Performance Evaluation of a Preclinical SPECT Scanner with a Collimator Designed for Medium-Sized Animals by Yohji Matsusaka, Rudolf A. Werner, Paula Arias-Loza, Naoko Nose, Takanori Sasaki, Xinyu Chen, Constantin Lapa, Takahiro Higuchi

“…In the performance evaluation, a sensitivity of 790 cps/MBq, a spatial resolution with the hot-rod phantom of 2.5 mm, and a uniformity of 39.2% were achieved. The CNRs of the rod size 2.5 mm were 1.37, 1.24, 1.20, and 0.85 for activity concentration of 29.2, 1.0, 0.5, and 0.1 MBq/mL, respectively. …”
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Radiotherapy Combined with Immunotherapy and Chemotherapy Improves Prognosis and Demonstrates Synergistic Effects in Extensive-stage Small Cell Lung Cancer by Huaijun JI, Meiling SUN, Jingyi LI, Ge YU, Yongbing CHEN

“…Notably, the RT+IT+CT group achieved a markedly longer mOS than the IT+CT group (28.5 vs 15.8 mon, P=0.017). …”
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Impact of Different Serum Potassium Levels on Postresuscitation Heart Function and Hemodynamics in Patients with Nontraumatic Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest by Yan-Ren Lin, Yuan-Jhen Syue, Tsung-Han Lee, Chu-Chung Chou, Chin-Fu Chang, Chao-Jui Li

“…We aim to analyze the relationship between different levels of serum potassium and postresuscitation heart function during the early postresuscitation period (the first hour after achieving sustained ROSC). Methods. Information on 479 nontraumatic OHCA patients with sustained ROSC was retrospectively obtained. …”
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Progressivity of Judges in Domestic Violence Disputes Settlement in The Case of Divorce in The Religious Court by Nita Triana

“…The principle of law governing civil judges is passive, in reality this principle creates difficulties for women (wives) victims of domestic violence to achieve justice. The research method used is  non-doctrinal tradition with a socio-legal approach, and qualitative descriptive analysis. …”
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Application of additive manufacturing for the adaptive design of ultrasound phantoms by Lukas Zalka, Lukas Zalka, Johannes Köhrer, Johannes Köhrer, Chatsuda Songsaeng, Chatsuda Songsaeng, Peter Homolka, Christian Kollmann, Johann Hummel, Johann Hummel, Michael Figl, Michael Figl

“…In contrast, differences of around 100 m/s in the speed of sound in the PVA phantoms (from 1,558.53 to 1,662.27 m/s), as well as in the agar-based phantoms (from 1,501.74 to 1,609.36 m/s) could be achieved by adding glycerol, making these materials appropriate candidates for the design and fabrication of US phantoms with defined sections and details with different speed of sound and attenuation. …”
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Network Resilience and Rehabilitation Strategies for an Airport Movement Area Considering Traffic Flow and Road Class by Ruiling Mou, Rui Kang

“…The goal is to identify the optimal recovery strategy that achieves a dynamic balance between development and safety. …”
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Application of Surgical Protocols for the Treatment of Highly Irregular Astigmatism with Topographic Guided Ablation in a Case of Post-LASIK Ectasia by Motwani M, Agu E, Xu A, Yung M

“…With appropriate planning, patients with irregular corneas can achieve excellent refractive outcomes.Keywords: corneal cross-linking, post-LASIK ectasia, Phorcides, San Diego Protocol, topography-guided ablation…”
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Is the convergence insufficiency symptom survey applicable to elderly individuals? by Saeid Abdi, Haleh Kangari, Saeed Rahmani, Alireza Akbarzadeh Baghban, Zahra Kamary Rad

“…Effective discrimination was achieved with a score greater than 15, yielding a sensitivity of 72%, a specificity of 69%, and an Area Under the Curve (AUC) of 0.813. …”
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Costs of outpatient services at selected primary healthcare centers in Bangladesh: A cross-sectional study. by Md Zahid Hasan, Gazi Golam Mehdi, Khadija Islam Tisha, Md Golam Rabbani, Mohammad Wahid Ahmed, Subrata Paul, Ziaul Islam, Shehrin Shaila Mahmood

“…Addressing this gap requires a fundamental shift towards a demand-driven resource allocation model within the healthcare financing strategy to improve healthcare access and achieve health for all.…”
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Ferroelectric Transistor-Based Synaptic Crossbar Arrays: The Impact of Ferroelectric Thickness and Device-Circuit Interactions by Chunguang Wang, Sumeet Kumar Gupta

“…Our results show that FeFETs with <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$T_{\text {FE}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> around 7 nm achieve the highest CiM robustness, while FeFETs with <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$T_{\text {FE}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> around 10 nm offer the lowest CiM energy and latency. …”
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Robust and Adaptive Tuning of PI Current Controllers for Grid-Forming Inverters by Florian Reisner, George Weiss

