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Case Series and Literature Review of Up-to-date Surgical Management of Occipital Neuralgia
Authors: Lee Seok Joon , Park Joo Seok , Jeong Woo Shik 
Published: July 2024

AbstractNerve decompression is an emerging surgical treatment option for patients with occipital neuralgia. However, limited research is available on the efficacy of this treatment in South Korea. This retrospective study evaluates the efficacy of nerve decompression surgery in patients with chronic migraines, specifically focusing on occipital neuralgia, in South Korea. Between January 2019 and December 2022, six patients diagnosed with occipital neuralgia, who had not responded to conservative treatments, underwent nerve decompression surgery. This procedure, performed under local anesthesia, involved decompression of the greater and/or lesser occipital nerves. Patient data were analyzed for headache frequency and intensity (using the Numeric Rating Scale [NRS]) and the decrease in oral medications needed postsurgery. Results showed significant improvement in headache symptoms postsurgery, with the average preoperative NRS score of 7.9 dropping to 3.7 postoperatively. Additionally, the average number of medications used decreased from 3.2 to 1.3. No significant surgical complications were reported. The study highlights the potential of nerve decompression as an effective treatment for occipital neuralgia, particularly in cases resistant to traditional medical management.
Submandibular Ectopic Thymic Mass in a 6-Month-Old Infant
Authors: Fenner Jordan , Saramago Israel , Oldan Jorge , Muhleman Mitchel 
Published: July 2024

AbstractInfant ectopic cervical thymus is a relatively uncommon diagnosis and, in many cases, subclinical. If not subclinical, it may present as a palpable swelling or with compressive symptoms (i.e., stridor or dysphagia). Standard radiologic workup includes an ultrasound followed by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with tissue sampling if the ultrasound is indeterminate. In this case, an incidental submandibular mass was noted on a noncontrast MRI for seizures in a 6-month-old male infant. A radiologic and pathologic workup was performed for evaluation. However, this case is unique as fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography was also utilized to potentially aid in the establishment of a diagnosis.
Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage and Stroke
Authors: Charan Bheru Dan , Gaikwad Shailesh B. , Sebastian Leve Joseph Devarajan , Jain Savyasachi , Garg Ajay , Reddy Nikhila 
Published: July 2024

AbstractReversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome is a complex condition characterized by temporary constriction of the brain's arteries. Diagnosis typically involves a retrospective approach, necessitating repeated imaging to confirm the resolution of cerebral arterial spasms. We describe a case of a 22-year-old female with a history of posterior circulation stroke and recurrent thunderclap headaches. On imaging, evidence of stroke, convexity subarachnoid hemorrhage, and multiple areas of stenosis and dilatation in the posterior circulation associated with normal laboratory parameters were found. The resolution of clinical symptoms and angiographic findings were noted in the follow-up. After other diagnoses are excluded, patients can be reassured about favorable prognosis.
Endovascular Treatment of Mycotic Aortic and Iliac Aneurysms in a Tertiary Center: A 15-Year Experience
Authors: Theodoulou Iakovos , Matson Matthew , Jaffer Ounali , Elsaadany Amr , Low Deborah , Renfrew Ian , Akhtar Mohammed Rashid 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
Objective This retrospective case series reports the 15-year experience of the endovascular management of mycotic aortic and iliac aneurysms (MAAs) at a tertiary referral center in the United Kingdom.
Materials and Methods The patients were identified through advanced searches in picture archiving and communication system (PACS) and electronic patient records. Data were retrieved and recorded in a structured spreadsheet including demographic details, symptoms and comorbidities, endovascular techniques employed and graft types, as well as treatment outcomes including 30-day mortality, 1-, 3-, and 5-year survival, aneurysm resolution percentage, and rates of re-intervention and complications.
Statistical Analysis Descriptive statistics summarized the demographic and clinical characteristics, presenting them as means for continuous variables and frequencies/percentages for categorical variables.
