Right Aortic Arch and Kommerell’s Diverticulum Repaired without Reconstruction of Aberrant Left Subclavian Artery by Hiroshi Osawa, Daisuke Shinohara, Kouan Orii, Shigeru Hosaka, Shoji Fukuda, Okihiko Akashi, Hiroshi Furukawa

“…After a 3D-CT imaging, the patient underwent descending aortic replacement without reconstruction of aberrant left subclavian artery. …”
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A Fuzzy-Based Analytic Hierarchy Process for Mechanical Noise Source Identification of a Diesel Engine by Junhong Zhang, Qidi Zhou, Jiewei Lin, Weidong Li, Zhoujie Tang, Chaoyang Duan

“…It is shown the overall weighting order of the six major noise sources is (in descending order) the oil pan, the left block, the valve cover, the flywheel housing, and the right block.…”
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MIMO-Based Forward-Looking SAR Imaging Algorithm and Simulation by Ziqiang Meng, Yachao Li, Shengqi Zhu, Yinghui Quan, Mengdao Xing, Zheng Bao

“…However, it is difficult to obtain accurate 2D frequency spectrum of the target echo signal due to the high velocity and descending height of this platform, which brings a lot of obstacles to imaging algorithm design. …”
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COVID-19 and APOL-1 High-Risk Genotype-Associated Collapsing Glomerulonephritis by Sasmit Roy, Srikanth Kunaparaju, Narayana Murty Koduri, Vikram Sangani, Mytri Pokal, Venu Madhav Konala, Mamtha Balla, Sreedhar Adapa

“…Our case highlights a similar case of COVID-19 in a 65-year-old AA descendant with biopsy-proven FSGS and genetically confirmed APOL-1 alleles.…”
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Neural circuits underlying context-dependent competition between defensive actions in Drosophila larvae by Maxime Lehman, Chloé Barré, Md Amit Hasan, Benjamin Flament, Sandra Autran, Neena Dhiman, Peter Soba, Jean-Baptiste Masson, Tihana Jovanic

“…Finally, we identify a pair of descending neurons that promote startle behaviors and could modulate the escape sequence. …”
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Manifestation as Acute Myocardial Infarction in a Young, Healthy Male by Prerak Juthani, Rohan Bhojwani, Neil Gupta

“…Despite having no significant past medical history or atherosclerotic risk factors, he was found to have a complete occlusion of his left anterior descending artery that required cardiac catheterization. …”
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Inflammatory Myoglandular Polyps: A Case Series of Four Patients and Review of the Literature by Shoji Hirasaki, Hiromitsu Kanzaki, Minoru Matsubara, Seiyuu Suzuki

“…Three cases were located in the sigmoid colon or descending colon. All 4 polyps were identified as red, pedunculated lesions. …”
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On generalizations of the series of Taylor, Lagrange, Laurent and Teixeira by L. M. B. C. Campos

“…We consider a complex function F(z), which is analytic (has an isolated singularity) at ζ, and expand its derivative of complex order F(ν)(z), in an ascending (ascending-descending) series of powers of an auxiliary function f(z), yielding the generalized Teixeira (Lagrange) series, which includes, for f(z)=z−ζ, the generalized Taylor (Laurent) series. …”
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Les voyages dans les ghost stories de Montagu Rhodes James : à la découverte d’horizons inattendus by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…All five characters experience something terrifying, descend into literal and metaphoric depths, and one of them even meets his death because of it. …”
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Between the Violence and the Citizenship: A Glance on the Youth Mortality by Thaís Juliana Medeiros, Ana Paula Serrata Malfitano

“…The results show that the majority of the homicides and suicides happened with young men and African descendant from the poorest city’s neighborhoods. It is discussed the citizenship dimension of the poor and the black young living in the disadvantaged areas, showing that the youth death is related to the lack of access to rights and citizenship. …”
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CT Diagnosis of a Thoracic Aort Aneurysm with Type B Aortic Dissection Clinically Misdiagnosed as Acute Pulmonary Embolism by Ahmet Mesrur Halefoglu

“…Accompanying the aneurysm, an intimal flap was also present in the proximal descending thoracic aorta, distal to the origin of the left subclavian artery and extending into the bifurcation level. …”
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From Teleology to Backward Causation: How Do They Contribute to Our Understanding of the Nature of Concepts? by Marcin Poręba

