Background: Stiffness and mid-flexion instability (MFI) is a recognized complication of mechanically aligned (MA) total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Kinematic alignment (KA) has been proposed as a means by which to restore normal joint motion following T...
Background/Objectives: This study investigates a surgical concept that restores constitutional bony alignment within predefined safety boundaries in primary total knee arthroplasty (TKA) using modern 3D navigation. The technique combines a standard k...
Agentic AI systems, possessing capabilities for autonomous planning and action, show great potential across diverse domains. However, their practical deployment is hindered by challenges in aligning their behavior with varied human values, complex sa...
The rapid adoption of robotic-assisted total knee arthroplasty (RATKA) has resulted in pre-operative CT scans becoming more readily available. After the segmentation and identification of landmarks by trained segmentation specialists, the Mako SmartR...
Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) is an effective treatment for anteromedial osteoarthritis in carefully selected patients. Increasing attention has recently been directed toward restoration of pre-arthritic coronal alignment, supported by the...
22 December 2022
Introduction: Temporary anchorage devices (TADs) represent an essential instrument under difficult anchorage conditions, especially when the procedure is approached with an aligner technique. The objective of this paper is to describe a possible sequ...
This paper aims to examine the various cultural practices that apply to widows vis à vis their constitutional rights. The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (hereinafter referred to as the constitution) outlines inalienable hum...
Two different analytic models, in which convection in the float zone is assumed, are developed to understand the solute redistributions during general seeding and quasi-seeding processes of TiAl alloys, respectively. The results suggest that the solu...
To build state-of-the-art Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems, high-quality parallel sentences are needed. Typically, large amounts of data are scraped from multilingual web sites and aligned into datasets for training. Many tools exist for auto...
Liquid crystals (LCs) have become indispensable materials in everyday life, with their applications ranging from high-resolution television displays to being a part of sophisticated and modern equipment for telecommunications and sensing purposes. Va...
Transmembrane proteins (TMPs) constitute approximately 30% of the mammalian proteome and are critical targets in biomedical research due to their involvement in signaling, transport, and drug interactions. However, their unique structural characteris...
This paper aims to predict the damage and fracture behavior of thermoplastic fiber-reinforced metal laminates (TFMLs) under ballistic impact loadings. A dynamic metal constitutive model has been employed and implemented in Abaqus/Explicit through a v...
Ordered arrays of vertically aligned semiconductor nanowires are regarded as promising candidates for the realization of all-dielectric metamaterials, artificial electromagnetic materials, whose properties can be engineered to enable new functions an...
Aims: This review aims to analyze the multiple factors affecting the staging of the orthodontic tooth movement during clear aligner treatment and to provide an efficient work methodology in this regard during digital treatment planning. Materials and...
Freeze casting under external fields (magnetic, electric, or acoustic) produces porous materials having local, regional, and global microstructural order in specific directions. In freeze casting, porosity is typically formed by the directional solid...
In order to investigate the uniaxial dynamic compression constitutive model for concrete under freeze-thaw conditions, a finite element analysis was employed to model the temperature field of the concrete. The resulting data were subsequently integra...
Functional alignment (FA) is a novel philosophy to deliver a total knee arthroplasty (TKA) that respects individual bony and soft tissue phenotypes within defined limitations. The purpose of this paper is to describe the rationale and technique of FA...
Cross-level inference errors constitute a specific source of misleading scientific interpretation. They arise when the meaning assigned to a finding is transferred from one level of analysis to another without sufficient methodological justification....
Equation-Informed Neural Networks (EINNs) are developed as an efficient method for extracting the coefficients of constitutive equations. Subsequently, numerical Bayesian Inference (BI) iterations were applied to estimate the distribution of these co...
Background and Objectives: Mechanical alignment (MA) has long been the gold standard in total knee arthroplasty (TKA), aiming for neutral hip–knee–ankle alignment with proven long-term survivorship. However, up to 20% of patients remain d...
Organizations are under mounting pressure to adapt to and to adopt corporate sustainability (CS) practices. Notwithstanding the increasing research attention given to the subject and the meaningful theoretical contributions, it is claimed that a defi...
Can human–machine hybrid systems (HMHs) constitute genuine collective agents? This paper defends an affirmative answer. I argue that HMHs achieve collective intentionality without shared consciousness by satisfying the following three functiona...
Lower-limb alignment deformities constitute a significant clinical concern, as they can lead to serious complications, including progressive degenerative diseases and disabilities. Rotational deformities may give rise to conditions such as joint arth...
Electrospinning is a scaffold production method that utilizes electric force to draw a polymer solution into nanometer-sized fibers. By optimizing the polymer and electrospinning parameters, a scaffold is created with the desired thickness, alignment...
