Inflammatory Myoglandular Polyps: A Case Series of Four Patients and Review of the Literature by Shoji Hirasaki, Hiromitsu Kanzaki, Minoru Matsubara, Seiyuu Suzuki

“…Three cases were located in the sigmoid colon or descending colon. All 4 polyps were identified as red, pedunculated lesions. …”
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Metaplastic Carcinoma Breast in Polycythemic Octogenarian – Lessons Learnt: Case Report by Swarup Prabhu, Munish Malhotra, Naresh Saidha, Ritu Mehta, Surjeet Dwivedi, Tarun Mohan Gupta

“…Post operative patient showed good clinical recovery and was recurrence free at 6 months follow up although patient had all the poor prognostic factors with large size, LN involvement and high Ki 67. …”
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Waterlettuce Weevil Neohydronomus affinis Hustache, 1926 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae) by Telmah Telmadarrehei, Carey R. Minteer

“…There are three species in the genus Neohydronmus, all of which originate from South and Central America. …”
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Enhancing credit risk assessments of SMEs with non-financial information by Ranik Raaen Wahlstrøm, Linn-Kristin Becker, Trude Nonstad Fornes

“…The variables encompass management, board and ownership structures and are sourced from universally accessible information, rendering them available to all stakeholders and allowing for the analysis of all SMEs within a market. …”
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First aid guidelines for Burns: Educational approach & Adaptation

“…Burn injuries are among the most debilitating of all injuries, and even today are a burning public health concern across the world. …”
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Corrosion Performance of Cu-Based Coins in Artificial Sweat by J. Porcayo-Calderon, R. A. Rodríguez-Díaz, E. Porcayo-Palafox, L. Martinez-Gomez

“…Regardless of the chemical composition of the Cu-based coins, they showed similar polarization curves; particularly, the observed similarity in the anodic zone suggests that the corrosion mechanism is the same in all cases. The presence of Ni and Zn does not appreciably affect the corrosion resistance of Cu. …”
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Assessment of Non-destructive Methods for Evaluating the Performance of Surface Treatments on Concrete by Sunday O. Nwaubani, Victor S. Gilayeneh

“…The results show that the employed methods were all able to distinguish between treated and untreated surfaces. …”
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Mucosal lesions associated with the use of dental prostheses in elderly patients by Yoel González Beriau, Libet Marrero Santana

“…Subprosthesis stomatitis represented 90.2% of all lesions, followed by fissured epulis (7.8%). …”
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A Comprehensive Compensation Method for High-speed Gear Pumps Without the Cavitation Phenomenon by Li Yulong, Hou Xinyu, Zhang Lihua

“…All results show that the maximum trapped-oil expansion rate and the expansion interval under the large backlash are only 18.3% of those of the small backlash; the maximum relief-area of the trapped-oil in the large backlash is only 7.9% of that in the small backlash due to different relief-groove space; the cavitation phenomenon is more serious; the ripple range of the trapped-oil pressure in the large backlash is 1.93 times than that in the small backlash, etc. …”
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A Multiyear Record of Rainfall and Ionic Composition along an Elevation Gradient in Northeastern Puerto Rico by Elvis Torres-Delgado, Grizelle González, Ernesto Medina, María M. Rivera

“…Finally, the annual loads (kg ha−1 y−1) first increased for all of the species, except PO43– and K+, from the lowland to the cloud formation levels (by 47–121%) and then decreased for all of them, except PO43– and NO3−, at the altitudes above.…”
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Module Anchored Network Inference: A Sequential Module-Based Approach to Novel Gene Network Construction from Genomic Expression Data on Human Disease Mechanism by Annamalai Muthiah, Susanna R. Keller, Jae K. Lee

“…Many of these approaches infer all possible relationships among all candidate genes, often resulting in extremely crowded candidate network relationships with many more False Positives than True Positives. …”
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EVALUTION OF MICROBIAL ACTIVITY IN ORGANIC SOLID FRACTION DURING COMPOSTING PROCESS TO BIOFERTILIZER USING COMPOSTING BIN METHODS by Aseel N. A., F. M. Hassan, N. H. Hyder

“…They increased at the cooling phase , for TSC proliferation occurred in alkaline pH during composting and reached 4.1  CFU/g at maturation in composting bin 7. In conclusion, all composting bins developed a thermophilic phase, all had narrow alkaline pH with  EC in some treatments less than 4mS.Cm-1, and C/N reached the desired ratio as stable compost,also microbiological parameters fluctuate with temperature. …”
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Moderate-to-vigorous physical activity does not improve mortality in type 2 diabetes patients with severe abdominal aortic calcification. by Chang Sheng, Yacheng Xiong, Pu Yang, Wei Wang

“…<h4>Background</h4>The impact of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) on all-cause mortality in type 2 diabetes (T2D) patients with severe abdominal aortic calcification (SAAC) remains unclear.…”
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Catalytic Transformation of Tall Oil into Biocomponent of Diesel Fuel by Jozef Mikulec, Andrea Kleinová, Ján Cvengroš, L'udmila Joríková, Marek Banič

“…High catalytic activity was achieved for all tested catalysts in temperature range 360–380°C, under 5.5 MPa hydrogen pressure and ratio H2/feedstock 500–1000 l/l. …”
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Predicting Shear Capacity of FRP-Reinforced Concrete Beams without Stirrups by Artificial Neural Networks, Gene Expression Programming, and Regression Analysis by Ghazi Bahroz Jumaa, Ali Ramadhan Yousif

“…Additionally, the parametric study indicated that the ANNs model defines accurately the interaction of all parameters on shear capacity prediction and have a great ability to predict the actual response of each parameter in spite of its complexity and fluctuation nature.…”
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Q-learning Based Meta-Heuristics for Scheduling Bi-Objective Surgery Problems with Setup Time by Ruixue Zhang, Hui Yu, Adam Slowik, Kaizhou Gao

“…First, a mathematical model is created to minimize the maximum completion time (makespan) of all surgeries and patient waiting time, simultaneously. …”
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Le projet de sol de la métropole montagne : Grenoble, de plaines en pentes by Charles Ambrosino, Jennifer Buyck

“…Such an absence calls the Grenoble metropolis project and its cultural basis into question – all the more so because the ambition “to assert its status as a mountain metropolis” and “to rethink its relationship with the mountains and their slopes in all its aspects and specificities” is an objective that is clearly stated in the planning documents. …”
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FARMER-HERDERS CONFLICTS IN NIGERIA: ITS CHALLENGES AND INTERVENTIONS by M.O. Mazeli, Binta Side

“…This chapter urges states to join the federal government at the center in encouraging all sides to these conflicts to make efforts towards finding a peaceful resolution. …”
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Performance Contract System and Decentralised Education Service delivery in Kayonza District of Rwanda. by Mugabo Seth, Asiimwe

“…It was against this that various recommendations prescribed such as increasing teachers’ awareness, supplying the required resources, encouraging involvement of employees in target/goal setting, setting clear and appropriate evaluation criteria, strengthening continuous monitoring of system and adopting an all-inclusive reinforcement criterion to enhance effective implementation of the system in education sector.…”
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Contribution of Non-Governmental Organizations on Poverty Reduction in Kabale District: A Case study of Buhara Sub-County. by Adebayo, Sanni T.

“…The sample population is both males and females of Buhara Sub-county in all the parishes. The researcher employed survey methods based on questionnaire method of data collection. …”
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