Ischemic Changes in the Mucous Membrane of the Transverse Colon as a Complication of Acute Pancreatitis by D. A. Semenov, S. G. Shapovalyants, D. E. Seleznev, O. I. Yudin, S. V. Korolev, N. A. Gracheva, L. M. Mikhaleva, K. S. Paramonenko

“…During colonoscopy, ischemic changes of the colon mucosa were detected in a timely manner. Negative results of analysis for toxins A and B of Clostridioides difficile and pathogenic intestinal flora were obtained. …”
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Nurses’ Experience of Using an Application to Support New Parents after Early Discharge: An Intervention Study by Dorthe Boe Danbjørg, Lis Wagner, Bjarne Rønde Kristensen, Jane Clemensen

“…The nurses on the postnatal ward consider that the use of the app gives families easier access to timely information and support. Conclusions. The app gives the nurses the possibility to offer support and information to the parents being early discharged. …”
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An intelligent attention based deep convoluted learning (IADCL) model for smart healthcare security by J. Maruthupandi, S. Sivakumar, B. Lakshmi Dhevi, S. Prasanna, R. Karpaga Priya, Shitharth Selvarajan

“…Abstract In recent times, there has been rapid growth of technologies that have enabled smart infrastructures-IoT-powered smart grids, cities, and healthcare systems. …”
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Coxiella Endocarditis as the Cause of Recurrent Fever and Brain Abscess in a Patient with Complex Congenital Heart Disease: A Case Report and Literature Review by Ioannis A. Ziogas, Alexandros P. Evangeliou, Olga Tsachouridou, Alexandra Arvanitaki, Afroditi Tsona, Vassilios Kamperidis, Marianthi Papagianni, Theofilos Panagiotidis, Ilias A. Tourtounis, George Giannakoulas, Symeon Metallidis

“…Patients with congenital heart disease are particularly vulnerable to IE. Timely diagnosis and antibiotic management are of paramount importance in order to avoid the potentially fatal sequelae.…”
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Influence of the Oxide Layer Thickness on the Behavior of the Electrical Wheel–Rail Contact in Static Conditions by Luna Haydar, Florent Loete, Frédéric Houzé, Karim Slimani, Fabien Guiche, Philippe Testé

“…To manage and ensure the safety of traffic on rail networks, trains need to be reliably located at all times. This is achieved in many countries by electrically detecting their presence using so-called “track circuits” installed at regular intervals on each track, designed to detect when the wheels and axles of a train are shunting the two rails and to act accordingly on the signaling system. …”
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Immune Vulnerability of Infants to Tuberculosis by Koen Vanden Driessche, Alexander Persson, Ben J. Marais, Pamela J. Fink, Kevin B. Urdahl

“…As a result, infected infants are 5–10 times more likely than adults to develop active tuberculosis (TB) and have higher rates of severe disseminated disease, including miliary TB and meningitis. …”
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Selection of cam mechanisms for driving the plunger of high-pressure pump of diesel engines using Mathcad program by A. P. Zhigadlo, Yu. P. Makushev, T. A. Polyakova, V. V. Ryndin

“…A comparative analysis of the combined graphs showed that the maximum speed of the cam pusher with a concave profile is 1,5 times greater than for cams with a tangential or convex profile. …”
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Expert advice from ResearchMatch volunteers: Recruitment Innovation Center use cases and innovation by Maeve Tischbein, Sarah K. Cook, Cathy Shyr, Katelyn Benhoff, Amna Baig, Kaysi Quarles, Leslie R. Boone, Loretta M. Byrne, Mariela Rodriguez, Terri Edwards, Consuelo H. Wilkins, Paul A. Harris

“…For this to occur, streamlined mechanisms are needed to connect the populations potentially impacted by a given study or health topic with research teams in order to inform trial design in a meaningful and timely manner. To address this need, we developed an innovative mechanism called the “ResearchMatch Expert Advice Tool” that quickly obtains volunteer perspectives from populations with specific health conditions or lived experiences using the national recruitment registry, ResearchMatch. …”
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Heme alters biofilm formation in Mycobacterium abscessus by Hadia Aftab, Jessica Samudio, Grace Wang, Lily Le, Rajesh K. Soni, Rebecca K. Donegan

“…During infection, the CF lung can have more than 10 times the extracellular heme than that of a healthy lung. …”
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Life cycle comparison of industrial-scale lithium-ion battery recycling and mining supply chains by Michael L. Machala, Xi Chen, Samantha P. Bunke, Gregory Forbes, Akarys Yegizbay, Jacques A. de Chalendar, Inês L. Azevedo, Sally Benson, William A. Tarpeh

