Association between right atrial area measured by echocardiography and prognosis among pulmonary arterial hypertension: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Ke Liu, Chunhua Zhang, Bingyu Chen, Mingfeng Li, Peican Zhang

“…Subgroup analyses in which the patients were stratified by RAA and RAAI were consistent with the main results.Conclusion The meta-analysis suggested that enlarged RAA/RAAI were associated with increased risk of poor prognosis in patients with PAH.…”
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Milestones and Timescale of Poststroke Recovery: A Cohort Study by Marianna Loi, Alberto Zaliani, Marta Abbamonte, Elena P. Ferrari, Roberto Maestri, Luigi Trojano, Pietro Balbi

“…A novel measure based on the time needed to reach the main milestones of motor recovery was proposed. Moreover, two commonly used outcome measures, a measure of global functioning (Functional Independence Measure (FIM™)) and a measure of neurological poststroke deficit (Fugl-Meyer scale), were collected for the investigations of possible predictors. …”
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Substrate system outperforms water-culture systems for hydroponic strawberry production by George Kerrigan Hutchinson, Lan Xuan Nguyen, Zilfina Rubio Ames, Krishna Nemali, Rhuanito Soranz Ferrarezi

“…In recent years, due to increasing costs of production and occurrence of extreme weather events, the use of controlled environment agriculture (CEA) and hydroponics for strawberry production has become popular in several Asian, European, and American countries. There are two main types of hydroponic systems: substrate- and water-culture. …”
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Genesis of feudalism in Western Europe and its influence to the globai process of history: The conceptions of L. Vasilyev and E. Gudavičius by Nerijus Babinskas

“…In this sense, Western Europe became similar to the Orient. Nevertheless, the main difference was that private property remained in Western Europe. …”
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Liability issues for environmental damage caused by military aggression of a terrorist country by I. V. Kyrieieva

“…The research methods used, in particular, logical-semantic and dialectical, made it possible to consider the main features of the concept of “ecocide” as a crime against humanity and its direct connection with the genocide of the Ukrainian people. …”
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Central nervous system (CNS) medications and polypharmacy in later life: cross-sectional analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) by Natasha Slater, Simon White, Martin Frisher

“…Furthermore, this paper aims to determine whether polypharmacy and other factors, previously found to be associated with overall polypharmacy, are associated with the most common CNS drug classes.Design Cross-sectional study.Setting English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (wave 6).Participants 7730 participants (≥50 years).Main outcome measures Adjusted Odds Ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for CNS drug classes.Results 31% of the sample were currently taking ≥5 medications (polypharmacy), of whom 58% (n=1362/2356) were taking CNS medicines as part of their regimen. …”
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The role of multispiral computed tomography in detecting and the assessment of the degree of damage of esophago-gastric junction cancer by V. N. Diomidova, A. N. Dmitrieva

“…The external diameter of the abdominal part of esophagus in the normal condition is 14.2 ± 1.68 mm, in case of esophagitis is 17.96 ± 3.7 mm, EGJ cancer is 27.9 ± 9.48 mm (p < 0.001). The main statistically significant (p < 0.001) qualitative character of esophago-gastric junction canser were: non-visualization of mucic in afflicted areas (96.8 %), bosselated upper and lower contours of narrowing (75.2 %), dissymmetric parries pachymenia (70.4 %), blunt-edged outer contours (58.4 %), cotyloid suprastenotic esophageal distensibility (45.6 %). …”
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Analysis on the Influence Degree of Deformation Control Factors of Deep-Buried Roadway’s Fractured Surrounding Rock Using Orthogonal Design by Ke Li, Weijian Yu, Youlin Xu, Ze Zhou, Mengtang Xu, Wei Liang

“…The two sidewalls’ development and roof fractures are mainly tangential, and the original rock state appears only beyond 6.3∼8.2 m. …”
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Forecasting Foreign Exchange Volatility Using Deep Learning Autoencoder-LSTM Techniques by Gunho Jung, Sun-Yong Choi

“…Recently, various deep learning models based on artificial neural networks (ANNs) have been widely employed in finance and economics, particularly for forecasting volatility. The main goal of this study was to predict FX volatility effectively using ANN models. …”
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Using the Theory of Planned Behavior to Explain Expecting Couples Birth Preparedness Intentions in a Rural Setting: A Cross-Sectional Study from Rukwa, Southern Tanzania by Fabiola V. Moshi, Stephen M. Kibusi, Flora Fabian

“…The questionnaire explored three main domains of birth preparedness intentions. These three domains included (1) attitudes towards birth preparedness, (2) perceived subjective norms towards birth preparedness, and (3) perceived behavior control towards birth preparedness. …”
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Hypothalamic atrophy in primary lateral sclerosis, assessed by convolutional neural network-based automatic segmentation by Jan Kassubek, Francesco Roselli, Simon Witzel, Johannes Dorst, Albert C. Ludolph, Volker Rasche, Ina Vernikouskaya, Hans-Peter Müller

