Contribución y caracterización de las ramas productivas al proceso de integración económica de Centroamérica, 2005-2016* by Rodrigo Alfonso Morales López, Catalina Galdámez

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Comparative outcomes of corticosteroids, neuromuscular blocking agents, and inhaled nitric oxide in ARDS: a systematic review and network meta-analysis by Zhiyuan Xu, Xiao Liu, Liang Zhang, Xianliang Yan, Xianliang Yan

“…Frequentist network meta-analysis (NMA) was performed to identify the most effective intervention, and treatments were ranked using the surface under the cumulative ranking (SUCRA) curve. …”
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Effects of the Highly COX-2-Selective Analgesic NSAID Etoricoxib on Human Periodontal Ligament Fibroblasts during Compressive Orthodontic Mechanical Strain by Christian Kirschneck, Erika Calvano Küchler, Michael Wolf, Gerrit Spanier, Peter Proff, Agnes Schröder

“…Etoricoxib at 3.29 μM and 5.49 μM significantly inhibited PG-E2 synthesis, but not COX-2 and IL-6 gene expression nor RANK-L-/OPG-mediated osteoclastogenesis or angiogenesis (VEGF-A). …”
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GDP Growth in the German Federal States: Large Differences, but Little Reliability of the Data by Roland Döhrn

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US Medical Schools’ 2024 Commencements and Antisemitism: Addressing Unprofessional Behavior by Steven Roth, Hedy S. Wald

“…The mean number of students in each school wearing keffiyehs or non-official school stoles was 4.0 (95% confidence interval [CI] 2.2–5.8), ranging from 0%–13% of the classes, or 2.5% of the overall graduating cohort. …”
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Elevated Serum IL-17 Expression at Cessation Associated with Graves’ Disease Relapse by Jianhui Li, Xiaohua Sun, Danzhen Yao, Jinying Xia

“…The association between serum IL-17 expression at cessation and GD relapse was analyzed with relapse-free survival (RFS) by the Kaplan–Meier survival analysis and log-rank test. Results. Of the 117 patients, 72 (61.5%) maintained a remission for 12 months after ATD withdrawal and 45 (38.5%) demonstrated GD relapse. …”
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Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis of Noninvasive Brain Stimulation on Dysphagia after Stroke by Lingling Li, Hailiang Huang, Yuqi Jia, Ying Yu, Zhiyao Liu, Xin Shi, Fangqi Wang

“…Network meta-analysis showed that the best probabilistic ranking of the effects of two different NIBS on the DOSS score is rTMS P=0.52>tDCS P=0.48, the best probabilistic ranking of the SSA score is rTMS P=0.72>tDCS P=0.28, and the best probabilistic ranking of the PAS score is rTMS P=0.68>tDCS P=0.32. …”
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Cross-Domain Person Re-Identification Based on Multi-Branch Pose-Guided Occlusion Generation by Pengnan Liu, Yanchen Wang, Yunlong Li, Deqiang Cheng, Feixiang Xu

“…In the MSMT17→DukeMTMC-reID dataset, after re-ranking (Rerank) and time-tift (Tlift) for the two indicators on Market1501, the mAP and Rank-1 reached 80.5%, 84.3%, 81.9%, and 93.1%. …”
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A Note on Property (gb) and Perturbations by Qingping Zeng, Huaijie Zhong

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Comparison of IMO vifa24plus(1-2) and Humphrey Field Analyzer 24-2 by Takagi Y, Asano R, Yamashita K, Sakai Y, Yokoyama S, Ichikawa K, Ichikawa K

“…False positives and negatives were 4.52± 5.19 / 4.14± 6.85% and 4.97± 7.99 / 5.47± 7.86%, respectively, with no significant differences, though the IMO vifa showed a slightly higher trend (P=0.980, 0.056). …”
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Tumor necrosis serves as an important pathological characteristic of stage I–II colon cancer by Shuhui Dong, Jin Xu, Mingshan Li, Guangyi Xiong, Ruilin Wang

“…The primary endpoints included 5-year overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS). …”
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Neutrophil elastase inhibitor (Sivelestat) in the treatment of acute respiratory distress syndrome induced by COVID-19: a multicenter retrospective cohort study by Yuting Li, Jianjun Zhao, Jiahui Wei, Yanhong Zhang, Haitao Zhang, Ying Li, Ting Liao, Yang Hu, Bo Yuan, Xinmei Zhang, Wanyan Liu, Changgang Liu, Qingsong Cui, Shunzi Wu, Hongmei Jiang, Wenge Liu, Weiheng Liu, Hongguang Xu, Gang Li, Yuyan Cai, Liting Chen, Bingwei Chen, Dong Zhang

“…In 158 patients matched on the propensity for treatment, receipt of sivelestat was associated with improved oxygenation, decreased Murray lung injury score, increased non-mechanical ventilation time within 28 days, increased alive and ICU-free days within 28 days (HR, 1.85; 95% CI 1.29 to 2.64; log-rank p < 0.001), shortened ICU stay and ultimately improved survival (HR, 2.78; 95% CI 1.32 to 5.88; log-rank p = 0.0074). …”
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Measuring effective indicators for waste disposal in order to assess the sustainable environment: application of fuzzy approach by Mohammad Hossein Kabgani

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Approach to keyword search over encrypted data in cloud by Peng ZHANG, Yan LI, Hai-lun LIN, Rong YANG, Qing-yun LIU

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Multidimensional Performance Evaluation Using the Hybrid MCDM Method: A Case Study in the Turkish Non-Life Insurance Sector by Mehmet Zafer Taşcı

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Association between serum levels of 12 different cytokines and short-term efficacy of chemoradiotherapy in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma by Yaping Zhang, Qiufeng Qi, Ming Zhu, Yun Peng, Yanqing Bao, Jun Liu, Yanzhi Bi, Min Xiao, Shaohua Chi, Yongping Liu

“…Kaplan–Meier survival plots, analyzed with the log-rank test, were utilized to depict survival trends. …”
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Interaction of drivers and barriers of sustainable property management practice in shopping malls in Lagos, Nigeria by Lumbani B. Nyirenda, Caleb A. Ayedun, Innocent Musonda, Chukwuemeka O. Iroham, David O. Olukanni, Hilary I. Okagbue, Olugbemisola W. Samuel, Sunday E. Nto

“…Financial and economic barrier (4.2/5) were top while cultural factors (3.97/5) were the least. …”
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Decision making model for evaluation of TPACK knowledge constructs as critical success factors for language learning classes by Huma Batool, Salman Al-Otaibi, Majid Khan

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Advantages of more stressful cold test procedure for evaluation of maize seed vigour by Milivojević Marija, Branković-Radojčić Dragana, Vukadinović Radmila, Poštić Dobrivoj, Popović Aleksandar, Petrović Tanja

“…The application of severe CT created larger differences between lots, but they maintained similar rank positions in both CT procedures, leading to a very high rank correlation. …”
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A Data Mining Approach Identified Salivary Biomarkers That Discriminate between Two Obesity Measures by Ping Shi, J. Max Goodson

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