Protein C deficiency with recurrent systemic thrombosis associated with compound heterozygous PROC missense variants by Mikio Shiba, Shuichiro Higo, Yu Morishita, Yasuhiro Ichibori, Yoshihiro Kin, Yasushi Sakata, Yoshiharu Higuchi

“…The patient's protein C activity and antigen levels were extremely low (<10 % and 5 %, respectively). Exome sequencing analysis revealed two rare missense variants (c.76G>A:p.Val26Met in exon 3 and c.1000G>A:p.Gly334Ser in exon 9), both confirmed to be associated with protein C deficiency and one synonymous variant (c.423G>T:p.Ser141Ser in exon 6) in PROC. …”
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KIT D816V Positive Acute Mast Cell Leukemia Associated with Normal Karyotype Acute Myeloid Leukemia by Marta Lopes, Maria dos Anjos Teixeira, Cláudia Casais, Vanessa Mesquita, Patrícia Seabra, Renata Cabral, José Palla-García, Catarina Lau, João Rodrigues, Maria Jara-Acevedo, Inês Freitas, Jose Ramón Vizcaíno, Jorge Coutinho, Luis Escribano, Alberto Orfao, Margarida Lima

“…Mast cell (MC) leukemia (MCL) is extremely rare. We present a case of MCL diagnosed concomitantly with acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML). …”
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Accelerated pseudo-transient method for elastic, viscoelastic, and coupled hydromechanical problems with applications by Y. Alkhimenkov, Y. Y. Podladchikov

“…To demonstrate the flexibility of the APT method, we apply it to the nonlinear mechanical problem of strain localization using a poro-elasto-viscoplastic rheological model, achieving extremely high resolutions – <span class="inline-formula">10 000²</span> in 2D and <span class="inline-formula">512³</span> in 3D – that, to our knowledge, have not been previously explored for such models. …”
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Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer: structural properties of negative relationships on Twitter by Jack Tacchi, Chiara Boldrini, Andrea Passarella, Marco Conti

“…Traditionally, the interaction frequency has been used as a proxy but this misses the qualitative aspects of connections, such as signs (i.e. polarity), which have been shown to provide extremely useful information. …”
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The concept and structural elements of the system of personal empowerment rights of employees by I. M. Kravchenko

“…When studying the current issues of employees’ personal rights, it is extremely important to determine their structure as a certain systemic formation and a separate group in the general system of labour rights which would reflect and ensure their internal differentiation and external unity. …”
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Performance Comparison of Different Neuroimaging Methods for Predicting Upper Limb Motor Outcomes in Patients after Stroke by Jingyan Tao, Zhaoqing Li, Yang Liu, Jianhua Li, Ruiliang Bai

“…CST‐wLL≥2.068 cc indicated serious CST damage and a poor outcome (100%). CST‐wLL<1.799 cc was correlated with a considerable rate (>70%) of upper limb motor function recovery. …”
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Modeling Tick Populations: An Ecological Test Case for Gradient Boosted Trees by Manley, William, Tran, Tam, Prusinski, Melissa, Brisson, Dustin

“…Here we compare the abilities of gradient boosted and linear models to identify environmental features that explain observed variations in the distribution and abundance of blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis) populations in a data set collected across New York State over a ten-year period. …”
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Suprainguinal fascia iliaca compartment block in pediatric-aged patients: An educational focused review by Anuranjan Ghimire, Sidhant Kalsotra, Joseph D. Tobias, Giorgio Veneziano

“…Although the FN and LFCN are reported to be consistently blocked by the suprainguinal approach, blockade of the ON may be less reliable and requires a higher volume of the local anesthetic agent, proving this technique to be a volume-dependent block. …”
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The Prognostic Model Established by the Differential Expression Genes Based on CD8+ T Cells to Evaluate the Prognosis and the Response to Immunotherapy in Osteosarcoma by Yu Chen, Wei Yan, Hongqing Wang, Zhiliang Ou, Huihong Chen, Zhenhua Huang, Jinlian Yang, Biqiong Liu, Fanjie Ou, Huang Zhang

“…Osteosarcoma (OS) is a malignant tumor with an extremely poor prognosis, especially in progressive patients. …”
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Hypothyroidism Due to Thyroid Amyloidosis Simultaneously With AL Renal Amyloidosis to Give Better Idea of Association of the Two Conditions by Guan C, Liu Y, Chen R, Zhu Y

