Review and Clinical Perspectives for the Use of Infliximab in Ulcerative Colitis by Remo Panaccione, Richard N Fedorak, Guy Aumais, Edmond-Jean Bernard, Charles N Bernstein, Alain Bitton, Ken Croitoru, Levinus A Dieleman, Robert Enns, Brian G Feagan, Denis Franchimont, Gordon R Greenberg, Anne-Marie Griffiths, John K Marshall, Pierre Pare, Sunil Patel, Robert Penner, Craig Render, Ernest Seidman, A Hillary Steinhart

“…Although the etiology of ulcerative colitis (UC) differs from that of Crohn’s disease, randomized controlled trials have demonstrated that infliximab is also beneficial for the treatment of moderate to severe UC in patients who are either intolerant of or refractory to immunosuppressant agents or steroids, or those who are steroid-dependent. …”
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Laboratory Investigation of Fatigue Characteristics of Asphalt Mixtures with Steel Slag Aggregates by Hassan Ziari, Shams Nowbakht, Sajad Rezaei, Arash Mahboob

“…All of their byproducts, steel slag, are dumped randomly in open areas, causing many environmentally hazardous problems. …”
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Community Engagement in the Planning Phase of Community Projects Sustainability in Kenya by King’ola Cosmas Mulinge, Damian Boniface Sambuo

“…Participatory development theory, positivist philosophy and descriptive research design guided the study with randomly selection of 200 workers who filled the questionnaire. …”
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Real-world studies of crizotinib in patients with ROS1-positive non-small-cell lung cancer: experience from China by Hua Zhong, Jun Lu, Mengzhao Wang, Baohui Han

“…However, due to the paucity of solid data from randomized, controlled phase III clinical studies, clinicians often require more systematic, real-world data-based guidance for its optimal clinical use. …”

Connectivity analysis of IoV based on scale-free network by Tao HAN, Wei HE, Jun DAI, Yong ZUO, Yang YANG, Xiaohu GE

“…The connectivity of moving vehicles is one of the critical metrics in Internet of vehicles (IoV) that critically influence the performance of data transmission.Due to the high-frequency dynamic changes of the network topology of the IoV, which causes the link to be easily disconnected frequently.It is a critical issue to reduce the probability of link disconnection, and reducing the randomness of link establishment improves the overall network connectivity.To solve the above problems, the network’s connectivity was analyzed under the line of sight path loss model and the interference model, and the dynamic growth (DN) algorithm was designed through the characterization of the IoV link in the real world.Moreover, a scale-free VANET was built through the network’s addition and deletion of nodes and link preference connections.Simulation results indicate that the overall connectivity of the network is improved by 16%.…”
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Antioxidants in Kidney Diseases: The Impact of Bardoxolone Methyl by Jorge Rojas-Rivera, Alberto Ortiz, Jesus Egido

“…There is solid experimental evidence of a key role of oxidative stress and its interrelation with inflammation on renal damage. However, randomized and well-powered trials on these agents in CKD are scarce. …”
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Compact Sine Cosine Algorithm with Multigroup and Multistrategy for Dispatching System of Public Transit Vehicles by Minghui Zhu, Shu-Chuan Chu, Qingyong Yang, Wei Li, Jeng-Shyang Pan

“…To achieve better optimization capability, we propose a multigroup Multistrategy Compact Sine Cosine Algorithm (MCSCA) by using the compact strategy and grouping strategy, which makes the initialized randomly generated value no longer an individual in the population and avoids falling into the local optimum. …”
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Electrochemical Performance of Ti-Based Commercial Biomaterials by E. Porcayo-Palafox, S. I. Carrera-Chavez, S. R. Casolco, J. Porcayo-Calderon, V. M. Salinas-Bravo

“…The commercial implants evaluated were purchased randomly with different suppliers. The different biomaterials were subjected to studies of potentiodynamic polarization curves, open circuit potential measurements, linear polarization resistance measurements, and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements in a 0.9% NaCl solution. …”
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FDA-approved kinase inhibitors: a promising therapeutic avenue for traumatic brain injury by Dezhu Gao, Yu Shi, Zhiliang Wang, Weiming Liu

