Patent Foramen Ovale and Closure Technique with the Amplatzer Occluder by Bernhard Meier

“…During a 10-year follow-up of a comparative study the annual mortality was significantly lower in the patients with PFO closure (0.4%) than in those with medical treatment (1.1%, P<0.03). …”
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Causes of the European Union&apos;s Decreasing Position in the Global Economy in 2000-2017 by Bogumiła Mucha-Leszko

“….; 2) pertaining to the qualitative criteria the United States ranks better; 3) factors contributing the most to the weakening of the global economic position of the EU are: lower investment in the ICT sector compared to the U.S., differentiation of EU members in terms of their ability to grow, socio-economic divergence and a crisis in the eurozone.…”
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Advanced ceramic materials for electrolytes and electrodes in reversible solid oxide cells by Panagiotis Kopras, Constantinos Tsanaktsidis, Nikolas Kiratzis

“…After decades of research, a lot of significant achievements and progress have been made in addressing the major challenges, including lowering the operating temperatures to <500°C, mass-producing cells with high uniform quality that exhibit high initial performance and low degradation rates, and developing fuel electrodes with high resistance to carbon deposition and tolerance to material and fuel impurities. …”
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Evolutionary variational inequalities arising in quasistatic frictional contact problems for elastic materials by Dumitru Motreanu, Mircea Sofonea

“…The existence of the solution is obtained using a time-discretization method, compactness and lower semicontinuity arguments. In the study of the discrete problems we use a recent result obtained by the authors (2000). …”
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Research on scheduled WLAN MAC protocol with failure retries on RoF-DAS architecture by Zheng GUAN, Lei XIONG, Yao JIA, Min HE, Zhijun YANG

“…Aim to reduce control frames consumption and improve the delay performance,a scheduled gated-service polling access (SGPA) mechanism was proposed,in which the total data packets in the buffer at the polling instant were aggregated into a data set,that was transmitted and acknowledged uniformly.Then,an inner-arrival gated-service polling (IAGP) model was proposed to analyze the quantitative relationship between failure retry mechanism and network access performance of the wireless local area network (WLAN) in RoF-DAS.The failure retry mechanism were modeled as the arrival and service process of inner customers in IAGP.Using the Markov chain and generating function method,the closed-form expressions for the quantitative relationship between delay performance and retrial parameters,such as retry times,and the probability of retransmission,were achieved.The simulation results show that the proposed SGPA can achieve a lower delay than IEEE 802.11,and the theoretical performance evaluation calculated by IAGP are identical with the simulation results,which provides an effective evaluation mechanism for the access performance in RoF-DAS WLAN,with inperfect channel and failure retry mechanism.…”
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Diagnosis and Management of Freeman-Burian Syndrome: A Case Report by Aidin Arabzadeh, Hossein Azaditalab, Hesam Alitaleshi, Mohammad Reza Abbaszadeh

“…Conclusions: Freeman-Sheldon syndrome is a rare syndrome that mainly affects the face and upper and lower limbs of patients, whose clinical diagnosis is possible after a thorough physical examination. and it is best to start treatment without delay regarding future prognosis at least with nonoperative modalities. …”
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Detection of a Magnetic Discontinuity in the Upper Solar Chromosphere Associated with a Coronal Loop Brightening Observed by CLASP2.1 by Donguk Song, Ryohko Ishikawa, David E. McKenzie, Javier Trujillo Bueno, Frédéric Auchère, Ryouhei Kano, Amy Winebarger, Takenori J. Okamoto, Laurel A. Rachmeler, Ken Kobayashi, Genevieve D. Vigil, Adam R. Kobelski, Christian Bethge, Eun-Kyung Lim, Luca Belluzzi, Ernest Alsina Ballester, Tanausú del Pino Alemán, Jiří Štěpán

“…The temperature of the brightening plasma is above 2.5 MK, which is higher than the ambient temperature, and no corresponding brightening is detected in the images of the photosphere and lower chromosphere. The notable finding of our study is that the coronal loop brightening of interest is observed across a region where the magnetic field polarity changes abruptly in the upper chromosphere. …”
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Physiomorphology of Soybean as Affected by Drought Stress and Nitrogen Application by Oqba Basal, András Szabó

“…Inoculation, on the other hand, resulted in taller plants and higher LAI values, but lower SPAD values. It could be concluded that soybean’s physiomorphology is negatively influenced by drought stress and that N-fertilizer application can enhance it whether soybean plants suffer from drought stress conditions or not.…”
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Solitary Pyomyositis of the Left Rhomboideus Muscle Caused by Streptococcus anginosus and Streptococcus intermedius in an Immunocompetent Person by Yasuhiro Tanaka, Kenichi Takaya, Go Yamamoto, Isaku Shinzato, Toshiro Takafuta

“…A 70-year-old Japanese male presented with high fever and left shoulder pain. His muscle below the lower edge of the left scapula was tender and swollen. …”
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The effects of local and systemic inflammatory status on iron metabolism and lipid profile in calves by Uğur Aydoğdu, İbrahim Yurdakul

