Phytobezoar: A Brief Report with Surgical and Radiological Correlation by Sameer A. Hirji, Faith C. Robertson, Grace F. Chao, Bharti Khurana, Jonathan D. Gates

“…We present a case of a 37-year-old man with a distant history of laparotomy for superior mesenteric artery thrombosis requiring partial small bowel resection of the jejunum who presented with worsening abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and hematemesis. …”
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How to Run Linear Mixed Effects Analysis for Pairwise Comparisons? A Tutorial and a Proposal for the Calculation of Standardized Effect Sizes by Marc Brysbaert, Dries Debeer

“…First, we compare LME analyses with traditional methods when participants are the only source of random variation. …”
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Behavioural bias in investment decisions: moderate role of self-control by Muhadjir Anwar, Sulastri Irbayuni, Ira Wikartika, Heri Pratikto

“…The data analysis method was Structural Equation Model-Partial Least Square (SEM-PLS). The results showed that: First, loss aversion and mental accounting have a significant positive effect on investment decisions. …”
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Thermal Diffusivity Identification of Distributed Parameter Systems to Sea Ice by Liqiong Shi, Zhijun Li, Enmin Feng, Yila Bai, Yu Yang

“…A method of optimal control is presented as a numerical tool for solving the sea ice heat transfer problem governed by a parabolic partial differential equation. Taken the deviation between the calculated ice temperature and the measurements as the performance criterion, an optimal control model of distributed parameter systems with specific constraints of thermal properties of sea ice was proposed to determine the thermal diffusivity of sea ice. …”
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Nondestructive Detection of Authenticity of Thai Jasmine Rice Using Multispectral Imaging by Wei Liu, Xue Xu, Changhong Liu, Lei Zheng

“…In this study, the multispectral imaging system (405–970 nm) was used for the detection of adulteration in Thai jasmine rice combined with chemometric methods including principal component analysis (PCA), partial least squares (PLS), least squares-support vector machines (LS-SVM), and backpropagation neural network (BPNN). …”
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Capital structure of Portuguese hotel firms: a structural equation modelling approach by Fernanda Matias, Leonor Salsa, Carlos Miguel Afonso

“…Secondary data from 356 hotel units was analysed using the partial least squares (PLS) statistical technique, a variance-based structural equation modelling (SEM). …”
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Multimodal Green Logistics Network Design of Urban Agglomeration with Stochastic Demand by Jiehui Jiang, Dezhi Zhang, Shuangyan Li, Yajie Liu

“…Next, a quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization (QPSO) embedded with a Method of Successive Averages (MSA) is presented to solve the proposed models. …”
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Emission Performance of a Diesel Engine Fuelled with Petrol Diesel, Green Diesel, and Waste Cooking Oil Blends by O. Chiavola, E. Recco

“…Blending diesel+ with WCO causes a further reduction for most of the engine operative field. Concerning particulate emission, accumulation mode dominates for all fuels. …”
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Effect of Hydrophilicity/Hydrophobicity of the Injector Wall on Atomization Performance by Xiaoyu Zhang, Xiaolei Zhang, Runze Duan, Lujia Liu

“…The average droplet diameter was measured by the Malvern particle size analyzer. The atomization performance of injectors with different tangential channels on the hydrophilicity/hydrophobicity was compared, and the effect of the velocity profile on the jet stability is discussed.…”
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Sulfuric Acid and Ammonium Sulfate Leaching of Alumina from Lampang Clay by Paweena Numluk, Aphiruk Chaisena

“…The leaching experiments were performed on clay samples with particle sizes less than 200 mesh. The samples were calcined at different temperatures, ranging from 450°C to 1050°C, and for different periods, ranging from 30 to 150 min. …”
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Breast Desmoid Tumours: A Review of the Literature by Mike Wu, Thomas Michael Hughes, Senarath Edirimanne, Nicholas Ngui