“…The paper analyses the traditional concept of teleology, as well as its modern descendant, the concept of function (as used in the context of so-called functional explanations), against the background of such notions as purposive action, concepts, causality, time, and space-time. …”
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Determination of Heavy Metal Pollution in the Dankran River in the Bekwai Municipality of Ghana by Vivian Afriyie, Lyndon N. A. Sackey, Linda Aurelia Ofori

“…The order of concentration of the investigated metals follows this pattern in descending order: Fe > Mn > Cu > Zn > Ni > Hg.…”
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Periods of Migration Waves and Social Demography of Bosnian Population in Germany by Yusuf Adıgüzel, Damir Softic

“…According to the data of the German Federal Bureau of Statistics (Statistisches Bundesamt), 289 thousand people have immigration experience or consist of first-generation people, and this number reaches 415,000 with the new generation immigrants descended from them. Nearly half of the population of Bosnian origin in Germany participated in the migration process through family reunification and marriage. 84% of the immigrant population is concentrated in 4 of the 16 states in Germany. …”
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Polariser l'écart : la mise en scène du décalage dans Fram de Tony Harrison by Catherine Lanone

“…Polar opposites: discrepancy in Tony Harrison's Fram: Proud of his origins, Tony Harrison blends in his work the memory of his working-class background and of the vast literary tradition he descends from, from Greek tragedy to Shakespeare or Keats. …”
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Evaluation and Reduction of Energy Consumption of Railway Train Movement on a Straight Track Section with Reduced Freight Wagon Mass by Maryna Bulakh

“…The results indicate that energy consumption increases by 18.9% as speed rises to 90 km/h and as gradients increase to 2.0‰, while energy consumption decreases by 14.5% on a descending gradient of 1.5‰, which corresponds to the expected dynamics of railway trains. …”
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Spatial characteristics and health risks assessments of trace metal pollution from road dusts in the industrialized city of Bangladesh by Masum Howlader, Ashik Md Mamun, Mohammad Mahfuzur Rahman, Md Hasibur Rahman, Sadhon Chandra Swarnokar, Mahfuza Sultana, Md Tanvir Rahman, Tusar Kumar Das

“…The element-specific environmental indices represent that the geo-accumulation index follows the descending order In (3.55 ± 1.54) > Bi (3.48 ± 1.08) > Ga (2.51 ± 0.48) > Cd (1.06 ± 0.73) > Pb (−0.23 ± 0.33), while the contamination factor fallows the descending order In (22.54 ± 12.57) > Bi (20.96 ± 12.13) > Ga (8.99 ± 2.97) > Cd (3.53 ± 1.41) > Pb (1.30 ± 0.29) > Zn (0.64 ± 0.31). …”
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ST Elevation Infarction after Heart Transplantation Induced by Coronary Spasms and Mural Thrombus Detected by Optical Coherence Tomography by Tor Skibsted Clemmensen, Niels Ramsing Holm, Hans Eiskjær, Steen Hvitfeldt Poulsen, Michael Maeng, Christian Juhl Terkelsen, Evald Høj Christiansen

“…Therefore, an optical coherence tomography (OCT) was performed and revealed massive, organized thrombi in the left main coronary artery, the circumflex coronary artery, and the left anterior descending coronary artery. The patient was stabilized after percutaneous coronary intervention. …”
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Effect of sacubitril/valsartan on inflammation and oxidative stress in doxorubicin-induced heart failure model in rabbits by Yu Chun, Li Donghao, Li Zhongyan, Yu Donghui, Zhai Guijuan

“…Specific biomarkers such as BNP, CnT, CRP and ROMs descended significantly (p < 0.001) with treatment when compared to their baseline values. …”
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Phytochemical profile, therapeutic potentials, nutritional composition, and food applications of ginger: a comprehensive review by Great Iruoghene Edo, Ufuoma Augustina Igbuku, Raghda S. Makia, Endurance Fegor Isoje, Tayser Sumer Gaaz, Emad Yousif, Agatha Ngukuran Jikah, Khalid Zainulabdeen, Patrick Othuke Akpoghelie, Rapheal Ajiri Opiti, Arthur Efeoghene Athan Essaghah, Dina S. Ahmed, Huzaifa Umar

“…Ginger exerts its bioactivities via a number of mechanisms such as inhibiting the activation of tumor necrosis factor α and cyclooxygenase-2 in human synoviocytes and limiting the body’s leukotrienes and prostaglandins to elicit anti-inflammatory activity, activating the descendent inhibitory pathways of pain and suppressing the transmission of nociceptive signals thus exhibiting anti-nociceptive effects amongst others. …”
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