Clinical case of the treatment of acute heart failure with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in patients with acute idiopathic giant cell myocarditis by B.M. Todurov, G.I. Kovtun, A.N. Postupalsky, A.N. Druzhyna, O.A. Loskutov, I.N. Kuzmich, А.О. Shpachuk

“…Echocardiographic study showed a significant decrease in heart size (end-diastolic volume – from 100 to 90 ml, end-systolic volume – from 85 to 60 ml), as well as a reduction of the right ventricular systolic pressure from 40 to 30 mm Hg. …”
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Improvement of Ocean State Estimation by Assimilating Mapped Argo Drift Data by Shuhei Masuda, Nozomi Sugiura, Satoshi Osafune, Toshimasa Doi

“…We assessed the representativeness of the volume transport in the two exercises. The assimilation of Argo ocean current data at only one level, 1000 dbar depth, had subtle impacts on the estimated volume transports, which were strongest in the subtropical North Pacific. …”
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Prediction of Blood Donations Using Data Mining Based on the Decision Tree Algorithms KNN, SVM, and MLP by Arash Fahmihassan, Mohammadreza Moghari, Omidmahdi Ebadati

“…Preserving and supplying the volume of blood required in blood banks of each region, and the diverse blood groups with the connections between them, with assuming that the number of blood groups are rarer; makes the prediction and planning of blood donation more and more complicated and important during the time. …”
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Improvement of Moderately Loaded Transonic Axial Compressor Performance Using Low Porosity Bend Skewed Casing Treatment by Dilipkumar Bhanudasji Alone, S. Satish Kumar, Shobhavathy M. Thimmaiah, Janaki Rami Reddy Mudipalli, A. M. Pradeep, Srinivasan Ramamurthy, Venkat S. Iyengar

“…Experimental results reveal that the stall margin of the compressor stage increases with increase in the plenum chamber volume. Hot-wire measurements show significant reduction in the turbulence intensity with increase in the plenum chamber volume compared to that with the solid casing at the stall condition. …”
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Early Therapy Evaluation of Combined Cetuximab and Irinotecan in Orthotopic Pancreatic Tumor Xenografts by Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Hyunki Kim, Karri D. Folks, Lingling Guo, Jeffery C. Sellers, Naomi S. Fineberg, Cecil R. Stockard, William E. Grizzle, Donald J. Buchsbaum, Desiree E. Morgan, James F. George, Kurt R. Zinn

“…The K trans values in the 0.5 mm–thick peripheral tumor region were calculated, and the changes in K trans during the 3 days posttherapy were compared to tumor volume changes, bioluminescent signal changes, and histologic findings. …”
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CFD Modeling of Wall Steam Condensation: Two-Phase Flow Approach versus Homogeneous Flow Approach by S. Mimouni, N. Mechitoua, A. Foissac, M. Hassanaly, M. Ouraou

“…Computational results compare favorably with experimental data, particularly for the Helium and steam volume fractions.…”
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Hemotoxicity Induced by Chronic Chlorpyrifos Exposure in Wistar Rats: Mitigating Effect of Vitamin C by Suleiman F. Ambali, Joseph O. Ayo, King A. N. Esievo, Samuel A. Ojo

“…The elevated values of malonaldehyde, mean corpuscular volume, mean corpuscular hemoglobin, mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration, and neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio in the CPF group were restored in those pretreated with vitamin C. …”
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Research on Influential Factors of PM2.5 within the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region in China by Jinchao Li, Lin Chen, Yuwei Xiang, Ming Xu

“…Among them, population density, industrial proportion, transportation volume, energy consumption per unit area, and the proportion of electricity consumption have a pivotal influence on PM2.5. …”
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Microstructure and properties of SiC particle reinforced AA7075 composites by friction stir processing by Yuhan Duan, Yuehui Dang, Shuang Yi, Xianming Cao, Yu Cao, Zejun Chen

“…The effects of SiC particle volume fraction on microstructure and mechanical properties were investigated using scanning electron microscopy, electron backscattering diffraction, tensile testing, and impact experiments. …”
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The work of Glenn F. Webb by William E. Fitzgibbon

