Intravascular Lithotripsy for Underexpanded Stent in Heavily Calcified Coronary Artery Disease by Tejas Raxwal, Cauvery Balhara, Dipak Parekh

“…Stenotic lesion in poorly expanded stent was treated with Shockwave C2 Coronary Intravascular Lithotripsy catheter resulting in 0% residual stenosis. The patient was followed for major adverse cardiovascular events at 30 days and 12 months. …”
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Necrotizing Urethritis due to Aerococcus urinae by Abdulrahman A. Babaeer, Claudia Nader, Vito Iacoviello, Kevin Tomera

“…A suprapubic tube and a urethral catheter were placed in the bladder. WBC trended down to 13.9 × 103/μL on the fourth postoperative day. …”
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Postoperative extraperitoneal bladder injury after metal pelvic osteosynthesis for pelvic injury by Khalid Abdullahi, Obadele Olusegun George, Ajiboye Lukman Olalekan, Abubakar Isiyaku, Muhammad Abubakar Sadiq, Aljannare Bashir Garba, Okezie Chukwuebuka Kingsley, Agwu Ngwobia Peter

“…This condition was persistent despite continuous bladder drainage with an indwelling urethral catheter. He subsequently had bladder re-exploration, which confirmed an anterior bladder wall perforation secondary to the dislodged pelvic implant. …”
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Progenitor Cell Therapy to Treat Acute Myocardial Infarction: The Promise of High-Dose Autologous CD34+ Bone Marrow Mononuclear Cells by Joseph C. Poole, Arshed A. Quyyumi

“…ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is associated with an increased risk for congestive heart failure and long-term mortality despite the widespread use of thrombolysis and catheter-based revascularization. The need for improved post-STEMI therapies has led to a surge of novel therapeutics, especially regenerative approaches using autologous mononuclear cells. …”
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A Case of Malignant Biliary Obstruction with Severe Obesity Successfully Treated by Endoscopic Ultrasonography-Guided Biliary Drainage by Takashi Obana, Shuuji Yamasaki

“…Although a second PTBD attempt from the right hepatic lobe was accomplished, biliary tract bleeding followed, and the catheter was dislodged. Consequently, EUS-BD (choledochoduodenostomy), followed by direct metallic stent placement, was performed as a third drainage method. …”
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Active Tube-Shaped Actuator with Embedded Square Rod-Shaped Ionic Polymer-Metal Composites for Robotic-Assisted Manipulation by Yanjie Wang, Jiayu Liu, Denglin Zhu, Hualing Chen

“…This paper reports a new technique involving the design, fabrication, and characterization of an ionic polymer-metal composite- (IPMC-) embedded active tube, which can achieve multidegree-of-freedom (MODF) bending motions desirable in many applications, such as a manipulator and an active catheter. However, traditional strip-type IPMC actuators are limited in only being able to generate 1-dimensional bending motion. …”
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Malignant Pleural Effusion: Diagnosis and Management by Lucía Ferreiro, Juan Suárez-Antelo, José Manuel Álvarez-Dobaño, María E. Toubes, Vanessa Riveiro, Luis Valdés

“…Studies are contributing evidence on an increasing number of therapeutic options (therapeutic thoracentesis, thoracoscopic pleurodesis or thoracic drainage, indwelling pleural catheter, surgery, or a combination of these therapies). …”
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Aerosols over the Foothills of the Eastern Himalayan Region during Post-monsoon and Winter Seasons by Sishir Dahal, Dipesh Rupakheti, Ram Kumar Sharma, Binod Kumar Bhattarai, Bhupesh Adhikary

“…The observed aerosol classification is also explained in terms of CAMS near-real-time model datasets. The AOD values retrieved by MODIS, VIIRS, Himawari-8, and CAMS show a good correlation with the observed Microtops AOD with R2 values ranging from 0.60 to 0.94. …”
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A New Bearing Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Deep Transfer Network and Supervised Joint Matching by Chengyao Liu, Fei Dong, Kunpeng Ge, Yuanyuan Tian

“…To verify the performance of the proposed approaches, this study uses two distinct datasets pertaining to bearing defects for conducting cross-domain fault diagnosis in the presence of balanced and imbalanced data. …”
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Intrusion detection using synaptic intelligent convolutional neural networks for dynamic Internet of Things environments by Hui Chen, Zhendong Wang, Shuxin Yang, Xiao Luo, Daojing He, Sammy Chan

“…Ultimately, experiments are conducted on the intrusion detection datasets CIC IDS2017 and CICIoT2023, demonstrating that the proposed detection method outperforms other state-of-the-art intrusion detection approaches. …”
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EPIMR: Prediction of Enhancer-Promoter Interactions by Multi-Scale ResNet on Image Representation by Qiaozhen Meng, Yinuo Lyu, Xiaoqing Peng, Junhai Xu, Jijun Tang, Fei Guo

