Selective Ensemble Learning Method for Belief-Rule-Base Classification System Based on PAES by Wanling Liu, Weikun Wu, Yingming Wang, Yanggeng Fu, Yanqing Lin

“…Traditional Belief-Rule-Based (BRB) ensemble learning methods integrate all of the trained sub-BRB systems to obtain better results than a single belief-rule-based system. …”
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Global Solar Radiation Models in Minas Gerais, Southeastern Brazil by Ana Flávia Martins Monteiro, Fabrina Bolzan Martins

“…Accurate and complete global solar radiation (Hs) data at a specific region are crucial for regional climate assessment, crop growth modeling, and all operations that use solar energy. However, in the Minas Gerais state, Southeastern Brazil (SEB), the number of weather stations that measure global solar radiation is scarce, and when it is available, it presents gaps in the time series. …”
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Open Data Release and Privacy Concerns: Complexity in Mitigating Vulnerability with Controlled Perturbation by Shah Imran Alam, Ihtiram Raza Khan, Syed Imtiyaz Hassan, Farheen Siddiqui, M. Afshar Alam, Anil Kumar Mahto

“…K-anonymity algorithm was the foundation of many of its successor algorithms of all privacy-preserving algorithms. l-diversity claims to add another dimension of privacy protection. …”
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The formulated microbicide RC-101 was safe and antivirally active following intravaginal application in pigtailed macaques. by Alexander M Cole, Dorothy L Patton, Lisa C Rohan, Amy L Cole, Yvonne Cosgrove-Sweeney, Nicole A Rogers, Deena Ratner, Alexandra B Sassi, Carol Lackman-Smith, Patrick Tarwater, Bharat Ramratnam, Piotr Ruchala, Robert I Lehrer, Alan J Waring, Phalguni Gupta

“…<h4>Background</h4>RC-101 is a congener of the antiretroviral peptide retrocyclin, which we and others have reported is active against clinical HIV-1 isolates from all major clades, does not hemagglutinate, and is non-toxic and non-inflammatory in cervicovaginal cell culture. …”
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Evaluating the association of depressive symptoms on serum folate and erythrocyte folate levels based on the 2017–2020 NHANES database by Yunhong Yang, Huaqian Qi, Jiahao Zhang, Jie Jia, Yunsong Yang, Hong Zhao

“…When exploring the association between different degrees of depressive symptoms and erythrocyte folate, it was unexpectedly found that major depression was negatively associated with erythrocyte folate with a OR value of −0.18, 95% CI of −0.31 ~ −0.04 after adjusting for all covariates.ConclusionDepression is associated with folate levels. …”
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A case report of confirmed difficult pulmonary tuberculosis based on the hybrid capture-based tNGS method by Weiqian Chen, Huimin Chen, Ze Liu, Xinle Chi, Yaomeng Chen, Huan Ye, Wenjie Huang, Chenlei Cao, Wei Weng

“…Routine testing of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, search for tuberculosis bacilli, bacterial and fungal cultures, X-pert MTB/RIF, and multiplex PCR-based targeted Next-generation sequencing (mp-tNGS) results were all inconclusive. Finally, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid was sent for hybrid capture-based targeted Next-generation sequencing (hc-tNGS) testing, and special staining of the enlarged lymph nodes confirmed the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis. …”
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Enhanced Bayesian model for multienvironmental selection of winter hybrids maize: assessing grain yield using ‘ProbBreed’ by Bikas Basnet, Chitra Bahadur Kunwar, Umisha Upreti

“…Joint probability analysis identified RMH1899 super (0.23 & 8.3 tons/ha), followed by RMH 666 (0.15 & 8.4 tons/ha) and Uttam 121 (0.11 & 8.6 tons/ha), all of which accounted for overall environmental conditions. …”
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Evaluation of the effectiveness of blood-drop agglutination test for chicken tuberculosis diagnosis by M. O. Baratov

“…The necropsy findings confirmed the practical significance of the serological test; generalized tuberculosis process was noted in all birds positively reacting in blood-drop agglutination test. …”
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Assessment of economic burden due to COVID-19 pandemic during institutional childbirth in Nepal: before-and-after design by Ashish KC, Rejina Gurung, Prajwal Paudel, Honey Malla, Avinash K Sunny, Mats Målqvist, Omkar Basnet, Pratiksha Bhattarai

“…The OOPE among the poorest family increased by 12.9%, and OOPE for richer family increased by 57.6% during the pandemic period.Conclusion OOPE for maternity care increased by more than 28% during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal. OOPE increased in all wealth quintile with marked rise in richer wealth quintile group. …”
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Comprehensive Evaluation of the Nutritional Quality of Stored Watermelon Seed Oils by Marta Siol, Beata Witkowska, Diana Mańko-Jurkowska, Sina Makouie, Joanna Bryś

“…Health indices were favorable for all oils, with self-extracted oil exhibiting the highest health-promoting index (7.07) and hypocholesterolemic/hypercholesterolemic ratio (7.18). …”
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Hydrolysis of Methionine- and Histidine-Containing Peptides Promoted by Dinuclear Platinum(II) Complexes with Benzodiazines as Bridging Ligands: Influence of Ligand Structure on th... by Snežana Rajković, Beata Warżajtis, Marija D. Živković, Biljana Đ. Glišić, Urszula Rychlewska, Miloš I. Djuran

