Is scanning under rubber dam isolation a feasible approach for the execution of indirect restorations? by Tatiana Cursino Pereira, Ana Paula Almeida-Gomes, Talita Suelen Queiroz, Claudio Moreira, Renata Marques Melo Marinho, Alexandre Luiz Souto Borges, Marco Antonio Bottino, Guilherme Siqueira Ferreira Anzaloni Saavedra

“…Material and Methods: Female patient, 50 years old, required restorative procedures on teeth 35 and 37. An intraoral scan was initially performed on both arches. …”
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Anatomical recognition artificial intelligence for identifying the recurrent laryngeal nerve during endoscopic thyroid surgery: A single‐center feasibility study by Yukio Nishiya, Kazuto Matsuura, Tateo Ogane, Kazuyuki Hayashi, Yumi Kinebuchi, Hirotaka Tanaka, Wataru Okano, Toshifumi Tomioka, Takeshi Shinozaki, Ryuichi Hayashi

“…Methods In this retrospective study, we develop an AI model using a dataset of endoscopic thyroid surgery videos, including hemithyroidectomy procedures performed between April 2019 and September 2023 at the National Cancer Center Hospital East, Chiba, Japan. …”
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The influence of elements of information of police investigation on the motivation of condemnatory criminal sentence: an analysis of the decisions pronounced by criminal courts of... by André Rocha Sampaio, Marcelo Herval Macêdo Ribeiro, Amanda Assis Ferreira

“…Thus, it converges to the confirmation of the problems that permeate the art. 155 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, when inserted in an essentially inquisitive system.…”
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Energy harvesting enhancement: A roadmap for systematically tuning controllers applied on synchronous generators of wind turbines by John Breno Santos Freitas, Felipe Augusto Silva Martins, Vinicius Foletto Montagner, Paulo Jefferson Dias de Oliveira Evald

“…A detailed discussion about how to design meta-heuristic optimizers for this task is presented, providing systematic rules to ensure that the tuning procedure returns a set of gains that result in feasible optimized controllers. …”
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Infantile Kaposiform hemangioendothelioma in a female patient complicated with severe obstructed jaundice: a case report by Eiichiro Watanabe, Naoki Hashizume, Akihiro Yoneda, Mureo Kasahara, Genta Ozeki, Takeshi Saito, Michimasa Fujiogi, Motohiro Kano, Yuki Yamamoto, Osamu Miyazaki, Takanobu Maekawa, Noriyuki Nakano, Takako Yoshioka, Akihiro Fujino, Yutaka Kanamori

“…The first attempt at a diagnostic surgical procedure did not provide sufficient diagnostic information. …”
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Mapping Technologies for Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation Beyond Pulmonary Vein Isolation by Giulio La Rosa, Jorge G Quintanilla, Ricardo Salgado, Juan José González-Ferrer, Victoria Cañadas-Godoy, Julián Pérez-Villacastín, Nicasio Pérez-Castellano, José Jalife, David Filgueiras-Rama

“…Additional anatomical targets have been reported with the aim of increasing procedure success in complex substrates. However, larger ablated areas with uncertainty of targeting relevant regions for AF initiation or maintenance are not exempt from the potential risk of complications and pro-arrhythmia. …”
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A Fatal Sepsis Caused by Hyaluronate Knee Injection: How Much the Medical History and the Informed Consent Might Be Important? by F. Manfreda, G. Rinonapoli, A. Nardi, P. Antinolfi, A. Caraffa

“…We recommend producing correct guidelines for a clean aseptic procedure of injection to obtain proper consensus from the patient and to pay attention to his clinical history and comorbidities before acting any kind of invasive treatment, including joint injection.…”
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Two-neutron transfer reactions and the quantum chaos measure of nuclear spectra by A. I. Levon, A. G. Magner

“…Experimental NNSDs were obtained by using the complete and pure sequences of the collective states through an unfolding procedure. The two-neutron transfer reactions allow to obtain such a sequence of the collective states that meets the requirements for a statistical analysis. …”
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Carbon Black Single Piece Electrodes for Nitrate Ion Sensing by Martyna Drużyńska, Timo Kikas, Nikola Lenar, Beata Paczosa-Bator

“…The paper provides the optimized procedure for the preparation and maintenance of single-piece nitrate-selective electrodes with carbon black nanoparticles. …”
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A Synthetic Material to Simulate Soft Rocks and Its Applications for Model Studies of Socketed Piles by Can Mei, Qing Fang, Haowei Luo, Jiangang Yin, Xudong Fu