Results Of the 15 included patients, 73.3% (11/15) and 26.7% (4/15) were males and females, respectively, with a mean age of 64 years. Imaging revealed diverse anatomical involvement, with MAA in the descending thoracic (6/15), suprarenal and juxtarenal (5/15), infrarenal (3/15), and common iliac arteries (1/15). The 30-day mortality rate was 6.7% (1/15), while 1-, 3-, and 5-year survival rates from time of initial intervention were 57.1% (8/14), 38.5% (5/13), and 30.8% (4/13), respectively, with 1 case only just having undergone 1-month follow-up (performed in July 2023). The average mycotic aneurysm size was 47 mm (range: 19–80 mm), of which 33.3% (5/15) presented with rupture. The average sac size reduction following treatment was 31%, with 5/15 cases demonstrating complete resolution. Four cases required re-intervention due to persistent endoleak, sac re-expansion secondary to delayed endoleak, or stent occlusion. Persistent or recurrent graft infection was observed in 53.3% (8/15) of cases. Two cases required surgical re-intervention for stent occlusion.
Conclusion Our findings reinforce the role of endovascular interventions in MAA acute management, showcasing immediate survival benefits. Late complications and frequent re-interventions emphasize the importance of vigilant surveillance.
Spontaneous Chest Wall Hernias: Intercostal Lung Hernia and Inverted Intercostal Hernia
Authors: Ucgun Aybuke , Kurtulus Ozturk Esin , Ozturk Saffet 
Published: July 2024

AbstractIntercostal lung hernia and inverted intercostal hernia are rare chest wall hernias usually asymptomatic and detected incidentally on chest radiograph. In this case report, we discussed here on the chest radiograph and computed tomography imaging findings of two cases of these rare hernias with an emphasis being in differential diagnosis of chest tumors.
Anticipating and suspending: the chronopolitics of cryopreservation
Authors: Lemke Thomas 
Published: July 2024

AbstractThe article brings together two disparate and so far largely disconnected bodies of research: the critical analysis of cryopreservation technologies and the debate on modes of anticipation. It starts with a short review of the state of the research on the concept of cryopolitics. In the next part I will suggest two revisions. I will problematize the idea of latent life and the focus on potentialities that have been central to the research on cryopolitics so far, proposing to shift the analytic frame to suspended life on the one hand and to modes of anticipation on the other. I argue that cryopreservation practices are part of contemporary technologies of anticipation. They are linked to a politics of suspension by mobilizing a liminal biological state in which frozen organisms or biological material are neither fully alive nor ultimately dead. This seeks to avert and/or enable distinctive futures by extending temporal horizons and keeping vital processes in limbo.
Language usage in the field of health care
Authors: Grein Marion 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
Within the last 15 years, more than 2.5 million “migrants” attended special language courses [so-called
integration courses] in Germany. In the last three years “vocational language courses” increased, especially courses in the field
of health care. The aim of the article is to show that language analysis in accordance with Edda Weigand’s MGM can help to get a
better insight into language usage, needed especially in the field of health care. By means of analysing one specific medical
dialogue, the need for seeing language use as intercultural use will be discussed.
Pragmatic development in Peruvian children
Authors: Fernández-Flecha María , Junyent Andrea , Blume María 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
This study examines how 8- to 15-month-old Peruvian children1 (N = 18) express pragmatic functions in terms of the modality and referential-specificity level of each communicative behaviour. Results show that pragmatic functions were expressed mainly via the vocal modality, primarily with vocalisations; nevertheless, specific functional patterns were found: declaratives involved more use of words, and imperatives more use of gestures. While older children produced more declaratives and less personal expressions, and more words, there was no significant change of preferred modality with age. Finally, vocabulary size and pragmatic production seem to be associated: children with larger receptive vocabularies produced more declaratives and less personal expressions, while those with larger expressive vocabularies produced fewer personal expressions and more words. This pragmatic approach allows for a more nuanced view of communicative development, with each function exhibiting a specific trajectory.