“…In this case, we describe a 66-year-old female patient who visited the nephrology department due to lower limb edema for 2 months and numbness of the extremities for more than 2 years. …”
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Study of Di-Muon Production Process in pp Collision in CMS Data from Symmetry Scaling Perspective by Susmita Bhaduri, Anirban Bhaduri, Dipak Ghosh

“…Recent availability of di-muon data has triggered a spate of interests in revisiting strong interaction process, the study of which in detail is extremely important for enhancement of our understanding of not only the theory of strong interaction but also possible physics scenarios beyond the standard model. …”
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Long-duration energy storage in transmission-constrained variable renewable energy systems by Andrew K. Chu, Ejeong Baik, Sally M. Benson

“…In this system, unless LDES is extremely inexpensive, short-duration energy storage (SDES) delivers 6–10× more electricity and has a consistently lower levelized cost. …”
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Anxious and Nonanxious Mice Show Similar Hippocampal Sensory Evoked Oscillations under Urethane Anesthesia: Difference in the Effect of Buspirone by János Horváth, Balázs Barkóczi, Géza Müller, Viktor Szegedi

“…Collectively, these results do not support the hypothesis that hippocampal activity under urethane may serve as a marker for potential anxiolytic drugs. Moreover, we could not confirm the decrease of frequency after anxiolytic treatment.…”
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Water Absorption Behavior of Teff (Eragrostis tef) Straw Fiber-Reinforced Epoxy Composite: RSM-Based Statistical Modeling and Kinetic Analysis by S. Venkatesa Prabhu, Vincent Herald Wilson, K. T. Anand, S. Jose, S. Sivamani, Chinnasamy Gomadurai, Melkamu Kifetew

“…Recently, reinforced polymeric composites prepared from natural fibers have received a significant interest among the researchers because of its appreciable sustainability, environmentally friendly, and low cost. …”
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Improving students' martial arts skills and fitness through an innovative e-module by Nova Risma, Syahrial Bakhtiar, Umar, Fiky Zarya

“…Professionals in the martial arts used a grid to evaluate students' skills. In the meanwhile, to evaluate students' physical fitness, the Harvard Step Up Test was used. …”
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Spatio-Temporal Rainfall Variability and Concentration over Sri Lanka by Uttam Pawar, Pasindu Karunathilaka, Upaka Rathnayake

“…The MK test, SS-test, and percent change analyses reveal that rainfall distribution and concentration change do not show a significant positive or negative change in rainfall pattern in Sri Lanka, despite a few areas which experienced significant positive changes. …”
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LANGUAGE STYLE OF HUMOR ON STAND-UP COMEDY VIDEO by Merry Rullyanti, Nurdianto Nurdianto

“…Openness and honesty witch extremely bold that what makes Chris Rock as one of the most successful and a famous comic in modern comedy. …”
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Left-Right Brain-Wide Asymmetry of Neuroanatomy in the Mouse Brain by Andrew Silberfeld, James M. Roe, Jacob Ellegood, Jason P. Lerch, Lily Qiu, Yongsoo Kim, Jong Gwan Lee, William D. Hopkins, Joanes Grandjean, Yangming Ou, Olivier Pourquié

“…Our results recapitulate and extend previous patterns of asymmetry from two published studies as well as capture well-established, bilateral male-female differences in the mouse brain as a positive control. By establishing a signature of anatomical brain asymmetry in mice, we aim to provide a foundation for future studies to probe the mechanistic underpinnings of brain asymmetry seen in humans – a feature of the brain with extremely limited understanding.…”
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Systemic and Nonrenal Adverse Effects Occurring in Renal Transplant Patients Treated with mTOR Inhibitors by Gianluigi Zaza, Paola Tomei, Paolo Ria, Simona Granata, Luigino Boschiero, Antonio Lupo

“…The main mechanism of action of these drugs is the inhibition of the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), a regulatory protein kinase involved in lymphocyte proliferation. …”
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An efficient and resilience linear prefix approach for mining maximal frequent itemset using clustering by M. Sinthuja, S. Pravinthraja, B K Dhanalakshmi, H L Gururaj, Vinayakumar Ravi, G Jyothish Lal

“…This is the case with Association Rules, a tool for unsupervised data mining that extracts information in the form of IF-THEN patterns. …”
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