“…A detailed manufacturing procedure of a synthetic soft rock is presented, as well as its applications on the laboratory experiments of socketed piles. …”
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Attachment of Histidine Tags to Recombinant Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha Drastically Changes Its Properties by Irena Fonda, Maja Kenig, Vladka Gaberc-Porekar, Primo Pristovaek, Viktor Menart

“…Thus caution is advised when using His-tagged proteins directly in screening procedures or in research.…”
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Direct Vapor-Phase Bromination of Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes by Ilya Mazov, Dmitry Krasnikov, Andrey Stadnichenko, Vladimir Kuznetsov, Anatoly Romanenko, Olga Anikeeva, Evgeniy Tkachev

“…We present the simple procedure of the vapor-phase bromination of multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) at moderate temperatures. …”
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SUPREMACY OF THE CONSTITUTION THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS by Marius ANDREESCU, Claudia ANDREESCU

“…There are analyzed the consequences and guarantees of the supremacy of the constitution, the role of the Constitutional Court in fulfilling the main function of guarantor of the supremacy of the Constitution, as well as the competence of the courts, to guarantee through specific procedures this quality of the fundamental law. In this aspect, jurisprudential issues are presented and analyzed. …”
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Effect of Annealing Temperature and Time Over the Microstructural, Mechanical and Electrical Properties of Deformed Al Wires (A6) by Lin CHEN, Meigui OU, Yilong LIANG, Yu LIANG

“…During the annealing procedure, recrystallization is observed to begin at 300 ℃ and complete at 350 ℃. …”
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Compliance with base erosion and profit shifting action 13: Insights from tax consultants and tax officials by Annelies Roggeman, Leila Aro-Sati, Isabelle Verleyen

“…Additionally, MNEs experience additional costs to comply with the different implementations in countries, centralise tax data with IT systems within the organisation, and set up multilateral Advance Pricing Arrangements (APAs) and Mutual Agreement Procedures (MAPs). To avoid (other forms of) tax avoidance being considered by companies, policymakers should address these concerns of increased compliance costs.…”
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ФАРМАКОЭКОНОМИЧЕСКОЕ ОБОСНОВАНИЕ ЭФФЕКТИВНОСТИ ПРИМЕНЕНИЯ ВАКЦИНЫ УЛЬТРИКС® ДЛЯ ПРОФИЛАКТИКИ ЗАБОЛЕВАЕМОСТИ ГРИППОМ И ОСТРЫМИ РЕСПИРАТОРНЫМИ ВИРУСНЫМИ ИНФЕКЦИЯМИ... by А. А. Тюрина, В. Б. Василюк, К. А. Захаров, Т. В. Веселова, А. В. Жуков

“…The case-control study included 192 people (main group) expirienced ARI or influenza in autumn-winter season 2014 -2015 and 808 people (control group) without cases of ARI or influenza during study period and randomly selected according to pre-established procedures. Ultrix was prescribed to 108 people of control group, and to 10 people of main group. …”
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Determination of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Tea Infusions Samples by High Performance Liquid Chromatography with Fluorimetric Detection by Anna Maria Girelli, Azzurra Apriceno, Anna maria Tarola, Francesca Tortora

“…Analyses were carried out with a procedure based on saponification, liquid-liquid extraction, and PAHs determination by high performance liquid chromatography with fluorescence detector. …”
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Rhytidoplasty practices and histological notes for the facial skin of post-bariatric patients by Hugo Leonardo Freire Gomes, Marília Gabriela Xavier Pereira Peixoto, Douglas Vinícius Silva, Roberto Kaluf-Filho, Roberto Kaluf

“…Conclusion: The surgical technique of rhytidoplasty of post-bariatric patients sustained specific details with satisfactory postoperative surgical results, skin with worse histological quality, perioperative complications within the expected range, and the need for further studies to assess the procedure's durability…”
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Performance Assessment with Data Envelopment Analysis in Public Administration in Turkey: An Example of the General Directorate of National Property Practices by İlhan Yıldırım, Harun Tanrıvermiş, Türkay Tüdeş

“…In this study, detection procedures conducted in Treasury (or State) property of the General Directorate of National Property were taken as an example of public institution activity, and its performance was evaluated with data envelopment analysis using Efficiency Measurement System program. …”
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Nonlinear evaluation of reliability-based topology optimization of concrete deep beams by Rodrigo Reis Amaral, Jorge Luis Palomino Tamayo, Liércio André Isoldi, Herbert Martins Gomes

“…This method uses an outer loop for the optimization and an inner loop for the reliability analysis. The TO procedure based on the Bidirectional Evolutionary Structural Optimization (BESO) was developed to minimize the structure’s concrete compliance and, consequently, reduce the weight for a given reliability index constraint. …”
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