Rheumatoid factor isotypes in rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis and prognosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Nicola Bizzaro, Franco Franceschini, Maria Infantino, Carlo Selmi, Gian Domenico Sebastiani, Francesca Motta, Davide Giavarina, Boaz Palterer

“…Testing all RF isotypes with latex test or nephelometry allows for the highest sensitivity (68.6%, 95% CI 66.2% to 71.0%); nonetheless, the determination of IgA isotype provides the highest specificity (91.4%, 95% CI 90.8% to 92.0%) and the highest positive likelihood ratio (7.7, 95% CI 5.7 to 10.4). …”
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COVID-19 prevention strategies and compliance among postnatal adolescent mothers with postnatal depression and generalised anxiety in rural Malawi: a cross-sectional study by Sharyn Burns, Linda Portsmouth, Chimwemwe Pindani Tembo

“…Participants also responded to questions about their perception of COVID-19 and how they practiced the recommended COVID-19 prevention strategies.Setting The study was conducted at a rural hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi.Participants Adolescent postnatal mothers aged 19 years and below, with children aged less than 1 year, who understood the study and could consent.Results Adolescent mothers (n=395) completed the researcher-administered survey. The mean age was±17 (SD 1.157). Most participants had recently given birth to their first child (91%, n=358). …”
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Multi-step Prediction of Monthly Sediment Concentration Based on WPT-ARO-DBN/WPT-EPO-DBN Model by GAO Xuemei, CUI Dongwen

“…Accurate multi-step sediment concentration prediction is of significance for regional soil erosion control,flood control and disaster reduction.To improve the multi-step prediction accuracy of sediment concentration and the prediction performance of the deep belief network (DBN),this paper proposes a multi-step prediction model of monthly sediment concentration by combining the artificial rabbit optimization (ARO) algorithm,eagle habitat optimization (EPO) algorithm,and DBN based on wavelet packet transform (WPT).The model is validated using time series data of monthly sediment concentration from Longtan Station in Yunnan Province.Firstly,WPT is employed to decompose the time series data of the monthly sediment concentration of the case in three layers,and eight more regular subsequence components are obtained.Secondly,the principles of ARO and EPO algorithms are introduced,and hyperparameters such as the neuron number in the hidden layer of DBN are optimized by ARO and EPO.Meanwhile,WPT-ARO-DBN and WPT-EPO-DBN prediction models are built,and WPT-PSO (particle swarm optimization)-DBN and WPT-DBN are constructed for comparative analysis.Finally,four models are adopted to predict each subsequence component,and the predicted values are superimposed to obtain the multi-step prediction results of the final monthly sediment concentration.The results are as follows.① WPT-ARO-DBN and WPT-EPO-DBN models have satisfactory prediction effects on the monthly sediment concentration of the case from one step ahead to four steps ahead.This yields sound prediction results for five steps ahead.The prediction effect for six steps ahead and seven steps ahead is average,and the prediction accuracy for eight steps ahead is poor and cannot meet the prediction accuracy requirements.② The multi-step prediction performance of WPT-ARO-DBN and WPT-EPO-DBN models is superior to WPT-PSO-DBN models and far superior to WPT-DBN models,with higher prediction accuracy,better generalization ability,and larger prediction step size.③ ARO and EPO can effectively optimize DBN hyperparameters,improve DBN prediction performance,and have better optimization effects than PSO.Additionally,WPT-ARO-DBN and WPT-EPO-DBN models can give full play to the advantages of WPT,new swarm intelligence algorithms and the DBN network and improve the multi-step prediction accuracy of monthly sediment concentration,and the prediction accuracy decreases with the increasing prediction steps.…”
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Sonographic and Clinical Features of Upper Extremity Deep Venous Thrombosis in Critical Care Patients by Michael Blaivas, Konstantinos Stefanidis, Serafim Nanas, John Poularas, Mitchell Wachtel, Rubin Cohen, Dimitrios Karakitsos

