Burkitt’s Lymphoma of the Gastrohepatic Omentum: A Malignant Presentation of Pseudoachalasia by Eric Omar Then, Andrew Ofosu, Prashanth Rawla, Tagore Sunkara, Sriharsha Dadana, Andrea Culliford, Vinaya Gaduputi

“…Pseudoachalasia, in contrast, is a rare entity that causes identical symptoms, but has a divergent underlying pathogenesis. …”
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Socio-economic factors affecting the adoption of improved orchard management practices of mandarin in Sankhuwasabha, Nepal by Anup Timsina, Subodh Paudel, Shiva Chandra Dhakal

“…The results indicate that farmers with higher education levels, secondary income sources, and access to extension services are 2.45 times more likely to adopt chemical fertilizer use, 1.63 times more likely to implement mulching practices, and 5.70 times more likely to engage in pruning respectively. In contrast, intercropping practices were negatively influenced by education levels and farm size. …”
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Therapeutic Metaphors Enhance Memory Systems in Mental Health Contexts by Fei Yu, Zhijie Zhang, Wencai Zhang

“…Greater activations were observed in the multiple memory systems, including episodic (parahippocampal gyrus, hippocampus, and thalamus), emotional (amygdala), and procedural/implicit (caudate, putamen, and cerebellum), in contrast to later remembered versus later forgotten based on the gap between metaphorical and literal solutions. …”
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Experience modulates gaze behavior and the effectiveness of information pickup to overcome the inversion effect in biological motion perception. by Xiaoye Michael Wang, Zhichen Feng, Mingming Yang, Jing Samantha Pan, Margaret A Wilson, Qin Zhu

“…When performing movements in the air, the depicted dancer was suspended via a harness around their pelvis, providing unique dynamic information that specified the movement's canonical orientation. In contrast, although typical dancers also attended to the pelvic area, their lack of experience with perceiving and performing vertical dance movements limited their ability to interpret the dynamic information effectively. …”
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Automatic Threshold Selection for Generalized Pareto and Pareto–Poisson Distributions in Rainfall Analysis: A Case Study Using the NOAA NCDC Daily Rainfall Database by Roberto Mínguez

“…Additionally, methods relying on the asymptotic properties of the GP distribution tend to produce unrealistically high threshold estimates. In contrast, graphical methods and goodness-of-fit (GoF) metrics that account for the pre-asymptotic behavior of the GP distribution have demonstrated better performance. …”
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Severe Thyrotoxicosis Secondary to Povidone-Iodine from Peritoneal Dialysis by Kirstie Lithgow, Christopher Symonds

“…There had been no exposures to CT contrast, amiodarone, or iodine. Technetium thyroid scan showed diffusely decreased uptake. …”
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Bi-Objective Optimization for Vehicle Routing Problems with a Mixed Fleet of Conventional and Electric Vehicles and Soft Time Windows by Peixin Zhao, Fanfan Liu, Yuanyuan Guo, Xiaoyang Duan, Yunshu Zhang

“…Furthermore, single-objective optimization is carried out for the two objectives, respectively, and the linear weighting method is also used to solve the problem. Through the contrast of these results and the NSGA-II results, the effectiveness of the algorithm in this paper is further verified. …”
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Anderson–Fabry Disease: From Endothelial Dysfunction to Emerging Therapies by Cosimo A. Stamerra, Rita Del Pinto, Paolo di Giosia, Claudio Ferri, Amirhossein Sahebkar

“…The enzyme deficiency leads to tissue accumulation of the glycosphingolipid globotriaosylceramide and its analogues, but the mechanisms linking such accumulation to organ damage are only partially understood. In contrast, enzyme replacement and chaperone therapies are already fully available to patients and allow substantial amelioration of quality and quantity of life. …”
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Sink or break: Oil increases resistance of phytoplankton aggregates to fragmentation by Kai Ziervogel, Julia A. Sweet, Yixuan Song, Laura Bretherton, Matthew J. Rau, Antonietta Quigg, Uta Passow

“…At moderate shear levels, typical of the ocean mixed layer, 17% of marine snow without oil broke, whereas 63% of marine snow fragmented at intermediate shear. In contrast, only 17% and 33% of marine oil snow fragmented at the intermediate and highest shear levels, respectively. …”
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Sex differences in slow-wave electroencephalographic activity (SWA) in adolescent depression by Robert Hoffmann, Roseanne Armitage, Graham Emslie, Jorge Lopez

