Dynamic monitoring and drivers of ecological environmental quality in the Three-North region, China: Insights based on remote sensing ecological index by Leyi Zhang, Xia Li, Xiuhua Liu, Zhiyang Lian, Guozhuang Zhang, Zuyu Liu, Shuangxian An, Yuexiao Ren, Yile Li, Shangdong Liu

“…Future trends are likely to reflect those of the past 23 years, with improvement still predominant (37.5 % of the total), albeit with limited sustainability (including NWC). …”
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Bilateral Virtual Water Trade Balance and Sustainable Development using the Gravity Model An Explanation by sepideh ameri golestan, sadegh bakhtiari, Sara Ghobadi

“…Discussion and Conclusion In this research, bilateral virtual water trade about rice, watermelon, dates, wheat, and pistachio products between Iran and its major agricultural partners has been investigated. …”
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FTO rs17817449 Variant Increases the Risk of Severe Obesity in a Brazilian Cohort: A Case-Control Study by Salum KCR, Assis ISS, Kopke ÚA, Palhinha L, Abreu GM, Gouvêa LW, Teixeira MR, Mattos FCC, Nogueira Neto JF, Felício RFM, Rosado EL, Zembrzuski VM, Campos Junior M, Maya-Monteiro CM, Cabello PH, Carneiro JRI, Bozza PT, Kohlrausch FB, da Fonseca ACP

“…The leptin-melanocortin pathway integrates peripheral signals about the body’s energy stores with a central neuronal circuit in the hypothalamus. …”
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Exploring Future Pandemic Preparedness Through the Development of Preventive Vaccine Platforms and the Key Roles of International Organizations in a Global Health Crisis by Jihee Jeon, Eunyoung Kim

“…While the acceleration of vaccine development has been successful, concerns have been raised about the technical limits, safety, supply, and distribution of vaccines. …”
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Myocarditis and neutrophil-mediated vascular leakage but not cytokine storm associated with fatal murine leptospirosisResearch in context by Stylianos Papadopoulos, David Hardy, Frédérique Vernel-Pauillac, Magali Tichit, Ivo G. Boneca, Catherine Werts

“…Mice and rats are more resistant to acute disease and can carry leptospires asymptomatically in the kidneys and act as reservoirs, shedding leptospires into the environment. …”
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Serological Profile of Anti-<i>Toxoplasma gondii</i> Antibodies in Liver Transplant Recipients by Gabriella Beltrame Pintos, Francielly Camilla Bazílio Laurindo Pires, Nathália Zini, Rita Cássia Martins Alves da Silva, Francisco Inaldo Mendes Silva Junior, Renato Ferreira da Silva, Tainara Souza Pinho, Luiz Carlos de Mattos, Cinara Cássia Brandão

“…The percentages of coinfection by <i>T. gondii</i> with hepatitis A, B, and C were 47.9%, 20.8%, and 12.5%, respectively. About 41.7% of the recipients later died. The data demonstrate that infection by <i>T. gondii</i> is common in liver transplant recipients, and it is not associated with the analyzed demographic, clinical, and epidemiological data.…”
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Spare Parts Inventory Optimization for Military Vehicles Using a Mixed Probability Distribution by Mojtaba Salehi, Mojtaba Omidvar, Shohreh Shariati

“…Research limitations: This research was conducted on a case-by-case basis on the parts of military vehicles of the 177th brigade of Torbat Heydarieh city, so it should be possible to generalize it to other organizations, and because it was typically a cross-sectional study, conclusions about on the causality might seem difficult. Practical implications: The main challenge in the supply chain is to control inventory levels by determining the size of orders for each department during each period to optimize the objective function, which has been investigated in various studies because inventory optimization is one of the important and practical techniques for optimizing the economic value of the order and realizing a stable situation in a production system. …”
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A Pragmatic Approach to Rhetorical Technique of "Exaggeration" Based on Grice’s "Cooperative Principle" by Hassan Rahmani, Qasem Mokhtari, Mohammad Jorfi, Ebrahim Anari Bozchlooi, Mahmoud Shahbazi

