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Background: To identify, analyze, and report the patient- and procedure-related factors associated with surgical site infection (SSI) after spinal fusion (SF) surgery. Methods: We included any SSI-SF from January 2013 to September 2015.
Humaid Al Farii+4 more
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Underwater gliders are winged, autonomous underwater vehicles that are broadly applied in physical and biological oceanography. The position of the wing has an important effect on the movement performance of the underwater glider.
Wu Xiangcheng+3 more
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Minimizing Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Ships Using a Pareto Multi-Objective Optimization Approach
To confront climate change, decarbonization strategies must change the global economy. According to statements made as part of the European Green Deal, maritime transport should also become drastically less polluting.
Domachowski Zygfryd
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Testability analysis of ship combat system based on discrete bat algorithm
[Objectives] This paper concerns about test set optimization and test sequence optimization for system-level testability analysis. [Methods] The Discrete Bat Algorithm(DBA)is used to acquire the optimal complete test set and test sequence for each type ...
FAN Miao+3 more
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The purpose and scope of this article is to present the best marine practices used to determine the ship’s domain depth (compared to the safety depth parameter in ECDIS) and the safest and best possible speed (also known as optimal speed) of the ship in ...
Rutkowski Grzegorz
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A gendered pandemic: Childcare, homeschooling, and parents' employment during COVID‐19
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically affected employment, particularly for mothers Many believe that the loss of childcare and homeschooling requirements are key contributors to this trend, but previous work has been unable to test these hypotheses due
Richard J. Petts+2 more
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Q690E high strength low alloy (HSLA) steel has been intensively applied in maritime engineering. Also, the underwater dry welding (UDW) technique has been widely used to repair important offshore facilities.
Sun Kun, Hu Yu, Shi Yonghua, Liao Baoyi
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This paper describes identification and components of destructiveness of energy, economic and ecologic profits and outlays during life cycle of offshore wind electric power plants as well as the most useful models for their design, assembly and use ...
Tomporowski Andrzej+6 more
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Feasibility Study on the Submerged Floating Tunnel in Qiongzhou Strait, China
Currently, one of the challenging tasks for Chinese engineering community is to construct a water-way crossing of Qiongzhou Strait in the south of China. This project has also gained significant attention from researchers in academia. The study presented
Jiang Bolin, Liang Bo, Wu Shanshan
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Damage characteristics of stiffened plates in typical cabin explosion load
ObjectivesIn order to study the damage characteristics of a typical cabin explosion load on stiffened plates, the explosion load in a cabin is divided into the initial explosion shock wave load and quasi-static air pressure load, finite element analysis ...
Liqi JIAO+4 more
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