Importance Attrition of residents from general surgery training programs is relatively high;
however, there are wide discrepancies in the prevalence and causes of attrition reported …

Fault diagnosis in industrial processes are challenging tasks that demand effective and timely
decision making procedures under the extreme conditions of noisy measurements, highly …

Patients with widespread atherosclerosis such as peripheral artery disease (PAD) have a
high risk of cardiovascular and limb symptoms and complications, which affects their quality of …

Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs) have become the promising energy source for stationary and
portable applications. The design of SOFCs including its structure and its operation are an …

Ionic liquids (ILs) and deep eutectic solvents (DESs) have been applied in various fields such
as electrolytes for lithium ion batteries, electrodeposition, electropolishing and even in fuel …

Objective This study synthesized the literature comparing the long-term (5-9 years) and very
long-term (≥10 years) all-cause mortality, reintervention, and secondary rupture rates …

Background There are no recognized pharmacological treatments for abdominal aortic
aneurysms ( AAA ), although statins are suggested to be beneficial. We sought to summarize the …

50 years ago, Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta were awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery
of the catalytic polymerization of ethylene and propylene using titanium compounds and …

Two distinct terms are used to describe vascular thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) depending
on which structure is predominantly affected: venous TOS (due to subclavian vein …

A multi-layer feedforward neural network model based predictive control scheme is developed
for a multivariable nonlinear steel pickling process in this paper. In the acid baths three …