A Rare Cause of Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis: Fusobacterium Infection—A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Ghulam Rehman Mohyuddin, Heather J. Male

“…Our case highlights Fusobacterium as a rare precipitant of HLH and proves that a high index of clinical suspicion is crucial for early diagnosis of HLH, allowing for prompt initiation of HLH-specific immunosuppressive therapy that can be life-saving.…”
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Public politicians electoral potential in social media by N. A. Yushkina

“…The main quantitative indicators of the presence and activity of the Russian public politicians on Facebook, Instagram and Youtube, successful interaction forms between government representatives and the society, indexes of popularity, activity, audience loyalty, as well as visual features of the accounts’ content were analysed. …”
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Nowcasting of Russian manufacturing output using business survey data by R. E. Gartvich

“…The study shows that the indicators of the Federal State Statistics Service (economic situation, number of employees, business confidence index, output, demand, export) allow to increase the accuracy of forecasts by 21–39 % and have a high correlation with business cycles of the manufacturing industry. …”
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Research on the Feature Selection of Rolling Bearings’ Degradation Features by Yaolong Li, Hongru Li, Bing Wang, He Yu, Weiguo Wang

“…In each subdivision, there exists visible trend similarity, and we have introduced two indexes to measure this similarity. By selecting the representative features of the subdivision, the multifeatures can be dimensionality reduced. …”
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Pediatric Plastic Bronchitis: Case Report and Retrospective Comparative Analysis of Epidemiology and Pathology by Rebecca Kunder, Christian Kunder, Heather Y. Sun, Gerald Berry, Anna Messner, Jennifer Frankovich, Stephen Roth, John Mark

“…There is no standard treatment strategy for this uncommon condition. We report an index patient treated using an emerging multimodal strategy of directly instilled and inhaled tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) as well as 13 other cases of PB at our institution between 2000 and 2012. …”
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Relationship between Monthly Rainfall in NW Peru and Tropical Sea Surface Temperature by Juan Bazo, María de las Nieves Lorenzo, Rosmeri Porfirio da Rocha

“…This study assesses the relationship between global sea surface temperature (SST) and a regional index of rainfall (NWPR) in Piura-Tumbes, a coastal region in northwestern Peru, over the period 1965–2008 by means of the Pearson product-moment correlation. …”
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mSphere of Influence: How the single cell contributes to the collective by Gina R. Lewin

“…In this mSphere of Influence article, she reflects on how two papers describing bacterial single-cell RNA-seq—“Prokaryotic single-cell RNA sequencing by in situ combinatorial indexing” by S. B. Blattman, W. Jiang, P. Oikonomou, and S. …”
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Machiavellianism, Impulsivity, and Empathy: Understanding Aggressive Driving Behavior by Rendy Alfiannoor Achmad, Silvia Kristanti Tri Febriana, Laily Maulida, Igha Ananda Saidah Muharram, Lili Aprilianti

“…Accordingly, the instruments used include Aggressive Driving Behavior Scale (ADBS), Short Version of the UPPS-P (SUPPS-P) Scale, Machiavellian Personality Scale (MPS) and Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) Scale. The multiple linear regression results showed that impulsivity, Machiavellianism, and empathy significantly influenced the tendency toward aggressive driving behavior with F count of 12.454 and significance level of .000 < .05. …”
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The effect of random scale changes on limits of infinitesimal systems by Patrick L. Brockett

“…We give sufficient conditions on the distribution of Y in terms of an index of convergence of S, to insure that centered sums from S′ be convergent. …”
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Digital Finance, Financing Constraint and Enterprise Financial Risk by Zhaolin Wang

“…In this paper, the digital financial inclusion index at the provincial level is matched with the microdata of listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets. …”
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PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVNESS OF THE INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM by I. A. Stafeeva, E. M. Shironina

