Effect of innate and induced immunity on infectious bursal disease pathogenesis by A. N. Semina

“…Being the RNA-virus, the agent is specified by high frequency of mutations, which result in the emergence of the strains with modified antigenicity and increased virulence. …”
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Duodenum and ascending colonal perforation due to biliary stent migration by Qiuping Gu, Xinyan Liu, Chunping Zhu, Jiaming Huang

“…Conclusion: Patients inserted with long, wide and straight biliary stent for more than one month are at high risk of stent dislocation. Endoscopy is a minimally invasive and safe meneuver to retrieve stent, and should be considered as the first-line treatment.…”
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DIGITAL CONTACT POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE PROBE by K. U. Pantsialeyeu, A. I. Svistun, A. K. Tyavlovsky, A. L. Zharin

“…The integration time for automatic CPD compensation should be at least several seconds to achieve high accuracy measurements. The speed and the accuracy are essential, for example, for Scanning Kelvin Probes. …”
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Analysis of Debris Flow Reduction Effect of Check Dam Types considering the Mountain Stream Shape: A Case Study of 2016 Debris Flow Hazard in Ulleung-do Island, South Korea by Man-Il Kim, Namgyun Kim

“…Having accumulated deep colluvium, Ulleung-do Island manifests a high vulnerability to landslides frequently caused by heavy rains or typhoons, debris flow, rockfall, and other disaster hazards in mountainous areas. …”
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A Novel Discontinuous PWM Method With Hybrid Three-Step Commutation to Reduce Common-Mode Voltage for Direct Matrix Converter by Sahel Solemanifard, Cheng-Chin Hu, Tzung-Lin Lee, Mohammadreza Lak

“…However, it suffers from high common-mode voltage (CMV), which may cause damage to the DMC-based system. …”
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Structure of Male Reproductive System in Spirula (Cephalopoda: Spirula spirula) by R.M. Sabirov, A.A. Novikov, A.V. Golikov

“…In general, the reproductive system in male specimens of Spirula bears the signs of high specialization (unique topography, elongated coelomoduct, continuous decreasing spermatophorogenesis), which developed during the evolution of ratio of their endogastric shell and visceral inner sac.…”
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Indications and Contraindications to Reconstructive Surgery in Ulcerative Colitis by David Johnston

“…A one-stage procedure without ileostomy is permissible if the patient is relatively fit and the surgeon is in attendance for 10 days after operation, but omission of the ileostomy certainly increases the risk to life and the postoperative morbidity, and should thus not be done in debilitated patients or in those on high dose steroids. Resection of the mucosal lining of the anal canal above the dentate line (`mucosal proctectomy') was formerly routine, but leads to diminished sphincter pressure and sensation, such that preservation of the entire motor and sensory sphincteric complex is now advocated by many authors. …”
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Lightweight terminal cross-domain authentication protocol in edge computing environment by Hongying ZHU, Xinyou ZHANG, Huanlai XING, Li FENG

“…Edge computing has gained widespread usage in intelligent applications due to its benefits, including low latency, high bandwidth, and cost-effectiveness.However, it also faces many security challenges due to its distributed, real-time, multi-source and heterogeneous data characteristics.Identity authentication serves as the initial step for terminal to access to the network and acts as the first line of defense for edge computing.To address the security issues in the edge computing environment, a terminal cross-domain authentication protocol suitable for the edge computing environment was proposed based on the ＆quot;cloud-edge-end＆quot; three-level network authentication architecture.Access authentication was implemented between terminals and local edge nodes based on the SM9 algorithm, and session keys were negotiated.The secret key was combined with symmetric encryption technology and hash function to achieve cross-domain authentication for the terminal.The pseudonym mechanism was used in the authentication process to protect the privacy of end users.The terminal only needs to register once, and it can roam randomly between different security domains.BAN logic was used to prove the correctness of the protocol and analyze its security.The results show that this protocol is capable of resisting common attacks in IoT scenarios, and it features characteristics such as single sign-on and user anonymity.The performance of the cross-domain authentication protocol was evaluated based on computational and communication costs, and compared with existing schemes.The experimental results show that this protocol outperforms other schemes in terms of computational and communication costs, making it suitable for resource-constrained terminal devices.Overall, the proposed protocol offers lightweight and secure identity authentication within edge computing environments.…”
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Personalized Organoid-Based Treatments in Older Patients with Cancer: A Registry Study in Progress by Pirmin Häuptle, Kirsten Mertz, Michèle Voegeli, Robert Rosenberg, Emanuel Burri, Svetozar Subotic, Anna Romanens, Anne Leuppi-Taegtmeyer, Christian Regenbrecht, Lena Wedeken, Marcus Vetter

