A large and growing corpus of synchronized kinematic and video recordings of robot-assisted surgery has the potential to facilitate training and subtask automation. One of the challenges in segmenting such multi-modal trajectories is that demonstrations vary spatially, temporally, and contain random noise and loops (repetition until achieving the desired result). Segments of task trajectories a...

conclusions an increased lumbar lordosis during the prone knee-flexion test is due to instability in a lumbar spine region. results results demonstrated that there was a statistically significant difference in lumbar lordosis in prone position and after performing the prone knee-flexion test among healthy subjects (p < 0.0001). patients and methods this quasi-experimental study with repeated me...

over the past years, lake water levels have decreased considerably by various factors and the subsequent emergence of salt plain has brought disastrous consequences that need an essential action. therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effects of drying up and increasing lake water salt and landsat satellite images were used during different time periods in 9 years. to identify the new a...

OBJECTIVE The internal thoracic artery (ITA) is the most important graft in coronary artery bypass grafting. Its distal region is, however, prone to vasospasm. We studied the effects of nitroglycerin (NTG) and isosorbide-dinitrate (DSDN) on distal segments of left versus right ITA. METHODS Rings of distal segments (6 to 9 mm proximal to bifurcation) of the human left and right ITA were studie...

-Retrospectively, plaque rupture is often colocalized with inflammation of the cap and shoulder of the atherosclerotic plaque. Local inflammation is therefore considered a potential marker for plaque vulnerability. However, high specificity of inflammation for plaque rupture is a requisite for application of inflammation markers to detect rupture-prone lesions. The objective of the present stud...

A 56-year-old female patient presented with right chest and upper abdominal pain in a motorcycle accident. Hypotension low blood hemoglobin were noted. Contrast-enhanced multi detector computed tomography showed hemoperitoneum, retroperitoneal hematoma, injury of the retro hepatic suprarenal segments inferior vena cava, grade V injury, renal involving main vein according to American Association...

OBJECTIVE The left internal thoracic artery (LITA) is the most important graft for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Its distal region is, however, prone to vasospasm. The effect of nitroglycerin (NTG) and isosorbide-dinitrate (ISDN) on different segments of this region was studied. METHODS Rings of three segments of the LITA were studied: 6-9 mm proximal to the bifurcation (part A); 1-...

This study describes the weakening of intervocalic /s/ in the Nijmegen Corpus of Casual Spanish and investigates the role of several potential conditioning factors, including morphological, lexical and probabilistic variables. Three acoustic parameters were examined: voicing, the difference in high-band (4-8 kHz) intensity between /s/ and the following vowel, and the duration of the dip in low-...

introduction: the effects of accidents vary from minor injuries to fatalities and from insignificant damage to very severe damage to the environment and property. in order to prevent accidents in the work place, the root causes of and events should be identified using a systematic method and the results should be published. the current study aims to investigate the given causes of an accident i...

Cardiovascular imaging plays an important role in the identification and characterization of the vulnerable plaque. A major goal is the ability to identify individuals at risk of plaque rupture and developing an acute coronary syndrome. Early recognition of rupture-prone atherosclerotic plaques may lead to the development of pharmacologic and interventional strategies to reduce acute coronary e...