Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 in a patient diagnosed with nesidioblastosis. A case presentation by Olivia Elizabeth Altamirano Guerrero, María Gabriela Balarezo García, Juan Sebastián Lima Icaza

“…Multiple endocrine neoplasias encompass a series of syndromes characterized by their genetic origin and the involvement of one or more glands. …”
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Brief Exposition of Religious Experience in Semitic Religion by Ahmad Nabil Amir, Tasnim Abdul Rahman

“…The findings show the unprecedented influence and presence of the Abrahamic seeds in the world’s religion, especially of the Semitic line of origin.…”
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Bayesian and Frequentist Estimation of Stress-Strength Reliability from a New Extended Burr XII Distribution by Varun Agiwal, Shikhar Tyagi, Christophe Chesneau

“… In this article, we propose and study a new three-parameter heavy-tailed distribution that unifes the Burr type XII and power inverted Topp-Leone distributions in an original manner. This unification is made through the use of a simple 'shift parameter'. …”
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The Influence of the Variety, Vineyard, and Vintage on the Romanian White Wines Quality by Anamaria Hosu, Veronica Floare-Avram, Dana Alina Magdas, Ioana Feher, Mihai Inceu, Claudia Cimpoiu

“…In this study, the influence of different characteristics of wines (type, production year, and origin) on the total phenolic content, total flavonoids content, antioxidant activity, total sugars content, pH, and 18O/16O isotopic ratio was investigated. …”
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Visual Quality Assessment after Network Transmission Incorporating NS2 and Evalvid by Zhengyou Wang, Wan Wang, Yanhui Xia, Zheng Wan, Jin Wang, Liying Li, Cong Cai

“…Simulation results show that different parameters lead to different distortion levels which are calculated according to the reconstruction images at the receiver and the original images. The experimental results show that the video transmission and quality evaluation model we designed can evaluate multimedia transmission performance over complex environment very well.…”
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USE OF RAPD MARKERS OPTIMIZES THE SELECTION OF SOURCE MATERIAL OF SWEET PEPPER (CAPSICUM ANNUUM L.) IN BREEDING FOR HETEROSIS by M. N. Shapturenko, L. A. Tarutina, T. V. Pechkovskaya, L. A. Mishin, L. V. Khotyleva

“…RAPD analysis of sweet pepper lines of various ecogeographical origins was made to study DNA screening efficiency for hybrid breeding. …”
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On the estimation of sequestered infected erythrocytes in Plasmodium falciparum malaria patients by Derdei Bichara, Nathalie Cozic, Abderrahman Iggidr

“…More precisely, we use an auxiliary system, called observer or estimator, whose solutions tend exponentially to those of the original model. This observer uses only the available measurable data, namely, the values of peripheral infected erythrocytes. …”
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Instantaneous Frequency Identification Using Adaptive Linear Chirplet Transform and Matching Pursuit by Chang Xu, Cong Wang, Jingbo Gao

“…Because of the high time resolution, the modified chirplet transform is superior to the original method. The proposed method is applied to time-varying systems with both linear and nonlinear varying stiffness and systems with closely spaced modes. …”
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O círculo de conservação da natureza e regeneração no Tratado da conservação da saúde dos povos (1756) de Antônio Nunes Ribeiro Sanches by Ermelinda Moutinho Pataca

“…Nos concentramos nos métodos de interpretação dos fenômenos naturais, na proposta pedagógica e na construção da narrativa do Tratado, resultando em uma semântica original e complexa na convergência entre química, geografia e medicina. …”
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Bifidobacterium fermentation with infant formulas is associated with benefits for gut and brain barrier function by Emily G. Knox, Paula Sánchez-Díaz, Colin Buttimer, Sarah-Jane Leigh, Klara Vlckova, Colin Hill, Elaine Kennedy, Jonathan O’Regan, Seamus McSweeney, David Goulding, Maria Rodriguez Aburto, Caitriona M. O’Driscoll, John F. Cryan, Eoin Gunnigle, Gerard Clarke

