Meta-analysis of MitraClip and PASCAL for transcatheter mitral edge-to-edge repair by Mahmoud Balata, Mohamed Ibrahim Gbreel, Mohamed Hamouda Elkasaby, Marwa Hassan, Marc Ulrich Becher

“…Additionally, there were no significant differences between PASCAL and MitraClip regarding procedure time, procedural success, reinterventions, or all-cause mortality. …”
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From Isolation to Application: Utilising Phage‐Antibiotic Synergy in Murine Bacteremia Model to Combat Multidrug‐Resistant Enterococcus faecalis by Fatma Al‐zahraa A. Yehia, Galal Yahya, Eslam M. Elsayed, Javier Serrania, Anke Becker, Salwa E. Gomaa

“…Phage‐antibiotic synergy was assessed using checkerboard assays and time‐killing analyses, revealing enhanced bacteriolytic activity of ampicillin and fosfomycin, with significant reductions in minimum inhibitory concentration values. …”
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RNA polymerase II-mediated rDNA transcription mediates rDNA copy number expansion in Drosophila. by George J Watase, Yukiko M Yamashita

“…Akin to telomere maintenance, rDNA maintenance is particularly important in cell types that proliferate for an extended time period, most notably in the germline that passes the genome through generations. …”
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Enhanced Intrusion Detection in Drone Networks: A Cross-Layer Convolutional Attention Approach for Drone-to-Drone and Drone-to-Base Station Communications by Mohammad Aldossary, Ibrahim Alzamil, Jaber Almutairi

“…Current Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) fail to handle drone transmission data’s dynamic, high-dimensional nature, resulting in inadequate real-time anomaly identification and mitigation. This study presents the Cross-Layer Convolutional Attention Network (CLCAN), a new IDS architecture for IoD networks. …”
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CASE STUDY: DEVELOPING TANZANIA’S TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (TIMS) by Glenn ROBINSON

“…A comprehensive analysis of congestion requires a fully loaded transportation database with the following characteristics: regional, trunk line, and local roads; travel, time, ADT, population, employment, landuse, and income data at the regional and ward level and; transit line and multi modal infrastructure data. …”
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Humanitarian diplomacy and the countries of the Global South: Trends and discourses by D. A. Kuznetsov, V. A. Dmitrieva

“…The latter gained prominence in academic research in the 21st century with the emergence of the ‘new donors’, which promoted joint development programs led by the countries of the Global South and built on regional financial institutions. At the same time, the authors note that academic research tends to focus primarily on the dynamics of aid flows and conditions for development assistance, while a number of current trends in the humanitarian diplomacy remain understudied. …”
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Expression of dna methyltransferases (dnmts) at mrna level in ovine endometrium during estrus cycle and early pregnancy by Mustafa Hitit, Mehmet Kose

“…The relative mRNA level of DNMTs were evaluated through real-time quantitative RT-qPCR.<p> <b>Results: </b>Abundances of DNMTs including DNMT1, DNMT3A, and DNMT3B were detected during the estrous cycle and early pregnancy in the ovine endometrium by this study. …”
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The LPS-induced neutrophil recruitment into rat air pouches is mediated by TNFα: likely macrophage origin by C-D. Arreto, C. Dumarey, M-A. Nahori, B. B. Vargaftig

“…In this model, LPS (Escherichia coli, O55: B5 strain; 2–2000 ng) induced a dose– and time-dependent neutrophil recruitment accompanied by the generation of a tumour necrosis factor-α (TNFα)-like activity. …”
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Infectious Risk of the Hospital Environment in the Center of Morocco: A Case of Care Unit Surfaces by Samira Jaouhar, Abdelhakim El Ouali Lalami, Khadija Ouarrak, Jawad Bouzid, Mohammed Maoulouaa, Khadija Bekhti

“…The aim of this work, which was carried out for the first time at a hospital in Meknes (regional hospital in the center of Morocco), is to evaluate the microbiological quality of surfaces and equipment in three potential risk areas (burn unit, operating room, and sterilization service). …”
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Sex Differences in the Allele Distribution of PGLYRP2 Variant rs892145 in Parkinson’s Disease by Caroline Ran, Karin Wirdefeldt, Olof Sydow, Per Svenningsson, Rochellys Diaz Heijtz

“…Using quantitative real-time PCR, we genotyped three PGLYRP variants (rs892145, rs959117, and rs10888557) and performed an association analysis in 508 PD patients and 585 control individuals. …”
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A Two-Stage Method for Improving the Prediction Accuracy of Complex Traits by Incorporating Genotype by Environment Interactions in Brassica napus by Sican Xiong, Meng Wang, Jun Zou, Jinling Meng, Yanyan Liu

“…As a case study, this approach was used to improve the prediction accuracies of flowering time (FT), oil content (OC), and seed yield per plant (SY) in Brassica napus (B. napus). …”
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Novel transfer learning based bone fracture detection using radiographic images by Aneeza Alam, Ahmad Sami Al-Shamayleh, Nisrean Thalji, Ali Raza, Edgar Anibal Morales Barajas, Ernesto Bautista Thompson, Isabel de la Torre Diez, Imran Ashraf

