Takayasu's Arteritis: A Case Report by Arzoo Khadka, Sumi Singh, Sarika Timilsina

“…Here we present a case of Takayasu's arteritis in a 26-year-old woman who presented with syncope and dizziness with thickened walls of the arch of the aorta and its branches in Magnetic Resonance Imaging angiogram finding. Women of Japanese descent are not the only ones who can develop Takayasu's arteritis; it can affect anyone. …”
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Femmes africaines, hommes portugais et familles coloniales soutenant un empire : histoires du Minas Gerais au XVIIIe siècle by Mariana L. R. Dantas

“…The resulting population of mixed European and indigenous or African descent, who were encouraged or forced to embrace Portuguese laws and practices when conducting their affairs, created the political and cultural coherence that supported Portugal’s imperial claims and aspirations. …”
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Battling a rarity: A case of kindler syndrome from a developing country by Alina Ahmed, Tasheen Zehra, Alina Moin, Shajie Ur Rehman Usmani

“…It describes the presence of clinically diagnosed Kindler Syndrome in a young male of Pakistani descent that started in infancy and presented with a variety of clinical features over the years. …”
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Demand‐side price‐responsive flexibility and baseline estimation through end‐to‐end learning by Yuanyuan Shi, Bolun Xu

“…This paper proposes a novel end‐to‐end deep learning framework that simultaneously identifies demand baselines and the price‐response model from the net demand measurements and price signals. A gradient‐descent approach is then proposed that backpropagates the net demand forecast errors to update the weights of the price‐response model and the weights of the baseline demand forecast jointly. …”
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Target acoustic field and transducer state optimization using Diff-PAT by Tatsuki Fushimi, Kenta Yamamoto, Yoichi Ochiai

“…Diff-PAT is based on automatic differentiation and stochastic gradient descent. This optimizer achieves higher accuracy than conventional optimizers. …”
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A Delay Learning Algorithm Based on Spike Train Kernels for Spiking Neurons by Xiangwen Wang, Xianghong Lin, Xiaochao Dang

“…The proposed algorithm firstly defines spike train kernels to transform discrete spike trains during the learning phase into continuous analog signals so that common mathematical operations can be performed on them, and then deduces the supervised learning rules of synaptic weights and delays by gradient descent method. The proposed algorithm is successfully applied to various spike train learning tasks, and the effects of parameters of synaptic delays are analyzed in detail. …”
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Croatian as a Heritage Language in Argentina: Between Vulnerability and Linguistic Maintenance by Josip Bruno Bilić, Paola Cuneo, Ivana Franić

“…The analysis is focused on Argentina, where an estimated 250 000 to 500 000 people are from Croatian descent. The study is based upon a corpus of Croatian speech gathered from second- and third-generation migrants and from official and non-official records, gathered by the authors. …”
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Optimizing Variational Graph Autoencoder for Community Detection with Dual Optimization by Jun Jin Choong, Xin Liu, Tsuyoshi Murata

“…Focusing on Variational Graph Autoencoder for Community Detection (VGAECD) we found that optimizing the loss using the stochastic gradient descent often leads to sub-optimal community structure especially when initialized poorly. …”
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A Fuzzy-PID Scheme for Low Speed Control of a Vehicle While Going on a Downhill Road by Liqiang Jin, Ronglin Zhang, Binghao Tang, Hao Guo

“…We explored a vehicle hill descent control (HDC) system based on an electronic stability program (ESP) and applied this system to brake cars. …”
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Strong and Weak Teleology in the Life Sciences Post-Darwin by Michael A. Flannery

“…It is often assumed that direction and purpose in nature—teleology—is a dead relic of the past, a result of Charles Darwin’s <i>Origin of Species</i> (1859) and <i>Descent of Man</i> (1871). But teleology has had a long and complex relationship with science. …”
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A Rare Case of Takayasu Arteritis Presenting as Pericarditis with Effusion by Ian J. Robertson, David K. Mecham, Lisa M. Conte, Michael F. Loncharich

