Advanced Esophageal Neoplasm with Subcutaneous Metastasis by Rivadávio A. M. de Oliveira, Tassiara da Silva, Mariana Miyasaki Piovesana, Carlos Eduardo Stecca, George A. Lopes, Vitor Teixeira Liutti

“…Later in time, we documented a disease progression, with worsening of subcutaneous implants, lymph node, bone, and pulmonary metastases in addition to malignant hypercalcemia. Conclusion. This illustrates a rare presentation of an advanced esophageal neoplasm. …”
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Joint Pricing and Purchasing Decisions for the Dual-Channel Newsvendor Model with Partial Information by Jixiang Zhou, Yong Wang, Xiaoming Yan

“…We obtain a close-form expression for the robust optimal policy. Illustrative simulations and numerical experiments show the effects of several parameters on the optimal policy and on newsvendor performance. …”
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Peridynamic Formulation for Coupled Thermoelectric Phenomena by Migbar Assefa, Xin Lai, Lisheng Liu, Yang Liao

“…Therefore, this paper presents the transport of heat and charge in thermoelectric material in the framework of peridynamic (PD) theory. To illustrate the reliability of the PD formulation, numerical examples are presented and results are compared with those from literature, analytical solutions, or finite element solutions.…”
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Finite-Time Robust Stabilization for Stochastic Neural Networks by Weixiong Jin, Xiaoyang Liu, Xiangjun Zhao, Nan Jiang, Zhengxin Wang

“…Finally, two numerical examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed design method.…”
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Existence of Bounded Positive Solutions for Partial Difference Equations with Delays by Zeqing Liu, Zhihua Wu, Young Chel Kwun, Shin Min Kang

“…Three nontrivial examples illustrating the results presented in this paper are also provided.…”
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Secondary sex estimation using morphological traits from the cranium and mandible: application to two Merovingian populations from Belgium by Bérénice Chevalier, Frédéric Santos, Caroline Polet, Sébastien Villotte

“…However, by using morphological traits of the cranium and the mandible as part of a secondary sex estimation, we were able to estimate the sex of a relatively large number of individuals with a minimum reliability of 95%. Our study thus illustrates the value of using morphological characteristics of the skull for a secondary sex estimation conducted with a reliable statistical method.…”
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The propagation of seismic waves, misinformation, and disinformation from the 2024-10-05 M 4.5 Iran earthquake by Benjamin Fernando, Ross Maguire, Brianna Fernandez, Saman Karimi, Elizabeth Koenck, Göran Ekström, Tom Rivlin, Celeste Labedz

“…In this paper, we analyse how geophysical `fake news' propagated through social media (mainly Twitter/X) following this event, eventually gaining traction in mainstream, earned media. This event is an illustrative warning of how seismic data can be misinterpreted and/or manipulated in public discourse. …”
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Cyclic Mappings and Further Results in B-Metric-Like Spaces by Shengquan Weng, Quanxin Zhu, Baoying Du, Kaibo Shi

“…Furthermore, the main results in this paper are illustrated by a concrete example. The work of this paper extend and promote the previous results in B-metric-like spaces.…”
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Uncertain Random Data Envelopment Analysis: Efficiency Estimation of Returns to Scale by Bao Jiang, Shuang Feng, Jinwu Gao, Jian Li

“…Along with converting the two uncertain random models into corresponding equivalent forms, we also provide a numerical example to illustrate the evaluation results of these models.…”
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Improved Inference for Moving Average Disturbances in Nonlinear Regression Models by Pierre Nguimkeu

“…Two empirical examples including a power regression model of aggregate consumption and a Gompertz growth model of mobile cellular usage in the US are presented to illustrate the implementation and usefulness of the proposed method in practice.…”
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Development of children's social care attitudes through advocacy activities by Dwi Retnani Srinarwati, Akhmad Qomaru Zaman, Eka Safitri Utami

