Shaking Table Test Study on the Earthquake Behavior of High-Speed Railway Bridge Pier with Rounded Rectangular Cross Section by Xin Kang, Yongjian Zuo, Leqiao Zeng, Linna Peng, Qiliang Wang, Xiaoxiang Wang, Libin Deng, Jia Hu, Zhuo Li, Likun Li

“…Experimental results show that the specimen remains elastic (no or slight damaged) for all experimental earthquake scenarios (from 0.45 g to 0.96 g). …”
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Identifying preeclampsia-associated key module and hub genes via weighted gene co-expression network analysis by Jie Li, Lingling Jiang, Haili Kai, Yang Zhou, Jiachen Cao, Weichun Tang

“…With the development of bioinformatics, WGCNA was used to explore specific biomarkers to provide therapy targets efficiently. All samples were obtained from gene expression omnibus (GEO), then we used a package named “WGCNA” to construct a scale-free co-expression network and modules related to PE. …”
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Rapid, Validated UPLC-MS/MS Method for Determination of Glibenclamide in Rat Plasma by Mohd Aftab Alam, Fahad Ibrahim Al-Jenoobi, Abdullah Mohammed Al-Mohizea

“…The coefficient of variation for precision at all QC concentrations was less than 6%. Recovery at LLQC, MQC, and HQC was 104.2% (± 4.9), 100.6% (± 0.9), and 102.9% (± 5.8), respectively. …”
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Mediators of intercellular interactions and histological signs of chronic viral liver disease by P. V. Koroy, A. V. Yagoda, G. I. Gilyazova, I. S. Mukhoramova

“…At chronic viral hepatitis ICAM-1 and selectins blood contents increase whereas in patients with liver cirrhosis elevation of all adhesin levels was marked. Concentration of ICAM-1, VCAM-1, Е-, L-and Р-selectin at chronic viral liver diseases was increased along with increase of severity of inflammation and severity of hepatic fibrosis and had positive correlation with histological activity indexes (HAI) and liver fibrosis. …”
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Flexural and Shear Strengthening of High-Strength Concrete Beams Using near Surface Basalt Fiber Bars by Ahmed Ashteyat, Ala’ Taleb Obaidat, Ahmad Al-Khreisat, Mu’tasime Abdel-Jaber

“…Whereas, the other six specimens were designed to have insufficient transverse steel reinforcement to make sure that the failure will be a shear failure in the control beam. All RC beams were strengthened using NSM-BFRP with different configurations except control specimens. …”
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Biallelic mutations in CDC20 cause female infertility due to oocyte maturation abnormality by Guangzhong Jiao, Jinhao Xing, Zhaoli Du, Hongchu Bao, Xiaoyan Liu

“…We have identified a case of infertile female for whom all oocytes fail to mature and are arrested at MI. …”
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Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation Model of Project Investment Risk Based on Computer Vision Technology by Hongjian Wang

“…For example, for the investment risk of chemical fiber projects, this research model evaluated the factors such as organization, management, technology, and economy and found that the risks were all higher than 21.36%, which concluded that the overall investment risk of chemical fiber projects was relatively high.…”
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Molecular Detection of Bladder Cancer by Fluorescence Microsatellite Analysis and an Automated Genetic Analyzing System by Sarel Halachmi, Michal Cohen, Raymond Szargel, Nadin Cohen

“…We found loss of heterozygocity (LOH) or microsatellite alterations (a loss or gain of nucleotides, which alter the original normal locus size) in all the patients by using fluorescent microsatellite analysis and an automated analyzing system. …”
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Curing Effects on High-Strength Concrete Properties by Afaf M. O. Wedatalla, Yanmin Jia, Abubaker A. M. Ahmed

“…The effects of hot and dry environments on high-strength concrete with different water/binder ratios (0.30, 0.35, and 0.40), using (30%) fly ash for all mixes, and (0%, 5%, and 10%) silica fume with the binder (450, 480, and 520 kg), respectively, were separately investigated, and the effects of curing under different conditions were evaluated by measuring the compressive strength, flexural strength, microhardness, and chloride diffusion and by assessing the concretes’ microstructure. …”
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Analysis of the Unsteady Flow Field in a Centrifugal Compressor from Peak Efficiency to Near Stall with Full-Annulus Simulations by Yannick Bousquet, Xavier Carbonneau, Guillaume Dufour, Nicolas Binder, Isabelle Trebinjac

