Carotid Thrombosis in a Crack Cocaine Smoker Woman by Mattia Cosenza, Luigi Panza, Anna Paola Califano, Carolina Defendini, Maria D’Andria, Roberto Romiti, Antonio Fabio Massimo Vainieri, Sergio Morelli

“…Angio-RM sequences showed an area of ischemia, with occlusion of the M2 segment of the middle cerebral artery. Carotid ultrasound showed a soft plaque with distal end floating. …”
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Performance of InGaN Light-Emitting Diodes Fabricated on Patterned Sapphire Substrates with Modified Top-Tip Cone Shapes by Hsu-Hung Hsueh, Sin-Liang Ou, Chiao-Yang Cheng, Dong-Sing Wuu, Ray-Hua Horng

“…In comparison to the LEDs prepared on the conventional sapphire substrate (CSS) and cone-shaped PSS without wet etching, the LED grown on the cone-shaped PSS by performing wet etching for 3 min exhibited 55% and 10% improvements in the light output power (at 350 mA), respectively. This implies that the modification of cone-shaped PSSs possesses high potential for LED applications.…”
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Gust Wind Effects on Stability and Ride Quality of Actively Controlled Maglev Guideway Systems by Dong-Ju Min, Soon-Duck Kwon, Jong-Won Kwark, Moon-Young Kim

“…In the case of the cable-stayed guideway, at low wind speed, vehicle speed is the dominant factor influencing the dynamic responses of the maglev vehicle and the guideway, but at wind speed over 10 m/s, wind becomes the dominant factor. For the ride quality of the maglev vehicle, wind is also the most influential factor.…”
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A new framework for mitigating urban heat island effect from the perspective of network by Jieling Luo, Ling Zhu, Hui Fu

“…Taking Haikou as an example, the study identified 13 heat sources and 21 cold sources, extracted 74 cooling corridors, determined the threshold of cooling distance to be 1100 m, formed a cooling network pattern, and identified a total of 11.45 km2 of important areas affecting the network, including 4.71 km2 of key areas and 6.74 km2 of obstacle areas. …”
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COVID-19 in Coincidence with Transient Distal Renal Tubular Acidosis in an Infant by Seyedeh-Kiana Razavi-Amoli, Hamid Mohammadjafari, Daniel Zamanfar, Mohammad Reza Navaeifar, Zahra Sadati-Lamradi, Mohammad Sadegh Rezai

“…Real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and elevated SARS-CoV-2 immunoglobulin M confirmed COVID-19, while echocardiography and spiral chest computed tomography scan were normal. …”
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Circulating Endothelial Microparticles: A Key Hallmark of Atherosclerosis Progression by Keshav Raj Paudel, Nisha Panth, Dong-Wook Kim

“…The prominent MPs present in blood are endothelial microparticles (EMPs) described as complex submicron (0.1 to 1.0 μm) vesicles like structure, released in response to endothelium cell activation or apoptosis. …”
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Severe Thyrotoxicosis Secondary to Povidone-Iodine from Peritoneal Dialysis by Kirstie Lithgow, Christopher Symonds

“…Hyperthyroidism was diagnosed with TSH < 0.01 mIU/L and FT4 > 100 pmol/L. He had no personal or family history of thyroid disease. …”
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Attitudes of Adolescents Toward Addictive Substances: Hope and Self-Control as Protective Factors by Serkan Cengiz, Mehmet Emin Turan, Eyüp Çelik

“…This study was a cross-sectional data analysis of 787 students (52.50% boys, 47.50% girls; M<i>_age</i> = 15.69, SD = 1.12). <b>Results:</b> The results revealed that ostracism was positively associated with attitudes toward addictive substances, and evidence was provided that this relationship was mediated by hope and self-control. …”
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Analysis of Antioxidant Capacity of Chromones in Saposhnikoviae Radix Obtained by Ultrasonic-Assisted Deep Eutectic Solvents Extraction by Xianwen Yue, Fangfei Xu, Peng Lv, Huailei Yang, Huiwei Bao, Yang Xu

“…The analysis results of best extraction conditions optimized by Design-Expert software were as follows: extraction time (40 min), extraction temperature (60°C), and the solid/liquid ratio (32 mL/g). Scavenging rates of the DES extract for DPPH anion radical and ABTS cation radical were found to be 75.31% and 65.71%, which were higher than those of methanol and ethanol extracts. …”
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Heart morphology and function evaluation by transthoracic echocardiography in six captive crested gibbons (Nomascus spp.) by Irène Vonfeld, Anaïs Nowakowski, Brice Lefaux, Benoît Quintard

