A Homozygous CASQ2 Mutation in a Japanese Patient with Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia by Taishi Fujisawa, Yoshiyasu Aizawa, Yoshinori Katsumata, Akihiro Udo, Shogo Ito, Kazumasa Hatakeyama, Makoto Hirose, Hiroshi Miyama, Kazuaki Nakajima, Takahiko Nishiyama, Takehiro Kimura, Masamitsu Nitta, Kazuo Misumi, Seiji Takatsuki, Kenjiro Kosaki, Keiichi Fukuda

“…An intensive examination could not detect any structural disease, and exercise stress testing provoked polymorphic ventricular ectopy followed by polymorphic ventricular tachycardia accompanied with syncope leading to a diagnosis of catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT). …”
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GC Method Validation for the Analysis of Menthol in Suppository Pharmaceutical Dosage Form by Murad N. Abualhasan, Abdel Naser Zaid, Nidal Jaradat, Ayman Mousa

“…The method was validated as per ICH guidelines for various parameters such as precision, linearity, accuracy, solution stability, robustness, limit of detection, and quantification. The tested validation parameters were found to be within acceptable limits. …”
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Assessment of structural integrity of subsea wellhead system: analytical and numerical study by A.R. Maligno, R. Citarella, V.V. Silberschmidt, C. Soutis

“…In particular, severe fatigue loading acting on the subsea wellhead system was detected. For this reason, a combined analytical and numerical study investigating the critical effect of crack depth on the overall structural integrity of subsea wellhead systems under cyclic loading was carried out. …”
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Digital Ischemia in an Extreme Preterm Infant Treated with Nitroglycerin Patch by Mansour Al Qurashi, Abdulaziz Al-Khotani, Farzeen Mohtisham, Eman AlRaddadi, Heba AlShaikh, Alqassem Y. Hakami, Syed Sameer Aga

“…Prolonged peripheral tissue ischemia may result in serious complications, and successful management depends on early detection, proper assessment, and the institution of appropriate intervention. …”
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Chemokines and Cytokines as Salivary Biomarkers for the Early Diagnosis of Oral Cancer by Gareema Prasad, Michael McCullough

“…Thus it has been hypothesized that patients with oral cancer and oral potentially malignant lesions will have elevated levels of specific chemokines in oral fluids and that this may be used as a marker of both the early detection of malignant disease and progression to malignancy. …”
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Electrochemical Behavior of Ni(II)-Salen at the Mercury Electrode by Pércio Augusto Mardini Farias, Margarida Bethlem Rodrigues Bastos

“…The amount of reactant adsorbed after 60 s of accumulation at −700 mV was calculated to be 2.8 × 10−8 mol·cm−2. The detection limit for nickel determination was found to be 3.4 × 10−9 mol L−1.…”
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Transverse cracking in glass fibre-reinforced composites monitored with synchrotron X-ray multi-projection imaging by Elise Van Vlierberghe, Jeroen Soete, Eleni Myrto Asimakopoulou, Zisheng Yao, Julia Rogalinski, Zhe Hu, Kannara Mom, Bratislav Lukić, Christian Breite, Pablo Villanueava Perez, Yentl Swolfs

“…Radiographs taken at three angles with synchrotron radiation enabled the detection of crack propagation and other damage mechanisms related to the final failure of composites. …”
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Treatment options for Leber hereditary optic neuropathy by I. Povilaitytė, R. Liutkevičienė

“…In about 70% of LHON cases three major mutations in mitochondrial DNA: 11778G>A/ND4, 3460G>A/ND1 and 14484T>C/ND6 are detected. Literature also describes more than 18 novel mtDNA mutations associated with LHON and the dysfunction of mitochondrial electron transport chains. …”
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Williams-Beuren Syndrome and Congenital Lobar Emphysema: Uncommon Association with Common Pathology? by Timothy Andrew Walsh, Krishna Revanna Gopagondanahalli, Atul Malhotra

“…We report another case of a male Caucasian newborn with nonspecific initial respiratory distress, with detection of CLE on repeat chest X-ray on Day 25 of life and concurrent ventricular septal defect, supravalvular aortic stenosis, and branch pulmonary stenosis, in whom a 7q11.23 deletion consistent with Williams-Beuren Syndrome was made. …”
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A Case Report of Acute Acalculous Cholecystitis and Acute Hemorrhagic Cystitis due to Salmonella Typhi by Hatice Beyazal Polat, Mehmet Beyazal, Fatma Beyazal Çeliker

