A comparative clinical outcome study of power-assisted vs. manually-operated circular staplers for deep colorectal anastomosis by Tarik Mahdjoub, Nicolas Michot, Elias Karam, Martine Le Verger, Urs Giger-Pabst, Mehdi Ouaïssi

“…However, larger prospective randomized trials should be conducted to further investigate the potential clinical benefits and cost-effectiveness of using PCS in selected patient populations.…”
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Effect of Priming Treatment on Improving Germination and Seedling Performance of Aged and Iron-Coated Rice Seeds Aiming for Direct Sowing by Nasratullah Habibi, Parneel, Naoki Terada, Babil Pachakkil, Atsushi Sanada, Atsushi Kamata, Kaihei Koshio

“…The technique offers a promising, low-cost approach to improving rice establishment in environments facing suboptimal seed storage and early-season cold temperatures, in particular, aiming for direct sowing methods.…”
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EAM Integrated Widely Tunable DBR Lasers Based on InGaAlAs/InP MQWs by Mengyang Zhong, Huan Li, Daibing Zhou, Kun Yang, Fei Guo, Dan Lu, Lingjuan Zhao, Song Liang

“…The device is a promising low-cost light source for future high-capacity wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) optical communication systems.…”
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Performance Enhancement of a-C:Cr Thin Films Deposited on 316L Stainless Steel as Bipolar Plates via a Thin Ti Layer by Mid-Frequency Magnetron Sputtering for PEMFC Application by Yuxing Zhao, Song Li, Saiqiang Wang, Ming Ma, Ming Chen, Jiao Yang, Chunlei Yang, Weimin Li

“…These results demonstrate that parameter optimization enables SS316L BPPs to functionally replace titanium counterparts, offering significant cost reductions for metal BPPs and accelerating the commercialization of PEMFC technology.…”
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Integrating 3D printing, simulations and surrogate modelling: A comprehensive study on additive manufacturing focusing on a metal twin-cantilever benchmark by C. Mallor, S. Lani, V. Zambrano, H. Ghasemi-Tabasi, S. Calvo, A. Burn

“…However, the time and cost required to achieve production readiness present significant challenges to the widespread adoption of new parts development. …”
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Co-designing a nature-based intervention to promote postnatal mental health for mothers and their infants: a complex intervention development study in England by Richard Brown, Paul Moran, Katrina M Turner, Jonathan Evans, Katherine Hall, Christopher Barnes, Rosa Roberts, Lucy Duggan, Melanie Williamson

“…Further research is needed to determine the feasibility, clinical and cost-effectiveness of this approach.…”
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Image Characteristic-Guided Learning Method for Remote-Sensing Image Inpainting by Ying Zhou, Xiang Gao, Xinrong Wu, Fan Wang, Weipeng Jing, Xiaopeng Hu

“…Inpainting noisy remote-sensing images can reduce the cost of acquiring remote-sensing images (RSIs). Since RSIs contain complex land structure features and concentrated obscured areas, existing inpainting methods often produce color inconsistency and structural smoothing when applied to RSIs with a high missing ratio. …”
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Histological Evaluation for Collagen Expression Prior to LVAD Implantation Is Useful to Estimate Weaning Success by Maja-Theresa Dieterlen, Lea Schreiber, Kristin Klaeske, Joanna Jozwiak-Nozdrzykowska, Michael A. Borger, Alexey Dashkevich, Sandra Eifert, Michal Nozdrzykowski

“…However, prognostic evaluation for defining the treatment goal could be improved for a time- and cost-effective medical treatment. <b>Methods:</b> Our study comprised seven patients who were weaned from LVAD (recovery group) and a control group without weaning (non-recovery group; <i>n</i> = 7). …”
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Admission lactate as a rule-in predictor of severe pediatric trauma in an Arizona trauma center by Zola Trotter, Eric Jackson, Shailesh Khetarpal, Bikash Bhattarai, Katherine Barlow, Colin Hurkett, Kevin Foster

“…Conclusion Admission lactate has a high specificity for severe trauma in children at the cost of sensitivity. It should be used in conjunction with other screening tools when ruling out severe trauma.…”
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Evaluating medical service performance of hospitals in Sichuan Province, China: exploratory factor analysis and hierarchical clustering analysis based on diagnosis-related groups by Xuedong Liu, Xuedong Liu, Jian Cao, Ruyu Ge, Ou Jiang

“…Conversely, hospitals in the “Excellent” cluster should focus on controlling medical costs compared to those in the “Inferior” cluster. …”
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Experimental Study of an Efficient, High Power and Tunable Continuous-Wave CO₂ Laser by Lijie Geng, Shuaifei Song, Kun Yang, Pengji Yan, Zhenxiang Fu, Yanchen Qu, Ruiliang Zhang, Zhifeng Zhang

“…In this paper, based on a sealed-off CO₂ laser tube and a grating-tuned cavity, we reported an efficient, high-power, low-cost, simple structure and tunable continuous-wave CO₂ laser. …”
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Point-of-Care Testing and Integrated Digital Health Technology for CKD Screening in High-Risk Populations of India by Chinta Rama Krishna, Shri Venkateswar, Milojkovic Bogdan, Begos Dennis, Kemisetti Shyamala, Chintagunti Naresh Kumar, Bikbov Boris

“…Lack of early diagnosis with treatment leads to progression to advanced stages requiring high-cost interventions. The current pilot study examined the feasibility of using point-of-care testing (POCT) and digital health technology for CKD screening. …”
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Noise Reduction in LED-Based Photoacoustic Imaging by Takahiro Kono, Kazuma Hashimoto, Keisuke Fukuda, Uma Maheswari Rajagopalan, Kae Nakamura, Jun Yamada