“…Thirty-six (11.25%) patients had UEDVT and a complete scan was performed. One (2.7%) of these patients died, and 2 had pulmonary embolism (5.5%). …”
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Cultural adaptation, translation and validation of the conflict in adolescence dating relationship inventory (CADRI) in the Greek language. by Esperanza Barroso-Corroto, Juan Manuel Carmona-Torres, José Alberto Laredo-Aguilera, Ángel López-Fernández-Roldan, Carlos Navarrete-Tejero, Evangelia Kartsoni, Antonios Christodoulakis, Athina Patelarou, Michail Zografakis-Sfakianakis

“…After exploratory factor analysis was performed, the structure obtained was similar to the original structure. Furthermore, 88.7% of university students perpetrated DV in the last year on their partners, and 90.7% suffered DV, with verbal and emotional violence the most common types.…”
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Impact of Comorbidities on the Severity of Disease & Outcome in Children with COVID 19 at a Tertiary Care Pediatric Hospital, Rawalpindi. by Rai Muhammad Asghar, Muddassar Sharif, Khalid Saheel, Isfandyar Khan, Abid Hussain, Rai Rijjal Ashraf

“…The total number of patients who expired was 27(24.7%), and 30.3% of patients who expired had co-morbid conditions. the patients with co-morbid conditions had a longer stay in the hospital. 35 patients (32.1%)with underlying co-morbidity remained admitted for more than a week and 13 patients(9%)for more than two weeks. …”
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Avaliação da sensibilidade de Colletotrichum spp. a Trichoderma harzianum by Jackeline Laurentino, Jaqueline Figueredo de Oliveira Costa, Cecilia Hernandez Ramirez, Maria Jussara dos Santos da Silva, Maria Hilma dos Santos, Gaus Silvestre de Andrade Lima, Iraildes Pereira Assunção

“…No IVCM para o teste de pareamento observa-se que C. tropicale foi a espécie mais sensível (1,87 cm) nas concentrações de 1 e 1,5 L/ha, enquanto no teste de metabólitos voláteis foi C. plurivorum (3,21 cm). …”
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Chokeberry juice affects membrane lipid status and cellular antioxidant enzymes in healthy women with aerobic training activity by Nevena Vidović, Ana Pantović, Vuk Stevanović, Ivana Šarac, Kristina Robal, Stevan Stevanović, Maria Glibetic

“…As a result, the n-3 fatty acids’ content was significantly higher in the chokeberry-training (median (interquartile range) of 5.96 (1.65) %) compared with the control group (5.12 (0.87) %), while saturated fatty acids’ content was lower in the chokeberry-training (40.14±1.19 %) than in the training group (42.59±2.29 %). …”
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Pengaruh Hiperglikemia terhadap Gambaran Histopatologis Glomerulus Mencit (Mus musculus Linn) yang Diinduksi Aloksan by Melati Setia Ningsih, Eryati Darwin, Erlina Rustam

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Aktifitas Listrik pada Otot Jantung by Lili Irawati

“…The heart will<br />contract ryhtmically, result from existence of electric impulses excited by heart its self.The potential act at nerve cells<br />and striated muscle cells membranes can occur when there are out stimuli, while at muscle cell membrane potential<br />act can occur without stimuli. …”
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HEVERL – Viewport Estimation Using Reinforcement Learning for 360-degree Video Streaming by Nguyen Viet Hung, Pham Tien Dat, Nguyen Tan, Nguyen Anh Quan, Le Thi Huyen Trang, Le Mai Nam

“…Additionally, it reduces the Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) by 0.008 to 0.013, the Mean Absolute Error (MAE) by 0.012 to 0.018 and the F1-score by 0.017 to 0.028. Furthermore, we observe an increase in overall accuracy of 2.79 to 16.98. …”
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Early referral to nephrological care improves long-term survival and hospitalization after dialysis initiation, independent of optimal dialysis start – a call for harmonization of... by Mathias Haarhaus, Lavinia O. Bratescu, Nicolae Pana, Emanuela M. Gemene, Eliana M. Silva, Carla Alexandra R. Santos Araujo, Fernando Macario

“…After excluding patients with COVID-19 during follow-up, 254 patients (97 ER and 157 late referral) were included in this retrospective study. …”
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Burns injury characteristics and outcomes at lautoka hospital, fiji by Rahul Krishna Reddy, Arun Murari, Akhtar Ali, Ronal Kumar, Livai Lutunaika, Abhay Choudhari, Swastika Devi, Famiza Kulsum

