Massive endobronchial hemorrhage leading to Cardiac arrest during EBUS-TBNA: a case of successful resuscitation by Ping-Yang Hong, Mao-Hong Huang, Ling Cai, Yi-Yuan Chen, Yu-Xin Guo, Xiao-Bin Zhang

“…During the procedure, vascular invasion led to significant bleeding, requiring immediate interventions including suctioning and therapeutic bronchoscopy. …”
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Nocardiose disseminada by Tiago Costa, Luís Rocha, Luciana Silva, Inês Rato, Sara Pinto

“…A rigorous treatment regimen, including trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (TMP/SMX), Meropenem, and Linezolid, led to significant improvement. This case underscores the diagnostic complexity of Nocardiosis, emphasizing the need for early and precise diagnosis, multidisciplinary care, and prolonged treatment in severe cases. …”
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Improvement in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Diagnosis and Management Wait Times: A Retrospective Analysis of a Home Management Pathway for Obstructive Sleep Apnea by Samuel Alan Stewart, Robert Skomro, John Reid, Erika Penz, Mark Fenton, John Gjevre, David Cotton

“…The current gold standard for diagnosis and management of patients is in-laboratory (in-lab) polysomnography; however, the limited availability of testing options for patients has led to long wait times and increased disease burden within the population. …”
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Early and Midterm Outcomes of Percutaneous Arteriovenous Fistula Creation by Ahmed Kamel Abdel Aal, Juri Bassuner, Husameddin El Khudari, Reema F. Alrasheed, Shahroz Aziz, Mohamed Shahin, Ammar Almehmi, Bridget Kowalczyk

“…However, recent advancements in endovascular technology, the need for alternative hemodialysis access options in nonsurgical candidates, and patient preference for nonsurgical approaches have led to the development of percutaneous arteriovenous fistula creation. …”
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Leptospirosis, melioidosis, and rickettsioses in the vicious circle of neglect. by Tshokey Tshokey, Ablert I Ko, Bart J Currie, Claudia Munoz-Zanzi, Cyrille Goarant, Daniel H Paris, David A B Dance, Direk Limmathurotsakul, Emma Birnie, Eric Bertherat, Gyanendra Gongal, Jackie Benschop, Jelmer Savelkoel, John Stenos, Kartika Saraswati, Matthew T Robinson, Nicholas P J Day, Stephen R Graves, Steven R Belmain, Stuart D Blacksell, Willem J Wiersinga

“…Despite their continued threat, these diseases do not receive proportionate attention from global health organizations and are not even included on the WHO list of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). This, in turn, has led to a vicious circle of neglect with continued, yet conceivably preventable, hospitalizations and deaths each year especially in the vulnerable population. …”
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Innovative Approaches by Non-State Actors in Household Waste Management in Mrican Village: Challenges and Opportunities by Saputra Boni, Fajri Hidayatul, Renaldi Irvan, Pegi Andre Lofika, Halawa Historis Soterman, Syolendra Dwi Finna

“…The results of this study show that community-led waste management can be an innovation and a driver of neighborhood participation despite facing various obstacles, such as limited resources, community resistance, and weak collaboration with the local government. …”
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Error fields: personalized robotic movement training that augments one’s more likely mistakes by Naveed Reza Aghamohammadi, Moria Fisher Bittmann, Verena Klamroth-Marganska, Robert Riener, Felix C. Huang, James L. Patton

“…We found that training with error fields led to greatest reduction in error. EF training reduced error 264% more than controls who practiced without error fields, but subjects learned more slowly than our previous error magnification technique. …”
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Ligand-Activated Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor β/δ Facilitates Cell Proliferation in Human Cholesteatoma Keratinocytes by Chen Zhang, Yang-Wenyi Liu, Zhangcai Chi, Bing Chen

“…Furthermore, we showed that PPAR β/δ activation increased PDK1 expression and decreased PTEN generation, which led to increased phosphorylation of AKT and GSK3β and increased the expression level of Cyclin D1. …”
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Enhancing Hydraulic Efficiency of Pelton Turbines Through Computational Fluid Dynamics and Metaheuristic Optimization by Guillermo Barragan, Sebastian Atarihuana, Edgar Cando, Victor Hidalgo

“…These parameters not only resulted in a 2.56% increase in hydraulic efficiency, but also led to a 0.1 [kPa] reduction in the maximum pressure at the bottom of the bucket. …”
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Applications of Self-Assembled Monolayers in Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering by Charles K. Klutse, Adam Mayer, Julia Wittkamper, Brian M. Cullum

