A new method to predict refracture risk after locking compression plate removal of clavicle shaft by Shuai Han, Qinghe Wang, Fang Tan, Kun Li, Shuang Li

“…Results Our study showed that about 2.0% patients suffered refracture after removal of the LCP. For the first time we found obvious differences in remaining bone ratio and the index of remaining Clavicle intensity between the two groups. …”
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Joint Optimization in Underwater Image Enhancement: A Training Framework Integrating Pixel-Level and Physical-Channel Techniques by Ozan Demir, Metin Aktas, Ender M. Eksioglu

“…However, underwater images suffer from the absorption and scattering effects of the environment. …”
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Design, Sensing and Control of a Robotic Prosthetic Eye for Natural Eye Movement by J. J. Gu, M. Meng, A. Cook, P. X. Liu

“…Loss of an eye is a tragedy for a person, who may suffer psychologically and physically. This paper is concerned with the design, sensing and control of a robotic prosthetic eye that moves horizontally in synchronization with the movement of the natural eye. …”
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The Relationship between Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate and Diabetic Retinopathy by Jingyang Wu, Jin Geng, Limin Liu, Weiping Teng, Lei Liu, Lei Chen

“…Among the 1613 participants (aged 54.75 ± 12.19 years), 550 (34.1%) patients suffered from DR. The multivariate analysis revealed that the risk factors for DR include age (P<0.001, OR = 0.940), duration of diabetes (P<0.001, OR = 1.163), hemoglobin A1c (P=0.007, OR = 1.224), systolic blood pressure (P<0.001, OR = 1.032), diastolic blood pressure (P=0.007, OR = 0.953), high density lipoprotein cholesterol (P=0.024, OR = 3.884), and eGFR (P=0.010, OR = 0.973). …”
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Effects of different thermal processing methods on bioactive components, phenolic compounds, and antioxidant activities of Qingke (highland hull-less barley) by Qingyue Hong, Guangjing Chen, Zhirong Wang, Xuhui Chen, Jianquan Kan

“…Overall, 6 free phenolic compounds and 12 bound phenolic compounds of Qingke were identified, and free phenolic compounds suffered more damage during thermal processing. Principal component analysis showed that SE had more advantages in retaining and improving the main biological active ingredients of Qingke, and it may be the best method for treating Qingke.…”
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Recent advances in the managements of type 2 diabetes mellitus and natural hypoglycemic substances by Chong Ning, Yuhan Jiao, Jiaqi Wang, Weiwei Li, Jingqiu Zhou, Yi-Chieh Lee, Dik-Lung Ma, Chung-Hang Leung, Rugang Zhu, Hui-Min David Wang

“…The etiology and pathogenesis of diabetes have not been fully elucidated, and no radical therapeutic cure has been found. Patients with T2DM suffer from complications such as the development of a chronic hyperglycemic condition and even serious metabolic disorders and organ damage in the body and depression and dementia, in addition to other chronic complications. …”
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Assessing Cashew Orchards Management Practices and Infestation rates of Apate terebrans in Orchards in Burkina Faso, West Africa by Naamwin Irkoum Zephirin SOMDA, Juliana Amaka UGWU

“…Cashew is a significant export crop in Burkina Faso but suffers substantial damage from the cashew wood borer Apate terebrans Pallas. …”
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Intestinal Mucosal Barrier Is Injured by BMP2/4 via Activation of NF-κB Signals after Ischemic Reperfusion by Kang Chen, Wei Xie, Binyu Luo, Weidong Xiao, Daniel H. Teitelbaum, Hua Yang, Kebin Zhang, Chaojun Zhang

“…On the basis of these data, we conclude that BMP2/4 may act as the pathogenic basis for intestinal mucosal barrier dysfunction when the intestines suffer an I/R injury. Our results provide background for the development pharmacologic interventions in the management of I/R injury.…”
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Surrogate Safety Analysis of Pedestrian-Vehicle Conflict at Intersections Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Videos by Peng Chen, Weiliang Zeng, Guizhen Yu, Yunpeng Wang

“…The state-of-the-art studies largely resort to video images taken from high buildings. However, it suffers from heavy labor work, high cost of maintenance, and even security restrictions. …”
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Treatment of Corneal Neovascularization Using Anti-VEGF Bevacizumab by Deli Krizova, Magdalena Vokrojova, Katerina Liehneova, Pavel Studeny

