Side Friction of Rock-Socketed Piles Involving Thick Sediment by Tie Hang Wang, Liang Zhang, Yan Zhou Hao, Xin Jin

“…Due to the existence of sediment, when the load reaches a certain value, sudden and large subsidence is observed. This indicates that the end resistance does not contribute to the bearing capacity. …”
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Spontaneous Pneumothorax as an Atypical Presentation of Pulmonary Paracoccidioidomycosis: A Case Report with Emphasis on the Imaging Findings by Mariana Leite Pereira, Edson Marchiori, Gláucia Zanetti, Guilherme Abdalla, Nina Ventura, Carolina Pesce Lamas Constantino, Viviane Brandão, Pedro Martins, Rodrigo Canellas, Antonio Muccillo, Romulo Varella de Oliveira

“…The patient presented to the hospital with sudden and intense chest pain accompanied by dyspnea and had a six-month history of dry cough, weight loss, and progressive dyspnea on exertion. …”
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J Point and ST Elevation Resembling Brugada: A Marker of Mortality in Methanol Toxicity by Mohammad Hossein Nikoo, Alireza Estedal, Kiana Khatami, Maryam Pakfetrat, Alireza Arjangzadeh, Shahrokh Sadeghi Boogar, Sina Danesh, Seyed Taghi Heydari

“…This clinical entity, among asymptomatic individuals with no family history of sudden cardiac death, would be reported in some severely ill patients before ventricular fibrillation. …”
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Massive Pulmonary Embolism Complicating Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pneumonia: A Case Report by Shruti Hegde, Gemini Yesodharan, John Tedrow, Alena Goldman

“…This case highlights the importance of considering massive APE in COVID-19 patients as a cause of the sudden and rapid hemodynamic decline. Furthermore, timely diagnosis can be made to aid in appropriate management with the help of bedside TTE and ECG in cases where CTPA is not feasible secondary to the patient’s hemodynamic instability.…”
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Nutrient inputs shape ecosystem functioning gradients along the pristine, upper Neretva River, Bosnia and Herzegovina by Rubén Del Campo, Barbara Jechsmayr, Veronika Settles, Melanie Ströder, Gabriel Singer

“…This can be the case in calcareous, karstic rivers due to the sudden massive inputs of groundwater along the landscape, a typical phenomenon for Balkan rivers. …”
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Systematic Review of Electroacupuncture for Bell’s Palsy by Min-seok Go, Seong-hyun Lee, Ji-eun Oh, Seung-chul Yeom, Tae-ha Kwon, Sae-young Bong, Cha-young Lee, Hye-jin Shin

“…Bell’s palsy, characterized by sudden-onset facial paralysis of unknown cause, is the most prevalent form of its kind, and electroacupuncture (EA) is one of the popular treatments in Korea. …”

A Combination of Surgical Techniques to Repair a Giant Traumatic Macular Hole by Soon Wai Ch’ng, Ibrahim Elaraoud, David Karl, Dimitrios Kalogeropoulos, Rynn Lee, Elisa Carreras

“…A 38-year-old man with a traumatic full-thickness macular hole (FTMH) presented to our eye casualty department with a sudden deterioration of his right eye vision to hand movements over the past one week. …”
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Development of a fixed-order $$H_{\infty }$$ controller for a robust P&O-MPPT strategy to control poly-crystalline solar PV energy systems by Moussa Sedraoui, Mohcene Bechouat, Ramazan Ayaz, Yahya Z. Alharthi, Abdelhalim Borni, Layachi Zaghba, Salah K. ElSayed, Yayehyirad Ayalew Awoke, Sherif S. M. Ghoneim

“…Performance assessments at STC compare the standard and robust P&O-MPPT strategies, demonstrating the proposed method’s superiority in performance and robustness, especially under sudden meteorological changes and varying loads. Experiment results confirm the new control strategy’s effectiveness over the standard approach.…”
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Effects of post-processing on the microstructural evolution and mechanical behaviour of an additively manufactured AlSi10Mg alloy by R. Ramesh, Saurabh Gairola, R. Jayaganthan, M. Kamaraj

“…In this context, the fatigue life of the additively manufactured components is crucial to prevent sudden failure during real-life application. The post-processing techniques such as heat treatment (HT) and shot blasting (SB) have the potential to enhance the fatigue performance of AlSi10Mg. …”
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Effect of Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin on QT Interval Prolongation and Other Cardiac Arrhythmias in COVID-19 Confirmed Patients by Seyed Parsa Eftekhar, Sohrab Kazemi, Mohammad Barary, Mostafa Javanian, Soheil Ebrahimpour, Naghmeh Ziaei

“…They can prolong QT interval, cause torsade de pointes, and lead to sudden cardiac death. We aimed to assess QT interval prolongation and its risk factors in patients who received hydroxychloroquine with or without azithromycin. …”
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Efficacy of virtual reality techniques in cardiopulmonary resuscitation training: protocol for a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials and trial sequential analysis by Jia Wang, Lu Zhang, Guo Chen, Li Du, Jianqiao Zheng, Xiaoqian Deng

