Anti-cancer and antimicrobial efficacy of ZnO nanoparticles synthesized via green route using Amaranthus dubius (Spleen Amaranth) leaves extract by Faaiza Naaz K, Alavya Tiwari, Aabid Hussain Shaik, Indumathi P, Brianna Brianna, Ayaz Anwar, Mohammed Rehaan Chandan

“…At 125 μg/mL, the cells exhibited extreme cytotoxicity against cancer cell lines, with a viability of only 87.66%, showing a 12.3% decrease compared to the control.…”
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Bilateral foot drop caused by T12 infectious spondylitis after vertebroplasty: a case report by Dong Hwan Kim, Yong Beom Shin, Mahnjeong Ha, Byung Chul Kim, In Ho Han, Kyoung Hyup Nam

“…After the operation, bilateral lower extremity muscle strength recovered to a good grade from the trace grade, and the patient could walk without a cane. …”
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Laryngeal cancer diagnosis based on improved YOLOv8 algorithm by Xin Nie, Xueyan Zhang, Di Wang, Yuankun Liu, Lumin Xing, Wenjian Liu

“…The experiments utilized a real-world endoscopic image dataset from the hospital, and the results indicated that MSEC-YOLO outperformed the original YOLOv8 model and its multi-kernel versions across multiple evaluation metrics, especially in critical categories such as malignant tumors, polyps, and papillomas, demonstrating extremely high precision and recall rates.…”
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Evaluating the potential of Nature-based solutions to mitigate land use and climate change impacts on the hydrology of the Gefersa and Legedadi watersheds in Ethiopia by Yared Bayissa, Raghavan Srinivasan, Johannes Hunink, Douglas Nyolei, Semu Moges, David de Andrade Costa, Dereje Tadesse, Assefa Melesse, Seifu Tilahun

“…Several land use and climate change scenarios have been developed and integrated into baseline hydrological model to assess their impact on water balance components and sediment yield. Extreme climate change scenarios were developed using the combination of the 5th, 50th and 95th percentiles of future precipitation and temperature changes. …”
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Resilience capacity among the vulnerable farming households in Meki River catchment, Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia: Present situation and future prospects by Simret Terefe, Amare Bantider, Ermias Teferi, Meskerem Abi

“…The resilience measurement considered latent variables such as Climate Extremes, Access to Basic Services, Asset, Social Safety Nets, Stability, Adaptive Capacity, and Social Capital as resilience indicators. …”
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Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumor of Stomach by Ahmed Abu-Zaid, Ayman Azzam, Asma AlNajjar, Hussa Al-Hussaini, Tarek Amin

“…Desmoplastic small round cell tumor (DSRCT) is an extremely uncommon, highly aggressive, and malignant mesenchymal neoplasm of undetermined histogenesis. …”
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Identification of cell chemistries in lithium-ion batteries: Improving the assessment for recycling and second-life by Christopher Wett, Jörg Lampe, Dominik Görick, Thomas Seeger, Bugra Turan

“…The trade-off between achievable accuracy and the number of OCV steps showed that an increasing accuracy correlates with a higher step number. While extremely small charge and discharge capacities per step did not yield sufficient testing accuracies, capacities starting from 0.2 Ah per step up to 0.6 Ah per step showed increasingly good results with an accuracy of up to 89.3 % for 0.5 Ah and 15 OCV steps. …”
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THE NATIONAL ONCOLOGICAL PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION – EXPERIENCE IN THE VLADIMIR REGION (TO THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE REGIONAL CLINICAL ONCOLOGICAL DISPENSARY) by A. G. Zirin, E. A. Rumyantseva, K. V. Chirkov, M. N. Bulanov, G. V. Shatalova, Yu. L. Timofeev, A. V. Basharin, I. A. Konyukhov, A. V. Sheiko

“…Implementation of the National Oncology Program has had an extremely positive effect on the cancer services development of, as well as for the health of the entire population of the Vladimir region.…”
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Long-Term Statistical Analysis of Severe Weather and Climate Events in Greece by Vassiliki Kotroni, Antonis Bezes, Stavros Dafis, Dimitra Founda, Elisavet Galanaki, Christos Giannaros, Theodore Giannaros, Athanasios Karagiannidis, Ioannis Koletsis, George Kyros, Konstantinos Lagouvardos, Katerina Papagiannaki, Georgios Papavasileiou

“…Greece, with its complex topography, experiences severe and extreme weather events that have escalated in recent years and are projected to continue rising under future climate conditions. …”
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Directly Gel‐Thermal Processing of Linker‐Mixed Crystal‐Glass Composite Membranes for Sorption‐Preferential Gas Separation by Yihao Xiao, Yanqing Yu, Xinxi Huang, Da Chen, Wanbin Li

“…However, efficient separation for some valuable gas mixtures with similar characteristics, such as CH4/N2 and O2/N2, remains extremely challenging. Metal–organic framework (MOF) membranes have been attracting intensive attention for gas sieving, but it is difficult to manufacture MOF membranes in scalability and precisely tune their transport property. …”
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Comparison of Atrial Fibrillation in the Young versus That in the Elderly: A Review by Rajiv Sankaranarayanan, Graeme Kirkwood, Katharine Dibb, Clifford J. Garratt

“…The disease itself is extremely heterogeneous in its epidemiology, pathophysiology, and treatment options based on individual patient characteristics. …”
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Donor site scar preference in head and neck free flap reconstruction: The patient point of view by Andrea Iandelli, Francesco Mazzola, Fabrizio Di Mari, Gilda Gaglio, Giulia Bianchi, Filippo Marchi, Giovanni Zoccali, Flaminia Campo, Giampiero Parrinello, Gerardo Petruzzi, Giorgio Peretti, Raul Pellini

