Not Always Asthma: Clinical and Legal Consequences of Delayed Diagnosis of Laryngotracheal Stenosis by Adam C. Nunn, S. Ali R. Nouraei, P. Jeremy George, Guri S. Sandhu, S. A. Reza Nouraei

“…There were numerous points at which the correct diagnosis might have been made, either by proper interpretation of flow-volume loops or by calculation of the Empey or Expiratory Disproportion Indices from spirometry data.…”
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Adaptive Positioning Control of Multi-Point Moorings with Disturbance Observation Under Input Constraints by Run Lu, Guichen Zhang, Ru Liu, Chaojian Gao, Wei Chen, Huanglong Fu

“…The Lyapunov function is utilized to demonstrate that the controller ensures the consistent ultimate boundedness of all signals within the closed-loop system. Finally, a simulation experiment was conducted based on the eight-point mooring platform of the “Kantan3”, and the positioning accuracy reached 3%, which is higher than the specification requirements of the classification society. …”
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Magnetic Reconnection between a Solar Jet and a Filament Channel by Garima Karki, Brigitte Schmieder, Pooja Devi, Ramesh Chandra, Nicolas Labrosse, Reetika Joshi, Bernard Gelly

“…The solar corona is highly structured by bunches of magnetic field lines forming either loops, or twisted flux ropes representing prominences/filaments, or very dynamic structures such as jets. …”
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Interplay between Inflammation and Stemness in Cancer Cells: The Role of Toll-Like Receptor Signaling by Da-Wei Yeh, Li-Rung Huang, Ya-Wen Chen, Chi-Ying F. Huang, Tsung-Hsien Chuang

“…These opposite effects form a positive feedback loop that further amplifies inflammation and stemness in cancer cells, thereby expanding CSC populations in the tumor. …”
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DC bus voltage control strategy of PV systems based on fuzzy logic by El Oussoul Laarabi, Elhamdaouy Achour, Belattar Abdellatif, Ait Madi Abdessalam

“…The performance of this FLC-based control approach is compared to the traditional double closed-loop PI control method. Simulation results, carried out in the Matlab/Simulink environment, demonstrate that the proposed FLC method outperforms the traditional PI control in terms of both system stability and dynamic response. …”
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Evaluation of the Synergistic Effect of Erosion-Corrosion on AISI 4330 Steel in Saline-Sand Multiphase Flow by Electrochemical and Gravimetric Techniques by Dario Yesid Peña Ballesteros, Yelsin Enrique Mendez Camacho, Lizeth Viviana Barreto Hernandez

“…The electrochemical impedance and potentiodynamic curves suggest that erosion-corrosion phenomenon of the ASISI 4330 steel is under mixed control of mass transport and charge transfer. The inductive loops formed in the impedance plots are representative of an increase in roughness of the electrode caused by the particles impacting at the surface. …”
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A Scalable Isolated Gate Driver With Programmable Frequency and Duty Cycle for Series-Connected SiC MOSFETs by Sohrab Ghafoor, Mahesh Kulkarni, Reza Mirzadarani, Peter Vaessen, Mohamad Ghaffarian Niasar

“…This article presents a simple, cost-effective open-loop gate driver that overcomes this limitation by introducing two sets of complementary pulse transformers to initialize programmable frequency and duty cycle. …”
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Optimizing a Rodent Model of Parkinson's Disease for Exploring the Effects and Mechanisms of Deep Brain Stimulation by Karl Nowak, Eilhard Mix, Jan Gimsa, Ulf Strauss, Kiran Kumar Sriperumbudur, Reiner Benecke, Ulrike Gimsa

“…An outlook is given on further developments of experimental DBS, including the use of transgenic animals and the testing of closed-loop systems for the direct on-demand application of electric stimulation.…”
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The Modified Kimura's Technique for the Treatment of Duodenal Atresia by Biagio Zuccarello, Antonella Spada, Antonio Centorrino, Nunzio Turiaco, Maria Rosaria Chirico, Saveria Parisi

“…The i-DSD provides a safe procedure to protect the ampulla of Vater from injury and avoids any formation of a blind loop. The results show that patients who have i-DSD achieve full oral feeds in a very short time period and, consequently, the length of hospitalisation is also significantly reduced.…”
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Input Calibration and Validation of RELAP5 Against CIRCUS-IV Single Channel Tests on Natural Circulation Two-Phase Flow Instability by Viet-Anh Phung, Pavel Kudinov, Dmitry Grishchenko, Martin Rohde

“…The procedure employs (i) multiple parameters measured in different regimes, (ii) independent consideration of the subsections of the loop, and (iii) assessment of importance of the uncertain input parameters. …”
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A Novel Finite-Control-Set Model Predictive Torque Control for Five-Phase PMSM With Improved Harmonic Current Suppression by Weiguo Tao, Huawei Zhou, Chen Ye, Cheng Chen

