Plasma biomarkers for predicting heart failure in patients with acute myocardial infarction by Guihong Rong, Xiao Wang, Xinling Qin, Yanxia Wang, Meilian Quan, Chunfeng Xi

“…We measured the serum biomarkers NT-proBNP, cTNT, PLR, NLR, and GDF-15 in all patients using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). …”
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Assessment of Masonry-Infilled Steel Frames Using Existing Experimental Tests Database in Comparison to Standards by Ciprian Bratu, Dario Šokić, Naida Ademović, Ercan Isik, Borko Bulajić, Dorin Radu, Marijana Hadzima-Nyarko

“…The equivalent diagonal model, utilized in all analytical expressions, can provide highly accurate estimations of load-bearing capacities that closely align with the experimental results. …”
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Frequency anomalies and characteristics of extratropical cyclones during extremely wet, dry, windy, and calm seasons in the extratropics by H. Binder, H. Wernli

“…The patterns of dry and calm seasons mainly contrast with those of wet and windy seasons; i.e. they are often characterised by particularly few or weak cyclones or a combination thereof. In all four types of extreme seasons, there is remarkably large spatial and seasonal variability in the cyclone properties, especially over the continents. …”
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Second-Hand Smoke Increases Bronchial Hyperreactivity and Eosinophilia in a Murine Model of Allergic Aspergillosis by Brian W. P. Seymour, Edward S. Schelegle, Kent E. Pinkerton, Kathleen E. Friebertshauser, Janice L. Peake, Viswanath P. Kurup, Robert L. Coffman, Laurel J. Gershwin

“…Immunological data that supports this exacerbation of airway hyperresponsiveness being mediated by an enhanced type 1 hypersensitivity response include: eosinophilia in peripheral blood and lung sections. All Af sensitized mice produced elevated levels of IL4, IL5 and IL10 but no IFN-γ indicating a polarized Th2 response. …”
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Profil Merokok pada Pelajar di Tiga SMP di Kota Padang by Yessy Susanti Sabti, Oea Khairsyaf, Ricky Awal

“…Results : 27,7% of students reported that they ever smoked cigarettes, and all of them are boys,  29% started to smoke before 10 years old. 37% of ever smoked students are still smoking untill now. 46% are addicted to smoke.  71,7% has smoking parents.  …”
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Epidemiology and clinicopathological features of soft tissue tumors in adolescents: a cross-sectional study by Ogochukwu Chioma Ofiaeli, Felix Emeka Menkiti, Victor Ifeanyichukwu Modekwe, Shirley Nneka Chukwurah, Ogochukwu Robinson Ofiaeli, Amalachukwu Okwukweka Odita

“…Results STTs accounted for 12.5% of all histologically diagnosed lesions in adolescents, with a mean age of 15 ± 2.9 years, 54.4% occurring in females and 35.4% in middle adolescents. …”
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Comparative analysis of the effectiveness of surgical treatment of macular hole with and without postoperative gas tamponade of the vitreal cavity by A.Yu. Kleymenov, V.N. Kazaykin, M.A. Lipina

“…The study included 2 groups of patients. All surgeries were performed at the Ekaterinburg Branch of the Fyodorov Eye Microsurgery Federal State Institution in the period from 2018 to 2020. …”
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MythicVision: a deep learning powered mobile application for understanding Indian mythological deities using weight centric decision approach by Tauseef Khan, Aditya Nitin Patil, Aviral Singh, Gitesh Prashant Bhavsar, Kanakagiri Sujay Ashrith, Sachi Nandan Mohanty

“…In weight-centric decision mechanism, buckets of all possible classes of image object are updated by aggregating the corresponding model-weights if, the predicted class of the specific model matches any of the possible class. …”
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Strategi Komunikasi Pemerintah Provinsi di Indonesia Dalam Program Vaksinasi Booster Melalui X by Yohanes Thianika Budiarsa, Wildan Namora Ichsan Setiawan, S. Rouli Manalu, Naura Iftika Ramadhanti

“…The findings reveal that none of the provincial governments applied all three microblogging functions simultaneously in their health promotion messages and none of the four provincial governments employed the community function. …”
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Analgesic Efficacy of Transversus Abdominis Plane block vs Local Infiltration of Lignocaine and Bupivacaine in Post-operative Patients by Shabbir Ahmad, Muhammad Kareemullah, Saeed Mahmood, Muhammad Azhar Alam, Qasim Farooq, Muhammad Rashid

