Study on Pressure Relief Effect and Rock Failure Characteristics with Different Borehole Diameters by Shiwei Liang, Long Zhang, Di Ge, Qiong Wang

“…Different borehole diameters do not change the overall trend of acoustic emission evolution, but it will lead to different acoustic emission count characteristics of rock damage and failure, especially the maximum acoustic emission count characteristics and corresponding strain values. …”
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Effectiveness Evaluation of Levamisole, Albendazole, Ivermectin, and Vernonia amygdalina in West African Dwarf Goats by Oyeduntan A. Adediran, Emmanuel C. Uwalaka

“…Faecal samples were collected before treatment from each animal and larval culture was carried out. Faecal egg count reduction (FECR) test was carried out for each group and the data analysed using FECR version 4 to calculate percent reduction in faecal egg count. …”
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Dominik Andreas von Kaunitz during the 80’s and the early 90’s of the 17th Century. The Early Career of the Imperial Diplomat by Lenka Maršálková

“… The present study focuses on documenting the beginnings of the diplomatic career of one of the most important imperial diplomats, Dominik Andreas Count von Kaunitz (1655–1705) and on defining the information that was learned within the context of the current research. …”
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A Review of Routine Laboratory Biomarkers for the Detection of Severe COVID-19 Disease by Keynaz Keykavousi, Fahimeh Nourbakhsh, Nooshin Abdollahpour, Farzaneh Fazeli, Alireza Sedaghat, Vahid Soheili, Amirhossein Sahebkar

“…The purpose of this review is to investigate the role of hematological (white blood cell (WBC), lymphocyte, and neutrophil count, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet, and red blood cell (RBC) count), inflammatory (C-reactive protein (CRP), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH)), and biochemical (Albumin, aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT), blood urea nitrogen (BUN), creatinine, D-dimer, total Cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein (LDL), and high-density lipoprotein (HDL)) biomarkers in the pathogenesis of COVID-19 disease and how their levels vary according to disease severity.…”
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Reliability of the OMERACT Giant cell arteritis Ultrasonography Score (OGUS): results of a patient-based exercise involving experts and non-experts in vascular ultrasonography by Christian Dejaco, Stavros Chrysidis, Sara Monti, Cristina Ponte, Peter Mandl, Lene Terslev, Bhaskar Dasgupta, Alojzija Hočevar, Christina Duftner, Wolfgang Schmidt, Carlos Pineda, Eugenio De Miguel, Andreas P Diamantopoulos, Helen Keen, Kati Mykkänen, George A Bruyn, Wolfgang Hartung, Maria Antonietta D’Agostino, Nikitas Gkikopoulos, Luca Seitz, Adela-Cristina Sarbu, Eva Manger, Berit Dalsgaard Nielsen, Norbert Redlinger, Veerendra Chadachan, Maria Correyero, Giovanni Fulvio, Vesselina Kurteva, Paolo Mercatelli, Irina Midtgard, Raili Muller, Duriad Reffat

“…Expert inter-reader ICC of the OGUS was 0.60 in both rounds, 0.40 in round 1 and 0.51 in round 2 for the Southend score and 0.45 and 0.52, respectively, for the Halo count. Median ICCs for intra-reader reliability were 0.86, 0.73 and 0.65 for the OGUS, Southend score and Halo count, respectively.For non-experts, inter-reader ICCs in round 1 were 0.20 for the OGUS, 0.20 for a normalised Southend score (=score divided by available segments) and 0.35 for a normalised Halo count. …”
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Glycemic Variability in Different Stages of Chronic Kidney Disease with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Cross-sectional Study by Sapna Gupta, Nivedita Priya

“…Aim and background: Hemoglobin A1c levels and complete blood count (CBC) is a diagnostic test used for diabetes and to determine the development of diabetic complications. …”
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Microbiological Effect of Essential Oils in Combination with Subgingival Ultrasonic Instrumentation and Mouth Rinsing in Chronic Periodontitis Patients by Toshiya Morozumi, Takehiko Kubota, Daisuke Abe, Taro Shimizu, Kaname Nohno, Hiromasa Yoshie

“…The total bacterial count (P<0.05) and Porphyromonas gingivalis (P<0.01) and Tannerella forsythia (P<0.05) count in deep pockets (PPD ≥6 mm) were significantly reduced only in the EO group. …”
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Clinical Features, Treatment, and Outcome of HIV-Associated Immune Thrombocytopenia in the HAART Era by Kimberley L. S. Ambler, Linda M. Vickars, Chantal S. Leger, Lynda M. Foltz, Julio S. G. Montaner, Marianne Harris, Viviane Dias Lima, Heather A. Leitch

“…We performed a review of patients with HIV-associated ITP and at least one platelet count <20 × 109/L since January 1996. Of 5290 patients in the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS database, 31 (0.6%) had an ITP diagnosis and platelet count <20 × 109/L. …”
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PortNet: Achieving lightweight architecture and high accuracy in lung cancer cell classification by Kaikai Zhao, Youjiao Si, Liangchao Sun, Xiangjiao Meng

“…Result: Our tests demonstrated that PortNet significantly reduces the total parameter count to 2,621,827, which is over a fifth smaller compared to some mainstream CNN models, marking a substantial advancement for deployment in portable devices. …”
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Construction of a miR-15a-based risk prediction model for vascular calcification detection in patients undergoing hemodialysis by Chen Fu, Yingjie Liu, Huayu Yang, Qiaojing Liang, Wenhu Liu, Weikang Guo

