Characterization of Chronic Kidney Disease Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis by Niovis Sosa Barberena, Roberto Angel Polo Amarante, Sandra Nancy Mendez Rogríguez, Mabel Sosa Barberena

“…Cienfuegos municipality showed the highest prevalence with 27.6 per 100 000 inhabitants. The most common cause of chronic kidney disease was nephroangiosclerosis (33.3%). …”
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Determination of the Correlation Dependence Between Static and Dynamic Modulus of Deformation of the Granular Sub-Ballast Layers by Ižvolt Libor, Dobeš Peter, Mečár Martin

“…Technological procedures related to the possession of tracks are often under heavy time constraints. Therefore, the attempts to apply dynamic load tests in the process of diagnostics of implemented construction works on modernised sections of railway infrastructure are increasingly frequent. …”
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Incidence of Fractures after Cardiac and Lung Transplantation: A Single Center Experience by Aileen Hariman, Charles Alex, Alain Heroux, Pauline Camacho

“…DXA scans were obtained immediately after transplant. 17 out of 210 LT patients (8.0%) had fractures after transplantation and 9 out of 105 HT patients (8.6%) had fractures. The median time to the first fracture was 12 months and the mean time was 18 months for both LT and HT. …”
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Antinociceptive and Anti-Inflammatory Activities of Leaf Methanol Extract of Cotyledon orbiculata L. (Crassulaceae) by George J. Amabeoku, Joseph Kabatende

“…Leaf methanol extract of C. orbiculata L. was investigated for antinociceptive and anti-inflammatory activities using acetic acid writhing and hot-plate tests and carrageenan-induced oedema test in mice and rats, respectively. C. orbiculata (100–400 mg/kg, i.p.) significantly inhibited acetic acid-induced writhing and significantly delayed the reaction time of mice to the hot-plate-induced thermal stimulation. …”
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Dynamic Response of a Single-Rotor Wind Turbine with Planetary Speed Increaser and Counter-Rotating Electric Generator in Starting Transient State by Radu Saulescu, Mircea Neagoe

“…Numerical simulations of the obtained analytical dynamic model were performed in MATLAB-Simulink in start-up mode from rest for the case study of a 100 kW wind turbine. These results allowed highlighting the time variation of angular velocities and accelerations, torques, and powers for all system shafts, both in the transient regime and steady-state. …”
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Experimental Study on the Relationship between the Natural Frequency and the Corrosion in Reinforced Concrete Beams by Liye Zhang, Limin Sun, Lijuan Dong

“…In this paper, an experimental investigation was conducted to study the deflection and natural frequency of reinforced concrete beam in a marine environmental chamber for six corrosion stages (accelerated corrosion for 0, 20, 40, 70, 100, and 140 days). The experimental results demonstrated that deflection increases with corrosion time, while natural frequency decreases with corrosion time. …”
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Influence of ultrasonication during soaking on water absorption and Softness characteristics in the cooking process of cowpea by Sholeh Rostamirad, K.G. Duodu, J.P. Meyer, M. Sharifpur

“…Owing to the long duration of cooking legumes, which limits their consumption and utilization, soaking has been used to reduce cooking time, save energy consumption, and diminish their hardness. …”
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Persistence with Early-Line Abatacept versus Tumor Necrosis Factor-Inhibitors for Rheumatoid Arthritis Complicated by Poor Prognostic Factors by Xue Han, Francis Lobo, Michael S. Broder, Eunice Chang, Sarah N. Gibbs, David J. Ridley, Irina Yermilov

“…**Results:** Data on 265 patients (100 abatacept, 165 TNFis) were collected. …”
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Intracardiac 3D navigation as a tool to improve the efficiency of ablation of idiopathic ventricular arrhythmias by S. Yu. Prorok, M. M. Dolzhenko

“…The duration of intervention for ventricular tachycardia with the use of 3D navigation had a significantly shorter time compared to classical methods (p = 0.024). …”
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Numerical Simulation of Two-Phase System of “Combustible Liquid – Solid Fuel” Combustion in a Fixed Bed by K. V. Dobrego, I. A. Koznacheev

“…In case of upper side ignition the combustion wave is formed at the time of the order of 100 s (when the used magnitudes of parameters are being used again), then it spreads downstream of the layer, accompanied by incomplete oxidation of solid fuel and complete combustion of oxygen. …”
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Responsiveness Index versus the RASS-Based Method for Adjusting Sedation in Critically Ill Patients by Johanna E. Wennervirta, Mika O. K. Särkelä, Markus M. Kaila, Ville Pettilä

“…RI and RASS groups did not differ in total time alive in 30 days without mechanical ventilation (p=0.72). …”
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Randomized Controlled Study Comparing Use of Propofol Plus Fentanyl versus Midazolam Plus Fentanyl as Sedation in Diagnostic Endoscopy in Patients with Advanced Liver Disease by Sameh Abdelkhalik Ahmed, Amal Selim, Nehad Hawash, Ahmed Khaled Tawfik, Mohamed Yousef, Abdelrahman Kobtan, Rehab Badawi, Sally Elnawasany, Reham Abdelkader Elkhouly, Amr Shaaban Hanafy, Fatma H. Rizk, Loai Mansour, Sherief Abd-Elsalam

