A temperature insensitive vector curvature sensor of photonic crystal fiber (PCF) is presented based on core-offset Anti-Vibration Mount splicing and waist-enlarged fiber taper.Obvious red and blue shifts in transmission spectrum appear at two symmetrical bending directions with sensor length of 10, 13, 16, and 19 mm and vector curvature of 0.12-1.
BackgroundThis study is aimed at evaluating the diagnostic efficacy and unnecessary fine-needle aspiration (FNA) rate of ultrasound-based risk stratification for thyroid nodules in the American College of Radiology (ACR) Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System (TI-RADS) and the American Thyroid Association (ATA) risk stratification systems.Method
Gender differences exist in the prevalence of glomerular diseases.Data based on histological diagnosis underestimate the prevalence of preeclampsia, which is almost certainly the commonest glomerular disease in the world, and uniquely gender-specific.Glomerular disease affects fertility via disease activity, the therapeutic use of cyclophosphamide,
We present a case report of a 63-year-old female health care worker who is 15 years status post double lung PROMASIL COOKIES transplant and six years status post living related donor kidney transplant who is healthy on a chronic immunosuppression regimen including prednisone, mycophenolate, and tacrolimus who received the SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine (c