Coexistence of Primary GEJ Adenocarcinoma and Pedunculated Gastric Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor by Aroub Alkaaki, Basma Abdulhadi, Murad Aljiffry, Mohammed Nassif, Haneen Al-Maghrabi, Ashraf A. Maghrabi

“…Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are the most common mesenchymal tumors of the digestive system, although they account for only 0.1–3% of all gastrointestinal (GI) malignancies. …”
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Broadcast Network Coverage with Multicell Cooperation by Hongxiang Li, Samee Ullah Khan, Hui Liu

“…Specifically, we calculate the broadcast coverage area with given common information rate and outage probabilities when multiple base stations collaboratively transmit the broadcast signals. …”
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Massive Retroperitoneal Hemorrhage as an Initial Presentation of a Rare and Aggressive Form of Multiple Myeloma by Aydah Alawadhi, Laszlo Leb

“…Multiple myeloma, a plasma cell neoplasm, presents most commonly with anemia, hypercalcemia, renal failure, and bone pain. …”
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Detection of the onset of numerical chaotic instabilities by lyapunov exponents by Alicia Serfaty De Markus

“…It is commonly found in the fixed-step numerical integration of nonlinear differential equations that the size of the integration step is opposite related to the numerical stability of the scheme and to the speed of computation. …”
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Double M-plasty in Patients with Basosquamous Carcinoma. A Case Report by Carlos Manuel Collado Hernández, Francisco Matos Figueredo, Vivian Pérez Núñez

“…Skin cancer is the most common malignant tumor in humans and its presence has increased in recent years. …”
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Ominous Occurrence of Spinal Intradural Primary Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor Four Decades following Radiation Therapy for Testicular Seminoma by Osmond C. Wu, Berje H. Shammassian, Arunit J. S. Chugh, Aparna Harbhajanka, Manish K. Kasliwal

“…Intradural MPNSTs of the spine outside the setting of neurofibromatosis is extremely rare and can masquerade as common benign nerve sheath tumors, on imaging. An older age at presentation with short duration of symptoms and prior regional radiation treatment encompassing the spine in the treatment field regardless of remoteness should alert the oncologists and neurosurgeons to the possible existence of this rare and aggressive tumor, as the management, and overall prognosis of this tumor is distinctly different compared to the usual intradural spinal tumors.…”
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Isolation of Streptococcus bovis in a Patient with Undiagnosed Colon Cancer. A Case Report by Ledys Pérez Morales, Jorge Emilio Barletta del Castillo, Odette Quiñones Cherta

“…One of the bacterial agents commonly associated with colorectal cancer is Streptococcus bovis. …”
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Application of Fractional Wave Packet Transform for Robust Watermarking of Mammograms by Pushpa Mala Siddaraju, Devappa Jayadevappa, Kaliyamoorthy Ezhilarasan

“…The proposed scheme is tested on mammograms images and is subjected to common attacks like Gaussian filtering, median filtering, compression, sharpening, and contrast adjustments. …”
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Fracture of the Atlas through a Synchondrosis of Anterior Arch by Gamze Turk, Ismail M. Kabakus, Erhan Akpinar

“…In younger children, cervical fractures usually occur above the level of C4; whereas in older population, fractures or dislocations more commonly involve the lower cervical spine. Greater elasticity of intervertebral ligaments and also the spinal vertebrae explains why cervical fractures in paediatric ages are rare. …”
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An Elusive Bullet in the Gastrointestinal Tract: A Rare Case of Bullet Embolism in the Gastrointestinal Tract and a Review of Relevant Literature by Saptarshi Biswas, Catherine Price, Sunil Abrol

“…Smaller caliber bullets are more common in civilian gunshot wound (GSW) events. These bullets are able to tumble through the gastrointestinal tract and cause perforation of the intestinal lumen which is small enough to be easily missed. …”
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Congenital Extrahepatic Portosystemic Shunts: Spectrum of Findings on Ultrasound, Computed Tomography, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Pankaj Gupta, Anindita Sinha, Kushaljit Singh Sodhi, Anupam Lal, Uma Debi, Babu R. Thapa, Niranjan Khandelwal

