Speckled-egg staining appearance of cryptococcal osteomyelitis in an immunocompetent patient by Matthew Alexander Stack, John-Paul Lavik, Jack G. Schneider, Brynne E. Cross

“…Despite prompt initiation of liposomal amphotericin B as soon as the organism was suspected, the patient’s mentation declined with associated progression of weakness in his upper and lower extremities. The patient was ultimately transitioned to comfort care. …”
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Mid-term fertilisers and lime effect on grassland in the hilly-mountain region in Balkan by Vladimir Zornić, Vesna Đurović, Mirjana Petrović, Snežana Babić, Dalibor Tomić, Nedeljko Racić, Jasmina Milenković

“…Greater Shannon-Wiener evenness in treatments of PK and N20PK is a prerequisite for resistance to the effects of extreme climate events.…”
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CONSTANT MURLEY SCORE ON PATIENTS POST SUPRASPINATUS RECONSTRUCTION WITH MEMBRANE AMNION COMPOSITE AND FAT TISSUE ALLOGENIC MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL AUGMENTATION by Heri Suroto, Bayu Antara Hadi, Goklas Ridwan Ricardo Gultom

“…Background: Rotator cuff tears are the most common cases in nontrauma upper extremities in group patient more than 50 years old. …”
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Toward a physics-guided machine learning approach for predicting chaotic systems dynamics by Liu Feng, Yang Liu, Benyun Shi, Jiming Liu

“…Predicting the dynamics of chaotic systems is crucial across various practical domains, including the control of infectious diseases and responses to extreme weather events. Such predictions provide quantitative insights into the future behaviors of these complex systems, thereby guiding the decision-making and planning within the respective fields. …”
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Sealant Delamination Detection of Structural Sealant Glazing Systems Based on Driving-Point Accelerance by Danguang Pan, Kun Jiang, Xichen Zhang, Ying Huang

“…The laboratory experiments showed that the relative accumulative difference of DA is extremely sensitive to sealant delamination. Even if delamination severity was only 6.39%, the relative accumulative difference of DA would be larger than 18%. …”
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Tunnel squeezing prediction based on partially missing dataset and optimized machine learning models by Peng Guan, Guangzhao Ou, Feng Liang, Weibang Luo, Qingyong Wang, Chengyuan Pei, Xuan Che

“…To achieve precise prediction of tunnel squeezing, this study constructed six reliable machine learning (ML) classification models for this purpose, including Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random Forest (RF), Decision Tree (DT), Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), Light Gradient Boosting Machine (LGBM), and K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN). …”
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Multiple PM Low-Cost Sensors, Multiple Seasons’ Data, and Multiple Calibration Models by S Srishti, Pratyush Agrawal, Padmavati Kulkarni, Hrishikesh Chandra Gautam, Meenakshi Kushwaha, V. Sreekanth

“…The ML models included (i) Decision Tree, (ii) Random Forest (RF), (iii) eXtreme Gradient Boosting, and (iv) Support Vector Regression (SVR). …”
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Proteomic Analysis Reveals the Vital Role of Synaptic Plasticity in the Pathogenesis of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy by Xu Qian, Ji-Qiang Ding, Xin Zhao, Xin-Wen Sheng, Zhao-Rui Wang, Qi-xing Yang, Jing-Jun Zheng, Jia-Gui Zhong, Teng-Yue Zhang, Shu-Qiao He, Wei-Dong Ji, Wei Li, Mei Zhang

“…The pathogenesis of TLE is extremely complicated and remains elusive. Understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying TLE is crucial for its diagnosis and treatment. …”
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Liver and Spleen Stiffness Measurements for Assessment of Portal Hypertension Severity in Patients with Budd Chiari Syndrome by Elton Dajti, Federico Ravaioli, Antonio Colecchia, Giovanni Marasco, Amanda Vestito, Davide Festi

“…SSM changes in these patients were, however, less evident. Conclusions. Extremely elevated values of LSM and SSM are suggestive of BCS. …”
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Arnold-Chiari Malformation Type II and CYP1B1 Congenital Glaucoma: A Possible Association by Shaikha Aldossari, Amani Al Bakri, Yumna Kamal

