Suboptimal but intact integration of Bayesian components during perceptual decision-making in autism by Laurina Fazioli, Bat-Sheva Hadad, Rachel N. Denison, Amit Yashar

“…Method We addressed this gap by quantitatively assessing both the independent and interdependent contributions of priors and sensory uncertainty to perceptual decision-making in autistic and non-autistic individuals (N = 126) during an orientation categorization task. Results Contrary to common views, autistic individuals integrated the two Bayesian components into their decision behavior, and did so indistinguishably from non-autistic individuals. …”
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Emergence and Distribution of Diverse Serovars of Non-Typhoidal Salmonellae in Mangalore, Coastal Karnataka: A 12-year Experience by Beena Antony, Anup Kumar Shetty, Thomas S. Kuruvilla

“…Serotyping of these strains revealed that the most common NTS species was Salmonella Typhimurium (44.8%), followed by Salmonella Oslo (15.2%) and Salmonella Weltevreden (11.5%). …”
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Race and gender biases in assessing pain intensity and medication needs among Chinese observers by Zhiyuan Liu, Tzu-Ying Chuang, Shan Wang

“…Pain-related decision-making can be influenced by the caregiver and sufferer's demographic factors, such as race and gender, which are commonly considered individually. However, such factors may influence pain assessment interdependently based on caregivers' stereotypical beliefs. …”
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Cationic Cyclodextrin-Based Carriers for Drug and Nucleic Acid Delivery by Adila Nazli, Milo Malanga, Tamás Sohajda, Szabolcs Béni

“…First, we identified different cationic moieties that are commonly employed in the design of cyclodextrins with enhanced complexation ability. …”
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A sector fast encryption algorithm for color images based on one-dimensional composite sinusoidal chaos map. by Ye Tao, Wenhua Cui, Shanshan Wang, Yayun Wang

“…The algorithm can also resist some common attacks and accidents, such as exhaustion attack, differential attack, noise attack, information loss and so on.…”
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A Miniature and Low-Power-Consumption Stress Measurement System for Embedded Explosive in Multilayer Target Penetration by Yu Hang, Fei Shang, Shang Gao, Deren Kong, Xuehui Zhang

“…Manganin pressure gauges and external dynamic testing systems are common instruments to evaluate explosive safety. However, this method is unsuitable for an MTP experiment where the penetrator flies with a long distance. …”
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Investigating the key principles in two-step heterogeneous transfer learning for early laryngeal cancer identification by Xinyi Fang, Chak Fong Chong, Kei Long Wong, Marco Simões, Benjamin K. Ng

“…Abstract Data scarcity in medical images makes transfer learning a common approach in computer-aided diagnosis. Some disease classification tasks can rely on large homogeneous public datasets to train the transferred model, while others cannot, i.e., endoscopic laryngeal cancer image identification. …”
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Optimization of Urban Highway Bypass Horizontal Alignment: A Methodological Overview of Intelligent Spatial MCDA Approach Using Fuzzy AHP and GIS by Yashon O. Ouma, Chepng’etich Yabann, Mark Kirichu, Ryutaro Tateishi

“…Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is one of the most commonly used multicriteria decision making (MCDM) methods that can integrate personal preferences in performing spatial analyses on the physical and nonphysical parameters. …”
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Systematic Framework to Predict Early-Stage Liver Carcinoma Using Hybrid of Feature Selection Techniques and Regression Techniques by Marium Mehmood, Nasser Alshammari, Saad Awadh Alanazi, Fahad Ahmad

“…Cancer is one of the most common diseases of the liver and also the most fatal of all. …”
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The impact of earthworms on collembolan (Collembola) communities in grass mono- and polycultures by Izabella Olejniczak, Grzegorz Makulec

“…We compared two types of crops: monoculture of Festuca rubra L. and a polyculture, the mixture of grasses (8 species) commonly used in agriculture. In addition to two plant communities of different diversity, we used in our experiments an engineering species of earthworm – Aporrectodea caliginosa (Sav.). …”
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Hydrogen sulfide removal from biogas using chemical absorption technique in packed column reactors by M.B. Kulkarni, P.M. Ghanegaonkar

