Apports de l’archéobotanique à la compréhension de la Source des Roches, Chamalières (Puy-de-Dôme) by Béatrice Prat, Manon Cabanis

“…Unusually high levels of tree pollen were revealed by palynology on the site of the Source des Roches in Chamalières (Puy-de-Dôme) for the very beginning of the Roman period. …”
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A new tree species of Compsoneura (Myristicaceae) from the Andean forests on the Eastern Cordillera Range, Colombia by Boris Villanueva-Tamayo, Carlos Paz-López, William Ariza-Cortés

“…Additionally, it has floral characteristics such as a zig-zag pattern in the rachis direction of inflorescence and unusually thick, fleshy tepals in staminate flowers. …”
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Scenario based merger & acquisition forecasting by Khowaja Kainat, Saef Danial, Sizov Sergej, Härdle Wolfgang Karl

“…Count-data time series models are often employed to measure M&A activity and merger waves are then defined as clusters of periods with an unusually high number of M&A deals retrospectively. …”
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Melanoma Mimicking Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor with Spread to the Cerebellopontine Angle: Utility of Next-Generation Sequencing in Diagnosis by Katie Fox Hanson, Paul Birinyi, Ronald Walker, Constantine Raptis, Rebecca Chernock, Jeroen Coppens, Katherine E. Schwetye

“…Cutaneous spindle cell malignancy is associated with a broad differential diagnosis, particularly in the absence of a known primary melanocytic lesion. We present an unusually challenging patient who presented with clinical symptoms involving cranial nerves VII and VIII and a parotid-region mass, which was S100-positive while lacking in melanocytic pigment and markers. …”
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Parkinsonism and Sjögren’s Syndrome: A Fortuitous Association or a Shared Immunopathogenesis? by Mariem Kchaou, Nadia Ben Ali, Intissar Hmida, Saloua Fray, Hela Jamoussi, Mohamed Jalleli, Slim Echebbi, Afef Achouri, Samir Belal

“…Extrapyramidal signs are known to be very rare and unusually discovered on early onset in this pathology. …”
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Optic Nerve Sheath Diameter as a Bedside Assessment for Elevated Intracranial Pressure by Peter Williams

“…The headaches were prolonged, generalised, and unusually severe for the patient. Examination revealed papilloedema. …”
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The Visible Aspect of Things: Towards a Synchronic Reading of Donald Barthelme by Surya Bowyer

“…Arguing that Barthelme is an unusually visually-minded writer, this essay examines the use of fragments in a range of his short stories. …”
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Elastic Properties and the Band Gap of AlNxP1-x Semiconductor Alloy: A Comparative Study of Various Ab Initio Approaches by M. P. Polak, M. J. Winiarski, K. Wittek, P. Scharoch

“…The band gap bowings are unusually high, which confirms earlier reports.…”
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Mysterious air pollution in south China linked to volcanic emissions from the Philippines by Changqing Lin, Jian Zhen Yu, Eddie Lee, Pak-Wai Chan, Jackie Wai-Yin Ng, Ying-Wa Chan, Tianshu Zhang, Yiang Chen, Hanzhe Chen, Zijing Zhang, Samuel Ho-Kwong Chui, Jimmy C. H. Fung, Wenqing Liu, Alexis K. H. Lau

“…Large-scale satellite measurements and chemical transport modeling detected the transboundary transport of a volcanic plume originating from the Taal volcano in the Philippines. Unusually high levels of sulfate (reaching 75% of fine particulate matter) and phosphorus (up to 93 ng/m³) in Hong Kong supported this finding. …”
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A giant specimen of Rhamphorhynchus muensteri and comments on the ontogeny of rhamphorhynchines by David W.E. Hone, Skye N. McDavid

“…The specimen exhibits a disproportionate reduction in the size of the orbit and increase in the size of the lower temporal fenestra, a reduction in the proportional mandibular symphysis, and unusually laterally flattened teeth, which may point to a changing diet as these animals grew. …”
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“What a Handsome Family We Are!”: Feral Children and Kin-Making in Abbie Farwell Brown’s The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts (1900) by Julia Helena Wilde

