Second opinion consultation is a well-established practice in different clinical settings of diagnostic medicine. However, little is known about second opinion consultation activity in transplantation, and even less is known about it concerning donor...
Background: The Second Victim Phenomenon (SVP) significantly impacts the well-being of healthcare professionals and patient safety. While the SVP has been explored in various healthcare settings, there are limited data on its prevalence and associate...
The challenges and claims of hypothetical violations of the Second Law of thermodynamics have been a topic of many scientific, philosophical and social publications, even in the most prestigious scientific journals. Fascination with challenging the S...
We study the relationship between mixed second differences of a transferable-utility cooperative game and payoff changes caused by player deletion. Standard second-order symmetry compares two entries in a fixed recipient row of the deletion-effect ma...
(1) Background: The second victim phenomenon (SVP) plays a critical role in workplace and patient safety. So far, there are limited epidemiological data on the SVP in German-speaking countries. Some studies have been carried out in Germany, but so fa...
Background and Objectives: Radiotherapy (RT) plays an important role in the treatment for locally advanced rectal cancer patients. It can bring radio exposure together with the survival benefit. Cancer survivors are generally at an increased risk for...
This study introduces four novel configurations of first-order and second-order multifunction inverse filters in both voltage-mode (VM) and current-mode (CM) using second-generation voltage conveyors (VCIIs). The first-order VM and CM inverse filters...
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In addition to comprising monomers of nucleic acids, nucleotides have signaling functions and act as second messengers in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. The most common example is cyclic AMP (cAMP). Nucleotide signaling is a focus of great in...
Constructed action is a cover term used in signed language linguistics to describe multi-functional constructions which encode perspective-taking and viewpoint. Within constructed action, viewpoint constructions serve to create discourse coherence by...
The second immanantal polynomial is one of the important directions in algebraic theory. Let
Previous studies have found that second language learners can acquire sociolinguistic variation. However, there is a lack of studies that examine the L2 acquisition of second-person singular forms of address (2PS) in Spanish, especially in the immers...
The article describes the landscape history of the Westerplatte Peninsula in Gdańsk (Poland) from the 17th to the 20th century presented as a complex process of the landscape’s environmental, urban and military transformations. Westerplatt...
In 2019, Schilling et al. claimed that they achieved the supercooling of a body without external intervention in their thermoelectric experiments, thus arguing that the second law of thermodynamics was bent. Kostic suggested that their claim lacked f...
This short review outlines the main results obtained in the field of molecular materials based on zinc coordination compounds for second-order nonlinear optics. It presents an overview of the main classes of second-order nonlinear optical (NLO) activ...
This paper deals with a class of second-order partial differential equation (in short, PDE) constrained optimal control problems. More specifically, by using appropriate variational techniques, we state necessary conditions of optimality associated w...
Background/Objectives: Parathyroidectomy is a curative procedure for primary hyperparathyroidism, and multi-phase CT is an integral part of surgical planning. While patients may be referred to centers specializing in endocrine surgery, their imaging...
Second Law efficiency is a useful parameter for characterizing the energy requirements of a system in relation to the limits of performance prescribed by the Laws of Thermodynamics. However, since energy costs typically represent less than 50% of the...
In recent years, many mathematicians studied various degenerate versions of some special polynomials for which quite a few interesting results were discovered. In this paper, we introduce the type 2 degenerate Bernoulli polynomials of the second kind...
A mathematical model of pulsating flow is proposed in the paper. The model includes more accurate description of energy dissipation, so it allows, for example, better stability analysis of water power plant control and more effective operation. Flow...
Over the last few decades, due to improvement in imaging techniques, the increased detection of adrenal incidentalomas is observed. Non-aldosterone producing adrenal adenomas (NAPACAs) often co-exist with second benign or malignant lesions. In the pr...
The topic of this narrative review is mood stabilizers. First, the author’s definition of mood-stabilizing drugs is provided. Second, mood-stabilizing drugs meeting this definition that have been employed until now are described. They can be cl...
The paper addresses the second law of thermodynamics through the Clausius–Duhem inequality in its general form, with entropy flux and entropy production given by suitable constitutive functions. For definiteness the paper investigates possible...
In this paper, we first analyze the difference between the second law of thermodynamics and the laws in other disciplines. There are some phenomena in other disciplines similar to the Clausius Statement of the second law, but none of them has been ac...
