Unusual Etiology of Chronic Posterior Leg Pain in a Running Athlete: Could It Be a Schwannoma? A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Naoufal Elghoul, Omar Zaddoug, Mohammed Tbouda, Mohammed Benchakroun, Abdeloihab Jaafar

“…Herein, we report a rare case of a 49-year-old athlete who suffered from a pain in the posterior aspect of the right leg one year before his presentation. …”
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Software requirement selection using a combined multi‐objective optimisation technique by Wathiq H. Dukhan, Marghny H. Mohamed, Ali A. Amer, Elnomery Allam Zanaty, Omar Reyad

“…However, in real examples, the earlier studies still immature as NRP still suffers interactions and restrictions that makes the problem more complicated. …”
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Not Only Glycaemic But Also Other Metabolic Factors Affect T Regulatory Cell Counts and Proinflammatory Cytokine Levels in Women with Type 1 Diabetes by Katerina Stechova, Jana Sklenarova-Labikova, Tereza Kratzerova, Pavlina Pithova, Dominik Filipp

“…Type 1 diabetic (T1D) patients suffer from insulinopenia and hyperglycaemia. Studies have shown that if a patient’s hyperglycaemic environment is not compensated, it leads to complex immune dysfunctions. …”
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Urodynamic Evaluation after High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound for Patients with Prostate Cancer by Luigi Mearini, Elisabetta Nunzi, Silvia Giovannozzi, Luca Lepri, Carolina Lolli, Antonella Giannantoni

“…Patients with high prostate volume and long procedure length suffered from irritative symptoms even at long term.…”
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Renewable syngas production from electrified catalytic steam reforming of biomass pyrolysis volatiles by José Juan Bolívar Caballero, Fereshteh Talkhab, Hanmin Yang, Samina Gulshan, Pengcheng Cao, Thomas Lewin, Pär G. Jönsson, Weihong Yang

“…Pyrolysis of biomass plus catalytic reforming of its pyrolysis volatiles is a green alternative to produce solid (biochar) and gaseous (syngas) fuels that have several valuable applications; however, this catalytic process suffers from fast deactivation, and its energy consumption is yet to be studied, factors that determine the process’s feasibility in industrialisation. …”
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Ultra-Short-Term Distributed Photovoltaic Power Probabilistic Forecasting Method Based on Federated Learning and Joint Probability Distribution Modeling by Yubo Wang, Chao Huo, Fei Xu, Libin Zheng, Ling Hao

“…Existing methods regarding cluster information sharing tend to easily trigger issues of data privacy leakage during information sharing, or they suffer from insufficient information sharing while protecting data privacy, leading to suboptimal forecasting performance. …”
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Acute Mesenteric Ischemia after Cardiac Surgery: An Analysis of 52 Patients by Cuneyt Eris, Senol Yavuz, Serhat Yalcinkaya, Arif Gucu, Faruk Toktas, Gunduz Yumun, Burak Erdolu, Ahmet Ozyazıcıoglu

“…The study included 6013 patients, of which 52 (0.86%) patients suffered from AMI, 35 (67%) of whom died. …”
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The Causes of Variation Orders and Their Effects on Cost and Time of Projects in Sulaimani Governorate by Karukh Hassan M.karim, Noori Ali, Basira Majeed

“…Where construction industries suffer from variation orders. It includes an amendment of the initial scope of work as in the awarded contract.  …”
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Reduced resistance at molecular-crystal electrolyte and LiCoO2 interfaces for high-performance solid-state lithium batteries by Yuki Watanabe, Shigeru Kobayashi, Zheng Ruijie, Deng Jun, Kenjiro Tanaka, Kazunori Nishio, Ryo Nakayama, Ryota Shimizu, Makoto Moriya, Taro Hitosugi

“…However, solid-state batteries using these electrolytes suffer from the large resistance at the interfaces with positive electrodes. …”
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Radiation-Associated Fracture Nonunion of the Clavicle Treated with Locking Plate Fixation and Autologous Bone Grafting by Takahiro Niikura, Sang Yang Lee, Yoshitada Sakai, Kotaro Nishida, Ryosuke Kuroda, Masahiro Kurosaka

“…Eight years later, he suffered a pathological fracture of the right clavicle. …”
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Symptom Status Predicts Patient Outcomes in Persons with HIV and Comorbid Liver Disease by Wendy A. Henderson, Angela C. Martino, Noriko Kitamura, Kevin H. Kim, Judith A. Erlen

