Technique of Peritoneal Catheter Placement under Fluroscopic Guidance by Ahmed Kamel Abdel-Aal, Santhosh Gaddikeri, Souheil Saddekni

“…We emphasize the use of additional ultrasound guidance, including gray scale and color Doppler ultrasound, to determine the safest puncture site and to guide the initial needle puncture in order to avoid bowel perforation and injury to epigastric artery. …”
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Diagnosis of Respiratory Tract Infection and the Use of the Laboratory by Ronald F Grossman

“…Properly performed and interpreted Gram stain of sputum is still useful in the initial assessment of these patients, but sputum cultures are less helpful. …”
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Angular Leaf Spot: A Bacterial Disease in Strawberries in Florida by Natalia A. Peres, Silvia I. Rondon, James F. Price, Daniel J. Cantliffe

“…., it ranks 6th in economic importance after gray mold (Botrytis cinerea L.), verticillium wilt (Verticillium alboatrum Reinke & Berth), powdery mildew (Sphaerotheca macularis L.), anthracnose (Colletotrichum spp.), and pythium root rot (Pythium spp.) …”
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The Chemical Composition of Endotoxin Isolated from Intestinal Strain of Desulfovibrio desulfuricans by Jolanta Lodowska, Daniel Wolny, Marzena Jaworska-Kik, Sławomir Kurkiewicz, Zofia Dzierżewicz, Ludmiła Węglarz

“…There are suggestions that they take part in the pathogenesis of periodontitis and some gastrointestinal inflammatory disorders, such as ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease. Endotoxin is one of Gram-negative bacteria cellular components that influence these microorganisms pathogenicity. …”
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Central Venous Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection with Kocuria kristinae in a Patient with Propionic Acidemia by Masato Kimura, Eichiro Kawai, Hisao Yaoita, Natsuko Ichinoi, Osamu Sakamoto, Shigeo Kure

“…Kocuria kristinae is a catalase-positive, coagulase-negative, Gram-positive coccus found in the environment and in normal skin and mucosa in humans; however, it is rarely isolated from clinical specimens and is considered a nonpathogenic bacterium. …”
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Otsu Based Optimal Multilevel Image Thresholding Using Firefly Algorithm by N. Sri Madhava Raja, V. Rajinikanth, K. Latha

“…Otsu’s between-class variance function is maximized to obtain optimal threshold level for gray scale images. The performances of the proposed algorithm are demonstrated by considering twelve benchmark images and are compared with the existing FA algorithms such as Lévy flight (LF) guided FA and random operator guided FA. …”
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The Role of Toll-Like Receptor 4 in Infectious and Noninfectious Inflammation by Monica Molteni, Sabrina Gemma, Carlo Rossetti

“…TLR4 has been long recognized as the sensing receptor for gram-negative lipopolysaccharide (LPS). In addition, it also binds endogenous molecules produced as a result of tissue injury. …”
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Detecting Distance between Surfaces of Large Transparent Material Based on Low-Cost TOF Sensor and Deep Convolutional Neural Network by Rong Zou, Yu Zhang, Junlan Gu, Jin Chen

“…The distance detection between transparent material surfaces is converted to the problem of solving the intersection of the optical path and the transparent material’s front and rear surfaces. On this basis, the Gray code encoding and decoding operations are combined to achieve distance detection between surfaces. …”
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Tracking anharmonic oscillations in the structure of β-1,3-diacetylpyrene by A. Zwolenik, A. Makal

“…Experimental data of sufficient quality combined with Hirshfeld atom refinement of the crystal structures enabled a quantitative analysis of elusive anharmonic effects within the Gram–Charlier formalism. This example highlights that quantum crystallography tools can and should be applied in structural analysis even for data collected at high temperatures as well as of standard (∼0.8 Å) resolution.…”
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BLOCKCHAIN PERSPECTIVES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF GREEN ECONOMY FINANCE by M. L. Dorofeev

“…An important conclusion obtained from the study was that despite a number of attempts to create analogues of private money (Libra, Gram, etc.) in the near future the replacement of traditional fiate money circulation by cryptocurrencies is unlikely for a number of objective reasons.…”
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Bacterial Infections, DNA Virus Infections, and RNA Virus Infections Manifest Differently in Neutrophil Receptor Expression by Esa-Matti Lilius, Jari Nuutila

“…The best clinical benefit will be obtained when the individual variables are combined to generate the CIS point method for a bacterial infection marker, DNAVS point for differentiating between DNA and RNA virus infections, and CRP/CD11b ratio for a marker of Gram-positive sepsis.…”
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Short wave protocol signals recognition based on Swin-Transformer by Zhengyu ZHU, Pengfei CHEN, Zixuan WANG, Kexian GONG, Di WU, Zhongyong WANG

