The complexity of cancer care requires integrated and continuous support to deliver appropriate care. An expert network with complementary expertise and the capability of multidisciplinary care is an integral part of contemporary oncology care. Appro...
The Taipei Dome Complex is located in Taipei, Taiwan. It is a composite park with a multi-functional dome and incorporates a shopping mall, restaurants, cinemas, and an office building. In 2017, Taipei, Taiwan hosted the Universiade, and thousands of...
Background: The integration of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT-4, is transforming healthcare. ChatGPT’s potential to assist in decision-making for complex cases, such as spinal metastasis tre...
Industry 4.0 technologies offer manufacturing companies numerous tools to enhance their core processes, including monitoring and control. To optimize efficiency, it is crucial to effectively install monitoring sensors. This paper proposes a Multi-Cri...
Background: Neuropsychiatric cases require a multidisciplinary approach for effective management. This paper presented case-based discussions on migraine, dementia, epilepsy, mood disorders, neuralgia, and psychosis from the perspectives of a family...
The reaction of palladium(II) acetate with acyclic amino acids in acetone/water yields square planar bis-chelated palladium amino acid complexes that exhibit interesting non-covalent interactions. In all cases, complexes were examined by multiple spe...
We report a case of misdiagnosed tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) in a patient without TSC gene variant presenting with bilateral renal angiomyolipomas and seizures in the context of strong family history of polycystic kidney disease. Clinical diagno...
Revision hip arthroplasty procedures have been extensively discussed in the literature. At the same time, discussions of the management of acetabular component protrusion into the pelvic cavity, and, more specifically, the subperitoneal space, necess...
Curculionidae are a large mainly herbivorous family of beetles, some of which have become crop pests. Classical biological control has been attempted for about 38 species in 19 genera, and at least moderate success has been achieved in 31 % of cases....
Causal states are minimal sufficient statistics of prediction of a stochastic process, their coding cost is called statistical complexity, and the implied causal structure yields a sense of the process’ “intrinsic computation”. We d...
Background/Objectives: Stage III non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is a heterogeneous and clinically challenging disease. Despite therapeutic advances, decisions regarding resectability and treatment sequencing remain complex. Multidisciplinary disc...
Gastroschisis is a congenital anomaly characterized by herniation of abdominal contents via a defect in the anterior abdominal wall. Gastroschisis can manifest as simple or complex, with additional complications such as atresia, perforation, ischemia...
(1) Background: There is an increasing amount of information in complex domains, which necessitates the development of various kinds of operators, such as differential, integral, and linear convolution operators. Few investigations of the fractional...
Charcot Foot is often misdiagnosed because of its varied presentation that mimics other common disorders including tubercular rheumatism, complex regional pain syndrome or gout. We present a case of ankle swelling and discuss the differential diagnos...
The dn number or configuration is a very useful parameter in transition metal chemistry because it conveys information about the expected properties of a d-block metal complex, including its shape, magnetism, thermodynamic stability, kinetic lability...
While public-sector management problems are steeped in positivistic and socially constructed complexity, public management education in the management of complexity lags behind that of business schools, particularly in the application of simulation-b...
This comprehensive review examines the ocular vascular complications of cocaine use, focusing on its effects on retinal vasculature and inflammation. A rare case of bilateral frosted branch angiitis (FBA) in a 48-year-old man with a history of intran...
In the present paper, we establish some basic inequalities involving the Ricci and scalar curvature of the vertical and the horizontal distributions for hemi-slant submersions having the total space a complex space form. We also discuss the equality...
VACTERL association (OMIM 192350) is a non-random combination of multiple congenital malformations including vertebral, anal, cardiac, tracheoesophageal, renal and limb anomalies. The wide spectrum of defects suggests the occurrence of defective deve...
One of the stated purposes of this Special Issue is to “discuss when and why intelligence has disappeared” in education. In this paper, I argue that intelligence is still heavily involved in public education in the United States due to th...
In this paper, we obtain a geometric inequality for warped product pointwise semi-slant submanifolds of complex space forms endowed with a semi-symmetric metric connection and discuss the equality case of this inequality. We provide some applications...
Over three billion are at risk of dengue infection with more than 100 million a year presenting with symptoms that can lead to deadly haemorrhagic disease. There are however no treatments available and the only licensed vaccine shows limited efficacy...
Despite the controversies regarding the appropriateness and justification of simultaneous bi- and multi-concomitant surgical procedures, this operative technique is increasingly undertaken for economic reasons. This paper discusses three cases of sim...
Motivated by recent studies of circuit complexity in weakly interacting scalar field theory, we explore the computation of circuit complexity in
We present the case of a young male presenting with a wide complex tachycardia. The diagnostic approach based on the electrocardiogram findings is discussed. The final diagnosis could be made following an adenosine challenge at baseline, underlying t...
