Investigation of Effects of Local Vitamin C Application on Inflammatory Response and Periodontal Tissue Destruction in Rat Periodontitis Model by Kübra Karaçam, Ayşe Toraman, Zeliha Aytekin

“…Vitamin C administration significantly reduced attachment loss and bone loss in the VtC group as compared to the EP group. …”
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Environment-Aware CMT for Efficient Video Delivery in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks by Yuanlong Cao, Changqiao Xu, Jianfeng Guan, Fei Song, Hongke Zhang

“…Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs) have gained significant attention with capabilities of retrieving video and audio streams, still images, and scalar sensor data but with challenge of high data loss. As more and more wireless devices are equipped with multiple network interfaces, multimedia delivery over multipath has been cognized as a more promising approach in wireless transmission. …”
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Unsupervised domain adaptation teacher–student network for retinal vessel segmentation via full-resolution refined model by Kejuan Yue, Lixin Zhan, Zheng Wang

“…It uses a teacher–student framework to generate pseudo labels for the target domain image, and trains the student network with a combination of source domain loss and domain adaptation loss; finally, the weights of the teacher network are updated from the exponential moving average of the student network and used for the target domain segmentation. …”
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Old residual mortar as a quality indicator of recycled brick aggregate by Md Roknuzzaman, NHM Kamrujjaman Serker, Md Mahabub Rahman

“…The regression models suggest that every 10% increase in RM may result in an 11% increase in water absorption of RBA, an 8% increase in aggregate crushing value (ACV), a 3.6% increase in Los Angeles (LA) value, a 10% loss in compressive strength of ReC, a 7% loss in tensile strength, and a 9% loss in flexural strength, approximately. …”

Three‐Way Equal Filtering Power Divider for Modern Communication Systems by Augustine O. Nwajana, Rose Paul

“…The practical responses of the prototype FPD indicate a good return loss of better than 15.5 dB and an insertion loss of better than 4.77 + 0.34 dB. …”
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Quality of Life before and after Sleeve Gastrectomy in Lebanese Population by Marwan Alkassis, Fady Gh Haddad, Joseph Gharios, Roger Noun, Ghassan Chakhtoura

“…The majority were women (75%), and the mean age was 36.3 years. The mean weight loss was 36.57 kg (16–76). Initially, the total MA II score was −0.33 ± 0.93. …”
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Serum Levels of VWF, t-PA, TNF-α, and ICAM-1 in Patients Receiving Hemocoagulase Combined with Platelet-Rich Plasma during Total Hip Replacement by Yaobin Huang, Bin Zhou, De Zhang, Yu Chen

“…The postoperative drainage volume and perioperative blood loss were significantly lower than those of the control group (P<0.05). …”
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Zirconia Implants in Esthetic Areas: 4-Year Follow-Up Evaluation Study by Andrea Enrico Borgonovo, Rachele Censi, Virna Vavassori, Oscar Arnaboldi, Carlo Maiorana, Dino Re

“…The aim is to evaluate the survival and success rates, as well as the marginal bone loss (MBL) and periodontal indexes of zirconia implants positioned in the esthetic jaw areas. …”
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Ditch management using low-grade weirs: an opportunity for mitigating water quality and quantity impacts by J. S. Strock, A. Z. Ranaivoson

“…This study assessed the effect of low-grade weirs on discharge and nitrate-nitrogen concentration and loss from a pair of experimental drainage ditches. …”
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Physical Activity Plays an Important Role in Body Weight Regulation by Jean-Philippe Chaput, Lars Klingenberg, Mads Rosenkilde, Jo-Anne Gilbert, Angelo Tremblay, Anders Sjödin

“…A more personalized approach is recommended when planning exercise programs in a clinical weight loss setting in order to limit the compensatory changes associated to exercise-induced weight loss. …”
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To Determine Mean Change In Weight Of Patients Undergoing Maxillomandibular Fixation by Osama Mushtaq, Eruj Shuja, Momina Ahmed, Amna Hassan, Muhammad Adil Asim, Maimona Siddiq

“…Conclusion: Results of this study showed weight loss in patients who underwent maxillomandibular fixation. …”
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PUBLIC INFRASRUCTURE PROJECT FAILURES IN NIGERIA: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENTIAL EFFECTS ON ECONOMY AND WELFARE OF CITIZENRY by YUSUF GARBA MANJO

