Clinical Efficacy of Three-Dimensional-Printed Pure Titanium Fracture Plates with Locking Screw Systems in Distal Tibia Fractures by Ji Hye Choi, Jun Hyoung Lee, Seung Hyeop Lee, Woo Young Jang

“…Pure titanium powder (Ti Gr.2, Type A, 3D Systems, USA) was spread to a thickness of 30 μm and partially sintered using a 500 W laser to produce the 3D-printed metal plates. The locking screws were fabricated using a milling process. …”
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Spatial analysis of hyperspectral images for detecting adulteration levels in bon-sorkh (Allium jesdianum L.) seeds: Application of voting classifiers by Golshid Fathi, Seyed Ahmad Mireei, Mehrnoosh Jafari, Morteza Sadeghi, Hassan Karimmojeni, Majid Nazeri

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Development of biodegradable magnesium alloy stents with coating by Lorenza Petrini, Wei Wu, Dario Gastaldi, Lina Altomare, Silvia Farè, Francesco Migliavacca, Ali Gökhan Demir, Barbara Previtali, Maurizio Vedani

“…Our study required the following steps: i) selection of a Mg alloy suitable for stent production, having sufficient strength and elongation capability; ii) computational optimization of the stent geometry to minimize stress and strain after stent deployment, improve scaffolding ability and corrosion resistance; iii) development of a numerical model for studying stent degradation to support the selection of the best geometry; iv) optimization of the alloy microstructure and production of Mg alloy tubes for stent manufacturing; v) set up, in terms of laser cut and surface finishing, of the procedure to manufacture magnesium stents; vi) selection of a coating able to assure enough corrosion resistance and computational evaluation of the coating adhesion. …”
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Comparing Rotational Stability of Clareon and Eyhance Toric IOLs in a Real-World Setting by Connell B, LaHood B

“…Ben Connell,1,2 Ben LaHood3,4 1Eye Surgery Associates, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; 2Corneal Clinic, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; 3Adelaide Eye and Laser Centre, Adelaide, SA, Australia; 4University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, AustraliaCorrespondence: Ben Connell, Eye Surgery Associates, 2/232 Victoria Pde, East Melbourne, VIC, 3002, Australia, Email benconnell@outlook.com.auBackground: The Eyhance Toric intraocular lens (IOL) builds upon the Tecnis Toric platform, initially associated with considerable post-operative rotational instability. …”
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Assessment of Traffic-Related Ambient Air Particulate Matter (PM) Levels in Douala, Cameroon by Yannick Cédric Ngangmo, Cyrille Adiang Mezoue, Cyrille Meukaleuni, Brice B. S. Wandjie, David Monkam

“…We are avoiding these problems by using portable, low-cost, low-maintenance air quality monitoring equipment, including the OC 300 dust particle laser, to observe pollution levels of particle matter levels in the PK17 Douala-Cameroon, a locality in the Central African region where no air quality data previously existed. …”
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Brief electrical stimulation and synkinesis after facial nerve crush injury: a randomized prospective animal study by Adrian Mendez, Alex Hopkins, Vincent L. Biron, Hadi Seikaly, Lin Fu Zhu, David W. J. Côté

“…Group 3 and 4 underwent a transection injury at the main trunk, with group 4 additionally receiving BES for 1 h. A laser curtain model was used to measure amplitude of whisking at 2, 4, and 6 weeks. …”
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Gas-phase Formation of Large, Astronomically Relevant Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Clusters by Yanan Ge, Congcong Zhang, Xiaoyi Hu, Jia Liu, Liping Qin, Junfeng Zhen