“…An efficient neural network method is essential for the early detection and timely treatment of fractures. In this study, we propose a novel transfer learning-based approach called MobLG-Net for feature engineering purposes. …”
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Polonization as a Determinant of National Identities of Ukraine and Belarus by Dylan Payne Royce

“…This resulted in different Ukrainian and Belarusian territories spending vastly different amounts of time under Polish rule. Considering that Rusian culture originally had a high status in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and that Polonization naturally proceeded more intensely in Poland than in Lithuania, the author hypothesizes that: 1) the longer a territory was under Polish rule, the more subject it was to Polonization; 2) the more it was subject to Polonization, the more it developed a western European identity; 3) the more Ukrainian and Belarusian national identities were westernized, the more alienated they became from non-westernized Rusian nationalities, primarily the (Great) Russian (русский / великорусский / российский); 4) the more alienated a national identity is from Russia, the more its bearers seek to separate themselves from Russia. …”
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From skyscrapers to sky savers: how New York City’s Local Law 97 advances climate resilience and public health by Ethan Chervonski, Ethan Chervonski, Marisa A. Guerrero, William N. Rom, William N. Rom

“…LL97 represents one of the most ambitious—and divisive—climate action policies in the United States and if successful, is poised to make NYC carbon neutral by 2050. At the same time, the potential public health benefits of LL97 are broad, including improved local air quality, decreased cost barriers to residential cooling, and if in principle applied to city buildings worldwide, reduced global GHG emissions capable of stabilizing global warming for posterity. …”
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Evaluation of PM2.5 Surface Concentrations Simulated by NASA’s MERRA Version 2 Aerosol Reanalysis over India and its Relation to the Air Quality Index by Chimurkar D. Navinya, V. Vinoj, Satyendra K. Pandey

“…Overall, our evaluation reveals that MERRA-2’s raw estimates of PM2.5 on a monthly time scale or longer are helpful in long-term air quality studies.…”
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Utilizing the Capacity of Participatory Criminal Policy to Counter the Transmission of COVID-19 Virus; A New Effective and Comprehensive Approach to Control and Prevention by mahdi mozafari anari, Poupak Dabestani Kermani, saber islam

“…Failure to follow health instructions and the ambiguity of the nature of the virus caused it to infect every single citizen in a short period of time and even lead to the death of vulnerable people. …”
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TTSNet: Transformer–Temporal Convolutional Network–Self-Attention with Feature Fusion for Prediction of Remaining Useful Life of Aircraft Engines by Zhaofei Li, Shilin Luo, Haiqing Liu, Chaobin Tang, Jianguo Miao

“…Then, it uses a parallel transformer encoder, temporal convolutional network (TCN), and multi-head attention three-branch network to capture both global and local features of the time series. The model further completes feature dimension weight allocation and fusion through a multi-head self-attention mechanism, emphasizing the contribution of different features to the model. …”
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Rapid Determination of the Furaltadone Metabolite in Aquatic Products Based on Fe3O4@AuNPs/MWCNTs-COOH Immunosensor by LI Ting, HE Huange, LU Hang, LI Shuguo

“…The optimized conditions were as follows: V(Fe3O4@AuNPs) to V(MWCNTs-COOH) ratio 1:2, electrolyte solution pH 7.0, antibody concentration 80 μg/mL, incubation temperature 37 ℃, and incubation time 30 minutes. Under these conditions, the current response of the immunosensor showed a good linear relationship with lg C[AMOZ] in the range from 1.0 × 10-10 to 8.0 × 10-7 mol/L, with a detection limit of 2.4 × 10-11 mol/L. …”
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Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate Correlates Poorly with Four-Hour Creatinine Clearance in Critically Ill Patients with Acute Kidney Injury by Christopher J. Kirwan, Barbara J. Philips, Iain A. M. MacPhee

“…RIFLE and AKIN provide a standardised classification of acute kidney injury (AKI), but their categorical rather than continuous nature restricts their use to a research tool. A more accurate real-time description of renal function in AKI is needed, and some published data suggest that equations based on serum creatinine that estimate glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) can provide this. …”
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Prospective evaluation of artificial intelligence (AI) applications for use in cancer pathways following diagnosis: a systematic review by Ajay Aggarwal, Richard Sullivan, Andrew Hope, Peng Yun Ng, Sheba Macheka

“…We appraised all studies using Risk of Bias Assessment of Randomised Controlled Trials and Risk of Bias In Non-randomised Studies-of Interventions quality assessment tools, as well as implementational analysis concerning time, cost and resource, to ascertain the quality of clinical evidence and real-world feasibility of AI.The results revealed that the majority of AI oncological research remained experimental without prospective clinical validation or deployment. …”
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