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Bahgat, Ahmed Yassin. "Effect of Cooling Irrigating Saline in Tongue Base Ablation in Obstructive Sleep Apnea." OTO Open 5, no. 1 (2021): 2473974X2198959. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2473974x21989599.

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Objective Plasma is formed by creating a high-density energy field within an electrically conductive fluid such as saline. Sometimes ablated bits of tissue get stuck between the electrodes of the wand, obstructing the suction channel. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of cooling the irrigating saline during ablation of the hypertrophied tongue base in patients with obstructive sleep apnea. Study Design Prospective randomized controlled trial. Setting An otorhinolaryngology department in Main University hospitals. Methods Sixty adult patients with obstructive sleep apnea and tongue base hypertrophy underwent tongue base ablation surgery. Patients were randomly divided into 2 groups of 30 patients each: cooled saline and room temperature saline. The Coblation wand used was the EVac 70 Xtra HP (Smith & Nephew). Results In this study, a significant difference in operative time (mean ± SD) was seen between groups: 21.2 ± 5.5 minutes in the cold group and 47 ± 9.5 minutes in the control group ( P = .001). The wands in the cold group did not obstruct, while all the wands in the control group were obstructed by tissue clogs with variable degrees, hence wasting more time to clean the wands’ tips. Conclusion Cooling the irrigating saline overcame the problem of wand clogs, and the wand tip did not occlude at all during the procedures, thus saving time lost in wand cleaning and demonstrating a faster and safer surgical procedure. Further studies are needed to identify the hemostatic effect of the cooled saline over the regular one.

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Canino, María J., D. S. Lee, N. J. Cayer, and Maria J. Canino. "No Magic Wands Here." Public Productivity & Management Review 18, no. 1 (1994): 103. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3380699.

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KNOTTS, MICHAEL E. "Magic wands and more." Optics and Photonics News 7, no. 10 (1996): 64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/opn.7.10.000064.

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Bott, S. R. J., J. D. Eaton, and R. S. Kirby. "Urethral wands for impotence." BJU International 87, no. 4 (2001): 411. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1464-410x.2001.00120.x.

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Eyre, Stephen L., Rebecca de Guzman, Amy A. Donovan, and Calvin Boissiere. "‘Hormones is not magic wands’." Ethnography 5, no. 2 (2004): 147–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1466138104044376.

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Pravda, V., and A. Pravdová. "WANDs of the black ring." General Relativity and Gravitation 37, no. 7 (2005): 1277–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10714-005-0110-3.

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Rynor, B. "Wands and other medical devices." Canadian Medical Association Journal 182, no. 7 (2010): E297—E298. http://dx.doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-3194.

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Buchanan, Anne V., Kenneth M. Weiss, and Stephanie M. Fullerton. "On stones, wands, and promises." International Journal of Epidemiology 35, no. 3 (2006): 593–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyl008.

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Wininger, Austin E., Justin O. Aflatooni, and Joshua D. Harris. "Use of a larger surface area tip on bipolar radiofrequency wands in hip arthroscopy is associated with significantly lower traction and total surgery times." Journal of Hip Preservation Surgery 8, no. 3 (2021): 270–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jhps/hnab078.

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ABSTRACT Clinical outcomes in arthroscopic hip preservation surgery have improved over the past two decades due to many factors, including advancements in technique and instrumentation. Complications following hip arthroscopy are associated with increased traction and overall surgical times. The purpose of this study was to compare traction and surgical times during hip arthroscopy using two different radiofrequency ablation wands produced by the same manufacturer. The authors hypothesized that the wand with a larger surface area would result in significantly less traction and surgical times. This study was a retrospective comparative investigation on patients who underwent arthroscopic surgery of the central, peripheral, peritrochanteric and/or deep gluteal space compartments of the hip. Both wands are 50-degree-angled probes, but the tip and shaft diameters are 3 and 3.75 mm for Wand A (Ambient Super MultiVac 50; tip surface area 7.1 mm2) compared to 4.7 and 4.7 mm for Wand B (Ambient HipVac 50; tip surface area 17.3 mm2), respectively. There was no difference (P = 0.16) in mean age of Wand A patients (30 females, 20 males; 35.2 years) versus Wand B patients (31 females, 19 males; 32.7 years). Traction time was significantly less in the Wand B group (41 ± 6 versus 51 ± 18 min; P &lt; 0.001), as was surgical time (102 ± 13 versus 118 ± 17 min; P &lt; 0.001). There were no significant differences in the number of labral anchors used or Current Procedural Terminology codes performed between groups. In conclusion, it was observed that the use of a larger surface area wand was associated with significantly less traction and surgical times during hip arthroscopy.

