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Calculated Optimism: Setting a reasonable baseline for Mizzou basketball’s freshmen

Moving past summer hype to examine the tactical safety nets and real-world expectations for the Tigers’ incoming class.
BMJ

Robotic versus Open Pancreatoduodenectomy (PORTAL): multicentre, single masked, phase 3, non-inferiority randomised controlled trial

1 Department of General Surgery, Pancreatic Disease Centre, Ruijin Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China 2 Ruijin-Hainan Hospital Shanghai Jiao Tong ...
Medycyna Praktyczna

Impact of pressure‑regulated volume control vs volume‑controlled ventilation on respiratory mechanics in pediatric laparoscopic surgery: a randomized controlled trial

Introduction: Optimal ventilation during pediatric laparoscopic surgery is a debated issue, as pneumoperitoneum impairs respiratory mechanics and may increase ventilator-induced lung injury. Aim: We ...
eLife

Frequency-dependent modulation of foveal contrast sensitivity by fine-scale exogenously triggered attention

Fine-scale exogenous attention within the foveola selectively enhances contrast gain at low-to-mid spatial frequencies while increasing response gain across a broad spatial frequency range.
PNAS

Direct calculation of ice homogeneous nucleation rate for a molecular model of water

This contribution is part of the special series of Inaugural Articles by members of the National Academy of Sciences elected in 2012. Contributed by Pablo G. Debenedetti, June 29, 2015 (sent for ...