Metagenomic analysis identifying a polymicrobial pulmonary infection in a non-HIV immunocompromised patient: a case report by Jing Duan, Jie Ding, Yupeng Wei, Yingxin Zhang, Zhiqing You, Ding Li, Chao Chen

“…However, no etiology was found by routine examination. mNGS of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid(BALF)simultaneously detected the presence of Pneumocystis jirovecii (P.jirovecii), Aspergillus fumigates (A.fumigates), Nocardia farcinica (N.farcinica), Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica (S.enterica subsp. enterica), and cytomegalovirus (CMV). …”
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Coccidioidomycosis Masquerading as Eosinophilic Ascites by Kourosh Alavi, Pradeep R. Atla, Tahmina Haq, Muhammad Y. Sheikh

“…He had eosinophilia of 11.1% with negative testing for stool studies, HIV, and tuberculosis infection. Ascitic fluid exam was remarkable for low serum-ascites albumin gradient (SAAG), PMN count >250/mm3, and eosinophils of 62%. …”
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The influence of Nusselt number on dropwise condensation heat transfer for a single droplet on inclined and grooved surfaces by Loghman Mohammadpour, Hesam Moghadasi, Ali Moosavi

“…This study presents a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) investigation on DWC heat transfer under diverse circumstances for a single droplet on inclined and rough surfaces with Wenzel structure. …”
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Improving the Quality of Colonoscopy Bowel Preparation Using an Educational Video by Sateesh R Prakash, Siddharth Verma, John McGowan, Betsy E Smith, Anjali Shroff, Gregory H Gibson, Michael Cheng, Douglas Lowe, Kavitha Gopal, Smruti R Mohanty

“…Participants who watched the video had better preparation scores in the right colon (P = 0.0029), mid-colon (P = 0.0027), rectosigmoid (P = 0.0008), fluid content (P = 0.03) and aggregate score (median score 4 versus 5; P = 0.0002). …”
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A Design Method of Inland River Channel Based on Hydrodynamic Response of Ship by ZHANG Lei, FENG Shaoxiong, TAN Kun, GUO Tao, SONG Chengguo, CHU Xiumin, MIAO Yang

“…The analyses of flow details and experiences of engineers are extensively used for the design of channel nowadays, without thorough consideration of the fluid-structure interaction between flow and ships. …”
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Numerical Simulation of Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Coupling of Model Test for Nuclear Waste Disposal by Yu-Ping Wang, Zhe Wang, Fa-Cheng Yi, Lei Fu, Ying Luo

“…In view of the theory of mixtures and mechanics of continuous media, the coupled THM mathematical model of unsaturated buffer materials is established, considering heat transport and multiphase fluid flow. Using the buffer material Mock-up test of multi-field coupling as a model, the partial differential equation (PDE) module in the general finite element software COMSOL Multiphysics was developed by a second development stage. …”
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A Rare Prenatal Case: Greig Cephalopolysyndactyly Syndrome by Tilbe Hakçıl, Gülsüm Kayhan, Tuncay Nas, Pınar Telli Celtemen, Meral Yirmibeş Karaoğuz

“…A 32-year-old woman, in her 21st week of the first pregnancy, was referred to our center for cytogenetic analysis of amniotic fluid because of the detection of polyhydramnios, polydactyly, aortic stenosis, and the absence of vesica biliaris visualization on fetal ultrasound. …”
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Design of Negative Pressure Spiral Feeding Device for Tangential and Longitudinal Axial Intersection of Combine Harvester by Zhong Tang, Xiyao Li, Xinda Chen, Yang Chen

“…The primary objective of this paper was to design a negative pressure spiral feeding device by CFD (computational fluid dynamics). The negative pressure spiral feeding combined structure of the tangential threshing cylinder and longitudinal axial threshing cylinder was established by Pro/E software. …”
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Extracellular Vesicles of Mesenchymal Stem Cells Are More Effectively Accessed through Polyethylene Glycol-Based Precipitation than by Ultracentrifugation by Lei Jia, Bo Li, Cong Fang, Xiaoyan Liang, Yingjun Xie, Xiaofang Sun, Wen Wang, Lei Zheng, Ding Wang

“…We harvested EVs from amniotic fluid MSCs (AF-MSCs) by UC- or PEG-based precipitation methods and conducted a comparison study of those EVs derived by the two methods: output, RNA, and protein expression of EVs and EV biological reaction in a THP-1-cell model of LPS induction, which was considered an infection model. …”
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Bacterial Meningoencephalitis in a Foal by Judit Viu, Lara Armengou, Cristian de la Fuente, Carla Cesarini, Sònia Añor, Eduard Jose-Cunilleras

“…Hematology revealed leukocytosis and neutrophilia. Cerebrospinal fluid analysis showed neutrophilic pleocytosis with intracellular bacteria. …”
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Single-cell transcriptomics of bronchoalveolar lavage during PRRSV infection with different virulence by Byeonghwi Lim, Seung-Chai Kim, Hwan-Ju Kim, Jae-Hwan Kim, Young-Jun Seo, Chiwoong Lim, Yejee Park, Sunirmal Sheet, Dahye Kim, Do-Hwan Lim, Kyeongsoon Park, Kyung-Tai Lee, Won-Il Kim, Jun-Mo Kim