“…Preclinical studies suggest their potential in promoting recovery. There are fewer randomized clinical studies that evaluate efficacy. …”
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Concomitant Transverse Myelitis and Acute Axonal Sensory-Motor Neuropathy in an Elderly Patient by L. M. Oliveira, R. G. Cury, L. H. Castro, R. Nitrini

“…Intravenous methylprednisolone, plasma exchange, cyclophosphamide, or combination therapies are usually used, although there are no randomized controlled studies regarding treatment choices.…”
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Cracking-resistance net-flow fingerprint scheme based on multi-dimensional orthogonal carriers by Cheng LEI, Hong-qi ZHANG, Yi SUN, Xue-hui DU

“…What's more, it analyzes the resistance of multi-flow attack ability by using cen-troid attribute value to select embedding carriers randomly. Besides, it analyzes accuracy of fingerprint centroid algorithm and quantization index modulation decoding technique based on HMM under different cases. …”
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An Improved PSO Algorithm for Distributed Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks by Dan Li, Xian bin Wen

“…Accurate and quick localization of randomly deployed nodes is required by many applications in wireless sensor networks and always formulated as a multidimensional optimization problem. …”
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Narcolepsy in early childhood: a case report and a Mini review by Guorui Liu, Guorui Liu, Guanxiong Li, Yihao Wang, Ming Yin, Wen Pan, Yu Zhao, Shigeng Gao, Peiqi Shi, Jing Wen, Xiao Pan, Yajing Wang, Yanfei Zhang

“…Furthermore, there are few randomized controlled trials involving pediatric narcolepsy patients. …”
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Multiple Culprit Coronary Artery Thrombosis in a Patient with Coronary Ectasia by Bruno da Silva Matte, Gustavo Neves de Araujo, Felipe Homem Valle, Ana Maria Rocha Krepsky

“…Although routine aspiration thrombectomy in STEMI was not proven to be beneficial in randomized clinical trials, it was of great value in this case. …”
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Dual-Dipole UHF RFID Tag Antenna with Quasi-Isotropic Patterns Based on Four-Axis Reflection Symmetry by Chunfang Qin, Lingfei Mo, Hongliang Zhou, Hongjian Zhang

“…In many RFID practical applications, it is required that reader can effectively read tags which are placed in radiation covering area randomly. In this paper, a passive UHF dual-dipole tag antenna with quasi-isotropic patterns is designed, which can reduce the sensibility of tag read-orientation in a long distance. …”
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The Role of Activity-Based Teaching on Academic Achievement and Motivation of Secondary School Students in Najran District by Abdulsalam Dale Amer Saif

“…An experimental research design was used to collect data from a study sample that consisted of 43 high school students who were randomly selected. The study tools were an achievement test and a motivation scale. …”
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Survey on the privacy-preserving content based image retrieval by Ying WU, Xuan LI, Biao JIN, Rongrong JIN

“…With the widespread popularity of smart devices and social media,the number of image data is exponentially increasing.The data owners tend to outsource the local data to the cloud servers,where data is stored,shared and retrieved.However,the content of users’ image data contains a lot of sensitive information,which may be exposed to the attackers and the incomplete trusted cloud servers,resulting in a serious risk of privacy leakage to users.The research progress of the content-based image retrieval technology under the privacy-preserving in recent years were reviewed,and the key image cryptographic technology were summarized,including homomorphic encryption,randomized encryption and comparative encryption.Around these techniques,the typical solutions are analyzed and compared in detail,and the improvement strategies of index construction are introduced.Finally,the future research directions are discussed.…”
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Age-Related Features of Depression in Residence of the Arctic Zone by A.V. Klimak, O.A. Kharkova, A.V. Kudryavtsev

“…Study participants were randomly selected using stratified sampling based on age and gender. …”
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Attitudes and Health Behavior of Lawyers in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu by G. Barani, Pavithra Sabapathy

“…The aim of the study is to evaluate the differences in the behavior and attitudes of male and female lawyers regarding their lifestyles and health habits. Lawyers were randomly chosen. Data was obtained through a structured questionnaire distributed among the lawyers of Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu. …”
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Application of Autofluorescence Endoscopy for Colorectal Cancer Screening: Rationale and an Update by Hiroyuki Aihara, Hisao Tajiri, Takeshi Suzuki

“…To this end, the diagnostic benefits of AFE have been reported in several multicenter randomized controlled studies of colorectal cancer (CRC) screening and differential diagnosis. …”
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