Spirometric Predictors for the Exclusion of Severe Hypoxemia in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease by Hakan Gunen, Feridun Kosar

“…Some authors recommend it in all patients with COPD, but others find it unnecessary if the forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1) is 50% of predicted or greater.…”
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Immune Cell-Based versus Albumin-Based Ratios as Outcome Predictors in Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients by Zeba S, Surbatovic M, Udovicic I, Stanojevic I, Vojvodic D, Rondovic G, Mladenovic K, Abazovic T, Hasanovic A, Ilic AN, Abazovic D, Khan W, Djordjevic D

“…All the measured and calculated parameters were compared between survivors and nonsurvivors, with the outcome measure being hospital mortality.Results: Immune cell-based ratios [NLR - Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio, MLR - Monocyte-to-Lymphocyte Ratio, PLR - Platelet-to-Lymphocyte Ratio, MPV - Mean Platelet Volume, MPV/PC - Mean Platelet Volume-to-Platelet Count Ratio, Derived (d-)NLR ratio - neutrophil count divided by the result of white blood cell (WBC) count – neutrophil count), N/LP - Neutrophil count x 100/Lymphocyte count x Platelet count, CLR – C-reactive protein (CRP)-to-Lymphocyte Ratio, CPR - CRP-to-Platelet Ratio, LLR - Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH)-to-Lymphocyte Ratio, Systemic Immune Inflammation Index (SII) - platelet x neutrophil/lymphocyte count, Systemic Inflammation Response Index (SIRI) - neutrophil x monocyte/lymphocyte count] were investigated. …”
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Evaluation of the Efficacy of Stem Cell Therapy in Ovariectomized Osteoporotic Rats Based on Micro-CT and Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Zhencheng Xiong, Ping Yi, Jialiang Lin, Shengfeng Qiu, Li Shu, Chi Zhang

“…Stem cell therapy may increase bone strength, bone volume, and the number of trabeculae in OVX osteoporotic rats. …”
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Simultaneous Liver Venous Deprivation Following Hepatic Arterial Chemoembolization Before Major Hepatectomy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A New Methods to Achieve Hypertrophy Liver... by Zhang S, Song R, Hou C, Yao H, Xu J, Zhou H, Li S, Cai W, Fei Y, Meng F, Yin D, Wang J, Zhang S, Liu Y, Wang J, Liu L

“…An assessment of postoperative complications, FLR volume, liver function, and tumor response was performed.Results: All patients successfully underwent TACE-LVD. …”
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Serum neuritin as a predictive biomarker of early neurological deterioration and poor prognosis after spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage: a prospective cohort study by Yanwen Xu, Hanyu Zhu, Yuqi Su, Zhizhi Chen, Chuanliu Wang, Ming Yang, Feifei Jiang, Yunping Li, Yongming Xu

“…The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) and hematoma volume were used as severity indicators. A poor prognosis was defined as a modified Rankin Scale (mRS) score of 3–6 at 90 days after ICH. …”
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The REpeated ASSEssment of SurvivorS in intracerebral haemorrhage: protocol for a multicentre, prospective observational study by Daniel Woo, Richard Thompson, Carl D Langefeld, Nichol McBee, Daniel Hanley, Matthew L Flaherty, Lauren Sansing, Karen Lane, Lee A Gilkerson, Achala Vagal, Nathan Walborn, Wendy Ziai, Noeleen Ostapkovich, Kevin Triene, Timothy David Howard

“…If successful, the REASSESS study could demonstrate that reduction of ICH volume is a critical target to reduce the risk of progressive cognitive decline, establish targets for residual haematoma volume reduction and determine if greater residual haematoma volume leads to a long-term inflammatory state.Ethics and dissemination Approval of this study was obtained from the Johns Hopkins University Institutional Review Board (IRB00311985). …”
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Partial Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy Boost Before Conventional Radiotherapy (P‐SABR) for Large (> 5 cm) Unresectable Stage III Nonsmall Cell Lung Cancer by Yun Bai, Xianshu Gao, Shangbin Qin, Shanshi Li, Mingwei Ma, Xi Cao, Feng Lyu, Jiayan Chen, Xin Qi, Siwei Liu, Yan Gao, Hongzhen Li, Xiaomei Li, Xiaoying Li, Xueying Ren, Lei Huang

“…Nonetheless, for tumors that are either large in volume or in close proximity to critical organs at risk, the application of SABR to the entire tumor becomes impractical. …”
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Delineation of reduced CTV2 on the basis of the characteristics and distribution of cervical lymph node metastasis in nasopharyngeal carcinoma by Zhiqiang Wang, Yi Yang, Chunlei Ge, Rui Tian, Sheng Cheng, Jingyu Gao, Yan Wang, Qi Yue, Zhiwei Wang, Qingqing He, Yuchuan Xu, Yan Li, Xudong Feng, Yanli Yang, Yong Zhang

“…Subsequently, we randomly selected the localization images of 30 patients and used paired t test methods to compare the differences in the dosimetry of target volumes and OARs between reduced target volume radiotherapy and standard radiotherapy. …”
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Association of haplotypes for SNPs in the LTR regions of bovine leukemia virus with hematological indices of cattle by N. V. Blazhko, S. Kh. Vyshegurov, A. S. Donchenko, K. S. Shatokhin, T. I. Krytsyna, V. A. Ryabinina