“…As we observe a shift in the age distribution of patients with OSCC from the fifth-sixth decade towards the two extremes, and an increased incidence in the female population, it becomes essential to enhance reconstructive options provided to patients. …”
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Jitter Across 15 yr: Leveraging Precise Photometry from Kepler and TESS to Extract Exoplanets from Radial Velocity Time Series by Corey Beard, Paul Robertson, Jack Lubin, Te Han, Rae Holcomb, Pranav Premnath, R. Paul Butler, Paul A. Dalba, Brad Holden, Cullen H. Blake, Scott A. Diddams, Arvind F. Gupta, Samuel Halverson, Daniel M. Krolikowski, Dan Li, Andrea S.J. Lin, Sarah E. Logsdon, Emily Lubar, Suvrath Mahadevan, Michael W. McElwain, Joe P. Ninan, Leonardo A. Paredes, Arpita Roy, Christian Schwab, Gudmundur Stefansson, Ryan C. Terrien, Jason T. Wright

“…Stellar activity contamination of radial velocity (RV) data is one of the top challenges plaguing the field of extreme-precision RV science. Previous work has shown that photometry can be very effective at removing such signals from RV data, especially stellar activity caused by rotating starspots and plage. …”
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Research on the Formation Characteristics of Fog and Frost on Optical Windows of Unsealed Equipment Compartments in Aircrafts by Chun Shen, Yuanyuan Liang, Bo Wei, Chengchun Zhang, Tian Zhao

“…Under the high-altitude descent working condition, by setting the fixed wall temperature boundary condition on the outer surface of the glass, it is found that in extreme cases, the maximum thickness of the frost layer on the inner wall of the glass can reach the sub-millimeter level within one hour. …”
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Flash floods on the northern coast of the Black Sea: Formation and characteristics by Ludmila Kuksina, Pelagiya Belyakova, Valentin Golosov, Ekaterina Zhdanova, Maxim Ivanov, Anatoly Tsyplenkov, Artem Gurinov

“…The small watershed area (≤351 km2) of river basins experiencing flash floods promotes very rapid flow concentration. Analysis of extreme precipitation demonstrates significant increasing trends in river basins on the Crimean Peninsula and decreasing a maximum precipitation amount in 5 days (r5d) and 1 day (r1d) in river basins in the Caucasus Black Sea Coast in the 21st century as determined by processing of Integrated Multi-satellite Retrievals for Global precipitation measurement (IMEGR) satellite data. …”
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Optimizing potato leaf disease recognition: Insights DENSE-NET-121 and Gaussian elimination filter fusion by Asif Raza, Abdul Hammed Pitafi, M. Kahsif Shaikh, Khaliq Ahmed

“…Considering this proposed model, state-of-the-art DENSE-NET-121 has produced an unprecedented training and validation accuracy 0.9908, 0.9837 respectively furthermore model also produced extremely low training and validation loss 0.0683, 0.0796 and an error rate below then 0.1 as well. …”
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Self-induced optical non-reciprocity by Zhu-Bo Wang, Yan-Lei Zhang, Xin-Xin Hu, Guang-Jie Chen, Ming Li, Peng-Fei Yang, Xu-Bo Zou, Peng-Fei Zhang, Chun-Hua Dong, Gang Li, Tian-Cai Zhang, Guang-Can Guo, Chang-Ling Zou

“…The self-induced isolation by the input signal is demonstrated with an extremely high isolation ratio of 63.4 dB, a bandwidth of 2.1 GHz for 60 dB isolation, and a low insertion loss of ~1 dB. …”
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Optimal Network Reconfiguration and Scheduling With Hardware-in-the-Loop Validation for Improved Microgrid Resilience by Yang Chen, Mohammed Olama, Maximiliano F. Ferrari, Guodong Liu, Qingxin Shi, Aditya Sundararajan, Byungkwon Park, Arturo A. Massol-Deya, Thomas B. Ollis

“…With the increased occurrence of various major extreme weather events, power outages and prompt power system restorations have recently drawn more attention to the resilience and recovery of power systems. …”
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How to disseminate the research results on climate change impacts in cities to guide adaptation public policies ? Application to the Paris region (France) by Julie André, Benjamin Le Roy, Aude Lemonsu, Morgane Colombert, Valéry Masson

“…High-resolution climate projections may meet parts of these needs, but two key points require attention: (i) climate models appear to be difficult to apprehend by public stakeholders, thus an effort of pedagogy is necessary, (ii) climate projections often extend to 2100, but stakeholders primarily need short- to medium-term forecasts that align with public policy timelines. Indicators on extreme impacts and risks are a strong demand of public actors, especially in the health and energy sectors. …”
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Autoimmune pulmonary alveolar proteinosis developed during treatment for systemic sclerosis: a case report by Tomoki Kozono, Kentaro Tanaka, Tomoko Yagi, Kazuto Kamikawaji, Masaki Watanabe, Azusa Iwanaga, Minako Hamada, Yoshifusa Koreeda, Hiromasa Inoue, Ikkou Higashimoto

“…Abstract Background Reports of autoimmune diseases coexisting with autoimmune pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (autoimmune PAP; APAP) are extremely rare. APAP coexisting with autoimmune diseases may often be misdiagnosed as connective tissue disease–associated interstitial lung disease (ILD). …”
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