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Bilateral or unilateral tubo-ovarian abscess: exploring its clinical significance
Objectives To assess the characteristics of patients with unilateral and bilateral tubo-ovarian abscess (TOA). Methods Women diagnosed with TOA during 2003–2017 were included in this retrospective cohort study.
Yael Yagur +7 more
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Teamwork Optimization Algorithm: A New Optimization Approach for Function Minimization/Maximization
Population-based optimization algorithms are one of the most widely used and popular methods in solving optimization problems. In this paper, a new population-based optimization algorithm called the Teamwork Optimization Algorithm (TOA) is presented to ...
Mohammad Dehghani, Pavel Trojovský
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The management of tubo-ovarian abscesses associated with appendicitis
A relatively uncommon medical complication, the tubo-ovarian abscess (TOA) can result from ascending pelvic infection in the female genital tract. The paper aims at exploring the characteristics of patients with TOA and at comparing the outcomes of the ...
Lucian Serbanescu +4 more
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Motion of Floating Caisson with Extended Bottom Slab under Regular and Irregular Waves
Floating caissons may oscillate primarily due to ocean waves during towing operations. Reducing the oscillation based on the extension part (footing) of the bottom slab of the caissons can efficiently increase the safety of towing maneuvers. However, the
Tomoaki Nakamura +5 more
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Background Medicine is a field that is simultaneously factual and ambiguous. Medical students have their first exposure to full time clinical practice during clerkship.
Silvio Ndoja +3 more
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The aim of the present study is to clarify the mechanism for the decrease in intraocular pressure by 2-alkynyladenosine derivatives in rabbits. The receptor binding analysis revealed that 2-(1-octyn-1-yl)adenosine (2-O-Ado) and 2-(6-cyano-1-hexyn-1-yl ...
Takashi Konno +5 more
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Probiotic strain Bacillus subtilis TO-A modulates the formation of neutrophil extracellular traps
Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) have important innate immune functions that prevent pathogenic infections. In the intestinal tract, NET formation contributes to the prevention of the systemic spread of commensal bacteria associated with mucosal ...
Takuto Hayashi +4 more
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Improving the Performance of OTDOA based Positioning in NB-IoT Systems
In this paper, we consider positioning with observed-time-difference-of-arrival (OTDOA) for a device deployed in long-term-evolution (LTE) based narrow-band Internet-of-things (NB-IoT) systems.
Berg, Axel +3 more
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Millisecond and Binary Pulsars as Nature's Frequency Standards. II. Effects of Low-Frequency Timing Noise on Residuals and Measured Parameters [PDF]
Pulsars are the most stable natural frequency standards. They can be applied to a number of principal problems of modern astronomy and time-keeping metrology. The full exploration of pulsar properties requires obtaining unbiased estimates of the spin and
Kopeikin, Sergei M.
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Carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) is a prospective lightweight material in automobile industry. However, joining metal and CFRP is a great challenge.
Sendong Ren +4 more
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