Multisystemic impact of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease: A case report highlighting renal, hepatic, and neurological involvement by Ibrahim Khalil, MBBS, Ahmed Fahim Faiyaz, MBBS, Md. Imran Hossain, MBBS, Mahmuda Akter, MBBS

“…Imaging revealed bilateral renal enlargement with hemorrhagic cysts, a kidney stone, and hepatic cysts causing hepatomegaly. Neurological evaluation identified chronic and recent intracerebral hemorrhages associated with poorly controlled hypertension, underscoring ADPKD's multisystem impact. …”
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Application of raman spectroscopy in the non-invasive diagnosis of urological diseases via urine by Ailiyaer Ainiwaer, ShuWen Sun, Ayinuer Bohetiyaer, Yuchao Liu, Yufeng Jiang, Wentao Zhang, JingCheng Zhang, Tianyuan Xu, Hanyang Chen, Xudong Yao, Chengyou Jia, Yang Yan

“…Methods: We searched PubMed, Web of Science, and Google Scholar using 'raman,' 'bladder,' 'kidney,' 'prostate,' 'cancer,' 'infection,' 'stone or urinary calculi,' and 'urine or urinary,' along with 'AND' and 'OR' to refine our search. …”
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High-Precision prediction of curling trajectory multivariate time series using the novel CasLSTM approach by Yanan Guo, Jing Jin, Hongyang Zhao, Yu Jiang, Dandan Li, Yi Shen

“…The proposed technique liberates data-driven curling stone trajectory prediction from sole reliance on analytical models and tackles key challenges of long sequence forecasting. …”
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Challenges in Diagnosing Intrahepatic Cholangiolithiasis in a 39-Year-Old Patient by A. K. Guseva, O. N. Sergeyeva, T. P. Nekrasova, O. T. Imaraliev, A. V. Okhlobystin, Y. N. Shirokova, A. S. Ostrovskaya, M. S. Zharkova, A. S. Cherenda, V. T. Ivashkin

“…Cholangiolithiasis occurs in more than half of cases of primary sclerosing cholangitis and can be both a complication and a cause of secondary sclerosing cholangitis, maintaining inflammation in the ducts and facilitating stone formation. Genetic mutations are known to contribute to the development of gallstones in young patients, including low phospholipid-associated cholelithiasis. …”
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Cholecystoduodenal Stenting: An Option in Complicated Acute Calculous Cholecystitis in the Elderly Comorbid Patient by Brady Bonner, Nicholas I. Brown, Varghese Pynadath Joseph, Manju Dashini Chandrasegaram

“…Following a discussion of the rationale and risks involved with other minimally invasive techniques, she underwent cholecystoduodenal stent placement following disimpaction and removal of cystic duct stones. The procedure restored antegrade gallbladder drainage, and at 18 months she remains symptom-free from her gallbladder. …”
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Accumulation of Bile in the Gallbladder: Evaluation by means of Serial Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Cholangiography with Gadolinium Ethoxybenzyl Diethylenetriaminep... by Tsutomu Tamada, Katsuyoshi Ito, Kazuya Yasokawa, Atsushi Higaki, Akihiko Kanki, Yasufumi Noda, Akira Yamamoto

“…Furthermore, the results in differences of the presence of T1 hyperintense bile or sludge of gallbladder, gall stones, wall thickening of gallbladder, chronic liver disease, and liver cirrhosis between two groups were compared. …”
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Recycling of Building Interior Decoration and Renovation Waste: A Case Study in China by Wenjia Pan, Hong Zhang, Shanggang Hei, Yingjian Yang, Xifeng Xu, Chao Zhou, Baolin Huang, Haochen Xu

“…The results show that (i) concrete, stone, and other hard inorganic materials accounted for about 35–55% of the total. …”
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Clean eco-friendly cooking energy as sustainable approach and mitigation to climate change: A case study of Ankole, Western Uganda by Kayamba William Kariiti

“…Traditional methods of cooking still dominate in Ankole, where three stones are still used. Charcoal has become a major fuel for cooking in many homes as an alternative to firewood, in addition to briquettes, biogas, LPG and volcanic rocks. …”
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Entre Rhône et Rhin : les ports fluvio-lacustres de la Suisse romaine by Romain Guichon

