EXTENSION MECHANISM OF A FLEXIBLE END FOR COLONOSCOPY

Extension Mechanism of a Flexible End for Colonoscopy

Ibrahim Kadhim,1 Junghun Choi2 1University of Technology-Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq; 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, USACorrespondence: Junghun ChoiDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, USATel +1 912-478-4123Email jchoi@georgiasouthern.eduIntroduction: The

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From Negligence to Perception of Complexities in Adherence to Treatment Process in People with Diabetes: A Grounded Theory Study

Background: Poor adherence of patients with type 2 diabetes to treatment is one of the most complex and important clinical concerns.It is the main issue of the present decade and acknowledged as a challenge to control and treat diabetes.This study was carried out to explore and understand how adherence to treatment process occurs among Iranian pati

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Pyramid Attention Upsampling Module for Object Detection

The core task of object detection is to extract features of various sizes by hierarchically stacking multi-scale feature maps.However, it is not easy to decide whether we should transmit semantic information to the low layers while reducing the loss of semantic information of the high-level features.In this paper, we present a novel method to reduc

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Placental growth factor promotes neural invasion and predicts disease prognosis in resectable pancreatic cancer

Abstract Background Surgery represents the only curative treatment option for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), but recurrence in more than 85% of patients limits the success of curative-intent tumor resection.Neural invasion (NI), particularly the spread of tumor cells along nerves into extratumoral regions of the pancreas, constitutes a we

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