“…Persons living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are living longer; therefore, they are more likely to suffer significant morbidity due to potentially treatable liver diseases. …”
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Positive Psychological Interventions for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: Rationale, Theoretical Model, and Intervention Development by Jeff C. Huffman, Christina M. DuBois, Rachel A. Millstein, Christopher M. Celano, Deborah Wexler

“…It is therefore vital to develop interventions that are simple, well-accepted, and applicable to a wide range of patients who suffer from T2D. One approach may be to boost positive psychological states, such as positive affect or optimism, as these constructs have been prospectively and independently linked to improvements in health behaviors. …”
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The Effect of Different Glycaemic States on Renal Transplant Outcomes by Angela Sheu, Barbara Depczynski, Anthony J. O’Sullivan, Grant Luxton, George Mangos

“…Compared to patients without DM, patients with DM or PTDM are more likely to suffer from complications perioperatively and at 12 months. …”
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Dynamic behavior and residual performance of CFDSTCs under coupled collision and blast loads by Yongtao Mi, Huiqi Ren, Chenxi Sun, Jian Zhao, Weiqiang Wang, Zailin Yang, Yicun Chen

“…Bridges can suffer partial or even total collapse when bridge piers, as crucial load-bearing bridge components, are hit by vehicles or ships. …”
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Ir-O-Mn embedded in porous nanosheets enhances charge transfer in low-iridium PEM electrolyzers by Dawei Wang, Fangxu Lin, Heng Luo, Jinhui Zhou, Wenshu Zhang, Lu Li, Yi Wei, Qinghua Zhang, Lin Gu, Yanfei Wang, Mingchuan Luo, Fan Lv, Shaojun Guo

“…However, the reported low-Ir-based catalysts still suffer from unsatisfying electrolytic efficiency and durability under practical industrial working conditions, mainly due to insufficient catalytic activity and mass transport in the catalyst layer. …”
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Placental Infection with Different SARS-CoV-2 Variants Leading to Stillbirth: Report of Two Cases by Miriam A. Snow, Medini K. Annavajhala, Sofia Z. Moscovitz, Anne-Catrin Uhlemann, Larisa Debelenko

“…In the second case, the mother had a history of multiple sclerosis (MS) and suffered recurrent moderate-to-severe COVID-19. In both cases, the placentas showed SP with massive perivillous fibrin deposition (PVFD), involving more than 90% of placental discs, resulting in placental insufficiency and lethal hypoxic–ischemic injury to the fetuses. …”
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Preoperative Nutritional Therapy Reduces the Risk of Anastomotic Leakage in Patients with Crohn’s Disease Requiring Resections by Zhen Guo, Dong Guo, Jianfeng Gong, Weiming Zhu, Lugen Zuo, Jing Sun, Ning Li, Jieshou Li

“…Patients in NT group suffered less anastomotic leakage (2.3% versus 17.9%, P=0.023) and less temporary diverting stoma (22.8% versus 40.9%, P=0.036). …”
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An improved DeepLabv3 + railway track extraction algorithm based on densely connected and attention mechanisms by Yanbin Weng, Jie Yang, Changfan Zhang, Jing He, Cheng Peng, Lin Jia, Hui Xiang

“…Abstract The railway track extraction using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aerial images suffers from issues such as low extraction accuracy and high time consumption. …”
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A Cross-Sectional Study of the Association between Autoantibodies and Qualitative Ultrasound Index of Bone in an Elderly Sample without Clinical Autoimmune Disease by Rosebella A. Iseme, Mark McEvoy, Brian Kelly, Linda Agnew, Frederick R. Walker, Michael Boyle, John Attia

“…The confounding effects of immunomodulatory drugs make it difficult to establish the contribution of autoantibodies amongst autoimmune disease sufferers. We attempted to examine the relationship between autoantibodies and bone mass in a population of 2812 elderly participants without clinical autoimmune disease. …”
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Analysis of High Step-Up Quasi-<italic>Z</italic>-Source-Based Converter With Low Input Current Ripple by Ataollah Samadian, Milad Ghavipanjeh Marangalu, Iman Talebian, Navid Hadifar, Seyed Hossein Hosseini, Mehran Sabahi, Hani Vahedi

“…Most of the <italic>Z</italic>-source-based converters suffer from high current stress across the power <sc>mosfet</sc>s and the operation in lower power. …”
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