Spleno-Mesenteric Venous Blood Flow Dynamics in Adult Patients with Chronic Portal Vein Thrombosis Analyzed by Sequential CT-Spleno- and Mesenterico-Portography by Alexandra Schlitt, Andrea Goetz, Christian Stroszczynski, Florian Zeman, Christina Hackl, Hans J. Schlitt, Ernst-Michael Jung, Wibke Uller, Simone Hammer

“…CT-SMPG comprehensively illustrates the venous hemodynamic changes due to PH. …”
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Costs analysis of integrating group interpersonal therapy into HIV care services in Senegal by Yao Abounan, Jérôme Wittwer, Judicaël Malick Tine, Ibrahima Ndiaye, Salaheddine Ziadeh, Sophie Desmonde, Hélène Font, Helen Verdeli, Ndeye Fatou Ngom, Nathalie de Rekeneire, Antoine Jaquet, Moussa Seydi, Charlotte Bernard, the IeDEA West Africa Cohort Collaboration

“…The scenario analysis also illustrated the importance of parameters like the screening strategy, training activities, and allocation to cover transport costs mobilized by participants. …”
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Serosurvey of Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus in Cattle in Southern Japan and Estimation of Its Transmissibility by Transient Infection in Nonvaccinated Cattle by Norikazu Isoda, Satoshi Sekiguchi, Chika Ryu, Kosuke Notsu, Maya Kobayashi, Karin Hamaguchi, Takahiro Hiono, Yuichi Ushitani, Yoshihiro Sakoda

“…These parameters should be further applicable for developing epidemiological models which illustrate the BVDV dynamics in the field.…”
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Training for tomorrow: Establishing a worldwide curriculum in online adaptive radiation therapy by Meegan Shepherd, Elizabeth Joyce, Bethany Williams, Siobhan Graham, Winnie Li, Jeremy Booth, Helen A. McNair

“…Successful training models from leading institutions illustrate the importance of hands-on experience and ongoing mentorship. …”
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A New Width Measurement Method of the Stress Relief Zone on Roadway Surrounding Rocks by Pengfei Cui, Banghua Yao, Yong Liu, Jianping Wei, Zhihui Wen, Hui Li

“…The scientificity of the proposed method was illustrated theoretically. Finally, the proposed method was verified by the field test data and numerical simulation results of the gas extraction at different sealing depths. …”
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Quantifying observer variance in expansive monitoring program indicator data with heterogeneous-variance mixed-effects models by Leah T. Dreesmann, Timothy R. Johnson, Jason W. Karl

“…In two example analyses, we identified differences in observer variance across regions and years and associated the differences in these examples with features of the AIM monitoring program. These examples illustrate several potential uses of the models which include calculating the magnitude of observer variance to guide indicator selection and appropriate indicator estimate calculations, determining appropriate data aggregation and comparison, understanding the influences of changes to a monitoring program on observer variance, identifying previously unknown influences on observer variance, and suggesting practices or further changes to monitoring programs to reduce observer variance in future data collection efforts. …”
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Estimating the contribution of Arctic sea-ice loss to central Asia temperature anomalies: the case of winter 2020/2021 by Lara R Cosford, Rohit Ghosh, Marlene Kretschmer, Clare Oatley, Theodore G Shepherd

“…Hence rather than debating a cooling trend in Central Asia during winter, we propose shifting the focus to the influence of Arctic Amplification on anticipated warming trends. This study illustrates the efficacy of causal network analysis, which has implications for seasonal prediction and attribution of midlatitude winter anomalies.…”
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Mapping 3D Overthrust Structures by a Hybrid Modeling Method by Weisheng Hou, Yanhua Li, Shuwan Ye, Songhua Yang, Fan Xiao

“…Ten orthogonal cross‐sections are extracted from the overthrust model created by SEG/EAGE as the modeling data source. The results illustrated that the geometry and spatial relationships of strata and faults are retained well with the geological constraints. …”
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TEAD1‐Mediated Trans‐Differentiation of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells into Fibroblast‐Like Cells Contributes to the Stabilization and Repair of Disrupted Atherosclerotic Plaques... by Ming Zhai, Zhijun Lei, Yefei Shi, Jiayun Shi, Yanxi Zeng, Shiyu Gong, Weixia Jian, Jianhui Zhuang, Qing Yu, Mark W. Feinberg, Wenhui Peng

