Outcome of Pleural Empyema Treated With Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery in Patients With Severe Co-Morbidities: An Observational Study by Vu HA, Nguyen NV, Le TD, Nguyen ST, Viet Le A, The Vu A, Van Nguyen B, Van Nguyen B, Thanh Quan N, An NV, Duc Nghiem T

“…The mean Karnofsky score was 50.0 ± 6.1. Some comorbidities contained chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (25.0%), spontaneous esophageal perforation (16.7%), liver cancer, cirrhosis, esophageal cancer, end-stage renal failure – chronic dialysis (8.7%). …”
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Open challenges for the automatic synthesis of clinical trials by Olivia Sanchez-Graillet, David M. Schmidt, Christian Kullik, Philipp Cimiano

“…However, this represents a challenge as there is a wide variety of outcomes, and it is difficult to standardize them for comparing clinical trials containing them. To address this challenge, we utilized our annotated dataset, which includes 211 abstracts of clinical trials related to glaucoma and type 2 diabetes mellitus. …”
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Plankton diversity and aquatic ecology of a freshwater lake (L3) at Bharti Island, Larsemann Hills, east Antarctica by Pawan K. Bharti, U.K. Niyogi

“…The Larsemann Hills area contains more than 150 lakes at different Islands and peninsulas. …”
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Cytotoxic Activity of Bisphosphonic Derivatives Obtained by the Michaelis–Arbuzov or the Pudovik Reaction by Zsuzsanna Szalai, Janka Bednárik, Boldizsár Szigfrid Tóth, Angéla Takács, Szilárd Tekula, László Kőhidai, Konstantin Karaghiosoff, László Drahos, György Keglevich

“…Compounds lacking hydroxy groups showed anti-myeloma activity or limited effect on pancreatic cancer (PANC-1) cells unless substituted with para-trifluoromethyl group. Hydroxy-containing bisphosphonates and their rearranged derivatives demonstrated varying effects depending on structural modifications. …”
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Research and Comparison of Distribution Automation Communication Mode Based on a Typical Case by Feng Wang, Xiaoping Si, Fang Zhao, Zhaohui Li, Haiyong Luo

“…Distribution automationcommunication modes contain optical fiber communication， power line communication， and wireless communicationand so on. …”
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Karkemish sur la frontière syro-turque un marqueur au service des ambitions territoriales de l’État turc by Lorette Hehn

“…The multi-millenium-old site of Karkemish on the Euphrates contains Hittite remains that the Turco-Italian mission is excavating and promoting. …”
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Le revenant dans l’œuvre de Toni Morrison : ou le corps hanté de la mémoire by Vanessa Sylvanise

“…Unearthing afro-am ericain community’s pains, inherited from history, her work contains this famous “Inquiétante étrangeté” symptomatic of the “fantastic” literary’s genre. …”
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Considerations for the Successful Detection and Quantification of Genetically Modified Events in Grain and Food Samples Using Multiplex Digital PCR by Tigst Demeke

“…Some countries, including those in the EU, have regulatory requirements for the approval and use of plant ingredients containing GMOs. Multiplex digital PCR (dPCR) has been used for the simultaneous detection and quantification of various GMO events. …”
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Fair and Tender Data. The FAIRness of Four Databases With Historical Individual Life Course Data Tested by Lex Heerma van Voss

“…Two databases make anonymous data sets or those only containing information on deceased individuals Accessible without any formalities, and other databases could follow this example. …”
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Epigenome-wide association study of perceived discrimination in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) by Wei Zhao, Lisha Lin, Kristen M. Kelly, Lauren A. Opsasnick, Belinda L. Needham, Yongmei Liu, Srijan Sen, Jennifer A. Smith

“…At false discovery rate of 10%, 7 CpGs and 4 differentially methylated regions (DMRs) containing 11 CpGs were associated with perceived discrimination exposures in at least one racial/ethnic group or in meta-analysis. …”
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Russian higher education problems through the comparative analysis of journal publications from 2011 to 2012 by Galina I. Saganenko