“…The association between independent variables and outcomes was assessed using Chi-square test. Results: Study population included 267 patients predominately male (57 %). …”
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Determination of fungal genera composition and total toxicity of feed produced in the Republic of Crimea by S. S. Ibragimova, O. V. Pruntova, S. I. Danilchenko, Ye S. Yerofeeva

“…Tests showed that the major detected contaminants were members of the following genera: Mucor (67.9%), Penicillium (26.6%), Aspergillus (13.1%), Fusarium (9.1%), Alternaria (8.7%), Stachybotrys (3.6%) and Rhizopus (2.0%). …”
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Unfolded protein response during the progression of colorectal carcinogenesis by Cesar Augusto Sobrinho, Alexandre Moreira de Almeida, Maytana Roberta Taschin Grigolo, Michele Selzler, Antônio Carlos de Abreu, Letícia Silva Fagundes, Almir Souza Martins, Durval Batista Palhares, Rondon Tosta Ramalho

“…PERK and CHOP expressions were significantly higher than the control in the 15th (PERK = 1.30 ± 0.12, CHOP = 1.48 ± 0.23) and 20th weeks (PERK = 1.63 ± 0.20, CHOP = 1.67 ± 0.22, p 0.05). Conclusion: Upregulation of IRN1, PERK, ATF6, and CHOP demonstrates a strong ER stress response during colorectal cancer development.…”
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The impact of undernutrition on the association between hypomagnesemia and dynapenia in older women by Ozcan Uzun, Cihan Heybeli, Lee Smith, Nicola Veronese, Masoud Rahmati, Andre Hajek, Pinar Soysal

“…However, in the undernourished group, hypomagnesemia was associated with dynapenia after adjusting for age, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, coronary heart disease, Barthel and Lawton scores, polypharmacy, glomerular filtration rate, serum albumin, hemoglobin, and MNA score (OR 2.95, 95% CI 1.04–8.32, p = 0.040). The coexistence of hypomagnesemia and undernutrition (versus neither of them) was significantly associated with dynapenia (OR 4.44, 95% CI 2.67–7.41, p < 0.001). …”
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Aspirin modulates inflammatory biomarkers in patients with subcortical silent brain infarcts by Wonjae Sung, Young Seo Kim, Kyu-Yong Lee, Jae-A Jung, Hojin Choi, Young Joo Lee, Seong-Ho Koh, Seong-Ho Koh

“…Although MIF and MMP-9 did not show significant changes after taking aspirin for 3 months, the median plasma level of visfatin was significantly decreased from 1.00 ng/mL (range, 0.86–1.16 ng/mL) to 0.84 ng/mL (range, 0.77–0.91 ng/mL) (p = 0.002) after taking aspirin.DiscussionInflammation could be an essential factor in the pathogenesis of subcortical SBIs, and aspirin affects several inflammation-related biomarkers.…”
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Identification of Bacterial Lipopolysaccharide-Associated Genes and Molecular Subtypes in Autism Spectrum Disorder by He Y, He Y, Cheng B

“…This research aims to explore bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS)- and immune-related (BLI) molecular subgroups in ASD to enhance understanding of the disorder.Methods: We analyzed 89 control samples and 157 ASD samples from the GEO database, identifying BLI signatures using least absolute shrinkage and selection operator regression (LASSO) and logistic regression machine learning algorithms. …”
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Shaping ability of NiTi reciprocating file systems R-motion and waveOne gold in mesial canals of mandibular molars; micro CT study by Mona Alsulaiman, Loai Alsofi, Mey A. Alhabib

“…For the WG group, the preparation was completed with a WG primary file (25/0.07 taper). Specimens were scanned using micro-CT scans before and after instrumentation to establish baseline and post-instrumentation datasets. …”
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Machine learning assisted prediction with data driven robust optimization: Machining process modeling of hard part turning of DC53 for tooling applications supporting semiconductor... by Mehdi Tlija, Muhammad Sana, Anamta Khan, Sana Hassan, Muhammad Umar Farooq

“…The confidence of all ANN architectures is achieved above 0.97 R2 to accurately incorporate parametric relations with physical mechanisms. …”
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