Assessment of Clinical Features in HIV-Infected Patients with Acute Coronary Syndromes Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in China by Ying Liu, Yongfu Chen, Yiwei Hao, Jing Xiao, Bei Li, Leidan Zhang, Junyan Han, Hongxin Zhao

“…In addition, the risk of major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events at 1 year was similar in both groups. …”
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Intelligent Multi-Agent Based Multilayered Control System for Opportunistic Load Scheduling in Smart Buildings by Muhammad Babar Rasheed, Nadeem Javaid, Muhammad Sheraz Arshad Malik, Muhammad Asif, Muhammad Kashif Hanif, Muhammad Hasanain Chaudary

“…This paper proposes a multi-agent-based multi-layered hierarchical control system for residential load management under real-time pricing environment. The major objectives are to reduce peak load demand, electricity cost, and user discomfort. …”
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Spatial associations between measures of public transportation and diabetic foot ulcer outcomes in the state of Georgia: 2016–2019 by Mohammed K Ali, Lance Waller, Rohan D'Souza, Howard H Chang, Lauren T Vanasse, Marcos C Schechter

“…We used the proportion of adults who use public transportation to commute, distance to nearest transit stop, and per capita expense on public transportation as proxies for public transportation reliance, availability, and both, respectively.Results Of 114 606 DFUs, 21 388 (19%) were associated with a major or minor amputation. Among ZCTAs at the highest income quartile, reduced amputation risk was associated with the proportion of adults who use public transportation to commute to work (relative risk (RR)=0.29, 95% CI 0.09 to 0.97 per IQR increase of 1.13%) and per capita expense on public transportation (RR=0.78, 95% CI 0.63 to 0.78 per IQR increase of 6 cents). …”
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Hepatitis B virus hijacks MRE11-RAD50-NBS1 complex to form its minichromosome. by Kaitao Zhao, Jingjing Wang, Zichen Wang, Mengfei Wang, Chen Li, Zaichao Xu, Qiong Zhan, Fangteng Guo, Xiaoming Cheng, Yuchen Xia

“…The persistence of HBV covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA) is the major obstacle of antiviral treatments. cccDNA is formed through repairing viral partially double-stranded relaxed circular DNA (rcDNA) by varies host factors. …”
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Adoption of the Polish Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery Care Standards: a nationwide survey by Mateusz J. Świerz, Karolina Majdak, Andrzej Budzyński, Wiesław Tarnowski, Piotr Major, Małgorzata M. Bala

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Global, regional, and national burdens of low back pain in women of childbearing age from 1990 to 2021: an analysis based on the global burden of disease study 2021 by Shiwen Zhang, Xuan Ma, Yao Yao, Huashan Pan, Lijuan Zou

“…Abstract Background Low back pain (LBP) is very common in women of child bearing age (WCBA) and is a major burden on individuals and society, but studies about it have not been reported. …”
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Airway Management in Pan Facial Fracture: An Outcome Analysis of Elective Tracheostomy and Submental Endotracheal Intubation by Vipin Venugopal Nair, Yuvraj Issar, Harmanjot Singh Dhillon, Gurpinder Singh Ghotra, Pranay Pratap, Ayush Mathur, Kamalpreet Singh

“…Elective tracheostomy (ET) and submental endotracheal intubation (SEI) are the two major techniques for airway management. The aim of this article is to compare the management outcome between these techniques. …”
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MODERNIZATION AND FUNCTIONING OF PRINCIPLES OF CIVIL PROCEDURAL LAW OF UKRAINE IN THE CONTEXT OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION PROCESSES by Olga Voloshchenko

“…Adoption of the new version of the Civil Procedure Code of Ukraine in 2017 was a major step in bringing the field of civil justice closer to the standards of the European Union and improving it. …”
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Explosive Performance Assessment of Buried Steel Pipeline by Seyed-Mohammad Seyed-Kolbadi, Mohammad Safi, Ayoub Keshmiri, S. Mahdi S. Kolbadi, Masoud Mirtaheri

“…The results showed that in buried pipes under surface explosions, displacements, major stresses, and strains decrease in clay, dense, and loose sands with increase of buried depth. …”
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In-vitro acaricidal activity of peganum harmala and glaucium flavum alkaloid against rhipicephalus sp. of dog by Rosa Kebbi, Omar Besseboua, Mohamed Nait-Mouloud, Abdelhanine Ayad

