An Unusual Case of Pinna Squamous Cell Carcinoma Arising Shortly after Resection of Atypical Fibroxanthoma by Eugene Omakobia, Ahmad Orabi, Richard Knights

“…We postulate whether SCC could have arisen from the previous scar tissue in a manner similar to Marjolin’s ulcer. This would be a highly unusual finding in the pinna and to our knowledge unprecedented in the English literature.…”
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Efficient oblivious transfer with membership verification by Weiwei Liu, Da-Zhi Sun, Yangguang Tian

“…In this article, we introduce a new concept of oblivious transfer with membership verification that allows any legitimate group users to obtain services from a service provider in an oblivious manner. We present two oblivious transfer with membership verification schemes, differing in design. …”
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Singapore Government Securitization Measures against Transboundary Haze Pollution as a Non-Traditional Security Threat by Muhammad Ramli

“…This research uses a qualitative methodology to connect one variable to another in a direct and constructive manner, drawing on a broad theoretical foundation, most notably constructivism. …”
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Ghostwriting: Simulacra of Academic Performance by S. A. Sheypak

“…As a result, the students who turn to contract cheating in a regular manner do not develop professional and academic skills appropriate to an undergraduate or graduate degree. …”
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Friction Stir Welding in Aircraft Structures: Current and Future Prospects by walid shewakh, Ahmed Abu-Oqail, T. S. Mahmoud, Mohamed Abu-Okail

“…., Vertical Compensation Friction Stir Welding) in a reusable manner, balancing product performance and producibility. …”
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A New Optimization via Simulation Approach for Dynamic Facility Layout Problem with Budget Constraints by Parham Azimi, Hamid Reza Charmchi

“…Then, the optimal solution of the PIP model has been used in a simulation model that has been designed in a similar manner as the DFLP for determining the probability of assigning a facility to a location. …”
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Group-Valued Multisets by Andrei Alexandru, Gabriel Ciobanu

“…By involving the finitely supported sets, we study the new defined group-valued multisets over infinite universes of discourse in a finitary manner. After presenting the algebraic groups in the framework of finitely supported sets, we study the finitely supported group-valued multisets. …”
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An Approach to Iron-Deficiency Anemia by Imran Rasul, Gabor P Kandel

“…The present article provides a diagnostic algorithm to iron-deficiency anemia, which describes a more systematic manner in which to approach iron-deficiency anemia.…”
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Propagation Properties of Airy Beam through Periodic Slab System with Negative Index Materials by Long Jin, Xingqiang Zhang

“…It is expected that the proposed manner of beam transmission and corresponding conclusions can be useful for extension applications of optical control, especially for optical communication and optical encryption technique.…”
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'Gelukkig hij die uw kinderen zal grijpen' by H. G. L. Peels

“…After having delineated the indigenous horizon of interpretation of the Old Testament imprecatory prayers, a comparison with New Testament data is made, leading to the conclusion that on the one hand the condemnation of Old Testament imprecatory prayer from the perspective of New Testament ethics is incorrect, but on the other that it is also impossible within the New Testament situation to raise the imprecatory prayer in the same manner as was done by the psalmists of the Old Testament. …”
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Stability Switches of Arbitrary High-Order Consensus in Multiagent Networks with Time Delays by Bo Yang

“…High-order consensus seeking, in which individual high-order dynamic agents share a consistent view of the objectives and the world in a distributed manner, finds its potential broad applications in the field of cooperative control. …”
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Evaluation of free radical scavenging activity of various extracts of leaves from Kedrostis foetidissima (Jacq.) Cogn. by Kalaisezhiyen Pavithra, Sasikumar Vadivukkarasi

“…The free radical scavenging activity was found to be high in methanolic extract for DPPH and hydroxyl radicals in a concentration dependent manner followed by chloroform, aqueous, acetone and petroleum ether extracts. …”
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Migraine with Prolonged Aura: Correlation of Clinical and EEG Features by A. O. Ogunyemi

“…The aura symptoms evolved in a manner consistent with posterior-to-anterior dysfunction of the cerebral cortex. …”
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Energy-Aware Distributed Intelligent Data Gathering Algorithm in Wireless Sensor Networks by Rongbo Zhu, Yingying Qin, Jiangqing Wang

“…In cluster formation phase, an energy-efficient distributed clustering scheme is proposed to form a coverage-efficient WSN, which constructs a minimum connected dominating set (MCDS) based on maximal independent sets (MISs) in distributed and localized manner, and the node with more power is selected to be the cluster head in turn to prolong the network lifetime. …”
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An exact approach to calibrating infectious disease models to surveillance data: The case of HIV and HSV-2 by David J. Gerberry

“…The technique is able to match surveillance data to high accuracy in a very efficient manner as it is based on the Newton-Raphson method for solving nonlinear systems. …”
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Rekonstrukcja przejawów e-kultury dziecięcej generowanej w cyfrowej przestrzeni bycia razem. Doniesienie z badań netnograficznych by Joanna Dziekońska

“…Data were accumulated in a netnographic manner. Processing (text, visual and audio-visual) data and their interpretation was performed by a qualitative content analysis, which revealed many peculiar manifestations of children’s culture. …”
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Material Turns of the Screw: The Collier’s Weekly Serialization of The Turn of the Screw (1898) by Kirsten MacLeod

“…Finally, how might readers of Collier’s have understood the tale, taking into account their understanding of the contemporary literary and periodical scene, James’s place in it, and the manner in which the story was presented in Collier’s? …”
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Tacit Knowledge and In-service Training of Civil Servants by Roman Lavtar

“…Due to the recent decision of Slovene government to abort the state exam for civil servants we elaborate the question of necessity of the pre-service and in-service training of civil servants and in what manner that training should be performed. Elaborating some experience in the neighborhood countries we try to find some conclusions of the topic. …”
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Clinical Application of Standardized Cognitive Assessment Using fMRI. II. Verbal Fluency by Mark D. Allen, Alina K. Fong

“…This is the second in a series of fMRI adaptations of classical neuropsychological tests, for which normative samples of functional activation have been collected from unimpaired control subjects and structured in a manner that makes individual patient evaluation possible in terms of familiar z-score distributions. …”
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Self-Adaptive Firefly-Algorithm-Based Unified Power Flow Controller Placement with Single Objectives by Selvarasu Ranganathan, S. Rajkumar

“…The selection of positions for unified power flow controller (UPFC) placement in transmission network is an essential factor, which aids in operating the system in a more reliable and secured manner. This paper focuses on strengthening the power system performance through UPFC placement employing self-adaptive firefly algorithm (SAFA), which selects the best positions along with parameters for UPFC placement. …”
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