Primary Pleural Benign Myxoid Schwannoma in an 18-Year-Old Female: A Case Report and Literature Review by Hussam Abou Al-Shaar, Safi Qutob, Ahmed Abu-Zaid, Ayman Azzam, Tarek Amin, Shamayel Mohammed

“…Physical examination and all laboratory tests were normal. Contrast-enhanced computed tomography scan showed a 4.2×3.2 cm, heterogeneous noncalcified mass involving the right adrenal gland region. …”
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Comparison of the Effect of Two Purification Methods on the Immunogenicity of Recombinant Outer Membrane Protein H of Pasteurella multocida Serovar A:1 by Arunee Thanasarasakulpong, Pichayanut Poolperm, Weerapongse Tangjitjaroen, Thanya Varinrak, Takuo Sawada, Dirk Pfeiffer, Nattawooti Sthitmatee

“…The survival amongst chickens immunized with rOmpH or native OmpH purified using electroelution indicated high levels of protection. In contrast, survival probability was zero or low in the groups immunized with rOmpH purified using affinity chromatography and in the nonimmunized group. …”
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Spatiotemporal Variability and Change of the South China Spring Precipitation during 1961–2012 by Hong-Lan Liu, Qiang Zhang, Jun-Qin Guo, Jun-Guo Zhang, Sheng Wang

“…The South China spring precipitation is also closely tied to the atmospheric circulations: when Aleutian Low strengthens, westerly weakens, and the center of the Western Pacific subtropical high shifts southeastward in the early spring; and the South China precipitation tends to be abundant (positive anomaly). In contrast, when Ural ridge strengthens, the southern branch of the East Asian trough weakens and the Western Pacific subtropical high shifts northwestward in the early spring, the South China precipitation tends to be reduced (negative anomaly).…”
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Evaluation of radiation therapy on grafted and non-grafted defects: an experimental rat model by Milena Suemi IRIE, Isabella Neme Ribeiro dos REIS, Luiz Gustavo Gonzáles OSUNA, Guilherme José Pimentel Lopes de OLIVEIRA, Rubens SPIN-NETO, Priscilla Barbosa Ferreira SOARES

“…Regardless of radiation therapy, defects filled with xenografts showed a larger Tb.N. In contrast, the Clot group demonstrated increased BV/TV and Tb.Th. …”
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Magnetic resonance angiography in diagnostic long-term follow-up of primary patency of the MOTIV drug-eluting bioresorbable vascular scaffold in the region below the knee: 5 years... by Christian Nasel, Mario Kirschner, Karoline Rizzi, Nicola Schweinhammer, Ewald Moser

“…<h4>Methods</h4>Patency of the deBVS in the BTK-region was assessed retrospectively using contrast enhanced MR-A of the lower limbs in patients with PAD of Lafontaine-grades II-IV (n = 19). …”
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Lessons from COVID-19 and Seoul: Effects of Reduced Human Activity from Social Distancing on Urban CO2 Concentration and Air Quality by Hayoung Park, Sujong Jeong, Ja-Ho Koo, Sojung Sim, Yeon Bae, Yeonsoo Kim, Chaerin Park, Jeongyeon Bang

“…Due to the reduction in human activity in 2020, local measurements of CO and NO2 show a decrease in background concentration (up to −11.9% and −41.7%, respectively) and urban enhancement (up to −16.7% and −38.1%, respectively) compared to the previous year. In contrast, the background concentration of CO2 increases by 3.9% in 2020. …”
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Properties, Characteristics and Parameters of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors under Vector and Scalar Frequency Control by B. I. Firago, S. V. Aleksandrovsky

“…It is found that the influence of the parameters on the law of frequency control is small, and it can be applied without adjustment in most cases, in contrast to the frequency control of the asynchronous motor. …”
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment in Mice with Obesity Hyperlipidemia and Steatohepatitis by Koichi Tsuneyama, Yen-Chen Chen, Makoto Fujimoto, Yoshiyuki Sasaki, Wataru Suzuki, Tsutomu Shimada, Seiichi Iizuka, Mitsunobu Nagata, Masaki Aburada, Shao-Yuan Chen

“…Interestingly, the body weight of the HBOT group was significantly lower (P<0.01) than that of the control group. In contrast, the serum lipid level did not show significant changes between the two groups. …”
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“Pillaring Effects” in Cross-Linked Cellulose Biopolymers: A Study of Structure and Properties by Inimfon A. Udoetok, Lee D. Wilson, John V. Headley

“…The structural characterization results reveal that cross-linking of cellulose occurs at the amorphous domains. By contrast, the crystalline domains are preserved according to similar features in the XRD, FTIR, and 13C NMR spectra of cellulose and its cross-linked forms. …”
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Evaluating the Environmental Impact of Heat Pump Systems: An Integrated Approach to Sustainable Building Operations by Mahdiyeh Zafaranchi, William T. Riddell, Nicholas B. Chan, Elizabeth Saliba, Luke Leung

“…The GSHP (Soil to Water) system demonstrated the lowest energy intensity at 100.8 kWh/m²·yr, a 41.8% improvement over the baseline, and the lowest total embodied carbon emissions at 3,882,164 kg CO₂e. In contrast, the ASHP (Air to Air) system, while reducing energy consumption relative to the baseline, exhibited the highest embodied carbon emissions among the heat pump configurations due to its higher operational energy demands. …”
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Hand cooling induces changes in the kinetics of oxygen uptake by Louis Finiel, Daria Neyroud, Jean-Philippe Antonietti, Anthony M. J. Sanchez, Fabio Borrani

