Effect of Prolonged-Release Pirfenidone on Renal Function in Septic Acute Kidney Injury Patients: A Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial by Jonathan S. Chávez-Iñiguez, Jorge L. Poo, Miguel Ibarra-Estrada, Leonel García-Benavides, Guillermo Navarro-Blackaller, Cynthia Cervantes-Sánchez, Eduardo Nungaray-Pacheco, Ramón Medina-González, Juan Armendariz-Borunda, Guillermo García-García

“…This study was a double-blind randomized clinical trial in sAKI patients with nephrology consultation at the Civil Hospital of Guadalajara, in addition to the usual treatment of AKI associated with sepsis; patients were randomized to receive either PR-PFD at 1,200 mg/day (group A) or 600 mg/day (group B) or a matched placebo for 7 consecutive days. …”
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Pseudo-Period of Distorted Lattices in Disordered Solids by M. A. Grado-Caffaro, M. Grado-Caffaro

“…This discussion is based on the randomness of the above spacing and on the crystalline potential by assuming a one-dimensional solid. …”
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Advantages of different dietary supplements for elite combat sports athletes: a systematic review and Bayesian network meta-analysis by Hua Luo, Tengku Fadilah Tengku Kamalden, Xiaolin Zhu, Changqing Xiang, Nurul Amelina Nasharuddin

“…The analysis is based on 67 randomized controlled trials that meet all the inclusion criteria, involving 1026 elite combat sports athletes randomly assigned to 26 different dietary supplements or placebos. …”
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Superstition and Its Role in Modern Business Management by J. A. Kovalchuk

“…Superstition, Management and Organisations: Irrationality, Randomness, and Chaos in Decision Making. Palgrave Studies in Workplace Spirituality and Fulfillment. …”
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On the Measurement of the (Non)linearity of Costas Permutations by Konstantinos Drakakis

“…We study several criteria for the (non)linearity of Costas permutations, with or without the imposition of additional algebraic structure in the domain and the range of the permutation, aiming to find one that successfully identifies Costas permutations as more nonlinear than randomly chosen permutations of the same order.…”
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Assessment of the Mechanical Properties of Sisal Fiber-Reinforced Silty Clay Using Triaxial Shear Tests by Yankai Wu, Yanbin Li, Bin Niu

“…The present study investigated the mechanical properties of silty clay reinforced with discrete, randomly distributed sisal fibers using triaxial shear tests. …”
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The Effects of Renal Nerve Denervation on Blood Pressure and Target Organs in Different Hypertensive Rat Models by Demin Liu, Jing Wang, Haijuan Hu, Guoqiang Gu, Rui Ding, Ruiqin Xie, Wei Cui

“…Hypertensive rats were randomly divided into a renal denervation (RDN) group and sham operation group. …”
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A Short-Term Load Forecasting Model of LSTM Neural Network considering Demand Response by Xifeng Guo, Qiannan Zhao, Shoujin Wang, Dan Shan, Wei Gong

“…As one of the key technologies for accelerating the construction of the ubiquitous Internet of Things, demand response (DR) not only guides users to participate in power market operations but also increases the randomness of grid operations and the difficulty of load forecasting. …”
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Neuromuscular taping reduced pain intensity after the eccentric activity in senior high school students by Septyaningrum Putri Purwoto, Adi Pranoto, Fajar Hidayatullah, Khoirul Anwar, Heni Yuli Handayani, Haryo Mukti Widodo, Fajar Hamdhan Utama, Agus Himawan, Muhammad Zainal Arifin, Tri Setyo Utami

“…This was an experimental study with the design of a randomized post-test control group. The 14 samples obtained were then randomly divided into two groups. …”
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Metformin versus insulin in gestational diabetes mellitus: a systematic review by Giovanna Noronha Berti, Igor Gutschov Oviedo Garcia, João Pedro Ruas Floriano de Toledo, Júlia Rodrigues Tatemoto, Lais Watanabe Marino, Mariana de Medeiros Legori, Sérgio Floriano de Toledo

“…Data sources: This article consists of a systematic review of randomized clinical trials. The searches were carried out on MEDLINE including 7 studies, between 2010 to 2021. …”
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Multiscale Permutation Entropy Based Rolling Bearing Fault Diagnosis by Jinde Zheng, Junsheng Cheng, Yu Yang

“…Permutation entropy (PE) was recently proposed and defined to measure the randomicity and detect dynamical changes of time series. …”
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Novel hybrid strong and weak PUF design based on FPGA by Jiana LIAN, Pengjun WANG, Gang LI, Xuejiao MA, Guanbao ZHAI

