Severe Diabetic Gastroparesis: Diagnosis by Ruling out of Constitutional Syndrome in an Older Adult: a Case Report by Vianey Guadalupe Téllez Bolaños, Louis Fernando Robles Fernandes

“…Findings of the diagnostic approach implemented in the case are described and a literature review is performed. The presentation of this case is important because it is extremely important to describe the diagnostic tools to be implemented to make a timely confirmatory diagnosis of this condition.…”
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Treatment adherence of diabetes mellitus patients: Is it affected by demographic and patient-related factors? A literature review by Paraskevi Theofilou

“…Adherence of patients with diabetes mellitus to treatment is an extremely important issue for them since the lack of it negatively affects not only the health of patients but also their quality of life.…”
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Overlapping of DRESS and Stevens-Johnson syndrome due to first-line antituberculosis drugs: a case report by Cristian Morán-Mariños, Felix Llanos-Tejada, Rebeca Huamani-Llantoy, Capriny Bernal-Turpo, Kimberly López-Pilco, Alex Ventura-Leon, Renato Casanova-Mendoza

“…This report describes the case of a patient who developed the DRESS/SJS overlap 35 days after starting antituberculosis treatment. …”
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Deficit fear as a modulator of disbelief in the framework of self-perception among students at the stage of self-isolation by M. M. Basimov

“…In addition, three graphs of the dependencies of the indicator of the actual self–perception “Unbeliever – believer” on three indicators of fear (constructive, deficit and destructive) are clearly analyzed, when all the connections within the correlation analysis are extremely weak, but with a nonlinear approach, one of the three dependencies is strong as the simplest nonlinear.…”
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Posterior Uterine Rupture Causing Fetal Expulsion into the Abdominal Cavity: A Rare Case of Neonatal Survival by K. Navaratnam, P. Ulaganathan, M. A. Akhtar, S. D. Sharma, M. G. Davies

“…Introduction. Uterine rupture is a potentially catastrophic complication of vaginal birth after caesarean section. …”
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Maxillonasal dysplasia (Binder's syndrome) and its treatment with costal cartilage graft: A follow-up study by Yogesh C. Bhatt, Kinnari A. Vyas, Mangesh S. Tandale, Nikhil S. Panse, Harpreet S. Bakshi, Rajat K. Srivastava

“…Maxillonasal dysplasia or Binder's syndrome is an uncommon congenital condition characterized by a retruded mid-face with an extremely flat nose. …”
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Syringomyelia with Chiari I Malformation Presenting as Hip Charcot Arthropathy: A Case Report and Literature Review by Roya Memarpour, Basheer Tashtoush, Lydia Issac, Fernando Gonzalez-Ibarra

“…On physical examination, pain and thermal sensory deficits were noted in the upper torso with a cape-like distribution, as well as signs of an upper motor neuron lesion in the left upper and lower extremities. …”
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Prediction model, risk factor score and ventilator-associated pneumonia: A two-stage case-control study by Hua Meng, Yuxin Shi, Kaming Xue, Di Liu, Xiongjing Cao, Yanyan Wu, Yunzhou Fan, Fang Gao, Ming Zhu, Lijuan Xiong

“…We constructed a prediction model by least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO), random forest (RF), and extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) models in 363 patients and 363 controls, and weighted RFS was calculated based on significant predictors. …”
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A Majority Theorem for the Uncapacitated <i>p</i> = 2 Median Problem and Local Spatial Autocorrelation by Daniel A. Griffith, Yongwan Chun, Hyun Kim

“…In addition, this paper presents the foundation for a novel extremely efficient <i>p</i> = 2 algorithm whose formulation demonstratively exploits spatial autocorrelation.…”
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Surgical Treatment of an Infected Nonunion of the Middle Third of the Femur Associated with Femoral Shortening in a Hemophilia Patient by Ahmet Salduz, Özcan Kaya, Halil İbrahim Balci, Turgut Akgul, Fatih Dikici, Bülent Zülfikar, Mehmet Kocaoğlu

“…The management of nonunion and limb length discrepancy has remained a constant challenge in hemophilic patients. In this study, we aimed to present the treatment of femur infected nonunion and limb length discrepancy in a twenty-seven-year-old patient with hemophilia type A. …”
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Stability Analysis and Instability Time Prediction of Tunnel Roofs in a Karst Region Based on Catastrophe Theory by Yang Zou, Qianlong Tang, Limin Peng

