Incidence of Candida Species Biofilms in Pediatric Cancer Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy Treatment by Karzan Abdulmuhsin Mohammad, Raya Kh. Yashooa, Suhad Asad Mustafa

“…In this study, a total of 100 oral cavity swabs were collected, with 50 swabs obtained from cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy and suspected to have oral candidiasis, and the other 50 swabs collected from non-cancer healthy individuals serving as control. All swabs were cultured on Sabouraud Dextrose agar (SDA) media, followed by microscopic examination of positive samples. …”
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Internal Benchmarking of Thermal Power Plants оf Electric Power Systems by E. M. Farhadzadeh, A. Z. Muradaliyev, Y. Z. Farzaliyev, U. K. Ashurova

“…In order to increase OE, it is necessary, first of all, to learn how to objectively compare the performance of objects both of the same type – in a given time interval, and unique ones – in adjacent intervals. …”
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Second law efficiency and thermal entropy generation of 30:70% of glycerol + water based SiO2 nanofluids in a thermosyphon flat plate collector: Experimental and Bayesian artificia... by L.S. Sundar, Sérgio M.O. Tavares, Korada V Sharma, António M.B. Pereira

“…The time intervals of period-1 (09:00 to 13:00 hours) and period-2 (13:00 to 16:30 hours) were considered for clarity. The optimal boost for all parameters occurred at mid-day (13:00 hrs), as indicated by the data. …”
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Metropolitan construction carbon emission efficiency: an integrative static-dynamic analytical framework by Jianing Hu, Wanxiang Yao, Gangwei Cai, Qinfeng Zhao, Chanjuan Wang, Tongyu Xu, Chunyan Shi, Weijun Gao

“…Taking urgent action to combat climate change and promote sustainable cities are part of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which demand immediate action from all countries. Enhancing the carbon emission efficiency of the construction industry (CICEE) from the ‘static-dynamic’ perspective is crucial in addressing climate change. …”
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Assessment of the Effectiveness of Fascial Manipulation in Patients with Degenerative Disc Disease of the Lumbosacral Spine by Anna Mikołajczyk-Kocięcka, Marek Kocięcki, Lech Cyryłowski, Aleksandra Szylińska, Paweł Rynio, Magdalena Gębska, Ewelina Szuba, Jarosław Kaźmierczak

“…<b>Results:</b> This study presents a statistically significant difference between the treatment effects, as assessed by the degree of pain (<i>p</i> < 0.001) and mobility limitation (<i>p</i> < 0.001), as well as the presence of stretch symptoms (<i>p</i> < 0.001): all three parameters improved significantly more in the study group compared to the control group. …”
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GENOTYPIC DIVERSITY OF DENGUE VIRUS IN AEDES MOSQUITOES COLLECTED FROM DENGUE HOTSPOT AREAS IN KUALA LUMPUR AND SELANGOR, MALAYSIA by Wan Najdah Wan Mohamad Ali, Zurainee Mohamed Nor, Rafidah Ali, Rohani Ahmad, Yvonne Ai-Lian Lim

“…Later, it was tested for determine dengue serotypes using RT-PCR targeting Capsid-preMembrane regions. All DENV serotypes were carefully isolated from DENV positive pools and sequenced. …”
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Real-World Experience with AGA Guidelines in the Management of Crohn’s Disease following Ileocolonic Resection: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Shasha Tang, Wei Liu, Weilin Qi, Tunan Yu, Qian Cao, Xiaolong Ge, Wei Zhou

“…Clinical data and risk factors for endoscopic recurrence were analyzed focusing on postoperative pharmacological prophylaxis. Results. All patients were at a high risk of postoperative recurrence according to the AGA guidelines. …”
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A Field Study of the Effect of Noise and Whole-Body Vibration Exposure on Heavy Equipment Drivers’ Auditory System Function by Seyyed Mohammad Javad Golhosseini, Mohsen Aliabadi, Rostam Golmohammadi, Maryam Farhadian, Mehdi Akbari

“…The DPOAE amplitude of the drivers in all three investigated scenarios showed significant changes (P<0.05); But in comparison between different scenarios, exposure to WBV and combined exposure to noise and WBV had a significant effect on the response of the auditory system of the participants in the study compared to the scenario without exposure (P<0.05). …”
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Broad substrate scope C-C oxidation in cyclodipeptides catalysed by a flavin-dependent filament by Emmajay Sutherland, Christopher J. Harding, Tancrède du Monceau de Bergendal, Gordon J. Florence, Katrin Ackermann, Bela E. Bode, Silvia Synowsky, Ramasubramanian Sundaramoorthy, Clarissa Melo Czekster

“…Abstract Cyclic dipeptides are produced by organisms across all domains of life, with many exhibiting anticancer and antimicrobial properties. …”
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Progress towards 90-90-90 and 95-95-95 strategy implementations and HIV positivity trends in the City of Johannesburg by J C Y Nyasulu, I Maposa

