Risk Factors for Mortality in Melioidosis: A Single-Centre, 10-Year Retrospective Cohort Study by Raviraj Menon, Poornima Baby, Anil Kumar V., Sandeep Surendran, Manu Pradeep, Aiswarya Rajendran, Gaayathri Suju, Arathy Ashok

“…This was a retrospective cohort study conducted at a quaternary care centre in South India. Clinical, demographic, and biochemical data in patients diagnosed with melioidosis with cultures were collected between January 2011 and December 2020 from medical records. …”
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Asynchronicity of deglacial permafrost thawing controlled by millennial-scale climate variability by Xinwei Yan, Xu Zhang, Bo Liu, Huw T. Mithan, John Hellstrom, Sophie Nuber, Russell Drysdale, Junjie Wu, Fangyuan Lin, Ning Zhao, Yuao Zhang, Wengang Kang, Jianbao Liu

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On the phase behavior of sorbitol/water/H2/CO2 mixtures at high pressures and temperatures by in situ infrared spectroscopy by Bonnin, Isaline, Mereau, Raphaël, De Oliveira Vigier, Karine, Tassaing, Thierry 

“…Our study focuses on the gas phase of binary, ternary, and quaternary systems at temperatures ranging from 40 °C to 220 °C and at CO2 pressures between 30 and 120 bar, while maintaining a constant pressure of H2 at 30 or 60 bar. …”
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Subsurface geology of the Torino metropolitan area (Westernmost Po Plain, NW Italy) by Andrea Irace, Igor Marcelli, Gianfranco Fioraso, Andrea Festa, Rita Catanzariti, Brunella Raco, Matia Menichini, Giulio Masetti, Elisa Brussolo, Gianna Vivaldo, Marco Doveri

“…The 1:100,000 subsurface geological map of the Torino metropolitan area covers ∼900 km2 in the westernmost Po Plain, an area of great relevance being crossed by the late Neogene to Quaternary ‘Torino Hill Front’ (THF), a tens of kilometers long, NW-verging buried and blind thrust. …”
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Mechanism of sensor kinase CitA transmembrane signaling by Xizhou Cecily Zhang, Kai Xue, Michele Salvi, Benjamin Schomburg, Jonas Mehrens, Karin Giller, Marius Stopp, Siegfried Weisenburger, Daniel Böning, Vahid Sandoghdar, Gottfried Unden, Stefan Becker, Loren B. Andreas, Christian Griesinger

“…This triggers a piston-like pulling of TM2 and a quaternary structure rearrangement in the cytosolic PAS domain (PASc). …”
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New Insights on the Seismic Activity of Ostuni (Apulia Region, Southern Italy) Offshore by Pierpaolo Pierri, Marilena Filippucci, Vincenzo Del Gaudio, Andrea Tallarico, Nicola Venisti, Vincenzo Festa

“…The analysis of the 2018 event shows that the ambiguity of the solution of the fault plane reported by INGV (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia) on the Italian National Earthquake Centre website can be solved considering existing seismic profiles, exploration well logs and the Quaternary activity of faults in the epicentral area. …”
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Wear Resistance of Ceramic Cutting Inserts Using Nitride Coatings and Microtexturing by Electrical Discharge Machining by Marina A. Volosova, Anna A. Okunkova, Elena Y. Kropotkina, Enver S. Mustafaev, Khasan I. Gkhashim

“…Today, the machining of heat-resistant alloys based on triple, quad, or penta equilibria high-entropy alloy systems of elements (ternary, quaternary, quinary iron-, titanium-, or nickel-rich alloys), including dual-phase by Gibb’s phase rule, steels of the austenite class, and nickel- and titanium-based alloys, are highly relevant for the airspace and aviation industry, especially for the production of gas turbine engines. …”
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Spatial-temporal evolution of habitat quality in tropical monsoon climate region based on “pattern–process–quality” – a case study of Cambodia by Kang Junmei, Yang Fengshuo, Wang Jun, Liu Yang, Fang Dengmao, Jiang Chengcheng

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The Enigmatic Upper Ordovician of the Naturtejo UNESCO Global Geopark (Portugal) by Sofia Pereira, Jorge Colmenar, Cristiana Esteves, Ícaro Dias da Silva, Miguel Pires, Carlos Neto de Carvalho

“…Naturtejo UNESCO Global Geopark (Portugal) area includes deposits from the Neoproterozoic to the Quaternary. Despite its limited exposure area in major Variscan folded structures, the Ordovician series hosts some of its most famous geological heritage features, such as the Penha Garcia Ichnological Park.  …”
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Smelting of low-grade saprolitic nickel ore in DC-arc furnace by Nurjaman F., Hakim H.Z., Septiansyah B., Arham L.O., Handoko A.S., Bahfie F., Suherman I., Haryadi H., Suseno T., Sari Y., Suharno B.

