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Open AccessDental Pulp Stem Cell-Derived Conditioned Medium Alleviates Subarachnoid Hemorrhage-Induced Microcirculation Impairment by Promoting M2 Microglia Polarization and Reducing Astrocyte Swelling
Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) can cause severe neurological deficits and high mortality. Early brain edema following SAH contributes to the initiation of microcirculation impairment and may further ...
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Open AccessNovel circulating tumor cell-based blood test for the assessment of PD-L1 protein expression in treatment-naïve, newly diagnosed patients with non-small cell lung cancer
We evaluated the analytical and clinical performance of a novel circulating tumor cell (CTC)-based blood test for determination of programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) protein expression status in real time in tr...
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Clinical considerations and surgical approaches for low-grade gliomas in deep hemispheric locations: thalamic lesions
Tumors with epicenter in the thalamus occur in about 4 % of pediatric brain tumors. The histological diagnosis is mainly gliomas. Among them, low-grade glioma (LGG) constituted of a significant entity of the t...
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Factors affecting survival of medulloblastoma in children: the changing concept of management
Medulloblastoma (MB) is a type of malignant tumor arising only in the cerebellum that was first defined by Cushing and Bailey in 1920s. In this review paper, we trace the evolution of risk stratification and t...
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Acquired Chiari malformation type I associated with a supratentorial fistulous arteriovenous malformation: a case report
A case of acquired Chiari malformation type I with frontal fistulous arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is presented, and the pathophysiology is discussed. The tonsillar herniation and hydrocephalus both resolve...
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Robust and efficient adaptive direct lighting estimation
Hemispherical integrals are important for the estimation of direct lighting which has a major impact on the results of global illumination. This work proposes the population Monte Carlo hemispherical integral ...
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Moving Object Detection Using Monocular Vision
This paper presents an algorithm for moving object detection (MOD) in robot visual simultaneous localization and map** (SLAM). The algorithm is designed based on the defining epipolar constraint for the corr...
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Mass Customized Large Scale Production System with Learning Curve Consideration
This paper presents the structure for modeling a large scale production system with learning curve considerations. The model will be used to develop a scheduling method that facilitates the production performa...
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Open AccessEvaluation of prognostic factors and the role of chemotherapy in unfavorable carcinoma of unknown primary site: a 10-year cohort study
Carcinoma of unknown primary site (CUP) has a poor prognosis and the prognostic factors in these patients are not well established. Furthermore, there are no selection criteria for patients who should benefit ...
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Incomplete Barcode Reading Mechanism with Remote Database Access
The researchers have used an ordinary digital camera or video camera to capture and recognize barcode. However, from the published literatures, we found that almost all of the studies recognized the barcode by...
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Planar Robot Position and Orientation Measurement Using a Monocular Vision
A sensor system is developed in the paper to measure the position and orientation of planar robots. In the sensor system, a monocular vision is integrated with a detection method for abstracting the scale- and...
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Electrical conductivity of discontinuous filament-reinforced unidirectional composites
The electrical conductivity of discontinuous filament-reinforced unidirectional composites was investigated. The discontinuous reinforcement used was copper filament, and the matrix materials included solder a...