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Blom, Stefan, and Marieke Huisman. "Witnessing the elimination of magic wands." International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer 17, no. 6 (2015): 757–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10009-015-0372-3.

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Desai, Sejal A., George Kroumpouzos, and Neil Sadick. "Vaginal rejuvenation: From scalpel to wands." International Journal of Women's Dermatology 5, no. 2 (2019): 79–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijwd.2019.02.003.

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Perea, Alicia. "Wands in the hand! Or Potter’s powers." ArchéoSciences, no. 33 (December 31, 2009): 21–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/archeosciences.1906.

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Larkin, Howard D. "FDA Warns Against Certain UV Disinfection Wands." JAMA 328, no. 9 (2022): 819. http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2022.14697.

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Cannon, Emily, and Kathini Cameron. "‘Wings, wands and wishes’: a sensory story." Practical Pre-School 2000, no. 20 (2000): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/prps.2000.1.20.41024.

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Mehta, Nitika, Satish Mehta, and Nandita Mehta. "Coblation-Assisted Turbinoplasty: A Comparative Analysis of Reflex Ultra and Turbinator Wand." Ear, Nose & Throat Journal 98, no. 6 (2019): E51—E57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0145561319840102.

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Coblation is a novel technology and has a wide application in the field of otorhinolaryngology. We conducted a randomized, noncontrolled study to compare the effectiveness of 2 types of wands used for turbinoplasty for nasal obstruction due to inferior turbinate hypertrophy. Reflex Ultra and Turbinator wands were compared on a total of 150 patients. These patients were divided into a group of 75 patients each in a randomized manner. Results were compared based on the visual analog scale, and objective assessment was done on the basis of endoscopic assessment, that is, Nasal Endoscopic Score (NES). Assessment was done on postoperative day 7, first month, third month, and first year. Both groups demonstrated significant and similar results in long term, but an immediate improvement at 1 week was seen in the Turbinator group. Hence, we conclude that coblation turbinoplasty is an effective technique for turbinate reduction and both wands are equally effective in long term. However, Reflex Ultra has the advantage of mucosal preservation and minimal morbidity, and Turbinator has the advantage of immediate relief in nasal symptoms.

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GERE, CHARLIE. "ART OF THE DIGITAL AGE BY BRUCE WANDS." Art Book 14, no. 2 (2007): 40–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8357.2007.00803.x.

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Staymates, Matthew E., Jessica Grandner, and Jennifer R. Verkouteren. "Pressure-Sensitive Sampling Wands for Homeland Security Applications." IEEE Sensors Journal 13, no. 12 (2013): 4844–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/jsen.2013.2274573.

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Sugïyama, Yukimaru, Jeremy Koman, and Mamadou Bhoye Sow. "Ant-Catching Wands of Wild Chimpanzees at Bossou, Guinea." Folia Primatologica 51, no. 1 (1988): 56–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000156357.

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Spitz, Laura. "Wands away (or preaching to infidels who wear earplugs°)." Law Teacher 41, no. 3 (2007): 314–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03069400.2007.9959751.

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Varma, Gaurav, Patrice Savard, Christian Coles, et al. "Hospital Room Sterilization Using Far-Ultraviolet Radiation: A Pilot Evaluation of the Sterilray Device in an Active Hospital Setting." Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology 34, no. 5 (2013): 536–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/670214.

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Environmental contamination of hospital rooms is well recognized as a reservoir for highly resistant nosocomial pathogens such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureu (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE), which can be transferred to patients through contact with healthcare providers and contaminated surfaces. Numerous studies dedicated to environmental cleaning and disinfection have found promising results with several novel technologies, including vaporized hydrogen peroxide and ultraviolet over-head lighting or wands. We conducted a pilot study of one such device, the Sterilray Disinfection Wand (Healthy Environment Innovations), a handheld ultraviolet (UV) room decontamination wand. The Sterilray device claims to generate UV radiation in the far-UV spectrum (185-230 nm), resulting in the rapid killing of contaminant bacteria. The goal of this pilot was to collect preliminary data on the efficacy of this device in reducing surface contamination, particularly of common nosocomial pathogens, in an active hospital setting.

