Outpatient Intravenous Antibiotic Therapy: The Vancouver Hospital experience by Grant Stiver, Amy Wai, Lynne Chase, Luciana Frighetto, Carlo Marra, Peter Jewessen

“…Peripherally inserted central catheters were employed in 61 of 107 (57%) patients, peripheral short catheters in 20 (19%), Hickman lines in 14 (13%), and Port-a-caths in 12 (12%). Ninety-two of 107 patients treated in the VHHSC program completed their course uneventfully with resolution of the infection. …”
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ViPar: High-Level Design Space Exploration for Parallel Video Processing Architectures by Karim M. A. Ali, Rabie Ben Atitallah, Abdessamad Ait El Cadi, Nizar Fakhfakh, Jean-Luc Dekeyser

“…In addition to that, we derived the equations for estimating the hardware utilization and execution time for each design point during the space exploration process. (2) By defining the main characteristics of the parallel video architecture like parallelism level, the number of input/output ports, the pixel distribution pattern, and so on, ViPar tool can automatically generate the dedicated architecture for hardware implementation. …”
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Study on the flow field and structural stress field of the primary retarder considering the throttling characteristics of the valve by Huanhui Zhou, Zilin Ran, Hu Dai, Weida Yang, Xianwei Chen

“…The results show that the opening of the valve port will seriously affect the flow rate at the inlet of HR, and the flow rate in the retarder valve will have a hysteresis effect on the circulation flow in the mainstream region of HR. …”
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Revealing the fireworks-set-off pattern of spatial multi-function expansion across cities leveraging big geodata – a case of the Greater Bay Area, China by Ku Gao, Xiaomei Yang, Zhihua Wang, Yueming Liu, Huifang Zhang, Xiaoliang Liu, Qingyang Zhang

“…We found that (1) across-cities SMFE exhibited a fireworks-set-off pattern, including sprawling along river in the plains between coastal port cities and inland core cities and diffusing from inland core cities on the plains to inland node cities in the mountains; (2) social-living, business-trade, and industry-production functions were sequentially primary expanding functions; (3) paddy and forest were two major land cover types encroaching upon inland cities, while coastal cities primarily suffered from losses of water. …”
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Le polymorphisme de l’éditorial dans la presse sportive : l’exemple du magazine 5 Majeur by Valentin PRADELOU

“…Cet écart à la norme est porté par un contexte d’écriture particulier au sein de la presse magazine sportive, dans le but de créer un espace de nouveauté générique et de confort de lecture pour le public. …”
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Wideband Low-Profile 8 × 8 MIMO Antenna Based IFA Pair for Ultrathin 5G Smartphones by Hui Zhou, Di Wu, Mingmin Zhu, Yang Qiu, Guoliang Yu, Hao-Miao Zhou

“…The experimental results show that the bandwidth is 3.18–4.40 GHz, the isolation between any two ports is better than −12.25 dB, and the total efficiency is 61.14%–93.97%. …”
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Enhancing engine performance and reducing carbon emissions using medical syringe waste and compressed natural gas in dual-fuel operations by Sathish. T, Saravanan. R

“…MSWO of 20 %, diesel of 80 % supplied as a main fuel and the 20 % of CNG port fuel supplied dual fuel operation has 11.94 % higher brake thermal efficiency, 29.4 % lesser CO emission, 26.58 % lesser UHC emission, 26.18 % lesser soot emission, and 9.36 % higher NOx emission than diesel at full load. …”
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Effects of Grid Voltage and Load Unbalances on the Efficiency of a Hybrid Distribution Transformer by Alvaro Carreno, Mariusz Malinowski, Marcelo A. Perez, Jingyu Ding

“…Although the CAPF can be eliminated by employing the dc port of the HDT, it is not always possible to extract energy from it. …”
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Lifecycle Risk Assessment for Steel Cargo Vessel Sinkings: An Interpretive Structural Modeling and Fuzzy Bayesian Network Approach by Xiaodan Jiang, Haibin Xu, Yaming Zhu, Yingxia Gu, Shiyuan Zheng

“…Experts estimate probabilities based on observations and causal scenarios involving steel cargo vessels at Shanghai Port. The ISM–FBN framework visualizes hierarchical risk factors and incorporates uncertainty in the data and causal relationships through fuzzy scoring, structural updates, and probability learning. …”
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Use of the Da Vinci SP surgical system in robot-assisted nipple-sparing mastectomy: a single-center, retrospective study by Sae Byul Lee, Jisun Kim, Il Yong Chung, Hee Jeong Kim, Jong Won Lee, Byung Ho Son, Beom Seok Ko