Verbal irony and the implicitness of the echo
Authors: Mazzaggio Greta , Zappoli Alessandra , Mazzarella Diana 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
Speakers can express a critical, dissociative attitude by being ironic. According to the Echoic account of verbal irony, this attitude targets a proposition that echoes a thought attributed to someone other than the speaker herself at the present time. This study investigated the role of echo in irony processing across the lifespan. Through a self-paced reading task, we assessed whether the degree of explicitness of the proposition echoed by the ironical statement and the age of the participant influenced irony processing. Our results show that, independently of age, ironic statements were costlier to process than literal statements, with aging further increasing difficulty. Crucially, our manipulation of the echo affected reading times: it was more complex to process irony when this echoed an implicature or an implicit expectation, particularly for older adults. This work corroborates the role of the echo in verbal irony providing insights into age-related changes in irony processing.
The study of interface quality in HfO2/Si films probed by second harmonic generation
Authors: Ye Li , Zhang Libo , Wang Shaotong , Zhao Weiwei , Huang Chongji , Gao Wenshuai , Liu Xue , Li Tiaoyang , Li Tao , Min Tai , Tian Mingliang , Chen Xuegang 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
Time-dependent second harmonic generation (TD-SHG) is an emergent sensitive and non-contact method to qualitatively/quantitively characterize the semiconductor materials, which is closely related to the interfacial electric field. Here, the TD-SHG technique is used to study the interface quality of atomic layer deposited 15 nm HfO2/Si (n-type/p-type) samples, which is compared to the conventional electrical characterization method. A relation between the interface state density and the time constant extracted from TD-SHG is revealed, indicating that TD-SHG is an effective method to evaluate the interface state density. In addition, the dopant type and dopant density can be disclosed by resolving the dynamic process of TD-SHG. The scenario of interfacial electric field between the initial electric field and the laser-induced electric field is proposed to explain the time-dependent evolution of SHG signal. In conclusion, the TD-SHG is a sensitive and non-contact method as well as simple and fast to characterize the semiconductor materials, which may facilitate the semiconductor in-line testing.
Highly sensitive terahertz polarization biosensor utilizing chiral metasurface
Authors: Li Jiu-Sheng , Xue Yao-Yao , Guo Feng-lei 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
In order to achieve a highly sensitive biosensor with a simple structure, we propose a chiral metasurface polarization sensor. Using immunological surface plasmon resonance (SPR) detection, the antigen or antibody is fixed as a probe on the SPR metasurface to detect the corresponding antibody or antigen. Through the change of the refractive index of the analyte on the surface facial mask, the terahertz signal changes, and finally the sensing detection of avian influenza virus can be achieved. The designed metasurface adopts a hollow split sector chiral structure to generate chiral surface current, which can convert linearly polarized incident waves as elliptical polarized waves. The structure achieves the high sensitivity of 401 deg/RIU at frequency of 0.8 THz, and the avian influenza virus (H1N1, H5N2 and H9N2) with the same real part of the refractive index can also be distinguished. Influenza viruses belong to the family Orthomyxoviridae of RNA viruses, divided into three types: A, B, and C. In this article, avian influenza viruses belong to type A influenza viruses. It can clearly identify different Avian Influenza Viruses by the two polarization characteristic parameters of the reflection spectrum PEA (Polarization Ellipse Angle) and PRA (Polarization Rotation Angle). This method has a significant application prospect in the fields of biomedicine and food industries.
Review of ethical values across the ICRP’s system of radiological protection
Authors: Martinez Nicole E , Zölzer Friedo 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
In 2018, the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) released Publication 138, which highlights the ethical values foundational to the system of radiological protection. Additional work, both within and beyond the ICRP, has proposed or recommended ethical values associated with applications of the system in different areas, perhaps most notably in medical, veterinary, and environmental radiological protection. There are also existing ethical frameworks not specifically related to radiological protection that are nonetheless relevant to its practice; for example, the Beauchamp and Childress principles of biomedical ethics are of particular significance when it comes to medical uses of radiation and radioactivity. At first glance, it may seem as if there are unique or isolated sets of ethical values that need to be applied depending on the circumstance. Yet while each area of application will indeed have its own unique aspects and associated value judgements, there are consistent and complementary relationships between these ethical values. This paper reviews the work of the ICRP related to ethics, including brief historical context, and highlights the similarities and differences between sets of ethical values with emphasis on medical, veterinary, and environmental applications of radiological protection.
