BackgroundSmoking among sexual and gender minority (SGM) groups, which include lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals, has been reported to be highly prevalent.This is attributed to several factors, including minority-specific stress and targeted tobacco marketing.Therefore, this population is at an increased risk for tobacco-re
Optic neuropathy refers to disease of the optic nerve and can result in loss of visual acuity and/or visual field defects.Combining findings from multiple fMRI modalities can offer valuable information for characterizing and managing optic neuropathies.In this article, we review a subset of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (RS-fM
Background: Even if current technologies are used in removal of a skull-base epidermoid cyst, the maintenance of function of the cranial nerves is still an important issue.Purpose: To assess changes in ophthalmological abnormalities after surgery for skull base epidermoid cysts.Material and Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the medical records o
The primary goal of this paper is to provide force feedback to the user using vision-based techniques.The approach presented in this paper can be used to provide force feedback to the surgeon for robot-assisted procedures.As proof of concept, we have developed a linear elastic finite element model (FEM) of a rubber membrane whereby the nodal displa
Automatic text summarization aims to ULT BLADDER CONTROL compress a given document, which can efficiently reflect the main idea of the source document with a short summary.At present, abstractive summarization method has become a research hotspot in the field of text summarization because it can paraphrase the source document with flexible and abun