“…The chlorido Pt(II) complexes 1–3 were converted into the corresponding aqua species 1a–3a, and their reactions with an equimolar amount of Ac–L–Met–Gly and Ac–L–His–Gly dipeptides were studied by 1H NMR spectroscopy in the pH range 2.0 < pH < 2.5 at 37°C. It was found that, in all investigated reactions with the Ac–L–Met–Gly dipeptide, the cleavage of the Met–Gly amide bond had occurred, but complexes 2a and 3a showed lower catalytic activity than 1a. …”
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A journey into a Mediterranean diet and type 2 diabetes: a systematic review with meta-analyses by Demosthenes Panagiotakos, Katherine Esposito, Paolo Chiodini, Maria Ida Maiorino, Giuseppe Bellastella, Dario Giugliano

“…Objectives To summarise the evidence about the efficacy of a Mediterranean diet on the management of type 2 diabetes and prediabetic states.Design A systematic review of all meta-analyses and randomised controlled trials (RCTs) that compared the Mediterranean diet with a control diet on the treatment of type 2 diabetes and prediabetic states was conducted. …”
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KaRhab: an international online registry for cardiac rhabdomyomas by Vera-Maria Herrmann, Maria Arelin, Caroline G. Bergner, Julia Herrmann, Paula Janz, Henriette Kiep, Annika Mueller, Steffen Syrbe, Robert Wagner, Bardo Wannenmacher, Nadine Wolf, Michael Weidenbach, Vincent Strehlow

“…Conclusion In the view of the heterogeneity of treatment methods, a systematic overview of cardiac RHM is all the more important, especially as specific drug treatment options now exist. …”
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The large-scale whole-genome sequencing era expedited medical discovery and clinical translation by Qingxin Yang, Shuhan Duan, Yuguo Huang, Chao Liu, Mengge Wang, Guanglin He

“…Recent advancements in sequencing technology have enabled the implementation of large-scale, high-quality, diverse, multi-omics, and engineered genomic projects, including the All of Us Research Program and the Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine Program. …”
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Air Transport Area as an Object of State Regulation by O. V. Brusakova

“…It is concluded that the state needs to respond appropriately, i.e. to implement appropriate state regulation of the aviation area functioning during the pandemic, in particular in the implementation of air transportation in exceptional cases, the operation of airfields and airports in quarantine, aircraft parking in designated areas, standardization of issues, related to the return of passengers for canceled flights or their rebooking, providing state support to the aviation area in connection with the cessation of financial revenues from all market participants (including by allocating subsidies from the state budget, providing state aid to ensure minimal operation of airports and airfields, exemption of airlines from paying certain types of taxes for a certain period of time), etc.…”
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Nontyphoidal Salmonella Gastroenteritis in a Tertiary Children’s Hospital in Southern China: Characteristics and Dietary Considerations by Lu Ren, Min Yang, Lanlan Geng, Peiyu Chen, Huan Chen, Sitang Gong, Ding-You Li

“…A retrospective case-series analysis was carried out in a tertiary children’s hospital in Guangzhou, China. We included all infants and children who were diagnosed with nontyphoidal Salmonella gastroenteritis between 1 January 2014 and 31 December 2016. …”
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The Roles of Autophagy in Acute Lung Injury Induced by Myocardial Ischemia Reperfusion in Diabetic Rats by Liying Zhan, Yuan Zhang, Wating Su, Qiongxia Zhang, Rong Chen, Bo Zhao, Wei Li, Rui Xue, Zhongyuan Xia, Shaoqing Lei

“…Improving autophagy with Rap significantly attenuated all these changes, but the autophagy inhibitor 3-MA exhibited adverse or opposite effects as Rap. …”
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Short Pulse Epiretinal Stimulation Allows Focal Activation of Retinal Ganglion Cells by Laurin X. Koppenwallner, Gunther Zeck, Paul Werginz

“…Axonal thresholds were significantly higher for all pulse durations, with the ratio between axonal and somatic thresholds strongly increasing with decreasing pulse duration (1.32 and 4.39 for pulse durations of 500 and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$10\mu $ </tex-math></inline-formula>s, respectively). …”
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New Insights Into Hepatic Impairment (HI) Trials by Sebastian Haertter, Maximilian Lobmeyer, Brian C. Ferslew, Pallabi Mitra, Thomas Arnhold

“…While for compounds with steep increase studies in all severity strata may be warranted they may also offer the potential to estimate the appropriate doses in an HI trial. …”
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Exploring factors of physicians’ preferences for continuing medical education by Ruzica Nikolic Mandic, Vesna Bjegovic-Mikanovic, Zoran Bukumiric, Zorica Terzic-Supic, Jovana Todorovic, Sandra Grujicic, Dejan Nesic, Ulrich Laaser

“…Results The results pointed to a significant association between the scores in all identified domains (management, clinical practice, communication, public health, essentials and clinical emergency) and female gender. …”
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