Ligands of CD6: roles in the pathogenesis and treatment of cancer by Mikel Gurrea-Rubio, Feng Lin, Max S. Wicha, Yang Mao-Draayer, David A. Fox

“…The observation of CD6-dependent functions of T cells that could not be explained by interactions with CD166/ALCAM led to discovery of a second ligand, CD318/CDCP1. …”
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Coxiella Endocarditis as the Cause of Recurrent Fever and Brain Abscess in a Patient with Complex Congenital Heart Disease: A Case Report and Literature Review by Ioannis A. Ziogas, Alexandros P. Evangeliou, Olga Tsachouridou, Alexandra Arvanitaki, Afroditi Tsona, Vassilios Kamperidis, Marianthi Papagianni, Theofilos Panagiotidis, Ilias A. Tourtounis, George Giannakoulas, Symeon Metallidis

“…The antibiotic course was changed to oral doxycycline for 36 months and led to resolution of IE, with no vegetation detected on TTE after 15 months. …”
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Gradient Method with Step Adaptation by Vladimir Krutikov, Elena Tovbis, Svetlana Gutova, Ivan Rozhnov, Lev Kazakovtsev

“…The expansion of the step adjustment principle, its formalization and parameterization led the researchers to gradient-type methods with incomplete relaxation or over-relaxation. …”
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The Clinical and Radiological Outcome of Bovine Hydroxyapatite (Bio Hydrox) as Bone Graft by Arifin, Ferdiansyah Mahyudin, Mouli Edward

“…These limitations, along with those associated with allografts, have led to the development of bovine hydroxyapatite (BHA) as a bone graft substitute. …”
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Experimental Demonstration of Special-Shaped 32-Quadrature Amplitude Modulation Constellations for Visible Light Communications by Xinyue Guo, Shuangshuang Li, Yang Guo

“…Experimental results show that the bit error rate performance is finally decided by the value of PAPR in the VLC system due to the serious nonlinearity of the LED, where the Circular (4, 11, 17) scheme always performs best under the 7% preforward error correction threshold of 3.8 × 10−3 with 62.5Mb/s transmission data rate and 1-meter transmission distance.…”
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Environmental impact assessment of southern tehran wastewater treatment plant using life cycle assessment (LCA) by Zeinab Samsami, Ahmad Jonidi Jafari, Mohammad Delnavaz, Azra Naderi, Reza Barati Rashvanlou, Behnam Movassagh Inchehboroun, Emad Dehghanifard

“…Abstract The population has increased in recent decades, and as a result, the increase in urban wastewater has led to many environmental problems. In this study, the environmental impacts of the Southern Tehran treatment plant were assessed via life cycle assessment (LCA) (SimaPro 9.4.0.2). …”
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Analysis of the Requirements of Knowledge Management Systems According to the Specification ISO 30401:2018 in the Oil Projects Company by Sarah Jabbar Saeed, Areej Saeed Khalil

“…The results of this research showed that the overall rate achieved by analyzing and measuring the availability of knowledge management systems requirements in accordance with ISO30401: 2018 in the company has obtained a percentage (53%) and an implementation rate (3), meaning that it is partially applied and fully documented, which led to a gap of (47%). …”
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Effectiveness of composite jacket strengthening of reinforced concrete columns under eccentric load after fire exposure by Mohammed Salah Dimia, Ahmed Rafik Belakhdar, Rachid Rabehi, Mohamed Baghdadi, Antonio Marcos de Oliveira Siqueira, Julio Cesar Costa Campos

“…The results showed that the columns that were repaired and strengthened after the fire with the steel structure casing led to a significant increase in resistance. It was found that the greater the thickness of the steel structure, the greater the resistance, and that the greater the eccentricity ratio, the lower the resistance as well as the collapse load. …”
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Successful Use of a Multidisciplinary Approach to Treat a Perforated Duodenal Malignant Lymphoma in an Elderly Patient by Tomoko Takagishi, Yuta Niimi, Goshi Matsuki, Shinta Nagano, Junsuke Hinami, Masaaki Kajiwara, Kiyoshi Kaneko, Yoshihiro Kubota, Osamu Nakai

“…Thereafter, less intensive chemotherapy (two cycles each of R-mini-CHP, CHP, and R-CHOP) was administered, which led to significant improvement upon assessment by PET-CT. …”
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Representation of Omsk village in guidebooks of All-Union Exhibition of Agriculture (1939–1940) by Zh. E. Levina