Silver peroxide-incorporated carbon dots with high photothermal performance for combating bacteria
Authors: Zhang Li , Wang Qinxin , Huo Zhi , Qiu Zengke , Wang Yanlin , Wang Qing , Bao Jie , Zheng Yanhua , Du Fengyi , Cai Yan 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
The widespread use of antibiotics often increases bacterial resistance. Herein, we reported a silver peroxide-incorporated carbon dots (defined as Ag2O2–CDs) with high photothermal conversion efficiency via in situ oxidation process. The prepared Ag2O2–CDs exhibited ultra-small size of 2.0 nm and hybrid phase structure. Meanwhile, the Ag2O2–CDs were of a similar optical performance comparing with traditional carbon dots (CDs). Importantly, the incorporation of Ag2O2 into CDs significantly enhanced photothermal conversion efficiency from 3.8% to 28.5%. By combining silver ion toxicity and photothermal ablation, the Ag2O2–CDs were capable of destroying gram-positive and gram-negative bacterium effectively. These findings demonstrated that the Ag2O2–CDs could be served as a potential antibacterial agent for clinical applications.
Stemless InSb nanowire networks and nanoflakes grown on InP
Authors: Rossi Marco , van Schijndel Teun A J , Lueb Pim , Badawy Ghada , Jung Jason , Peeters Wouter H J , Kölling Sebastian , Moutanabbir Oussama , Verheijen Marcel A , Bakkers Erik P A M 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
Among the experimental realization of fault-tolerant topological circuits are interconnecting nanowires with minimal disorder. Out-of-plane indium antimonide (InSb) nanowire networks formed by merging are potential candidates. Yet, their growth requires a foreign material stem usually made of InP–InAs. This stem imposes limitations, which include restricting the size of the nanowire network, inducing disorder through grain boundaries and impurity incorporation. Here, we omit the stem allowing for the growth of stemless InSb nanowire networks on an InP substrate. To enable the growth without the stem, we show that a preconditioning step using arsine (AsH3) is required before InSb growth. High-yield of stemless nanowire growth is achieved by patterning the substrate with a selective-area mask with nanohole cavities, containing restricted gold droplets from which nanowires originate. Interestingly, these nanowires are bent, posing challenges for the synthesis of interconnecting nanowire networks due to merging failure. We attribute this bending to the non-homogeneous incorporation of arsenic impurities in the InSb nanowires and the interposed lattice-mismatch. By tuning the growth parameters, we can mitigate the bending, yielding large and single crystalline InSb nanowire networks and nanoflakes. The improved size and crystal quality of these nanostructures broaden the potential of this technique for fabricating advanced quantum devices.
Phenylethylammonium bromide-assisted solution-phase ligand exchange in CsPbBr3 quantum dot solar cells
Authors: Zhou Xin , Zhu Zhibo , Wang Chengyang , Niu Pujun , Lyu Mei , Zhu Jun 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
CsPbBr3 quantum dots (QDs) have excellent optical properties and good phase stability, but the long-chain ligands on their surfaces affect the charge transfer between QDs. Here, we propose a simple ligand exchange strategy: solution-phase ligand exchange. By adding an acetone solution of phenylethylammonium bromide to the purification process of CsPbBr3 QDs, the long-chain ligands were effectively replaced and the electric coupling between QDs was improved. As a result, the power conversion efficiency of the solar cell was increased from 1.95% to 2.83%. Meanwhile, the stability of the devices was significantly improved in the unencapsulated case.
