Damage Identification and Performance Assessment of Regular and Irregular Buildings Using Wavelet Transform Energy by Mosbeh R. Kaloop, Jong Wan Hu

“…The obtained results reveal that the energy of Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) shows significantly higher performance than the energy of Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT) in detecting the damage of the building, and the performance of irregular buildings appeared suitable for use in the seismically active areas. …”
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A Stabilization Method Based on an Adaptive Feedforward Controller for the Underactuated Bipedal Walking with Variable Step-Length on Compliant Discontinuous Ground by Yang Wang, Daojin Yao, Jie He, Xiaohui Xiao

“…Unlike a totally new control method, the method is actually a high-level control strategy developed based on an existing low-level controller meant for the continuous compliant ground. As a result, although the ground environment is more complex, the calculation cost for the robot walking control system is not increased. …”
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Introduced Monkey Populations of Florida - History, Status, and Potential Impacts by C. Jane Anderson, Audrey C. Wilson, Deborah "Missy" Williams, Mark E. Hostetler, Steven A. Johnson

“…Demonstrated and potential impacts of the three species also varied. Continued monitoring and research of introduced primate populations in Florida is critical to better understand impacts and management needs. …”
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The role of TNF-α inhibitor in glioma virotherapy: A mathematical model by Elzbieta Ratajczyk, Urszula Ledzewicz, Maciej Leszczynski, Avner Friedman

“…In the present paper we develop a mathematical model that includes continuous infusion of the virus in combination with TNF-α inhibitor. …”
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Questions of constructing probe active control devices for product sizes by E. V. Leun

“…The article discusses the issues of the functionality, continuity and accuracy of probe ACD measurements.…”
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Error-Mask-Adaptive Dynamic Filtering for Image Inpainting by Keunsoo Ko, Seunggyun Woo, Chang-Su Kim

“…A novel error-mask-adaptive dynamic filtering (EMDF) algorithm is proposed in this paper, which uses a continuous error mask to inpaint an image adaptively and faithfully. …”
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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy of an Adolescent Stem Cell Transplantation Recipient with Hemorrhagic Cystitis and BK Virus by David López, Abdullah Alismail, Laren D. Tan

“…Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) continues to show effectiveness in the treatment of several diseases and benefits such as fibroblast proliferation, capillary angiogenesis, and decreasing edema, especially in hemorrhagic cystitis (HC). …”
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Production of M-Size Neon Tetra Fish Paracheriodon innesi in Recirculation System with Density of 25, 50, 75 and 100 litre-1 by T. Budiardi, M.A. Solehudin, D. Wahjuningrum

“…Increasing density could be increased the production and its continuity and also more efficient in land and water. …”
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Traficul și consumul de droguri din perspectiva respectării drepturilor omului by Claudiu Mihail Roman, Venera Bucur, Alexandra Marilena Mioc

“…With the fall of communism and the emergence of new social phenomena, drug trafficking and consumption began to become visible in Romania as well. The continuous increase in the standard of living in Romania, especially after the accession to the European Union, associated with the ignorance of some aspects regarding the consequences in terms of health and individual well-being, have caused a number of young and less young people to become frequent or occasional drug users. …”
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Implications of the Incidental Finding of a MYCN Amplified Adrenal Tumor: A Case Report and Update of a Pediatric Disease Diagnosed in Adults by Anna Koumarianou, Panagiota Oikonomopoulou, Margarita Baka, Dimitrios Vlachodimitropoulos, Stylianos Argentos, Theodoros Piperos, Maria-Ioanna Christodoulou, Kakoulis Theodoulou, Theodoros Mariolis-Sapsakos

“…Although neuroblastoma therapy has evolved, identification of early stage patients who need chemotherapy continues to pose a therapeutic challenge. The emerging prognostic role of MYCN phenotype of this disease is currently under investigation as it may redefine MYCN amplified subgroups. …”
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Low-Power On-Chip Energy Harvesting: From Interface Circuits Perspective by Shuang Song, Dehong Wang, Mengyu Li, Siyao Cao, Feijun Zheng, Kai Huang, Zhichao Tan, Sijun Du, Menglian Zhao

