Cervical disc arthroplasty (CDA) is a motion-preserving alternative to anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) for cervical degenerative disease, reducing adjacent segment degenerative disease (ASD). Despite its benefits, some patients experie...
Background: Three-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) is widely used for multilevel cervical degenerative disc disease; however, the relationship between postoperative alignment trajectories, adjacent segment degeneration (ASD), and...
Certain fluctuations were found when using the opening degree index to evaluate the effects of the adjacent broadleaved trees on the under-canopy target Korean pine (Pinus koraiensis Sieb. et Zucc.) trees in a mixed forest of planted Korean trees and...
This paper presents a study of the microbial abundance in post-bauxite-mining land soil from Zece Hotare, Bihor county, Romania. The soil samples were collected from 12 soil variants, in the year 2020, after 15 years of long-term restoration. Some ch...
Urbanization in South Korea has significantly impacted the country’s sandy beach ecosystems. In our study, we investigated the population responses of sand bubbler crabs (Scopimera globosa) to beach urbanization and assessed the impact of adjac...
Landsat-like moderate resolution remote sensing images are widely used in land use and land cover (LULC) classification. Limited by coarser resolutions, most of the traditional LULC classifications that are based on moderate resolution remote sensing...
Accurate estimation of urban land surface temperature (ULST) is critical for studying urban heat islands, but complex three-dimensional (3D) structures and materials in urban areas introduce significant adjacency effects into remote sensing retrieval...
The coordinated development of the Water-Land-Food (WLF) nexus is important for realizing sustainable food production and ensuring national food security. Based on the symbiosis system theory, this study used the Entropy weight TOPSIS method to calcu...
Urban spatial expansion poses a threat to regional ecosystems and biodiversity directly through altering the size, shape, and interconnectivity of natural landscapes. Monitoring urban spatial expansion using traditional area-based metrics from remote...
The waveguiding of terahertz surface plasmons by a GaAs strip-loaded graphene waveguide is investigated based on the effective-index method and the finite element method. Modal properties of the effective mode index, modal loss, and cut-off character...
The penetration of renewable energy sources (RESs) equipped with inverter-based control systems such as wind and solar plants are increasing. Therefore, the speed of the voltage controllers associated with inverter-based resources (IBRs) has a substa...
Land-use intensity (LUI) is one of the most direct manifestations of regional land use efficiency. The study of cross-administrative LUI in urban agglomerations is of great importance for the sustainable development of land, new urbanization, and ter...
Background: Oblique lumbar interbody fusion (OLIF) has recently gained popularity as a minimally invasive surgical technique for lumbar fusion. While OLIF is superior in restoring disc height and lumbar lordosis compared to posterior lumbar interbody...
The present study addresses the war-related soil contamination with heavy metals in the urban area of Mosul/Iraq as a result of the war of liberation from ISIS (2014–2017). In order to cover seasonal influences, a total of eight sample sets fro...
Urban areas adjacent to wildlands are very dangerous zones for residents and their properties during a wildfire event. We attempted to connect wildfire simulations with field inventories and surveys to create a framework that can be used to enhance t...
Hydropower dam information such as construction and completion timings is often incomplete and missing in existing dam databases, and the hydropower dam’s adjacency impact distance, which is important to the surrounding environment, is also lacking f...
5 November 2026
Educational resource allocation requires the simultaneous consideration of regional demand heterogeneity, spatial adjacency, and nonlinear prediction relationships. This study presents an integrated framework that combines Spatially Constrained Entro...
12 August 2022
Belgium is a geographically small country bordered by The Netherlands, France, Germany, and Luxembourg, with intense transborder mobility, defined as mobility in the border regions with neighboring countries. It is therefore of interest to examine ho...
As a kind of important insect pest of cotton crops, aphids cause serious damage in cotton yields and quality worldwide, posing a significant risk to economic losses. Automatic detection of the pest damage level plays an important role in cotton field...
Tourism ecological security (TES) has gradually become a frontier topic because it is related to the virtuous circle of ecosystems and sustainable development, especially in river basins with fragile ecosystems. Based on the Driver–Pressure&nda...
Background/Objectives: To identify predictors of successful fusion and adjacent segment disease (ASD) following ALIF. Methods: Records of patients undergoing one- or two-level ALIF were queried for baseline and postoperative radiographic data, demogr...
In this paper, a novel diamond-assisted ring-core fiber (DRF) is proposed. With the introduction of a low-refractive-index diamond-shaped region located in the center of the core, the proposed fiber effectively eliminates spatial degeneracy of the LP...
This study addresses daylighting to enhance the quality of indoor atmospheres, considering building skins. In the hotel industry, lighting accounts for more than 10% of energy consumption. Many highly glazed façades create visual comfort probl...
Predicting the tamping cycles of railway track sections based on track geometry deterioration rules is necessary to reasonably allocate the limited tamping maintenance resources. Existing research on track geometry deterioration modeling for tamping...
Human skeletal muscle contains different types of tissues with skeletal muscle fibers (SMFs) and intermuscular adipose tissues (IMATs) as the main components. We maintained human skeletal muscle tissues from 12 study participants under native conditi...
