This illustration demonstrates how to sew standard sutures for aortic valve replacement. Created for the "Manual of Cardiac Surgery" by Dr. Brad Harlan, Dr. Albert Starr [...]

Pediatric spina bifida patients typically experience neurogenic bowel dysfunction, decreasing bowel continence. Surgical interventions, including cecostomy tubes, are tho [...]

This thesis work focuses on technical developments in the field of plasmonic nanomaterials and its related areas of synthesis and optical characterization. Metal nanopart [...]

Students often begin a term with no opportunity to orient themselves to a course in a meaningful way. Each week in the quarter system accounts for approximately 10% of th [...]

Challenge: Engaging learners in an online environment where 80% is asynchronous and 20% are synchronous, virtual meetings. Summary: Applying a framework like SDT can help [...]

Applied deep learning is an area that has been evolving rapidly in recent years and is now ubiquitous within the machine learning and artificial intelligence communities. [...]

The purpose of this study was to quantify the incidence of disparities and adverse psychosocial impacts, as reported by the patient, in accessing orthodontic treatment.

The extracellular matrix (ECM) plays a governing role in regulating functional cell and tissue behavior through biochemical and biophysical signaling. Ongoing tissue engi [...]

Optical coherence tomographic angiography (OCTA) has been successfully used in ophthalmol-ogy, providing noninvasive, non-dye-based, high-speed, and depth-resolved imagin [...]

The objective of this study is to measure and compare initial, post-staining, and post-cleaning color, gloss and surface roughness of five different orthodontic thermopla [...]