Recurrence - Science topic

In this paper we prove new fixed point results in partially ordered bicomplete quasi-metric spaces. Our results extends/generalized celebrated results, on the one hand, by Nieto and Rodr´ıguez-L´opez for contraction mappings in partially ordered complete metric spaces and, on the other hand, by Schellekens for contraction mappings in bicomplete qua...

Automatic short answer grading (ASAG) has become part of natural language processing problems. Modern ASAG systems start with natural language preprocessing and end with grading. Researchers started experimenting with machine learning in the preprocessing stage and deep learning techniques in automatic grading for English. However, little research...

The main object of study in this paper is the well-known Somos-4 recurrence. We prove a theorem that any sequence generated by this equation also satisfies Gale-Robinson one. The corresponding identity is written in terms of its companion elliptic sequence. An example of such relationship is provided by the second-order linear sequence which, as we...

Uncertain discrete-time noncausal systems are uncertain singular systems that are supposed to be regular along. This study examines optimal control problems (OCPs) using the optimistic value criterion in the context of uncertain discrete-time noncausal systems. Recurrence equations for tackling these OCPs are provided in terms of uncertainty theory...

PulseRider (Cerenovus, Irvine, CA, USA) is a relatively novel device used for the treatment of wide-neck aneurysms with a coil-assisted effect. However, treatment options for recurrent aneurysms after PulseRider-assisted coil embolization remain controversial. Here we report a case of recurrent basilar tip aneurysm (BTA) treated with Enterprise 2 a...

This paper analyzes slum upgrading based on case studies focusing on the implementation of the Growth Acceleration Program (known as PAC) in the east side of the Curitiba metropolis, with the aim of discussing urban solutions employed in Permanent Preservation Areas (PPAs). The results showed that the interventions aimed to restore, to the maximum...

Seasonal time series with trends are the most common data sets used in forecasting. This work focuses on the automatic processing of a non-pre-processed time series by studying the efficiency of recurrent neural networks (RNN), in particular both long short-term memory (LSTM), and bidirectional long short-term memory (Bi-LSTM) extensions, for model...

Mosunetuzumab is a novel bispecific antibody targeting epitopes on CD3 on T cells and CD20 on B cells with the goal of inducing T-cell mediated elimination of malignant B cells. A recent pivotal phase I/II clinical trial (GO29781) demonstrated that mosunetuzumab induced an overall response rate of 80%, complete response rate of 60%, and a median pr...

Purpose To clarify the invasiveness to surrounding structures and recurrence rate of each subtype of nonfunctioning pituitary neuroendocrine tumor (Pit-NETs) according to the WHO 2022 classification. Methods This retrospective study utilized data from 292 patients with nonfunctioning Pit-NETs treated with initial transsphenoidal surgery. Recurrenc...

Pneumonia is the biggest killer of under five children in India.Viral pneumonia remains the commonest cause of pneumonia in children across all age groups. Few unusual causes of pneumonia are structural airway anomalies, aspiration syndromes, chronic lung disease such as cystic fibrosis and primary ciliary dyskinesia. Rarely, Pulmonary Tuberculosis...

(1) Background: Upper gastrointestinal bleeding due to ruptured varices is a severe complication in patients with cirrhosis, with high rates of recurrent hemorrhage and in-hospital mortality. This study aimed to evaluate the value of the ABC score in predicting two events among 201 cirrhotic patients with high-risk variceal hemorrhage. (2) Methods:...

Intracranial squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is a rare condition and relatively few cases have been described in the literature. Despite the poor prognosis, no standardized treatment protocols have been developed. In the present article, we report a case of primary intracranial SCC with a review of the literature. A 42-year-old woman presented with i...

Objectives : To provide targeted interventions for the prevention of first ankle sprains, this study determined the prevalence of ankle sprains in female adolescent soccer players and analyzed the correlation between the age at the first occurrence of ankle sprain and the age at menarche. Methods : The study included 131 female participants from th...

En el transcurso de la enseñanza de la historia se ha podido descubrir que el modelo educativo que recurre únicamente a la mera transmisión de información, la memorización de datos y personajes es un fracaso, pues los alumnos no han demostrado que partir de ello posean habilidades de raciocinio y comprensión que los conduzca a generar conocimiento....

We aimed to assess changes in the composition of the waiting list for liver transplantation (LT) after expanding from Milan to “up-to-seven” criteria in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). A consecutive cohort of 255 LT candidates was stratified in a pre-expansion era (2016–2018; n = 149) and a post-expansion era (2019–2021; n = 106). The...

Open inguinal hernias are a common operation that is performed by general surgeons, and they are divided into mesh repairs and sutured based repairs. The Lichtenstein repair is the most popular mesh-based repair, and the sutured based repairs are divided into the Shouldice repair, Bassini repair and the Darning method. The open repairs are cost eff...