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Soliman, Wael. "Turtle (Demon or Guardian) a Study In Particular Magical Wands." International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Management 3, no. 2 (2020): 248–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.21608/ijthm.2020.134255.

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Marchington, Mick. "Fairy tales and magic wands: new employment practices in perspective." Employee Relations 17, no. 1 (1995): 51–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/01425459510146661.

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Hopf, Henning, and B. Witulski. "Cyanoalkynes: Magic wands for the preparation of novel aromatic compounds." Pure and Applied Chemistry 65, no. 1 (1993): 47–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1351/pac199365010047.

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Palleiro, María. "Charms and Wands in John the Lazy: Performance and Beliefs in Argentinean Folk Narrative." Acta Ethnographica Hungarica 64, no. 2 (2019): 353–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/022.2019.64.2.7.

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Abstract“Virtue wands” do appear in Argentinean folk narrative as useful devices used by the hero to achieve his dreams. Using the correct charm and waving his wand, the Argentinean folk hero John the Lazy manages to marry the princess and to live without working. Charms show in this way how to do things with words, pronouncing the proper words in the right situation. In this presentation, I deal with the formulaic use of a magic charm in this Argentinean folktale, collected in fieldwork in 1988. This charm deals with an invocation to the “Wand of virtue” given to the hero by God`s mercy, whose proper use shows the performative force of language. The tension between the absence of effort and the need of working is solved in this tale in a world of dream, in which the real effort is to learn how to use the correct words. Social beliefs in the supernatural are expressed in this tale, in which the wand is a God`s gift that allows the hero to avoid struggling. But the main gift is actually the knowledge of language which permits the hero to make an accurate usage of formulaic discourse, structured in the charm in an epigrammatic way. In this way, I propose a metapragmatic consideration of such charms that, as Urban (1989) says, deal with “speech about speech in speech about action”. In the Argentinean context in which I collected this folktale, the hero is the young son of a rural peasant family, poor and struggling, like the narrator and his audience. The lazy poor boy who marries the princess thanks to the force of the dreams shows how the language is the key both to repair social gaps and to restore collective order.

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Sakuma, Tetsushi, and Takashi Yamamoto. "Magic wands of CRISPR—lots of choices for gene knock-in." Cell Biology and Toxicology 33, no. 6 (2017): 501–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10565-017-9409-6.

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Hall, Mark A. "Of Magic Wands And Kaleidoscopes: Fixing Problems In The Individual Market." Health Affairs 21, Suppl1 (2002): W353—W358. http://dx.doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.w2.353.

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Dr., Shiny Mendonce. "The Forty Rules of Love and Honour: Multi-Layered Narratives by Elif Shafak." Criterion: An International Journal in English 15, no. 1 (2024): 311–18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10795675.

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Elif Shafak, a Turkish-British novelist has made a spellbinding impression in the field of her native literature giving it a rung higher up in the ladder of world literature. In line with the native Turkish tradition of storytelling, Shafak is a storyteller at her best and a feminist writer. The Turkish tradition of telling stories within stories has been utilised to its best by Shafak in all her crowning pieces of fiction and non-fiction. The narrative techniques used by Shafak make her works an enchantment, an easy reading experience with a high level of understanding and intricate levels of depth. The multiple wands to execute the magic of narration are the technique of sandwich narrative, multi perspectivity, parallel plotlines, temporal complexities and more to add to it. All these wands taken up together by Shafak make her narrative a magic show of fiction with a touch of cultural and historical reality. This research paper uses the watermark of narrative techniques employed by Shafak in her works <em>The Forty Rules of Love </em>and <em>Honour </em>which are woven in the context of Turkish cultural, historical, mystical and superstitious context.

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Vander Haegen, G. E., A. M. Swanson, and H. L. Blankenship. "Detecting Coded Wire Tags with Handheld Wands: Effectiveness of Two Wanding Techniques." North American Journal of Fisheries Management 22, no. 4 (2002): 1260–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1577/1548-8675(2002)022<1260:dcwtwh>2.0.co;2.

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HOPP, H., and B. WITULSKI. "ChemInform Abstract: Cyanoalkynes: Magic Wands for the Preparation of Novel Aromatic Compounds." ChemInform 24, no. 15 (2010): no. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chin.199315319.

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TAKANO, Shoji. "The Strong Local Wands called “Daimon-Kate” and “Nishi-Kaze” in Ogunl, Yamagata Prefecture." Annals of The Tohoku Geographycal Asocciation 37, no. 4 (1985): 256–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.5190/tga1948.37.256.

