Preliminary screening of new biomarkers for sepsis using bioinformatics and experimental validation. by Hao Wang, Wei Xiong, Wu Zhong, Yingchun Hu

“…S100A11 and QPCT were widely distributed in all immune cells, and QPCT was mainly localized in the macrophage cell lineage. …”
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Quality of Life in Wilson’s Disease: A Systematic Literature Review by Chakrapani Balijepalli, Kevin Yan, Lakshmi Gullapalli, Stephane Barakat, Helene Chevrou-Severac, Eric Druyts

“…**Results:** A total of 442 publications were identified, 41 publications were eligible for full-text screening, and 7 articles, representing 7 studies, met all inclusion criteria. QOL questionnaires used across studies included the 12-Item Short Form Health Survey Questionnaire (version 1) (SF-12) (n=2), the 36-Item Short Form Health Survey Questionnaire (version 1) (SF-36) (n=3), Global Assessment Scale (GAS) (n=1), and World Health Organization QOL brief questionnaire (WHO-QOL-BREF) (n=1). …”
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Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells Enhance the Differentiation of Human Switched Memory B Lymphocytes into Plasma Cells in Serum-Free Medium by Guillaume Bonnaure, Catherine Gervais-St-Amour, Sonia Néron

“…We tested low oxygen concentrations and coculture with mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) from human bone marrow. Besides, all cultures were performed using an animal protein-free medium. …”
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Beyond nutritional immunity: immune-stressing challenges basic paradigms of immunometabolism and immunology by Edmund K. LeGrand

“…While nutritional immunity emphasizes denying pathogens micronutrients, immune-stressing extends the concept to restricting all resources, especially glucose and oxygen, coupled with the generation of noxious metabolic products such as lactic acid, reactive oxygen species (ROS), and heat to further harm or stress the pathogens. …”
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COVID-19 Symptomatology from the Otorhinolaryngology Perspective: Survey from Tertiary Care Center by Raj Tajamul Hussain, Mayank Yadav, Jasdeep Monga

“…Materials and Methods This monocentric study was performed at SHKM Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic and all patients testing positive for COVID-19 over a 16-month period (April 2020 to July 2021) were recruited. …”
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A Novel Spine Fixation System Made Entirely of Carbon-Fiber-Reinforced PEEK Composite: An In Vitro Mechanical Evaluation by Ofir Uri, Yoram Folman, Gil Laufer, Eyal Behrbalk

“…The mean bending yield load, bending ultimate load, and bending stiffness of the construct were 322 N, 363 N, and 45 N/mm, respectively. All tested samples completed 5 × 106 dynamic cycles successfully, with no evidence of fatigue failure at increasing load levels, up to 83% of ultimate bending load. …”
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The Effect of a Novel Training Program to Improve Trunk Stability Push Up Performance in Active Females: A Pilot Study by Kate Schwartzkopf-Phifer, Suzanne Leach, Katie Whetstone, Kevin Brown, Kyle Matsel

“…Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, only 12 participants were able to complete all posttest outcome measures. No significant differences were noted in the remaining outcome measures. …”
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Photovoltaic solar energy prediction using the seasonal-trend decomposition layer and ASOA optimized LSTM neural network model by Venkatachalam Mohanasundaram, Balamurugan Rangaswamy

“…Parameter standardization employing ASOA, the RSTL decomposition approach, and the conceptual model of LSTM networks are all presented in this research work. The proposed method has been contrasted with conventional methods by applying a testing environment incorporating essential Meteorological Factors (MF) and historical SE datasets. …”
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Identification of specific risk factors and predictive analytics for cardio-cerebral arterial stenosis: a comparative study utilizing framingham risk stratification insights by Gege Zhang, Sijie Dong, Fanfan Feng, Weihao Kan, Taozhen Shi, Hongmei Ding, Ruiguo Dong

“…This retrospective study included patients admitted for ischemic stroke at the Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University from December 2020 to December 2021. All patients underwent CTA, with significant stenosis defined as exceeding 50% for both cerebral and coronary arteries.Patients were categorized into low-, moderate-, and high-risk groups on the basis of the Framingham risk scale. …”
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Molecular Detection and Genotyping of Chlamydia psittaci in Captive Psittacines from Costa Rica by Jessica Sheleby-Elías, Ántony Solórzano-Morales, Juan José Romero-Zuñiga, Gaby Dolz

