Effect of Antrodia camphorata on Inflammatory Arterial Thrombosis-Mediated Platelet Activation: The Pivotal Role of Protein Kinase C by Wan-Jung Lu, Shih-Chang Lin, Chang-Chou Lan, Tzu-Yin Lee, Chih-Hsuan Hsia, Yung-Kai Huang, Hsiu-Chuan Lee, Joen-Rong Sheu

“…In the present study, Antrodia camphorata treatment (56–224 μg/mL) inhibited platelet aggregation induced by collagen, but not U46619, an analogue of thromboxane A2, thrombin, and arachidonic acid. …”
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The impact of uric acid on musculoskeletal diseases: clinical associations and underlying mechanisms by Jing Zhang, Na Sun, Wanhao Zhang, Wenjie Yue, Xiaochen Qu, Xiaochen Qu, Zhonghai Li, Zhonghai Li, Gang Xu, Gang Xu

“…HUA and gout may be risk factors for OA progression, although some reports suggest otherwise. A U-shaped relationship between SU and IDD has been reported, particularly in Chinese men, indicating lower or higher SU level may be risk factors for IDD. …”
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Evaluation of Pentraxin-3 and Interleukin-6 Levels in Serum and Gingival Crevicular Fluid in Patients with Generalized Periodontitis and Periodontal Health Controls before and afte... by Siamak Yaghobee, Sadegh Hasannia, Fatemeh Hamidzadeh, Saman Valadan Tahbaz, Rojin Shahmohammadi, Farzaneh Poursafar

“…Data analysis was performed using Mann-Whitney U and Wilcoxon tests (P<0.05). Results: Serum levels of PTX3 were significantly higher in the periodontitis group than the controls (P<0.05). …”
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Assessment of Environmental Suitability for the Spatial Distribution of Minority Villages in Mountainous Areas—Taking Fujian Province as an Example by Paolo Vincenzo Genovese, Xiang Xu, Hong Wu, Daxun Hao, Hantao Wang

“…This validates the rationality of the multi-factor evaluation model for assessing the environmental suitability of ethnic village spatial distribution in mountainous areas. (4) There is an inverse “U” relationship between environmental suitability and the distribution of national and provincial level minority villages. …”
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Infrared Small Target Detection Based on Weak Feature Enhancement and Target Adaptive Proliferation by Xiaoyu Xu, Weida Zhan, Yichun Jiang, Depeng Zhu, Yu Chen, Jinxin Guo, Ziqiang Hao, Deng Han

“…Extensive experiments on NUAA-SIRST, IRSTD-1k, and our custom-made dataset demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed IRSTD-WFETAP method, achieving superior performance in nIoU, Pd, Fa, and F1-measure compared to the latest methods.…”
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Implementación del dispositivo de atención a las urgencias subjetivas en la emergencia de un hospital de Guayaquil by Rodolfo Francisco Rojas Betancourt, Mariana de Lourdes Estacio Campoverde, Juan Andrés Cando Zapata, Mario Luis Burgos Calle

“…Este dispositivo de trabajo de orientación psicoanalítica basado en la población, puede informar el diseño de estrategias de intervención comparables en emergencias similares u otras en el futuro. …”
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Diplomatic activities of M.M. Litvinov in the USA during the Great Patriotic War (1941–1943) by A. A. Vershinin, P. A. Tupikin

“…Litvinov used all the diplomatic tools available to defend the interests of the USSR, instantly reacting to any changes in the moods of the U.S. military and political establishment and immediately reporting them to Moscow. …”
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An Improved YOLOv8 Model for Strip Steel Surface Defect Detection by Jinwen Wang, Ting Chen, Xinke Xu, Longbiao Zhao, Dijian Yuan, Yu Du, Xiaowei Guo, Ning Chen

“…A bidirectional feature pyramid network is introduced at the neck of the model to improve feature transmission efficiency. Finally, the WIoU loss function is employed to accelerate the model’s convergence speed and enhance regression accuracy. …”
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Calving front positions for 42 key glaciers of the Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet: a sub-seasonal record from 2013 to 2023 based on deep-learning application to Landsat multi-spectr... by E. Loebel, E. Loebel, C. A. Baumhoer, A. Dietz, M. Scheinert, M. Horwath

“…To simplify the mapping of calving fronts, we apply a deep-learning-based processing system designed to automatically delineate glacier fronts from multi-spectral Landsat imagery. The U-Net-based framework was initially trained on 869 Greenland glacier front positions. …”
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Reconstructing Iraq after the Victory over the Islamic State: Prospects for International Engagement by article Editorial

“…The conclusion is drawn that smaller than expected commitments made by international donors in Kuwait (mostly in the form of loans and export credits) can be expalined, mainly, by the shift in the perceptions of the ‘established’ donors, and the U.S. in particular, which proved to be unwillling to invest large sums of money in a notoriously corrupt country and at the same time quite confident about the oil-rich Iraq’s ability to meet reconstruction needs from its own funds. …”
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Retracted: A Novel Adaptive Terahertz System for Reliable and Efficient Maritime Communications Under Hostile Sea Conditions by Jianxin Feng, Jingjing Xu, Chengsheng Pan, Yuanming Ding, Hui Fang

