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Open AccessThe application of 3D printing in preoperative planning for transcatheter aortic valve replacement: a systematic review
Recently, transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has been suggested as a less invasive treatment compared to surgical aortic valve replacement, for patients with severe aortic stenosis. Despite the atte...
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Open AccessImpact of heterotopic ossification following lumbar total disk replacement: a systematic review
Lumbar total disc replacement (TDR) is an alternative to lumbar fusion in the treatment of lower back pain and reduces the risk of adjacent segment degeneration. Heterotopic ossification (HO) has been identifi...
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Open AccessComparing the use of conventional and three-dimensional printing (3DP) in mandibular reconstruction
There are a number of clinical disorders that require mandibular reconstruction (MR). Novel three-dimensional (3D) printing technology enables reconstructions to be more accurate and beneficial to the patient....
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Open AccessImproving phenylalanine and micronutrients status of children with phenylketonuria: a pilot randomized study
Children with Phenylketonuria (PKU) need a special diet to avoid a variety of physical and psychological complications. The aim of this study was to compare and assess the effects of two interventions on and l...
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Open AccessAssessing demographic access to hip replacement surgery in the United Kingdom: a systematic review
Persisting evidence suggests significant socioeconomic and sociodemographic inequalities in access to medical treatment in the UK. Consequently, a systematic review was undertaken to examine these access inequ...
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Open AccessCritical evaluation of stents in coronary angioplasty: a systematic review
Coronary stents are routinely placed in the treatment and prophylaxis of coronary artery disease (CAD). Current coronary stent designs are prone to develo** blockages: in-stent thrombosis (IST) and in-stent ...
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Introduction to WAMS and Its Applications for Future Power System
Nowadays, the increase in electrical energy consumption and power system restructuring have posed new challenges to the operation, control, and monitoring of power systems. In this situation, the supervisory c...
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Assessment of the hedging policy on reservoir operation for future drought conditions under climate change
Reservoirs play a fundamental role in enhancing sustainable development and economic circumstances, especially in areas with limited water resources. Recently, experts in water resources management have been f...
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Evaluation of Adaptation Scenarios for Climate Change Impacts on Agricultural Water Allocation Using Fuzzy MCDM Methods
Due to the impacts of climate change on agriculture and water allocation, an investigation of the farmers’ perceptions and stakeholders’ views on the adaptation strategies to climate change has a great of impo...
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A Self-adaptive Nature-Inspired Procedure for Solving the Quadratic Assignment Problem
The quadratic assignment problem has been traditionally introduced as a mathematical model related to economic activities, modeling many real-world problems from making optimal arrangement of machines in facto...
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The epithelial Na+ channel α- and γ-subunits are cleaved at predicted furin-cleavage sites, glycosylated and membrane associated in human kidney
The epithelial Na+ channel (ENaC) is essential for Na+/K+ homeostasis and blood pressure control. Its activity is regulated by proteases in rodents. To gain more information on proteolytic ENaC regulation in huma...
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Evaluation of CMIP5 models for west and southwest Iran using TOPSIS-based method
GCMs (general circulation models) are main tools for generating climate projections for climate change research in hydrology and water resources. Accordingly, evaluating the performance of these models in simu...
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Develo** an Effective Decomposition-Based Procedure for Solving the Quadratic Assignment Problem
The quadratic assignment problem is involved with designing the best layouts for facilities and has a wide variety of applications in industry. This paper presents a decomposition-based procedure for solving t...
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Spatio-temporal analysis of daily, seasonal and annual precipitation concentration in Jharkhand state, India
Nowadays, climate change and global warming have led to changes in the distribution of precipitation, which affect on the availability of water resources. Therefore, investigating the temporal and spatial vari...
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An Effective Structural Iterative Refinement Technique for Solving the Quadratic Assignment Problem
The quadratic assignment problem deals with the arrangement of facilities in plants for minimizing the communication cost among the facilities. This problem is one of the focal problems both in academia and in...
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Risk assessment of agricultural water requirement based on a multi-model ensemble framework, southwest of Iran
Water shortage and climate change are the most important issues of sustainable agricultural and water resources development. Given the importance of water availability in crop production, the present study foc...
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Streamflow trend analysis by considering autocorrelation structure, long-term persistence, and Hurst coefficient in a semi-arid region of Iran
Due to the substantial decrease of water resources as well as the increase in demand and climate change phenomenon, analyzing the trend of hydrological parameters is of paramount importance. In the present stu...
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A comparison of feasibility and safety of percutaneous fluoroscopic guided thoracic pedicle screws between Europeans and Asians: is there any difference?
To directly compare the safety of fluoroscopic guided percutaneous thoracic pedicle screw placement between Caucasians and Asians.
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Reply to discussion of “Extreme streamflow drought in the Karkheh river basin (Iran): probabilistic and regional analyses”
In our original paper (Nat Hazards 76:327–346, 2015. doi:10.1007/s11069-014-1492-x), we analyzed hydrological droughts based on the minimum values of the str...
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Markov Chains of Different Orders for Streamflow Drought Analysis
Drought is a slow and cree** phenomenon that occurs more frequently in arid and semi-arid regions. In recent decades, among natural disasters influencing human societies the number or frequency of drought ev...