“…First, a novel FCS was designed to achieve the double closed-loop control for both subspaces. Then, all the specific duty ratios were calculated and further limited to the normal range from the geometric point of view. …”
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Inhibition of tumour necrosis factor alpha by Etanercept attenuates Shiga toxin-induced brain pathology by Robin Christ, Devon Siemes, Shuo Zhao, Lars Widera, Philippa Spangenberg, Julia Lill, Stephanie Thiebes, Jenny Bottek, Lars Borgards, Andreia G. Pinho, Nuno A. Silva, Susana Monteiro, Selina K. Jorch, Matthias Gunzer, Bente Siebels, Hannah Voss, Hartmut Schlüter, Olga Shevchuk, Jianxu Chen, Daniel R. Engel

“…Analysis of microglial populations using a novel human-in-the-loop deep learning algorithm for the segmentation of microscopic imaging data indicated specific morphological changes, which were reduced to healthy condition after inhibition of TNF-α. …”
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Semantic-Assisted LIDAR Tightly Coupled SLAM for Dynamic Environments by Peng Liu, Yuxuan Bi, Jialin Shi, Tianyi Zhang, Caixia Wang

“…Furthermore, a semantic similarity constraint is included within the closed-loop factor module to significantly enhance positioning accuracy and facilitate the construction of maps with higher global consistency. …”
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Close-Proximity Operations Design, Analysis, and Validation for Non-Cooperative Targets with an Application to the ClearSpace-1 Mission by José Vasconcelos, Serena Gaggi, Tiago Amaral, Charles Bakouche, Adina Cotuna, Ana Friaças

“…The analysis is adopted for functional chains such as the Navigation and Control, and the combination of a prototyping and a high-fidelity simulator is adopted for directed Model-in-the-Loop Monte-Carlo campaigns. The outcomes are intended to support the industry in the development of Close-Proximity Operations similar to that of CS-1. …”
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ERF114/115/109 are essential for jasmonate-repressed non-canonical JAZ8 activity in JA signaling by Jiaxuan Sui, Qianlan Yin, Yiying Chen, Min Sun, Xianzheng Yuan, Zhaojun Ding, Xiangpei Kong

“…Furthermore, the transcription of ERF114/115/109 is induced by JA in an MYC2-dependent manner, thus forming a positive feedback loop in JA signaling. Collectively, this study reveals a regulatory pathway in which ERF114/115/109 regulate JA signaling by targeting non-canonical JAZ proteins.…”
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A high-speed MPPT based horse herd optimization algorithm with dynamic linear active disturbance rejection control for PV battery charging system by AL-Wesabi Ibrahim, Jiazhu Xu, Imad Aboudrar, Khaled Alwesabi, Li danhu, Hassan Z. Al Garni, Elhachemi Mammeri, Hossam Kotb, Mohit Bajaj, Shir Ahmad Dost Mohammadi

“…Finally, the experimental investigation of the proposed HHOA-LADRC was accomplished with the NI PXIE-1071 Hardware-In-Loop (HIL) prototype. The output findings show that the effectiveness of the provided HHOA-LADRC may approach a value higher than 99%, showed a quicker rate of converging and less oscillations in power through the detection mechanism.…”
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Subloading Surface Model and Experimental Study of Coal Failure under Cyclic Loading by Si-fei Liu, Zhi-jun Wan, Jing-chao Wang, Shuai-feng Lu, Tong-huan Li

“…The results show that the specific strain disturbance can only cause a certain damage to coal and the area of hysteresis loop decreases first, then stabilizes, and then increases as the number of cycles increases. …”
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Research on the evaluation method of cooperative jamming effectiveness based on IPSO-ELM by A. Tianjian Yang, B. Xing Wang, C. Siyi Cheng, D. You Chen, E. Xi Zhang

“…Cooperative jamming effectiveness evaluation is a key component in completing the cooperative jamming OODA loop. For the problem of evaluating the effectiveness of cooperative jamming to group network radar by formation aircraft, a cooperative jamming effectiveness evaluation method based on Improved Particle Swarm Optimization–Extreme Learning Machine (IPSO-ELM) is proposed. …”
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Modeling and Simulation of Process-Machine Interaction in Grinding of Cemented Carbide Indexable Inserts by Wei Feng, Bin Yao, BinQiang Chen, DongSheng Zhang, XiangLei Zhang, ZhiHuang Shen

“…The characteristic equation of the closed-loop dynamic grinding system is derived to provide a mathematic description of the process-machine interaction. …”
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Benign Multicystic Peritoneal Mesothelioma in a Male Patient with Previous Wilms’ Tumor: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Gian Luigi Canu, Fabio Medas, Giulio Columbano, Luca Gordini, Luca Saba, Enrico Erdas, Pietro Giorgio Calò

“…An en bloc resection of the mesenteric mass together with the corresponding intestinal loops, an appendicectomy, and some peritoneal biopsies were performed. …”
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