Clinical and Aberrometric Evaluation of a New Monofocal IOL with Intermediate Vision Improvement by Alessandro Bova, Stefano Vita

“…There was no difference in contrast sensitivity and subjective and objective optical qualities. …”
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Endosonography: New Developments in 2006 by Marc Giovannini

“…This made it possible to work out new images like three-dimensional (3-D) US, the US of contrast-harmonic associated with the intravenous injection with product with contrast for US, and finally even more recently, elastography. …”
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Spontaneous anastomosis of esophageal atresia without esophageal stricture formation: A case report by S. Tan Tanny, S.E. Newman, M. Safe, W.J. Teague

“…Instead, the upper and lower esophageal ends were sutured closed and then apposed under tension using interrupted 4/0 Ethibond®. A contrast study on day 18 of life demonstrated spontaneous anastomosis of the esophageal ends, with reflux of contrast between the upper and lower esophagus, and no extraluminal contrast extravasation. …”
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Modeling of short-term financial transmission rights in a secondary auction market using game theory by Mohammad Tabrizian, Hosein Seifi, Mohamad Kazem Sheikh-al-Eslami, Hamidreza Shahmirzad

“…Purpose: Finding the best situation for the expected profit by each of the participants (players) in the secondary auction market of financial congestion transmission rights.Methodology: From the point of view of game theory, finding at least one Nash equilibrium point for this competition takes into account the various constraints of the secondary auction market.Findings: This paper study the issue of financial transmission congestion contracts then uses the game theory to analyze the short-term (weekly) secondary FTR markets, in which the players manage the transmission risk through optimal biddings.Originality/Value: Congestion risk management is one of the most important topics of transmission network management in restructured power systems and electricity markets in the world, especially markets based on regional or local pricing, whose main tool is transmission financial contracts. …”
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O ambiente socioeconômico influencia o uso de crédito consignado? by Rejane da Silva Gomes, Elis Regina de Oliveira, Geovane Camilo dos Santos, Roberto Ribeiro Gonçalves

“…As proxies de endividamento foram: a quantidade de contratos e o valor do crédito consignado (empréstimo e cartão de crédito). …”
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Advances in Molecular Imaging with Ultrasound by Ryan Gessner, Paul A. Dayton

“…Within the last decade, advances in molecular biology and contrast agents have allowed researchers to use ultrasound to detect changes in the expression of molecular markers on the vascular endothelium and other intravascular targets. …”
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Processus d'institutionnalisation et éducation : l’enseignant médiateur des transformations de l’élève by Loïc Clavier

“…The theory of situations (contract, devolution, institutionalization) allows pupils to access a decontextualized knowledge, but has an irreducible dimension of heteronomy linked to control rather than to evaluation. …”
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MRI-Based Quantification of Magnetic Susceptibility in Gel Phantoms: Assessment of Measurement and Calculation Accuracy by Emma Olsson, Ronnie Wirestam, Emelie Lind

“…Magnetic susceptibility can thus be exploited as a source of tissue contrast, and susceptibility imaging may also become a useful tool in contrast agent quantification and for assessment of venous oxygen saturation levels. …”
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Gray-Level Co-Occurrence Matrix Uniformity Correction Algorithm in Positron Emission Tomographic Image: A Phantom Study by Kyuseok Kim, Youngjin Lee

“…In conclusion, we demonstrated that an algorithm optimized in terms of the GLCM energy and contrast can improve the uniformity of PET images.…”
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Globalização da economia e reestruturação produtiva: as repercussões sociais das novas configurações do trabalho by Noêmia Lazzareschi

“…Globalization of economy and productive restructuring have revolutionized the worlds of work, which attended the dismantling national and international labor markets and saw new working relationships emerge and consolidate - outsourcing, temporary work contracts, part-time work, work from home, banked hours, service contracts - and new professional skills that caused significant repercussions on the union movement and workers' life. …”
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Les arrangements pour l’accès au foncier agricole périurbain by Camille Clément, Coline Perrin, Christophe-Toussaint Soulard

“…The tenant farming who protects a lot the farmer does not cover these contracts. These informal contracts develop in particular the wheat/melon, leisure horses and rangeland sectors. …”
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Usability analysis of graphical interfaces of travel websites according to the universal design principles by Maciej Nawrot, Maria Skublewska-Paszkowska

