Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Performance of Contrast-Fractional Flow Reserve versus Quantitative Flow Ratio for Functional Assessment of Coronary Stenoses by Ruitao Zhang, Jianwei Zhang, Lijun Guo

“…However, its high cost, time to administer, and the side effects of adenosine reduce its clinical utility. …”
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Tracking of Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents in Germany in the Context of Risk Factors for Hypertension by Giselle Sarganas, Angelika Schaffrath Rosario, Claudia Niessner, Alexander Woll, Hannelore K. Neuhauser

“…Blood pressure (BP) tracking from childhood to adulthood has two aspects: the ranking stability relative to others over time and the prediction of future values. This study investigates BP tracking in children and adolescents in Germany in the context of hypertension risk factors. …”
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Processing streams in a monitoring cloud cluster by Alexey N. Nazarov

“…These models take into account the flow of requests for maintenance from sources of different services, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the needs of services in bit rate, taking into account the multichannel traffic of sources of various services. At the same time, analytical relations are obtained to calculate the required performance of the Hadoop cluster at a given value of the probability of batch loss.…”
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Identifying threshold concepts in postgraduate general practice training: a focus group, qualitative study by Katherine Hall, Anna Chae

“…Presented in medical proverbial form for ease of recollection, these included: Money makes the practice go round; Be a legal eagle; Manage time or it will manage you; Guidelines, GPs’ little helpers; Right tool, right word, right place; The whole of the practice is greater than the sum of the parts; The personal enhances the professional; Beat biases by reflection; Chew the Complexity, Unpredictability, Diversity; Embrace the uncertainty; Not knowing is knowing; Seek and you shall find; Waiting and seeing, waiting and being; Look, listen, think between the lines; Treat the patient beyond the disease; No patient is an island; Words work wonders; Hearing is healing; Being you and being there; and; The relationship is worth a thousand consults. …”
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The Cytokine and Bone Protein Expression by Ellagic Acid-Hydroxyapatite in Bone Remodelling Model by Dyah Noviana Primasari, Intan Nirwana, Hendrik Setia Budi, Agung Satria Wardhana, Annisa Fitria Sari, Novita Novita, Andika Putri Setyawan, Meircurius Dwi Condro Surboyo, Khairul Anuar Shariff

“…On the other hand, it increased IL-10, BMP-4, and OPN expression (p < 0.05) during the same time periods. Conclusion. Ellagic acid-hydroxyapatite plays a role in bone marker remodelling by decreasing the expression of TNF-α and increasing the expression of IL-10, BMP-4, and OPN. …”
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Gated Spatial–Temporal Merged Transformer Inspired by Multimask and Dual Branch for Traffic Forecasting by Yongpeng Yang, Zhenzhen Yang, Zhen Yang

“…Secondly, we develop a dual-branch gated temporal transformer (DBGTT) for capturing temporal dependency, heterogeneity, dynamicity, and periodicity via incorporating the GLU and mixed time series decomposition (MTD) into traditional transformer. …”
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Immunofluorescence for Detection of TOR Kinase Activity In Situ in Photosynthetic Organisms by Ana Lando, María De Marco, Andrea Cumino, Giselle Martínez-Noël

“…It is an easy technique that allows handling different samples at the same time. In addition, different ultrastructural cell markers can also be used, such as for nucleus and cell wall detection, allowing a detailed analysis of cell morphology. …”
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Picobirnaviruses: prevalence, genetic diversity, detection methods by A. Yu. Kashnikov, N. V. Epifanova, N. A. Novikova

“…Such factors as stress syndrome, physiological conditions, immune status and host age at the time of primary PBV infection influence the virus detection rate in humans and animals. …”
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Arsenic, manganese, and iron concentration in groundwater of northwestern part of Bangladesh using self-organizing maps: Implication for health risk assessment by Obaida Urme, AHM Selim Reza, Md Ibrahim Adham, Golam Sabbir Sattar

“…Quantification of the non-linear relationship between arsenic (As) and physico-chemical parameters in groundwater through a Self-Organizing Map (SOM) was performed for the first time in Chapai-Nawabganj, Bangladesh. Due to the continuous assessment of groundwater quality, the spatial distribution of As with associated elements was observed for the aerial extent of contaminated groundwater. …”
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The Impact of Vaccination on COVID-19, Influenza, and Respiratory Syncytial Virus-Related Outcomes: A Narrative Review by Roberto Debbag, Deborah Rudin, Francesca Ceddia, John Watkins

“…The success of the mRNA vaccine platform was powerfully demonstrated during the COVID-19 pandemic; these and other new approaches show promise as a means to overcome existing challenges in vaccine development and to sustain protection against viral changes over time. A graphical abstract and video abstract is available with this article. …”
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Validating the LDi and LCi Indices in the Southern Hemisphere by E. Nahayo, A. Guerrero, S. Lotz, C. Cid, M. Tshisaphungo, E. Saiz

