Prenatal Diagnosis of Penoscrotal Hypospadia in Third Trimester by Two- and Three-Dimensional Ultrasonography: A Case Report by Lívia Teresa Moreira Rios, Edward Araujo Júnior, Luciano Marcondes Machado Nardozza, Liliam Cristine Rolo, Alan Roberto Hatanaka, Antonio Fernandes Moron, Marília da Glória Martins

“…The incidence ranges from 0.2 to 4.1 per 1,000 live births. Among the markers of hypospadia, isolated ventral or lateral curvature of the penis associated with shortening are the most important markers and, in severe cases, can result in the classic “tulip sign.” …”
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The ‘Umka’ landslide by Uroš Đurić, Dragana Đurić, Miloš Marjanović, Biljana Abolmasov, Ivana Vasiljević

“…The map delineates elements at risk, primarily buildings and road infrastructure impacted by the landslide displacements of several cm per year, introduced during frequent reactivation stages. …”
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Advanced Photothermal Spectroscopy for Trace PFAS Detection by Yaoli Zhao, N. K. Jannabhatla, Thomas Thundat

“…The widespread industrial and consumer use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) has led to their persistent presence in the environment, driven by their robust carbon-fluorine bonds and bioaccumulative properties. …”
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Sargassum fusiforme and its fucoidan alleviates high-fat diet induced obesity associated with the improvement of the gut microbiota profile by Xiaoyu Ling, Zhengyang Li, Ning Su, Lingqing Kong, Shiwei Han, Dafeng Song

“…Our results demonstrate that Sargassum fusiforme can ameliorate high-fat diet-induced obesity by decreasing the abundance of specific Firmicutes phylum bacteria, reducing the levels of glycochenodeoxycholic acid, glycoursodeoxycholic acid, glycohyodeoxycholic acid, and glycodeoxycholic acid, and regulating the expression of the Elovl3, Gm3734, Per2, and Tnnc1 genes. This offers a new perspective for hypercholesterolemia treatment strategies.…”
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Aquatic and palustrine plants of restinga in a Ramsar site in the easternmost Amazon, Brazil by N. P. F. Alves, M. C. A. Pestana, S. F. Pires, J. C. A. Penha, V. R. Cardoso-Neto, A. V. Scatigna, R. V. C. Saraiva

“…Voyria aphylla (Jacq.) Pers. is a new record for Maranhão. Melastomataceae (9 spp.) was the most representative family, followed by Fabaceae and Plantaginaceae (4 spp. each). …”
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Institutions, Criminal Violence and Interdependence: The Narrow Path of Development in Latin America and the Caribbean by Rogelio Madrueño

“…An analytical framework is presented in conjunction with an empirical analysis on the impacts of criminal delinquency and criminal violence on the dynamics of economic growth per capita of the global economy, underlining the case of the Latin American and Caribbean region between 1990-2010.…”
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Preventing Foodborne Illness: Typhoid Fever—Salmonella Typhi by Keith R. Schneider, Renée Goodrich Schneider, Rachael Silverberg

“…Typhoid fever is easily controlled and relatively uncommon in the United States, but an estimated 21.5 million people per year are affected by typhoid fever in developing nations including regions in Asia, Africa, and South America. …”
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Long-term surgical outcomes of esotropic duane retraction syndrome type 1 by Jihae Park, Hee Kyung Yang, Jeong-Min Hwang

“…After surgery, a gradual shift towards exotropia was observed at an average rate of 1.3 ± 3.7 PD exodrift per year. In this study, the long-term surgical outcomes were generally favorable in esotropic DRS type 1. …”
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Impact of selecting the cutting technology on production time and cost by Drndarević Branko, Nedić Petar, Vulović Dušan, Milovanović Aleksandar, Čeković Ivana

“…This is due to the material volume processed per unit of time, which significantly affects the production time of a workpiece. …”
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Vitamin D Supplementation in Australia: Implications for the Development of Supplementation Guidelines by Kellie Bilinski, Peter Talbot

“…The amount of vitamin D in these products varies considerably, from 40 to 1000 IU per unit, although supplements containing only vitamin D had the highest amount of vitamin D. …”
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Colonic Dieulafoy’s Lesion: A Rare Cause of Lower Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage and Review of Endoscopic Management by Christopher Ma, Rajveer Hundal, Edwin J. Cheng