“…Patients were divided into two groups. All patients suffered from some form of corneal neovascularization (NV). …”
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Relationships between Serum Levels of Atazanavir and Renal Toxicity or Lithiasis by C. I. Marinescu, M. Leyes, M. A. Ribas, M. Peñaranda, J. Murillas, A. A. Campins, L. Martin-Pena, B. Barcelo, C. Barceló-Campomar, F. Grases, G. Frontera, Melchor Riera Jaume

“…During a median monitoring period of 23 months, nine patients suffered renal colic, in three of whom ATV crystals were evidenced in urine. …”
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The control strategy for distributed energy storage devices using fully diffusion strategy by Zejian Liu, Ping Yang, Xu Lin, Ziwei Fan, Cencen Hong

“…The distributed energy storage device units (ESUs) in a DC energy storage power station (ESS) suffer the problems of overcharged and undercharged with uncertain initial state of charge (SOC), which may reduce the service period of ESUs. …”
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Safety and Effectiveness of Endoscopist-Directed Nurse-Administered Sedation during Gastric Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection by Yong Suk Cho, Sang youn Shin, Changhyeok Hwang, Jeonghun Seo, Jong Won Choi, Byung Kyu Park, Sun Young Won, Chun Kyon Lee, Yong Kang Lee, Han Ho Jeon

“…In analysis of MP subgroups, 47 patients suffered an adverse event from sedation, and current smoking was the only significant association factor for adverse event (0.15 (0.03–0.68), p=0.014). …”
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Denoising Graph Inference Network for Document-Level Relation Extraction by Hailin Wang, Ke Qin, Guiduo Duan, Guangchun Luo

“…Most existing studies suffer from the noise in the text, and necessary pruning is of great importance. …”
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Beyond the seizures: Ketogenic Diets in the battle against drug-resistant epilepsy by Natalia Domańska, Małgorzata Bojarska, Julia Bogucka, Anna Brzyska, Michalina Kosowska, Halina Piecewicz-Szczęsna

“…About 70 million people worldwide suffer from it and these are patients of all ages. …”
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Arabic Speech Recognition Based on Encoder-Decoder Architecture of Transformer by Mohanad Sameer, Ahmed Talib, Alla Hussein, Husniza Husni

“…Preview end-to-end approaches have suffered from slow training and inference speed because of the limitations of training parallelization, and they require a large amount of data to achieve acceptable results in recognizing Arabic speech. …”
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Flow Cytometric Detection of p38 MAPK Phosphorylation and Intracellular Cytokine Expression in Peripheral Blood Subpopulations from Patients with Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases by Athanasios Mavropoulos, Dimitrios P. Bogdanos, Christos Liaskos, Timoklia Orfanidou, Theodora Simopoulou, Efterpi Zafiriou, Lazaros I. Sakkas, Eirini I. Rigopoulou

“…Flow cytometric analysis of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (p38 MAPK) signaling cascade is optimally achieved by methanol permeabilization protocols. Such protocols suffer from the difficulties to accurately detect intracellular cytokines and surface epitopes of infrequent cell subpopulations, which are removed by methanol. …”
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Does ESG disclosure enhance firm performance during COVID-19? Evidence from Nifty 500 firms by G. Vidya Bai, Daniel Frank, K. Sudhir Prabhu

“…This indicates that companies actively involved in Environmental, Social, and Governance disclosure are less likely to suffer during the pandemic in terms of financial performance due to their ESG disclosures.…”
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Successful Treatment with Mycophenolate Mofetil and Tacrolimus in Juvenile Severe Lupus Nephritis by Tomoo Kise, Hiroshi Yoshimura, Shigeru Fukuyama, Masatsugu Uehara

“…Despite aggressive induction therapy, up to 20% of patients with LN are resistant to initial therapy and up to 44% suffer a renal relapse. However, there is no consensus on an appropriate therapeutic regimen for refractory LN. …”
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MambaShadowDet: A High-Speed and High-Accuracy Moving Target Shadow Detection Network for Video SAR by Xiaowo Xu, Tianwen Zhang, Xiaoling Zhang, Wensi Zhang, Xiao Ke, Tianjiao Zeng

“…Existing convolution neural network (CNN)-based video synthetic aperture radar (SAR) moving target shadow detectors are difficult to model long-range dependencies, while transformer-based ones often suffer from greater complexity. To handle these issues, this paper proposes MambaShadowDet, a novel lightweight deep learning (DL) detector based on a state space model (SSM), dedicated to high-speed and high-accuracy moving target shadow detection in video SAR images. …”
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