HIV, the gut microbiome and clinical outcomes, a systematic review. by Rachel Mac Cann, Ellen Newman, Declan Devane, Caroline Sabin, Aoife G Cotter, Alan Landay, Paul W O'Toole, Patrick W Mallon

“…Studies were included that measured gut microbiome diversity and composition, microbial translocation markers or microbial metabolite markers.<h4>Results</h4>In all, 567 articles were identified and screened of which 87 full-text articles were assessed for eligibility and 56 were included in the final review. …”
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Measurements of Epidural Space Depth Using Preexisting CT Scans Correlate with Loss of Resistance Depth during Thoracic Epidural Catheter Placement by Nathaniel H. Greene, Benjamin G. Cobb, Ken F. Linnau, Christopher D. Kent

“…The ability of anesthesiologists to make CT measurements was similar to a gold standard radiologist (all individual ICCs>0.9). Conclusions. Overall, this study supports the examination of a recent CT scan to aid in the placement of a thoracic epidural catheter. …”
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Biosocial environmental faces of climate variability in health care: A systematic review by Fatemeh Zarei, Ehsan Arzroomchilar

“…Recommendations include bolstering the capacity of these systems, enhancing efficient and iterative risk management across all tiers, fostering collaboration across various sectors, formulating action plans, and making short- and long-term investments to enhance adaptability. …”
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Financial Innovation and Sustainable Development in Selected Countries in West Africa by Folorunsho M. Ajide

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Selfitis: An Analysis on Prevalence and Attitude among College Students by MG Sreejamol, R Radhika, Rajalakshmi Reghuvaran

“…About 59.5% (238) of them used all the enlisted social media. The prevalence of selfie addiction shows majority, 260 (65%) had mild selfie addiction, 76 (19%) had no selfie addiction but few had moderate 64 (16%) selfie addiction, and there was no severe selfie addiction. …”
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Epidemiology of pelvic and acetabular fractures in a tertiary hospital in Singapore by Amritpal Singh, Amaris Shu Min Lim, Bernard Puang Huh Lau, Gavin O’Neill

“…Methods: This is a retrospective data analysis of all trauma patients who underwent surgery for PAFs from 2008 to 2016 in a tertiary trauma centre in Singapore. …”
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The Dietary Use of Pigeon Pea for Human and Animal Diets by Belete Kuraz Abebe

“…Protein, carbohydrates, minerals, vitamins, and essential amino acids are all present in reasonable amounts in both mature and immature PP seeds. …”
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Synthesis of xLiMnPO4·yLi3V2(PO4)3/C Nanocomposites for Lithium Ion Batteries Using Tributyl Phosphate as Phosphor Source by Yanming Wang, Bo Zhu, Xiaoyu Liu, Fei Wang

“…The xLiMnPO4·yLi3V2(PO4)3/C (x/y = 1 : 0, 12 : 1, 8 : 1, 6 : 1, 4 : 1, 0 : 1) composite cathode materials are synthesized using tributyl phosphate as a novel organic phosphor source via a solid-state reaction process. All obtained xLiMnPO4·yLi3V2(PO4)3/C composites present similar particles morphology with an average size of ca. 100 nm and low extent agglomeration. …”
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Pathophysiology of Resistant Hypertension: The Role of Sympathetic Nervous System by Costas Tsioufis, Athanasios Kordalis, Dimitris Flessas, Ioannis Anastasopoulos, Dimitris Tsiachris, Vasilios Papademetriou, Christodoulos Stefanadis

“…Increased sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activity is present in all these underlying conditions, supporting its crucial role in the pathophysiology of antihypertensive treatment resistance. …”
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Therapeutical Intervention, Relaxation, Mental Images, and Spirituality (RIME) for Spiritual Pain in Terminal Patients. A Training Program by Ana Catarina de Araújo Elias, Joel Sales Giglio, Cibele Andrucioli de Mattos Pimenta, Linda Gentry El-Dash

“…Six subjects (a nurse, a doctor, three psychologists, and an alternative therapist), all skilled in palliative care, were invited to take part in the experience. …”
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Numerical Analysis of J-Hook Connectors’ Effect on the Performance of Steel-Concrete Composite Shear Walls by Seyed Mohammad Farnam, Mohsen Khorshidi

