Assessment and Prediction of Salivary Gland Function After Head and Neck Radiotherapy: A Systematic Review by J. Le Guevelou, X. Palard‐Novello, E. Kammerer, M. Baty, M. Perazzi, A. Larnaudie, R. De Crevoisier, J. Castelli

“…Results Salivary excretion flow following head and neck RT is correlated with the dose delivered to both parotid and submandibular glands. …”
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Necrotizing Fasciitis in Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria by Pusem Patir, Yakup Isik, Yigit Turk, Mehmet Can Ugur, Cengiz Ceylan, Gulnur Gorgun, Nihal Mete Gokmen, Guray Saydam, Fahri Sahin

“…Here, we report a rare case of a 65-year-old male patient with necrotic ulcers on both legs, where the recognition of pancytopenia and microthrombi led to the diagnosis of PNH based on FLAER (FLuorescent AERolysin) flow cytometric analysis. He was subsequently started on eculizumab therapy, with starting and maintenance doses set as per drug labelling. …”
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Receptivity of Boundary Layer over a Blunt Wedge due to Freestream Pulse Disturbances at Mach 6 by Jianqiang Shi, Xiaojun Tang, Zhenqing Wang, Mingfang Shi, Wei Zhao

“…Direct numerical simulation (DNS) of a hypersonic compressible flow over a blunt wedge with fast acoustic disturbances in freestream is performed. …”
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Enhancing Sentiment Analysis with a CNN-Stacked LSTM Hybrid Model by Shao Shuaijie

“…This model has been tested to show that it has a better performance than previously mentioned models when solving the sentiment analysis task based on IMDB dataset provided by TensorFlow. Introducing this new model in sentiment analysis may open new avenues for research. …”
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Network Planning Method for Capacitated Metro-Based Underground Logistics System by Jianjun Dong, Wanjie Hu, Shen Yan, Rui Ren, Xiaojing Zhao

“…First, an evaluation model of underground freight volume was proposed considering service capacity, freight flow, and regional accessibility. Second, a set of mixed integer programming model was developed to solve the problem of optimal nodes’ location-allocation (LAP) in the network. …”
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Joint processing of V-bearing steelmaking slag and V-bearing black shale for vanadium and iron separation by Wu L.-S., Dai C., Yan B.-J., Wang H.-C., Qi C.-J.

“…Under this condition, the separation efficiency of vanadium reaches 71.6%, and the concentrate contains 3.67% V2O5 and 46.9% Fe2O3. A flow for joint processing of V-bearing steelmaking slag and V-bearing black shale was proposed, which involves vanadium separating, and tailings utilizing.…”
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Predictive Value of Fasting Blood Glucose for Microvascular Obstruction in Nondiabetic Patients with ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction after Primary Percutaneous Coronary... by Han Wu, Ran Li, Kun Wang, Dan Mu, Jian-Zhou Chen, Xuan Wei, Xue Bao, Zhong-Hai Wei, Jun Xie, Biao Xu

“…Univariate analysis showed that FBG, peak high-sensitive troponin T (TnT), pre-PCI thrombolysis in myocardial infarction (pre-PCI TIMI) flow, left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), infarction size, left ventricular end-diastolic diameter (LVEDd), left ventricular end-diastolic volume (LVEDV), and global longitudinal strain (GLS) were likely predictive factors of MVO. …”
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Reconstruction of 3D Micro Pore Structure of Coal and Simulation of Its Mechanical Properties by Guang-zhe Deng, Rui Zheng

“…The micro mechanism of the deformation and failure of coal and the interaction of multiphase flow with porosity are revealed, which provides a theoretical reference for the clean development of the low permeability coal seam.…”
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Seepage Property of Crushed Mudstone Rock in Collapse Column by Bo-Yang Zhang, Zhi-Bin Lin

“…The effects of the particle size distribution, the porosity (specimen height), and the hydraulic pressure on the water flow velocity and the permeability of crushed specimen are analyzed. …”
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A Coupled Model of the 1D River Network and 3D Estuary Based on Hydrodynamics and Suspended Sediment Simulation by Wei Zhang, Shujie Lyu, Yuliang Zhu, Xiaowen Chen

“…Therefore, it is necessary to consider the two systems as a whole to study the flow and suspended sediment transport. Firstly, a 1D model is established in the Pearl River network and a 3D model is applied in its estuary. …”
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Hardware Accelerators Targeting a Novel Group Based Packet Classification Algorithm by O. Ahmed, S. Areibi, G. Grewal