“…The basicity of the quaternary slag of 0.8 and the stoichiometric carbon of 0.8 of the reductant resulted in an optimum smelting process of nickel ore in a DC-arc furnace, producing ferronickel with a Ni content of 14.59% with 92.26% recovery.…”
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Seismotectonics and landslides of the NE border of the Calabrian Arc (Southern Italy) by Carlo Tansi, Salvatore Critelli, Michele Folino Gallo, Anna Gervasi, Gianpietro Imbrogno, Mario La Rocca, Michela Ponte, Vincenzo Tripodi, Francesco Muto

“…The tardive oblique tectonic component is highlighted by pervasive NW-SE crustal transpressive left-lateral strike slip faults developed from the Upper Miocene to Quaternary tectonic stages. The seismotectonic and landslides Main Map represents the update of the main faults, the style of their arrangement and kinematics, the seismotectonic features and landslide area distribution with risk implications. …”
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Structure of an ex vivoDrosophila TOM complex determined by single-particle cryoEM by Agalya Periasamy, Pamela Ornelas, Thomas Bausewein, Naomi Mitchell, Jiamin Zhao, Leonie M. Quinn, Werner Kuehlbrandt, Jacqueline M. Gulbis

“…The new structure provides an opportunity to pinpoint general features that differentiate the TOM structures of higher and unicellular eukaryotes. While the quaternary fold of the assembly is retained, local nuances of structural elements implicated in precursor import are indicative of subtle evolutionary change.…”
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Patient Perspectives on Evolving Diverticulitis Treatment: An Assessment of Patient Willingness to Enroll in a Randomized Controlled Trial by Annie Altman-Merino, MD, Kemberlee Bonnet, MA, David Schlundt, PhD, Jesse Wrenn, MD, PhD, Wesley H. Self, MD, MPH, Elisa J. Gordon, PhD, MPH, Alexander T. Hawkins, MD, MPH

“…This mixed-methods study conducted semi-structured interviews of patients presenting to a quaternary care emergency department with acute diverticulitis and a web-based survey of a larger cohort. …”
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Geological, alteration, mineralogy and geochemical studies of the Copper deposit in the Kalatehno prospect area, northwest of Gonabad (Khorasan Razavi province) by Sedigheh Zirjanizadeh, Roohollah Miri Bydokhti

“…The geology of the area includes subvolcanic units with monzonite, monzodiorite and diorite porphyry, volcanic units, pyroclastic and Quaternary units. Mineralization occurred epigenetically and as vein, in volcanic and pyroclastic units. …”
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Real-time seizure detection in paediatric intensive care patients: the RESET child brain protocol by Kristen Gibbons, Andreas Schibler, Anthony Slater, Louise Sparkes, Michaela Waak, Stephen Malone, Jane Harnischfeger, Sandra Gurr

“…The setting will be a 36-bed quaternary PICU with medical, cardiac and general surgical cases. cEEG studies in PICU patients identified as ‘at risk of seizures’ will be analysed. …”
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The influence of electronic health record design on usability and medication safety: systematic review by Marie Cahill, Brian J. Cleary, Shane Cullinan

“…Eligible studies reported on the impact of specific EHR design elements on usability and/or medication safety, involved healthcare providers and took place in a secondary, tertiary or quaternary care setting. Usability was defined as the extent to which an EHR can be used to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction, while medication safety related to the risk of drug-related problems, including adverse drug events and medication errors. …”
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Retrospective trend analysis of biocides in suspended particulate matter of major German rivers by Georg Dierkes, Susanne Schmidt, Christiane Meier, Korinna Ziegler, Jan Koschorreck, Arne Wick

“…Highest concentrations were found for quaternary ammonium compounds (QACs, the sum of four analyzed QACs were up to 8.7 µg/g) and methyl-triclosan (up to 280 ng/g), a transformation product of the bactericide triclosan. …”
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Nanotechnology and LSTM machine learning algorithms in advanced fuel spray dynamics in CI engines with different bowl geometries by Harish Venu, Manzoore Elahi M. Soudagar, Tiong Sieh Kiong, N. M. Razali, Hua-Rong Wei, Armin Rajabi, V. Dhana Raju, T. M. Yunus Khan, Naif Almakayeel, Erdem Cuce, Huseyin Seker

“…Re-entrant bowl profile in quaternary blend is found to exhibit 31.3% higher BTE and 8.65% lowered BSFC than the conventional HCC bowl at full load condition. …”
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Determination of Cenozoic Sedimentary Structures Using Integrated Geophysical Surveys: A Case Study in the Hebei Plain, China by Yi Yang, Jie Zhang, Junjie Wu, Pei Li, Xingchun Wang, Qingquan Zhi, Guojiang Hao, Jianhua Li, Xiaohong Deng

“…Through the combination of geology and comprehensive geophysics, we have obtained the undulating patterns of Paleogene and Quaternary bottom interfaces, the structural styles of the basement and the distribution of faults in the survey area, which provide strong support for the study of neotectonic movement and sedimentary environment evolution since the Cenozoic. …”
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Predicting Outcomes for Interhospital Transferred Patients of Emergency General Surgery by Brandon Cave, Daniel Najafali, William Gilliam, Jackson F. Barr, Christian Cain, Chris Yum, Jamie Palmer, Safura Tanveer, Emily Esposito, Quincy K. Tran

“…We conducted a retrospective analysis of all adult patients transferred to our quaternary academic center’s EGS service from 01/2014 to 12/2016. …”
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