Ankle-Brachial Index Is a Powerful Predictor of Renal Outcome and Cardiovascular Events in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease by Fu-An Chen, Chih-Yu Yang, Wu-Chang Yang, Jinn-Yang Chen, Yee-Yung Ng, Szu-Yuan Li, Wen-Sheng Liu, Shiao-Ti Cheng, Yu-Jen Wang, Chih-Ching Lin

“…After a median follow-up period of 13 months, the lower ABI group had a poorer composite renal outcome (OR=2.719, P=0.015) and a higher incidence of cardiovascular events (OR=3.260, P=0.001). Our findings illustrated that ABI is a powerful predictor of cardiovascular events and renal outcome in patients with CKD.…”
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Nonlinear Neutral Delay Differential Equations: Novel Criteria for Oscillation and Asymptotic Behavior by Belal Batiha, Nawa Alshammari, Faten Aldosari, Fahd Masood, Omar Bazighifan

“…To demonstrate the effectiveness of the results, the research includes two illustrative examples that prove the validity and importance of the proposed methodology. …”
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Hierarchical Structures from Inorganic Nanocrystal Self-Assembly for Photoenergy Utilization by Yun-Pei Zhu, Tie-Zhen Ren, Tian-Yi Ma, Zhong-Yong Yuan

“…The well-defined hierarchical structures provide new opportunities for optimizing, tuning, and/or enhancing the properties and performance of these materials and have found applications in photoenergy utilization including photodegradation, photocatalytic H2 production, photocatalytic CO2 conversion, and sensitized solar cells, and these are discussed illustratively.…”
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Gradient-Based Algorithms With Intermediate Observations in Static and Differential Games by Mohammad Safayet Hossain, Marwan A. Simaan, Zhihua Qu

“…Examples in both static and differential games are presented to illustrate the results.…”
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A Novel Cause of Bowel Obstruction in a Patient with Long-Standing Crohn’s Disease by Satya V. Vedula, T. Paul Nickerson, Douglas J. Grider

“…In this case, the SFT infiltrating into the muscularis propria and subserosa caused the stricture and bowel obstruction. This illustrates that while fibrosing strictures are usually the etiology of bowel obstruction in the setting of Crohn’s disease, other rare possible causes should be considered.…”
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Extramedullary Hematopoiesis in a Sentinel Lymph Node as an Early Sign of Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia by Joslin M. Bowen, Anamarija M. Perry, Erin Quist, Mojtaba Akhtari

“…One year later bone marrow biopsy was performed due to persistent anemia, thrombocytopenia, and monocytosis and the patient was diagnosed with CMML. Our case illustrates the importance of recognizing EMH in a lymph node during routine histological examination, especially in adults. …”
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An Improved Micromechanical Framework for Saturated Concrete Repaired by the Electrochemical Deposition Method considering the Imperfect Bonding by Qing Chen, Zhengwu Jiang, Hehua Zhu, J. Woody Ju, Zhiguo Yan, Yaqiong Wang

“…The interfaces between the deposition products and concrete are not always well bonded when the electrochemical deposition method (EDM) is adopted to repair the deteriorated concrete. To theoretically illustrate the deposition healing process by micromechanics for saturated concrete considering the imperfect interfaces, an improved micromechanical framework with interfacial transition zone (ITZ) is proposed based on our recent studies. …”
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A Data Mining Classification Approach for Behavioral Malware Detection by Monire Norouzi, Alireza Souri, Majid Samad Zamini

“…A suggested program has been presented for converting a malware behavior executive history XML file to a suitable WEKA tool input. To illustrate the performance efficiency as well as training data and test, we apply the proposed approaches to a real case study data set using WEKA tool. …”
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Simulation of Particle-Fluid Interaction in Fractal Fractures Based on the Immersed Boundary-Lattice Boltzmann Method by Shenggui Liu, Songlei Tang, Jinkuang Huang, Mindong Lv, Yingjun Li

“…In this paper, the effects of fluid viscosity, particle size, particle quantity, fracture fractal dimension, and particle grading composition are studied. Results illustrate that increasing fluid viscosity hinders the movement of particles, resulting in the decreasing of particle velocity. …”
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Co-creation of social innovations for healthy ageing in rural Europe – a process evaluation of a volunteer-led guided conversation toolkit using Normalisation Process Theory (NPT)... by Basharat Hussain, Mahrukh Mirza, Shukru Esmene, Catherine Leyshon, Michael Leyshon, Arunangsu Chatterjee

“…Holistic understandings of ageing can be developed by paying attention to person-centred and place-based (context-specific) aspects of ageing. Finally, we illustrate how NPT can guide future evaluation frameworks as it offers the flexibility required to understand context-specific implementation.…”
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Multimodal Elimination for Intoxication with a Lethal Dose of Organic Mercury by L. C. Napp, C. Moelgen, F. Wegner, P. Heitland, H. D. Koester, M. Klintschar, M. Hiss, A. Schaper, B. Schieffer, J. Bauersachs, A. Schäfer, J. Tongers