“…Focal liver lesions, most commonly nodular regenerative hyperplasia, are an important clue to the underlying condition. …”
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Molecular pathogenesis of Cryptosporidium and advancements in therapeutic interventions by Lu Yilong, Zhang Xiaoning, Guan Zhiyu, Ji Rui, Peng Fujun, Zhao Chunzhen, Gao Wei, Gao Feng

“…Cryptosporidiosis, caused by a Cryptosporidium infection, is a serious gastrointestinal disease commonly leading to diarrhea in humans. This disease poses a particular threat to infants, young children, and those with weakened immune systems. …”
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New Immunotherapeutic Approaches for Glioblastoma by Gustavo Ignacio Vázquez Cervantes, Dinora F. González Esquivel, Saúl Gómez-Manzo, Benjamín Pineda, Verónica Pérez de la Cruz

“…Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common primary malignant brain tumor with a high mortality rate. …”
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Gastric Sarcoidosis: A Rare Clinical Presentation by Hemasri Tokala, Karthik Polsani, Jagadeesh K. Kalavakunta

“…Gastric sarcoidosis is the most common form of GI sarcoidosis. Symptomatic gastric sarcoidosis is rare and only few case reports have been described in the literature with well-documented histological evidence of noncaseating granulomas. …”
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Phylogenomics reveal that plants colonized land together with their fungal symbiotic partners by Rich, Mélanie

“…This similarity suggests that those mechanisms were inherited from their last common ancestor, a lineage that emerged from an aquatic environment 450 million years ago. …”
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Solid-Liquid Separation Properties of Thermoregulated Dicationic Ionic Liquid as Extractant of Dyes from Aqueous Solution by Rui Lv, Shuya Cui, Yangmei Zou, Li Zheng

“…Two thermoregulated dicationic ionic liquids were synthesized and applied for effective extraction of the common dye malachite green oxalate (MG). The extraction parameters such as amount of ionic liquids, pH of water phase, extraction time, cooling time, and centrifugal time on the extraction efficiency were investigated systematically. …”
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Basic Steps to Creating a Conservation Land Trust in Florida by Benjamin W. North, Elizabeth Frances Pienaar, Jessica D. Sullivan

“… Conservation land trusts, more commonly called land trusts, are private 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations that protect land important to your community for its natural, cultural, and recreational value. …”
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Extraction of Flavonoids from Corn Silk and Biological Activities In Vitro by Shuangqi Tian, Yue Sun, Zhicheng Chen

“…In this paper, extraction methods commonly used for extracting flavonoids from corn silk were reviewed, such as reagent method, enzymatic method, microwave, supercritical CO2 extraction, ultrasonic, and microwave-assisted ultrasonic. …”
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Subsurface Drip Irrigation (SDI) for Enhanced Water Distribution: SDI - Seepage Hybrid System by Lincoln Zotarelli, Libby Rens, Charles Barrett, Daniel J. Cantliffe, Michael D. Dukes, Mark Clark, Steven Lands

“…In terms of water use efficiency, the traditional seepage irrigation systems commonly used in areas with high water tables are one of the most inefficient methods of irrigation, though some irrigation management practices can contribute to better soil moisture uniformity. …”
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Analysis of Option Butterfly Portfolio Models Based on Nonparametric Estimation Deep Learning Method by Xiangyu Ge, Xia Zhu, Gang Bi, Hao Zheng, Qing Li

“…The option butterfly portfolio is the commonly option arbitrage strategy. In reality, because the distribution of the option state price density (SPD) function is not normal and unknown, so the nonparametric deep learning methods to estimate option butterfly portfolio returns are proposed. …”
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