A Case of Histoplasma capsulatum Causing Granulomatous Liver Disease and Addisonian Crisis by P Wong, S Houston, B Power, E Lalor, VG Bain

“…He returned to hospital the same night with coffee-ground emesis and in Addisonian crisis requiring parenteral steroids and intensive care unit support. An abdominal computed tomography scan revealed bilaterally enlarged, nonenhancing adrenal glands suggestive of infarcts, presumed secondary to histoplasmosis. …”
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Clinical Competence of Nurses and the Associated Factors in Public Hospitals of Gamo Zone, Southern Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study by Shitaye Shibiru, Zeleke Aschalew, Mekidim Kassa, Agegnehu Bante, Abera Mersha

“…Associated factors identified with clinical competence include gender, age, marital status, qualification, position, work experience, unit, interest in their profession, critical thinking disposition, clinical self-efficacy, and emotional intelligence. …”
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Correlates of Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults with Diabetes by LaRita C. Jones, Olivio J. Clay, Fernando Ovalle, Andrea Cherrington, Michael Crowe

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Endoscopic Appearance of Oropharyngeal and Upper GI Kaposi’s Sarcoma in an Immunocompromised Patient by Umar Darr, Anas Renno, Zubair Khan, Turki Alkully, Maitham A. Moslim, Sehrish Kamal, Ali Nawras

“…A 65-year-old male with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) with cardiopulmonary arrest secondary to hyperkalemia of 7.5 meq/L. …”
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Deep Learning Automated System for Thermal Defectometry of Multilayer Materials by A. S. Momot, R. M. Galagan, V. Yu. Gluhovskii

“…The proposed system consists of a heating source, an infrared camera for recording sequences of thermograms and a digital information processing unit. Three neural network modules are used for automated data processing, each of which performs one of the tasks: defects detection and classification, determination of the defect depth and thickness. …”
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Effects of Anthropomorphic Driving Vehicles on Traffic Flow by Xiaoyi Ma, Xiaowei Hu, Dieter Schramm, Shufen Wang

“…The result shows that, compared to non-automated vehicles, both autonomous vehicles and anthropomorphic driving vehicles can improve traffic efficiency during congested periods, increase traffic volume per unit time, reduce the total travel time and time loss, and have a higher average speed. …”
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Scaphoid Fat Stripe Sign: Is It a Reliable Radiological Sign of Scaphoid Fracture in Children? by Pavle Manic, Stéphanie Schizas, Pierre-Yves Zambelli, Eleftheria Samara

“…Methods: This is a monocentric, retrospective study of all patients referred to the Pediatric Traumatology Unit of a tertiary hospital from the Emergency Department with clinical suspicion of scaphoid fracture without visible fracture in the initial X-ray. …”
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Transfer matrix simulation of hard-core lattice gases on triangular lattice with up to third-neighbour exclusion by A. V. Myshlyavtsev, M. D. Myshlyavtseva

“…For the third model, it is found that there is a first-order phase transition and the unit cell size of the ordered phase is equal to seven.…”
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A Comparison of Selected Modifications of the Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm by Michala Jakubcová, Petr Máca, Pavel Pech

“…In the first strategy, the entire swarm population is considered as one unit (OC-PSO), the second strategy periodically partitions the population into equally large complexes according to the particle’s functional value (SCE-PSO), and the final strategy periodically splits the swarm population into complexes using random permutation (SCERand-PSO). …”
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Structural Health Monitoring of Precast Concrete Box Girders Using Selected Vibration-Based Damage Detection Methods by Zhengjie Zhou, Leon D. Wegner, Bruce F. Sparling

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Can’t Software Malfunction? by Jeroen de Haas, Wybo Houkes

“…Software is taken to be a self-contained unit through which the software engineer exerts complete control over a machine’s behavior. …”
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Alterations of the Gut Microbiome in Chinese Zhuang Ethnic Patients with Sepsis by Jieyang Yu, Hongping Li, Jingjie Zhao, Yanhua Huang, Chunlei Liu, Pengfei Yang, Dinggui Lu, Jian Song, Lingzhang Meng

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Growing demand for housing and the productivity challenges in developing housing projects in Iraq by Ali Hassoon, Farid Ezanee Mohamed Ghazali, Tareq Khaleel, Ahmed Hadi

“…The key findings reveal that planning (RII = 0.874), team size (RII = 0.856), quantity of brickwork (RII = 0.838), supervision (RII = 0.815), and unit area (RII = 0.793) are among the most influential factors on CP. …”
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How to support recovery phase for landslide through livelihoods? case study: Kulon Progo Regency, Indonesia by Setyawati Dewanti Diah, Jaenul Haq Jejen, Viviani Nurhanifah Nita, Bi Chuanchen

“…The study examines the impact of human, social, physical, natural, and financial capital, as well as transformations in structure and process (TSP), on the recovery phase. The unit of analysis is households, with data collected from 300 households through stratified random sampling. …”
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Prevalence of Escherichia coli in Under-Five Children with Diarrhea in Ethiopia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Tizazu Zenebe, Meseret Mitiku, Yonas Alem

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Working Load Characteristics of the PDC-Cone Composite Bit under Impact and Scraping by Kuilin Huang, Chunxiao Zhou, Yingxin Yang, Haitao Ren, Qingzhi Niu

“…Second, cutting load models of the cone teeth and PDC teeth were established through unit experiments and through the calculation methods of the axial force, lateral force and torque, and lateral bending moment of the composite bit. …”
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A Combination of Classification Robust Adaptive Kalman Filter with PPP-RTK to Improve Fault Detection for Integrity Monitoring of Autonomous Vehicles by Hassan Elsayed, Ahmed El-Mowafy, Amir Allahvirdi-Zadeh, Kan Wang, Xiaolong Mi

“…Epoch-wise weighting adjustments in the robustness test create a more accurate stochastic model, aided by an adaptive unit weight variance (UWV) calculated with a sliding window, achieving a 7–28% UWV reduction. …”
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Pathogenesis of Severe Clinical Pictures of Influenza A (H1 N1). Some answers and new doubts. by Alfredo Darío Espinosa Brito, Ángel Julio Romero Cabrera

“…This situation may lead the patient to the intensive care unit and could cause his death, although the figures of such cases stay relatively low, in relation to other epidemics of seasonal Influenza. …”
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Electrical and Thermal Anisotropy in Additively Manufactured AlSi10Mg and Fe-Si Samples by Martin Sarap, Hans Tiismus, Ants Kallaste, Mart Saarna, Märt Kolnes, Payam Shams Ghahfarokhi, Toomas Vaimann

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E. coli Meningitis Presenting in a Patient with Disseminated Strongyloides stercoralis by Juliana B. Gomez, Yvan Maque, Manuel A. Moquillaza, William E. Anicama

“…Three days later the patient died in the intensive care unit due to septic shock. Autopsy was performed and microscopic examination revealed the presence of multiple Strongyloides larvae throughout the body. …”
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