Small Bowel Obstruction Secondary to a Metamucil Bezoar: Case Report and Review of the Literature by Sara Abou Azar, Mohammad Rachad Wehbe, Sarah Jamali, Ali Hallal

“…Laparoscopic intervention has gained popularity among surgeons with good outcome and lower morbidity. In this unusual case, the small bowel obstruction induced by the Metamucil bezoar was safely treated with laparoscopic fragmentation alone.…”
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Comparison between Phase-Shift Full-Bridge Converters with Noncoupled and Coupled Current-Doubler Rectifier by Cheng-Tao Tsai, Jye-Chau Su, Sheng-Yu Tseng

“…From their prototypes, experimental results have verified that the phase-shift full-bridge converter with NCDR has optimal duty ratio, lower component stresses, and output current ripple. …”
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Medicinal Plant Use in North Karelia, Finland, in the 2010s by Renata Sõukand, Natalia Kuznetsova, Julia Prakofjewa, Sabira Ståhlberg, Ingvar Svanberg, Baiba Prūse, Giulia Mattalia, Raivo Kalle

“…Notably, the number of medicinal plants continuously used in North Karelia is considerably lower than in other parts of Europe, with less than 25% of historically utilised species still in practice, which reflects the fragile state of this knowledge. …”
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RFreeTrack: RFID non-contact robust positioning system based on differential phase holography by Linqing GUI, Yi JIANG, Qingyun ZHANG, Fu XIAO

“…To address the issue of large positioning errors in complex environments within non-contact RFID-based positioning systems, RFreeTrack system was proposed.Commercial RFID equipment was used to calculate the reflected signals from targets, achieving high-precision non-contact positioning in complex environment.Firstly, a search method based on time-series similarity was proposed to employ for calibrating static signals, thus significantly enhanced the robustness of target reflection signal extraction.Secondly, a non-contact positioning method based on differential phase holography was introduced to eliminate the influence of the reader antenna’s position, thus the accuracy of positioning was improved and the complexity of system was deployment reduced as well.Finally, a high-precision non-contact positioning system prototype was realized.Experimental results indicate that in complex environments, the phase of the target reflection signals extracted using the calibrated static signals has a 68.8% lower error compared to existing methods.Based on the previously calibrated static reflection signals, the average positioning error using differential phase holography in complex environments is 0.040 8 m, and has a 50.6% improvement on location over existing methods.…”
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Effectiveness of Drinking a Sweet-Tasting Snack Before Local Anesthetic Injection on Pain Perception among 5-Year-Old Children: A Split-Mouth Cross-Over Study by Hamidreza Poureslami, Jelveh Hashemi Nejad, Parnian Poureslami, Maryam Rad

“…Results: Significantly lower WBFPS scores were reported for the test group (2.9231) compared to the study group (5.0000) (p<0.001). …”
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Study on the Dynamic Response of Composite Box Girder Bridges with Corrugated Steel Webs by Ya-Na Mao, Chi Ma, Shi-Zhong Liu, Li-Yuan Li

“…The research revealed that the natural vibration frequency of the composite box girder with corrugated steel webs is lower than that of the corresponding concrete box girder. …”
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Selective catalytic reduction of NO with NH on mixed alumina–iron (III) oxide pillared montmorillonite “Cheto” Arizona, modified with hexamminecobalt (III) chloride by Paweł Ziemiański, Katarzyna Kałahurska, Bogdan Samojeden

“…Pillared clay, promoted with [Co(NH 3 ) 6 ] 3+ , showed higher selective catalytic reduction activity and much lower N 2 O formation than unpromoted, pillared sample. …”
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The Impact of Traffic-Induced Bridge Vibration on Rapid Repairing High-Performance Concrete for Bridge Deck Pavement Repairs by Wei Wang, Shuo Liu, Qizhi Wang, Wei Yuan, Mingzhang Chen, Xiaotian Hao, Shuai Ma, Xuanyu Liang

“…It is concluded that 1 d and 2 d compressive strength of HPC decreased significantly, and the maximum reduction rate is 9.1%, while 28 d compressive strength of HPC had a slight lower with a 3% maximal drop under the action of two simple harmonic vibrations with 2 Hz, 3 mm amplitude, and 4 Hz, 3 mm amplitude. …”
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Study on the Stress Relaxation Behavior of Large Diameter B-GFRP Bars Using FBG Sensing Technology by Li Guo-wei, Pei Hua-Fu, Hong Cheng-yu

“…More recently, fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) rods have been introduced in the market as tendons for prestressed concrete structures because of their lower modulus behavior. However, previous studies on the FRP mechanical time dependent behavior regarding the stress relaxation of large diameter GFRP have not been well understood. …”
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Incidence of Stroke in Young Adults: A Review by Carmine Marini, Tommasina Russo, Giorgio Felzani

