Subdural empyema in patient with SARS-CoV-2 positivity: A rare case report of 3 patients by Hamidreza Aghadoost, MD, Ghazaleh Salehabadi, MD-MPH, Esmaeil Fakharian, MD

“…The third one is a 47-year-old gentleman with a known case of epilepsy, who presented with a 2-day history of headache and fever and an event of Generalized Tonic Colonic (GTC) seizure on the day of admission. …”
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Elevated mepolizumab levels in patients with severe asthma responsive to 1 year’s mepolizumab treatment by Takayasu Nishimaki, MD, Hitoshi Sasano, MD, PhD, Sonoko Harada, PhD, Tomohito Takeshige, MD, PhD, Yuuki Sandhu, MD, PhD, Yuki Tanabe, MD, Kei Matsuno, MD, PhD, Tetsutaro Nagaoka, MD, PhD, Jun Ito, MD, PhD, Ryo Atsuta, MD, PhD, Mayu Ohuchi, PhD, Shigehiro Yagishita, MD, PhD, Akinobu Hamada, PhD, Kazuhisa Takahashi, MD, PhD, Norihiro Harada, MD, PhD

“…Eosinophilic asthma, characterized by cytokine-mediated type 2 inflammation, is generally treated with inhaled corticosteroids. However, patients with severe asthma may require biologics, such as mepolizumab, which targets IL-5 and can manage uncontrolled eosinophilic asthma. …”
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Trimodal organ‑preserving treatment of muscle‑invasive bladder cancer by A. V. Troianov, I. O. Dementev, I. N. Zaborsky, V. S. Chaykov, O. B. Karyakin, Yu. V. Gumenetskaya

“…Purpose of the study. Generalization of the world experience of organ‑preserving treatment in muscle‑invasive bladder cancerMaterials and methods. …”
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Characterization of Complex Image Spatial Structures Based on Symmetrical Weibull Distribution Model for Texture Pattern Classification by Jinping Liu, Jiezhou He, Zhaohui Tang, Pengfei Xu, Wuxia Zhang, Weihua Gui

“…Visually, the visual appearance of the complex spatial structure (CSS) of texture pattern (TP) generally depends on the random organization (or layout) of local homogeneous fragments (LHFs) in the imaged surface. …”
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Can urban compactness improve ecosystem services: Evidence from Chinese urban agglomerations by Xuewei Zhang, Jiahui Wu, Jintao Yuan, Wanxu Chen

“…Our findings revealed that the urban compactness of UAs in China generally increased from 2010 to 2020, with the most significant increases observed in the Yangtze River Delta, Mid-Yangtze River, and Central Plains UAs. …”
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Smell-ML: A Machine Learning Framework for Detecting Rarely Studied Code Smells by Esraa Hamouda, Abeer El-Korany, Soha Makady

“…This paper proposes a novel approach, called Smell-ML, for detecting five rarely studied code smells: Middle Man (MM), Class Data Should Be Private (CDSBP), Inappropriate Intimacy (II), Refused Bequest (RB), and Speculative Generality (SG). The novelty of this approach stems from the improvement in both the data preparation and classification phases. …”
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Cold temperature-related attributable risk for emergency circulatory hospitalizations, length of stay, and healthcare costs in Hong Kong by Eliza Lai-Yi Wong, Hong Qiu

“…Methods: This ecologic time series analysis linked the daily circulatory EHA count and LOS from the Hong Kong Hospital Authority with the environmental exposures from the fixed monitoring stations from 2004 to 2019. The generalized linear quasi-Poisson model integrated with a distributed lag nonlinear model was applied to examine ambient temperatures' relative and attributable risks on EHA counts and LOS while adjusting the time-varying confounders. …”
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Tracking pygmy blue whale diving behaviour and validation of foraging areas defined from horizontal movement data by Michele Thums, Luciana C. Ferreira, Andrew Davenport, Micheline Jenner, Luciana Möller, Grace Russell, Robert D. McCauley, Curt Jenner

“…Despite a weak temporal relationship between putative (inferred from a movement model) and actual foraging, there was generally good spatial overlap detected, predominantly in high use areas, while more opportunistic foraging areas with lower use were less likely to be detected by the model. …”
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Chitosan based coating enriched with Spirulina platensis and moringa leaf extracts preserved the postharvest quality of Mexican Lime (Citrus aurantifolia) by Soheila Aghaei Dargiri, Somayeh Rastegar, Mahbobeh Mohammadi

“…Research limitations: There was no limitation. Originality/value: Generally, the utilization of chitosan edible coatings, specifically chitosan combined with spirulina algae, has shown promising results in preserving the quality and extending the shelf life of Mexican lime fruit stored at 20 ± 2 °C.…”
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LFN-YOLO: precision underwater small object detection via a lightweight reparameterized approach by Mingxin Liu, Mingxin Liu, Yujie Wu, Ruixin Li, Cong Lin, Cong Lin

