BACKGROUND Nasolacrimal duct obstruction is caused by a variety of acquired and congenital etiologies. The standard treatment is dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR), with the gold standard being the external DCR. Since the advent of the nasal endoscope, the transnasal endoscopic DCR has gained popularity and has several advantages over the external approach. Some potential advantages include the avoida...

BACKGROUND The ASTRAL score was recently shown to reliably predict three-month functional outcome in patients with acute ischemic stroke. AIM The study aims to investigate whether information from multimodal imaging increases ASTRAL score's accuracy. METHODS All patients registered in the ASTRAL registry until March 2011 were included. In multivariate logistic-regression analyses, we added ...

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Multilevel Inverters has big placement advantages in Power Electronics and its application can be mentioned to FACTS tools such as UPFC – D-STATCOM. Therefore, nowadays Multilevel Inverters have created vast field’s research and researchers are trying to present appropriate structures with fewer keys and greater advantages. The main advantages of Multilevel Inverters mentioned are low-key volta...

Film antitranspirants (e.g. di-1-p-menthene) and metabolic exogenous ABA) can be used to protect grain crops from drought, particularly during reproductive development. Here, we compared effects of di-1-p-menthene (1.0 L/ha) ABA (100 µM) on well-watered droughted spring wheat in two glasshouse experiments. Progressive drought was imposed the first experiment, controlled second, both flag leaf e...

Despite all the attempts of modern information technology to supplant paper by sophisticated electronic devices, paper is still omnipresent in virtually any office environment. We have learned over the last decade that paper is an indispensable part of our daily work and that even the latest computers are not able to mimic its functionality. Today, paper and computer are coexisting side by side...

Model Driven Engineering (MDE), despite having many advantages, is often overlooked by programmers due to lack of proper understanding and training in the matter. This paper investigates the advantages and disadvantages of MDE and looks at research results showing the adoption rates of design models. In light of the findings, an educational tool, namely Lorini, was developed to provide automate...