Stress urinary incontinence is a complication after radical prostatectomy. The suburethral sling implantation operation is often performed for mild to moderate male urinary incontinence after radical prostatectomy. There are non-adjustable suburethral slings that are effective up to 73.7% and adjustable slings that are effective up to 92%. We prese...

We present a rare case of pathology-proven CMV pneumonitis in a patient with HIV infection after presenting with cough and fever. This presentation was complicated by recurrence of symptoms after treatment in the setting of continued uncontrolled HIV infection. This case raised the importance of further discussion regarding best treatment guideline...

Introduction Seminoma comprises approximately 50% of testicular germ cell tumors. Retroperitoneal lymph nodes are the most common initial metastatic sites but renal metastases are infrequent and the majority of renal tumors represent primary neoplasm. Case Presentation In this study, we present a 48-year-old male with metastases of seminoma to the...

Multifocal disease in PTC is associated with an increased recurrence rate. Multifocal disease (MD) is underdiagnosed with the current gold standard of pre-operative ultrasound staging. Here, we evaluate the use of EMI-137 targeted molecular fluorescence-guided imaging (MFGI) and spectroscopy as a tool for the intra-operative detection of uni- and m...

LATAR BELAKANG : Rekurensi pada KNF adalah munculnya tumor setelah mengalami remisi pasca pemberian kemoradiasi berdasarkan gejala dan pemeriksaan penunjang. Kemoterapi kombinasi pada KNF rekuren masih memberikan hasil yang baik. Kombinasi regimen yang dipakai masih bervariasi dan belum dilakukan penelitian respon klinisnya. TUJUAN : Mengetahui per...

The weather has a significant impact on power load and power system planning. Stochastic weather simulation is important in the field of power systems. However, due to factors such as long recording years, observation technology, and so on, the historical weather data often have the problem of missing or insufficient. Meteorological data are charac...

Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is an aggressive and biologically heterogeneous disease. Approximately 40% of patients with DLBCL will experience disease relapse or will be refractory to first-line chemo immunotherapy. In recent years, there have been several new therapeutic agents approved for the treatment of relapsed/refractory (R/R) DLBCL...

Background Endoscopic papillectomy (EP) offers a safe and effective method for resection of ampullary adenomas. Data regarding the long-term resolution of adenoma following EP are limited. The aim of this study therefore was to examine the timing of recurrence after EP of ampullary adenomas. Methods This was a single-center retrospective study inc...

Highly accurate monthly runoff forecasts play a pivotal role in water resource management and utilization. This article proposes a coupling of variational modal decomposition (VMD) and the dung beetle optimization algorithm (DBO) with the gated recurrent unit (GRU) to establish a new monthly runoff forecasting model: the VMD-DBO-GRU. Initially, his...

Purpose of Review Prostate cancer (PCa) is a prevalent cancer among men that needs effective treatment approaches. Traditionally, PCa was managed through whole-gland radical therapy or Active Surveillance. However, the field has witnessed a notable shift towards less invasive treatment options. Focal prostate ablation has emerged as a promising met...

Introduction Chemoradiotherapy with taxanes is well-recognized as a first-line therapy for cutaneous angiosarcoma (CAS), but second-line therapy for CAS is still controversial. Case Presentation In this report, we described a 75-year-old Japanese case of recurrent, tumor mutation burden-high CAS on the scalp treated with pembrolizumab. Our present...

The scattering and absorption of light lead to color distortion and blurred details in the captured underwater images. Although underwater image enhancement algorithms have made significant breakthroughs in recent years, enhancing the effectiveness and robustness of underwater degraded images is still a challenging task. To improve the quality of u...

Short leave is an integral part of forensic addiction treatment in Germany. Individuals with addiction problems who have offended can be admitted to forensic addiction treatment institutions to receive treatment for their addiction disorder and reduce their risk of reoffending. During this treatment, short leave is implemented to allow the practisi...

Ameloblastoma is a noncancerous tumor that originates from epithelial tissue in the oral cavity. It is regarded as one of the most aggressive odontogenic tumors (OT) in several nations throughout the world. If left untreated, they can grow to be quite big, causing facial disfigurement and functional issues. The treatment of ameloblastoma depends on...

Recurrent or de novo steatotic liver disease (SLD) following liver transplantation (LT) is a rising concern among liver transplant recipients [...]

Background Surgery for incisional hernias with obesity can be more challenging because obesity is associated with perioperative complications. Necrotizing soft tissue infection (NSTI) is a life‐threatening condition that requires aggressive surgical management. Few incisional hernias with NSTI have been reported, and the optimal strategy is undeter...

