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The treatment of failed rotator cuff repairs. (1998)

Results following surgical management of failed rotator cuff tears are clearly inferior to those obtained in the treatment of primary repairs. Conservative management may be the treatment of choice in selected patients with failed rotator cuff repairs. The primary goal for revision rotator cuff surgery should be relief of pain, not improvement in function. If the level of pain is manageable, and the patient is functioning with respect to activities of daily living, additional surgery may not be helpful. As there are multiple etiologies associated with failure of the initial repair, each patient should be carefully evaluated on an individual basis to determine if a subsequent procedure would be appropriate. Repeat repair is more likely to succeed in patients with an intact and functioning deltoid, an intact lateral portion of the acromion, and good quality of rotator cuff tissue. Conversely, patients who have had a lateral or radical acromionectomy, a detached or nonfunctioning deltoid, or poor quality of remaining rotator cuff tissue are less likely to have a successful result after repeat repair. It is evident that some of the factors associated with failure are avoidable. As the best chance for a successful result is at the time of the primary repair, the following points will briefly review these factors. The skin incision should be made in the flexion creases which are perpendicular to the deltoid fibers. The deltoid origin should be meticulously protected during the repair and lateral or radical acromionectomy should not be performed. Adequate anterior acromioplasty is essential for removal of the impingement lesion and to prevent subsequent wear on the repaired cuff tendon. The acromioclavicular joint should be evaluated preoperatively and treated as indicated at the time of the surgery. Adequate release of adhesions and mobilization of rotator cuff tissue should be performed using the coracohumeral ligament release and interval slide when necessary. The rotator cuff should be repaired to bone using tendon to bone sutures and/or secure suture anchors. In large and massive tears, there appears to be a role for the reattachment of the coracohumeral ligament. Early phase I range of motion should be initiated following rotator cuff repair and early resistance exercise with weights should be avoided.
First Long-term Oncologic Results of the ALPPS Procedure in a Large Cohort of Patients With Colorectal Liver Metastases (2020)

This large cohort provides the first evidence that patients with primarily unresectable CRLM treated by ALPPS have not only low perioperative mortality, but achieve appealing long-term oncologic outcome especially those with favorable tumor biology and good response to chemotherapy.
Mutation profiles of congenital cataract genes in 21 northern Chinese families. (2018)

Compared with traditional Sanger sequencing, targeted NGS for genetic testing of congenital cataracts markedly increases the mutation detection rate and is cost-effective. The p.V44M mutation in the <i>GJA8</i> gene was the most common mutation and was due to a founder effect within the Chinese cohort studied. The results of this study expand the gene mutation spectrum of congenital cataracts.
Differentiation Between the “Critical Period,” the “Activation Period” and the “Potential Activation Period” for Neurohumoral Stimulation of LH Release in Proestrous Rats1 (1974)

Various ovulation blocking agents were administered to 4-day cycling rats just prior to the onset of the proestrous “critical period.” Blood was withdrawn at hourly intervals during the afternoon and evening through an atrial cannula implanted that morning. Radioimmunoassay of plasma LH revealed that ip injection of urethane (1.5 g/kg body wt), phenobarbital (75 mg/kg) or pentobarbital (32 mg/kg) at 1355 hr, deep anesthesia induced with ether from 1355–2000 hr, or slow infusion of 1.0 ml of 95% ethanol through the cannula from 1355–1500 hr, were all effective in inhibiting the spontaneous rise of LH. Plasma LH concentration remained low through 2300 hr, except for a small rise at 2100–2200 hr which was observed in all but phenobarbital-treated animals. None of these agents altered pituitary LH release in response to injection of 100 ng of synthetic LHRH shortly after 1400 hr, and saline and phenobarbital-treated rats also responded well to the releasing hormone at 2300 hr. Injection of urethane (0.8 g/kg body wt), phenobarbital (25 mg/kg) or pentobarbital (18 mg/kg) at 1355 hr, anesthesia induced with ether from 1355–1600 or 1355–1900 hr, or infusion of 0.6 ml of ethanol from 1355–1430 hr, all of which were ineffective in blocking ovulation thatnight, resulted in approximately 1–6-hr delays in LH release. In all cases, the rise in plasma LH was of less magnitude and of shorter duration than that observed in saline-injected controls. LH levels approached baseline values by 2300 hr. Additional rats injected with saline or pentobarbital were decapitated at 1700, 2000 and 2300 hr and serum LH concentrations in these rats were found to be similar to plasma LH values obtained in cannulated rats at these times. The results indicate that a neurohumoral signal stimulates the adenohypophysis to release LH during approximately a 3-hr “ctivation period” on proestrus and that centrally acting drugs must inhibit this signal during a 7-hr “potential activation period” to block ovulation (Endocrinology95: 572, 1974)
Neural networks for switching (1989)