“…Introduction Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is the most critical procedure in the rescue of patients with sudden cardiac death (SCD). The success rate of CPR remains far below expectations, which made CPR education identified as the top priority for SCD. …”
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Challenges in the Management of Giant Carcinoma Ex-Pleiomorphic Adenoma of the Parotid Gland in a Single Tertiary Center by Miruna Bratiloveanu, Mihai Dumitru, Andreea Nicoleta Marinescu, Crenguta Serboiu, Oana Maria Patrascu, Adrian Costache, Daniela Vrinceanu

“…The reasons for presenting to our department included a sudden increase in size in eleven cases (78.57%), pain in nine cases (64.29%), peripheral facial paralysis in eight cases (57.14%), skin invasion/ulceration in five cases (35.71%), and massive tumor hemorrhage in one case (7.14%). …”
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Investigation of Forest Fire Effects on Morel (Morchella spp.) Mushroom Proliferation: A Case Study of Alucra, Giresun by Bülent Sağlam, Mustafa Aybar, Fatma Nur Yılmaz

“…Some kinds of Morel mushroom species emerge abundantly in burnt areas after forest fires due to sudden changes in soil chemistry and ash accumulation after the burns of small branches and lives. …”
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COVID-19 encephalopathy with severe neurological symptoms: a clinical case presentation with literature review by G. Baranauskienė, N. Tutlienė, G. Kaubrys

“…Acute encephalopathy is a disorder of the brain that clinically occurs with a sudden change in the level of consciousness in otherwise healthy patients before the onset of symptoms. …”
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Evaluating GRU Algorithm and Double Moving Average for Predicting USDT Prices: A Case Study 2017-2024 by RAHMAT, Munirul ula, Zara Yunizar

“…However, GRU’s lower RMSE (8.531 vs. 8.715 for DMA) indicates better adaptability to sudden price fluctuations, making it more responsive to volatile markets. …”
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L’agriculture itinérante sur brûlis, une menace sur la forêt tropicale humide ? by Serge Bahuchet, Jean-Marie Betsch

“…It results in an ambiguous talk based on a homogeneous and out of context image of the term “itinerant agriculture on slash-and-burn field” characterized by fallowing and firing, referred to in English by two not synonymic terms, “Slash-and-burn” that is “to fell and to burn” to cultivate permanently slash-and-burn fields , or “Shifting cultivation” or “Swidden cultivation” which correspond to the French agriculture itinérante or agriculture sur brûlis, that is an agricultural system in which fields are cleared by firing and cropped discontinuously. …”
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Efficacy of dexamethasone or clonidine as adjuvants in interscalene brachial plexus block for preventing rebound pain after shoulder surgery: a randomized clinical trial by Layana Vieira Nobre, Leonardo Henrique Cunha Ferraro, Juscelino Afonso de Oliveira Júnior, Vitória Luiza Locatelli Winkeler, Luis Flávio França Vinhosa Muniz, Hiago Parreão Braga, Plínio da Cunha Leal

“…The primary outcome was rebound pain, defined as sudden onset of pain, moderate to severe intensity (VAS ≥7) without improvement with oral medication, followed by VAS pain at rest, required rescue analgesia, the occurrence of adverse events or complications, and satisfaction survey assessments between groups. …”
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Effect of retaining wall leakage on the deformation behavior of foundation pit in water-rich sandy strata by Mingming QIU, Xiaomin LI, Guolin YANG, Junyi DUAN

“…The results show that the development of leakage disaster of foundation pit is a complicated multi-field coupling process, and its occurrence is hidden and sudden. The horizontal displacement curve of retaining wall successively transformed from “oblique” shape, “bottom of pot” shape, shallow “inverted V” shape to deep “inverted V” shape with excavation depth. …”
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Study on the Mechanism and Control of Rock Burst of Coal Pillar under Complex Conditions by Xingping Lai, Huicong Xu, Jingdao Fan, Zeyang Wang, Zhenguo Yan, Pengfei Shan, Jie Ren, Shuai Zhang, Yanbin Yang

“…With the development of mining activities, the self-stable state of the high stress balance in the coal pillar is easily broken by the impact energy formed by the sudden collapse of the key strata. Therefore, the rock burst of coal pillar in the overlying coal body area is the result of both static load and dynamic load. …”
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ReliefF guided variable spiral tuna swarm optimization algorithm with somersault foraging for feature selection by Yu-Cai Wang, Jie-Sheng Wang, Min Zhang, Hao-Ming Song, Jia-Ning Hou, Yu-Liang Qi, Yu-Wei Song

“…Firstly, inspired by the sudden flipping behavior of manta rays when capturing plankton, a novel somersault foraging strategy is introduced to help the TSO algorithm escape from local optima. …”
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