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Open AccessSafety of exercise training in multiple sclerosis: a protocol for an updated systematic review and meta-analysis
There has been an exponential growth in the number of clinical research studies regarding exercise training in multiple sclerosis, and literature reviews and meta-analyses have documented the many benefits of ...
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Optimizing recovery after laparoscopic colon surgery (ORAL-CS)
The objective of this study was to determine if intravenous ketorolac can reduce ileus following laparoscopic colorectal surgery, thus shortening hospital stay.
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Electrical detection of DNA hybridization with multilayer gold nanoparticles between nanogap electrodes
This study presents a DNA detection method via hybridization of a probe oligonucleotide with a target DNA and with a substrate oligonucleotide, which leads to self-assembly of gold nanoparticles and a change i...
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Oral health sensations associated with illicit drug abuse
Illicit drug abuse continues to be a growing problem worldwide.
This study reports on the oral health sensa...
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Galaxy evolution from a microJansky radio survey
A strong evolution of galaxies is observed for 0<z<1, as evidenced by an increase of almost an order of magnitude in the galaxy star-formation rate density. However, it is known that dust obscuration has affected...
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A Mixed-Penalty Biphasic Finite Element Formulation Incorporating Viscous Fluids and Material Interfaces
The fluid viscosity term of the fluid phase constitutive equation and the interface boundary conditions between biphasic, solid and fluid domains have been incorporated into a mixed-penalty finite element form...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Design Algorithms for Correlated Data
The design of experiments when the data are correlated is an area of increasing research interest, particularly since methods for the analysis of experiments which incorporate a correlation structure for error...
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Robot and PLC Support System Based on Fiber Optic Map Network
This chapter describes how factory floor devices can be supported, using microcomputer based Local Area Networks. We start by introducing the problems faced in computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) environme...
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Enhancement of Sub-Bandgap Absorption in X-Si Solar Cells by Alloying with Germanium
A method of incorporating a Germanium alloyed layer within a thin film crystalline silicon solar cell is described. There is an increasing awareness that thin film crystalline silicon is a potential contender ...
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Risk Assessment of Merger, Acquisition, and Consolidation of Financial Services
In this paper, we compare the ruin probability of a merged company and those of its components. We show that the insolvency coefficient of the merged company is an improvement of that of the weaker company, an...
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Stability of Premium Principles under Maximum Entropy Perturbations
Applications of premium principles imply implicitly certainty about the distributions of the risks. In this note, we study the variations of premiums when the distributions of the risks are changed within cert...
