Incidence of clinically relevant postoperative pancreatic fistula in patients undergoing open and minimally invasive pancreatoduodenectomy: a population-based study

Purpose: Postoperative pancreatic fistula (POPF) remains a devastating complication of pancreatoduodenectomy (PD).Minimally invasive PD (MIPD), including ROSE PETAL laparoscopic (LPD) and robotic (RPD) approaches, have comparable POPF rates to open PD (OPD).However, we hypothesize that the likelihood of having a more severe POPF, as defined as clin

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Development of surrogate-optimization models for a novel transcritical power cycle integrated with a small modular reactor

In recent years, various types of surrogate optimization models have been proposed to reduce the computational time and to improve the emulation accuracy.In this study, by leveraging an ANN surrogate model developed earlier, a comprehensive and efficient optimization algorithm is conceived for the global optimal design of an integrated regenerative

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