The author argues that a strong impetus for using neural networks is that they provide a framework for designing massively parallel machines. He notes that the highly interconnected architecture of switching networks suggests similarities to neural networks. He presents two switching applications in which neural networks can solve the problems efficiently. He shows that a computational advantage can be gained by using nonuniform time delays in the network.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>
Renal Tubular Lesions in Mice Produced By Group A Streptococci Grown in Intraperitoneal Diffusion Chambers* (1961)

Journal Article Renal Tubular Lesions in Mice Produced By Group A Streptococci Grown in Intraperitoneal Diffusion Chambers Get access E. M. Tan, E. M. Tan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar D. B. Hackel, D. B. Hackel Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar M. H. Kaplan M. H. Kaplan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 108, Issue 1, January 1961, Pages 107–112, https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/108.1.107 Published: 01 January 1961 Article history Received: 11 July 1960 Published: 01 January 1961
Post-penetrating keratoplasty glaucoma. (1993)

To study the risk factors in the development of glaucoma following penetrating keratoplasty, we retrospectively analysed 190 eyes of 185 consecutive patients who had undergone surgery during 1990. The donor button was larger by 0.2 mm and 0.5 mm in phakia and aphakia/pseudophakia patients, respectively. Over a mean follow-up period of 14.5 months, 52 of the 190 eyes (27.4%) either developed glaucoma de novo or had worsening of preexisting glaucoma. Of these 52 eyes, 38 were managed medically and 14 required surgery. From our study, aphakia (37%), pseudophakia (24%), preexisting glaucoma (81.8%), and regrafting (43.18%) were found to be the significant risk factors in the development of glaucoma following penetrating keratoplasty.
Targeting Fibrosis: The Bridge That Connects Pancreatitis and Pancreatic Cancer (2021)

Pancreatic fibrosis is caused by the excessive deposits of extracellular matrix (ECM) and collagen fibers during repeated necrosis to repair damaged pancreatic tissue. Pancreatic fibrosis is frequently present in chronic pancreatitis (CP) and pancreatic cancer (PC). Clinically, pancreatic fibrosis is a pathological feature of pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer. However, many new studies have found that pancreatic fibrosis is involved in the transformation from pancreatitis to pancreatic cancer. Thus, the role of fibrosis in the crosstalk between pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer is critical and still elusive; therefore, it deserves more attention. Here, we review the development of pancreatic fibrosis in inflammation and cancer, and we discuss the therapeutic strategies for alleviating pancreatic fibrosis. We further propose that cellular stress response might be a key driver that links fibrosis to cancer initiation and progression. Therefore, targeting stress proteins, such as nuclear protein 1 (NUPR1), could be an interesting strategy for pancreatic fibrosis and PC treatment.
Groove gratings surface transverse wave resonators (2002)

This paper is devoted to the fabrication, calculation and testing of STW resonator-like structures mixing metal strip and groove grating for the excitation and detection of STW on AT-cut quartz. These developments consist in an adaptation of previous models but also in an improved analysis of electrical boundary conditions. Different devices have been fabricated following the exposed process. The electrical responses of these devices are then reported. The influence of groove depth and metal strip height on the electrical characteristics of the studied devices is finally discussed.
Un lemme sur la dérivation des fonctions vectorielles d'une variable réelle (1950)

Cet article donne une condition pour que la dérivée d’une fonction vectorielle soit la même dans 2 topologies différentes.
Acetogenin synthesis. Organocopper reagents, anions of 1,3-dithians and of protected cyanohydrins as intermediates in ketide side-chain synthesis (1980)

The synthesis is reported of 3-s-butyl-4-methyl-3,6,8-trihydroxy-3,4-dihydroisocoumarin (1a) and 3-(1-methylprop-1-enyl)-4-methyl-3,6,8-trihydroxy-3,4-dihydroisocoumarin (1b) using organocopper reagents and anions of 1,3-dithians for compound (1a), and anions of 1,3-dithians and of O-trimethylsilylcyanohydrins for compound (1b). The synthetic methods used represent new means for attaining an extensive range of acetogenins of natural origin and of biogenetic intermediates.
Development of CAD models for space engineering (2011)

This article emphasizes cooperative work between a public research laboratory (XLIM) and an industrial company specialized in space technologies (Thales Alenia Space) for the development of advanced computer-aided design (CAD) solutions. In particular, the article reviews two computer-aided techniques that have been developed through collaborative research programs then integrated into industrial design flows. The first technique is devoted to the design of microwave filters and is based on coupling parameter extraction from simulated/measured data. The second technique consists in developing a CAD library of generic elements based on artificial neural networks for the packaging of multichip modules. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE, 2012.
Desymmetrization of Cyclohexa-1,4-dienes − A Straightforward Route to Cyclic and Acyclic Polyhydroxylated Systems (2002)

