Detection of exoplanets: exploiting each property of light by Rouan, Daniel, Lagrange, Anne-Marie

“…In the vast majority of cases it is the light from a star and not the light from the planet itself which is used, because the huge contrast in brightness between the star and a planet orbiting it as well as the extremely short angular distance between them makes direct imaging a real challenge. …”
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The silent menace: Worm bezoar causing acute intestinal obstruction by Shiva Shiva, Sahil Kumar, Pankaj Singh, Sanjeev Kumar, Suresh Kumar

“…Intestinal obstruction represents a critical surgical emergency with a myriad of potential causes, ranging from mechanical blockages to functional impairments. In contrast to developed nations, where the usual causes of obstruction are adhesions, strictures, and metabolic derangements, infective etiologies, like tuberculosis and parasitic infestations, are more common in developing countries. …”
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Rotating antibiotics selects optimally against antibiotic resistance, in theory by Robert E. Beardmore, Rafael Peña-Miller

“…The purpose of this paper is to use mathematical models to investigate the claim made in the medical literature over a decade ago that the routine rotation of antibiotics in an intensive care unit (ICU) will select against the evolution and spread of antibiotic-resistant pathogens. In contrast, previous theoretical studies addressing this question have demonstrated that routinely changing the drug of choice for a given pathogenic infection may in fact lead to a greater incidence of drug resistance in comparison to the random deployment of different drugs.…”
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Traumatic arteriovenous fistula. Apropos of a case by Manuel Otero Reyes, Denis González Escalona, Oscar Duménigo Arias, María Victoria Gordis Aguilera.

“…The echo doppler and the tomography with contrast use evidenced the presence of a arteriovenous fistula. …”
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Mechanisms of Alignment in Feeding Aphids on the Plant Stem by Ayumi Kudo

“…This suggests that plant cues influence their posture. In contrast, the majority of I. indica were aligned with the head facing the sky on the scape, regardless of Hemerocallis's direction. …”
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Evolutionary dynamics of the B chromosomes in the fish species Prochilodus lineatus Valenciennes, 1837 of the Paraná River Basin by Manolo Penitente, Caio Augusto Gomes Goes, Rodrigo Zeni dos Santos, Ricardo Utsunomia, Fausto Foresti, Fabio Porto-Foresti

“…Considering the possible origin and evolution of B chromosomes in P. lineatus, our results allow us to describe the dispersion of metacentric B variants, in contrast with the elimination observed in acrocentric and submetacentric variants.…”
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Transfusion-Dependent Anemia in a Simultaneous Pancreas and Kidney Transplant Recipient by Jeevan Prakash Gopal, David Taube, John Martin, Simona Deplano, Saral Desai, Vassilios Papalois, Anand Sivaprakash Rathnasamy Muthusamy

“…The patient underwent multiple contrast-enhanced computed tomography scans and multiple endoscopies with confounding features until, eventually, the diagnosis was established. …”
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Evaluation Comparison Image Quality of Breath Hold (SSTSE) and Respiratory Triggering (TSE) Technique to the Examination of Magnetic Cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) by Nikky Anis Suroiyah, Risalatul Latifah, Sri Andreani Utomo

“…The Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) and Contrast to Noise Ratio (CNR) is measured to evaluate the image quality. …”
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Biological Properties and the Role of IL-25 in Disease Pathogenesis by Yuwan Liu, Zewei Shao, Guoqiang Shangguan, Qingli Bie, Bin Zhang

“…IL-17A, a prototype member of this family, is involved in the pathogenesis of allergies, autoimmune diseases, allograft transplantations, and malignancies. By contrast, IL-17B is reported to be closely related to certain diseases, particularly tumors such as breast cancer, gastric cancer, and pancreatic cancer. …”
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Monitoring Changes in Clustering Solutions: A Review of Models and Applications by Muhammad Atif, Muhammad Shafiq, Muhammad Farooq, Gohar Ayub, Friedrich Leisch, Muhammad Ilyas

