IL1RN and PRRX1 as a Prognostic Biomarker Correlated with Immune Infiltrates in Colorectal Cancer: Evidence from Bioinformatic Analysis by Qi Wang, Xufeng Huang, Shujing Zhou, Yuntao Ding, Huizhi Wang, Weiye Jiang, Min Xu

“…The extensive morbidity of colorectal cancer (CRC) and the inferior prognosis of terminal CRC urgently call for reliable prognostic biomarkers. …”
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Peculiarities of Forming the Methodology for Investigating Criminal Offenses against the Authority of State Agencies in the Law Enforcement Sphere by V. O. Gusieva

“…It has been established that the specified group of criminal offenses includes: 1) interference in the activities of a law enforcement officer; 2) the threat of murder, bodily injury or destruction or damage to property in a generally dangerous manner in respect to an official or his relatives or in respect to a citizen performing public duties, used to terminate the activities of a citizen performing public duties or to change its nature in the interests of the person who makes threats; 3) unauthorized appropriation of powers combined with the commission of any socially dangerous actions. …”
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Transanal Hemorrhoidal Dearterialization (THD): A Single Center Experience on 100 Consecutive Cases by Aleksandar Mitevski, Vladko Cvetanovski, Petar Markov, Ilija Milev

“…Morphological and hemodynamic changes that occur in patients with hemorrhoidal disease is the finding of an increased diameter of the terminal branches of the superior rectal artery that supplies the hemorrhoidal nodes. …”
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Abnormality detection in nailfold capillary images using deep learning with EfficientNet and cascade transfer learning by Mona Ebadi Jalal, Omar S. Emam, Cristián Castillo-Olea, Begoña García-Zapirain, Adel Elmaghraby

“…Chronic pathological changes associated with a wide range of systemic diseases, such as diabetes, cardiovascular disorders, and rheumatological conditions like systemic sclerosis, can manifest as observable microvascular changes in the terminal capillaries of nailfolds. The current gold standard relies on experts performing manual evaluations, which is an exhaustive time-intensive, and subjective process. …”
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Clinicopathological Features and Prognoses of Patients With Splenic Metastases From Breast Cancer: A Single-Centre, Retrospective Study by Xiaofeng Xie MD, Mingrui Ma MD, Xue Bai BS, Jing Hu MD, Haijie Zheng MD, Xiongqi Guo BS, Jiayi Huang MD, Xuelian Chen PhD, Liping Chen BS, Xiaofeng Lan BS, Lin Song BS, Caiwen Du PhD

“…Conclusion SMBC commonly presents with diffuse multiple organ metastases in the terminal stage of malignancy and has a poor prognosis, which may provide deeper insight into SMBC for clinicians.…”
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Surgical Strategy in Patients with Complete Transposition of Internal Organs in Cancer of the Biliopancreatoduodenal Zone by R. V. Ischenko, Yu. V. Ivanov, A. V. Smirnov, V. N. Antipov

“…A 70-year-old man, in addition to complete transposition of internal organs, had a combination of cancer of the terminal part of the common bile duct and heterotaxy syndrome in the form of polysplenia, aplasia of the hepatic segment of the inferior vena cava, agenesis of the dorsal pancreatic rudiment (“short” pancreas), intrapancreatic course of the right hepatic artery extending from the superior mesenteric arteries, rotational abnormalities of intestinal development. …”
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Effects of intracuff and intravenous lignocaine on recovery from anaesthesia after thyroid surgery. A single-centre randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial (The IOLANT stu... by Sergey M. Efremov, Alexey Y. Kulikov, Valeria P. Govorushkina, Daniil D. Sidorov, Alexey A. Ladutko, Oleg V. Kuleshov

“…The sample size was initially set at 231, but the study was terminated early after an interim analysis of 110 patients showed no significant difference between groups. …”
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The History of the Brazilian Sardine (<i>Sardinella brasiliensis</i>) Between Two Fishery Collapses: An Ecosystem Modeling Approach to Study Its Life Cycle by Rafael Schroeder, Angélica Petermann, Alberto Teodorico Correia

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Ukrainian civil society institutions and organisations activities under special legal regimes by V. V. Pylyp

“…The main measures taken to ensure national security in 2022-2023 under the legal regime of martial law and aimed at regulating the activities of civil society institutions and organisations include: regulating the grounds and procedure for terminating the activities of public associations, religious organisations, trade unions, and their associations; enshrining at the legislative level the areas of volunteer activity, simplifying the procedure for registering volunteers for the anti-terrorist operation and/or measures to ensure national security and defence, repulse and deter the armed aggression of the russian federation; the procedure for the activities of these institutions; adopting the Law of Ukraine "On media" to stimulate a competitive environment, equality and independence of the media and to protect the national interests of Ukraine and the rights of users of media services, etc. …”
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A Comparison of Penguin Swarm Optimization Algorithms for Enhancing Network Throughput by Talha Akhtar, Najmi Ghani Haider, Nadeem Kafi Khan, Rashid Uddin

