BACKGROUND Although the long-term results of open fundoplication for gastroesophageal reflux disease are well documented, few reports exist on the long-term results of laparoscopic fundoplication. DESIGN Retrospective study with clinical evaluation or mailed survey for patients unable to return to the hospital center. SETTING Multicenter studies (ie, private medical centers, institutional h...

We demonstrate an extended-imaging-range anterior-segment optical coherence tomography (eAS-OCT) system for the biometric assessment of full AS in human eye. This newly developed eAS-OCT operating at 1340-nm wavelength band is simultaneously capable of an imaging speed of 120 kHz A-line scan rate, an axial resolution of 7.2 μm, and an extended imaging range of up to 16 mm in air. Imaging result...

We present results from a numerical conduit model of nonequilibrium magma degassing. We show that CO2 /H2O concentration ratios in pyroclastic obsidian from the ca. 1340 A.D. Mono Craters eruption may record nonequilibrium degassing during magma ascent. Our results also indicate that permeability-controlled, open-system gas loss is consistent with obsidian formation and promotes nonequilibrium ...

UNLABELLED We introduce a novel implementation in ANSI C of the MINE family of algorithms for computing maximal information-based measures of dependence between two variables in large datasets, with the aim of a low memory footprint and ease of integration within bioinformatics pipelines. We provide the libraries minerva (with the R interface) and minepy for Python, MATLAB, Octave and C++. The ...

internal standard (leucinol) was added. Separation was performed on a C18 Zorbax (Agilent Technologies) column [15 3 0.46 cm (i.d.)] using the following mobile phase: 450 mL/L acetonitrile in sodium acetate buffer (0.5 g/L) adjusted to a final pH of 6.1 with glacial acetic acid. The flow rate was 1.2 mL/min. The wavelengths for excitation and emission were 338 and 445 nm, respectively. The pati...

Rational design of light-capturing properties requires understanding the molecular and electronic structure of chromophores in their native chemical or biological environment. We employ here large-scale quantum chemical calculations to study the light-capturing properties of retinal in recently designed human cellular retinol binding protein II (hCRBPII) variants (Wang et al. Science, 2012, 338...

Aluminum metal is a promising anode material for next generation rechargeable batteries owing to its abundance, potentially dendrite-free deposition, and high capacity. The rechargeable aluminum/sulfur (Al/S) battery is of great interest owing to its high energy density (1340 Wh kg(-1) ) and low cost. However, Al/S chemistry suffers poor reversibility owing to the difficulty of oxidizing AlSx ....

The study was conducted in 2022 with a sample of 100 respondents. Red gram respondents were divided into three farms groups marginal, small and medium (27, 13, 10 Maruti 27, 14 9 Charu variety), respectively. Marketing cost variety Rs.760/qtl Rs.780/qtl channel I, Rs.1190/qtl II. margin Rs. 600/ha I Rs.950/ha Rs.930/ha Price spread 1360 Rs.1340/ha 2140/ha Rs.2110/ha II efficiency 6.55 6.1 6.85 ...