Loop underlay tympanoplasty for anterior, subtotal and total tympanic membrane perforations: a retrospective review by Rana Barake, Tamer El Natout, Marc Bassim, Mohammad Ali El Natout

“…Results At the three-month follow-up visit, the perforation closure rate was found to be 99.3% and Air-Bone Gap closure rate to less than 10 dB was 99.5%. …”
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Multidimensional Sternal Fixation to Overcome a “Floating” Sternum by William Rothstein, Tyler Spata, Bryan Whitson, Ahmet Kilic

“…This case report describes the repair of a complete sternal dehiscence of the lower right sternum using sternal wires, manubrial plates, and a Talon closure device for rigid, multidimensional sternal fixation. …”
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Major Aortopulmonary Collateral Arteries and Their Effects on Perioperative Parameters and Mortality of Children with Tetralogy of Fallot: A Case-control Study by Mohammadreza Edraki, Amir Naghshzan, Hamid Amoozgar, Kambiz Keshavarz, Nima Mehdizadegan, Hamid Mohammadi

“…The significant aspects of MAPCAs, including their quantity, the presence of dual or single supply lung segments, and the employed devices for closure were evaluated. The patients were divided into three groups: TOF patients without MAPCAs as the control group, those with preoperative percutaneous MAPCA closure (Closed MAPCA), and those with small MAPCAs deemed unsuitable for percutaneous closure (Open MAPCA). …”
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Mine Flooding History of a Regional Below-Drainage Coalfield Dominated by Barrier Leakage (1970–2014) by Joseph J. Donovan, Eric F. Perry

“…A 44-year record of water level fluctuations in a series of adjacent closed underground mines documents the history of closure and mine flooding in the Fairmont Coalfield, one of the oldest coal mining districts in the Pittsburgh coal basin, West Virginia, USA. …”
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A Novel Methodology for Calculating Crack Opening Stress under Tension-Compression Cyclic Load by Lin Zhang, Xiaohui Wei

“…Crack closure model has been used in several applications on the prediction of fatigue crack growth life, with expression of crack opening stress often serving as milestones. …”
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Combined Idiopathic Macular Hole Vitrectomy with Phacoemulsification without Face-Down Positioning by Fumihiko Yagi, Seiji Takagi, Goji Tomita

“…We studied 42 eyes of 42 cases followed up for 6 months postoperatively. MH closure rate and preoperative and postoperative visual acuity (VA) were evaluated. …”
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Neighborhood spaces by D. C. Kent, Won Keun Min

“…Neighborhood spaces, pretopological spaces, and closure spaces are topological space generalizations which can be characterized by means of their associated interior (or closure) operators. …”
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Volatile organic compounds of hoary stock are responsible for suppressing downy mildew of grape in an intercropping system by Weiping Deng, Fei Du, Rongliang Yang, Hanyang Yao, Min Yang, Xinyue Mei, Chen Ye, Su Li, Yixiang Liu, Huichuan Huang, Shusheng Zhu

“…Twenty-four VOCs found from pre-blooming and 36 VOCs from post-blooming hoary stock plants were identified. …”
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The Role of Soft θ-Topological Operators in Characterizing Various Soft Separation Axioms by Zanyar A. Ameen, Tareq M. Al-shami, Abdelwaheb Mhemdi, Mohammed E. El-Shafei

“…We show that soft θ-kernel operator is weaker than soft kernel operator but stronger than soft θ-closure. Both soft θ-closure and soft θ-kernel operators are equivalent on soft compact sets. …”
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Spatial numerical ranges of elements of Banach algebras by A. K. Gaur, T. Husain

“…Futhermore, the closure of the spatial numerical range of a hermitian element coincides with the convex hull of its spectrum. …”
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INTELTRADE: Intelligent Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading System With Dynamic Pricing and Coalition Formation by Nicholas Kemp, Md Sadman Siraj, Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Symeon Papavassiliou

“…Initially, the Approximate INTELTRADE (AINTELTRADE) mechanism uses matching theory to quickly determine the initial buyer-seller matches by ignoring prosumers’ externalities. This output feeds the Accurate INTELTRADE (AccINTELTRADE) mechanism, which refines the coalition formation using game theory while considering the prosumers’ externalities. …”
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Effect of Seepage Velocity on Formation of Shaft Frozen Wall in Loose Aquifer by Jian Lin, Hua Cheng, Hai-bing Cai, Bin Tang, Guang-yong Cao

“…This paper addresses the difficult closure of a frozen wall in a coal mine shaft due to excessive seepage velocity in an aquifer when the aquifer is penetrated via the artificial freezing method. …”
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Bilateral Angle Narrowing and Acute Myopia Induced by Indapamide: A Case Report by Ana Catarina Pedrosa, Joana Rodrigues Araújo, João Paulo Macedo, Sérgio Estrela Silva, António Melo, Fernando Falcão-Reis

“…Therefore, indapamide, as well as other sulfonamide-derived drugs, must always be considered in the differential diagnosis of acute myopia and angle closure.…”
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Examining the Influence of Covid-19 Pandemic on Female Students’ Education in Secondary Schools in Kisoro Municipality, Uganda by Hadijah, Nalule

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Rifting and seafloor spreading in the South China sea: a subduction-related extension on the down-going plate? by Chang, Sung-Ping, Pubellier, Manuel

“…Active margins are sensitive to several subduction-related processes which include rapid opening and closure of neighboring basins. The stages of rifting, spreading and the cessation, of activity the South China Sea basin in Cenozoic appears to be coeval with the progressive closure of the Proto-South China Sea which ended with collision in Borneo and Palawan. …”
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Bridging theory and practice in peer-to-peer energy trading: market mechanisms and technological innovations by Pravesh Raghoo, Kalim Shah

“…P2P energy trading is a prosumer business model and a transformative concept that allows prosumers to sell surplus generation to other prosumers and consumers within an energy community or microgrid. …”
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Knee Sepsis after Suprapatellar Nailing of an Open Tibia Fracture: Treatment with Acute Deformity and External Fixation by Chelsea E. Minoughan, Adam P. Schumaier, Frank R. Avilucea

“…A resultant soft-tissue defect over the fracture site obviated primary closure. Creation of an acute deformity stabilized by a Taylor spatial frame allowed primary wound closure. …”
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Ibuprofen for Ductus Arteriosus Months after Birth by Odile Frauenfelder, Ingrid M. van Beynum, Irwin K. M. Reiss, Sinno H. P. Simons

“…These cases suggest that the ductus arteriosus does not become refractory for ibuprofen after the first days of life. Late closure of the duct with ibuprofen might still improve the cardiorespiratory condition and prevent infants from surgical closure. …”
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Pattems and models of flowering of some Gampanulaceae Juss. species by E. S. Fomin, T. I. Fomina

“…C. bononiensis has one asymmetrical peak with a broadening on the left, achieved with the simultaneous blooming of flowers in the upper and lower parts of the main axis and on lateral axes in the middle part of the inflorescence, where the first-order flowers have already finished blooming (they provided the broadening). …”
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Sociology of the COVID-19 Lockdown: Critical Analysis of Its Effects on Private School Teacher Wellbeing by Denis, Sekiwu, Johnson, Ocan

“…Mandatory school closure influenced private school owners to halt teachers’ payment on the pretext that schools had no revenue. …”
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