Residual HCV-RNA and Elevated Platelet-to-Lymphocyte Ratio Predict Poor Long-Term Outcomes in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C After Treatment by Anna Wróblewska, Mateusz Gliwiński, Magda Rybicka, Małgorzata Cheba, Beata Lorenc, Piotr Trzonkowski, Krzysztof P. Bielawski, Katarzyna Sikorska

“…Abstract Introduction Despite achieving sustained viral response (SVR) after treatment with direct-acting antivirals (DAAs), the risk of liver disease progression and extrahepatic complications in chronic hepatitis C (CHC) remains. …”
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التشتت النوعی لمحرکات البحث ومدى الوعی بها والإفادة منها by د. عزة فاروق الجوهرى

“…Is there awareness by the researchers and sciencestudents in particular? To achieve this, the study used the methodology ofdescriptive analysis, as the use of device which the questionnaire that has beenpresented to 200 Single of the researchers working Beni Suef Universitycommunity (faculty members and their assistants) questionnaire included a list of40 the types of search engine name to find out the extent of awareness,knowledge and use of these engines, and the results yielded was limited to tentypes of qualitative research engines, as has been proved that there are levels ofquality loopback between the search of one type engines according to individual assessments and additional interactive services and potential feedback. …”
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Volt/VAr Regulation of the West Mediterranean Regional Electrical Grids Using SVC/STATCOM Devices With Neural Network Algorithms by H. Feza Carlak, Ergin Kayar

“…In the realistic model, voltage and reactive power regulation is achieved by using SVC and STATCOM devices to ensure voltage stability. …”
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Strategic triangle ‘Russia — India — China’: Structure and problems of interaction by Xu Zhu

“…While China and Russia maintain close strategic cooperation in almost all areas, in the case of India and Russia, economic cooperation does not match the achieved level of political contacts, and Sino-Indian relations, despite the generally positive dynamics during the recent years, remain at a low level. …”
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Biodiversity reporting: Comparing listed entities in the United Kingdom and South Africa by Dino Da Mata, Timothy Lai, Dusan Ecim, Warren Maroun, Dannielle Cerbone

“…The findings help stakeholders assess organisations’ progress in achieving biodiversity objectives and integrating biodiversity considerations into business operations. …”
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Directions of Civil Service Institutional Transformation by G. A. Borshevskiy

“…It is necessary to implement the new basic legal principle of targeting efforts of the civil servants to achieve economic growth and improve the quality of citizens life. …”
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Performance of phenomic selection in rice: Effects of population size and genotype-environment interactions on predictive ability. by Hugues de Verdal, Vincent Segura, David Pot, Niclolas Salas, Vincent Garin, Tatiana Rakotoson, Louis-Marie Raboin, Kirsten VomBrocke, Julie Dusserre, Sergio Antonion Castro Pacheco, Cecile Grenier

“…However, with data from multiple environments, using genotypic random effect and relationship matrix per environment, PP achieved comparable accuracies to GP. Combining PP and GP information did not significantly improve predictions compared to the best model using a single source of information (e.g., average predictive ability of GP, PP, and combined GP and PP for grain yield were of 0.44, 0.42, and 0.44, respectively). …”
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Adaptive radiotherapy in locally advanced head and neck cancer: The importance of reduced margins by Hedda Enocson, André Haraldsson, Per Engström, Sofie Ceberg, Maria Gebre-Medhin, Gabriel Adrian, Per Munck af Rosenschöld

“…Daily non-adapted D98%,CTV was > 95 % in 890 (5 mm) and 825 (2 mm) out of 902 fractions. All adapted plans achieved D98%,CTV > 95 %. Significant reductions in mean doses to OARs were observed for PTV = 2 mm ART-plans: 4.1 Gy for parotid, 2.6 Gy for submandibular, 3.3 Gy for oral cavity, 4.0 Gy for esophagus, and 3.8 Gy for larynx. …”
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IMViT: Adjacency Matrix-Based Lightweight Plain Vision Transformer by Qihao Chen, Yunfeng Yan, Xianbo Wang, Jishen Peng

“…Extensive experiments show that the proposed lightweight IMViT-B outperforms DeiTIII, this paper IMViT-B(300 epochs) achieves a top accuracy of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$82.8~\%$ </tex-math></inline-formula> on ImageNet-1K with only 26M parameters, surpasses the DeiTIII-S(800 epochs) +1.4%, with a similar number of parameters and computation cost. …”
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Large Language Models in Dental Licensing Examinations: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Mingxin Liu, Tsuyoshi Okuhara, Wenbo Huang, Atsushi Ogihara, Hikari Sophia Nagao, Hiroko Okada, Takahiro Kiuchi

