Impact of glucocorticoids on the therapeutic efficacy of denosumab against osteoporosis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis by Jiwon Yang, Youngjae Park, Jennifer Jooha Lee, Seung-Ki Kwok, Ji Hyeon Ju, Wan-Uk Kim, Sung-Hwan Park

“…Similarly, in patients with anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (CCP) antibody positivity or those treated with biologic or targeted synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs), although there were significant increases in the T -score and areal BMD at all sites in both groups, there were no significant between-group differences. …”
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Geoelectrical Characterization of Aquifer Precincts in Parts of Lapai, North Central Nigeria by MT Tsepav, SI Ibrahim, FA Bayegun

“…The aquifer overburden protection capacity in VES 2, 5, 6,9,10 and 11 were relatively low which means the aquifer in these locations are susceptible to contaminants while in VES 15 the protective capacity is higher indicating that the aquifer is protected. Generally, all the locations could be exploited for groundwater at relatively reasonable depths. …”
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The personnel policy for curators in the Kazan educational district and the age dynamics of professors at the Kazan University during 1804–1884 by T.V. Kostina, A.V. Kouprianov

“…The analysis has revealed a peculiar pattern of aging/rejuvenation periods at the Kazan University that differs significantly from more or less sustained dynamics of the three other universities under study. All critical rearrangements in the body of professors of the Kazan University, as well as their effects on the age structure have been discussed in detail. …”
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Association between Air Pollution and Hemoptysis by Ignasi Garcia-Olive, Joaquim Radua, Jose Antonio Fiz, Jose Sanz-Santos, Juan Ruiz-Manzano

“…This paper describes the relationship of air pollutants with severe hemoptysis. Methods. All consecutive subjects with severe hemoptysis during a 5-year period were included. …”
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The efficacy of Topical Clascoterone versus systematic spironolactone for treatment of acne vulgaris: A systematic review and network meta-analysis. by Mohammad A Basendwh, Amer Abdulaziz Alharbi, Sarah Abdulla Bukhamsin, Rahaf Abdulrashid Abdulwahab, Sarah Abdullah Alaboud

“…We used the "netmeta" and "meta" packages for network meta-analysis (NMA) in RStudio 1.2.5019 (2009-2019 RStudio, Inc.) to conduct all of our statistical tests.<h4>Results</h4>Seven articles (n = 2,006 patients) were included. …”
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The effect of neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio and thrombocyte index on inflammation in patients with periodic fever, aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis, and adenitis syndrome by Vildan Gungorer, Alaaddin Yorulmaz, Husamettin Vatansev, Sukru Arslan

“…The medical records of all participants were evaluated retrospectively. …”
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THE EFFECT OF WORKLOAD, FINANCIAL COMPENSATION, ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE, AND JOB SATISFACTION ON EMPLOYEE ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR by Huda M.I., Agusdin A., Nururly S.

“…The population in this study is all employees who work at PT. PLN (Persero) UPK Lombok. …”
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Informational support for women with endometriosis: a scoping review by Deniz Senyel, James H. Boyd, Melissa Graham

“…While few studies analysed information seeking behaviour and information needs, the evidence shows women’s high interest in a broad spectrum of information topics. Across all studies, the internet was the most important access point for information. …”
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Effect of grape seed extract on &#946; -catenin gene expression and hyperglycemia in rats induced by streptozotocin by Elif Gulbahce-Mutlu, Emine Arslan, Hilal Arikoglu

“…The Wnt/&#946; -catenin signaling pathway plays a role in in all physiological processes. Any defect in the pathway causes diabetes to develop. …”
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Long-term results of invasive and non-invasive treatment strategies in the elderly patients with acute coronary syndrome by R.R. Komorovsky

“…The incidence of soft events, including unstable angina pectoris or re-hospitalisation, was significantly lower in the coronary artery bypass grafting group (р = 0.04) as compared with the medical therapy group, while the incidence of hard events (cardiac death and non-fatal myocardial infarction) was similar in all groups. According to Cox proportional hazard analysis, low ejection fraction (< 40 %) and concomitant peripheral arterial disease were found to be independent predictors of hard events. …”
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Local field potentials in a pre-motor region predict learned vocal sequences. by Daril E Brown, Jairo I Chavez, Derek H Nguyen, Adam Kadwory, Bradley Voytek, Ezequiel M Arneodo, Timothy Q Gentner, Vikash Gilja