“…There was no statistical significant difference between the studied groups regarding age, sex, weight, Child–Pugh classification score, type and duration of endoscopic intervention, time needed for complete recovery, or time needed for discharge. …”
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Continuous atrial fibrillation monitoring using a wearable smartwatch: Using long-term Holter as reference by Yannan Pan, Erdong Chen, Shihui Jie, Dongbo Huo, Zhongru Ding, Jing Zhou, Jie Jiang, Jianping Li, Yong Huo

“…Results The study analyzed 72 patients (48 males, mean age 65.4 ± 8.5) with 914 AF episodes lasting 834.7 hours, including 142 longer-than-5-minute AF episodes. Smartwatch recording time was 8927.6 hours. By individual, sensitivities and specificities of AF longer than 5 minutes were 100.0% and 83.7% for PPG and 89.7% and 67.4% for the ECG algorithm. …”
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Securing fog computing in healthcare with a zero-trust approach and blockchain by Navjeet Kaur, Ayush Mittal, Umesh Kumar Lilhore, Sarita Simaiya, Surjeet Dalal, Kashif Saleem, Ehab Seif Ghith

“…The framework was evaluated using iFogSim, simulating a healthcare environment with 50 IoT devices, 10 fog nodes, and varying workloads (100–1000 tasks/min). The key evaluation performance metrics include intrusion detection rate (IDR), data integrity (DI), task completion rate (TCR), average task response time (ART), and average block time. …”
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Process variables in mixture experimental design applied to wood plastic composites by Javier Cruz-Salgado, Sergio Alonso-Romero, Edgar Augusto Ruelas-Santoyo, José Alfredo Jiménez-García, Israel Miguel-Andrés, Roxana Zaricell Bautista-López

“…Unlike standard response surface designs, which are limited by the requirement that proportions must sum to 100%, mixture-process experiments enable a thorough evaluation of how operational factors, such as particle size and mixing time, interact with mixture components. …”
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Comprehensive assessment of the varietal fund of quince (Cydonia oblonga Mill.) in the conditions of Krasnodar region by T. G. Prichko, L. D. Chalaya, N. V. Mozhar

“…Varietal dif­ferences in the content of vitamins and polyphenols have been identified between new varieties and cultivars taken for crossing: Zolotistaya (28.4 mg/100 g), Novogodnyaya (33.3 mg/100 g) and Podarochnaya (32.3 mg/100 g) are high in vitamin C; Kubanochka (225.0 mg/100 g), Novogodnyaya (222.2 mg/100 g) and Podarochnaya (196.8 mg/100 g) are high in P-active catechins, which allows you to replenish your assortment of quince for the South of Russia with valuable genotypes of quince (Cydonia oblonga Mill.) competitive varieties of selection by the North-Caucasus Zonal Scientific-Research Institute of Horticulture and Viticulture.…”
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Impact of periodontal microRNAs associated with alveolar bone remodeling during orthodontic tooth movement: a randomized clinical trial by Alessandro Polizzi, Angela Alibrandi, Antonino Lo Giudice, Alfio Distefano, Laura Orlando, Amer M. Analazi, Giuseppe Pizzo, Giovanni Li Volti, Gaetano Isola

“…Clinical parameters and gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) sampling were performed on both compression and tension sides of a random canine to be distalized (test groups) at baseline and at 1 h, 1 day, 1 month and at 3-month after OTM, while the contralateral canine served as a control group. miRNAs − 7a-3p, -7a-2-3p, -7a-5p, -21-3p, -21-5p, -100-3p, -100-5p, -125b-2-3p, -125b-5p, -200b-3p, and − 200b-5p expression was analyzed using a real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). …”
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Prevalence and Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Bacterial Uropathogens Isolated from Pediatric Patients at Yekatit 12 Hospital Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Yamirot Merga Duffa, Kumera Terfa Kitila, Dereje Mamuye Gebretsadik, Adane Bitew

“…On the contrary, Proteus spp. was 100% sensitive to all drugs except to nitrofurantoin. …”
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A Review on Frequency Compensation and Transient Enhancement Schemes of Flipped Voltage Follower LDO Regulators for SoC Applications by P. Manikandan, B. Bindu

“…The proposed FVF LDO achieves a settling time of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$100 \ ns$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and PSR of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$-31\ dB\text{@}1\ MHz$ </tex-math></inline-formula>. …”
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Comparative analysis of LMA Blockbuster® clinical performance: Blind versus Miller laryngoscope-guided insertion in paediatric general anaesthesia – A double-blinded, randomised co... by Pooja Bihani, Shivanand, Rishabh Jaju, Naveen Paliwal, Sarita Janweja, Ankit Vyas

“…Secondary outcomes included the number of insertion attempts, haemodynamic disturbances, insertion time and airway complications. Methods: This randomised controlled trial study enroled 100 patients aged 1–4 years undergoing elective surgery. …”
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