“…Multivariate LR analysis indicated that serum miR-15a, age, and WBC count were independent risk factors for VC. A miR-15a-based nomogram was developed by incorporating the following five predictors: age, dialysis vintage, predialysis nitrogen, WBC count, and miR-15a. …”
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Study Comparison between Alcoholic Extract of Broccoli, Folic Acid and Ferrous Sulfate Against Damage of the Cardiovascular System Induced by Lead-acetate in Rabbits by Dina S Dheyab, Jawad K Arrak, Majida A J Al-Qayim

“…Blood samples were taken after the 4th and 8th weeks of the experimental period to examine Troponin I, platelets count, and prothrombin time. Heart tissue obtained to examine the histopathological changes. …”
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The Risk Assessment of Pesticide Ingestion with Fruit and Vegetables for Consumer’s Health by Gordana Jurak, Jasna Bošnir, Domagoj Đikić, Ana Mojsović Ćuić, Iva Pavlinić Prokurica, Aleksandar Racz, Tomislav Jukić, David Stubljar, Andrej Starc

“…Animals were anesthetized, blood samples were obtained by cardiac puncture, and red blood cell (RBC) count, hemoglobin (Hb) concentration, and white blood cell (WBC) count were determined by standard hematological methods. …”
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Preparation of Chitosan Coating Loaded with Cinnamaldehyde-Tannic Acid Nano-emulsion and Its Effect on the Preservation of Chilled Meat by Xingqun DENG, Juan YOU, Ru LIU, Jirawat YONGSAWADIGUL, Tao YIN, Hong YANG

“…However, after 12 days of storage, the TVB-N and total bacterial count of the CS/CIN-TAs group were still lower than the limit values. …”
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Viral suppression and adherence in adolescents living with HIV in rural Tanzania. by Ezekiel Luoga, James Okuma, Lilian Moshi, George Sigalla, Dorcas Mnzava, Daniel H Paris, Tracy R Glass, Fiona Vanobberghen, Maja Weisser, Getrud Joseph Mollel, KIULARCO working group

“…We assessed agreement between adherence measures (self-report, pill box return, pill count and visual analogy scale) and viral suppression. …”
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Dynamic Detection of Monocyte Subsets in Peripheral Blood of Patients with Acute Hypertriglyceridemic Pancreatitis by Junyuan Zheng, Junjie Fan, Chunlan Huang, Yingying Lu, Zehua Huang, Xingpeng Wang, Yue Zeng

“…In severe HTGP, M1 monocyte count and percentage rose to the highest point while M2 were the lowest on day 3. …”
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Prevalence of malaria and associated factors among febrile children under 15 years at Bududa General Hospital, Eastern Uganda by Benson Okongo, Daisy Asiimwe, Clinton Olong, Enoch Muwanguzi, Robert Wagubi

“…Among the children who tested positive for malaria, 98 (88.3%) had Plasmodium falciparum, 11 (9.9%) had Plasmodium malariae, and (1.8%) had Plasmodium ovale infection. The mean parasite count was 21,951 parasites/µL of blood. The highest parasite count was 154,387 parasites/µL of blood, and the lowest count was 146 parasites/µL of blood. …”
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Cold temperature-related attributable risk for emergency circulatory hospitalizations, length of stay, and healthcare costs in Hong Kong by Eliza Lai-Yi Wong, Hong Qiu

“…We aimed to examine the association of temperature with emergency hospital admission (EHA) count and length of stay (LOS) for total and cause-specific circulatory diseases and evaluate the temperature-related attributable risk and healthcare costs. …”
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Predictive value of systemic immune inflammation index combined with coagulation index in traumatic coagulopathy in patients with severe trauma by Chen Wang, Yongyong Huang, Shiyun Liao, Jiming Song

“…SII in TIC group was significantly higher than that in non-TIC group. neutrophil count (NEU), platelet count (PLT), lymphocyte count (LYM), activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT), prothrombin time (PT), fibrinogen (FIB) level, and D-Dimer (D-D) level in TIC group were higher than those in non-TIC group, while LYM, FIB was lower than that in non-TIC group. …”
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Hyperglycemia and Correlated High Levels of Inflammation Have a Positive Relationship with the Severity of Coronavirus Disease 2019 by Wen Zhang, Chuanwei Li, Yu Xu, Binfeng He, Mingdong Hu, Guoqiang Cao, Li Li, Shuang Wu, Xia Wang, Chun Zhang, Jianping Zhao, Jungang Xie, Zihui Xu, Qi Li, Guansong Wang

“…Compared with patients without diabetes (n=366), patients with diabetes (n=95) had a higher leucocyte count, neutrophil count, neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR), and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR). …”
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Predictors of cytomegalovirus infection in patients with connective tissue disease treated by pulsed methylprednisolone therapy: a multicenter retrospective cohort study by Haruka Ito, Takahiko Yoshimoto, Akatsuki Kokaze, Kuninobu Wakabayashi, Kazuteru Noguchi, Kiyoshi Matsui, Bunki Natsumoto, Keishi Fujio, Yutaro Hayashi, Yuko Kaneko, Takahisa Gono, Koh Okamoto, Shu Okugawa, Kyoji Moriya, Hirohiko Sueki

“…The areas under the receiver operating characteristic curves for lymphocytes, NLR, and PLR were 0.742, 0.693, and 0.673 respectively. Conclusion Platelet count, lymphocyte count, NLR, and PLR may be crucial predictors of the onset of CMV infection in patients with connective tissue disease. …”
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