Solitary metastasis in the internal auditory canal from non-small cell lung carcinoma: A case report by Julie De Boos, Marie Bruyneel, Ionela Bold

“…A subsequent PET CT scan indicated a complete metabolic response. Eighteen months later, the patient presented with rapidly progressing vertigo, left-sided facial palsy, and hearing loss. …”
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Evaluation of humoral immune response and milk antibody transfer in calves and lactating cows vaccinated with inactivated H5 avian influenza vaccine by Mohamed Samy Abousenna, Nermeen G. Shafik, Mahmoud M. Abotaleb

“…Calves were inoculated with different vaccine doses, while lactating cows received the vaccine four weeks later. The humoral immune response was measured using the Hemagglutination Inhibition (HI) test and ELISA. …”
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Can infectious omphalitis in piglets be clinically diagnosed during the first three days of life? by Sophie Amalie Blirup-Plum, Henrik Elvang Jensen, Katrine Top Hartmann, Søren Saxmose Nielsen, Karen Pankoke, Mette Sif Hansen, Ken Steen Pedersen, Inge Larsen, Jens Peter Nielsen, John Elmerdahl Olsen, Egle Kudirkiene, Thomas Hartig Braunstein, Kristiane Barington

“…Except for a group of bacteria unidentified by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionisation time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) (p = 0.02), no apparent association was found between histopathologically diagnosed omphalitis and the prevalence of specific pathogens (p > 0.05). …”
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Poetic and theatrical occasionalisms: Creation of new morphologically complex words by Joseph von Eichendorff, Johann Nepomuk Nestroy, Peter Handke and Arno Schmidt by Wolfgang U. Dressler, Barbara Tumfart, Dietmar Kunisch, Vanessa Hannesschläger

“…This definition holds for the authors investigated, except Eichendorff who reuses occasionalisms, which may be also reused by other lyrical poets of the same period or even later.The main part (§ 3) consists of the discussion of 17 criteria for characterising and differentiating the occasionalisms studied. …”
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A Study to Assess the Carrying Angle in Children Aged between 8 to 16 Years of Age by Pradip Patil, Umesh D. Jain, Amol Gowaikar, Salim A. Lad, Shivaji Kolli

“…Background: The arm and forearm not in straight line when the elbow is completely extended and supinated; rather, it is displaced to lateral, and an angle known as carrying angle created between long axis of arm and forearm. …”
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Про особливості використання моделі поведінки матеріалу у конструкціях з комірково-каркасною структурою... by Владислав Шинкарук, Володимир Ліповський

“…Такі структури створюються за допомогою селективного лазерного плавлення металів (Selective Laser Melting, SLM). Комірково-каркасні структури — є комплексними тривимірними конструкціями, які складаються з повторюваних елементів або клітин, що утворюють просторовий масив. …”
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Assessment of caries diagnostic threshold of DMFT, and ICDAS II in the estimation of caries prevalence rate in first permanent molars among students of College of Dentistry-Hawler... by Razawa Kareem Saeed, Mustafa Isa Omer, Neenor Nazar Hanna, Hallo Khals Ghafour

“…Dental caries was diagnosed on teeth number (3, 14, 19, and 30), according to the criteria of DMFT index looking for missing, filling, decayed teeth. then ICDAS to further classify the amount of dental caries later the collected data was analyzed by using SPSS. …”
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Analysis of Risk Factors for Postoperative Progressive Segment Degeneration at the Decompression and Non-decompression Segments after Minimally Invasive Lumbar Decompression Surger... by Hasibullah Habibi, Hiromitsu Toyoda, Hidetomi Terai, Kentaro Yamada, Minori Kato, Akinobu Suzuki, Shinji Takahashi, Koji Tamai, Masayoshi Iwamae, Yuta Sawada, Yuto Kobayashi, Yuki Okamura, Hiroaki Nakamura

“…A logistic regression model identified that Cobb angle 10° (OR 2.53, 95% CI 1.50-4.24), spondylolisthesis 3 mm (OR 4.447, 95% CI 2.06-9.58), and level of segments were more likely to have PSD at the non-decompression level; additionally, lateral listhesis 3 mm (OR 2.91, 95% CI 1.08-7.81) was more likely to have PSD in the decompression segments. …”
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The molecular dynamics study of the thermal behavior of argon flow in a nanochannel with changes in nanochannel cross-section by Reza Karimi, Ali Marzban, Davood Toghraie

“…This study investigated the influence of lateral walls in two- and three-dimensional systems, an external force, velocity field, density, temperature, flux, and thermal conductivity coefficient for a 10000-time increment using a hybrid Lennard-Jones potential function. …”
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La toponimia glífica nahua y sus reminiscencias gráficas en los mapas nativos e indoespañoles del Acolhuacan meridional, ca. 1579-1613 by Daniel Martínez González

