Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells and Outer Retinal Disease by Jin Yang, Bingcui Cai, Patrick Glencer, Zhiqing Li, Xiaomin Zhang, Xiaorong Li

“…Having two eyes makes perfect natural control possible after a single eye receives gene or stem cell therapy. For this reason, research about exploring retinal diseases’ underlying molecular mechanisms and potential therapeutic approach using stem cell technique has been developing rapidly. …”
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Sex Differences Associated with Primary Biliary Cirrhosis by Daniel S. Smyk, Eirini I. Rigopoulou, Albert Pares, Charalambos Billinis, Andrew K. Burroughs, Luigi Muratori, Pietro Invernizzi, Dimitrios P. Bogdanos

“…The disease overwhelmingly affects females, with some cases of male PBC being reported. The reasons underlying the low incidence of males with PBC are largely unknown. …”
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Effect of Embroidery Style on the Bandwidth of Textronic RFID UHF Transponder Antenna by Magdalena Nizioł, Piotr Jankowski-Mihułowicz, Mariusz Węglarski

“…E-textiles (electronic textiles) are also used in radio frequency identification technology, mainly in the production of tag antennas. For economic reasons, it is important that the finished product is universal, although frequencies in radio systems have different values in different regions of the world. …”
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Critical length parameter of HDPE and its use in fatigue lifetime predictions by Kamila Kozáková, Lukáš Trávníček, Jan Poduška, Jan Klusák

“…The critical distance depends on the number of cycles to failure and notch radius. For this reason, the critical distance is modified by the ratio of stress concentration factors and the modified distance is used for fatigue lifetime predictions of notched specimens with various notch radii. …”
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A Social Diffusion Model with an Application on Election Simulation by Jing-Kai Lou, Fu-Min Wang, Chin-Hua Tsai, San-Chuan Hung, Perng-Hwa Kung, Shou-De Lin, Kuan-Ta Chen, Chin-Laung Lei

“…It has so far no empirical approach to model the interflow and formation of crowd’s opinion in elections due to two reasons. First, unlike the spread of information or flu, individuals have their intrinsic attitudes to election candidates in advance. …”
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Gaussian Process-Based Response Surface Method for Slope Reliability Analysis by Bin Hu, Guo-shao Su, Jianqing Jiang, Yilong Xiao

“…Results of four case studies including one nonslope and three slope problems indicate that the proposed method is more efficient to achieve reasonable accuracy for slope reliability analysis than the traditional RSM.…”
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Probe Selection and Power Weighting in Multiprobe OTA Testing: A Neural Network-Based Approach by Yong Li, Hao Sun, Xingyu Chen, Lijian Xin, Xiang Zhang

“…In a multiprobe anechoic chamber- (MPAC-) based OTA setup, determining the most appropriate probe locations and their power weights is critical to improve the accuracy of channel emulation at reasonable system costs. In this paper, a novel approach based on neural networks (NNs) is proposed to derive suitable angular locations as well as power weights of OTA probe antennas; in particular, by using the regularization technique, active probe locations and their weights can be optimized simultaneously with only one training process of the proposed NN. …”
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Deconvolution-Based CT and MR Brain Perfusion Measurement: Theoretical Model Revisited and Practical Implementation Details by Andreas Fieselmann, Markus Kowarschik, Arundhuti Ganguly, Joachim Hornegger, Rebecca Fahrig

“…In particular, we further discuss the need for regularization in order to obtain physiologically reasonable results. We include an overview of relevant preprocessing steps and provide numerous references to the literature. …”
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Patient Voices: Multimethod Study on the Feasibility of Implementing Electronic Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in a Comprehensive Cancer Center by Cinzia Brunelli, Sara Alfieri, Emanuela Zito, Marco Spelta, Laura Arba, Linda Lombi, Luana Caselli, Augusto Caraceni, Claudia Borreani, Anna Roli, Rosalba Miceli, Gabriele Tine', Ernesto Zecca, Marco Platania, Giuseppe Procopio, Nicola Nicolai, Luigi Battaglia, Laura Lozza, Morena Shkodra, Giacomo Massa, Daniele Loiacono, Giovanni Apolone

“…Organization problems and patient refusal were the main reasons for not administering the ePROMs (outpatients: 40/234, 17.1% and inpatients: 44/201, 21.9%). …”
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The Effect of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor on Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cell Engraftment in Rat Fibrotic Liver upon Transplantation by Ke Yuan, Chunyou Lai, Lingling Wei, Tianhang Feng, Qinyan Yang, Tianying Zhang, Tao Lan, Yutong Yao, Guangming Xiang, Xiaolun Huang

“…One of the reasons that cannot be ignored is the low quantity of exogenous stem cells transplanted into the liver in vivo. …”
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Shining light on knee osteoarthritis: an overview of vitamin D supplementation studies by Di Zhang, Miaoyu Ye, Yao Xu, Luyu Jiang, Yanmei Hu, Qi Zhang, Xiao Han, Qian Dai, Junhui Qian, Jian Luo, Qiang Yuan