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has high recurrence rates exceeding 50% despite curative resection. The serum biomarker alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) is a well-known prognostic marker for HCC. EpCAM-positive circulating tumor cells (CTC) have a high predictive value for early HCC recurrence after curatively intended resection, most likely indicating micro...

Introduction Paraduodenal hernias (PDH) are rare congenital internal hernias with non- specific symptoms. Left-sided paraduodenal hernia is three times more common than right-sided paraduodenal hernia with similar clinical presentation but different embryological origins. Materials and Methods We report a series of eight cases of paraduodenal hern...

Peripheral giant cell granuloma (PGCG) is an asymptomatic, non-neoplastic, and proliferative lesion of unknown etiology. Possible pre-disposing factors, such as hormonal changes during pregnancy, have been suggested. However, the association between PGCG and pregnancy is controversial. There are few reported clinical cases of pregnancy-associated P...

Several operations can be defined on the set of all linear recurrent sequences, such as the binomial convolution (Hurwitz product) or the multinomial convolution (Newton product). Using elementary techniques, we prove that this set equipped with the termwise sum and the aforementioned products is an R -algebra, given any commutative ring R with ide...

Key clinical message In this case report we present a very rare case of intramuscular cavernous hemangioma in the temporalis muscle which was successfully managed with surgical excision with no evidence of recurrence in follow‐up.

The most important function of the deep learning (DL) channel equalization and symbol detection systems is the ability to predict the user’s original transmitted data. Generally, the behavior and performance of the deep artificial neural networks (DANNs) rely on three main aspects: the network structure, the learning algorithms, and the activation...

Neurothekeomas are uncommon benign superficial cutaneous tumors with various histologic patterns, such as myxoid, cellular, or mixed types, depending primarily on the quantity of myxoid matrix present. They generally affect the head and neck, are more common in women than men, and typically start in the second and early third decades of life. Once...

Chromosomal instability (CIN) is a prevalent characteristic of solid tumours and haematological malignancies. CIN results in an increased frequency of chromosome mis-segregation events, thus yielding numerical and structural copy number alterations, a state also known as aneuploidy. CIN is associated with increased chances of tumour recurrence, met...

Breast cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancer types worldwide. Regarding molecular characteristics and classification, it is a heterogeneous disease, which makes it more challenging to diagnose. As is commonly known, early detection plays a pivotal role in decreasing mortality and providing a better prognosis for all patients. Differen...

Over the last few years, several review articles described the adverse events analysis as sub-optimal in clinical trials. Indeed, the context surrounding adverse events analyses often imply an overwhelming number of events, a lack of power to find associations, but also a lack of specific training regarding those complex data. In randomized control...

The Thought of Eternal Recurrence: From Discourse to Doctrine. This article gives a new interpretation of eternal recurrence, based on the observation that the central debate about this idea in Nietzsche studies is quite unique in the history of philosophy. This debate is based on a rather radical conflict between Lehre and Rede , doctrine and disc...

Falls are a prevalent cause of injury among older people. While some wearable inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensor-based systems have been widely investigated for fall risk assessment, their reliability, validity, and identification ability in community-dwelling older people remain un- clear. Therefore, this study evaluated the performance of a c...

The point cloud is disordered and unstructured, and it is difficult to extract detailed features. The detailed part of the target shape is difficult to complete in the point cloud completion task. It proposes a point cloud completion network (BCA-Net) focusing on detail reconstruction, which can reduce noise and refine shapes. Specifically, it util...

We analyze the comparative performance of predicting the transition from normal to abnormal vibration states, simulating the motor’s condition before a drone crash, by proposing a concatenated vibration prediction model (CVPM) based on recurrent neural network (RNN) techniques. Subsequently, using the proposed CVPM, the prediction performances of s...

Background To determine the utility of contrast-enhanced voiding urography (CeVUS) in the treatment of vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) through ureterovesical reimplantation in children. Methods A total of 159 children with recurrent urinary tract infections were selected for CeVUS and voiding cystourethrography (VCUG) from December 2018 to December 20...

Lung cancer is one of the most common cancers prevalent and around 80% of all cases are non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Due to high recurrence rates, the mortality of NSCLC is high. Conventional staging systems allowed risk classification of patients in order to simplify the patient selection for adjuvant chemotherapy. Gene expression analysis...

Conventional wind speed sensors face difficulties in measuring wind speeds at multiple points, and related research on predicting rotor effective wind speed (REWS) is lacking. The utilization of a lidar device allows accurate REWS prediction, enabling advanced control technologies for wind turbines. With the lidar measurements, a data-driven predic...

In this work, we define and investigate Gaussian generalized Woodall numbers in detail, and focus on four specific cases: Gaussian modified Woodall numbers, Gaussian modified Cullen numbers, Gaussian Woodall numbers, and Gaussian Cullen numbers. We present some identities and matrices related to these sequences, as well as recurrence relations, Bin...

