BACKGROUND Laparoscopic liver resection (LLR) has been considered to be safe and feasible. However, few studies focused on the comparison between the anatomic and nonanatomic LLR. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to compare the perioperative factors and outcomes of the anatomic and nonanatomic LLR, especially the area of liver parenchymal transection and blood loss per unit area. METH...

BACKGROUND Since 1993, we have performed minimally invasive laparoscopic liver resection (LLR) to treat malignant liver cancer, including colorectal liver metastases (CLM). However, further studies are needed to accumulate sufficient evidence on the oncological outcome of LLR for CLM. METHODS To elucidate the efficacy of LLR for CLM, this study comparatively analyzed the invasiveness and shor...

Previously it was shown that spinal excitability during hopping and drop jumping is high in the initial phase of ground contact when the muscle is stretched but decreases toward takeoff. To further understand motor control of stretch-shortening cycle, this study aimed to compare modulation of spinal and corticospinal excitability at distinct phases following ground contact in drop jump. Motor-e...

Laparoscopic liver resection (LLR) is being utilised with increasing frequency worldwide, as initial concerns about the safety and feasibility of LLR, such risk uncontrolled major haemorrhage potential compromise oncologic outcomes, were not supported by data. On contrary, LLR was found to be associated several significant perioperative benefits

We propose a new conndence score for decoding and veriication. Since the traditional log likelihood ratio (LLR) is borrowed from speaker veriication technique, it may not be apropriate for decoding because we do not have a good modelling and deenition of LLR for decoding/utterance veriication. We have proposed a new formulation of LLR that can be used for decoding and veriication task. Experime...

Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR), which has been carried out for more than 35 years, is used to determine many parameters within the Earth-Moon system. This includes coordinates of terrestrial ranging stations and that of lunar retro-reflectors, as well as lunar orbit, gravity field, and its tidal acceleration. LLR data analysis also performs a number of gravitational physics experiments such as test ...

Lunar laser ranging (LLR) is used to conduct high-precision measurements of ranges between an observatory on Earth and a laser retro-reflector on the lunar surface. Over the years, LLR has benefited from a number of improvements both in observing technology and data modeling, which led to the current accuracy of post-fit residuals of ∼ 2 cm. Today LLR is a primary technique to study the dynamic...

We propose a new detection ordering for the V-BLAST. The main idea is to detect and cancel sub-streams in order of the magnitude of log-likelihood ratio (LLR), i.e. the symbol with the largest magnitude of LLR is detected first. The motivation is that the reliability of data decision increases with increasing magnitude of LLR. As a result, the error propagation associated with a wrong decision ...

BACKGROUND The laparoscopic approach is increasingly adopted for liver resections today especially for lesions located in the left lateral liver section. This study was conducted to determine the impact of the introduction of laparoscopic liver resection (LLR) as a surgical option for suspected small- to medium-sized (<8 cm) tumors located in the left lateral section (LLS). METHODS This is a ...

To address the complexity of the X-chromosome inactivation (XCI) process, we previously developed a unified approach for the association test for X-chromosomal single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and the disease of interest, accounting for different biological possibilities of XCI: random, skewed, and escaping XCI. In the original study, we focused on the SNP-disease association test but did...