Myoclonic status epilepticus with dystonia-like symptoms in patients with dementia: Report of two cases by Rosario V. Rossi, Rosanna Melis, Noemi Murdeu, Sara Lizzos, Maria Luigia Piras, Loretta Racis, Silvia Serusi, Maria Valeria Saddi

“…The manifestation of subtle, rhythmic myoclonus and dystonic-like postures in patients with atypical EEG patterns of SE may require challenging differential diagnoses with myoclonus-dystonia syndrome and oromandibular dystonia.…”
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Phosphaturic mesenchymal tumor: Clinicopathological features with outcomes in 10 patients with review of literature by Vivek C. Parameshwar, Bharat Rekhi, Ashwini Duggad, Mukta Ramadwar

“…On histopathology, all tumors showed cells arranged in a hemangiopericytomatous pattern, including oval to short spindle forms. Multinucleate giant cells were present in nine tumors, and characteristic “grungy calcifications” was observed in eight tumors. …”
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Interleukin-18 Increases TLR4 and Mannose Receptor Expression and Modulates Cytokine Production in Human Monocytes by Luciane Alarcão Dias-Melicio, Reginaldo Keller Fernandes, Daniela Ramos Rodrigues, Marjorie Assis Golim, Angela Maria Victoriano Campos Soares

“…Taken together, these results show an important role of IL-18 on the early phase of inflammatory response by promoting the expression of some pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) that are important during the microbe recognition phase and by inducing some important cytokines such as TNF-α and IL-10.…”
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Small Airway Dysfunction in Chronic Bronchitis with Preserved Pulmonary Function by Qi Ding, Bai-Bing Mi, Xia Wei, Jie Li, Jiu-Yun Mi, Jing-Ting Ren, Rui-Li Li

“…PRISm is a nonspecific pattern of pulmonary function that indicates small airway dysfunction and may increase the risk of transformation to obstructive ventilation dysfunction. …”
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Wear Resistance of Light-Cure Resin Luting Cements for Ceramic Veneers by Miyuki Oshika, Takafumi Kishimoto, Taku Horie, Abdulaziz Alhotan, Masao Irie, Veronica C. Sule, Wayne W. Barkmeier, Akimasa Tsujimoto

“…Correlations were calculated between the three measurements for each material, and the pattern of correlations was also different for each material.…”
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Exploring the Landscape of Digital Entrepreneurship among Disabled People: A Bibliometric Analysis by Rahmawati Rahmawati, Rochmat Aldy Purnomo, Ari Kuncara Widagdo, Noor Ismawati Jaafar, Farzana Parveen Tajudeen, Endang Dwi Amperawati, Sri Hartoko, Agus Dwianto

“…Four key research questions guide the investigation: 1) What pattern have publications about digital entrepreneurship of people with disability shown throughout the years?…”
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Diet of smooth-coated otter Lutrogale perspicillata (Geoffroy, 1826) in the Moyar River, Western Ghats, South India by Kannadasan Narasimmarajan, Manu Thomas Mathai, Matt W. Hayward, Sonaimuthu Palanivel

“…However, season-wise fish surveys occasionally revealed low fish diversity, and otter diet and feeding patterns did not alter significantly between seasons. …”
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Efficiency of four trap types and human landing catch in the sampling of Mansonia (Diptera, Culicidae) in Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brazil. by Nercy Virginia Rabelo Furtado, José Ferreira Saraiva, Kaio Nabas Ribeiro, Noel Santos Fernandes Neto, Jéssica Fernanda Dos Santos Barroso, Cynara de Melo Rodovalho, Dario Pires Carvalho, Allan Kardec Ribeiro Galardo, José Bento Pereira Lima

“…Rotational exchanges between houses ensured that all traps and the HLC were used in each of the five residences, following a predetermined Latin square pattern. A total of 7,080 mosquitoes were collected, of which 90.5% belonged to the Mansonia genus, distributed in four species: Mansonia titillans (75.97%), Mansonia humeralis (18.91%), Mansonia amazonensis (1.90%), and Mansonia indubitans (1.37%). …”
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Research on Organic Nanopore Adsorption Mechanism and Influencing Factors of Shale Oil Reservoirs by Yanfeng He, Guodong Qi, Xiangji Dou, Run Duan, Nan Pan, Luyao Guo, Zhengwu Tao

“…Thus, a molecular model of organic micropore walls and multicomponent fluids of CO2, C4H10, C8H18, and C12H26 is constructed to investigate the adsorption pattern of multicomponent fluids in organic nanopores under different temperature and pore size conditions. …”
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Molecular Characterization of Ferulate 5-Hydroxylase Gene from Kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus L.) by Jonggeun Kim, Bosung Choi, Young-Hwan Park, Byoung-Kwan Cho, Hyoun-Sub Lim, Savithiry Natarajan, Sang-Un Park, Hanhong Bae

