Efficacy of Abiraterone and Enzalutamide in Pre- and Postdocetaxel Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer: A Trial-Level Meta-Analysis by Mike Fang, Mary Nakazawa, Emmanuel S. Antonarakis, Chun Li

“…A mixed method approach was applied to 19 unique studies containing 17 median overall survival (OS) estimates and 13 median radiographic progression-free survival (PFS) estimates. We employed a random-effects meta-analysis to compare efficacies of abiraterone and enzalutamide with respect to OS and PFS. …”
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Efficacy and Safety of Anlotinib and PD-1/L1 Inhibitors as Maintenance Therapy for Extensive-Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients who Have Achieved Stable-Disease After First-Line... by Yi Peng MD, De Wu MD, Jing Tang MD, Xiaobing Li MD

“…The primary endpoints included progression-free survival (PFS), overall survival (OS), objective response rate (ORR), disease control rate (DCR), and treatment-related adverse events (AEs). …”
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Enhanced energy storage in relaxor (1-x)Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3-xBaZryTi1-yO3 thin films by morphotropic phase boundary engineering by Herbert Kobald, Alexander M. Kobald, Ivana Panzic, Marco Deluca

“…Abstract Perovskites at the crossover between ferroelectric and relaxor are often used to realize dielectric capacitors with high energy and power density and simultaneously good efficiency. Lead-free Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3 is gaining importance in showing an alternative to lead-based devices. …”
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Swept Source Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography for Contact Lens-Related Corneal Vascularization by Marcus Ang, Yijun Cai, Anna C. S. Tan

“…This was performed with manual “XYZ” focus without the anterior segment lens, until the focus of the corneoscleral surface was clearly seen and the vessels of interest were in focus on the corresponding red-free image. En face scans were evaluated based on image quality score and repeatability. …”
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A two-strain TB model with multiplelatent stages by Azizeh Jabbari, Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Fereshteh Nazari, Baojun Song, Hossein Kheiri

“…The model supports a globally-asymptotically stable disease-free equilibrium when the reproduction number is less than one and an endemic equilibriums, shown to be locally asymptotically stable, or l.a.s., whenever the basic reproduction number is greater than one. …”
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A Proposed New Index for Clinical Evaluation of Interproximal Soft Tissues: The Interdental Pressure Index by Checchi Luigi, Montevecchi Marco, Marucci Gianluca, Checchi Vittorio

“…It is negative when gingival tissues are firm, bleeding-free, and slightly ischemic by the stimulation; otherwise it is positive. …”
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Microbial Safety of Low Water Activity Foods: Study of Simulated and Durban Household Samples by O. A. Ijabadeniyi, Y. Pillay

“…B. cereus was found to be more osmotolerant at both reduced and elevated temperatures (18°C and 25°C) in the 12% sucrose sample in both butters, whilst S. aureus ATCC 25923 seemed to grow better in sucrose-free samples at both temperatures in both butters. …”
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Metacognition in wild Japanese macaques: cost and stakes influencing information-seeking behavior by Lorraine Subias, Noriko Katsu, Kazunori Yamada

“…However, the number of species tested was limited. Testing ten free-ranging Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) on a task in which they had to find food hidden inside one of the four opaque tubes, we investigated whether these subjects would seek information when needed. …”
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Principles of the victim’s representation in criminal proceedings by I. O. Yemets

“…It has been determined that on the way to European integration, Ukraine may need to revise certain provisions of the institute of victim representation in criminal proceedings, in particular, to determine the grounds for mandatory free-of-charge participation of a victim’s representative, at least in some categories of cases. …”
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Activins and Follistatin in Chronic Hepatitis C and Its Treatment with Pegylated-Interferon-α Based Therapy by Bassem Refaat, Ahmed Mohamed Ashshi, Adel Galal El-Shemi, Esam Azhar

“…Hence, the development of new sensitive and specific predictor markers could provide a useful tool for the clinicians and healthcare providers, especially in the new era of interferon-free therapy, for the classification of patients according to their response to the standard therapy and only subscribing the novel directly acting antiviral drugs to those who are anticipated not to respond to the conventional therapy and/or have absolute contraindications for its use. …”
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Tuberculous Spondylitis following Intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guerin for Bladder Cancer by Masashi Miyazaki, Toyomi Yoshiiwa, Toshinobu Ishihara, Masanori Kawano, Hiroshi Tsumura

