‘For God’s Sake Look at This!’: Physiognomy in Bleak House by Michael Hollington

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Uncommon Diseases: a Look from Pediatrics by Jan Oneil González Ramos, Lisbel Aguilar Lezcano

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Looking for a new South African journalism by Adrian Hadland

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Younger Age Is Associated with Poorer Survival in Patients with Signet-Ring Cell Carcinoma of the Colon without Distant Metastasis by Ben Huang, Mengdong Ni, Chen Chen, Yang Feng, Sanjun Cai

“…The multivariate Cox proportional model demonstrated that patients ≤ 35 years of age were more likely to have a poorer survival outcome compared with patients aged >35 years (HR 1.411, 95% CI 1.032–1.929, and P=0.031). …”
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Constellation Optimization for MIMO VLC System With Signal-Dependent Noise: Receiver-Side Design and Lookup Table Establishment by Jiaqi Wei, Yuan Wang, Nuo Huang, Yan-Yu Zhang, Yi-Jun Zhu, Wenliang Hao, Chen Gong

“…For the scenario where receiver randomly moves, the constellation lookup table is proposed to transform real-time optimization into table lookup operation, which effectively reduces the real-time computational complexity. …”
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PMMA Sandwiched Bi2Te3 Layer as a Saturable Absorber in Mode-Locked Fiber Laser by Guobao Jiang, Yuan Zhou, Lulu Wang, Ying Chen

“…In this paper, we fabricated a PMMA sandwiched Bi2Te3 self-assembly layer as a saturable absorber device, which was used as a passive mode locker for ultrafast pulse generation at the telecommunication band. …”
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Directly Gel‐Thermal Processing of Linker‐Mixed Crystal‐Glass Composite Membranes for Sorption‐Preferential Gas Separation by Yihao Xiao, Yanqing Yu, Xinxi Huang, Da Chen, Wanbin Li

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The Cost of Regulating Effort: Reward and Difficulty Cues With Longer Prediction Horizons Have a Stronger Impact on Performance by Nanne Kukkonen, Senne Braem, Jens Allaert, Joshua O. Eayrs, Nicoleta Prutean, S. Tabitha Steendam, C. Nico Boehler, Jan R. Wiersema, Wim Notebaert, Ruth M. Krebs

“…Together, our results indicate that people experience a cost to effort regulation, and that lower adjustment frequency can compensate for this cost.…”
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From Motion to Prevention: Evaluating Ergonomic Risks of Asymmetrical Movements and Worker Well-Being in an Assembly Line Work by Sławomir Winiarski, Dorota Molek-Winiarska, Barbara Chomątowska

“…(1) Background: This study examines the association between asymmetrical movements of an assembly line and machining workers and their overall well-being. The primary aim is to quantify the extent to which asymmetrical movements serve as predictors of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) among these workers and their overall well-being. …”
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Experimental Study on Pressure-Deformation-Contact Resistance Characteristics of Converter Transformer Valve Side Casing Louver Contacts by Shihong Hu, Zhicheng Huang, Jiahui Chen, Chi Yuan, Bozhang Feng, Tao Zhao, Yunpeng Liu

Subjects: “…Oil-immersed louver contacts…”
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An Innocent Appearing Subcutaneous Nodule Diagnoses a Small Cell Lung Cancer in a Never-Smoker Female by Nupur Sinha, Masooma Niazi, Gilda Diaz-Fuentes, Richard Duncalf

“…Lung cancer among never-smokers is recognized as the 7th most common cause of cancer death globally. …”
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Case Report of a Traumatic Atlantoaxial Rotatory Subluxation with Bilateral Locked Cervical Facets: Management, Treatment, and Outcome by Nael Hawi, Dirk Alfke, Emmanouil Liodakis, Mohamed Omar, Christian Krettek, Christian Walter Müller, Rupert Meller

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Impact of hospital readiness on patient safety incidents during the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia: health worker perceptions by Inge Dhamanti, Diah Indriani, Muhammad Miftahussurur, Eva Kurniawati, Cyrus Y Engineer

“…Objectives This study examined the impact of hospital readiness on patient safety from the healthcare workers’ perspective.Design The study employed a mixed-methods explanatory sequential design, with the quantitative phase taking precedence. …”
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SOME COMPARATIVE OPINIONS REGARDING THE WORKING OF FIBERS AND MATRIX ON AXIAL STRESS LIMIT. MATRIX WITH LONGER FIBER EXTENSIONS by RADU I. IATAN, ANDREEA - SILVIA NITU, MIHAI STATESCU, ELENA SURDU, DANA-CLAUDIA FARCAS - FLAMAROPOL, MELANIA CORLECIUC (MITUCA), COSMIN CIOCOIU

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Short and High-Yielding Synthesis of a Minimalist Diazirine–Alkyne Photo-Cross-Linker and Photoaffinity Labeling Derivatives by Dare E. George, Miracle O. Olatunde, Jetze J. Tepe

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Lie Symmetry Analysis and Invariant Solutions of a Nonlinear Fokker-Planck Equation Describing Cell Population Growth by Jia Zheng

“…In this paper, a complete Lie symmetry analysis is performed for a nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation for growing cell populations. …”
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Effect of β-blocker on clinical outcomes in patients with traumatic brain injury: a retrospective propensity-matched study by Yaxin Zhang, Tingting Liu, Wenwen Ji, Guangdong Wang

Subjects: “…β-blocker therapy…”
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Great Tit (Parus major) Nestlings Have Longer Telomeres in Old‐Growth Forests Than in Young Forests by Ronalds Krams, Dina Cīrule, Maris Munkevics, Sergejs Popovs, Priit Jõers, Jorge Contreras Garduño, Indrikis A. Krams, Tatjana Krama

“…In this study, we tested whether great tit (Parus major) nestlings grown in old‐growth unmanaged coniferous forests have longer telomeres than great tit nestlings developing in young managed coniferous forests. …”
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Investigation on heat transfer mechanism simulation and structure optimization design of hydraulic turbine bearing semi-ring cooler by Yongfei Wang, Yinhui Cai, Jian Zhang, Zhenyu Chen, Chenhao Li, Weipeng Sun

Subjects: “…Bearing cooler…”
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An Ultra-Low Power, Adaptive All-Digital Frequency-Locked Loop With Gain Estimation and Constant Current DCO by Imran Ali, Hamed Abbasizadeh, Muhammad Riaz Ur Rehman, Muhammad Asif, Seong Jin Oh, Young Gun Pu, Minjae Lee, Keum Cheol Hwang, Youngoo Yang, Kang-Yoon Lee

“…The low power and constant current DCO operates in sub-threshold region and its power consumption is minimized by <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$g_{m}/I_{D}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> methodology optimization, constant current source for limiting current in DCO core through adaptive low-dropout regulator (LDO) and lowering the supply voltage. The proposed design is integrated in an ADPLL for BLE transceiver and it is fabricated with 1P6M TSMC 55 nm CMOS technology. …”
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