Detecting gene copy number alterations by Oncomine Comprehensive genomic profiling in a comparative study on FFPE tumor samples by Fabio Bozzi, Elena Conca, Marco Silvestri, Gianpaolo Dagrada, Alice Ardore, Donata Penso, Daniele Lorenzini, Chiara Costanza Volpi, Desirè Viola Trupia, Adele Busico, Iolanda Capone, Federica Perrone, Elena Tamborini, Andrea Vingiani, Luca Agnelli, Giancarlo Pruneri

“…Herein, the CNAs detection by a widely used NGS assay (Oncomine Comprehensive Assay plus®, OCA+) were evaluated in 14 FFPE samples mirroring diagnostic daily practice and compared to a whole-genome assay. …”
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RETRACTED: The economic case for blend fuels: A cost-benefit analysis in the European context by Cemil Koyunoğlu

“…This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief.The journal was alerted to issues within this article including the presence of the phrase ''As of my knowledge cutoff in 2021,'' indicative of ChatGPT output, the unknown provenance of fourteen case studies, and a nonsensical Figure 1, as detailed here: https://pubpeer.com/publications/80DA33E23C3638EC6CDB6E0389C3B2.As per journal policy, the author was contacted and asked to provide an explanation to these concerns. …”
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Concurrent Stenoocclusive Disease of Intracranial and Extracranial Arteries in a Patient with Polycythemia Vera by Le H. Hua, Robert L. Dodd, Neil E. Schwartz

“…The pathophysiology of moyamoya remains obscure, but hematologic disorders, notably sickle-cell anemia, have been associated in some cases. We describe the novel case of polycythemia vera associated with severe steno-occlusive disease of both intracranial and extracranial large arteries. …”
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Research on Data Analysis and Visualization of Recruitment Positions Based on Text Mining by Yuanyuan Chen, Ruijie Pan

“…However, existing online recruitment platforms fail to fully combine the job seekers’ demands for salary, region, benefits, and other aspects, which cloud not display the information related to recruitment positions in a multidimensional way. …”
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Linguistic and cultural adaptation of the Questionnaire on Negative Stereotypes towards Old Age for health professionals in Cuba by Yaima Jiménez Abreu, Damian Valdés Santiago, Marta Martín Carbonell

“…<p><strong>Foundation:</strong> The Questionnaire on Negative Stereotypes towards Old Age has been one of the most widely used instruments to assess these stereotypes; however, it has not been linguistically or culturally adapted for health professionals in Cuba.…”
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Marriage by Proxy: A Remedy to Divorce and Single Parenting as Presented in Ifá Ogbèdí Divination Poetry by Samuel Kayode Olaleye

“… Marriage is an important aspect of life in Africa and other nations around the world. …”
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Prognostic Value of Endothelial Progenitor Cells in Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients by Gongjie Ye, Xiaodan Chen, Yinchao Zhou, Jianqing Zhou, Yongfei Song, Xiaoyong Yang, Lei Yang

“…In the univariate analysis, it was observed that the 28-days mortality rate was associated with the several factors, including the APACHEⅡscore (P=0.00), vasoactive inotropic score (P=0.03), GAP (P=0.00), HCY (P=0.00), creatinine (P=0.00), C-reactive protein (P=0.00), HbAlc (P=0.00), CI (P=0.01), quartiles of CD34+/CD133+ cells (P=0.00), and quartiles of CD34+/CD133+/KDR+ cells (P=0.00). …”
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Des allégories des Saisons sur les tissus coptes by Amandine Mérat

“…This search for identities is moreover often distorted or led astray by the Western vision of researchers who, influenced by Christian art of the medieval period, regularly attribute a Christian saintly dimension to any figure with a nimbus around his or her head. …”
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Remarks on μ″-measurbale sets: regularity, σ-smootheness, and measurability by Carman Vlad

“…I(ℒ) denotes the subset of ℳ(ℒ) of nontrivial zero-one valued measures. Associated with μ∈I(ℒ) (or Iσ(ℒ)) are the outer measures μ′ and μ″ considered in detail. …”
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Validación de la Prueba de identificación de Trastornos por Consumo de Alcohol en adolescentes peruanos by Jonatan Baños-Chaparro

“…La estructura unidimensional fue aceptable (CFI= 0,99; RMSEA= 0,01; SRMR= 0,01), adecuada confiabilidad (ωbayes= 0,81; H= 0,98), invarianza según sexo y relación con el maltrato infantil y la ideación suicida. Asimismo, el ítem 3 fue el que mayor discriminó el rasgo latente y la escala resulta útil en niveles altos de consumo de alcohol. …”
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Subjectve Rights, Freedoms and Legitimate Interests of Convicted Persons to Imprisonment by L. B. Smirnov