“…She presented with two episodes of melena followed by one episode of fresh blood per rectum. In addition, there was associated presyncope and anemia (hemoglobin 69 g/L) in the setting of supratherapeutic warfarin anticoagulation (INR 6.2) for nonvalvular atrial fibrillation. …”
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Cardiovascular disease essential medicines listing by countries: changes over time and association with health outcomes by Camila Heredia, Moizza Zia Ul Haq, Adelaide Buadu, Amal Rizvi, Aine Workentin, Navindra Persaud

“…Results Listing of cardiovascular disease treatment was associated with amenable mortality from hypertensive heart disease. Health expenditure per capita was also associated with amendable mortality due to ischemic heart disease, and hypertensive heart disease. …”
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Artificial noise aided secure beamforming for multi-antenna relay systems by Li-jian ZHANG, Liang JIN, Lu LIU, Wen-yu LUO

“…In the amplify-and-forward (AF) relay systems，the confidential information forwarded by the relay can be intercepted by the eavesdroppers.For guaranteeing the secure communications，an artificial noise aided secure beamforming method is proposed.The goal is to maximize the secrecy rate of the system by jointly designing the beamforming matrix and the artificial noise (AN) covariance matrix at the relay subject to the total power and the per-antenna power constraints.This non-convex secrecy rate maximization (SRM) problem can be recast as a two-level optimization problem.The outer part can be solved by performing a one-dimensional search，and the inner part can be handled by the semidefinite relaxation (SDR) technique and interior-point methods.It is shown that there always exists a rank-one optimal solution for the SDR problem，i.e.…”
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Zinc Supplementation against Eimeria acervulina-Induced Oxidative Damage in Broiler Chickens by Nedyalka V. Georgieva, Margarita Gabrashanska, Ventsislav Koinarski, Zvezdelina Yaneva

“…Our results proved the ameliorating role of CuZn(OH)3Cl (0.170 g per kg food) against Eimeria acervulina-induced oxidative damage in infected chickens.…”
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Multisignal VGG19 Network with Transposed Convolution for Rotating Machinery Fault Diagnosis Based on Deep Transfer Learning by Jianye Zhou, Xinyu Yang, Lin Zhang, Siyu Shao, Gangying Bian

“…Compared with existing methods, this method has faster training speed, fewer training samples per time, and higher accuracy. First, the raw data collected by multiple sensors are combined into a graph and normalized to facilitate model training. …”
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Economic development and Environmental quality: The environmental Kuznets curve for water pollution by Ahmadreza Shahpouri, Hamed Biabi, Leili Abolhassani

“…Based on the estimated turning points and the average GDP per capita, the study revealed at which point of the EKC the countries are. …”
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Analysis of a Flux-Concentrated V-Type Biased-Flux Slot Motor by Mohammad Amirkhani, Ehsan Farmahini Farahani, Mohammad Afrank, Mojtaba Mirsalim, Nick J. Baker

“…By switching from the more usual circumferential magnets, it has been shown that torque production per unit magnet mass can increase by over 20% for a moderate 0.5% increase in torque ripple. …”
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Persistent currents in a strongly interacting multicomponent Bose gas on a ring by Pecci, Giovanni, Aupetit-Diallo, Gianni, Albert, Mathias, Vignolo, Patrizia, Minguzzi, Anna

“…We find that the ground-state energy and the persistent currents display a reduced periodicity with respect to the case of non-interacting particles, corresponding to reaching states with fractional angular momentum per particle. We relate this effect to the change of symmetry of the ground state under the effect of the artificial gauge field. …”
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Preventing Foodborne Illness: Typhoid Fever—Salmonella Typhi by Keith R. Schneider, Renée Goodrich Schneider, Rachael Silverberg

“…Typhoid fever is easily controlled and relatively uncommon in the United States, but an estimated 21.5 million people per year are affected by typhoid fever in developing nations including regions in Asia, Africa, and South America. …”
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Microstructural Insights into Solid Particle Erosion in a High-Chromium Cast Iron by Alessio Suman, Annalisa Fortini, Nicola Zanini

“…Erosion tests, conducted per ASTM G76 standards, revealed that substrates with similar CVFs exhibited varying damage levels, even at consistent particle kinetic energies. …”
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