“…The analyzed sets contain, respectively, 291 and 262 single titles of publications, in these sets there were used 1728 and 1530 words, an each set contained 671 and 587«unique» words, respectively.The work was carried out with information arrays within the analytical modules of the “VEGA” computer program providing creation of databases, a set of ways of texts systematization, qualitative and quantitative analysis, convenient dictionaries. …”
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In the name of the national interests: Foreign policy of Saudi Arabia after the Arab Spring by G. G. Kosach

“…However, the author stresses that these new political ambitions do not imply a complete break with the previous practice. For example, the containment of Iran not only remains the cornerstone of Saudi Arabia’s foreign policy, but has become even more severe. …”
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Frequency and persistency of DNA vaccine encoding GP25 by oral on common carp by Sri Nuryati, , Yuliyanti, , Alimuddin

“…Feeding fish with diet supplemented with 1 mL E. coli DH5α containing DNA vaccine for each fish and two times a week allowed persistence of DNA vaccine in kindney and spleen.   …”
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Streptomyces griseiviridis sp. nov., a Novel “Modern Actinobacteria” isolated from Malaysia Mangrove Soil by Jodi Woan Fei Law, Loh Teng-Hern Tan, Vengadesh Letchumanan, Kar-Wai Hong, Hooi-Leng Ser, Bey-Hing Goh, Nurul Syakima Ab Mutalib, Kok-Gan Chan, Learn-Han Lee

“…The cell wall peptidoglycan was determined to contain LL-diaminopimelic acid. The predominant menaquinones were identified as MK-9(H8) and MK-9(H6), while the identified polar lipids consisted of lipid, aminolipid, phospholipid, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylethanolamine, diphosphatidylglycerol, and phosphatidylinositolmannoside. …”
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Developmental and hormonal regulation of Arabidopsis thaliana ornithine-delta-aminotransferase by A. A. Egorova, S. V. Gerasimova, A. V. Kochetov

“…Plants were incubated with staining solution containing X-Gluc. We show that under standard growth conditions, the promoter is active during germination and in developing floral organs. …”
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Quantifying the ability of the CF2H group as a hydrogen bond donor by Matthew E. Paolella, Daniel S. Honeycutt, Bradley M. Lipka, Jacob M. Goldberg, Fang Wang

“…Here, we describe a series of CF2H group-containing moieties that facilitate hydrogen bond interactions. …”
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Heating Characteristics of Films Prepared with Polymer-Graphite Composites by Seojin Kim, Weontae Oh, Jong-Seong Bae, Seong Baek Yang, Jeong Hyun Yeum, Jaehyeung Park, Choonghyun Sung, Jungsoo Kim, Jae-Cheon Shin

“…Heating films were prepared by using poly(methyl methacrylate) and polybutadiene composites containing graphite. The heating film was prepared by casting the as-made polymer composite on the PET film. …”
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A New Perspective on Hydrogen Chloride Scavenging at High Temperatures for Reducing the Smoke Acidity of PVC in Fires—III: EN 60754-2 and the Species in Solution Affecting pH and C... by Iacopo Bassi, Claudia Bandinelli, Francesca Delchiaro, Gianluca Sarti

“…Low-smoke acidity compounds, containing potent acid scavengers at high temperatures, are developed to reduce the acidity of the smoke. …”
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Postplanting Nutritional Augmentation of Jeffrey Pine Seedlings on an Infertile Sierran Site by Roger F. Walker

“…Free Flow 29-3-4, a conventional amendment featuring urea as its near exclusive N source, and High N 22-4-6, a controlled release formulation containing ammoniacal, nitrate, and urea N, were the most stimulatory while an organic formulation relying exclusively on a municipal biosolid N source, Milorganite 6-2-0, was the least so. …”
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Braiding archaeology, geomorphology and indigenous knowledge to improve the understanding of local-scale coastal change by Benjamin D. Jones, Mark E. Dickson, Murray Ford, Daniel Hikuroa, Emma Ryan, Ari Carrington, Juliane Chetham

“…The work of local Indigenous groups, like Patuharakeke, demonstrates the active use of mātauranga, woven with Western science methods to preserve or capture the knowledge contained within archaeological sites at risk of being lost to coastal erosion. …”
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