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Laser-assisted endoscopic lumbar foraminotomy for failed back surgery syndrome in elderly patients
Elderly patients with failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS) or post-laminectomy foraminal stenosis have a higher risk of perioperative morbidity with extensive revision surgery. Thus, there is a need for safer a...
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Open AccessEffects of ventilatory strategy on arterial oxygenation and respiratory mechanics in overweight and obese patients undergoing posterior spine surgery
Prolonged inspiratory to expiratory (I:E) ratio ventilation may improve arterial oxygenation or gas exchange and respiratory mechanics in patients with obesity. We performed a randomised study to compare the e...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Improving the Intra-prediction of H.264 and H.265 Video Coding Standards Using Adaptive Weighted Least Squares Based Predictor
Advanced Video Coding (H.264/AVC) and its recent extension High Efficiency Video Coding (H.265/HEVC) are the current industrial video coding standards that have directional and planar intra-predictors. The int...
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The Effects of Organism- Versus Object-Based Robot Design Approaches on the Consumer Acceptance of Domestic Robots
The current size of the market for domestic robots is smaller than expected, despite the rapid advance in robotic technologies. On the basis of the previous literature, we attempt to make a distinction between...
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Prediction of in-hospital mortality and morbidity using high-sensitivity C-reactive protein after burr hole craniostomy
The purpose of this study was to assess whether preanesthetic laboratory values can predict in-hospital mortality and morbidity in patients who have undergone burr hole craniostomy due to chronic subdural hema...
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Open AccessAnesthetic experience of an adult male with citrullinemia type II: a case report
Citrullinemia type II is an autosomal recessive urea cycle disorder and a subtype of citrin deficiency. However, the management of recurrent hyperammonemia with neurologic symptoms in patients with citrullinem...
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Preoperative serum lactate cannot predict in-hospital mortality after decompressive craniectomy in traumatic brain injury
Despite the utility of serum lactate for predicting clinical courses, little information is available on the topic after decompressive craniectomy. This study was conducted to determine the ability of perioper...
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Open AccessMale patients require higher optimal effect-site concentrations of propofol during i-gel insertion with dexmedetomidine 0.5 μg/kg
The pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of an anesthetic drug may be influenced by gender. The purpose of this study was to compare effect-site half maximal effective concentrations (EC50) of propofol in mal...
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SPOID: a system to produce spot-the-difference puzzle images with difficulty
Spot-the-difference is a type of puzzles, where users try to find the different parts of two perceptually similar but actually different images. We propose a semi-automatic system to produce various spot-the-d...
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Rendering stylized highlights using projective textures
We present a method to render and control stylized highlights using projective textures for real-time applications. For each vertex of a given 3D model, we compute principal directions and their corresponding ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Anticipation Effect Generation for Character Animation
According to the principles of traditional 2D animation techniques, anticipation makes an animation convincing and expressive. In this paper, we present a method to generate anticipation effects for an existin...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Background Music Generation Using Music Texture Synthesis
This paper suggests a method to synthesize a long background music sequence from a given short music clip in real-time. The copies of input clip are placed with overlapped region, the length of which is comput...
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