Long term cost-effectiveness analysis of IDegLira in the treatment of type 2 diabetes patients compared to GLP-1RA added to basal insulin after IDegLira entered the national reimbu... by Dunming Xiao, Junling Weng, Lei Zhang, Chang Xing, Yan Wei, Yingyao Chen

“…The health outcome indicator is quality-adjusted life years (QALYs). The simulation time horizon is 30 years. The discounting rate of cost and health outcomes is 5%.…”
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Fruit size prediction of tomato cultivars using machine learning algorithms by Masaaki Takahashi, Yasushi Kawasaki, Hiroki Naito, Hiroki Naito, Unseok Lee, Koichi Yoshi

“…For constructing the models, the fruit weight estimated from the fruit diameter obtained over time for each cumulative temperature after anthesis was used as explanatory variable and the fruit weight at harvest was used as objective variable. …”
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Cisplatin and lipopolysaccharide co-administration for renal injury model in mice by Sae-Byeok Hwang, Soon-Suk Kang, Yeonmi Lee, Eunju Kang

“…Mice were euthanized at specific time points to assess renal injury. Body weight, renal weight, area, and BUN levels were measured to evaluate renal damage. …”
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Biomarker microRNA-371a-3p - expression in malignancies other than germ-cell tumours by Gazanfer Belge, Markus Klemke, Bendix Hansen, Cansu Dumlupinar, Aylin Igde, Dirk Arnold, Hans Salwender, Christian Wülfing, Armin Soave, Klaus-Peter Dieckmann

“…Expression rates in GCTs and controls were 100% and zero, respectively. Thus, the specificity of the M371-Test for GCT is 94.90% (95% CI 90.21–97.77%) when all NTMs and tumour-free controls are considered. …”
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Gap dynamics in the U.S. between urban areas in the current trend and in sustainable scenario by Haoyu Wang, Xiuyuan Zhang, Shihong Du, Yuyu Zhou, Donghai Wu, Qian Wang, Lubin Bai, Bo Liu, Shuping Xiong

“…This study finds that although the 740 U.S. cities have a large UAC in 2100, these cities will encompass a significant gap from UAC to UAS (approximately 165,000 km²), accounting for 30 % UAC at that time. The study also reveals the spatio-temporal heterogeneity of the gap. …”
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The relationship of the carriership of allelic variations in rs2228145 (A > C) of the<i>IL6R</i> gene with the levels of <i>VCAM1</i> and <i>ICAM1</i> gene transcripts in patients... by L. V. Topchieva, V. A. Korneva, I. V. Kurbatova

“…The risk of EAH (I-II stages) development was shown to be 2.3 times higher in CC genotype carriers as compared to individuals with other genotypes (OR = 2.257, 95 % confidence interval 1.100-4.468). …”
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Impact of major duodenal papilla morphology on the outcomes of primary needle-knife fistulotomy for deep biliary cannulation by Amir Sadeghi, Erfan Arabpour, Reyhaneh Rastegar, Samareh Omidvari, Mehdi Azizmohammad Looha, Masoumeh Keshavarzian, Mohammad Reza Zali

“…Moreover, there was no significant difference in the rates of PEP (p = 0.71), bleeding (p = 0.11), perforation (p = 0.48), or cholangitis (p = 1.00). However, the procedure in the regular papilla group was associated with more cannulation attempts (p = 0.025) and longer time for manipulation of the papilla (p < 0.001). …”
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Biomechanical and clinically controlled study of different fenestration positions in vascularized iliac bone flaps for treating femoral head necrosis by Zeyu Wei, Zeping Lin, Jiale He, Yuxian Chen, You Peng, Zhiyong Li, Yunxiang Lu

“…Results The FEA results showed that the peak von Mises stresses in the four groups at the time of complete healing were in the following order: group C (20.28 MPa) < group I (20.33 MPa) < group M (20.92 MPa) < group S (22.00 MPa). …”
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2D SnSe2 micro-flower decorated with 0D In2O3 nanoparticles for low-temperature low-concentration TEA detection by Li Wang, Jianpeng Li, Cheng Xu, Ziqin Yang, Xiangyun Tan, Zhihu Dong, Li Xu, Dongwei Zhang, Chunqing He

“…In this study, we report the facile hydrothermal and ultrasonic treatment synthesis of 2D SnSe2 micro-flower modified with 0D In2O3 nanoparticles to form SnSe2/In2O3 heterojunctions for the first time. The SnSe2/In2O3 sensor has a response value of 4.86 for 10 ​ppm TEA gas at 120 ​°C, with response and recovery times of 18 ​s and 79 ​s respectively, and detection limits as low as 100 ​ppb. …”
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Mechanical Response of Industrial Concrete with SFRC and PFRC by José Ángel Ortíz-Lozano, Silvia Rodríguez-Narciso, Julián Carrillo, Juan Antonio Hernández-Andrade, Jesús Pacheco-Martínez, Martín Hernández-Marín, Albert de la Fuente-Antequera

“…Improvements were identified in several fiber-reinforced concrete samples in terms of compressive strength: 67% of the steel fiber samples and 100% of the polypropylene fiber samples had values above the average value of the simple concrete; in terms of the modulus of rupture, 83% of the steel fiber samples and 80% of the polypropylene fiber samples had values above the average value of the simple concrete. …”
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Endoscopic ultrasound-guided hepaticogastrostomy and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography-guided biliary drainage for distal malignant biliary obstruction due to pancreat... by Naminatsu Takahara, Yousuke Nakai, Kensaku Noguchi, Tatsunori Suzuki, Tatsuya Sato, Ryunosuke Hakuta, Kazunaga Ishigaki, Tomotaka Saito, Tsuyoshi Hamada, Mitsuhiro Fujishiro