“…<p> <b>Results:</b> Serum iron, total cholesterol (TC), high density lipoprotein (HDL) and albumin levels were significantly (p <0.05) lower in calves with local and systemic inflammation compared to the control group. …”
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Minimally Invasive Correction of Prolapsed, Gangrenous Distal Limb of Loop Ileostomy to End-Loop Stoma by John Shelton, Sittampalam Rajendra

“…A 67-year-old male patient was diagnosed with a lower rectal carcinoma, staged T3N1M0. Following neoadjuvant chemoradiation, he underwent a laparoscopic anterior resection with a defunctioning loop ileostomy. …”
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Dietary Chitosan Supplementation Increases Microbial Diversity and Attenuates the Severity of Citrobacter rodentium Infection in Mice by Guiping Guan, Hongbing Wang, Shuai Chen, Gang Liu, Xia Xiong, Bie Tan, Veeramuthu Duraipandiyan, Naif Abdullah Al-Dhabi, Jun Fang

“…IL-6 and TNF-α were significantly lower in colon from COS-feeding mice than those in the control group. …”
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AllianceBlockchain in the Governance Innovation of Internet Hospitals by Xiaofeng Wang, Xiaoguang Yue, Ahthasham Sajid, Noshina Tariq

“…Improved RSA achieves impressive improvements in all key metrics by increasing the throughput by 24.7% and lowering the latency by 19.8% compared to the base model. …”
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Grazing lambs on pastures regrown after wildfires did not significantly alter metal content in meat and wool by S Depenbrock, J Lane, M Asrat, R Poppenga, S Hargrave, B McNabb, V Eviner, M Chigerwe

“…Copper concentrations found in the meat of animals grazing regrowth was lower than in animals grazing unburned pastures; it is important to monitor copper concentrations in grazing animals to avoid diseases associated with copper deficiency.…”
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Case of Primary Breast and Ipsilateral Axillary T-Cell Lymphoma: a Rare Occurrence by Faryal Afridi, Garry D. Ruben, Eric Oristian

“…The incidence is even lower for T-cell lymphomas compared with B-cell subtype. …”
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THERMAL CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS METHOD OF MOTORIZED SPINDLE BASED ON THERMAL LOAD OPTIMIZATION CORRECTION by MENG LingCong, LI ChenTao, YU Bing, LIU Teng, ZHANG JianJun

“…For the inaccuracy of empirical heat loads for spindle thermal simulations,a thermal simulation analysis method onto motorized spindle unit is proposed.Firstly,the fluid-solid-heat coupling simulation model of the motorized spindle unit is established by Ansys Workbench,with the coolant dynamic heat transfer and thermal resistances of bearing inner-spindle shaft and outer rings-bearing housing being considered.Secondly,based on the simulation model,genetic algorithm is used to optimize and correct the heat generation values of spindle motor/beairngs and ambient heat transfer coefficients.The corrected values above are used as thermal loads for thermal simulation modeling of motorized spindle unit.Based on the model,the dynamic relationship between the heat dissipation power of the coolants and the heat generation power of spindle motor/beairngs is studied.Finally,the model accuracy is verified by the spindle temperature testing experiment.The results show that the optimization correction model can effectively improve the temperature field simulation accuracy of the motorized spindle unit,and the spindle structure and the coolant reach the optimal heat-heating balance when the coolant supply temperature is about 2℃ lower than the ambient temperature.…”
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Desulfurization Capabilities of Indigenous Bacteria Isolates for Enhanced Sulfur Removal by Emmanuela Kwao-Boateng, Kwabena Danquah, Emmanuel Ankudey, Lawrence Darkwah, Derrick Boateng

“…Furthermore, the biological process results in a negligible level of undesirable products and emissions without lowering the calorific value of the fuel. In this study, indigenous microorganisms that thrive in hydrocarbon environments were isolated, characterized, and identified from waste oil dump sites at major garages in the Kumasi Metropolis, Ghana, and used to desulfurize crude oil.  …”
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RESEARCH ON ROBUST VIBRATION CONTROL OF PLANE SINGLE ARM FLEXIBLE BEAM BASED ON μ SYNTHESIS by GONG ChiKun, WEI BingSheng, YUAN LiPeng

“…The simulation results show that the upper and lower bounds of the structural singular value of the controller are less than 1, indicating that the system has good robust stability and robust performance. …”
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Pituranthos chloranthus Oil as an Antioxidant-Based Adjuvant Therapy against Cisplatin-Induced Nephrotoxicity by Aida Lahmar, Zaineb Dhaouefi, Rihab Khlifi, Fairouz Sioud, Leila Chekir- Ghedira

“…Significant mitigation of cisplatin-induced toxicity was confirmed by lowered levels of serum biomarkers and reduced DNA damage in liver and kidney. …”
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Iniencephaly and Holoprosencephaly: Report of a Rare Association by Aytekin Tokmak, Hakan Timur, Korkut Dağlar, Özgür Kara

“…In this case, genetics and environmental causes, including lower socioeconomic status and lack of folic acid supplementation, may be risk factors for the current disorder. …”
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