“…Mechanistically, it is found that TEAD1 promoted the expression of fibroblast markers through the Wnt4/β‐Catenin pathway, facilitating the trans‐differentiation. Thus, this study illustrated that TEAD1 played a critical role in promoting the trans‐differentiation of VSMCs into fibroblast‐like cells and subsequent extracellular matrix production through the Wnt4/β‐Catenin pathway. …”
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Scan Mirror Assembly for the Multispectral Scanning Polarimeter of Aerosol-UA Space Mission by Ivan Syniavskyi, Yevgen Oberemok, Yuriy Ivanov, Mikhail Sosonkin, Vladimir Kireyev, Konstantin Akinin

“…The key steps for assembling the unit are illustrated.…”
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Challenges in detecting wind turbine power loss: the effects of blade erosion, turbulence, and time averaging by T. H. Malik, C. Bak

“…The study does not aim to investigate each contributing factor in detail but seeks to provide insights through selected examples, thereby illustrating how these conditions hinder the detection of blade erosion’s effects on power loss. …”
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Pakanta in the Lithuanian Worldview by Irena Smetonienė

“…In Lithuanian lexicographical sources, the lexemes pakanta and tolerancija are presented as synonyms. Illustrative examples show that pakanta is most often associated with patience. …”
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Bio-waste to environmental purifier: Application of potato peel for acid red 73 adsorption from leather dyeing effluent by Fatema-Tuj Zohra, Sobur Ahmed, Md Zahangir Alam, Md Nurnabi, Nazia Rahman

“…PP was characterized through FTIR, BET, SEM, XRD and EDX analysis. SEM micrographs illustrated rough and porous structure of PP that support the adsorption process. …”
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Dynamic Reliability Design of Multicomponent Structure with Improved Weighted Regression Distributed Collaborative Surrogate Model Method by Xiao-Wei Dong, Wei-Kai Li, Chun-Yan Zhu, Chang-Hai Chen, Cheng Lu, Shu-Juan Yi

“…Finally, the radial deformation dynamic probabilistic analysis of an aeroengine turbine blisk assembled by blade and disk is accomplished, in respect of the IWRDCSMM, fluid-thermal-structure interaction, and the randomness of input parameters within the time domain [0, T]. The results illustrate that the reliability degree of turbine blisk radial deformation is 0.9951 when the allowable value uallow is 2.30 × 10−3 m, and all the input parameters affecting the turbine blisk radial deformation are gas temperature, angular speed, inlet velocity, outlet pressure, material density, and inlet pressure, successively. …”
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Human leukocyte Antigen-B*27 allele subtype prevalence and disease association of ankylosing spondylitis among south indian population by Vikram Haridas, Praveenkumar Shetty, M Nirmal Kumar, K C Vasanthakumar, Kiran Haridas, Vitthal Khode, Anil Bargale

“…Most of the earlier studies associated AS with HLA B27 antigen. The current data illustrate that only 21% of AS patients presented HLA B27 antigen. …”
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Will the increase of medical equipment affect medical expenditure? Empirical evidence from a quasi-experiment in China by Qiwei Deng, Zhongliang Zhou, Chi Shen, Dan Cao, Dantong Zhao, Yaxin Zhao, Jianmin Gao

“…Our complex difference in differences model illustrates that the increase in the number of large-scale medical equipment by 1 — regardless of the initial configuration—results in an increase in the average diagnostic cost per outpatient visit and the average diagnostic cost per inpatient visit by 27. 3% (p < 0.01) and 25. 5% (p < 0.01), respectively. …”
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On the transitory performance of mixed convective heat and mass transfer around spherical region in the presence of fluctuating streams by Hossam A. Nabwey, Sahar Anwar, Muhammad Ashraf, A.M. Rashad

“…The obtained results for the Prandtl number Pr, Schmidt number Sc, mixed convection parameter λT and modified mixed convection parameter λC are illustrated in graphical format at different locations at X=0.1,1.5 and π radian for both steady and transient flow and tabular form for the steady flow. …”
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