Amplitude equations for wave bifurcations in reaction–diffusion systems
Authors: Villar-Sepúlveda Edgardo , Champneys Alan 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
A wave bifurcation is the counterpart to a Turing instability in reaction–diffusion systems, but where the critical wavenumber corresponds to a pure imaginary pair rather than a zero temporal eigenvalue. Such bifurcations require at least three components and give rise to patterns that are periodic in both space and time. Depending on boundary conditions, these patterns can comprise either rotating or standing waves. Restricting to systems in one spatial dimension, complete formulae are derived for the evaluation of the coefficients of the weakly nonlinear normal form of the bifurcation up to order five, including those that determine the criticality of both rotating and standing waves. The formulae apply to arbitrary n-component systems (

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) and their evaluation is implemented in software which is made available as supplementary material. The theory is illustrated on two different versions of three-component reaction–diffusion models of excitable media that were previously shown to feature super- and subcritical wave instabilities and on a five-component model of two-layer chemical reaction. In each case, two-parameter bifurcation diagrams are produced to illustrate the connection between complex dispersion relations and different types of Hopf, Turing, and wave bifurcations, including the existence of several codimension-two bifurcations.
A prediction model for chlorophyll concentration in seawater based on BorutaShap-MEMD-GRU
Authors: Zhu Qiguang , Yuan Junjun , Zhang Linsong , Shen Zhen , Chen Ying 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
To solve the problem of the difficulty in selecting multi-parameter features of the ocean and the lack of power of traditional time-series prediction models in predicting ocean data, an ocean time-series prediction GRU model based on the Borutashap algorithm, and a hybrid multivariate empirical modal decomposition is proposed to predict multivariate in this paper. The feature selection of multi-feature ocean data is carried out by the Borutashap algorithm based on the XG-boost model, then the selected data are decomposed by multi-modal decomposition, and the data are reconstructed to get the high-frequency and low-frequency components, and the trend term components by Permutation Entropy, and finally the high-frequency and low-frequency components and the trend term are respectively brought into the GRU network and the prediction is summed up to get the final result. In this paper, the model’s effectiveness is verified by ablation experiments and compared with other feature selection models and classical time series prediction models, the results show that the model has a better prediction effect.
Solvability of a system of linear equations—an approach based on the generalized inverses determined by the Penrose equations
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Authors: Baksalary Oskar Maria 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
The paper aims to play an expository role, providing a tailored introduction to the theory of matrix generalized inverses determined by the so-called Penrose equations, with the Moore–Penrose inverse as the jewel in the crown. The tailoring is made taking into account applicability of the inverses to solvability of a system of linear equations, which covers, inter alia, the least squares method. The method is introduced in a formal, though compendious way, with an intention to support researchers who want to consciously utilize it in their investigations. Additionally, the paper points out various links between the generalized inverses and theory of projectors, indicating issues which are relevant from the perspective of physics. The article can be viewed as a sequel of [O.M. Baksalary and G. Trenkler, ‘The Moore–Penrose inverse—a hundred years on a frontline of physics research,’ Eur. Phys. J. H 46, 9 (2021)], the paper prepared to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first definition of the Moore–Penrose inverse, which shades a spotlight on the role the inverse plays in physics.
Nebulized spray pyrolysis deposited CdO thin films for liquefied petroleum gas and ethanol gas sensor
Authors: Vijayanarayanan V , Aravindan V , Karuppasamy B 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
High quality cadmium oxide (CdO) thin films were prepared through an inexpensive and simple nebulized Spray Pyrolysis (neb-SP) technique. The transparent conducting CdO thin films deposited at different substrate temperatures (TS) for the ethanol and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) sensor application. XRD, SEM, UV–vis Spectroscopy and Hall Effect were done to study the structural, morphological, optical and electrical properties respectively. Polycrystalline nature thin films shows (1 1 1) cubic structure as the prominent peak. Surface morphology studies reveal that the grain size and roughness of the films are increased with increase in the substrate temperature. The average transmittance of the yellowish transparent CdO thin films is about 57%, thus the films are transparent in the visible region. The optical band gap (Eg) value of the CdO films increased from 2.16 to 2.28 eV with increase in the TS from 225 °C to 300 °C. The minimum value of electrical resistivity of the films is 1.40 × 10−3 Ωcm obtained at 275 °C. The neb-SP deposited CdO thin film (275 °C) shows maximum response to the ethanol and LPG gas sensitivity of 31.87% and 16.4% respectively at operating temperature of 573 K. Thus the results authenticate that the CdO thin films deposited low substrate temperature with high quality can be achieved via neb-SP technique compared to other wet chemical or physical method.