Usefulness of Surgical Media Center as a Cataract Surgery Educational Tool by Tomoichiro Ogawa, Takuya Shiba, Hiroshi Tsuneoka

“…Methods. We studied five hundred cataract surgeries conducted with a phacoemulsification system connected to the SMC. …”
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Q-Switched and Mode-Locked Nd/Cr:YAG Ceramic Pulse Laser by T. Saiki, N. Hirota, S. Kanemori, Y. Iida

“…The obtained pulse duration of the short pulse was a few hundred ps. A maximum peak power of 60 kW was obtained when using a SESAM. …”
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A Novel Active Polyphase Filter Employing Frequency-Dependent Image Rejection Enhancement Technique by Yue Yin, Haobo Qi, Haodong Lu, Ziting Feng, Jiayu He, Xinbing Zhang, Lei Li, Xiaofei Qi, Xiyuan Feng

“…The simulation results show that the proposed technique can improve the IRR of the APPF by more than 30 dB at the operating frequency of hundreds of MHz. The measured IRR is better than −31 dB at the frequency from 95 to 105 MHz. …”
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Sequencing Silicates in the Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph Debris Disk Catalog. I. Methodology for Unsupervised Clustering by Cicero X. Lu, Tushar Mittal, Christine H. Chen, Alexis Y. Li, Kadin Worthen, B. A. Sargent, Carey M. Lisse, G. C. Sloan, Dean C. Hines, Dan M. Watson, Isabel Rebollido, Bin B. Ren, Joel D. Green

“…Debris disks, which consist of dust, planetesimals, planets, and gas, offer a unique window into the mineralogical composition of their parent bodies, especially during the critical phase of terrestrial planet formation spanning 10 yr to a few hundred million years. Observations from the Spitzer Space Telescope have unveiled thousands of debris disks, yet systematic studies remain scarce, let alone those with unsupervised clustering techniques. …”
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Observing glacier dynamics with low-cost, multi-GNSS positioning in Victoria Land, Antarctica by Holly Still, Robert Odolinski, M. Hamish Bowman, Christina Hulbe, David J. Prior

“…We compare the positioning performance of co-located low-cost u-blox ZED-F9P GNSS units (a few hundred USDs) and survey-grade Trimble R10 units (> $10,000 USD) under stationary (on land) and dynamic (on glacier) conditions near Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica. …”
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Guy’s Stone Score (GSS) Based on Intravenous Pyelogram (IVP) Findings Predicting Upper Pole Access Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy (PCNL) Outcomes by Bannakij Lojanapiwat, Pattara Rod-Ong, Pruit Kitirattrakarn, Wilaiwan Chongruksut

“…Patients and Methods. Two hundred and twenty-seven renal operations, which were carried out using PCNL via the upper pole, were classified according to the GSS assigned. …”
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Power Generation on a Bare Electrodynamic Tether during Debris Mitigation in Space by Kan Xie, Fuwen Liang, Qimeng Xia, Ningfei Wang, Zun Zhang, Haoxiang Yuan, Xiangyang Liu, Zhiwen Wu

“…The battery can provide 10–300 W average electric power continuously during several hundred hour mission time. The energy conversion efficiency ranges from 1% to a maximum value 30%. …”
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Highly Parallel Regular Expression Matching Using a Real Processing-in-Memory System by Jeonghyeon Joo, Hyojune Kim, Hyuck Han, Eul Gyu Im, Sooyong Kang

“…Processing-in-Memory (PIM) is an emerging computing paradigm exploiting a cutting-edge memory device (PIM device) that integrates hundreds to thousands of processing units with the memory modules. …”
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Scoping Review on Maternal Health among Immigrant and Refugee Women in Canada: Prenatal, Intrapartum, and Postnatal Care by N. Khanlou, N. Haque, A. Skinner, A. Mantini, C. Kurtz Landy

“…This article reports on the results of a scoping review focused on migrant maternal health within the context of accessible and effective health services during pregnancy and following delivery. One hundred and twenty-six articles published between 2000 and 2016 that met our inclusion criteria and related to this group of migrant women, with pregnancy/motherhood status, who were living in Canada, were identified. …”
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Ethical Aspects concerning Instrument Separation and Perforations during Endodontic Treatment: A Cross-Sectional Study by Raidan Ba-Hattab, Ishrat Rahman, Lubna K. Elsayed, Wejdan F. Alasmari, Randa Abidia, Somayah Abdelgaffar, Awsan Bahattab

