Safety and efficacy of therapeutic plasma exchange in neuromyelitis optica: A retrospective study from South India by Dibyajyoti Sahoo, Pragya Silwal, Abhishekh Basavarajegowda

“…CONCLUSION: Our study supports the effectiveness of timely initiation of plasma exchange to improve the overall mortality rate of the patients.…”
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Complicated history with huge potential: Israeli-Japanese relations’ development by D. А. Maryasis, E. A. Iakimova

“…This has led Japanese authorities to maintain a balanced course in the Middle East. Over time, the significance of this task has grown as Tokyo seeks to enhance its international status, particularly within the UN and its specialized agencies. …”
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Prognostic value of immune biomarkers in melanoma loco-regional metastases. by Emilia Hugdahl, Sura Aziz, Tor A Klingen, Lars A Akslen

“…Our findings demonstrate for the first time the negative prognostic value of low FOXP3 TIL count and confirm a negative prognostic value of negative tumour PD-L1 expression in melanoma lymph node metastases.…”
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Diagnostic Utility of Squash Smear Cytology in Chordoma: A Tertiary Care Center Experience by Anshima Singh, Ram Nawal Rao

“…SSC is an important tool for making a quick intra-operative preliminary diagnosis and taking real-time surgical and further management decisions. This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of SSC for chordoma cases. …”
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Stroke Lesion Prediction by Bille-Viper-Segmentation with Tandem-MU-net Model by Beevi Fathima, N Santhi Dr, N Ramasamy Dr

“…The results show that the suggested model performs substantially better than existing methods, achieving an amazing accuracy rate of 75%, recall rate of 83%, F1 score of 98%, Dice score of 98%, and precision of 73%, all while operating effectively in a time frame of 250 seconds.…”
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Effect of fermentation on bioactive compounds and structural properties of wheat bran by Nidhi Tiwari, Reshma Saroj, Mudasir Ahmad Malik, Devinder Kaur

“…Abstract In the present study bran of two wheat cultivars (PBW-154 and HD-2967) was fermented for different time duration (24 h, 48 h and 72 h) and the effect of fermentation on the quantity of bioactive compounds in the bran and on the structure of bran were evaluated. …”
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Similar Strains of Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci Found in the Gastrointestinal Tract and Bloodstream of Bacteremic Neonates by Jennifer O. Adeghate, Emese Juhász, Miklós Á. Iván, Júlia Pongrácz, Katalin Kristóf

“…CoNS strains isolated from blood cultures and perianal and pharyngeal swab samples of neonates from two neonatal intensive care units were investigated using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. …”
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Investigating the impact of age and sex on cataract surgery complications and outcomes by Hadas Ben-Eli, Yaacov Cnaany, Michael Halpert, Itay Chowers, Ayelet Goldstein

“…These findings underscore the critical influence of sex and age on cataract surgery outcomes, advocating for the integration of these factors into preoperative evaluations to better tailor the timing and planning of cataract surgery and optimize clinical outcomes.…”
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Assessing citizens\' satisfaction from urban management performance in the field of urban servicesCase study: City of Farouj by mohammad motamedi, seyedhassan rasouli, mohammad nasiri

“…In public organizations such as municipalities, the design and deployment of a performance and control assessment system can lead to the proper management of urban managers on the road to achieving goals, tasks, strategies and development plans and urban development, in accordance with the quality, cost and time desired. Therefore, this article attempts to study the satisfaction of urban performance in urban services by using the views of citizens of the city of Farouj. …”
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Assessing the Threshold of Need for Supplemental Damping in Seismic Base Isolation of Multistory Buildings by Ali Reza Babaeian Amini, Peyman Narjabadifam, Gholam Reza Ostadi Asl, Samad Emamverdi, Shahram Derogar, Bertug Ozarisoy

“…The isolation system considered is the well-known friction pendulum system, with supplemental damping provided by widely used viscous dampers. Time history analyses were conducted using seven far-fault accelerograms and seven near-fault accelerograms. …”
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Comprehensive review of preclinical evaluation strategies for COVID-19 vaccine candidates: assessing immunogenicity, toxicology, and safety profiles by Delaram Doroud, Mojtaba Daneshi, Fatemeh Kazemi-Lomedash, Zohre Eftekhari

“…In toxicology studies, several factors must be considered, such as the appropriate animal species and strains, dosing timetable, mode of administration, time of sampling for biochemistry and antibody evaluation, and necropsy. …”
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Matching Subsequence Music Retrieval in a Software Integration Environment by Zhencong Li, Qin Yao, Wanzhi Ma

