Usefulness of Low-Dose Splenic Irradiation prior to Reduced-Intensity Conditioning Regimen for Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in Elderly Patients with Myelofibrosis by Etsuko Matsubara, Jun Yamanouchi, Riko Kitazawa, Taichi Azuma, Hiroshi Fujiwara, Takaaki Hato, Masaki Yasukawa

“…Although the inhibitor decreases splenomegaly and relieves MF-related symptoms, allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) remains as the only curative therapy for MF. The presence of splenomegaly has been reported as a risk factor for graft failure, delayed engraftment, and poor survival. …”
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Impact of Perioperative Blood Transfusion on Postoperative Complications and Prognosis of Gastric Adenocarcinoma Patients with Different Preoperative Hemoglobin Value by Lian Xue, Xiao-Long Chen, Zhang Wei-Han, Kun Yang, Xin-Zu Chen, Bo Zhang, Zhi-Xin Chen, Jia-Ping Chen, Zong-Guang Zhou, Jian-Kun Hu

“…From 2003 to 2011, 1199 patients who underwent curative gastrectomy were retrospectively enrolled and followed up to December 2014. …”
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Performance of Artificial Intelligence Chatbots on Ultrasound Examinations: Cross-Sectional Comparative Analysis by Yong Zhang, Xiao Lu, Yan Luo, Ying Zhu, Wenwu Ling

“…ObjectiveThis study aimed to evaluate the performance of ChatGPT and ERNIE Bot in answering ultrasound-related medical examination questions, providing insights for users and developers. MethodsWe curated 554 questions from ultrasound medicine examinations, covering various question types and topics. …”
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Characterization of rectum-colon cancer in Cienfuegos province from 1995 to 2000. by Itengré Ouédraogo, Julio Pablo Miñoso Andina, Juan E. Domínguez Suárez

“…Surgery was applied with curative intention in the majority of the patients meanwhile palliative surgery was predominant in the cases with occlusive clinical form. …”
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Effect of BALANCE Evaluation and Training System on Early Trunk Control Ability of Patients with Cerebral Apoplexy by Wei YANG, Hong WANG, Yangfan XU, Zhiwei MU, Rongliang HU, Zhuoming CHEN

“…Objective:To investigate the curative effect of BALANCE evaluation and training system in improving early trunk control ability of stroke patients.Methods:A total of 40 stroke patients were randomly assigned to the treatment group and the control group, 20 patients in each group. …”
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BUSClean: Open-source software for breast ultrasound image pre-processing and knowledge extraction for medical AI. by Arianna Bunnell, Kailee Hung, John A Shepherd, Peter Sadowski

“…Development of artificial intelligence (AI) for medical imaging demands curation and cleaning of large-scale clinical datasets comprising hundreds of thousands of images. …”
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A Channel Attention-Driven Optimized CNN for Efficient Early Detection of Plant Diseases in Resource Constrained Environment by Sana Parez, Naqqash Dilshad, Jong Weon Lee

“…We evaluated the proposed method on four datasets: the benchmark plant village (PV), the data repository of leaf images (DRLIs), the newly curated plant composite (PC) dataset, and the BARI Sunflower (BARI-Sun) dataset, which includes diverse and challenging real-world images. …”
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Novel approaches in myelofibrosis by Steffen Koschmieder

“…Currently, the management of MF patients is tailored according to risk scores, with higher‐risk (intermediate‐2 and high‐risk) patients being assessed for allogeneic stem cell transplantation, which remains the only potentially curative treatment option. On the other hand, lower risk (low‐ and intermediate‐1 risk) patients who are symptomatic may be treated with JAK inhibitors or other drugs. …”
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CodeContrast: A Contrastive Learning Approach for Generating Coherent Programming Exercises by Nicolás Torres

“…Expert feedback and student performance further support the pedagogical value of these generated exercises, with students performing comparably to those using manually curated content. CodeContrast advances the automated generation of high-quality programming exercises, capturing relationships among programming components to enhance educational content and improve the learning experience for students and instructors.…”
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Phylogenomics of North American cybaeid spiders (Araneae, Cybaeidae), including the description of new taxa from the Klamath Mountains Geomorphic Province by Marshal Hedin, Martín J. Ramírez, Rodrigo Monjaraz-Ruedas

