Transition of Thyroid Autoantibodies by Rituximab Treatment in Women with Rheumatoid Arthritis by Hüseyin Demirci, Ebru Aydoğan, Bilge Ceydilek

“…At the time of the diagnosis of Hashimoto thyroiditis, anti-thyroid peroxidase (anti-TPO): 45 IU/mL (0-35), anti-thyroglobulin (anti-Tg) >3000 IU/mL (0-115) but after 4 cycles of treatment with rituximab anti-TPO: 7.38 U/mL (0-35), anti-Tg <10 U/mL (0-115). According to the literature; in patients treated with rituximab for thyroid MALT lymphoma, rheumatoid arthritis, and Grave’s disease, few have been reported to have declined levels of thyroid autoantibodies. …”
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YOLOv8n-CA: Improved YOLOv8n Model for Tomato Fruit Recognition at Different Stages of Ripeness by Xin Gao, Jieyuan Ding, Ruihong Zhang, Xiaobo Xi

“…The CARAFE up-sampling operator was integrated to expand the receptive field for improved feature fusion. Finally, the SIoU loss function was used to solve the problem of insufficient CIoU of the original loss function. …”
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TÜRKİYE’DE DİN SOSYOLOJİSİ ALANINDA YAZILMIŞ LİSANSÜSTÜ TEZLER ÜZERİNE BİR ARAŞTIRMA by Uğur Kaya, Fatma Kaya

“…Tezlerin teorik/ampirik olarak kategorik dağılımına bakıldığında yüksek lisans düzeyindeki bilimsel çalışmaların 114’ü kuramsal din sosyolojisi araştırması, 134’ü ise ampirik çalışmadır. …”
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Damage accumulation near the cold-expanded hole due to high-cycle fatigue by crack compliance method by Sviatoslav Eleonsky, Yuri Matvienko, Vladimir Pisarev, Michael Zajtsev

“…Normalized values of the notch mouth open displacement (NMOD), in-plane displacement component at the initial point of the notch acting in the notch direction (U0), in-plane displacement component at the final point of the notch acting in the notch direction (U1) and the stress intensity factor (SIF) are used as current damage indicators. …”
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Air Pollution and Watershed Research in the Central Sierra Nevada of California: Nitrogen and Ozone by Carolyn Hunsaker, Andrzej Bytnerowicz, Jessica Auman, Ricardo Cisneros

“…Maintaining healthy forests is the major objective for the Forest Service scientists and managers working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Air pollution, specifically ozone (O3) and nitrogenous (N) air pollutants, may severely affect the health of forest ecosystems in the western U.S. …”
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A Differentially Driven Dual-Polarized Dual-Wideband Complementary Antenna for 2G/3G/LTE Applications by Botao Feng, Shufang Li, Wenxing An, Weijun Hong, Sixing Yin

“…In order to generate dual-polarization and dual-wideband properties, a pair of biorthogonal dual-layer η-shaped tapered line feeding structures is utilized to feed two pairs of dual-layer U-shaped patches, respectively. The upper-layer U-shaped patches mainly serve the upper frequency band, while the lower-layer ones chiefly work for the lower frequency band. …”
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STORAGE OF PIGLET KIDNEYS AT SUBNORMAL TEMPERATURES FOR PRIMARY TRYPSINIZED CELL MONOLAYER PREPARATION by B. L. Manin, N. V. Koropova, V. A. Starikov, I. V. Vologina

“…Serum-free medium 199 supplemented with 100 U/ml of penicillin, 100 µg/ml of streptomycin, 100 U/ml of gentamycin was used as a stabilizing substance. …”
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Biostimulants with glycine betaine or kelp extract alleviate heat stress in red raspberry (Rubus idaeus) by Givemore Munashe Makonya, David R. Bryla, Michael A. Hardigan, Wendy Hoashi-Erhardt, Lisa Wasko DeVetter

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Serum alpha-1 acid glycoprotein and gallstone risk in US adult women: a cross-sectional analysis of the NHANES by Xiaocheng Li, Peiling He

“…Sensitivity analyses using multiple imputation further supported the conclusion that AGP was associated with increased gallstone risk.ConclusionAGP is significantly associated with an increased risk of gallstones in U.S. adult women, suggesting its potential as a biomarker for risk stratification. …”
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An efficient and lightweight detection method for stranded elastic needle defects in complex industrial environments using VEE-YOLO by Qiaoqiao Xiong, Qipeng Chen, Saihong Tang, Yiting Li

