Geriatric Chest Imaging: When and How to Image the Elderly Lung, Age-Related Changes, and Common Pathologies by J. Gossner, R. Nau

“…Imaging strategies have to be adjusted to the needs of frail patients, for example, immobility, impossibility for long breath holds, renal insufficiency, or poor peripheral venous access. Beside conventional radiography, modern multislice computed tomography is the method of choice in lung imaging. …”
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Isoproterenol mechanisms in inducing myocardial fibrosis and its application as an experimental model for the evaluation of therapeutic potential of phytochemicals and pharmaceutic... by Lujain Bader Eddin, Mohamed Fizur Nagoor Meeran, Niraj Kumar Jha, Samer N. Goyal, Shreesh Ojha

“…ISP has been used for decades to induce acute myocardial infarction. …”
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Modeling of masonry infilled RC frames with different aspect ratios using plastic hinge and equivalent strut by Ahmed M. El-Kholy, Sayed M. Sayed, Mohamed M. El-Assaly, Mohamed K. Ismail

“…Unlike the conventional approach, the numerical results obtained from the presented approach better matched the experimental results. Subsequently, the presented approach was utilized to investigate the effect of the aspect ratio of clay masonry infill panels on the behavior of RC frames. …”
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A word from our Editor-in-Chief by Mihail Aurel Titu

“…The systemic approach tends to become a general method of thinking, pertaining to all sciences, yet having a particularly efficient impact on technological sciences. …”
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Incomes and labor allocation in community forests in Ciamis Regency by Budiman Achmad, Ris Hadi Purwanto, Sambas Sabarnurdin

“…Labor for private forest business has not been considered as an important production factor, which it makes the incomes from the private forests is unfavourable. …”
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Плантаційні лісові насадження у західному регіоні України: видовий склад, ресурсний потенціал та перспективи запровадження... by Iurii Debryniuk, Mykola Huz

“…Доволі перспективними для плантаційного лісовирощування у відповідних типах лісорослинних умов також є аборигенні деревні види – Picea abies, Pinus sylvestris, Alnus glutinosa та Betula pendula. Переведення обмеженої частини лісового фонду (10-15%) під плантаційне лісовирощування дасть змогу отримати значні обсяги деревини впродовж відносно короткого періоду часу, задовольнити потреби споживачів у промисловій деревині, зменшити обсяги рубок цінних природних деревостанів, поступово відновити оптимальну вікову структуру лісів на території тих чи інших регіонів, збільшити лісистість територій. …”
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Performance analysis of dual-hop mixed RF-FSO systems combined with NOMA. by Tran Cong Hung, Tan N Nguyen, N H K Nhan, Anh-Tu Le, Pham Ngoc Son, Thu-Ha Thi Pham, Miroslav Voznak

“…Our findings indicate a direct relationship between SIC and OP performance: the higher the SIC capability, the more effective the system. …”
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Re-representing “The Great American Institution that Never Gets Mentioned on the Fourth of July” by Cristelle Maury

“…It explores the way in which the story of an individual woman is representative of women’s collective history while being tightly linked to the historical context. For this purpose, and given Todd Haynes’s affinities with feminist film studies and feminist theories at large, it looks at the transformations of the representation of women’s work, at the status of feminist discourses and at the introduction of two new parameters, race and class from an intersectional perspective.…”
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Comparative analysis of enteroscopy, computed tomography enterography, and intestinal ultrasound for the evaluation of small bowel Crohn’s disease by Bo Peng, Zhongcheng Liu, Zicheng Huang, Huixian Lin, Zhiyue Wang, Qin Guo

“…CTE and intestinal ultrasound had a lower detection rate of upper intestinal lesions compared with enteroscopy ( p  < 0.05). Enteroscopy was better than CTE and intestinal ultrasound in the detection of stenosis ( p  < 0.001), and the assessment of fistula by CTE was better than that by enteroscopy and intestinal ultrasound ( p  < 0.05). …”
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Study of Health-Related Quality of Life and Healthcare Utilization among Type 2 Diabetic Population in an Urban Area of Eastern Nepal by Sangita Shah, Nilambar Jha, Deepak Kumar Yadav, Prajjwal Pyakurel, Sanjib Kumar Sharma, Suman Bahadur Singh