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Liamputtong, Pranee. "Folk healing and health care practices in Britain and Ireland: Stethoscopes, wands and crystals." Sociology of Health & Illness 33, no. 7 (2011): 1114–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2011.01418.x.

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Freeland, WJ, and K. Fry. "Suitability of Passive Integrated Transponder Tags for Marking Live Animals for Trade." Wildlife Research 22, no. 6 (1995): 767. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wr9950767.

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Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) tags were subject to a series of experimental manipulations designed to simulate conditions operating during the course of trade in animals. Experiments were designed to determine the effects of tag-wand angle of orientation, various barriers between tags and wands and different wand-readers on the distance at which a reading could be made. The distances at which readings can be made are subject to influences by all three variables. The effect of tag-wand angle of orientation is likely to be trivial under most circumstances. Of more importance to the utility of PIT tags for animal trade is environmental interference, particularly that due to metallic barriers (plate or mesh). Different wand-readers produce idiosyncratic results in relation to orientation of the tag and wand and type of barrier. Implantation of tags in cane toads (Bufo marinus) indicates that tags are long lived and reliable. Loss of tags from the toads was relatively rare and probably due to error during the insertion of tags. PIT tags proved resistant to preservation in formalin or ethanol, and to the decomposition of animals in which they had been inserted. Tags inserted into 14 species of Australian mammal provided reliable identification of individuals, and were lost only from species that fly (bats) or are arboreal and glide (a petaurid marsupial). PIT tags are outstandingly reliable and provide for rapid identification of individual animals. Limitations to the use of PIT tags in trade in animals are the inability to conduct readings from a distance (>50mm), and their vulnerability to environmental interference. Technological improvements in taglscannerlreader design may improve the distance from which readings may be made, and cages could possibly be designed in ways that minimise environmental interference. Until these developments have occurred, the PIT tag does not provide cost-effective improvements in the ability to identify animals used in trade.

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Dardinier, Thibault, Peter Müller, and Alexander J. Summers. "Fractional resources in unbounded separation logic." Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages 6, OOPSLA2 (2022): 1066–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3563326.

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Many separation logics support fractional permissions to distinguish between read and write access to a heap location, for instance, to allow concurrent reads while enforcing exclusive writes. Fractional permissions extend to composite assertions such as (co)inductive predicates and magic wands by allowing those to be multiplied by a fraction. Typical separation logic proofs require that this multiplication has three key properties: it needs to distribute over assertions, it should permit fractions to be factored out from assertions, and two fractions of the same assertion should be combinable into one larger fraction. Existing formal semantics incorporating fractional assertions into a separation logic define multiplication semantically (via models), resulting in a semantics in which distributivity and combinability do not hold for key resource assertions such as magic wands, and fractions cannot be factored out from a separating conjunction. By contrast, existing automatic separation logic verifiers define multiplication syntactically, resulting in a different semantics for which it is unknown whether distributivity and combinability hold for all assertions. In this paper, we present a novel semantics for separation logic assertions that allows states to hold more than a full permission to a heap location during the evaluation of an assertion. By reimposing upper bounds on the permissions held per location at statement boundaries, we retain key properties of separation logic, in particular, the frame rule. Our assertion semantics unifies semantic and syntactic multiplication and thereby reconciles the discrepancy between separation logic theory and tools and enjoys distributivity, factorisability, and combinability. We have formalised our semantics and proved its properties in Isabelle/HOL.

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Arriola-Headley, Jubi. "Naked Tarot I: Page of Cups [Ars Poetica], and: Naked Tarot IV: Queen of Wands [Seedling]." Pleiades: Literature in Context 44, no. 1 (2024): 199–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/plc.2024.a926474.

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Richardson, Keith. "Locally based community care." Psychiatric Bulletin 13, no. 6 (1989): 287–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.13.6.287.

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A cynic might regard the plethora of reports on community care as a study in how to create the impression of activity while doing nothing. Demands or suggestions for action are easily deflected by holding up the spectre of a forthcoming inquiry – for example the Griffiths' report on community care. Only six months after its launch, one could be excused for thinking that Sir Roy's report never happened. But it would be short-sighted to view Griffiths as a non-event. It embodies a workable framework for implementing community care, emphasises the importance of individual choice and demonstrates the foolishness of relying on those above to wave magic wands and produce instant national solutions. Community care is about localising services and must evolve locally.

