Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Tear Samples of Patients with Systemic Sclerosis by Anikó Rentka, Jolán Hársfalvi, András Berta, Krisztina Köröskényi, Zoltán Szekanecz, Gabriella Szücs, Peter Szodoray, Ádám Kemény-Beke

“…The average collected tear fluid volume developed 10.4 μL (1.6–31.2) in patients and 15.63 μL (3.68–34.5) in control subjects. …”
Get full text

Effective Stress Factor Analysis of Proppant for Multi-stage Fracturing in Horizontal Wells by Bo Cai, Rui Gao, Chunming He, Jin Chen, Ning Cheng, Tiancheng Liang, Guifu Duan, Chuanyou Meng, Haifeng Fu, Haoyu Zhang

“…The results show that, during the multi-stage hydraulic fracturing operation in horizontal wells, the stress on proppants is not only related to geological factors such as reservoir closure stress, but also closely related to total injection volume, cluster spacing, liquid type, injection displacement and post fracture management. …”
Get full text

Associations of Plasma Phospholipid Omega-6 and Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Levels and MRI Measures of Cardiovascular Structure and Function: The Multiethnic Study of Athero... by Jennifer S. Anderson, Jennifer A. Nettleton, W. Gregory Hundley, Michael Y. Tsai, Lyn M. Steffen, Rozenn N. Lemaitre, David Siscovick, João Lima, Martin R. Prince, David Herrington

“…Associations of plasma phospholipid fatty acid levels (arachidonic acid, linoleic acid, eicosapentaenoic acid, docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), and alpha-linolenic acid) with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging measures of left ventricular (LV) mass, LV volume, ejection fraction, stroke volume, and aortic distensibility were investigated in 1,274 adults. …”
Get full text

Revealing speckle obscured living human retinal cells with artificial intelligence assisted adaptive optics optical coherence tomography by Vineeta Das, Furu Zhang, Andrew J. Bower, Joanne Li, Tao Liu, Nancy Aguilera, Bruno Alvisio, Zhuolin Liu, Daniel X. Hammer, Johnny Tam

“…., speckle) makes it difficult to visualize RPE cells from a single volume acquisition, a large number of 3D volumes are typically averaged to improve contrast, substantially increasing the acquisition duration and reducing the overall imaging throughput. …”
Get full text

Effects of Tank-Mix Adjuvants on Spray Performance Under Downwash Airflow Fields Using an Indoor Simulated UASS Spraying Platform by Supakorn Wongsuk, Yangfan Li, Zhaoyan Zhu, Mengran Yang, Hao Zhang, Li Zhang, Changling Wang, Xiongkui He

“…Furthermore, rotor speed was found to have a significant impact on volume median diameter, relative span, and V₁₀₀ (<i>p</i> < 0.05). …”
Get full text

Semiautomatic volumetry of the temporal lobes of the brain and correlation with electroencephalography results in dogs with assumed idiopathic epilepsy by Paulina Kinga Drobot, Aleksandra Banasik, Karolina Owsińska‐Schmidt, Marcin Wrzosek, Przemysław Podgórski

“…Among them, reduction in temporal lobe volumes correlated with the side of the EEG EDs in 7 cases. …”
Get full text

Bottom-up analysis for carbon emissions from passenger and freight transport sectors in Xi’an: a city-level study using MOVES and LMDI models by Ya’nan Bo, Liyuan Zhang, Jiahao Zhong, Wei Zhong, Pengyue Zhu

“…The LMDI models assessed the impact of six factors, focusing on microscopic traffic activities such as passenger/freight volume and turnover, vehicle ownership, mileage, carbon emission rate, vehicle types, and fuel types. …”
Get full text

Renal anemia and hyporesponsiveness to ESA for preservation of residual kidney function in patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis by Takahiro Imaizumi, Takeshi Hasegawa, Takaaki Kosugi, Hiroki Nishiwaki, Masanori Abe, Norio Hanafusa, Hirokazu Honda, Kazuhiko Tsuruya, Yasuhiko Ito, Takahiro Kuragano

“…After excluding patients with anuria at baseline from the Total cohort of 2,712, 659 of 1,640 patients developed anuria during a median follow-up of 2.5 (interquartile range: 1.5–4.2) years. Urine volume decreased more rapidly as hemoglobin decreased or as the erythropoiesis-stimulating agent (ESA) resistance index (ERI) increased. …”
Get full text

Paratesticular Serous Borderline Tumor in a Pediatric Patient by Itzel Araceli Ortiz Meza, Marco Antonio Ponce Camacho, Rodolfo Franco Márquez, Mauricio Delgado Morquecho, Raquel Garza Guajardo, Oralia Barboza Quintana

“…We present a 10-year-old male, with right gynecomastia and ipsilateral hydrocele, showing an enlarged right testicle with a volume of 12 ml and a left testicle with a volume of 10 ml. …”
Get full text

Detection of damage caused by Nezara viridula on soybean using novel imaging approaches based on computed tomography and image color analysis by Szilvia Gibicsár, Tamás Donkó, Dániel Fajtai, Sándor Keszthelyi

