Relationship between Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction and Clinical Features in Chinese Parkinson’s Disease Patients by Duo Xu, Shunchang Han, Jue Wang, Juan Feng

“…Eighty nine (89%) of the PD patients suffered from LUT dysfunction, and OAB was diagnosed in 45 (45%) of those PD patients. …”
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Revolutionizing ESCC prognosis: the efficiency of tumor-infiltrating immune cells (TIIC) signature score by Haixia Wang, Shaowei Ma, Zixin Yang, Ren Niu, Haiyong Zhu, Shujun Li, Shaolin Gao, Zhirong Li, Yanhua Tian

“…Abstract Background Patients suffer from esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC), which is the ninth highly aggressive malignancy. …”
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Excerpts from The Freedom Fight: A Novel of Resistance and Freedom. by Pamela J. Olubunmi Smith

“…Told mostly from the protagonist’s point of view, with the help of his two prominent compatriots, childhood friend Àyọwí and Ibiwumi, the town’s ̀ Baálẹ’s own daughter, ̀ Ọmọ Olókùn-Ẹṣin chronicles not only the experiences and struggles of these three idealists, but also the inevitable uncertainties and risks of mobilizing the oppressed rank and file in a rule-of-fear system, sanctioned by traditional authority, the many trials and tribulations suffered at the hands of the wily oppressors, and the risks and frustrations of advancing the movement. …”
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Chronic pain is a risk factor for all-cause and cancer-specific mortality in cancer survivors: a population-based cohort study by Yeying Zhang, Yuna Guo

“…Results Over a median 141-month follow-up (interquartile range: 61–201 months), 884 (64.57%) of 1,369 cancer sufferers died, of which 259 (18.91%) died from cancer, and 625 (45.65%) from other causes. …”
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A Parallel Image Denoising Network Based on Nonparametric Attention and Multiscale Feature Fusion by Jing Mao, Lianming Sun, Jie Chen, Shunyuan Yu

“…Convolutional neural networks have achieved excellent results in image denoising; however, there are still some problems: (1) The majority of single-branch models cannot fully exploit the image features and often suffer from the loss of information. (2) Most of the deep CNNs have inadequate edge feature extraction and saturated performance problems. …”
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A Comparative Study between Postoperative Analgesia of Fascia Iliaca Compartment Block and Anterior Quadratus Lumborum Block in Proximal Femur Fracture by O. S. M. Abd Elmaksoud, S. E. M. Elansary, N. G. Fahmy, R. M. Hussien

“…Elderly patients with various comorbidities are more likely to suffer from proximal femur fractures. It is also a painful fracture, and poor pain management can have serious physiological and psychological consequences, such as acute delirium. …”
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Anxiety as a prevailing factor of performance of university mathematics students during the COVID-19 pandemic by D. Mendoza, M. Cejas, G. Rivas, C. Varguillas

“…It is not only students, who suffer from mathematical anxiety. However, anxiety is a predominant factor in student performance at all levels.The aim of the research was to describe the levels of anxiety also known as distress manifested by university mathematics students studying at the Universidad Nacional de Chimborazo (UNACH) during the 2020-1 academic semester.Methodology and research methods. …”
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Knowledge of mothers on diaper dermatitis management and associated factors in Ethiopia by Atoma Negera, Midekso Sento, Gemechu Tola

“…Over half of newborns suffer from the case at least once throughout their diaper-wearing phase. …”
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SkelETT—Skeleton-to-Emotion Transfer Transformer by Pedro Victor Vieira Paiva, Josue Junior Guimaraes Ramos, Marina Gavrilova, Marco Antonio Garcia de Carvalho

“…However, these modalities alone may not comprehensively capture the full spectrum of human emotion and suffer limitations due to noise or occlusion. Human skeletons, derived from depth sensors or pose estimation algorithms, offer an alternative for facial expression, including valuable spatial and temporal cues. …”
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Skeletal abnormalities caused by a Connexin43R239Q mutation in a mouse model for autosomal recessive craniometaphyseal dysplasia by Yasuyuki Fujii, Iichiro Okabe, Ayano Hatori, Shyam Kishor Sah, Jitendra Kanaujiya, Melanie Fisher, Rachael Norris, Mark Terasaki, Ernst J. Reichenberger, I-Ping Chen