“…Therefore, PAT systems that use LED as the source instead of lasers, which have the advantage of being obtainable at low cost and portable, are gaining attention. However, LED light sources have significantly low energy, and the photoacoustic signals generated have a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). …”
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STRATEGI PROMOSI UNTUK MENINGKATKAN INVESTASI DI KABUPATEN LEBAK by Afina Putri Vindiana, Mutiara Eka Puspita, Katri Widayani

“…Kata kunci: investasi, pembangunan daerah, strategi promosi   ABSTRACT   Increasing regional economic growth could be accomplished through regional development. However, the high cost that regional development takes usually inhibits the regional development itself. …”
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The effect of foliar application of silver nanoparticles synthesized by Moringa oleifera on improving the yield and quality of Pelargonium hortorum under drought stress by Mehrdad Babarabie, Parvin Zolfaghary, Ali Salehi Sardoei, Zeinab Fotoohiyan, Amir Ghorbanzadeh, Atoosa Danyaei, Sediqeh Afsharipour

“…Therefore, foliar application of AgNPs (10%) can reduce the adverse effects of drought stress and serve as a practical, effective, and cost-efficient approach to mitigating stress and improving geranium growth and yield under water-limited conditions.…”
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Resource Management for URLLC&#x2013;eMBB Coexistence in Sub-Band Full-Duplex Systems by Yukai Wang, Bowen Fu, Najam Us Saqib, Gyeong-June Hahm, Kyung-Yul Cheon, Hyenyeon Kwon, Seungkeun Park, Sang-Woon Jeon

“…To enable scalable and deployment-aware SBFD integration, we consider a hybrid deployment of TDD and SBFD BSs, taking into account practical constraints such as hardware cost and backward compatibility. This study proposes a resource management strategy for multicell networks that facilitates the coexistence of SBFD and TDD to effectively support ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) and enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) services for both UL and downlink (DL) communication. …”
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A Bacteria Acclimation Technology Based on Nitrogen Source Regulation and Its Application in the Reinforcement of Island and Reef Slopes by Xin Chen, Ziyu Wang, Liang Cao, Peng Cao, Shuyue Liu, Yu Xie, Yingqi Xie

“…Microbially Induced Calcium Carbonate Precipitation (MICP) technology has garnered significant attention in geotechnical engineering and environmental remediation due to its environmentally friendly and cost-effective advantages. However, the current MICP technology faces challenges in practical engineering applications, particularly the prolonged cementation time, which makes it difficult to meet the requirements for coastal slope reinforcement. …”
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TURBOMACHINES 2018 by Editorial, Foreword

“…Main operational requirements include, in particular, the flexibility of operation, power on demand, long-term safe minimal or partial load operation or a high number of turbine start-ups with short ramp-up times while maintaining high efficiency, safety, reliability and cost-effectiveness of power plant operation.</p><p>Key topics:</p><ul><li>Flutter – aero-elasticity issues induced by low- or part-load operation</li><li>Optimization of turbine components limiting ST and GT flexible operation</li><li>Life cycle management, thermo-mechanical fatigue</li><li>Turbo machine diagnostics and analytics</li></ul><p><img src="/ojs/public/site/images/mkybal/asi_club_plzen2.png" alt="Logo A.S.I." width="600px" height="118px" /></p><p><strong>Date:</strong> September 25-26, 2018<br /> <strong>Venue:</strong> Prague, Czech Republic<br /> <strong>URL:</strong> <a href="https://turbo2018.asiplzen.cz/" target="_blank">https://turbo2018.asiplzen.cz/</a></p><p><strong>Organized by:</strong><br /> <a href="http://www.asicr.cz/en/home/" target="blank">Association of Mechanical Engineers (A.S.I.), Regional Branch in Pilsen</a><br /> <a href="https://www.cvut.cz/en" target="blank">Czech Technical University in Prague</a></p><p><strong>Guest editor:</strong><br /> Milan Růžička</p><p><strong>Scientific comittee:</strong><br /> Jaroslav Synáč, <em>University of West Bohemia</em><br /> Luboš Prchlík, <em>Doosan Škoda Power</em><br /> Jiří Fiala, <em>Doosan Škoda Power</em><br /> Václav Cyrus, <em>AHT Enegetika, Czech Technical University in Prague</em><br /> Václav Uruba, <em>Institute of Thermomechanics, Czech Academy of Sciences</em><br /> Milan Růžička, <em>Czech Technical University in Prague</em></p><p><strong>Local organizing comittee:</strong><br /> Blanka Vlčková<br /> Mirka Poskočilová<br /> Petr Měšťánek</p><p><strong>Guarantor of the peer review proces:</strong><br /> Milan Růžička</p><p><strong>Guarantor of language editing:</strong><br /> Milan Růžička</p>…”
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Optical Beam Steerable Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) Visible Light Communication Using Spatial-Light Modulator Based Recon... by Yin-He Jian, Chih-Chun Wang, Chi-Wai Chow, Wahyu Hendra Gunawan, Tzu-Chieh Wei, Yang Liu, Chien-Hung Yeh

“…The SLM-based RIS can independently and simultaneously control multiple beams, and significantly reduce the deploying cost of the increase in the devices for the multi-beam handling scenario. …”
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Using composable NFTs and blockchain for the creation of EV battery digital passports with sustainability and traceability features by Haya R. Hasan, Khaled Salah, Ahmad Mayyas, Ahmad Musamih, Ibrar Yaqoob, Mohammed Omar, Raja Jayaraman

“…We present a system architecture, smart contracts, and supporting algorithms are presented, with testing and validation in a simulated environment. A cost and security analysis confirms affordability and resilience against known attacks. …”
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