Analysis of artery injury types and clinical characteristics of patients with transcatheter angioembolization after percutaneous nephrolithotomy by Xianghu Meng, Rong Cong, Yibo Hua, Zengjun Wang, Ninghong Song, Wei Yang, Rijin Song

“…Clinical data on the TAE patients, such as gender, age, body mass index, TAE interval, hemoglobin (Hb) decrease, operation time, stone size, the number and size of tracts, and clinical bleeding type, were summarized. …”
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Are interventions for low-income groups effective in changing healthy eating, physical activity and smoking behaviours? A systematic review and meta-analysis by Stephan U Dombrowski, Marie Johnston, Nicola McCleary, Eleanor R Bull

“…Studies reporting follow-up results suggested that effects were maintained over time for diet (SMD 0.16, 95% CI 0.08 to 0.25) but not physical activity (SMD 0.17, 95% CI −0.02 to 0.37) or smoking (RR 1.11, 95% CI 0.93 to 1.34).Conclusions Behaviour change interventions for low-income groups had small positive effects on healthy eating, physical activity and smoking. …”
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Salvage transoral laser microsurgery for early local recurrence of glottic squamous cell cancer by Zhimou Cai, Huijun Yue, Lin Chen, Yang Xv, Yun Li, Bingjie Tang, Yu Lin, Wenbin Lei

“…Methods This retrospective study involved 55 patients with early local recurrent GSCC treated with TLM, and the oncologic outcomes, functional outcomes, hospitalization time and complications were compared with a group of 40 recurrent GSCC patients matched for clinical variables of TLM group, treated by OPL by the same team of surgeons. …”
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Ion homeostasis in the regulation of intracellular pH and volume of human erythrocytes by О. І. Доценко, Г. В. Тарадіна

“…Using realistic parameters of the system changes over time in cell volume, concentrations of metabolites, ions fluxes and transmembrane potential were calculated. …”
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Absolute quantification of Neuron-specific enolase based on surface plasmon resonance by Cui Lin, Yijie Wang, Tao Peng, Pengpeng Liu, Yuanyuan Liang, Wencheng Kang, Xiaoping Yu, Yang Song, Xuping Shentu

“…However, traditional methods suffer from various disadvantages, including instability, complexity, time-consuming operations, and the necessity for standards. …”
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Pulse Waveform Analysis of the Ocular Blood Flow Using Laser Speckle Flowgraphy before and after Glaucoma Treatment by Satoko Masai, Kyoko Ishida, Ayako Anraku, Tetsuro Takumi, Goji Tomita

“…Although there was no significant change in MBRT after treatment, the acceleration time index (ATI) significantly decreased (p=0.034) in the PG group. …”
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US-Japan Trade Relations Amid the Globalization Crisis by V. G. Shvydko

“…Trump administration’s policy versus main trade partners has shifted towards working out and revising bilateral agreements designed to make American foreign trade more manageable and balanced, and it well may represent part of a long-term change and continue irrespective of the outcome of the US presidential election.The changes that have occurred in Japan-US relations regarding mutual economic ties confirm the general tendency of the international trade and investment system to become more fragmented, shifting from multilateral global and regional platforms to ad hoc agree­ments with clearly defined national goals and priorities.A possible change of political leadership in both countries will not change these processes, which reflect both the characteristic features of the world perception by national elites and the objective interests of influential business groups. At the same time, trade and invest­ment policy is increasingly affected by non-economic factors, mostly “national security” con­siderations. …”
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Shared rare genetic variants in multiplex autism families suggest a social memory gene under selection by Kang Seon Lee, Taeyeop Lee, Mujun Kim, Elizaveta Ignatova, Hyo-Jeong Ban, Min Kyung Sung, Younghoon Kim, Youn-Jae Kim, Jin-Hee Han, Jung Kyoon Choi

“…These knockin mice showed improved abilities to retain social memory over time. The results of our population genetic and evolutionary analyses, behavior experiments, and genome editing propose a molecular mechanism that may confer a selective advantage through social memory enhancement and may cause autism-related social impairment when disrupted in humans. …”
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Effect of Temperature on Reproduction and Sex Ratio of Guppy (Poecilia reticulata Peters) by H. Arfah, S. Mariam, . Alimuddin

“…Percentage of male fish produced by broodstock reared at 30°C is higher than that of 27°C.  Incubation time of embryo before birth is sorter in broodstock reared at 30°C (4-12 days) compared with 27°C (18-22 days).  …”
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SUSTAINABLE GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT THROUGH GROUNDWATER IRRIGATION ADVISORY APPLICATION (GIAA) by Muhammad Mohsin Waqas

“…Amidst these challenges, the development of the Groundwater Irrigation Advisory Application (GIAA) emerges as a potential solution. By providing real-time groundwater monitoring, tailored irrigation schedules, and educational support, GIAA empowers farmers to make informed decisions regarding water usage, ultimately contributing to sustainable groundwater management and global food security. …”
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Cooperative Preparation of Glass-ceramics by Blast Furnace Slag and Low-carbon Chromium Iron Alloy Slag by Yifan WANG, Yici WANG, Ruixin WANG, Fengguang ZHAO, Yifan CHAI, Guoping LUO

