Occult Hepatitis B Infection among Hemodialysis Patients in Tabriz, Northwest of Iran: Prevalence and Mutations within the S Region by Narges Eslami, Vahdat Poortahmasebi, Javid Sadeghi, Reza Ghotaslou, Bahram Niknafs, Hossein Bannazadeh Baghi, Mahin Ahangar Oskouee

“…Five patients (4.2%) were positive for HBV DNA and labeled OBI-positive; their plasma HBV-DNA load was less than 100 IU/ml. …”
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Development and validation of highly sensitive multiplex real-time RT-PCR assay for detection of classical swine fever virus genome by A. S. Sadchikova, A. S. Igolkin, R. S. Chernyshev, A. A. Kozlov, I. S. Kolbin, A. V. Sprygin, D. A. Biryuchenkov, I. A. Chvala, A. Mazloum

“…Modified primers (locked nucleic acids containing conformationally blocked nucleosides) providing a higher affinity to the DNA matrix and physico-chemical stability and a FAM-labeled TaqMan probe were selected for 5’-untranslatedregion of the genome. …”
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Evaluation of the effect of 48 weeks of BIC/F/TAF and DRV/c/F/TAF on platelet function in the context of rapid ART start by Akif A. Khawaja, Gary Whitlock, Sarah Fidler, Alfredo Soler-Carracedo, Merle Henderson, Graham P. Taylor, Marta Boffito, Michael Emerson

“…Introduction The BIC-T&T study aimed to determine the efficacy of bictegravir/emtricitabine/tenofovir alafenamide (BIC/F/TAF) and darunavir/cobicistat/emtricitabine/tenofovir alafenamide (DRV/c/F/TAF) at suppressing viral load in a two-arm, open-label, multi-centre, randomised trial under a UK test-and-treat setting. …”
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The divergent histories of Bose-Einstein statistics and the forgotten achievements of Władysław Natanson (1864–1937) by Michał Kokowski

“…Merton – the author of the label ‘Matthew effect’ – chose the name of the effect using erroneous premises and the effect should therefore be named after its actual discoverer. …”
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Development of metastasis and survival prediction model of luminal and non-luminal breast cancer with weakly supervised learning based on pathomics by Hui Liu, Linlin Ying, Xing Song, Xueping Xiang, Shumei Wei

“…The 204 pathological slices were scanned and transformed into whole slide imaging (WSI), with manual labeling of all tumor areas. The WSI was then partitioned into smaller tiles measuring 512 × 512 pixels. …”
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Improved Risk Prediction of Acute Myocardial Infarction in Patients With Stable Coronary Artery Disease Using an Amino Acid-Assisted Model by Yi-Jing Zhao, Yong Li, Feng-Xiang Wang, Hao Lv, Yaoyao Qu, Lian-Wen Qi, Pingxi Xiao

“…This methodology incorporated 13C isotope-labeled internal standards for precise quantification of 27 amino acids. …”
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Impact of pharmacist-led intervention for reducing drug-related problems and improving quality of life among chronic kidney disease patients: A randomized controlled trial. by Roheena Zafar, Inayat Ur Rehman, Yasar Shah, Long Chiau Ming, Khang Wen Goh, Amal K Suleiman, Tahir Mehmood Khan

“…<h4>Method</h4>An open-labeled, randomized control trial performed from April 2023 to July 2023 in the nephrology unit of a tertiary care setting in Peshawar Pakistan. …”
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Distinct subcellular localization of tau and alpha-synuclein in lewy body disease by D. Luke Fischer, Marissa Menard, Omar Z. Abdelaziz, Nicholas M. Kanaan, Virginia G. Cobbs, Richard E. Kennedy, Geidy E. Serrano, Thomas G. Beach, Laura A. Volpicelli-Daley

“…In this study, postmortem middle temporal gyrus tissue from decedents (n = 9) without temporal lobe disease (control) or with Lewy body disease (LBD) was immunofluorescently labeled with antibodies to phosphorylated α-syn (p-α-syn), tau phosphorylated at Ser202/Thr205 (p-tau), or exposure of tau’s phosphatase-activating domain (PAD-tau) as a marker of early tau aggregates. …”
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Association of Pathology Markers with Somatostatin Analogue Responsiveness in Acromegaly by George Kontogeorgos, Vyron Markussis, Eleni Thodou, Efi Kyrodimou, Theodossia Choreftaki, Panagiotis Nomikos, Kostas I. Lampropoulos, Stylianos Tsagarakis

