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Open AccessLong-term macrolide treatment for non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis in children: a meta-analysis
Recurrent bacterial infection causes frequent bronchiectasis (BE) exacerbations. The effectiveness and safety of long-term administration of macrolides in BE remain controversial, especially in children who re...
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Open AccessLung Clearance Index and Quantitative Computed Tomography of Post-Infectious Bronchiolitis Obliterans in Infants
Post-infectious bronchiolitis obliterans (BO) could be diagnosed via spirometry and chest computed tomography (CT); however, these tests are limited in infants. We aimed to evaluate the utility of lung clearan...
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Open AccessSerum anion gap at admission as a predictor of mortality in the pediatric intensive care unit
An accurate method to predict the mortality in the intensive care unit (ICU) patients has been required, especially in children. The aim of this study is to evaluate the value of serum anion gap (AG) for predi...
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A game theoretic model for dynamic configuration of large-scale intrusion detection signatures
In this paper, we note that the signature-based intrusion detection system (S-IDS) can cause the low accuracy against mutants of intrusion packets. This is because the S-IDS commonly detects network intrusion ...
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Mould design for clutch housing parts using a casting simulation of high pressure die casting
To manufacture automotive clutch housing parts in application of high pressure die casting, the following three gating system designs were taken into account. Since adopting these gating system designs in actu...
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Mold structure design and casting simulation of the high-pressure die casting for aluminum automotive clutch housing manufacturing
This study aims at a mold design based on the casting simulation and mold structural simulation in order to manufacture automotive clutch housing aluminum parts in a high-pressure die casting process. For melt...
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A collision avoidance scheme for the synchronized broadcast packets in a multi-AP Wi-Fi broadcasting system
A Wi-Fi broadcasting system is a kind of Mobile-TV system that transmits multimedia content over Wi-Fi networks. The specialty of the system is that it takes advantage of broadcast packets for streaming to be ...
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Experimental analysis of coating layer behavior of Al–Si-coated boron steel in a hot bending process for IT applications
The utilization of high-strength steel for automotive structural parts has increased since the oil crisis in the 1970s owing to its high strength and potential for weight reduction. Because of the limited form...
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Hibernoma: Intense Uptake on F18-FDG PET/CT
Hibernoma is a rare benign but metabolically active tumor of brown fat origin, that can have cross-sectional imaging characteristics similar to those of other fat-containing tumors, such as lipomas and liposar...
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Development of spring unit to reduce drive space and thickness of IT application and its experimental verification
The size and design of a slider phone, which is one of the most important IT applications, are strongly affected by the deformation of the spring unit and the interface for PCB-to-PCB connection located in the...
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Experimental characterization of transcription properties of microchannel geometry fabricated by injection molding based on Taguchi method
Microchannel is a fundamental structure in various microfluidic systems. Precise reproduction of microchannel is required to achieve reliable efficiency of microfluidic systems. In this paper, we present the p...
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Response Time Analysis in a Data Broadcast System with User Cache
Data broadcast has been considered a promising way of information dissemination to a massive number of users in a wireless communication environment. Reducing user-waiting time is a major problem in develo**...