Coccidioidomycosis of the Vocal Cords Presenting in Sepsis: A Case Report and Literature Review by Curtis Converse, Atish Dey, Samuel Decker, Sarkis Arabian, Michael Neeki

“…During admission, the patient underwent bronchoscopy with resulting tissue and bronchoalveolar lavage samples positive for Coccidioides immitis, later supported by confirmatory serum studies. This case illustrates a rare presentation of vocal fold involvement without direct invasion from a continuous site and highlights the importance of a high index of suspicion for disseminated coccidioidomycosis with prompt antifungal treatment in order to avoid the very high morbidity and mortality in such cases.…”
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A Novel Mutation in the Adult-Onset Alexander’s Disease GFAP Gene by Dhillon B. Zaver, Nathan T. Douthit

“…Despite its infrequency in adults and the difficulty in diagnosis, the prevalence of AxD has been increasing due to ease of genetic analysis and identification of key clinical and radiological findings. This case illustrates the necessity of vigilance and persistence in the face of unusual patient presentations; occasionally, the sound of hoofbeats is zebras.…”
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Insights into the gut microbiota characteristics between the organic and traditional feeding chickens based on amplicon and metagenomic sequencing by Wenzhou Zhang, Xiaoru Jian, Siqi Ding, Jiamin Chang, Shouping Ji, Shouping Ji, Yulang Chi, Yulang Chi

“…Our results are helpful to fully illustrate the effects of different feeding methods on intestinal microorganisms in chickens and can offer a more scientific basis for chicken production management.…”
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Correlation Measures of Dual Hesitant Fuzzy Sets by Lei Wang, Mingfang Ni, Lei Zhu

“…One numerical example is provided to illustrate these correlation measures. Then we present a direct transfer algorithm with respect to the problem of complex operation of matrix synthesis when reconstructing an equivalent correlation matrix for clustering DHFSs. …”
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Bullous Lupus: An Atypical Case of Refractory Disease in a Patient with Sulfa Allergy by Maria Salgado Guerrero, Oscar Mena Miranda, Ana B. Arevalo, Nevena Barjaktarovic, Barbara Mendez

“…This case highlights the importance of the prompt recognition of BSLE as the initial manifestations of SLE and illustrates the association of BSLE with severe disease and the benefit of concomitant use of dapsone with corticosteroids and other immunosuppressant drugs, even in patients with a history of sulfa allergy.…”
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Fast Image Search with Locality-Sensitive Hashing and Homogeneous Kernels Map by Jun-yi Li, Jian-hua Li

“…We prove our method on several large datasets and illustrate that it improves the accuracy relative to commonly used methods and make the task of object classification and, content-based retrieval more fast and accurate.…”
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Taxonomic study of Oxalis section Thamnoxys (Oxalidaceae) in Brazil by Maria Carolina de Abreu, Ykaro Richard Oliveira, Juliana Silva dos Santos, Reginaldo Carvalho, Marcos José da Silva, Margareth Ferreira de Sales

“…This work is based on a taxonomic study of Oxalis section Thamnoxys in Brazil and includes descriptions, illustrations, and notes for the recorded species. The following species were recorded: Oxalis barrelieri, O. cerradoana, O. clausenii, O. cratensis, O. cytisoides, O. diamantinae, O. divaricata, O. frutescens, O. hedysarifolia, O. hyalotricha, O. jacobinensis, O. mucronulata, O. nigrescens, O. pilulifera, O. pyrenea, O. renifolia, O. sellowii, O. sepium, and O. suborbiculata. …”
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Consensus Control of Time-Varying Delayed Multiagent Systems with High-Order Iterative Learning Control by Xiongfeng Deng, Xiuxia Sun, Ri Liu, Shuguang Liu

“…In the end, some cases are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the theoretical analysis.…”
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Dexmedetomidine Use in the Setting of Cocaine-Induced Hypertensive Emergency and Aortic Dissection: A Novel Indication by Fahad Javed, Alexandre Miguel Benjo, Kiran Reddy, Muhammad Shoaib Akram, Shahzeb Afsar Khan, Manpreet Singh Sabharwal, Girish Nadkarni, Emad F. Aziz, Eyal Herzog

