Robotic Radical Cystectomy: Where are We Today, Where will We be Tomorrow? by Kyle A. Richards, A. Karim Kader, Ashok K. Hemal

“…While open radical cystectomy remains the gold-standard treatment for muscle-invasive bladder cancer and high-risk non–muscle invasive disease, robotic assisted radical cystectomy (RARC) has been gaining popularity over the past decade. The robotic approach has the potential advantages of less intraoperative blood loss, shorter hospital stay, less post-operative narcotic requirement, quicker return of bowel function, and earlier convalescence with an acceptable surgical learning curve for surgeons adept at robotic radical prostatectomy. …”
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Acquired Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenia and Pure Red Cell Aplasia in Thymoma by Sumit Dahal, Eliza Sharma, Suyash Dahal, Binav Shrestha, Bikash Bhattarai

“…Here, we present a case of a 60-year-old male with past medical history of recurrent invasive thymoma who presented with cough and blood in sputum. …”
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Corporate Culture as a Tool for Improving University’s Competitiveness by Irina V. Trotsuk, Daria V. Sukhoverova

“…They revealed the framework of competing values and showed that over the past decade the share of bureaucratic/hierarchical type decreased due to an increase in the share of market and adhocracy types of culture that are typical for the leaders of world university rankings.…”
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Non-traditional data to inform modern climate science by Kimberley R. Miner, Ethan Wong, Bradley A. Gay, Charles E. Miller

“…This initial review presents opportunities for further investigation to reconstruct past climate or to use non-traditional records to complement modern instrument methods.…”
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Addison’s Disease Presenting as Acute Renal Failure and Hyperkalemic Paralysis: A Rare Presentation by Kundan Jana, Kalyana Janga, Sheldon Greenberg, Amit Gulati

“…Here, we present the case of a young 37-year-old male who came with hyperkalemic paralysis and acute renal failure needing emergent hemodialysis. He had no past medical history and no medication history. His hyponatremia, hypotension, and hyperkalemia pointed to a picture of adrenal insufficiency confirmed by undetectable serum cortisol, elevated ACTH, renin, and low aldosterone levels and imaging. …”
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Global Dynamics of Secondary DENV Infection with Diffusion by A. M. Elaiw, A. S. Alofi

“…During the past eras, many mathematicians have paid their attentions to model the dynamics of dengue virus (DENV) infection but without taking into account the mobility of the cells and DENV particles. …”
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Systematic Modeling of Impacts of Land Use and Land Cover Changes on Regional Climate: A Review by Xiangzheng Deng, Chunhong Zhao, Haiming Yan

“…There have been tremendous changes in the global land use pattern in the past 50 years, which has directly or indirectly exerted significant influence on the global climate change. …”
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APOPTOSIS IN CITY SYSTEMS: A BIOMIMETIC APPROACH TO CITY REGENERATION by Stephen Ajadi

“… Over the past few years there have been a number of cases of large scale urban translocation, city division, and new formations of contemporary settlements in various parts of the world. …”
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Latinoamérica y la CPI: afrontar la impunidad en Colombia by Bárbara Direito

“…The case of Colombia, a country which has been the stage for innumerable violations of human rights over the past decades and where the conflict is still producing victims, can be a real test case. …”
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Machine‐Learning Research in the Space Weather Journal: Prospects, Scope, and Limitations by Noé Lugaz, Huixin Liu, Mike Hapgood, Steven Morley

“…Abstract Manuscripts based on machine‐learning techniques have significantly increased in Space Weather over the past few years. We discuss which manuscripts are within the journal's scope and emphasize that manuscripts focusing purely on a forecasting technique (rather than on understanding and forecasting a phenomenon) must correspond to a substantial improvement over the current state‐of‐the‐art techniques and present this comparison. …”
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The Complexity of the Transition in Combat Operations and Potential Solutions to Streamline the Process by Claudiu Valer NISTORESCU

“…The lessons learned from past conflicts indicate that the inherent risks associated with a period of change, the mental pressure, and the increased possibility of experiencing a decisive defeat have a multidimensional impact on both the decision-making process and the execution of the operation. …”
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The snow avalanches risk on Alpine roads network by Frédéric Leone, Albert Colas, Yann Garcin, Nicolas Eckert, Vincent Jomelli, Monique Gherardi

“…These indicators were modeled using the graph theory in a GIS framework, integrating avalanche activity indicators derived from the past activity with the road network. The obtained output maps should facilitate the decision support for crisis management and a comparative spatial analysis at the regional scale.…”
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Recent advances in the prevention of secondary ischemic stroke: A narrative review by Yue Qiao, Aminah I. Fayyaz, Yuchuan Ding, Xunming Ji, Wenbo Zhao

“…This review summarizes the latest advancements in the secondary prevention of ischemic stroke over the past 5 years, highlighting the key clinical trials and novel interventions. …”
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A System Dynamics Model of the Modal Shift from Road to Rail: Containerization and Imposition of Taxes by Bulim Choi, Su-il Park, Kang-Dae Lee

“…Over the past decade, intermodal transport focused on reducing external cost, congestion, and carbon dioxide emissions, which have been caused by road transportation. …”
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The Lutheran “convivial economy” as a Christian economic heterodoxy: significance, components, and proposals to the current socio-economic order by P. Kopiec

“…An example is the “convivial economy”, a concept developed within the Lutheran World Federation for the past eight years. Lutheran theologians use the term “economy” in a broader sense, enlarging the space of their reflection on culture, society, and environment. …”
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Low Reactive Level Laser Therapy for Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Therapies by Toshihiro Kushibiki, Takeshi Hirasawa, Shinpei Okawa, Miya Ishihara

“…Low reactive level laser therapy (LLLT) is mainly focused on the activation of intracellular or extracellular chromophore and the initiation of cellular signaling by using low power lasers. Over the past forty years, it was realized that the laser therapy had the potential to improve wound healing and reduce pain and inflammation. …”
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The Persistence of Buildings and the Context Problem by Fabio Bacchini

“…Raising the persistence question about architectural entities consists in asking what is necessary and sufficient for a past or future architectural entity, like a building, to exist now. …”
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Alternative to General Anesthesia for a Stat Cesarean Delivery in a Patient with a Large Arteriovenous Malformation Involving the Cervicomedullary Junction in Active Labor by Christiano dos Santos e Santos, David A. Joyner, Cristiane A. Tuma Santos, Bernadette E. Grayson, Arthur Calimaran, Douglas R. Bacon

“…A 20-year-old G1P0 patient at 38 weeks and 1 day of gestation was admitted for emergency cesarean delivery. Her past medical history was positive for cervicomedullary arteriovenous malformation (AVM) that ruptured three years before. …”
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Coordinate Descent-Based Sparse Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Robust Cancer-Class Discovery and Microarray Data Analysis by Melisew Tefera Belachew

“…Some algorithms which are based on incorporating sparsity constraints in the nonconvex NMF optimization problem are applied in the past for analyzing microarray datasets. However, to the best of our knowledge, none of these algorithms use block coordinate descent method which is known for providing closed form solutions. …”
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A Critique on the Book Pre-Islamic Sculpture and Iconography in Iran by Alireza Taheri, Samira Nasr Esfahani

“…These works show the attitude, culture, cover, religion, and progress in the life of the past in ancient Iran. These figurines included animals, humans, and even mythological and religious sculptures that were produced in each period according to the knowledge of the day with their own materials and methods. …”
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