“…In this paper we investigate the influence of the grid impedance, and various control parameters of a GFM inverter with PI current controllers and virtual impedances, and give recommendations for the tuning of all the parameters to achieve stability in a wide range of grid conditions. …”
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Deconstrucţia canonului literar în critica actuală română şi sârbă by Mariana Dan

“…Both Romanian and Serbian literary critics have recently tried to re-evaluate the literary achievements of the past from a nowadays perspective. …”
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Aligning urban forest management actions with urban sustainability goals: A multi‐city expert elicitation by Corinne G. Bassett, Susan D. Day, Cecil C. Konijnendijk, Lara A. Roman, Victoria Hemming

“…Abstract City leaders are setting ambitious plans to achieve critical urban sustainability goals such as reducing urban heat, mitigating flooding during storms, and conserving biodiversity, and increasingly rely on urban forests as a key nature‐based solution to such challenges. …”
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Tick-borne encephalitis vaccination in persons with a recent history of Lyme borreliosis: Insights from a Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviour survey in Bavaria, Germany by Stefanie Böhm, Andreas Beyerlein, Volker Fingerle, Merle M. Böhmer, Manfred Wildner

“…Main barriers were vaccine scepticism, fear of side effects, not having given TBE vaccination any thought and low risk perception.These results suggest that in order to achieve a higher vaccination coverage to prevent TBE cases, awareness about TBE risk areas and the recommended vaccination need to be raised. …”
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Systematic preclinical evaluation of CD33-directed chimeric antigen receptor T cell immunotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia defines optimized construct design by Haiying Qin, Nirali N Shah, Terry J Fry, Lila Yang, John A Chukinas, Samiksha Tarun, Marie Pouzolles, Christopher D Chien, Lisa M Niswander, Anthony R Welch, Sarah K Tasian, Naomi A Taylor

“…Background Successful development of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell immunotherapy for children and adults with relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is highly desired given their poor clinical prognosis and frequent inability to achieve cure with conventional chemotherapy. Initial experiences with CD19 CAR T cell immunotherapy for patients with B-cell malignancies highlighted the critical impact of intracellular costimulatory domain selection (CD28 vs 4-1BB (CD137)) on CAR T cell expansion and in vivo persistence that may impact clinical outcomes. …”
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Pengenalan Jalan Berlubang Berbasis Vision Menggunakan Pyramid Histogram Of Oriented Gradients by Ahmad Habib Fitriansyah, Ema Rachmawati, Risnandar Risnandar

“…The proposed system uses shape features extracted from Pyramid Histogram of Oriented Gradients (PHOG) and a Support Vector Machine (SVM) with polynomial kernels for classification. The system achieves high accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-Score, with an accuracy of 94.45%, precision of 96.130%, recall of 95.77%, and F1-Score of 95.950%. …”
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Evaluation of an assistive exosuit for alleviating neck and shoulder muscle fatigue during prolonged flexed neck posture by Hang Man Cho, Jae-Ryeong Choi, Jung-Hwan Moon, Kyu-Jin Cho, Seung-Won Kim

“…The prime experiment was conducted with 26 subjects for 15 min to quantitatively evaluate the reduction in muscle fatigue achieved by wearing the exosuit and to assess its qualitative usability from the user’s perspective. …”
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Resilience-oriented passenger subsidy design for taxi travel under pandemic control by Lei Xia, Zhengfeng Huang, Gao Gao, Pengjun Zheng

“…Additionally, we investigate the effectiveness of passenger subsidy schemes in improving the taxi travel resilience. To achieve these objectives, our research follows these steps: Firstly, we analyze the impact of different pandemic control measures on the performance variation curves of the taxi travel system. …”
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Akin Ogundiran: The Historian and Archaeologist of Yoruba-Atlantic becomes Chancellor Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte by Toyin Falola

“…This distinguished title is a university-wide honor reserved for a full professor who has attained outstanding scholarly achievement in a professional field, and excelled in interdisciplinary research, teaching, and service in more than one department or college. …”
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Efficacy of Weekly Split versus Single Doses of Ergocalciferol on Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D among Patients on Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis: A Randomized Controlled Tri... by Naowanit Nata, Jessada Kanchanasinitth, Pamila Tasanavipas, Ouppatham Supasyndh, Bancha Satirapoj

“…Weekly single and split doses of ergocalciferol 60,000 IU achieved similar effects on serum 25(OH)D levels among patients on CAPD with vitamin D insufficiency or deficiency, suggesting that weekly single dose would be prescribed for adequate vitamin D repletion. …”
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