“…Electricity consumption is identified as the principal contributor to all LIB recycling environmental impacts, and different electricity sources can change greenhouse gas emissions up to five times. Supply chain steps that precede refinement (material extraction and transport) contribute marginally to the environmental impacts of circular LIB supply chains (<4%), but are more significant in conventional supply chains (30%). …”
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Calculation of additional shunt for current sensor of insulators by N. A. Tereshchenko, K. I. Nikitin, M. A. Kholmov, V. I. Novoselov

“…Despite the existence of various methods and devices, the problem of timely detection of insulation deterioration in the operating mode has not been solved at the moment. …”
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Dye Ligand Epoxide Chitosan/Alginate: A Potential New Stationary Phase for Human IgG Purification by Diego R. Gondim, Luana P. Lima, Maria C. M. de Souza, Igor T. L. Bresolin, Wellington S. Adriano, Diana C. S. Azevedo, Ivanildo J. Silva

“…Human serum diluted ten times was also injected into the column. An enrichment of IgG in the elution fraction with traces of human serum albumin was observed. …”
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ImproveYourVideos: Architectural Improvements for Text-to-Video Generation Pipeline by Vladimir Arkhipkin, Zein Shaheen, Viacheslav Vasilev, Elizaveta Dakhova, Konstantin Sobolev, Andrey Kuznetsov, Denis Dimitrov

“…Secondly, we introduce a novel frame interpolation architecture that offers an inference speed boost over three times that of the standard Masked Frame interpolation approach. …”
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Potential of ultrasound investigation in diagnostics of pseudomembranous colitis in surgical patients by O. A. Alekseyechkina, E. Ya. Dubrov, Ye. S. Vladimirova, T. P. Pinchuk, G. P. Titova

“…This method allows to carry out dynamic control of the course of disease, is well-timed to reveal its complications, to control efficacy of specific treatment.…”
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Sub-millimeter fiberscopic robot with integrated maneuvering, imaging, and biomedical operation abilities by Tieshan Zhang, Gen Li, Hao Ren, Liu Yang, Xiong Yang, Rong Tan, Yifeng Tang, Dong Guo, Haoxiang Zhao, Wanfeng Shang, Yajing Shen

“…Besides, the robot showcases remarkable motion precision (less than 30 μm) and substantially widens the imaging region by ~25 times the inherent view. Through ex vivo trials, we validate the robot’s practicality in navigating constrained channels, such as the lung end bronchus, and executing multifunctional operations including sampling, drug delivery, and laser ablation. …”
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Case series of dermopathy in autoimmune thyroid disease by Janić Tamara, Stojković Mirjana, Marković Bojan, Đurković Ivana, Babić Jovana, Joksimović Nata, Nedeljković-Beleslin Biljana, Ćirić Jasmina, Žarković Miloš

“…Our patients had different thyroid function disorders (hypo/hyperthyroidism), different forms of dermopathy, and varying times of onset during the disease. Association with orbitopathy and high TRAb concentrations were also present in all our patients. …”
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Inferring effects of mutations on SARS-CoV-2 transmission from genomic surveillance data by Brian Lee, Ahmed Abdul Quadeer, Muhammad Saqib Sohail, Elizabeth Finney, Syed Faraz Ahmed, Matthew R. McKay, John P. Barton

“…Abstract New and more transmissible variants of SARS-CoV-2 have arisen multiple times over the course of the pandemic. Rapidly identifying mutations that affect transmission could improve our understanding of viral biology and highlight new variants that warrant further study. …”
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Improvement in Device Performance and Reliability of Organic Light-Emitting Diodes through Deposition Rate Control by Shun-Wei Liu, Chih-Chien Lee, Yu-Ting Chung, Jiun-Haw Lee, Chin-Ti Chen, Juen-Kai Wang

“…The operating lifetime of such a two-step deposition OLED was 1.92 and 4.6 times longer than that of devices with a single deposition rate, that is, 1.3 and 0.03 nm/s cases, respectively.…”
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Giant gate modulation of antiferromagnetic spin reversal by the magnetoelectric effect by Kakeru Ujimoto, Hiroki Sameshima, Kentaro Toyoki, Takahiro Moriyama, Kohji Nakamura, Yoshinori Kotani, Motohiro Suzuki, Ion Iino, Naomi Kawamura, Ryoichi Nakatani, Yu Shiratsuchi

“…We obtained a significant modulation efficiency of the switching field, Δμ 0 H SW/ΔV (Δμ 0 H SW/ΔE), reaching a maximum of −500 mT/V (−4.80 T nm/V); this value was more than 50 times greater than that of the ferromagnetic-based counterparts. …”
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Concentration and the value of D-dimer in the diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis by Van Nguyen-Thanh Phan, De Nhi Nguyen, Tri Dang-Minh Bui, Minh Duc Tong, Trung Hoang Nguyen, Dung Thi-Ngoc Nguyen

“…Results: The D-dimer concentration of patients with deep venous thrombosis had a median of 3106.5 ng/ml and was about 1.5 times higher than that of patients without deep venous thrombosis. …”
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