“…Participation in advocacy activities illustrates cooperation in the form of collaboration between children with each other. …”
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Synthetic Cannabinoid Abuse and a Rare Alpha-1-Antitrypsin Mutant Causing Acute Fulminant Hepatitis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Kurt J. Knowles, Eric X. Wei, Abhishek Seth, John Bienvenu, James Morris, Kenneth Manas, Paul Jordan, Moheb Boktor

“…This mutant phenotype has never been reported as a cause of A-1-AT disease and the abuse of SCs in a patient with this phenotype has also never been reported. This case illustrates the possible need to expand routine drug testing for SCs and consider A-1-AT phenotyping in certain clinical scenarios.…”
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Case Report: Diagnostic itinerary of a male case of juvenile-onset systemic lupus erythematosus in Bouake by Aissata Doucoure Traore, Aissata Doucoure Traore, Joseph Kan Enock Koffi, Joseph Kan Enock Koffi, Christ Ziahy Reine Marie Koffi, Christ Ziahy Reine Marie Koffi, Konan Joe Clovis Yao, Konan Joe Clovis Yao, Jean Jacque Goua, Jean Jacque Goua, Ehaulier Soh Christian Kouakou, Ehaulier Soh Christian Kouakou, Weu Melanie Tia, Weu Melanie Tia, Felix Jean Claude Daboiko, Felix Jean Claude Daboiko

“…We report a case of 12 years of misdiagnosis in a 17-year-old boy living in a semi-rural environment. This case illustrates the shortage of paediatric rheumatologists and marks a breaking point in the diagnosis of the disease, which is sometimes difficult even for practitioners, making it difficult for sick children to access care. …”
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Fuzzy Constrained Probabilistic Inventory Models Depending on Trapezoidal Fuzzy Numbers by Mona F. El-Wakeel, Kholood O. Al-yazidi

“…To investigate the proposed model in the crisp case and the fuzzy case, illustrative numerical example is added. From the numerical results we will conclude that Uniform distribution is the best distribution to get the exact solutions, and the exact solutions for fuzzy models are considered more practical and close to the reality of life and get minimum expected total cost less than the crisp models.…”
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A Spectral Finite Element Model for Vibration Analysis of a Beam Based on General Higher-Order Theory by Jiao Sujuan, Li Jun, Hua Hongxing, Shen Rongying

“…The developed spectral element matrix is directly applied to calculate the exact natural frequencies and mode shapes of the illustrative examples. Numerical results of the thick isotropic beams with rectangular and elliptical cross-sections are presented for a wide variety of cross-section aspect ratios.…”
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Sum of Bernoulli Mixtures: Beyond Conditional Independence by Taehan Bae, Ian Iscoe

“…The large-sample distribution of the empirical frequency and its use in approximating the risk measures, value at risk and conditional tail expectation, are presented for a new class of models which we call double mixtures. Several illustrative examples with a Beta mixing distribution, are given. …”
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Delay-Tolerant, Low-Power Protocols for Large Security-Critical Wireless Sensor Networks by Claudio S. Malavenda, F. Menichelli, M. Olivieri

“…The paper is organized as follows: first we give an overview on delay-tolerant wireless sensor networking (DTN); then we perform a simulation-based comparative analysis of state-of-the-art DTN approaches and illustrate the improvement offered by the proposed protocol; finally we present experimental data gathered from the implementation of the proposed protocol on a proprietary hardware node.…”
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Agency in Community: Understanding Gender-Based Violence from within a Muslim Community in Lenasia, Johannesburg by Aaishah Lombard, Elina Hankela

“…First, the participants actively chose their religious authorities and illustrated how these authorities portrayed an Islam that is gender-just. …”
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An Innovative Approach for Modelling Urban Road Traffic Using Timed Automata and Formal Methods by Eduardo Valente, Camelia Avram, José Machado, Adina Astilean

“…A case study is presented, in order to illustrate the approach and demonstrate in detail the unlimited application of the presented approach.…”
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Recursive Delta-Operator-Based Subspace Identification with Fixed Data Size by Miao Yu, Wanli Wang, Youyi Wang, Liang Liu

“…The effectiveness of the proposed method is illustrated by the continuous stirred tank reactor system.…”
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