“…We performed the total count of white blood cells (WBC), lymphocyte (lymf), granulocyte (gran), monocyte (mon), red blood cell (RBC), hemoglobin (HGB), hematocrit (HTC), mean corpuscular volume (MCV), mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH), mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC), red blood cell distribution width (RDW), platelet count (PLT), mean platelet volume (MPV), platelet distribution width (PDW), and platelet crit count (PCT). …”
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Antipleuritic and Vascular Permeability Inhibition of the Ethyl Acetate-Petroleum Ether Stem Bark Extract of Maerua angolensis DC (Capparaceae) in Murine by Felix Agyei Ampadu, Eric Boakye-Gyasi, Newman Osafo, Charles Kwaku Benneh, Edmund Ekuadzi, Eric Woode

“…MAE significantly reduced neutrophil infiltration, exudate volume, and lung tissue damage in carrageenan induced pleurisy. …”
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Dissipative disorder analysis of Homann flow of Walters B fluid with the applications of solar thermal energy absorption aspects by Latif Ahmad, Assmaa Abd-Elmonem, Saleem Javed, Muhammad Yasir, Umair Khan, Yalcin Yilmaz, Aisha M. Alqahtani

“…Higher Prandtl and Schmidt numbers significantly affected the isotherms and volume fraction contours.…”
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ANALYSIS OF THE RESULTS OF SIMULATIVE MODELLING OF THE INFORMATION SECURITY SYSTEM IN THE CORPORATE NETWORKS OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS by Vagif Gasimov, Balami Ismailov

“…This work is one of the approaches to generalizing the problems under consideration for systems with an unlimited volume of BM. Prospects for further research include research and development of the principles of hardware and software implementation of ISS in service networks. …”
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Effect of curing temperature on the soil physical and mechanical properties on clay shale geopolymer fly ash stabilization by Edi Hartono, Willis Diana, Agus Setyo Muntohar, Muhammad Azhar, Lia Indriani

“…This led to the specimen volume experiencing decrement due to the shrinkage during the curing period. …”
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Radiological, Clinical, and Histological Findings in the Treatment of Pilonidal Sinus with Phenol Injection by Tonguc Utku YILMAZ, Omer YAVUZ, Ahmet Oktay YIRMIBESOGLU, Hasan Tahsin SARISOY, Cigdem VURAL, Umay KIRAZ, Nihat Zafer UTKAN

“…However, no significant difference was observed in the cavity volume after phenol injection.…”
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Pressure Prediction of Electronic, Anisotropic Elastic, Optical, and Thermal Properties of Quaternary (M2/3Ti1/3)3AlC2 (M = Cr, Mo, and Ti) by Liang Sun, Yimin Gao, Yangzhen Liu, Guoliang Wang, Yiran Wang, Wenyan Zhai, Wen Wang

“…With an increase of pressure, the heights of total density of states (TDOS) for these compounds decrease at Fermi level. The highest volume compressibility among three compounds is Mo2TiAlC2 for its smallest relative volume decline. …”
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Progression of Left Ventricular Dysfunction and Remodelling under Optimal Medical Therapy in CHF Patients: Role of Individual Genetic Background by Marzia Rigolli, Mariantonietta Cicoira, Corinna Bergamini, Andrea Chiampan, Andrea Rossi, Corrado Vassanelli

“…ACE II was a significant predictor of improvement of LV end-diastolic and end-systolic volume (𝑃=.003 and 𝑃=.002, respectively) but not of LV ejection fraction (LVEF); β1AR389 GlyGly was related to improvement of LVEF (𝑃=.02) and LV end-systolic volume (𝑃=.01). …”
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Preparation of a Novel ACS/CS/EDTA Composite from Sugarcane Bagasse for Enhanced Adsorption of Carbon Dioxide by Quang Minh Pham, Xuan Son Nghiem, Thang Le Minh, Anh-Tuan Vu

“…The obtained ACS is an amorphous and porous material and contains both micropores and mesopores. The micropore volume, mesopore volume, Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) surface area and average pore width of the ACS are 0.112 cm3/g, 0.193 cm3/g, 354.8 m2/g and 55.7 Å, respectively. …”
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Experimental Study of Methods of Increasing the Efficiency of a Direct-Flow Air-Jet Detonation Engine by Vitalii Stoliarchuk, Oleksandr Zolotko, Oleksandr Aksonov

“…Engines in which the time of release of fuel energy in each volume is less than the time of the beginning of the decomposition of gasification products are called detonation engines. …”
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The Impact of Pedestrian and Nonmotorized Vehicle Violations on Vehicle Emissions at Signalized Intersections in the Real World: A Case Study in Beijing by Jianchang Huang, Guohua Song, Jianbo Zhang, Zufen Li, Yizheng Wu, Lei Yu

“…In the case study, emissions increase with the vehicle volume approaching the saturated flow rate and the volumes of nonmotor vehicles and pedestrians increasing. …”
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A Constitutive Model for Saturated Gravelly Sand Based on Higher-Order Dilatancy Equation by Dongjie Zhang, Fei Luo, Zhanyuan Zhu, Bin Luo, Jing Li, Zihan Xu, Jiaming Liu

“…When initial relative densities Dr are at 0.15 and 0.35, the volume shrinkage of samples decreases with the increasing confining pressures. …”
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