Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid IFN-γ+ Th17 Cells and Regulatory T Cells in Pulmonary Sarcoidosis by Anders Tøndell, Torolf Moen, Magne Børset, Øyvind Salvesen, Anne Dorthea Rø, Malcolm Sue-Chu

“…The fractions of FoxP3+ CD4+ T cells and Th17 cells were both lower in sarcoidosis compared to controls (P=0.017 and P=0.011, resp.). The proportion of Th17 cells positive for IFN-γ was greater in sarcoidosis than controls (median 72.4% versus 31%, P=0.0005) and increased with radiologic stage (N=23, rho=0.45, and P=0.03). …”
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Correlation Between Vitamin D3 Levels, Autoantibodies, and Antibody-Related Diseases in Patients with Hashimoto's Thyroiditis by Ali Saad Kadhim, Abdullah Salim Al-Karawi

“…Moreover, the concentration of the 1,25 VitD3 was significantly lower in the patient group compared to the control, with level of 3.5 +- 0.1, 35.9 +- 0.3 ng/mL, respectively. Furthermore, an inverse positive correlation in the increased concentrations of TRAbs, TG, and TPO (r=-0.98, -0.66, -0.75) autoantibodies and the low levels of 1,25 VitD3 were detected. …”
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Implementation of Uterine Artery Doppler Scanning: Improving the Care of Women and Babies High Risk for Fetal Growth Restriction by Emmanuel Ekanem, Faris Karouni, Emmanuoil Katsanevakis, Habiba Kapaya

“…Babies in the bilateral notching group exhibited the lowest birth weight (P=0.005), born at an earlier gestation (P=0.029), and with low Apgar scores at 1 (P=0.007) and 5 minutes (P<0.001). …”
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Heavy $$K^*$$ K ∗ mesons with open charm from $$KD^{(*)}D^*$$ K D ( ∗ ) D ∗ interactions by Xiu-Lei Ren, K. P. Khemchandani, A. Martínez Torres

“…Considering the additional attractive interactions present in the KD and $$KD^*$$ K D ∗ subsystems, where the states $$D^*_{s0}(2317)$$ D s 0 ∗ ( 2317 ) and $$D_{s1}(2460)$$ D s 1 ( 2460 ) are generated, we solve the Faddeev equations considering the fixed-center approximation for the mentioned three-body systems and find the existence of two doubly charmed $$K^*$$ K ∗ -like mesons, $$K_{cc}^*(4309)$$ K cc ∗ ( 4309 ) and $$K_{cc}^*(4449)$$ K cc ∗ ( 4449 ) , with quantum numbers $$I(J^P)=1/2\,(1^-)$$ I ( J P ) = 1 / 2 ( 1 - ) . …”
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Wind-Induced Response of Inclined and Yawed Ice-Accreted Stay Cable Models by Songyu Cao, Himan Hojat Jalali, Elena Dragomirescu

“…Wind-induced vibrations were analyzed experimentally for cable models with yaw inclination angles of 0°, 30°, and 60° and vertical inclination angles of 0° and 15°, for Reynolds numbers of up to 4 × 105. …”
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Pollination Biology of Potentilla recta (Sulfur Cinquefoil) and Its Cooccurring Native Congener Potentilla gracilis in Northeastern Oregon by James McIver, Karen Erickson

“…The invasive produced higher numbers of seeds per plant, having greater mass per unit vegetation. …”
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Postpandemic Stress Disorder among Health Care Personnel: A Cross-Sectional Study (Silesia, Poland) by Mateusz Grajek, Patryk Szlacheta, Karolina Sobczyk, Karolina Krupa-Kotara, Beata Łabuz-Roszak, Ilona Korzonek-Szlacheta

“…The probability level was 0.05. Results. Statistical inference made it clear that mental health problems that may indicate trauma are mainly present in the FR group. …”
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Efficacy of PPV Combined with Air Tamponade for Treatment of Inferior Retinal Breaks by Yong Zhang, Xin Li, Guiping Pan, Zhen Tian, Siwei Liu, Jun Yuan

“…Pre- and postoperative BCVA averaged 1.51 ± 0.63 and 0.97 ± 0.58 logMAR, respectively; the difference was statistically significant (P<0.001). …”
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Homogeneity Test and Correction of Daily Temperature and Precipitation Data (1978–2015) in North China by Lingling Shen, Li Lu, Tianjie Hu, Runsheng Lin, Ji Wang, Chong Xu

