The Screening of Antiphospholipid Antibodies in Obstetric Antiphospholipid Syndrome-Like Events: A Regional Perspective by Onder Onen, Fusun Gulizar Varol

“…The number of obstetric antiphospholipid antibody syndrome cases with >40 U of antiphospholipid antibody was only 8 (18.60%). Conclusion: Not all obstetric antiphospholipid antibody syndrome associated pregnancy morbidities may own high (>40U) antiphospholipid antibody titers, but low antiphospholipid antibodies (>10U) also accompany to this clinical picture. …”
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Performance Analysis of Thermodynamic Indices and Atmospheric Stability Parameters in Thunderstorm Prediction: The Case of Samsun by Ahmet Can Kaya, Veli Yavuz

“…According to the results, the most successful index in thunderstorm prediction was SI, while the performance of CAPE and BRN parameters was the lowest. Based on all these analyses, it is observed that the majority of thunderstorms occur during the hottest months of the year and the hottest hours of the day. …”
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A Multi-Surrogate Assisted Multi-Tasking Optimization Algorithm for High-Dimensional Expensive Problems by Hongyu Li, Lei Chen, Jian Zhang, Muxi Li

“…In this work, a multi-surrogate-assisted multi-tasking optimization algorithm (MSAMT) is proposed that solves high-dimensional problems by simultaneously optimizing multiple surrogates as related tasks using the generalized multi-factorial evolutionary algorithm. In the MSAMT, all exactly evaluated samples are initially grouped to form a collection of clusters. …”
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Pretest Score for Predicting Microbubble Contrast Agent Use in Stress Echocardiography: A Method to Increase Efficiency in the Echo Laboratory by Mathieu Bernier, Sahar S. Abdelmoneim, Stuart Moir, Robert B. McCully, Patricia A. Pellikka, Sharon L. Mulvagh

“…Variables associated with microbubble use were age, sex, smoking, presence of multiple risk factors, bodymass index (BMI), referral for dobutamine stress echocardiography, history of coronary artery disease, and abnormal baseline electrocardiogram. All variables except BMI were given a score of 1 if present and 0 if absent; BMI was given a score of 0 to 4 according to its value. …”
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New Tools in HCV Diagnosis, in Light of the Enhanced Awareness and the New Drugs for Treatment: SMARTube and Stimmunology by Svetlana Gorodin, Serhat Unal, Youchun Wang, Mikhail I. Mikhaylov, Ludmila Bigbulatova, Tamar Jehuda-Cohen

“…Using SMARTplasma eliminated all false positive results, using the current assays. …”
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Vaccine hesitancy among health paraprofessionals: A mixed methods study. by Madeline Hergott, Michael Andreski, John Rovers

“…Healthcare paraprofessionals such as certified nursing assistants, dietary and home health aides are among the most patient facing of all health care providers. Their beliefs and attitudes about vaccines are critical to how they communicate about vaccines with their patients.…”
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A Particle Swarm Optimization Variant with an Inner Variable Learning Strategy by Guohua Wu, Witold Pedrycz, Manhao Ma, Dishan Qiu, Haifeng Li, Jin Liu

“…Based on this knowledge, the inner variable learning (IVL) strategy helps the particle to inspect the relation among its inner variables, determine the exemplar variable for all other variables, and then make each variable learn from the exemplar variable in terms of their quantitative relations. …”
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Adaptive characteristics of promising soybean cultivars under the conditions of the south of the Russian Far East by E. S. Butovets, L. M. Lukyanchuk

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Collaboration among Registered Nurses and Licensed Practical Nurses: A Scoping Review of Practice Guidelines by Dawn Prentice, Jane Moore, Joanne Crawford, Sara Lankshear, Jacqueline Limoges

“…Ten practice guidelines, all published in Canada, were included in the final scoping review. …”
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Prognostic impact of primary versus secondary resistance to sorafenib in patients with HCC by Jin Lei, Hongyuan Dai, Ya Zhang, Guangling Ou, Zhi Peng Liang, Yinying Lu, Haiyang Li