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DeepGlioSeg: advanced glioma MRI data segmentation with integrated local-global representation architecture by Ruipeng Li, Yuehui Liao, Yueqi Huang, Xiaofei Ma, Guohua Zhao, Yanbin Wang, Chen Song

“…However, this task is hindered by substantial heterogeneity within gliomas and imbalanced region distributions, posing challenges to existing segmentation methods.MethodsTo address these challenges, we propose the DeepGlioSeg network, a U-shaped architecture with skip connections for continuous contextual feature integration. …”
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Association of environmental, demographic and clinical parameters with physical activity in children with asthma by Jane Berrill, Peter James, Antonis Michanikou, Emmanouil Galanakis, Eleni Michaelidou, Paraskevi Kinni, Nikos Kalivitis, Giorgos Kouvarakis, Emily Vasiliadou, Chrysanthos Savvides, Filippos Tymvios, Petros Koutrakis, Panayiotis K. Yiallouros, Panayiotis Kouis

“…The relationship between temperature and daily steps was characterized by an inverted U-shape. There was also evidence that gender and age-adjusted BMI z-score were negatively associated with daily steps. …”
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Severe Symptomatic Primary CMV Infection in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients with Low Population Seroprevalence by Catherine Rowan, Ciaran Judge, Mary D. Cannon, Garret Cullen, Hugh E. Mulcahy, Elizabeth Ryan, Cillian F. De Gascun, Glen A. Doherty

“…Eight patients with IBD (UC = 3, IBD-U = 1, CD = 4) presented with primary CMV infection. …”
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Azathioprine Hypersensitivity Syndrome during Treatment of Severe Interstitial Lung Disease with Anti-Neutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody-Associated Vasculitis by Eri Nakano, Tomohiko Asakawa, Mea Asou, Eri Nohara, Tomoyuki Seki, Makoto Araki

“…After induction therapy, his clinical symptoms improved, but his MPO-ANCA remained elevated (>300 U·L-1) and hematuria persisted. Prednisolone plus azathioprine was administered as maintenance therapy. …”
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Preparation of noninfectious scRNAseq samples from SARS-CoV-2-infected epithelial cells. by Raven M Osborn, Justin Leach, Michelle Zanche, John M Ashton, ChinYi Chu, Juilee Thakar, Stephen Dewhurst, Sonia Rosenberger, Martin Pavelka, Gloria S Pryhuber, Thomas J Mariani, Christopher S Anderson

“…However, there are only 190 BSL3 laboratory facilities registered with the U.S. Federal Select Agent Program, as of 2020, and only a subset of these are outfitted with the equipment needed to perform high-throughput molecular assays. …”
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Short- and Intermediate-Term Morbidity Following Total Pelvic Exenteration in Colorectal Cancer by Christopher Guske BS, Nusheen Immen BS, Devon Conant BS, Jose Laborde PhD, Joshua Linscott MD, PhD, Mitchell Hayes MD, Seyed Behzad Jazayeri MD, Adnan Fazili MD, Erin Siegel PhD, MPH, Sophie Dessureault MD, Julian Sanchez MD, Amalia Stefanou MD, Brandon Manley MD, Seth Felder MD

“…Pearson’s Chi-square test, Fisher’s Exact test, and the Mann-Whitney U test were used to compare primary vs recurrent patient groups, and logistic regression assessed predictors of postoperative morbidity. …”
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Ultrasonic Guided Waves-Based Monitoring of Rail Head: Laboratory and Field Tests by Piervincenzo Rizzo, Marcello Cammarata, Ivan Bartoli, Francesco Lanza di Scalea, Salvatore Salamone, Stefano Coccia, Robert Phillips

“…The second part of the paper shows the results of field testing conducted in south east Pennsylvania under the auspices of the U.S. Federal Railroad Administration.…”
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CT features with histopathological correlation in inflammatory versus benign & malignant neoplastic appendiceal mucoceles: a retrospective cross-sectional study by Kumail Khandwala, Nida Sajjad, Dawar Burhan Khan, Amyn A. Malik, Wasim Ahmed Memon, Muhammad Owais Rao, Nasir Ud Din, Faheemullah Khan, Khabab Abbasher Hussien Mohamed Ahmed

“…CT findings were compared by use of Mann-Whitney U and Fisher’s exact tests. Receiver operating characteristics analysis was performed to assess the diagnostic utility of appendiceal luminal diameter in differentiating different types of mucoceles. …”
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Personal glucose meter-based portable method for creatine kinase assay by Jinhwan Lee, Yejin Oh, Hyoyong Kim, Sangmo Lee, Hyun Gyu Park

“…With this unique design principle, we successfully determined the CK activity down to 0.0147 U/mL with high specificity against various non-target enzymes. …”
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