“…After correction by the MASH method, the annual average temperature and minimum temperature decrease by 0.04°C and 0.06°C, respectively, while the maximum temperature increases by 0.01°C. …”
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Penicillin allergy as an instrumental variable for estimating antibiotic effects on resistance by Yaki Saciuk, Daniel Nevo, Michal Chowers, Uri Obolski

“…The RD for resistance was 11.4% (95% CI: 7.6%, 15.4%) for amoxicillin/clavulanic acid, 14.1% (95% CI: 9.0%, 19.4%) for ampicillin, and 0.8% (95% CI: 0.2%, 1.4%) for piperacillin/tazobactam, with NNHs of 8.8, 7.1, and 122.0, respectively. …”
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Efficacy of intermittent fasting on improving liver function in individuals with metabolic disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Mousa Khalafi, Sara K Rosenkranz, Faeghe Ghasemi, Shokoufeh Kheradmand, Aref Habibi Maleki, Mallikarjuna Korivi, Jung-Piao Tsao

“…Overall, IF effectively decreased liver fat with a large effect size [SMD: -1.22 (95% CI: -1.63 to -0.80), p = 0.001], liver steatosis with a medium effect size [SMD: -0.73 (95% CI: -1.12 to -0.35), p = 0.001], ALT with a small effect size [SMD: -0.44 (95% CI: -0.58 to -0.30), p = 0.001], and AST with a small effect size [SMD: -0.30 (95% CI: -0.49 to -0.11), p = 0.001], but not liver fibrosis [SMD: -0.28 (95% CI: -0.59 to 0.02), p = 0.07]. …”
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A Note on -Potence Preservers on Matrix Spaces over Complex Field by Xiaofei Song, Chongguang Cao, Baodong Zheng

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Equivariant Perturbation in Gomory and Johnson’s Infinite Group Problem. VII. Inverse Semigroup Theory, Closures, Decomposition of Perturbations by Hildebrand, Robert, Köppe, Matthias, Zhou, Yuan

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Flow Simulations Using Two Dimensional Thermal Lattice Boltzmann Method by Saeed J. Almalowi, Alparslan Oztekin

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Proteomic Profiling of Ex Vivo Expanded CD34-Positive Haematopoetic Cells Derived from Umbilical Cord Blood by Heiner Falkenberg, Teja Falk Radke, Gesine Kögler, Kai Stühler

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Invasion of Chicken Intestinal Cells Is Higher for <i>Enterococcus cecorum</i> Lesion Strains Compared to Cloacal Strains in an Organoid Model by Lonneke Vervelde, Thijs T. M. Manders, Samira Kammourieh, Jeanine Wiegel

“…Significantly higher (<i>p</i> < 0.0001) numbers of bacteria isolated from lesions invaded the organoids compared to cloacal strains in a dose-dependent manner. …”
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Regenerative Potential of Granulation Tissue in Periodontitis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis by Naiwen Tan, Maja Sabalic, Linh Nguyen, Francesco D’Aiuto

“…In particular, CD44+, CD73+, CD90+, CD105+, and CD146+ cells were found widely in granulation tissue whilst the only meta-analysis confirmed that CD90+ cells were present in lower numbers within the granulation tissue when compared with healthy periodontal tissue (WMD=−23.43%, 95% CI -30.43 to -16.44, p<0.00001). …”
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An Improved Sporulation Method for Producing Asexual Zoospores of Pythium aphanidermatum on Culture Medium by Yu Jin Kim, Seung Hyo Baek, Elena Volynchikova, Mee Kyung Sang, Ki Deok Kim

“…The results indicated that a temperature of 30 °C consistently yielded the highest numbers of zoospores across all incubation periods. …”
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Using Burstiness for Network Applications Classification by Hussein Oudah, Bogdan Ghita, Taimur Bakhshi, Abdulrahman Alruban, David J. Walker

“…This work utilises tcptrace to extract features based on traffic burstiness and periods of inactivity (idle time) for the analysed traffic, followed by the C5.0 algorithm for determining the applications that generated it. …”
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Modeling of structural and thermodynamics properties of sigma-phase for the Fe-Cr system by Udovskya A., Kupavtseva M.

“…The three- sub-lattice model (3SLM) for description of atom’s distribution of two components with different coordination numbers (12, 14 and 15), into s-phase structure depended on composition and temperature is depictured in this paper. …”
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