“…The article deals with the theoretical and law enforcement aspects of the subjective rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of convicts serving sentences in prison. …”
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Effects of perioperative treatment of resectable adenocarcinoma of esophagogastric junction by immunotherapy (Adebrelimab) combined with chemotherapy (XELOX): protocol for a single... by Yingyi Li, Yuqin Cao, Xipeng Wang, Chengqiang Li, Liqin Zhao, Hecheng Li

“…Considering the differences in chemotherapy regimen tolerance between Asian and Western populations, this study intends to evaluate the suitability of Adebrelimab combined with XELOX chemotherapy for the Asian population. …”
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Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis of Plates Stiffened by Parallel Beams with Deformable Connection by J. A. Dourakopoulos, E. J. Sapountzakis

“…The plate-beam structure is assumed to undergo moderate large deflections and the nonlinear analysis is carried out by retaining nonlinear terms in the kinematical relations. …”
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An Experimental Study of WSN Power Efficiency: MICAz Networks with XMesh by Tyler W. Davis, Xu Liang, Miguel Navarro, Diviyansh Bhatnagar, Yao Liang

“…It focuses on the study of the practical aspects of WSNs' power efficiency and network characteristics, which play a critical role in real-word WSN deployments for environmental monitoring. …”
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Lecture poétique des langues locales : cas de Nyanndra Mun (Proverbes) du Roi Salomon by Koffi Samuel N’ZI & Kouamé Gilles YAO

“…Au plan littéraire et linguistique, le corpus se révèle être un ancrage des assises des canons de la littérature et mise en fonctionnement des attentes stylistique, lexicale et sémantico-structurale, qui au demeurant satisfait les attentes des approches méthodologiques convoquées. …”
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Reliability of Using Retinal Vascular Fractal Dimension as a Biomarker in the Diabetic Retinopathy Detection by Fan Huang, Behdad Dashtbozorg, Jiong Zhang, Erik Bekkers, Samaneh Abbasi-Sureshjani, Tos T. J. M. Berendschot, Bart M. ter Haar Romeny

“…However, conflicting findings were found in the reported literature regarding the association between this biomarker and diseases. In this paper, we examine the stability of the FD measurement with respect to (1) different vessel annotations obtained from human observers, (2) automatic segmentation methods, (3) various regions of interest, (4) accuracy of vessel segmentation methods, and (5) different imaging modalities. …”
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Nursing of a patient with epigastric pain treated by acupoint finger-pressing combined with Traditional Chinese Medicine ointment rubbing therapy (手指点穴联合中药膏摩治疗胃脘部胀痛1例的护理体会)... by LU Xiaofang (逯小芳), DIAO Xinyue (刁欣悦), LI Ke (李可), LIU Haiyang (刘海洋)

“…Key issues of nursing included nursing assessment, lifestyle guidance, diet nursing, acupoint finger-pressing and Traditional Chinese Medicine ointment rubbing therapy. …”
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Influence of Weight Gain Rate on Early Life Nutritional Status and Body Composition of Children by Sarah Aparecida Vieira, Taís Cristina Araújo Magalhães, Andréia Queiroz Ribeiro, Silvia Eloiza Priore, Sylvia do Carmo Castro Franceschini, Luciana Ferreira da Rocha Sant’Ana

“…In the nutritional status assessment, the prevalence of overweight observed was 24.9%. …”
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Diversity and Complexity of CTXΦ and Pre-CTXΦ Families in <em>Vibrio cholerae</em> from Seventh Pandemic by Xiaorui Li, Yu Han, Wenxuan Zhao, Yue Xiao, Siyu Huang, Zhenpeng Li, Fenxia Fan, Weili Liang, Biao Kan

“…We identified two CTXΦ members and six pre-CTXΦ members with distinct <i>rstR</i> alleles, revealing complex chromosomal DNA integration patterns and arrangements of different prophages in these strains. Promoter activity assays showed that the transcriptional repressor RstR protected against CTXΦ superinfection by preventing the replication and integration of CTXΦ/pre-CTXΦ phages containing the same <i>rstR</i> allele, supporting the co-integration of the diverse CTXΦ/pre-CTXΦ members observed. …”
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Percepción y manejo de la muerte descendente de mango (Mangifera indica L.) en Actopan, Veracruz, México by Juan Carlos Noa-Carrazana, Norma Flores-Estévez, Felipe Roberto Flores-de la Rosa, Luis Guillermo Hernández-Montiel, Liliana Eunice Saucedo-Picazo

“…La  muerte descendente fue reconocida por todos los productores encuestados; los principales síntomas asociados con la enfermedad son: gomosis, pudrición de ramas y tronco. …”
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