A straightforward route to polyols, amino polyols, polysubstituted lactols and lactones from readily available arenes has been devised. It uses a three- or four-step sequence involving a Birch reduction of the arene, followed by desymmetrization through dihydroxylation or aminohydroxylation and, lastly, ozonolysis of the remaining olefin. Depending on the ozonolysis workup conditions, cyclic or acylic synthons were obtained in generally high overall yields and with excellent levels of stereocontrol. (© Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2002)
Analogue Frontend Amplifiers for Bio-Potential Measurements Manufactured With a-IGZO TFTs on Flexible Substrate (2016)

Three novel differential amplifier topologies using double gate a-IGZO TFTs on flexible substrate are presented in this paper. The designs exploit positive feedback and a load with self-biased top gate to achieve the highest static gain in single stage a-IGZO amplifiers reported to date. After fabrication, the three amplifiers exhibit respectively a static gain of 14 dB, 21.5 dB, and 30 dB, with a bandwidth of 2 kHz, 400 Hz, and 150 Hz. Also, for each circuit the input referred noise has been measured to be 420 μV <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">rms</sub> , 195 μV <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">rms</sub> , and 146 μV <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">rms</sub> , respectively. Based on these results, the a-IGZO amplifier providing the highest gain is suitable as front-end for heart rate measurements and, with some further optimization verified in simulation, can also be used for other bio-potential applications, like electro hysterogram and electro cardiogram.
Smartphone, Wi-Fi et vie privée : comment votre smartphone peut se révéler être votre pire ennemi (2013)

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Preparation of novel chromium-based catalyst and study on its carrier performance (2011)

Both self-made silica and reference silica were modified by the sol-gel method and the traditional impregnation,method,and were used as carrier to prepare the chromium-based catalysts.The two silicas were investigated by using TG-DTA,BET and SEM,and the supported catalysts were used in polymerization experiments.The results showed that the reference silica had sufficiently more preliminary dry ness and better breaking strength than the self-made silica,but worse surface configuration.The activity of catalyst was enhanced by adding Ti.When the Ti modifier was added in the same amount,the catalyst which prepared with silica that had been modified by the sol-gel method had better catalytic activity compared to that catalyst which prepared with silica that had been modified by the traditional impregnation method.
Veno-venous extracorporeal CO2 removal for the treatment of severe respiratory acidosis (2015)

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Stacked Image Sensor With Green- and Red-Sensitive Organic Photoconductive Films Applying Zinc Oxide Thin-Film Transistors to a Signal Readout Circuit (2009)

A vertically stacked image sensor composed of green (G)- and red (R)-sensitive organic photoconductive films, each having a thin-film transistor (TFT) that uses a transparent zinc oxide (ZnO) channel to read out a signal generated in the organic film, was fabricated. The effective number of pixels of the ZnO-TFT circuits was 1410 (47 times 30), and their pitch was 600 mum. The current on/off ratio and turn-on voltage of the ZnO-TFT were over 10 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">5</sup> and 1.5 V, respectively. The G- and R-sensitive organic photoconductive films showed excellent wavelength selectivity: the peak wavelength of the G-sensitive film was 540 nm, and that of the R-sensitive one was 700 nm. A color image with a resolution corresponding to the number of pixels was obtained by a shooting experiment with the fabricated image sensor, which clearly demonstrated color separation in the depth direction of the image sensor, using a stacked structure of wavelength-selective organic films with ZnO-TFT readout circuits.
Begin the Adventure: How to Break the Light Barrier by A.D. 2070 (2004)

For most of 20th century, both relativity and star travel fascinated this writer. reasons Albert Einstein concluded there is an absolute barrier at speed of seemed at first clear, then later not so clear upon closer examination. The speed of relative to what? I often asked anyone who would listen. common response was, Light needs no specification of that kind; its speed is same no matter who measures it. That's true. I would respond; That's just second postulate of special relativity which is not in doubt; but that postulate applies to and we're talking about rocketships here. However it seemed that no one understood what I was saying. By referring to universal constant c= 299.792 458 megameters per second as the speed of light, we paint ourselves into a logical corner in which is automatically taken as subject of discussion even when it is not. careful reader will know not to immediately think light when he hears or reads the speed of light. But it is better to have a neutral name for that universal constant. It has been called Lorentz speed; Ignazio Ciufolini & John Archibald Wheeler (1995) called it characteristic speed of space, and they were then able to apply it to all primordial forces whether electromagnetic or gravitational or other (what other, C&W did not say).
A sugar for congestive heart failure patients (2011)

