This paper introduces the exponential time differencing (ETD) technique as a numerical method to efficiently solve vulnerable American options pricing. We address several challenges, including removing cross-derivative terms through appropriate trans...
Embedded printing of soft materials relies on yield-stress support matrices to prevent sagging and enable freeform fabrication. The rheological parameters of the matrix material directly influence critical printing outcomes such as strand positioning...
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(1) Background: Inferior turbinates’ hypertrophy is often associated with Eustachian tube dysfunction (ETD); radiofrequency turbinate reduction (RTR) may provide a long-term improvement of nasal obstruction and ETD-related symptoms. (2) Aim: Th...
The aim of present investigation was 1) to evaluate the in vivo bioavailability of an Etodolac (ETD)-β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) inclusion complex system prepared by kneading and spray drying techniques in rats, 2) to study the pharmacodynamic parameters i...
Unmet needs in the treatment of chronic otitis media and Eustachian tube dysfunction (ETD) triggered the development of stents for the Eustachian tube (ET). In this study, for the first time, stents were placed in an artificially blocked ET to evalua...
Background/Objectives: Achondroplasia is linked to distinctive ear–nose–throat (ENT) morbidity, yet quantitative age-structured profiles and actionable correlates remain incompletely defined. This study mapped ENT phenotypes in a consecut...
The Eustachian tube (ET) is a bottleneck when it comes to middle ear (ME) health. If its function is impaired, this can lead to serious consequences for the patient, such as hearing problems or deafness. Therefore, this study investigated a tapered n...
Background/Objectives: Obstructive Eustachian tube dysfunction (OETD) is common in adults and may lead to middle-ear conditions such as atelectasis and cholesteatoma. The ETDQ-7 questionnaire is used to assess symptom severity. Balloon dilation of th...
A main circuit ground fault (MCGF) is a typical system fault in an electrical traction drive system (ETDS). When two or more MCGFs occur, it will cause serious accidents. Therefore, it is particularly important to detect and handle MCGFs in a timely...
The EU-27 fishing fleet consumed 2.02 billion liters of fuel to catch 4.48 million tons of fish, valued at €6.7 billion in 2018. The profitability of the EU fishing fleet shows an increasing trend, partly due to the improvements in the energy efficie...
The revised legislation on medicinal cannabis has triggered a surge of research studies in this space. Yet, cannabis proteomics is lagging. In a previous study, we optimised the protein extraction of mature buds for bottom-up proteomics. In this foll...
Differences in environmental conditions due to slope topography result in differences in evapotranspiration along slopes, but it is unclear how changes in environmental conditions affect the variations in evapotranspiration along slopes. Therefore, w...
(1) Background: Eustachian tube dysfunction (ETD) is a frequently observed clinical manifestation of chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS). This systematic review aimed to evaluate the function of the Eustachian tube following endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) i...
Background and objectives: The optic nerve sheath diameter (ONSD) is indicative of elevated intracranial pressure. However, the usefulness of the ONSD for predicting neurologic outcomes in cardiac arrest survivals has been debatable. Reportedly, the...
Multimedia fate and transport models are used to evaluate the long range transport potential (LRTP) of organic pollutants, often by calculating their characteristic travel distance (CTD). We calculated the CTD of several polycyclic aromatic hydrocarb...
This paper provides a consolidated discussion and proposes significant measures in improving and advancing the performance of synchronous machines employed in electric traction applications designed for passenger electric vehicles (EVs). The paper qu...
O-glycosylation is a common post-translational modification on extracellular and secreted proteins driving biochemical and biophysical interactions at the cell surface. Glycosylation affects drug immunogenicity, efficacy, and clearance, making it a c...
The nine-step test is a classical method for evaluating Eustachian tube function. It directly assesses the patient’s capacity to equilibrate middle ear pressure by swallowing. However, there are insufficient studies to appraise its diagnostic p...
Background/objectives: Eustachian tube dysfunction (ETD) presents complex diagnostic challenges in otolaryngology, compounded by concurrent chronic nasal disease. Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) often assess ETD severity due to its elusive...
Poor water solubility of drugs is a limiting factor for their bioavailability and pharmacological activity. Many approaches are known to improve drug solubility, and among them, the physical method, solid dispersions (SDs), is applied. SDs are physic...
The transition to smart grids has served to transform traditional power systems into data-driven power systems. The purpose of this transition is to enable effective energy management and system reliability through an analysis that is centered on ene...
Aviation security increasingly relies on explosive trace detectors (ETDs), particularly those employing ion mobility spectrometry (IMS). However, few studies have systematically compared the performance of IMS-based ETDs, especially in terms of measu...
This work aimed to enhance the purposing profile of Etodolac (ETD) in Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) HepG2 cells using sodium deoxycholate stabilized zein nanospheres (ETD-SDZN NSs). ETD-SDZN NSs were formulated using the nan-precipitation meth...
Background: Solid dispersions (SDs) of etodolac (ETD), a poorly water-soluble drug model, were developed to enhance its solubility and dissolution rate by employing various preparation methods and hydrophilic or amphiphilic polymers. Methods: Polyvin...
Eustachian tube dysfunction (ETD) affects a significant portion of the population, manifesting symptoms that impact the quality of life. Despite the prevalence of ETD, there remains a notable gap in comprehensive studies exploring the condition&rsquo...