“…Precise integration of spatial structural and channel information further enhanced the model’s overall feature extraction capability. Finally, EIoU Loss replaced CIoU Loss to address bounding box aspect ratio variability and sample imbalance challenges, significantly improving overall detection task performance. …”
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Striving for consistency in a national lake assessment: Defining reference status and littoral macroinvertebrate condition in lakes across the conterminous United States by Richard M. Mitchell, Alan T. Herlihy, Robert M. Hughes

“…We used data collected during the U.S. EPA’s National Lake Assessment between 2007–2022 to develop and validate a national macroinvertebrate multi-metric index (MMI) of lake condition across the conterminous U.S. …”
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Relevance of histamine and tryptase concentrations in nasal secretions after nasal challenges with phosphate buffered saline and allergen by D. Wang, P. Clement, J. Smitz, M.-P. Derde

“…Results showed that the concentrations of tryptase in almost all samples were under the minimal detection limit (< 0.5 μU/g) and only a sigrtificant increase of tryptase (median, 28 μU/g) occurred immediately after nasal allergen challenge in the patient group. …”
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Modeling and analysis of ensemble average solvation energy and solute–solvent interfacial fluctuations by Shao Yuanzhen, Chen Zhan, Zhao Shan

“…The construction of these models relies on a new diffuse interface definition u(x)u\left(x), which represents the probability of a point xx found in the solute phase among all microstates. …”
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Relation of Biomarkers of Inflammation and Oxidative Stress with Hypertension Occurrence in Lone Atrial Fibrillation by Marija M. Polovina, Miodrag C. Ostojic, Tatjana S. Potpara

“…Baseline CRP (1.2 [0.7–1.9] mg/L versus 1.1 [0.7–1.6] mg/L) and oxLDL levels (66.3±21.2 U/L versus 57.1±14.6 U/L) were higher in LAF patients (both P<0.05). …”
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Geometric morphometric analysis of projectile points from the Southwest United States by Bischoff, Robert J.

“…These results demonstrate the effectiveness of geometric morphometrics for the 2D analysis of late prehistoric arrow points in the U.S. Southwest. …”
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Üniversite Öğrencilerinin Sosyal Medyada Kimlik İnşasına Yönelik Ölçek Geliştirme Çalışması by Mehmet Salih Ökten

“…Bu araştırmanın saha çalışması, Türkiye'nin farklı coğrafi bölgeleri ile Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti'nde (KKTC) yer alan 70'in üzerindeki üniversitede örgün öğrenim gören toplam 493 sosyal medya kullanan öğrenci üzerinde gerçekleştirilmiştir. Bu katılımcıların 293'ü kadın ve 200'ü erkektir. Evrenin (toplam öğrenci nüfusu) farklı coğrafi bölgelerini (tabakalarını) anlamlı ve gerekli bir örneklem büyüklüğünde temsil etmek amacıyla orantısız tabakalı örnekleme yöntemi kullanılmıştır. …”
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Researches on blood glucose values in pregnancy and lactation period of cows and diagnosis of subclinic ketosis by Veysi ASLAN, Mehmet NİMAZLIOĞLU

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Image dataset: UAV images and ground data of one ‘Bingo’ mandarin and two ‘Valencia’ orange rootstock trials conducted in FloridaAg Data CommonsAg Data Commons by Randall P. Niedz, Kim D. Bowman

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KADIOĞLU ŞEYH MEHMED VE İNŞİRÂHU’S-SADR ADLI MESNEVİSİ / MASNAWİ BY KADIOĞLU SHEIKH MEHMED NAMED İNŞİRÂHU’S-SADR by Vesile ALBAYRAK SAK

“…<em>Gülşehrî</em>’nin <em>Mantıku’t-Tayr</em>‘ı (1317), Ali Şir Nevâî’nin <em>Lisânü’t-tayr</em>’ı  (1498/1499),  İranlı Şemsî’nin <em>Deh Murg</em> ‘u(1514), Zaîfî’nin <em>Gülşen-i Sîmurg</em>’u  (d. 1559),  Ârifî Mehmed’in <em>Ravzatü’t-Tevhid</em>’i (d.1563),  İbrahim Gülşenî’nin <em>Sîmurg-nâme</em>’si (d. 1533), Şemseddin Sivâsî’nin <em>Gülşenâbâd</em>’ı   (d. 1595) ve  Fedâî Dede’nin <em>Mantıku’l- Esrâr</em>’ı (d.1635) bu eserlerdendir. …”
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Matching Sensing to Actuation and Dynamics in Distributed Sensorimotor Architectures by Zoe Turin, Graham K. Taylor, Holger G. Krapp, Emily Jensen, J. Sean Humbert

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