Splenogonadal fusion (SGF) is a rare cause of testicular mass with the vast majority of cases presenting in men under the age of 30 and represents a diagnostic challenge. Discontinuous splenogonadal fusion presenting as a new testicular mass in a 55-year-old man is discussed to aid other surgeons in diagnosing this condition.

Various Listeria monocytogenes strains may contaminate a single food product, potentially resulting in simultaneous exposure of consumers to multiple strains. However, due to bias in strain recovery, L. monocytogenes strains isolated from foods by selective enrichment (SE) might not always represent those that can better survive the immune system of a patient. We investigated the effect of cocu...

The paper discusses the efficiency of RPA devices application with support synchronized phasor measurements (SPM) at step-down substations and in 6-20 kV distribution networks. main part presents a description algorithm developed by authors for determining damaged cable line during single-phase ground faults (SGF) networks compensated isolated neutral. proposed makes it possible to realize reli...

In this paper, I shall discuss a peculiar coordination construction in German, where the shared subject of two conjuncts is not found peripheral, but contained within first conjunct. Following Höhle (1983), called “Subject Gaps Finite/Fronted” clauses (SGF). previous accounts, both symmetric approaches (Frank, 2002; Kathol, 1999), as well asymmetric adjunction (Büring & Hartmann, 1998). The...

A series of glass fiber-reinforced and rubber-toughened poly(ethylene terephthalate) hybrid composites were twin-screw extrusion compounded with varying total and relative concentrations of a reactive terpolymer of poly(ethylene-co-methyl acrylate-co-glycidyl methacrylate) (E-MA-GMA) as the elastomeric impact modifier (10-1520 wt.%) and short glass fiber – SGF (20-25-30 wt.%). Haake torque rheo...

Semi-grant-free (SGF) transmission has recently received significant attention due to its capability accommodate massive connectivity and reduce access delay by admitting grant-free users channels which would otherwise be solely occupied grant-based users. In this paper, a new SGF scheme that exploits the flexibility in choosing decoding order non-orthogonal multiple (NOMA) is proposed. Compare...

Purpose Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) disease is a systemic autoimmune disorder that affects organs with melanocytes. The sunset glow fundus (SGF) in VKH disease was evaluated with polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT). Methods The study involved 28 eyes from 14 patients with chronic VKH disease, 21 eyes from 21 age-matched controls, and 22 eyes from 22 high-myopic patient...

INTRODUCTION The genetic variations of co-stimulatory molecules can affect the extent of T cell activity during T-cell mediated immunity, especially in transplant patients. This study aimed to investigate the association of programmed cell death 1 (PDCD1) and programmed cell death 1 ligand 1 (PDCD1LG1) gene polymorphisms with clinical outcome of kidney transplantation. MATERIALS AND METHODS A...

AIMS The aim of this research was to determine the ability of non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) serogroups to survive with exposure to synthetic gastric fluid (SGF) after adaptation to pineapple juice (PJ) at room and refrigerated temperatures compared to E. coli O157:H7 and to examine the relative transcriptional expression of acid resistance (AR) genes, rpoS, gadA and adi...

Automatic radiology report generation is essential to computer-aided diagnosis. Through the success of image captioning, medical has been achievable. However, lack annotated disease labels still bottleneck this area. In addition, image-text data bias problem and complex sentences make it more difficult generate accurate reports. To address these gaps, we present a self-guided framework (SGF), s...