PURPOSE Postoperative pain for robotic thyroid surgeries including bilateral axillo-breast approach (BABA) has not been well studied. In this study, we have developed a self-reporting application (SRA) for iPad and prospectively collected pain scores from open thyroidectomy (OT) and BABA robotic thyroidectomy (RT) patients. METHODS Female patients who underwent total thyroidectomy for papilla...

Primary signet ring adenocarcinoma (SRA) of the lung is a rare condition. An 81-year-old man was referred to our hospital because of bloody sputum. Chest radiography showed a tumor in the right lung and biopsies revealed typical SRA. No tumors except for the one in the right lung were found. Therefore, diagnosis of primary lung SRA was made. The SRA cells showed intracytoplasmic mucin that were...

Research on the relevance of value sustainability reporting as measured by Sustainability Reporting Award (SRA) in Indonesia is still rarely studied. In Indonesia, many go-public companies have not realized importance environment and succeeded getting SRA due to costs incurred carrying out activities accordance with Global Initiative (GRI). The research examined whether there was information a ...

Specular reflection algorithm (SRA) was a single population meta-heuristic inspired by the physical function of mirror. However, similar to most algorithms, it had disadvantages weak diversity, stagnation in local optimal and low convergence rate. In order overcome these shortcomings, chaotic multi-specular optimization considering shared nodes (CMSRAS) proposed combination strategy with node, ...

INTRODUCTION Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) results from antibodies to PF4/heparin complexes and clinical diagnosis is difficult. We evaluated the particle immunofiltration anti-platelet factor 4 (PIFA) rapid assay, in conjunction with a clinical risk score, in the diagnosis of HIT. METHODS We performed a prospective observational study in all patients admitted to the medical intensiv...

BACKGROUND It has been recently observed that in implants with screw-retained abutments, in in vitro as well as in vivo conditions, bacteria can penetrate inside the internal cavity of the implant as a consequence of leakage at the implant-abutment interface. An alternative to screw-retained abutments is represented by implants that can receive cemented abutments. In this case, the abutment goe...

This note corrects some intentionallymisleading statements about my work [4] (posted earlier on RG) in a recent preprint by Borisov,Neff, Sra & Thiel [1] (posted on the same platform). In the danger of a possible confusion of interested readers, and solely because of that, I decided, after much thought, to take the exception and reply in some detail. Both [4] and [1] deal with the inequality of...

We consider properties of one-dimensional diffusive dichotomous flow and discuss effects stochastic resonant activation (SRA) in the presence a statistically independent random resetting mechanism. Resonant are two similar effects, as both them can optimize noise-induced escape. Our studies show completely different origins optimization adapted setups. Efficiency relies on elimination suboptima...

A fuzzy-based tool, called FUZZY-SRA (Fuzzy Spatial Reliability Analysis), is used for realizing a more ‘‘reliable’’ study of the values of the final parameters concerning the vulnerability of aquifers located in the territory of Cava de’ Tirreni, city in the district of Salerno (Italy). The SINTACS method is adopted for evaluating the involved parameters and these evaluations are modelled from...