A Rare Clinical Presentation of Cholangiocarcinoma by Elisa Gravito-Soares, Marta Gravito-Soares, Pedro Figueiredo, Luis Tomé

“…Cholangiocarcinoma is an uncommon tumor, often diagnosed in the context of obstructive jaundice. …”
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Nanoparticle Therapy Is a Promising Approach in the Management and Prevention of Many Diseases: Does It Help in Curing Alzheimer Disease? by Lamyaa M. Kassem, Nada A. Ibrahim, S. Ayesha Farhana

“…It depends on improving the pharmacokinetic distribution of drugs through the central nervous system. Nanotechnology offers various forms of nanoparticles, and these nanoparticles have brain-targeted and long-acting properties with minimal systemic adverse effects and motor complications. …”
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Histogram of Apparent Diffusion Coefficient to Evaluate the Activity of Thyroid‐Associated Ophthalmopathy by Defu Li, Tingting Zhu, Yujin Wang

“…By analyzing tissue heterogeneity, apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) histogram analysis offers enhanced insights into edema within the EOMs. …”
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Rheological Characterization and Printability of Sodium Alginate–Gelatin Hydrogel for 3D Cultures and Bioprinting by Mohan Kumar Dey, Ram V. Devireddy

“…The printability assessment of the 7% alginate–8% gelatin hydrogel demonstrated that the 27T tapered needle achieved the highest normalized Printability Index (POI_normalized = 1), offering the narrowest strand width (0.56 ± 0.02 mm) and the highest printing accuracy (97.2%) at the lowest printing pressure (30 psi). …”
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Effect of Irradiation on Quality of Vacuum-Packed Spicy Beef Chops by Liming Zhao, Yin Zhang, Siya Guo, Wei Xiong, Hu Xia, Wenlong Liu, Zhongli Pan, Chandrasekar Venkitasamy

“…The results showed that lightness, drip loss, and off-odor of SBJ increased, while the hardness, chewiness, gumminess, color preference, and taste of SBJ decreased with the increase in irradiation dose. …”
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Isopods in the Bioremediation of Invasive Seaweeds? First Experience with the Seaweed <i>Rugulopteryx okamurae</i> Mass Dumped on Beaches by Daniel Patón, José Carlos García-Gómez

“…Its huge coastal biomass dumped on beaches generates health problems, strong odors, impacts on tourism, and high clean-up costs, but it also constitutes a new potential marine resource that offers significant prospects for exploitation. In this sense, as a circular economy strategy, seaweed bioremediation with isopods (Isopoda, Crustacea, Arthropoda) was experimented on for the first time. …”
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A Hybrid Transformer Architecture for Multiclass Mental Illness Prediction Using Social Media Text by Adnan Karamat, Muhammad Imran, Muhammad Usman Yaseen, Rasool Bukhsh, Sheraz Aslam, Nouman Ashraf

“…Posts from individuals with mental illness often contain metaphorical expressions, posing a challenge for existing models in understanding such figurative language. …”
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MÁS ALLÁ DE LO «PROTOCOLAR»: MUJERES AFROARGENTINAS Y LA PRODUCCIÓN PÚBLICA DE MEMORIAS by Paola C Monkevicius

“…A partir del trabajo etnográfico realizado en diversos encuentros, la mayoría de carácter conmemorativo, observamos distintas «capas» superpuestas de significaciones del pasado, donde las memorias afrofemeninas, construidas en torno al mundo privado y subalternizadas a la hora de establecer marcos legitimados de verdad, encuentran nuevos espacios de interlocución que las habilitan y autorizan frente a las versiones «oficiales».…”
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Mechanical problem solving by plush-crested jays: are tools special after all? by Jimena Lois-Milevicich, Lauriane Rat-Fischer, María Alicia de la Colina, Raúl Orencio Gómez, Juan Carlos Reboreda, Alex Kacelnik

“…This association, however, is not known to be causally determinant of tool-related competence since flexibility and innovativeness are often observed in the absence of tool use and vice versa. …”
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The Utility of Synovial Fluid Interleukin-10 in Diagnosing Chronic Periprosthetic Joint Infection: A Prospective Cohort Study by Zou Y, Yang Y, Yang J, Zhang Y, Zhao C, Qin L, Hu N

“…Logistic regression indicated a strong association between SF IL-10 and chronic PJI (OR = 1.11, 95% CI 1.05~1.17, p < 0.001). At a cut-off of 10.305 pg/mL, SF IL-10 had an area under the ROC curve (AUC) of 0.891, with 92.16% sensitivity and 77.91% specificity. …”
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Performance Analysis for Wireless Networks: An Analytical Approach by Multifarious Sym Teredo by D. Shalini Punithavathani, Sheryl Radley