“…<b>Aim: </b>The major problem of drug intended for tick control is resistance developed to application doses on the hosts. …”
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Genes related to the white face colour pattern in eight Russian cattle breeds by N. S. Yudin, N. M. Belonogova, D. M. Larkin

“…One of the major effects of domestication is change of animal coat colour to up to complete white colour of the whole body. …”
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Reliability of the Tuck Jump Assessment Using Standardized Rater Training by Kevin Racine, Meghan Warren, Craig Smith, Monica R. Lininger

“… # METHODS A website was created by a physical therapist (PT) with videos, written descriptors of the 10 TJA technique flaws, and examples of what constituted no flaw, minor flaw, or major flaw (0,1,2) using published standards. The website was then validated (both face and content) by four experts. …”
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Smart Healthy Schools: An IoT-enabled concept for multi-room dynamic air quality control by Alessandro Zivelonghi, Alessandro Giuseppi

“…Thermal energy waste in winter due to improved air renewal remains of major concern but can be well monitored within a SHS monitoring architecture thanks to the flexibility of the LoRaWAN protocol able to process also a large amount of energy and climatic data at room and building scale. …”
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Retrospective Analysis of RSV Infection in Pediatric Patients: Epidemiology, Comorbidities, Treatment, and Costs in Dubai (2014-2023) by Jean Joury, Nawal Al Kaabi, Sara Al Dallal, Bassam Mahboub, Mostafa Zayed, Mohamed Abdelaziz, Jennifer Onwumeh-Okwundu, Mark A. Fletcher, Subramanyam Kumaresan, Badarinath C. Ramachandrachar, Mohamed Farghaly

“…**Background:** Infections attributable to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are a major cause of hospitalization among young children worldwide. …”
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Comparison of the extraction efficiencies of four different solvents used in trace metal digestion of selected soils within Abakaliki, Nigeria by NO Omaka, IF Offor, ER Chukwu, U Ewuzie

“…Soil pollution by trace metals is one of the major global environmental challenges facing us today. …”
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Allelic variation in an expansin, MdEXP-A1, contributes to flesh firmness at harvest in apples by Qiufang Su, Yifeng Feng, Xianglu Li, Zidun Wang, Yuanwen Zhong, Zhengyang Zhao, Huijuan Yang

“…A total of 11 candidate intervals were identified on chromosomes 03, 05, 06, 07, 13, and 16 via BSA-seq analysis. We characterized a major QTL on chromosome 16 and selected a candidate gene encoding expansin MdEXP-A1 by combining RNA-seq analysis. …”
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Seasonal Profile and Five-Year Trend Analysis of Malaria Prevalence in Maygaba Health Center, Welkait District, Northwest Ethiopia by Fitsum Tigu, Tsegay Gebremaryam, Asnake Desalegn

“…Although the overall prevalence of malaria was continually declined from 2015-2019, malaria remains the major public health problem in the study area. The severe species of P. falciparum was found to be the dominant parasite reported in the study area. …”
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High-Fat Mouse Model to Explore the Relationship between Abnormal Lipid Metabolism and Enolase in Pancreatic Cancer by Lin Qin, Kai Sun, Li Shi, Yushan Xu, Rongping Zhang

“…Malignant tumors have become a major social health problem that seriously threatens human health, among which pancreatic cancer has a high degree of malignancy, difficult diagnosis and treatment, short survival time, and high mortality. …”
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Enhancing Telemarketing Success Using Ensemble-Based Online Machine Learning by Shahriar Kaisar, Md Mamunur Rashid, Abdullahi Chowdhury, Sakib Shahriar Shafin, Joarder Kamruzzaman, Abebe Diro

“…Additionally, customer preferences are likely to change over time due to various reasons, and/or a fresh group of customers may be targeted for a new product or service, necessitating model retraining which is not addressed at all in existing works. A major challenge in model retraining is maintaining a balance between stability (retaining older knowledge) and plasticity (being receptive to new information). …”
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Enhancing CsSn0.5Ge0.5I3 Perovskite Solar Cell Performance via Cu2O Hole Transport Layer Integration by Abu Rayhan, M. A. Khan, Md. Rabiul Islam

“…The utilization of lead halide perovskites as absorber layers in perovskite solar cells has been impeded by two major issues: lead poisoning and stability concerns. …”
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