Anatomical variations of the recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN), such as an extralaryngeal terminal bifurcation (ETB), threaten the safety of thyroid surgery. Besides the morphology of the nerve branches, intraoperative evaluation of their functional anatomy may be useful to preserve motor activity. We exposed 67 RLNs in 36 patients. The main trunk, bifurcation point, and terminal branches of bifi...

Starphenes are attractive compounds due to their characteristic physicochemical properties that inherited from acenes, making them interesting for organic electronics and optics. However, the instability low solubility of larger starphene homologs make synthesis extremely challenging. Herein, we present a new strategy leading pristine [16]starphene in preparative scale. Our approach is based on...

abstract the quantative and qualitative yield comparison of three cucumber f1 cultivars including' sina, amyral, and negin was evaluated using 3×3×3 factorial experimental design with six replication. three types of pruning treatments were applied; cutting down all branches on main stem (b1), leaving one node and the leaf next to it on all branches (b2), leaving two node and the leaf next to th...

the main purpose of this research paper is to calculate irans housing (maskan) bank through the use of data envelopment analysis. in this research, the performance of 33 branches of the housing bank throughout tehran (capital city of iran) within 2002-2004 was analyzed and discussed. the results of the study shows that average technical efficiencies of housing bank branches in two hypotheses of...