A Novel Oxidative Stress Mediator in Acute Appendicitis: Thiol/Disulphide Homeostasis by Sefa Ozyazici, Faruk Karateke, Umit Turan, Adnan Kuvvetli, Huseyin Kilavuz, Burak Karakaya, Pınar Ozaltun, Murat Alısık, Ozcan Erel

“…Age, gender, body mass index (BMI), haemoglobin (Hb), white blood cell (WBC), c-reactive protein (CRP), and thiol/disulphide homeostasis parameters (native thiol, total thiol, disulphide, disulphide/native thiol, native thiol/total thiol, and disulphide/total thiol ratios) were compared between the groups. …”
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Influence of sacroiliac joint variation on clinical features of axial spondyloarthritis: a comparative analysis by Denis Poddubnyy, Torsten Diekhoff, Sevtap Tugce Ulas, Fabian Proft, Valeria Rios Rodriguez, Judith Rademacher, Juliane Greese, Katharina Ziegeler, Carolina Dominguez Aleixo, Maximilian Lindholz

“…Classification of back pain as inflammatory (=IBP), human leucocyte antigen-B27 positivity, family history, disease activity according to Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index (BASDAI), symptom duration, elevated acute phase reactants, peripheral and extramusculoskeletal manifestations were evaluated. …”
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Patient adherence, satisfaction and changes in anthropometric parameters with e-health versus in-person monitoring in metabolic bariatric surgery patients: A study protocol for a s... by Maíra Ribas Goulart, Karine Elisa Schwarzer Schmidt, Gustavo Waclawovsky, Izabele Vian

“…The primary outcomes will be changes in body mass index (BMI), body weight (kg) and body fat percentage (BF%) and patient adherence and satisfaction. …”
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ENERGY RECOVERY FOR CONTINUOUS DYEING PROCESS IN TEXTILE INDUSTRY ENTERPRISES by V. N. Romaniuk, D. B. Muslina

“…The study shows that the existing energy supply efficiency extremely low index-numbers improve by one or two degrees. Since they are conditioned, inter alia, by the machinery design, traditional approach to energy supply and heat-medium usage as well as the enterprise whole heating system answering requirements of the bygone era of cheap energy resources. …”
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Concordance with final pathology when transitioning from standard transrectal to cognitive targeted transperineal prostate biopsy by Alfred Honoré, Karsten Gravdal, Patrick Juliebø‐Jones, Lars Anders Rokne Reisæter, Christian Beisland, Christian Arvei Moen

“…Abstract Objective Transrectal (TR) prostate biopsy is being increasingly abandoned in favour of a transperineal (TP) approach as well as a targeted biopsy only of the index lesion(s). It remains underreported how these changes could impact concordance at final pathology. …”
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Homoharringtonine Attenuates Dextran Sulfate Sodium-Induced Colitis by Inhibiting NF-κB Signaling by Jiangrui Liu, Liangpan Shi, Wenchang Huang, Zhihua Zheng, Xiaohui Huang, Yibin Su

“…Body weight, colon length, disease activity index (DAI), and histopathological change were examined. …”
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The Development and Psychometric Properties of the Visuospatial Working Memory Assessment (VWMA) for Children by Thitiya Wangkawan, Cynthia Lai, Peeraya Munkhetvit, Trevor Yung, Supaporn Chinchai

“…The results revealed that the score of item-objective congruence index (IOC) was 1.0 in overall items of assessment. …”
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Age and Sex‐Related Differences in Neuroprotective Effects of Cardiovascular Endurance on Cortical Thickness and Brain Volume in Adults Across Age by Junyeon Won, Marissa Gogniat, J. Carson Smith

“…Linear regression models were used to examine the interaction between age and CE on total GM volume, WM volume, and MCT after adjusting for sex, years of education, body mass index, systolic blood pressure, gait speed, and total intracranial volume. …”
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Role of cardiac CT in the diagnostic evaluation and risk stratification of patients with myocardial infarction and non-obstructive coronary arteries (MINOCA): rationale and design... by Konstantinos Tsioufis, Haralambos Karvounis, George Giannakoulas, Theodoros Karamitsos, Ronny R Buechel, Konstantinos Kouskouras, Ioannis Vogiatzis, Konstantinos Toutouzas, Nathaniel R Smilowitz, Georgios P Rampidis, Polydoros Ν Kampaktsis, Athanasios Samaras, Georgios Benetos, Andreas Α Giannopoulos, Alexandros Kallifatidis, Antonios Samaras, Stavros Hadjimiltiades, Antonios Ziakas, Catherine Gebhard, Panagiotis Prassopoulos, Harmony Reynolds

“…Following ICA and CMR, patients will undergo CCTA during index hospitalisation. The primary endpoints are quantification of extent and severity of coronary atherosclerosis, description of high-risk plaque features and attenuation profiling of pericoronary fat tissue around all three major epicardial coronary arteries in relation to CMR. …”
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Research on Network Resource Collection and Distribution Strategies in Big Data-Driven Multimedia Teaching by Jianping Han

