Design Optimization of Reinforced Concrete Cantilever Retaining Walls: A State-of-the-Art Review by Mansoor Shakeel, Rizwan Azam, Muhammad R. Riaz, Ayman Shihata

“…Although there is an abundance of research studies on this topic, there is an absence of any critical review to tie them up, and concurrently with its broader scope, it suffers the same lack of applicability in the field. …”
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Theranostic Contact Lens for Ocular Cystinosis Utilizing Gold Nanoparticles by Eunbe Ha, Hwajeong Kang, Hyeran Noh

“…The current treatment involves frequent administration of cysteamine eye drops, which suffer from low bioavailability and can lead to drug toxicity, making it essential to prescribe an appropriate dosage based on the patient’s condition. …”
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Ocular traumatic behavior in patients discharged from the Cuban Institute of Ophthalmology. by Dany Curbelo Concepción, Idalia Triana Casado, Juan C. Medina Perdomo

“…<strong>Background:</strong> Ocular traumas are regarded as an important cause of ophthalmologic morbidity and, at the same time, an important cause of the remaining injuries, most of the time handicapping those patients who suffer from them. <strong><br />Objective:</strong> to describe the behavior of the ocular traumas in patients who have been discharged from the Cuban Ophthalmology Institute “Ramón Pando Ferrer” in the period between January 2006 and December 2007. …”
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Giant Leiomyoma of the Retzius Space: A Case Report by Franco Pepe, Pietro Pepe, Filippo Rapisarda, Marta Fauzia, Maria Giunta

“…Extrauterine leiomyoma is a very rare clinical condition; we report a case of leiomyoma of the Retzius space in a 49-year-old women who suffered for two years from bladder voiding symptoms characterized by dysuria, feeling of incomplete emptying, and pelvic pain. …”
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Damage Assessment of an SRC Frame-Core Tube Structure under the Action of a Main Aftershock Sequence by Peng Wang, Qingxuan Shi, Feng Wang, Siusiu Guo

“…For a structure that has suffered damage from the main shock, the aftershock will further aggravate the damage and even cause complete collapse. …”
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Dislocation after Posterior Stabilized Primary Total Knee Replacement: A Rare Complication in Four Cases by W. Spierenburg, E. L. A. R. Mutsaerts, J. J. A. M. van Raay

“…In our cases, three of them suffered from obesity, which possibly has contributed to the dislocation. …”
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Behavior of non-Transmissible Chronic Diseases in Elder Adults by Raidel González Rodríguez, Juan Cardentey García

“…<br /><strong>Results:</strong> in the research the female sex, the age group of more than 75 years old and more predominated so as arterial hypertension as the chronic disease suffered by the elder adults of both sexes. The age groups of 60 to 64 and 65 to 69 mostly presented 1 non transmissible chronic disease. …”
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Research on the impact of mutual elderly care on the physical and mental health of rural elderly in China by Jialiang Liu, Xiaohan Liu, Bin Hu, GuangYao Liu

“…Heterogeneity analyses showed that participation in mutual care had no significant effect on the physical and mental health of the rural elderly who did not suffer from chronic diseases. Physical and mental health does not have a significant effect. …”
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Progressive alignment and interwoven composition network for image stitching by Xiaoting Fan, Long Sun, Zhong Zhang, Tariq S. Durrani

“…Most deep learning based image stitching methods suffer from unsatisfactory performance, because they neglect the cooperation relationship and complementary information between reference image and target image. …”
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Proposal to use LHC general-purpose detectors in “beam-dump” measurements for long-lived particles by Bhaskar Dutta, Doojin Kim, Hyunyong Kim

“…We further show that the LHC does not suffer from a barrier, dubbed beam-dump “ceiling”, that typical beam-dump experiments hardly surpass. …”
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SF-SAM-Adapter: SAM-based segmentation model integrates prior knowledge for gaze image reflection noise removal by Ting Lei, Jing Chen, Jixiang Chen

“…Gaze tracking technology in HMDs (Head-Mounted Displays) suffers from decreased accuracy due to highlight reflection noise from users' glasses. …”
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Chemokine Expression in Human Astrocytes in Response to Shiga Toxin 2 by Naomi Kioka, Koichi Minami, Akira Tamura, Norishige Yoshikawa

