Diabetes is usually asymptomatic in its early stage. Early diagnosis may improve outcomes by enabling initiation of treatment before end organ damage has progressed. The aim of this study was to determine whether the clinical sign of phimosis with preputial fissures is predictive of type 2 diabetes in patients not previously diagnosed with diabetes. Twenty-eight patients with acquired phimosis ...

Coalbed fires are uncontrolled subsurface fires that occur around the world. These fires are believed to be significant contributors to annual CO2 emissions. Although many of these fires have been burning for decades, researchers have only recently begun to investigate physical mechanisms that control fire behavior. One aspect of fire behavior that is poorly characterized is the relationship be...

INTRODUCTION The use of Top Coal Caving for exploiting the thick coal seam with shallow buried depth most likely has a strong negative impact on the stability. CASE DESCRIPTION Anjialing No. 1 Underground Mine is located in Shuozhou City, Shanxi Province of China. The 4# Coal Seam of this coal mine is the thick coal seam with shallow buried depth, which has the thickness of 12 m and the depth...

Background To evaluate the clinical significance of degree of pulmonary fissure completeness (PFC) on major in-hospital outcomes following video-assisted thoracoscopic (VATS) lobectomy for non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Materials and methods We carried out a single-center retrospective analysis on the prospectively maintained database at our unit between August 2014 and October 2015. Pat...

Image registration is an important research area within pulmonary image analysis. Accurate registration is critical to post-analysis of lung mechanical properties and useful for clinical applications. To improve registration accuracy, we design a nonrigid registration algorithm to preserve both parenchymal tissue volume and vesselness measure. In addition, the transformation is regularized usin...

UNLABELLED The penetration of a sealant into the tooth fissures can establish longer retention time for a pit and fissure sealant restoration. AIM This in vitro study was to evaluate the penetration ability of two low-viscosity resin materials, a composite and a compomer, applied with and without their bonding agents in comparison to an unfilled resin sealant. METHODS Forty premolars with s...

Lungs are separated into lobes by fissures, with three lobes on the right and two on the left. The fissures facilitate the uniform expansion of the whole lung. The anatomical knowledge of the fissures and the lobes of the lung is important for accurate interpretation of bronchopulmonary segments on X-rays and CT scans. 40 pairs of lungs removed from cadavers were utilized for the study of the p...

Segmentation of lung anatomical parts like fissures and bronchopulmonary segments are of clinical importance in interpreting and assessing the pathologies present in the lungs. Segmentation of fissures still remains a challenging task as the selection of the segmentation algorithm decides the accuracy of the fissure segmentation. We conducted experiments on the existing segmentation methods and...