Regaining Candidacy for Heart Transplantation after Robotic Assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy in Left Ventricular Assist Device Patient by Tariq A. Khemees, Ahmad Shabsigh

“…First, the expansion in candidate selection criteria led to increased number of men over the age of fifty to be considered for heart transplantation. …”
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A Simplified Calculation Method for the Near-Slope Laterally Loaded Pile Based on a Passive Wedge Model by Minghui Yang, Bo Deng, Yuhui Wang

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Robust Two-Stage Location Allocation for Emergency Temporary Blood Supply in Postdisaster by Dongqing Luan, Along Liu, Xiaoli Wang, Yanxi Xie, Zhong Wu

“…First, the factors of several candidate sites were quantified by the entropy-based TOPSIS method, and 12 candidate blood supply sites with higher priority were selected according to the evaluation indicators. …”
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A Combination of Extended Fuzzy AHP and Fuzzy GRA for Government E-Tendering in Hybrid Fuzzy Environment by Yan Wang, Chengyu Xi, Shuai Zhang, Dejian Yu, Wenyu Zhang, Yong Li

“…This paper firstly investigates the potentiality of employing fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (AHP) along with fuzzy gray relational analysis (GRA) for optimal selection of candidate tenderers in GeT process with consideration of a hybrid fuzzy environment with incomplete weight information. …”
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Singlet-doublet fermionic dark matter in gauge theory of baryons by Taramati, Rameswar Sahu, Utkarsh Patel, Kirtiman Ghosh, Sudhanwa Patra

“…Scenarios with weakly interacting DM candidates having non-zero hypercharge usually face stringent constraints from experimental bounds on the DM spin-independent direct-detection (SIDD) cross-section. …”
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ACE2 : S1 RBD Interaction-Targeted Peptides and Small Molecules as Potential COVID-19 Therapeutics by Lennox Chitsike, John Krstenansky, Penelope J. Duerksen-Hughes

“…This screen identified cepharanthine as a promising candidate for development as a SARS-CoV-2 entry inhibitor.…”
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Cities of Contagion: Pandemic Precarity, Migration, and Food Security in Urban Africa by Jonathan Crush, Zack Ahmed

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Genetic Variations of Cytokines and Cytokine Receptors in Psoriasis Patients from China by Xiao-Lan Li, Chun-Feng Wu, Gui-Sheng Wu

“…The aim of the present study was to investigate polymorphisms in a candidate gene family of interleukin (IL) in unrelated Chinese patients with psoriasis and control subjects without psoriasis. …”
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Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Progress Towards a Gene by David A van Heel, Jack Satsangi, Alisoun H Carey, Derek P Jewell

“…Importantly, these linkages have been replicated by independent investigators, and studies of positional candidates within these regions continue, together with fine mapping strategies. …”
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Mechanical Properties of Self-Compacting Lightweight Concrete Containing Pumice and Metakaolin by Masoud Dadkhah, Reza Rahgozar, Ali Bandani, Peyman Rahgozar

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Zero-shot reranking with dense encoder models for news background linking by Marwa Essam, Tamer Elsayed

“…Furthermore, it only leverages the lexical matching signal between the input article and the candidate background links. Nevertheless, intuitively, there may exist resources with useful background information that do not lexically overlap with the input article’s vocabulary. …”
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Genetic polymorphisms of muscular fitness in young healthy men. by Tomas Venckunas, Hans Degens

“…The present study tested for possible associations of 16 polymorphisms (across ten candidate genes) with fittness and skeletal muscle phenotypes in 17- to 37-year-old healthy Caucasian male endurance (n = 86), power/strength (n = 75) and team athletes (n = 60), and non-athletes (n = 218). …”
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MONet: cancer driver gene identification algorithm based on integrated analysis of multi-omics data and network models by Yingzan Ren, Tiantian Zhang, Jian Liu, Fubin Ma, Jiaxin Chen, Ponian Li, Guodong Xiao, Chuanqi Sun, Yusen Zhang

“…Through the MONet framework, we successfully identified known and novel candidate cancer driver genes, providing biologically meaningful insights into cancer mechanisms.…”
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Optimization of high-dimensional expensive multi-objective problems using multi-mode radial basis functions by Jiangtao Shen, Xinjing Wang, Ruixuan He, Ye Tian, Wenxin Wang, Peng Wang, Zhiwen Wen

“…Accordingly, an infill criterion based on multi-mode of radial basis functions that comprehensively considers the quality and uncertainty of candidate solutions is proposed. Experimental results on widely-used benchmark problems with up to 100 decision variables demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposal. …”
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“We Need to Think about the Grammar”: Practices for Opening Explanations on Language and Changing their Linguistic Focus by Mark Romig

“…In a nutshell, openings involve some problematization of prior talk, cores provide a candidate solution to said problem, and closings involve acceptance of that candidate solution. …”
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Immunoinformatics Identification of B- and T-Cell Epitopes in the RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase of SARS-CoV-2 by Niti Yashvardhini, Amit Kumar, Deepak Kumar Jha

“…Altogether, our study revealed that RdRp of SARS-CoV-2 (an epitope-based peptide fragment) can be a potentially good candidate for the development of a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2.…”
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Fluconazole-Like Compounds as Potential Antifungal Agents: QSAR, Molecular Docking, and Molecular Dynamics Simulation by Farnaz Salehi, Leila Emami, Zahra Rezaei, Soghra Khabnadideh, Behnaz Tajik, Razieh Sabet

“…With the compound F13 which demonstrated the most promising minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values, it can be concluded that F13 is appropriate candidate for the development as antifungal agent.…”
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The Construction of Regulatory Network for Insulin-Mediated Genes by Integrating Methods Based on Transcription Factor Binding Motifs and Gene Expression Variations by Hyeim Jung, Seonggyun Han, Sangsoo Kim

“…We then looked for a hierarchical network of the candidate regulators, in such a way that the conditional combination of their expression changes may explain those of their target genes. …”
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Multicriteria-Based Location Privacy Preservation in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks by Haleem Farman, Bilal Jan, Muhammad Talha, Abi Zar, Huma Javed, Murad Khan, Aziz Ud Din, Kijun Han

“…The selection of the phantom node among the set of alternatives’ candidate vehicles is considered as a multicriteria-based problem. …”
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Data-Driven Method for Passenger Path Choice Inference in Congested Subway Network by Guanghui Su, Bingfeng Si, Fang Zhao, He Li

“…First, according to the number and characteristics of OD (origin-destination) candidate paths, the AFC data among special kinds of OD are selected to estimate the distribution of passengers’ walking time and waiting time of each platform. …”
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