Fluid accumulation syndrome in sepsis and septic shock: pathophysiology, relevance and treatment—a comprehensive review by Carmen Andrea Pfortmueller, Wojciech Dabrowski, Rob Wise, Niels van Regenmortel, Manu L. N. G. Malbrain

“…A stepwise approach is suggested to prevent and treat FAS in patients with septic shock, including minimizing fluid intake (e.g., by limiting intravenous fluid administration and employing de-escalation whenever possible), limiting sodium and chloride administration, and maximizing fluid output (e.g., with diuretics, or renal replacement therapy). …”
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Qualitative evaluation of kerf taper angle of conventionally drilled holes in glass fiber epoxy composite by Dipak S. Patil, Manmohan M. Bhoomkar, Neeraj Sunheriya, Jayant Giri, Jayant Giri, Jayant Giri, Atul Kulkarni, Lalit N. Patil, Lalit K. Toke, Thanikodi Sathish, Mohammad Kanan, Mohammad Kanan

“…GFRP’s challenging machinability is due to its high strength-to-weight ratio, durability, and customizable mechanical properties. The study aims to minimize kerf angles in drilled holes, identifying optimal parameter combinations based on Signal-to-Noise ratios. …”
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Acute Hyperglycemia Due to Topical Corticosteroid Administration by Laura Y. Sue, Anna Milanesi

“…The patient was admitted for evaluation and treatment and started on an insulin infusion. He had minimal insulin requirements with the insulin infusion. …”
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PET imaging of HIV-1 envelope protein gp120 using 18F-labeled nanobodies by Neysha Martinez-Orengo, Swati Shah, Jianhao Lai, Falguni Basuli, Anna Lyndaker, Mitchell L. Turner, Morteza Peiravi, Suman Sourabh, Kevon Sampson, Peng Zhang, Rolf E. Swenson, Paolo Lusso, Frank Maldarelli, Avindra Nath, Chuen-Yen Lau, Dima A. Hammoud

“…In this study, three nanobodies (J3, 3E3, B9) chosen based on their binding properties to the conserved CD4-binding site of gp120 were labeled with fluorine-18 and used for PET imaging in mice bearing wild-type (WT) and/or gp120-expressing (Env+) tumors. [18F]J3 and [18F]3E3 selectively targeted Env+ tumors and not WT tumors, with minimal background signal. Switching from non-site-specific radiolabeling method to sortase A-mediated site-specific conjugation at the C-terminus improved binding to Env+ tumors for all nanobodies. …”
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Balancing efficiency and sustainability in waste collection fleet operations: A fleet optimization and electrification perspective in a real case study by M. Ghoreishi, F. Santori, L. Carloni, M. Cresta, A. Geri, T. Bragatto

“…The optimization of municipal solid waste collection presents a dual challenge of improving operational efficiency while minimizing environmental impact. This study addresses these challenges by developing an optimized distribution plan incorporating sustainable development principles within a capacitated vehicle routing problem framework. …”
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Correlation feature and instance weights transfer learning for cross project software defect prediction by Quanyi Zou, Lu Lu, Shaojian Qiu, Xiaowei Gu, Ziyi Cai

“…In our method, a local data gravitation between source and target domains determines instance weight, while features that are highly correlated with the learning task, uncorrelated with other features and minimizing the difference between the domains are rewarded with a higher feature weight. …”
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Improving the physical and mechanical properties new concrete containing crushed dune sand and demolition waste as coarse aggregate by Noureddine Agha, Abdelkadir Makkani, Ahmed Tafraoui, Said Zaouai

“…It helps in reducing the costs associated with managing demolition waste and contributes to the preservation of natural deposits and mountains by minimizing the demand for new quarries. However, when completely substituting natural aggregates (NA) with recycled concrete aggregates (RCA) in concrete, it directly affects the fundamental properties of the material, particularly its physical and mechanical characteristics. …”
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A multi-levels analysis to evaluate the toxicity of microplastics on aquatic insects: A case study with damselfly larvae (Ischnura elegans) by Lin Sun, Zhongyan Cheng, Mei Wang, Chao Wei, Haoyu Liu, Yuxia Yang

“…Therefore, effective management of MPs to minimize their environmental input is crucial in reducing health risks to aquatic organisms.…”
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A NUMERICAL SIMULATION TO DETERMINE THE BEHAVIOR OF THE HYDROGEN-NATURAL GAS MIXTURE IN DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS by Bogdan Andrei Ionete, Mihai Albulescu, Sorin Gal, Alexandra Damascan

