Hurricane Preparation: Evacuating Your Home by Elizabeth B. Bolton

“… During the months of potential hurricanes, it is important to plan for the worst and hope that it never happens. For example, you and your family may be asked to leave your home due to some emergency conditions in your community. …”
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Deciphering the Multifaceted Relationship between Oncolytic Viruses and Natural Killer Cells by Christopher A. Alvarez-Breckenridge, Jianhua Yu, Balveen Kaur, Michael A. Caligiuri, E. Antonio Chiocca

“…Despite active research in virotherapy, this apparently safe modality has not achieved widespread success. …”
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Learning from Mistakes by LE Nicolle

“…Thus, a critical review of this episode to understand what happened and to avoid future errors is appropriate. …”
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Distributed Control of a Manufacturing System with One-Dimensional Cellular Automata by Irving Barragan-Vite, Juan C. Seck-Tuoh-Mora, Norberto Hernandez-Romero, Joselito Medina-Marin, Eva S. Hernandez-Gress

“…The resulting distributed control of the manufacturing system appears to be heterarchical, and the evolution of the cellular automaton exhibits a Class II behavior for some given disordered initial conditions.…”
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Tension Pneumocephalus Related to Radiotherapy for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma by Esther Jimenez-Jimenez, Sebastià Sabater Martí, M. Victoria Villas

“…The defect in the skull base could be due to a rapid disappearance of the tumor. The appearance of aqueous rhinorrhea and neurological symptoms must be viewed as signs of alarm.…”
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Chondroid Syringoma of the Medial Canthus by Konstantinos Paraskevopoulos, Angeliki Cheva, Giorgos Koloutsos, Ioannis Matzarakis, Kostas Vahtsevanos

“…Chondroid syringoma usually appears in the face but the location in the medial canthus is not mentioned in the literature for the last twenty years.…”
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Multifocal Metastatic Breast Carcinoma to the Thyroid Gland Histologically Mimicking C Cell Lesions by Adeeba F. Ghias, Gregory Epps, Elizabeth Cottrill, Stacey K. Mardekian

“…We present the case of a 67-year-old woman who presented with dysphonia and dysphagia secondary to multinodular goiter and was found to have multifocal metastatic breast carcinoma in her surgical resection specimen. The histologic appearance focally mimicked C cell hyperplasia and medullary thyroid carcinoma, so immunohistochemistry was critical for establishing the diagnosis. …”
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Influence of Pore Structure on Chloride Penetration in Cement Pastes Subject to Wetting-Drying Cycles by Honglei Chang, Zhiwu Zuo, Mingyue Qu, Fei Wang, Zhi Ge, Jian Liu

“…Copious studies have discovered a phenomenon that a chloride concentration peak appears on the surface of concrete under cyclic drying-wetting environments. …”
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Primary MRSA Myositis Mimicking Septic Arthritis by Mohammad Abu-Abaa, Amy Pulikeyil, Hassaan Arshad, Daniel Goldsmith

“…What makes this case interesting is that what was believed to be a primary community-acquired MRSA myositis, which progressed to a life-threatening septic shock, happened in a nontropical area (Northeastern USA) and in a patient with no underlying recent muscle injury. …”
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Giant Conjunctival Nevus in a 12-Year-Old Child by Edit Tóth-Molnár, Eszter Vizvári, Ákos Skribek, András Vörös

“…We describe a case of a giant conjunctival nevus presented in a 12-year-old girl with suspicious clinicomorphological appearance. The lesion was noticed by the parents at the age of 3 years as a “fleshy spot” on the bulbar conjunctiva. …”
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Professional Doctorates: International Experience and Russian Context by B. I. Bednyi, S. K. Bekova, N. V. Rybakov, E. A. Terentev, N. A. Khodeeva

“…In this article, we present the analysis of professional doctoral programs: in response to what challenges and needs they appeared, how they are implemented, in what forms they exist. …”
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Maladie hyperostosique et mode de vie : intérêt d’une démarche bio-archéologique. Exemple du cimetière du Couvent des Soeurs Grises de Beauvais (Oise), XVe-XVIIIe siècles by Sacha Kacki, Sébastien Villotte

“…The influence of age could be checked and a strong male prevalence appeared. As the analysis of the historical texts indicates the existence of privileged places of burial, the space distribution of cases was studied. …”
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The Problem of Abnormal Body Weight and Dyslipidemia as Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Diseases in Children and Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes by Katarzyna Noras, Ewa Rusak, Przemysława Jarosz-Chobot

“…Recently, a new look at the vasoprotective effect of HDL has appeared, which due to its dysfunctional form in type 1 diabetes may not protect against cardiovascular risk. …”
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Mirror Prescription Regression: A Differential Interferometric Technique by Brian M. Robinson, Patrick J. Reardon, Joseph M. Geary

“…We present a remote, differential method for measuring the prescription of aspheric mirrors using null interferometry in the center-of-curvature configuration. …”
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Effects of High Magnetic Field Postannealing on Microstructure and Properties of Pulse Electrodeposited Co-Ni-P Films by Donggang Li, Chun Wu, Qiang Wang, Jean-Paul Chopart, Jicheng He, Agnieszka Franczak, Alexandra Levesque

“…In particular, the formation of intestine-like appearance with spherical clusters vanishing is favored from a moderate magnetic field strength of 6 T, due to the polarized effects. …”
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Hurricane Preparation: Evacuating Your Home by Elizabeth B. Bolton

“… During the months of potential hurricanes, it is important to plan for the worst and hope that it never happens. For example, you and your family may be asked to leave your home due to some emergency conditions in your community. …”
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Microbial Fuel Cells for Direct Electrical Energy Recovery from Urban Wastewaters by A. G. Capodaglio, D. Molognoni, E. Dallago, A. Liberale, R. Cella, P. Longoni, L. Pantaleoni

“…Application of microbial fuel cells (MFCs) to wastewater treatment for direct recovery of electric energy appears to provide a potentially attractive alternative to traditional treatment processes, in an optic of costs reduction, and tapping of sustainable energy sources that characterizes current trends in technology. …”
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Dual Lesions: A Diagnostic Dilemma by M. P. V. Prabhat, Prasannasrinivas Deshpande, Sarat Gummadapu, Suresh Babburi, Raja Lakshmi Chintamaneni, Bhavana Sujanamulk

“…The reported case represents one such diagnostic dilemma occurring in the maxilla which is a rare site, and the lesion/s appeared as two distinct entities, that is, GOC and CMEC on either aspects of the same side of maxilla clinically, yet showing continuity on advanced imaging and demonstrating histopathological perplexity.…”
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Experimental Investigation of Angular Stackgram Filtering for Noise Reduction of SPECT Projection Data: Study with Linear and Nonlinear Filters by Antti P. Happonen, Matti O. Koskinen

“…Visually, noise in the reconstructed images after stackgram filtering appears more “powdery” in comparison with radial sinogram filtering.…”
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The Boron Solubility in Al-Mg-B Alloys by J. Zeman, A. Herman, J. Šerák

“…At first look, the high melting temperature difference between pure aluminium (660°C) and boron (2076°C) appears to be a potential problem. Moreover, boron has a minimal solubility in aluminium (0.055 wt.%) and the liquidus temperature increases very rapidly with increasing boron content (liquidus temperature approx. 1 160°C at 5 wt.% for Al-B binary alloy). …”
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