“…Additionally, the number and location of the connectors have a great impact on the both load and buckling capacity of the steel plate. Above all, adding concrete to the steel shear wall which consists of two steel sheets, not only rise the wall's bearing capacity by 14 percent, but improve the performance of the interaction between materials by about 17%.…”
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Blinding HT: Hiding Hardware Trojan signals traced across multiple sequential levels by Ying Zhang, Minghui Ge, Xin Chen, Jiaqi Yao, Zhiming Mao

“…There are already many HT detection methods which claim to detect all publicly available HT benchmarks. But these methods can still be defeated by designing novel HTs. …”
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Association of Autoantibodies to BP180 with Disease Activity in Greek Patients with Bullous Pemphigoid by Aikaterini Patsatsi, Aikaterini Kyriakou, Aikaterini Pavlitou-Tsiontsi, Anastasia Giannakou, Dimitrios Sotiriadis

“…39 bullous pemphigoid (BP) patients were studied to assess the clinical significance of anti-BP180 and anti-BP230 circulating autoantibodies of BP and correlate their titers with the clinical scores of the BP Disease Area Index (BPDAI) and the Autoimmune Bullous Skin Disorder Intensity Score (ABSIS) as well as with the intensity of pruritus measured by the BPDAI pruritus component. All parameters were evaluated by the time of diagnosis (baseline), month 3, and month 6. …”
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Development and Validation of HPLC Method for the Simultaneous Determination of Five Food Additives and Caffeine in Soft Drinks by Bürge Aşçı, Şule Dinç Zor, Özlem Aksu Dönmez

“…The experimental variables chosen were pH (6.0–7.0), flow rate (1.0–1.4 mL/min), and mobile phase ratio (85–95% acetate buffer). Resolution values of all peak pairs were used as a response. Stationary phase was Inertsil OctaDecylSilane- (ODS-) 3V reverse phase column (250 × 4.6 mm, 5 μm) dimensions. …”
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Research Methodology and Management on Transport: Main Issues at the Final Stage of Russian Transport Sector Reforms by V. A. Persianov, A. A. Stepanov, T. M. Gainochenko

“…It is noted that the first and the main condition for the success of all the ongoing developments today is an attempt to delineate the boundaries of projects and programs for the development of transport, identify means, methods and opportunities for their implementation.The direction of the scientific specialization of the Department for management of the transport and expeditionary services of the State University of Management is proposed. …”
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Implementation of Portable Ultrasound for Heart Disease Detection Using Cloud Computing-Based Machine Learning by Riyanto Sigit, Rika Rokhana, Setiawardhana, Taufiq Hidayat, Anwar, Jovan Josafat Jaenputra

“…Video data is transmitted via a mobile application to the cloud, where all stages from preprocessing to classification are conducted on cloud servers. …”
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A stacked ensemble approach with resampling techniques for highly effective fraud detection in imbalanced datasets by Idongesit E. Eteng, Udeze L. Chinedu, Ayei E. Ibor

“…From the results obtained, it is observed that the proposed model is highly competitive, with extant models producing ROC AUC of 99% and scoring above 98% in all other metrics. The approach is recommended for detecting fraud cases in similar case studies. …”
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A multi-objective fuzzy optimization model for multi-type aircraft flight scheduling problem by Ming Wei, Shangwen Yang, Wei Wu, Bo Sun

“… This study proposes a multi-objective optimization model for an Aircraft Flight Scheduling Problem (AFSP) for assigning a set of aircraft located at different airports to conduct all flight trips. The proposed model features each flight trip with its own special aircraft type and fuzzy flight time. …”
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Geysers Valley CO2 Cycling Geological Engine (Kamchatka, Russia) by A. Kiryukhin, V. Sugrobov, E. Sonnenthal

“…Nevertheless, the total deep thermal water discharge remains relatively stable; thus all of the changes are caused by redistribution of the thermal discharge due to giant landslide of June 3, 2007, mudflow of Jan. 3, 2014, and other events of geothermal caprock erosion and water injection into the geothermal reservoir. …”
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Lassan a testtel, avagy a személyek konstitúciós elméletének kritikája by Ágnes Katona

“…Célom megmutatni, hogy népszerűsége ellenére a konstitúciós nézet igen gyenge lábakon áll, mert egyrészt ellentmondásos, másrészt nehezen hihető állítások következnek belőle. …”
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