“…Therefore, the fusion of this part of the data information requires a large-scale data parallel framework environment to ensure that multiple data calculation instructions can be executed each time, improve the range of problem solving, and essentially improve the complexity of multimedia teaching information. The main index of large-scale data fusion is computing speed. …”
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Diagnostic value of multi-parameter ultrasound evaluation in sepsis complicated by acute kidney injury by Liu Wang, Xiang Wang

“…The clinical characteristics were collected, and renal function parameters between the two groups were compared, including 24-h urine volume, serum creatinine, urea, serum cystatin C (CysC), renal parenchymal thickness (RPT), renal artery resistance index (RI), and multi-parameter ultrasound scoring (MPUS). …”
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Risankizumab Versus Secukinumab: A Real-World Efficacy and Cost per Responder Comparison in Patients With Psoriasis in Italy by Federico Pirro, Giacomo Caldarola, Nicoletta Bernardini, Maria Grazia Celeste, Annunziata Dattola, Eleonora De Luca, Marco Galluzzo, Domenico Giordano, Chiara Izzi, Giulia Maretti, Lorenzo Marcelli, Roberto Ravasio, Antonio Giovanni Richetta, Nevena Skroza, Marina Talamonti, Arianna Zangrilli, Luca Bianchi, Giovanni Pellacani, Severino Persechino, Concetta Potenza, Ketty Peris, Clara De Simone

“…Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (PASI) was measured at baseline and after 16, 52, and 78 weeks. …”
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Assessment of Clinical Features in HIV-Infected Patients with Acute Coronary Syndromes Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in China by Ying Liu, Yongfu Chen, Yiwei Hao, Jing Xiao, Bei Li, Leidan Zhang, Junyan Han, Hongxin Zhao

“…In PLWH (mean age: 53.6 ± 10.6 years, 95.8% male, and 79.2% on ART), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol was lower than in HIV-negative controls; however, the statin use was more common, the incidence of hypertension was lower, and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and the body mass index were significantly lower than in controls. …”
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Cohort profile: the Halland osteoarthritis (HALLOA) cohort–from knee pain to osteoarthritis: a longitudinal observational study in Sweden by Ann Bremander, Maria L E Andersson, S Bergman, Katarina Aili, Emma Haglund

“…The baseline and follow-ups include clinical tests, radiographical examinations, blood samples, metabolic measures, pain pressure thresholds, tests of physical functions, daily physical activity types and patient-reported outcomes.Findings to date There were associations between metabolic factors and radiographic knee OA, even in those with normal body mass index at baseline. In addition, clinical hand OA was positively associated with fasting plasma glucose. …”
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Remimazolam Anesthesia for Thyroid Surgery by Sae Nakagawa, Tomoharu Shakuo, Sakurako Matsudo, Hiroaki Soda, Kenji Shida

“…We used remimazolam for induction and maintenance using a neural integrity monitor, electromyogram, and endotracheal tube under the bispectral index monitor. At the end of the surgery, spontaneous respiration was confirmed after the intravenous administration of sugammadex, and the patient was extubated under mild sedation. …”
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Pasting and Dough Rheological Properties of Ackee (Blighia sapida) Aril Flour: A Contribution to the Search for Wheat Flour Substitutes by Ramiro Torres-Gallo, Ricardo Durán, José García-Camargo, Oswaldo Morales, Diofanor Acevedo, Diego F. Tirado

“…Pasting properties (pasting temperature, peak viscosity, ease of cooking, swelling power, final viscosity at 50  °C, and thixotropy) were analyzed; and steady-state shear measurements were used to obtain consistency coefficients (K) and flow behavior indexes (n) after data was fitted to the Power Law and Herschel-Bulkley models. …”
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Rasch Model Analysis of the Psychometric Properties of the Positive Mental Health Scale in Students by Noorellah Yousefi, Alireza Pirkhaefi

“…Based on the Partial Credit Model (PCM), the values of the two Infit and Outfit indices ranged from 0.5 to 1.5, indicating a good fit of the scale items with the Rasch model. The item difficulty index was determined to be at a moderate level, ranging from -0.2008 to 0.1486. …”
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Association of impaired levels with outcomes for cervical fracture dislocation using the Japanese diagnosis procedure combination database by Kazuma Doi, Naoki Otani, Norihiko Inoue, Junichi Mizuno, Kiyohide Fushimi, Atsuo Yoshino

“…The secondary outcomes were the length of hospital stay, discharged home rate, and improvement in Barthel index. Results: No differences in inhospital death and 30-day mortality were found between the high and low groups, even after adjusting for PSM (P > 0.05, respectively). …”
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Ultrasound-detected osteophytes predict the development of radiographic and clinical features of hand osteoarthritis in the same finger joints 5 years later by Tore K Kvien, Hilde Berner Hammer, Ida K Haugen, Barbara Slatkowsky-Christensen, Alexander Mathiessen

“…We applied logistic regression with generalised estimating equations adjusted for age, sex, body mass index and follow-up time.Results Ultrasound demonstrated osteophytes in 86/301 (28.6%) joints without radiographic OA and 392/717 (54.7%) joints without clinical bony enlargement. …”
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Investigation of the microorganism combinations on aroma in fermented sucuk by Yağmur Nil Demirel, Zeki Gürler

“…<p> <b>Results:</b> It was calculated kovats retention index, retention time, average peak area of volatile aroma compounds. …”
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