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Mathew, Biju. "Magic Wands and Monkey Brains: Is Labor Ready to Lead Society in the New Struggle Over Data?" South Atlantic Quarterly 119, no. 2 (2020): 422–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00382876-8177995.

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Based on extensive conversations with Uber, Lyft, and Ola drivers across multiple cities in the United States and India, this article argues that gig/platform work operates through a reorganization of established labor process with data at the center of such changes. Not only is data central to a dynamic restructuring of labor processes but data as “value” moves across multiple production processes enabling a new spatiotemporal fix. Data as “value/capital” thus enters a potentially endless cycle of value creation and appropriation. This makes possible for the labor movement to move away from narrow business unionism and instead build a new politics that has at its center data as unaccounted value produced by workers.

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McCray, Lucinda Myles. "Folk Healing and Health Care Practices in Britain and Ireland: Stethoscopes, Wands and Crystals (review)." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 85, no. 3 (2011): 506–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2011.0071.

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Pujol, Toni, Jaume Puig-Bargués, Gerard Arbat, et al. "Numerical Study of the Hydraulic Effects of Modifying the Outlet Pipe and Diffuser Plate in Pressurized Sand Filters with Wand-Type Underdrains." Journal of the ASABE 65, no. 3 (2022): 609–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.13031/ja.14710.

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HighlightsAn outlet pipe with twice the cross-sectional area reduced the filter pressure drop by 12%.Two-outlet designs did not improve the hydraulic performance of the central wand.Flow uniformity in the sand bed was improved with a central downward outlet pipe.Abstract. The pressurized sand filters used in drip irrigation systems have three zones (the water inlet, sand bed, and water outlet) with different hydraulic behaviors. Previous studies that aimed to improve the hydraulic performance of these filters focused on the water inlet and sand bed by redesigning the diffuser plate and underdrain elements, respectively. In this study, we analyzed the consequences of modifying the water outlet of a commercial porous medium filter without changing its underdrain design. The original design consisted of a horizontal pipe connected to ten horizontal wands. Five additional designs that varied in size, orientation, and number of outlets were numerically studied in four operating modes (including two sand bed heights and two superficial velocities). Comparison with the commercial design indicated that (1) an outlet pipe with twice the cross-sectional area reduced the overall filter pressure drop by up to 12% and increased the flow uniformity within the sand bed; (2) two outlets led to symmetrical behavior for the amount of water drained per wand but did not improve the water volume drained by the central wand, which drained the least amount; and (3) a central vertical outlet of equal diameter as the commercial outlet produced a similar pressure drop but increased the flow uniformity within the porous medium. For completeness, two additional diffuser designs were also studied. In comparison with the original design, the proposed designs improved the flow uniformity and weakened the water vortex above the sand surface. Keywords: Computational fluid dynamics, Drip irrigation, Filtration, Granular bed, Modeling.

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Barnes, Danielle, Meredith Herman, Nahimarys Hernandez, Brooke Koltz, David Sohn, and Jacob Maier. "Poster 110: Depth of Tissue Necrosis Following Footprint Preparation with Arthroscopic Radiofrequency Ablation." Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine 10, no. 7_suppl5 (2022): 2325967121S0067. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2325967121s00671.