“…According to our CT findings, the damage caused by N. viridula changed the radiodensity, volume, and shape (Solidity) of the soybean seeds during the pod‐filling and maturing period. …”
Get full text

Outcomes of cataract surgery training among ophthalmology trainees in the independent sector and within the NHS by Darren Shu Jeng Ting, Philip Severn, Qasim Mansoor, Yunzi Chen, Oonagh Crothers

“…Surgical efficiency was maintained with all lists completed within 4 hours.Conclusion A structured training programme on high-volume lists within IS setting provided two trainees with valuable exposure to diverse cataract cases while ensuring safety and efficiency, producing training outcomes comparable to the NHS and NOD standards. …”
Get full text

Pregnancy entails a U-shaped trajectory in human brain structure linked to hormones and maternal attachment by Camila Servin-Barthet, Magdalena Martínez-García, María Paternina-Die, Luis Marcos-Vidal, Daniel Martín de Blas, Anna Soler, Olha Khymenets, Daniel Bergé, Gemma Casals, Pilar Prats, Oscar J. Pozo, Clara Pretus, Susana Carmona, Oscar Vilarroya

“…In this longitudinal study spanning pre, during, and post pregnancy, we unveil a U-shaped trajectory in gray matter (GM) volume, which dips in late pregnancy and partially recovers during postpartum. …”
Get full text

Second law efficiency and thermal entropy generation of 30:70% of glycerol + water based SiO2 nanofluids in a thermosyphon flat plate collector: Experimental and Bayesian artificia... by L.S. Sundar, Sérgio M.O. Tavares, Korada V Sharma, António M.B. Pereira

“…The research was conducted between 09:00 and 16:30 hours, with volume loadings varying from 0.25 to 1.0%. The time intervals of period-1 (09:00 to 13:00 hours) and period-2 (13:00 to 16:30 hours) were considered for clarity. …”
Get full text

A Reproducible Method for Donor Site Computed Tomography Measurements in Abdominally Based Autologous Breast Reconstruction by Damini Tandon, MD, Arthur Sletten, MD, PhD, Austin Ha, MD, Gary B. Skolnick, BA, MBA, Paul Commean, BEE, Terence Myckatyn, MD

“…Seventeen preoperative CT metrics were measured in 20 patients with software: interanterior superior iliac spine distance; abdominal wall protrusion; interrectus distance; rectus abdominis width, thickness, and width-to-thickness ratio; abdominal wall thickness; subcutaneous fat volume; visceral fat volume; right/left psoas volumes and densities; and right/left rectus abdominis volumes and densities. …”
Get full text

Axial length to corneal curvature radius ratio is negatively correlated with choroidal blood flow in myopic children by Yurong Ye, Zizhong Hu, Na Su, Yeyu Shen, Songtao Yuan

“…Linear regression and mediation analyses indicated that for each unit increase in choroidal blood perfusion volume in nasal region 1, AL/CR decreased by an average of 0.421 units. …”
Get full text

Risk of Subclinical Hypothyroidism in Breast Cancer Patients Treated With CT-Guided Radiation Therapy: A Prospective Observational Study by Amdisen L, Brink C, Lorenzen EL, Roenlev JD, Ewertz M, Cronin-Fenton D

“…We delineated the thyroid gland using CT scans to estimate thyroid volume and radiation dose to the thyroid. Subclinical hypothyroidism was defined as a thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) level of > 4 milli-international units per liter (mIU/l) in the presence of normal free thyroxine. …”
Get full text

Predictors and Significance of Readmission after Esophagogastric Surgery: A Nationwide Analysis by Richard PT Evans, MBBS, FRCS, Sivesh K Kamarajah, MBChB, MRCS, Felicity Evison, MSc, Xiaoxu Zou, PhD, Ben Coupland, MSci, Ewen A Griffiths, MD, FRCS

“…Over the past decade, the center-volume relationship has driven the centralization of major cancer surgery, which has led to improvements in perioperative mortality. …”
Get full text

Application of Cyclodextrins Stabilized Pickering Emulsion in Gluten-free Rice Bread by Xuehong LI, Jingjing GONG, Minjie LI, Dijia XIN, Lu ZHANG, Yong LU

“…To investigate the effect of cyclodextrins (CDs) stabilized Pickering emulsions on the quality of gluten-free rice bread, the corn oil Pickering emulsions stabilized by α-CD, β-CD or γ-CD were prepared and applied to gluten-free rice bread respectively. The specific volume, texture, water distribution and aging enthalpy of the breads were detected. …”
Get full text

Optimizing ternary hybrid nanofluids using neural networks, gene expression programming, and multi-objective particle swarm optimization: a computational intelligence strategy by Tao Hai, Ali Basem, As’ad Alizadeh, Pradeep Kumar Singh, Husam Rajab, Chemseddine Maatki, Nidhal Becheikh, Lioua Kolsi, Narinderjit Singh Sawaran Singh, H. Maleki

“…The goal is to minimize dynamic viscosity and maximize thermal conductivity by varying the volume fraction, temperature, and nanomaterial mixing ratio. …”
Get full text