“…We also conduct analyses of traditional Sanger loci, allowing curation of some previously published data. Our UCE phylogenomic results support the monophyly of recognized cybaeids, with strongly supported internal relationships, and evidence for five primary molecular subclades. …”
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Clinical Observation of Suspension and Massage Combined Easy Canning Technique on Lumbar Dorsal Myofascial Pain Syndrome Therapy by Yi DING, Chenchen GUO, LI Li, Qiangqiang XU, Jiapeng ZHANG, Ning WANG, Zhiliang CHEN

“…Although the thickness of ipsilateral psoas muscle and lumbar muscle all decreased, the muscle thickness of joint therapy group was still significantly higher than that of control group (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05).Conclusion:Suspension and massage combined with easy canning therapy has a better curative effect on the treatment of lumbar dorsal myofascial pain syndrome.…”
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Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition Relevant Subtypes with Distinct Prognosis and Responses to Chemo- or Immunotherapies in Osteosarcoma by Yang Zhou, Gai Li, Hu Li, Fuchong Lai, Pingguo Duan, Ming Cheng

“…This study retrospectively curated the RNA expression profiling of osteosarcoma patients from the TARGET and GSE21257 cohorts. …”
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Modeling the supply chain sustainability imperatives in the fashion retail industry: Implications for sustainable development. by Md Tariqul Islam Imran, Chitra Lekha Karmaker, Rubayet Karim, S M Misbauddin, A B M Mainul Bari, Asif Raihan

“…Focusing on emerging economies like Bangladesh and its fashion retail industry, this methodology synthesizes insights from literature reviews, expert feedback, and Pareto analysis to curate a definitive set of influential imperatives. …”
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MicroRNA-219 in the central nervous system: a potential theranostic approach by Nahal Shamaeizadeh, Mina Mirian

“…Despite the recent therapeutic advances in neurological disorders, curative therapy remains a serious challenge in many cases. …”
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The increasing need for Geographical Information Technology (GIT) tools in Geoconservation and Geotourism by Mark Williams, Melinda McHenry

“…Opportunities for further improvement in the field will most likely be realised when more sophisticated decision-making tools become available for geoconservationists and geotourism professionals, especially in the use of GIS Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (GIS-MCDA) to rank and curate inventory, geosites or geotouristic experiences. …”
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Framing Colonial Australia: A Socio-historical Articulation of the Display of Art by Anita Gowers

“…Understanding the materials to hand, the framing conventions of the day and the ways these early colonial artists wanted their work displayed provides vital evidence for curators and conservators informing the period framing decisions of contemporary institutions.…”
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Effect of Shogaol on the Expression of Intestinal Stem Cell Markers in Experimentally Induced Colitis in BALB/c Mice by Snur M. A. Hassan, Ali Hussein Hassan

“…Shogaol showed a better curative effect than did 6-TG in repairing the colonic mucosal damages in DSS-exposed mice as indicated by the levels of CD133 and CD34 expression in the colonic crypts and by the DAI score, colon length measurements, & histological index score which were significantly reduced in mice treated by Shogaol, particularly the 20 and 40 mg/kg BW doses. …”
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In search of a dialogue: Digital di-plomacy of Sweden by A. N. Marchukov

“…The latter include such projects as ‘The Second House of Sweden’, ‘Curators of Sweden’, and ‘Swedish Number’, which were aimed at improving the quality of communication with the foreign audience. …”
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Effects of Strengthen Rehabilitation Nursing on Respiratory Function and Life Quality of COPD Patients at Stable Phase by Songqin GAO, Caixia SHI, Rong LI, Lei XU, Ying WANG

“…The six minute walk test (6-MWT), Borg index and St-George respiratory questionnaire (SGRQ) were used to evaluate the curative effect of two groups before the nursing, after two weeks, one month, three months, six months, one year and two years of nursing.Results:The 6-MWT in the observation group was gradually increased, and the 6-MWT in observation group was higher than that in the control group after three months of nursing (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05). …”
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Clinical Observation on Digital OT Cognitive Training for Decreased Attention of Stroke Patients by Chunhua LU, Kai WANG, Zhen ZENG, Zhenghao WU, Wen HE, Xiating WEI

“…There were significant differences between two groups in the above indicators after treatment (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05).Conclusion:Digital OT cognitive training can effectively improve the attention and self-care ability of stroke patients with decreased attention, and its curative effect is better than that of general cognitive training. …”
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