“…The hypothesis defines that altering the layout and increasing the contrast of interface elements will improve the speed at which users find and comprehend information. …”
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Bio-ecological characteristics of Malus genus species in the context of prospective directions in horticulture and landscape forestry by Tetiana Moskalets, Oleksandr Kratiuk, Mariana Ivankiv, Sergii Shevchenko, Nataliia Shevchuk

“…The findings indicated that the domestic apple is characterised by large fruit size, with an average fruit mass of no less than 150 g. In contrast, the average fruit mass for Siberian crab apple, cherry crab apple, and hybrid crab apple does not exceed 0.7 g, 1.8 g, and 3.2 g, respectively. …”
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Lipoprotein Nanoplatform for Targeted Delivery of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Agents by Jerry D. Glickson, Sissel Lund-Katz, Rong Zhou, Hoon Choi, I-Wei Chen, Hui Li, Ian Corbin, Anatoliy V. Popov, Weiguo Cao, Liping Song, Chenze Qi, Diane Marotta, David S. Nelson, Juan Chen, Britton Chance, Gang Zheng

“…Surface loading was used for delivery of gadolinium-bis-stearylamide contrast agents for in vivo MRI detection in tumor-bearing mice. …”
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Research on Pricing and Coordination Strategy of a Sustainable Green Supply Chain with a Capital-Constrained Retailer by Liming Zhao, Ling Li, Yao Song, Cong Li, Yujie Wu

“…However, the profit of the retailer will be hurt by the deferred payment contract. Therefore, to guarantee the profit of the entire channel and to make the two agents obtain a win-win outcome, a new two-way revenue-sharing contract is designed to coordinate the green supply chain.…”
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Quality of computed tomography image versus dose in hybrid studies: preliminary results in phantom by Adlin López Díaz, Armando del Pozo Almaguer, Adalberto Machado Tejeda, Karla Batista Ramó, Carlos F Calderón Marín, Leonel Torres Aroche

“…Significant differences were found between the clinical protocols with different qualities and the standard clinical protocol, for the anthropomorphic phantom, in the standard deviation of the Hounsfield numbers and in the contrast-to-noise ratio (p &lt;0.05).<br /><strong>Conclusions:</strong> the study of the contrast noise ratio and the deviation of the computed tomography numbers in the regions of interest can serve as a quantitative parameter for the optimization of doses in the clinical setting.…”
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Acoustic Angiography: A New Imaging Modality for Assessing Microvasculature Architecture by Ryan C. Gessner, C. Brandon Frederick, F. Stuart Foster, Paul A. Dayton

“…The purpose of this paper is to provide the biomedical imaging community with details of a new high resolution contrast imaging approach referred to as “acoustic angiography.” …”
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Optimization of the PID coefficients for the line-follower mobile robot controller employing genetic algorithm by T. Yu. Kim, R. A. Prakapovich

“…To develop a control system for the movement of a mobile robot along a color-contrast line, as well as to find the values of the coefficients of a proportional-integral-differentiating (PID) controller that allows the robot to move along the line at a given speed.M e t ho d s. …”
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Niveles y subniveles de precariedad extrema en México: una metodología de grupos con condiciones laborales ordenadas by Miguel Ángel Mendoza-González, Selene Fabiola Cruz-Calderón, Marcos Valdivia-López

“…Los resultados más importantes muestran que los empleos con precariedad extrema alcanzaron a 2.6 millones de trabajadores en 2018; su comportamiento se vincula con el desempleo en México, y las condiciones de precariedad laboral extrema con mayor probabilidad de ocurrencia sucedieron con ingresos precarios extremos, contrato y jornada precaria, y sin seguridad social.…”
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A penhora de veículo com reserva de propriedade a favor do exequente by Maria José Magalhães SILVA

“…Neste trabalho abordaremos o tema partindo de duas premissas:  Reserva de propriedade clausulada em contrato de alienação, a favor do vendedor, simultaneamente financiador, ainda que deixando notas sobre a possibilidade de transmissão de posição do vendedor (e reservador inicial) à entidade financiadora; e  Opção pelo cumprimento coercivo do contrato, com nomeação à penhora do próprio veículo ou da expetativa de aquisição detida pelo devedor. …”
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