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Objectives: Successful rotator cuff repair depends upon both secure fixation and biologic integration at the bone-tendon interface. Viable osteocytes and sound bony architecture contribute to the mechanical stability of suture anchor repair constructs. Furthermore, because tendons are hypovascular, preserving the microvasculature of the underlying bone bed is important. To create the bone-tendon interface, shoulder surgeons typically employ three different techniques to clear soft tissue from the footprint prior to rotator cuff repair: mechanical debridement, radiofrequency coagulation, and radiofrequency ablation. Conventional radiofrequency devices use radiofrequency energy to vaporize tissue, often in the setting of tumor resection to kill cancerous tissue. In arthroscopy, bipolar radiofrequency wands capitalize on the saline environment, passing radiofrequency waves through the conductive saline medium creating high energy ions. The result is a plasma field that can gently dissolve tissue with limited heat penetration to the surrounding environment, which is referred to as “coblation.” However, the extent to which this energy penetrates the adjacent tissue, potentially damaging nearby vasculature and osteocytes, is unknown. This study aims to explore the histological depth of tissue necrosis caused by arthroscopic radiofrequency ablation wands in comparison to a mechanical shaver. Methods: 6 bovine metacarpal bones were collected one hour after devascularization and submerged in normal saline. Footprints were created by a radiofrequency ablation wand, at both the coagulation and ablation settings, and a mechanical shaver. Preparation was performed at 5 and 15 seconds. After the specimens were processed and prepared as hematoxylin and eosin-stained microscopic slides, each footprint was evaluated microscopically by a fellowship-trained pathologist. Depth of tissue destruction, preservation of periosteum, and osteocyte necrosis were evaluated histologically compared to the control sections for each treatment method. Results: Both the coagulation and ablation settings on the radiofrequency ablation wand were compared to the sections debrided with the mechanical shaver and the control sections. The ablation setting removed significantly more tissue than the coagulation setting at 5 seconds and 15 seconds of energy exposure (0.67 mm vs. 2.3 mm; P = .001 and 1.5 mm vs. 3.58 mm; P = .012) (table 1). While the depth of soft tissue destruction increased with time, the difference between 5 and 15 seconds for either treatment was not significant (0.67 mm vs. 1.5 mm; P = ,088, 2.3 mm vs. 3.58 mm; P = .051). The periosteum was rarely breached by any treatment and was seen to be well preserved in most sections. Osteocytes remained viable in the central area of treatment, and the normal cortical bone architecture was maintained. Compared to the control bone sections (figure 1) there was one section treated with ablation for 15 seconds that showed complete loss of overlying soft tissue in the treatment area and necrotic osteocytes at a depth of 0.5 mm from the treatment area (figure 2, 3). Conclusions: When used appropriately, arthroscopic radiofrequency ablation techniques effectively debride soft tissue from the rotator cuff footprint while preserving the underlying periosteal vasculature and cortical osteocytes. However, our results do show that local tissue destruction increases with degree of radiofrequency energy and exposure time which can lead to necrosis of the underlying tissues including the periosteum, osteocytes, and microvasculature. This has the potential to impair the biologic tendon-to-bone healing as well as the integrity of the mechanical repair construct, which would ultimately lead to failure of the repair. Thus, it is important for surgeons to be cautious while using arthroscopic radiofrequency techniques while preparing tendon footprints. [Table: see text][Figure: see text][Figure: see text][Figure: see text]

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Karam, Alexandros, Niko Koivunen, Eemeli Tomberg, Ville Vaskonen, and Hardi Veermäe. "Anatomy of single-field inflationary models for primordial black holes." Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2023, no. 03 (2023): 013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2023/03/013.

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Abstract We construct an analytically solvable simplified model that captures the essential features for primordial black hole (PBH) production in most models of single-field inflation. The construction makes use of the Wands duality between the constant-roll (or slow-roll) and the preceding ultra-slow-roll phases and can be realized by a simple inflaton potential of two joined parabolas. Within this framework, it is possible to formulate explicit inflationary scenarios consistent with the CMB observations and copious production of PBHs of arbitrary mass. We quantify the variability of the shape of the peak in the curvature power spectrum in different inflationary scenarios and discuss its implications for probing PBHs with scalar-induced gravitational wave backgrounds. We find that the COBE/Firas μ-distortion constraints exclude the production of PBHs heavier than 104 M ⊙ in single-field inflation.

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Song, Christopher Tam, Joshua Perrett, Terence Goh, and Bien Keem Tan. "Pedicled transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous flap: A method for tunnelling with Dilson Luz vascular dilation wands for breast reconstruction." Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery 50, no. 01 (2017): 119–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijps.ijps_21_16.

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Nissen, Nina. "Folk healing and health practices in Britain and Ireland: stethoscopes, wands and crystals, edited by Ronnie Moore and Stuart McClean." Anthropology & Medicine 19, no. 2 (2012): 257–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2012.675045.

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Kulikov, Fedor I. "THE DECORATIVE SPACE OF AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN PRIVATE TOMB AS A SIGN SYSTEM." Russian Studies in Culture and Society 6, no. 4 (2022): 172–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2576-9782-2022-4-172-187.

