Management of Multiple Arteriovenous Malformations of the Small Bowel by Masahiro Hirakawa, Rie Ishizuka, Masanori Sato, Naotaka Hayasaka, Hiroyuki Ohnuma, Kazuyuki Murase, Kohichi Takada, Tatsuya Ito, Takayuki Nobuoka, Koji Miyanishi, Masayoshi Kobune, Ichiro Takemasa, Junji Kato

“…To identify the location of the lesions and determine the minimal surgical margins, we performed intraoperative selective angiography with indocyanine green (ICG) injection. …”
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Reconstruction of the Coracoclavicular Ligament Complex Utilizing an All-Suture Tape Cerclage Technique by William A. Ranson, M.D., Laura Thurber, M.D., Akshar V. Patel, B.S., Christoph Schroen, B.S., Carl M. Cirino, M.D., Patrick J. Denard, M.D., Paul J. Cagle, M.D.

“…Further, by avoiding the formation of coracoid tunnels, the risk of iatrogenic coracoid fracture is minimized. Importantly, this technique is simple and reproducible while also minimizing material requirements and cost.…”
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Reliability Estimation of Parameters of Helical Wind Turbine with Vertical Axis by Adela-Eliza Dumitrascu, Badea Lepadatescu, Dorin-Ion Dumitrascu, Anisor Nedelcu, Doina Valentina Ciobanu

“…The reliability prediction and analysis of these systems will lead to identifying the critical components, increasing the operating time, minimizing failure rate, and minimizing maintenance costs. …”
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Surgical Treatment of Sporadic Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors: A State of the Art Review by Sven-Petter Haugvik, Knut Jørgen Labori, Bjørn Edwin, Øystein Mathisen, Ivar Prydz Gladhaug

“…Over the last decade there has been a noticeable trend towards more aggressive surgery as well as more minimally invasive surgery in patients with PNETs. …”
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Chemical composition, antioxidant, antimicrobial and antiviral activities of the leaf extracts of Syzygium myrtifolium by AHMAD MUSTAFFA ALBAKRI, LIM YI HUI, CHAN YIK SIN, HSU CHUN-YUAN, WU TZONG-YUAN, SIT NAM WENG

“…However, all extracts exhibited stronger inhibitory activity against four tested species of yeasts (minimal inhibitory concentration: 0.02–0.31 mg mL–1) than against six tested species of bacteria (minimal inhibitory concentration: 0.16–1.25 mg mL–1). …”
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A Pilot Study on Determination of Dynamic Behavioral Characteristics by Soil Response Analyses: A Case concerning Üngüt District of Kahramanmaraş Province by Kübra Ceren, Eyyüb Karakan

“…It is not possible to prevent the earthquakes and other natural disasters which cause loss of lives and property, but it is possible to minimize the damages that they cause. The majority of the surface area of Kahramanmaraş province, which can be considered a vulnerable zone in Turkish Tectonic System, underlies many active fault systems. …”
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Novel transparent high-entropy sesquioxide ceramics with high physicochemical plasma etching resistance by Yu-Bin Shin, Su Been Ham, Ha-Neul Kim, Mi-Ju Kim, Jae-Woong Ko, Jae-Wook Lee, Young-Jo Park, Jung-Hyung Kim, Hyo-Chang Lee, Young Hwa Jung, Jung Woo Lee, Ho Jin Ma

“…Therefore, novel materials with high plasma etching resistance and minimal contaminant generation are needed. The plasma-etching resistance displayed by high-entropy ceramics can be an innovative solution to this emerging challenge. …”
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Automated Classification of Circulating Tumor Cells and the Impact of Interobsever Variability on Classifier Training and Performance by Carl-Magnus Svensson, Ron Hübler, Marc Thilo Figge

“…The automated analysis of medical data is a growing field where different machine learning techniques are used to minimize the time-consuming task of manual analysis. …”
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A one health approach to plant health by Vivian Hoffmann, Birthe Paul, Titilayo Falade, Arshnee Moodley, Navin Ramankutty, Janice Olawoye, Rousseau Djouaka, Elikana Lekei, Nicoline de Haan, Peter Ballantyne, Jeff Waage

