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5 Citations
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The Metabolic Building Blocks of a Minimal Cell

  • Mariana Reyes-Prieto,
  • Rosario Gil,
  • Mercè Llabrés,
  • Pere Palmer-Rodríguez and
  • Andrés Moya

24 December 2020

Defining the essential gene components for a system to be considered alive is a crucial step toward the synthesis of artificial life. Fifteen years ago, Gil and coworkers proposed the core of a putative minimal bacterial genome, which would provide t...

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  • Open Access
1,040 Views
30 Pages

Classification of the Second Minimal Orbits in the Sharkovski Ordering

  • Ugur G. Abdulla,
  • Naveed H. Iqbal,
  • Muhammad U. Abdulla and
  • Rashad U. Abdulla

17 March 2025

We prove a conjecture on the second minimal odd periodic orbits with respect to Sharkovski ordering for the continuous endomorphisms on the real line. A (2k+1)-periodic orbit {β1<β2<<β2k+1}, (k3) is called second mi...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,932 Views
9 Pages

On Minimal Hypersurfaces of a Unit Sphere

  • Amira Ishan,
  • Sharief Deshmukh,
  • Ibrahim Al-Dayel and
  • Cihan Özgür

8 December 2021

Minimal compact hypersurface in the unit sphere Sn+1 having squared length of shape operator A2<n are totally geodesic and with A2=n are Clifford hypersurfaces. Therefore, classifying totally geodesic hypersurfaces and Clifford hypersurfaces has i...

  • Review
  • Open Access
40 Citations
12,721 Views
19 Pages

An Introduction to Clique Minimal Separator Decomposition

  • Anne Berry,
  • Romain Pogorelcnik and
  • Geneviève Simonet

14 May 2010

This paper is a review which presents and explains the decomposition of graphs by clique minimal separators. The pace is leisurely, we give many examples and figures. Easy algorithms are provided to implement this decomposition. The historical and th...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
10,624 Views
13 Pages

Minimal-Access Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) Closure

  • Gillian Hardman and
  • Joseph Zacharias

Progress towards the development and adoption of minimally invasive techniques in cardiac surgery has been slower than that seen in other surgical specialties. Congenital heart disease (CHD) patients represent an important population within cardiac d...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,672 Views
15 Pages

A Note on a Minimal Irreducible Adjustment Pagerank

  • Yuehua Feng,
  • Yongxin Dong and
  • Jianxin You

9 August 2022

The stochastic modification and irreducible modification in PageRank produce large web link changes correspondingly. To get a minimal irreducible web link adjustment, a PageRank model of minimal irreducible adjustment and its lumping method are discu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,652 Views
10 Pages

Minimal Access Tricuspid Valve Surgery

  • Jean-Alexandre Sauvé,
  • Yung-Szu Wu,
  • Ravi Ghatanatti and
  • Joseph Zacharias

Tricuspid valve diseases are a heterogeneous group of pathologies that typically have poor prognoses when treated medically and are associated with significant morbidity and mortality with traditional surgical techniques. Minimal access tricuspid val...

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  • Open Access
821 Views
23 Pages

25 June 2025

In the paper analytical and numerical investigations on stable prestressed configurations of prismatic tensegrities with a non-minimal number of members are studied. Up to date, non-minimal prisms were rarely analyzed. Analytical equations are writte...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,213 Views
15 Pages

Minimal Access Aortic Valve Surgery

  • Bilal H. Kirmani and
  • Enoch Akowuah

Minimally invasive approaches to the aortic valve have been described since 1993, with great hopes that they would become universal and facilitate day-case cardiac surgery. The literature has shown that these procedures can be undertaken with equival...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,961 Views
12 Pages

24 September 2019

In this note, we give a characterization of a class of minimal translation graphs generated by planar curves. Precisely, we prove that a hypersurface that can be written as the sum of n planar curves is either a hyperplane or a cylinder on the genera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,165 Views
15 Pages

Parameter Determination of a Minimal Model for Brake Squeal

  • Zhigang Chu,
  • Fei Zheng,
  • Lei Liang,
  • Hui Yan and
  • Runcheng Kang

1 January 2018

In the research into the mechanism of brake squeal, minimal models with two degrees of freedom (DoFs) are widely used. Compared with the finite element method, the minimal model is more concise and efficient, making it easier to analyze the effect of...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,791 Views
9 Pages

21 February 2020

We obtain the Wang-type integral inequalities for compact minimal hypersurfaces in the unit sphere S 2 n + 1 with Sasakian structure and use these inequalities to find two characterizations of minimal Clifford hypersurfaces in the unit sphe...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,096 Views
11 Pages

Is There a Future for Minimal Access and Robots in Cardiac Surgery?