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This paper examines the decorative space of the Egyptian tomb of the Old Kingdom as a system of architectural and pictorial components. The comparative historical method was used along with the methods of formal and systematic analyses of material from more than a hundred noble burials. The article states that the main purpose of the Egyptian tomb is to maintain the existence of the Double of its owner, for which the architectural and visual space was formed in a special way. It was identified that the large images of nobles are a complex combination of attribute signs necessary to establish the desired correlation with the adjacent labor scenes. These visual signs (various wigs, wands, staves, vestments, etc.) tend not only to convey the information about the corresponding plot, but also to replace and reproduce it. Thus, in a large image of a nobleman, the main material of the scene placed in front of him is accumulated; such images imply the presence of the corresponding plots nearby, and the Egyptian tomb can be studied from the standpoint of semiotics.

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Krasnov, Fedor Vladimirovich. "H1: Hybrid Retrieval System for Product Search in E-Commerce." Proceedings of the Institute for System Programming of the RAS 36, no. 5 (2024): 227–40. https://doi.org/10.15514/ispras-2024-36(5)-16.

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This paper presents the effectiveness of using the H1 system for retrieving products from various vendors in the marketplace. The H1 system is a hybrid model that combines the benefits of lexical-based and semantic-based retrieval techniques, similar to other state-of-the-art product retrieval systems. The novelty of this approach lies in its combination of token-level retrievals. The advantage of the H1 system over other existing solutions is its ability to handle complex search queries containing brands with multi-word brands. For example, search queries like "new balance sneakers" and "Gloria Jeans children's clothing" will be split into separate tokens "new balance" and "Gloria Jeans", respectively, which helps reduce the retrieval model's size and improves its autonomous performance. The H1 system achieved mAP@12 score of 56.1% and R@1K score of 86.6% on the public WANDS dataset, outperforming other state-of-the-art models. These results demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach and its potential for improving product search experiences for online shoppers.

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Kjartansson, Helgi Skúli. "Sproti. Geta fornar skógarnytjar skýrt margslungið merkingarsvið?" Orð og tunga 20 (June 1, 2018): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.33112/ordogtunga.20.2.

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The Old Norse noun sproti(masc.) displays a variety of meanings, only some of which are preserved in Modern Icelandic. The present article seeks, largely on the basis of material from the Copenhagen Dictionary of Old Norse Prose (ONP), to map the usage of the term and its compounds. Many of the occurrences in old texts have religious overtones, either Christian – partly as a translation of Lat. virga – or pagan – especially in connection with the god Óðinn, while others concern tales of magic and fantasy.Down-to-earth use of the term is too rare for its basic meaning to clearly occur. It is, however, tempting to connect it with the common practice of coppicing or pollarding trees for a variety of uses, from tree hay to firewood, including any sort of poles or sticks. The term sproti would then primarily refer to the young stems harvested from such trees and secondarily to fancier magic wands and regal sceptres, even when made of ivory or gold.The Odinic reyrsproti and laufsproti might then refer to tender stems used, respec-tively, for fastening (cf. vb. reyra ‘tie’) and for animal feed.

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Chodidjah, Chodidjah, Dadan Hidayat, and Luspianti Pratiwi. "POPULAR CULTURE OF MAIN CHARACTER IN CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC MOVIE DIRECTED BY P. J. HOGAN." INOVISH JOURNAL 6, no. 2 (2021): 156. http://dx.doi.org/10.35314/inovish.v6i2.2215.

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The objective of this paper is to know about popular culture especially type of popular culture which occurred in today society and the moral value. This analysis is done based on the source of movie is Confessions of a Shopaholic which focuses on main character only. The writer uses descriptive qualitative method for this analysis which focused on Brummet’s theory of popular culture as the main subject. The result indicates that there are two types of popular culture based on Brummet’s category, there are top down and bottom up. First is top down, which consist of eight points: branded-product, fancy store, shopaholic, credit card, look, property, taxi, and gadget. Second is bottom up, which consists of two points, there are: boot and coat. The writer considered that the most dominant type from those two types and ten points is top down. While for the moral values from the movie, the writes takes six points there are: confront the expenditure, do not let things define you, cost and worth are very different things, credit cards are not magic wands, lying is not a good idea, and everything happens for a reason. Keyword: Main Character, Movie, Popular Culture.

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Petcu, Ioana, and Teodora Medeleanu. "Contemporary Topics In The Suppliant Women, by Aeschylus. The Multiplication of Sin and Redemptive Differentiation." Theatrical Colloquia 10, no. 1 (2020): 176–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/tco-2020-0013.