“…Compared with DGSAs, SGSAs had higher Ki-67 labeling index (LI) (1.0 (0.5, 1.0) vs. 2.0 (1.0, 3.5), p = 0.013), and a higher proportion of high MR T2 signal (1 (6%) vs. 6 (33%), p = 0.035), and tended to express less ZAC-1 (p = 0.061) and E-cadherin (p = 0.067). …”
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Enhanced Fetal Arrhythmia Classification by Non-Invasive ECG Using Cross Domain Feature and Spatial Differences Windows Information by Gede Angga Pradipta, Putu Desiana Wulaning Ayu, Made Liandana, Dandy Pramana Hostiadi

“…Second, feature selection was implemented to reduce data dimensionality by selecting features highly relevant to the class labels. Finally, we applied oversampling techniques to address the issue of imbalanced data. …”
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Analysis of Feature Extraction and Anti-Interference of Face Image under Deep Reconstruction Network Algorithm by Jin Yang, Yuxuan Zhao, Shihao Yang, Xinxin Kang, Xinyan Cao, Xixin Cao

“…To explore the anti-interference performance of convolutional neural network (CNN) reconstructed by deep learning (DL) framework in face image feature extraction (FE) and recognition, in the paper, first, the inception structure in the GoogleNet network and the residual error in the ResNet network structure are combined to construct a new deep reconstruction network algorithm, with the random gradient descent (SGD) and triplet loss functions as the model optimizer and classifier, respectively, and it is applied to the face recognition in Labeled Faces in the Wild (LFW) face database. Then, the portrait pyramid segmentation and local feature point segmentation are applied to extract the features of face images, and the matching of face feature points is achieved using Euclidean distance and joint Bayesian method. …”
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Effect of Community-Based Occupational Therapy on Health-Related Quality of Life and Engagement in Meaningful Activities of Women with Breast Cancer by Daiva Petruseviciene, Deive Surmaitiene, Daiva Baltaduoniene, Egle Lendraitiene

“…We aimed to evaluate the short-term effects of community-based occupational therapy on health-related quality of life and engagement in meaningful activities among women with breast cancer. An open label randomized controlled trial study design was applied. …”
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Application of Video Processing Technology Based on Diffusion Equation Model in Basketball Analysis by Yafeng Feng, Xianguo Liu

“…Event detection and labeling of basketball videos can help viewers quickly locate events of interest and meet retrieval needs. …”
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Combining a WT1 Vaccine (Galinpepimut-S) With Checkpoint Inhibition (Nivolumab) in Patients With WT1–Expressing Diffuse Pleural Mesothelioma: A Phase 1 Study by Prashasti Agrawal, MD, Michael Offin, MD, Victoria Lai, MD, Michelle S. Ginsberg, MD, Prasad S. Adusumilli, MD, FACS, Valerie W. Rusch, MD, Jennifer L. Sauter, MD, Teresa Ho, BS, Phillip Wong, PhD, Marjorie G. Zauderer, MD

“…Methods: To further enhance immunogenicity, we combined GPS with nivolumab, an anti-PD1 monoclonal antibody, in an open-label, single-center phase 1 study, examining tolerability and immunogenicity in patients with previously treated DPM. …”
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Cross‐ethnicity face anti‐spoofing recognition challenge: A review by Ajian Liu, Xuan Li, Jun Wan, Yanyan Liang, Sergio Escalera, Hugo Jair Escalante, Meysam Madadi, Yi Jin, Zhuoyuan Wu, Xiaogang Yu, Zichang Tan, Qi Yuan, Ruikun Yang, Benjia Zhou, Guodong Guo, Stan Z. Li

