Association of killer immunoglobulin-like receptor genotypes and haplotypes with acute lymphoblastic leukemia risk by Jameel Al-Tamimi, Suliman Alomar, Ali Aljuaimlani, Lamjed Mansour

“…Methods A total of 259 Saudi subjects including 145 cases of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and 114 healthy controls living in Riyadh were genotyped for 16 KIR genes and the two HLA-C1 and -C2 allotypes using PCR-SSP genotyping method. …”
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SOCIAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL PORTRAIT OF A SOCIALLY ACTIVE STUDENT OF A TECHNICAL HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTE by Elena O. Tarasova, Konstantin V. Yuriev

“…The article reveals the relevance of the subject in terms of modern social and political situation, the priorities of education and the peculiarities of students’ age. …”
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Рrospects of health and medical tourism clusterization in Ukraine by Mariia Bieloborodova

“…Ukrainian health and medical tourism needs a change in strategic planning approaches due, firstly, to the outdated post-Soviet organization of mass rehabilitation and sanatorium-resort treatment, and, secondly, in connection with the expected changes in the structure of consumers and their advantages, both as a result of the full-scale invasion of the russian federation. The subject of the study is the clustering processes in the field of health and medical tourism of Ukraine. …”
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Bringing Intelligence to SAR Missions: A Comprehensive Dataset and Evaluation of YOLO for Human Detection in TIR Images by Mostafa Rizk, Israa Bayad

“…To support the investigation, a novel dataset comprising 17,148 thermal images with 90,882 instances of human subjects representing various conditions and scenarios has been carefully curated. …”
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Revealing the Impact of Understory Fires on Stem Survival in Palms (Arecaceae): An Experimental Approach Using Predictive Models by Marcus Vinicius de Athaydes Liesenfeld

“…Conducted at the edge of an Ombrophylous Forest in Alto Juruá Acre, Brazil (7°45′ S, 72°22′ W), the experiment subjected 85 individuals to controlled burning in a 1 m² area near the palm stem, with temperature sampling using K thermocouples. …”
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Bifid Mandibular Canal: A Proportional Meta-Analysis of Computed Tomography Studies by Nyan Min Aung, Kyaw Kyaw Myint

“…Studies, with less than 100 subjects or anatomic site restriction or controlled class of bifid mandibular canal, were excluded. …”
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Enpostil Lowers Elevated Serum Gastrin Concentrations in Patients with Pernicious Anemia by P Kirdeikis, M Mant, L Zuk, D Fisher, L Bynum, ABR Thomson

“…A double-blind, randomized, crossover, placebo controlled study of Latin square design was conducted to determine the gastrin-lowering effects of a synthetic orally administered prostaglandin, enprostil, in fasted and fed patients with hypergastrinemia due to pernicious anemia. The study subjects were one male and six female patients between the ages of 39 and 76 years with known pernicious anemia and elevated serum gastrin concentrations. …”
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A comprehensive overview of FFRG and IHCC allograft cartilages in revision rhinoplasty: a systematic review by Mahtab Hosseini, Seied Omid Keyhan

“…Notably, both FFRG and IHCC demonstrated significant improvements in patient satisfaction following revision surgery across all subjected studies. Conclusion Based on this review, FFRGs present a lower rate of complications in comparison with IHCCs. …”
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Schoolscaping in a Multilingual Area: An Example of a Hungarian College in Western Ukraine by Váradi Krisztián, Hires-László Kornélia, Máté Réka

“…Based on the results, the Rákóczi College follows a strong bilingual tradition by making everything available in at least two languages (Ukrainian and Hungarian), but the bottom-up domain is also subject to monolingualism. Furthermore, the online schoolscape of the institution is multilingual because everything is published in three languages (Ukrainian, Hungarian, and English). …”
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Prevalence, correlates and explanatory models of cognitive deficits in patients with schizophrenia—A cross sectional study by Chithra Uppinkudru, Rajesh Gopalakrishnan, Joseph Noel, Anju Kuruvilla

“…The prevalence of cognitive deficits was 75.7% using ACE-III scores, 19.3% on OSCARS, and 40% based on subjective reports. Though the majority (81.4%) of patients reported a medical explanatory model for cognitive impairment, a significant number of them (70.7%) also held non-medical models simultaneously. …”
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PHYTOCHEMICAL PROFILE, ANTIOXIDANT AND CYTOTOXIC ACTIVITIES OF LEAF EXTRACT OF Dipteryx lacunifera DUCKE by Krislany A. L. Guedes Araujo, Herbert G. Sousa, João P. da Silva Gomes, Renato Pinto de Sousa, Éverton L. de França Ferreira, Monica T. Pupo, Pedro M. da Silva Costa, Claudia Pessoa, Mahendra Rai, Mariana H. Chaves, Gerardo Magela Vieira Junior