“…With its ability to deliver computing and storage resources at the network's edge, close to device terminals and users, edge computing is an evolving distributed computing approach well-suited for facilitating extensive management of smart devices in the future smart grid. …”
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Patterns of nucleotide diversity for different domains of centromeric histone H3 (CENH3) gene in Secale L. by S. S. Gatzkaya, E. V. Evtushenko

“…We have investigated the nucleotide diversity of sequences of two variants of the rye CENH3 gene inside the N-terminal tail (NTT) and the conservative HFD (histone fold domain) domain in the genus Secale. …”
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Cardiac Injury Biomarkers and the Risk of Death in Patients with COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Sami H. Alzahrani, Mohammed W. Al-Rabia

“…Cardiac injury is defined as an elevation of the definitive markers (cardiac troponin (cTnI and cTnT) and N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP)) above the 99th percentile upper reference limit. …”
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Legality of bringing to administrative responsibility for an offense under Art. 130 Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses: retrospective analysis by K. O. Chyshko

“…Driving under the influence of alcohol, drugs or other intoxicants or under the influence of drugs that reduce attention and speed of reaction, in the period from July 1, 2020 to March 17, 2021: 1) was recognized not as an administrative offense, but as a criminal offense; 2) detection, termination and documentation of such a criminal offense was carried out mainly by patrol police officers, and not by investigators, as required by current criminal procedure legislation; 3) a report on an administrative offense and other administrative-procedural documents were drawn up upon the fact of committing a criminal offense; 4) the prosecution of a person did not take place as a result of a pre-trial investigation, but within the framework of proceedings in cases of administrative offenses. …”
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Analysis of prenatal diagnosis and pregnancy outcomes for rare autosomal trisomies detected by non-invasive prenatal testing in 33,079 cases by Xu Yan, Kai Ding, Xin Zhang, Shuai Zhang, Haiying Peng, Ying Zhang

“…Among the 66 cases of rare autosomal trisomies (RATs), 5 cases were lost to follow-up, and 1 case underwent termination of pregnancy (TOP) for personal reasons, leaving 60 cases with valid pregnancy outcomes. …”
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Les Chamaves et les autres : une enquête linguistique sur les traces des Chamaves, Hattuaires, Varasques, Scotinges et Burgondes au nord de la Bourgogne by Wolfgang Haubrichs

“…On trouve cependant de nombreux toponymes en germanique occidental/francique terminant en -ingas (-ange en français) et en *thorpa- (hameau, village). …”
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Physicians’ moral distinctions between medical assistance in dying (MAiD) and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment in Canada: a qualitative descriptive study by Midori Matthew, Kieran Bonner, Andrew Stumpf

“…Theoretical debates that are divorced from the realities of terminal illness do not assist physicians with navigating the ethical terrain of ending a patient’s life. …”
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Striving for an Alternative World Order: The Journey of Cuban Anti-Imperialism from History to Modernity by A. Z. Arabadzhyan

“…This period saw the removal of proletarian internationalism from the Cuban Constitution and the termination of military assistance to national liberation and revolutionary movements. …”
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Less is more - Retrospective analysis of the two-incision implantation technique for hypoglossal nerve stimulation and comparison of respiratory sensing lead curves against the thr... by Nikhil Thakur, Valentin Krüger, Marcus Czabanka, Johanna Quick-Weller

“…The classical implantation technique requires three incisions: submental to place the stimulating-electrode on terminal branches of the hypoglossal-nerve, sub-clavicular to place the impulse generator, and on the lateral chest-wall to place a breathing-sensor lead. …”
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The Role of Financial Technology in Promoting Digital Finances in Algeria (2016-2024) by Abderraouf Abada, Messaoud Boukhalfi, Mohammed Abderrahmane Bentadjine, Abdelfattah Daoudi

“…The results of the study showed that there is an effective contribution of financial technology indicators in the field of retail electronic payments in Algeria in enhancing levels of digital financial inclusion, reflected in the improvement of: online payment activities, the number of active bank ATMs, payment activity and the number of operating electronic payment terminals (EPT), mobile phone payment transactions, mobile money transfers, and the number of circulating cards, including the "Gold" card and interbank cards (CIB). …”
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Characterisation of the antibody-mediated selective pressure driving intra-host evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in prolonged infection. by Michael Schoefbaenker, Theresa Günther, Eva Ulla Lorentzen, Marie-Luise Romberg, Marc Tim Hennies, Rieke Neddermeyer, Marlin Maybrit Müller, Alexander Mellmann, Chiara Robin Bojarzyn, Georg Lenz, Matthias Stelljes, Eike Roman Hrincius, Richard Vollenberg, Stephan Ludwig, Phil-Robin Tepasse, Joachim Ewald Kühn

“…After five weeks of apparent genetic stability, the emergence of additional substitutions and deletions within the N-terminal domain (NTD) and the receptor binding domain (RBD) of S was observed. …”
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