“…The work preserves the Teredo architecture and also offers a backward compatibility with the original Teredo protocol.…”
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Et si nous pouvions interviewer le boson de Higgs ? by Giulia Gaddi

“…This contribution takes up the plastic anthropology exercise by offering a science fiction (or linguistics fiction) short story, “Un dialogue particulier”, in which the author imagines an ethnography of the Higgs boson: an elementary particle whose existence was confirmed by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in 2012 with the world’s largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). …”
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Responsibility of Digital-Based Complain Services at the Honor Board of Election Organizers of the Republic of Indonesia (DKPP RI) During Pandemic by Muh. Hasbi Azis Agani, Nuryanti Mustari, Ahmad Harakan, Nursaleh Hartaman

“…The successful achievement of digital-based complaint services at the Dewan Kehormatan Penyelenggara Pemilu Republik Indonesia (DKPP RI) during the pandemic uses 6 indicators, namely “the ability to respond to the community, officers have provided good attitudes and communication; speed of service, officers have shown alertness and sincerity in serving; accuracy of service, officers have been focused and serious in their work; service accuracy, officers have worked in accordance with the SOP; timeliness of service, officers work in accordance with incoming reports; the ability to respond to complaints, officers are able to respond to complaints and provide the best solutions.…”
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Urosepsis Causing Gastric Ischemia: A Rare but Deadly Complication by Vijay Jarodiya, Chirag Kher, Sangeetha Nanthabalan, Gunjan Shah

“…Management is either surgical or conservative with acid suppression, nasogastric tube suctioning and broad-spectrum antibiotics. Gastric ischemia is often diagnosed late and can have complications such as gastric perforation which carries high morbidity and mortality.…”
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An Extended Interval Type-2 Fuzzy VIKOR Technique with Equitable Linguistic Scales and Z-Numbers for Solving Water Security Problems in Malaysia by Wan Nur Amira Wan Azman, Nurnadiah Zamri, Siti Sabariah Abas, Azimah Ismail, Zamali Tarmudi, Syibrah Naim, Lazim Abdullah

“…Besides, this paper also offers objective weights using fuzzy entropy-based IT2FS to calculate the weights of the extended IT2FVIKOR. …”
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Un' autobiografia dell’editoria italiana by Giovanni Solimine

“…Da questo osservatorio privilegiato ricostruisce atmosfere e aneddoti e fornisce una grande quantità di dati e informazioni sulle vicende che hanno caratterizzato la vita delle principali case editrici italiane, allargando la riflessione allo sviluppo della società italiana nel suo complesso. L’opera non si offre (soltanto) come un saggio di ricostruzione storiografica ma come un racconto scritto da chi è stato testimone e protagonista dei fatti narrati, offrendo al tempo stesso un vero e proprio vademecum per chi volesse operare in questo mondo e apprendere il mestiere dell’editore: un libro che finora non c’era e che senz’altro colma una lacuna. …”
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Review of how we should define (and measure) adherence in studies examining older adults' participation in exercise classes by C Todd, H Hawley-Hague, M Horne, D A Skelton

“…Several studies used multiple methods.Conclusions There was little consensus between studies on how adherence should be defined, and even when studies used the same conceptual measure, they measured the concept using different approaches and/or had different cut-off points. Adherence related to health outcomes requires multiple measurements, for example, attendance, duration and intensity. …”
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Driver lines for studying associative learning in Drosophila by Yichun Shuai, Megan Sammons, Gabriella R Sterne, Karen L Hibbard, He Yang, Ching-Po Yang, Claire Managan, Igor Siwanowicz, Tzumin Lee, Gerald M Rubin, Glenn C Turner, Yoshinori Aso

“…In conjunction with the EM connectome maps, the driver lines reported here offer a powerful resource for functional dissection of neural circuits for associative learning in adult Drosophila.…”
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Density-Dependent Habitat Selection in a Growing Threespine Stickleback Population by Ulrika Candolin, Marita Selin

“…This could contribute to the regulation of population growth in eutrophicated areas where offspring production is high.…”
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Silver (Ag) doped graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4)/biochar composite photocatalyst for improved photocatalytic degradation of ciprofloxacin (CIP) by Ijlal Idrees, Muhammad Zafar, Malik Adeel Umer, Fahad Rehman, Abdul Razzaq, Seongwan Kim, Yunsook Yang, Woo Young Kim

“…Among several wastewater treatment methods, the photocatalysis approach under the umbrella of advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) offers a sustainable, inexpensive, and comprehensive treatment of emerging pharmaceutical pollutants (PEPs). …”
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