“…It is the largest up to date CeFA dataset covering three ethnicities, three modalities, 1607 subjects, 2D plus 3D attack types and the first dataset including explicit ethnic labels among the recently released datasets for face anti‐spoofing. …”
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Prone Positioning and Intravenous Zanamivir may Represent Effective Alternatives for Patients with Severe ARDS Virus A (H1N1) Related Pneumonia in Hospitals with no Access to ECM... by Giuseppe Gristina, Giuseppe Nardi, Daniela Orazi, Francesco Nicola Lauria, Maria Beatrice Valli, Eleonora Lalle, Stefano Menzo, Luigi Riccioni, Maria Pia Camporiondo

“…Intravenous Zanamivir 1200 mg/day for ten days was therefore prescribed as “off label” antiviral therapy. A bone marrow biopsy allowed the diagnosis of an initial stage of “hairy cells leukaemia.” …”
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Investigating heterogeneity across autism, ADHD, and typical development using measures of cortical thickness, surface area, cortical/subcortical volume, and structural covariance by Younes Sadat-Nejad, Younes Sadat-Nejad, Marlee M. Vandewouw, Marlee M. Vandewouw, R. Cardy, J. Lerch, J. Lerch, J. Lerch, M. J. Taylor, M. J. Taylor, A. Iaboni, C. Hammill, B. Syed, J. A. Brian, J. A. Brian, E. Kelley, E. Kelley, E. Kelley, M. Ayub, J. Crosbie, J. Crosbie, R. Schachar, R. Schachar, S. Georgiades, R. Nicolson, E. Anagnostou, E. Anagnostou, A. Kushki, A. Kushki

“…We integrated cortical thickness, surface area, and cortical/subcortical volume, with a measure of single-participant structural covariance using a graph neural network approach.ResultsOur findings suggest two large clusters, which differed in measures of adaptive functioning (χ2 = 7.8, P = 0.004), inattention (χ2 = 11.169, P &lt; 0.001), hyperactivity (χ2 = 18.44, P &lt; 0.001), IQ (χ2 = 9.24, P = 0.002), age (χ2 = 70.87, P &lt; 0.001), and sex (χ2 = 105.6, P &lt; 0.001).DiscussionThese clusters did not align with existing diagnostic labels, suggesting that brain structure is more likely to be associated with differences in adaptive functioning, IQ, and ADHD features.…”
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Early empiric anti-Mycobacterium tuberculosis therapy for sepsis in sub-Saharan Africa: a protocol of a randomised clinical trial by Mark Conaway, David R Boulware, Scott K Heysell, Stellah G Mpagama, Christopher C Moore, Alphonce Liyoyo, Conrad Muzoora, Catherine Gitige, Bibie Said, Edwin Nuwagira, Rinah Arinaitwe, Rhina Mushagara, Peter Buzaare, Anna Chongolo, Samuel Jjunju, Precious Twesigye, Megan Null, Tania A Thomas

“…Accordingly, this multisite randomised clinical trial aims to determine whether immediate and/or increased dose anti-TB therapy improves 28-day mortality for participants with HIV and sepsis in Tanzania or Uganda.Methods and analysis This is a phase 3, multisite, open-label, randomised controlled clinical 2×2 factorial superiority trial of (1) immediate initiation of anti-TB therapy and (2) sepsis-specific dose anti-TB therapy in addition to standard of care antibacterials for adults with HIV and sepsis admitted to hospital in Tanzania or Uganda. …”
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Integrative proteomic-transcriptomic analysis revealed the lifestyles of Lactobacillus paracasei H4-11 and Kluyveromyces marxianus L1-1 under co-cultivation conditions by Na Liu, Likang Qin, Haiying Zeng, Anyan Wen, Song Miao

“…The combined analysis results of RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) technology and 4D label-free quantitative (4D LFQ) proteomics explained the flavor formation pathways in rice-acid soup inoculated with L. paracasei H4-11 and K. marxianus L1-1. …”
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Glycyrrhizinate Monoammonium Cysteine-Loaded Lipid Nanoparticles Allow for Improved Acute Liver Injury Therapy by Yunjie Xu, Pinghui Li, Shiran Sun, Yulin Chen, Lixia Feng, Dawei Jiang, Chidan Wan, Jianbo Li, Xiong Cai

“…The distribution of LNPs in mice was explored using fluorescence labeling methods. The encapsulation efficiency of LNP-GMC was detected using High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), and its slow-release effect on GMC was assessed through dialysis. …”
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