“…At the latest examination, the patient was pain-free with no functional limitations or recurrent infection in clinical or imaging findings. …”
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Formation of ZrO2 with unusual morphology and Zr surface patterning via one-step anodization of zirconium in aqueous electrolyte by Olena Tynkevych, Katarzyna Ryczek, Tomasz Kuciel, Leszek Zaraska

“…Careful adjustment of anodizing conditions allowed for the formation of free-standing and mechanically stable zirconia films without the need for any post-treatment procedures like potential shock or cathodic polarization. …”
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Saving gas through cross-border renewable and nuclear electricity generation by Christoph Halser, Dogan Keles, Florentina Paraschiv

“…This interdependence, coupled with recent fears of supply shortages, raises the question how gas-fired generation can be replaced with carbon-free technologies. Controlling for fundamental supply and demand in the interconnected markets, we quantify the effect of intermittent renewable and nuclear generation in neighboring markets on the use of natural gas for electricity generation in Germany. …”
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PROBLEM OF DEMOCRACY PROMOTION IN CONTEXT OF POSTCOLONIAL FEMINISM by V. A. Muzalevskiy

“…The author notes that the current strategy of democracy promotion, though being more complex, creates the effect of "double discrimination", when both the local people and local women (imposing image of "a free and independent Western woman") feel that they are "colonized". …”
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Adaptive Gradient-Based Optimization Method for Parameter Identification in Power Distribution Network by Bin Li, Yehai Jiang, Ke Hu, Xiangyi Zhou, Haoran Chen, Shihe Xu, Hao Jiao, Jinming Chen

“…Most of the existing parameter identification algorithms are gradient-free and based on heuristic schemes. Herein, an adaptive gradient-based method is proposed for parameter identification in PDN. …”
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Adult Primary Spinal Epidural Extraosseous Ewing’s Sarcoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Mark Bustoros, Cheddhi Thomas, Joshua Frenster, Aram S. Modrek, N. Sumru Bayin, Matija Snuderl, Gerald Rosen, Peter B. Schiff, Dimitris G. Placantonakis

“…He was subsequently treated with chemoradiotherapy. He remains disease-free 1 year after surgery. Review of the literature indicated only 45 previously reported cases of spinal epidural extraosseous Ewing’s sarcoma in adults. …”
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AN EXAMINATION OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERNET OF THINGS IN HEALTHCARE UTILIZING SMARTWATCHES by Fatemeh Sadeghi Boshrabadi, Moussa Abolhassani, Shadi Shafaghi, Fariba Ghorbani, Masoud Shafaghi

“…Conclusion: Smartwatches are not free of drawbacks and have not received the attention they deserve in the healthcare field. …”
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Мотивация как стимулирующий фактор в изучении иностранных языков взрослыми учащимися by Asta Balčiūnaitienė, Jovita Daukšytė, Larisa Voronova

“…There are various factors that emerge when adults learn foreign languages: career, change of job or living place, family reasons, free-time and etc. In addition, every person should be encouraged to learn foreign languages and conditions must be met to achieve that. …”
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Helical Phase Inflation and Monodromy in Supergravity Theory by Tianjun Li, Zhijin Li, Dimitri V. Nanopoulos

“…Helical phase inflation is free from the UV-sensitivity problem although there is super-Planckian field excursion, and it suggests that inflation can be effectively studied based on supersymmetric field theory while a UV-completed framework is not prerequisite.…”
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Higher P-Wave Dispersion in Migraine Patients with Higher Number of Attacks by A. Koçer, M. Eryılmaz, H. Tutkan, N. Ercan, Z. S. Küçükbayrak

“…We measured P-wave durations (minimum, maximum, and dispersion) from 12-lead ECG recording during pain-free periods. ECGs were transferred to a personal computer via a scanner and then used for magnification of x400 by Adobe Photoshop software. …”
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