“…The purpose of this study is to clone and characterize the expression pattern of a F5H gene encoding ferulate 5-hydroxylase in the phenylpropanoid pathway from kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus L.). …”
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Groundwater Level Forecasting in the Jakarta Groundwater Basin by Andi Agus Nur, Dani Ruswandi

“…This is a consideration that stakeholders can consider to reduce the small effect of the daily GWL pattern as a result of NARX modeling.…”
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Flood hazard mapping in an urban area using combined hydrologic-hydraulic models and geospatial technologies by B.A.M. Talisay, G.R. Puno, R.A.L. Amper

“…The hydrologic model determines the precipitation-runoff relationships of the watershed and the hydraulic model calculates the flood depth and flow pattern in the floodplain area. The overall performance of hydrologic model during calibration was “very good fit” based on the criterion of Nash-Sutcliffe Coefficient of Model Efficiency, Percentage Bias and Root Mean Square Error – Observations Standard Deviation Ratio with the values of 0.87, -8.62 and 0.46, respectively. …”
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Burden of Sickle Cell Disease in Ghana: The Korle-Bu Experience by Eugenia V. Asare, Ivor Wilson, Amma A. Benneh-Akwasi Kuma, Yvonne Dei-Adomakoh, Fredericka Sey, Edeghonghon Olayemi

“…A retrospective review of medical records of all SCD patients aged 13 years and above, who presented to the sickle cell clinic at Ghana Institute of Clinical Genetics (GICG), Korle-Bu, from 1st January 2013 to 31st December 2014, was carried out, using a data abstraction instrument to document their phenotypes, demographics, attendance/clinic visits, pattern of attendance, and common complications seen. …”
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Unique quantitative electroencephalography differences and related behavioral dynamics in Crohn’s disease by Yihan Zhuang, Hairu Yang, Xinyi Huang, Guanghua Guo, Quan Shi, Yiting Lin, Wenwen Xue, Zeyu Huang, Sisi Zhou, Jiahui Cai, Haizhu Tan, Jing Yu

“…Crohn's disease (CD) is a major type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) characterized by idiopathic, chronic inflammation with a patchy transmural inflammatory pattern. CD patients experience a decreased quality of life due to symptoms such as diarrhea, abdominal pain, anemia and fever. …”
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Adaptive Extraction of Oil Painting Texture Features Based on Reaction Diffusion Equation by Qicai Huang

“…The oil painting retrieval technology based on the reaction diffusion equation has attracted widespread attention in the fields of oil painting processing and pattern recognition. The description and extraction of oil painting information and the classification method of oil paintings are two important processes in content-based oil painting retrieval. …”
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Failure Mechanism and Control Technology for a Large-Section Roadway under Weakly Cemented Formation Condition by Jiadi Yin, Baojie Fu, Hualei Zhang

“…In accordance with the numerical simulation and comprehensive analysis of field exploration data, the main reasons for the roadway caving accident were concluded as follows: (1) low rock strata strength at the roof and the influence of tectonic stress in deep surrounding rocks, (2) unreasonable original support pattern, and (3) permeation of the upper aquifer. …”
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Identify priority protected areas for biodiversity conservation adapting to future climate and land cover changes by Ruixue Liu, Huilin Kong, Qixuan Wang, Yun Li

“…Conservation gaps are revealed by spatial overlay analyses between these PPAs and existing protected areas. The spatial pattern of PPAs in Shenzhen is concentrated in the southeast with poor connectivity in the west. …”
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Modern RFID Reader Antennas: A Review of the Design, State-of-the-Art, and Research Challenges by Chandni Bajaj, Sachin Kumar, Dharmendra Kumar Upadhyay, Binod Kumar Kanaujia, Dhiraj Gupta, Tanweer Ali

“…Several design challenges have been investigated and analyzed, including narrow bandwidth, bidirectional radiation pattern, low gain, linear polarization, and a larger footprint. …”
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Relative anterior spinal overgrowth in mild and moderate adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: a retrospective study by Haoyang Zhang, Xin Ye, Hongjiao Wu, Yi Shen, Yingsen Pan, Xiaoming Ying, Jiaying He

“…Abstract To determine whether relative anterior spinal overgrowth (RASO) occurs regardless of scoliosis segments and severity, and to explore the pattern of vertebral body height changes in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). …”
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A virtual-reality (VR) cognitive pupillometry analysis of auditory and visual phonemic awareness tasks involving ‘th’ sound variations by Mohsen Mahmoudi-Dehaki, Nasim Nasr-Esfahani

“…The quantitative results demonstrated (a) no critical differences regarding the CL experienced by the participants in each group concerning voiced vs. voiceless’ th’ PATs and (b) higher levels of CL (increased pupil diameter, decreased blink rates, and increased gaze pattern or fixation duration) among participants in the auditory PATs group compared to the ones in the auditory and visual PATs group. …”
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