A Patient with an Aberrant Pulmonary Blood Supply and Recurrent Infection by Radu Pescarus, George Rakovich, Denise Ouellette, Gilles Beauchamp

“…Pulmonary sequestration is a rare congenital malformation characterized by accessory lung tissue with no direct connection to the tracheobronchial tree and is supplied by an aberrant systemic artery. …”
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Assessments of Arterial Stiffness and Endothelial Function Using Pulse Wave Analysis by Lee Stoner, Joanna M. Young, Simon Fryer

“…Pulse wave analysis (PWA) provides useful information regarding the mechanical properties of the arterial tree and can also be used to assess endothelial function. …”
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Improving Inservice Teacher Workshops in Florida by Martha C. Monroe, Jenny Seitz, Shruti Agrawal, Michelle Aldridge, Sheda Morshed, Elizabeth Swiman, Vicki Crisp

“…This fact sheet defines the terms that are most helpful and provides suggestions for planning, advertising, delivering, and evaluating workshops to meet the needs of our teachers. Project Learning Tree (PLT) workshops are used as an example of how nonformal education facilitators could adapt their workshops to better address the new professional development system. …”
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Gamma Splines and Wavelets by Hannu Olkkonen, Juuso T. Olkkonen

“…We prove that the gamma splines obey the two-scale equation based on the polyphase decomposition. to introduce the shift invariant gamma spline wavelet transform for tree structured subscale analysis of asymmetric signal waveforms and for systems with asymmetric impulse response. …”
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Managing Major Postpartum Haemorrhage following Acute Uterine Inversion with Rusch Balloon Catheter by Remon Keriakos, Smriti Ray Chaudhuri

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Consensus Analysis of Fractional-Order Multiagent Systems with Double-Integrator by Chunde Yang, Wenjing Li, Wei Zhu

“…Based on the fractional-order stability theory, Mittag-Leffler function, and Laplace transform, a necessary and sufficient condition is obtained under the assumption that the directed graph for the communication network contains a directed spanning tree. Finally, an example with simulation is presented to illustrate the theoretical results.…”
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Jesus and "the Daniel code" by G. Thom

“…While He enumerated a number of signs that would warn his disciples of the approach of God’s judgment on Jerusalem – together constituting “the budding fig tree” – He emphasized, on the other hand, that there will be no signs to warn them of the approach of his parousia. …”
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Endoscopic Fistulotomy – ‘The Suprapapillary Punch’: A Method of Access to the Bile Duct during ERCP by Noel B Hershfield

“…Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is established as the method of choice to investigate the biliary tree when obstruction is suspected. On rare occasions, the papilla cannot be entered because of anatomical or pathological abnormalities. …”
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Leucaena leucocephala, White Leadtree by Michael G. Andreu, Melissa H. Friedman, Robert J. Northrop

“…It has also been planted as a windbreak for crops such as coffee and cocoa, and some ranchers use the tree as a source of both shade and forage for cattle, with the pods being an excellent source of protein. …”
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2019–2020 Florida Citrus Production Guide: Plant Bugs, Chewing Insect Pests, Caribbean Fruit Fly, and Thrips by Xavier Martini, Lauren M. Diepenbrock

“…While these pests do not require routine treatment in all groves, periodic outbreaks can potentially have dramatic impact on tree health and/or productivity. When these insects are detected at a damaging level, treatment is required. …”
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Chicken of the Woods (Laetiporus sulphureus species complex) by Brianna Benitez, Claudia Paez, Matthew Smith, Jason A. Smith

“… Species in the Laetiporus sulphureus species complex, also known as “chicken of the woods” mushrooms, are wood-decay fungi that cause brown rot within the heartwood of their tree hosts. The common name “chicken of the woods” is given to some species in this group because they are tasty edible mushrooms. …”
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Characterization and Selection of WiFi Channel State Information Features for Human Activity Detection in a Smart Public Transportation System by Roya Alizadeh, Yvon Savaria, Chahe Nerguizian

“…Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is performed before the decision tree algorithm. Reported results are compared with those obtained from the existing methods. …”
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Diagnosis of Malignant Endometrial Lesions from Ultrasound Radiomics Features and Clinical Variables Using Machine Learning Methods by Shanshan Li, Jiali Wang, Li Zhou, Hui Wang, Xiangyu Wang, Jian Hu, Qingxiu Ai

“…Six common machine learning algorithms, including Support Vector Machine (SVM), Logistic Regression, Decision Tree, Random Forest, Gradient Boosting Tree, and k-Nearest Neighbors, were employed to identify benign and malignant changes in endometrial tissue. …”
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Cytokines and Chemokines in Pediatric Appendicitis: A Multiplex Analysis of Inflammatory Protein Mediators by S. Ali Naqvi, Graham C. Thompson, Ari R. Joffe, Jaime Blackwood, Dori-Ann Martin, Mary Brindle, Herman W. Barkema, Craig N. Jenne

“…We used multivariate regression analysis to evaluate the seven target proteins, followed by decision tree and heat mapping analyses for all proteins evaluated. …”
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Predicting the risk of cardiovascular disease in adults exposed to heavy metals: Interpretable machine learning by Meiyue Shen, Yine Zhang, Runqing Zhan, Tingwei Du, Peixuan Shen, Xiaochuan Lu, Shengnan Liu, Rongrong Guo, Xiaoli Shen

“…Subsequently, six machine learning models were constructed, including random forest, decision tree, gradient boosting decision tree, k-nearest neighbor, support vector machine, and AdaBoost algorithms. …”
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Chromosome-level reference genome assembly for the mountain hare (Lepus timidus) by Fekete, Zsófia, Absolon, Dominic E., Michell, Craig, Wood, Jonathan M. D., Goffart, Steffi, Pohjoismäki, Jaakko L. O.

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Exploring the process—structure–property relationship of nylon aramid 3D printed composites and parameter optimization using supervised machine learning techniques by Mohammed Raffic Noor Mohamed, Ganesh Babu Karuppiah, Dharani Kumar Selvan, Rajasekaran Saminathan, Shubham Sharma, Shashi Prakash Dwivedi, Sandeep Kumar, Mohamed Abbas, Dražan Kozak, Jasmina Lozanovic

“…In an 80:20 train-test split, the decision tree approach outperformed the k -nearest neighbor algorithm for all four output responses, with classification accuracy ranging from 83.33% to 100%. …”
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Evaluating the feasibility of AI-predicted bpMRI image features for predicting prostate cancer aggressiveness: a multi-center study by Kexin Wang, Ning Luo, Zhaonan Sun, Xiangpeng Zhao, Lilan She, Zhangli Xing, Yuntian Chen, Chunlei He, Pengsheng Wu, Xiangpeng Wang, ZiXuan Kong

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High quality genome assembly of the brown hare (Lepus europaeus) with chromosome-level scaffolding by Michell, Craig, Collins, Joanna, Laine, Pia K., Fekete, Zsófia, Tapanainen, Riikka, Wood, Jonathan M. D., Goffart, Steffi, Pohjoismäki, Jaakko L. O.

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Analysis of population structure and genetic diversity in a Southern African soybean collection based on single nucleotide polymorphism markers by A. Tsindi, J. S. Y. Eleblu, E. Gasura, H. Mushoriwa, P. Tongoona, E. Y. Danquah, L. Mwadzingeni, M. Zikhali, E. Ziramba, G. Mabuyaye, J. Derera

“…Inference based on three tools, such as the Evanno method, silhouette plots and UPMGA phylogenetic tree showed the existence of three sub-populations. …”
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