Inflammation, fibrosis and E1 glycoprotein persistence in joint tissue of patients with post-Chikungunya chronic articular disease.

Introduction: Chikungunya chronic joint disease causes debilitating arthralgia, significantly impacting the quality of life of affected individuals.

Methods: In this study, patients underwent clinical follow-ups, joint biopsies, and pre-biopsy and 24 months post-biopsy serum dosage of cytokines.

Results: All participants were female and had pain in 12 joints on average, with 41.

Induction chemotherapy response of HPV-related multiphenotypic sinonasal carcinoma: First-ever reported therapeutic outcome and a brief literature review.

A 54-year-old male patient complained of nasal obstruction and epistaxis for 2 years, with worsening of the symptoms in the preceding year. Physical examination revealed a friable, irregular mass, with yellowish secretion, in the left nasal fossa. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed an expansive lesion in the left nasal cavity, extending into the nasopharynx, ethmoid, right nasal cavity, and cortical bone of the hard palate.

Effects of high-order space harmonics on the operation of five-phase induction machines under unbalance.

The paper addresses the effects of high-order space harmonics on the steady-state performance of five-phase induction machines operating under unbalance. We show that the airgap harmonic fields with orders higher than three, although usually disregarded, can produce a significant increase in the torque pulsation and in the Joule losses. We propose a model based on symmetric components which is used to demonstrate that the field produced by each rotor harmonic current is related to two stator sequence currents.

Ferritin, Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate, and C-Reactive Protein Level in Patients with Chikungunya-Induced Chronic Polyarthritis.

Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a global emergent arthritogenic alphavirus transmitted by anthropophilic mosquitoes. Chikungunya fever may evolve to chronic arthralgia in 57-80% of infected patients. This study was developed to identify possibly fast, simple low-cost biomarkers to monitor chronic CHIKV-induced articular disease.

Performance estimation of three-phase induction motors from no-load startup test without speed acquisition.

This paper presents a simple method to estimate the steady-state performance of three-phase induction motors using only measurements of stator voltages and currents, acquired during a no-load startup test and without speed acquisition. The procedure consists of two steps: (a) firstly, the parameters of the single-cage model are estimated while considering the rotor resistance and the leakage inductances variable with the slip; and (b) secondly, the steady-state performance is estimated from the equivalent circuit using the estimated parameters. The proposed method is experimentally validated through tests involving 229 medium-power motors with power ranging from 22 to 90 kW; the estimated performance is then compared with measurements obtained through standardized laboratory tests.

Induction distribution of five-phase induction machines under open-phase fault.

The main objective of the paper is to determine the induction distribution of five-phase induction machines operating under unbalanced steady state, focusing on the operation with two opened stator phases. Firstly, we present an analytical model based on symmetric components which includes the third harmonic component of the airgap induction. The model is then used to determine the induction distribution in the airgap and also in the main iron parts, i.