Tuberculosis Infection Mimicking Brain Metastatic Malignancy Lesions in an Elderly Male by Dimitrios Anyfantakis, Ageliki Damianaki, Maria Kokosi, Emmanouil K. Symvoulakis, Serafim Kastanakis

“…Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain demonstrated a number of diffuse nodular lesions and moderate perivascular edema. …”
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Aspectos comparativos de los hogares con y sin jóvenes en México: una primera aproximación a partir de la información del II Conteo de Población y Vivienda by Patricia Román Reyes, Mauricio Padrón Innamorato

“…Se pretende hacer una aportación a los diagnósticos sobre la situación juvenil en México con el propósito de enriquecer la discusión sobre el efecto de las características de conformación de los hogares en las condiciones de vida, de inserción laboral y educativa de la población de 12 a 29 años.…”
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¿Ciudadanías y sexualidades en América Latina? by Andrea Aguirre Salas

“…Desde este enfoque los estudios sobre diversidad sexual no logran incorporar una discusión analítica y política de la desigualdad a la noción de diferencia. …”
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Multimodality imaging of hematologic malignancies affecting the breast: a pictorial essay by Natalia Guerrero-Fajardo, Mane M. Ayala-Duran, Yesika J. Davila-Zablah, Nancy L. Garza-Garcia, Gabriela S. Gomez-Macias, Daniel F. Lopez-Altamirano, Margarita L. Garza-Montemayor

“…The most common imaging findings were mass(es), non-mass lesions, or architectural distortion, and less commonly, diffusely increased breast density. There are no specific criteria for image diagnosis of hematologic malignancies affecting the breast; therefore, it is essential to know the medical history. …”
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Synthesis, characterization and applications of silver nanoparticles (Ag-NPs) in the field of electronics and optoelectronics device- A review by V.S. Chandak, P.V. Nagime

“…This is primarily due to their compact size, proximity to biomolecules, higher surface area, high reactivity, and fast diffusion rate. This review also addresses the existing constraints and future potential of Ag-NPs for various sectors of applications.…”
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Jejunal Intussusception: A Rare Presentation of Carcinoid Tumor by Umashankkar Kannan, Amir A. Rahnemai-Azar, Ashish N. Patel, Vinaya Gaduputi, Ajay K. Shah

“…A 55-year-old male presented to the emergency department with sudden onset of diffuse abdominal pain for one day. Physical examination was remarkable for tenderness in the umbilical region. …”
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Collapsing Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis in a Patient with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus by Hassan Tariq, Arsalan Rafiq, Giovanni Franchin

“…Her renal biopsy showed collapsing focal segmental glomerulosclerosis with diffuse mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis, consistent with lupus nephritis class II along with tubular degenerative changes. …”
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A Case Report of Steroid-Resistant Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia Managed with Intravenous Immunoglobulins by Christian Akem Dimala, Urvi Patel, Benjamin Lloyd, Anthony Donato, William B. Kimmel, Robert Hallowell, Caitlyn Moss

“…We report a case of a 72-year-old man who presented with a worsening cough and diffuse opacities on chest radiograph. Following no improvement with antibiotics and negative complementary investigations for infectious, malignant, and autoimmune etiologies, COP was confirmed on lung biopsy. …”
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“Black Esophagus” or Gurvits Syndrome: A Rare Complication of Diabetic Ketoacidosis by Vivek Choksi, Kairavee Dave, Rulz Cantave, Sameer Shaharyar, Jeevan Joseph, Uday Shankar, Steven Kaplan, Hamid Feiz

“…Acute esophageal necrosis (AEN) also known as “black esophagus” or necrotizing esophagitis is a rare syndrome characterized by a striking diffuse patchy or circumferential black appearance of the esophageal mucosa that preferentially affects the distal esophagus and terminates at the gastroesophageal junction. …”
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Concurrent Presentation of Hodgkin Lymphoma and Multiple Myeloma by Rekha Chandran, Miklos Simon, Stephen E. Spurgeon

“…As part of his pretreatment workup, an MRI was performed to evaluate skeletal lesions. This revealed diffuse and bulky adenopathy which was confirmed by PET. …”
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Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding Secondary to Sodium Polystyrene Sulfonate Use: A Rare Adverse Effect of Commonly Prescribed Treatment by Hamzah Shariff, Shiva Naidoo, Ghazal Ghafari, Hongjie Li, Manisha Devi, Kishore Kumar

“…Endoscopic evaluation demonstrated nonbleeding large diffuse gastric ulcers with stigmata of recent bleeding, and ulcer biopsy revealed findings consistent with SPS-induced gastric ulceration. …”
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“… because there is nothing symbolic in the described phenomenon”. Asafyev’s Intonation Theory in the Early Soviet Union – Analytical Insights, Intellectual Contexts, and Semiotic... by Patrick Becker-Naydenov

