Huge Cystic Lymphangioma of the Pancreas Mimicking Pancreatic Cystic Neoplasm by Enrico Dalla Bona, Valentina Beltrame, Stella Blandamura, Federica Liessi, Cosimo Sperti

“…The patient is well and free of disease 12 months after surgery. Pancreatic lymphangioma should be kept in mind when a huge, multiloculated mass is encountered in the abdomen, especially in adult women. …”
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Freedom of Expression: what lessons should we learn from US experience? by Ronaldo Porto Macedo Junior

“…There is nowadays in Brazil an unexpected agreement among the right wing, religious groups, and many human rights movements that support a European model of free speech. In many ways, the “Brazilian Model” based on balancing doctrine and a vague conceptualization of Human Dignity gives a lot of discretion for courts to decide the limits of freedom of expression. …”
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Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) Growth and Yield as Influenced by Preemergence Herbicides by W. J. Grichar, P. A. Dotray, D. R. Langham

“…Studies were conducted during the 2007 and 2008 growing seasons under weed-free conditions in South Texas and the High Plains region of Texas to evaluate preemergence herbicides for sesame tolerance. …”
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Activity and diffusivity of oxygen in the liquid dilute BixSb1-x solutions by Jendrzejczyk-Handzlik D., Handzlik P., Fitzner K.

“…The diffusivity in pure metals (in cm2/s) is: Dbi,O =(9.04 ± 1.82)∙10-3 exp (-49115±1809/RT) DSb,O(2.87±0.22)∙10-4 exp (-16720±677/RT). The standard free energy of solution of oxygen in liquid antimony, bismuth and antimony-bismuth alloys according to the reaction ½ O2 (g) = O (infinite dilution) is calculated. …”
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Cortical Surface Reconstruction from High-Resolution MR Brain Images by Sergey Osechinskiy, Frithjof Kruggel

“…The method is further evaluated by cross-comparison with results of the FreeSurfer software on standard resolution data sets from the OASIS database featuring pairs of repeated scans for 20 healthy young subjects.…”
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Epitranscriptomic RNA m6A Modification in Cancer Therapy Resistance: Challenges and Unrealized Opportunities by Mohammad Burhan Uddin, Zhishan Wang, Chengfeng Yang

“…Resistance to currently available anticancer drugs results in poor overall and disease‐free survival rates for cancer patients. There are multiple mechanisms through which tumor cells develop resistance to therapeutic agents. …”
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A Review on the Antimutagenic and Anticancer Effects of Cysteamine by Chun-Man Lee

“…Although the mechanisms of action are not fully understood, possible explanations are (i) free radical scavenging, (ii) alteration of the tumor cell proliferation by affecting nucleic acid and protein synthesis or inhibition of DNA synthesis, and (iii) hormone regulation. …”
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Plasmapheresis for Spur Cell Anemia in a Patient with Alcoholic Liver Cirrhosis by Kenji Miki, Takashi Maruki, Shinsaku Imashuku

“…Analysis of lipids showed that total and free cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, phospholipid, and apo-AI concentrations, all of which were reduced before plasmapheresis, had improved after treatment, while LDL cholesterol, lipoprotein (a), and apo-AII concentrations, which were also reduced before plasmapheresis, remained unchanged. …”
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Model Predictive Control for Continuous-Time Singular Jump Systems with Incomplete Transition Rates by Xinxin Gu, Jiwei Wen, Li Peng

“…Sufficient conditions for the existence of a model predictive controller, which could optimize a quadratic cost function and guarantee that the system is piecewise regular, impulse-free, and mean square stable, are given in two cases at each sampling time. …”
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Development of Testing Platform and Comparison Studies for Wood Nondestructive Testing by Jian Li, Yiming Fang, Jiyong Tang, Hailin Feng, Xiongwei Lou

“…Three wood nondestructive testing methods, including peak time interval measurement, cross-correlation, and spectrum analysis, were also tested on this platform with serious decay sample, early decay sample, and defect-free sample. The results show that new methods can be verified easily and the researches of wood nondestructive testing will be accelerated with the designed platform.…”
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Proposed Framework for the Evaluation of Standalone Corpora Processing Systems: An Application to Arabic Corpora by Abdulmohsen Al-Thubaity, Hend Al-Khalifa, Reem Alqifari, Manal Almazrua

“…Several commercial and free standalone corpora processing systems are available to process such corpora. …”
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Dataset for Genome Sequencing and De Novo Assembly of the Candidate Phyla Radiation in Supragingival Plaque by Song Jiang, Jie Nie, Yuxing Chen, Shiying Zhang, Xiaoyan Wang, Feng Chen

“…Relative abundance of different CPR MAGs in the caries and caries-free group was estimated by mapping metagenomic reads to newly constructed MAGs. …”
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Global dynamic path‐planning algorithm in gravity‐aided inertial navigation system by Shengwu Zhao, Lei Shi, Wenzhe Zhang, Zhihong Deng

“…The simulation results show that the global dynamic path‐planning algorithm proposed can realise obstacle‐free navigation of the underwater vehicle.…”
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Damage-failure transition in titanium alloy Ti-6Al-4V under dwell fatigue loads by Vladimir Oborin, Aleksandr Balakhnin, Oleg Naimark, Yuri Gornostyrev, Vladimir Pushin, Nataliya Kuranova, Dimitrii Rasposienko, Aleksey Svirid, Aleksey Uksusnikov

“…In the case of dwell fatigue, the nucleation stage is associated with slip localization, faceting, voids and microcrack initiation; the phase growth kinetics has the relation to specific non-linearity of the free energy release responsible for the staging of damage-failure transition. …”
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Evaluation of the Antioxidant Activity of Coreopsis Tinctoria Nuff. and Optimisation of Isolation by Response Surface Methodology by Lan Shumin, Lin Jingming, Zheng Ni

“…We may assume that CTFT possess antioxidant and free radical scavenging potentials.…”
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Dual-Band Shared-Aperture Antenna with Pattern and Polarization Diversity by Jia Cheng, Tianyu Gao, Dongpeng Han, Changfei Zhou

“…The overall size of the proposed antenna is 0.76 × 0.76 × 0.37 λ₀³, where λ₀ is the free space wavelength of the lowest operating frequency of 2.09 GHz. …”
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ACTIVITIES TO ANTICIPATE THE WEAKNESSES OF STUDENTS’ READING MATERIALS FROM INTERNET by Maria Eka Mulatsih

“…This article explores students’ reading materials from the internet today in relation to its’ weaknesses when an adaptation of the Extensive Reading procedure was applied in Prose and Book Report classes of English Language and Education Study Program during even semester 2018. Students were free to choose their reading materials which consisted of two short stories and four novels for Prose class, three simplified novels and three original novels for Book Report class. …”
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Rethinking contending themes in indigenous and Christian religions in contemporary Africa by O.C. Eze, L.I. Ugbudian, T.A. Adihikon, S.O.S. Nnabuchi, J.U. Eke, C.J. Okolo

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Cross-Talk between Gut Microbiota and Heart via the Routes of Metabolite and Immunity by Jin Bu, Zhaohui Wang

“…Moreover, studies of germ-free mice have provided evidence that microbiota diversity and the presence of a specific microbe in the gut can affect immune cells in hosts. …”
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Skull Repair after Major Crush Injury by H. Sudhoff, H. J. Hoff, M. Lehmann

“…Skin expander implantation prior to reconstructive surgery ensured a tension-free closure. This team approach led to a satisfactory outcome for this patient. …”
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