“…The investigations are based on the results of unsteady three-dimensional simulations, in a calculation domain comprising all the blade. A detailed analysis is given in the impeller inducer and in the vaned diffuser entry region through time-averaged and unsteady flow field. …”
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Beware of diffusion models for synthesizing medical images—a comparison with GANs in terms of memorizing brain MRI and chest x-ray images by Muhammad Usman Akbar, Wuhao Wang, Anders Eklund

“…Here we train StyleGAN and a diffusion model, using BRATS20, BRATS21 and a chest x-ray (CXR) pneumonia dataset, to synthesize brain MRI and CXR images, and measure the correlation between the synthetic images and all training images. Our results show that diffusion models are more likely to memorize the training images, compared to StyleGAN, especially for small datasets and when using 2D slices from 3D volumes. …”
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Epidemiological characteristics of imported malaria related to international travel in the Republic of Korea from 2009 to 2018 by Byoung Hak Jeon, Jung Ah Lee, Shin Young Lee, Sang Eun Lee, Joon Sup Yeom

“…The case fatality rate was 2.3%, with all deaths occurring in travelers who contracted P. falciparum in Africa. …”
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The effect of local anaesthetic agents on opioid use and recovery in patients undergoing open heart surgery: a randomized controlled study by Hatice AZİZOĞLU, Mehmet AŞAM, Zeynep GÜRKAN, Yasemin BOZKURT, Canan DEMİR

“…As the number of chest tubes increased, recovery was delayed in all groups, and as the number of opioids used increased, postoperative recovery was negatively affected in the control group. …”
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The Role of Immunoglobulin Superfamily Cell Adhesion Molecules in Cancer Metastasis by Chee Wai Wong, Danielle E. Dye, Deirdre R. Coombe

“…It consists of interconnecting steps all of which must be successfully completed to result in a metastasis. …”
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Five principles to prioritise in small-scale surgical quality improvement: a qualitative study of the views of surgical improvement leaders by Mary Dixon-Woods, Graham Martin, Alessandra Giusti, Clifford Y Ko

“…We aimed to identify experienced leaders’ views on the principles that should guide small-scale QI projects in surgery.Methods Two rounds of virtual focus groups were conducted with 10 QI leaders, comprising surgeons, anaesthetists and nurses from three countries (Ireland, the UK and the USA). All participants had formal training in improvement techniques and at least 10 years’ experience leading small-scale QI efforts in surgery. …”
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Comparative proteomic analysis reveals the effects of different fatty acid forms on high-fat diet mice by Jiaping Pan, Huan Wang, Ye Li, Chenyang Lu

“…Compared with the model group, all three of the LC-PUFA form supplementations (labeled as the FO-TG group, FO-EE group and KO-PL groups) could significantly reduce body weight gain (P < 0.01). …”
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Correlation between SMADs and Colorectal Cancer Expression, Prognosis, and Immune Infiltrates by Ning Ding, Hongbiao Luo, Tao Zhang, Tianshu Peng, Yanru Yao, Yongheng He

“…SMAD3, SMAD4, and SMAD7 were all expressed at low levels in CRC and associated with a variety of immune cells. …”
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Joint use of polyvalent serum and immunomodulators for calves in early postnatal period by N. V. Shanshin

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Instrumental intelligent platforms for criminal analysis by V. M. Strukov, Y. V. Gnusov, Y. V. Gnusov

“…The relevance of this work is due to the peculiarities of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the processes of which are rapidly unfolding at the present stage and have a critical impact on all areas, including law enforcement. Such features include: 1) "information explosion", which is intensifying, 2) accelerating the pace of development of modern technologies; 3) the cost of high-tech tools, which is rapidly declining, and such tools become available to ordinary citizens (including criminals). …”
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An Evaluation of the Significance of Work-Related Influence Factors on Fitness and the Development of Medical and Orthopaedic Conditions in Military Executives by Christoph Schulze, Michael Becker, Susanne Finze, Christoph Holtherm, Jens Hinder, Andreas Lison

“…A total of 122 military executives (all male, age 54.6±4.2 years) answered a questionnaire aimed at evaluating private and occupational stress factors. …”
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