“…This study aimed to address and analyze several ethical concerns relating to the behavioural conduct of dentists towards endodontic instrument separation as well as perforation of the crown and/or root during root canal treatment in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Method. Hundred and eleven questionnaires were distributed among dentists working in Riyadh in university clinics and government and private sectors. …”
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Incidence of Extrusion Following Type I Polypropylene Mesh “Kit” Repairs in the Correction of Pelvic Organ Prolapse by James C. Lukban, Roger D. Beyer, Robert D. Moore

“…Extrusions involving the anterior compartment (AC) or posterior compartment/apex (PC/A) were recorded. Results. Two hundred sixty women underwent mesh placement, with a total of 368 mesh units inserted (173 in the AC and 195 in the PC/A). …”
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Second Mesiobuccal Canal Evaluation Features with Cone-Beam Computed Tomography by Oleg Mordanov, Zurab Khabadze, Fatima Daurova, Inna Bagdasarova, Andrei Zoryan, Alena Kulikova, Anastasiya Blokhina, Rita Mustafaeva, Yusup Bakaev, Saida Abdulkerimova

“…Materials and Methods. Two hundred nonfilled MB2 canals in maxillary first molars of 156 people (75 females and 81 males) aged from 20 to 73 years old were evaluated with CBCT with different slice thicknesses: 0.5 mm, 1 mm, 3 mm, and 10 mm. …”
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Hominin heritage: How institutional repositories are managing collections, collaboration and repatriation by Wendy Black, Bernhard Zipfel, Mirriam Tawane, Glynn Alard, Phillip Hine

“…In the past, conserving heritage was more about advocating race-based scientific study and advancing the colonial agenda. One hundred years later, this landscape has changed, but is not perfect. …”
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Steroids Decrease Prevalence of Positive Tuberculin Skin Test in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Implications on Anti-TNF Therapies by Shweta Agarwal, Siddharth Kumar Das, Girdhar G. Agarwal, Ragini Srivastava

“…In this cross-sectional study two hundred and fifty patients of RA above 18 years of age, classified using 1987 ACR criteria for RA, were enrolled from rheumatology outdoor. …”
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Female Genital Mutilation in Infants and Young Girls: Report of Sixty Cases Observed at the General Hospital of Abobo (Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire, West Africa) by Kouie Plo, Kouadio Asse, Dohagneron Seï, John Yenan

“…The purpose of the study was to describe the epidemiological aspects and clinical findings related to FGM in young patients. Four hundred nine (409) females aged from 1 to 12 years and their mothers entered the study after their consent. …”
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Bell’s Palsy: Symptoms Preceding and Accompanying the Facial Paresis by Daniele De Seta, Patrizia Mancini, Antonio Minni, Luca Prosperini, Elio De Seta, Giuseppe Attanasio, Edoardo Covelli, Andrea De Carlo, Roberto Filipo

“…This individual prospective cohort study aims to report and analyze the symptoms preceding and accompanying the facial paresis in Bell’s palsy (BP). Two hundred sixty-nine patients affected by BP with a maximum delay of 48 hours from the onset were enrolled in the study. …”
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Comparison of Nulliparas Undergoing Cesarean Section in First and Second Stages of Labour: A Prospective Study in a Tertiary Teaching Hospital by Ayhan Sucak, Şevki Çelen, Eren Akbaba, Sunullah Soysal, Ozlem Moraloglu, Nuri Danışman

“…Methods. One thousand three hundred and eighty-nine nullipara women who had undergone cesarean section in a tertiary teaching hospital between February 1, 2009 and January 31, 2010 were included in the study. …”
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An atlas of metabolites driving chemotaxis in prokaryotes by Maéva Brunet, Shady A. Amin, Iurii Bodachivskyi, Unnikrishnan Kuzhiumparambil, Justin R. Seymour, Jean-Baptiste Raina

“…Abstract Chemicals inducing chemotaxis have been characterised for over 60 years across hundreds of publications. Without any synthesis of these scattered results, our current understanding of the molecules affecting prokaryotic behaviours is fragmented. …”
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Self-Ligating Brackets and Their Impact on Oral Health-Related Quality of Life in Chinese Adolescence Patients: A Longitudinal Prospective Study by Yu Zhou, MinLing Zheng, Jiaqiang Lin, Yi Wang, Zhen Yu Ni

“…Materials and Methods. One hundred fifty Chinese orthodontic adolescence patients completed the 14-item Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP-14, Chinese version) at five distinct intervals: after insertion of the fixed appliance at 1 week (T1), 1 month (T2), 3 months (T3), and 6 months (T4); and after treatment (T5). …”
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The Effect of High Population Growth on Physical Environment in Bufundi Sub-County Rubanda District. by Tumuheki, Alexander

“…The study used a sample size of two hundred and ten (210) respondents who included; political leaders, community members, and the sub-county chief. …”
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