Clinicopathological Analysis of 14 Cases of Primary Pulmonary Lymphoepithelial Carcinoma by Yixuan FANG, Anzhe WANG, Lumin SHEN, Xiao YUAN, Yu KONG

“…Results A total of 14 cases of PPLEC were identified, including 5 cases of the Regaud type, with ages ranging from 33 to 73 years, comprising 2 males and 3 females; and 9 cases of the Schmincke type, with ages ranging from 36 to 79 years, including 4 males and 5 females. Computed tomography (CT) scans consistently demonstrated soft tissue masses or nodular shadows. …”
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Assessment Of Heavy Metals Concentration and Pollution Indices Of Surface Water In Enerhen River, Warri South LGA, Delta State, Nigeria by A. O. Egai, M. Paaru

“…Data obtained show that the result indicated the concentration of Zinc 0.065mg/l - 0.190mg/l, Pb (0.003mg/l -0.142mg/l), Cu (0.081mg/l - 0.213mg/l), Cd (0.02mg/l - 0.282mg/l, Cr (0.041mg/l - 0.171mg/l), Fe (0.162mg/l - 0.278mg/l) and Ni (0.104mg/l - 0.762mg/l)  comparison with WHO 2012 permissible limit the probed water sample falls within the allowable concentration of the standard except the  concentration of lead (Pb) in SW1, SW2, SW4 and SW5 which is a  concern because it exceeded the allowable limit, lead is considered toxic to human at higher concentrations . The computed indices for the maximum admissible concentration upper permissible values buttress as follows Zn 0.3MAC, Pb 0.01MAC, Cu 2MAC, Cd 0.01MAC, Cr 0.05MAC, Fe, 0.3MAC and Ni 0.02MAC. …”
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CT-based skeletal muscle loss predicts long term prognosis in patients with distal cholangiocarcinoma undergone pancreaticoduodenectomy by Guangzhen Qu, Shao-Cheng Lyu, Yong Zhang, Kun Gao, Chuanguo Zhou

“…The cross-sectional images of skeletal muscle area at the level of the third lumbar spine was obtained based on computed tomography (CT), and the SMI was calculated by skeletal muscle mass through height squared normalization. …”
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Connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung disease – A multicenter observational study from India by Sham Santhanam, Pravin Patil, Mohit Goyal, C B Mithun, Parthajit Das, Kavitha Mohanasundaram, Neeraj Jain, Vijaya Prasanna, Keerthi Talari, Himanshu Pathak, Parshant Aggarwal, Deepika Ponnuru, Vikram Raj Jain, Sharath Kumar

“…In our cohort, 372 (60%) patients had not received a diagnosis of their rheumatic disease or the ILD before seeing their rheumatologist. High-resolution computed tomography of the chest was available for 551 (88.9%) of the patients, and 327 (59.3%) had a nonspecific interstitial pneumonitis (NSIP) pattern. …”
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Fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 mutation promotes HSPB6-mediated cuproptosis in hypochondroplasia by impairing chondrocyte autophagy by Jing Chen, Dan He, Chengrun Yuan, Na Li, Baohong Shi, Conway Niu, Jiangfei Yang, Liangkai Zheng, Lin Che, Ren Xu

“…Radiography and micro-computed tomography were employed to assess the bone-specific phenotype in Fgfr3 (V376D)mutant mice. …”
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Digital transformation of construction training at the university in conditions of using an electronic educational resource for the discipline «Technical expertise and technology f... by Olga A. Bessonova, Ludmila I. Mironova

“…The relevance of the study can be explained by the fact that insufficiently developed Russian regulatory framework and the limited distribution of domestic computer-aided design programs slow down the digital transformation of both the construction industry and the education system. …”
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Feasibility, reliability, usability, and satisfaction of a digital medical device (ZEMY) for symptom management in patients treated for breast cancer: a single-arm interventional s... by Luis Teixeira, Christelle Levy, David Coeffic, Rim Ghorbal, Julien Dupin, Nazario Esposito, Olfa Derbel

“…To reach the primary feasibility endpoint, more than 50% of patients with one-sided 95% confidence interval (exact CI computed using Clopper-Pearson method) had to complete at least 3 symptoms entries, of which more than 60% complete until receiving a recommendation. …”
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Facial Anthropometry and Self-expressed Behaviours: A Systematic Review by Ankit Srivastava, Vilas Chimurkar, Nisha Mani Pandey, Anand Bihari

“…The findings of present review provide new insights for future research in the fields of behavioural medicine and computational face recognition.…”
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Safety and Feasibility of Transanal Endoscopic Surgery for Diffuse Cavernous Hemangioma of the Rectum by Ziwei Zeng, Xianrui Wu, Junji Chen, Shuangling Luo, Yujie Hou, Liang Kang

“…The level of hemoglobin at admission ranged from 59.0 to 148.0 g/l (mean 106.6 g/l), and the level of mean corpuscular volume (MCV) ranged from 75.1 fl to 93.5 fl (mean 83.7 fl). Colonoscopy, computed tomography (CT), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were important in the diagnosis of DCHR because of their high positive rates and accurate features. …”
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Novel Pythagorean fuzzy score function to optimize fuzzy transportation models by Ritu, Tarun Kumar, Jahnvi, Kapil Kumar, Nitesh Dhiman, M.K. Sharma