“…Experimental results on six cell lines indicate that EPIMR performs better than existing methods, with higher area under the precision-recall curve (AUPR) and area under the receiver operating characteristic (AUROC) results on benchmark and under-sampling datasets. Furthermore, our model is pre-trained on all cell lines, which improves not only the transferability of cross-cell line prediction, but also cell line-specific prediction ability. …”
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Time series forecasting techniques applied to hydroelectric generation systems by Julio Barzola-Monteses, Juan Gómez-Romero, Mayken Espinoza-Andaluz, Waldo Fajardo

“…Other aspects, such as the country of origin of the hydropower project, timespan and resolution datasets, regressive and objective variables, and performance evaluation, were also studied and discussed. …”
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Network Representation Based on the Joint Learning of Three Feature Views by Zhonglin Ye, Haixing Zhao, Ke Zhang, Zhaoyang Wang, Yu Zhu

“…Experimental results show that the proposed TFNR algorithm performs well in network vertex classification and visualization tasks on three real citation network datasets.…”
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Common and unique network basis for externally and internally driven flexibility in cognition: From a developmental perspective by Ziyi Huang, Dazhi Yin

“…In this study, we aimed to determine the common and unique networks for reactive and spontaneous flexibility as a function of age and sex, leveraging both cross-sectional and longitudinal resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging datasets with different temporal resolutions (N = 249, 6–35 years old). …”
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Identification of molecular characteristics in polycystic ovary syndrome using single-cell and transcriptome analysis by Xiaolin Zhu, Yanhua Han, Yuenan Feng, Yuanli Shan, Chang Liu, Kexin Wang, Xiaoke Li, Shidi Zhang, Yaguang Han

“…Our study, by analyzing multiple datasets, has revealed the complex molecular network of PCOS, offering new insights into understanding its pathophysiological basis.…”
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A Novel Audio Copy Move Forgery Detection Method With Classification of Graph-Based Representations by Beste Ustubioglu, Gul Tahaoglu, Arda Ustubioglu, Guzin Ulutas, Muhammed Kilic

“…The trained model was evaluated using five different datasets, demonstrating that this approach generally outperforms existing methods in terms of detection accuracy. …”
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Evaluating the potential of Nature-based solutions to mitigate land use and climate change impacts on the hydrology of the Gefersa and Legedadi watersheds in Ethiopia by Yared Bayissa, Raghavan Srinivasan, Johannes Hunink, Douglas Nyolei, Semu Moges, David de Andrade Costa, Dereje Tadesse, Assefa Melesse, Seifu Tilahun

“…The approach followed in this study can be adapted to other watersheds with access to more recent and good quality datasets for future research.…”
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Leveraging Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Swahili Language Conversation Systems by Edmund V. Ndimbo, Qin Luo, Gimo C. Fernando, Xu Yang, Bang Wang

“…Building such systems for low-resource languages like Swahili presents significant challenges due to the limited availability of large-scale training datasets. This paper proposes a Retrieval-Augmented Generation-based system to address these challenges and improve the quality of Swahili conversational AI. …”
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Finite Element Evaluation of the Effect of Adhesive Creams on the Stress State of Dentures and Oral Mucosa by Anantha Narayanan Ramakrishnan, Oliver Röhrle, Christopher Ludtka, Roshan Varghese, Josephine Koehler, Andreas Kiesow, Stefan Schwan

“…The RPD, mandible, oral mucosa, abutment teeth supporting the RPD, and the corresponding abutment periodontal ligaments (PDLs) were modelled as 3D volumes based on computer tomography (CT) datasets. A viscoelastic adhesive layer between the RPD and oral mucosa was incorporated into this base model using Prony series approximation. …”
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Single-cell atlas of human pancreatic islet and acinar endothelial cells in health and diabetes by Rebecca Craig-Schapiro, Ge Li, Kevin Chen, Jesus M. Gomez-Salinero, Ryan Nachman, Aleksandra Kopacz, Ryan Schreiner, Xiaojuan Chen, Qiao Zhou, Shahin Rafii, David Redmond

“…Here, we develop strategies to enrich islet-specific endothelial cells (ISECs) and acinar-specific endothelial cells (ASECs) from three human pancreases and corroborate these findings with three published pancreatic datasets. Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals the unique molecular signatures of ISECs, including structural genes COL13A1, ESM1, PLVAP, UNC5B, and LAMA4, angiocrine genes KDR, THBS1, BMPs and CXCR4, and metabolic genes ACE, PASK and F2RL3. …”
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