Effects of epidural dexmedetomidine on patient-controlled epidural analgesia after total knee arthroplasty: a single-center, prospective, double-blind, randomized controlled study by Seong Min Han, So Young Kwon, Jaesuk Kim, Jae Hyuk Kang, Jin Deok Joo

“…Secondary outcomes included hemodynamic parameters (systolic and diastolic blood pressure, heart rate), motor block assessment, sensory block duration, analgesia duration, and the need for additional analgesia. …”
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Effect of Surfactants on Association Characteristics of Di- and Triblock Copolymers of Oxyethylene and Oxybutylene in Aqueous Solutions: Dilute Solution Phase Diagrams, SANS, and V... by Sanjay H. Punjabi, Nandhibatla V. Sastry, Vinod K. Aswal, Prem S. Goyal

“…The interactions in poly(oxyethylene) (E) – poly(oxybutylene) (B) of EB or EBE type block copolymers-sodium dodoecyl sulfate (SDS) or dodecyltrimethylammonium bromide (DTAB) and/or t-octylphenoxy polyethoxyethanol, (TX-100) have been monitored as a function of surfactant concentration and temperature. …”
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Hip Fracture Mortality: Is It Affected by Anesthesia Techniques? by Saffet Karaca, Egemen Ayhan, Hayrettin Kesmezacar, Omer Uysal

“…We hypothesized that combined peripheral nerve block (CPNB) technique might reduce mortality in hip fracture patients with the advantage of preserved cardiovascular stability. …”
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Two-Dimensional Reconstructed Image of a Subsurface Structure Using Continuous Scanned Photothermal Imaging by Moojoong Kim, Hyunjung Kim

“…The subsurface structures of the copper-resin double-layer samples comprise a square block of 5×5 mm2 area and blocks shaped as the alphabet letters “T” and “F”. …”
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A Generalized Multi-Layer Framework for Video Coding to Select Prediction Parameters by Muhammad Asif, Maaz Bin Ahmad, Imtiaz A. Taj, Muhammad Tahir

“…Moreover, in order to select the suitable prediction type and block size for intra-prediction, two techniques are proposed. …”
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A Fuzzy-Based Analytic Hierarchy Process for Mechanical Noise Source Identification of a Diesel Engine by Junhong Zhang, Qidi Zhou, Jiewei Lin, Weidong Li, Zhoujie Tang, Chaoyang Duan

“…It is shown the overall weighting order of the six major noise sources is (in descending order) the oil pan, the left block, the valve cover, the flywheel housing, and the right block.…”
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Lightweight Multi-Scale Network for Segmentation of Riverbank Sand Mining Area in Satellite Images by Hongyang Zhang, Shuo Liu, Huamei Liu

“…To improve efficiency, we proposed a lightweight multi-scale network (LMS Net), which uses a lightweight multi-scale (LMS) block in both the encoder and decoder. The lightweight multi-scale block combines parallel computing and depthwise convolution to reduce the parameters of the network and enhance its multi-scale extraction ability. …”
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Response growth and yield of local black rice variety mutiara to drought stress by Purwanto Edi, Taqiy Apta Danendra Faiq, Cahyo Handoyo Gani, Rahayu Muji

“…The research used was a factorial Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with two factors and 4 block. …”
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Neural Compensations After Lesion of the Cerebral Cortex by Bryan Kolb, Russell Brown, Alane Witt-Lajeunesse, Robbin Gibb

“…Factors that enhance dendritic change stimulate functional compensation, whereas factors that retard or block dendritic change block or retard compensation.…”
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HIV-Associated Neurotoxicity: The Interplay of Host and Viral Proteins by Sushama Jadhav, Vijay Nema

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Inhibition of Immune Complex-Induced Inflammation by A small Molecular Weight Selectin Antagonist by X. Nair, G. Todderud, L. Davern, D. Lee, A. Aruffo, K. M. Tramposch

“…The glycolipid sulphatide was shown to block the adherence of thrombin-activated rat platelets to HL-60 cells. …”
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Development of an Autonomous Driving Path-Generation Algorithm for a Crawler-Type Ridge-Forming Robot by Joong-hee Han, Chi-ho Park

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Fruit Detection and Yield Mass Estimation from a UAV Based RGB Dense Cloud for an Apple Orchard by Marius Hobart, Michael Pflanz, Nikos Tsoulias, Cornelia Weltzien, Mia Kopetzky, Michael Schirrmann

“…However, a good relationship to the yield mass per block was found when the estimated apple volume per block was combined with a mean apple density per variety. …”
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Image Super-Resolution Reconstruction Based on the Lightweight Hybrid Attention Network by Chu Yuezhong, Wang Kang, Zhang Xuefeng, Liu Heng

“…LHAN consists of three parts: shallow feature extraction, lightweight hybrid attention block (LHAB), and upsampling module. LHAB combines multiscale self-attention and large-core attention. …”
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An Improved EMD-Based Dissimilarity Metric for Unsupervised Linear Subspace Learning by Xiangchun Yu, Zhezhou Yu, Wei Pang, Minghao Li, Lei Wu

“…Firstly, the face image is divided into blocks with the specified size, and then we propose and extract pooled Histogram of Oriented Gradient (pHOG) over each block. …”
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Assessment of the Stability of an Unlined Rectangular Tunnel with an Overload on the Ground Surface by Jian Zhang, Zhibin Hang, Tugen Feng, Feng Yang

“…Compared with the rigid-block mechanisms from the upper-bound rigid-block analysis method, these computed failure mechanisms are better suited for rectangular tunnel stability analysis.…”
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Ultrasound-Guided Interscalene Catheter Complicated by Persistent Phrenic Nerve Palsy by Andrew T. Koogler, Michael Kushelev

“…Although PPNP has been reported following TSA in the beach chair position without the presence of a nerve block, it is typically presumed as a complication of the interscalene block. …”
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Mass wasting reveals ongoing asymmetric retreat of the martian north polar ice cap by Shu Su, Lida Fanara, Haifeng Xiao, Ernst Hauber, Jürgen Oberst

“…Abstract Ongoing mass wasting through ice block falls is intensive at the north polar ice cap of Mars. …”
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IQNet: Image Quality Assessment Guided Just Noticeable Difference Prefiltering for Versatile Video Coding by Yu-Han Sun, Chiang Lo-Hsuan Lee, Tian-Sheuan Chang

“…Thus, this paper proposes a fine-grained JND prefiltering dataset guided by image quality assessment for accurate block-level JND modeling. The dataset is constructed from decoded images to include coding effects and is also perceptually enhanced with block overlap and edge preservation. …”
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The Relationship between pH and Heavy Metal Ion Sorption by Algal Biomass by Ying-Zhong Tang, Karina Y.H. Gin, M.A. Aziz

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