PURPOSE Prevalence of ureter and kidney duplication is roughly 1 per 125 people, and is associated with vesicoureteral reflux to lower pole in about 45% of cases. From antireflux surgical principles viewpoint, standard antireflux surgeries can be performed in these kidneys without releasing ureters from each other. We studied the results of Gil-Vernet antireflux surgery in 12 patients with dupl...

Purpose: Prevalence of ureter and kidney duplication is roughly 1 per 125 people, and is associated with vesicoureteral reflux to lower pole in about 45% of cases. From antireflux surgical principles viewpoint, standard antireflux surgeries can be performed in these kidneys without releasing ureters from each other. We studied the results of Gil-Vernet antireflux surgery in 12 patients with dup...

The theory and modeling of an electronic pole-change drive for the purpose of extending the constant power speed range of a four-pole induction machine have been previously reported. This paper presents verification of the power capability characteristics of the proposed drive through experimental implementation. An indirect field-oriented controller is developed for the pole-change drive with ...

Information necessary for the formation of pole cells, precursors of the germ line, is provided maternally and localized to the posterior pole of the Drosophila egg. The maternal origin and posterior localization of polar granules suggest that they may be associated with pole cell determinants. We have generated an antibody (Mab46F11) against polar granules. In oocytes and early embryos, the Ma...

This paper proposes a control strategy for the electronic pole changing (EPC) induction motor drive (IMD) transition between 3-ϕ,12-pole mode to 9-ϕ,4-pole mode. The proposed employs gradual (GEPC) technique which linearly demagnetizes IMD winding from and magnetizes progressively GEPC is also compared with instantaneous EPC its performance. solution eliminates issue of circulating current, exi...

BACKGROUND Current risk stratification in endometrial cancer (EC) results in frequent over- and underuse of adjuvant therapy, and may be improved by novel biomarkers. We examined whether POLE proofreading mutations, recently reported in about 7% of ECs, predict prognosis. METHODS We performed targeted POLE sequencing in ECs from the PORTEC-1 and -2 trials (n = 788), and analyzed clinical outc...