Transanal total mesorectal excision vs intersphincteric resection for low rectal cancer: a propensity-score matching study by Li Zhengbiao, Feng Qingbo, Wang Xingqin, Xu Fujian, Wang Qi, Huang Yong, Xie Ming

“…After propensity-score matching, 38 patients were included in each group. The following data were compared between the two groups: surgical parameters, pathology findings, postoperative recovery, postoperative complications, postoperative anal function, and postoperative quality of life. …”
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Ending Electoral Fraud in Nigeria: can the Agenda Setting Role of the Mass Media salvage the situation? by Чінеду А. Нвамара, Емека Вільямс Етумну

“…The approach of purposive sampling was adopted. The data gathering instrument was a questionnaire and analysis was done using descriptive statistics and mean analysis. …”
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Ecosystem of the University as a Subject of Educational Analytics by O. D. Shipunova, E. G. Pozdeeva, L. I. Evseeva

“…The University with the unity of its functional connections presents a complex multilevel ecosystem, which state is determined by the intersection of the interests of various subjects included into the vocational training system.  …”
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Genetics of sputum gene expression in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. by Weiliang Qiu, Michael H Cho, John H Riley, Wayne H Anderson, Dave Singh, Per Bakke, Amund Gulsvik, Augusto A Litonjua, David A Lomas, James D Crapo, Terri H Beaty, Bartolome R Celli, Stephen Rennard, Ruth Tal-Singer, Steven M Fox, Edwin K Silverman, Craig P Hersh, ECLIPSE Investigators

“…These were genotyped in two COPD populations, finding replicated associations with a SNP in PSORS1C1, in the HLA-C region on chromosome 6. Integrative analysis of GWAS and gene expression data from relevant tissue from diseased subjects has located potential functional variants in two known COPD genes and has identified a novel COPD susceptibility locus.…”
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Adjusting the Organization-Managerial Sphere in Conditions of New Scientific and Technological Revolution by V. S. Skrug

“…Setting-up and functioning of state, regional and city bases and banks of data required serious transformation of the whole information sphere. …”
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Do Patient-Reported Outcomes Differ Between Open and Minimally Invasive Hallux Cheilectomy? by Nathaniel Zona BA, Samuel D. Stark, Eric Villarreal MD, Kenneth Hunt MD

“…Patients with a completed measure of PROMIS Physical Function (PF), Pain Interference (PI) and/or Foot and Ankle Single Assessment Numeric Evaluation (FA SANE) at baseline, 3-, 6-, 12-, and/or 24-month postoperative timepoints were included in analysis. …”
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Intelligent wearable devices with audio collection capabilities to assess chronic obstructive pulmonary disease severity by Chunbo Zhang, Kunyao Yu, Zhe Jin, Yingcong Bao, Cheng Zhang, Jiping Liao, Guangfa Wang

“…Objective The objective was to assess COPD severity via physiological parameters and audio data collected by a smartwatch. Methods COPD patients underwent lung function tests, electrocardiograms, blood gas analysis, and 6-min walk tests. …”
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Sharing and Specificity of Co-expression Networks across 35 Human Tissues. by Emma Pierson, GTEx Consortium, Daphne Koller, Alexis Battle, Sara Mostafavi, Kristin G Ardlie, Gad Getz, Fred A Wright, Manolis Kellis, Simona Volpi, Emmanouil T Dermitzakis

“…Analysis of these networks reveals that tissue-specific transcription factors are hubs that preferentially connect to genes with tissue specific functions. …”
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Theoretical study on the structures and pharmacokinetic evaluation of verticillane-type diterpenes from soft coral Heteroxenia ghardaqensis by Jiangmei Pang, Qinzhe Yu, Huining Wei, Xiaoyun Xia, Zishan Lin, Xiandong Du, Chaojie Wang

“…Additionally, reaction index analysis was conducted using conceptual density functional theory, and the drug-likeness of these compounds was evaluated using two different pharmacokinetic prediction platforms. …”
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Aging & Sports by Hülsmann M, Reinecke K, Barthel T, Reinsberger C