“…The results indicated that the TAP Block group consistently required fewer rescue analgesic doses than the local wound Infiltration group at all postoperative time points. At 6 hours, 23.63% of patients in the TAP Block group needed additional analgesia, compared to 38.18% in the Wound Infiltration group, though this difference was not statistically significant. …”
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Effects of Women’s Participation in Household Decision Making on Skilled Birth Attendants Supervised Delivery in Bangladesh by Md Badsha Alam, Shimlin Jahan Khanam, Md Awal Kabir, Atika Rahman Chowdhury, Tahir Ahmed Hassen, Susmita Das, Md Nuruzzaman Khan

“…This association remained consistent across all 3 empowerment domains, with lower likelihoods of SBA supervised delivery among women lacking empowerment. …”
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Alterations in Mucin-Associated Gene Expression on the Ocular Surface in Active and Stable Stages of Atopic and Vernal Keratoconjunctivitis by Mariko Horinaka, Jun Shoji, Akiko Tomioka, Yukiko Tonozuka, Noriko Inada, Satoru Yamagami

“…Impression cytology was performed in all patients using filter paper, and the expression levels of SPDEF, MUC1, MUC4, MUC5AC, MUC16, and eotaxin-2 mRNA were determined by real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction. …”
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Identifying sources of resistance to late blight and black scurf, and other economically useful traits among interspecific potato hybrids by Z. Z. Evdokimova, M. V. Kalashnik

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A Research Synthesis of Therapeutic Interventions for Whiplash-Associated Disorder (WAD): Part 4 – Noninvasive Interventions for Chronic WAD by Robert W Teasell, J Andrew McClure, David Walton, Jason Pretty, Katherine Salter, Matthew Meyer, Keith Sequeira, Barry Death

“…Multiple databases (including Web of Science, EMBASE and PubMed) were searched to identify all studies published from January 1980 through March 2009 that evaluated the effectiveness of any clearly defined treatment for acute (less than two weeks), subacute (two to 12 weeks) or chronic (longer than 12 weeks) WAD. …”
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Fatigue and Mental Status of Caregivers of Severely Chronically Ill Patients by Sung-Goo Kang, Sang-Wook Song, Se-Hong Kim, Yi-Jin Kang, Young-Rye Kim, Youngmi Eun

“…The average MFI-K score of all caregivers was 60.43 ± 13.77 and did not differ significantly between those caring for cancer patients and those caring for patients with severe chronic diseases (62.15 ± 13.27 vs. 58.49 ± 14.20, respectively, p=0.186). …”
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Age and diet affect self-resilience of intestinal microbiome in mice by Chenyi Shao, Shenmin Chen, Huan Yang, Mufan Li, Yinhui Liu, Shu Wen, Jing Xiao, Li Tang

“…A limitation of this study is that all data were derived from mice. Therefore, we must be cautious about translating the microbiome results from mice to humans.…”
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Effects of spectral manipulations of music mixes on musical scene analysis abilities of hearing-impaired listeners. by Aravindan Joseph Benjamin, Kai Siedenburg

“…Our results show that both hearing loss and target category affected performance, but there were no main effects of EQ-transform. yNH performed consistently better than oHI in all target categories, irrespective of the spectral manipulations. …”
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The role of financial technology and entrepreneurial finance practices in funding small and medium-sized enterprises by Piotr Łasak

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Temporal relationship between hospital admissions for pneumonia and weather conditions in Shanghai, China: a time-series analysis by Yuan Liu, David Rogers, Yue Zhang, Haidong Kan, Weibing Wang, Jianming Xu, Renjie Chen, Xiaofang Ye, Li Peng

“…A generalised additive model was used to calculate the relative risks.Setting Shanghai, China.Participants All daily hospital admissions for pneumonia were obtained from the Shanghai health insurance system between 1 January 2008 and 31 December 2011 (n=99 403).Results The relationship between the mean temperature and pneumonia hospital admissions followed a V-shaped curve, with an optimum temperature (OT) at 13°C. …”
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Bio-protective solutions for carrot spoilage: exploring the antifungal properties of ginger, garlic, onion, and Moringa by Eugenia Njoku, Florence Mbaoji, Justus Nweze, Bonaventure Echezona, Kayode Baiyeri

“…Garlic consistently exhibited an MIC of 250 mg/ml against all test fungi. Additionally, the minimum fungicidal concentration results highlighted ginger extract’s potent biocidal effects, especially against A. flavus, with an MIC of 62.5 mg/ml. …”
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