“…The quality of life among them could be improved by taking care on healthy behavior, comorbid conditions, and complications.…”
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Haploidentical stem cell transplantation with posttransplant cyclophosphamide in children with Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome: a case report by Le Nguyen Ngoc Quynh, Binh Nguyen Thanh, Lien Luong Thi, Thuy Nguyen Thi Dieu, Duong Dang Anh, Pamela P. Lee, Tung Cao Viet, Dien Tran Minh

“…After failed unrelated cord blood HSCT, second rescue haploidentical HSCT had been performed using the patient’s mother as the donor, with stem cells collected from peripheral blood. …”
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Formation Tracking of Heterogeneous Mobile Agents Using Distance and Area Constraints by E. G. Hernandez-Martinez, E. D. Ferreira-Vazquez, G. Fernandez-Anaya, J. J. Flores-Godoy

“…The first approach is based on the design of distance-based potential functions with interagent collision avoidance using local information about the distance and orientation between agents and the desired trajectory. The second approach adds signed area constraints to the desired formation specification and a control strategy that uses distance as well as area terms is designed to achieve tracking convergence. …”
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Virtualized deployment of DPI based on Docker by Jie PAN, Zhao XUE

“…DPI is a kind of dedicated device for traffic identification and processing in the network of telecom operators,and a large number of DPI devices have been deployed in the network currently.However,the traditional DPI deployment brings the coexistence of multiple DPI systems,duplication of functions,and complicated maintenance and management,and it isn’t conducive to the rapid deployment of a large number of standardized DPI applications.With the development of NFV technology,virtualizing DPI deployment is a trend to solve this problem,and Docker is a container-level virtualization technology,DPI can be deployed based on it.Docker and the underlying data packet processing technology DPDK which was related to DPI deployment was described,and the Docker-based DPI virtualization deployment proposals was given.…”
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ECOLOGY AND ECONOMICS OF THE PROCESSES OF END GASES CLEANING AFTER ARC STEEL-MAKING FURNACES by E. A. Bajdalov

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Uplink Scheduling and Adjacent-Channel Coupling Loss Analysis for TD-LTE Deployment by Woon-Young Yeo, Sung Ho Moon, Jae-Hoon Kim

“…In this paper, coexistence issues between TD-LTE and other systems are analyzed and coexistence requirements are provided. …”
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LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE (LED) AND LASER GAS ANALYSERS FOR IMPROVING EFFICIENCY OF FUEL BURNING IN HEAT POWER ENGINEERING by V. A. Firago, S. N. Drozd, V. Voujtsik, M. M. Kougejko, I. S. Manak

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The Nexus among Good E-Governance Practice, Decentralization, and Public Administration for Sustainable Local Development by Worya Balisany, Hale Özgit, Husam Rjoub

“…The results of the study revealed a significant correlation between e-governance practices and decentralization and public administration. …”
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Geen ander naam by J. du Preez

“… The increasing awareness that the church of Christ has to communicate its message of salvation in a religiously plural society, has contributed to the fact that in ecumenical circles the New Testament confessions about Christ as only Saviour of the world (e.g. in Acts 4:12) are being interpreted in a way that leaves room for other saviours as well. …”
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Jordanian Nurses’ Perceived Disaster Preparedness: Factors Influencing Successful Planning by Mohammad O. Abu Hasheesh

“…However, there is only a significant difference between attitude scale scores and disaster preparedness training (f = 10.120; p=0.002). …”
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DNA spontaneously wrapping around a histone core prefers negative supercoiling: A Brownian dynamics study. by Chunhong Long, Hongqiong Liang, Biao Wan

“…During transcription, negative supercoils generated behind the polymerase during transcription may play a role in triggering nucleosome reassembly. …”
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