“…Studies of higher quality are needed to improve epidemiology data.Key Words: Prevalence, Incidence, Strength Training, High Intensity Functional Training…”
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Brain Representation in Conscious and Unconscious Vision by Ning Mei, David Soto

“…However, decoding does not imply a full understanding of neural representations. Here we re-analysed data from a high-precision fMRI study coupled with representational similarity analysis based on convolutional neural network models to provide a detailed information-based approach to neural representations of both unconscious and conscious perceptual content. …”
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‘Many of our customers are discharged patients’: A linguistic study of references to healthcare users in a Finnish pharmacy magazine by Satu Johanna Siiskonen

“…The situational and functional semantic frames of a total of 137 occurrences of potilas ‘patient’ or asiakas ‘customer, client’ are compared. …”
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Seasonal dynamics and molecular regulation of flavonoid biosynthesis in Cyclocarya paliurus (Batal.) Iljinsk by Duo Chen, Yixin Xiao, Xuehai Zheng, Huamiao Sun, Cifeng Zhang, Jinmao Zhu, Ting Xue

“…Pearson correlation analysis revealed significant relationships between the functional genes of the flavonoid synthesis pathway and flavonoid content. …”
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Single-cell transcriptomic and m6A methylation analyses reveal platelet-mediated immune regulatory mechanisms in sepsis by Weiwei Qian, Yuanyuan Liu, Xinyang Zhao, Yuxin Dong, Jian Zhou, Songtao Shou

“…This study aims to investigate the compositional changes of immune cells, characteristics of intercellular communication, and potential regulatory mechanisms of N⁶-methyladenosine (m6A) modification in sepsis, with a particular focus on the functional remodeling of platelets.MethodsThis study integrated single-cell RNA sequencing data (GSE167363 dataset) from sepsis patients with m6A methylation sequencing data of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs). …”
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Bioinformatics Identification and Validation of Ferroptosis-Related Key Genes and Therapeutic Compounds in Septic Lung Injury by Li Z, Gan H, Li S, Xue Y, Luo K, Huang K, Zhang Y, Wang Y, Jiang L, Zhang H

“…Protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks and functional enrichment analysis were employed to identify key ferroptosis-related DEGs. …”
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Whole blood transcriptome profile identifies motor neurone disease RNA biomarker signatures by Sulev Kõks, Sulev Kõks, Karin Rallmann, Mari Muldmaa, Mari Muldmaa, Jack Price, Abigail L. Pfaff, Abigail L. Pfaff, Pille Taba

“…In addition to the formal differential analysis, we performed functional annotation of the genomics data and identified the molecular pathways that are differentially regulated in MND patients. …”
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Anoikis classification of lung squamous cell carcinoma reveals correlation with clinical prognosis and immune characteristics by Yixin Zhai, Cheng Li, Xiang He, Wenqi Wu, Donghui Xing, Kaiping Luo, Zhigang Zhao

“…We used the data from TCGA, GEO, GeneCards, and Harmonizome databases to analyze the immune microenvironment, functional enrichment, and drug sensitivity analysis.Results We identified 717 differentially expressed and selected 3 ARGs (FADD, SNAI1, and BAG4) to construct a predictive model. …”
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Predominant contribution of cis‐regulatory divergence in the evolution of mouse alternative splicing by Qingsong Gao, Wei Sun, Marlies Ballegeer, Claude Libert, Wei Chen

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Machine learning-driven insights into self-healing silicon-based anodes for high-performance lithium-ion batteries by Mahta Moazzenzadeh, Mahmoud Samadpour

“…Notably, the neural networks algorithm exhibits superior performance, achieving 96% accuracy for test data. SHAP analysis revealed that ether functional groups, donor and acceptor hydrogen bonds, and dual-interconnected rings have the most positive impact on preserving battery capacity. …”
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Construction of CFC-programs by LTL-specification by D. A. Ryabukhin, E. V. Kuzmin, V. A. Sokolov

“…The language CFC (Continuous Function Chart) is a variation of FBD (Function Block Diagram). …”
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