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Translational Aspects in Living Mammalian Organisms
Translational Research is considered a priority for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and refers to the “bench-to-bedside” taking advantage of knowledge from basic sciences to produce new products, drugs...
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Combined sedimentation, electrocoagulation and ozone processes for the wastewater treatment in an Ecuadorian MDF industry
The combination of sedimentation, electrocoagulation (EC) and ozonation processes was investigated to treat wastewater from a medium-density fiberboard panel industry. The set-up of the EC process was composed...
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Hard tissue volumetric and soft tissue contour linear changes at implants with different surface characteristics after experimentally induced peri-implantitis: an experimental in vivo investigation
To evaluate the hard tissue volumetric and soft tissue contour linear changes in implants with two different implant surface characteristics after a ligature-induced peri-implantitis.
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Open AccessTopological properties of a bipartite lattice of domain wall states
We propose a generalization of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model of the bipartite lattice, consisting of a periodic array of domain walls. The low-energy description is governed by the superposition of loca...
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Cyanidation tests and pretreatments to recover gold from a refractory ore in Colombia
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Open AccessTopological Crystalline Insulator in a New Bi Semiconducting Phase
Topological crystalline insulators are a type of topological insulators whose topological surface states are protected by a crystal symmetry, thus the surface gap can be tuned by applying strain or an electric...
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Half-life and branching ratios for the β decay of 38Ca
In an experiment at the LISE3 facility of GANIL, we have studied with high precision the \(0^{+}\rightarrow 0^{+}\) ...
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Low voltage linear tunable transconductor for high speed filters
A novel low voltage tunable linear transconductor is presented. The approach is based on quasi-floating gate transistors achieving higher transconductance and better dc common mode rejection than previous imp...
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Finite size effects on the magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy in Fe magnetic nanowires from first principles
The geometric and the electronic structures, the magnetic moments, and the magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy of bcc-Fe nanowires with z-axis along the (110) direction are calculated in the framework of ab init...
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Open AccessValue of staging squamous cell carcinoma of the anal margin and canal using the sentinel lymph node procedure: an update of the series and a review of the literature
Inguinal metastases in patients affected by anal cancer are an independent prognostic factor for local failure and overall mortality. Since 2001, sentinel lymph node biopsy was applied in these patients. This ...
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Association of serum sclerostin with bone mineral density, bone turnover, steroid and parathyroid hormones, and fracture risk in postmenopausal women: the OFELY study
Sclerostin is a key regulator of bone formation. In a population of 572 postmenopausal women (mean age, 67 years) followed prospectively for a median of 6 years, there was no significant association between ba...
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Compact SC frequency tuning circuit for continuous-time Gm–C filters
A novel automatic frequency tuning circuit for continuous-time filters is presented. Based on the switched-capacitor technique, the circuit offers an advantage in terms of simplicity resulting from the use of ...
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Target registration errors with surface imaging system in conformal radiotherapy for prostate cancer: study on 19 patients
Accurate patient setup is a prerequisite for conformal radiotherapy (3D-CRT) and is based on various methods, including surface imaging systems. To evaluate the validity of a surface imaging system (AlignRT), ...
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Tracking target position variability using intraprostatic fiducial markers and electronic portal imaging in prostate cancer radiotherapy
Modern radiotherapy has achieved substantial improvement in tumour control and toxicity rates by escalating the total dose to the target volume while sparing surrounding normal tissues. It has therefore become...
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A linear compact tunable transconductor for Gm-C applications
A CMOS highly linear voltage-controlled transconductor suitable for Gm-C filter design is presented. The control loop to program the transconductance maintains the input transistors in triode region with a com...
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Value optimization of survivable multilayer IP/MPLS-over-WSON networks
Network operators are willing to provide a range of services in the hope of maximizing their profits: from the highly available connectivity services for key business customers to the unprotected or even best ...
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The role of d-orbital polarization on rhodium cluster collisions
The effects due to d-orbital polarization in collision processes between a single rhodium atom and a 12 atom rhodium cluster are investigated by means of ab initio molecular dynamics. For the initial configurati...
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A new capacitor-ratio and offset independent residue amplifier
Matching accuracy of capacitors at the first stage of the residue amplifier limits the overall resolution in pipelined analog-to-digital converters. A new residue amplifier is presented in this paper which is ...
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Equation or Algorithm: Differences and Choosing Between Them
The issue of whether formal reasoning or a computing-intensive approach is the most efficient manner to address scientific questions is the subject of some considerable debate and pertains not only to the natu...
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Collisions between a single gold atom and 13 atom gold clusters: an ab initio approach
Collision processes between a single gold atom and a gold cluster are investigated by means of ab initio techniques. The targets we consider are minimum energy 13 gold atom clusters. The kinetic energy of the...