“…Aiming at the problem that it is difficult to identify the protocol to which the signal belongs in the complex SW channel environment, a SW protocol signal recognition algorithm based on Swin-Transformer neural network model was proposed.Firstly, the gray-scale time-frequency map of the signal was obtained by using the time-frequency analysis method as the input of the neural network.Secondly, a neural network model based on swing transformer was designed to extract the features of the signal time-frequency map.Finally, the mapping relationship between the features and the protocol was established to realize the recognition of the signal protocol.The simulation results show that the recognition accuracy of the proposed algorithm is close to 100% in the Gaussian channel with SNR greater than -4 dB, which is higher than the existing algorithms.In addition, under the channel conditions of strong interference and multipath delay fading, the proposed algorithm still has a high SW protocol signals recognition rate.…”
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Kluyvera ascorbata: An Emerging Pathogen and Rare Cause of Urinary Tract Infection in Immunocompetent Patients at a Tertiary Care Center in North India by Apurva Rautela, Nikhil Raj, Vikramjeet Singh, Anupam Das, Jyotsna Agarwal

“…Kluyvera spp. is a Gram-negative bacillus and was discovered by Kluyver and van Niel, included in the family Enterobacteriaceae. …”
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Messenger RNA Turnover Processes in Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis, and Emerging Studies in Staphylococcus aureus by Kelsi L. Anderson, Paul M. Dunman

“…However, we also address the effects of RNases, RNA binding proteins, sRNAs on mRNA turnover, and gene expression in Bacillus subtilis, which has served as a model for studying RNA processing in gram-positive organisms. We conclude by discussing emerging studies on the role modulating mRNA stability has on gene expression in the important human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus.…”
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Network traffic classification method basing on CNN by Yong WANG, Huiyi ZHOU, Hao FENG, Miao YE, Wenlong KE

“…Since the feature selection process will directly affect the accuracy of the traffic classification based on the traditional machine learning method,a traffic classification algorithm based on convolution neural network was tailored.First,the min-max normalization method was utilized to process the traffic data and map them into gray images,which would be used as the input data of convolution neural network to realize the independent feature learning.Then,an improved structure of the classical convolution neural network was proposed,and the parameters of the feature map and the full connection layer were designed to select the optimal classification model to realize the traffic classification.The tailored method can improve the classification accuracy without the complex operation of the network traffic.A series of simulation test results with the public data sets and real data sets show that compared with the traditional classification methods,the tailored convolution neural network traffic classification method can improve the accuracy and reduce the time of classification.…”
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Salmonella enterica Serotype Arizonae Meningitis in a Neonate by Wubishet Lakew, Abayneh Girma, Elizabeth Triche

“…Therefore, it should be included in the differential diagnosis of Gram-negative bacillary meningitis in immunocompromised children, neonates, and those with contacts with reptiles.…”
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Automatic Detection of 2D and 3D Lung Nodules in Chest Spiral CT Scans by Ayman El-Baz, Ahmed Elnakib, Mohamed Abou El-Ghar, Georgy Gimel'farb, Robert Falk, Aly Farag

“…The second step detects lung nodules using deformable 3D and 2D templates describing typical geometry and gray-level distribution within the nodules of the same type. …”
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NKT Cells in Sepsis by Briana Leung, Hobart W. Harris

“…Moreover, apolipoprotein E (apoE), a component of triglyceride-rich lipoproteins, has been shown to be protective in endotoxemia and gram-negative infections in addition to its well-known role in lipid metabolism. …”
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Coupling Coordination of Water Governance and Tourism: Measurement and Prediction by Yuqing Geng, Mukasar Maimaituerxun, Han Zhang

“…This study analyzes the correlation mechanism of the water governance-tourism system, constructs the composite and aggregated evaluation system which consists of 5 dimensions and 15 indicators, uses information entropy weight technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution method to evaluate the development degrees of both water governance and tourism growth of the 11 regions in the Yangtze River Economic Zone, analyzes the two subsystems’ relation of coupling coordination temporally and spatially with the coupling coordination degree model, predicts degrees of coupling coordination of the regions for the next 4 years with gray system prediction model, and proposes specific and generalizable countermeasures. …”
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Chaotic Image Encryption Algorithm Based on Circulant Operation by Xiaoling Huang, Guodong Ye, Kwok-Wo Wong

“…Numerical experiments show that the proposed scheme possesses the properties of a large key space to resist brute-force attack, sensitive dependence on secret keys, uniform distribution of gray values in the cipher-image, and zero correlation between two adjacent cipher-image pixels. …”
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