  • Gloria Faerber,
  • Murat Mukharyamov and
  • Torsten Doenst

Minimally invasive techniques in cardiac surgery have found increasing use in recent years. Both patients and physicians often associate smaller incisions with improved outcomes (i.e., less risk, shorter hospital stay, and a faster recovery). Videosc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,533 Views
17 Pages

Minimal-Access Coronary Revascularization: Past, Present, and Future

  • Rushmi Purmessur,
  • Tharushi Wijesena and
  • Jason Ali

Minimal-access cardiac surgery appears to be the future. It is increasingly desired by cardiologists and demanded by patients who perceive superiority. Minimal-access coronary artery revascularisation has been increasingly adopted throughout the worl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,543 Views
12 Pages

10 September 2024

Martensitic transformations, viewed as continuous mappings between triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMSs), as suggested by Hyde and Andersson (Z. Kristallogr. 1986, 174, 225–236), are extended to include paths between the initial and final ph...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,043 Views
15 Pages

Research Progress of Minimal Tillage Method and Machine in China

  • Dong He,
  • Caiyun Lu,
  • Zhenwei Tong,
  • Guangyuan Zhong and
  • Xinchun Ma

Minimal tillage methods mainly include subsoiling technology and topsoil tillage technology. Based on the analysis of domestic technical modes and application status of minimal tillage, this paper reviewed the working principle, technical characteris...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,933 Views
12 Pages

A minimal length addition chain for a positive integer m is a finite sequence of positive integers such that (1) the first and last elements in the sequence are 1 and m, respectively, (2) any element greater than 1 in the sequence is the addition of...

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  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,010 Views
9 Pages

A Subtle Aspect of Minimal Lengths in the Generalized Uncertainty Principle

  • Michael Bishop,
  • Joey Contreras and
  • Douglas Singleton

20 March 2022

In this work, we point out an overlooked and subtle feature of the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) approach to quantizing gravity: namely that different pairs of modified operators with the same modified commutator, [X^,P^]=iħ(1+βp2...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,383 Views
15 Pages

8 March 2023

A non-minimal approximation for effective masses of light and heavy neutrinos in the framework of a type-I seesaw mechanism with three generations of sterile Majorana neutrinos which recover the symmetry between quarks and leptons is considered. The...

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  • Open Access
2,612 Views
9 Pages

New Insights on the Minimal-Invasive Therapy of Cervical Cancer

  • Khayal Gasimli,
  • Lisa Wilhelm,
  • Sven Becker,
  • Rudy Leon De Wilde and
  • Morva Tahmasbi Rad

22 August 2022

Objective: The ideal management of early-stage cervical cancer has become the subject of a global controversy following the publication of a prospective study in 2018 that reported a worse oncologic outcome when comparing the minimally invasive appro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,380 Views
11 Pages

The Effects of Minimal Stimulation Protocol on Preimplantation Genetic Screening

  • Gokalp Oner,
  • Enes Karaman,
  • Ferhan Elmali,
  • Suat Altmisyedioglu and
  • Hande Nur Doganay

16 June 2025

Background/Objectives: Preimplantation genetic screening improves embryo selection in intracytoplasmic sperm injection cycles, especially for women of advanced maternal age. As chromosomal normality declines with age, high-dose gonadotropins are comm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,680 Views
12 Pages

8 July 2020

We introduce q-Lindelöf, u-Lindelöf, p-Lindelöf, s-Lindelöf, q-countably-compact, u-countably-compact, p-countably-compact, and s-countably-compact as new covering concepts in bigeneralized topological spaces via q-open sets and u...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,447 Views
13 Pages

Artificial Intelligence and Its Application to Minimal Hepatic Encephalopathy Diagnosis

  • Jakub Gazda,
  • Peter Drotar,
  • Sylvia Drazilova,
  • Juraj Gazda,
  • Matej Gazda,
  • Martin Janicko and
  • Peter Jarcuska

26 October 2021

Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a brain dysfunction caused by liver insufficiency and/or portosystemic shunting. HE manifests as a spectrum of neurological or psychiatric abnormalities. Diagnosis of overt HE (OHE) is based on the typical clinical mani...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,998 Views
24 Pages

13 November 2024

The existence of a minimum measurable length scale was suggested by various theories of quantum gravity, string theory and black hole physics. Motivated by this, we examine a quantum theory exhibiting a minimum measurable time scale. We use the Page&...

