Does preoperative weight loss predict success following surgery for morbid obesity?

BA Mrad, CJ Stoklossa, DW Birch - The American Journal of Surgery, 2008 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: We analyzed preoperative weight loss as a predictor of postoperative
success in patients after bariatric surgery. METHODS: Data were obtained from a retrospective …

A 3-DOF MEMS electrostatic piston-tube actuator

F Ba-Tis, R Ben-Mrad - Journal of Microelectromechanical …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A three-degrees-of-freedom microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) electrostatic actuator
was developed, fabricated, and tested. The actuator utilizes a piston-tube configuration that …

Repair of coronary sinus shear stress injury following blunt chest trauma using adenosine-induced asystole

RI Nazer, BA Mrad, WM Hajjar… - … and Thoracic Surgery, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Blunt chest trauma following a motor vehicle accident is the leading cause of non-penetrating
cardiac injuries. Major structural heart injuries are fatal due to acute tamponade. We …

Zirconium and lanthanide effects on the structural, dielectric and optical properties of Na0. 8Ba0. 2Nb0. 8Ti0. 2O3 ferroelectric ceramic

MB Mrad, R Hannachi, M Dammak… - Materials Today …, 2020 - Elsevier
… , we have chosen to dope the Na 0.8 Ba 0.2 Nb 0.8 Ti 0.2 O 3 ferroelectric compound by Zr
4… microstructure, relaxor dielectric and optical properties of Na 0.8 (Ba 1-y Ln 2y/3 ) 0.2 Nb 0.8 …

Hyperfine Interactions in the Sr0.88Ba0.12HfO3 Compound

RE Alonso, C Horowitz, A López GarcÍa - Hyperfine interactions, 2001 - Springer
… ≈ 24 Mrad/s at this temperature. This frequency continuously decreases to nearly 9 Mrad/s …
independent quadrupole frequency ωQ ≈ 120 Mrad/s that reversibly transforms into the first …

Abstracts of presentations to the Annual Meetings of the Canadian Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons Canadian Association of General Surgeons Canadian …

…, PM Chiasson, A Omiccioli, P Lemieux, BA Mrad… - 2007 - canjsurg.ca
Abstracts of presentations to the Annual Meetings of the Canadian Society of Colon and Rectal
Surgeons Canadian Association of General Surgeons Canadian Association of Thoracic …

The activity, safety, and evolving role of brigatinib in patients with ALK-rearranged non-small cell lung cancers

…, AM Schram, I Bergagnini, R Chen, C Mrad… - OncoTargets and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Ba/F3 cell lines were used to characterize the activity of the drug against wild-type or activated
EGFR (exon 19 del E746_A750) with or without T790M. In Ba/… In Ba/F3 cells expressing …

High Sensitivity of Positrons to Oxygen Vacancies and to Copper-Oxygen Chain Disorder in

EC Von Stetten, S Berko, XS Li, RR Lee, J Brynestad… - Physical review …, 1988 - APS
… each 8 m from the sample, with a 2D resolution of =1 mrad~ FWHM (in the … mrad FWHM).
Spectra were acquired on a 0.22X0… mrad FWHM) is typical of the broad ACAR shapes obtained …

Measurements of g-factors of excited states in Ba and Ce nuclei using γ rays from secondary fission fragments

AG Smith, GS Simpson, J Billowes, JL Durell… - Physics Letters B, 1999 - Elsevier
… 2 shows a measured precession in ““Ba, using the correlation between the 2+ + Of and 4’ --)
… Fifteen different gates were analysed to obtain the resulting precession of 47(7) mrad. Using …

Development of high-power diode lasers with beam parameter product below 2 mm× mrad within the BRIDLE project

P Crump, J Decker, M Winterfeldt… - High-Power Diode …, 2015 - spiedigitallibrary.org
… Optimized anti-guiding designs are shown to reduce BPP by 1 mm×mrad in conventional
90 μm stripe BA-lasers, without power penalty. In contrast, no BPP improvement is observed in …