Biomarkers troponin and procalcitonin in addition to CRB-65 enhance risk stratification in patients with community-acquired pneumonia by Imrana Farhat, Maciej Rosolowski, Katharina Ahrens, Jasmin Lienau, Peter Ahnert, Mathias Pletz, Gernot Rohde, Jan Rupp, Markus Scholz, Martin Witzenrath, the CAPNETZ Study Group

“…Background Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) remains a leading cause of infectious disease mortality globally, necessitating intensive care unit (ICU) admission for ∼10% of hospitalised patients. …”
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Modular cone-and-plate device for mechanofluidic assays in Transwell inserts by Daniel Chavarria, Kissamy A. Georges, Brian J. O’Grady, Khalid K. Hassan, Ethan S. Lippmann, Ethan S. Lippmann, Ethan S. Lippmann, Ethan S. Lippmann, Ethan S. Lippmann, Ethan S. Lippmann

“…In this work, we present a cost effective and open-source modular cone-and-plate (MoCAP) device that incorporates shear stress in the popular Transwell® insert system. …”
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Spatiotemporal control of translation in live zebrafish embryos via photoprotected mRNAs by Florian P. Weissenboeck, Melissa Pieper, Helena Schepers, Sophie Hötte, Nils Klöcker, Sabine Hüwel, Andreas van Impel, Stefan Schulte-Merker, Andrea Rentmeister

“…The injected FlashCap-mRNA is stable for hours and remains muted. …”
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Racial/Ethnic Patterns in Prostate Cancer Outcomes in an Active Surveillance Cohort by Jennifer Cullen, Stephen A. Brassell, Yongmei Chen, Christopher Porter, James L'Esperance, Timothy Brand, David G. McLeod

“…Concern regarding overtreatment of prostate cancer (CaP) is leading to increased attention on active surveillance (AS). …”
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Single-cell sequencing analysis reveals cancer-associated pericyte subgroup in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma to predict prognosis by Kai Xiong, Bing Pan, Hao Fang, Ziyou Tao

“…The mechanism of CAP heterogeneity in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) remains unclear, which has limited the development of treatments for tumors through CAPs. …”
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Styloid process phenotype and atheromatous plaque: Radiographic and bone density assessment in parathyroid disease by Adilia Mirela Pereira Lima Cid, Davi de Sá Cavalcante, Marcela Lima Gurgel, Ana Carolina Saraiva, Ana Alicia Sales Ricardo, Lúcio Mitsuo Kurita, Paulo Goberlânio de Barros Silva, Catarina Brasil d’Alva, Ana Rosa Pinto Quidute, Fabio Wildson Gurgel Costa

“…CAP occurred more frequently in the PHPT group. …”
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Prix versus quantités : les contorsions du marché du carbone européen by Nathalie Berta

“…All these reforms try to control the price, but in an indirect way, through adjustments of the allowances supply. As a cap-and-trade instrument, the European market guaranties that the total emissions will not overtake the issued allowances — the cap. …”
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Shorter versus longer durations of antibiotic treatment for patients with community-acquired pneumonia: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis by Gordon Guyatt, Arnav Agarwal, Mark Loeb, John Basmaji, Ya Gao, Maryam Ghadimi, Layla Bakaa, Luis Enrique Colunga Lozano, Saad Asif, Aninditee Das

“…Introduction Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), frequently encountered in both outpatient and inpatient settings, is the leading cause of infectious disease-related mortality. …”
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Controlled Attenuation Parameter for Quantification of Steatosis: Which Cut-Offs to Use? by Roxana Sirli, Ioan Sporea

“…Multiple studies have been published regarding CAP performance to quantify steatosis, but due to the heterogeneity of CLD etiologies, of steatosis prevalence, etc., it had widely variable calculated cut-off values, which in turn limited the day-to-day utility of CAP measurements in clinical practice. …”
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The role of the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio in predicting outcomes among patients with community-acquired pneumonia by Yogesh Sharma, Campbell Thompson, Angelo Zinellu, Rashmi Shahi, Chris Horwood, Arduino A. Mangoni

