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Effects of Heated Infiltration Solutions and Forced-Air Heating Blankets on Intraoperative Hypothermia During Liposuction: A Factorial Randomized Controlled Trial
This study was conducted to compare the effects of heat preservation by two recommended methods, heated infiltration solutions and forced-air heating blankets, in patients undergoing liposuction under general ...
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Nerve Distribution Method is Superior to the Conventional Method in BoNT-A Treatment of Trapezius Hypertrophy: A Randomized Controlled Trial
The contour of the neck and shoulder is defined by the trapezius muscle (TM). Beyond facial procedures, botulinum toxin A (BoNT-A) injections has been increasingly adopted to create a smooth shoulder line. Sev...
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Multi-objective optimization of sealing structure of subsea pipeline connector based on developed FE model, sensitivity analysis, surrogate model and NSGA-II
A 2D axisymmetric finite element method with the penetration load is proposed in this paper to predict the sealing performance and the shoulder protrusion of the sealing structure of subsea pipeline connectors...
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A fast GA-ANN model and application in multi-objective optimization of the sealing ring for the subsea pipeline connector with regard of the penetration load
In this paper, a finite element method is proposed to predict the contact pressure of the metal seal in the subsea pipeline connector with regard of the penetration load on the critical sealing surface. Furthe...
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Open AccessSoluble immune checkpoints are elevated in patients with primary biliary cholangitis
Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) is a chronically progressive liver disease mediated by an autoimmune response. The aetiology and pathogenesis of PBC are not fully understood and may be related to immune diso...
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Ultrasonographic Analysis of Trapezius Muscle for Efficient Botulinum Toxin Type A Injection
Patients nowadays seek medical reduction of the upper trapezius muscle to achieve aesthetic pleasing necklines. Botulinum toxin type A (BoNT-A), a neurotoxin that reduces the force of muscle contraction, is wi...
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Regulating the self-assembly of rigid 2D ribbon-like amphiphilic homopolymer via tailoring its holistic conformation
Amphiphilic rigid backbone polymers are traditionally seemed as one-dimensional (1D) rods and show distinct self-assembly behavior to flexible polymers, but they could hardly adapt morphology-tunable self-asse...
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Potential linkage between WWTPs-river-integrated area pollution risk assessment and dissolved organic matter spectral index
The direct discharge of wastewater can cause severe damage to the water environment of the surface water. However, the influence of dissolved organic matter (DOM) present in wastewater on the allocation of DOM...
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Open AccessIntestinal obstruction in pregnancy—a rare presentation of uterine perforation
Intestinal obstruction is an uncommon non-obstetric condition during pregnancy which may cause maternal and fetal mortality. Clinicians are confronted with challenges in diagnosis and treatment of intestinal o...
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Open AccessVaginal flora during pregnancy and subsequent risk of preterm birth or prelabor rupture of membranes: a nested case–control study from China
The findings of the association of vaginal flora with preterm birth (PTB) or prelabor rupture of membranes (PROM) were conflicts. Moreover, vaginal flora was different by ethnicity and the evidence from China ...
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Book Series
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Tectonic Framework of Sanjiang Tethyan Metallogenic Domain
The Sanjiang Tethyan Metallogenic Domain refers to the Hengduan Mountain Range where the Nujiang River, Lancang River and Jinsha River run side by side, spanning western Yunnan, western Sichuan, eastern Tibet ...
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Formation and Evolution of Sanjiang Collision Orogenic Belt
In terms of collision, Suess (Die Entstehung der Alpen. Wien (Braumüller), p 168, 1875) divided orogenic belts into Pacific type and Tethyan type according to collision types of orogenic belts and took Alpine ...
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Regional Metallogenic Models
The metallogenic belts (or regions) of the Sanjiang orogenic domain are divided under the ideas of systematic, hierarchical and correlated metallogenic geological-tectonic unit, based on the spatial–temporal s...
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Basic Characteristics and Evolution of Sanjiang Tethys Archipelagic Arc-Basin System
The rise of plate tectonics theory in the 1960s contributed to a revival of the long-neglected idea of continental drift, and revolutionized Earth sciences by shifting people’s perception that continents were ...
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Mineralization and Metallogenic System in Sanjiang Region
As an important tectonic unit of Eastern Tethyan tectonic domain, Sanjiang orogenic belt started from the expansion, subduction, subtraction and closure of the Paleozoic Paleo-Tethys Ocean, went through the op...
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Geological Prospecting Method of Sanjiang and Integration of Exploration Technologies
As a specific assemblage of rocks and minerals, ore deposit is the product under the joint action of structure, magma, fluid and mineralizing activities in a long geological time, which is in a limited distrib...
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Open AccessAssociation of surfactant protein D gene polymorphism with susceptibility to gestational diabetes mellitus: a case–control study
Surfactant protein D (SP-D) is a critical component of the innate immune system intrinsically linked to energy metabolism. However, the relationship of SP-D gene polymorphisms and gestational diabetes mellitus...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Grasp’D: Differentiable Contact-Rich Grasp Synthesis for Multi-Fingered Hands
The study of hand-object interaction requires generating viable grasp poses for high-dimensional multi-finger models, often relying on analytic grasp synthesis which tends to produce brittle and unnatural resu...