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Open AccessAssociation of exposure to indoor molds and dampness with allergic diseases at water-damaged dwellings in Korea
This study aims to characterize levels of molds, bacteria, and environmental pollutants, identify the associations between indoor mold and dampness exposures and childhood allergic diseases, including asthma, ...
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Robot-Assisted Latissimus Dorsi Muscle Flap Harvesting for Immediate Breast Reconstruction After Partial Mastectomy
The latissimus dorsi muscle flap (LDMF) is commonly used in breast reconstruction procedures using autologous tissues. However, traditional harvesting of LDMF leaves a long scar. Herein, a robot-assisted LDMF ...
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Open AccessAromatic-bridged and meso-meso-linked BF2-smaragdyrin dimers exhibit fast decays in polar solvents by symmetry-breaking charge transfer
Symmetry-breaking charge transfer is one of the key process in photosynthetic reaction centers and specific artificial optoelectronic devices such as dye-sensitized solar cells. Here we report the synthesis of...
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Adhesion and Stability Increased Carbon Nanowall for the Application to Lithium-Ion Batteries
Carbon nanowalls are used as electrodes for second batteries because of the widest reaction surface area among the carbon-based nanomaterials, but their practical application is limited due to the disadvantage...
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Open AccessImpact of the ACOSOG Z0011 trial on surgical practice in Asian patients: trends in axillary surgery for breast cancer from a Korean Breast Cancer Registry analysis
Since the publication of the Z0011 trial, practice-changing clinical guidelines for breast surgery have been developed. Although recent studies confirmed the feasibility of the Z0011 strategy in Asian populati...
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Anti-pollution Film for PV Modules installed at Railway Systems
This study focused on glass-based functional coating films to achieve anti-pollution characteristics and photovoltaic (PV) modules efficiency improvement. Anti-pollution functional coating film was applied on ...
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Data-Driven Capturability Analysis for Pure Proportional Navigation Guidance Considering Target Maneuver
A data-driven statistical analysis of the missile’s capture region is performed. The capture region is the region of the initial geometric configuration for pursuer missile against a target in which the missil...
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Is mastectomy with immediate reconstruction safe for patients undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy? A nationwide study from Korean Breast Cancer Society
In this study, we compared the prognoses of patients who underwent mastectomy with immediate breast reconstruction (IBR) after neoadjuvant chemotherapy with those who underwent mastectomy.
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Nipple-sparing mastectomy for breast cancer close to the nipple: a single institution’s 11-year experience
This study aimed to analyze our 11-year experience using NSM with immediate breast reconstruction in breast cancer.
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Clinical subtypes and prognosis in breast cancer according to parity: a nationwide study in Korean Breast Cancer Society
We explored the association between parity and the risk of develo** a specific subtype of breast cancer. We also assessed the association between parity and prognosis according to subtypes.
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Is the high proportion of young age at breast cancer onset a unique feature of Asian breast cancer?
Women with breast cancer in Asian and Western countries are similar in many respects, but there are also differences, such as in the age at onset and the proportion of breast cancer occurring at younger ages. ...
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A Robust Self-navigation for Respiratory Gating in 3D Radial Ultrashort Echo-time Lung MRI using Concurrent Dephasing and Excitation
Three-dimensional ultrashort echo-time (UTE) imaging with radial k-space acquisition is a well-known MR imaging technique that generates comparable lung images to X-ray and computed tomography (CT). Although rese...
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Tamoxifen therapy improves overall survival in luminal A subtype of ductal carcinoma in situ: a study based on nationwide Korean Breast Cancer Registry database
To determine the prognostic role of tamoxifen therapy for patients with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) according to molecular subtypes.
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Expanding depletion region via do**: Zn-doped Cu2O buffer layer in Cu2O photocathodes for photoelectrochemical water splitting
We report photoelectrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction using a Cu2O-based photocathode with a layer doped with Zn ions. The do** results in the shift of the onset flat-band potential of the photocathode, li...
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Spatiotemporal expression patterns of clusterin in the mouse inner ear
Clusterin (CLU) is an extracellular chaperone protein that is implicated in diverse physiological and pathophysiological cellular processes. CLU expression is upregulated in response to cellular stress and und...
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Prognostic value of ABO blood types in young patients with breast cancer; a nationwide study in Korean Breast Cancer Society
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between ABO blood types and breast cancer survival in young Korean patients. This was a retrospective study of 115,474 patients who were surgically...
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Immediate Nipple Reconstruction as Oncoplastic Breast Surgery: the Cigar Roll Flap with Inner Dermal Core Technique
Postoperative loss of projection is the most common problem following nipple reconstruction. Despite the various available nipple reconstruction techniques, a simple and reliable method that maintains nipple p...
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Surface energy-driven growth of crystalline PbS octahedra and dendrites in the presence of cyclodextrin–surfactant supramolecular complexes
PbS crystals of cubic, octahedral, and dendritic shapes are synthesized in an aqueous solution that contains supramolecular complexes of β-cyclodextrin (CD) and hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB). The ...
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Lyapunov-Based Three-Dimensional Terminal Angle Constrained Guidance Laws
Three-dimensional nonlinear guidance laws are proposed considering terminal angle constraints. Unlike conventional two-dimensional guidance laws, the three-dimensional geometry is considered without the assump...
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Open AccessOncoplastic breast surgery with latissimus dorsi myocutaneous flap for large defect in patients with ptotic breasts: is it feasible when combined with local flaps?
The latissimus dorsi myocutaneous flap (LDMCF) is frequently applied to breast cancer patients for breast reconstruction. However, the LDMCF is considered inappropriate for patients with ptotic breast. The aut...
