Clinical symptoms of acute appendicitis correlating to its intraoperative anatomical position by Chandan Singh, Aamina Hamdule, Amey Kasbekar, Shishir Kamble

“…Clinical examination showed high sensitivity (100%) but lower specificity (63.64%) for detecting retrocecal appendicitis and lower sensitivity (63.64%) but perfect specificity (100%) for pelvic appendicitis. …”
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Tick-borne encephalitis: students’ attitude and knowledge analysis by R. Mineikytė, G. Navickaitė, J. Valaikienė

“…In 2015 there was 12 cases per 100 000 people per year and in 2016 this number was higher by two times. …”
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Habsburg Hunting Palace in Vistula – An Attempt at Architectural Reconstruction by ROSŁON-MAZGAJ Katarzyna, SOKÓŁ Małgorzata

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Diagnostic interval of inflammatory bowel disease in Chinese children and its relationship with growth parameters: a retrospective study by Juan Zhou, BinRong Chen, ZhiCheng Wang, Li Liu, HongJuan OuYang, YanHong Luo, WenTing Zhang, ChenXi Liu, MeiZheng Zhan, JiaQi Duan, CanLin Li, Na Jiang, JieYu You, HongMei Zhao

“…The diagnostic interval includes the time from symptom onset to hospital admission and admission to diagnosis. …”
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Effect of Floating Needle Perfusion Therapy combined with Joint Mobilization on Shoulder Pain of Hemiplegia after Stroke by Xin WANG, Hu LI, Xiuyan LU

“…The affected muscle was taked as the needle entry point, and the needle tip was facing the shoulder joint, after inserting into the loose connective tissue, the needle body was scanned in arc, 100 times per min, one min per group, three groups each time. …”
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Comparison of Finasteride and Dutasteride on Risk of Prostate Cancer in Patients with Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: A Pooled Analysis of 15 Real-world Databases by Dae Yul Yang, Won-Woo Seo, Rae Woong Park, Sang Youl Rhee, Jae Myung Cha, Yoon Soo Hah, Chang Won Jeong, Kyung-Jin Kim, Hyeon-Jong Yang, Do Kyung Kim, Ji Yong Ha

“…No significant differences were observed for risk of prostate cancer between finasteride and dutasteride both on-treatment (HR=0.66, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.44–1.00; p=0.051) and intent-to-treat time-at-risk periods (HR=0.87, 95% CI: 0.67–1.14; p=0.310). …”

Outcome of Different Preemptive Analgesia Modalities in Patients Undergoing Total Knee Replacement Surgeries: A Prospective Randomized Study by Narendra Vaidya, Gourav S. Pawar, Anup P Gadekar, Nilesh A. Patil, Pravin Rameshrao Kutemate, Mohit Kolhapure

“…Patients in Group 2 were able to mobilize early compared to Group 1, whereas patients in Group 3 took more time for mobilization compared to Groups 1 and 2. …”
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Optimization of Protease and Amylase Production by Rhizopus oryzae Cultivated on Bread Waste Using Solid-State Fermentation by Olfa Benabda, Sana M’hir, Mariam Kasmi, Wissem Mnif, Moktar Hamdi

“…This research was carried for the coproduction of two industrial enzymes: α-amylase and protease via SSF by Rhizopus oryzae on humidified bread waste. Fermentation time, inoculum size, initial moisture content, salt solutions, and the thickness of the substrate were investigated one by one. …”
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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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Investigation of exosomes in aged human fibroblasts cultured in serum-free medium by Nadia Ghobeishavi, Amrolah Mosfatazade, Bagher Seyedalipour

“…Introduction: Exosomes are small vesicles (30 to 100 nm) crucial for intercellular communication and influence various biological and pathological processes. …”
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CINNAMON-GUI: Revolutionizing Pap Smear Analysis with CNN-Based Digital Pathology Image Classification [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] by Luca Zammataro

“…Results Model A (seed 42, 100 epochs) and Model B (same architecture with adjusted augmentation parameters) were compared. …”
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About simulation environment for modeling the Internet of Things components and applications using visual flow-based programming tools and cloud services by A. A. Andrushevich, I. S. Vojteshenko, O. Ju. Emelianova