“…Many patients with CMD suffer from neurological symptoms. The pathogenesis of CMD is not fully understood. …”
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MUNet: a novel framework for accurate brain tumor segmentation combining UNet and mamba networks by Lijuan Yang, Lijuan Yang, Qiumei Dong, Da Lin, Chunfang Tian, Xinliang Lü

“…While Transformers are proficient in capturing global features, they suffer from high computational complexity and require large amounts of data for training. …”
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Determination of Electrolytes in Critical Illness Patients at Different pH Ranges: Whom Shall We Believe, the Blood Gas Analysis or the Laboratory Autoanalyzer? by Christopher Hohmann, Roman Pfister, Kathrin Kuhr, Julia Merkle, Julian Hinzmann, Guido Michels

“…One hundred samples from intensive care unit patients with a range in pH values between 7.20 and 7.49 were evaluated in this retrospective cohort study. All patients suffered an infarct-related cardiogenic shock and were intubated and not under therapeutical hypothermia at the time of blood collection. …”
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The effects of deprivation, age, and regional differences in COVID-19 mortality from 2020 to 2022: a retrospective analysis of public provincial data by Anqi A. Chen, Elizabeth M. Renouf, Charmaine B. Dean, X. Joan Hu

“…In the last subperiod when most public health protections were released and the Omicron variant dominated, the least advantaged group might suffer higher COVID-19 mortality. Interventions such as paid sick days and cleaner indoor air should be made available to counter lifting of health protections.…”
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Atomistic Insight into the Effects of Collision Angle on the Characteristics of Cu-Ta Joining by Explosive Welding by Van-Thuc Nguyen, Nguyen Quang Hien, Pham Minh Duc, Tran Duy Nam, Van Huong Hoang, Van Thanh Tien Nguyen

“…After further improvement up to 20°, they then suffer a decrease. The Cu-Ta weld achieves a tensile strength ranging from 6.37 to 8.94 GPa. …”
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Understanding cellular proliferation activity in breast cancer using multi-compartment model of transverse relaxation time mapping on 3T MRI by Kangwa Alex Nkonde, Kangwa Alex Nkonde, Sai Man Cheung, Nicholas Senn, Jiabao He

“…IntroductionPrecise understanding of proliferative activity in breast cancer holds significant value in the monitoring of neoadjuvant treatment, while current immunostaining of Ki-67 from biopsy or resected tumour suffers from partial sampling error. Multi-compartment model of transverse relaxation time has been proposed to differentiate intra- and extra-cellular space and biochemical environment but susceptible to noise, with recent development of Bayesian algorithm suggested to improve robustness. …”
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Sistem Identifikasi Kesehatan Pencernaan Berdasar Suara Usus Menggunakan Embedded System by Ryzaldi Ananda Fabiana, Barlian Henryranu Prasetio, Eko Setiawan, Syahrul Chilmi, Edita Rosana Widasari

“…If not handled quickly, Ileus could lead to a perforated bowel. However, the sufferer of Ileus often does not realize the occurrence of this disease within his body, so it would be better to check up on the digestive health every day as a preventive. …”
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Ezetimibe Improves Rosuvastatin Effects on Inflammation and Vascular Endothelial Function in Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients Undergoing PCI by Changqing Sun, Wuyang Zheng, Ling Liang, Zuheng Liu, Wenchao Sun, Rong Tang

“…Patients in the combination versus rosuvastatin group appeared to suffer from less major adverse events. Periprocedural therapy of ezetimibe improves rosuvastatin effects on proinflammatory responses and endothelial function associated with ACS patients undergoing PCI. …”
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Patients’ Educational Program Could Improve Azathioprine Adherence in Crohn’s Disease Maintenance Therapy by Lei Wang, Rong Fan, Chen Zhang, Liwen Hong, Tianyu Zhang, Zhengting Wang, Jie Zhong

“…Moreover, the noneducational group suffered significantly higher endoscopic relapse rates than that the educational group (15.9% vs. 30.1%, P=0.035). …”
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Enhanced Electrochemical Performance of Dual-Ion Batteries with T-Nb₂O₅/Nitrogen-Doped Three-Dimensional Porous Carbon Composites by Chen Qi, Duo Ying, Cheng Ma, Wenming Qiao, Jitong Wang, Licheng Ling

“…However, T-Nb₂O₅ suffers from the disadvantages of poor electrical conductivity and fast cycling capacity decay. …”
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Water Risk and Mining Firms’ Stock Return by Maryam Davallou, Shirin Mehrali

“…The shareholders of the larger company will suffer relatively fewer losses due to water risk.…”
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