Importance of the Wrist Extensor Muscle Training: Two Cases of Elbow Flexorplasty following Traumatic Brachial Plexus Injuries by Shigeki Kubota, Tadashi Kubo, Hiromi Kameda, Yoshiyasu Itoh

“…The modified Steindler procedure—a reconstructive surgery used to restore elbow flexion following upper brachial plexus injuries—involves shifting the origins of the muscle groups responsible for wrist flexion and forearm pronation originating from the medial epicondyle to the proximal direction to be used as flexors of the elbow. …”
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Analytical Approximate Solutions for the Cubic-Quintic Duffing Oscillator in Terms of Elementary Functions by A. Beléndez, M. L. Alvarez, J. Francés, S. Bleda, T. Beléndez, A. Nájera, E. Arribas

“…To do this, we use the previous results obtained using a cubication method in which the restoring force is expanded in Chebyshev polynomials and the original nonlinear differential equation is approximated by a cubic Duffing equation. …”
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A Faster Convergence Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm in Sensor Deployment for Wireless Sensor Networks by Xiangyu Yu, Jiaxin Zhang, Jiaru Fan, Tao Zhang

“…In this paper, by modifying updating equation of onlooker bee and scout bee of original artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm, a sensor deployment algorithm based on the modified ABC algorithm is proposed. …”
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Image Deconvolution by Means of Frequency Blur Invariant Concept by Barmak Honarvar Shakibaei, Peyman Jahanshahi

“…These descriptors are obtained by establishing an equivalent relationship between the normalized Fourier transforms of the blurred and original images, both normalized by their respective fixed frequencies set to one. …”
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Chronic Granulomatous Disease Presenting as Aseptic Ascites in a 2-Year-Old Child by J. F. Moreau, John A. Ozolek, P. Ling Lin, Todd D. Green, Elaine A. Cassidy, Veena L. Venkat, Andrew R. Buchert

“…This paper highlights the importance of considering CGD in the differential diagnosis of fever of unknown origin and ascites in children.…”
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Lower Order Krawtchouk Moment-Based Feature-Set for Hand Gesture Recognition by Bineet Kaur, Garima Joshi

“…The paper measures the effectiveness of shape recognition capability of 2D Krawtchouk features at lower orders on the basis of Jochen-Triesch’s database and hand gesture database of 10 Indian Sign Language (ISL) alphabets. Comparison of original and reduced feature-set is also done. Experimental results demonstrate that the reduced feature dimensionality gives competent accuracy as compared to the original feature-set for all the proposed classifiers. …”
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Brand Experience and Customer Loyalty in Dentistry: The Role of Perceived Brand Authenticity by Ghaith Al-Abdallah, Jegr Ababakr

“…This study investigates the impact of brand experience (BE) on customer loyalty (CL) and examines the possible mediating effect of brand authenticity (BA) and the moderating effect of frequency of visits on the original relationship between BE and CL in dental practices. …”
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Diagnostic possibilities of the single-balloon enteroscopy by Ye. D. Fedorov, Ye. V. Ivanova, M. Ye. Timofeyev, P. L. Chernyakevich, O. N. Andreyeva

“…Authors believe, that wide application of deep enteroscopy in clinical practice will change existing concept on frequency, origin and nature of various pathological changes of small intestine.…”
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A Large Left Ventricle Myxoma: Presenting with Epigastric Pain and Weight Loss by Solmaz Fakhari, Eissa Bilehjani

“…In the present case study, a 27-year-old woman with a large myxoma originating from the left ventricular free wall is studied. …”
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Vertical farm. New architectures and cities from the forms of agriculture by Sara Basso, Adriano Venudo, Thomas Bisiani, Pierluigi Martorana

“…The issue is articulated through four areas: the origin of the tall building as a symbolic expression and its contemporary evolution; above-ground agriculture in relation to classical macroeconomic categories since the 1700s; and three case studies of experimental vertical farms (Skyfarm, Farmscraper and Farmhouse), interpreted as possible origins of new architectural types. …”
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Projeto by Geraldo Augusto Fernandes

“…The project includes the presentation of the origins and evolution of each of these forms, followed by the presentation of all poems of the same formal classification. …”
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La Tentation de Saint-Antoine au Chat Noir : un exemple de collaboration multidisciplinaire by Michela Niccolai

“…The music plays a central role because, in the absence of a text, it must be narrated, so that known tunes, drawn from operas, operettas and café-concert, often used with a parodic sense, alternate with original music composed by Tinchant and Fragerolle. …”
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Mediterranean Fruit Fly, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritidae) by Michael C. Thomas, John B. Heppner, Robert E. Woodruff, Howard V. Weems, Jr., Gary J. Steck, Thomas R. Fasulo

“… The Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann), is one of the world's most destructive fruit pests. The species originated in sub-Saharan Africa and is not known to be established in the United States. …”
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Korutanský nastolovací obřad a přemyslovský mýtus by Michal Téra

“…One of the aims of the study is therefore to summarize and point to the most significant existing theories concerning the origin and the course of the ceremony. Another aim is to point out the connection between Carinthian setting ritual and a legend (or myth) about the origin of princely power in Bohemia where a similar ritual, apparently inspired by this myth, was proved in the early modern period. …”
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Belt Mount Sets from the Shekshovo Medieval Burial Ground in the Suzdal Opolie by Irina E. Zaytseva

“…The article deals with the metal parts of the belt set from the Shekshovo burial ground in the Suzdal Opolie (X–XII centuries). The objects originate mainly from the upper plowed layer. Most of them are related with destroyed burials, carried out by cremation rite: on the surface or in shallow pits. …”
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Re-performing African Literature: A Review of Owonibi’s Translation of three Yoruba Literary works into English – Chief Gaa, Delusion of Grandeur and The Tight Game by Titilope Oluwaseun Oriola

“…Proverbs, witty sayings, eulogy and figures of speech which were translated to have a contextual equivalence with the original texts. …”
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Modern terminology of management: Anglicisms as a means of adaptation to new economic realities by I. O. Zakharova

“…Anglicisms originally entered the Russian language to denote concepts and phenomena completely new to the Russian reality, their emergence, integration into the vocabulary of the Russian language and active use seem to be an inevitable process that meets the communicative needs of society. …”
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Capacitated Multiple Allocation Hub Covering Flow Problem by Orhan Feyzioğlu, Nazmi Sener

“…Every network node has the potential to be a hub and demand from an origin to adestination must be sent through at least one hub. …”
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Arterial vascularization of testicles, epididymis and ductus dcfereces in chinchilla (chinchilla lanigera) by Aysun Çevik-Demirkan, Vurai Özdemir, İsmail Türkmenoğlu, Murat Akosman

“…Arterial vascularization of cauda epididymidis and ductus deferences was supplied by the arteria ductus deferences that was originated from the arteria iliaca externa.…”
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Fournier's disease and anaerobic paraproctitis – different clinical forms of same pathological process? by M. A. Yegorkin

“…It is proposed to apply the «Fournier’s disease» term only to infection originating from genitalia, differentiating that from anaerobic paraproctitis, because extensive use of this term complicates analysis of prevalence.…”
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