Proinflammatory Cytokines Increase Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Expression in Alveolar Epithelial Cells by James P. Maloney, Li Gao

“…Increased VEGF expression likely contributes to the pathogenesis of inflammatory lung diseases and to the angiogenic phenotype of lung cancer, a disease typically preceded by chronic inflammation.…”
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A New Fuzzy Logic-Based Similarity Measure Applied to Large Gap Imputation for Uncorrelated Multivariate Time Series by Thi-Thu-Hong Phan, André Bigand, Émilie Poisson Caillault

“…Finally, we fill in the gap with average values of the window following Qbs and the one preceding Qas. The experimental results have demonstrated that the proposed approach outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in case of multivariate time series having low/noncorrelated data but effective information on each signal.…”
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Global and national public awareness and interest in glomerular diseases from 2004 to 2024 by Suryanarayanan Balakrishnan, Charat Thongprayoon, Iasmina M. Craici, Wisit Cheungpasitporn, Jing Miao

“…MN and DN experienced a modest decline before 2016, preceded by a slight increase. Among English-speaking countries, search interest was predominantly concentrated in five countries, primarily including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, with the United States consistently ranking as the leading country. …”
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Changes in the organisation management system by V. G. Antonov, E. V. Kuptsova, E. S. Kuptsova

“…The research resulted in tactical and strategic decisions to improve the management system in organisations and proposals for changes in the theoretical and methodological basis of management, proposals for changes to the theoretical and methodological basis of governance.Management should be based on the laws of development of socio-economic systems rather than on precedents from business practices. Interaction management, trust management, real-time strategic management are paramount and require organisations to be adaptable, flexible, integrated and self-organised. …”
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In Sight of Mont Blanc: an Approach to Ruskin’s Perception of the Mountain by Laurence Roussillon-Constanty

“…Grand admirateur de Wordsworth, il prend soin par la suite de faire précéder chaque section de Modern Painters d’extraits de The Excursion, se faisant ainsi l’héritier d’une tradition romantique pour laquelle la montagne est le lieu privilégié de l’expression du sujet lyrique et le reflet d’une intériorité sans cesse en mouvement. …”
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Extensive VZV Encephalomyelitis without Rash in an Elderly Man by Karen Lynch, Prakhar Agarwal, Anu Paranandi, Susan Hadley, Mithila Vullaganti

“…Characteristically it is preceded by a rash and primarily presents in the immunocompromised. …”
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The Dependence of Northwest Pacific Tropical Cyclone Intensification Rates on Environmental Factors by Xinyan Lyu, Xuguang Wang, Lance M. Leslie

“…The initial location and intensity, the preceding intensity change, the motion direction, the occurrence month, and the intensification duration time are all found to differ for RI cases compared with NI and SI cases. …”
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Mapping the Transition of Adolescents to Adult HIV Care: A Mixed-Methods Perspective from the Cape Town Metropole, South Africa by Charné Petinger, Brian van Wyk, Talitha Crowley

“…A successful transition involves a sufficient level of self-management of their chronic condition and healthcare journey, which is preceded by adequate preparation pre-transition, and the monitoring of engagement post-transition. …”
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Settlement of Tax Disputes in the Russian Federation and Germany by A. A. Konyukhova

“…In accordance with German law, the administrative stage of dispute resolution, carried out by the tax authority, always precedes the filing of a complaint to a court. Consequently, the taxpayer submits his first application in writing to the tax authority that issued the tax act, though in some cases to a higher tax authority. …”
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Functional feature extraction and validation from twelve-lead electrocardiograms to identify atrial fibrillation by Wei Yang, Rajat Deo, Wensheng Guo

“…Conclusions Compared with deep learning methods, our features are intuitive and can provide insights into the longitudinal ECG changes at an individual level that precede the development of AF.…”
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Johann Franz Count von Würben and His Diary Entries from 1662 by Martin Bakeš, Jiří Kubeš

“…The authors therefore edited those parts of the diary that the Czech historian František Palacký collated during the 1820’s when he was working on the genealogical dossier that he subsequently dedicated to the House of Sternberg. This edition is preceded by an introductory study in which the authors establish this source within the appropriate contexts. …”
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Accommodation intersubjective et générique dans le forum du Madman’s Café by Stéphane Kostantzer