“…Three different hardware implementations are also presented in this paper including an Application Specific Instruction Set Processor (ASIP) implementation and two pure Register-Transfer Level (RTL) implementations based on Impulse-C and Handel-C flows, respectively. Speedups achieved with these hardware accelerators ranged from 9x to 18x compared with a pure software implementation running on an Xeon processor.…”
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Presentation of hospital waste management model at the source of production: systems dynamics approach by Saeideh Karimi, Lobat Taghavi, Nematollah Jafarzadeh Haghighi Fard, Jamal Ghodousi, Rouhallah Mahmoudkhani‬

“…Results: According to the presented flow diagram and the proposed scenarios, it was found that by using the optimal scenario, the various variables of the research, such as decontamination rate, collection, and unauthorized entry into urban waste reservoirs, through the explained relationships of the model in it improves about 15 to 40 percent. …”
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In Vivo Chemoprotective Activity of Bovine Dialyzable Leukocyte Extract in Mouse Bone Marrow Cells against Damage Induced by 5-Fluorouracil by Erika Evangelina Coronado-Cerda, Moisés Armides Franco-Molina, Edgar Mendoza-Gamboa, Heriberto Prado-García, Lydia Guadalupe Rivera-Morales, Pablo Zapata-Benavides, María del Carmen Rodríguez-Salazar, Diana Caballero-Hernandez, Reyes Silvestre Tamez-Guerra, Cristina Rodríguez-Padilla

“…In order to investigate the chemoprotection effect of ICRP on bone marrow cells in 5-FU treated mice, total bone marrow (BM) cell count, bone marrow colony forming units-granulocyte/macrophage (CFU-GM), cell cycle, immunophenotypification, ROS/superoxide and Nrf2 by flow cytometry, and histological and hematological analyses were performed. …”
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A Hybrid Approach for Sports Activity Recognition Using Key Body Descriptors and Hybrid Deep Learning Classifier by Muhammad Tayyab, Sulaiman Abdullah Alateyah, Mohammed Alnusayri, Mohammed Alatiyyah, Dina Abdulaziz AlHammadi, Ahmad Jalal, Hui Liu

“…Various feature descriptors, including MSER (Maximally Stable Extremal Regions), SURF (Speeded-Up Robust Features), distance transform, and DOF (Degrees of Freedom), were applied to skeleton points, while BRIEF (Binary Robust Independent Elementary Features), HOG (Histogram of Oriented Gradients), FAST (Features from Accelerated Segment Test), and Optical Flow were used on silhouettes or full-body points to capture both geometric and motion-based features. …”
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Plant cover and hydrological response in a seasonally dry tropical forest (SDTF) by Eunice Maia Andrade, Maria Elinalda Ribeiro Costa, Júlio César Neves dos Santos, Helba Araujo de Queiroz Palácio, Jacques Carvalho Ribeiro Filho

“…The scarcity of information on the processes of rainfall-flow limits understanding of the hydrology of dry regions of the world. …”
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Effects of leading-edge defects of the NACA 0015 airfoil on aerodynamic performance with various Reynolds number by Ulfa Hanifah Nurhaliza, James Julian, Fitri Wahyuni, Waridho Iskandar

“…Computational methods are being used in this research to analyzing flow of the fluid through the NACA 0015 airfoil, both in smooth and defective airfoil, with various Reynolds Number which are 1.6×106, 2×106, and 2.5×106. …”
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Posterior Nutcracker Syndrome with Left Renal Vein Duplication: A Rare Cause of Haematuria in a 12-Year-Old Boy by J. Preza Fernandes, Rui Amorim, M. J. Gomes, V. Oliveira, A. Reis, J. Ribeiro-Castro

“…The Doppler ultrasonography showed turbulent pattern of venous blood flow of the posterior renal vein branch behind the aorta. …”
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Novel Optimized Support Vector Regression Networks for Estimating Fresh and Hardened Characteristics of SCC by Babak Naeim, Ali Javadzade Khiavi, Parisa Dolatimehr, Behnam Sadaghat

“…SCC's fresh-phase characteristics include the slump flow, V-funnel test, and L-box test, whereas its hardened-phase features involve the strength of the compressive. …”
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NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS ON OPENSTACK CLOUD COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURES by Võ Nhân Văn, Lê Minh Chí, Nguyễn Quốc Long, Lê Đắc Nhường

“…Our research investigated the possible internal traffic flow patterns and evaluated network performance of each pattern on OpenStack cloud computing environment.…”
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Improving Traffic State Prediction Model for Variable Speed Limit Control by Introducing Stochastic Supply and Demand by Yuwei Bie, Mudasser Seraj, Can Zhang, Tony Z. Qiu

“…In this study, the traffic state prediction model is a second-order traffic flow model named METANET, while the VSL control is model predictive control (MPC) based, and the VSL decision is discrete optimized choice. …”
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