Is Lung Disease a Risk Factor for Sudden Cardiac Death? A Comparative Case–Control Histopathological Study by Ioana Radu, Anca Otilia Farcas, Septimiu Voidazan, Carmen Corina Radu, Klara Brinzaniuc

“…Numerous studies have established an interrelation and a strong association between SCD and pulmonary diseases, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). …”
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A Multi‐Center Prospective Study on the Healing of Neuro‐Ischemic Ulcers in Singapore: A Prospective Cohort Study by Lingyan Meng, Priya Bishnoi, Zhiwen Joseph Lo, Enming Yong, Tze Tec Chong, David Carmody, Rajesh Babu Dharmaraj, Yi Zhen Ng, Keith Harding, Pei Ho

“…ABSTRACT Background and Aims Neuro‐ischemic ulcers (NIU) present a substantial clinical and economic burden on the healthcare systems. …”
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The Bifixation Field as a Function of Viewing Distance by Philip M. Grove, Alistair P. Mapp, Hiroshi Ono

“…Hering reported that the area over which he could bifixate a target was smaller at near convergence distances than far convergence distances and predicted that in extreme horizontal gaze positions, the temporally directed eye lags behind the nasally directed eye. …”
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Clay Shoveler's Fracture: A Pain in the Neck by Marc Boutros, Maria R. Karam, Maria El Asmar, Emmanuelle Wakim, Labib Chebli, Pierre Maurice Doumit Bader Tarabay, Sami Roukoz

“…This fracture may occur as a consequence of a direct blow/trauma, a contraction of the shoulder muscles, and sudden extreme movements of the neck influenced by additional factors presented throughout the article. …”
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Does a Feedforward Orientation Provide Competitive Advantages Under Disruptive Conditions? A Review of Control Literature with an Illustrative Case by Rajaram Veliyath

“…This paper identifies the salient features of feedforward control and the advantages that it provides vis-à-vis feedback control. These advantages are especially salient in strategic control situations and also during periods of environmental turbulence and extreme strategic discontinuity. …”
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Characteristic Poses in Ballet in the Case of a Retired Classical Ballerina after Bilateral THA: A Case Report and Review of Literature by Futoshi Morio, Shigeo Fukunishi, Tomokazu Fukui, Makoto Kanto, Kenta Amai, Shinichi Yoshiya, Toshiya Tachibana

“…Case Presentation. A 69-year-old female classical ballet dance instructor presented bilateral hip pain. …”
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Future Changes in Surface Runoff over Korea Projected by a Regional Climate Model under A1B Scenario by Ji-Woo Lee, Suryun Ham, Song-You Hong, Kei Yoshimura, Minsu Joh

“…This study assesses future change of surface runoff due to climate change over Korea using a regional climate model (RCM), namely, the Global/Regional Integrated Model System (GRIMs), Regional Model Program (RMP). …”
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A novel framework for uncertainty quantification of rainfall–runoff models based on a Bayesian approach focused on transboundary river basins by Thi-Duyen Nguyen, Duc Hai Nguyen, Hyun-Han Kwon, Deg-Hyo Bae

“…The proposed methodology was applied to the transboundary Imjin River basin using the Sejong University rainfall–runoff (SURR) model, a case study that involves a database of five-year extreme flood events. …”
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Identification of Potential Type II Diabetes in a Large-Scale Chinese Population Using a Systematic Machine Learning Framework by Mingyue Xue, Yinxia Su, Chen Li, Shuxia Wang, Hua Yao

“…The risk factors for type II diabetes mellitus (T2DM) were identified by p values and odds ratio, using logistic regression (LR) based on variables of physical measurement and a questionnaire. Combined with the risk factors selected by LR, we used a decision tree, a random forest, AdaBoost with a decision tree (AdaBoost), and an extreme gradient boosting decision tree (XGBoost) to identify individuals with T2DM, compared the performance of the four machine learning classifiers, and used the best-performing classifier to output the degree of variables’ importance scores of T2DM. …”
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Displacement Prediction of a Complex Landslide in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area (China) Using a Hybrid Computational Intelligence Approach by Junwei Ma, Xiaoxu Niu, Huiming Tang, Yankun Wang, Tao Wen, Junrong Zhang