“…Several techniques available for removal of hydrogen sulfide from biogas are out of the reach for common end users due to lack of knowledge, higher running costs, and insufficient operational skills. …”
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A Case of Noncompaction at All Segments of Both Right and Left Ventricles by Ali Pourmoghaddas, Reihaneh Zavar, Mohaddeseh Behjati

“…Noncompaction/hypertrabeculation left ventricle (NCM/HVM) is most commonly reported in one or more segments of left ventricle and sometimes both ventricles. …”
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Clinical and histopathological manifestations of oral erythroplasia in tobacco smokers by Gladys Aída Estrada Pereira, Liliet Antonia Agüero Despaigne

“…Intense chronic inflammatory infiltrate and severe epithelial dysplasia were the most common tissue changes. The tissue dysplastic signs most involved were alteration of the interpapillary nails, loss of polarity of the basal cells, and hyperplasia of the basal layer cells; while the most relevant cytological dysplastics were hyperchromasia of nuclei and nucleoli, nuclear pleomorphism and increased nucleus-cytoplasm ratio, with the soft palate being the most frequent site.…”
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Severe, Treatment-Refractory Periodontitis and Vitamin D Deficiency: A Multidisciplinary Case Report by Figliuzzi Michele Mario, Parentela Luca, Aiello Domenico, Altilia Simone

“…Vitamin D deficiency and periodontitis are common diseases among people. These conditions interact with each other and worsen the patient’s health. …”
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Dyslipidemia and Fatty Liver Disease in Overweight and Obese Children by Asma Deeb, Salima Attia, Samia Mahmoud, Ghada Elhaj, Abubaker Elfatih

“…Conclusion. Dyslipidemia is common in overweight, obese children. FLD is prevalent in those with elevated liver transaminases. …”
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An HLA-Transgenic Mouse Model of Type 1 Diabetes That Incorporates the Reduced but Not Abolished Thymic Insulin Expression Seen in Patients by Jeffrey Babad, Riyasat Ali, Jennifer Schloss, Teresa P. DiLorenzo

“…Certain MHC alleles are predisposing, including the common HLA-A∗02:01. After the MHC, the locus conferring the strongest susceptibility to T1D is the regulatory region of the insulin gene, and alleles associated with reduced thymic insulin expression are predisposing. …”
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Comparison of the Post-Operative Pain of Lichtenstein’s Inguinal Hernia Repair by Continuous Suture Versus Interrupted Sutures for Mesh Fixation by Shams Ul Hassan, Muhammad Asif, Shabbir Ahmed

“… Background: Inguinal hernia is a frequent condition commonly treated by surgery with polypropylene meshes. …”
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Mortality Related to Chagas Disease and HIV/AIDS Coinfection in Brazil by Francisco Rogerlândio Martins-Melo, Alberto Novaes Ramos, Carlos Henrique Alencar, Jorg Heukelbach

“…Males (51.4%), white skin color (50%), age group 40–49 years (29.7%), and residents in the Southeast region (75.7%) were most common. Mean age at death was significantly lower in the coinfected (47.1 years [SD ± 14.6]), as compared to Chagas disease deaths (64.1 years [SD ± 14.7], P<0.001). …”
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Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis following enteric fever: A rare autopsy case report by Gwendolyn Fernandes, Pooja Mhashete, Pranav Pramod Patwardhan

“…We discuss the clinical course and diagnosis of this unique case and strive to create awareness about secondary HLH induced by common diseases, such as enteric fever.…”
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Visceral Myopathy Presenting as Acute Appendicitis and Ogilvie Syndrome by Punyaram Kharbuja, Raghvendra Thakur, Jian Suo

“…Visceral myopathy is very rare group of disease and poorly understood condition that may present with chronic or acute intestinal pseudo-obstruction and often mimic other more common gastrointestinal disease. VM should be considered as differential diagnosis whenever the patient presents with acute appendicitis, uncharacteristic abdominal symptoms, recurrent attacks of abdominal distention, and pain with no radiological evidence of intestinal obstruction.…”
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