“…Design: This was a retrospective cohort study. Methods: We recruited all patients with advanced HCC who received first-line sorafenib from January 2019 to January 2023 in two medical centers in China. …”
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Evaluation of spatio-temporal water quality status of Jeera river, Odisha, India by Aiswarya Pati, Showkat Ahmad Mir, Archana Padhiary, Iswar Baitharu, Binata Nayak

“…WAWQI (Weighed Arithmetic Water Quality Index) values show that almost all sampling sites have poor or unsuitable quality. …”
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Impact of coronavirus disease 2019 on the prognosis of mucor mycosis in diabetic patients in Egypt: a comparative multicenter study by Mahmoud ElSamkary, Radwa Elsherif, Tarek M. Saad, Samah M. Fawzy

“…Full ophthalmological evaluation and necessary medications were offered to all patients, and the decision to exenteration was made and performed when appropriate. …”
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Association of Fibroblast Growth Factor 23 and Calcium in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients by Ghaith Hamza Kamil, Mohammed Mezher Hussein, Raya Ezzat Maroof

“…The conclusion of the current study shows that the. FGF 23 was high in all CKD patients and Ca was high in two patients, normal in thirty-seven patients, and decreased in sixty-one patients. …”
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Selection ability and market timing skills of mutual fund and unit trust managers in a developing economy: evidence from Ghana by Richard Danquah, Baorong Yu

“…Design/methodology/approach – The study uses an improved survivorship bias-free dataset of yearly after-fee returns of all mutual funds and unit trusts operating in Ghana from January 2011 to December 2019, cumulating in nine years of quantitative fund data. …”
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Organizational and technological principles of building condition monitoring at the stage of life cycle operation by S. V. Fedosov, A. A. Lapidus, A. B. Petrukhin, B. E. Narmaniya

“…Graphical modelling of the life cycle of a building structure (building material) reflects the strength parameters of the structure at all stages of operation.Materials and methods. The methodology of the work is based on graphical modelling of the life cycle of a building structure. …”
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An Experimental and Kinetic Study of the Sorption of Carbon Dioxide onto Amine-Treated Oil Fly Ash by Mohammed A. Saad, Mohammed J. Al-Marri, Ali L. Yaumi, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Reyad Shawabkeh

“…The saturation capacity determined from the Sips model, which corresponds to the sum of the saturation capacities of all of the adsorbed layers, was 540.3 mg/g of ash.…”
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Small Bowel Obstruction due to Anomalous Congenital Bands in Children by Basak Erginel, Feryal Gun Soysal, Huseyin Ozbey, Erbug Keskin, Alaattin Celik, Aslı Karadag, Tansu Salman

“…Band excision was adequate in all of the patients except the two who received resection anastomosis for intestinal necrosis. …”
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Characteristics of ChatGPT users from Germany: Implications for the digital divide from web tracking data. by Celina Kacperski, Roberto Ulloa, Denis Bonnay, Juhi Kulshrestha, Peter Selb, Andreas Spitz

“…In terms of political variables, political knowledge and political self-efficacy as well as some political behaviors such as voting, debating political issues online and offline and political action online were all associated with ChatGPT activity, with online political debating and political self-efficacy negatively so. …”
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Shedding new light on atherosclerosis therapeutics: Nanomedicines targeting atherosclerotic immune microenvironment by Zhiyue Wang, Jie Sheng, Guangming Lu, Longjiang Zhang

“…AIME is characterized by persistent inflammatory responses, shifted immunometabolism, and the formation of adventitial neuroimmune cardiovascular interfaces, all of which are regarded as prospective targets for AS immunotherapy. …”
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Pilot study to understand and compare challenges being faced in reporting of transfusion reactions in various types of blood banks enrolled under Haemovigilance Programme of India by Rayaz Ahmad Bhat, Vishal Tiwari, Satyajeet Singh, Ruchi Rao, Akash Chaudhary, Akanksha Bisht

“…During this period, data related to adverse transfusion reactions and their reporting were collected using a designed data collecting form and a validated questionnaire from all the six blood banks. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS USED: MS Excel Ver. 2007 was used for compilation and descriptive analysis of collected data, and SPSS Ver. 25.0 was used for determining the Cronbach’s alpha for the questionnaire which was statistically significant (α > 0.7). …”
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