“…Abstract Primary lateral sclerosis (PLS) is a motor neuron disease (MND) which mainly affects upper motor neurons. Within the MND spectrum, PLS is much more slowly progressive than amyotrophic laterals sclerosis (ALS). …”
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Application of rock phosphate enriched composts increases nodulation, growth and yield of chickpea by Allah Ditta, Juma Muhammad, Muhammad Imtiaz, Sajid Mehmood, Zheng Qian, Shuxin Tu

“…Abstract Purpose Phosphorus (P) deficiency in agricultural land is one of the main factors which reduce the crop production and yield. …”
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Shape and Measurement Monitoring of Inrush Current Characteristics of a Battery-Capacitive Energy Storage Device with Two-Channel Digital Oscilloscope by V. P. Vasilevich, M. V. Zbyshinskaya

“…The main reason of voltage instability in stand-alone power supply systems is the electric drive motors inrush current, which are usually higher than their nominal value. …”
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Help-seeking behaviors among survivors of intimate partner violence during pregnancy in 54 low- and middle-income countries: evidence from Demographic and Health Survey data by Mariella Stiller, Michael Lowery Wilson, Till Bärnighausen, Adebola Adedimeji, Erin Lewis, Anne Abio

“…Results Only half of survivors sought help in response to IPV during pregnancy with wide regional and national variations, mainly from informal support networks (including family, neighbors, and friends), and rarely from formal institutions (including legal, socio-cultural, and medical services). …”
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The effect of thioredoxin and prochymosin coexpression on the refolding of recombinant alpaca chymosin by S. V. Belenkaya, D. N. Shcherbakov, A. I. Chapoval, T. I. Esina, V. V. Elchaninov

“…The milk-clotting enzyme chymosin is a member of the group of aspartate proteinases. Chymosin is the main component of rennet traditionally obtained from the stomachs of dairy calves and widely used to coagulate milk in the production of various types of cheese. …”
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Evaluation of the Production-Education Integration Performance of the High-Tech Industry: An Empirical Comparison between Three Urban Agglomerations in China by Quan Zhang, Zhen Zhang, Zhuomei Li, Sifeng Li, Tianzhen Tang

“…On this basis, the correlation-entropy composite matter-element (CECME) model and coupling coordination degree (CCD) model were introduced to empirically compare the PEI performance of the high-tech industry between Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao (GHKM) Greater Bay Area, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) Urban Agglomeration, and Yangtze River Delta (YRD) Urban Agglomeration. The main conclusions are as follows: (1) the GHKM Greater Bay Area is far better in education and industry development than YRD Urban Agglomeration and BTH Urban Agglomeration; (2) the PEI performance of the high-tech industry in GHKM Greater Bay Area was evaluated as high level with industry in lead, that in YRD Urban Agglomeration as moderate level with education in lead, and that in BTH Urban Agglomeration high-tech industry PEI as moderate level with industry in lag. …”
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INSTITUTIONAL DESIGN OF ANALYTICAL TOOLS OF THE FINANCIAL CONTROL INSTITUTION by Andrii Khmelkov

“…The research will become the basis for solving an important task for the theory, methodology and practice of financial science, and, first of all, in matters of financial auditing (Government au­diting), from the modernization of reporting, assessment, diagnosis and goal setting of controlling institutions to the improvement of work on processing and analyzing big data and establishing criteria for the possibility of using AI (Artificial Intelligence). The main result of the carried out scientific research is the first proposed institutional design of both the powers of the financial control institute and its effectiveness in the form of indicators and parameters of the Effective Control Formula - i.e. their digitization, for their digital/numerical display. …”
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Enhancing the photocatalytic performance and chemical durability of AZ31 magnesium alloy by incorporating two types of nanoparticles through plasma electrolytic oxidation by Mosab Kaseem, Abdullah H. Alluhayb, Talitha Tara Thanaa, Arash Fattah-alhosseini, Mohammad Alkaseem

“…The difficulty in achieving a balance between photocatalytic efficiency and chemical robustness has been a barrier to the broad use of MgO as a versatile material, mainly because of its restricted surface activity. …”
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Correlation of Total Polyphenolic Content with Antioxidant Activity of Hydromethanolic Extract and Their Fractions of the Salvia officinalis Leaves from Different Regions of Morocc... by Zakaria Khiya, Yassine Oualcadi, Abderrahmane Gamar, Fatima Berrekhis, Touria Zair, Fatima EL Hilali

“…There was a positive correlation between total phenol content (TPC), condensed tannin content (TCT), and total antioxidant capacity (TAC) (r = 0.932, r = 0.896, respectively). The main compounds that have been identified in the hydromethanolic extract of Salvia officinalis are ascorbic acid, gallic acid, 4-hydroxybenzoic acid, tannic acid, and rutin. …”
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Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Acute Lung Injury Caused by Transcatheter Arterial Chemoembolization for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Retrospective Cohort Study from a Sing... by Liang-jie Fang, Lu-yan Chen, Jun-hui Sun, Jian-ying Zhou

“…We infer that pulmonary Lipiodol embolization might be one of the main causes of TACE-associated ALI. Thus, HCC patients who are at high risk should be closely evaluated and monitored during TACE to avoid such potentially fatal complication.…”
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