Growth, Development, and Mineral Nutrient Accumulation and Distribution in Tulip from Planting through Postanthesis Shoot Senescence by Carl E. Niedziela, Paul V. Nelson, David A. Dickey

“…Since the increase in accumulation of all five nutrients preceded the dry matter accumulation, these nutrients could be used as predictors in growth models. …”
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Recurrence of a t(8;21)-Positive Acute Myeloid Leukemia in the Form of a Granulocytic Sarcoma Involving Cranial Bones: A Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenge by Ambra Di Veroli, Alessandro Micarelli, Mariagiovanna Cefalo, Eleonora Ceresoli, Daniela Nasso, Laura Cicconi, Simone Mauramati, Fabrizio Ottaviani, Adriano Venditti, Sergio Amadori

“…It can cooccur with or precede the acute myeloid leukemia (AML) as well as following treated AML. …”
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Severe Aplastic Anemia following Acute Hepatitis from Toxic Liver Injury: Literature Review and Case Report of a Successful Outcome by Kamran Qureshi, Usman Sarwar, Hicham Khallafi

“…Clinically, AH can be mild to fulminant and transient to persistent and precedes the onset SAA. It is assumed that immunologic dysregulation following AH leads to the development of SAA. …”
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Effect of Basal Testosterone and Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulphate Levels on in Vitro Fertilization Outcome in Normoresponders by İnci Kahyaoğlu, Nafiye Yılmaz, Serkan Kahyaoğlu, Ayten Türkkanı, Mahmut Nedim Çiçek, Leyla Mollamahmutoğlu

“…Day 2-4 basal concentrations of FSH, LH, E2, total testosterone, DHEAS and antral follicle count (AFC) were determined in preceding cycle. RESULTS: No significant difference was found between pregnant and non-pregnant groups regarding the AFC, hormone and controlled ovarian hyperstimulation (COH) parameters (total dose of gonadotrophins (1995.7±851.1 vs 2296.4±845.3 IU), >14 mm follicles (9.3±3.1 vs 7.3±3.9), retrieved oocytes (12.4±5.1 vs 8.7±6.1) or number of good quality embryos (7.4±3.7 vs 4,4±3.6) (p>0.05). …”
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Desmosomal Component Expression in Normal, Dysplastic, and Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma by Nagamani Narayana, Julie Gist, Tyler Smith, Daniel Tylka, Gavin Trogdon, James K. Wahl

“…Despite recent advances in detection and treatment, there has been little improvement in the five-year survival rate for this devastating disease. Oral cancer may be preceded by premalignant disease that appears histologically as dysplasia. …”
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Humoral Hypercalcemia of Malignancy with a Parathyroid Hormone-Related Peptide-Secreting Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma Accompanied by a Gastric Cancer by Katsushi Takeda, Ryosuke Kimura, Nobuhiro Nishigaki, Shinya Sato, Asami Okamoto, Kumiko Watanabe, Sachie Yasui

“…Because treatment of ICC should precede that of GC, we chose chemotherapy with cisplatin (CDDP) and gemcitabine (GEM). …”
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Early intervention in eating disorders: introducing the chronopathogram by Antonio Preti, Francesco Bevione, Maria Carla Lacidogna, Andrea Raballo, Michele Poletti, Giovanni Abbate-Daga

“…Current research focuses on reducing the duration of untreated eating disorder (DUED) and understanding the cognitive and behavioral symptoms preceding ED onset. However, current early intervention programs for EDs showed mixed results, necessitating further investigation. …”
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New Potential Weapons for Refractory Scleritis in the Era of Targeted Therapy by Claudia Fabiani, Jurgen Sota, Maite Sainz-de-la-Maza, Laura Pelegrín, Giacomo Emmi, Giuseppe Lopalco, Florenzo Iannone, Lorenzo Vannozzi, Silvana Guerriero, Maria Chiara Gelmi, Donato Rigante, Gian Marco Tosi, José Hernández-Rodríguez, Luca Cantarini

“…Scleritis relapses significantly decreased between the 12 months preceding and following biologic therapy (p=0.007). …”
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Population-Level SARS-CoV-2 RT–PCR Cycle Threshold Values and Their Relationships with COVID-19 Transmission and Outcome Metrics: A Time Series Analysis Across Pandemic Years by Judith Carolina De Arcos-Jiménez, Ernestina Quintero-Salgado, Pedro Martínez-Ayala, Gustavo Rosales-Chávez, Roberto Miguel Damian-Negrete, Oscar Francisco Fernández-Diaz, Mariana del Rocio Ruiz-Briseño, Rosendo López-Romo, Patricia Noemi Vargas-Becerra, Ruth Rodríguez-Montaño, Ana María López-Yáñez, Jaime Briseno-Ramirez

“…Cross-correlation and lagged regression analyses revealed significant lead–lag relationships, with declining Ct values consistently preceding surges in positivity rates and hospitalizations, particularly during the early phases of the pandemic. …”
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The use of phase voltage modules to select the damaged phase in case of single-phase earth faults by V. A. Shabanov, A. V. Sorokin