“…It is my distinct pleasure to introduce this volume honoring the 70thbirthday of Professor Glenn F. …”
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Watch out! Travellers’ valuation of reduced avalanche risks on railways and roads by Knut Veisten, Ståle Navrud, Kristin Magnussen

“…Thus, the travellers did on average indicate additional valuation of reducing avalanche frequency and avalanche volume/size, beyond the specified impacts on casualties and closures. …”
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A Mathematical Pressure Transient Analysis Model for Multiple Fractured Horizontal Wells in Shale Gas Reservoirs by Yan Zeng, Qing Wang, Zhengfu Ning, Hongliang Sun

“…The influences of fracture half-length, fracture permeability, Langmuir volume, matrix radius, matrix permeability, and induced fracture permeability on pressure and production were discussed. …”
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Polycarbonate Microchip Containing CuBTC-Monopol Monolith for Solid-Phase Extraction of Dyes by Eman Alzahrani

“…Various parameters (desorption and extraction step flow rates, volume of desorption solvent, volume of sample, and type of desorption solvent) were examined to optimize dye extraction using fabricated microchips. …”
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Stable Copper Tin Sulfide Nanoflower Modified Carbon Quantum Dots for Improved Supercapacitors by Zhen Bi, Lanyan Huang, Chaoqun Shang, Xin Wang, Guofu Zhou

“…However, the poor intrinsic conductivity and volume change during redox reactions hindered their electrochemical performances and broad applications. …”
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Effect of Compressed Gas on Deep Mine Long-Distance Backfill Pipe Flushing: From Laboratory to Industrial Tests by Longjian Bai, Hongjiang Wang, Aixiang Wu, Hao Li, Shengkai Wang, Chong Chen, Chunkang Liu

“…The water consumption is 0.8–1.1 times the volume of the pipe in water flushing. However, the water consumption of gas–water flushing is 0.60–0.75 times the volume of the pipe. …”
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ANTHROPOGENIC LOAD ON WATER BODIES IN THE UPPER OB BASIN IN DIFFERENT WATER CONTENT PERIODS: THE DYNAMICS AND THE FORECAST by Natalya V. Stoyashcheva

“…The forecast of anthropogenic load dynamics, made on the basis of materials of strategic documents of the socio-economic development of the regions up to 2035, showed a reduction in the dilution ratio of wastewater against a significant increase in the volume of water used, primarily for the needs of industry and, accordingly, the generated wastewater. …”

Experimental Study on Autogenous and Drying Shrinkage of Steel Fiber Reinforced Lightweight-Aggregate Concrete by Shunbo Zhao, Changyong Li, Mingshuang Zhao, Xiaoyan Zhang

“…In this paper, the autogenous shrinkage and drying shrinkage of SFRLAC for up to 270 days were measured, considering the effects of types of coarse and fine aggregates with the changes of water-to-binder ratio and volume fraction of steel fiber, respectively. The properties of mix workability, apparent density, and compressive strength of SFRLAC were also reported and discussed in relation to above factors. …”
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Flame temperature analysis in the oxycut process using acetylene gas: a numerical study by Gustavo L. S. Silva, Júlio Cesar Costa Campos, Charles Luiz da Silva, Igor R. R. Carlos, Antonio Marcos de Oliveira Siqueira, Rogério F. Brito, Luciano José Minette

“…In the present work, the partially premixed combustion model of a finite volume-based software was applied to analyze the flame temperature in a cutting tip of acetylene. …”
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Three-Dimensional Measurement of TRISO Coated Particle Using Micro Computed Tomography by Libing Zhu, Xincheng Xiang, Yahui Peng, Xiangang Wang

“…The thickness distribution and volume of kernel and coating layers are obtained by constructing 3D volume rendering of TRISO particle. …”
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Evaluation of Sentinel Lymph Node Dose Distribution in 3D Conformal Radiotherapy Techniques in 67 pN0 Breast Cancer Patients by Gerlo Witucki, Nikolaus Degregorio, Andreas Rempen, Lukas Schwentner, Dirk Bottke, Wolfgang Janni, Florian Ebner

“…In our case series the SN clip volume received a mean dose of 40.7 Gy (min 28.8 Gy/max 47.6 Gy). …”
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