A new economy-durability tool design to improve joint quality of titanium alloy friction stir welds by S. Cong, L.H. Wu, Z.W. Wang, F.F. Wang, X. Zhang, X.C. Du, P. Xue, F.C. Liu, D.R. Ni, B.L. Xiao, Z.Y. Ma

“…For years, friction stir welding (FSW) of Ti alloys has been blocked by the economy-durability trade-off of dedicated tools and bottom defects formed in the joints. In this work, an economy-durability tool was developed to achieve high-quality FSW joint of a medium-thickness plate Ti–6Al–4V alloy. …”
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A Tale of Hypertensive Retinopathy with Choroidopathy and Neuropathy in A Young Patient: A Sign of End Stage Renal Disease by Shruthy Vaishali Ramesh, Prasanna Venkatesh Ramesh, Ramesh Rajasekaran, Meena Kumari Ramesh, Prajnya Ray

“…A 35 year old male patient presented with defective vision in the left eye associated with severe headache for past one week. …”
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Molecular Characterization of Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase: Do Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Affect Hematological Parameters in HIV-Positive Patients? by Kwabena Owusu Danquah, Kofi Mensah, Charles Nkansah, Samuel Kwasi Appiah, Mark Noagbe, Yasmine Hardy, David O. Ntiamoah, Lillian Antwi Boateng, Max Efui Annani-Akollor, Eddie-Williams Owiredu, Alexander Yaw Debrah, Otchere Addai-Mensah

“…This descriptive, cross-sectional study aimed at evaluating the prevalence of G6PD deficiency and the 376A ⟶ G, 202G ⟶ A single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) among HIV patients attending care at a teaching hospital in Ghana and determine how the SNPs affect haematological profile in HIV. …”
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Effect of Electroacupuncture at Shuigou Acupoint on L-type Voltage-gated Calcium Channels in hippocampal CA1 region of MCAO rats by Da LONG, Ling CHEN, Yu YAO, Mingan ZENG

“…After treatment, the neurological function of the mice was evaluated by neurological function defect score. Then vertebral neurons in the hippocampus CA1 area of the MCAO model mice were obtained by acute enzyme isolation technology. …”
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High-throughput alloy and process design for metal additive manufacturing by Sofia Sheikh, Brent Vela, Pejman Honarmandi, Peter Morcos, David Shoukr, Abdelrahman Mostafa Kotb, Ibrahim Karaman, Alaa Elwany, Raymundo Arróyave

“…Ensemble probabilistic printability maps further provide insights into defect likelihood and uncertainty, enhancing alloy design for AM by efficiently navigating vast design spaces.…”
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Central Retinal Artery Occlusion Associated with Sildenafil Overdose by Mojtaba Abrishami, Seyedeh Maryam Hosseini, Hamid Mohseni, Majid Razavi, Amir Ghaffarian Mashhadi Nejad, Mohammad Baghi Yazdi, Ghodsieh Zamani

“…Cardiovascular, carotid arteries, and neurologic evaluations were negative for any predisposing factor. …”
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Acellular foreskin dermal matrix is efficient in supporting the growth of urothelial cells derived from hypospadias patients by Zhiqing Cao, Zhenwei Yang, Qunfang Ye, Juntan Xiong, Aozhou Zhu

“…IntroductionHypospadias is a common congenital defect in males, with surgery remaining the primary treatment option. …”
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Cross-language refactoring detection method based on edit sequence by Tao LI, Dongwen ZHANG, Yang ZHANG, Kun ZHENG

“…The research results realize cross-language refactoring detection and effectively compensate for the defect of unreliable commit messages, which provides some reference for the detection of other programming languages and refactoring types.…”
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Incarcerated left-sided Amyand’s hernia and synchronous ipsilateral femoral hernia: first case report by Franco A. Corvatta, René M. Palacios Huatuco, Santiago Bertone, José F. Viñas

