Long-Term Treatment Outcome after Only Popliteal Lymph Node Dissection for Nodal Metastasis in Malignant Melanoma of the Heel: The Only “Interval Node” Dissection Can Be an Adequate Surgical Treatment by Kentaro Tanaka, Hiroki Mori, Mutsumi Okazaki, Aya Nishizawa, Hiroo Yokozeki

“…The first site of drainage is the sentinel node, and the popliteal node can be a sentinel node. The inguinal node is not a sentinel node in all lower extremity melanomas. …”
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Changes in Serum TSH and T4 Levels after Switching the Levothyroxine Administration Time from before Breakfast to before Dinner by S. Ala, O. Akha, Z. Kashi, A. Bahar, H. Askari Rad, N. Sasanpour, A. Shiva

“…Changing the levothyroxine administration time resulted in 1.47 ± 0.51 µIU/mL increase in TSH level (p=0.001) and 0.35 ± 1.05 µg/dL decrease in T4 level (p=0.3). …”
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Advances in Biomedical Missing Data Imputation: A Survey by Miriam Barrabes, Maria Perera, Victor Novelle Moriano, Xavier Giro-I-Nieto, Daniel Mas Montserrat, Alexander G. Ioannidis

“…Missing values compromise data quality and can make it difficult to perform data-based studies. …”
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Click reaction-induced in situ nanoparticle aggregation for cancer imaging and treatment by Yun Yin, Xiaoyang Liu, Xuemei Li, Gaolin Liang

“…Herein, we introduce and classify in situ nanoparticle aggregation for biomedical imaging and therapeutic applications induced by four types of common click reactions: copper-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC), strain-promoted azide–alkyne cycloaddition (SPAAC), click condensation between 2-cyanobenzothiazole (CBT) and cysteine (Cys), and inverse electron-demand Diels–Alder (iEDDA). …”
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Breast cancer: relation between quality of life and physical activity level by Marina Ribovski, Adriana Coutinho de Azevedo Guimarães, Leonessa Boing, Fabiana Flores Sperandio, Mirella Dias, Nycolle Martins Reis

“…There was a significant difference on the functional scale for the items physical function (p=0.007) and role performance (p=0.048), with better quality of life values for active women, as well as on the symptom scale for the items loss of appetite (p=0.005) and pain (p=0.040). …”
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Temporal Validation of a Predictive Score for Death in Children with Visceral Leishmaniasis by Juliana Foinquinos, Maria do Carmo Duarte, Jose Natal Figueiroa, Jailson B. Correia, Nara Vasconcelos Cavalcanti

“…The Sampaio et al. 2010 model demonstrated inadequate calibration in the validation cohort (Spiegelhalter test: p=0.007). It also presented unsatisfactory discriminative capacity, evaluated by the area under the ROC curve = 0.618. …”
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Comparative potential of black tea leaves waste to granular activated carbon in adsorption of endocrine disrupting compounds from aqueous solution by A.O. Ifelebuegu, J. E. Ukpebor, C. C. Obidiegwu, B. C. Kwofi

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Gebelerin Gebelikte İyi Olma Hali ve Gebelik Deneyimlerinin Doğum İnançlarıyla İlişkisi by Zehra Çerçer, Duygu Ayar

“…Bulgular: Araştırmada gebelerin Gebelikte İyilik Ölçeği toplam puan ortalamaları 30,01 ± 8,27’dir. Gebelik Deneyimleri Ölçeği sıklık boyutundaki, olumlu duygular puan ortalaması 8,28 ± 1,92 ve olumsuz duygular puan ortalaması 8,30 ± 1,93’dü. …”
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Strength Investigation of the Silt-Based Cemented Paste Backfill Using Lab Experiments and Deep Neural Network by Chongchun Xiao, Xinmin Wang, Qiusong Chen, Feng Bin, Yihan Wang, Wei Wei

“…The results show the following: (i) The solid content, cement content (cement/sand ratio), and curing time present positive correlation with UCS. The CG can be used as a kind of OPC substitute, while adding CFA increases the UCS of CPB significantly. …”
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Evaluating Mechanical Properties of Few Layers MoS2 Nanosheets-Polymer Composites by Muhammad Bilal Khan, Rahim Jan, Amir Habib, Ahmad Nawaz Khan

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Projecting the Potential Budget Impact Analysis of Paliperidone Palmitate in Egyptian Adult Patients with Schizophrenia by Gihan Elsisi, Mohamed Ezzat, Mohamed Ramadan

