Twin Reversed Arterial Perfusion Sequence Diagnosed Late in the Third Trimester: A Case Report and Literature Review by Tafese Dejene, Abdi Kebede, Getahun Fetensa, Delayehu Bekele, Telila Mesfin, Kelil Hussen

“…It is characterized by blood flow from the umbilical artery of the normal (pump) twin to the umbilical artery of the abnormal (acardiac) twin via artery‐to‐artery anastomosis. …”
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A quantitative model of hierarchical product design by Ferdinand Wöhr, Simon Königs, Max Stanglmeier, Markus Zimmermann

“…It includes, first, a product model which structures physical product properties in a hierarchical dependency graph; second, an organizational model which formalizes the assignment of stakeholder responsibility; third, a process model which describes the top-down and bottom-up flow of design information; fourth, an actor model which simulates the combination of product, organization and process by using computational agents. …”
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The Effects of COVID-19-related Driving Restrictions on Air Quality in an Industrial City by Daulet Assanov, Aiymgul Kerimray, Birzhan Batkeyev, Zhanna Kapsalyamova

“…The restrictions reduced the flow of traffic in the city but did not have a major impact on the large industries and power plants. …”
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Human Merging Behavior in a Coupled Driving Simulator: How Do We Resolve Conflicts? by Olger Siebinga, Arkady Zgonnikov, David A. Abbink

“…Although this provides insight into human gap acceptance and traffic flow effects, it obscures the operational inputs of interacting drivers. …”
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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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Potential of water sediments in construction materials: Current approaches and critical consideration of future challenges by Jan Fořt, Ayodele Afolayan, Václav Kočí, Lenka Scheinherrová, Jiří Jan, Jakub Borovec, Robert Černý

“…The provided summary of benefits, disadvantages, challenges, and future potential of freshwater dredged sediments (FDS) use can stimulate the rationalization of material flows, reduce the dependence on primary raw materials in the construction industry, and at the same time contribute to maintaining the functionality of water reservoirs.…”
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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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Application of Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS) and Fuzzy Finite Element (FFEM) for Investigating the Uncertainty of Seepage in Homogeneous Earth Dams by Milad Kheiry, Farhoud Kalateh

“…The purpose of this research is to investigate the impact of uncertainty in the prediction of seepage flow through earth dams using the Fuzzy Monte Carlo Simulation (FMCS) new hybrid algorithm, which is implemented with the help of the finite element method and monte carlo simulation. …”
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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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Application of New Intelligent Anti-flood Equipment Series in Underground Engineering by LIU Jun, WU Zhisong, CHE Lunfei, CAI Chongqing, LI Guodong, HU Haoming, LIU Qi, YU Ze

“…Therefore, it is necessary to study safe, reliable and responsive waterproof and back-flow preventing measures for different scenarios such as underground engineering entrances and exits, underground connecting passages, in order to improve the overall waterproof capacity of underground engineering. …”
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Simulation and Analysis of Oil Churning Power Loss in Electric Drive Planetary Gears Based on the CFD Method by Tang Pei, Wang Le, Ren Shaoying, Li Shanshan

“…The splash lubrication of the two-stage planetary gear drive is simulated by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software and C language user defined function (UDF), and the visualization of oil gas two-phase transient flow field is realized; by extracting the surface pressure and the viscous force, the churning loss of the sun gears, planet gears and planet carriers are obtained; the simulation and analysis of the 25 working conditions show that the churning loss varies with the immersion depth and speed; the results show that the oil churning power loss increases with the oil immersion depth and the speed, and there is no obvious inflection point. …”
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Are Immigrants Disloyal? The Case of Mexicans in the U.S. by Krystof Kozak

“…This article analyzes the concept of political loyalty in the context of mass migration flows to the U.S. After exploring the evolving notion of political loyalty, it provides a brief historical background of concerns about the political disloyalty of immigrants in the U.S. …”
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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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