Appropriate Contrast Enhancement Measures for Brain and Breast Cancer Images by Suneet Gupta, Rabins Porwal

“…Medical imaging systems often produce images that require enhancement, such as improving the image contrast as they are poor in contrast. …”
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Fluorescent Thiol-Derivatized Gold Clusters Embedded in Polymers by G. Carotenuto, S. De Nicola, L. Nicolais

“…Here, the photoluminescence features of some examples of these systems are shortly described.…”
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Tools for Evaluating Soil Health by Jehangir H. Badha, Jay M. Capasso, Robert R. Schindelbeck, Allan R. Bacon

“…It refers to the chemical, biological, and physical characteristics that influence a soil’s ability to function sustainably and to satisfy the needs of humans, support plants, and cycle elements, water, and energy between earth systems. This four-page fact sheet identifies ways to evaluate soil health. …”
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Localised Leishmaniasis of Oral Mucosa: Report of an Unusual Clinicopathological Entity by Deepak Passi, Sarang Sharma, Shubharanjan Dutta, Chandan Gupta

“…Treatment was provided in the form of antimoniates (oral miltefosine and systemic sodium stibogluconate). A review of literature is made on the subject.…”
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Compromis et patrimoine : les zones humides rétro-littorales face aux changements globaux by Clémence Dedinger, Christophe Boschet, Clarisse Cazals, Nathalie Long, Audrey Rivaud

“…Bridging theories of conventions and practices, it draws evidence on their creation considering the relationship between actors’ representations of heritage, practices and their embeddness into relational systems. We apply this framework to two retro-littoral marshes in Charente-Maritime, having use and preservation issues renewed by flooding risk. …”
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Positive solutions of higher order quasilinear elliptic equations by Marcelo Montenegro

“…If the domain is a ball, we obtain a priori estimate to the radial solutions via blowup. Extensions to systems and general domains are also presented. The basic ingredients are the maximum principle, Moser iterative scheme, an eigenvalue problem, a priori estimates by rescalings, sub/supersolutions, and Krasnosel'skiĭ fixed point theorem.…”
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Biology and Management of Doveweed (Murdannia nudiflora) in Ornamental Crop Production by Yuvraj Khamare, Chris Marble, Nathan Boyd, Shawn Steed

“… Doveweed is a common warm-season annual weed in Florida landscapes, container nurseries, and other agricultural production systems. This new 5-page article is written for green industry professionals and others to aid in the identification and management of doveweed in and around ornamental plants. …”
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Acanthamoeba Species Keratitis in a Soft Contact Lens Wearer Molecularly Linked to Well Water by Samira Mubareka, Michelle Alfa, Godfrey K Harding, Gregory Booton, Marilyn Ekins, Paul Van Caeseele

“…Primary care practitioners and specialists, including ophthalmologists and infectious diseases specialists, must maintain a high degree of clinical suspicion in soft contact lens wearers with keratitis unresponsive to conventional topical and systemic treatment.…”
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Spreadsheet to Calculate the Economic Feasibility of Anaerobic Manure Digesters on Florida Dairy Farms by Albert de Vries, Russ G. Giesy, Ann C. Wilkie, Roger A. Nordstedt

“…Nordstedt, describes a spreadsheet that evaluates the economic feasibility of investment in anaerobic manure digesters on Florida dairy farms that use hydraulic flushing systems for manure management. Includes a link to the spreadsheet and references. …”
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Agroterrorism in the U.S.: An Overview by Renee M. Goodrich, Keith R. Schneider, C. D. Webb, Douglas L. Archer

“…The United States (U.S.) has identified the protection of national systems and infrastructure, such as the transportation, communication, water supply, and agriculture networks, as priorities to defend against terrorism. …”
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Spreadsheet to Calculate the Economic Feasibility of Anaerobic Manure Digesters on Florida Dairy Farms by Albert de Vries, Russ G. Giesy, Ann C. Wilkie, Roger A. Nordstedt

“…Nordstedt, describes a spreadsheet that evaluates the economic feasibility of investment in anaerobic manure digesters on Florida dairy farms that use hydraulic flushing systems for manure management. Includes a link to the spreadsheet and references. …”
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Acute Thoracic Aortic Dissection (Stanford Type B) Complicated with Acute Renal Failure by Li Li, ShunJiu Zhuang, ShaoHong Qi, JiaSheng Cui, JunWen Zhou, Huaqi Zhu, Wan Zhang, Ming Li, Weiguo Fu

“…We conclude that an AAD case is difficult to achieve a timely diagnosis, but with attention to systemic symptoms and dedication thorough treatment plan, a full recovery and positive prognosis are expected.…”
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Efficient task scheduling for cloud computing: a comparative survey of state-of-the-art algorithms by Aziza Algarni

“…This paper aims to evaluate and discuss algorithms that can improve load balancing in cloud systems.…”
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Sunburn as a Cause of Unexpected Neutrophilia in a Healthy Pregnant Woman by Robert Harper

“…Neutrophilia has a broad differential diagnosis and represents a systemic response to an infection or other inflammatory pathologies. …”
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Acute Arterial Thrombosis after Covered Stent Exclusion of Bleeding Mycotic Pseudoaneurysm: Treatment Using Catheter-Directed Thrombolysis by Sarah Palestrant, M. Grace Knuttinen, Ron C. Gaba, James T. Bui, Charles A. Owens

“…Conventional absolute contraindications to catheter-directed thrombolysis include active or recent hemorrhage and the presence of local vascular infection, both of which increase the risk of procedure-related complications such as bleeding and systemic sepsis. For this reason, lytic therapy of arterial thromboembolism under these circumstances is generally precluded. …”
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ITS-based wireless traffic monitoring solution by Natalja Osintsev, Victoria Nozick

“…This paper explores the contemporary approach to traffic monitoring systems and highlights the indispensable role of wireless sensor networks in addressing these challenges.…”
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An Unusual Case of Sudden Collapse in the Immediate Postoperative Period in a Young Healthy Female with Myxofibroma of the Maxilla by Manila Singh, Saket Singh

“…Benign myxofibromas of heart are well known to cause systemic inflammatory mediator release causing multiple complications ranging from fever and widespread effusions to DIC and shock. …”
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The role of order and disorder in thermal and material sciences part 1: Heat and society by Šesták J.

“…Thermodynamics is reviewed in the relation to both the traditional development and the modern description of disequilibria (open systems). Effect of dissipation is shown often to provide new, self-organized structures. …”
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Recurrent Inflammatory Myositis as an Extra-Intestinal Manifestation of Dormant Ulcerative Colitis in a Patient on Long-Term Mesalamine by Srikanth Naramala, Venu Madhav Konala, Sreedhar Adapa, Pravallika Amudala, Romeo C. Castillo, Nikhil Agrawal, Hemant Dhingra

“…Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic systemic inflammatory condition primarily involving the large bowel mucosa with relapsing and remitting episodes. …”
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THE FORMATION BIONANOTECHNOLOGIES INDUSTRIAL COMPLEXES: THE POTENTIAL OF CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT by N. Zińkowskaya, E. Mokeeva

“…The expediency of creation and the functional tasks of cluster Foresight Centre in the framework of development of strategic management systems of bionanoscience clusters are established.…”
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