“…The femoral space was evaluated transinguinally, identifying the larger omentum that had slipped into the femoral canal. …”
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Deciphering the structural, morphological, and electrical properties of rare-earth incorporated barium stannate titanate dielectric material by Sachin Kumar, Anurag Pritam, Vaibhav Shrivastava, O. P. Thakur, Vandna Luthra

“…An Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) study was conducted to examine the nature of defect centers and impurity ions within the synthesized ceramics. …”
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VN–VIn divacancies as the origin of non-radiative recombination centers in InGaN quantum wells by Anna Toschi, Yao Chen, Jean-François Carlin, Raphaël Butté, Nicolas Grandjean

“…To further understand the defect nature, we evaluate the stability of the HT-GaN surface under different annealing conditions, including different combinations of temperature and ammonia flow. …”
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The Clinical Application of the ARi^® Implant System in Severely Resorbed Anterior Alveolar Ridges: A Case Report by Kwang-Bum Park, Hyun-Wook An, Keun-Oh Park, Min-Ho Hong

“…<b>Methods</b>: This report evaluates the ARi^® Implant System, which features cortical anchorage and a calcium-incorporated nanostructured surface (XPEED^®) in two anterior ridge defect cases. …”
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A Confidence Calibration Based Ensemble Method for Oriented Electrical Equipment Detection in Thermal Images by Ying Lin, Zhuangzhuang Li, Bo Song, Ning Ge, Yiwei Sun, Xiaojin Gong

“…The proposed method is evaluated on an infrared image dataset for electric power equipment detection. …”
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Excimer Laser Phototherapeutic Keratectomy for the Treatment of Clinically Presumed Fungal Keratitis by Liang-Mao Li, Li-Quan Zhao, Ling-Hui Qu, Peng Li

“…This retrospective study was to evaluate treatment outcomes of excimer laser phototherapeutic keratectomy (PTK) for clinically presumed fungal keratitis. …”
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CodeTranFix: A Neural Machine Translation Approach for Context-Aware Java Program Repair with CodeBERT by Yiwei Lu, Shuxia Ye, Liang Qi

“…The repair performance is evaluated on the widely used Defects4j v1.2 benchmark. …”
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Salt and pepper denoising filters for digital images: A technical review by Kumar Abhishek, Kumar Sanjeev, Kar Asutosh

“…Among the various noises present in the image, salt and pepper noise corrupts images due to a defect in the device’s hardware or the camera’s faulty sensor. …”
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Implementation of Machine Learning in Flat Die Extrusion of Polymers by Nickolas D. Polychronopoulos, Ioannis Sarris, John Vlachopoulos

“…Achieving a uniform thickness and defect-free production in the flat die extrusion of polymer sheets and films is a major challenge. …”
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The efficacy of moisture retentive ointment in the mangement of cutaneous wounds and ulcers: A multicenter clinical trial by Atiyeh B, Ioannovich J, Magliacani G, Masellis M, Costagliola M, Dham R

“…As expected with such chronic wounds, the healing potential of local ointment application is limited by the mere size of the original defect and the underlying pathologies and associated diseases. however, the safety and practicality of simple ointment application was found to be a valid alternative treatment for local management of chronic wounds.…”
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Tunable Microwave Absorption Performance of Ni-TiN@CN Nanocomposites with Synergistic Effects from the Addition of Ni Metal Elements by Qian Li, Guimei Shi

“…The incorporation of magnetic Ni particles introduced a magnetic loss mechanism, while the multiple intrinsic defects within the heterogeneous structure synergistically generated defect dipole polarization and conductive loss. …”
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Assessing the Impact of Diet on Enamel Hypoplasia in Children by Manoj Meena, Amreen Aijazuddin, Ramniwas Kumawat, Shipra Saxena, Tanmay Rajput, Ramvilas R. Jaidupally

“…Enamel hypoplasia was graded using the Modified Developmental Defects of Enamel Index (DDE Index). Statistical analysis was performed using Chi-square tests and logistic regression to evaluate associations. …”
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