Hypertrophic scars (HTS) are caused by dermal injuries such as trauma and burns to the deep dermis, which are red, raised, itchy and painful. They can cause cosmetic disfigurement or contractures if craniofacial areas or mobile region of the skin are affected. Abnormal wound healing with more extracellular matrix deposition than degradation will result in HTS formation. This review will introdu...

A tri-axial HTS power cable has been proposed and developed to reduce the number of HTS wires because it has copper shield instead of HTS shield. However, it has a drawback which is an inherent imbalance problem due to an asymmetry configuration in the cable. The authors designed a 22.9 kV/50 MVA class tri-axial HTS cable. The inherent imbalance problem of the three-phase currents in the tri-ax...

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BACKGROUND Although hypertrophic scar (HTS) formation following cleft lip repair is relatively common, published rates vary widely, from 1% to nearly 50%. The risk factors associated with HTS formation in cleft patients are not well characterized. The primary aim of this retrospective study of 180 cleft lip repairs is to evaluate the frequency of postoperative HTS among various ethnic groups fo...

High-Temperature Superconducting (HTS) materials can introduce substantial improvement in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of images for small-size sample or low-field MRI system (<1T) [1]. Expensive HTS thin film is typically used for making receiver surface coils for substantial SNR improvements [2]. A 5-inch HTS tape coil using silver-alloy sheathed Bi-2223 tape was first developed [3], which all...

Segmental evaluation of HTS HTS is a parametric speech synthesis system based on the use of Hidden Markov Models (HMM). HTS is now widely used but very few studies have been conducted to analyze the influence of parameters on the quality of the synthetic speech. The aim of this paper is to provide an objective evaluation of the quality of the synthetic speech produced by HTS in order to assess ...

An analytical computation of the magnetic field distribution in a wholly superconducting synchronous reluctance motor is proposed. The stator of the studied motor consists of three-phase HTS armature windings fed by AC currents. The rotor is made with HTS bulks which present the specificity to have a diamagnetic behavior under zerofield cooling. The electromagnetic torque is obtained by the int...

This paper presents a new trapped-field magnet made of second-generation high-temperature superconducting (2G HTS) rings. This so-called ring-shape 2G HTS magnet has the potential to provide much stronger magnetic fields relative to existing permanent magnets. Compared to existing 2G HTS trappedfield magnets, e.g. 2G HTS bulks and stacks, this new ring-shape 2G HTS magnet is more flexible in si...

OBJECTIVES Although US cigarette smoking is decreasing, hookah tobacco smoking (HTS) is an emerging trend associated with substantial toxicant exposure. We assessed how a representative sample of US tobacco control policies may apply to HTS. METHODS We examined municipal, county, and state legal texts applying to the 100 largest US cities. We developed a summary policy variable that distingui...

In the early stages of a drug discovery project it is often necessary to narrow down the search space for potential new leads substantially [1,2]. This crucial step identifies a set of molecules (a hit series) that have a high likelihood of being relevant to the drug discovery project. In many cases high throughput screening (HTS) is used to test (in-vitro) large amounts of molecules against a ...