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Open AccessPeritoneal flap hernioplasty for repair of incisional hernias after orthotopic liver transplantation
Repair of incisional hernias following orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) is a surgical challenge due to concurrent midline and transverse abdominal wall defects in the context of lifelong immunosuppressio...
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Fundoplication is superior to medical therapy for Barrett’s esophagus disease regression and progression: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Fundoplication and medical management are current mainstays for management of Barrett’s esophagus (BE), however our understanding of differences in outcomes between these two treatments is limited. The aim of ...
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Child, Maternal and Demographic Factors Influencing Caregiver-Reported Autistic Trait Symptomatology in Toddlers
Current research on children’s autistic traits in the general population relies predominantly on caregiver-report, yet the extent to which individual, caregiver or demographic characteristics are associated wi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Decompressive craniectomy for hemispheric infarction: predictive factors for six month rehabilitation outcome
Background Decompressive craniectomy after hemispheric infarction has been shown to reduce mortality and functional outcome in selected patients. However, the optimal timing for surgery a...
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Fuzzy orderings in flexible query answering systems
This paper describes the benefits of using fuzzy orderings in flexible query answering systems. We provide a brief overview of those results from the theory of fuzzy orderings that are necessary to couple fuzz...
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Elasticity of CaSnO3 perovskite
The elastic properties of CaSnO3 perovskite have been measured by both ultrasonic interferometry and single-crystal X-ray diffraction at high pressures. The single-crystal diffraction data collected using a diam...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Vague Queries in Tourism Information Systems
The vague Query System (VQS) allows to efficiently carry out rankings for user defined queries according to the semantic meta-information of attributes. It can easily be added to existing relational database s...
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Oxide perovskites: pressure derivatives of the bulk and shear moduli
The pressure derivatives of elastic moduli (∂M/∂P; M=KS and G) for a suite of polycrystalline oxide perovskites (2 titanates, 1 stannate and 2 aluminates) have been measured up to 3 GPa using the ultrasonic inter...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A General Datamodel for Tourism Information Systems
In the travel industry, information plays a very big role and throughout the properties of its products information is very important for this line of business. To process this information different informatio...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Data Access to Heterogenous Tourism Information Systems
Today, a high amount of different tourism information systems are existing. For the potential tourist it would be very useful to be able to search information about his holidays in all of these separate system...