“…Also, the proposed score function integrates these interval values to quantify and rank the alternatives more effectively.However, a notable trade-off is the increased computational complexity due to the use of interval values in the membership and non-membership functions, particularly in larger-scale transportation problems. …”
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Smartphone applications for physical activity and sedentary behaviour change in people with cardiovascular disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis. by Kacie Patterson, Rachel Davey, Richard Keegan, Nicole Freene

“…Cardiovascular disease secondary prevention physical activity or sedentary behaviour interventions were included where the primary element was a smartphone or tablet computer application (excluding SMS-only text-messaging). …”
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Bifurcation analysis of multistability and hysteresis in a model of HIV infection by I. V. Mironov, M. Yu. Khristichenk, Yu. M. Nechepurenko, D. S. Grebennikov, G. A. Bocharov

“…To this end, original computational methods of bifurcation analysis of mathematical models formulated with systems of ordinary differential equations and delay differential equations are used. …”
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Role of Chest X-Ray in Coronavirus Disease and Correlation of Radiological Features with Clinical Outcomes in Indian Patients by Satyanand Sathi, Richa Tiwari, Savita Verma, Anil Kumar Garg, Virendra Singh Saini, Manoj Kumar Singh, Amit Mittal, Devinder Vohra

“…Recent literature has reported that radiological features of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients are influenced by computed tomography. This study aimed to assess the characteristic chest X-ray features of COVID-19 and correlate them with clinical outcomes of patients. …”
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Distinguishing Compact Objects in Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals by Gravitational Waves by Lujia Xu, Shucheng Yang, Wenbiao Han, Xingyu Zhong, Rundong Tang, Yuanhao Zhang

“…Assuming the “true” GW signals originate from an extended body inspiraling into a supermassive black hole, we compute the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and Bayes factors between a test-particle waveform template and our model, which includes the spin and quadrupole of the compact object. …”
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Biologic Cost per Effectively Treated Rheumatoid Arthritis Patient in a Large Managed Care Population: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Tao Gu, Neel Shah, Gaurav Deshpande, Derek H. Tang, Debra F. Eisenberg, David J. Harrison

“…**Objectives:** To implement a validated claims-based effectiveness algorithm in a US managed care claims database to compute the 1-year biologic cost per effectively treated patient among first-line biologics approved for moderate-to-severe RA (abatacept, adalimumab, certolizumab pegol, etanercept, golimumab, and infliximab). …”
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Effects of a periodic intermittent theta burst stimulation in Alzheimer’s disease by Yue Wu, Lu Wang, Kai Wang, Shanshan Zhou, Pan Wu, Yibing Yan, Ling Wei, Bensheng Qiu, Yanghua Tian, Zhi Geng, Xingqi Wu, Panpan Hu, Guixian Xiao, Gongjun Ji, Hesheng Liu

“…The longitudinal pipeline of the Computational Anatomy Toolbox for SPM was used to detect significant treatment-related changes over time.Results The iTBS group maintained MoCA scores relative to the control group (t=3.26, p=0.013) and reduced hippocampal atrophy, which was significantly correlated with global degeneration scale changes. …”
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Enhancing Semi-Supervised Learning With Concept Drift Detection and Self-Training: A Study on Classifier Diversity and Performance by Jose L. M. Perez, Roberto S. M. Barros, Silas G. T. C. Santos

“…Semi-supervised classifiers often consume a lot of memory and run-time, and the addition of a detection mechanism increases the computational cost. Furthermore, classification in semi-supervised environments can lead to problems related to labeling data to training: an error in this process can negatively impact model performance. …”
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Evaluation of mandibular and maxillary second molar root canal anatomy in a Turkish subpopulation using CBCT: comparison of Briseno-Marroquin and Vertucci classifications by Hüseyin Gürkan Güneç, İpek Öreroğlu, Kemal Çağlar, Kader Cesur Aydin

“…Abstract Background This retrospective study aims to characterise the root canal morphology of maxillary and mandibular second molars using cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT). The number of roots and canal configurations were evaluated using both the Vertucci and Benjamı´n Brisen˜ o Marroquı´n classification systems. …”
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Mt or not Mt: Temporal variation in detection probability in spatial capture-recapture and occupancy models by Sollmann, Rahel

“…Ignoring temporal variation allows collapsing detection data across repeated sampling occasions, speeding up computations, which can be important when analyzing large datasets with complex models. …”
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Protocol of a parallel group Randomized Control Trial (RCT) for Mobile-assisted Medication Adherence Support (Ma-MAS) intervention among Tuberculosis patients. by Zekariyas Sahile, Lua Perimal-Lewis, Paul Arbon, Anthony John Maeder

“…A total of 186 participants (93 per group) will be individually randomized into one of the two groups with a 1:1 allocation ratio by a computer-generated algorithm. Group one (intervention) participants will receive daily SMS texts and weekly phone calls concerning their daily medication intake and medication refill clinic visit reminder and group two (control) participants will receive the same routine standard treatment care as the intervention group, but no SMS text and phone calls. …”
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