“…The book includes two short stories about feral children who grow up to become saints (“Saint Keneth of the Gulls” and “The Wolf-Mother of Saint Ailbe”). The unusually close cross-species bonds presented by Brown in her stories can be considered as, what Donna Haraway, in Staying with the Trouble (2016), would call, “kin-making.” …”
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The gold content of mafic to felsic potassic magmas by Jia Chang, Andreas Audétat, Thomas Pettke

“…Hence, potassic magmas are commonly assumed to have been unusually Au-rich or to have contained high Au/Cu ratios. …”
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1600 AD Huaynaputina Eruption (Peru), Abrupt Cooling, and Epidemics in China and Korea by Jie Fei, David D. Zhang, Harry F. Lee

“…In Korea, the spring and early summer of 1601 AD were unusually cold, and conditions led to further widespread epidemics occurring in August.…”
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Patient-Tailored, Imaging-Guided, Long-Term Temozolomide Chemotherapy in Patients with Glioblastoma by Norbert Galldiks, Lutz W. Kracht, Lothar Burghaus, Roland T. Ullrich, Heiko Backes, Anna Brunn, Wolf-Dieter Heiss, Andreas H. Jacobs

“…We present two patients with glioblastoma with an unusually stable clinical course and long-term survival who were treated after surgery and radiotherapy with adjuvant temozolomide (TMZ) chemotherapy for 17 and 20 cycles, respectively. …”
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City Anamorphoses in Measure for Measure by Sophie CHIARI

“…Measure for Measure is a dark tragicomedy unusually set in a Central European city, a place which works as a palimpsest characteristic of Shakespeare’s geographical ambiguities. …”
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Large Bowel Obstruction Subsequent to Resected Lobular Breast Carcinoma: An Unconventional Etiology of Malignant Obstruction by Melissa Amberger, Nancy Presnick, Gerard Baltazar

“…Conclusion. We observed an unusually rapid disease progression, requiring evaluation of new gastrointestinal symptoms. …”
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Prospects of Antiangiogenic Therapy for Portal Hypertension in Liver Cirrhosis by D. V. Garbuzenko

“…Antiangiogenic therapy, selectively directed at unusually growing newly-formed vessels, can be a pathogenetically justified method for treating portal hypertension in liver cirrhosis on its subclinical stage.…”
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Persistent Cryptococcal Brain Infection despite Prolonged Immunorecovery in an HIV-Positive Patient by Tom Wingfield, Jo Baxter, Amit Herwadkar, Daniel du Plessis, Tom J. Blanchard, F. Javier Vilar, Anoop Varma

“…Although initially treated for relapsing cryptococcal immune reconstitution syndrome, a brain biopsy taken 17 months after initial presentation showed budding Cryptococci. Conclusion. This unusually protracted case highlights the difficulties in differentiating relapsing cryptococcal meningitis from immune reconstitution and raises questions concerning the optimum timing of initiation of combined antiretroviral therapy in such patients.…”
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Mycobacterium intracellulare Infection Mimicking Progression of Scleroderma by Simon Krabbe, Merete Engelhart, Sören Thybo, Søren Jacobsen

“…In summary, an infection with Mycobacterium intracellulare was mistaken for an unusually severe progression of scleroderma.…”
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The long non-coding RNA Cerox1 is a post transcriptional regulator of mitochondrial complex I catalytic activity by Tamara M Sirey, Kenny Roberts, Wilfried Haerty, Oscar Bedoya-Reina, Sebastian Rogatti-Granados, Jennifer Y Tan, Nick Li, Lisa C Heather, Roderick N Carter, Sarah Cooper, Andrew J Finch, Jimi Wills, Nicholas M Morton, Ana Claudia Marques, Chris P Ponting

“…Here we show that Cerox1, an unusually abundant cytoplasmic long noncoding RNA (lncRNA), modulates the levels of mitochondrial complex I subunit transcripts in a manner that requires binding to microRNA-488-3p. …”
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