Chronic Kidney Disease in Disadvantaged Populations by David Martins, Lawrence Agodoa, Keith Norris

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Arthroscopic Repair of the Medial Meniscal Root Tear: A Simple Surgical Technique by Mohammad Ayati Firoozabadi, M.D., Seyed Mohammad Milad Seyedtabaei, M.D., Hesan Rezaee, M.D., Omid Salkhori, M.D., Seyed Mohammad Javad Mortazavi, M.D.

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Duplicate Vas Deferens Encountered during Inguinal Hernia Repair: A Case Report and Literature Review by Maxwell C. Breitinger, Evan H. Roszkowski, Adam J. Bauermeister, Andrew A. Rosenthal

“…We report the case of a 63-year-old man with a duplicate vas deferens, presenting with abdominal pain from bowel obstruction secondary to incarcerated inguinal hernia. …”
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On/Unstained White dress(es) by Anna Kasafi Perkins

“…The dress is intended to be worn by Afro-Caribbean girls in a church, sacred, or sacramental context and speak to matters of purity in the female/girl child who is so clad. At the same time, the dress - spotless or yellowed - exposes the impurity, danger, and impiety of the Afro-Caribbean female body that is laid bare in the sacramental and sacred space of Church. …”
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Influence of Material Properties on the Ballistic Performance of Ceramics for Personal Body Armour by Christian Kaufmann, Duane Cronin, Michael Worswick, Gilles Pageau, Andre Beth

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Effect of Molten Corium Behavior Uncertainty on the Severe Accident Progress by Wonjun Choi, Taeseok Kim, Joongoo Jeon, Nam Kyung Kim, Sung Joong Kim

“…Sensitivity coefficients (SCs) in MELCOR such as molten clad drainage rate and zircaloy melt breakout temperature showed significant influence on relocation time and dryout time of lower plenum. …”
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Scientific and Societal Considerations in Selecting Assessment Endpoints for Environmental Decision Making by Elizabeth M. Strange, Joshua Lipton, Douglas Beltman, Blaine D. Snyder

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THE ROLE OF THE MULTINATIONAL JOINT TASK FORCE IN COUNTER INSURGENCY IN NORTH EASTERN NIGERIA: THE BOKO- HARAMINSURGENCY by ODO CHRISTOPHER UBA

“…The study revealed that the counter insurgency against Boko Haram to some extent is succeeding as many of the insurgents have been killed, some repented while others fled and some surrenders their arms and themselves to the Multinational Joint Task Force. …”
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Trends and cost structure of drug-based secondary prevention of ischemic strokes by Konstantin Kohlhase, Ferdinand O. Bohmann, Christian Grefkes, Adam Strzelczyk, Laurent M. Willems

“…Evaluated drugs included acetylsalicylic acid, adenosine diphosphate inhibitors, DOACs, vitamin K antagonists, lipid-lowering drugs (LLD), antihypertensives (AHT), and oral antidiabetics (OD). …”
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Diversity of the Amoebozoa and Ciliophora Groups in Non-Human Primates Kept Ex Situ and in Their Handlers in Different Institutions in Brazil by Laís Dib, Breno da Silva, Lais Correa, Alcides Pissinatti, Silvia Moreira, Maria Clotilde Tavares, Rodrigo Teixeira, André Luíz da Costa, José Augusto Muniz, Amauri Junglos, Zelinda Maria Hirano, Aline Dada, Sidnei da Silva, Maria Regina Amendoeira, Alynne Barbosa

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3D Coaxial Printing of Small‐Diameter Artificial Arteries by Yuxiang Zhu, Siying Liu, Xuan Mei, Zeng Lin, Tiffany V. Pulido, Jixin Hou, Srikar Anudeep Remani, Dhanush Patil, Martin Taylor Sobczak, Arunachalam Ramanathan, Sri Vaishnavi Thummalapalli, Lindsay B. Chambers, Churan Yu, Shenghan Guo, Yiping Zhao, Yang Liu, Xianqiao Wang, Jessica N. Lancaster, Yu Shrike Zhang, Xiangfan Chen, Kenan Song

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Mapping the Distribution and Population Status of <i>Alosa immaculata</i> and <i>Alosa tanaica</i> (Teleostei, Clupeidae) in the Bulgarian Black Sea Area by Desislava Rozdina, Yana Stoyanova, Georgi Terziyski, Slavi Studenkov, Boris Karakushev, Venceslav Delov, Konstantin Mihaylov, Dimitar Kozhuharov, Yordan Kutsarov, Nikolay Kolev, Nikolay Nedyalkov, Nikolay Natchev

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Application of KTA-KELM in Fault Diagnosis of Rolling Bearing by Zhuo Wang, Wenjun Zhao, Tao Ma, Zhijun Li, Bo Qin

“…Firstly，the rolling bearing vibration signal is decomposed by Ensemble Local Mean Decomposition（ELMD）and its energy entropy and permutation entropy are calculated to construct a high-dimensional eigenvector set. …”
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Case report of a Sertoli cell tumor with unique presentation including fevers, weight loss, and leukocytosis in a 13-year-old male by Austin G. Kazarian, Caleb Q. Ashbrook, Charles F. Timmons, Craig A. Peters, Bruce J. Schlomer

“…We present a case of a thirteen-year-old male presenting with 2–3 months of fevers and twenty-pound weight loss. …”
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A Real-Time Green and Lightweight Model for Detection of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Cylinder Surface Defects Based on YOLOv5 by Burhan Duman

“…This paper presents a novel approach for real-time detection of surface defects on LPG cylinders, utilising an enhanced YOLOv5 architecture referred to as GLDD-YOLOv5. The architecture integrates ghost convolution and ECA blocks to improve feature extraction with less computational overhead in the network’s backbone. …”
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Neuronal heterogeneity in the ventral tegmental area: Distinct contributions to reward circuitry and motivated behavior by N. Dalton Fitzgerald, Jeremy J. Day

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Frequency Dependence of C-V Characteristics of MOS Capacitors Containing Nanosized High-κ Ta2O5 Dielectrics by Nenad Novkovski, Elena Atanassova

“…Extracting parameters of the studied structures by standard methods in the case of high-κ/interfacial layer stacks can lead to substantial errors. Some cases demonstrating these deficiencies of the methods are presented and solutions for obtaining better results are proposed.…”
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Channeled Polarimetry for Magnetic Field/Current Detection by Georgi Dyankov, Petar Kolev, Tinko A. Eftimov, Evdokiya O. Hikova, Hristo Kisov

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EMISSIONS MONITORING OF HEAVY METALS AND THEIR COMPOUNDS RESULTED FROM COMBUSTION PROCESSES IN CLINKER KILNS IN ROMANIA by CRISTIAN CIOBANU, GHEORGHE VOICU, MAGDALENA – LAURA TOMA, PAULA TUDOR

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Drones outperform dogs for hazing bears: a comparison of carnivore aversive conditioning tools by Wesley M. Sarmento

“…Relative to vehicular pursuit, dogs required high maintenance and had an 86% reduction in the odds a hazing event would be successful relative to vehicular pursuit. Grizzlies fled to locations that were farther from roads and human development. …”
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