“…A density prediction, offering a full estimation of the probability density for future outputs, is promising for quantification of the uncertainty of landslide displacement. …”
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Determining the Viability of an Unbounded Polyhedron for a Switched System by Jianfeng Lv, Na Zhao

“…First, we investigate the viability condition on a cone. Then, a sufficient viability criterion for a polyhedron, which is expressed by a convex hull of finite number of extreme points and a nonnegative linear combination of finite extreme directions, is presented by using nonsmooth analysis. …”
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An Analysis of a Heuristic Procedure to Evaluate Tail (in)dependence by Marta Ferreira, Sérgio Silva

“…Measuring tail dependence is an important issue in many applied sciences in order to quantify the risk of simultaneous extreme events. A usual measure is given by the tail dependence coefficient. …”
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Limb Pain as Unusual Presentation of a Parietal Intraparenchymal Bleeding Associated with Crack Cocaine Use: A Case Report by Alan Lucerna, James Espinosa, Taimur Zaman, Risha Hertz, Douglas Stranges

“…Limb pain as a presenting feature of an ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke is extremely rare. …”
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An Elusive Bullet in the Gastrointestinal Tract: A Rare Case of Bullet Embolism in the Gastrointestinal Tract and a Review of Relevant Literature by Saptarshi Biswas, Catherine Price, Sunil Abrol

“…Bullets retained in the abdominal cavity should not be dismissed as fixed and should be carefully monitored to ensure that they do not embolize within the bowel and cause occult lesions during their migration. We present a unique case wherein a bullet caused a minute perforation in the small bowel, before migrating to the distal colon, which resulted in late presentation of sepsis secondary to peritonitis.…”
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Biclonal IgD and IgM Plasma Cell Myeloma: A Report of Two Cases and a Literature Review by Zhongchuan W. Chen, Ioanna Kotsikogianni, Jay S. Raval, Christine G. Roth, Marian A. Rollins-Raval

“…Biclonal plasma cell myelomas producing two different isotypes of immunoglobulins are extremely rare entities; to date, the combination of IgD and IgM secretion by a biclonal plasma cell myeloma has not been reported. …”
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Prospects for Open Heavy Flavor Measurements in Heavy Ion and p+A Collisions in a Fixed-Target Experiment at the LHC by Daniel Kikoła

“…High luminosity data in a fixed-target experiment allow studying interactions of heavy quarks with nuclear matter in the intermediate energy range with extremely high precision. …”
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A review of the intertidal Medon Stephens (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Paederinae) with description of a new species on the East Asian coasts by Kee-Jeong Ahn, Gae-Nam Jeon

“…A taxonomic review of the seashore-inhabiting Medon Stephens along the East Asian coasts is presented based on morphological and molecular characters (COI). …”
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Combination chemotherapy with sintilimab for treatment of a male patient with primary pulmonary choriocarcinoma: a case report and literature review by Xiaojing Liang, Guoqing Xu, Jisong Zhang, Li Xu, Liangliang Dong, Xiaoyue Wang, Weidong Han, Enguo Chen

“…Herein, we report a 67-year-old man with a cough, expectoration, and blood in the sputum, presenting with a mass in the lower lobe of the right lung. …”
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Clinicopathologic profile of intra-abdominal follicular dendritic cell sarcoma: A study of three cases with a literature review by Jianhong Yan, Qi Wu, Yuchang Hu, Ting Nai

“…Follicular dendritic cell sarcoma (FDCS) is a rare tumor, which mainly originates from follicular dendritic cells (FDCs) in the lymph nodes. …”
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Finite Element Method Using a Characteristic-Based Split for Numerical Simulation of a Carbonate Fracture-Cave Reservoir by Liehui Zhang, Yuhui Zhou, Lei Zhao, Deliang Zhang

“…However, the presence of massive caves and multiscale fracture systems results in extremely complex fluid flow patterns. Therefore, in this paper, a discrete network model for fracture-cave reservoirs was established to study fluid flow characteristics and pressure distributions in complex flow regimes. …”
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