Effects of Resveratrol on Liver Function Tests in Patients with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials by P. Ebrahimpour, M. Karamian, A. Sharifi

“…This systematic review and meta-analysis included all the RCT studies assessing resveratrol supplements on serum AST and/or ALT in NAFLD patients. …”
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Performance of Network Real-Time Kinematic in Hydrographic Surveying by Mohamed Elsayed Elsobeiey

“…From these results, we can conclude that the KSA-CORS NRTK solution successfully meets IHO minimum bathymetry standards for the safety of navigation hydrographic surveys at a 95% confidence level for all orders of hydrographic surveys.…”
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Characterization of Intussusception in Qena University Hospital by Eman Saber Ahmed, Nezar Abdelraouf Abo Halawa, Mahmoud Abdelhamid, Mohammed Ahmed Negm

“…Results: Fever, vomiting, and abdominal discomfort were the most prevalent symptoms in an intussusception research. 10% had COVID-19. All individuals had ultrasounds, with 42.5% having CT confirmation. 10% had exploration/surgery, 57.5% had conservative management, and 32.5% had hydrostatic reduction. …”
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Effects of PET Fibers on Pumpability, Shootability, and Mechanical Properties of Wet-Mix Shotcrete by Xiangfei Cui, Guoming Liu, Cheng-long Wang, Yudong Qi

“…It was found that pressure drop and compressive strength had the strongest negative linear relationship among all fitting relationships. We hoped that this study could contribute the useful information for the application of wet-mix shotcrete mixed with PET fibers.…”
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Study on the Effect of Radish Sprouts on Short-Chain Fatty Acids and Gut Microbial Diversity in Healthy Individuals by Ru Li, Xuehong Chen, Cong Shi, Yi Zhu

“…The results indicated that the gut microbiota produced a substantial amount of SCFA within 48 h of fermentation, with a right-skewed distribution across all groups. The addition of both digestates enhanced <i>Firmicutes</i> diversity, while <i>Bacteroidetes</i> and <i>Proteobacteria</i> diversity remained stable between the control and fresh sprout groups. …”
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A scoping review of published literature on chikungunya virus. by Mariola Mascarenhas, Sophiya Garasia, Philippe Berthiaume, Tricia Corrin, Judy Greig, Victoria Ng, Ian Young, Lisa Waddell

“…A scoping review was conducted to collate and categorize all pertinent information gleaned from published scientific literature on a priori defined aspects of CHIKV and its competent vectors. …”
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Adaptive Traffic Signal Control Model on Intersections Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning by Duowei Li, Jianping Wu, Ming Xu, Ziheng Wang, Kezhen Hu

“…., Q-learning method, longest queue first method, and Webster fixed timing control method) for all cases. The proposed model reduces both the average waiting time and travel time, and it becomes more advantageous as the traffic environment becomes more complex.…”
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Short-Term Cardiac and Noncardiac Mortality Following Liver Transplantation by Mackram F. Eleid, R. Todd Hurst, Hugo E. Vargas, Jorge Rakela, David C. Mulligan, Christopher P. Appleton

“…We retrospectively reviewed timing, type, and outcome of adverse cardiac events, and all cause mortality in the 4 month postoperative period in 393 consecutive LT patients from October 1999 to February 2008. …”
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Biological properties of coronaviruses of farm, domestic animals and birds: comparative characterization of pathology they induce (review) by Kh. Z. Gaffarov, A. I. Yarullin, V. G. Gumerov, I. G. Karimullina

“…The general property of all coronavirus-induced diseases involves acute impairement of capillary circulation in the affected organ thus leading to the development of further pathology. …”
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Isolation of Bacillus sphaericus from Lombok Island, Indonesia, and Their Toxicity against Anopheles aconitus by Bambang Fajar Suryadi, Bagyo Yanuwiadi, Tri Ardyati, Suharjono

“…Those 3 isolates were potentially useful isolates, as they killed almost all larvae in 24 hours. The discovery of toxic indigenous isolates of B. sphaericus from Lombok Island opens opportunity to develop a biopesticide from local resources.…”
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An Eco-Inefficiency Dominance Probability Approach for Chinese Banking Operations Based on Data Envelopment Analysis by Feng Li, Lunwen Wu, Qingyuan Zhu, Yanling Yu, Gang Kou, Yi Liao