“…Neurological exam showed paraparesis and moving upper extremities and has axial hypotonia. Genetic testing showed CYP1B1 gene mutation. …”
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A Review of Total Hip Arthroplasty Comparison in FNF and OA Patients by Jakub Szczesiul, Marek Bielecki

“…In general, patients who suffer a femoral neck fracture are an extremely fragile group. They require additional perioperative and postoperative care. …”
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Solving Truthfulness-Privacy Trade-Off in Mixed Data Outsourcing by Using Data Balancing and Attribute Correlation-Aware Differential Privacy by Abdul Majeed, Seong Oun Hwang

“…The joint application of these mechanisms to data blocks enables effective resolution of the truthfulness-privacy trade-off, and data usability is extremely high. Extensive experiments are performed on three benchmark datasets to demonstrate the effectiveness of our method in real scenarios. …”
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Prediction Model of the Coring Asphalt Pavement Performance through Response Surface Methodology by Ekarizan Shaffie, Ramadhansyah Putra Jaya, Juraidah Ahmad, Ahmad Kamil Arshad, Mohd Afiq Zihan, Fiona Shiong

“…Every day, the impact of axle loads caused by vehicles has a negative impact on flexible pavement, resulting in road deterioration due to extreme distress. Pothole failures are one of the most common causes of distress. …”
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Numerical Shear Tests on the Scale Effect of Rock Joints under CNL and CND Conditions by Xige Liu, Wancheng Zhu, Lankun Li

“…In addition to the commonly used CNL, the constant normal displacement (CND) condition was established for the purposes of this study; the CND can be considered an extreme case of the constant normal stiffness (CNS) condition. …”
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The small modular molten salt reactor potential and opportunity in Saudi Arabia by Dana Hejazi, Anas M. Alwafi, Salman M. Alzahrani, Meshari M. Alqahtani, Salman M. Alshehri

“…While implementing MSRs requires overcoming technical hurdles, mainly related to structural materials withstanding extreme conditions, Saudi Arabia’s thriving research ecosystem is well-suited for overcoming such challenges. …”
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Predicting penetration depth in ultra-high-performance concrete targets under ballistic impact: An interpretable machine learning approach augmented by deep generative adversarial... by Majid Khan, Muhammad Faisal Javed, Nashwan Adnan Othman, Sardar Kashif Ur Rehman, Furqan Ahmad

“…The ML models exhibited excellent accuracy in estimating penetration depth in UHPC targets, with correlation (R) exceeding 0.855 for DGAN data and 0.954 for real data. The extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) model achieved high accuracy with R and mean absolute error (MAE) values of 0.990 and 4.933, respectively. …”
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Impact of Wildfire Smoke Events on Indoor Air Quality and Evaluation of a Low-cost Filtration Method by Nathaniel W. May, Clara Dixon, Daniel A. Jaffe

“…Abstract Increased wildland fire activity is producing extreme fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentrations impacting millions of people every year, especially in the western United States (US). …”
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Forest demographic changes across Texas associated with hot drought by Shakirudeen Lawal, Frank H. Koch, Robert M. Scheller, Jennifer Costanza

“…., drought exacerbated by extreme heat). In this study, we examined demographic change over East, Central and West Texas over a 16-year period (2004–2019), including a widely documented 2011 hot drought event. …”
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Household food insecurity, living conditions, and individual sense of security: A cross-sectional survey among Burkina Faso refugees in Ghana. by Abdul-Wahab Inusah, Ken Brackstone, Tahiru Issahaku Ahmed, David Tetteh Nartey, Jessica L Boxall, Ashley I Heinson, Michael Head, Shamsu-Deen Ziblim

“…Our results highlight the extremely high prevalence of moderate and severe food insecurity in this vulnerable refugee population. …”
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From Science to Utopia: Marcuse and Critical Utopianism by L. A. Agamalova

“…Since the 1970s—against the backdrop of the failures of May 68, the self-exposures of the USSR, and the decline of the workers’ movement, as well as in accordance with the immanent history of the logic of the history of philosophy itself—the concept of utopia has been running through new areas of meaning and is extremely dialectical in two modes: temporal and ontological. …”
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