“…Autopsy revealed severe brain atrophy consistent with organ damage from massive mercury intoxication. The present case illustrates that bimodal DMPS application is sufficient for detoxification from lethal mercury levels, with an associated chance for weaning of organ support and survival to discharge. …”
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Place-pedagogies of water stress by Anna Wilson, Gillian Black, Leif Petersen, Liezl Dick, Sikhululekile Ncube, Tsitsi Mpofu-Mketwa, Amber Abrams, Kirsty Carden, Laurence Piper, Jen Dickie, Niall Hamilton-Smith, Guy Lamb

“…This article explores the pedagogical affect of water in a place of water stress and illustrates its entanglement with dynamics of power and control. …”
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A New Hyperbolic Shear Deformation Theory for Bending Analysis of Functionally Graded Plates by Tahar Hassaine Daouadji, Abdelaziz Hadj Henni, Abdelouahed Tounsi, Adda Bedia El Abbes

“…The mechanical properties of the plate are assumed to vary continuously in the thickness direction by a simple power-law distribution in terms of the volume fractions of the constituents. Numerical illustrations concern flexural behavior of FG plates with metal-ceramic composition. …”
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Rare histological presentation of adenomatoid odontogenic tumor: A series of three unique cases by Bhanu Priya, Priya Kumar, Jeyaseelan Augustine, Rewa Malhotra, Aadithya B. Urs

“…The present case series illustrates unusual presentations of AOT including a peripheral AOT with calcifying epithelial odontogenic tumor-like areas (PAOT with CEOT-like areas), AOT associated with ossifying fibroma (AOT with OF) and AOT associated with cemento-osseous dysplasia (AOT with COD). …”
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Un établissement rural et un ensemble funéraire antiques à proximité de la villa du “Gué des Grands Buissons” : le site de “la Cornaillerie” et “les Grivaudines” à Neuvy-Pailloux (... by Gwenaël Roy, Agnès Chéroux, Marielle Delémont, Alix Fourré, Bénédicte Pradat

“…Several built enclosures with cremations illustrate the burial ground.The archaeological environment of the site is peculiar as, in a radius of 100 m, a late La Tène moated enclosure, an aristocratic burial circa 40-50 AD attached to the Fléré-La-Riviere’s group, and a Villa with peristyle of the 2nd and 3rd century AD have been identified. …”
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Functional Parathyroid Cyst: A Rare Cause of Malignant Hypercalcemia with Primary Hyperparathyroidism—A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Areej Khan, Yusra Khan, Shahzad Raza, Ghulam Akbar, Monis Khan, Nauman Diwan, Wajih Rizvi

“…Postoperative followup three years later showed no evidence of cyst recurrence. This paper illustrates the rare presentation of parathyroid functional cysts with severe hypercalcemia and primary hyperparathyroidism. …”
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Capsule neural network and adapted golden search optimizer based forest fire and smoke detection by Luling Liu, Li Chen, Mehdi Asadi

“…The combination of capsule neural networks with the golden search optimizer illustrates the potential of merging cutting-edge technologies to tackle intricate environmental issues efficiently.…”
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Hydrodynamic relationships between gravel pit lakes and aquifers: brief review and insights from numerical investigations by Jost, Anne, Wang, Shuaitao, Verbeke, Thomas, Colleoni, François, Flipo, Nicolas

“…This article first provides a review of these impacts from the hydrodynamic point of view, and illustrates them on simple numerical test cases. It also introduces the gravel pit lake module developed for the occasion within the integrated modelling platform CaWaQS, which formulation was tested on the same test cases against the Lak package, its Modflow counterpart. …”
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Shapley additive explanation on machine learning predictions of fatigue lifetimes in piston aluminum alloys under different manufacturing and loading conditions by Mohammad Azadi, Mahmood Matin

“…Moreover, when the optimal ML prediction model was found, it was analyzed using the Shapley additive explanation (SHAP) values method. Results illustrated that extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) had superior data for estimations, with average training coefficients of determination of at least 63% and 90%, respectively for fatigue lifetime and its logarithmic value. …”
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SGS method applied to damage location and uncertainty modeling for sensor grid in the ISHM by Pereira, Paulo Elias Carneiro, de Rezende, Stanley Washington Ferreira, Moura Júnior, José dos Reis Vieira de, Finzi Neto, Roberto Mendes

“…In this paper, we introduce a novel method based on Sequential Gaussian Simulation (SGS) to pinpoint damage locations on aluminum plates and create maps that illustrate the spatial uncertainty associated with damage index values throughout the structure. …”
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