“…Approximately, 30% of patients with HUS suffer from complications in the central nervous system (CNS), which is an important determinant of mortality in such patients. …”
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The usage of Bupivacaina as anesthetic agent in knee arthroscopy. by José Julio Ojeda González, Evangelina Dávila Cabo de Villa, Ana María Machado Consuegra, José Toledo Torres, Carlos M. Hernández

“…<strong>Introduction: </strong>Artroscopy of the knee is a procedure that is frequently developed as a diagnostic and therapeutic means in patients who suffer among other diseases, from chronic sinuvitis, lesions of the meniscus and adherence . …”
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Retsmedicinske findestedsundersøgelser by Peter Mygind Leth, Stine Hovvang, Asser Hedegård Thomsen

“…The deceased included a high proportion of individuals with chronic alcoholism (36%) and many suffered from psychiatric disease (23%). Based on autopsy, manner of death was determined to have been homicide (30%), accident (27%), suicide (18%), natural death (14%) and unknown causes (6%). 5% was not autopsied. …”
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Cascaded intrusion detection system using machine learning by Md. Khabir Uddin Ahamed, Abdul Karim

“…However, most detection systems suffer from some common issues, such as a high number of false positives that cause regular behaviors to be detected as intrusions, as well as the system’s excessive complexity. …”
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Affirmative Action on Women Education Promotion in Ntungamo Municipality Ntungamo District. by Abenawe, Jasper

“…The study findings show that implementation of affirmative action is critical for establishing those distinctive benefits through laws and policies for the redress of inequality suffered by underprivileged individuals. As a result, affirmative action has become an inescapable aspect of the recruitment process and enhancement of females in institutions particularly, in leadership positions. …”
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Analysis of Dental Enamel Surface Submitted to Fruit Juice Plus Soymilk by Micro X-Ray Fluorescence: In Vitro Study by Janaína Salmos Brito, Alexandrino Santos Neto, Luciano Silva, Rebeca Menezes, Natália Araújo, Vanda Carneiro, Lara Magalhães Moreno, Jéssica Miranda, Pâmella Álvares, Giselle Nevares, Felipe Xavier, José Alcides Arruda, Ricardo Bessa-Nogueira, Natanael Santos, Gabriela Queiroz, Ana Paula Sobral, Márcia Silveira, Diana Albuquerque, Marleny Gerbi

“…Thus, a tooth chance to suffer demineralization due to industrialized fruit juices plus soy is real.…”
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Adrenocorticotropic Hormone Secreting Pheochromocytoma Underlying Glucocorticoid Induced Pheochromocytoma Crisis by Gil A. Geva, David J. Gross, Haggi Mazeh, Karine Atlan, Iddo Z. Ben-Dov, Matan Fischer

“…During hospitalization, he suffered additional events of chest pain, shortness of breath, and palpitations following administration of glucocorticoids as preparation for intravenous contrast administration. …”
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sAMDGCN: sLSTM-Attention-Based Multi-Head Dynamic Graph Convolutional Network for Traffic Flow Forecasting by Shiyuan Zhang, Yanni Ju, Weishan Kong, Hong Qu, Liwei Huang

“…Existing prediction methods focus on dynamic modeling of the spatiotemporal dependencies of traffic flow, capturing the periodicity and spatial heterogeneity in traffic data. However, they still suffer from a lack of focus on the important local information in long-term predictions, leading to overly smooth results that fail to effectively capture sudden changes in traffic patterns. …”
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Protection against the Phytotoxic Effect of Mercury Chloride by Catechin and Quercetin by Yedda M. L. S. de Matos, Daniel L. M. Vasconcelos, Antonio C. H. Barreto, Janaína E. Rocha, José B. de Araújo-Neto, Fábia F. Campina, Maria Milene C. da Silva, Tássia T. Al Yafawi, Celestina E. Sobral-Souza, Jacqueline C. A. Pinheiro, Saulo R. Tintino, Amanda K. Sousa, Raimundo N. P. Teixeira, Juan C. Alvarez-Pizarro, João H. da Silva, Abolghasem Siyadatpanah, Bonglee Kim, Henrique D. M. Coutinho

“…Plants when exposed to toxic levels of metals can suffer morphological or physiological damage because toxic metals can interact with several vital molecules in the plant. …”
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