Strenuous Exercise-Induced Tremendously Elevated Transaminases Levels in a Healthy Adult: A Diagnostic Dilemma by Prabin Khatri, Aryan Neupane, Suman Raj Sapkota, Bibhav Bashyal, Dipesh Sharma, Ashmita Chhetri, K. C. Chirag, Ashish Banjade, Priyanka Sapkota, Subarna. Bhandari

“…The standard liver function test measures alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine phosphatase (ALP), bilirubin levels (total, direct, and indirect), proteins (total protein and albumin), and PT-INR (prothrombin time and international normalized ratio). In addition to common causes, liver enzyme levels can also be elevated due to extrahepatic causes, such as muscular injury can elevate transaminases levels. …”
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Effect of Folic Acid Supplementation in Pregnancy on Preeclampsia: The Folic Acid Clinical Trial Study by Shi Wu Wen, Josee Champagne, Ruth Rennicks White, Doug Coyle, William Fraser, Graeme Smith, Dean Fergusson, Mark C. Walker

“…A web-based randomization system and electronic data collection system provide the platform for participating centers to randomize their eligible participants and enter data in real time. To date we have twenty participating Canadian centers, of which eighteen are actively recruiting, and seven participating Australian centers, of which two are actively recruiting. …”
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Successful Management of the Fetal Severe Anemia Associated with Jra Alloimmunization by Intrauterine Transfusion of Jr(a+) Red Blood Cells by Masatake Toshimitsu, Shinichi Nagaoka, Shuusaku Kobori, Yuichiro Takahashi, Jun Murotsuki

“…The severity of fetal anemia is predicted by MCA-PSV Doppler assessment rather than the maternal anti-Jra titers. Timely IUT of Jr(a+) RBCs can help to prolong the pregnancy to term in emergency situations wherein compatible blood of Jr(a-) RBCs is not available soon.…”
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A Newborn with Cleft Palate Associated with PTEN Hamartoma Tumor Syndrome by Ulf Nestler, Daniel Gräfe, Vincent Strehlow, Robin-Tobias Jauss, Andreas Merkenschlager, Annika Schönfeld, Florian Wilhelmy

“…Since the correlation between phenotype and genotype is weak, and the penetrance is age-dependent, this poses the question of the appropriate timing of potentially invasive and burdensome examinations for early cancer detection. …”
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ETV6-RUNX1 Rearrangement in Tunisian Pediatric B-Lineage Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia by Abir Gmidène, Hatem Elghezal, Hlima Sennana, Yosra Ben Youssef, Balkiss Meddeb, Moez Elloumi, Abderrahim Khlif, Ali Saad

“…In this study, Forty-one out of fifty-seven Tunisian children with B-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL), and without cytogenetically detectable recurrent abnormalities at the time of the diagnosis, were evaluated by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) for the t(12;21). …”
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Decrease in (Major) Amputations in Diabetics: A Secondary Data Analysis by AOK Rheinland/Hamburg by Melanie May, Sebastian Hahn, Claudia Tonn, Gerald Engels, Dirk Hochlenert

“…They educate members of the medical community and the general public. At the same time, a more general disease management program for people with diabetes was implemented, which may also have contributed to this decrease. …”
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Impaired Healing of a Cutaneous Wound in an Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase-Knockout Mouse by Takashi Kitano, Hiroshi Yamada, Maki Kida, Yuka Okada, Shizuya Saika, Munehito Yoshida

“…After specific intervals of healing, macroscopic observation, histology, immunohistochemistry, and real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) were employed to evaluate the healing process. …”
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Effects of Operation Prediction Sharing for Collaborative Avatar Robot by Hyuga Suzuki, Hikari Yukawa, Kouta Minamizawa, Yoshihiro Tanaka

“…The results suggest that the followers’ subjective ratings in the sense of agency, smoothness, and workload significantly improved and that the operation effort of the leader significantly decreased while maintaining the sense of agency, reducing timing discrepancies between the operators.…”
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Non-stationary response of complex ecosystem service networks to urbanization: Evidence from a typical eco-fragile area in China by Zhen Shen, Yang Gao, Lei Wang, Zheyi Xia, Haowei Liu, Ting Deng

“…This study proposes a conceptual framework that utilizes the network method and space-time replacement to examine the effect of urbanization on the complex relationships among ESs at different stages, with a particular emphasis on the progressive evolution of the process. …”
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Research on Urban Traffic Active Control in Cooperative Vehicle Infrastructure by Li-li Zhang, Li Wang, Qi Zhao, Fang Wang, Yadongyang Zhu, Ling-yu Zhang

“…To this end, a multivariable active traffic control model is constructed, which includes road speed, lane control, sequence, phase, and green light time; a D-double layer optimization method is designed for this model. …”
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Uncommon Occurrences of Air Embolism: Description of Cases and Review of the Literature by Giorgio Berlot, Adriano Rinaldi, Marco Moscheni, Massimo Ferluga, Perla Rossini

