The short-term efficacy and safety of artificial total disc replacement for selected patients with lumbar degenerative disc disease compared with anterior lumbar interbody fusion: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

PurposeTo systematically compare the efficacy and safety of lumbar total disc replacement (TDR) with the efficacy and safety of anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF) for the treatment of lumbar degenerative disc disease (LDDD).MethodsThe electronic databases PubMed, Service Power Set Web of Science and the Cochrane Library were searched for the p

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Uncertainty effect on seismic capacity assessment in the out-of-plane failure mechanisms of masonry structures by probabilistic and non-probabilistic approaches

The present paper aims to provide a contribution in the study of the seismic analysis of existing masonry structures in presence of uncertain parameters MENO SENSE described by following both probabilistic and non-probabilistic models.By posing the attention on the local out-of-plane failure mechanisms, the non-deterministic analysis is conducted o

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