17 February 2023
Background: Orthodontic clear aligners constitute an alternative and increasingly used orthodontic treatment modality, offering enhanced esthetics with potential consequences regarding patients’ oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL). Obj...
Background: Adolescence represents a pivotal, yet understudied, developmental window in which maturation of the gut microbiome, neural circuits, endocrine systems, and behavioral processes converge. Although early-life microbiota–gut–brai...
This study analyzes the alignment between (1) the scientific publications generated within a nation-state, and (2) the United Nations resolutions on climate change research and sustainable development guidelines to which that nation-state is a signat...
The gaseous plant hormone ethylene regulates many aspects of plant growth, development and responses to the environment. Constitutive triple response 1 (CTR1) is a central regulator involved in the ethylene signal transduction pathway. To obtain a b...
The PILAR (prospects, involved, liked, agency, respect) model provides a dynamical systems perspective on collaboration. Two studies are performed using peer assessment data, both testing empirical support for the five Pillars that constitute members...
The flow behaviour of AA2060 Al alloy under warm/hot deformation conditions is complicated because of its dependency on strain rates (
Photomorphogenic development in seedlings may be diagnostic of future plant performance. In this report, we characterize the Thai Oakleaf lettuce genotype, as it exhibited abnormalities in photomorphogenic development that were the most conspicuous u...
In the current highly competitive and fast-changing business environment, in which the optimisation of all resources matters, creating an efficient supply chain is crucial. Earlier studies on supply chains have focussed on aligning product/services a...
This paper explores how digital crowdsourcing platforms communicate sustainability-oriented innovation and mobilise stakeholder engagement. Through a directed content analysis of three platforms (OpenIDEO, San Francisco, CA, USA; Enel Innovation Hub,...
Water is an essential necessity for human beings; however, South Africa has a long history of inequalities dating back to apartheid politics and legislation which denied access to water to disadvantaged black populations mostly residing in rural area...
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Objective: This study investigates the impact of age and knee osteoarthritis (OA) on the coronal plane alignment of the lower extremity in Japanese males and females, utilizing the Coronal Plane Alignment of the Knee (CPAK) classification system. Met...
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from passenger cars constitute a substantial share of global road transport emissions, yet the impact of expressway geometric alignment on real-world CO2 emissions remains insufficiently quantified, particularly with re...
Food safety culture (FSC) is a structured, measurable and enforceable element of the food industry, which is essential for building consumer trust and safeguarding consumer wellness. Regardless of the size of the organisation, FSC plays a pivotal rol...
Canine impaction constitutes a clinical entity that, if untreated, can compromise dentition. Thus, various treatment approaches and different biomechanical systems have been proposed over the years for its management. Clinical records of patients who...
A thermal protection system is critical for ensuring the safe take-off and return of various aircraft. A key heat-resistant material within this system is the ceramic fiber insulation tile (CFIT), which is a porous three-dimensional network material...
With the progression of both the climate crisis and financial capitalism, institutional investors play an increasingly central role in fossil fuel companies’ business decisions. Against this backdrop, this article investigates the underlying ra...
The achievement of some of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from the recent 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has drawn the attention of many countries towards urban transport networks. Mathematical modeling constitutes an analytical to...
This study examines urban–water synergy as the spatial coordination between urban expansion and water systems. Using land-use data from 2000 to 2020, the central urban areas of Jingzhou and Anqing are analyzed as representative small and medium...
Background: The coronal plane alignment of the knee (CPAK) classification categorises nine phenotypes based on constitutional limb alignment and joint line obliquity and can be used in healthy and arthritic knees. In total knee arthroplasty surgery,...
There is great demand for inferring causal effect heterogeneity and for open-source statistical software, which is readily available for practitioners. The mcf package is an open-source Python package that implements Modified Causal Forest (mcf), a c...
In accordance with their constitutional prerogatives, members of the Church engage in activities that align with their designated roles and responsibilities. A review of both the history of the Church and the documents in force reveals that the Churc...
DCAT-based data ecosystems, such as open data portals and data spaces, have shown their potential to foster data economy by supporting the FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, Reusability) principles. Nevertheless, there are domains wh...
Currently, a comprehensive understanding of the macro- and micro-scale mechanisms of ice fracture failure in the Yellow River remains limited. Therefore, this paper adopts a microscopic perspective by modeling Yellow River granular ice as a three-pha...
Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) systems—software that plans, acts, and decides without step-by-step human approval—are already deployed in finance, healthcare, recruitment, and public services. They differ from earlier AI in one crit...
Introduction: To accelerate cutaneous wound healing and prevent scarring, regenerative approaches such as injecting a mechanically derived tissue stromal vascular fraction (tSVF) are currently under clinical and laboratory investigations. The aim of...
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