“…Worth mentioning is the use of an alpha-2 receptor selective agonist named Dexmedetomidine as a treatment modality to control hypertension in this patient, which is approved only for sedation of intubated and mechanically ventilated patients in the intensive care settings and for sedation during invasive procedures. This paper illustrates the practical beneficial role of Dexmedetomidine in controling blood pressure in the settings of cocaine-induced sympathetic surge when other treatment modalities fail.…”
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Bayesian Network Approach to Customer Requirements to Customized Product Model by Qin Yang, Zhirui Li, Haisen Jiao, Zufang Zhang, Weijie Chang, Daozhu Wei

“…Finally, an example of a multifunctional nursing bed is used to illustrate the effectiveness of the method.…”
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ELECTRE I Based Relevance Decision-Makers Feedback to the Location Selection of Distribution Centers by Maroi Agrebi, Mourad Abed, Mohamed Nazih Omri

“…A case study is provided to illustrate the proposed method.…”
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A Mathematical Model for the Flow of a Casson Fluid due to Metachronal Beating of Cilia in a Tube by A. M. Siddiqui, A. A. Farooq, M. A. Rana

“…The features of the flow characteristics such as pumping and trapping are illustrated and discussed with the help of graphs. It is observed that the volume flow rate is influenced significantly by the width of plug flow region Hp as well as the cilia length parameter ε. …”
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Robust Adaptive Stabilization of Linear Time-Invariant Dynamic Systems by Using Fractional-Order Holds and Multirate Sampling Controls by S. Alonso-Quesada, M. De la Sen

“…The adaptive controller guarantees the boundedness of the system measured signal for all time. Some examples illustrate the efficacy of this control strategy.…”
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Materialismo ecológico como materialismo de la reproducción: un diálogo entre Theodor Adorno y Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar by Andrés F. Parra-Ayala

“…Gutiérrez Aguilar, in turn, provides a grounded view, illustrating how certain political and communal practices among Indigenous and Black communities, as well as the life-sustaining work traditionally performed by women, reveal an emancipatory potential. …”
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Deep renovation and decarbonisation of school buildings – The CIS Roma Scuole Verdi by Carola Clemente, Francesco Mancini, Anna Mangiatordi, Mariangela Zagaria

“… The contribution illustrates the experience of CIS Roma Scuole Verdi, where the DiAP Research Group of the ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome supported the CSIMU Department of Roma Capitale in launching a process of energy-environmental upgrading and decarbonisation of 111 school buildings distributed across the 15 Municipalities of the City of Rome. …”
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Optimal Prestress Investigation on Tensegrity Structures Using Artificial Fish Swarm Algorithm by Xiaodong Feng, Wanpeng Zhang, Yaozhi Luo, Sergio Zlotnik

“…The AFSA is adopted to search for the global minimum, leading to a set of initial prestresses that guarantee all the above conditions. Two illustrative examples have been fully studied to prove the accuracy and efficiency of the presented approach in prestress design of tensegrities according to the practical requirements. …”
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An ANFIS Approach for Real Power Transfer Allocation by Hussain Shareef, Saifulnizam Abd Khalid, Mohd Wazir Mustafa, Azhar Khairuddin

“…The 25-bus equivalent system of south Malaysia is utilized as a test system to illustrate the effectiveness of the ANFIS output compared to that of the MNE method. …”
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Rational Suicide, Euthanasia, and the Very Old: Two Case Reports by Anne Pamela Frances Wand, Carmelle Peisah, Brian Draper, Carolyn Jones, Henry Brodaty

“…Two cases of older people who attempted suicide but expressed a preference for euthanasia were it legal are presented in order to illustrate the complexity underlying such requests. …”
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Cascade Delayed Controller Design for a Class of Underactuated Systems by G. Ochoa-Ortega, R. Villafuerte-Segura, A. Luviano-Juárez, M. Ramírez-Neria, N. Lozada-Castillo

“…The stabilizing behavior of the delayed controller design is supported by the σ-stability criterion, which provides the controller parameter selection to reach the maximum exponential decay rate on the system response. To illustrate the efficiency of the theoretical results, the proposal is experimentally assessed in two cases of study: a flexible joint system and a pendubot.…”
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Atypical Clinical and Diagnostic Features in Ménétrier's Disease in a Child by Michael Chung, Jaime Pittenger, Deborah Flomenhoft, Jeffrey Bennett, Eun-Young Lee, Harohalli Shashidhar

“…However, persistent vomiting associated with hematemesis and severe abdominal pain should warrant further work-up. This case report illustrates a self-limiting and rare cause of protein-losing enteropathy called Ménétrier's disease that presented with several variant clinical features not typically described in association with this entity.…”
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