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  • Open Access
355 Views
38 Pages

Stone and Flat Topologies on the Minimal Prime Spectrum of a Commutator Lattice

  • George Georgescu,
  • Leonard Kwuida and
  • Claudia Mureşan

30 October 2025

In previous work we have studied minimal prime spectra, as well as extensions of universal algebras whose term condition commutator behaves like the modular commutator in the sense that it is commutative and distributive with respect to arbitrary joi...

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  • Open Access
543 Views
13 Pages

28 November 2025

Optical skyrmions, as topologically protected quasiparticles, hold great promise for on-chip photonic technologies. However, achieving programmable control over their properties through subtle structural changes remains challenging. This study introd...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
6,460 Views
11 Pages

Resveratrol in Patients with Minimal Hepatic Encephalopathy

  • Giulia Malaguarnera,
  • Manuela Pennisi,
  • Gaetano Bertino,
  • Massimo Motta,
  • Antonio Maria Borzì,
  • Enzo Vicari,
  • Rita Bella,
  • Filippo Drago and
  • Michele Malaguarnera

9 March 2018

Background: Minimal Hepatic Encephalopathy (MHE) is characterized by an impairment of social interaction, emotional behavior, sleep disorders, physical and mental symptoms, and diminished Quality of Life (QoL). The aim of our study is evaluating the...

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  • Open Access
1,407 Views
13 Pages

14 January 2024

We study two quite different types of Terracini loci for the order d-Veronese embedding of an n-dimensional projective space: the minimal one and the primitive one (defined in this paper). The main result is that if n=4, d19 and x2d, no subse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,140 Views
10 Pages

Suitability of Borago officinalis for Minimal Processing as Fresh-Cut Produce

  • Claudia Miceli,
  • Alessandra Moncada,
  • Filippo Vetrano,
  • Fabio D’Anna and
  • Alessandro Miceli

Borage (Borago officinalis L.) is a wild vegetable appreciated as a folk medicine and for culinary preparations. The introduction of borage as a specialized cultivation would allow for the diversification of vegetable crops and would widen the offeri...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,453 Views
29 Pages

11 September 2012

A minimal cut set is a minimal set of reactions whose inactivation would guarantee a failure in a certain network function or functions. Minimal cut sets (MCSs) were initially developed from the metabolic pathway analysis method (MPA) of elementary m...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,608 Views
16 Pages

Minimal State-Space Representation of Convolutional Product Codes

  • Joan-Josep Climent,
  • Diego Napp,
  • Raquel Pinto and
  • Verónica Requena

17 June 2021

In this paper, we study product convolutional codes described by state-space representations. In particular, we investigate how to derive state-space representations of the product code from the horizontal and vertical convolutional codes. We present...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,598 Views
17 Pages

Analysis of the Surface Quality Characteristics in Hard Turning Under a Minimal Cutting Fluid Environment

  • Sandip Mane,
  • Rajkumar Bhimgonda Patil,
  • Anindita Roy,
  • Pritesh Shah and
  • Ravi Sekhar

This paper analyzes the surface quality characteristics, such as arithmetic average roughness (Ra), maximum peak-to-valley height (Rt), and average peak-to-valley height (Rz), in hard turning of AISI 52100 steel using a (TiN/TiCN/Al2O3) coated carbid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,458 Views
12 Pages

Minimal Surgical Manpower for Living Donor Liver Transplantation

  • Seoung Hoon Kim,
  • Jang Ho Park and
  • Byoung Ho An

24 July 2022

Background: Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is widely performed with good outcomes in the current era of improved surgical techniques. However, few studies have addressed how many human resources are required in the surgery itself. This stu...

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  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
8,525 Views
21 Pages

Minimal residual disease evaluation refers to a series of molecular and immunophenotypical techniques aimed at detecting submicroscopic disease after therapy. As such, its application in acute myeloid leukemia has greatly increased our ability to qua...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,098 Views
14 Pages

26 April 2022

As we know, there is some relationship, such as precedence relation, among skills. Each precedence relation induces a competence structure. Thus, we study competence-based skill functions, which rely on competence structures and go from somethings ob...

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