Recent evidence comparing combination of conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs with biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs in rheumatoid arthritis by Abhishek Zanwar, Sakir Ahmed, Durga Prasanna Misra, Vikas Agarwal, Aman Sharma, Anupam Wakhlu, Vir Singh Negi

“…Long-term follow-up of landmark trials such as the Behandel-Strategieëen study (10 years) and NEO-RACo study (5 years) as well as other trials supports similar efficacy of both strategies in terms of clinical and functional outcomes. …”
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IEEE 802.15.7-Compliant Full Duplex Visible Light Communication: Interference Analysis and Experimentation by Stefano Caputo, Stefano Ricci, Lorenzo Mucchi

“…Full-duplex is obtained by simultaneously transmitting over the same optical channel, without any multiplexing or access division strategy. Through experimental data acquisition, the paper provides a detailed comparison of the two communication schemes, shedding light on their respective strengths and limitations. …”
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Deurbanizing for conservation and adapting: framing ecological restoration as a nature-based solution in La Pletera salt marsh, Catalonia (Spain) by Diego Pereira Lindoso, Dani Boix, Anna Ribas, Jordi Bou, Xavier D. Quintana

“…In this context, the present work analyzes the case of de-urbanization and ecological restoration of La Pletera salt marsh by the Life Pletera project (2014–2018), interpreting it within an NbS approach and assessing its effectiveness as a strategy for climate adaptation and biodiversity conservation. …”
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Clinical efficacy of different methods for treatment of granulomatous lobular mastitis: A systematic review and network meta-analysis. by Yuxiang Zhou, Leilai Xu

“…<h4>Conclusions</h4>Steroid-based combination therapy may be the first choice for IGM patients, with a comprehensive strategy of local and systemic steroids combined with surgery having the best effect on IGM.…”
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Feasibility, Safety, and Compliance in a Randomized Controlled Trial of Physical Therapy for Parkinson's Disease by Jennifer L. McGinley, Clarissa Martin, Frances E. Huxham, Hylton B. Menz, Mary Danoudis, Anna T. Murphy, Jennifer J. Watts, Robert Iansek, Meg E. Morris

“…Ambulant participants with Parkinson's disease (PD) (n=210) were randomized into three groups: (1) progressive strength training (PST); (2) movement strategy training (MST); or (3) control (“life skills”). …”
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Vascular Reconstructions in Living Unrelated Kidney Transplant Using Donor Ovarian Vein and Recipient Inferior Epigastric Artery with Simultaneous Enucleation of a Complex Cyst by Giuseppe Serena, Javier Gonzalez, Giselle Guerra, Mohamed Ammar Al Nuss, Maykel Valdes, Gaetano Ciancio

“…In some circumstances, complex vascular reconstruction of living donor kidney with removal of complex cyst represents a strategy to expand the donor pool.…”
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Effect of symbiont-targeted control of Halyomorpha halys on the co-occurring pentatomid community by Sofia V. Prieto, Bianca Orrù, Elena Gonella, Alberto Alma

“…Symbiont-targeted control strategies, which disrupt beneficial interactions in stink bugs, have so far been applied to H. halys. …”
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A Case Study on Strategic Multi-Objective Optimization of Influenza Vaccine Allocation: Age-Specific Approaches in Saudi Arabia by Asma K. Alkhamis, Manar I. Hosny

“…The study compares three vaccination strategies: no vaccination, national vaccination, and a two-phased multi-objective optimization approach under various pandemic scenarios. …”
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Gamify to persuade: A systematic review of gamified sustainable mobility by Simone Bassanelli, Riccardo Belliato, Federico Bonetti, Martina Vacondio, Federica Gini, Lorenzo Zambotto, Annapaola Marconi

“…Over the past few decades, gamification—the integration of game-like elements into non-game contexts to motivate and engage people in adopting new behaviors—has emerged as a strategy to encourage the use of sustainable transportation. …”
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Oral Feeding Competences of Healthy Preterm Infants: A Review by N. Bertoncelli, G. Cuomo, S. Cattani, C. Mazzi, M. Pugliese, E. Coccolini, P. Zagni, B. Mordini, F. Ferrari