“…A time trend analysis for aggregated data was performed on all the measured indicators to determine whether the decrease or increase was statistically significant. …”
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Using Information Extraction to Normalize the Training Data for Automatic Radiology Report Generation by Yuxiang Liao, Haishan Xiang, Hantao Liu, Irena Spasic

“…We then used this model to automatically annotate 227,835 MIMIC-CXR reports. We shared all data and software deliverables using PhysioNet Credentialed Health Data License 1.5.0 to enable further research on Automatic Radiology Report Generation.…”
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Prevalence of HPV in a Peruvian Healthcare Network: A Descriptive Cross-Sectional Study by Jhajaira M. Araujo MSc, Maria Ramon-Cotrina Br, Rosa Quispe-Martinez MD, Mayra Rios-Rios Br, Maribel Quispe-Gonzaga Br, Carlos O. Saldaña-Reyes Br, Paula Medina PhD, Melanie Cornejo PhD, Joseph A. Pinto MSc, Richard Dyer MD

“…HPV-P2 was the most frequent in all age groups except in the 65–72 years group, where HPV-P3 was the most common. …”
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Implication of tumor morphology and MRI characteristics on the accuracy of automated versus human segmentation of GBM areas by Valeria Cerina, Chiara Benedetta Rui, Andrea Di Cristofori, Davide Ferlito, Giorgio Carrabba, Carlo Giussani, Gianpaolo Basso, Elisabetta De Bernardi

“…BraTS-Toolkit and DeepBraTumIA gross tumor segmentation properly includes necrosis and contrast enhanced areas in 50% and 37.50% of cases (vs. 66.67% for manual segmentation), all corresponding to higher image quality; T2-FLAIR hyper-intensity segmentation wrongly includes necrosis and contrast enhanced areas in 37.50% and 50% of cases.…”
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Computational and experimental approaches to explore defense related enzymes conferring resistance in Fusarium infected chilli plants by regulating plant metabolism through nutriti... by Muhammad Usman, Muhammad Atiq, Nasir Ahmed Rajput, Muhammad Sagheer, Ye Xia

“…Pearson's correlation heat-map analysis showed that all the enzymes of antioxidant defense system were found positively correlated with each other. …”
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The efficacy and safety of remimazolam besylate, ciprofol, and propofol during hysteroscopy by Weifeng Shan, Shuying Gao, Mengting Ai, Haiyan Lan, Gongchen Duan, Xiaoli Dong, Qiaomin Xu, Yini Wu, Jimin Wu

“…One patient in Group P was excluded because the operation had timed out of 60 min. Patients all in Group R、Group C and Group P received an induction dose of 0.2 mg/kg remimazolam besylate、0.4 mg/kg ciprofol、2.0 mg/kg propofol seperately over 30 s. …”
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Examining Internal and External Consent in Consensual and Non-Consensual Contexts in Women by Nieves Moyano, Antonio Rafael Hidalgo-Muñoz, María del Mar Sánchez-Fuentes, Kristen Jozkowski, Reina Granados

“…Results: Our results show that, with regard to external consent, when engaging in consensual sex, women indicated greater use of all cues ranging from communication/initiation behavior to nonverbal behaviors than those who experienced nonconsensual sex. …”
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Significance of immune factors in Crohn's disease development by D. S. Stavtsev, T. A. Astrelina, O. V. Knyazev, T. V. Pukhlikova

“…Presented ambiguous results are caused, first of all, by ethnic differences and different frequency of some alleles in different populations. …”
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AICAR Protects against High Palmitate/High Insulin-Induced Intramyocellular Lipid Accumulation and Insulin Resistance in HL-1 Cardiac Cells by Inducing PPAR-Target Gene Expression by Ricardo Rodríguez-Calvo, Manuel Vázquez-Carrera, Luis Masana, Dietbert Neumann

“…Treatment with AICAR induced gene expression of all three PPARs, but only the Ppara and Pparg regulation were dependent on AMPK. …”
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The Prognostic Value of Echocardiographic Wall Motion Score Index in ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction by Michael L. Savage, Karen Hay, Bonita Anderson, Gregory Scalia, Darryl Burstow, Dale Murdoch, Isuru Ranasinghe, Owen Christopher Raffel

“…A comparison of WMSI, LVEF, and all-cause mortality in STEMI patients treated with primary PCI between January 2008 and December 2020 was performed. …”
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The Impact of DNA Methylation on IL6 mRNA Levels in Hematinic Deficiency and Atopy-Associated Recurrent Aphthous Stomatitis Patients by Nanan Nur’aeny, Dida Akhmad Gurnida, Oki Suwarsa, Irna Sufiawati

“…The blood samples were collected from all the subjects, and then, the DNA and RNA were extracted from the peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs). …”
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