Experimental and Theoretical Investigations of a Displacement-Amplified Torsional Damper by Huimin Mao, Xueyuan Yan, Xiangliang Ning, Shen Shi

“…The proposed DATD uses common steel, lead, and high-damping rubber. This damper exhibits good energy dissipation under small earthquakes. …”
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Primary Oral Myiasis: A Case Report by Nitin Bhola, Anendd Jadhav, Rajiv Borle, Nitin Adwani, Gaurav Khemka, Pretti Jadhav

“…Myiasis commonly refers to invasion of live human or animal tissue by fly larvae of the Diptera order where they complete their cycle totally or in part, feeding on living or dead tissue, as well as on body fluids. …”
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Mentoring Nurse Scientists to Meet Nursing Faculty Workforce Needs by Mary A. Nies, Meredith Troutman-Jordan

“…The senior faculty mentor and junior faculty mentee developed a common vision, relating to research interests in health promotion for vulnerable populations. …”
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Balloon Occlusion Types in the Treatment of Coronary Perforation during Percutaneous Coronary Intervention by Xiangfei Wang, Junbo Ge

“…Balloon occlusion and the reversal of anticoagulant activity are the common methods used to prevent cardiac tamponade by reducing the amount of bleeding. …”
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Brochures and Newsletters by Ricky Telg

“…Brochures are small, usually folded documents used to inform, educate, or persuade the reader. They are commonly used to promote organizations, products, or events. …”
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Primary Lymphoepithelioma-Like Carcinoma of Lung by Alejandro Guerrero, Michael Laflamme, S Nicholas Agoff, William M Williams, Riyad Karmy-Jones

“…Primary lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma (LELC) of the lung is a neoplasm seen most commonly in the nasopharynx of individuals from south China and Taiwan, and is strongly associated with the Epstein-Barr virus. …”
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End-stage ADPKD with a low-frequency PKD1 mosaic variant accelerated by chemoradiotherapy by Hiroaki Hanafusa, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Naoya Morisada, Ming Juan YE, Riki Matsumoto, Hiroaki Nagase, Kandai Nozu

“…Abstract Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is commonly caused by PKD1, and mosaic PKD1 variants result in milder phenotypes. …”
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Protecting Your Family and Pets from Rabies by Holly K. Ober

“…Ober, explains what rabies is and how it spreads, which animals can get rabies, the symptoms, how common it is, how you can limit its spread, and what to do after a wild animal bite. …”
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A Note on Two-Agent Scheduling with Resource Dependent Release Times on a Single Machine by Peng Liu, Lini Duan

“…We consider a scheduling problem in which both resource dependent release times and two agents exist simultaneously. Two agents share a common single machine, and each agent wants to minimize a cost function dependent on its own jobs. …”
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Nonmotor Symptoms in Parkinson’s Disease in 2012: Relevant Clinical Aspects by Anne Marie Bonnet, Marie France Jutras, Virginie Czernecki, Jean Christophe Corvol, Marie Vidailhet

“…Nonmotor symptoms (NMSs) of Parkinson’s disease (PD) are common, but they are often underrecognized in clinical practice, because of the lack of spontaneous complaints by the patients, and partly because of the absence of systematic questioning by the consulting physician. …”
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Giant Dermatofibroma: A Rare Presentation as a Large Scaly Plaque by T. Iqbal, V. Mudaliar

“…Familiarity with this rare presentation of an otherwise common entity is required to prevent unnecessary clinical doubt and excessive interventions. …”
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Diagnosis and Treatment of Rheumatic Adverse Events Related to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors by Yan Xiao, Lin Zeng, Qinglin Shen, Zhiyong Zhou, Zhifang Mao, Qin Wang, Xiquan Zhang, Yingliang Li, Weirong Yao

“…Among them, rheumatic irAE is less common, mainly including inflammatory arthritis, rheumatic myalgia/giant cell arteritis, inflammatory myopathy, and Sjogren’s syndrome. …”
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A Fuzzy Genetic Algorithm Based on Binary Encoding for Solving Multidimensional Knapsack Problems by M. Jalali Varnamkhasti, L. S. Lee

“…Computational experiments are conducted on the proposed techniques and the results are compared with other genetic operators, heuristics, and local search algorithms commonly used for solving multidimensional 0/1 knapsack problems published in the literature.…”
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Whistle from Afar: A Case of Endotracheal Metastasis in Papillary Thyroid Cancer by Bitoti Chattopadhyay, Biswamit Bhattacharya, Atri Chatterjee, Pijush Kanti Biswas, Nirod Baran Debnath

“…Papillary carcinoma of thyroid commonly disseminates through lymphatic channels and tracheal involvement through vascular route is rarely reported. …”
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Are Homemade "Pesticides" Legal? by Brett Bultemeier, Jason Ferrell

“…Homemade pesticide recipes abound online and are commonly seen in various social media platforms. This new 3-page publication of the UF/IFAS Pesticide Information Office looks at the legality of these mixes, when and where they can be used, and what other considerations need to be taken into account when utilizing these mixes. …”
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Due-Window Assignment Scheduling with Variable Job Processing Times by Yu-Bin Wu, Ping Ji

“…We consider a common due-window assignment scheduling problem jobs with variable job processing times on a single machine, where the processing time of a job is a function of its position in a sequence (i.e., learning effect) or its starting time (i.e., deteriorating effect). …”
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Some results on value distribution concerning Hayman's alternative by Zhuang Xinyu, Zheng Ruilin, He Zhiying, Fang Mingliang

“…Sinica (N.S.) 7 (1991), no. 2, 119–126], and Charak and Singh [A value distribution result related to Hayman’s alternative, Commun. Korean Math. Soc. 34 (2019), no. 2, 495–506].…”
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Fulminant Pseudomembranous Colitis Presenting as Sigmoid Stricture and Severe Polyposis with Clinical Response to Intracolonic Vancomycin by Sai Wah Cheung, Kin Kong Li

“…Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is the most common cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhea. Severe diseases carry significant morbidities such as septic shock, acute kidney injury, bowel perforation, and mortality. …”
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Esmolol Use in Dual Axis Defibrillation Resistant Ventricular Fibrillation by Ankit Agrawal, Maria Cardinale, Douglas Frenia, Tarun Dalia, Chirag Shah

“…Cardiac arrest in an event of acute myocardial infarction most commonly results in life-threatening ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation (VF). …”
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Bebidas nutricionales suplementarias: ¿ Las necesito? by Claire Marie Fassett, Nancy J Gal, Wendy Dahl, Daniela Rivero Mendoza

“…More recently, nutrition drinks have become available for purchase by consumers. Examples of common supplemental nutrition drinks or shakes are Ensure® and Boost®. …”
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