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The Biliary Tree
The biliary tree includes the bile ducts and the gallbladder.
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The Liver
The liver is situated behind the lower right rib cage, under the diaphragm. Therefore, it is typically only palpable during inhalation. Its border feels sharp but flexible in the normal state. It has the shape...
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Classification of Performance in Risk-of-Falls Assessment Based on Accelerometer Data and Feature Boosting
Clinical assessments of risk of falls for the elderly are growing in relevance. This work presents a strategy for the evaluation of the collective capabilities of features and indexes, collected with accelerom...
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The heavy ball with friction dynamical system for convex constrained minimization problems
The “heavy ball with friction” dynamical system $$ \ddot{u} + \gamma \dot{u} + \nabla \Phi (u) = 0$$ is a non-linear oscillato...
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Autoimmune hepatitis in children
Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is a disease of unknown aetiology, in which a progressive destruction of the hepatic parenchyma occurs. This disease follows a chronic, but fluctuating course. AIH spontaneously prog...
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Dynamics of the α-relaxation in glass-forming polymeric systems. Study by neutron scattering and relaxation techniques
The dynamics of the α-relaxtion in three glass-forming polymeric systems has been studied by means of quasielastic neutron scattering as well as by relaxation techniques. By using these techniques, we have covere...
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Relaxation behaviour in bulk PIMA and PIMA-PMMA copolymer near T g
The relaxation processes in the glass-transition temperature range of bulk PIMA and PIMA-PMMA copolymer have been studied by means of Photon Correlation Spectroscopy (PCS) and dielectric spectroscopy (DR). The...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Long-Term Changes in Parkinson’s Disease Patients with Adrenal Medullary Autografts to the Caudate Nucleus
One of the frequent questions in the neuroscientific community concerning patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) who receive autografts regards their long-term evolution. In the short term, brain grafting has ...
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Antibodies to the Thyrotropin (TSH) Receptor and Autoimmune Thyroid Disease
Graves’ disease is an autoimmune disorder of the thyroid characterized by a) a diffusely enlarged thyroid gland (goiter); b) symptoms of hyperthyroidism; and, on occasion, c) two connective tissue complication...
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An Increment in Unilateral Carotid Blood Flow Produces Cerebral Aneurysms in Rats
To study the effect of haemodynamic stress on cerebral aneurysm development, three groups of adult Wistar rats were used: 1) One group with ligation of the right common carotid artery; 2) One with an end-to-si...