“…Results showed that SWA accumulation in the first NREM period was lower and its dissipation across the night more irregular in MDD males compared to HC males (P<0.009). By contrast, SWA was equivalent in MDD and HC females. …”
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Biochemical Status of Beta-Thalassemia Major Patients in Erbil City by Omar Surchi, Sarkawt Ali

“…Mean serum Hepcidin, PTH, Osteocalcin and IL6 were significantly lower in thalassemic patients in contrast to the control subjects (P< 0.001). Reduction in S-PTH was proportional to increasing number of blood transfusion and aging. …”
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Adipose Tissue-Derived Stem Cells Alleviate Cold Allodynia in a Rat Spinal Nerve Ligation Model of Neuropathic Pain by Hyeon Seok Jwa, Yong Ho Kim, Jaehee Lee, Seung-Keun Back, Chul-Kyu Park

“…Importantly, cold allodynia was completely reversed in rats with repeated injections of ASCs. In contrast, intrathecal injection of ASC-derived culture medium or retro-orbital injection of ASCs had no effect on neuropathic pain behaviors. …”
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THE ALLOCATION SYSTEM AND RATIONALITY MEASURES IN THE VALUATION OF MIXED-CROP AGRICULTURAL LAND by Francesca Salvo, Daniela Tavano, Giovanni Rubuano

“…The lack of information that typifies land markets makes traditional statistical and econometric models impractical. In contrast, mathematical models based on valuation systems, such as the General Appraisal System (GAS) and the Allocation System (AR), offer an effective solution. …”
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Phenotyping of Leukocytes and Leukocyte-Derived Extracellular Vesicles by Lotte Hatting Pugholm, Rikke Bæk, Evo Kristina Lindersson Søndergaard, Anne Louise Schacht Revenfeld, Malene Møller Jørgensen, Kim Varming

“…The majority of the lineage-specific markers used for identification of the parent cell types could not be detected on EVs released from monocultures of the associated cell types. In contrast, the vesicular presentation of CD9, CD63, and CD81 correlated to the cell surface expression of these markers, however, with few exceptions. …”
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Exploring Professional Support Offered by Midwives during Labour: An Observation and Interview Study by Stina Thorstensson, Anette Ekström, Ingela Lundgren, Elisabeth Hertfelt Wahn

“…The main interpretation shows that midwives' supportive role during labour could be understood as them mainly adopting the “with institution” ideology in contrast to the “with woman” ideology. This may increase the risk of childbearing women and their partners perceiving lack of support during labour. …”
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Environmental Influences on Young Adult Male Height. A Comparison of Town and Countryside in the Netherlands, 1815-1900 by Jan Kok, Erik Beekink, David Bijsterbosch

“…In this brief, exploratory paper, we combine two detailed local datasets to provide answers to these questions. We contrast an early industrializing town, with a typical proletarian sub-culture of tile bakers and a significant middle class (Woerden in the province of South-Holland) to an agrarian community (the village of Akersloot and surrounding area in the province of North-Holland). …”
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Extra-Abdominal Fibromatosis (Desmoid Tumor): A Rare Tumor of the Lower Extremity Arising from the Popliteal Fossa by Mehmet Ali Kaygin, Ozgur Dag, Bilgehan Erkut, Azman Ates, Refik Cetin Kayaoglu, Hakan Kadioglu

“…Magnetic resonance imaging showed a contrast-enhancing noncalcified lesion initially felt to represent a vascular tumor. …”
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Efficient Design of the Microstrip Reflectarray Antenna by Optimizing the Reflection Phase Curve by Xing Chen, Qiang Chen, Pan Feng, Kama Huang

“…The results show that the proposed method has greatly improved the antenna’s gain over 2.2 dB (from 19.7 dBi to 21.9 dBi) in comparison with the conventional design method, and it only needs to optimize 6 structural parameters, in contrast to 22 for the common optimization method.…”
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Gender, psycho-emotional impacts and experiences associated with COVID-19 in adults from Guadalajara, Mexico by Bersabee Aguirre Gutiérrez, Karla Alejandra Contreras Tinoco

“…In the case of women, their routines have been disrupted and they have had a greater demand for the care and attention of their children (in terms of carrying out schoolwork, time spent together, etc.). In contrast, men show greater concern about the difficulty of working from home. …”
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Martírio, rito e fetiche em Body Art e A refeição, de Newton Moreno by Paula Regina Siega

“…Trataremos de demostrar, por un lado, los puntos de contacto de esta dramaturgia con el pasado literario nacional y, por otro lado, las rupturas provocadas por una relectura que integra el tema del canibalismo con la idea del cuerpo sacrificial del Body Art y el teatro de la crueldad de Artaud.…”
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