“…Despite a hyperbaric oxygen therapy performed timely in each case, only the first patient survived. …”
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The mechanism of X80 steel weld microstructure and mechanical properties optimization by induction heating technology by Shichao Zhang, Fulai Yang, Cuicui Chen, Zehua Niu, Yongbin Que, Haidong Jia, Lianshuang Dai, Zheng Zhang

“…Therefore, the single Q-T process can improve the strength and toughness of the weld metal at the same time, while the double Q-T process can significantly improve the toughness of the weld metal, with slight damage to the strength.…”
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Spaced Seed Data Structures for De Novo Assembly by Inanç Birol, Justin Chu, Hamid Mohamadi, Shaun D. Jackman, Karthika Raghavan, Benjamin P. Vandervalk, Anthony Raymond, René L. Warren

“…These data structures address memory and run time constraints imposed by longer reads. We observe that when a fixed distance separates seed pairs, it provides increased sequence specificity with increased gap length. …”
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A Conceptual Approach to Complex Model Management with Generalized Modelling Patterns and Evolutionary Identification by Sergey V. Kovalchuk, Oleg G. Metsker, Anastasia A. Funkner, Ilia O. Kisliakovskii, Nikolay O. Nikitin, Anna V. Kalyuzhnaya, Danila A. Vaganov, Klavdiya O. Bochenina

“…In the situation where a system being modeled, or modeling requirements change over time, specific methods and tools are needed to make modeling and application procedures (metamodeling operations) in an automatic manner. …”
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Semantic Dementia Shows both Storage and Access Disorders of Semantic Memory by Yumi Takahashi, Kenichi Meguro, Masahiro Nakatsuka, Mari Kasai, Kyoko Akanuma, Satoshi Yamaguchi

“…In a second task, the viewing time was set at 20 or 300 msec (Momentary Presentation Task, evaluating memory access disorder) using items for which correct answers were given in the first task. …”
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Towards a Low-Cost Mobile Subcutaneous Vein Detection Solution Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy by Simon Juric, Vojko Flis, Matjaz Debevc, Andreas Holzinger, Borut Zalik

“…Excessive venipunctures are both time- and resource-consuming events, which cause anxiety, pain, and distress in patients, or can lead to severe harmful injuries. …”
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Magnetic Reconnection between a Solar Jet and a Filament Channel by Garima Karki, Brigitte Schmieder, Pooja Devi, Ramesh Chandra, Nicolas Labrosse, Reetika Joshi, Bernard Gelly

“…Large Doppler shifts in H α are derived in a typical area for a short time (order of minute). They correspond to flows around 140 km s ^−1 . …”
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Renin-Angiotensin System Genes Polymorphisms and Essential Hypertension in Burkina Faso, West Africa by Daméhan Tchelougou, Jonas K. Kologo, Simplice D. Karou, Valentin N. Yaméogo, Cyrille Bisseye, Florencia W. Djigma, Djeneba Ouermi, Tegwindé R. Compaoré, Maléki Assih, Virginio Pietra, Patrice Zabsonré, Jacques Simpore

“…The polymorphisms were identified by a classical and a real-time PCR. Results. The AGT 235M/T and AT1R 1166A/C polymorphisms were not associated with the hypertension while the genotype frequencies of the ACE I/D polymorphism between patients and controls (DD: 66.83% and 35.78%, ID: 28.22% and 50.98%, II: 4.95% and 13.24%, resp.) were significantly different (p < 10−4). …”
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Minimum detectable activity concentration of online monitoring instrument in primary circuit of HTR-PM based on Monte Carlo simulation by Rui Nie, Yu Wang, Ziling Zhou, Feng Xie, Jun Zhao, Jianzhu Cao, Qian Ma, Xi Chen

“…In this study, an online monitoring instrument based on a HPGe detector is proposed to obtain the activity concentration of individual nuclide in real time. Geant4 simulates detection efficiency, background energy spectrum, and minimum detectable activity concentration (MDAC) of the monitoring system, which are key parameters for evaluating the reliability and feasibility of the system for detecting noble gas fission products. …”
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Passive Immunoprophylaxis for the Protection of the Mother and Her Baby: Insights from In Vivo Models of Antibody Transport by Yanqun Xu, Iftekhar Mahmood, Lilin Zhong, Pei Zhang, Evi B. Struble

“…Data suggests that partition of antibody immunotherapy to the fetal compartment may contribute to a lower maternal exposure (as measured by the AUC) and a shorter mean residence time of the IgG therapeutic at the end of pregnancy compared to nonpregnant age-matched controls, irrespective of the administered dose. …”
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