Effects of mesoscale gravity waves on sporadic E simulated by a one-dimensional dynamic model by Xu Zhou, ZeZhong Li, XinAn Yue, LiBo Liu

“…The mesoscale GWs can also cause increases in the density of Es layers, or they can disperse or diffuse the Es layers and increase their thickness. …”
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Circulating Tissue Inhibitor of Matrix Metalloproteinase-4 (TIMP-4) in Systemic Sclerosis Patients with Elevated Pulmonary Arterial Pressure by Gialafos J. Elias, Moyssakis Ioannis, Psaltopoulou Theodora, Papadopoulos P. Dimitrios, Perea Despoina, Vlasis Kostantinos, Kostopoulos Charalampos, Votteas Vassilios, Sfikakis P. Petros

“…However, in the subgroup of patients with PASP measurements lower to 40 mmHg (n=69), TIMP-4 levels were comparable to controls irrespective of the presence of diffuse or limited skin involvement, or lung fibrosis. …”
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Reexpansion Pulmonary Edema following Laparoscopy-Assisted Distal Gastrectomy for a Patient with Early Gastric Cancer: A Case Report by Kazuhito Yajima, Tatsuo Kanda, Ryo Tanaka, Yu Sato, Takashi Ishikawa, Shin-ichi Kosugi, Tadayuki Honda, Katsuyoshi Hatakeyama

“…Chest radiography results showed diffuse ground-glass attenuation and alveolar consolidation in both lungs without cardiomegaly. …”
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A case of cutaneous melanoma metastatic to the ciliary body and choroid with complete regression via systemic dual checkpoint inhibitor therapy by Ansam I. Qaddoumi, William I. Evans, Matthew W. Wilson

“…Result A 55-year-old female with known metastatic cutaneous melanoma presented with pain, a large ciliochoroidal mass, visual decline, and diffuse intraocular inflammation. The examination and testing were consistent with intraocular metastasis from her primary cutaneous melanoma. …”
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Determination of the Mechanical Properties of Rubber by FT-NIR by Rattapol Pornprasit, Philaiwan Pornprasit, Pruet Boonma, Juggapong Natwichai

“…All of the samples were then scanned using a FT-NIR spectrometer and fitted with an integration sphere working in a diffused reflectance mode. The spectra were correlated with hardness and tensile properties. …”
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Porothermoelastic Response of a Borehole in Fluid-Saturated Medium Subjected to Thermal Osmosis Effect by Hai Lin, Jingen Deng, Xiaocheng Zhang, Jiajia Gao

“…The results suggest that the thermal osmosis effect should not be neglected on the premise that a lower permeability porous rock is characterized by the substantially large thermal osmotic coefficient and the small thermal diffusivity values. The case that the thermal osmosis effect reduces the undrained loading effect leads to the decrease of the mean shear stress that is determined by the effective maximum and minimum stress around a borehole, since, and accordingly contributes to the wellbore stability to resist the shear failure.…”
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A Rare Case of Digital Ischemia and Gangrene in ANCA-Associated Vasculitis with Review of the Literature by Richard A. Lau, Ramandeep Bains, Duminda Suraweera, Jane Ma, Emil R. Heinze, Andrew L. Wong, Philip J. Clements

“…The diagnosis was supported with a positive cANCA (anti-proteinase 3) and a bronchoscopy consistent with diffuse alveolar hemorrhage. Although the patient refused a tissue biopsy, clinical presentation including nasal ulceration, sinus congestion, and epistaxis and anti-proteinase 3 antibody were more consistent with Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (GPA) rather than Microscopic Polyangiitis (MPA) or Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (EGPA) based on the recently presented ACR/EULAR Provisional 2017 Classification Criteria for GPA (Luqmani et al., 2016). …”
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“That’ll Teach Them”: Investigating the Soft Power Conversion Model through the Case of Russian Higher Education by A. Crowley-Vigneau, A. A. Baykov, E. Kalyuzhnova

“…A survey of foreign students starting their studies and of another finishing their studies in three leading Russian universities reveals that receiving a higher education in Russia may contribute to aligning students’ positions with the Russian perspective on international issues diffused in these universities as was confirmed by surveying a control group of Russian students. …”
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Idiopathic Infantile Arterial Calcification: A Possible Cause of Refractory Cardiopulmonary Failure in Infancy by A. Nael, P. J. Siaghani, D. Chen, S. G. Romansky, L. Shane

“…His symptoms progressed to multiple organ failure and he eventually expired at four weeks of age. On autopsy, diffuse calcium deposition within the internal elastic lamina of medium and large arteries was identified, as well as narrowing of lumen due to myointimal proliferation. …”
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Space debris and satellite laser ranging combined using a megahertz system by Michael A. Steindorfer, Peiyuan Wang, Franz Koidl, Georg Kirchner

