First Two Cases of Conservative Treatment for Extreme Proximal Penile Fracture of the Corpora Cavernosa by Alicia Blondeau, Aurélie Grandmougin, Clément Larose, Charles Mazeaud

“…Twenty-five- and thirty-eight-year-old men with no previous medical history were admitted to the emergency room for penile trauma during sexual intercourse a few months apart. Both presented with “butterfly pattern” ecchymosis with a palpable hematoma on the perineum. …”
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Rail Corrugation Characteristics Deduced from a Wavelet Analysis of High-Speed Train Interior Noise and Vibration by Xiaohan Phrain Gu, Yajing Han, Junming Shi, Anbin Wang

“…As the characteristics of wheel sets of a particular train can be assumed to be unchanged during a trip, rail corrugation along the tracks of the trip can be identified. …”
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Epsodic paroxysmal hemicrania with seasonal variation: case report and the EPH-cluster headache continuum hypothesis by Veloso Germany Gonçalves, Kaup Alexandre Ottoni, Peres Mario F Pietro, Zukerman Eliova

“…We report a new case of EPH with a clear seasonal pattern: a 32-year-old woman with a right-sided headache for 17 years. …”
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Non-convulsive Status Epilepticus Presenting as Acute Confusional State in a Young Adult by B. D. Sharma, Amit Kumar Batra

“…For accurate diagnosis of NCSE, an alteration in baseline cognition or behavior and a concurrent epileptiform seizure pattern on electroencephalography (EEG) must be present. …”
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Molecular identification of a malaria merozoite surface sheddase. by Philippa K Harris, Sharon Yeoh, Anton R Dluzewski, Rebecca A O'Donnell, Chrislaine Withers-Martinez, Fiona Hackett, Lawrence H Bannister, Graham H Mitchell, Michael J Blackman

“…Proteolytic shedding of surface proteins during invasion by apicomplexan parasites is a widespread phenomenon, thought to represent a mechanism by which the parasites disengage adhesin-receptor complexes in order to gain entry into their host cell. …”
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Optimization of Treatment Policy for Acute Carbon Monoxide Poisoning by R. N. Akalayev, A. A. Stopnitsky

“…During the performed therapy, the level of consciousness and that of intellect according to the MMSE and FAB scales were restored more rapidly in the study group patients than in Group 2. …”
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Risk factors and features of recurrent bacterial complications of upper respiratory tract viral infections in children. by A. V. Karpenko

“…The most significant risk factors for the formation of the recurring complication pattern were maternal smoking (OR=2.73, 95% CI [1.34, 5.48]), along with gastroenterological pathology and frequent URTI in the mother and a shortened period of breastfeeding. …”
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Task complexity differentially affects executed and imagined movement preparation: evidence from movement-related potentials. by Cornelia Kranczioch, Simon Mathews, Philip Dean, Annette Sterr

“…Stimulus-locked event-related potential (ERP) data showed the typical pattern of foreperiod activation for overt and covert movements. …”
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CURRENT CONTROVERSIES AND APPROACHES TOWARDS DENTAL AGE ESTIMATION IN FORENSIC CASES by Feodor Odzhakov

“…Results: Following the pattern requested by the Takei’s method, all 58 cases’ age has been estimated, with ages varying between 34 and 80+ years. …”
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Expression of prestige through authentic pride, not dominance through hubristic pride, promotes fairness in ultimatum bargaining by Kodai Kusano, Markus Kemmelmeier

“…Abstract This study examines how people react to different types of high social rank displays during negotiations. We focused on two ways people display high rank: dominance (using force or intimidation) and prestige (demonstrating competence and earning respect). …”
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Synoptic Situation of 28-31 October 2017 Severe Dust Storm over Iraq by Husam T. Majeed, Hawraa Majid Qasim

“…This system was developed just over the source area of dust on the first day of the storm, and two ridges in which one has existed over the north of Iran and the second advanced from Egypt during the second day of the storm. The pattern of the trough and two ridges on the second and third day caused the storm to halt over central and southwestern areas of Iraq and the northern border of Saudi Arabia with Iraq. …”
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Effect of Seed Coating and Packaging Material on Viability and Vigor of Soybean Seed in Room Temperature Storage by Olaf Ingmar, Setiyono Setiyono, Dyah Ayu Savitri, Noer Novijanto