“…In the second year, the total drug costs for PP and oral antipsychotics were £2.7 million and £724 004, respectively, while the total medical costs for PP and oral antipsychotics were £3 million and £5 million, respectively. …”
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Climatic Trends in Hail Precipitation in France: Spatial, Altitudinal, and Temporal Variability by Lucía Hermida, José Luis Sánchez, Laura López, Claude Berthet, Jean Dessens, Eduardo García-Ortega, Andrés Merino

“…There were 154 pads with a positive trend; most were located between Tarbes and Saint-Gaudens. We found 177 pads with a negative trend, which were largely south of a pine forest in Landes. …”
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Comparison of “Rose, Aeroleaf, and Tulip” vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) and their characteristics for alternative electricity generation in urban and rural areas by Ariyana Dwiputra Nugraha, Rendianto Aginta Garingging, Ardi Wiranata, Adriyan Cristhofer Sitanggang, Eko Supriyanto, Fefria Tanbar, Muhammad Akhsin Muflikhun

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Obesity mediates the association between psoriasis and diabetes incidence: a population-based study by Zuojiao Xu, Kaihua Ma, Yinuo Zhai, Jing Wang, Yan Li

“…Results After adjusting for relevant variables, we found that individuals with psoriasis had a significantly higher incidence of diabetes (OR = 1.48, 95% CI = 1.16–1.90, P = 0.002). A positive relationship was identified between BMI levels and diabetes occurrence among individuals with psoriasis, with a significant difference observed between the highest (Q4) and lowest (Q1) BMI quartiles (P < 0.05). …”
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A Comprehensive Study on the Effect of Dimethyl Carbonate Oxygenate and EGR on Emission Reduction, Combustion Analysis, and Performance Enhancement of a CRDI Diesel Engine Using a... by T. Ramesh, A.P. Sathiyagnanam, Melvin Victor De Poures, P. Murugan

“…The outcome of the work clearly demonstrates that both the 5 ml DMC additive and the 20% EGR rate of the B20 blend show optimum values of BTE, BSFC, and EGT of 32.93%, 0.27 kg/kw·hr, and 310.89°C, which is closer to diesel. …”
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MARTRE family proteins negatively regulate CCR4-NOT activity to protect poly(A) tail length and promote translation of maternal mRNA by Jing Yang, Jiachen Bu, Bowen Liu, Yusheng Liu, Zhuqiang Zhang, Ziyi Li, Falong Lu, Bing Zhu, Yingfeng Li

“…MARTRE inhibits deadenylation through the direct interaction with the deadenylase CCR4-NOT, and ectopic expression of Martre stabilized mRNA by attenuating poly(A) tail shortening. …”
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PENGEMBANGAN SERIUS GAME PADA PENGENALAN FAUNA DI TAMAN NASIONAL BALI BARAT by Saiful Yahya, Afiyah Alifah, Adita Ayu Kusumasari

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Estrategias de dirección para el enfrentamiento a la pandemia de la COVID-19 by Daimilé López Tagle, Sara Amneris Urgellés Carreras, Yoel Alberto Fleites Alonso, Osvaldo Miranda Gómez

“…En una situación de pandemia, se produce un aumento progresivo de las demandas asistenciales, que responden con la curva epidémica, y exige de los sistemas sanitarios la reorganización de sus recursos en función de la atención a los pacientes. …”
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Changes in Flavor Substances of Sauced Beef during Processing Based on the Maillard Reaction by FENG Meiqin, ZENG Xiaoqing, SUN Jian

“…Ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS) identified 103, 167, and 200 differential metabolites in the CT, F, and CF groups, respectively, and a large number of amino acids, dipeptides, nucleosides, and heterocyclic compounds were produced in the CF group; gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) results showed that CF and F promoted the production of volatile flavor substances in sauced beef. …”
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PREVALENCE OF OVERWEIGHT AND OBESITY IN MEMBERS OF TWO LARGE FITNESS CLUBS OF THE CITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO, RJ, BRAZIL by Tony Meireles Santos, Bruno Ribeiro Ramalho Oliveira, Geraldo de Albuquerque Maranhão Neto, Marcos Santos Ferreira, Walter Rolph Thompson

“…Comparing the results with municipal and national data, BMI values were significantly higher (p≤0.01) in men (7.7%) and lower in women (21.6%). The two-way analysis of variance (age and gender) found lower values in women (21.4±1.8kg/m2), when compared to men (22.6±1.8 kg/m2) in the underweight and normal weightcategories, but not in the overweight category (28,1±3,1 versus 28,2±3,0 kg/m2, for women and men respectively). …”
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