Recent change in surface mass-balance trends of glaciers on James Ross Island, north-eastern Antarctic Peninsula by Zbyněk Engel, Kamil Láska, Jana Smolíková, Jan Kavan

“…Glaciers cover 132 900 km2 around the Antarctic Ice Sheet, but few are subject to annual mass-balance measurements. Lookalike Glacier and Davies Dome on James Ross Island have been monitored since 2009, providing the third longest mass-balance record for the northern Antarctic Peninsula. …”
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N-Acetylcysteine Attenuates Diabetic Myocardial Ischemia Reperfusion Injury through Inhibiting Excessive Autophagy by Sheng Wang, Chunyan Wang, Fuxia Yan, Tingting Wang, Yi He, Haobo Li, Zhengyuan Xia, Zhongjun Zhang

“…Diabetes was induced in Sprague-Dawley rats with streptozotocin and they were treated without or with NAC (1.5 g/kg/day) for four weeks before being subjected to 30-minute coronary occlusion and 2-hour reperfusion. …”
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Perception of traumatic childbirth of women, influencing factors and its relationship with post-traumatic stress disorder by Weiwei Wei, Weiwei Wei, Xiaoyan Feng, Xiaoyan Feng, Hong Qin, Hong Qin, Xiaochang Yang, Xiaochang Yang

“…Variation analysis and Pearson correlation were used on the influencing factors of PBT and the correlation with PP-PTSD.ResultsThe median PBT score of the subjects in this study was 41 points; the incidence rate of PTSD (scores greater than 38) is 5%, with an average score of (22.38 ± 7.126). …”
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Enhancing the cycle stability of milled Mg-Ni alloys: The role of Pd substitution on reversible electrochemical hydrogenation/dehydrogenation reactions by Jianling Huang, Jiabao Li, Yang Cai, Shiqian Zhao

“…In contrast, the Mg55Pd4Ni41 alloy demonstrates a discharge capacity of 564.6 mAh/g and retains 277 mAh/g after 50 cycles. Notably, when subjected to a higher discharge current density of 300 mA/g, the Mg55Pd4Ni41 alloy displays an enhanced discharge capacity (401.49 mAh/g) compared to that of the Mg55Ni45 alloy (77.72 mAh/g).…”
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Effects of Acute Normovolemic Anemia on Hemodynamic Parameters and Acid-Base Balance in Dogs by Tatiana Champion, Glaucia Bueno Pereira Neto, Aparecido Antonio Camacho

“…The aim of this study was to evaluate the hemodynamic and acid-base status of dogs subjected to acute normovolemic anemia. The dogs (n=10) were evaluated 15 minutes and 24 hours after induction of anemia (hematocrit below 18%) with blood withdrawal and simultaneously replacement of same volume of Ringer's lactate solution and hydroxyethyl starch-based solution in a 2 : 1 ratio. …”
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Expression analysis of transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β) in oral squamous cell carcinoma by Arun Ganesh, P.P. Ashikha Shirin Usman, Ameya K.P., Priya Thomas, Dhanraj M. Ganapathy, Durairaj Sekar

“…The collected samples were subjected to staining studies. The RNA was isolated, and expression studies were done using the qRT-PCR method. …”
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Are Anesthesiology Providers Good Guessers? Heart Rate and Oxygen Saturation Estimation in a Simulation Setting by Efrain Riveros Perez, Enoe Jimenez, Camila Albo, Yashi Sanghvi, Nianlan Yang, Alexander Rocuts

“…The ability of anesthesia providers with different levels of experience to assess baseline and variations of heart rate and oxygen saturation is unsatisfactory, especially when oxygen desaturation and bradycardia coexist, and when the subject has less years of experience.…”
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Circulating Visfatin in Hypothyroidism Is Associated with Free Thyroid Hormones and Antithyroperoxidase Antibodies by Nadia Sawicka-Gutaj, Ariadna Zybek-Kocik, Aleksandra Klimowicz, Michał Kloska, Dorota Mańkowska-Wierzbicka, Jerzy Sowiński, Marek Ruchała

“…This is a prospective case-control study of 118 subjects. The autoimmune study group (AIT) consisted of 39 patients newly diagnosed with hypothyroidism in a course of chronic autoimmune thyroiditis. …”
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The Imbalance of FOXP3/GATA3 in Regulatory T Cells from the Peripheral Blood of Asthmatic Patients by Tiantian Chen, Xiaoxia Hou, Yingmeng Ni, Wei Du, Huize Han, Youchao Yu, Guochao Shi

“…Proliferation-and function-associated markers of Treg cells along with the percentage of Treg cells producing some cytokine from asthmatics and healthy subjects were analyzed by flow cytometry. Besides, the expressions of USP21 and PIM2 in Treg cells were measured by cell immunochemistry after Treg cells were sorted. …”
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Real-Time Needle Force Modeling for VR-Based Renal Biopsy Training with Respiratory Motion Using Direct Clinical Data by Feiyan Li, Yonghang Tai, Qiong Li, Jun Peng, Xiaoqiao Huang, Zaiqing Chen, Junsheng Shi

“…Clinical evaluation is conducted and performed in the Yunnan First People’s Hospital, which not only demonstrated a higher fitting degree (AVG: 99.36%) with the intraoperation data than previous algorithms (AVG: 87.83%, 72.07%, and 66.70%) but also shows a universal fitting range with multilayer tissue. 27 urologists comprising 18 novices and 9 professors were invited to the VR-based training evaluation based on the proposed haptic rendering solution. Subjective and objective results demonstrated higher performance than the existing benchmark training simulator. …”
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Optimum Conditions and LC-ESI-MS Analysis of Phenolic Rich Extract from Eucalyptus marginata L. under Maceration and Ultrasound-Assisted Extraction Methods Using Response Surface M... by Soumaya Hasni, Ghayth Rigane, Hanene Ghazghazi, Hajer Riguene, Amir Bouallegue, Olfa Khedher, Moufida A. Oueslati, Ridha Ben Salem