“…In case of short circuits, the selection of damaged phases always precedes the determination of the damage location. …”
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Use of High-Flow Nasal Cannula Oxygen Therapy in a Pregnant Woman with Dermatomyositis-Related Interstitial Pneumonia by Tomohiro Shoji, Takeshi Umegaki, Kota Nishimoto, Natsuki Anada, Akiko Ando, Takeo Uba, Munenori Kusunoki, Kanako Oku, Takahiko Kamibayashi

“…The patient’s condition improved after 7 days of hospitalization; by this time, she was positive for myositis-specific autoantibodies and was diagnosed with interstitial pneumonia preceding dermatomyositis. This condition can be potentially fatal within a few months of onset and therefore requires early combination immunosuppressive therapy. …”
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Clinically probable RBD is an early predictor of malignant non-motor Parkinson’s disease phenotypes by Alfonso Enrique Martinez-Nunez, Hunter Hutchinson, Patricia Coutinho, Filipe Pereira Sarmento, Venkat Srikar Lavu, Qingqi Yuan, Jagan Mohan Reddy Dwarampudi, Aysegul Gunduz, Gregory M. Pontone, Michael S. Okun, Joshua K. Wong

“…REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) affects approximately 42% of all PD patients and frequently precedes motor PD symptoms. RBD is linked to increased rates of depression and cognitive decline. …”
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Availability of Antimalarial Drugs and Evaluation of the Attitude and Practices for the Treatment of Uncomplicated Malaria in Bangui, Central African Republic by Alexandre Manirakiza, Siméon Pierre Njuimo, Alain Le Faou, Denis Malvy, Pascal Millet

“…This study was undertaken to evaluate the quality of the treatment of uncomplicated malaria cases in Bangui, an area with multidrug-resistant parasites, at a time preceding implementation of a new therapeutic policy relying on the artemisinin derivative combined treatment artemether-lumefantrine. …”
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Transient, Recurrent Central Nervous System Clinical Manifestations of X-Linked Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Presenting with Very Long Latency Periods between Episodes: Is Prolonged... by Andria Tziakouri, Konstantinos Natsiopoulos, Kleopas A. Kleopa, Costas Michaelides

“…The CNS symptoms occur typically in young age and often precede the clinical manifestation of the polyneuropathy. …”
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Rectal Tumour Staging with Endorectal Ultrasound: Is There Any Difference between Western and Eastern European Countries? by Anna Fábián, Renáta Bor, Klaudia Farkas, Anita Bálint, Ágnes Milassin, Mariann Rutka, László Tiszlavicz, Tibor Wittmann, Ferenc Nagy, Tamás Molnár, Zoltán Szepes

“…Histological comparison was available in 177 cases: 67 patients underwent surgery alone; 110 received neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (CRT); ERUS preceded CRT in 77 and followed it in 33 patients. …”
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Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysm Rupture: An Unusual Presentation of Chromosome 22q11.2 Deletion: A Case Report by Eda-Cristina Abuchaibe, Nancy Dobrolet, Katherine Peicher, Roque Ventura, Elizabeth Welch

“…We report the first case where aneurysm rupture preceded the chromosomal findings. Chromosome 22q11 deletion could be missed due to either the unfamiliarity of physicians with the syndrome or the variability and subtlety of the phenotype. …”
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A tunable encoder with circular dichroism and polarization encoding function based on a layered metastructure in the GHz range by Chuan-Qi Wu, Jun-Yang Sui, Qi Chen, Xing-Zhou Tang, Hai-Feng Zhang

“…A modulable dielectric layer (MDL), composed of YIG, is optionally added to the preceding item of the given metastructure, which owns a certain thickness. …”
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Changes in Vowel Articulation with Subthalamic Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation in Dysarthric Speakers with Parkinson’s Disease by Vincent Martel Sauvageau, Joël Macoir, Mélanie Langlois, Michel Prud’Homme, Léo Cantin, Johanna-Pascale Roy

“…Vowel articulation was compared ON-simulation versus OFF-stimulation using acoustic vowel space and formant centralization ratio, calculated with the first (F1) and second formant (F2) of the vowels /i/, /u/, and /a/. The impact of the preceding consonant context on articulation, which represents a measure of coarticulation, was also analyzed as a function of the stimulation state. …”
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Modeling and Analysis on Minimum Safe Distance for Platooning Vehicles Based on Field Test of Communication Delay by Mengyan Hu, Xiangmo Zhao, Fei Hui, Bin Tian, Zhigang Xu, Xinrui Zhang

“…Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) use dedicated short-range communication (DSRC) to form a convoy, in which the following vehicles can receive the information from their preceding vehicles to achieve safe automated driving and maintain a short headway. …”
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Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor in patients with age-related cataract by A.A. Shpak, A.B. Guekht, T.A. Druzhkova, A.A. Troshina, N.V. Gulyaeva

“…Collection of stimulated LF was performed with a pipette on the day preceding surgery; the AH and BS were sampled during the phacoemulsification of a cataract. …”
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