“…Soybean seed procurement was challenging due to the quality degradation during the seed storage period. Seed coating is necessary in order to overcome the leakage of seed metabolites. …”
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Defect detection based on extreme edge of defective region histogram by Zouhir Wakaf, Hamid A. Jalab

“…Automatic thresholding has been used by many applications in image processing and pattern recognition systems. Specific attention was given during inspection for quality control purposes in various industries like steel processing and textile manufacturing. …”
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Ion Channels in Hematopoietic and Mesenchymal Stem Cells by Serena Pillozzi, Andrea Becchetti

“…Although little evidence is available about the ion channel roles in true HSCs, increasing information is available about HPCs and MSCs, which present a complex pattern of K+ channel expression. K+ channels cooperate with Ca2+ and Cl− channels in regulating calcium entry and cell volume during mitosis. …”
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Variations in gamma radiation and alpha-emitting radionuclides in correlation with weather and location conditions by D. E. Tchorz-Trzeciakiewicz, J. A. Kamińska

“…In the case of seasonal variations in alpha-emitting radionuclides concentrations, the highest average values were observed during autumn and the lowest in spring.…”
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An Exploration of the Use of Educational Robotics in Preschool Education by Veronica Mihaela Rus, Beatrice Almășan

“…Decomposition, abstraction, pattern recognition and algorithms were the four components of computational thinking analyzed and all obtained a score above the mean of the Likert scale used. …”
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Prediction of subway shield construction parameters based on multi-layer perceptron by LI Wenqian, WU Yunhuan, WU Jingye, CHEN Zhihuai, XIE Senlin, HU Anfeng

“…Shield construction technology has been widely used in subway construction, and reasonable prediction of shield tunneling parameters is of great practical significance for improving construction safety and reducing operational difficulties.Taking a section of the Hangzhou Airport Express Underpass Tunnel as the engineering background, this study uses the friction angle, cohesion force, compression modulus and heaviness of the soil layer within the diameter of the tunnel as well as the burial depth of the tunnel cover, the preset blade speed and propulsion speed of the shield machine as inputs, and the slurry volume, slurry pressure, soil discharge volume, total thrust force and blade torque during the shield construction as outputs, and establishes a prediction model of shield tunneling parameters based on a multi-layer perceptron.By comparing the predictive performance of the model under different combinations of hyper-parameters on the dataset, a suitable shield construction parameter prediction model is selected for the project.The model predictive effect is verified using the measured data, and the predicted values are consistent with the overall variation pattern of the measured data, with an average error within 20%.The established multi-layer perceptron model provides reasonable predictions with good accuracy and can be applied to predict shield tunneling parameters under the conditions of composite strata.…”
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Brain responsivity to emotional faces differs in men and women with and without a history of alcohol use disorder. by Marlene Oscar-Berman, Susan Mosher Ruiz, Ksenija Marinkovic, Mary M Valmas, Gordon J Harris, Kayle S Sawyer

“…We employed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of abstinent individuals with a history of AUD (21 women [AUDw], 21 men [AUDm]) and demographically similar non-AUD control (NC) participants without AUD (21 women [NCw], 21 men [NCm]) to explore how gender and AUD interact to influence brain responses during emotional processing and memory. Participants completed a delayed match-to-sample emotional face memory fMRI task, and brain activation contrasts between a fixation stimulus and pictures of emotional face elicited a similar overall pattern of activation for all four groups. …”
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Presumed ocular tuberculosis in a developed country: a descriptive retrospective analysis of patients from a tertiary health care centre in the United Kingdom by Mariam M. Boshra, Amira Stylianidies, Hitesh Agrawal

“…Long-term Immunosuppressive medication may be needed for cases of TBU with significant intraocular inflammation either during or after ATT. Uveitis pattern and presence or absence of disc edema could predict the need for immunosuppression.…”
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Mucormycosis in COVID-19 patients: A cross-sectional study at IGIMS, Patna by Tajwar Yasmeen, Nidhi Prasad, Vikash Kumar, Setu Sinha, Shishir Kumar, Sanjay Kumar

“…Introduction: During the second wave of COVID-19, the incidence of mucormycosis has increased more rapidly. …”
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