Properties of Aluminosilicate Refractories with Synthesized Boron-Modified TiO2 Nanocrystals by Claudia Carlucci, Francesca Conciauro, Barbara Federica Scremin, Antonio Graziano Antico, Marco Muscogiuri, Teresa Sibillano, Cinzia Giannini, Emanuela Filippo, Caterina Lorusso, Paolo Maria Congedo, Giuseppe Ciccarella

“…The effects of these additions in bricks were evaluated, according to UNI EN 196/2005, in terms of thermo-physical and mechanical properties: diffusivity, bulk density, apparent density, open and apparent porosity and cold crushing strength. …”
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Lupus Flare: An Uncommon Presentation of Disseminated Gonorrhea by Uyen To, Joyce Kim, David Chia

“…Our patient is a 24-year-old woman with SLE, mixed connective tissue disease with cutaneous vasculitis, and lupus nephritis who presented with several weeks of malaise and generalized body aches associated with a diffuse rash along her fingers, palms, and trunk. …”
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EOLA1 Inhibits Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1 Expression by Association with MT2A in ECV304 Cells by Weiling Leng, Xiaotian Lei, Hao Meng, Xinshou Ouyang, Ziwen Liang

“…Our results show that EOLA1 is broadly diffuse in the cells, and EOLA1 expression is dramatically induced by LPS. …”
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A Unified Shape-From-Shading Approach for 3D Surface Reconstruction Using Fast Eikonal Solvers by Guohui Wang, Xuan Zhang, Jin Cheng

“…The first component is designed to address different reflectance properties including diffuse, specular, and hybrid reflections in the imaging process of the camera. …”
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Does Technetium-99m Diethylenetriaminepentaacetate Clearance Predict the Clinical Course of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis? by Marco Mura, Gelorma Belmonte, Stefano Fanti, Angela Maria Pacilli, Luca Fasano, Maurizio Zompatori, Mario Schiavina, Mario Fabbri

“…At T0 (diagnosis) and T1 (follow-up), each patient had pulmonary function tests (forced vital capacity, diffusing capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide and partial arterial O2 pressure), extension of fibrosis evaluated by HRCT visual score and 99mTc-DTPA lung clearance. …”
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Upregulation of TSHR, TTF-1, and PAX8 in Nodular Goiter Is Associated with Iodine Deficiency in the Follicular Lumen by Huibin Huang, Lijun Chen, Bo Liang, Huiyao Cai, Qingyan Cai, Yaxiong Shi

“…It has been testified that iodine regulates thyroid function by controlling thyroid-restricted genes expression and is closely related to diffuse goiter and thyroid dysfunction. However, the effects of follicular lumen iodine, the main form of iodine reserve in the body, on thyroid-restricted genes in nodular goiter are poorly understood. …”
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Numerical Study of Sodium Bicarbonate Production in Industrial Bubble Columns by Jasim Humadi, Ekehwanh Rasheed

“…The broader width of the column increases turbulent mass diffusivity, but decreases turbulent viscosity. With a broader column width, column pH gradient decreases, due to the increased liquid amount. …”
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Rare case of spontaneous renal calyx rupture due to vesicoureteral junction stone in a horseshoe kidney by Siham Oukassem, Salma Debbi, Chaima Abourak, Ola Messouad, PhD, Omar EL Aoufir, PhD, Laila Jroundi, PhD, Ali Mohammed Miko, Mamoun Diouri, Ayoub Bouhnib, Ahmed Ibrahimi, PhD

“…A 50-year-old patient with a prior history of chronic smoking presented to the emergency department with diffuse abdominal pain, primarily localized to the right hypochondrium and epigastric region, along with nausea, but without fever, vomiting, or urinary symptoms. …”
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Paracentral Acute Middle Maculopathy and Central Retinal Venous Occlusion following Electrical Injury by Sahel Khazaei, Mehrdad Motamed Shariati, Naser Shoeibi, Mohammad Arjmand, Seyedeh Maryam Hosseini

“…Funduscopic examination of the right eye revealed diffuse superficial and deep intraretinal hemorrhages, mild venous tortuosity, and an area of the pale retina. …”
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Productive Entry Pathways of Human Rhinoviruses by Renate Fuchs, Dieter Blaas

“…Alternatively, the endosome is disrupted and the RNA freely diffuses into the cytoplasm.…”
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Clinical Investigation of Benign Asbestos Pleural Effusion by Nobukazu Fujimoto, Kenichi Gemba, Keisuke Aoe, Katsuya Kato, Takako Yokoyama, Ikuji Usami, Kazuo Onishi, Keiichi Mizuhashi, Toshikazu Yusa, Takumi Kishimoto