The success of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in uncovering genetic risk factors for complex traits has generated great promise for the complete data generated by sequencing. The bumpy transition from GWAS to whole-exome or whole-genome assoc...
Introduction: We report a case and discuss the clinical characteristics and treatment of spontaneous Descemet membrane detachment (DMD). Case description: We describe a rare case of spontaneous DMD in a patient with prior anterior uveitis and provide...
Although the usage of case studies is very common in teaching worldwide, there has been inadequate discussion concerning the quality with respect to teaching and learning. The focus of this article is to assess the pedagogic aspect of business case s...
There is a multitude of experimentation, pilot and demonstration projects across Europe aiming to reconfigure energy consumption and production systems. Demo-projects and experiments have been recognized as important instruments to implement sustaina...
Background: Among the deaths recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic, some were caused by clinical manifestations of venous thromboembolic disease, mainly pulmonary embolism. Several litigations were settled worldwide for professional malpractice assoc...
Recently, total talar prosthesis has been proposed to substitute the talus during the management of complex talar lesions such as talar extrusion, comminuted talar fractures, or avascular necrosis. Herein, we report two cases of talar extrusion treat...
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Parsing for mildly context-sensitive language formalisms is an important area within natural language processing. While the complexity of the parsing problem for some such formalisms is known to be polynomial, this is not the case for all of them. Th...
In this work, we discuss the numerical challenges involved in the computation of the complex eigenvalues of damped multi-flexible-body problems. Aiming at the highest generality, the candidate method must be able to deal with arbitrary rigid body mod...
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an acquired psychiatric disorder with functionally impairing physiological and psychological symptoms following a traumatic exposure. Genetic, epigenetic, and environmental factors act together to determine bo...
Chemical processes often exhibit nonlinear dynamics and tend to generate complex state trajectories, which present challenging operational problems due to complexities such as output multiplicity, oscillation, and even chaos. For this reason, a compl...
Fractional-order calculus is about the differentiation and integration of non-integer orders. Fractional calculus (FC) is based on fractional-order thinking (FOT) and has been shown to help us to understand complex systems better, improve the process...
Because of the progression of genetics and genomics, the demand for prenatal diagnosis (PD) for inherited genetic diseases has increased. However, several incidental findings may emerge during PD, like misattributed paternity, the evidence of disease...
Recent advances in the controlled RAFT polymerization of complex macromolecular architectures based on poly(N-vinyl pyrrolidone), PNVP, are summarized in this review article. Special interest is given to the synthesis of statistical copolymers, block...
The magnetic resonance characteristics of autoimmune demyelinating diseases are complex and represent a challenge for the radiologist. In this study we presented two different cases of detected autoimmune demyelinating diseases: one case of acute dis...
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Psychotherapy in case of dizziness: explanatory model and case report The traditional discrimination between organic and psychogenic dizziness fails to capture the complex relationships between neurologic, otologic, and psychiatric factors in patient...
This study is based on a part of the results obtained in the author’s publications. An enumerable family of the Le Roy type functions is considered herein. The asymptotic formula for these special functions in the cases of ‘large’ values of indices,...
Formation of consensus groups with shared opinions or views is a common feature of human social life and also a well-known phenomenon in cases when views are complex, as in the case of the formation of scholarly disciplines. In such cases, shared vie...
Although important progress has been made, cancer still remains a complex disease to treat. Serious side effects, the insurgence of resistance and poor selectivity are some of the problems associated with the classical metal-based anti-cancer therapi...
The T26 tunnel was designed within the scope of the Ankara-Istanbul high-speed railway in accordance with the speed of 250 km/h. Some serious problems and excessive deformations were encountered during the excavation works. The deformations in the tu...
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Study Design: case series. Objective: The restoration of defects in a single procedure with microvascular free flap reconstruction has become a mainstay of head and neck surgery. Yet in patients with complex defects and pre-existing comorbid medical...
The paper is concerned with complex fuzzy numbers and complex fuzzy inner product spaces. In the classical complex number set, a complex number can be expressed using the Cartesian form or polar form. Both expressions are needed because one expressio...
Conventional real estate education emphasises the application of knowledge from various disciplines. While this approach has its merits, its efficacy is affected by the stage of development of the discipline referenced. A notable case in point is the...
Process simulation represents an important tool for plant design and optimization, either applied to well established or to newly developed processes. Suitable thermodynamic packages should be selected in order to properly describe the behavior of re...
Background: Sudden-onset bilateral mixed hearing loss in adults is an extremely rare condition but challenging to diagnose and treat. Conductive hearing loss is associated with otitis media, while the simultaneous presence of a sensorineural componen...
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