“…To determine what facts may impact on oral feeding readiness and competence and which kind of interventions should enhance oral feeding performance in preterm infants. Search Strategy. MEDILINE database was explored and articles relevant to this topic were collected starting from 2009 up to 2011. …”
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Phytochrome-mediated shade avoidance responses impact the structure and composition of the bacterial phyllosphere microbiome of Arabidopsis by James A. O’Rourke, Stacey A. Vincent, Isabel E. I. Williams, Eleanor L. Gascoyne, Paul F. Devlin

“…Our findings suggests that plants manipulate their phyllosphere microbiome under shade conditions as a strategy to optimise fitness when competing for light. …”
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Development of cell lines with increased susceptibility to diverse adeno-associated viral vectors to enable in vitro potency assays by James Zengel, Emma S. Esterman, Anitha Ponnuswami, Nicholas R. Wall, Jan E. Carette

“…For the latter, we utilized guide RNAs targeting the conserved AAV2 inverted terminal repeat (ITR) sequence present in most AAV transfer vectors. Using this strategy, we engineered cell lines that showed marked increases in transduction by AAV vectors across a wide range of clinically relevant serotypes and containing cell-type-specific promoters. …”
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Decision making biases in the allied health professions: A systematic scoping review. by Rebecca Featherston, Laura E Downie, Adam P Vogel, Karyn L Galvin

“…<h4>Results</h4>The search strategy identified 149 studies. Of these, 119 studies came from the field of psychology, with substantially fewer from social work, physical and occupational therapy, speech pathology, audiology and genetic counselling. …”
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A proportionately increased small and equal batch delivery under consignment stock agreement for a single vendor, multiple buyers supply chain system by Kehinde Adegbola, Abdulrakib Abdulrahman

“…Also, small batch delivery is an effective strategy for launching a product since it enables a business to assess the market and validate the product before committing to a large production run. …”
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Analysing COVID-19 Verified, Recuperate and Death Cases in Ethiopia Using ARIMA Models by Birhanu Betela Warssamo

“…Over strict follows of all phases of Box-Jenkins strategy, ARIMA (1,1,1), ARIMA (16,1,2), and ARIMA (0,1,1)models for confirmed case, recovered and death case, respectively were selected as the best models for predicting coronavirus cases of Ethiopia. …”
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Thermal ecology of the Mexican Garter Snake (Thamnophis eques): temporal and spatial variations by Crystian S. Venegas-Barrera, Armando Sunny, Javier Manjarrez

“…The patterns were obtained from seminatural enclosures in the field with a point sampling strategy to analyze temporal and spatial variations in Tb. …”
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Clinical entity-aware domain adaptation in low resource setting for inflammatory bowel disease by Sumam Francis, Fernando Crema Garcia, Kanimozhi Uma, Willem Mestdagh, Bart De Moor, Marie-Francine Moens

“…Leveraging novel domain-specific pre-training and entity-aware masking strategies with contrastive learning, we fine-tune and adapt a general language model to be better adapted to IBD-related information extraction scenarios. …”
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Targeting ceramide transfer protein sensitizes AML to FLT3 inhibitors via a GRP78-ATF6-CHOP axis by Xiaofan Sun, Yue Li, Juan Du, Fangshu Liu, Caiping Wu, Weihao Xiao, Guopan Yu, Xiaowei Chen, Robert Peter Gale, Hui Zeng

“…Our data provide an effective strategy to enhance the efficacy of FLT3 inhibitors in AML.…”
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Age Cutoff and Yield of Prompt Esophagogastroduodenoscopy to Detect Malignancy in Vietnamese with Upper Gastrointestinal Symptoms: An Endoscopic Database Review of 472,744 Patients... by Duc Trong Quach, Lan Thi-Ngoc Tran, Truc Le-Thanh Tran, Vy Ly-Thao Tran, Nhan Quang Le, Toru Hiyama

“…The age cutoff for EGD in Vietnamese should be lower than that recommended by current international guidelines. The strategy of prompt EGD showed a low YoE, and its cost-effectiveness requires further investigation.…”
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Nano‐pyrite as a plant hormone regulator: Emulating seed hormopriming by Brijesh Kaler, Himanshi Jangir, Sabyasachi Sarkar, Jayprakash Sharma, Mainak Das

“…Abstract ‘Pre‐sowing seed priming’ and ‘pre‐transplanting root priming’ are promising strategies to improve agriculture productivity. Farmers, seed production enterprises, and seedling producers constantly search for economic priming agents that help improve yield and crop health. …”
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