Factors associated with contrast-associated acute kidney injury in an emergency department: A cohort study in Lebanon. by Moustafa Al Hariri, Sally Al Hassan, Malak Khalifeh, Hani Tamim, Imad El Majzoub, Tharwat El Zahran

“…<h4>Background</h4>Contrast-associated acute kidney injury (CA-AKI) is a common problem in hospitals, particularly in low-middle-income countries (LMIC), due to limited resources and a high prevalence of comorbidities. Kidney function evaluation using serum creatinine levels before contrast administration leads to increased length of stay and delayed patient care. …”
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Decellularized Matrix Scaffolds for Vascular Transplantation: Addressing Immunogenicity, Sterilization, and Current Strategies for Long-Term Storage by Yevhen V. Shevchenko, Tetiana I. Liadova, Fedir V. Hladkykh, Mariia S. Matvieienko, Mykola O. Chyzh, Roman R. Komorovsky

“…To conduct a comparative analysis of sterilization methods for decellularized matrix scaffolds used in vascular transplantation, based on information from open sources. Materials and methods. Publications were selected from the databases PubMed, Clinical Key Elsevier, Cochrane Library, eBook Business Collection, and Google Scholar, focusing on sterilization methods for decellularized matrix scaffolds. …”
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Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Activities of Cutlassfish Head Peptone in RAW 264.7 Macrophages by Su-Jin Lee, Jeonghyeon Im, Svini Dileepa Marasinghe, Eunyoung Jo, Minthari Sakethanika Bandara, Youngdeuk Lee, Jaewon Lee, Gun-Hoo Park, Chulhong Oh

“…CP suppressed the expression of inflammatory mediators, including inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and cyclooxygen-ase-2, and selectively inhibited the pro-inflammatory cytokines interleukin (IL)-1β and IL-6. …”
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Senegalin-2: A Novel Hexadecapeptide from <i>Kassina senegalensis</i> with Antibacterial and Muscle Relaxant Activities, and Its Derivative Senegalin-2BK as a Bradykinin Antagonist by Yueyang Lu, Yanguo Zhu, Chengbang Ma, Lei Wang, Mei Zhou, Tianbao Chen, Xiaonan Ma, Xu Zhang, Zhimin Fan

“…The amphibian skin secretions are excellent sources of bioactive peptides, some of which and their derivatives exhibit multiple properties, including antibacterial and antagonism against bradykinin. …”
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A Comparison of Feminist Term Translation Practices in Academic Journals of Gender and Women’s Studies in Turkiye by Göksenin Abdal, Tuba Ayık Akça

“…Feminist term translation brings both linguistic and pragmatic sides of translation together and turns the act of translation into a function-driven process rather than a solely form-based transfer. …”
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The methodology of translating the metonymic images of the Resurrection in the Holy Qur’an according to Larson’s theory, the translation of Makarim Al-Shirazi and Hussain Ansaryan... by Hossein Bayat, Ali Zeighami, Sayyed Reza Mirahmadi, Ebrahim Rezapour

“…His semantic translation is a faithful translation into the source language and a reliable way to translate texts, especially religious texts. …”
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Dynamic and efficient vehicular cloud management scheme with privacy protection by Min XIAO, Tao YAO, Yuanni LIU, Yonghong HUANG

“…The vehicular cloud (VC) formed by vehicles is used for localization processing and consumption of traffic sensing data to achieve timely intelligent traffic management.The vehicle cloud is highly dynamic, self-organizing and timely, in which the identity and location privacy of vehicle users need to be protected as this poses challenges to the vehicular cloud management.A dynamic and self-organizing vehicle cloud management scheme based on the asymmetric group key agreement protocol was designed, where the vehicle cloud is automatically formed through the self-organized group key agreement of vehicles.The group key was used to control the provision and access of vehicle cloud services, and the dynamic management of the vehicle cloud was implemented through group key update.The scheme used traceable one-time pseudonym technology to achieve anonymous authentication and conditional privacy protection of vehicle users, and the group key agreement stage only included one bilinear pair operation to achieve high efficiency.In addition, the key negotiation and update process used lightweight signatures, supporting batch verification, to achieve efficient message source authentication and integrity authentication.Then the security and efficiency of vehicle cloud communications in the self-organizing environment can be ensured.The dynamic key update mechanism of the key agreement protocol realized the dynamic joining or exiting of vehicles in the vehicle cloud, adapting to the dynamic characteristics of the vehicle cloud.Under the random oracle model and the difficult assumption of the inverse computational Diffie Hellman (ICDH) problem, it was proved that the asymmetric group key agreement scheme satisfied the selective-plaintext security.The security analysis shows that the scheme can protect the identity and location privacy of vehicle users, realize the legal tracking of malicious vehicles, and ensure the confidentiality, integrity and anti-counterfeiting of communications, as well as the forward security of vehicle cloud dynamic management.The performance comparison analysis shows that this scheme has certain advantages in communication and computing efficiency under the condition of the same function and security level.…”
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A directed greybox fuzzer for windows applications by Xin Ren, Peng-fei Wang, Xu Zhou, Kai Lu

“…Abstract Directed greybox fuzzing (DGF) has proven effective in vulnerability discovery, but most efforts focus on the Linux platform, with substantially less attention devoted to Windows platform due to its closed-source and GUI software nature. This paper proposes WinDGF, a novel directed greybox fuzzer for Windows applications that addresses challenges including target function localization in persistent testing, GUI bypassing, and fitness metric calculation. …”
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CHARTER OF THE STAVROPOL KRAI: PROBLEM ISSUES AND SEARCH FOR SOLUTION by V. Cherepanov

