Body Composition in Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis: Correlation with Disease Severity and Duration by Dawesh P. Yadav, Saurabh Kedia, Kumble Seetharama Madhusudhan, Sawan Bopanna, Sandeep Goyal, Saransh Jain, Naval K. Vikram, Raju Sharma, Govind K. Makharia, Vineet Ahuja

“…Body fat decreases with increasing disease severity and fat-free mass decreases with increasing disease duration in both UC/CD.…”
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Combined prognostic value of the cancer stem cell markers CD47 and CD133 in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma by Jian‐Hua Wang, Shu‐Ting Huang, Lan Zhang, Zi‐Gang Liu, Rong‐Xin Liang, Sen‐Wei Jiang, Yi‐Nan Jiang, Xing‐Juan Yu, Yu‐Chuan Jiang, Xi‐Zhao Li, Pei‐Fen Zhang, Zhe‐Sheng Wen, Min Zheng

“…Survival analysis indicated that patients with high CD47 or CD133 expression exhibited poor overall survival and progression‐free survival (PFS). The combination of high CD47 and CD133 expression was a reliable independent prognostic factor for both OS (HR = 1.940, 95% CI = 1.399‐2.690, P < 0.0001) and progression‐free survival (HR = 1.883, 95% CI = 1.384‐2.562, P < 0.0001). …”
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Genetic and biochemical analysis of severe hypertriglyceridemia complicated with acute pancreatitis or with low post-heparin lipoprotein lipase mass by Takashi Suzuki, Makoto Kurano, Akari Isono, Takuya Uchino, Yohei Sayama, Honami Tomomitsu, Daiki Mayumi, Ruriko Shibayama, Toru Sekiguchi, Naoki Edo, Kiyoko Uno-Eder, Kenji Uno, Koji Morita, Toshio Ishikawa, Kazuhisa Tsukamoto

“…ELISA and Western blot analysis of the serum revealed the existence of apolipoprotein A-V in the lipoprotein-free fraction regardless of the presence or absence of rs2075291; furthermore, the molecular weight of apolipoprotein A-V was different depending on the class of lipoprotein or lipoprotein-free fraction. …”
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Optical time-lapsed in situ mechanochemical studies on metal halide perovskite systems by Yonghao Xiao, David G. Bradley, Wei Xin Chan, Xinwen Hu, Lian Xiao, Zhenpeng Liu, Zi Yang Tan, Xin Zhao, Chenfei Li, Mansour Sadek, Vikash Kumar Ravi, Ying Hern Tam, Xiaotao Wang, Felipe García, Handong Sun, Seow Chin Low, Poh Boon Phua, Tze Chien Sum, Xiuwen Zhou, Yee-Fun Lim, John V. Hanna, Han Sen Soo

“…To overcome these challenges, solvent-free mechanochemical synthesis of perovskites can be conducted, although traditional opaque ball milling equipment hinder real-time monitoring of the reaction progress. …”
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Efficacy and Safety of Low-Dose Lenvatinib and Toripalimab in Patients With Recurrent Platinum-Resistant Ovarian Cancer: Study Protocol of a Multicenter, Open-Label, Single-Arm, Ph... by Su H, Shang X, Liu H, Wang Y, Yu Y, Xu Y, Jiang K, Feng F

“…The primary endpoint is the progression-free survival. The secondary endpoints include objective response rate, duration of response, disease control rate, overall survival, toxicity and patients’ quality of life. …”
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Does syndromic surveillance assist public health practice in early detecting respiratory epidemics? Evidence from a wide Italian retrospective experience by Giovanni Corrao, Andrea Stella Bonaugurio, Giorgio Bagarella, Mauro Maistrello, Olivia Leoni, Danilo Cereda, Andrea Gori

“…Signals that occurred during periods labelled as free from epidemics were used to measure positive predictive values (PPV) and false negative values (FNV) in anticipating the epidemic wave. …”
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LEGAL AND ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES OF THE FOREIGN POLICY OF INDEPENDENT AZERBAIJAN IN RELATION TO NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES by Katana Gafarova

“…In this context, the potential for the implementation of projects to create free economic zones is noted. In the economic sphere, Azerbaijan chooses the means and instruments of co-operation that correspond to the foundations of a civilised, market-based approach to the comprehensive solution of security, resource, energy and financial problems. …”
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Description of a new Ornithodoros (Pavlovskyella) (Ixodida: Argasidae) tick species from Pakistan by Abid Ali, Mehran Khan, Muhammad Numan, Abdulaziz Alouffi, Mashal M. Almutairi, Ronel Pienaar, Minique H. de Castro, Lidia Chitimia-Dobler, Sebastián Muñoz-Leal, Ben J. Mans, Ala Tabor

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Satellite Attitude Control System Simulator by G.T. Conti, L.C.G. Souza

