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Prognosis of Childhood Epilepsy
Epilepsy takes many forms, some of which are associated with a good long-term prognosis, while others can be devastating. This chapter will explore long-term outcomes, including seizure remission, resolution o...
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Open AccessSpherical harmonic covariance and magnitude function encodings for beamformer design
Microphone and speaker array designs have increasingly diverged from simple topologies due to diversity of physical host geometries and use cases. Effective beamformer design must now account for variation in ...
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Preoperative Morphological Prediction of Early Reoperation Risk After Primary Repair in Tetralogy of Fallot: A Contemporary Analysis of 83 Cases
This study was conducted to investigate the pulmonary artery (PA) variations in tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) and preoperative morphological predictors for early reoperation. Eighty-three TOF patients and 20 child...
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Effect on simultaneous removal of ammonia, nitrate, and phosphorus via advanced stacked assembly biological filter for rural domestic sewage treatment
The discharge of ammonia–nitrogen (NH3–N), total nitrogen (TN), chemical oxygen demand (COD), and total phosphorus (TP) in rural sewage usually exceeds the Pollutant Discharge Standard for Urban Sewage Treatment ...
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Open AccessCangrelor ameliorates CLP-induced pulmonary injury in sepsis by inhibiting GPR17
Sepsis is a common complication of severe wound injury and infection, with a very high mortality rate. The P2Y12 receptor inhibitor, cangrelor, is an antagonist anti-platelet drug.
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Open AccessPulmonary sequestration with Aspergillus infection presenting as massive hemoptysis and hemothorax with highly elevated carcinoembryonic antigen in pleural effusion that mimics advanced lung malignancy
Pulmonary sequestration (PS) associated with massive hemoptysis, hemothorax, and elevated tumor markers or even lung malignancy has been reported in several studies. These clinical features combined with lung ...
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Pulmonary Hypoplasia Resulting from Pulmonary Artery Banding in Infancy: A Neonatal Rat Model Study
The aim of this study was to establish a neonatal rat model of decreased pulmonary blood flow (PBF) for studying pulmonary pathophysiological changes in newborn lung development with reduced PBF. Horizontal th...
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Representation Results for Non-cumulative Logics
Most (if not all) nonmonotonic logics are assumed to be cumulative, which is often regarded as the minimum requirement for a logic. We argue that cumulativity, in particular, cumulative transitivity can be aba...
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Open AccessThe role of a multidisciplinary team in the management of portal hypertension
Gastroesophageal variceal hemorrhage is the most severe complication of portal hypertension, with a high mortality rate. The current recommendations for gastroesophageal varices include pharmacological treatme...
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Energy constrained clustering routing method based on particle swarm optimization
Wireless sensor networks are made up of a large number of wireless sensor nodes which are exploited to sense parameters in environment such as temperature, moisture level, pressure, light intensity, vibration,...
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Geo-parcel-based geographical thematic map** using C5.0 decision tree: a case study of evaluating sugarcane planting suitability
Geographical thematic map** based on spatial information can effectively support scientific decision-making in Geosciences. To obtain finer spatial decision information, this paper proposes a geo-parcel-base...
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Computationally Efficient Mean-Shift Parallel Segmentation Algorithm for High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images
In high-resolution remote sensing image processing, segmentation is a crucial step that extracts information within the object-based image analysis framework. Because of its robustness, mean-shift segmentation...
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A robust non-rigid point set registration method based on inhomogeneous Gaussian mixture models
In this paper, we propose a novel robust non-rigid point set registration method adopting a new probability model called inhomogeneous Gaussian mixture models (IGMM), where we regard one point set as the centr...
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Selenoprotein K Mediates the Proliferation, Migration, and Invasion of Human Choriocarcinoma Cells by Negatively Regulating Human Chorionic Gonadotropin Expression via ERK, p38 MAPK, and Akt Signaling Pathway
Selenoprotein K (SelK), a member of selenoprotein family, is identified as a single endoplasmic reticulum (ER) transmembrane protein. Although over-expression of SelK inhibits adherence and migration of human ...
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A nonlinear contact pressure distribution model for wear calculation of planar revolute joint with clearance
As various errors result from manufacture and assembly processes or wear effect, clearance joint widely exists in mechanical system as a base component. The coupling analysis of tribology and dynamics of clear...
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Open AccessMaterial removal mechanism of copper chemical mechanical polishing with different particle sizes based on quasi-continuum method
In this paper, the material removal mechanism of copper chemical mechanical polishing was studied by the quasicontinuum method that integrated molecular dynamics and the finite element method. By analyzing the...
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3D Wear Area Reconstruction of Grinding Wheel by Frequency-Domain Fusion
By using depth from focus (DFF) alone to obtain the 3D wear area reconstruction of grinding wheel, the depth values in the 3D wear area image are not continuous while by using shape from shading (SFS) alone, t...
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Multi-Scale Blobs for Saliency Detection in Satellite Images
Saliency can be modeled as spatially localized and contrasted structures with higher blob density and higher blob evenness across scales in images. And it is likely to contain regions and objects of interest. ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Application Progress of Signal Clustering Algorithm
Clustering algorithm, which is a statistical analysis method for research in classifications, plays an important role in data mining algorithm. Clustering algorithm based on similarity, and is easy to combine ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Vibration Characteristic Analysis and Optimization of Heavy Load High Voltage Circuit Breaker Contact
The steady and rapid action of contact directly determines the overall performance of high voltage circuit breaker robot in closing and opening process. The current high-voltage circuit breaker robot reveals o...