“…Here, we evaluated the impact of four infant formulas fermented with three Bifidobacterium strains, originally isolated from infant stool, on gut and BBB integrity. …”
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Population Dynamic Study of Prey-Predator Interactions with Weak Allee Effect, Fear Effect, and Delay by Ye Xuan Li, Hua Liu, Yu Mei Wei, Ming Ma, Gang Ma, Jing Yan Ma

“…The Allee effect and delay destabilize the originally stable model, after which Hopf bifurcation occurs. …”
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Sporadic, Nontrauma-Related, Desmoid Tumor of the Pancreas: A Rare Disease—Case Report and Literature Review by F. Polistina, G. Costantin, E. D'Amore, G. Ambrosino

“…Desmoid tumors (DTs) are neoplasms of fibroblastic origin characterized by lack of a capsule. They are nonmetastatic and locally aggressive. …”
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Improving Neutron-Gamma Discrimination with Stilbene Organic Scintillation Detector Using Blind Nonnegative Matrix and Tensor Factorization Methods by Hanane Arahmane, El-Mehdi Hamzaoui, Rajaa Cherkaoui El Moursli

“…These signal processing tools have allowed to recover original source components from real-world mixture signals which have been recorded at the output of the stilbene scintillation detector. …”
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A New Efficient and Reliable Dynamically Reconfigurable Network-on-Chip by Cédric Killian, Camel Tanougast, Fabrice Monteiro, Abbas Dandache

“…The new router architecture is based on additional diagonal state indications and specific logic blocks allowing the reliable operation of the NoC. The main originality in the proposed NoC is that only the permanently faulty parts of the routers are disconnected. …”
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A model for operational risk of industrial facilities including ageing/test degradation effects and maintenance effectiveness by S.F. Quintão Ribeiro, J.J. Rivero

“…The traditional models update the risk profile for specific operational conditions setting to one the failure probability of components which are known to be unavailable by failure or maintenance, while constant mean unavailability values from the original Probabilistic Safety Analysis (PSA) are kept for the rest. …”
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Isaiah 3:16–23: Dress, pride, ostentatious items or syncretism? by Paul Nyarko-Mensah, Dirk J. Human

“…Also, the list included items which had their origin in the cult and magic system of their Canaanite neighbours. …”
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Crystal Structure of Ruthenium Phthalocyanine with Diaxial Monoatomic Ligand: Bis(Triphenylphosphine)Iminium Dichloro(Phthalocyaninato(2-))Ruthenium(III) by Derrick Ethelbhert Yu, Akira Kikuchi, Tetsuya Taketsugu, Tamotsu Inabe

“…Axially-ligated iron phthalocyanines have been found to be good molecular conductors with giant negative magnetoresistance (GNMR) which originates from a strong intramolecular π-d interaction between the metal and phthalocyanine. …”
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Combined nanoindentation and SEM imaging for phase quantification and creep prediction of cementitious materials by Imane Bekrine, Benoit Hilloulin, Ahmed Loukili

“…The present article introduces a novel and rapid method for processing nanoindentation data using SEM image analysis, called Auto-NI-SEM (Automatic NanoIndentation-Scanning Electron Microscopy). The originality of the method lies in the exploitation of micromechanical data, coupled with image analysis, by developing a suitable automatic deconvolution method. …”
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Solving a Vehicle Routing Problem under Uncertainty by a Differential Evolution Algorithm by Alireza Salamatbakhsh, Reza Tavakkoli-Moghaddam, Ali Pahlevani

“…Findings: The obtained results indicate the efficiency of the proposed DE algorithm. Originality/Value: The total travel time is limited to a definite probability per cent, and other constraints (e.g., capacity and time distribution restrictions) are considered. …”
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Geographical Discrimination of Ground Amazon Cocoa by Near-Infrared Spectroscopy: Influence of Sample Preparation by Fabielle Negrão Ferreira, Gilson Celso Albuquerque Chagas-Junior, Mozaniel Santana de Oliveira, Jhonatas Rodrigues Barbosa, Marcos Enê Chaves Oliveira, Alessandra Santos Lopes

“…From the results obtained, it can be observed that it was not possible to differentiate the samples of seeds not fermented by geographic origin. However, fermentation was crucial for efficient discrimination, providing more defined clusters for each geographic region. …”
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