“…Physically unclonable function (PUF) can produce intrinsic keys with characteristics of randomness, uniqueness and tamper-proof by exploiting the process deviations which can not be avoided in the chip manufacturing process.A novel hybrid strong and weak PUF (SWPUF) circuit design based on field-programmable gate array(FPGA) was proposed after the investigation of the PUF circuit structures and principles.To address the limitation of designing strong-PUF and weak-PUF discretely, SWPUF could be configured into two topologies conveniently depending on the Hamming Weight (HW) of the challenges.In addition, the statistical characteristics of the responses could be further improved by a XOR-decorrelation technique.The proposed SWPUF was implemented on a Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA (28nm technology), and a self-built test platform was set up by using Matlab and MicroBlaze microcontroller.Experimental results show that the SWPUF has good performances of randomness (96.98%), uniqueness (99.64%) and reliability (96.6%).Logic register analysis also shows that the SWPUF has a better anti-attack capability than the traditional Arbiter-PUF in the case of with small HW, and can be used in the information security, such as key storage (especially to weak PUF) and device authentication (especially to strong PUF).…”
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Immediate Hemodynamic Changes during Slow Uninostril and Alternate Nostril Breathing Patterns in Normotensive Adults by Vikram Pai, Nitin Borkar, Mohit Nirvan, Meghnath Verma

“…Objective: This interventional randomized controlled study aimed to evaluate the immediate hemodynamic effects of slow uninostril and alternate nostril breathing (ANB) patterns in normotensive adults. …”
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Experimental Study to Evaluate the Safety and Immunomodulatory Effect of Swarna Vacha Yog in Wistar Albino Rats by Rashmi Pareek, Nisha Kumari Ojha, Sanjeev Sharma

“…Hence, the safety study was performed using OECD proposed Oral Toxicity Guidelines and was evaluated by response in Wistar Albino Rats.Methods:Nine healthy adult albino Wistar Albino Rats from both sexes were randomly selected for toxicity study which were divided into three groups (three in each group) and 24 selected randomly and divided in four groups for immunomodulatory effect.Results and Conclusion:No any evidence of acute toxicity was observed after giving test sample at dose of 50, 300 and 2000 mg/kg at 30 min, 4 h, 24 h, 48 h, 1 week, and 2 weeks. …”
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Atomic-scale intercalation and defect engineering for enhanced magnetism and optoelectronic properties in atomically thin GeS by Anthony C. Iloanya, Srihari M. Kastuar, Gour Jana, Chinedu E. Ekuma

“…Abstract We investigate the synergistic effects of chromocene intercalation (GeS–Cr $$(\mathrm {C_5H_5})_2$$ ) and randomly distributed sulfur vacancies on the optoelectronic properties of atomically thin GeS using advanced first-principles many-body simulations. …”
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Pseudomonas Aeruginosa and Cystic Fibrosis: Antibiotic Therapy and the Science behind the Magic by Noni E MacDonald

“…While antimicrobial therapy has been a component of CF care programs for decades, randomized controlled studies in the 1980s and early 1990s failed to show consistent measurable benefit. …”
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Use of Electrocautery for Coagulation and Wound Complications in Caesarean Sections by Cristiane M. Moreira, Eliana Amaral

“…To evaluate the safety of electrocautery for coagulation during Caesarean sections. Study Design. A randomized, controlled, clinical pilot study was performed at a university maternity hospital. …”
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Parallel division clustering algorithm based on Spark framework and ASPSO by Yimin MAO, Dejin GAN, Liefa LIAO, Zhigang CHEN

“…To deal with the problems that the partition clustering algorithm for processing massive data encountered problems such as large data dispersion coefficient and poor anti-interference, difficulty to determine the number of local clusters, local cluster centroids randomness, and low efficiency of local cluster parallelization and merging, a parallel partition clustering algorithm based on Spark framework and ASPSO (PDC-SFAS PSO) was proposed.Firstly, a meshing strategy was introduced to reduce the data dispersion coefficient of the data division and improve anti-interference.Secondly, to determine the number of clusters, meshing strategy based on potential function and Gaussian function were proposed, which formed an area with different sample points as the core clusters, and obtained the number of local clusters.Then, to avoid local cluster centroids randomness, ASPSO was proposed.Finally, a local cluster merging strategy based on cluster radius and neighbor nodes was introduced to merge clusters with large similarity based on the Spark parallel computing framework, which improved the efficiency of parallel merging of local clusters.Experimental results showed that the PDC-SFASPSO algorithm has good performance in data partitioning and clustering in a big data environment, and it was suitable for parallel clustering of large-scale data sets.…”
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A Real-Valued Negative Selection Algorithm Based on Grid for Anomaly Detection by Ruirui Zhang, Tao Li, Xin Xiao

“…However, candidate detectors randomly generated by traditional negative selection algorithms need to conduct self-tolerance with all selves in the training set in order to eliminate the immunological reaction. …”
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VERSATILE IN COMBINATION; TRAMADOL AND BUPIVACAINE, AS CAUDAL BLOCKANALGESIA FOR PEDIATRIC INFRA-UMBILICAL SURGERIES by Naila Zahoor Awan et al

“…Patients got randomly allocated into 2 groups, 30 in (Bupivacaine-Tramadol) group A, which were given 0.5ml/kg 0.25% bupivacaine & 1mg/kg tramadol while 30 patients in group Bwho received 0.5ml/kg 0.25% bupivacaine as caudal block anesthesia respectively. …”
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