Recurrent Hematomas following a Revision Total Hip Arthroplasty in Acquired Coagulation Factor XIII Deficiency by Yoshinori Takashima, Shingo Hashimoto, Tomoyuki Kamenaga, Masanori Tsubosaka, Yuichi Kuroda, Kazuhiro Takeuchi, Koji Takayama, Shinya Hayashi, Ryosuke Kuroda, Tomoyuki Matsumoto

“…Coagulation factor XIII (FXIII) is the final enzyme in the coagulation cascade and plays an important role in catalyzing the intermolecular cross-linking of fibrin polymers. …”
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Understanding the Origin of SSR in Series-Compensated DFIG-Based Wind Farms: Analysis Techniques and Tuning by Roberto Moreno-Sanchez, C. Alberto Nunez-Gutierrez, Nancy Visairo-Cruz, Julio Hernandez-Ramirez, Juan Segundo-Ramirez

“…A PI cascade topology is used to control the RSC and GSC. …”
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A New Digital to Analog Converter Based on Low-Offset Bandgap Reference by Jinpeng Qiu, Tong Liu, Xubin Chen, Yongheng Shang, Jiongjiong Mo, Zhiyu Wang, Hua Chen, Jiarui Liu, Jingjing Lv, Faxin Yu

“…This paper presents a new 12-bit digital to analog converter (DAC) circuit based on a low-offset bandgap reference (BGR) circuit with two cascade transistor structure and two self-contained feedback low-offset operational amplifiers to reduce the effects of offset operational amplifier voltage effect on the reference voltage, PMOS current-mirror mismatch, and its channel modulation. …”
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A Comprehensive Analysis of Robustness in Interdependent Mechatronic Systems under Attack Strategies by Gang Xu, Yanhui Wang, Yucheng Hao, Limin Jia, Zeyun Yang, Zhichao He

“…To assess the robustness in the mechatronic system under various disturbances, we build an interdependent mechatronic system as an interdependent machine-electricity-communication network (IMECN) and adopt the improved cascading failure model where the occurrence of the failure propagation is decided by a proportion threshold δ. …”
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Sobre o controle jurisdicional da política externa - notas acerca do caso Battisti no STF by Daniel Damásio Borges

“…O processo de extradição Cesare Battisti no STF suscitou muitas polêmicas sobre os mais diferentes aspectos do regime jurídico aplicável aos estrangeiros no Brasil, de um modo geral, e sobre o processo de extradição, de modo particular. …”
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 Jack Kerouac’s Ecopoetics in The Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels : Domesticity, Wilderness and Masculine Fantasies of Animality by Pierre-Antoine Pellerin

“…Whether it be in the Sierra Nevada in 1955, in The Dharma Bums (1958),or in the Northern Cascades in 1956, in Desolation Angels (1965), Kerouac’s alter ego and first-person narrator engages in an escapist fantasy into the animal realm where he can regain a sense of authentic masculine identity, away from the feminizing effects of domesticity and civilization. …”
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The Mechanisms of Sepsis Induced Coagulation Dysfunction and Its Treatment by Zhu L, Dong H, Li L, Liu X

“…Its mechanisms involve platelet activation, coagulation cascade activation, inflammatory reaction imbalances, immune dysregulation, mitochondrial damage, neuroendocrine network disruptions, and endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress. …”
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cGAS-STING targeting offers therapy choice in lung diseases by Yu Wang, Xuan Zhang, Weixue Wang, Yi Zhang, Joshua S. Fleishman, Hongquan Wang

“…In this review, we first outline the principal components of the cGAS-STING signaling cascade. Then, we discuss recent research that highlights general mechanisms by which cGAS-STING contributes to lung diseases. …”
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A Social Network Lens to Community Health Worker Influence and Impact by Reza Yousefi Nooraie, Deniz Naghibi, Ruthmarie Hernández-Torres, Paula Cupertino

“…CHW-mediated network interventions can focus on the dissemination and diffusion of health messages, using the channels of trust and formal and informal relations, as well as, engaging communities to enhance the cascade of spreading/diffusion. Network interventions can also focus on network-building and community dialog, relying on the role of CHWs in bringing the community members together in facilitating conversation, promoting social justice and inclusion, and mobilizing the community in collective action. …”
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A Data Fusion System for Simulation of Critical Scenarios and Decision-Making by Jimmy Anderson Flórez Zuluaga, Esteban Patiño Carrasco, Jose David Ortega Pabón, Kelly Gallego León, O. Lucía Quintero Montoya

“…This document describes the proposed architecture from a research process, developed by the FAC Aerospace Technology Development Center (CETAD), where using computational and expert system tools, allowed to create a computational environment for decision maker evaluated his options to prepares for real events, simulating characteristics, resources and strategies in a real time environment. …”
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Kidney Stone Disease: An Update on Current Concepts by Tilahun Alelign, Beyene Petros

