Technical Design and Virtual Testing of a Dynamic Vibration Absorber for the Vibration Control of a Flexible Structure by Carmine Maria Pappalardo, Giuseppe Isola, Angela Donadio, Rosario La Regina, Valentino Paolo Berardi, Domenico Guida

“…Furthermore, a key aspect of this study is implementing a new numerical procedure for identifying the system equivalent stiffness coefficient based on its mass and modal parameters, which is particularly useful in engineering applications. …”
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When is the best time to test paratuberculosis positivity? Observations from a follow-up study in Hungarian dairy herds by Barbara Vass-Bognár, Mikolt Bakony, Kinga Fornyos, Walter Baumgartner, Johannes Lorenz Khol, Viktor Jurkovich

“…The objective of the present study was to find the most practical combination of diagnostic procedures and time points during lactation to identify Mycobacterium avium ssp. paratuberculosis (MAP)-infected animals. …”
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Amelanotic ocular melanoma with lung metastasis in a domestic rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) by Ronaldo José Piccoli, Vinicius Dahm, Karim Cristhine Pase Montagnini, Arthur Colombari Cheng, Stacy Wu, Amália Ferronato, Crisan Smaniotto, Anderson Luiz de Carvalho, Aline de Marco Viott

“…The patient underwent an enucleation procedure, and the ocular bulb was sent for histopathological evaluation. …”
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Effect of Cognitive Distractors on Neonatal Endotracheal Intubation Performance: Insights from a Dual-Task Simulator by Yan Meng, Shang Zhao, Xiaoke Zhang, John Philbeck, Prachi Mahableshwarkar, Boyuan Feng, Lamia Soghier, James Hahn

“…Neonatal endotracheal intubation (ETI) is a complex medical procedure that demands extensive training before practicing on real patients. …”
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An Agglomerative Clustering Combined with an Unsupervised Feature Selection Approach for Structural Health Monitoring by Tales Boratto, Heder Soares Bernardino, Alex Borges Vieira, Tiago Silveira Gontijo, Matteo Bodini, Dmitriy A. Martyushev, Camila Martins Saporetti, Alexandre Cury, Flávio Barbosa, Leonardo Goliatt

“…In addition, these features are also evaluated in terms of their relevance, and the most important ones are selected for a new execution of the computational procedure. The proposed feature selection not only reduces data dimensionality but also enhances model interpretability, improving the clustering performance in terms of homogeneity, completeness, V-measure, and adjusted Rand score. …”
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Platform trials—an emerging methodology for perioperative medicine: a narrative review by Tom E. F. Abbott, Sarah-Louise Watson, Salma Begum, Priyanthi Dias, Joanne S. Haviland, James Glasbey, Lawani Ismail, Sharon Love, Rupert M. Pearse

“…The principal benefit to researchers and to research funders is that, unlike the sequential parallel group trial model, platform trials can use the same research infrastructure (e.g. database, standard operating procedures etc.) to answer multiple research questions, which is much more time and cost effective. …”
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Challenges in diagnosing and treating distal common bile duct adenocarcinoma: A case report with literature insights by Sakhr Alshwayyat, Hamdah Hanifa, Yamen Alshwaiyat, Mustafa Alshwayyat, Hussein Alhussein, Malak Abu-Naja, Tala Abdulsalam Alshwayyat, Basil Alsaleh, Mohammad Shafa’a, Muhammad Fadi Alkurdi

“…Despite initial antibiotic therapy for suspected cholangitis, the patient underwent endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and subsequently a surgical procedure. The surgical resection of a common bile duct adenocarcinoma with lymphovascular invasion was successful, with subsequent restoration of bile flow through Roux-en-Y hepaticojejunostomy. …”
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Comparison of subdermal and perforator delay techniques on a rat flap model by Dincer Altinel, Burcu Biltekin, Merdan Serin, Ugur Sahin, Muzaffer Altindas

“…Four weeks after the delay procedure, the flaps were raised completely and reinserted back to their place. …”
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Prospects for ion chromatography in quality assessment of biologicals by A. S. Minero, O. B. Runova, O. B. Ustinnikova, A. A. Movsesyants

“….); and determination of several carbohydrate stabilisers in biologicals with the same analytical procedure. According to the conclusions, ion-exchange chromatography with conductometric and amperometric detection, aimed at quality assessment of biological products, can shortly take a leading position in quantitation of ionic excipients, carbohydrate stabilisers, and main active ingredients (polysaccharides) in polysaccharide vaccines, including the vaccines in the immunisation schedule.…”
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Compression after impact behavior of flat and tapered Single-Double carbon composite specimens by Alessandro Vescovini, Carina Xiaochen Li, Bo Cheng Jin, Andrea Manes