“…Abstract We investigated the safety and performance of the Da Vinci SP single-port robot (SP robot) in nipple-sparing mastectomy (NSM) with immediate reconstruction. …”
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Thermally tunable add-drop filter based on valley photonic crystals for optical communications by Sun Lu, Li Xingfeng, Hu Pan, Wang Hongwei, Zhang Yong, Tang Guojing, He Xintao, Dong Jianwen, Su Yikai

“…A diamond-shaped microloop resonator is designed to confine the light and enhance its interaction with the thermal field generated by the microheater, leading to a relatively low power of 23.97 mW needed for switching the output signal from one port to the other. Based on the thermally tunable ADF under the protection of band topology, robust data transmission is implemented with an ultrahigh data rate of 132 Gb/s. …”
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Spatial decision-making model for priority development of Indonesia coast guard stations by Novianto Hary Adiatmaja, Winnie Septiani, Triwulandari Satitidjati Dewayana, Martino Luis

“…Model was based on four criteria, including distance to Archipelagic Sea Lanes (ASL), Distance to the port, vulnerability coverage, and vessel density coverage. …”
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Dispersão urbana e legislação urbanística na formação do território by Denise Aparecida de Souza Barroca, Flavia Ribeiro Botechia

“…Ao final, concluiu-se que o território de Colatina apresenta as aludidas características da dispersão urbana, ainda que esta seja uma cidade de porte médio e fora de uma região metropolitana. …”
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An Ensemble Based Machine Learning Classification for Automated Glaucoma Detection by Digvijay J. Pawar, Yuvraj K. Kanse, Suhas S. Patil

“…The proposed Combined Features Fused Classifier (CF2C) model has had a remarkable performance with the IEEE DataPort image dataset, achieving an ensembled prediction accuracy of 96.25 %, a sensitivity of 95.83 % and a specificity of 96.67 % which are better results than those of the five classifiers individually.…”
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Mutual Coupling Reduction Using Improved Dual-Layer Mushroom and E-Shaped Stub by Chunxia Cheng, Liyan Luo

“…The decoupling structure can prevent the surface current from one antenna port to another, so as to improve the isolation between the antennas. …”
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Optimization of HS-SPME-GC-MS for the Characterization of Key Volatile Compounds in Lentinus edodes at Different Maturity Stages by HOU Zhenshan, XU Heran, XIA Rongrong, LI Yunting, WANG Yafei, PAN Song, XIN Guang

“…The results showed that the optimal extraction conditions were as follows: 1.0 g of sample was extracted at 50 ℃ for 25 min and then the analytes adsorbed on the fiber were desorbed in the GC-MS injection port for 3 min. A total of 71 VOCs were identified in L. edodes, and there were significant differences in the types and contents of volatile compounds at different maturity stages (P < 0.05). …”
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A New Geometry of Multi-band MIMO Antenna for 5G and 6G Systems by Karrar Shakir Muttair, Oras Ahmed Shareef, Hazeem Baqir Taher, Faiz Arith

“…In this manuscript, we propose a novel geometry for a 4-port multi-in multi-out (MIMO) antenna with an L-shaped structure that solves the limitations of current designs in UWB applications. …”
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Shah Alam City’s Current Restrictions on Flood Risk Management: Stakeholders Perspectives Review by Haziq Sarhan Rosmadi, Minhaz Farid Ahmed, Mokhtar Mazlin

“…Heavy rainfall, tropical storms, and flash floods have caused widespread flooding, landslides, power outages, disrupted water treatment plants, and port operations. The Malaysian government has faced criticism for its delayed response and apathy towards the disaster. …”
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Conceptual Design of a 10 MW Multipurpose Research Reactor Using VVR-KN Fuel by Nhi-Dien Nguyen, Kien-Cuong Nguyen, Ton-Nghiem Huynh, Doan-Hai-Dang Vo, Hoai-Nam Tran

“…Thermal fluxes at the vertical irradiation channels and the horizontal beam ports have been evaluated. The maximum thermal fluxes of 2.5 × 1014 and 8.9 ×1013 n·cm−2·s−1 are found at the neutron trap and the beryllium reflector, respectively.…”
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Carbonized Aramid Fiber as the Adsorbent for In-Tube Solid-Phase Microextraction to Detect Estrogens in Water Samples by Xiaoxiao Zhu, Yijun Zhang, Pengfei Liu, Xiuzhi Bai, Na Chen, Yuping Zhang

“…The prepared fiber was packed in a stainless-steel tube instead of the sample loop of a six-port and tested for the extraction of five environmental estrogen hormones coupled with high-performance liquid chromatography. …”
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