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Clinical characteristics of pediatric patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection. Cienfuegos, 2020-2021 by Mercedes Fonseca Hernández, Dunia María Chávez Amaro, Vivian Isabel Chávez Pérez, Julio Héctor Jova Dueñas, Tamara L. Jiménez Sáez, Ifrain Machín Caride

“…The complementary tests showed enzymatic alterations associated with the viral infection. The 100% of the children had a favorable evolution.<br /><strong>Conclusions:</strong> COVID-19 continues as a health problem worldwide. …”
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VOCAL HANDICAP AND ASSOCIATION WITH PHYSICAL INACTIVITY AND JOB DISSATISFACTION AMONG TEACHERS by Lilian Souza Melo, Josiane Santos Brant Rocha, Viviana Maia Santos, Leonardo Rodrigues de Souza, Rosângela Ramos Veloso Silva, Desirée Sant´Ana Haikal, Adriane Mesquita Medeiros, Luiza Augusta R. Rossi-Barbosa

“…Voice handicap was present in 20.2% of the teachers and was associated with being female (PR= 1.32; CI95%:1.03-1.70), teaching time (PR= 1.26; CI95%:1.26-1.04), job dissatisfaction (PR= 1.96; CI95%:1.59-2.42) and physical inactivity (PR= 1.24; CI95%:1.00-1.52). …”
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Laser Process for Selective Emitter Silicon Solar Cells by G. Poulain, D. Blanc, A. Focsa, B. Bazer-Bachi, M. Gauthier, B. Semmache, Y. Pellegrin, N. Le Quang, M. Lemiti

“…Sheet resistance variation from 100 Ω/sq to 40 Ω/sq is demonstrated with a nanosecond UV laser. …”
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Towards a More Efficient Design of High Temperature Concentrating Solar Power Plant With Cascaded Thermal Energy Storage by Brenda Hernandez Corona, Thomas Fasquelle, Muhammad Abdullah, Nicolas Lopez Ferber, Jean-Francois Hoffmann, Mathieu Martins, Ahmad Mayyas, Nicolas Calvet

“…The study focuses on night-time operations. Further analysis of the cost-benefit of the designs would be required to compare the overall energy production and furthermore the LCOE. …”
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Feature Representations Using the Reflected Rectified Linear Unit (RReLU) Activation by Chaity Banerjee, Tathagata Mukherjee, Eduardo Pasiliao Jr.

“…For the CFD dataset, we show that the RReLU activation can reduce the number of epochs from 100 (using ReLU) to 10 while obtaining the same levels of performance.…”
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ADSORPTION-RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF SERUM IN HEMORRHAGIC VASCULITIS AND ECOLOGY IN REGIONS OF PATIENTS’ RESIDENCE by T.B. Bevzenko, I.Yu. Golovach, M. V. Yermolaieva, V.Ya. Mikuksts, O.V. Syniachenko

“…Indicators of surface viscosity (SV), bulk viscosity (BV), surface elasticity (SE), module of viscoelasticity (MV), relaxation time (RT), the surface tension at t = 0,01 sec (ST1) , t = sec 1 (ST2), t = 100 sec (ST3), and the equilibrium (static) surface tension at t (ST4), the angle of inclination (AI) and phasic angle (PA) of tensiograms were studied using computer tensioreometry of serum, surfactant criterion of interfacial activity (SCIA) were calculated. …”
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The clinical profile and outcome of patients receiving continuation electroconvulsive therapy (C-ECT): A retrospective study by Sandeep Grover, Sanjana Kathiravan, Subho Chakrabarti

“…The mean age of the patients at the time of starting ECT was around 39 years. The most common diagnosis was schizophrenia (73.3%), followed by recurrent depressive disorder (21.6%). …”
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Rapid Screening of 300 Pesticide Residues in Commercially Available Vegetable-, Fruit-, and Cereal-Based Baby Foods by Using Amino-Functionalized Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes with... by Zhijuan Meng, Sufang Fan, Tongtong Ding, Xiaoxuan Yuan, Limin Zhao, Qiang Li, Yan Zhang

“…Qualitative analysis was carried out by retention time and accurate mass measurements in full scan mode, and external standard method for quantitation was performed using matrix-matched standard calibration, which could effectively eliminate matrix interference. …”
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