We propose a semantic, geometric, and statistical framework for quantifying and ordering textual cohesion in long-form discourse. Sentences are embedded into a semantic similarity graph and Ollivier–Ricci curvature is used to extract sentence-...
Background and Objectives: As is well understood, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma cofactor-related 1 (PPRC1) plays a central role in the transcriptional control of the mitochondrial biogenesis and oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) p...
When all of the one-sided specification indices of each quality characteristic reach the requirements of the process quality level, they can ensure that the process capability of the product meets the requirements of the process quality level. This s...
The heavy metal pollution linked to extractive activities has attracted broad public attention. To examine the current state of heavy metal pollution in river sediments around iron tailing zones, this study was carried out to evaluate the distributio...
Background: Adjacent segment disease (ASD) after spinal fusion is well described in degenerative cohorts, but its radiographic and clinical behavior after acute traumatic thoracolumbar fracture fusion remains incompletely defined. This study evaluate...
Globally, dementia is one of the highest priority public health policy issues. This study was conducted to analyze the spatial distribution pattern of dementia prevalence using geographic weighted regression analysis and to identify preventable risk...
15 January 2020
Concentrations of potentially toxic metals including Cd, Cu, Pb, Cr, U, Th in surface water and sediment samples collected from a river were analyzed to assess the contaminations, distribution characteristics, and sources of these metals. The content...
Background: This study evaluates the impact of hybrid dynamic stabilization using the Dynesys-Transition-Optima (DTO) system on adjacent segment disease (ASD) in lumbar spinal stenosis patients with spondylolisthesis. Methods: From 2012 to 2020, 115...
Graph theory serves as an engaging arena for the investigation of proof methods within the field of discrete mathematics, and its findings find practical utility in numerous scientific domains. Chemical graph theory is a specialized branch of mathema...
This paper presents a new space vector pulse width modulation (SVPWM) to eliminate common-mode voltage (CMV) for multilevel inverters. The proposed SVPWM is performed in a new coordinate system, in which the converter voltage vectors have only intege...
Changes in the opening of gates in open channel water transfer projects will cause fluctuations in the water level and flow of adjacent open channels and thus bring great challenges for real-time water level prediction. In this paper, a novel slope-s...
Background: Tongue squamous cell carcinoma (TSCC) patients with high-grade tumors usually suffer from high occurrence and poor prognosis. The current study aimed at finding the biomarkers related to tumor grades and proposing potential therapies by t...
It is a well–known fact that heavy metal pollution in sediments causes serious problems not only in the Danube basin, but also in the large and small adjacent river streams. A suitable method for assessing the level of heavy metals and their toxicity...
Objectives: This study investigates the canine fossa (CF) topography relative to the maxillary sinus and nasal fossa and examines its association with facial types, focusing on side and gender. Methods: One hundred CBCT scans were analysed bilaterall...
On 14 December 2005, there was a catastrophic flood after a failure in the upper reservoir at the Taum Sauk Plant in southern Missouri. While there has been extensive research on the cause of the dam’s failure and the flood’s immediate im...
1 March 2020
The quality and scale of urbanization development are the two main aspects in China’s current urbanization process. By measuring and analyzing the level differences in these two aspects, the healthy development of China’s urbanization and...
Background/Objectives: Treatment for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) depends on early detection, yet most present at an inoperable stage. Focal pancreatic parenchymal atrophy (FPPA) is a prodromal imaging feature lacking objective quantificat...
Adjacent deep excavations may interact through stress redistribution, deformation propagation, structural interaction, and groundwater variation. Existing risk assessment methods mainly focus on individual indicators or single excavations, which may...
Objectives: We aimed to evaluate the efficacy of antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) in promoting wound healing after the surgical removal of inferior third molars. Methods: Patients in need of unilateral mandibular third molar extraction were...
Climate change and anthropogenic activities are necessitating accurate diagnoses of seawater intrusion (SWI) to ensure the sustainable utilization of groundwater resources in coastal areas. Here, vulnerability to SWI was assessed by classifying the e...
(1) Background: Road traffic emissions significantly influence heavy metal accumulation in roadside agricultural soils, posing risks to food safety. (2) Methods: This study investigated the concentrations of heavy metals (As, Cd, Cu, Cr, Hg, Ni, Pb,...
26 January 2018
Spatial concentrations and chemical fractions of heavy metals (Cr, Cu, Pb, Zn and Cd) in 16 sampling sites from the Honghu Lake were investigated using an atomic absorption spectrophotometer and optimized BCR (the European Community Bureau of Referen...
Shanghai is the major city on the north shore of Hangzhou Bay, and the administrative regions adjacent to Hangzhou Bay are the Jinshan district, Fengxian district, and Pudong new area (Nanhui district), which are the main intersection areas of manufa...
To analyze the differences in the spatial and temporal distribution patterns of online attention to sudden torrential rain public events in Shanxi and Henan provinces in China, and their influencing factors, the Baidu index search platform was used t...
New-quality productivity (NQP) serves as a critical indicator for measuring the level of high-quality economic development. Gaining insights into the spatial and temporal patterns along with the key drivers of NQP is essential for promoting the globa...
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