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The standard curative treatments for extremity soft tissue sarcoma (ESTS) include surgical resection with negative margins and perioperative radiotherapy. However, the optimal resection margin remains controve...
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This study aimed to report the long-term survival of fixed-bearing medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) with a mean of 14-year follow-up, and to determine possible risk factors of failure.
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The advantages of unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) have led to the procedure being increasingly performed worldwide. However, revision surgery is required after UKA failure. According to the literature...
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Open AccessRandomized, double-blind, four-arm pilot study on the effects of chicken essence and type II collagen hydrolysate on joint, bone, and muscle functions
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With the rapid development of the internet, a large amount of online news has brought readers a variety of information. Some important events last for some time as the event develops or the topic spreads. When...
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Distributed and scalable sequential pattern mining through stream processing
Scalability is a primary issue in existing sequential pattern mining algorithms for dealing with a large amount of data. Previous work, namely sequential pattern mining on the cloud (SPAMC), has already addres...
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A 2.4/5.2/5.8 GHz Triple-Band Common-Gate Cascode CMOS Low-Noise Amplifier
This paper presents a 2.4/5.2/5.8 GHz, triple-band, common-gate, cascode CMOS low-noise amplifier using only a band-selection switch that alters the equivalent LC tank and thus the resonant frequencies of the ...
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A Dual-Wideband CMOS LNA Using Gain–Bandwidth Product Optimization Technique
This paper presents a dual-wideband, common-gate, cascode low-noise amplifier (LNA) using gain–bandwidth product optimization technique. This approach shrinks the aspect ratio of the cascode MOS device, thereb...
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UbiShop: Commercial item recommendation using visual part-based object representation
With the popularity of online shop**, people have used to shop commercial items on the online shop** websites for convenience. However, based on traditional text search methods, people usually can not find...
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The molecular basis for flexibility in the flexible filamentous plant viruses
Flexible filamentous plant viruses, which cause substantial crop damage worldwide, have eluded structural characterization so far. The cryo-EM structure of BaMV now reveals the virus architecture and the struc...
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Nonlinearity analysis of double multi-bit decided folded resistor string digital-to-analog converter
This paper presents a double multi-bit decided folded resistor string digital-to-analog converter that notably reduces the number of output voltage nodes compared with the conventional resistor string digital-...
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Heavy metals, including arsenic and lead, may lead to cellular oxidative damage that is linked to hypertension. Manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) is a scavenger of reactive oxygen species, and 8-oxoguanin...
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Nonlinearity analysis of folded Multi-LSB decided resistor string digital to analog converter
A theoretical nonlinearity analysis of folded multi-LSB decided resistor string DAC is presented. By the derived theoretical equations, circuit designers can calculate the required resistor mismatch very quick...
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Intelligent Third-Person Control of 3D Avatar Motion
Interactive control of 3D avatar motions has important applications in computer games and animations. Most of the current games directly map the inputs of a user into canned motions of the 3D character under c...