“…Objectives: The value of the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) in predicting outcomes in patients hospitalised with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) remains debated. This study evaluated whether NLR independently predicts clinical outcomes and enhances the predictive performance of the CURB-65 score in patients with CAP. …”
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Validation of a B-type natriuretic peptide as a prognostic marker in pneumonia patients: a prospective cohort study by Yu Hashimoto, Daisuke Usuda, Ryusho Sangen, Emiri Muranaka, Yoshitsugu Iinuma, Tsugiyasu Kanda

“…In multivariable Cox-regression analysis, BNP remained an independent mortality predictor (HR 10.01, 95% CI 1.32 to 75.7, p=0.03) in CAP.Conclusions BNP levels may be a useful single prognostic marker for CAP. …”
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Research on the Manufacturing Process of Steel Bridge Piers for Suspended Monorail Transit by YIN Guifang, GONG Wenqiang, CHEN Xiaoshan, KONG Haiyong, WEI Chao, ZHU Gang

“…The difficulties in the manufacturing process of monorail steel bridge piers are analyzed, and the manufacturing schemes for the steel cap beams are compared and selected. Moreover, the manufacturing process and accuracy control methods of suspended monorail steel bridge piers are systematically expounded. …”
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Electronic Vaping-Induced Methicillin-Sensitive Staphylococcus Aureus Pneumonia and Empyema by Sachin M. Patil, Phillip Paul Beck, Tarang Pankaj Patel, Richard Dale Swaney, Dima Dandachi, Armin Krvavac

“…Pneumonia categorizations include community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), hospital-acquired pneumonia, and ventilator-associated pneumonia. …”
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Short-term effects of argon cold atmospheric plasma on canine corneas ex vivo by Juliane Dick, Sandra Lockow, Wolfgang Baumgärtner, Holger Andreas Volk, Claudia Busse

“…The kINPen® VET (neoplas GmbH, Greifswald, Germany) was used for CAP treatment. Corneas (t0, t2, t5) were cultured at an air-liquid interface (72 h). …”
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Effect of compost formulation and postharvest management on quality parameters of button mushroom by Mohammad Ebrahim Ranjbar, Zahra Ghahremani

“…The cap opening ratio was further retarded while applying thermal treatment to the mushrooms at 55 °C. …”
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Optical signatures of lattice strain in chemically doped colloidal quantum wells by Junhong Yu, Hilmi Volkan Demir, Manoj Sharma

“…By comparing the behavior of CAPs in Cu-doped and undoped CQWs (i.e., vibrational phase/lifetime/amplitude), we have revealed the driving force of CAPs related to the optical screening of lattice strain-induced piezoelectric fields, which thus allows to determine the strain-induced piezoelectric field of ~102 V/m in Cu-doped CdSe CQWs. …”
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Interaction Mechanisms of Cold Atmospheric Plasmas with HIV Capsid Protein by Reactive Molecular Dynamics Simulation by Ying Sun, Yang Chen, Yuantao Zhang

“…However, the key mechanisms of interactions between cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) and biological tissue are still in the exploration stage. …”
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Effect of Origanum onites L. Essential Oil and Cold Atmospheric Plasma on Physicochemical, Microbial, and Sensory Properties of Iranian White Cheese by Razie Razavi, Ehsan Toosi, Mahjoub Sheikholeslami, Maryam Konjedi, Adel Hajian-Tilaki, Ali Najafi

“…This study investigated into the antioxidant and antimicrobial properties of Origanum onites essential oil (OEO) and the application of cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) on Iranian white cheese quality during storage at 4°C for 45 days. …”
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Orthogonal Capsule Network with Meta-Reinforcement Learning for Small Sample Hyperspectral Image Classification by Prince Yaw Owusu Amoako, Guo Cao, Boshan Shi, Di Yang, Benedict Boakye Acka

“…The OCN-MRL framework employs Meta-RL for feature selection and CapsNet for classification with a small data sample. …”
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Virulence Genotyping of Pasteurella multocida Isolated from Multiple Hosts from India by Laxmi Narayan Sarangi, Adyasha Priyadarshini, Santosh Kumar, Prasad Thomas, Santosh Kumar Gupta, Viswas Konasagara Nagaleekar, Vijendra Pal Singh

“…Association study between capsule type and virulence genes suggested that pfhA, nanB, and nanH genes were regularly distributed among all serotypes with the exception of CapD, whereas toxA gene was found to be positively associated with CapD and CapA. …”
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