“…Exaggeration is among the most prominent rhetorical techniques that has long been of significant interest to linguists and scholars, specifically under the discipline of Badi (rhetorical embellishment). What is important about this rhetorical technique, like any other rhetorical technique, is the process by which it was created and how it is received and read. …”
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Reflecting on the impact of the COVID pandemic on patient management and its subsequent influence on long-term outcomes: a case–control study in the field of esophago-gastric cance... by Mohamed Alasmar, Nadia Matias, Norah Ali M. Alhamed, Omneya Alwani, Brogan Rudge, Terngu David Moti, Muhammad Ossama Yassin Abdelwahab, Jennifer Stockton, Charef Raslan, Jess Cairney-Hill, Mohammad Altarawni, Bilal Alkhaffaf, on behalf Greater Manchester Oesophago-Gastric Service

“…A further significant observation was the emergence of more aggressive tumour characteristics, particularly in the P2 group, albeit without a statistically significant difference in two-year overall survival rates among the groups (p-value 0.31). …”
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Enzyme-responsive vitamin D-based micelles for paclitaxel-controlled delivery and synergistic pancreatic cancer therapy by Diana Peixoto, João M. Ravasco, Barbara Blanco-Fernandez, Francisco Veiga, Angel Concheiro, João Conde, Ana Cláudia Paiva-Santos, Carmen Alvarez-Lorenzo

“…The findings reported here indicate that VD3S-PEG micelles may have a promising role in PDAC therapy, since VD3 could act not only as a hydrophobic core of the micelles but also as a therapeutic agent that provides synergetic therapeutic effects with the encapsulated PTX.…”
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Diverse fox circovirus (Circovirus canine) variants circulate at high prevalence in grey wolves (Canis lupus) from the Northwest Territories, Canada by Canuti, Marta, King, Abigail V.L., Franzo, Giovanni, Cluff, H. Dean, Larsen, Lars E., Fenton, Heather, Dufour, Suzanne C., Lang, Andrew S.

“…We analyzed spleen samples from 159 grey wolves from the Northwest Territories, Canada, to investigate the molecular epidemiology of CanineCV and formulate hypotheses about virus ecology and evolution. Overall, 72 out of 159 (45.3%) animals tested positive. …”
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Profil glucido-lipidique et risque cardiovasculaire chez les diabétiques de type 2 by Mourad Nachi, Ibtissem Kihel, Abdessamad Dali-Ali, Mouna Gourine, Fouzia Benrahal

“… Abstract Background-Diabetes is a real health public problem because of its many potential complications, particularly the cardiovascular ones.The aim of this work was to describe the clinical and biological profile in type 2 diabetic population, then to study the relationship between glycemic control and lipid abnormalities with micro and macro vascular complications. Methods - It was about a retrospective study of 341 type 2 diabetes patients’ with an average age of 60.1 ± 11.71 years.The IBM® SPSS statistics 20.0 software was used for analyzing data. …”
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Ethyl Lactate Ameliorates Hepatic Steatosis and Acute‐on‐Chronic Liver Injury in Alcohol‐Associated Liver Disease by Inducing Fibroblast Growth Factor 21 by Yang Jiang, Shuang Wei, Shiming Shen, Yuxiao Liu, Weitong Su, Dong Ding, Zengpeng Zheng, Haokai Yu, Tingting Zhang, Qiuli Yang, Jiuxiang Zhao, Yi Shen, Xia Fang, Liangcai Lin, Dongguang Xiao, Aoyuan Cui, Qin Wan, Yadong Zhang, Yu Li, Cuiying Zhang

“…Moreover, little is known about whether and how nonethanol ingredients in alcoholic beverages regulate the pathogenesis of ALD. …”
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Unveiling chemical industry secrets: Insights gleaned from scientific literatures that examine internal chemical corporate documents-A scoping review. by Miaoran Dong, Marc-André Gagnon

“…The scientific literature analyzing the pharmaceutical industry's internal document tends to identify strategies maximizing profits through the biased promotion of health products, whereas the scientific literature analyzing the chemical industry's internal documents is more inclined in identifying strategies institutionalizing ignorance about existing risks, evading accountability, and preventing regulatory actions.…”
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H. pylori-Associated Gastritis, Gastritis after H. pylori Eradication and H. pylori-Negative Gastritis: Algorithm of Diagnosis and Treatment (Literature Review and Resolution of... by V. T. Ivashkin, I. V. Maev, T. L. Lapina, Yu. A. Kucheryavyy, S. R. Abdulkhakov, O. P. Alekseeva, S. A. Alekseenko, D. N. Andreev, I. G. Bakulin, N. V. Bakulina, D. S. Bordin, Z. M. Galeeva, N. N. Dekhnich, N. V. Korochanskaya, R. O. Kuvaev, M. A. Livzan, M. F. Osipenko, S. S. Pirogov, V. I. Simanenkov, O. A. Storonova, A. S. Tertychnyy, A. S. Trukhmanov, Yu. P. Uspenskiy, I. B. Khlynov, V. V. Tsukanov