“…Clinical trials have demonstrated a high predictive value and statistically significant correlation between the patient’s clinical response and tumor organoid response in different cancer types. …”
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Utilizing machine learning to predict hospital admissions for pediatric COVID-19 patients (PrepCOVID-Machine) by Chuin-Hen Liew, Song-Quan Ong, David Chun-Ern Ng

“…Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has burdened healthcare systems globally. To curb high hospital admission rates, only patients with genuine medical needs are admitted. …”
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Gender (im)balance in the Russian cinema: on the screen and behind the camera by Xenia Leontyeva, Olessia Koltsova, Deb Verhoeven

“…Our test proves very informative, revealing a strikingly high proportion of dialogues with stereotypical portrayals of women even among the films that pass the Bechdel-Wallace binary threshold. …”
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Fault distance estimation method for two-phase short circuit in distribution networks considering photovoltaic output characteristics by Ruyun Zhao, Guang Li, Zhihua Zhang, Yongduan Xue

“…Moreover, the current methods often suffer from complex principles, high costs, and limited universality, limiting their widespread application. …”
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Synthesis and Antitumor Activity of Novel Pyridoxine-Based Bioisosteric Analogs of trans-Stilbenes by Mikhail V. Pugachev, Thang T. N. Nguyen, Timur M. Bulatov, Roman S. Pavelyev, Alfia G. Iksanova, Oksana V. Bondar, Konstantin V. Balakin, Yurii G. Shtyrlin

“…Two compounds demonstrated high activity against the estrogen-dependent MCF-7 (breast cancer) cell line with IC50 in the range of 1.9–7.9 µM and very good selectivity for other studied normal and tumor cells, including the estrogen receptor negative MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells. …”
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Limiting the development of anti-cancer drug resistance in a spatial model of micrometastases by Ami B. Shah, Katarzyna A. Rejniak, Jana L. Gevertz

“…For each of these independent scenarios, we consider one hypothetical cell line that is responsive to metronomic chemotherapy, and another that with high probability cannot be eradicated by a metronomic protocol. …”
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Anterior Chamber Angle Shape Analysis and Classification of Glaucoma in SS-OCT Images by Soe Ni Ni, J. Tian, Pina Marziliano, Hong-Tym Wong

“…Optical coherence tomography is a high resolution, rapid, and noninvasive diagnostic tool for angle closure glaucoma. …”
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Calculation of Spotting Particles Maximum Distance in Idealised Forest Fire Scenarios by José C. F. Pereira, José M. C. Pereira, André L. A. Leite, Duarte M. S. Albuquerque

“…The spotting distances are compared with the maximum spotting distance obtained with Albini model for several idealised line grass or torching trees fires scenarios. The prediction of the particle maximum spotting distance for a 2000 kW/m short grass fire compared satisfactorily with results from Albini model and underpredicted by 40% the results for a high intensity 50000 kW/m fire. …”
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Genetic and epigenetic characterization of sarcoma stem cells across subtypes identifies EZH2 as a therapeutic target by Edmond O’Donnell, Maria Muñoz, Ryan Davis, Jessica Bergonio, R. Lor Randall, Clifford Tepper, Janai Carr-Ascher

“…Abstract High-grade soft tissue sarcomas (STS) are a heterogeneous and aggressive set of cancers. …”
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Gross domestic product, savings, investment and inflation, an ARDL approach and Toda-Yamamoto causality: Evidence from Zimbabwe by Talent Kondo, Simba Mutsvanga, Tonderai Kanyekanye

“…Additionally, the analysis showed a unidirectional causal relationship from inflation to domestic savings, suggesting that high and persistent inflation can erode the value of existing savings and discourage individuals from saving. …”
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An X-Band Class-J GaN MMIC Power Amplifier with Well-Designed In-Band Output Power Flatness by Bangjie Zheng, Zhiqun Cheng, Zhiwei Zhang, Ruizhe Zhang, Tingwei Gong, Chao Le

“…This paper presents an X-band high-power GaN MMIC power amplifier (PA). To balance efficiency, output power, and saturated power flatness, the load-line theory is employed to analyze and validate the power variation trends within an extended continuous Class B/J (CCBJ) impedance space. …”
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Wavelength Tuning Free Transceiver Module in OLT Downstream Multicasting 4λ × 10 Gb/s TWDM-PON System by M. S. Salleh, A. S. M. Supa’at, S. M. Idrus, S. Yaakob, Z. M. Yusof

“…This module has been designed to support high speed L2 aggregation and routing in the physical layer PON system by using multicasting cross-gain modulation (XGM) to route packet from any PON port to multiple PON links. …”
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