“…This research investigates the damage tolerance with compression after impact (CAI) testing procedure of five sets of specimens, that were manufactured using the card-sliding technique with non-crimp fabrics (NCFs) and adopting a Single-Double (SD) stacking sequence. …”
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Status of occupational protection in the COVID-19 Fangcang Shelter Hospital in Wuhan, China by Min Zhang, Lili Wang, Siyuan Yu, Guixin Sun, Han Lei, Wenjuan Wu

“…Before the COVID-19 outbreak, 82.64% of the HCWs had already known the proper procedure of wearing masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE). …”
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Organization of live animal transportation process in the Russian Federation by M. A. Shibayev, I. M. Klinovitskaya, A. V. Belchikhina, A. K. Karaulov

“…The paper presents the suggestions to introduce the procedures aimed at improvement of biological safety and animal welfare during transportation. …”
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SARS-CoV-2 in the Air Surrounding Patients during Nebulizer Therapy by Jostein Gohli, Arne Broch Brantsæter, Kari Oline Bøifot, Carola Grub, Beathe Kiland Granerud, Jan Cato Holter, Anne Margarita Dyrhol Riise, Madelen Foss Smedholen, Marius Dybwad

“…It is considered a “potential aerosol-generating procedure,” and the risk of disease transmission to health care workers is uncertain. …”
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Successful stimulation of myocardial ganglionic plexi by Tau-20 in the absence of cardiac damage by Shengzhe Li, Jamie A. Kay, Danya Agha-Jaffar, Cindy S. Y. Gao, Justin Perkins, Simos Koutsoftidis, Emm Mic Drakakis, Chris D. Cantwell, Liliang Wang, Prapa Kanagaratnam, Rasheda A. Chowdhury

“…The standard invasive treatment for AF that is resistant to pharmacological intervention is a pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) procedure. Ganglionated plexus (GP) ablation can be used as an adjunctive therapy to PVIs, which together reduce the likelihood of AF recurrence. …”
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Postoperative control of liposuction pain by Marcel Vinicius de Aguiar Menezes, Priscila Teles Archanjo, Raquel Santana Ramos Oliveira, Lúcio Antonio Garcia Dias, José Siqueira Prado, Fernando Vicente de Araujo, Jessica Gonçalves de Queiroz

“…The standard anesthetic procedure consisted of an association between general and spinal anesthesia. …”
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CHANGES IN THE LEVEL OF NT-proBNP AND MEAN PULMONARY ARTERY PRESSURE FOLLOWING BRONCHOPLASTIC LOBECTOMY OR PNEUMONECTOMY AS MARKERS OF RIGHT VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION by V. F. Larin, V. A. Zhikharev, A. S. Bushuev, V. A. Porhanov, V. A. Koriachkin, A. P. Spasova, V. V. Khinovker

“…Patients were stratified into two groups according to the type of surgical procedure: bronchoplastic lobectomy, the main group (n = 19), and pneumonectomy, control group (n = 17). …”
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Development and evaluation of spirometry reference equations at high altitude by Yanyan Li, Zhenzhen Xing, Xiangda Zhang, Yanlu Hu, Yanfei Guo

“…This extensive cross-sectional study encompassed healthy non-smokers aged 15 years or older living at Xinjiang and Tibet autonomous region, which covered eight high-altitude areas by a multistage stratified sampling procedure. All individuals underwent pre- and post-bronchodilator measurement. …”
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Unraveling the site-specific features in small intestinal stromal tumors: a retrospective study by Qipu Wang, Muhan Li, Xiaoyin Bai, Ruishi Zhang, Suaizhi Ruan, Chengzhu Ou, Ji Li, Jingnan Li

“…Ileal GISTs were associated with an older age of onset and a higher prevalence of hematochezia (19.6%), with one-third of cases discovered incidentally during gynecological procedures. Notably, the biological behavior of small intestinal GISTs varied significantly by sites. …”
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An extended CoCoSo method under (p–q) rung orthopair fuzzy environment for multi-criteria decision-making applications by Asghar Khan, Omar Barukab, Young Bae Jun, Sher Afzal Khan, Umair Ahmad, Ali Muhammad Ali Rushdi

“…Comparing our suggested decision-making procedure to current MCDM techniques demonstrates its high efficacy and dependability in evaluating and rating HCW.…”
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Fracture Propagation and Hydraulic Properties of a Coal Floor Subjected to Thick-Seam Longwalling above a Highly Confined Aquifer by Shaodong Li, Gangwei Fan, Dongsheng Zhang, Shizhong Zhang, Liang Chen, Shang Ren, Yibo Fan

“…The results show that the floor rocks experience fracture generation, extension, and convergence procedures as the workface advances along the longitudinal direction, and fractures appearing in front of the workface are more developed. …”
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