“…Our hypothesis is that, in the exchanges, generic accommodation takes precedence over intersubjective accommodation, which will undoubtedly pose a problem for the expression of identity.In line with Giles’ theories, accommodation is broken down into four subtypes, whether it describes a movement of convergence or divergence, and whether this movement is predominantly ideological or stylistic in kind. …”
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Fast approximation of the top‐k items in data streams using FPGAs by Ali Ebrahim, Jalal Khalifat

“…This variant takes advantage of the embedded memory resources in an FPGA to implement a sketch‐based filter that precedes the main systolic array in the accelerator's pipeline. …”
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Anti-immigration Agenda of Populist Parties in Switzerland by E. P. Shavlay, M. I. Sigachev, E. S. Sleptsov

“…Meanwhile, the 2015-2018 migration crisis that preceded the pandemic allowed the Swiss people's party to strengthen its identity as a right-wing populist neoliberal party with a strong localist and conservative program aimed at cultural dominance over migrants. …”
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Lending appraisal and performance of SACCOS in Rukiga district, Uganda by Moses, Agaba, John Bosco, turyasingura, Jesse David, Kabagambe

“…The investigation was preceded by a cross-sectional survey. Data from 5 SACCOs with 109 respondents were collected, and both quantitative and qualitative analyses were merged. …”
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Paradoxical Glucose-Sensitizing yet Proinflammatory Effects of Acute ASP Administration in Mice by Alexandre Fisette, Pegah Poursharifi, Katerina Oikonomopoulou, Mercedes N. Munkonda, Marc Lapointe, Katherine Cianflone

“…Mice were then subjected to both glucose and insulin tolerance tests, each manipulation being preceded by recombinant ASP or vehicle (control) bolus injection. …”
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Neurologic Complications Associated with Sjögren’s Disease: Case Reports and Modern Pathogenic Dilemma by Michele Colaci, Giulia Cassone, Andreina Manfredi, Marco Sebastiani, Dilia Giuggioli, Clodoveo Ferri

“…Neurological manifestations may precede the clinical onset of SS; therefore, in patients with apparently isolated cranial nerve involvement, a correct diagnosis of the underlying SS is often delayed or overlooked entirely; in these instances, standard clinicoserological assessment is recommendable.…”
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Prognostic Factors for Immune Thrombocytopenia Outcome in Greek Children: A Retrospective Single-Centered Analysis by Alexandros Makis, Athanasios Gkoutsias, Theodoros Palianopoulos, Eleni Pappa, Evangelia Papapetrou, Christina Tsaousi, Eleftheria Hatzimichael, Nikolaos Chaliasos

“…Information regarding age, gender, preceding infection, bleeding type, duration of symptoms and platelets at diagnosis, treatment, disease course, and immunological markers was recorded. 39 children had newly diagnosed, 4 persistent, and 14 chronic disease. …”
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Observational evidence of the Kuroshio meander and its propagation in the East China Sea by SeungYong Lee, Hanna Na, Hanna Na, Hong Sik Min, Dong Guk Kim, Hirohiko Nakamura, Ayako Nishina

“…Within this frequency band, current velocities exhibit a strong relationship when the upstream precedes the downstream by 6 days. The amplitude of this lagged co-variability tends to be larger from May to August, with an increase in along-path speed variability of up to about 24% at approximately 250 m depth for the onshore sites and an increase in cross-path speed variability of up to about 22% within the 200–300 m layer for the offshore sites. …”
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Vaccination and Infection as Causative Factors in Japanese Patients With Rasmussen Syndrome: Molecular Mimicry and HLA Class I by Yukitoshi Takahashi, Kazumi Matsuda, Yuko Kubota, Jiro Shimomura, Etsuko Yamasaki, Tatsuya Kudo, Katsuyuki Fukushima, Hitoshi Osaka, Noriyuki Akasaka, Atsushi Imamura, Shinji Yamada, Naomi Kondo, Tateki Fujiwara

“…Almost half of the patients have some preceding causative factors, with infections found in 38.2%, vaccinations in 5.9% and head trauma in 8.9% of Japanese patients. …”
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