“…Following an initial observation that structured changes in the LFP were distinct to all vocalizations during song, we show that it is possible to extract time-varying features from multiple frequency bands to decode the identity of specific vocalization elements (syllables) and to predict their temporal onsets within the motif. …”
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Exploiting the Composite Step Strategy to the Biconjugate A-Orthogonal Residual Method for Non-Hermitian Linear Systems by Yan-Fei Jing, Ting-Zhu Huang, Bruno Carpentieri, Yong Duan

“…Analogously to the CSBCG method, the resulting interesting variant, with only a minor modification to the usual implementation of the BiCOR method, is able to avoid near pivot breakdowns and compute all the well-defined BiCOR iterates stably on the assumption that the underlying biconjugate A-orthonormalization procedure does not break down. …”
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A new approach to estimate neighborhood socioeconomic status using supermarket transactions and GNNs by Eduardo Cruz, Monica Villavicencio, Carmen Vaca, Lisette Espín-Noboa, Nervo Verdezoto

“…Abstract Ending poverty in all its forms everywhere remains the number one Sustainable Development Goal of the United Nations 2030 Agenda. …”
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Comprehensive assessment of organic Rankine cycles using renewables energy for combined power and heat generation in a badminton stadium by Jiaojiao Liu, Zhanguo Su

“…Compared to the baseline-ORC, the results show that the dual-pressure ORC works properly. In all conditions, the exergy efficiency and power generation of the dual-pressure ORC are higher than the baseline, which are 21 and 24 %, respectively. …”
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Employee discipline in the city of banjarmasin: case study of employee discipline in public service review at the north banjarmasin district office by Dewi Merdayanty, Arif Darmawan, Syahrial Shaddiq, Junaidy Junaidy, Sitna Hajar Malawat

“…The results of the study find (1) The discipline indicator for working time for civil servants is following the stipulated provisions, namely 37.5 hours in one week starting from Monday to Friday. (2) Disciplinary indicators for civil servant regulations are carried out under applicable procedures and all employees wear uniforms and attributes that have been determined. (3) Disciplinary indicators of civil servant work responsibilities in the use of tools and maintenance of equipment have been carried out properly, if damage occurs to the equipment, repairs are immediately carried out under established procedures…”
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Evaluation of insertion and deletion polymorphisms of Brazilian Odontoceti by Dafne Adriana Abreu dos Anjos, Anna Luiza dos Santos Donato, Rodrigo Goldenberg-Barbosa, Elizeu Fagundes de Carvalho, Cesar Rogerio Leal do Amaral

“…We accomplished the species’ identification based on the unique SpInDel profile for all Odontoceti species, except Phocoenas, and for six species of delphinids.…”
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Identification of univalent chromosomes in monosomic lines of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) by means of cytogenetic markers by M. F. Sanamyan, Sh. U. Bobokhujayev

“…The remaining 21 lines were duplicates of three non-homologous chromosomes. All monosomic lines identified were characterized by differences in univalent sizes, meiotic index, number of tetrads with micronuclei, pollen fertility, frequency of monosomy in the progeny, and a complex of morphological characters associated with the monosomy of the chromosome identified. …”
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Immunohistochemical Localization of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor in Rat Buccal Mucosa Treated with Fenugreek Leaf Oil by Sarah A Omran, Ban A Ghani ‎

“…The experimental design included: the normal group (no ulcer), the control group (12 ulcers left without treatment to the right), and the study group (12 ulcers on the left side were healed using fenugreek oil). All rats were sacrificed on the 3rd and 7th days of the experimental study, healing durations, and biological samples were prepared for histological and immunohistochemistry analysis of EGFR. …”
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Host RNA-Binding Proteins as Regulators of HIV-1 Replication by Sebastian Giraldo-Ocampo, Fernando Valiente-Echeverría, Ricardo Soto-Rifo

“…However, novel approaches aimed at identifying all the proteins bound to specific RNAs (RBPome), such as RNA interactome capture, have also contributed to expanding our understanding of the HIV-1 replication cycle, allowing the identification of RBPs with functions not only in viral RNA metabolism but also in cellular metabolism. …”
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Intraoperative navigated ultrasound in posterior fossa surgery by Bopp Miriam, Saß Benjamin, Pojskic Mirza, Grote Alexander, Nimsky Christopher

“…In nine cases (eleven lesions) navigation was rated “insufficient” leading to a navigation update by manually outlining the tumor volumes within the iUS data set, whereas in all other cases navigation accuracy was rated “sufficient” with no need for further updates. …”
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