“…Takayasu arteritis (TAK) is a rare large-vessel vasculitis that is seen primarily in young females of Asian descent and is infrequently diagnosed in the United States. …”
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La diffusion de la législation royale au Portugal et dans ses possessions atlantiques, 1621-1808 by Pedro Cardim, Miguel Baltazar

“…This study also takes into account the population of Amerindian and African descent living in areas under Portuguese control, and more specifically the form and extent to which these legal norms and proclamations reached them. …”
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Airplane headache – an underestimated problem? by Marcin Kulczyński, Michał Marciniec, Klaudia Sapko, Ewa Papuć, Konrad Rejdak

“…The airplane headache is an incident of severe, clinically stereotypical pain during ascent or descent of an airplane. The entity is considered rare; however, growing numer of passengers in air transport results in better recognition of the problem. …”
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A Modified Gradient Method for Distributionally Robust Logistic Regression over the Wasserstein Ball by Luyun Wang, Bo Zhou

“…In this paper, a modified conjugate gradient method under the forward-backward splitting framework is proposed to further improve the numerical efficiency for solving the distributionally robust Logistic regression model over the Wasserstein ball, which comprises two phases: in the first phase, a conjugate gradient descent step is performed, and in the second phase, an instantaneous optimization problem is formulated and solved with a trade-off minimization of the regularization term, while simultaneously staying in close proximity to the interim point obtained in the first phase. …”
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Temporal convex combination‐based secure distributed estimation against cyberattacks and noisy input by Zhanxi Zhang, Lijuan Jia, Senran Peng, Zi‐Jiang Yang, Ran Tao

“…Furthermore, for more effective and robust performance, an adaptation rule to adjust convex combination weights is presented, in which the generalized correntropy method with nonlinear loss function and stochastic gradient descent are utilized. Besides, to eliminate input noise, a bias‐compensation method in local adaptation of the secure distributed estimation is proposed. …”
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Application of the Parabola Method in Nonconvex Optimization by Anton Kolosnitsyn, Oleg Khamisov, Eugene Semenkin, Vladimir Nelyub

“…For multivariate problems, we use these methods as line search procedures in combination with well-known zero-order methods such as the coordinate descent method, the Hooke and Jeeves method, and the Rosenbrock method. …”
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A Critical Study of the Order of the Great Cyrus on the basis of Historical Resources by Javad Choopanian

“…The result of this research shows that with a little analysis and interpretation of historical developments and phenomena, especially with regard to its eastern and mythological context, the issue of descent and assignment in the first Achaemenid period was also to be interpreted and analyzed in other ways.…”
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On the fractal patterns of language structures. by Leonardo Costa Ribeiro, Américo Tristão Bernardes, Heliana Mello

“…Finally, analyzing the distance among languages in this space, we conclude that the closeness there is tendentially related to the distance in the Phylogenetic tree that depicts the lines of evolutionary descent of the languages from a common ancestor.…”
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Historical determinants of neurosurgical inequities in Africa and the African diaspora: A review and analysis of coloniality by Ernest J. Barthélemy, Sylviane A. Diouf, Ana Cristina Veiga Silva, Nancy Abu-Bonsrah, Isabella Assunção Santos de Souza, Ulrick Sidney Kanmounye, Phabinly Gabriel, Kwadwo Sarpong, Edjah K. Nduom, Jean Wilguens Lartigue, Ignatius Esene, Claire Karekezi

“…This article presents a review and analysis of the historical determinants of neurosurgical inequities as understood by a group of scholars who share Sub-Saharan African descent. Vignettes profiling the colonial histories of Cape Verde, Rwanda, Cameroon, Ghana, Brazil, and Haiti illustrate the role of the colonial legacy in the currently unmet need for neurosurgical care in each of these nations. …”
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Importance of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Hepatopancreatobiliary Workforce by Timothy A. Rengers, Susanne G. Warner

“…Diversity is a catalyst for progress that prevents institutional stagnation and, by extension, averts descent to mediocrity. This review focuses on the available data concerning hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) surgical workforce demographics and identifies evidence-based strategies that may enhance justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion for HPB surgeons and their patients. …”
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