“…These risks prove to be minimal in the distribution sector if the hydrogen fraction is kept within acceptable limits, and if optimal operation and safety measures are enforced. …”
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Multi-stage adaptive speed control with torque ripple optimization for a switched reluctance motor in electric vehicle applications by Youness Boumaalif, Hamid Ouadi, Fouad Giri

“…This work addresses the problem of speed control for switched reluctance motors (SRM) used in electric vehicles, with a focus on minimizing torque ripple by optimizing the current reference shape. …”
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Examining the Effectiveness of a Case Management Program for Custodial Grandparent Families by Lenora Campbell, Dana L. Carthron, Margaret Shandor Miles, LaShanda Brown

“…These findings highlight the need for further research on the mental health needs of children being parented by grandparents as well as determining effective models and interventions to minimize adverse effects of parenting on grandparents.…”
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Sustainable Additive Manufacturing: An Overview on Life Cycle Impacts and Cost Efficiency of Laser Powder Bed Fusion by Ramin Rahmani, Bashir Bashiri, Sérgio I. Lopes, Abrar Hussain, Himanshu S. Maurya, Raivo Vilu

“…Selective laser melting (SLM), as the subsection LPBF technologies, is highlighted for its capability to produce high-performance, lightweight, and complex components with minimal material waste, thus aligning with circular economy goals for metal alloys. …”
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Highly Parallel Regular Expression Matching Using a Real Processing-in-Memory System by Jeonghyeon Joo, Hyojune Kim, Hyuck Han, Eul Gyu Im, Sooyong Kang

“…In this paper, we present a framework for a PIM-enabled regular expression matching that offloads the pattern-matching (scanning) engine to the PIM device, taking care to minimize the overhead. We implement an application based on the framework that runs on an off-the-shelf PIM system that has recently emerged into the market, and investigate the feasibility of Processing-in-Memory by comparing its performance with its PIM-oblivious implementation. …”
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Identifying a Set of Key Paradata Indicators in Web Surveys Based on the Relationship with Response Quality, Respondent Characteristics and Survey Estimates by Vasja Vehovar, Nejc Berzelak, Gregor Čehovin

“…This paper aimed to identify a minimal set of paradata indicators that can be used in a similar manner to sociodemographic variables, i.e. as general characteristics of respondents. …”
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Evaluating the Impacts of Bus Stop Design and Bus Dwelling on Operations of Multitype Road Users by Jian Zhang, Zhibin Li, Fangwei Zhang, Yong Qi, Wenzhu Zhou, Yong Wang, De Zhao, Wei Wang

“…Policy suggestions are discussed regarding the optimal design of bus stops that minimizes the total vehicle delay of all modes.…”
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Experiments on Optimal Vibration Control of a Flexible Beam Containing Piezoelectric Sensors and Actuators by Gustavo L.C.M. Abreu, José F. Ribeiro, Valder Steffen Jr

“…This paper uses a method of minimizing the effect of the removed higher order modes on the low frequency dynamics of the truncated model by adding a zero frequency term to the low order model of the system. …”
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Warehouse Location Determination with GIS within the Scope of Disaster Logistics: Example of Kilis Province by Büşra Kaya Zelzele, Mustafa Ergün

“…Disaster management aims to minimize the damages of disasters, provide rapid intervention and ensure the safety of society. …”
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ROBO-SPOT: Detecting Robocalls by Understanding User Engagement and Connectivity Graph by Muhammad Ajmal Azad, Junaid Arshad, Farhan Riaz

“…We have conducted extensive evaluation demonstrating that the proposed approach achieves high accuracy and detection rate whilst minimizing the error rate. Specifically, the proposed features when used collectively achieve a true-positive rate of around 97% with a false-positive rate of less than 0.01%.…”
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Voltage-driven autonomous cooperative control of EHLs for load stabilization by Bing Qi, Rui Liu, Deying Zhang, Zhuoqun Wang, Qi Qi

“…Then, a voltage-driven distributed control model is developed, which utilizes the mapping relation between node voltages and transformer load rate to minimize the high-frequency communication overhead associated with large-scale EHLs dispatch while ensuring the control timeliness. …”
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A comparative study of replicative properties of antitumor recombinant vaccinia viruses on human glioblastoma cell culture U87 and monkey kidney cell culture CV-1 by R. A. Maksyutov, I. V. Kolosova, T. V. Tregubchak, I. A. Razumov, S. N. Shchelkunov

“…In the world of today, virotherapy is one of the rapidly developing areas in the treatment of cancer, and its advantage is selective destruction of cancer cells with minimizing the destructive effect on normal cells of the body. …”
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