Immune Dysfunction in HIV: A Possible Role for Pro- and Anti-Inflammatory Cytokines in HIV Staging by Iorhen Ephraim Akase, Bolanle O. P. Musa, Reginald Onyedumarakwe Obiako, Abdurrahman Ahmad Elfulatiy, Abdullahi Asara Mohammed

“…The serum concentrations of cytokines IL-6 and IL-10 were carried out using R&D human Quantikine ELISA kits, while patients’ CD4+ T cell counts were evaluated using the Partec easy count kit. …”
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Assessment of ECG Criteria for the Diagnosis of Right Ventricular Involvement by Suhaib Al-Mashari, Reem Al-Habsi, Amal Al-Habsi, Yasir Al-Malki, Mashaal Al-Saadi, Adil Al-Riyami, Sunil K. Nadar

“…The most sensitive indicators of RV involvement were an ST elevation in V4R (72.9%) and a higher ST elevation in lead III than in lead II (80.4%). …”
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The Ordovician strata of the Ennedi Plateau, northeastern Chad (Erdi Basin) by Ghienne, Jean-François, Moussa, Abderamane, Saad, Abakar, Djatibeye, Barnabé, Youssouf, Hissein Mahamat

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Accounting Method for Carbon Emission Obligation on Load Side of Power System Based on Peak Load Characteristics by HUANG Yanlu, HU Xudong, LIN Zhenfu, MA Xiyuan

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Temporal variations landscape metrics of vegetation riparian areas in Gharesou River, Ardabil Province by Raoof Mostafazadeh, Fariba Esfandiary, Mahnaz Hamzeei, Nazila Alaei

“…Correlation analysis in R environment was used to evaluate the relationship between landscape metrics in the study time period. …”
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Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Educational Buildings Using Machine Learning Algorithm by Tapan Kumar, Mohammad Al Amin Siddique, Raquib Ahsan

“…From the analysis results, it shows that RFR, ANN, and SVR achieved coefficient of determination (R2) of 20%, 25%, and 35%, respectively. Based on the findings from the three separate model analyses, it can be concluded that SVR produced the highest performance among the considered models.…”
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Analysis and Predictions of Spread, Recovery, and Death Caused by COVID-19 in India by Rajani Kumari, Sandeep Kumar, Ramesh Chandra Poonia, Vijander Singh, Linesh Raja, Vaibhav Bhatnagar, Pankaj Agarwal

“…The predicted number of cases shows a good agreement with 0.9992 R-squared score to the actual values. The finding suggests that lockdown and social distancing are two important factors that can help to suppress the increasing spread rate of COVID-19.…”
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Current status and development trends in CKD with frailty research from 2000 to 2021: a bibliometric analysis by Guowei Yuan, Yaqin Yang, Yujie Lin, Jiarong Lin, Yuchi Wu

“…Next, publications were analyzed for information including authors, journals, cited references, citing journals, institutions, countries and regions, high-frequency keywords and co-citations using VOSviewer, Microsoft Excel, and R software.Results A total of 2223 articles were obtained, from which 613 relevant articles were selected based on title and abstract screening. …”
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Dawstwo narządów w świetle polskiej ustawy transplantacyjnej by Piotr Ochotny

“…Celem artykułu jest poszukiwanie odpowiedzi na pytanie: czy i w jakim stopniu polska ustawa transplantacyjna z 1 lipca 2005 r. o pobieraniu, przechowywaniu i przeszczepianiu komórek, tkanek i narządów poszerza krąg potencjalnych dawców organów. …”
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Current trends in corporate risk management in the system for ensuring the economic sustainability of industrial enterprises by N. N. Trofimova

“…The revealed current trends in corporate risk management in the system for ensuring the economic sustainability of industrial enterprises have been summarized and systematized, including: achieving a balance between the realization of opportunities for making profit and minimizing losses; implementation of risk management practices based on GOST R ISO 31000-2019; application of relevant risk management strategies; development ofbusiness processes with adequate means to control and contain risks; audit of risks and timely adjustment of measures to reduce them; risk outsourcing to an external agency; risk avoidance; accounting for risk management of intangible assets.…”
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Effect of Topically Administered Chitosan-N-acetylcysteine on Corneal Wound Healing in a Rabbit Model by Corinna Fischak, Robert Klaus, René M. Werkmeister, Christine Hohenadl, Martin Prinz, Leopold Schmetterer, Gerhard Garhöfer