“…Infectious agents such as Salmonella Typhi should be considered when acute acalculous cholecystitis and acute hemorrhagic cystitis are detected in adult patients with no underlying diseases.…”
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Gastrotracheal Fistula as a Result of Transhiatal Esophagectomy for Esophageal Cancer: An Unusual Complication by Heshmatollah Salahi, Mehdi Tahamtan, Bijan Ziaian, Mansoor Masjedi, Zahra Saadati, Nazanin Hoseini, Elahe Torabi

“…Being aware of warning signs such as dyspnea and respiratory distress accompanied by bilious content in the tracheal tube is helpful in the early detection and treatment of this type of fistula.…”
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Planetary Gearbox Fault Diagnosis Using Envelope Manifold Demodulation by Weigang Wen, Robert X. Gao, Weidong Cheng

“…To address this critical problem, an envelope manifold demodulation method is proposed for planetary gear fault detection in the paper. This method combines complex wavelet, manifold learning, and frequency spectrogram to implement planetary gear fault characteristic extraction. …”
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Distributed Event-Triggered Control of Multiagent Systems with General Linear Dynamics by Xieyan Zhang, Jing Zhang

“…The consensus value of these new states is a constant so that the distributed event-triggering scheme is obtained under periodic event detections, in which agents with general linear dynamics require knowledge only of the relative states with their neighbors. …”
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Xanthine Oxidase: Isolation, Assays of Activity, and Inhibition by Danijela A. Kostić, Danica S. Dimitrijević, Gordana S. Stojanović, Ivan R. Palić, Aleksandra S. Đorđević, Jovana D. Ickovski

“…Testing inhibition of XO is important for detection of potentially effective compounds or extracts that can be used to treat diseases that are caused by increased activity of XO. …”
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Protocol for multiplexed RNAscope-based imaging of mRNAs in whole-mount adult Drosophila brains by Meilin Wu, Vanessa Lambatan, Peng Guo, William J. Joiner

“…Here, we present a protocol utilizing RNAscope (ACD) to overcome these obstacles and detect multiple types of mRNAs simultaneously in whole-mount adult Drosophila brains. …”
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Brine-Induced Tribocorrosion Accelerates Wear on Stainless Steel: Implications for Mars Exploration by Javier Martín‐Torres, María‐Paz Zorzano‐Mier, Erik Nyberg, Abhilash Vakkada-Ramachandran, Anshuman Bhardwaj

“…Although corrosive chemical species such as materials like chloride atoms, chlorides, and perchlorates have been detected on the Martian surface, there is a lack of studies of its impact on materials for landed spacecraft and structures that will support surface operations on Mars. …”
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Noninvasive Free Flap Monitoring Using Eulerian Video Magnification by Yuan Fang Liu, Christopher Vuong, Paul Charles Walker, Nathaniel Ray Peterson, Jared Christian Inman, Pedro Alcantara Andrade Filho, Steve Choon-Sung Lee

“…In a representative 77-year-old female who received a latissimus dorsi-serratus-rib composite free flap, EVM was able to detect blockage of arterial or venous supply instantaneously, providing a visible representation through degree of color change in videos. …”
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Collagen Fibril Diameter in Relation to Bone Site and to Calcium/Phosphorus Ratio by Panagiotis Berillis, Dimitris Emfietzoglou, Margaret Tzaphlidou

“…In most cases, statistically significant differences in mean fibril diameter values between different bone sites were detected. The order of magnitude for the above structural parameter was the same for both genders in both experimental species. …”
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Ramsay Hunt Syndrome Associated with Central Nervous System Involvement in an Adult by Tommy L. H. Chan, Ana M. Cartagena, Anne Marie Bombassaro, Seyed M. Hosseini-Moghaddam

“…Varicella zoster virus was detected in the cerebrospinal fluid by polymerase chain reaction. …”
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MULTI-PIXEL PHOTON COUNTER FOR OPERATING A TABLETOP COSMIC RAY DETECTOR UNDER LOOSELY CONTROLLED CONDITIONS by Hoang Duy Thanh Nguyen, Vu Chi Lan Nguyen, Van Son Cao, Van Ngoc Tran, Khoa Nguyen, Thi Hong Van Nguyen, To Quyen Phan

“…An MPPC provides many advantageous features, such as high electrical gain, outstanding photon detection efficiency, fast timing response, immunity to magnetic fields, low-voltage operation, compactness, portability, and cost-effectiveness. …”
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