“…La evidencia visual contenida en las creaciones cartográficas aquí apenas mencionadas sugiere que, aunque las formas nativas de nombrar los lugares —incluyendo mapas, planos indígenas, pintores, cuerpos de conocimiento y saberes teórico-prácticos—seguían vigentes incluso en fechas tardías respecto al siglo del contacto europeo-mesoamericano, en un lapso breve de tiempo los topónimos glíficos en los mapas de tierras dejaron de pintarse como signos de un sistema de escritura de tipo logosilábico. …”
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Anterior clinoid process metastasis with sudden loss of vision: role of emergency optic nerve decompression by Marta Rico-Pereira, Fernando Muñoz-Hernández

“…Case presentation We report the case of a 41-year-old male patient with a diagnosis of radius leiomyosarcoma, who underwent surgery in 2014, with bone and lung metastases, who had been treated with chemotherapy and appeared to have the disease controlled at his last follow-up. 6 years later, he developed a one month history of progressive unilateral loss of visual acuity and visual field defect (initially quadrantanopia that progressed to nasal hemianopia). …”
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Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Transanal Irrigation for Managing Neurogenic Bowel Dysfunction in Japan by Atsushi Sengoku, Shinichi Noto, Masashi Nomi, Anton Emmanuel, Tatsunori Murata, Toshiki Mimura

“…Quality-adjusted Life Years (QALYs) were used as the primary effectiveness measure, and the analysis was conducted from the payer’s perspective. **Results:** The model predicts a lifetime incremental cost of TAI to be 3 198 687 yen compared with SBC. …”
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சிந்தனைத் தளத்தில் சுகுமாரனின் வண்டு குண்டு / Thoughts in Sukumaran's Vandu Kundu by முனைவர் ந. இரஞ்சன் / Dr. N. Ranjan

“…In the field of Tamil literature, most classical and modern works focus on men and women with limited references to boys during the Sangam period. Unlike later developments in Tamil literature, there was no exclusive work dedicated to boys during this era. …”
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Unraveling the risk of dredging on river bars for mineral sand mining: an engineering geological approach by Md. Shohel Rana, A.T.M. Shakhawat Hossain, Md. Fuad Hasan, Md. Aminur Rahman, Pradip Kumar Biswas, Mohammad Nazim Zaman

“…This research offers practical guidance for dredging companies to minimize risks and improve soil stability, contributing to safer and more sustainable river bar dredging operations worldwide.…”
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Comparison of the accuracy of implant impression by conventional open-tray and digital techniques by Joanna Majid Hayder, Fahd Sudad Ikram

“…Method: A definitive maxillary edentulous model with four implants, two of them 10° anterior-posteriorly angulated, and the other two were parallel implants served as the standard reference for making all the impressions and later for accuracy evaluation. Two groups of ten samples were evaluated, first: open-tray implant impression technique, second; digital implant impression technique. …”
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Canopy structural heterogeneity drives α and β species–genetic diversity correlations in a Chinese subtropical forest by Zhiliang Yao, Xia Pan, Xin Yang, Xiaona Shao, Bin Wang, Yun Deng, Zhiming Zhang, Qiaoming Li, Luxiang Lin

“…We also quantified microhabitat variation by quantifying canopy structure heterogeneity with airborne laser scanning on 20 1-ha subtropical forest plots. …”
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Women’s recommendations: vacuum extraction or caesarean section for prolonged second stage of labour, a prospective cohort study in Uganda by Barbara, Nolens, Thomas, van den Akker, John, Lule, Sulphine, Twinomuhangi, Roosmalen, Jos van, Josaphat, Byamugisha

“…Main reasons to opt for CS were having experienced CS without problems, CS presumed as being safer for the neonate, CS being the only option the woman was aware of, as well as the concern that vacuum extraction would fail. …”
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Role of Rewards Management on Employee Performance in the Banking Sector. by Alex, Kanyesime

“…Data collection methods used was questionnaire and interviews. Data were later processed, analyzed, interpreted, discussed and presented to come up with conclusions and recommendations of the study. …”
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Shrub encroachment alters the diversity of soil fungal communities in topsoil, but not in subsoil under alpine grassland of the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau by Wenming Ma, Tenzing Droma, Changting Wang, Xiangli Ma

“…We investigated soil fungal communities in top- and subsoils of shrub-encroached patches (Potentilla fruticosa, Spiraea alpina and Caragana microphylla) and the open grassland using nuclear ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS). A total of 48 samples were collected. …”
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Escherichia coli combination with PD-1 blockade synergistically enhances immunotherapy in glioblastoma multiforme by regulating the immune cells by Guochen Li, Haiyan Yang, Tengfei Ke, Na Tan, Xiaolan Du, Xirui Duan, Xinyan Zhou, Guangrong Zheng, Chengde Liao

“…Furthermore, the tumor growth rate in the combination treatment group was significantly slower than that in the control group. Conclusions E. coli exhibits potential anti-tumor activity and can activate the innate immune response and further regulate immune cells in the tumor tissues to synergize the effect of anti-PD-1 therapy on GBM, providing new insights to enhance the efficacy of GBM immunotherapy.…”
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