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Pitting corrosion seriously harms the service life of oil field gathering and transportation pipelines, which is an important subject prevention. In this study, we collected data pipeline steel immersion experiment established a pitting judgment model based on machine learning algorithm. Feature reduction methods, including feature importance calculation pearson correlation analysis, were first...

To cite: Nijsse B, Roks G. BMJ Case Reports Published online: 28 November 2012 doi:10.1136/bcr-2012007347 DESCRIPTION A 73-year-old man presented with paresthesias of the fingertips and weakness of the abductor pollicis brevis muscle and the opponens pollicis muscle of both hands. Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) was suspected and confirmed by electromyography. The presence of swelling and pitting ...

Nails can act as a protective, defensive and beauty cover of the phalanges. The dermatologic disorders as well as the systemic diseases and trauma can produce change in the nails. Normal variations of nails are important to recognize and distinguish from nail diseases. There is not enough information about the prevalence of nail disorders in children. In this study, we have determined the preva...

Chronic cutaneous lupus erythematosus is a polymorphous autoimmune disease which may mimic some other clinical conditions, causing diagnostic difficulties. Acneiform lesions, including comedones and pitting scars are occasionally atypical presentations of cutaneous discoid lupus erythematosus.

Various electrochemical approaches, including potentiodynamic polarization, open circuit potential evolution and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), are employed to investigate the degradation behavior of biomedical magnesium alloy under the influence of aggressive ions, such as chloride, phosphate, carbonate and sulfate, in a physiological environment. The synergetic effects and mutu...

Recently, it was reported that remitting seronegative symmetrical synovitis with pitting edema (RS3PE) syndrome could be complicated with solid tumors. In a retrospective, multicenter study between October, 2003 and September, 2010, we investigated the characteristics of patients with paraneoplastic RS3PE syndrome who fulfilled following criteria: (1) bilateral pitting edema of hands or feet o...