“…The clustering technique is an unsupervised learning problem that involves the identification of natural subgroups in a large dataset. In contrast to supervised learning models, clustering is a data mining technique that retrieves the hidden pattern in the input dataset. …”
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Entre la autonomía provincial y el proyecto nacional: la frontera norte santafesina en tiempos de la Confederación Argentina, 1852-1861 by Romina Zampa

“…En sus abordajes actuales, la frontera es concebida como un espacio constituido por variadas y complejas relaciones entre los grupos en contacto que incluyen tanto su convivencia como conflictos, negociaciones y acuerdos. …”
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Swift Onset, Swift Recovery: Unusual Nonrheumatic Myocarditis in a Young Adult Post Group A Streptococcal Pharyngitis by Andres Rios, Colby Wood, Ricardo Isaiah Garcia, Emily C. Mitchell, Jacob Nichols

“…The patient, devoid of any prior medical history, manifested symptoms one day after being diagnosed with Group A streptococcal pharyngitis, a stark contrast to the typical progression of myocardial complications. …”
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Selective Induced Altered Coccidians to Immunize and Prevent Enteritis by Helieh S. Oz

“…Mature induced altered forms of E. tenella and E. necatrix lacked developmental stage of “sporocysts” and contained free sporozoites. In contrast, E. maxima progressed to normal forms or did not mature at all. …”
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Alternative Attractors of Shallow Lakes by Marten Scheffer

“…Ponds and shallow lakes can be very clear with abundant submerged plants, or very turbid due to a high concentration of phytoplankton and suspended sediment particles. These strongly contrasting ecosystem states have been found to represent alternative attractors with distinct stabilizing feedback mechanisms. …”
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Color Image Segmentation Using Fuzzy C-Regression Model by Min Chen, Simone A. Ludwig

“…In situations such as limited spatial resolution, poor contrast, overlapping intensities, and noise and intensity inhomogeneities, fuzzy clustering can retain much more information than the hard clustering technique. …”
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Young Consumers’ Usability Preferences for Mobile and Computer Screens for Online Shopping Activities by Shahid Kalim Khan, Naseer Abbas Khan, null Quratulain, Olga Egorova, Nimra Zia, Maria Akhtar

“…The current research endeavors to investigate and contrast consumer usability preferences in the context of electronic commerce (e-commerce) and mobile commerce (m-commerce) using the theoretical framework of the theory of planned behavior (TPB). …”
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Attitudinal Loyalty Towards Online Stores Between Loyal and Disloyal Clients: Differences Across Four Countries by Vytautas Dikcius, Karina Adomaviciute - Sakalauske, Neringa Vilkaite - Vaitone, Sigita Kirse

“…The findings reveal significant and stable differences in perception of the three dimensions of attitudinal loyalty between loyal and disloyal respondents; however, in contrast to expectations, the disloyal respondents exhibited very high levels of attitudinal loyalty. …”
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Automatic Segmentation of High Speed Video Images of Vocal Folds by Turgay Koç, Tolga Çiloğlu

“…Results show that proposed method provides about 94% improvements with respect to manually segmented data in contrast to conventional method which uses Rayleigh intensity distribution in extracting the glottal areas.…”
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Argentina: Between Animal Rights Recognition and Animal Farming Intensification by Silvina Pezzetta

“…Finally, the last section will survey Argentinean animal rights case law and animal law, highlighting the contrast between the contradictory trends: animal legal personhood recognition versus animal farming intensification.…”
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Pharmacokinetics of Anti-Epileptic Drugs and their Clinical Significance by Svein I. Johannessen

“…OXC does not influence its own metabolism after repeated administration, in contrast to the auto-induction displayed by CBZ. The metabolism of OXC is not influenced by anti-epileptic co-medication and does not influence the kinetics of other anti-epileptic drugs – or if it does, then to a lesser extent than CBZ.…”
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