operation band. …”
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Environmental Factors Influencing Foraging Activity in the Social Wasp Polybia paulista (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Epiponini) by Naila Cristina de Souza Canevazzi, Fernando Barbosa Noll

“…Here, we evaluate colonies of Polybia paulista throughout one year in order to verify the foraging activities and the items collected, as well as the importance of temperature, relative humidity, and solar radiation on motivating foraging. …”
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The use of ion-beam treatment to activate the surface of multi-walled carbon nanotubes in the formation of nanocomposites with tin oxide by chemical gas-phase deposition by S. N. Nesov

“…The analysis of the structure and chemical state of the formed composites is carried out using synchrotron radiation by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XANES). …”
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Optimized Distribution of Beijing Population Based on CA-MAS by Haoguang Liang, Zhong Wang

“…The results showed that (1) the unplanned layout of Beijing’s population is inefficient and will result in the slow agglomeration of populations into surrounding small towns, (2) the suburbanization of the population (while employment opportunities remain centralized) increases the stress of the city commuters, (3) the current policy guiding the distribution of residential and commercial areas is effective, accelerating the formation of small town clusters, which play a role in the city’s radiation and diffusion, contributing to reducing urban commuter stress, and (4) promoting the homogenization of public resources, planning the development of a multicenter urban area, and promoting mixed use (commercial and residential) zoning are the main measures recommended to strengthen the sustainability of Beijing’s urban development and to optimize spatial layout.…”
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Experimental Study of Onset of Nucleate Boiling in Vertical Rectangular Channels with Different Flow Path Heights by Ning Cheng, Shuwen Yu, Jun Xiao, Chang-Hong Peng

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Inverse Fourier Transform in the Gamma Coordinate System by Yuchuan Wei, Hengyong Yu, Ge Wang

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Relativistic nonlinear Thomson scattering of excited electron in ultra-tightly focused circularly polarized laser pulses with different beam waist radius by Qianmin Zheng, Jiachen Li, Zi Wang, Youwei Tian

“…Simultaneously, observable asymmetries emerge in the electron’s radiated power and spectrum, gradually diminishing as the beam waist radius increases. …”
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Dark Atoms and the Positron-Annihilation-Line Excess in the Galactic Bulge by J.-R. Cudell, M. Yu. Khlopov, Q. Wallemacq

“…We study here in detail the possibility that this model provides an explanation for the excess of gamma radiation in the positron-annihilation line from the galactic bulge observed by INTEGRAL. …”
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An Approximate Analytical Method of the Nonlinear Vibroacoustic Coupling System by Qizheng Zhou, Deshi Wang, Yongyong Zhu

“…The characteristics of acoustic radiation and surface quadratic velocity of the plate, the nonlinear characteristics of oscillator, and the influence of the excitation frequency and the nonlinear stiffness on the results are investigated by the numerical simulation. …”
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