Treatment and Imaging Modalities of Giant Coronary Aneurysms Resulting from Kawasaki Disease and Presenting as Acute Inferior Wall Myocardial Infarction by Mahmood Abu Akel, Yaron M. Hellman, Shtiwi Sawaed, Erez Sharoni, Amnon Eitan, Moshe Y. Flugelman

“…Coronary angiography demonstrated the aneurysms, but CT angiography allowed accurate assessment of the real dimensions of the aneurysms and making the decision on the preferred method of revascularization. The patient underwent coronary bypass surgery and is asymptomatic at follow-up.…”
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A Wireworm Conoderus scissus Schaeffer (Insecta: Coleoptera: Elateridae) by Dakshina R. Seal

“…Conoderus scissus is the most abundant wireworm species found in sweet potato fields. Its preference for other crops is followed by peanut, cowpea, and corn. …”
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A Wireworm Conoderus scissus Schaeffer (Insecta: Coleoptera: Elateridae) by Dakshina R. Seal

“…Conoderus scissus is the most abundant wireworm species found in sweet potato fields. Its preference for other crops is followed by peanut, cowpea, and corn. …”
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Clavate Tortoise Beetle, Plagiometriona clavata (Fabricius) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) by Robert E. Woodruff

“…Woodruff, describes this common tortoise-shaped beetle which prefers host plants in the family Solanaceae. Includes sections on synonymy, distribution, description, hosts and biology, and selected references. …”
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Mesoporous TiO2 Micro-Nanometer Composite Structure: Synthesis, Optoelectric Properties, and Photocatalytic Selectivity by Kun Liu, Lianjie Zhu, Tengfei Jiang, Youguang Sun, Hongbin Li, Dejun Wang

“…The photodegradation preference of this mesoporous TiO2 was also investigated for an RhB-phenol mixed solution. …”
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Turkish dentist practice and opinions on diagnosing and treating deep caries lesions: a web-based survey by Nilgün Akgül, Ebru Yilmaz, Onur Akkurt, Özge Gizem Yenidünya

“…Male dentists were less likely to use a base under restorations (p < 0.05). Female dentists preferred single-session pulp capping for pulpal perforations (p < 0.05). …”
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A comparative study to determine the sport branches that the classroom pre-service teachers want to be engaged in the most in their leisure time by Osman Dalaman

“…The sports that the students want to do the most are sequenced as follows: most preferred sport by the male students is football (87.5%), then volleyball (63.7%), swimming (60.1%), trekking (50.9%) and basketball (50.5%) and the most preferred sport by female students is volleyball (68.1%), then trekking (54.6%), swimming (53.2%) and folkdances (49.5%).…”
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Microbiological, Nutritional, and Sensory Quality of Bread Produced from Wheat and Potato Flour Blends by Udeme Joshua Josiah Ijah, Helen Shnada Auta, Mercy Oluwayemisi Aduloju, Sesan Abiodun Aransiola

“…The color of the bread baked from WF/IPF2 (wheat/Irish potato flour, 95 : 5%) blend was preferred to WF (wheat flour, 100%) while WF/SPF1 (wheat/sweet potato flour, 100%) and WF/IPF1 (wheat/Irish potato flour, 90 : 10%) aroma were preferred to WF. …”
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Effects of Chronic Stress and Comfort Food in Testicular Morphology in Adult Wistar Rats by Carina F. Barnabé, Roger G. Marchon, Maria V. C. Pinto, Bianca M. Gregório, Anneliese Fortuna-Costa, Francisco J. B. Sampaio, Diogo B. De Souza

“…Results: Comfort food was preferred over standard chow in groups C+CF and S+CF, but this preference was more preeminent in stressed animals (S+CF). …”
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Cross-Border Travel Behavior Analysis of Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Using MXL-BMA Model by Yajie Zou, Wanbing Han, Bo Lin, Bing Wu, Linbo Li, Shubo Wu, Malik Muneeb Abid

“…Therefore, a Bayesian model averaging (BMA) approach is applied to model travel mode choice behavior considering using revealed preference/stated preference (RP/SP) fusion data collected by questionnaires online. …”
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Early Iron Age Pottery Technology of the Kazakh Uplands (Saryarqa) by Valeriy G. Loman