“…This study evaluated longitudinal changes in the immune cell composition of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid and the clinical outcomes across PRRSV strains with varying virulence, using techniques including single-cell transcriptomics. …”
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Atypical Radiographic Presentation of Cryptococcus Pneumonia in a Newly Diagnosed HIV Patient by Arthur Cacacho, Umair Ashraf, Arsalan Rehmani, Masooma Niazi, Misbahuddin Khaja

“…He was diagnosed with Cryptococcus neoformans meningitis by cerebrospinal fluid culture and with disseminated cryptococcal infection by a positive Cryptococcus blood test. …”
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Unconventional Biomarkers in Dementia Trough Neurological Examination: A Literature Review by Salazar-Londoño, Salomón, Pérez-Foucrier, Valeria, Tengonó-Guarín, María José, Franky-Escobar, Isabella, Iragorri, Angela

“…Introduction: Blood and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers have gained prominence in dementia diagnosis; however, they are not always available. …”
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Comprehensive analysis and optimization of an efficient combined power and refrigeration cycle suitable for recovering low/mid-grade waste flue gas by Shaobo Zhang, Shixuan Wang, Jiafeng Wu

“…To effectively recover low/mid-grade waste flue gas and provide larger refrigeration capacity, an efficient combined power and refrigeration cycle only using ammonia water as the working fluid is proposed and studied in this paper. Parametric analysis is conducted from the perspectives of thermodynamics, exergoeconomics, and environment, the results demonstrate that the low/mid-grade waste flue gas within a wide temperature range can be sufficiently recovered by the proposed cycle, and the cycle performance is significantly affected by the turbine inlet pressure, work/basic concentration and separation temperature of work solution. …”
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Molecular Mechanisms and Therapeutic Prospects of Immunotherapy and Targeted Therapy in Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma by Lin Zhong MM, Anqing Lu MB, Xiyue Lu MM, Xiaoyin Liu MD, Lujia Cao MM, Shihong Zhu MM, SiJun Diao MM, Xu Cheng MM, Hongwei Wu MB, Jing Chen MD

“…Primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) is a very rare extranodal non-Hodgkin's lymphoma confined to the brain, eyes, spinal cord, and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). This disease is highly aggressive. For decades, high-dose methotrexate-based induction regimens have been the standard treatment for PCNSL and have significantly improved patient overall survival (OS). …”
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Salivary proteomics and metaproteomics identifies distinct molecular and taxonomic signatures of type-2 diabetes by Diana Samodova, Evelina Stankevic, Mathilde Sonne Søndergaard, Naiyu Hu, Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia, Daniel R. Witte, Daniel Belstrøm, Anniek Frederike Lubberding, Pratik D. Jagtap, Torben Hansen, Atul S. Deshmukh

“…Abstract Background Saliva is a protein-rich body fluid for noninvasive discovery of biomolecules, containing both human and microbial components, associated with various chronic diseases. …”
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Aerosol Inhalation of Heat-Killed Clostridium butyricum CGMCC0313-1 Alleviates Allergic Airway Inflammation in Mice by Laodong Li, Qixiang Sun, Huan Xiao, Qiannan Zhang, Siyue Xu, Lejin Lai, Zhengning Li, Chaoqian Li

“…Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid cell number, histology, and levels of the cytokines interferon-gamma and IL-4, the autophagy-related proteins LC3B, Beclin1, and p62, and members of the nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB)/NLRP3 inflammasome signaling pathway were examined. …”
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Numerical analysis of evaporation reduction in floating photovoltaic power plants: influence of design parameters by Berlioux Baptiste, Amiot Baptiste, Ferrand Martin, Le Berre Rémi, Rhazi Oume-Lgheit, Vidal Javier, Pabiou Hervé, Knikker Ronnie

“…This study was performed using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) of the surrounding atmosphere, with the impact of the FPV plant modelled using specific boundary conditions to reduce computational costs. …”
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Wheat Germ as Partial or Total Substitutive of Lean Meat in Low-Fat Cooked Sausages by Marta Rodríguez-Fernández, Isabel Revilla, Pablo Rodrigo, Rocío López-Calabozo, Ana María Vivar-Quintana

“…The results showed that the incorporation of wheat germ improved emulsion stability, decreasing significantly total expressible fluid and jelly/fat separation, although increasing the back extrusion force. …”
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Patterns of Antimicrobial Resistance in the Causative Organisms of Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis: A Single Centre, Six-Year Experience of 1981 Samples by Sara Sheikhbahaei, Alireza Abdollahi, Nima Hafezi-Nejad, Elham Zare

“…In a cross-sectional, single center, hospital based study, 1981 consecutive ascitic fluid samples were recruited from 2005 to 2011. Samples were dichotomized into three-year periods, in order to assess the trend of resistance to the first-line empirical antibiotics. …”
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