“…Since the eco-inefficiency will be obtained using a set of optimal weights, we further build a performance dominance structure by considering all sets of feasible weights from a data-driven perspective. …”
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Peripherally Embolizing Aortic Thrombus: The Work-Up, Management, and Outcome of Primary Aortic Thrombus by Ramy Mando, Robert Gemayel, Ashish Chaddha, Julian J. Barbat, Elvis Cami

“…Infectious, autoimmune, hematologic, and oncologic work-up were all unyielding. The patient was started on heparin and later transitioned to apixaban 5 mg twice a day and 81 mg of aspirin daily. …”
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Stability of refractive outcomes after hyperopic LASIK with and without Mitomycin C application: a randomized controlled trial by Amr Saad, Johannes Steinberg, Andreas Frings

“…The statistical analysis employed t-tests, Mann-Whitney tests, and Fisher’s Exact Test, with a significance level of p < 0.05. All 140 eyes (70 per group) were analyzed. No statistically significant differences were identified between the two groups in postoperative UDVA, CDVA, or safety parameters (p > 0.05). …”
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Conditions for compensation for moral damage caused to the employee by O. I. Panchenko

“…It is established that compensation for non-pecuniary damage to an employee is possible subject to certain statutory conditions which are common to liability in all cases of non-pecuniary damage. Each of these conditions is examined in detail, namely: the fact of causing (presence of) non-pecuniary damage; unlawfulness of the employer’s actions; existence of a causal link between the employer’s unlawful act and the non-pecuniary damage caused to the employee; and the employer's guilt. …”
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Frequency and Causes of Methotrexate Intolerance and Discontinuation in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients in Qena Governorate by Sondos Mohammed Sayed, Mohamed Ismail Abdelkareem, Eman Ragab Abdelradi, Wael Abd El-Mohsen Abady

“…Patients and methods: This hospital-based cross-sectional study was done on 200 patients with RA at the outpatient clinic of physical medicine, Rheumatology, and Rehabilitation Department of Qena University Hospital. All patients underwent a comprehensive history taking that included the reason for stopping methotrexate, a comprehensive clinical examination, a laboratory evaluation, and scoring of their disease activity. …”
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Demonstration of two qubit entangling gates in a 2D ring resonator based coupler architecture by Anirban Bhattacharjee, Panya Jain, Jay Deshmukh, Srijita Das, Madhavi Chand, Meghan P. Patankar, R. Vijay

“…We demonstrate pairwise coupling between three fixed-frequency transmon qubits connected to the ring resonator with measured coupling strengths (4.70 MHz, 2.80 MHz, and 2.65 MHz) in good agreement with those predicted from finite-element simulations. We implement an all-microwave controlled phase (CPHASE) gate between a pair of qubits with a gate time of 196 ns and demonstrate a two-qubit Bell state with a measured state fidelity of $$F = 0.88$$ . …”
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Ligand-Based Pharmacophore Modeling and Virtual Screening of RAD9 Inhibitors by Nirmal K. Prasad, Vishnupriya Kanakaveti, Siddhartha Eadlapalli, Ramakrishna Vadde, Angamba Potshangbam Meetei, Vaibhav Vindal

“…The results revealed that camptothecin can act as an effective inhibitor among all the ligands taken and can be used as an RAD9 inhibitor. …”
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Some sociolinguistic evaluations of performances of the California Vowel Shift: a matched-guise study by Pierre Habasque

“…The aim of this paper is to report on the findings of a study investigating some social meanings attributed to performances of the California Vowel Shift (CVS), a chain shift that affects almost all vowels of American English, which undergo a counterclockwise rotation. …”
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Quality of life for patients on oncology treatments in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: a systematic review by Abdullah U. Althemery, Rawan Alzahrani, Nura Alajlan, Abdullah M. Alrajhi

“…Riyadh and Jeddah contributed to all publications. A total of 2,430 patients with cancer were surveyed; 1,377 patients were female (56.67%) with an average age of 51.23 years. …”
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Lung Ultrasound Diagnostic Accuracy in Neonatal Pneumothorax by Luigi Cattarossi, Roberto Copetti, Giacomo Brusa, Stefano Pintaldi

“…LUS was consistent with PTX in all 23 patients requiring chest aspiration. In this group, CXR did not detect PTX in one patient while CTR did not detect it in 3 patients. …”
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