“…Abstract The validation of the Local Disturbance index (LDi) and its first time derivative Local Current index (LCi) is performed in the Southern Hemisphere. …”
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Cervical cancer care at a tertiary oncology facility in Uganda: Comparing daily practice with national treatment targets on cervical cancer control. by Marlieke de Fouw, Melissa W M Boere, Carolyn Nakisige, Mariam Nabwire, Jane Namugga, Israel Luutu, Jackson Orem, Jan M M van Lith, Jogchum J Beltman

“…<h4>Objective</h4>Treatment of cervical cancer patients in Uganda is hampered by late diagnosis due to the unavailability of timely screening and limited availability of advanced cancer care. …”
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EEG-Based ADHD Classification Using Autoencoder Feature Extraction and ResNet with Double Augmented Attention Mechanism by Jayoti Bansal, Gaurav Gangwar, Mohammad Aljaidi, Ali Alkoradees, Gagandeep Singh

“…Clinicians must invest substantial time and effort to secure an accurate diagnosis and implement effective treatment. …”
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Le concept de résilience à l’épreuve du génie urbain by Bruno Barroca, Damien Serre, Diab Youssef

“…Functional resilience represents a technical system’s capacity to protect itself from important damage and at least provide the service needed for critical infrastructures to operate at the same time. Through functional resilience, technical systems intrinsically endeavour to increase their own resilience. …”
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Age-Related Physiologic Thinning Rate of the Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer in Different Levels of Myopia by Daun Jeong, Kyung Rim Sung, Youn Hye Jo, Sung-cheol Yun

“…The overall slopes of change in RNFL thickness over time in the NM, MM, and HM groups were −0.305 ± 0.128, −0.294 ± 0.068, and −0.208 ± 0.097 μm/yr, respectively. …”
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Efficient k-mer based curation of raw sequence data: application in Drosophila suzukii by Gautier, Mathieu

“…Analyses of a wide range of samples, representative of both target and other drosophilid species, demonstrated very good performance of the proposed approach, both in terms of run time and accuracy of sequence assignment. Of the 236 D. suzukii individuals, five were reassigned to D. simulans and eleven to D. subpulchrella. …”
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Dynamic Reliability Design of Multicomponent Structure with Improved Weighted Regression Distributed Collaborative Surrogate Model Method by Xiao-Wei Dong, Wei-Kai Li, Chun-Yan Zhu, Chang-Hai Chen, Cheng Lu, Shu-Juan Yi

“…Finally, the radial deformation dynamic probabilistic analysis of an aeroengine turbine blisk assembled by blade and disk is accomplished, in respect of the IWRDCSMM, fluid-thermal-structure interaction, and the randomness of input parameters within the time domain [0, T]. The results illustrate that the reliability degree of turbine blisk radial deformation is 0.9951 when the allowable value uallow is 2.30 × 10−3 m, and all the input parameters affecting the turbine blisk radial deformation are gas temperature, angular speed, inlet velocity, outlet pressure, material density, and inlet pressure, successively. …”
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Effect of Mixed Irrigation of Brackish Water and Reclaimed Water on Soil Ion Exchange Performance by HU Junfang, ZENG Zhi, LIU Chuncheng

“…Soil exchangeable sodium ion content, total exchangeable bases and ESP are all extremely significantly positively correlated with soil moisture, salinity, and water drop penetration time (WDPT) (<italic>P</italic> &lt; 0.01). Additionally, soil exchangeable base saturation is extremely significantly positively correlated with soil moisture and salinity (<italic>P</italic> &lt; 0.01) after the harvest. …”
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Clinical manifestations and outcomes of patients with intravascular large B-cell lymphoma with neurological involvement: highlighting longitudinally extensive myelopathy as a disti... by Jiraporn Jitprapaikulsan, Ekdanai Uawithya, Palakorn Lertsakworakul, Weerapat Owatthanapanich

“…MRI showed hyperintense lesions in the supratentorial, infratentorial and spinal cord with the prominent findings being longitudinally extensive cord lesions (four patients, 40.0%). The median survival time of the IVLBCL with neurological involvement was 4.1 months (95% CI: 0.0 to 17.1 months), with a 1-year survival rate of 37.5% and a 2-year survival rate of 25.0%.Interpretation This study highlights the distinct clinical, laboratory features and imaging of IVLBCL with neurological involvement and compares it to IVLBCL without neurological involvement. …”
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Biochemical responses of painted spiny lobster Panulirus versicolor fed with molluscs meal and fish meal by Agus Kurnia, Muhaimin Hamzah, Muhammad Idris, Wellem Henrik Muskita, La Ode Baytul Abidin, Kadir Sabilu, Yusnaini Yusnaini, Abdul Muis Balubi, La Usaha La Usaha, Famawati Fatmawati, La Ode Abdul Razak, Khairunnisa Khairunnisa

“…The lobster was fed only one time a day (05:00 pm) with a dosage of 3% biomass weight. …”
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