The incidence of congestive heart failure (CHF) continues to increase worldwide. Approximately 550,000 patients with CHF are newly diagnosed per year in the USA, which adds to the existing 5 million patients currently afflicted with this disease. Furthermore, there are approximately 3.1 million hospital admissions/year for heart failure, costing over US$23 billion (source: www.americanheartassociation.com). There is no cure for CHF and current therapies try to achieve relief of symptoms, improving a patient’s quality of life, and possibly lessening the progression of disease. Various classes of pharmaceuticals, such as diuretics, beta blockers, and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, have been the accepted therapy for CHF [Halawa, 1999]. These mainstream pharmaceuticals focus on lowering systolic and diastolic blood pressure, control of ventricular rate for atrial fibrillation, and decrease volume overload [Baliga and Young, 2008]. Acute achievement of these parameters can occur; however, chronic control is usually not maintained due to the progression of disease.
Consistent iterative hard thresholding for signal declipping (2013)

Clipping or saturation in audio signals is a very common problem in signal processing, for which, in the severe case, there is still no satisfactory solution. In such case, there is a tremendous loss of information, and traditional methods fail to appropriately recover the signal. We propose a novel approach for this signal restoration problem based on the framework of Iterative Hard Thresholding. This approach, which enforces the consistency of the reconstructed signal with the clipped observations, shows superior performance in comparison to the state-of-the-art declipping algorithms. This is confirmed on synthetic and on actual high-dimensional audio data processing, both on SNR and on subjective user listening evaluations.
Inhibitors to Factor VIII—Immunology (2010)

This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Homeostasis of the anti-;FVIII immune response Lessons from animal models Clinical observations References
A hybrid transmission scheme for multiple IPTV streams in UWB bridged networks (2009)

We first propose a remote bridge architecture to interconnect multiple UWB domains. Due to the limitation of the medium access slot reservation in the UWB MAC, bridges support only a maximum of 8 HDTV streams with guaranteed QoS simultaneously. To overcome this limitation, we also propose a hybrid transmission scheme that converts DRP traffic to be rejected to PCA traffic with the highest priority at the remote bridge. With the scheme, it is shown by simulation that the maximum number of HDTV streams with guaranteed QoS is doubled.
MELD or Sodium MELD: A Comparison of the Ability of Two Scoring Systems to Predict Outcomes After Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Placement (2020)

<b>OBJECTIVE.</b> The purpose of this study was to compare the ability of the model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) and sodium MELD (MELD-Na) scoring systems to predict outcomes after transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) placement. <b>MATERIALS AND METHODS.</b> Two hundred and nineteen consecutive patients who underwent TIPS placement were retrospectively reviewed. The primary outcomes were death within 30 days and 90 days after TIPS placement (30- and 90-day mortality, respectively), and secondary outcomes included death within 365 days after TIPS placement (365-day mortality), length of hospital stay, and readmission to the hospital within 30 days of TIPS placement. <b>RESULTS.</b> Mortality rates within 30, 90, and 365 days after TIPS placement were 2.3% (5/219), 8.2% (17/207), and 21.7% (41/189), respectively. Logistic regression showed that the MELD score predicted 30-day mortality (odds ratio [OR], 1.13; 95% CI, 1.00-1.27; <i>p</i> = 0.04) and trended toward predicting 90-day mortality (OR, 1.09; 95% CI, 1.00-1.18; <i>p</i> = 0.06), whereas the MELD-Na score did not predict 30-day mortality (OR, 1.02; 95% CI, 0.97-1.06; <i>p</i> = 0.51) or 90-day mortality (OR, 1.01; 95% CI, 0.98-1.15; <i>p</i> = 0.44). In a comparison of the ROC AUCs for MELD and MELD-Na, MELD showed improved prediction of 30-day mortality (<i>p</i> = 0.06) but did not significantly vary in prediction of 90- and 365-day mortality (<i>p</i> = 0.80 and <i>p</i> = 0.76, respectively). When the maximal inflection point for MELD and MELD-Na was analyzed on the basis of 90-day mortality, a score of 23 was found to be most significant for both MELD (OR, 6.6; 95% CI, 1.5-29.1; <i>p</i> = 0.01) and MELD-Na (OR, 3.3; 95% CI, 1.1-9.6; <i>p</i> = 0.03). MELD and MELD-Na both accurately predicted the length of hospital stay after TIPS placement (<i>p</i> = 0.005 and <i>p</i> = 0.01, respectively). <b>CONCLUSION.</b> MELD is superior to MELD-Na for predicting 30-day and, perhaps, 90-day mortality after TIPS placement. At present, decisions regarding patient selection for TIPS placement should be made on the basis of the MELD score rather than the MELD-Na score.
Computer generated Lyapunov functions for interconnected systems: Improved results with applications to power systems (1984)

We establish new results to analyze the stability of interconnected systems and to obtain estimates for the domain of attraction of asymptotically stable equilibrium points in interconnected systems by making use of the constructive algorithm due to Brayton and Tong [1]. These results are applied in the stability analysis of interconnected power systems. In doing so, we introduce a new Lyapunov function in the analysis of power systems.