“…Three birds were adults; all positive birds showed no symptoms of illness and lived in homes with other birds, two in San José and two in Heredia. …”
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Aortic Balloon Valvuloplasty Prior to Orthotopic Liver Transplantation: A Novel Approach to Aortic Stenosis and End-Stage Liver Disease by Edward Coverstone, Kevin Korenblat, Jeffrey S. Crippin, William C. Chapman, Andrew M. Kates, Alan Zajarias

“…Between 2010 and 2012, four patients with severe aortic stenosis and end-stage liver disease underwent staged balloon aortic valvuloplasty followed by orthotopic liver transplantation. All patients had been deemed to be inappropriate candidates for liver transplantation or aortic valve surgery due to their comorbidity. …”
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Good practices for dialysis education, treatment, and eHealth: A scoping review. by Anita van Eck van der Sluijs, Sanne Vonk, Brigit C van Jaarsveld, Anna A Bonenkamp, Alferso C Abrahams

“…<h4>Methods</h4>Embase, Pubmed, the Cochrane Library, CINAHL databases and Web of Science were searched for relevant articles using all synonyms for the words 'kidney failure', 'dialysis', and 'good practice'. …”
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Dermoscopy of Early-Stage Mycosis Fungoides: Comparative Study with Inflammatory Dermatoses by Amel Chabbouh, Noureddine Litaiem, Houda Hammami, Mourad Mokni, Faten Zeglaoui

“…Methods: This was a multicenter cross-sectional study conducted in three Tertiary Referral Dermatology Departments in Tunisia between January 2021 to December 2021, including 89 patients with phototype III-V. For all included patients, up to 3 representative cutaneous lesions were selected and examined using dermoscopy. …”
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Diabetes Mellitus Diagnosis and Screening in Australian General Practice: A National Study by Mingyue Zheng, Carla De Oliveira Bernardo, Nigel Stocks, David Gonzalez-Chica

“…The prevalence of diagnosed diabetes and diabetes screening was explored using all recorded diagnoses, laboratory results, and prescriptions between 2016 and 2018. …”
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Modeling and Vibration Analysis of a 3-UPU Parallel Vibration Isolation Platform with Linear Motors Based on MS-DT-TMM by Wei Chen, Jiaqi Tong, Hehe Yang, Fulong Liu, Zhen Qin, Zhiyong Ren

“…Then, the dynamical equation of the overall system is obtained by multiplying all transfer matrices. Secondly, the solution of equation is calculated through the setting of boundary conditions. …”
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Ground-level Particulate Sulphate and Gaseous Sulphur Dioxide Downwind of an Aluminium Smelter by Dane Blanchard, Julian Aherne

“…Average pSO4 2− across all sites (n = 9) was 0.41 µg m−3 (24–48 hour exposures) and ranged from 0.03 to 2.03 µg m−3. …”
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Spinal mobilization force-time characteristics: A scoping literature review. by Lindsay M Gorrell MChiroprac, Luana Nyirö, Mégane Pasquier, Isabelle Pagé, Nicola R Heneghan, Petra Schweinhardt, Martin Descarreaux

“…In 2 (5.6%) studies, spinal region was not specified. For SMob applied to all spinal regions, force-time characteristics were: peak force (0-128N); duration (10-120s); frequency (0.1-4.5Hz); and force amplitude (1-102N).…”
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Protocol for a scoping review study on the prevalence and public health consequences of non-medical use (NMU) of tramadol in Africa. by Saidou Sabi Boun, Olumuyiwa Omonaiye, Sanni Yaya, Sanni Yaya

“…Two researchers will independently select studies from literature searched in several databases such as Medline, Embase, the Scopus database, Web of Science, the African Journals online database, and for grey literature Google Scholar without any time restriction. All research, in various formats, conducted in Africa, will be included in our study on the prevalence of use in different African population groups or on evidence of addiction, intoxication, seizures and mortality related to NMU of tramadol.…”
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Design and Model Test of a Modularized Prefabricated Steel Frame Structure with Inclined Braces by Xuechun Liu, Ailin Zhang, Jing Ma, Yongqiang Tan, Yu Bai

“…Prefabricated steel structures have some engineering applications, but all are low-rise structures with few applications in the field of high-rise buildings. …”
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A Hybrid Approach Integrating Multiple ICEEMDANs, WOA, and RVFL Networks for Economic and Financial Time Series Forecasting by Jiang Wu, Tengfei Zhou, Taiyong Li

“…Then, we aggregate the prediction results of individual decomposed subseries as the prediction results of each decomposition, respectively, and finally integrate these prediction results of all the decompositions as the final ensemble prediction results. …”
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