“…The optimum extract has been subjected to LC-ESI-MS analysis. This technique allowed us to identify ten phenolic compounds: four phenolic acids mainly gallic acid (27.77 ± 0.06 µg/g DW) and protocatechuic acid (37.66 ± 0.04 µg/g DW) and six flavonoid compounds such as quercetrin (150.78 ± 0.02 µg/g DW) and hyperoside (39.19 ± 0.03 µg/g DW). …”
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Speciation studies of potentially toxic elements within the vicinity of major dumpsites in Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria by Oluwakemi O. Tovide, John A.O. Oyekunle, Odunayo T. Ore, Bukola A. Oyebode, Elizabeth O. Moseri, Abolanle S. Adekunle, Oluwasegun Oluwarotimi, Aderemi O. Ogunfowokan, Adebayo O. Eludoyin

“…The soil samples were equally subjected to six-step chemical fractionation protocol for speciation analysis. …”
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Transferability Evaluation in Wi-Fi Intrusion Detection Systems Through Machine Learning and Deep Learning Approaches by Saud Yonbawi, Adil Afzal, Muhammad Yasir, Muhammad Rizwan, Natalia Kryvinska

“…The efficacy of these systems is rigorously assessed through established metrics including precision, recall, F1 score, and AUC score. When subjected to rigorous testing on well-known datasets like AWID and AWID3, individual IDS models consistently deliver exceptional performances, boasting F1 scores ranging from 0.98 to 1 and AUC scores spanning 0.97 to 0.99. …”
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The Effects of Different Phase on Independent Visual Fields SSVEP Responses by Dalu Zheng, Songyun Xie, Xinzhou Xie, Michael Scholz, Hao Tang

“…In a first proof-of-principles study on 15 subjects we demonstrate that IVFS with a 180° phase difference causes left and right scalp SSVEPs to exhibit a similar phase difference, and the propagation mechanism of SSVEPs conforms to the standing wave mode. …”
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Increased Accuracy of Emotion Recognition in Individuals with Autism-Like Traits after Five Days of Magnetic Stimulations by Pingping Liu, Guixian Xiao, Kongliang He, Long Zhang, Xinqi Wu, Dandan Li, Chunyan Zhu, Yanghua Tian, Panpan Hu, Bensheng Qiu, Gong-Jun Ji, Kai Wang

“…To this end, we randomly assigned ALT individuals into the real (n=16) and sham (n=16) stimulation groups. All subjects received five consecutive days of intermittent theta burst stimulation (iTBS) on the rpSTS. …”
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Cement Dust Exposure and Perturbations in Some Elements and Lung and Liver Functions of Cement Factory Workers by Egbe Edmund Richard, Nsonwu-Anyanwu Augusta Chinyere, Offor Sunday Jeremaiah, Usoro Chinyere Adanna Opara, Etukudo Maise Henrieta, Egbe Deborah Ifunanya

“…Two hundred and ten subjects (50 workers, 60 residents, and 100 controls) aged 18–60 years were studied. …”
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Efficacy of Rapid Salivary C-Reactive Protein Test to Assess Early Changes in Malignancy in the Oral Cavity and Its Utility in Screening for Oral Cancer by Vathsala Patil, Ravindranath Vineetha, Komal Smriti, Kalyana Chakravarthy Pentapati, Srikanth Gadicherla, Carnelio Sunitha

“…<b>Methods:</b> In this study, unstimulated saliva samples of cases (OPMDs and oral cancer) and controls (systemically healthy subjects) were used to detect CRP levels using a novel colorimetric, quantitative rapid assay kit. …”
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Assessing the influence of playing method on the outcome of basketball shooting ability by Zidan Dhia, Didi Suryadi, Y Touvan Juni Samodra, Mashud, Asriah Nurdini Mardiyyaningsih, Eko Saputra, Zsolt Németh, Asry Syam, Rezza Dewintha, Fazarudin

“…In this work, a pre-experiment with a one-group pretest and posttest design was used. The research subjects were 11th grade students from State Senior High School 4 Ketapang, and a sample of 37 students was obtained using the purposive sampling technique. …”
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The landscape of rare mitochondrial DNA variants in sudden cardiac death: A potential role for ATP synthase by Elena Luppi, Monica De Luise, Carla Bini, Guido Pelletti, Gaia Tioli, Ivana Kurelac, Luisa Iommarini, Susi Pelotti, Giuseppe Gasparre

“…Therefore, we aimed to define the mtDNA mutational landscape in such phenotype, by sequencing the whole blood mtDNA genome in a pilot cohort of 28 unrelated subjects. Coding variants were prioritized according to their population and haplogroup frequency. …”
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Association of Depression with Uncontrolled Hypertension in Primary Care Setting: A Cross-Sectional Study in Less-Developed Northwest China by Lin Wang, Nanfang Li, Mulalibieke Heizhati, Mei Li, Zhikang Yang, Zhongrong Wang, Reyila Abudereyimu

“…We used a stratified multistage random sampling method to obtain 1856 hypertensives subjects aged ≥18 years among primary care setting in Xinjiang, Northwest China, between April and October 2019. …”
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