Bocio endotorácico. Presentación de dos casos by José Alberto Puerto Lorenzo, Lidia Torres Ajá, Eslinda Cabanes Rojas

“…El tratamiento quirúrgico aplicado fue la hemitiroidectomía derecha, con istmectomía y resección de la prolongación mediastínica del tumor. …”
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Association between sex steroid hormones and α-klotho: Results from the NHANES 2013-2016 and Mendelian randomization study by Andong Guo, Pengcheng Chen, Jishuang Cao, Chenrui Wu, Sentai Ding

“…Finally, significant mediation effects were observed for uric acid (β = 0.27, 95 % CI: 0.15–0.67, P < 0.0001) and creatinine (β = 0.05, 95 % CI: 0.01–0.16, P = 0.0060), accounting for 26.7 % and 5.23 % of the total mediation effect, respectively. …”
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Elevated Platelet‐to‐Lymphocyte Ratio as a Predictor of All‐Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality in Hypertensive Individuals by Rui Xu, Ling Chen, Changshun Yan, Hong Xu, Guiqiu Cao

“…Over a median follow‐up of 79 months, there were 2820 all‐cause deaths and 758 cardiovascular deaths. The multivariate Cox analysis showed that those in the highest PLR quartile had significantly elevated risks of all‐cause mortality (Model 1: HR = 1.28, 95% CI 1.16–1.42, p < 0.001; Model 2: HR = 1.14, 95% CI 1.03–1.26, p = 0.014; Model 3: HR = 1.16, 95% CI 1.05–1.29, p = 0.004)and cardiovascular mortality (Model 1: HR = 1.59, 95% CI 1.30–1.94, p < 0.001; Model 2: HR = 1.38, 95% CI 1.13–1.68, p = 0.001; Model 3: HR = 1.47, 95% CI 1.20–1.80, p < 0.001). …”
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Approximation Properties of Durrmeyer Type of (p,q)-Bleimann, Butzer, and Hahn Operators by Qing-Bo Cai, İsmet Yüksel, Ülkü Dinlemez Kantar, Bayram Çekim

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Performance comparison and energy-saving optimization for two DTRO systems in coal mine concentrated brine treatment by WANG Renlei, FENG Yun, ZHU Li, WANG Qingxi, CAO Rong

“…The actual operation showed that the operating pressure of two-segments DTRO was 0.7-0.9 MPa lower than that of single-segment DTRO, and the desalination rate was 0.10%-0.15% higher than that of single-segment DTRO. …”
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Experimental Study on Tunnel Failure Mechanism and the Effect of Combined Anti-Dislocation Measures Under Fault Dislocation by Jiaxuan Du, Songhong Yan, Weiyu Sun, Mingxing Cao, Yuxiang Li

“…The damage is mainly characterized by circumferential shear and is concentrated within the fault fracture zone. The zone 20 cm to 30 cm on both sides of the fault plane is the primary area influenced by tunnel forces. …”
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Toward medical test recommendation from optimal attribute selection perspectives: a backward reasoning approach by Nengjun Zhu, Jieyun Huang, Jian Cao, Liang Hu, Siji Zhu

“…Abstract Medical tests are crucial for treatment decision making. However, over-testing can often occur in any medical speciality or level of expertise. …”
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Phyllodes tumor in adolescent. Case study. by Lidia Torres Aja, Julio Sarmiento Sánchez, María Caridad Rubio Hernández

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Accurate Modeling of GaN HEMTs Oriented to Analysis of Kink Effects in S₂₂ and h₂₁: An Effective Machine Learning Approach by Zegen Zhu, Gianni Bosi, Antonio Raffo, Giovanni Crupi, Jialin Cai

“…The scattering (S-) parameters of the DUT are measured at a frequency up to 65 GHz and at an ambient temperature up to 200&#x00B0;C. The proposed model can accurately reproduce the KEs in <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$S_{22}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and in <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$h_{21}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, enabling an effective analysis of their dependence on the operating conditions, bias point and ambient temperature. …”
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Adiabatic Temperature Rise Test of Cemented Sand and Gravel (CSG) and Its Application to Temperature Stress Prediction of CSG Dam by Minmin Jiang, Xin Cai, Xingwen Guo, Qinghui Liu, Tianye Zhang

