PURPOSE To investigate if study design factors such as randomization, multi-center versus single center evidence, institutional surgical volume, and patient selection affect the outcomes for endovascular repair (EVAR) versus open surgical repair (OSR). Finally, we investigate trends over time in EVAR versus OSR outcomes. METHODS Search strategies for comparative studies were performed individ...

The effects of various pre-sowing treatments poppy seed (chemical product Cruiser OSR, stimulation products TS Osivo and Enviseed, physical treatment by E-ventus method, biological Polyversum Gliorex) on dynamics field emergence, yield, structure yield parameters were evaluated in two cultivars grown three-year trials. Seed with Enviseed led to a significant increase emergence compared the untr...

Organisms have evolved different strategies to respond to oxidative stress generated as a by-product of aerobic respiration and thus maintain the redox homeostasis within the cell. In particular, fungal pathogens are exposed to reactive oxygen species (ROS) when they interact with the phagocytic cells of the host which are the first line of defense against fungal infections. These pathogens hav...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to assess the surgical morbidity and mortality of thoracic endovascular repair (TEVAR) as compared with open surgical repair (OSR) for isolated descending thoracic aortic disease. MATERIALS AND METHODS From January 1, 2006 through May 31, 2010, a total of 68 patients with isolated descending thoracic aortic disease were retrospectively reviewed for the presence of p...

This paper presents a novel noise shaping SAR architecture that is simple, robust and low power. It is fully passive and only needs minor modification to a conventional SAR ADC. Through a passive integrator, quantization noise, comparator noise and DAC noise are shaped with a noise transfer function of (1 − 0.75z−1). Unlike conventional multi-bit deltasigma ADCs, both the noise transfer functio...

Offering less than 1ppm frequency resolution, a ΔΣ fractional-N PLL enables flexible frequency planning and reliable spread spectrum modulation for digital clock generation [1, 2]. Use of low-cost ring VCOs however, mandates a wideband PLL design, which makes it difficult for the PLL to filter out high-frequency quantization noise from the ΔΣ modulator. In many digital clocking systems, such as...

AbstractPhotorealistic editing of outdoor scenes from photographs requires a profound understanding the image formation process and an accurate estimation scene geometry, reflectance illumination. A delicate manipulation lighting can then be performed while keeping albedo geometry unaltered. We present NeRF-OSR, i.e., first approach for relighting based on neural radiance fields. In contrast to...

What explains variation in the strength of sexual selection across species, populations or differences between the sexes? Here, we show that unifying two well-known lines of thinking provides the necessary conceptual framework to account for variation in sexual selection. The Bateman gradient and the operational sex ratio (OSR) are incomplete in complementary ways: the former describes the fitn...

• The growth of a plant organ to its characteristic size is regulated by an elaborate developmental program involving both internal and external signals. Here, we identify a novel Arabidopsis gene, ORGAN SIZE RELATED1 (OSR1), that is involved in regulation of organ growth and overall organ size. • A combination of genetic, cytological and molecular approaches was used to characterize the expres...