“…Rivers and lakes shores are most frequently reinforced with oak piles and stone embankments. Some quays are also arranged as wooden plank platforms possibly linked with storage areas. …”
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Mental Health in Non-Oncologic Urology Patients by Danyon Anderson, Devesh Kumar, Divya Divya, Jose L. Zepeda, Abrahim N. Razzak, Jamal Hasoon, Omar Viswanath, Alan D. Kaye, Ivan Urits

“…Pathologies represented in this review include Peyronie's Disease (PD), erectile dysfunction (ED), urinary incontinence and urinary tract infections (UTI), infertility, benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), kidney stones, and urinary retention. While there has been great interventional focus as of late for urogenitary malignancies (i.e. prostate cancer awareness with the Movember campaign), literature studies and intervention focused on non-oncologic urology patients has been limited. …”
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Performance evaluation metric for statistical learning trading strategies by Jiawei He, Roman N. Makarov, Jake Tuero, Zilin Wang

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Archaeological survey at Balama Byzantine Castle in Pisidia (southwest Turkey): a preliminary report by Hüseyin Metin, Abdulhadi Durukan

“…The walls, constructed of rubble stone, lime mortar, and broken bricks, suggest that the fortifications were constructed in no specific order. …”
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All-optical azimuthal trapping of dissipative Kerr multi-solitons for relative noise suppression by Pradyoth Shandilya, Shao-Chien Ou, Jordan Stone, Curtis Menyuk, Miro Erkintalo, Kartik Srinivasan, Grégory Moille

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Determine the Importance of Effective Factors in site selection Rainwater harvesting in the Tajerre Kashan Basin by maryam aghaie, siamak dokhani, ebrahim omidvar

“…For this purpose, layers such as crown cover, litter, rock and stones, soil, curve number, rainfall, slope and depth of field as independent variable and infiltration were considered as the dependent variable. …”
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Optimization of Mix Proportions for Novel Dry Stack Interlocking Concrete Blocks Using ANN by Krishna Prakash A, Jane Helena H, Paul Oluwaseun Awoyera

“…The inputs are given in the percentage ratio of cement: fly ash: crushed stone aggregate (FA): coarse aggregate (CA) for the process of learning, testing, and validation. …”
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A “Non-Invasive” Technique for Qualifying the Reinforced Concrete Structure by Antonella Guida, Antonello Pagliuca, Alessandro Tranquillino Minerva

“…The above-defined methodology has been tested on a postwar building which is located in Gravina in Puglia (Italy): the “Centrone” theatre; it was built using a mixed structure, that is, reinforced concrete and bearing masonry built of local stone. The building was used until the 1990s and now is abandoned. …”
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Modeling the Effects of Formulary Exclusions: How Many Patients Could Be Affected by a Specific Exclusion? by Anne M. Sydor, Emily Bergin, Jonathan Kay, Erik Stone, Robert Popovian

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Assessing the Physical Surface Temperature Patterns in Urban Environment (Case Study: Tehran) by Aliakbar Shamsipour, Ghasem Azizi, Mostafa Karimi Ahmadabad, Masoumeh Moghbel

“…To extract different land cover surface temperature patterns such as Asphalt, Soil, Cement and Stone, three OPUS 200/300 Data Loggers with six PT100 sensors were installed in Geophysic Weather Station in University of Tehran and the temperatures of land covers were measured in 10 minute-time intervals during one statistical period (2012-2013). …”
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The genetic architecture of local adaptation in a cline by Laroche, Fabien, Lenormand, Thomas

“…Here, we investigate this question in a spatially-explicit model, considering two contiguous habitats with distinct trait optima on a circular stepping-stone. We find that clustering of local-adaptation genes is pervasive within clines during both the establishment phase of local adaptation and the subsequent “reconfiguration” phase where different genetic architectures compete with each other. …”
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Using the “One Shot” Concept for Immediate Loading Implant Protocol in Edentulous Patient Rehabilitation with a Fixed Prosthesis: A 6-Year Follow-Up by Philippe Bousquet, Delphine Carayon, Jean-Cedric Durand

“…In the master cast model, the stone was eliminated between the implants and a new plaster was poured to modify the crest profile with the posthealing new shape. …”
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