We prove a conjecture on the second minimal odd periodic orbits with respect to Sharkovski ordering for the continuous endomorphisms on the real line. A
In this article we study basic properties of random variables X, and their associated distributions, in the second chaos, meaning that X has a representation
The risk of developing a solid cancer is a major issue arising in the disease course of a myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN). Although the connection between the two diseases has been widely described, the backstage of this complex scenario has still...
We follow the Boltzmann-Clausius-Maxwell (BCM) proposal to establish the generalized second law (GSL) that is applicable to a system of any size, including a single particle system as our example establishes, and that supercedes the celebrated second...
Objectives: To investigate the rate and predictors of recurrence at second-look ureterorenoscopy (URS) and to assess the adequate timeframe for second-look URS in upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC). Methods: This multicenter retrospective study...
Recently, representations and methods aimed at analysing decision problems where probabilities and values (utilities) are associated with distributions over them (second-order representations) have been suggested. In this paper we present an approach...
In this paper, we first define type-two degenerate poly-Changhee polynomials of the second kind by using modified degenerate polyexponential functions. We derive new identities and relations between type-two degenerate poly-Changhee polynomials of th...
An object of investigation is the differential geometry of the Riemannian
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Diagnosis and management of prolonged second stage of labor and its complications is difficult and often poses a dilemma to the treating obstetrician regarding timing and type of intervention. Nowadays, the diagnosis of dys-tocic prolonged second sta...
A general model is developed to describe the polarization-resolved second harmonic scattering (SHS) response from a liquid solution of molecular aggregates. In particular, the molecular spatial order is introduced to consider the coherent contributio...
Infrared signature management (IRSM) has been a primary aeronautical concern for over 50 years. Most strategies and technologies are limited by the second law of thermodynamics. In this article, IRSM is considered in light of theoretical developments...
We present a new method to obtain a combinatorial representation for the behaviour of a submanifold isometrically immersed in a Riemannian manifold based on the second fundamental form. We also present several results applying this new way of represe...
We investigate the enhancement of second-harmonic generation in cylindrical GaAs nanowires. Although these nanostructures confine light in two dimensions, power conversion efficiencies on the order of
The paper revisits the formulation of the second law in continuum physics and investigates new methods of exploitation. Both the entropy flux and the entropy production are taken to be expressed by constitutive equations. In three-dimensional setting...
Global sales of second-hand luxury products are steadily increasing. To better understand key drivers for purchasing second-hand luxury products, a survey was conducted including 469 respondents. The study not only includes existing customers, but al...
Background/Objectives: The second victim phenomenon is increasingly recognized as a significant issue affecting nurses involved in adverse events resulting from clinical decisions or interventions. Although patients and families, considered the first...
Background: The presence of actionable alterations in advanced biliary tract cancer patients opened new therapeutic possibilities for second-line treatments. However, for around 60% of the patients, chemotherapy remains the only therapeutic option. T...
Introduction: To achieve global and regional measles elimination objectives, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends coverage of 95% or higher with two doses of measles-containing vaccine. A second dose of measles-containing vaccine (MCV) is t...
We address the second-harmonic generation process in a quantum frame. Starting with a perturbative approach, we show that it is possible to achieve a number of analytic results, ranging from the up-conversion probability to the statistical properties...
The status of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, even in the 21st century, is not as certain as when Arthur Eddington wrote about it a hundred years ago. It is not only about the truth of this law, but rather about its strict and exhaustive formulatio...
The paper considers premises of the hiddenness argument with an emphasis on its usage of the concept of a personal God. The paper’s assumption is that a recent literature on second-person experiences could be useful for theists in their efforts to de...
Thymic carcinomas account for less than 0.01% of new cancer diagnoses annually and are more aggressive than thymomas. Autoimmune disorders have been associated with thymomas and only recently with thymic carcinomas. Second malignancies are well descr...
In this paper, we consider the higher order degenerate Changhee–Genocchi polynomials of the second kind by using generating functions and the Riordan matrix methods. At the same time, we give some properties of the higher order degenerate Chang...
For the reuse of traction batteries, many different scenarios exist, for example, stationary storage farms or fast charging stations. Another second-life usage scenario is the reuse of batteries as home energy storage in combination with a photovolta...
There is increased talk about using second-life batteries in applications. In first-life applications, the batteries start from new, and a range of life cycle estimation techniques are applied. However, it is not clear how second-life batteries shoul...
In the field of time psychology, the functional significance of the contingent negative variation (CNV) component in time perception and whether the processing mechanisms of sub- and supra-second are similar or different still remain unclear. In the...
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