“…More importantly, the ever more complex and highly efficient energy harvesting systems enable long-term continuous monitoring in inaccessible environments without needing to change the battery. …”
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Undernourishment and tuberculosis: two flagella of underdevelopment. A case assisted in Timor Leste by Anagalys Ortega Alvelay, Marcos Félix Osorio Pagola, Pedro Juan Barrios Fuentes, Sol Esther García Morales

“…Undernourishment continues to be a serious health problem in several regions worldwide and poverty its main and determinative underlying cause. …”
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Addressing the limitations of the regulatory landscape in South Africa regarding advanced cell and gene therapies and related sectors involving human cells, tissues and organs by I M Viljoen, M S Pepper

“…As these are new and disruptive products, these frameworks are continuously evolving. However, South Africa (SA)’s regulatory frameworks for medicines, human biological materials and genetically modified organisms have not kept pace with scientific and technological developments, leaving regulatory gaps. …”
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A Case Presentation of a Patient with Microsatellite Instability and BRAF Mutant Metastatic Colon Cancer and Bibliography Update by K. Thomopoulou, M. Tzardi, D. Mavroudis, I. Souglakos

“…After progressing on 1st line chemotherapy, the patient has a continuing and long-lasting partial response to 2nd line treatment with pembrolizumab.…”
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Abdominal Cerclage in Twin Pregnancy after Radical Surgical Conization by Ioannis Kyvernitakis, Fred Lotgering, Birgit Arabin

“…A history-indicated transabdominal cervicoisthmic cerclage was performed at 12 + 4/7 gestational weeks because of assumed cervicoisthmic insufficiency. The pregnancy continued until 34 + 3/7 weeks when the patient developed preeclampsia indicating Cesarean delivery. …”
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Engineering a halloysite nanotube-enhanced hydrogel 3D skin model for modulated inflammation and accelerated wound healing by Rui Xu, Xihong Fu, Lerong Lun, Wenjing Jiang, Xuemei Situ, Xiaobao Huang, Ying Xiong, Chun Liu, Fang Wang

“…The medicine field continues to encounter obstacles in understanding the etiology of skin inflammation and the process of skin wound repair. …”
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A Case of Severe Hemorrhagic Cystitis Caused by Melphalan with Successful Bladder Preservation by Ligation of Bilateral Internal Iliac Arteries by Takumi Takeuchi, Masayoshi Zaitsu, Koji Mikami, Yuta Takeshima, Takashi Matsunaga, Naohiko Okamoto, Sadao Imao

“…We isolated bilateral internal iliac arteries and ligated them in order to control continued bleeding. After that, bladder bleeding was suddenly diminished. …”
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Exponential Stability of Stochastic Delayed Neural Networks with Inverse Hölder Activation Functions and Markovian Jump Parameters by Yingwei Li, Huaiqin Wu

“…The jumping parameters are modeled as a continuous-time finite-state Markov chain. Firstly, based on Brouwer degree properties, the existence and uniqueness of the equilibrium point for SNNs without noise perturbations are proved. …”
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An Adaptive Prediction-Correction Method for Solving Large-Scale Nonlinear Systems of Monotone Equations with Applications by Gaohang Yu, Shanzhou Niu, Jianhua Ma, Yisheng Song

“…The proposed method possesses some favorable properties: (1) it is progressive step by step, that is, the distance between iterates and the solution set is decreasing monotonically; (2) global convergence result is independent of the merit function and its Lipschitz continuity; (3) it is a derivative-free method and could be applied for solving large-scale nonsmooth equations due to its lower storage requirement. …”
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The Facial approximation of the controversial skull attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) by Cicero Moraes, Jiří Šindelář, Michael E. Habicht, Luca Sineo, Thiago Beaini, Elena Varotto, Francesco Maria Galassi

“…Gifted with an unparalleled precocity, which allowed him to play and compose at the highest levels from a very young age, he continued his studies until the end of his life. Despite his prominent status, he was buried in a collective grave and years later his skull was supposedly recovered, reaching the present day surrounded by an atmosphere of mystery and controversy. …”
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