“…In this opinion piece, based on a webinar of the same name, we argue that a One Health perspective can help optimize net benefits from plant protection, realizing food security and nutrition gains while minimizing unintentional negative impacts of plant health practices on people, animals and ecosystems. …”
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Variational Integrals of a Class of Nonhomogeneous 𝒜-Harmonic Equations by Guanfeng Li, Yong Wang, Gejun Bao

“…We investigate the relationship between the minimization problem and the Euler equation and give a simple proof of the existence of some nonhomogeneous 𝒜-harmonic equations by applying direct methods of the calculus of variations. …”
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Positive Solution of a Nonlinear Fractional Differential Equation Involving Caputo Derivative by Changyou Wang, Haiqiang Zhang, Shu Wang

“…Moreover, the existence of maximal and minimal solutions is also obtained.…”
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FINDING WAYS OF RECYCLING DUST OF ARC STEEL FURNACES AT THE BELARUSIAN METALLURGIC PLANT by A. V. Demin, A. I. Rozhkov, О. М. Grudnickij, V. V. Nikolaev, A. V. Feklistov

“…The different modes of dust disposal depending on the task of recycling are discussed: recycling at minimal cost; recycling with a maximum extraction of iron; recycling with maximum extraction of zinc. …”
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Smooth Crossing of wΛ=−1 Line in a Single Scalar Field Model by Abhik Kumar Sanyal

“…Smooth double crossing of the phantom divide line wΛ=−1 has been found possible with a single minimally coupled scalar field for the most simple form of generalized k-essence cosmological model, in the presence of background cold dark matter. …”
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The Existence and Stability of Solutions for Vector Quasiequilibrium Problems in Topological Order Spaces by Qi-Qing Song

“…By the analysis of essential stabilities of maximal elements in a topological sup-semilattice, we prove that for solutions of each vector quasi-equilibrium problem, there exists a connected minimal essential set which can resist the perturbation of the vector quasi-equilibrium problem.…”
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Stable Zero Lagrange Duality for DC Conic Programming by D. H. Fang

“…We consider the problems of minimizing a DC function under a cone-convex constraint and a set constraint. …”
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Optimal Controls for a Class of Impulsive Katugampola Fractional Differential Equations with Nonlocal Conditions by Xingru Chen, Haibo Gu, Yu Sun

“…Secondly, we derive the sufficient conditions for optimal controls by building approximating minimizing sequences of functions twice.…”
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Optimal Control Problem for Switched System with the Nonsmooth Cost Functional by Shahlar Meherrem, Rufan Akbarov

“…Then, by using relationships between lower exhausters and quasidifferentiability, we obtain necessary optimality condition in the case that the minimization functional satisfies quasidifferentiability condition.…”
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Assessment of Attentional Functioning in Health Professionals of a Brazilian Tertiary Referral Hospital for COVID-19 by Eelco van Duinkerken, Guilherme J. Schmidt, Ana Lúcia Taboada Gjorup, Carolina Ribeiro Mello, André Casarsa Marques, Áureo do Carmo Filho, Paula Regina Yuri Fukusawa, Simone Gonçalves de Assis, Júlio Cesar Tolentino, Sergio L. Schmidt

“…This study is aimed at assessing differences in basic attentional functioning between substantial and minimal work-related exposure to COVID-19 patients in professionals working in a tertiary referral hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. …”
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Scheduling Jobs and a Variable Maintenance on a Single Machine with Common Due-Date Assignment by Long Wan

“…We investigate a common due-date assignment scheduling problem with a variable maintenance on a single machine. The goal is to minimize the total earliness, tardiness, and due-date cost. …”
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A note on comprehensive backward biorthogonalization by David K. Ruch

“…We also determine which basis functions should be dropped to minimize the L2 distance between a given function and its projection. …”
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