“…The results showed that when the mass ratio of blast furnace slag, low-carbon chromium iron alloy slag and quartz sand was 60∶40∶31, the crystalline phases of glass-ceramics were diopside and omphacite. At this time, the performance of glass-ceramics was the best, the flexural strength reached 126.25 MPa, the crystallinity reached 89.19%, and the microstructure was ideal. …”
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Uniaxial Compression Creep Relaxation and Grading of Coal Samples via Tests on the Progressive Failure Characteristics by Zuqiang Xiong, Changsheng Song, Chengdong Su, Xiaolei Wang, Cheng Wang, Yu Hao

“…For fully mechanized coal faces, increasing the support resistance and timely moving the support after coal cutting may prevent rib spalling accidents by reducing coal stress and exposure time in the front of the working face. …”
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Clinical Observation of Employment of Umbilical Cord Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cell for Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Therapy by Liming Wang, Yu Zhang, Hongtao Li, Jingxin Hong, Xiaobo Chen, Ming Li, Wen Bai, Jiangang Wang, Yongjun Liu, Mingyuan Wu

“…Similar changes of above values were found after 6 months. At the same time, the amount of NSAIDS and steroid usage in patients was reduced. …”
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Digital health for early psychosis in Ghana: patient and caregiver needs and preferences by Anna Larsen, Joel Agorinya, Alexa Beaulieu, Emmanuel Quame Sottie, Benjamin Buck, Kwadwo Obeng, Bill Kyeremeh, Fredrick Kwame Dogbe, Muhammed Izudeen Iddrisu, Phil Emil Okwei Dowuona, Olivia Oteba Abbey Tetteh, Omari Boakye Emmanuel, Angela Ofori-Atta, Dror Ben-Zeev

“…Hospital staff at Accra Psychiatric Hospital reviewed hospital medical records from January 2023 - December 2023 identifying young adults (≥18 years old) who had experienced psychosis symptoms for the first time within the prior five years. Trained data assessors contacted these individuals via telephone and invited them and their caregivers to participate; those providing informed consent were interviewed via phone in Twi or English. …”
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Determination of Pendimethalin Dynamic Residual Distribution in Crucian Carp Tissues and Associated Risk Assessment by Lu Qiao, Na Yuan, Gang Han, Bo Cheng, Defu Zhang, Jinlong Song, Yingchun Mu

“…Particularly, the pendimethalin accumulation in most fish tissues made significant decreases at two-time points. Pendimethalin was initially absorbed and enriched by fish body, and then partial pendimethalin was discharged into the outside environment through the metabolism function of crucian carp. …”
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SSMM: Semi-supervised manifold method with spatial-spectral self-training and regularized metric constraints for hyperspectral image dimensionality reduction by Bei Zhu, Yao Jin, Xuehua Guan, Yanni Dong

“…Specifically, the Gaussian kernel function based on Mahalanobis distance is used to map the data into a more discriminative low-dimensional manifold embedding. At the same time, the regularized distance metric constraint is imposed on the manifold, so that samples of the same class are clustered and different classes are mutually exclusive. …”
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Health-promoting activities among Saudi Arabian parents of children with disabilities: A cross-sectional study by Salmah A. Alghamdi, Muna I. Assiri, Reem A. Fallatah, Farah M. Albeladi, Hawa Alabdulaziz, Fatimah Alsaggaf

“…Parents of children with disabilities reported significantly lower frequencies of spiritual or rejuvenating personal time (p = 0.032) and social activities (p = 0.011). …”
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Lane Changing Control of Autonomous Vehicle With Integrated Trajectory Planning Based on Stackelberg Game by Dongmei Wu, Zhen Li, Changqing Du, Changsheng Liu, Yang Li, Xin Xu

“…Lane changing present a significant challenge for autonomous vehicles, as they must maintain safe driving and optimize time efficiency. This process is strongly affected by traffic environment and driver characteristics. …”
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Comparison of clinical and pharmacodynamic features of proton pump inhibitors efficacy in gastroesophageal reflux disease by O. A. Storonova, A. S. Trukhmanov

“…Already after the first dose intake at 24-hour рН monitoring the stomach рН>3 was recorded for 56,1% (±20,94) of total monitoring time, and рН>4 — for 44,0% (±18,72), that promoted rapid symptom relief. …”
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Trellis Decoding for Qudit Stabilizer Codes and Its Application to Qubit Topological Codes by Eric Sabo, Arun B. Aloshious, Kenneth R. Brown

“…The modified decoder works for any stabilizer code <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$S$</tex-math></inline-formula> and separates into two parts: 1) a one-time offline computation that builds a compact graphical representation of the normalizer of the code, <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mathcal {S}^{\perp}$</tex-math></inline-formula> and 2) a quick, parallel, online query of the resulting vertices using the Viterbi algorithm. …”
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