Three-Dimensional Elasticity Solutions for Sound Radiation of Functionally Graded Materials Plates considering State Space Method by Tieliang Yang, Qibai Huang, Shande Li

“…The FGM plate is a mixture of metal and ceramic, and its material properties are assumed to have smooth and continuous variation in the thickness direction according to a power-law distribution in terms of volume fractions of the constituents. …”
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Ectopic Thyroid Mass Separately Present in Mediastinum and Not a Retrosternal Extension: A Report of Two Cases by Abdul Ahad Sohail, Syed Shahabuddin, Moghira Iqbaluddin Siddiqui

“…These cervicomediastinal lesions at times may not be continuous, and a sternotomy may be required for complete and safe excision of the mediastinal mass to achieve decompression of the surrounding structures and preventing the hemorrhagic complications if attempted from cervical incision. …”
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CORRUPTION IN GOVERNMENT AS A GLOBAL PROBLEM by V. A. Sukhanov

“…At the turn of the twentyfirst century the problem of corruption in the government of national states is attracting continuous international attention with the increasing role of interstate agencies and transnational actors in the struggle against it. …”
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Analysis of a Single Species Model with Dissymmetric Bidirectional Impulsive Diffusion and Dispersal Delay by Haiyun Wan, Long Zhang, Zhidong Teng

“…In most models of population dynamics, diffusion between two patches is assumed to be either continuous or discrete, but in the real natural ecosystem, impulsive diffusion provides a more suitable manner to model the actual dispersal (or migration) behavior for many ecological species. …”
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Current status and prospects of minimally invasive hepatobiliary surgery by Jie Li, Ping Chen

“…In the future, the continuous integration of artificial intelligence, robotic technology, virtual reality and augmented reality technologies, and remote technologies with medicine will further promote the development of minimally invasive surgery. …”
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Machine Learning in Information and Communications Technology: A Survey by Elias Dritsas, Maria Trigka

“…Lastly, we highlight the challenges and future directions that are critical for the continued advancement of ML-driven innovations in ICT.…”
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Detection of the onset of numerical chaotic instabilities by lyapunov exponents by Alicia Serfaty De Markus

“…We present a procedure that establishes a criterion to select the largest possible step size before the onset of chaotic numerical instabilities, based upon the observation that computational chaos does not occur in a smooth, continuous way, but rather abruptly, as detected by examining the largest Lyapunov exponent as a function of the step size. …”
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Thermal noise and the incessant vibration of the outer hair cells in the cochlea by W. Fritze, M. Steurer

“…The continual exposure of outer hair cells (OHCs) to thermal noise causes vibrations in resonant frequency. …”
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A Long Short-Term Memory–Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Network-Based Data Imputation Method for Photovoltaic Power Output Prediction by Zhu Liu, Lingfeng Xuan, Dehuang Gong, Xinlin Xie, Dongguo Zhou

“…Finally, through frequency domain analysis, t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE) metrics, and prediction performance validation of the generated data, the proposed method can improve the continuity and reliability of data in photovoltaic prediction tasks.…”
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Life-Threatening Laryngeal Edema and Hyponatremia during Hysteroscopy by Barbara Wegmüller, Kerstin Hug, Charlotte Meier Buenzli, Bernd Yuen, Marco Maggiorini, Alain Rudiger

“…Resuscitation including continuous venovenous hemodiafiltration was required. …”
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Robotic surgery in gastrointestinal surgery: History, current status, and challenges by Yu Liu, Qingyang Feng, Jianmin Xu

“…Robotic surgery has been a part of clinical practice for over 30 years, and in recent years, the continuous emergence of new robotic platforms and technologies has brought about both changes and challenges in the field of gastrointestinal surgery,. providing the possibility for more precise surgery and smaller trauma. …”
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Adrenal Incidentalomas in Cancer Patients Are Not Always “Innocent”: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Panagiota Economopoulou, Giannis Mountzios, Ioannis Kotsantis, Marios Bakogeorgos, Vassilios Ramfidis, Ioannis Kapiris, Efstratios Patsouris, Nikolaos Kentepozidis

“…It also emphasizes the importance of a continuous assessment of patients with synchronous primary malignancies, in order to timely evaluate changes in clinical or biological behavior and administrate the appropriate treatment.…”
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Futuristic Developments and Applications in Endoluminal Stenting by Joel Ferreira-Silva, Renato Medas, Mohit Girotra, Monique Barakat, James H. Tabibian, Eduardo Rodrigues-Pinto

“…In recent years, in addition to expansion in indications for endoscopic stenting, considerable strides have been made in stent technology, and several types of devices with advanced designs and materials are continuously being developed. In this review, we discuss the important developments in stent designs and novel indications for endoluminal and transluminal stenting. …”
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Engineering Properties and Applications of Air-Foamed Lightweight Soil by Xuze Yuan, Zheng Lu, Hailin Yao, Xianjun Tan, Yang Zhao, Chuxuan Tang, Ming Cheng, YiPeng Gao

“…With the continuous development of road construction worldwide, the construction sector is trying to find a versatile material for building roads in particular areas. …”
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A Complicated Case of Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia in the Second Trimester of Pregnancy Successfully Treated with All-trans-Retinoic Acid by Kanika Agarwal, Megha Patel, Vandana Agarwal

“…Postpartum, she underwent consolidation treatment with ATRA and arsenic trioxide (ATO). The patient continued ATRA therapy after delivery and is currently in remission.…”
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A COMPARISON OF THE LIFE CYCLE RITUALS OF THE MNONG ETHNIC GROUP IN DAM RONG DISTRICT (LAM DONG PROVINCE) AND DAK SONG DISTRICT (DAK NONG PROVINCE) by Thi Thuy Dung Vo

“…In their long residence in these regions and with continuous creativity, the Mnong have created cultural characteristics shown in their customs, beliefs, and festivals. …”
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Patterns, Trends and Policy Processes in Spanish Secondary Education: Multiple Streams in a Multilevel Context by Eliseo López Sánchez, Esther del Campo

“… Educational policies in Spain have been characterized by conflict and continuous changes to legislation in the Central State. …”
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Exact Null Controllability, Stabilizability, and Detectability of Linear Nonautonomous Control Systems: A Quasisemigroup Approach by Sutrima Sutrima, Christiana Rini Indrati, Lina Aryati

“…In our previous work, we have analyzed the approximate controllability and observability of the nonautonomous Riesz-spectral systems including the nonautonomous Sturm-Liouville systems. As a continuation of the work, we are concerned with the analysis of stability, stabilizability, detectability, exact null controllability, and complete stabilizability of linear non-autonomous control systems in Banach spaces. …”
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Optical PIV and LDV Comparisons of Internal Flow Investigations in SHF Impeller by G. Wuibaut, G. Bois, M. El Hajem, A. Akhras, J. Y. Champagne

“…The tested impeller is the so-called SHF impeller for which many experimental data have been continuously produced to built databases for CFD code validations with various levels of approximation. …”
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A Methodological Review of Piezoelectric Based Acoustic Wave Generation and Detection Techniques for Structural Health Monitoring by Zhigang Sun, Bruno Rocha, Kuo-Ting Wu, Nezih Mrad

“…As condition based maintenance has emerged as a valuable approach to enhancing continued aircraft airworthiness while reducing the life cycle cost, its enabling structural health monitoring (SHM) technologies capable of providing on-demand diagnosis of the structure without interrupting the aircraft operation are attracting increasing R&D efforts. …”
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