“…Asbestosis was present in 6 (5.5%) cases, rounded atelectasis was detected in 41 (37.3%) cases, and diffuse pleural thickening (DPT) was detected in 30 (27.3%) cases. …”
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Monitoring Volatile Organic Compounds in Air Using Passive Sampling: Regional Cross-Border Study between N. Macedonia and Kosovo by Vllaznim Mula, Jane Bogdanov, Jasmina Petreska Stanoeva, Lulzim Zeneli, Zoran Zdravkovski

“…Macedonia and the Republic of Kosovo for nine consecutive months, using the Radiello® passive and diffusive samplers, and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). …”
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Electron Acceleration by Multiple Fast Fermi Reflections at Earth’s Bow Shock by Y. Y. Liu, J. B. Cao, C. M. Liu, Y. T. Song, D. K. Hu

“…The generation of energetic particles in the Universe is an important topic in astrophysical and space physics. Although the diffusive shock acceleration has been acknowledged to play an essential role in particle acceleration, the injection problem has not been well resolved yet. …”
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Central nervous system B-cell lymphoma in a patient diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic inflammation with pontine perivascular enhancement responsive to steroids: A case report by Evangelos Koumasopoulos, Evangelia-Anna Spiteri, Aigli G Vakrakou, Panagiotis Toulas, Georgios Velonakis, George Stranjalis, Leonidas Stefanis, Maria-Eleptheria Evangelopoulos, Maria Anagnostouli

“…Brain tissue histology was indicative of diffuse giant B cells, Epstein–Barr virus positive, and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. …”
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Proposal of a Correlation Model Integrating FDRM and CLSCM Practices and Performance Measures: A Case Study from the Automotive Battery Industry in Brazil by Antonio Marco-Ferreira, Reginaldo Fidelis, Francielle Cristina Fenerich, Rafael Henrique Palma Lima, Pedro Paulo De Andrade Junior, Diogo José Horst

“…Current literature on CLSCM reports a wide variety of practices, and combining these practices with environmental performance measures is an ongoing challenge, mainly because results from these practices are often diffuse and linking them with performance results is not a straightforward task. …”
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Intrathyroidal Clear Cell Tumor of Parathyroid Origin with Review of Literature by Daniela Pirela, Daniela Treitl, Siba El Hussein, Robert Poppiti, Thomas Mesko, Alex Manzano

“…The histologic appearance together with the immune profile was diagnostic of WCCA, with diffuse positivity for GATA3, focal weak positivity for parathyroid hormone, and negativity for PAX8, thyroglobulin, TTF1, synaptophysin, chromogranin, and S100p. …”
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Utilization of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Assessing Myocardial Fibrosis in Prognosis Evaluation and Risk Stratification of Patients with Dilated Cardiomyopathy by Xin-Yi Feng, Yu-Cong Zheng, Ying-Xia Yang, Wen-Feng He, Fan Yang, Ling-Li Wang, Han-Feng Yang, Chun-Ping Li, Xiao-Xue Xu, Rui Li

“…However, because of the absence of normal tissue as a control, the LGE technique often fails to effectively visualize diffuse interstitial fibrosis. In such cases, T1 mapping and extracellular volume fraction mapping can be complementary or alternative methods to the LGE technique for detecting interstitial fibrosis. …”
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From homogeneity to heterogeneity: Refining stochastic simulations of gene regulation by Seok Joo Chae, Seolah Shin, Kangmin Lee, Seunggyu Lee, Jae Kyoung Kim

“…Our findings indicate that when transcription factors diffuse slowly, these simulations fail to accurately capture gene expression, highlighting the necessity to account for spatial heterogeneity. …”
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Hydraulic-Hydrology Analysis of the Turbulent Seepage Flow within Karst Aquifer of the Golubinka Spring Catchment by Goran Lončar, Željko Šreng, Damir Bekić, Duška Kunštek

“…By using the numerical model KarstMod it was estimated that, on average, concentrated fracture flow drains around 85% of infiltrated volumes and the remaining 15% accounts for diffuse matrix flow. Finally, the Modflow model was used in order to get insight into the flow field and the distribution of equipotentials in the aquifer of the Golubinka catchment.…”
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On the Environmental Factors Affecting the Structural and Cytotoxic Properties of IAPP Peptides by Marianna Flora Tomasello, Alessandro Sinopoli, Giuseppe Pappalardo

“…Pancreatic islets in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients are characterized by reduced β-cells mass and diffuse extracellular amyloidosis. Amyloid deposition involves the islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP), a neuropancreatic hormone cosecreted with insulin by β-cells. …”
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