“…Only studies recruiting subjects under 44 years of age and with a lower age limit not higher than 20 years were included. …”
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Jones Fractures in Sumo Wrestlers: Three Case Reports by Takashi Hoshino, Tomohiko Tateishi, Tsuyoshi Nagase, Arata Yuki, Teruhiko Nakagawa, Masamitsu Tsuchiya

“…As taking a rest may result in a lowered rank, completing a sufficient duration of treatment is difficult. …”
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Bionic Design for Mars Sampling Scoop Inspired by Himalayan Marmot Claw by Long Xue, Rong Rong Zhang, Wei Zong, Jia Feng Song, Meng Zou

“…When the penetration angle was 60° and the sampling speed was 0.22 r/min, the resistance torque of the bionic sampling scoop was 28.8% lower than that of the prototype sampling scoop.…”
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Study on Information Extraction of Water Bodyin Plain RiverNetwork Area Based on Multi-temporalGF-1 Image by LIAO Yubing, ZHOU Feng

“…In order to solve the mixture of pixels such as the towns, shadow and bare earth in the extraction of remote sensing information of water body in Plain River Network Area, based onmulti-temporal GF-1 image, this paper proposes a decision tree model combining the Normalized Differential Vegetation Index (NDVI), Normalized Differential Water Index (NDWI), and near-infrared albedo for water body information extraction, and conducts a study taking the typical plain atthe lower reaches of Yangtze and Huai River.The results show that compared with other methods including single-band threshold and Shadow Water Index (SWI), the multi-temporalspectral information in newly proposed method can effectively eliminate the mixture of pixels such as the towns, shadow and the bare earth, improve the extraction accuracy of smaller water bodies with an overall accuracy of 93% and a Kappa coefficient of 0.85,and reasonably show a spatial distribution of water surface rate with a declining trend from West to East, which could provide a reference for the information extraction of water body in other plains as well.…”
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Experimental Study on Dynamic Performance of Self-Compacting Lightweight Aggregate Concrete under Compression by Furong Li, Zhenpeng Yu, Yanli Hu

“…The peak stress and elastic modulus of the self-compacting lightweight aggregate gradually increase with the increase of the loading strain rate, but the extent of increase of the peak stress is lower than that of the ordinary concrete and lightweight aggregate concrete. …”
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High uric acid model in Caenorhabditis elegans by Zhenjing Li, Yibin Xue, Nifei Wang, Jingli Cheng, Xiaoying Dong, Qingbin Guo, Changlu Wang

“…For hyperuricemic worms, there was a statistically significant increase in the uric acid level (p < 0.001) and a lower drug damage (p > 0.05). Moreover, the model was proved to keep a high uric acid level for up to 12 h. …”
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Telemonitoring of Daily Activity and Symptom Behavior in Patients with COPD by Monique Tabak, Miriam M. R. Vollenbroek-Hutten, Paul D. L. P. M. van der Valk, Job van der Palen, Thijs M. Tönis, Hermie J. Hermens

“…Mean daily activity in COPD patients was significantly lower compared to the healthy controls ( cpm versus  cpm, ). …”
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Intelligent Demand Response Resource Trading Using Deep Reinforcement Learning by Yufan Zhang, Qian Ai, Zhaoyu Li

“…To protect their privacy, a dueling deep Q-network (dueling DQN) is then constructed to model the bi-Ievel Stackelberg game, such that the lower-level problem doesn&#x0027;t need to reveal its detailed model to the upper-level. …”
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Multi-dimensional adaptive transmission technique for shortto-medium reach optical fiber communication system by Ming TANG, Xi CHEN

“…According to the features of short-to-medium reach optical fiber communication systems,three high performance adaptive modulation and coding schemes were investigated.In the first one,a new dimension,forward error correction (FEC),was introduced to the traditional bit and power loading (BPL) scheme,and the three-dimensional adaptive modulation and coding were achieved.The modulation format and FEC code were allocated based on look-up table (LUT).The proposed algorithm has lower complexity and higher data rate compared to the BPL scheme.The second one was also based on LUT method where one similar data rate with the BPL scheme was achieved using partitioned precoding,but peak-to-average power ratio was reduced up to two dB,and the power efficiency was improved.In the last scheme,probabilistic shaping QAM was adopted as the modulation format,and shaping gain and almost indefinitely fine modulation granularity were achieved at the expense of certain complexity.With adaptive partitioned precoding,without decreasing data rate the number of PS-QAM was limited to reduce the complexity.The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed scheme outperforms the BPL scheme in terms of data rate and receiver sensitivity.…”
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Extreme time–frequency connectedness between oil shocks and sectoral markets in the United States by Oguzhan Ozcelebi, Jose Pérez-Montiel, Sang Hoon Kang

“…We also indicate that the connectedness in the lower and upper quantiles is greater than at the conditional mean. …”
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A comparative approach for the optimal design of steel structures using biogeography-based optimization (BBO) algorithm and genetic algorithm (GA) by Laid Amamra, Mohamed Bensoula, Sadek Bahar

“…It is capable of finding solutions that are lighter, stiffer and have lower deflection than the original designs. …”
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