A Case of Cervical Intraneural Lipoma That Was Removed by Intercapsular Resection with No Resultant Postoperative Neurological Deficit by Hitoshi Sato, Yoshiro Saito, Tatsuya Kitajima, Shunya Egawa, Toshikazu Shimane

“…The tumor was suspected to involve fatty degeneration in schwannoma of cervical nerve origin, for which intercapsular resection was performed under general anesthesia. …”
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Remarkable Role of Indoleamine 2,3-Dioxygenase and Tryptophan Metabolites in Infectious Diseases: Potential Role in Macrophage-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases by Yuki Murakami, Masato Hoshi, Yukio Imamura, Yuko Arioka, Yasuko Yamamoto, Kuniaki Saito

“…Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase 1 (IDO1), the L-tryptophan-degrading enzyme, plays a key role in the immunomodulatory effects on several types of immune cells. Originally known for its regulatory function during pregnancy and chronic inflammation in tumorigenesis, the activity of IDO1 seems to modify the inflammatory state of infectious diseases. …”
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An Exceptional Case of Liver-Restricted High-Grade B-Cell Lymphoma in a Patient with Clinical History of HBV and HCV Coinfections by Connor R. Zuraski, Vinit Patil, Katherine E. Schwetye

“…Additionally, attempts at cytogenetic testing of formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) autopsy tissues, which we performed approximately ten years after the original autopsy, led us to question the utility of older tissue blocks in molecular and some immunohistochemical assays.…”
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Casing Vibration Fault Diagnosis Based on Variational Mode Decomposition, Local Linear Embedding, and Support Vector Machine by Yizhou Yang, Dongxiang Jiang

“…Vibrational features are extracted from both VMD subsignals and the original one. LLE is employed here to reduce the dimensionality of these extracted features and make the samples more separable. …”
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Power Management in Controlling Stakeholder Pressure and Improving Financial Performance by Sasongko tri utomo, Wisnu Mawardi, Nur Amalina

“…The board of commissioners and external pressure significantly negatively affect financial performance. Originality: The concept of stakeholder pressure in all existing studies has not been researched into a dependent variable so that stakeholder pressure becomes a novelty in this study. …”
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Disturbance-Observer-Based Fixed-Time Backstepping Control for Quadrotors with Input Saturation and Actuator Failure by Tao Huang, Kang Liu, Yefeng Yang, Chih-Yung Wen, Xianlin Huang

“…In addition, the tracking errors of the closed-loop system converge to the neighborhood of the origin in a fixed time. Finally, sufficient simulation results verify the validity of the proposed control framework for the UAV.…”
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Exploring Marine Cyanobacteria for Lead Compounds of Pharmaceutical Importance by Bushra Uzair, Sobia Tabassum, Madiha Rasheed, Saima Firdous Rehman

“…The Ocean, which is called the “mother of origin of life,” is also the source of structurally unique natural products that are mainly accumulated in living organisms. …”
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Research on Open-Closed-Loop Iterative Learning Control with Variable Forgetting Factor of Mobile Robots by Hongbin Wang, Jian Dong, Yueling Wang

“…In this work, we show that the proposed algorithm guarantees tracking error bound convergence to a small neighborhood of the origin under the condition of state disturbances, output measurement noises, and fluctuation of system dynamics. …”
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Environmental and Ecological Risks Posed by Sediment Heavy Metals in Reservoirs: A Preliminary Study from Northwest Türkiye by Murat Tekiner, Mehmet Parlak, Tülay Tunçay

“…In all four reservoirs, sediment heavy metals were generally of natural origin. Although sediment pollution index was identified as “considerable contamination” for Mn, such a case was not detected for the other heavy metals (Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Ni, Pb, and Zn). …”
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On the involvement of the second heart field in congenital heart defects by Guijarro, Clara, Kelly, Robert G.

“…Here we review the major properties of SHF cells as well as recent insights into the developmental programs that drive normal cardiac progenitor cell addition and the origins of CHD.…”
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Preliminary Assessment of the Possible BWR Core/Vessel Damage States for Fukushima Daiichi Station Blackout Scenarios Using RELAP/SCDAPSIM by C. M. Allison, J. K. Hohorst, B. S. Allison, D. Konjarek, T. Bajs, R. Pericas, F. Reventos, R. Lopez

“…The initial assessment was originally presented to the International Atomic Energy Agency on March 21 to support their emergency response team and later to our Japanese members to support their Fukushima Daiichi specific analysis and model development.…”
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Digitisation and the Future of Work by Melanie Arntz, Terry Gregory, Ulrich Zierahn

“…And fourthly, automation releases compensation mechanisms that counteract the original displacement effect. An end to work is therefore not in sight, despite constantly increasing technical possibilities, even if this far reaching structural change presents new challenges for workers.…”
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A Decoupling Control Method for Shunt Hybrid Active Power Filter Based on Generalized Inverse System by Xin Li, Bo Li

“…Based on the analysis of operation principle, the mathematical model of SHAPF is firstly built, which is verified to be invertible using interactor algorithm; then the generalized inverse system of SHAPF is obtained to connect in series with the original system so that the composite system is decoupled under the generalized inverse system theory. …”
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Stochastic Bifurcations of a Fractional-Order Vibro-Impact System Driven by Additive and Multiplicative Gaussian White Noises by Yong-Ge Yang, Ya-Hui Sun, Wei Xu

“…Firstly, we can remove the discontinuity of the original system with the help of nonsmooth transformation and obtain the equivalent stochastic system. …”
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Multiple Pulp Stones in Primary and Developing Permanent Dentition: A Report of 4 Cases by Mohita Marwaha, Radhika Chopra, Payal Chaudhuri, Atul Gupta, Jayna Sachdev

“…Therefore, it is suggested that these unusual cases may be of idiopathic origin.…”
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Neurosyphilis with Concomitant Cryptococcal and Tuberculous Meningitis in a Patient with AIDS: Report of a Unique Case by Jose Armando Gonzales Zamora, Luis Alberto Espinoza, Rita N. Nwanyanwu

“…Meningitis in individuals living with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is most frequently infectious in origin and usually due to opportunistic infections. …”
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Cost efficiency evaluation for a two-stage series network in data envelopment analysis by Zohreh Moghaddas, Mohsen Vaez Ghasemi

“…Considering the set of weights from various aspects can affect the obtained scores. Originality/Value: According to the models and methods in the DEA literature, a model is presented to consider cost efficiency in a two-stage DEA model in this study.…”
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Synthesis and mechanical characterization of hydroxyapatite-based biomaterials reinforced with nickel-titanium-magnesium alloys for use in cortical bone implants by Refugio-García María E., Miranda-Hernández José G., Gallardo-Mendez Marco A., Vázquez-Huerta Gerardo, Rodríguez-García José A., Rocha-Rangel Enrique

“…The results were compared with cortical bone samples of bovine origin. From the results, it is possible to comment that, with increasing alloy contents in the hydroxyapatite, the mechanical properties increase considerably. …”
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Multiple Symmetric Lipomatosis: A Review of 3 Cases by Emilio Mevio, Michele Sbrocca, Mauro Mullace, Silvia Viglione, Niccolò Mevio

“…It is thought that this pathology originates from an alteration in lipid metabolism. Since the patients were asymptomatic temperance and diet was proposed, surgical removal of the lipomatose mass is the treatment of choice in case of complications due to fat mass compression on upper aerodigestive tract. …”
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Finite element approximation of a population spatial adaptation model by Gonzalo Galiano, Julián Velasco

“…Finally, we provied the results of some biologically inspired numerical experiments showing qualitative differences between the original model of [18] and the model proposed in this article.…”
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