OBJECTIVE Previously, we proposed long-range optical coherence tomography (LR-OCT) to be an effective method for the quantitative evaluation of the nasal valve geometry. Here, the objective was to quantify the reduction in the internal nasal valve angle and cross-sectional area that results in subjective nasal airway obstruction and to evaluate the dynamic behavior of the valve during respirati...

Study Design Retrospective. Purpose To analyze whether the cross-sectional area of the intervertebral foramen at the outermost edge of the resection site is associated with postoperative outcomes and whether our fluoroscopic method for determining the resection area is appropriate. Overview of Literature There is no consensus on the criteria for determining an optimal resection area to obta...

Muscle-mass loss augers increased morbidity and mortality in critically ill patients. Muscle-mass loss can be assessed by wide linear-array ultrasound transducers connected to cumbersome, expensive console units. Whether cheaper, hand-carried units equipped with curved-array transducers can be used as alternatives is unknown. Accordingly, our primary aim was to investigate in 15 nondisabled sub...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of undergraduates in their first contact with manual and rotary root canal instrumentation. Forty-two students who had never worked on a root canal before instrumented 42 extracted lower-incisors. Participants were assigned to one of two groups: Rotary instrumentation or manual instrumentation. Pre- and post-operative computed tomography sca...

The number and the mean percentage tubular cross-sectional area of dentinal tubules per square millimetre were calculated in specimens of coronal dentine of 13 intact human third molar teeth from patients 18 to 28 years of age. The dentine was fractured at various known distances from the dentino-enamel junction. Near the dentino-enamel junction the number of tubules per square millimetre was 2...

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BACKGROUND Informed shared decision making is a mutual process engaging both doctor and patient and informed by best medical evidence and patient values and preferences. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to identify the needs of psoriasis patients in decisions on selecting treatment. METHODS Psoriasis subjects participated in an online survey on decisional role, postdecisional conflict, and treatment a...

In Human-Computer studies and visual analytics, the majority of the evaluation methods applied, collect data at a single point in time, in form of cross-sectional data. In several studies [e.g. 8] numerous visualization tools were evaluated in controlled experiments. Although the experiments discovered valuable findings, certain drawbacks of the research method were expressed. The time constrai...

Australia is underprepared for a rabies incursion due to a lack of information about how a rabies outbreak would spread within the susceptible canine populations and which control strategies would be best to control it. The aim of this study was to collect information to parameterize a recently developed dog rabies spread model as well as use this information to gauge how the community would ac...

When fabricating cellular material using the material extrusion process, manufacturing errors arise due to approximation of geometries during slicing and tool-path generation, as well as the finite filament size. Moreover, since a cellular material generally consists of a large number of structural elements such as struts and plates, it has large bounding surfaces to be approximated during the ...