“…The article provides assessment tools in the case of considering the efficiency of the functioning of the managed system as a whole or its elements: comparison of the market value of the organization and the book value of its assets or equity; comparison of the amount of revenue, net profit, industry average profitability indicators and indicators of a particular organization; comparison of non-financial indicators, for example, market share, labor productivity, employee satisfaction, etc. It is shown that index and coefficient methods are used to assess the effectiveness of management in the narrow sense as the effectiveness of the actual management activity. …”
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A Probabilistic Damage Identification Approach for Structures under Unknown Excitation and with Measurement Uncertainties by Ying Lei, Ying Su, Wenai Shen

“…Based on the former deterministic algorithm, the statistical values of the identified structural parameters are estimated using the statistical theory and a damage index is defined. The probability of identified structural damage is further derived based on the reliability theory. …”
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Short-Term Prediction of Electronic Transformer Error Based on Intelligent Algorithms by Yuanyu Ye, Aichao Yang, Yu Wu, Chen Hu, Min Li, Yan Li, Xiaosong Deng

“…Then, the data fitting and short-term prediction of electronic transformer error are made on the basis of the backpropagation neural network and the Prophet model, and the fitting and prediction results of the two methods are compared and analysed in combination with four evaluation indexes. Finally, the Prophet model is adopted to simulate the development trend and periodic fluctuation of error, and the reason for fluctuation is analysed. …”
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Accurate Flexible Temperature Sensor Based on Laser-Induced Graphene Material by Huang Kun, Liu Bin, Mostafa Orban, Qiu Donghai, Yang Hongbo

“…Body temperature is an essential physiological index reflecting human health. Accurate measurements of body temperature play a vital role in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. …”
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Institutional foundations of digital transformation of business in economic sectors by P. M. Gureev, I. S. Prokhorova

“…The indicative method and comparative analysis of the e-government rating based on the e-government development index were used as an analysis tool. As a result, an assessment of the formation of the public sector of electronic services for business is given, a set of indicators is defined to assess the development of the technological basis of the institutional state ecosystem of digital business transformation.…”
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Sisyawaytii tarawaytii : sifflements serpentins et autres voix d’esprits dans le chamanisme quechua du haut Pastaza (Amazonie péruvienne) by Andréa-Luz Gutierrez-Choquevilca

“…Through the study of these enunciative devices, the author demonstrates that the indexical use of sound symbolism plays a key role in the performance achieved, allowing the hunter-shaman to lend his voice to the spirits invoked. …”
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Inverted Yoga and Near Syncope: An Unusual Diagnosis of Right Ventricular Myxoma by Wadie David, Narmeen Rehman, Robby Singh, Shukri David

“…However, if diagnosed early, patients with primary benign cardiac tumors have excellent prognosis following surgery. Therefore, a high index of suspicion and a wide differential diagnosis are very important in detecting rare conditions that can affect otherwise healthy individuals. …”
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Complete Ectopia Cordis: A Case Report and Literature Review by Simon Pius, Halima Abubakar Ibrahim, Mustapha Bello, Mohammed Bashir Tahir

“…Diagnosis of ectopia cordis is done prenatally in well-equipped health facility by antenatal ultrasound scan so that early diagnosis and management plan can be initiated. The index case was delivered to uneducated rural family and admitted at 3 days of life and survived for seven days, even though most literatures state that majority died within four days even with surgery. …”
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Ethnobotanical knowledge in Calabria (southern Italy): A summary review by Miriam Patti, Carmelo Maria Musarella, Giovanni Spampinato

“…The analysis shows that the Asteraceae family is the most used, while Urtica dioica L. and Sambucus nigra L. are the most frequently used species according to the CV index. Medicinal and alimentary purposes are the most common types of use. …”
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Fractional-Order Epidemic Model for Measles Infection by Philip N. A. Akuka, Baba Seidu, Eric Okyere, Stephen Abagna

“…Finally, the numerical solution of the model is executed employing the efficient and widely known Adams-type predictor-corrector iterative scheme, and simulation is conducted to investigate the impact of memory index and diverse preventive measures on the occurrence of the disease. …”
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