“…Jahrhundert, dann erscheint Asaf’evs Arbeit als Verbindung musikwissenschaftlicher und psychologischer Diskurse mit linguistischen und literaturwissenschaftlichen Überlegungen. …”
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Treatment of mine water containing ammonia nitrogen by sodium hexametaphosphate modified zeolite by Liping ZHANG, Xiang HU, Weiwei WANG, Wenbo LEI, Huitong LI, Huaran SUN, Yongqi ZHAN, Zeyu LIAN

“…The adsorption process was identified as chemisorption (ion exchange), and particle inner diffusion models revealed that the NH4+—N adsorption by both materials involves three stages: external diffusion, internal diffusion, and reaction equilibrium. …”
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Semantic Segmentation Method for High-Resolution Tomato Seedling Point Clouds Based on Sparse Convolution by Shizhao Li, Zhichao Yan, Boxiang Ma, Shaoru Guo, Hongxia Song

“…The feature fusion module based on the attention mechanism is designed by giving the corresponding attention weights to the voxel diffusion features and the point features in order to avoid the ambiguity of points with different semantics having the same characteristics caused by the diffusion module, in addition to suppressing noise. …”
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Hexagonal zinc oxide nanoparticles: a novel approach to combat multidrug-resistant Enterococcus faecalis biofilms in feline urinary tract infections by Alaa H. Sewid, Alaa H. Sewid, Mohamed Sharaf, Mohamed Sharaf, Azza S. El-Demerdash, Sherif M. Ragab, Fatimah O. Al-Otibi, Mohamed Taha Yassin, Chen-Guang Liu

“…The antibacterial and antibiofilm activities of the synthesized nanoparticles were evaluated through time-kill assays, well diffusion assays, and gene expression analysis.ResultsA high prevalence of multidrug resistance was observed among the E. faecalis isolates, with significant resistance to ampicillin, vancomycin, and streptomycin. …”
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In Situ X-Ray Study During Thermal Cycle Treatment Combined with Complementary Ex Situ Investigation of InGaN Quantum Wells by Ewa Grzanka, Sondes Bauer, Artur Lachowski, Szymon Grzanka, Robert Czernecki, Byeongchan So, Tilo Baumbach, Mike Leszczyński

“…Moreover, further heating up to 1000 °C results in extended diffuse scattering along the angular direction of the diffraction spot, confirming the propagation of the decomposition and the formation of trapezoidal objects, which contain voids and amorphous materials (In-Ga). …”
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The curious case of C-88: impacts of a potato variety on farmers in Yunnan, China by Stephanie Myrick, Willy Pradel, Canhui Li, Victor Suarez, Guy Hareau, Catherine Larochelle, George W. Norton, Jeffrey Alwang

“…The aggregate impact of C88 diffusion occurred during a period of rapid poverty reduction in Yunnan and yield and disease-resistance benefits of C88 likely contributed to this reduction.…”
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Four-color single-molecule imaging system for tracking GPCR dynamics with fluorescent HiBiT peptide by Toshiki Yoda, Yasushi Sako, Asuka Inoue, Masataka Yanagawa

“…Single-molecule imaging provides information on diffusion dynamics, oligomerization, and protein-protein interactions in living cells. …”
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Automated AI-based image analysis for quantification and prediction of interstitial lung disease in systemic sclerosis patients by Julien Guiot, Monique Henket, Fanny Gester, Béatrice André, Benoit Ernst, Anne-Noelle Frix, Dirk Smeets, Simon Van Eyndhoven, Katerina Antoniou, Lennart Conemans, Janine Gote-Schniering, Hans Slabbynck, Michael Kreuter, Jacobo Sellares, Ioannis Tomos, Guang Yang, Clio Ribbens, Renaud Louis, Vincent Cottin, Sara Tomassetti, Vanessa Smith, Simon L. F. Walsh

“…Results We evaluated a group of 75 patients suffering from SSc-ILD, either limited or diffuse, of whom 30 presented progressive pulmonary fibrosis (PPF). …”
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Efficacy of Novel Noncontrast Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Methods in Indicating Fibrosis in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy by Maedeh Sharifian, Nahid Rezaeian, Sanaz Asadian, Ali Mohammadzadeh, Ali Nahardani, Kianosh Kasani, Yaser Toloueitabar, Ali Mohammad Farahmand, Leila Hosseini

“…We evaluated the efficacy of 2 novel contrast-free CMR methods, namely, diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and feature-tracking (FT) method, in detecting myocardial fibrosis. …”
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