“…The study analyzed the impact of relevant factors on the safety thickness of the roof. Furthermore, a new method for predicting the instability of the tunnel roof arch was proposed, and it was validated through engineering examples. …”
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Splenectomy for Solitary Splenic Metastasis in Recurrent Papillary Thyroid Cancer. A Case Report and Literature Review by Antonio Maffuz-Aziz, Gabriel Garnica, Silvia López-Hernández, Janet Pineda-Diaz, Javier Baquera-Heredia, Patricia López-Jiménez

“…This case highlights that splenic metastasis, although rare, may occur even in a patient with a locoregional and systemic controlled thyroid cancer and that it can be treated safely with surgical resection.…”
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Primary Esophageal Lymphoma: A Histopathological Experience from Two Tertiary Hospitals, Western Saudi Arabia by Jaudah Al-Maghrabi, Sahar Al-Maghrabi

“…Primary esophageal lymphoma (PEL) is a rare disorder. The objective of this study was to document the clinicopathological features of PEL at two tertiary hospitals in the western region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. …”
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Assessment of the Sphericity of Submicrometer Particles Using a Single-particle Polar Nephelometer at an Urban Site in Japan by Maho Nakagawa, Tomoki Nakayama, Hiroshi Sasago, Yuki Kuruma, Hikari Yai, Shuhei Ogawa, Yange Deng, Michihiro Mochida, Yutaka Matsumi

“…Thus, to examine this property and its controlling factors, this study measured the scattering angular distributions of both thermodenuded and non-thermodenuded individual particles with a diameter of 500 nm in real time using a home-made polar nephelometer in Nagoya, Japan. …”
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A Review of Hybrid Process Development Based on Electrochemical and Advanced Oxidation Processes for the Treatment of Industrial Wastewater by Perumal Asaithambi, Mamuye Busier Yesuf, Rajendran Govindarajan, N.M. Hariharan, Perarasu Thangavelu, Esayas Alemayehu

“…Previously, electrochemical and hybrid advanced oxidation processes (AOP) were considered a viable and promising alternative for achieving an adequate effluent treatment strategy in such instances. …”
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Marfan Syndrome and Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease: A Case of Rare Co-occurrence or Coincidence? by Arjun Sekar

“…This, along with the patient’s tall, lean stature and long extremities raised the concern for MFS. A detailed physical examination and workup by other specialists confirmed a clinical diagnosis of MFS. …”
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A Novel Framework for Automation Technology Based on Machine Vision and Robotics in Electrical Power Inspection Processing by Heng Zhao, Shengnan Hu, Qingmiao Chen, Jiagui Tao, Jianzhuo Dai

“…As a well-known support, computer vision is a powerful factor to improve the application and development of the electronic system. …”
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Effect of Physically Realistic Potential Energy Form on Spatial Pattern Complexity in a Collective Motion Model by Austin M. Marcus, Hiroki Sayama

“…The potential energy function was derived by generalizing the Lennard–Jones potential to reduce to gravity-like and billiard-ball-like potentials at the extremes of its parameter range. The particle model was simulated under a number of parameterizations of this generalized potential, and the average complexity of the spatial pattern produced by each was computed. …”
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Development and User Evaluation of a Food-recognition app (FoodRec): Experimental Data and Qualitative Analysis by Sebastiano Battiato, Pasquale Caponnetto, Roberto Leotta, Giovanni Marotta, Alessandro Midolo, Alessandro Ortis, Riccardo Polosa

“… # Results the App was perceived as extremely user-friendly and lightweight. It also turned out to be useful in the perception of users' dietary habits and helpful in relieving the stress of a food intake reduction process…”
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Acute Bilateral Posterior Meniscal Root Tears in the Setting of a Noncontact Anterior Cruciate Ligament Rupture by Adam V. Daniel, Shayne R. Kelly, Patrick A. Smith

“…Combined medial and lateral posterior meniscal root tears in the setting of an acute anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture are extremely rare. The following case report demonstrates a high school football player who sustained a noncontact knee injury while performing a spin move at practice. …”
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