“…It is shown that the present and future of Omsk village was clearly associated with the scientific achievements: selection work of triticum-agropyrum hybrids carried out by the Siberian Research Institute of Grain Economy led by the Academician N. P. Tsitsin, the method of growing fruit trees in Siberian conditions developed by the doctor of agricultural sciences A. …”
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Comparative antibacterial activity of clove extract against Pseudomonas aeruginosa by Deniz M. Al-Tawalbeh, Jafar M. Alawneh, Waleed Momani, Amal Mayyas

“…The combination of clove extract to each antibiotic led to a significant reduction in their respective MICs. …”
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“I thought I was going to pass”: Learners’ experiences of grade retention by Maureen Hadebe, Moeniera Moosa

“…Most learners experienced being bullied by their peers and teachers due to being retained, which led to them feeling excluded and marginalised. A correlation was found between parents’ and teachers’ views of retention and learners’ experiences. …”
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The $ L_1 $-induced norm analysis for linear multivariable differential equations by Junghoon Kim, Jung Hoon Kim

“…Combining these bounds led to an upper bound and a lower bound on the original $ L_1 $-induced norm on $ [0, \infty) $, within the order of $ 1/M^{p+1} $. …”
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Herbivorous mammals adjust their feeding patterns according to the abundance of available diet to adapt to the effects of grassland degradation by Xin He, Yutong Liu, Siwei Yang, Guiwen He, Gang Liu, Junsong Zhao

“…The results indicated that alterations in food resources due to grassland degradation led to significant differences in the proportions of shared food types consumed by yaks and pikas; hence, these species adjusted their dietary breadths to mitigate the adverse effects of grassland degradation. …”
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The role of Religion during the Civil War in Russia (on the example of processes in the Omsk and Pavlodar Diocese) by A. V. Sushko

“…The first is the ideological conflict between the forces of the revolution and religious confessions, which naturally led the Church to the anti-Bolshevik camp. The second is conflicts between representatives of the clergy, caused by ideologically different views religious and political topics and support of socialist revolution by part of the clergy. …”
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An Evaluation of Leaf Biomass : Length Ratio as a Tool for Nondestructive Assessment in Eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) by Hector Echavarria-Heras, Elena Solana-Arellano, Kun-Seop Lee, Shinya Hosokawa, Ernesto Franco-Vizcaíno

“…The need for simple, nondestructive assessments has led to the use of the leaf biomass-to-length ratio for converting leaf-length measurements, which can be easily obtained, to leaf growth rates through the plastochrone method. …”
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Time to be seen and heard: Including children’s and adolescents’ voices in the South African TB response by C Goslett, K du Preez, G Hendricks, A Best

“…Additional steps could be the inclusion of children’s feedback in community-led monitoring efforts and engagement between child TB activists and the SA TB Caucus, a collective of parliamentarians. …”
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Notch Signaling Mediates TNF-α-Induced IL-6 Production in Cultured Fibroblast-Like Synoviocytes from Rheumatoid Arthritis by Zhijun Jiao, Wenhong Wang, Jie Ma, Shengjun Wang, Zhaoliang Su, Huaxi Xu

“…Exposure of RA FLSs to TNF-α (10 ng/ml) led to increase of Hes-1, a target gene of Notch signaling, and a marked upregulation of Notch 2, Delta-like 1, and Delta-like 3 mRNA levels. …”
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Molecular and Biochemical Characterization of the Greek Pepper ( Capsicum annuum ) Cultivars ‘Florinis’ and ‘Karatzova’ by Niki Mougiou, Foteini Trikka, Sofia Michailidou, Mariana Pantoura, Anagnostis Argiriou

“…The economic interest in ‘Florinis’ peppers has led to many adulteration events. In that aspect, genetic profiles of ‘Florinis’, a ‘Florinis’-type and ‘Karatzova’ peppers, were studied using Inter Simple Sequence Repeats (ISSR) molecular markers and an automated fragment detection system. …”
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Case Report: Severe acute pancreatitis accompanied by gastric mucosal exfoliation hemorrhage: clinical alerts and novel insights by Yanquan Liu, Hehui Zhang, Minjuan Zeng, Jian Luo, Yun Lai, He Huang, Qinglin Xu, Yuan Liu

“…This study delves into a retrospective analysis of a singular, yet remarkable clinical case, where SAP's therapeutic odyssey unexpectedly led to gastric mucosa stripping and catastrophic gastrointestinal bleeding. …”
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