“…Both procedures demonstrated 100% technical and clinical success rates, with a similar incidence of adverse events (48% vs. 39%, p=0.59). …”
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Navigating the Collective: Nanoparticle-Assisted Identification of Leader Cancer Cells During Migration by Anastasia Alexandrova, Elizaveta Kontareva, Margarita Pustovalova, Sergey Leonov, Yulia Merkher

“…We conducted calibration experiments to identify the “optimal time” at which cells exhibit peak speed during wound closure. …”
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ALMA Observations of Solar Spicules in a Polar Coronal Hole by T. S. Bastian, C. Alissandrakis, A. Nindos, M. Shimojo, S. M. White

“…The observations were made on 2018 December 25 of the northern polar coronal hole. ALMA obtained time-resolved imaging observations at wavelengths of 3 mm (100 GHz; 2 s cadence) and 1.25 mm (239 GHz; ≈2 minutes cadence) with an angular resolution of 2 $\mathop{.}…”
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Assessing Lung and Skin Cancer Risks for Steel and Iron Manufacturing Industry Workers Exposed to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons by Ying-Fang Wang, Yu-Chieh Kuo, Ming-Yeng Lin, Perng-Jy Tsai

“…The mean inhalatory exposure concentrations of the melting and casting workers (2.84 × 104–3.32 × 104 ng m−3) were higher, but ladling workers (1.58 × 105 ng m−3) were lower, than the time-weighted average permissible exposure level (PEL-TWA) regulated in Taiwan (1.00 × 105 ng m−3). …”
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Development of a model for measuring sagittal plane parameters in 10–18-year old adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis based on RTMpose deep learning technology by Zhijie Kang, Guopeng Shi, Yong Zhu, Feng Li, Xiaohe Li, Haiyan Wang

“…A significant challenge in this field is the time-consuming nature of manual measurements and the inter-individual variability in these measurements. …”
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Effect of the Ultraviolet C Light-Emitting Diode Treatment on the Quality of Soil-Grown and Pot-Grown Red Raspberries by Nicole R. Giuggioli, Daniele M. Nucera, Serenella Piano, Selene Ollani

“…The UVC-LED treatment increased the total phenolic content (158 to 200 mg GAE/100 g) and ferric reducing antioxidant power (55.3 to 78.6 mmol Fe 2 +/kg) of the pot-grown raspberries when the UVC-LED treatment was followed by storage in a climate-controlled room (20°C). …”
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Effect of galectin-3 and brain natriuretic peptide levels on echocardiographic parameters of left heart chamber following coronary artery bypass grafting by Yulia A. Styazhkina, Irina F. Grishina, Nina B. Poletaeva, Tatyana F. Peretolchina, Olga V. Nikolaenko

“…MATERIALS AND METHODS: In total, 100 men with CAD following CABG were enrolled. Group 1 included 58 patients who returned to work 4 months after the surgery. …”
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Developmet the Complex Technology for Highly Concentrated Acid Solutions of Electroplating Industry by IVANENKO Olena, DOVHOLAP Sergii, NOSACHOVA Yuliia, PLASHYKHIN Sergii, PAVLIUK Nonna, SKLADANNYY Denys

“…When using a 5% solution of sulfuric acid already at the specific consumption of the regeneration solution, it was possible to achieve a degree of regeneration at the level of 95–98%, and when using a 10% solution, the degree of regeneration reached 100%. According to the research results, a technological scheme for processing regeneration solutions by precipitation of metals from regeneration solutions into magnetites in a ferritizer reactor was proposed.…”
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Metagenomics: a new frontier for routine pathology testing of gastrointestinal pathogens by Nicola Z. Angel, Mitchell J. Sullivan, Areej Alsheikh-Hussain, Liang Fang, Samantha MacDonald, Alena Pribyl, Blake Wills, Gene W. Tyson, Philip Hugenholtz, Donovan H. Parks, Paul Griffin, David L. A. Wood

“…However, thorough testing for a wider range of causal agents is time consuming and remains limited to a subset of pathogenic organisms. …”
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The transcriptional response to yellow and wilt disease, caused by race 6 of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. Ciceris in two contrasting chickpea cultivars by Aliakbar Faramarzpour, Sara Dezhsetan, Hamid Hassaneian Khoshro, Raheleh Mirdar Mansuri, Hamid Reza Pouralibaba, Zahra-Sadat Shobbar

“…The expression patterns of some differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were validated using quantitative real-time PCR. A total of 131 genes were exclusively upregulated under FW stress in the resistant cultivar, including several genes involved in sensing (e.g., CaNLR-RPM1, CaLYK5-RLK, CaPR5-RLK, CaLRR-RLK, and CaRLP-EIX2), signaling (e.g., CaPP7, CaEPS1, CaSTY13, and CaPR-1), transcription regulation (e.g., CaMYBs, CaGLK, CaERFs, CaZAT11-like, and CaNAC6) and cell wall integrity (e.g., CaPGI2-like, CaEXLs, CaCSLD and CaCYP73A100-like). …”
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