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Outcome of a metaphyseal reverse total shoulder replacement in rheumatoid arthritis
To assess the clinical and radiological results of a metaphyseal reverse total shoulder arthroplasty (rTSA) without diaphyseal stem, in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients.
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Tomographic Reconstruction from a Few Views: A Multi-Marginal Optimal Transport Approach
In this article, we focus on tomographic reconstruction. The problem is to determine the shape of the interior interface using a tomographic approach while very few X-ray radiographs are performed. We use a mu...
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Diagnostic accuracy and clinical relevance of an inflammatory biomarker panel in early sepsis in adult critical care patients
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Open AccessClinical massively parallel next-generation sequencing analysis of 409 cancer-related genes for mutations and copy number variations in solid tumours
In a clinical diagnostic laboratory, we evaluated the applicability of the Ion Proton sequencer for screening 409 cancer-related genes in solid tumours.
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Genome-wide association study of Alzheimer's disease with psychotic symptoms
Psychotic symptoms occur in ∼40% of subjects with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and are associated with more rapid cognitive decline and increased functional deficits. They show heritability up to 61% and have been...
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A Penalization Approach for Tomographic Reconstruction of Binary Axially Symmetric Objects
We propose a variational method for tomographic reconstruction of blurred and noised binary images based on a penalization process of a minimization problem settled in the space of bounded variation functions....
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Active Curve Approach for Tomographic Reconstruction of Binary Radially Symmetric Objects
This paper deals with tomographic reconstruction of radially symmetric objects from a single radiograph, in order to study the behavior of shocked material. Usual tomographic reconstruction algorithms (such as...
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Taenia solium DNA is present in the cerebrospinal fluid of neurocysticercosis patients and can be used for diagnosis
Neurocysticercosis is the most frequent parasitic infection of the CNS and the main cause of acquired epilepsy worldwide. Seizures are the most common symptoms of the disease, together with headache, involunta...
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Dietary determinants of post-menopausal bone loss at the lumbar spine: a possible beneficial effect of iron
Previous studies suggesting different effects of diet on post-menopausal bone loss may have given conflicting results because they sometimes failed to exclude confounding conditions or used imprecise methodology.
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Raised serum homocysteine levels in patients of coronary artery disease and the effect of vitamin B12 and folate on its concentration
Homocysteine(Hcy) has been implicated as a novel risk factor of Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) among Asian Indians, but many studies done in India failed to reveal any direct correlation. It has also been repor...
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Nutritional status and wound healing in open fractures of the lower limb
Forty-three patients averaging 28.2 (range 16–74) years with open fractures of the lower limbs were studied prospectively for 40 weeks using anthropometrical, biochemical and haematological parameters to ascer...
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A 3-year longitudinal, controlled clinical study of a gallium-based restorative material
Galloy restorations in moderate to large class I and class II cavities displayed early catastrophic failure that resulted in fractured tooth structure in 60% o...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Dust Penetrated Morphology in the High Redshift Universe
Images from the Hubble Deep Field (HDF) North and South show a large percentage of dusty, high redshift galaxies whose appearance falls outside traditional classification systems. The nature of these objects i...
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Radiation-associated pneumonitis following autologous stem cell transplantation: predictive factors, disease characteristics and treatment outcomes
High-dose therapy followed by autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) prolongs survival in patients with multiple myeloma and is relatively safe with treatment-related mortality rates of only 1–5%. Interst...
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Dental post-operative sensitivity associated with a gallium-based restorative material
Introduction This study forms part of a 2-year longitudinal clinical trial to compare the performance of a gallium-based restorative material (Galloy) with a high copper, mercury based (Dispersalloy) control mate...
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Intensification of the stem cell transplant induction regimen results in increased treatment-related mortality without improved outcome in multiple myeloma
Randomized trials conducted by the Intergroupe Française du Myelome (IFM) demonstrate that the use of high-dose chemotherapy (HDCT) and stem cell transplantation (SCT) improves event-free (EFS) and overall sur...
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Compositional and Temperature Effects on Stability and Superconducting Behaviour of 1223 Type Phases
The studies have been focused to the determination of the best elaboration conditions of Tl-1223 phases. The objectives were to obtain a well defined composition and an optimization of the superconducting beha...
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Improvement of the Irreversibility Line of the 1212 Compound Tl0.5Pb0.5Sr2CaCu2O7−δ
The superconducting properties and the irreversibility line of the Tl0.5Pb0.5Sr2CaCu2O7−δ were studied by ac susceptibility on both ceramic and powder samples prepared in sealed quartz tube at 960°C. In parallel,...
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Effect of Ba Substitution on the Superconducting Properties and the Irreversibility Line of the Compounds TIPb 1223: Tl0.5Pb0.5(Sr 2−xBax)Ca2Cu3O9−δ
The superconducting properties and the irreversibility line of the Tl0.5Pb0.5(Sr2−xBax)Ca2Cu3O9−δ were studied by ac susceptibility on both ceramic and powdered samples. The samples were prepared by solid state r...
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The CNOC Cluster Survey
Rich galaxy clusters are powerful probes of both cosmological and galaxy evolution parameters. The CNOC cluster survey was primarily designed to distinguish between Ω = 1 and Ω ≃ 0.2 cosmologies. Projected for...