“…The increasing applications of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) has led to the development of various SERS-active platforms (SERS substrates) for SERS measurement. …”
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Seismic vulnerability analysis of irregular and regular structures using fragility curve by Rehni Setiati, Masrilayanti, Ruddy Kurniawan, Asri Luthfi Ainy, Sourkan Sulleyman

“…The demand for innovative and visually appealing building designs according to specific desires or needs has led to many structures being built with irregularities. …”
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Severe Weather Events over Southeastern Brazil during the 2016 Dry Season by Amanda Rehbein, Lívia Márcia Mosso Dutra, Tercio Ambrizzi, Rosmeri Porfírio da Rocha, Michelle Simões Reboita, Gyrlene Aparecida Mendes da Silva, Luiz Felippe Gozzo, Ana Carolina Nóbile Tomaziello, José Leandro Pereira Silveira Campos, Victor Raul Chavez Mayta, Natália Machado Crespo, Paola Gimenes Bueno, Vannia Jaqueline Aliaga Nestares, Laís Tabosa Machado, Eduardo Marcos De Jesus, Luana Albertani Pampuch, Maria de Souza Custódio, Camila Bertoletti Carpenedo

“…However, during nine days of the 2016 dry season, successive convective systems were associated with atypical precipitation events, tornadoes and at least one microburst over the southern part of this region. These events led to flooding, damages to buildings, shortages of electricity and water in several places, many injuries, and two documented deaths. …”
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Bi-directional extensional control of the Berane Basin formation, northern Montenegro by Stefanović Katarina, Krstekanić Nemanja

“…In this paper, we conducted field kinematic analysis by applying fault‐slip inversion to derive paleostress regimes and study the deformation phases that led to the formation of the Berane Basin. Observed deformation is related to the latest Oligocene‐Miocene extension in two directions, perpendicular and parallel to the Dinarides orogen. …”
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«Popovsky mutiny»: on the issue of anti-Bolshevik riots in Omsk in February 1918 by A. V. Sushko

“…In the context of the events of the Russian Revolution, the author analyzes the events in Omsk on February 15–22, 1918, when the attempts of the regional Soviet authorities to implement the «Decree on the separation of church from state and school from church» led to mass riots with bloodshed in Soviet historiography called «priest’s rebellion». …”
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Enhancing the durability of Ti–Al–C coatings: The role of powder composition and processing variables by Huanhuan Hong, Panpan Yang, Xiang Gui, Yang Yang, Xia Liu, Jianxiang Ding, Gobinda Gyawali, Kang Yang, Shihong Zhang

“…The formation of a protective oxide layer, consisting of TixAly and Ti2AlC phases, during frictional sintering oxidation led to enhanced wear resistance at elevated temperatures. …”
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Influence of environmental temperature on the hand-feel perception of textiles by Lars Claussen, Kimberly Lim, Julia Wilfling, Alex Lloyd, Daniel Ruiz, George Havenith

“…The outcomes of the study suggest that the environmental temperature led to significant changes in participants’ aural temperature, mean skin temperature, hand temperature, tactile sensitivity, and environmental perception, affecting the hand-feel perception of the different textiles. …”
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Soliton solutions, bifurcations, and sensitivity analysis to the higher-order nonlinear fractional Schrödinger equation in optical fibers by Md. Al Amin, M. Ali Akbar, M. Ashrafuzzaman Khan, Md. Sagib

“…To find the exact analytical solutions, we implement the extended Riccati equation method, which led to a variety of soliton and soliton-like solutions, including trigonometric, hyperbolic, and rational functions. …”
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Bilateral Anterior and Intermediate Uveitis with Occlusive Vasculitis as Sole Manifestation of Relapse in Multiple Sclerosis by Angelica Pedraza-Concha, Karin Brandauer, Alejandro Tello, Carlos Mario Rangel, Christian Scheib

“…This case shows how multiple sclerosis may only manifest with ocular involvement and exemplifies the broad spectrum of manifestations and complications, taking into account that ischemic areas from vasculitis and other comorbidities led to macular edema and unfortunately, prognosis became poorer. …”
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Effect of Lithium Ions on Copper Nanoparticle Size, Shape, and Distribution by Kyung-Deok Jang, Ada Ortega, Justin Ucol, Hao Du, Nam-Soo Kim

“…Increasing the concentration of copper ion in the solution greatly increased the aqueous electric conductivity and the size of the particles but led to a wide size distribution ranging from 150 nm to 400 nm and rough particle morphology. …”
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Satellite Selection Strategy and Method for Signals of Opportunity Navigation and Positioning with LEO Communication Satellites by Yanhua Tao, Yang Guo, Shaobo Wang, Chuanqiang Yu, Zimo Zhu

“…However, this has also led to a substantial increase in the number of LEO satellites, thereby reintroducing the traditional challenge of satellite selection. …”
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