“…An adiabatic temperature rise test of cemented sand and gravel (CSG) is conducted, a model for temperature rising of CSG is proposed, and its application to temperature stress prediction of CSG dam is presented. …”
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Small Bowel Intussusception due to Metastasized Sarcomatoid Carcinoma of the Lung: A Rare Cause of Intestinal Obstruction in Adults by Ali Guner, Savaş Karyagar, Ayten Livaoglu, Can Kece, Uzer Kucuktulu

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Comparative efficacy and safety of neoadjuvant radiotherapy for patients with borderline resectable, and locally advanced pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: a systematic review and... by Xin Wang, Dan Cao, Qingfeng Wang, Qiancheng Hu, Wanrui Lv

“…The results will be disseminated through peer-reviewed journal.PROSPERO registration number CRD42020222408.…”
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PURP: A Scalable System for Predicting Short-Term Urban TrafficFlow Based on License Plate Recognition Data by Shan Zhang, Qinkai Jiang, Hao Li, Bin Cao, Jing Fan

“…Accurate and efficient urban traffic flow prediction can help drivers identify road traffic conditions in real-time, consequently helping them avoid congestion and accidents to a certain extent. …”
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The Effect of A2E on the Ca2+-PKC Signaling Pathway in Human RPE Cells Exposed to Blue Light by Maomei Luo, Shu Wang, Yun Tang, Chun Zeng, Shanjun Cai

“…In a model of blue light-induced damage in N-retinylidene-N-retinylethanolamine (A2E)-loaded human retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells, we examined the effect of A2E on the calcium (Ca2+)-protein kinase C (PKC) signaling pathway. …”
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Evaluation of Undrained Bearing Capacities of Wide-Shallow Bucket Foundation with Honeycomb Bulkheads in Clay by Qingshan Wang, Xun Han, Yunfei Guan, Yongyong Cao, Wenxuan Li

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The Impact of Diabetes on Vascular Disease: Progress from the Perspective of Epidemics and Treatments by Runyang Liu, Lihua Li, Chen Shao, Honghua Cai, Zhongqun Wang

“…Metabolic disorders caused by diabetes can lead to secondary vascular complications, which have long-term malignant effects on the heart, kidneys, brain, and other vital organs of patients. …”
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Uniaxial Experimental Study of the Deformation Behavior and Energy Evolution of Conjugate Jointed Rock Based on AE and DIC Methods by Jiliang Pan, Xu Wu, Qifeng Guo, Xun Xi, Meifeng Cai

“…The results show that the AE counts can be used to characterize the damage and failure of the specimen during uniaxial compression. …”
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Differential Scanning Calorimetry Material Studies: Benzil Melting Point Method for Eliminating the Thermal History of DSC by Ziyang Zhu, Wei Li, Yilin Yin, Ruilin Cao, Zenghe Li

“…Based on this method, we optimized other factors to establish a complete method for the determination of melting point by DSC, analyzed the uncertainty of the method, and obtained an extended uncertainty of 0.19°C for DSC in this method. The validation results show that the p-nitrotoluene of the melting point reference substance was 52.64°C, which is within its reference value of (52.53 ± 0.20) °C, showing that this method is reliable. …”
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A Machine-Learning-Based Classification Method for Meteorological Conditions of Ozone Pollution by Yang Cao, Xiaoli Zhao, Debin Su, Xiang Cheng, Hong Ren

“…The classification method can comprehensively reflect the impact of meteorological conditions on the occurrence of ozone pollution.…”
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MFCEN: A lightweight multi-scale feature cooperative enhancement network for single-image super-resolution by Jiange Liu, Yu Chen, Xin Dai, Li Cao, Qingwu Li

“…While extracting the three scales of features, a satisfiability attention mechanism with a feed-forward network that can control the information was used to keep the network lightweight. …”
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