“…The interpretation of the source of the government of the Stavropol Krai, which is the people of the Stavropol Kraias part of the multinational people of the Russian Federation, has been proposed. …”
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Prevalence and determinants of restrictive lung disorder among quarry workers at the Umuoghara quarry site, Ebonyi State, Nigeria: a cross-sectional study by Ngozika Substance Ike-Samuel, Osaeloka C. Ekwueme, Susan Chioma Udeh

“…Data was collected using a pre-tested semi-structured questionnaire among 300 quarry workers selected by simple random sampling method. Lung function test was performed using a spirometer- spirovit SPI schiller and data was analyzed with the use of IBM SPSS version 23.0. …”
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The Techniques of Influencing the Addressee in the Business Letters of Khan Ayuka on “Todo Bichig” (“Clear Letter”) and their Reflection in the Synchronized Russian Translations of... by Galina M. Yarmarkina

“…For this work, only those letters from the specified period have been selected that have preserved a synchronized translation into Russian. …”
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Systemic model of segregation and transformation of urban solid waste by Alex Rengifo Rojas, Nelino Florida Rofner, Luis Morales y Chocano, José Raúl Rodríguez Lichtenheldt, Julio Pedro Atoche Cornejo

“…These values were adjusted to a probability distribution function and expressed in state, flow and auxiliary equations, to explain and predict their behavior. …”
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Genetic Factors for the Natural Elimination of Hepatitis C Virus by N. V. Vlasenko, T. A. Loscutova, K. O. Mironov, A. S. Esman, E. A. Dunaeva, T. A. Semenenko, D. B. Dubodelov, M. I. Korabelnikova, Z. B. Ponezheva, V. V. Makashova, K. G. Omarova, A. V. Sacuk, G. G. Solopova, S. N. Kuzin, V. G. Akimkin

“…Additionally, the significance of polymorphisms at the intragenic and intergenic levels was assessed using modern bioinformatic resources in the field of functional genomics.Results. …”
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Genome-wide association study identifies candidate SNP markers and genes associated with low nitrogen tolerance in Brassica napus by Jingdong Chen, Jingdong Chen, Lingli Xie, Xianfei Hou, Rui Yang, Jin Liu, Xigang Dai, Tianyuan Xue, Shuai Yin, Benbo Xu, Xuekun Zhang, Changli Zeng, Jinsong Xu

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ORGANIZING THE WORK OF THE DONOR BREAST MILK BANK AT THE LVIV PERINATAL CENTER IS AN EXPERIENCE THAT MOTIVATES FURTHER DEVELOPMENT by М. Малачинська, М. Кісельова, О. Шлемкевич, Н. Вереснюк, Г. Коваленко

“… Human milk is considered the primary source of nutrition for breastfed infants and is justifiably regarded as the “gold standard.” …”
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Association of microtubule-based processes gene expression with immune microenvironment and its predictive value for drug response in oestrogen receptor-positive breast cancer by Zhenfeng Huang, Minghui Zhang, Nana Zhang, Mengyao Zeng, Yao Qian, Meng Zhu, Xiangyan Meng, Ming Shan, Guoqiang Zhang, Feng Liu

“…Transwell and cell viability assays were used to examine the biological functions of CHORDC1.ResultsTwo molecular subgroups with significantly different survival outcomes were identified. …”
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Investigation on taxonomy, secondary metabolites and antibacterial activity of Streptomyces sediminicola sp. nov., a novel marine sediment-derived Actinobacteria by Kun Zhang, Wenping Ding, Chenghui Han, Lijuan Long, Hao Yin, Jianping Yin

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Comparative analysis of the gut microbiota composition among three captive hornbills by Enmei Yang, Enmei Yang, Enmei Yang, Enmei Yang, Enmei Yang, Song Wang, Huajuan Feng, Fanglin Zheng, Fanglin Zheng, Fanglin Zheng, Fanglin Zheng, Fanglin Zheng, Yubao Duan, Yubao Duan, Yubao Duan, Yubao Duan, Yubao Duan, Shuang Yang, Shuang Yang, Shuang Yang, Shuang Yang, Shuang Yang

“…The homogenization of food resources in a captive environment may weaken the impact of host differences on the gut microbiota. …”
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Fe foam supported FeVO4 nanoparticles for electrochemical nitrogen fixation at ambient conditions by Abdulmalik Aminu, Bilal Masood Pirzada, Shamraiz Hussain Talib, Janah Shaya, Ibrahim Yildiz, Sharmarke Mohamed, Ahsanulhaq Qurashi

“…Furthermore, the coupling interaction between FeVO4 and FF support exposed abundant intrinsic active sites and facilitated beneficial charge transfer further inducing superior e-NRR activity. Density functional theory (DFT) computations disclosed that surface Fe atoms are the main active centers for e-NRR which proceed via the alternating pathway.…”
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Feedback of patient-reported outcomes to healthcare professionals for comparing health service performance: a scoping review by Dominique A Cadilhac, Shaun L Hancock, Olivia F Ryan, Violet Marion, Sharon Kramer, Paulette Kelly, Sibilah Breen

“…Therefore, the aim of this scoping review was to summarise the emerging approaches to PROs data for ‘service-level’ feedback to healthcare professionals.Setting Healthcare professionals receiving PROs data feedback at the health-service level.Data sources Databases selected for the search were Embase, Ovid Medline, Scopus, Web of Science and targeted web searching. …”
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