Shaggy Photoreceptors with Subfoveal Fluid Associated with a Distant Choroidal Melanoma by Ann Q. Tran, James A. Eadie, Michael M. Altaweel

“…Examination revealed a nasal choroidal melanoma while EDI-OCT illustrated subfoveal fluid pocket with elongated shaggy photoreceptors distant and separate from the tumor. …”
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Deleterious effects of thermal and water stresses on life history and physiology: a case study on woodlouse by Depeux, Charlotte, Branger, Angèle, Moulignier, Théo, Moreau, Jérôme, Lemaître, Jean-François, Dechaume-Moncharmont, François-Xavier, Laverre, Tiffany, Paulhac, Hélène, Gaillard, Jean-Michel, Beltran-Bech, Sophie

“…Changing temperature or moisture had slightly different effects, illustrating the need to test further the respective role of each of these key components of climate change on organisms to predict more reliably the future of our ecosystems. …”
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Robust Predictive Functional Control for Flight Vehicles Based on Nonlinear Disturbance Observer by Yinhui Zhang, Huabo Yang, Zhenyu Jiang, Fan Hu, Weihua Zhang

“…Compared with the existing designs, the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed flight control are illustrated and validated in various simulation conditions.…”
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A Heating and Cooling Stage With Fast Temporal Control for Biological Applications by Manon Valet, Juan M. Iglesias-Artola, Falk Elsner, Anatol W. Fritsch, Otger Campas

“…In addition, by cooling simultaneously the sample insert and the objective, we minimize the temperature gradients along the sample for large magnification objectives requiring immersion oil. We illustrate how this design can be used to study the physiology of the zebrafish embryo over the temperature tolerance of this species. …”
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GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF EVOLUTIONARY DISTANCES by V. M. Efimov, M. A. Melchakova, V. Yu. Kovaleva

“…The applicability of the EPQ distance is illustrated by the example of a cytochrome b sequence set of 12 rodent species from West Siberia and Altai, taken from the GenBank, and compared with the results of the use of the LogDet-distance.…”
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A Tanzanian Boy with Molecularly Confirmed X-Linked Adrenoleukodystrophy by M. C. J. Dekker, A. M. Sadiq, R. Mc Larty, R. M. Mbwasi, M. A. A. P. Willemsen, H. R. Waterham, B. C. Hamel

“…This genetic confirmation widens geographical distribution of ABCD1-associated disease, and illustrates recognisability of this disorder, even when encountered in a low-resource environment.…”
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Some Novel Sixth-Order Iteration Schemes for Computing Zeros of Nonlinear Scalar Equations and Their Applications in Engineering by M. A. Rehman, Amir Naseem, Thabet Abdeljawad

“…Several numerical examples have been solved to illustrate the applicability and validity of the suggested schemes. …”
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Use of Time- and Frequency-Domain Approaches for Damage Detection in Civil Engineering Structures by V. H. Nguyen, J. Mahowald, S. Maas, J.-C. Golinval

“…Successive damages were introduced in the panels by loading heavy weights and by cutting steel wires. The illustrations show different consequences in damage identification by the considered techniques.…”
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Building retrofit solutions in the context of energy resilience and urban environment regeneration by Croitoru Cristiana, Calotă Răzvan, Lemian Diana, Civiero Paolo, Aelenei Laura

“…The case studies from different parts of the world illustrate that this techno-economically viable retrofitting approach can reduce around 40 % energy consumption and emissions, making buildings more sustainable. …”
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Multiple Positive Solutions of Third-Order BVP with Advanced Arguments and Stieltjes Integral Conditions by Jian Chang, Jian-Ping Sun, Ya-Hong Zhao

“…An example is also included to illustrate the main results obtained.…”
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On the issue of studying Siberian merchant class: the circle of social contacts of gold producer Yakov Frizer by I. Vladimirsky, M. V. Krotova

“…Present research targets to illustrate through Frizer example particularities of everyday life and activity of the Siberian merchants on the threshold of the 19th–20th centuries, interrelations between various ethnicconfessional and social groups, between regional entrepreneurs and capital administrators as well as great potentialities of self-implementation for Jewish merchant within the Russian Empire. …”
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Driven Factors Analysis of China’s Irrigation Water Use Efficiency by Stepwise Regression and Principal Component Analysis by Renfu Jia, Shibiao Fang, Wenrong Tu, Zhilin Sun

“…As such, the irrigation water use status in China was analyzed to find out the five major factors that have significant impacts on irrigation water use efficiency. To illustrate the performance of the proposed approach, the calculation based on real data was conducted and the results were shown in this paper.…”
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Energy and circular transition of the industrial heritage – The Ex SNIA case in Rome by Serena Baiani, Paola Altamura, Gaia Turchetti, Giada Romano

“…In particular, the paper illustrates two ‘circular adaptive reuse’ scenarios on a pilot case, the most complex among the sites identified within the research activities, assessing the level of achieved circularity through specific indicators.   …”
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Iterative Analysis of the Unique Positive Solution for a Class of Singular Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems Involving Two Types of Fractional Derivatives with p-Laplacian Operator by Fang Wang, Lishan Liu, Yonghong Wu, Yumei Zou

“…Furthermore, two numerical examples are presented to illustrate the application of our main results.…”
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Simulation and Analysis of Spectral Response Function and Bandwidth of Spectrometer by Zhenyu Gao, Ruidong Jia, Hao Zhang, Zhiwei Xia, Wei Fang

“…A prism monochromator is proposed for illustrating the simulation procedure. For comparison, a geometrical ray-tracing method is also provided, with bandwidth deviations varying from 5% at 250 nm to 25% at 2400 nm. …”
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Identification of Rub and Unbalance in 320-MW Turbogenerators by N. Bachschmid, P. Pennacchi, A. Vania, G. A. Zanetta, L. Gregori

“…The theoretical background of the applied method is briefly illustrated and some considerations also are presented about the best choice of the rotating speed set of the run-down transient to be used for an effective identification and about the appropriate weighting of vibration measurements at the machine bearings.…”
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NLRP3 Inflammasome-Mediated Osteoarthritis: The Role of Epigenetics by Yuzhou Liu, Ying Wang, Ping Yan, Ning Cui, Kejin Xu, Da Liu, Yuan Tian, Lingling Cao

“…Therefore, this article expounds on the mechanism of OA pathogenesis and the role of histone deacetylases (HDACs) in NLRP3 inflammasome-triggered OA, and illustrates the application of HDAC inhibitors in OA, striving to provide more insights into novel OA treatment approaches.…”
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A workflow for processing global datasets: application to intercropping by Mahmoud, Rémi, Casadebaig, Pierre, Hilgert, Nadine, Gaudio, Noémie

“…We considered 37 field experiments as the use case for designing a global dataset and illustrated how tidying and disseminating the data are the first steps towards open science practices. …”
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Capability-Driven Design of Business Service Ecosystem to Support Risk Governance in Regulatory Ecosystems by Christophe Feltus, Eric Grandry, François-Xavier Fontaine

“…This extension allows defining a concrete ecosystem metamodel which is afterwards mapped with an information system risk management model to support risk governance at the ecosystem level. This mapping is illustrated and validated on the basis of an application case for the Luxembourgish financial sector applied to the most important concepts from the BSE: capability, resource, service and goal.…”
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Solving a system of nonlinear difference equations with bilinear dynamics by Hashem Althagafi, Ahmed Ghezal

“…These variables adapted dynamically in response to internal and external influences, illustrating the system's sensitivity to various behavioral and environmental conditions.…”
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