“…For this study, ethyl acetate and ethylic ether soluble fraction of ethanol extract were subjected to chromatographic analysis leading to the isolation of two flavonoids, vitexin (1) and isoquercetin (6). …”
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Peripheral Nerve Ultrasonography in Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy and Multifocal Motor Neuropathy: Correlations with Clinical and Neurophysiological Dat... by Aristide Merola, Michela Rosso, Alberto Romagnolo, Erdita Peci, Dario Cocito

“…Patients with intermediate functional impairment showed relatively larger cross-sectional areas than subjects with either a milder (p<0.05) or more severe impairment (p<0.05), both in CIDP and in MMN. …”
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Medical versus surgical methods of early abortion: protocol for a systematic review and environmental scan of patient decision aids by Rachel Thompson, Kyla Z Donnelly

“…Finally, both reviewers will assess decision aid quality using the International Patient Decision Aid Standards criteria, ease of readability using Flesch/Flesch-Kincaid tests, and informational content using directed content analysis.Ethics and dissemination As this study does not involve human subjects, ethical approval will not be sought. We aim to disseminate the findings in a scientific journal, via academic and/or professional conferences and among the broader community to contribute knowledge about current early abortion method decision-making support.Trial registration number This protocol is registered in the International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (CRD42015016717).…”
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Influenza forecasting in human populations: a scoping review. by Jean-Paul Chretien, Dylan George, Jeffrey Shaman, Rohit A Chitale, F Ellis McKenzie

“…., sensitivity analysis); direct comparisons of diverse approaches; assessment of model calibration; integration of subjective expert input; operational research in pilot, real-world applications; and improved mutual understanding among modelers and public health officials.…”
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A Split-Mouth Study to Evaluate the Adjunctive Role of Guided Pocket Recolonization (GPR) to Non-Surgical Periodontal Therapy by Yasir Shahab Khan, Bikram Singh Brahma, Amitabh Srivastava, Vivek Srivastava, Shivam Yadav, Tanu Sahney

“…Two randomly chosen sites were chosen for each subject: one for testing, where SRP was followed by subgingival placement of the probiotic-prebiotic cocktail, and the other for control, where SRP alone was used. …”
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Establishing thresholds for swing transparency at the knee during gait to inform exoskeleton design. by Chase W Mathews, Delaney A Clawson, Karl E Zelik

“…We conducted a series of human subject experiments that involved walking and stair ascent/descent while wearing a modified knee brace with five stiffness values ranging from 0 to 4 Nm/rad and five damping values ranging from 0 to 0.77 Nm/rad/s. …”
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On understanding of proof in English and American law by O. V. Tiaglo

“…And even those of these subordinate concepts, which correspond to criminal cases and include the strongest requirements, do not require truth or absolute certainty of the conclusion, agreeing only on absence of reasonable doubt that by nature is subjective and practically never avoid some dependence on rhetorical influence. …”
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Changing the High-Risk Behaviors of Injecting Drug Users in Iran: Application Theory of Planned Behavior by Ali Khani Jeihooni, Fatemeh Mohammadkhah, Mostafa Bijani, Pooyan Afzali Harsini

“…Six months after the educational intervention, all TPB theory’s constructs (knowledge, attitude, subjective norms and perceived behavioral control, behavioral intention, and behavior of injecting drug users) were higher in the test group than in the control group (p=0.001). …”
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Air Traffic Flow Prediction with Spatiotemporal Knowledge Distillation Network by Zhiqi Shen, Kaiquan Cai, Quan Fang, Xiaoyan Luo

“…While existing works have made significant efforts in exploring the high dynamics and heterogeneous interactions of historical air traffic flow, two key challenges still remain. (1) The transfer patterns of air traffic are intricate, subject to numerous constraints and limitations such as controllers, flight regulations, and other regulatory factors. …”
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Conceptual Metaphor and Creative Literary Individualism by Seyyed AmirHossein Mortezaei, Mahmood Fotoohi Rudmajani

“…On the other hand, the tenors of conceptual metaphors are subjective and abstract. In the next part, we draw the borderline of cultural metaphor and poet's innovative metaphor, and passing this line, we introduce methods that make metaphors poetic. …”
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