Electricity is widely used around 80% of the world. Electricity theft has dangerous effects on utilities in terms of power efficiency and costs billions of dollars per annum. The enhancement of the traditional grids gave rise to smart grids that enab...
Otitis media is often connected to Eustachian tube dysfunction (ETD). Until now, there was no large animal model available for the examination of new treatment methods such as stents for the Eustachian tube (ET). Thus, the aim of the study was to dev...
(1) Background: Since the 1990s, theses and dissertations—a key part of scientific communication—have evolved significantly with advances in information and communication technologies. (2) Methods: This study reviews 99 publications exami...
Background: Eustachian tube dysfunction (ETD) is a common disorder causing ear pressure, pain, and hearing loss. Balloon Eustachian tuboplasty (BET) is an emerging technique for dilating the Eustachian tube and treating ETD. Whether adding myringotom...
Electricity theft is one of the challenging problems in smart grids. The power utilities around the globe face huge economic loss due to ET. The traditional electricity theft detection (ETD) models confront several challenges, such as highly imbalanc...
Management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) requires long-term administration of different medications since there has been no cure until now. Etodolac (ETD) is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug commonly used for RA management. However, its long-term...
Background: Optic nerve sheath diameter (ONSD) and its ratio to eyeball transverse diameter (ETD; ONSD/ETD) are potential markers for elevated intracranial pressure in comatose survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). However, their progno...
Background/Objectives: Eustachian Tube Dysfunction (ETD) is a prevalent condition affecting middle ear pressure regulation, yet nationwide epidemiological data in Saudi Arabia remain limited. This study aimed to assess the prevalence of ETD and ident...
Topical administration of drug is an attractive alternative to the oral administration as it provides a reduction in adverse reactions and an enhancement of therapeutic effects. The use of lipid carriers in hydrogel structures makes it possible to in...
Pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE) is a heritable multisystem ectopic calcification disorder. The gene responsible for PXE, ABCC6, encodes ABCC6, a hepatic efflux transporter regulating extracellular inorganic pyrophosphate (PPi), a potent endogenous cal...
A previous related paper dealing with the density relaxation of polystyrene (PS) has shown that the equilibrium relaxation time (τeq) has a purely exponential temperature dependence (ETD) below ≈100 °C. Such an ETD is now also confirmed...
Regulators often use environmental policy to induce green initiatives by firms. This paper examines the emission-reduction-inducement effect of the environmental tax deduction (ETD) incentive by Stackelberg game models between an environmental regula...
The purpose of this study was to determine whether the sensitivity advantage of intradermal dilutional testing (IDT) is clinically relevant in patients with obstructive Eustachian tube dysfunction (ETD) or otitis media with effusion (OME). This retro...
The objective was to investigate the error sources of the airborne laser scanning based individual tree detection (ITD), and its effects on forest management planning calculations. The investigated error sources were detection of trees (etd), error i...
Evapotranspiration (ET) is an important channel for water transport and energy conversion in land–air systems, and the spatial quantification of actual ET is crucial for water resource management and scheduling in arid areas. Using the Surface...
An accurate estimation of evapotranspiration (ET) from crops is crucial in irrigation management, crop yield assessment, and optimal allocation of water resources, particularly in arid regions. This study explores the estimation of seasonal evapotran...
In many tropical areas, evapotranspiration is the most important but least known component of the water cycle. An innovative method, named E3S (for EVASPA S-SEBI Sahel), was developed to provide spatially-distributed estimates of daily actual evapotr...
Recent studies indicate that connexin hemichannels do not act as freely permeable non-selective pores, but they select permeants in an isoform-specific manner with cooperative, competitive and saturable kinetics. The aim of this study was to investig...
In-line inspection (ILI) is essential for maintaining the integrity of natural gas pipelines. In ILI, pipeline inspection gauges (PIGs) autonomously navigate through pipelines under real-time and resource-constrained conditions to measure pipeline ir...
Background: Eustachian tube dysfunction (ETD) presents a complex diagnostic challenge in otolaryngology, compounded by its multifaceted nature and overlapping symptoms with chronic nasal disease. This article examines the intricacies of ETD diagnosis...
The optic nerve sheath diameter (ONSD) can predict intracranial pressure and outcomes in neurological disease, but it remains unclear whether a small ONSD can be accurately measured on routine CT images with a slice thickness of approximately 4&ndash...
Etodolac (ETD), a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, exhibits antinflammatory, analgesic, and antipyretic activity. The main type of ETD administration is oral route, which is associated with significant systemic side effects. Nanostructured lipid...
The effectiveness of the multimodal Telemedical Lifestyle Intervention Program (TeLIPro) was proven in the advanced stages of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Since its therapeutic potential focusing on telemedical coaching without using a formula di...
Hearing loss (HL) affects more than 1.5 billion people worldwide and remains a leading cause of disability across the lifespan. While genetic predispositions, otitis media (OM), and cholesteatoma are well-recognized contributors, Eustachian tube dysf...
In this study, we performed three-dimensional gravity modeling and inversion of the Vinton Dome, a well-known onshore salt structure located in southwestern Louisiana, USA, by simultaneously integrating Full Tensor Gravity (FTG) and conventional grav...
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