“…., [(C _17 H _12 ) _6 C _48 H _14 ] ^+ , 236 atoms, and [(C _17 H _12 ) _5 C _48 ] ^+ , 193 atoms) are efficiently formed by gas-phase condensation under laser irradiation conditions. With theoretical calculations, the structure of newly formed DC/2, 3-benzofluorene cluster cations and the bonding energy for these formation reactions are obtained. …”
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Metal Powder Production by Atomization of Free-Falling Melt Streams Using Pulsed Gaseous Shock and Detonation Waves by Sergey M. Frolov, Vladislav S. Ivanov, Viktor S. Aksenov, Igor O. Shamshin, Fedor S. Frolov, Alan E. Zangiev, Tatiana I. Eyvazova, Vera Ya. Popkova, Maksim V. Grishin, Andrey K. Gatin, Tatiana V. Dudareva

“…The analysis of solidified particles and particle size distribution in the powder is studied by sifting on sieves, optical microscopy, laser diffraction wet dispersion method (WDM), and atomic force microscopy (AFM). …”
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Leveraging Autofluorescence for Tumor Detection, Diagnosis, and Accurate Excision with Surgical Margin Assessment in Tumor Excision by Antonis Perdiou, Ramona Dumitrescu, Daniela Jumanca, Octavia Balean, Ruxandra Sava-Rosianu, Serban Talpos, Dacian Virgil Lalescu, Atena Galuscan

“…Autofluorescence imaging was performed using the OralID device, which employs a 405 nm excitation laser to detect abnormal tissue. Ethical approval was obtained from the “Spitalul Clinic Municipal de Urgență Timișoara” Ethics Committee (approval number 08/26.02.2021), and the trial was registered at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara (trial no. 59/25.11.2021). …”
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Target Detection Using Fused Unidentical Photonics-Based LFM Sub-Band Radar Signals With an Adaptive Feed Forward Network Equalizer by Bikash Nakarmi, S. M. Rezwanul Islam, Hum Nath Parajuli, Ikechi Augustine Ukaegbu, Aigerim Ashimbayeva, Carlo Molardi, T. D. Subash, Xiangchuan Wang, Shilong Pan

“…We demonstrate this using optical injection in a semiconductor laser to generate Ph-LFM signals at different IEEE X-KA radar sub-bands: 19.25–23.94 GHz and 24.06–28.31 GHz (bandgap 0.12 GHz), 19.69–23.06 GHz and 23.625–27 GHz (bandgap 0.56 GHz), and 8–11.5 GHz and 12.75–17 GHz (bandgap 1.25 GHz). …”
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Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of Patients with Corneal Ectasia at Multiple Medical Centers in Saudi Arabia: A Hospital-based Study by Waleed Alghamdi, Sulaiman Aldakhil, Saif Hassan Alrasheed, Kareem Allinjawi, Mustafa Abdu, Raghda F. Mutwaly, Khaled Al Rashah, Hani M. Ghazal, Ghassan H. Radwan, Naveen Kumar Challa

“…The majority (98.6%) of patients had bilateral corneal ectasia, with 202 (94.0%) having keratoconus and 13 (6.0%) having post-laser in situ keratomileusis ectasia. Males and age groups between 14 and 45 years were more affected. …”
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Galileo multi-day precise orbit determination using L-band and SLR data by Tianhe Xu, Honglei Yang, Song Li, Zhenlong Fang, Wenfeng Nie, Min Li, Baoguo Yu

“…To explore the rationality and reliability of the L-band and satellite laser ranging (SLR) data processing strategies, we design the Galileo L-band, the SLR-only, and the combined L-band/SLR dynamic precise orbit determination (POD) strategies by using the normal equations (NEQs) stacking, and investigate their continuity and stability by employing the Galileo L-band data and SLR observations for the time span of the whole year of 2023, based on the BeiDou/GNSS analysis center platform of Shandong University by using the modified Bernese GNSS Software Version 5.4. …”
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Kinetics, thermodynamics, and catalysis of the cation incorporation into GeO2, SnO2, and (SnxGe1−x)O2 during suboxide molecular beam epitaxy by Wenshan Chen, Kingsley Egbo, Joe Kler, Andreas Falkenstein, Jonas Lähnemann, Oliver Bierwagen