“…The adverse effects of these failures on the economy and citizen’s welfare is colossal  as it involves loss of state revenue, citizen revenue losses, project cost overruns, low community empowerment, slow economic growth, underdevelopment of infrastructure sector, a loss of foreign aid and grants, stricter donor regulations, the loss of elections by the incumbent leadership at state and federal levels, and a lack of trust in government by financial institutions to further finance public infrastructure projects. …”
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Pharmacotherapies for Obesity: Past, Current, and Future Therapies by Lisa L. Ioannides-Demos, Loretta Piccenna, John J. McNeil

“…No current pharmacotherapy possesses the efficacy needed to produce substantial weight loss in morbidly obese patients. Meta-analyses support a significant though modest loss in bodyweight with a mean weight difference of 4.7 kg (95% CI 4.1 to 5.3 kg) for rimonabant, 4.2 kg (95% CI 3.6 to 4.8 kg) for sibutramine and 2.9 kg (95% CI 2.5 to 3.2 kg) for orlistat compared to placebo at ≥12 months. …”
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Power flow analysis and volt/var control strategy of the active distribution network based on data-driven method by Chen Hui, Zhu Weiping, Liu Liguo, Shi Mingming, Xie Wenqiang, Zhang Chenyu

“…Finally, the IEEE 33 node system is used to verify the effectiveness of the proposed strategy, the results of the example show that the data-driven PLF method can accurately perceive the voltage and loss of the distribution network. The proposed optimization strategy can stabilize the voltage of the distribution network in the range of 0.95–1.05, and the loss of the distribution network is reduced from 6.879 MWh to 3.369 MWh.…”
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Application of Intelligent Label in Monitoring the Physical and Chemical Quality of Mango Manaliga (Mangifera Indica L) by Rina Ningtyas, Pazri Gunawan, Muryeti Muryeti, Saeful Imam

“…The increase in weight loss was caused by respiration and transpiration events in mangoes. …”
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Wireless body area network: Architecture and security mechanism for healthcare using internet of things by Arun Kumar, Ritu Dewan, Wisam Subhi Al-Dayyeni, Bharat Bhushan, Jayant Giri, Sardar MN Islam, Ahmed Elaraby

“…To assess the effectiveness of the proposed work, the packet loss ratio is computed for the CoAP, CoAP-DTLS, and CoAP I-DTLS protocols. …”
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NOISE AND SUBJECTIVE COMPLAINTS OF WORKERS AS EFFORT TO CONTROL THE OCCURRENCE OF NOISE INDUCED PERMANENT THRESHOLD SHIF (NIPTS) by Ratnaningtyas Wahyu Kusuma Wardani, Globila Nurika, Indah Lutfiya, Erwin Dyah Nawawinetu

“…This means there is a significant relationship between noise intensity with complaints of hearing loss in workers. Conclusion: only the intensity of noise with complaints of hearing loss in workers who have a statistically significant relationship.…”
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A Meta-Analysis Comparing Postoperative Complications and Outcomes of Femtosecond Laser-Assisted Cataract Surgery versus Conventional Phacoemulsification for Cataract by Zi Ye, Zhaohui Li, Shouzhi He

“…Although corneal endothelial cell loss was not significantly reduced after FLACS, there was a trend towards lower corneal endothelial cell loss (mean difference (MD) = 197.82, 95% confidence interval (CI): 2.66~392.97, P=0.05) after FLACS. …”
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Diş Aşınmaları Nedeniyle Dikey Boyut Kaybı Oluşan Hastanın Direkt Kompozit Restorasyonlar İle Rehabilitasyonu (Olgu Sunumu). by Yasser İsmail Al Rawi, Ali Rıza Çetin

“…In the presented case a 51 years old male patient had severe tooth wear in the maxillary and mandibular anterior teeth with loss of interocclusal space due to early loss of his posterior teeth. …”
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Evaluation of the practical application of the category-imbalanced myeloid cell classification model. by Zhigang Hu, Aoru Ge, Xinzheng Wang, Cuisi Ou, Shen Wang, Junwen Wang

“…During the evaluation of Loss function and attention mechanism, the Cost-Sensitive Loss Function (CS) and the channel attention mechanism Squeeze-and-Excitation Networks (SE) demonstrated superior performance. …”
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