“…Furthermore, We employed the Generalized Feature Pyramid Network (GFPN) for feature fusion in the network's neck, enhancing the network's adaptability to features of varying scales. …”
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Implication of tumor morphology and MRI characteristics on the accuracy of automated versus human segmentation of GBM areas by Valeria Cerina, Chiara Benedetta Rui, Andrea Di Cristofori, Davide Ferlito, Giorgio Carrabba, Carlo Giussani, Gianpaolo Basso, Elisabetta De Bernardi

“…Brats-Toolkit and DeepBraTumIA generally provide accurate segmentations, particularly for the most common round-shaped or well-demarked tumors, where: (1) gross tumor segmentation correctly includes necrosis and contrast enhanced tumor in 100% and 97.06% of cases (vs. 73.68% for manual segmentation) and wrongly includes healthy or non-tumor related tissues in 2.94% and 20.59% of cases (vs. 10.53% for manual segmentations); (2) T2-FLAIR hyper-intensity segmentations completely includes edema in 88.24% of cases for both software. …”
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Do land models miss key soil hydrological processes controlling soil moisture memory? by M. A. Farmani, A. Behrangi, A. Behrangi, A. Gupta, A. Tavakoly, A. Tavakoly, M. Geheran, G.-Y. Niu

“…We test the effects of these processes, which are generally missed by most LSMs in SMM. We compare SMMs computed from various Noah-MP configurations against that derived from the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) L3 soil moisture and in situ measurements from the International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN) from the years 2015 to 2019 over the contiguous United States (CONUS). …”
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Directions for the development of the criminal procedure science by S. O. Shatrava, О. V. Dzhafarova, D. Ye. Denyschuk, О. V. Pohorilets

“…In addition to playing the role of a moral and ethical component of public life, it acts as a lever in the international political arena, and also touches upon some matters of financial income and tax revenue. EU legislation generally regards pornography as a phenomenon that does not pose a social or moral and ethical danger. …”
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Improving drug repositioning with negative data labeling using large language models by Milan Picard, Mickael Leclercq, Antoine Bodein, Marie Pier Scott-Boyer, Olivier Perin, Arnaud Droit

“…Supervised machine learning is commonly used to score drug candidates but is hindered by the lack of reliable negative data—drugs that fail due to inefficacy or toxicity— which is difficult to access, lowering their prediction accuracy and generalization. Positive-Unlabeled (PU) learning has been used to overcome this issue by either randomly sampling unlabeled drugs or identifying probable negatives but still suffers from misclassification or oversimplified decision boundaries. …”
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Multiple Influences of Paleogeography, Sequence Stratigraphy, and Fold Structure on Coalbed Methane Accumulation in the Lopingian (Late Permian) of Junlian Coalfield, SW China by Xiangdong Gao, Wuzhong Li, Yiming Yang, Kaigui Yin, Shihao Zhou

“…Closely related to coal seam thickness, gas contents of Lopingian coal seams are generally higher than 8 m3/t, except the low level in northwest and partial denudation areas. …”
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Research on Traffic Accident Severity Level Prediction Model Based on Improved Machine Learning by Jiming Tang, Yao Huang, Dingli Liu, Liuyuan Xiong, Rongwei Bu

“…In the prediction of different traffic accident severity levels (minor, moderate, and severe), the improved machine learning model also generally shows better performance and stability. The research results of this study have broad prospects in the field of intelligent driving. …”
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Effect of regular thicknesses on the microstructural and quantitative analysis for a hypo-eutectic ductile iron alloyed with Ni and V by Colin-García E., Sánchez-Alvarado R.G., Cruz-Ramírez A., Suarez-Rosales M.A., Portuguez-Pardo L., Jiménez-Lugos J.C.

“…Ductile iron contains free graphite nodules within the metallic matrix, which generally consists of ferrite and pearlite in the as-cast condition. …”
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Implementing a rapid geographic range expansion - the role of behavior changes by Logan, Corina, McCune, Kelsey, LeGrande-Rolls, Christa, Marfori, Zara, Hubbard, Josephine, Lukas, Dieter

“…It is generally thought that behavioral flexibility, the ability to change behavior when circumstances change, plays an important role in the ability of species to rapidly expand their geographic range. …”
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Primary Intraosseous Synovial Sarcoma with Molecular Confirmation: Expanding and Clarifying the Spectrum of This Rare Neoplasm by Kelsey E. McHugh, John D. Reith, Nathan W. Mesko, Scott E. Kilpatrick

“…Rare radiologically confirmed examples of primary bone synovial sarcoma have been documented, generally in isolated case reports. Herein, we report two cases of primary intraosseous synovial sarcoma, with molecular confirmation, involving the left humerus of a 45-year-old female and the right fourth metatarsal bone in a 36-year-old male. …”
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Spatial differences in predicted Phalaris arundinacea (reed canarygrass) occurrence in floodplain forest understories by John T. Delaney, M. Van Appledorn, N. R. De Jager, K. L. Bouska, J. J. Rohweder

“…Flood frequency, distance to contiguous floodplain, distance to forest edge, and distance to invaded wet meadow were among the most important environmental predictors across the three algorithms. Generally, the mean probability of reed canarygrass presence decreased with increasing flood depth, distance to contiguous floodplain, distance to invaded wet meadow, forest cover, and forest height, while relationships with other predictors were more variable. …”
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