“…However, the pottery paste recipes did differ: in North Kazakhstan, preference was given to medium-size mineral tempers, and to larger ones — in Central Kazakhstan. …”
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A Effect of Various Cooking Methods on Quality and Sensory Characteristics of Tempeh Made from Soybeans and Corn by Daimon Syukri, Diana Sylvi, Siska Fitri Ramadani

“…Then the organoleptics test was carried out on the level of preference of the panelists on the parameters of aroma, color, taste and texture of tempeh.  …”
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Exogenous Angiotensin I Metabolism in Aorta Isolated from Streptozotocin Treated Diabetic Rats by P. P. Wołkow, B. Bujak-Giżycka, J. Jawień, R. Olszanecki, J. Madej, J. Rutowski, R. Korbut

“…Diabetes in rats led to preference toward deleterious (ANG II, ANG III) over protective (ANG IV, ANG (1–9), and ANG (1–7)) ANG I metabolites.…”
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Policy options for low-carbon sustainable transport systems in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal: A survey-based study by Jyoti Prajapati, Maheswar Rupakheti, Mark G. Lawrence

“…., integrating transport systems, vehicle inspection and maintenance, tax rebates, promoting electric vehicles and public buses) as the most preferred policies and of the highest importance. In contrast, financial (e.g., increasing tax and fuel price) and highly technological measures were considered moderately or least-preferred policies. …”
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An External Archive-Based Constrained State Transition Algorithm for Optimal Power Dispatch by Xiaojun Zhou, Jianpeng Long, Chongchong Xu, Guanbo Jia

“…This paper proposes an external archive-based constrained state transition algorithm (EA-CSTA) with a preference trade-off strategy for solving the power dispatch optimization problem in the electrochemical process of zinc (EPZ). …”
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Interval combined prediction of mine tunnel's air volume considering multiple influencing factors. by Zhen Wang, Erkan Topal, Liangshan Shao, Chen Yang

“…Finally, a sensitivity analysis was carried out to analyze the values of the preference coefficients in the model, and the final range of values was given. …”
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Nonfat Set Yogurt: Effect of Okra Gum and Various Starches on the Rheological, Sensory, and Storage Qualities and Wheying-Off by Ali Saleh, A. A. Mohamed, M. S. Alamri, S. Hussain, A. A. Qasem, M. A. Ibraheem, Syed Ali Shahzad

“…Sensory evaluation showed preference for yogurts prepared with starch compared to the control, regardless of starch type. …”
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Analysis of new varieties adoption behavior of Chinese turbot farmer based on the perspective of heterogeneity by Qilei Ding, Zhengyong Yang, Renjie Xu, Yifei Chen

“…The causes of low adoption rate of new varieties are farmer's lower risk preference, lower benefit of communication and limited government incentives. …”
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Multiobjective Optimization of Hard Turning on OHNS Steel Using Desirability and TOPSIS Approaches by C. Manikandan, B. Rajeswari, Dhanesh G. Mohan, R. M. Aravind

“…The OHNS (AISI/SAE-01–48HRC) steel is mainly preferred for the production of shafts, gears, cams, and press tools. …”
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Poetic and theatrical occasionalisms: Creation of new morphologically complex words by Joseph von Eichendorff, Johann Nepomuk Nestroy, Peter Handke and Arno Schmidt by Wolfgang U. Dressler, Barbara Tumfart, Dietmar Kunisch, Vanessa Hannesschläger

“…These are productivity of word formation, literary functions, main content, single use vs. reuse of them, consequences of the noun bias of German and of the preference for binary relations, size of the word families of compound constituents (especially of the first constituent), the degree of poetic licence, semantically coherent vs. incoherent combination of words within a compound, embedding into the cotext and into the situational context, gapping constructions and their make-up, preference for compounding vs. derivational morphology.The conclusion and outlook (§ 4) present proposals how literary studies may profit from investigations of poetic and theatrical occasionalisms, which represent the highest degree of language creativity of literary authors. …”
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