“…The results are likely transferable to further physical and chemical vapor deposition methods, such as conventional and hybrid MBE, pulsed laser deposition, mist-, or metalorganic chemical vapor deposition.…”
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Morphological properties of two-dimensional and three-dimensional bedforms in open channel flow: A flume experiments study by Wenhong Cao, Xu Geng, Chunjing Liu, Lingfeng Zhang

“…The detailed structure of the bedforms was measured by laser scanning technology, the characteristics of the bedforms were analyzed in detail, and the relations between the formation of the bedforms and the movement of sediment particles are discussed. …”
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O2-self-supplying and glutathione-depleting scaffold for synergistic cancer therapy by Jiajia Zeng, Chongxian He, Xinna Bai, Cijun Shuai, Hao Pan

“…In this work, CeO2 with catalase and peroxidase dual enzyme activities was loaded on Ti3C2 nano-sheet, and the nanosystem was then introduced in poly-L-lactic acid (PLLA) and prepared into bone scaffold using selective laser sintering technology. Specifically, CeO2 alleviates hypoxia through its catalase enzyme activity, which promotes the continuous photodynamic process. …”
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Widespread trace bromine and iodine in remote tropospheric non-sea-salt aerosols by G. P. Schill, K. D. Froyd, K. D. Froyd, D. M. Murphy, C. J. Williamson, C. J. Williamson, C. A. Brock, T. Sherwen, M. J. Evans, M. J. Evans, E. A. Ray, E. A. Ray, E. C. Apel, R. S. Hornbrook, A. J. Hills, J. Peischl, J. Peischl, T. B. Ryerson, C. R. Thompson, I. Bourgeois, D. R. Blake, J. P. DiGangi, G. S. Diskin

“…Using the Particle Analysis by Laser Mass Spectrometry instrument, we found that bromine and iodine are present in 8 %–26 % (interquartile range, IQR) and 12 %–44 % (IQR) of accumulation-mode nSSA, respectively. …”
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Elevation of ganglioside degradation pathway drives GM2 and GM3 within amyloid plaques in a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease by Wenxuan Wang, Sarah J. Myers, Nikita Ollen-Bittle, Shawn N. Whitehead

“…To address this gap, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) was employed to investigate the age-dependent expression profiles of the A-series ganglioside species GD1a, GM1, GM2, and GM3 in the APP/PS1 transgenic mouse model of AD in which age-dependent amyloid-beta (Aβ) plaques develop. …”
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Long-term effect of island industrial construction on groundwater health risk by Yong Huang, Daqing Wang, Haoli Xu, Zhao Lu, Zijian Cheng, Zhibin Ding, Yi Wang, Yue Shi, Huiru Cui, Xiaoying Lian

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Rapid detection of carbapenem-resistant Escherichia coli and carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in positive blood cultures via MALDI-TOF MS and tree-based machine learning... by Xiaobo Xu, Zhaofeng Wang, Erjie Lu, Tao Lin, Hengchao Du, Zhongfei Li, Jiahong Ma

“…This study was based on matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS), Decision Tree (DT), Random Forest (RF), Gradient Boosting Machine (GBM), eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), and Extremely Randomized Trees (ERT) models were constructed to classify carbapenem-resistant Escherichia coli (CREC) and carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP). …”
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Development and Characterization of a Hydrogel Containing Chloramphenicol-Loaded Binary Ethosomes for Effective Transdermal Permeation and Treatment Acne in Rat Model by Liu RJ, Li M, Zhu Q, Liu HY, Zhang XX, Han XY, Yu MJ, Zhou JW, Han CY

“…Following incorporation of the selected formulation into the hydrogel, the formulation’s skin-interaction was evaluated using attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy and confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM). Furthermore, a rat ear acne model was used to evaluate the formulation’s in vivo anti-inflammatory efficacy and ex vivo skin permeability.Results: The optimal formulation contained ethanol/propylene glycol ratios of 3:7 (w/w), exhibited particle size was 97.68 ± 4.9 nm, zeta-potential was − 23.5 ± 1.3 mV, and encapsulation efficiency was 60.36 ± 2.12%. …”
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