“…A good correlation was found between the OCT technique and the epithelial fluorescein staining in terms of wound size (r=0.94). Conclusions. Administration of C-NAC containing eye drops twice daily leads to a faster corneal wound healing in a rabbit model of corneal debridement as compared to placebo. …”
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Fecal Lactoferrin: Reliable Biomarker for Intestinal Inflammation in Pediatric IBD by Stephan Buderus, James H. Boone, Michael J. Lentze

“…In CD, FL levels correlated positively (R2=0.42) with disease severity as judged by the SES-CD. …”
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Effects of Salmonella Typhimurium infection on intestinal flora and intestinal tissue arachidonic acid metabolism in Wenchang chickens by Shenghong Chen, Yaochen Xie, Dingqian Guo, Tiansen Li, Zhen Tan, Xuhua Ran, Xiaobo Wen

“…This experiment investigated the changes in cecal flora and ARA metabolism in Hainan Wenchang chickens infected with S. Typhimurium using 16s rDNA sequencing and targeted metabolomics. The results showed that the levels of ARA metabolites were increased in the cecum tissue of Wenchang chickens after infection with S. …”
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Parkinsonian Rigidity Shows Variable Properties Depending on the Elbow Joint Angle by Takuyuki Endo, Toshimitsu Hamasaki, Ryuhei Okuno, Masaru Yokoe, Harutoshi Fujimura, Kenzo Akazawa, Saburo Sakoda

“…Rigidity as represented by the elastic coefficient in the distal phase of elbow joint extension was best correlated with the UPDRS rigidity score (r=0.77). A significant difference between the UPDRS rigidity score 0 group and 1 group was observed in the elastic coefficient in the distal phase of extension (P<0.0001), whereas no significant difference was observed in the proximal phase of extension and in each phase of flexion. …”
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Contact patches of radial tires with different length-to-width ratiosunder static loads by Fengliang Qiao, Zhaojie Shen, Yuxia Kang

“…The simulation models of 205/55R16 were validated against experimental results. …”
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Accuracy Evaluation and Parameter Analysis of Land Surface Temperature Inversion Algorithm for Landsat-8 Data by Jikang Wan, Min Zhu, Wei Ding

“…The results show that the error of various LST inversion algorithms will increase with the rise of LST. R2 of the inversion results of each LST algorithm and the measured data are all greater than 0.73°C in winter and about 0.5°C in the other seasons. …”
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Design of Innovative Non-Routine Learning Strategies in Chemistry Learning by Mujakir Mujakir, Yenni Kurniawati, Safrijal Djamaluddin, Nur Jahan Ahmad

“…The research adopts the Gall and Gall Research and Development (R&D) model with a 3D design framework (Define, Design, Develop). …”
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Analysis of malondialdehyde and ferric reducing ability of plasma in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients in Lucknow city, India by Mohammad Zaid Kidwai, Roshan Alam, Haseeb Ahsan, Mohammad Mustufa Khan, Saba Khan

“…Aim: The study was designed to determine the malondialdehyde (MDA) and ferric reducing ability of plasma (FRAP) in T2DM patients at IIMS&R Hospital, Lucknow. Method: The oxidative stress was analyzed in T2DM patients as MDA. …”
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The Effect of Hypertension Duration and the Age of Onset on CV Risk Factors Expression in Perimenopausal Women by Ljiljana Trtica Majnarić, Ivo Martinović, Šefket Šabanović, Stjepan Rudan, František Babič, Thomas Wittlinger

“…The strongest linear correlations with BMI and waist circumference were found for total serum cholesterol (r = 0.355 and 0.499, respectively). Conclusion. …”
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Identification of Hypoxia Signature to Assess the Tumor Immune Microenvironment and Predict Prognosis in Patients with Ovarian Cancer by Chunyan Wei, Xiaoqing Liu, Qin Wang, Qipei Li, Min Xie

“…Results. 8 genes (AKAP12, ALDOC, ANGPTL4, CITED2, ISG20, PPP1R15A, PRDX5, and TGFBI) were included in the hypoxic gene signature. …”
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