“…GPT-3.5, GPT-4, and Bard achieved integrated accuracy rates of 54%, 72%, and 56%, respectively. …”
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Dynamic Coupling Analysis of Vehicle-Bridge System for Long-Span Suspension Bridge Based on Backpropagation Neural Network Method by Zuolong Luo, Xiaobo Zheng, Haoyun Yuan, Xirong Niu

“…It is shown through a numerical example that, compared with FEM, the proposed method is much more economical to achieve reasonable accuracy when dealing with the dynamic coupling problem of the vehicle-bridge system. …”
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MEMPSEP‐I. Forecasting the Probability of Solar Energetic Particle Event Occurrence Using a Multivariate Ensemble of Convolutional Neural Networks by Subhamoy Chatterjee, Maher A. Dayeh, Andrés Muñoz‐Jaramillo, Hazel M. Bain, Kimberly Moreland, Samuel Hart

“…This work focuses on estimating true SEP occurrence probabilities achieving a 2.5% improvement in reliability and a Brier score of 0.14. …”
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Multisensory Stimulation in Rehabilitation of Dementia: A Systematic Review by Andrea Calderone, Angela Marra, Rosaria De Luca, Desirèe Latella, Francesco Corallo, Angelo Quartarone, Francesco Tomaiuolo, Rocco Salvatore Calabrò

“…Sonas therapy, while showing positive trends in some studies, does not consistently achieve statistically significant outcomes across all cognitive domains. …”
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Psychometric Validation of the Hepatitis C Symptom and Impact Questionnaire (HCV-SIQv4) in a Diverse Sample of Adults with Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection Treated with an Inter... by Andrew Trigg, Eric Chan, Helen Kitchen, Tom Willgoss, Kai Fai Ho, Renee Pierson, Jane Scott

“…Greater symptom severity and worse impact scores were associated with liver cirrhosis, depression, severe fatigue and health limitations. Patients who achieved SVR12 had better outcomes than those failing to. …”
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Knowledge and Practice of Employed Mothers towards Exclusive Breastfeeding and Its Associated Factors in Mecha District, Northwest Ethiopia by Amare Lisanu Mazengia, Hibru Demissie

“…The objective of this study was to assess the knowledge and practice of employed mothers towards exclusive breastfeeding and its associated factors in Mecha district, Amhara Region, Northwest Ethiopia, 2019. Methods. …”
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Groundwater quality and associated health risks in the Eastern Region of Ghana by Thomas Acquah, Miriam Appiah-Brempong, Geophrey Kwame Anornu

“…Thus, this study aimed to assess water quality, predict the sources of groundwater contaminants, evaluate the human health risk and to generate spatial distribution and health risk maps. In achieving this, the water quality of 136 boreholes in the region was evaluated through Water Quality Index (WQI) and Groundwater Pollution Index (GPI) analyses. …”
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Nutritional Status and Cardiovascular Health in Female Adolescent Elite-Level Artistic Gymnasts and Swimmers: A Cross-Sectional Study of 31 Athletes by Boštjan Jakše, Barbara Jakše, Nataša Fidler Mis, Borut Jug, Dorica Šajber, Uroš Godnov, Ivan Čuk

“…Nutritional status is important for health and competitive achievement. This area remains understudied among elite-level female athletes and is appropriate for research. …”
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Notice of suspicion: procedural significance and influence on the methodology of pre-trial investigation by Volobuyev A.

“…Methodology. In order to achieve the specified goal, an analysis of national criminal procedural legislation, court practice and scientific publications on the problematic issues of the notification of suspicion and the possibility of appealing it was carried out. …”
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Evaluation of crop and pond-deepening adaptations to climate change in saline coastal Bangladesh: Benefit-cost and risk analysis by Md. Jahangir Kabir, Donald S. Gaydon, Rob Cramb

“…IWP of potential DS crops following optimum sowing increased by 89–433 % under the current conditions and by 28–158 % under future conditions, compared to farmers’ practices. Notably, achieving a higher grain yield per hectare does not always correspond to higher economic returns from the limited freshwater supply across crops. …”
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Exploring the novel environmentally friendly highly hydrophobic TiO2 coating for enhanced anti-corrosion performance of steel in potential industrial applications by Haewon Byeon, J. Sunil

“…Potentiodynamic polarization and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) results revealed that the TiO2 coating achieved the lowest corrosion current density (1.7839 μA/cm2) and the highest protection efficiency (80.24 %) in NaCl electrolyte. …”
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