“…H. pylori incidence rate in the Russian population has reduced and presently is about 40 %. In chronic gastritis pattern H. pylori-associated gastritis has still dominated though gastritis percent after successful H. pylori eradication, reactive gastropathy (including reflux gastritis) and autoimmune gastritis, has increased. …”
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Construction of a circadian rhythm-related gene signature for predicting the prognosis and immune infiltration of breast cancer by Lin Ni, Lin Ni, He Li, Yanqi Cui, Wanqiu Xiong, Shuming Chen, Hancong Huang, Zhiwei Wang, Hu Zhao, Hu Zhao, Hu Zhao, Bing Wang, Bing Wang, Bing Wang

“…On this basis, a circadian gene prediction model about BC prognosis was constructed and validated. …”
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Spondilitis Tuberkulosa Cervical by Roni Eka Saputra, Irsal Munandar

“…Pain was initially<br />perceived as a limitation of neck movement when turned to the left and right side, and bowed his head. Perceived pain<br />exacerbated by movement and reduced if the rest. …”
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Iodine-131 Combined With Plasma Exchange Treatment in Graves’ Hyperthyroidism Patients With Severe Liver Injury Whose Average Model for End-Stage Liver Disease Scores >20 by Xin-Fang Zhu, Rong-Rong Ding, Bing-Yao Wang, Yun-hui Yang, Fu-Xia Ta, Yuan Wang, Qing-Mei Gao, Qi Zhang, Rong Xia, Xing-Guang Luo, Xuan Wang, Jian-Ming Zheng, Hui-Qing Zhu

“…Conclusion: Our study enrolled Graves’ hyperthyroidism patients with severe liver injury whose average MELD scores were greater than 20, and shows that liver function test can recover on about 3 months treated iodine-131 combined with PE therapy.…”
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Use and Outcomes of Dexamethasone in the Management of Malignant Small Bowel Obstruction by Frank F. Yang, MD, Elina Serrano, MD, Kyle S. Bilodeau, MD, Michael Weykamp, MD, Caitlin J. Silvestri, MD, Ashleigh C. M. Bull, MD, Brenda Lin, MD, Sara L. Schaefer, MD, Colette Galet, PhD, Luis J. Garcia, MD, FACS, Baraka Gitonga, BS, David T. Kolodziej, BS, Samantha Esposito, BS, Molly Parker-Brigham, BS, Rohan Luhar, BS, Avinash Mamgain, MS, Kendrick C. Brown, BS, Summer Dewdney, MD, Thea P. Price, MD, FACS, Nicole Siparsky, MD, FACS, Sarah Knerr, PhD, Pauline K. Park, MD, FACS, Sabrina Sanchez, MD, FACS, Dionne A. Skeete, MD, FACS, Katherine N. Fischkoff, MD, FACS, David R. Flum, MD, FACS

“…Dexamethasone was used in about 1 in 4 eligible mSBO admissions with high variability of use between tertiary academic centers. …”
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Diethyldithiocarbamate-copper complex ignites the tumor microenvironment through NKG2D-NKG2DL axis by Daciana C. Dumut, Daciana C. Dumut, Marian Hajduch, Marian Hajduch, Amanda M. Zacharias, Qingling Duan, Qingling Duan, Ivo Frydrych, Zuzana Rozankova, Zuzana Rozankova, Miroslav Popper, Miroslav Popper, Dusan Garic, Radu Alexandru Paun, Radu Alexandru Paun, Amanda Centorame, Amanda Centorame, Juhi Shah, Martin Mistrik, Martin Mistrik, Petr Dzubak, Petr Dzubak, Juan B. De Sanctis, Juan B. De Sanctis, Danuta Radzioch, Danuta Radzioch, Danuta Radzioch, Danuta Radzioch

“…While the prior represents about 5% of all CRCs, the latter represent 95% and are characterized by low immunogenicity. …”
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