“…In PRISMA 2020 reporting quality, most studies showed deficiencies in comprehensive literature search strategy, reasons for literature exclusion, data preprocessing for meta-analysis, exploration of reasons for heterogeneity, sensitivity analysis, publication bias, and disclosure of funding and conflicts of interest. …”
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The state of paediatric deceased-organ donation at a South African tertiary public- sector hospital: A 14-year analysis by T Siyotula, J Barrell, K Manning, D Thomson, M McCulloch, T du Toit

“…Several families refused consent for religious reasons. One of the consented donors did not proceed to procurement as there were no suitable recipients. …”
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Olanzapine for young PEople with aNorexia nervosa (OPEN): results of a feasibility study by Olena Said, Dominic Stringer, Ece Sengun Filiz, Hiba Mutwalli, Sevgi Bektas, Melahat Nur Akkese, Vanessa Kellermann, Katie Ireland, Elizabeth Tyrrell-Bunge, Demelza Beishon-Murley, Joel W. T. Khor, Lee Allman, Joanna Barker, Nicus Kotze, Ben Carter, Mima Simic, Dilveer Singh Sually, Jessica Bentley, Allan H. Young, Sloane Madden, Sarah Byford, Sabine Landau, Vanessa Lawrence, Janet Treasure, Ulrike Schmidt, Dasha Nicholls, Hubertus Himmerich

“…Conclusions Possible reasons for the recruitment difficulties and low adherence rate include the high clinical workload of ED services during the COVID-19 pandemic and the reluctance of patients to agree to take olanzapine under the relatively restricted conditions of a clinical study. …”
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Repeated operations in patients with unsatisfactory results of celiac artery compression syndrome treatment by Z. Wan, A. M. Ignashov, I. P. Dudanov, V. N. Khirmanov, D. N. Doynikov, A. N. Morozov, A. Yu. Gichkin, S. D. Migashchuk, D. V. Kachalov, Yu. A. Ignashov, V. V. Ahmetov

“…Purpose of the study. The reasons for the unsatisfactory results of surgical treatment of patients with celiac artery compression syndrome (CACS) and the role of repeated interventions allows to achieve a lasting improvement in most of them. …”
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Effectiveness of a Mobile Health Intervention (DOT Selfie) in Increasing Treatment Adherence Monitoring and Support for Patients With Tuberculosis in Uganda: Randomized Controlled... by Juliet Nabbuye Sekandi, Esther Buregyeya, Sarah Zalwango, Damalie Nakkonde, Patrick Kaggwa, Trang Ho Thu Quach, David Asiimwe, Lynn Atuyambe, Kevin Dobbin

“…Secondary outcomes included treatment completion, loss to follow-up, death, and reasons for missed videos in the intervention group. …”
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The history of childbirth: Women and doctors in the lying-in hospital of Göttingen University, eighteenth – nineteenth century by Jürgen Schlumbohm

“…Throughout Europe, the maternal mortality rate was higher in hospitals than for normal home deliveries attended by midwives. The main reason was of course puerperal fever, a highly infectious disease. …”
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POS Tagging Bahasa Madura dengan Menggunakan Algoritma Brill Tagger by Nindian Puspa Dewi, Ubaidi Ubaidi

“…Today, Bahasa Madura began to be abandoned, especially among young people. One reason is sense of pride and also quite difficult to learn Bahasa Madura because it has a variety of dialects and language levels. …”
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Digital Surveillance of Mental Health Care Services in Saudi Arabia: Cross-Sectional Study of National e-Referral System Data by Abdullah A Alharbi, Nawfal A Aljerian, Meshary S Binhotan, Hani A Alghamdi, Ali K Alsultan, Mohammed S Arafat, Abdulrahman Aldhabib, Yasser A Alaska, Eid B Alwahbi, Mohammed A Muaddi, Ahmad Y Alqassim, Ronnie D Horner

“…“Unavailable subspecialty” was the primary reason for referrals across all regions. The utilization of the mental health e-referral system varied across regions, with the Northern Border and Albaha regions showing the highest rates, while Madinah, Eastern, and Riyadh regions demonstrated lower use. …”
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Research on water quality data classification based on weighted Naive Bayes by Zhihao FANG, Zhengquan LI, Mingwei ZHANG

“…In order to better implement the water environmental management policies, water quality evaluation is the basic step, that is to reasonably divide it into specific water quality category according to multiple water quality parameters in a certain water area.Aimed at this problem, an improved Naive Bayes classification method was proposed, which endowed different attributes with different weights, weakened the assumption of Naive Bayes conditional independence, and made the classification result closer to the actual category.Firstly, referred to the data released by the national surface water quality automatic monitoring station, 500 water quality data were selected as samples, and an evaluation system with four indicators was established, including dissolved oxygen, permanganate index, ammonia nitrogen and total phosphorus.And then, the improved Naive Bayes classification method was used to learn and evaluate the samples, and its classification performance by the five fold cross validation method was verified.The results show that the accuracy, precision, recall and F1 value of the improved Naive Bayes classification method reach 96.0%, 95.9%, 93.8% and 94.8% respectively, with higher performance index of water quality data classification compared with other Naive Bayes classification method, which can provide some reference for the problem of water quality data classification encountered in actual engineering.…”
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Foule et public by Emmanuel Plasseraud

“…We can answer no, and we can think that the gap between theory and reality of the film reception is one of the reasons explaining the problems of French cinema facing American cinema. …”
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