“…The exposure of renal epithelial cells to oxalate causes a signaling cascade which leads to apoptosis by p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase pathways. …”
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Willingness for Active Case Finding of Tuberculosis among Community Pharmacists in Puducherry by Dhanajayan Govindan, Palanivel Chinnakali, Sonali Sarkar, Govindarajan Soundappan

“…Background: In India, there is significant attrition in the cascade of care for tuberculosis (TB) in the public health sector. …”
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Face recognition algorithm based on attractive local second gradient contours by Xueyi YE, Dingwei QIAN, Na YING, Tao WANG

“…In order to solve the problem that traditional LDP algorithms is difficult to balance the effectiveness of feature extraction and the stability of feature encoding, an attractive local second gradient contours (ALSGC) face feature extraction algorithm was proposed.Firstly, the Kirsch operator was used to calculate the neighborhood edge response image of the face image.Secondly, an attraction descriptor was introduced and the local average gray value and global average gray value of the edge response image and the neighborhood center gray value was combined to complete the local attraction pattern encoding.The entire image was traversed to get the ALSGC face feature map, the ALSGC feature map was divided to blocks and the statistical histograms of different patterns for each block was obtained by calculation.Finally, the statistical histograms of all the blocks were cascaded to generate the corresponding feature vector and support vector machine was used to complete classification and recognition.The proposed algorithm not only overcame the insufficient effectiveness of LBP, LDP, LDN and other algorithms who extract first-gradient features, but also reduced the sensitivity to changes in expression, posture, occlusion, lighting and random noise of methods such as DLDP, CSLDP, GCSLDP who extracting second-gradient features.It better achieved the balance between the effectiveness of feature extraction and the stability of feature encoding, and took into account the recognition rate and robustness.…”
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Interaction of Herbal Compounds with Biological Targets: A Case Study with Berberine by Xiao-Wu Chen, Yuan Ming Di, Jian Zhang, Zhi-Wei Zhou, Chun Guang Li, Shu-Feng Zhou

“…Based on the biological process classification of in vitro berberine targets, those targets related to signal transduction, intracellular signalling cascade, cell surface receptor-linked signal transduction, cell motion, cell cycle control, immunity system process, and protein metabolic process are most frequently involved. …”
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¿Somos todos iguales ante una inundación? Análisis de la vulnerabilidad social en el litoral mediterráneo español by Alfredo Pérez Morales, Salvador Gil Guirado, Aarón Quesada García

“…Los resultados obtenidos evidencian una mayor vulnerabilidad social en secciones censales no inundables que en las inundables y pone de manifiesto un patrón de desigualdad social en ámbitos donde la red hidrográfica presenta un funcionamiento efímero y súbito como las ramblas.   …”
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Interleukin-16 Polymorphism Is Associated with an Increased Risk of Ischemic Stroke by Xiao-li Liu, Jian-zong Du, Yu-miao Zhou, Qin-fen Shu, Ya-guo Li

“…Interleukin-16 (IL-16) is identified as a proinflammatory cytokine that is a key element in the ischemic cascade after cerebral ischemia. We aimed to examine the relationship between the IL-16 polymorphisms and the risk of ischemic stroke in a Chinese population. …”
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The Relationship between Epistemological Beliefs and Assessment Conceptions among Pre-Service Teachers by Tessema Girma, Michael Kassa, Areaya Solomon

“…This study’s findings could highlight the need to incorporate progressive assessment concepts and advanced epistemological beliefs into educational programs such as teacher education to improve pre-service teachers’ professional beliefs and competencies that would have cascaded effects on the school teaching-learning.…”
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A hybrid model for prediction of software effort based on team size by Prerana Rai, Dinesh Kumar Verma, Shishir Kumar

“…These techniques are mostly based on statistical methods (viz. simple linear regression (SLR), multi linear regression, support vector machine, cascade correlation neural network (CCNN) etc.) and some probability‐based models. …”
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Investigating the impact of Organizational Citizenship Behavior on Supply Chain Performance and Corporate Sustainability: an empirical study by Muhammad Khan, Alisher Tohirovich Dedahanov, Yasmina Khadir, Rakhmonov Dilshodjon Alidjonovich, Kurbanbekova Mohichehra Turobjonovna, Obiddin Toshmurzaevich Yuldashev, Imomov Jamshidxon Odilovich

“…This work contributes novel empirical insights into the substantial influence of OCB on SCP with cascading effects on CS – an area previously unexplored empirically.…”
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Neuroanatomy, episodic memory and inhibitory control of Persian-Kurdish simultaneous bilinguals by Samira Golshani, Olga Kepinska, Hamid Gholami, Narly Golestani

“…We provide a novel, mechanistic explanation accounting for observed behavioural advantage and brain structural differences: bilingualism may boost the prefrontal cortex-hippocampal neural circuitry commonly underlying both executive control and memory, via cascade and reverberant effects, leading to synergistic benefits in both cognitive domains. …”
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