“…Abstract The objective of this investigation was to assess the impact of elevated catecholamine concentrations, induced through cold-water hand immersion, on the oxygen consumption (V̇O2) kinetics during intense exercise, and to contrast this effect with that of the priming effect. …”
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Análisis de la percepción ciudadana sobre la vivienda vacacional: el caso de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (España) by Juan Manuel Parreño Castellano, José Ángel Hernández Luis, Claudio Moreno Medina, Antonio Ramón Ojeda

“…Los resultados permiten reconocer que, en primer lugar, la opinión de los residentes no es negativa en términos generales y, en segundo lugar, que esta percepción comparte la racionalidad económica con la que se enjuicia la actividad turística en general y está condicionada por el contacto directo con la actividad y por los intereses personales. …”
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Histological diagnosis of primary biliary cholangitis in one patient without cholestasis alterations: a case report that escaped guidelines by Matteo Biagi, Elisa Bernasconi, Carmela Cursaro, Enrico Ronconi, Filippo Zanni, Pamela Sighinolfi, Pietro Andreone

“…However, many patients with these characteristics have been diagnosed with PBC disease only histologically, mainly patients with normal ALP and elevated gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT), whose normalization has been used as a marker for the follow-up. In contrast, this is the case of a patient with autoantibody positivity and both ALP and GGT within the range, diagnosed for PBC by histology. …”
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Enhanced Stability of Gr, h-BN and Gr/h-BN protected MoS2 flakes under laser illumination by Chak-Ming Liu, Sheng-Yu Hsu, Hsin-Sung Chen, Chuan-Che Hsu, Yann-Wen Lan, Hsiang-Chih Chiu, Wen-Chin Lin

“…When exposed to 13 mW/μm2 laser for 30 min, bare MoS₂ undergoes considerable structural degradation, characterized by the formation of protrusions and a reduction in the Raman signal to just 10 % of its original intensity. In contrast, the Gr/MoS₂ heterostructure maintains the stability of both the Raman fingerprint peaks and PL intensity, with only a 0–15 % decrease. …”
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A Disentangled Representation-Based Multimodal Fusion Framework Integrating Pathomics and Radiomics for KRAS Mutation Detection in Colorectal Cancer by Zhilong Lv, Rui Yan, Yuexiao Lin, Lin Gao, Fa Zhang, Ying Wang

“…The proposed model is developed and evaluated on a multi modality dataset of 111 colorectal cancer patients with whole slide images and contrast-enhanced CT. The experimental results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed DRMF-PaRa model with an accuracy of 0.876 and an AUC of 0.865 for KRAS mutation detection.…”
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A Comparison of the Celiacomesenteric Trunk in the Caribbean with Global Prevalence Calculated by a Systematic Review by Shamir O. Cawich, Maurice Fortune, Rahul Deshpande, Michael Gardner, Neil Pearce, Peter Johnson, Vijay Naraynsingh

“…In this study, we evaluated all consecutive patients who had multiphase contrast-enhanced CT scans at two major referral centres in the Caribbean from August 30, 2017, to September 1, 2019. …”
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Renal Angiomyolipoma Mimicking a Well-Differentiated Retroperitoneal Liposarcoma by Honoka Fuse, Masaya Ito, Kosuke Takemura, Shuzo Ikuta, Toru Motoi, Tomotake Okuma, Madoka Kataoka, Fumitaka Koga

“…The tumor was 9 cm in the longest diameter, surrounding the right kidney, and composed of homogenous adipose tissue with thickened septum-like structures and spotty nonadipose structures, which were enhanced on contrast-enhanced computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. …”
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Fracture Behavior of Engineered Cementitious Composites Concrete Under Center Point Bending Load by Al-Masraf Harith Mohammed, Al-Attar Tareq Salih, Freyyah Qais Jawad

“…This investigation aims to determine some mechanical properties, in addition to the fracture parameters corresponding to low and medium compressive resistance of engineering cementitious composite concrete reinforcing by fiber for notched and un-notched beams, using size effect model techniques in contrast to conventional concrete. The outcomes illustrate an increment in modulus of rupture; both fracture energy and fracture toughness, which were incremented. …”
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H-Matrix Accelerated Direct Matrix Solver for Maxwell&#x2019;s Equations Using the Chebyshev-Based Nystr&#x00F6;m Boundary Integral Equation Method by Jin Hu, Emrah Sever, Omid Babazadeh, Ian Jeffrey, Vladimir Okhmatovski, Constantine Sideris

“…An H-matrix accelerated direct solver employing the high-order Chebyshev-based Boundary Integral Equation (CBIE) method has been formulated, tested, and profiled for performance on high contrast dielectric materials and electrically large perfect electric conductor objects. …”
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Behavioral and neuronal responses of two mouse species, Mus musculus and Mus spicilegus, to con- and heterospecific olfactory signals by E. V. Kotenkova, A. V. Romashchenko, A. N.  Maltsev

“…A significant increase in the accumulation of MRI contrast in AOB was observed in males only in the case of female urine-conspecific odor exposure. …”
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