In the present research, we estimate some approximation properties for the generalization of a sequence of positive linear operators considered by Holhoş [6] with the following operators available in literature as special examples: Szàsz operator, Ismail-May operator associated with x (1 + x ) ² . We estimate its recurrence relation, moments and ve...

We consider a general approach to establish the positive recurrence (stability) of regenerative stochastic systems. The approach is based on the renewal theory and a characterization of the remaining renewal time of the embedded renewal process generated by regeneration. We discuss how this analysis is simplified for some classes of the stochastic...

Purpose This study aimed to assess recurrence patterns and identify the optimal dose and target volumes of postoperative radiotherapy (PORT) in patients with oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). Methods Data of 111 patients who received PORT for OSCC between January 2010 and April 2020 were retrospectively reviewed. The median age was 68 ye...

In this paper, we defined hyper-dual numbers with hyper dual fi-bonacci and hyper-dual lucas number coefficients. After that we analyzed these new number with recurrence relation. Finally, we give some imporant identity as Binet's formula, generating function, exponential generating and some sum formulas.

Herein, we present our experience using a single-stage peninsular-shaped lateral tongue flap (pLTF) to cover various intraoral defects and confirm the versatile utility and effective application of pLTF in intraoral defect reconstruction. This study included eight cases (six males and two females; average age 60.3 ± 16.9 years) of intraoral defect...

Certain convergence estimates for the semi-exponential operators associated with 1 + x ² are established including weighted approximation, a direct result involving classical modulus of continuity and quantitative Voronovskaya-type theorem in weighted spaces. Initially, the moments are obtained following a recurrence relation for these operators an...

BACKGROUND: A lack of standardization is pervasive in procedural application and reporting templates for TURBT with the use of a surgical checklist proposed as a means for quality improvement. OBJECTIVE: To introduce a TURBT checklist to assess surgeon prediction accuracy and the impact of standardized documentation on quality of resection and onco...

Background Carotid artery intraluminal thrombus (ILT), or free-floating thrombus, is an uncommon cerebrovascular entity with considerable equipoise regarding its clinical management. Likewise, in patients treated with medical management (MM), distal embolization and/or intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) may still occur. Methods All patients with sympto...

Stock market forecasting has drawn interest from both economists and computer scientists as a classic yet difficult topic. With the objective of constructing an effective prediction model, both linear and machine learning tools have been investigated for the past couple of decades. In recent years, recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have been observe...

Self-avoiding walks are studied on the 3-simplex fractal lattice as a model of linear polymer conformations in a dilute, nonhomogeneous solution. A model is supplemented with bending energies and attractive-interaction energies between nonconsecutively visited pairs of nearest-neighboring sites (contacts). It captures the main features of a semi-fl...

The structure as well as several arithmetic properties of the solution sets of norm form equations are of classical and recent interest. In this paper, we give a finiteness result for terms of linear recurrence sequences appearing in the coordinates of solutions of norm form equations. Our main theorem yields a common generalization of certain rece...

In complex measurement systems, scanning the shape data of solid models is time consuming, and real-time solutions are required. Therefore, we developed a 3D non-rigid transformation deduction model based on multi-control point perception data. We combined a convolutional neural network (CNN), gated recurrent unit (GRU), and self-attention mechanis...

Objectives The current literature provides limited guidance on the management of positive margins (PMs) following transoral laser microsurgery (TLM) for glottic squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). Long‐term data exploring the treatment of PMs with both initial observation and re‐resection are limited. Our objective was to determine the optimal treatment...

Using published whole transcriptome data from isolated single tumor cells from patients with triple negative breast cancer (1) and bulk tumors from basal subtype breast cancer (2, 3), we found recurrent differential expression and up-regulation of fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 in human triple negative breast cancer.

Background: Tenotomy of tendon Achilles is one of the major components of Ponseti method and necessary to complete correction in about 80 to 90 % of patients, it is safely procedure can be done in outpatient office as percutaneous technique under local anesthesia or in operative room under general anesthesia as mini-open technique. This study was d...

Key Clinical Message Treatment of recurrent myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) after hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) remains challenging. We present a 4‐year‐old girl experiencing early MDS relapse post‐HCT treated with a multimodal strategy encompassing a second HCT and innovative targeted therapies. We underscore the potential of a comprehen...

Introduction Salvage brachytherapy represents an effective treatment for local recurrence of prostate cancer after prior external beam radiotherapy. However, the optimal therapeutic strategies for local recurrence after salvage brachytherapy have not yet been determined. Case presentation We describe the case of a 77‐year‐old man who underwent re‐...