XENOTRANSPLANTATION: THE NEXT QUARTER CENTURY

Xenotransplantation: The next quarter century

Transplantation has become a preferred therapy for the treatment of end stage organ failure, improving kathy chilton iris the quality and duration of recipients lives.The major limitation of organ transplantation is the shortage of suitable donor organs available for clinical use.Xenotransplantation using genetically modified pig organs could provi

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A Novel Functional Electrical Stimulation-Induced Cycling Controller Using Reinforcement Learning to Optimize Online Muscle Activation Pattern

This study introduces a novel controller based on a Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithm for real-time adaptation of the stimulation pattern during FES-cycling.Core to our approach is the introduction of an RL agent that interacts with the cycling environment and learns through trial and error how to modulate the electrical charge applied to the s

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SARS-CoV-2 quantitative real time PCR and viral loads analysis among asymptomatic and symptomatic patients: an observational study on an outbreak in two nursing facilities in Campania Region (Southern Italy)

Abstract Background In December 2019 an outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome zupreem feline Coronavirus 2 was first observed in Wuhan, China.The virus has spread rapidly throughout the world creating a pandemic scenario.Several risk factors have been identified, such as age, sex, concomitant diseases as well as viral load.A key point is th

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Evaluating Refractive and Visual Outcomes After Bilateral Implantation of an Apodized Diffractive Multifocal Toric Intraocular Lens with a Moderate Add in the Dominant Eye and a Higher Add in the Fellow Eye

Clayton Blehm,1 Richard Potvin2 1Gainesville Eye Associates, Gainesville, GA, USA; 2Science in Vision, Akron, NY, USACorrespondence: Richard PotvinScience in Vision, 6197 Dye Road, Akron, NY 14001, USATel +1407-697-6008Email rick@scienceinvision.comPurpose: To review refractive, visual acuity, defocus curve and subjective visual quality results aft

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