As one of the minimally invasive surgeries (MIS), transoral robotic surgery (TORS) contributes to excellent oncological and functional outcomes. This paper introduces a compliant flexible system for surgery, consisting an execution part with parallel mechanisms positioning continuum structure. A pilot cadaveric study that mimics procedure TORS using intact human head was conducted evaluate feas...

The paper comparatively analyzes the speaker discrimination power of the vocal source and vocal tract related features and present a speaker verification system optimally utilizing the source and tract related speaker specific information. A pitchsynchronous wavelet transform is adopted to capture the speaker specific information from the vocal source signal, particularly the Linear Prediction ...

The system of classification and terminology neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs), updated in 2017 by AJCC 2019 WHO, is now recommended for general use. This article a review this with respect to NENs the digestive tract. Within new system, two categories were introdu­ced, differing morphology, clinical course treatment, as based on differentiation histological maturity grading (G). Among tract, wel...

This study demonstrates that liposomes administered to the lower respiratory tract of mice have the capacity to stimulate secretory IgA (s-IgA) antibody production in the female urogenital system. Total respiratory tract immunization of mice with influenza virus subunit antigen simply mixed with negatively charged liposomes induced antigen-specific s-IgA in vaginal secretions, in addition to sy...

The female reproductive tract has two main functions: protection against microbial challenge and maintenance of pregnancy to term. The upper reproductive tract comprises the fallopian tubes and the uterus, including the endocervix, and the lower tract consists of the ectocervix and the vagina. Immune cells residing in the reproductive tract play contradictory roles: they maintain immunity again...