“…Each echocardiogram included the evaluation of 11 variables in bidimensional mode, 8 variables in M-Mode and 6 variables in Doppler mode. Most functional parameters evaluated, like left ventricular ejection fraction (range, 49.3 to 72.4%), shortening fraction (SF; range, 18.9 to 34.5%), left atrium/aorta ratio (range, 0.8 to 1.2), and maximal velocity of aortic, pulmonic, and mitral flows had similar values as those described in gorillas, dogs, and humans. …”
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Comparison of Metacognitions Between Obsessive Compulsive Disorder&#146;s Subtypes and Normal Healthy Controls by Katre DO&ETH;AN, &Ouml;zg&uuml;r Sayg&yacute;n SOLAK, Kadir &Ouml;ZDEL, Mehmet Hakan T&Uuml;RK&Ccedil;APAR

“…Method: In the study, we included 61 patients who present to the Psychiatry Department of Ankara D&yacute;&thorn;kap&yacute; Y&yacute;ld&yacute;r&yacute;m Beyaz&yacute;t Hospital and 30 healthy individuals from the hospital staff as control group. …”
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Highly Reliable and Low-Cost Fabrication of Warm-White LEDs Using Composite Silica Photonic Crystals by Chun-Feng Lai, Yu-Chun Lee, Tzong-Liang Tsai, Chung-Chieh Chang, Mau-Kuen Wu

“…A reliability analysis (RA) test was performed on the WLEDs containing c-SCPhCs, applying a high temperature and high relative humidity (85°C/85 RH) during WLEDs operation at 120 mA. During a RA test of 2500 h, no visible degradation in optical performance was observed. …”
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Insights into the localized corrosion initiation mechanisms of alloy 718 by Julia Botinha, Bodo Gehrmann, Helena Alves, Michael Rohwerder

“…In this work, we investigate the localized corrosion initiation process and follow up the first steps of corrosion attack in alloy 718 in a 1M NaCl solution through the combination of microscopy and electrochemical techniques. …”
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Combustion Synthesis Porous Nitinol for Biomedical Applications by H. Aihara, J. Zider, G. Fanton, T. Duerig

“…The resulting product exhibits excellent corrosion resistance with breakdown potentials above 750mV. An ovine study in cortical sites of the tibia demonstrated rapid osseointegration into the porous strucutre as early as two weeks and complete bone growth across the implant at six weeks. …”
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3D-Metal Complexes Derived from Proton Pump Inhibitors-Synthesis, Characterization and Biological Studies by Suman Malik, Supriya Das, Archana Singh, Liviu Mitu

“…It should be noticed that the reaction of all the metal salts yielded bis(ligand) complexes of the general formula [ML2(H2O)2] and [ML2] (M = Co, Ni, Cu, Mn and Zn). The complexes were characterized by elemental analysis, molar conductivity, magnetic susceptibility measurements, IR, 1H-NMR, UV-visible spectral studies, ESR, SEM, x-ray diffraction, TGA and mass spectra. …”
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RNase Y mediates posttranscriptional control of the virulence-associated CncR1 small-RNA in Helicobacter pylori by Federico D’Agostino, Eva Pinatel, Alexandra Meynhardt, Vincenzo Scarlato, Andrea Vannini, Davide Roncarati

“…Indeed, RNase Y inactivation led to the accumulation of a 3′-extended CncR1 isoform, which appeared unable to interact in vitro with a known target mRNA. The observation that the RNAse Y-mutant strain showed deregulation of several members of the CncR1 regulon suggests this ribonuclease has an important role in H. pylori posttranscriptional regulation.…”
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First Description of KPC-2-Producing Klebsiella oxytoca Isolated from a Pediatric Patient with Nosocomial Pneumonia in Venezuela by Indira Labrador, María Araque

“…The isolate LMM-SA26 carried a ~21 kb conjugative plasmid that harbored the blaKPC-2, blaCTX-M-8, and blaTEM-15 genes. Although carbapenem resistance in the Enterobacteriaceae is still unusual in Venezuela, KPCs have a great potential to spread due to their localization on mobile genetic elements. …”
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Formulation and Evaluation of Guggul Lipid Nanovesicles for Transdermal Delivery of Aceclofenac by Praveen Kumar Gaur, Shikha Mishra, Vidhu Aeri

“…Corresponding gels (PCG-1 and GLG-1) showed Cmax values at 4.98 and 7.32 μg/mL along with the Tmax values at 4 and 8 hours, respectively. …”
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CHURCH SLAVONIC VERSION OF CAESAR BARONIUS ANNALES ECCLESIASTICI AND CHUDOV TRANSLATIONS FROM THE 17TH CENTURY: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF VOCABULARY by Maria O. Novak

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Plagas y Hongos Identificados en Olivos (Olea europea) en Florida by Jennifer L. Gillett-Kaufman, Sandra A. Allan, Jonael H. Bosques-Mendez, Lyle J. Buss

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