“…The difficulties for developing experimental ACS test is to obtain zero gravity and torque free conditions similar to the SCA operate in space. …”
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Regulation of electrolyte transport with IL-1β in rabbit distal colon by F. R. Homaidan, H. Desai, L. Zhao, G. Broutman, R. Burakoff

“…The interleukin-1β induced increase in Isc was not affected by amiloride treatment but was completely inhibited by bumetanide or in chloride-free buffer and by indomethacin. Prostaglandin E2 levels increased in tissue treated with interleukin-1β, but this increase was reversed by cycloheximide. …”
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Characterization of Polymer Surfaces by the Use of Different Wetting Theories Regarding Acid-Base Properties by Eduard Kraus, Lukas Orf, Michael Heilig, Benjamin Baudrit, Irina Starostina, Oleg Stoyanov

“…In the context of these investigations various data of the surface free energy as well as its components have been identified for a number of polymer surfaces by application of spatial equation solutions.…”
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An overview of recent developments in the description of Biblical Hebrew relevant to Bible translation by C. H. J. van der Merwe

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Rehabilitation of Posterior Maxilla with Zygomatic and Dental Implant after Tumor Resection: A Case Report by Faysal Ugurlu, Coskun Yıldız, B. C. Sener, Atilla Sertgoz

“…Zygomatic implants are an alternative to complex free or vascularized bone grafting and distraction osteogenesis. …”
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Delay equations modeling the effects of phase-specific drugs and immunotherapy on proliferating tumor cells by Maria Vittoria Barbarossa, Christina Kuttler, Jonathan Zinsl

“…Our model reproduces the dynamics of three different tumor cell populations: quiescent cells,cells during the interphase and mitotic cells.Starting from a partial differential equations (PDEs) setting, a delay differential equations (DDE) model is derived for aneasier and more realistic approach.Our equations also include interactions of tumor cells with immune system effectors.We investigate the model both from the analytical and the numerical point of view, give conditions forpositivity of solutions and focus on the stability of the cancer-free equilibrium. Differentimmunotherapeutic strategies and their effects on the tumor growth are considered, as well.…”
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Management of Hepatic Rupture Diagnosed after an Emergency Cesarean Section by Gianluca Raffaello Damiani, Viviana Merola, Mario Barnaba, Stefano Landi, Gennaro Cormio, Antonio Pellegrino

“…Ultrasound after 40 days from the last surgery showed uniform hepatic parenchyma free of focal lesions. Due to the rarity and the unpredictability nature of this devastating event we believe necessary to report our experience, reinforcing the importance of the postsurgery management.…”
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The relationship between the zero-violence program in improving cadet parenting patterns at BPSDM transportation service schools by Bagas Desta Ramadhan, Yeti Komalasari, Sukahir Sukahir, Jhellyananda Putri, Randa Agusta Pratama, M. Agrist P. Ramadhan, Minulya Eska Nugraha

“…The Zero Violence Program is an effort by BPSDM Transportation to create a school environment that is free from physical, verbal and psychological violence. …”
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Circulating Tumor Cells Measurements in Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Franck Chiappini

“…CTC can also be used to predict progression-free survival and overall survival. CTC are an interesting source of biological information in order to understand dissemination, drug resistance, and treatment-induced cell death. …”
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Global threshold dynamics in an HIV virus model with nonlinear infection rate and distributed invasion and production delays by Zhaohui Yuan, Xingfu Zou

“…By constructing Lyapunov functionals and subtleestimates of the derivatives of these Lyapunov functionals, we shownthat the model has the threshold dynamics: if the basicreproduction number (BRN) is less than or equal to one, then theinfection free equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable,meaning that HIV virus will be cleared; whereas if the BRN is largerthan one, then there exist an infected equilibrium which is globallyasymptotically stable, implying that the HIV-1 infection willpersist in the host and the viral concentration will approach apositive constant level. …”
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The Within-Host dynamics of malaria infection with immune response by Yilong Li, Shigui Ruan, Dongmei Xiao

“…By a theoretical analysis of this model, we show thatthere exists a threshold value $R_0$, namely the basic reproduction number,for the malaria infection. The malaria-free equilibrium is global asymptoticallystable if $R_01$, there exist two kinds ofinfection equilibria: malaria infection equilibrium (withoutspecific immune response) and positive equilibrium (with specificimmune response). …”
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Chemical Control for Host-Parasitoid Model within the Parasitism Season and Its Complex Dynamics by Tao Wang, Youtang Zhang

“…Firstly, the existence and stability of both the host and parasitoid populations extinction equilibrium and parasitoid-free equilibrium have been investigated. Secondly, the effects of key parameters on the threshold conditions have been discussed in more detail, which shows the importance of pesticide application times on the pest control. …”
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