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AbstractOne looks, on the one hand with a slight amazement, and on the other hand with the confidence of a temporary master of the European cultural thesaurus, at how tragic poem, more than two thousand years old, vibrates under the directorial wands in the present times. One analyses the Ancient verse, the plots of the founding mythologies or the figures that seem turned into stone by the passing of time and witnesses, through the scenic hypostasis of today, that the voices of the past, singular or united in a Chorus, reach them, generating, in a single spectator or in an entire wave of interception, the feeling of nexus. But also the inquisitiveness of encountering the peculiar. Due to the fact that cultural identity, and also the conducting threads of the universalis arise like a fascinating, rich, high terrain, and one cannot see them from afar, in this century. If, thematically speaking, The Suppliants, by Aeschylus resonated with directors such as Olivier Py, Silviu Purcărete, Ramin Gray or Jean-Luc Bansard, one can notice how cultural identity is reflected in the Ancient writings, which are also multiplied on the stages of the World in minimalist of theatrical (re)interpretations. The performance of one that becomes multiple and, eventually, restrains itself, closely looked at, becomes fascinating.

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Gallotti Rodrigues, Paulo, Alberto Barbosa Raposo, and Luciano Pereira Soares. "A Virtual Touch Interaction Device for Immersive Applications." International Journal of Virtual Reality 10, no. 4 (2011): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.20870/ijvr.2011.10.4.2824.

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Traditional interaction devices such as computer mice and keyboards do not adapt very well to immersive envi-ronments, since they were not necessarily designed for users who may be standing or in movement. Moreover, in the current inte-raction model for immersive environments, based on wands and 3D mice, a change of context is necessary in order to execute non-immersive tasks. These constant context changes from im-mersive to 2D desktops introduce a rupture in user interaction with the application. The objective of this work is to study how to adapt interaction techniques from touch surface based systems to 3D virtual environments to reduce this physical rupture from the fully immersive mode to the desktop paradigm. In order to do this, a wireless glove (v-Glove) that maps to a touch interface in a vir-tual reality immersive environment was developed, enabling it to interact in 3D applications. The glove has two main functionalities: tracking the position of the user's index finger and vibrating the fingertip when it reaches an area mapped in the interaction space to simulate a touch feeling. Quantitative and qualitative analysis were performed with users to evaluate the v-Glove, comparing it with a gyroscopic 3D mouse.

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Cornett, Natalie. ""Amongst Affectionate Female Friends"." Aspasia 13, no. 1 (2019): 135–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/asp.2019.130109.

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Translation of a letter from Narcyza Żmichowska to Wanda Grabowska, 26 January 1864. Published in Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, ed., Narcyssa i Wanda: Listy Narcyzy Żmichowskiej do Wandy Grabowskiej (Żeleńskiej) (Narcyssa and Wanda: Letters from Narcyza Żmichowska to Wanda Grabowska [Żeleńska]) (Warsaw: Dom Książki Polskiej Spółka Akcyjna, 1930), pp. 32–34.

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Williams, Galen W., Robert Gondek, Alan A. Allen, and Jacqueline Michel. "Use of in Situ Burning at a Diesel Spill in Wetlands and Salt Flats, Northern Utah, U.S.A: Remediation Operations and 1.5 Years of Post-Burn Monitoring." International Oil Spill Conference Proceedings 2003, no. 1 (2003): 109–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.7901/2169-3358-2003-1-109.

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ABSTRACT On 21 January 2000, a release of an estimated 100 barrels of diesel was reported from a product transportation pipeline north of Great Salt Lake in Utah. During the next few days, due to weather related conditions (freeze/thaw periods and wind), the product spread over 38 acres of salt flat and wetlands. Initial oil containment efforts were successful in reducing the risk of oil impacts to natural resources in a nearby national migratory bird refuge, but the risk remained to migratory waterfowl that were expected to arrive at the impacted wetland within approximately 6 weeks. As a result, in situ burning was proposed to remove the free-phase diesel and destroy the hydrocarbon-impacted vegetation. Upon approval of a Site Remediation Plan and Fire Management Plan, a Heli-Torch was used on 10 March, 2000 to burn the most-highly impacted 12.8 acres. The following month (late-April), 3.2 acres of remaining lightly oiled vegetation were burned using drip torches and propane wands. It was estimated that 75–80% of the spilled diesel was burned in these operations. Because burning of the free-phase hydrocarbons and impacted vegetation would not remove product that had penetrated into the soils, bioremediation techniques were subsequently implemented, in order to further reduce hydrocarbon levels in the soil and attain the regulatory cleanup level of 20 mg/kg total polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.

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