“…Space debris laser ranging gathers diffuse reflections from the whole space debris object and offers a precision down to the sub meter-level. …”
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Giant Congenital Melanocytic Nevi and Neurocutaneous Melanosis by Catarina Araújo, Cristina Resende, Francisco Pardal, Celeste Brito

“…This patient was diagnosed as having a neurocutaneous melanosis with malignant widespread leptomeningeal infiltration. Diffuse spinal involvement is unusual and is described in only another patient.…”
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Postpartum HELLP syndrome associated with posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome by Rita Pinto Medeiros, Maria Ruão, Pedro Vita, Raquel Monte, Aníbal Marinho

“…Various mechanisms may lead to diffuse endothelial damage associated with HELLP and possible brain involvement. …”
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Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity of Powders (P25) via Calcination Treatment by Guohong Wang, Lin Xu, Jun Zhang, Tingting Yin, Deyan Han

“…The P25 powders before and after calcination treatment were characterized with XRD FTIR, UV-visible diffuse reflectance spectra, SEM, TEM, HRTEM, and N2 adsorption-desorption measurements. …”
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Iron Contamination Mechanism and Reaction Performance Research on FCC Catalyst by Zhaoyong Liu, Zhongdong Zhang, Pusheng Liu, Jianing Zhai, Chaohe Yang

“…A dense layer could be formed on the catalysts’ surface after iron contamination and the dense layer stops reactants to diffuse to inner structures of catalyst. This causes extremely negative effects on catalyst’s heavy oil conversion ability and could greatly cut down gasoline yield while increasing yields of dry gas, coke, and slurry largely. …”
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Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Radial Gap and Impeller Blade Exit on Flow-Induced Vibration at the Blade-Passing Frequency in a Centrifugal Pump by A. Al-Qutub, A. Khalifa, Y. Khulief

“…It has been recognized that the pressure pulsation excited by rotor-stator interaction in large pumps is strongly influenced by the radial gap between impeller and volute diffusers/tongues and the geometry of impeller blade at exit. …”
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Successful Management of Immune Thrombocytopenia Presenting with Lethal Alveolar Hemorrhage by Keiki Nagaharu, Masahiro Masuya, Keiki Kawakami, Naoyuki Katayama

“…We report the case details of three elderly ITP patients presenting with lethal diffuse alveolar hemorrhage. These patients had the following underlying pulmonary diseases: case 1, nontuberculous mycobacterial infection and sarcoidosis; case 2, cryptogenic organizing pneumonia; case 3, pulmonary emphysema. …”
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Invasive macroalgae shape chemical and microbial waterscapes on coral reefs by Chloé Pozas-Schacre, Hugo Bischoff, Delphine Raviglione, Slimane Chaib, Camille Clerissi, Isabelle Bonnard, M. Nugues Maggy

“…., organooxygen compounds), which diffused from algal tissues to boundary layers according to their polarity. …”
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False-Positive 18F-FDG PET/CT Uptake in Unilateral Lactation by Joshua Wei Liang Yip, Han Loh, Chuong Bui, Veronica Chi Ken Wong, Robert Mansberg

“…The scan demonstrated unilateral diffuse intense FDG uptake corresponding to dense soft tissue in the right breast, likely related to secretory hyperplasia. …”
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Phytogenic Synthesis and Characterization of NiO-ZnO Nanocomposite for the Photodegradation of Brilliant Green and 4-Nitrophenol by Sirajul Haq, Aqsa Waheed Raja, Sadiq Ur Rehman, Amine Mezni, Manel Ben Ali, Amor Hedfi, Muhammad Imran Shahzad, Wajid Rehman, Nadia Shahzad, Muhammad Waseem, Pervaiz Ahmad

“…By using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), functional groups in samples were determined. By using diffuse reflectance data (DRS), band gap energy calculated via Tauc plot was 3.23 eV. …”
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The clinical-stage drug BTZ-043 accumulates in murine tuberculosis lesions and efficiently acts against Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Andreas Römpp, Axel Treu, Julia Kokesch-Himmelreich, Franziska Marwitz, Julia Dreisbach, Nadine Aboutara, Doris Hillemann, Moritz Garrelts, Paul J. Converse, Sandeep Tyagi, Sina Gerbach, Luzia Gyr, Ann-Kathrin Lemm, Johanna Volz, Alexandra Hölscher, Leon Gröschel, Eva-Maria Stemp, Norbert Heinrich, Florian Kloss, Eric L. Nuermberger, Dominik Schwudke, Michael Hoelscher, Christoph Hölscher, Kerstin Walter

“…High-resolution MALDI imaging further reveals that BTZ-043 diffuses and accumulates in the cellular compartment, and fully penetrates the necrotic center. …”
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