“…There were 7 cases treated with a nonsurgical modality, with 3 showing at least a partial response.…”
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Beta-HCG Secretion by a Pulmonary Choriocarcinoma in a Male Patient by Brecht Devos, Cedric Willemse, Mira Sterckx, Johan Debruyne, Inge Stappaerts, Tom Van den Mooter, Marjan Hertoghs, Pascale Abrams

“…The patient was treated with chemoimmunotherapy carboplatin-etoposide-pembrolizumab with good partial response. Conclusion. Our case of a presumably stage IV dedifferentiated mNSCLC presenting as an extragonadal β-hCG secreting pulmonary choriocarcinoma is a very rare tumor with a poor prognosis. …”
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Flexural Properties of PVC/Bamboo Composites under Static and Dynamic-Thermal Conditions: Effects of Composition and Water Absorption by Shahril Anuar Bahari, Warren J. Grigsby, Andreas Krause

“…Addition of 25% and 50% bamboo particles increases flexural modulus by 80% with dependency on whether fine (<75 μm) or coarse (<1 mm) particles were used. …”
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Mixed Convection in a Double Lid-Driven Wavy Shaped Cavity Filled with Nanofluid Subject to Magnetic Field and Internal Heat Source by Kakali Chowdhury, Md. Abdul Alim

“…The physical problems are characterized by 2D governing partial differential equations accompanying proper boundary conditions and are discretized using Galerkin’s finite element formulation. …”
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A Review on Factors Influencing the Mismatch Losses in Solar Photovoltaic System by A. D. Dhass, N. Beemkumar, S. Harikrishnan, Hafiz Muhammad Ali

“…The present review is focused to fetch fruitful information on the several studies that analyzed the effects on the solar photovoltaic systems of parasitic resistances, dust generated by tresses, clouds, solar radiation, temperature, relative humidity, different connection topologies, circuit implementation for partial shading, and remedies suggested by the potential authors.…”
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Energy-Efficient Target Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Quantized Measurement Fusion Framework by Yan Zhou, Dongli Wang, Tingrui Pei, Yonghong Lan

“…Then, the quantized messages are fused and sequential importance resampling (SIR) particle filtering is employed to estimate the target state. …”
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Direito e teorias ideal e não ideal da justiça by Leandro Martins Zanitelli

“…No entanto, à medida que uma teoria ideal se mostre um ponto de partida digno de consideração para as comparações relativas a alterações legislativas em circunstâncias não ideais, é preferível que a teoria em questão seja uma teoria total, isto é, que abranja a totalidade do objeto da justiça (no caso de teorias institucionalistas, como a de Rawls, a totalidade da estrutura básica da sociedade) em vez de se restringir a uma área do direito em particular.…”
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Hybrid Optimal Kinematic Parameter Identification for an Industrial Robot Based on BPNN-PSO by Guanbin Gao, Fei Liu, Hongjun San, Xing Wu, Wen Wang

“…A novel hybrid algorithm that employs BP neural network (BPNN) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is proposed for the kinematic parameter identification of industrial robots with an enhanced convergence response. …”
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Determination of Gradation of Recycled Mixed Coarse Aggregates for Pavement Base or Subbase by Crushing Fractals by Jianjun Li, Yong Pei, Pengcheng Xu, Hui Chang

“…A loading crushing test of recycled mixed coarse aggregates in the same particle diameter range is carried out, and the crushed coarse aggregates are screened, manually sorted, and weighed to study the crushing characteristics of recycled mixed coarse aggregates. …”
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Ship Pipe Layout Based on Grid Normalized Astar Algorithm by LIN Yan, ZHANG Qiaoyu, LOU Jiandi

“…Finally, the GNAstar proposed is compared with the traditional Astar in a simulation case, and different pipe systems in ship engine room are taken as cases to further compare with the ant colony algorithm and particle swarm-Astar. The results show that the GNAstar proposed can obtain effective engineering solutions, and designers can obtain the corresponding layout result by setting the normalized weight coefficients of different targets.…”
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