“…This article uses 100 different kinds of MP3 format music as the music library and randomly selects 4 pieces each time, and it tests the system under different system parameters, recording duration, and environmental noise. …”
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El Movimiento Bolivariano en Venezuela: ¿de vuelta al populismo? by Flávio da Silva Mendes

“…Para aquello, me concentro en obras recientes de autores reconocidos y algunos textos clásicos, que aún hoy son referencias sobre el tema.AbstractIn 1999, the election of Hugo Chávez as president led to a significant change in Venezuelan politics: it was the first time since 1957 that the post would be held by someone who did not belong to the country´s most traditional political parties. …”
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Enhanced CLIP-GPT Framework for Cross-Lingual Remote Sensing Image Captioning by Rui Song, Beigeng Zhao, Lizhi Yu

“…Furthermore, our method achieves comparable or superior performance to traditional “encoder-decoder” baselines in terms of BLEU, CIDEr, and METEOR metrics, while requiring only one-fifth of the training time. Experiments conducted on an additional Chinese-English bilingual RSIC dataset underscore the distinct advantages of our CLIP-GPT framework, which leverages extensive multimodal pre-training to effectively demonstrate the robust potential of this approach in cross-lingual RSIC tasks.…”
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Microstructural investigation of the coatings prepared by simultaneous aluminizing and siliconizing process on γ-TiAl by Nouri S., Azadeh M.

“…The identification and analysis of aluminide/silicide microstructures formed as a result of simultaneous diffusion of Al and Si, which was comprehensively and qualitatively done for the first time in this study, showed that the sequential mechanism is dominant in the formation of the above-mentioned coatings. …”
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Blockchain-based high transparent PKI authentication protocol by Liquan CHEN, Xiao LI, Zheyi YANG, Sijie QIAN

“…The public key infrastructure (PKI), as an significant component of the current Internet security infrastructure, guarantees the information transmission with the necessary authenticity, integrity, confidentiality and non-repudiation.However, the existing PKI also has shortcomings of excessive power of certification authority and difficulties in revoking and querying.Blockchain can be used to solve those problems by leveraging its advantages, such as decentralization, high transparency and flat structure.Furthermore, the ability and efficiency of the entire Internet to establish trust relationships may be improved.The transparent public key infrastructure (PKI) certification protocol based on the blockchain was proposed.The TS-PBFT algorithm was designed in the proposed protocol by adopting the threshold signature technology to the Practical Byzantine fault tolerance (PBFT) algorithm.The TS-PBFT algorithm reduced the communication overhead via reducing the communication complexity, strengthened the supervision via introducing external monitoring mechanism in the master node election of the view change protocol, and also improved the performance of the consensus mechanism via adding a batch processing mechanism.Moreover, a transparent blockchain-based PKI certification protocol was designed.The proposed protocol increased the security of certificate revocation and query, it also improved the efficiency of the certificate query by the introduction of counting bloom filters.Besides, the proposed protocol added audit function into the certificate lifecycle management.Accordingly, it can supervise the behavior of the certificate authority (CA), prompt it to improve security standards, and then achieve the purpose of limiting its authority.According to the security analysis and efficiency experiments, the proposed protocol was equipped with security properties, such as the resistance to spoofing certificate application attacks, and it achieved the best performance on TLS/SSL handshake time compared with existing PKI protocols.…”
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Disparity Map Generation from Illumination Variant Stereo Images Using Efficient Hierarchical Dynamic Programming by Viral H. Borisagar, Mukesh A. Zaveri

“…The hierarchical approach adopted decreases the computation time of the stereo matching problem. This algorithm can be helpful in applications like robot navigation, extraction of information from aerial surveys, 3D scene reconstruction, and military and security applications. …”
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Entre utilitarisme et pessimisme : pour une recherche utile, utilisable et utilisée by Jean-Philippe Tonneau, Edonilce da Rocha Barros

“…They insist and detail on the main roles of this research : social experimentation and information management to work out at the same time a society project and to develop the answers that this project requires.…”
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Key Bearing Structure Instability Mechanism: A Case Study in Mining Under Close-Distance Coal Pillar by Jieyang Ma, Shihao Tu, Hongsheng Tu, Kaijun Miao, Hongbin Zhao, Long Tang

“…Additionally, this study discussed the timing and method of roof control for different key bearing structure failure types. …”
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Suvorexant, a Novel Dual Orexin Receptor Antagonist, for the Management of Insomnia by Andrew H. Han, Caroline R. Burroughs, Evan P. Falgoust, Jamal Hasoon, Grace Hunt, Juyeon Kakazu, Tim Lee, Adam M. Kaye, Alan D. Kaye, Latha Ganti

“…Quantity and quality of sleep are measured in various ways, yet the consensus points towards Suvorexant's effectiveness in improving sleep time, onset, latency, and quality compared to placebo. …”
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