Higher Body Mass Index Is Associated with Subjective Olfactory Dysfunction by Z. M. Patel, J. M. DelGaudio, S. K. Wise

“…Prospective clinical research should examine this further to determine if increasing BMI may be a risk factor in olfactory loss and to elucidate what role olfactory loss may play in diet and feeding habits of obese patients.…”
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High-Temperature Performance and Multiscale Damage Mechanisms of Hollow Cellulose Fiber-Reinforced Concrete by Liping Guo, Wenxiao Zhang, Wei Sun, Bo Chen, Yafan Liu

“…The results demonstrate that cellulose fiber can reduce the performance loss of concrete at high temperatures; the effect of holding time on the performance is more noticeable below 600°C. …”
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Predictive Control for Interval Type-2 Fuzzy System with Event-Triggered Scheme by Siyao Wang, Xiaoming Tang, Li Deng, Hongchun Qu, Linfeng Tian, Cheng Tan

“…In this paper, a synthesis approach of model predictive control (MPC) is proposed for interval type-2 (IT2) Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy system with quantization error, bounded disturbance, and data loss. The novelty lies in the following technical improvements. …”
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Isolated Subclavian Vein Injury: A Rare and High Mortality Case by Sahin Iscan, Mustafa Etli, Ozgur Gursu, Esra Eker, Helin El Kilic

“…Its most important reason is excessive blood loss and air embolism because of delayed arrival to hospital. …”
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Economic Boycott from the Islamic Law Perspective: A Post-Tūfān al-ʾAqṣā Case Study by Naim Hank

“…The data in question claims that the companies did not face a significant financial loss due to the boycott after the Tūfān al-ʾAqṣā. …”
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A Nonparametric Operational Risk Modeling Approach Based on Cornish-Fisher Expansion by Xiaoqian Zhu, Jianping Li, Jianming Chen, Yingqi YangHuo, Lijun Gao, Jichuang Feng, Dengsheng Wu, Yongjia Xie

“…It is generally accepted that the choice of severity distribution in loss distribution approach has a significant effect on the operational risk capital estimation. …”
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Effects of Land Use/Cover Change on the Ecosystem Service Values in the Greater Bay Area of China Accounting for Spatiotemporal Complexity by Yingying Liu, Yalan Shi, Chunyu Liu

“…Our results indicated that the loss of ESVs decreased by 14.29 billion yuan from 2005 to 2020. …”
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Targeting Bone Metabolism in Patients with Advanced Prostate Cancer: Current Options and Controversies by Tilman Todenhöfer, Arnulf Stenzl, Lorenz C. Hofbauer, Tilman D. Rachner

“…Maintaining bone health remains a clinical challenge in patients with prostate cancer (PC) who are at risk of developing metastatic bone disease and increased bone loss due to hormone ablation therapy. In patients with cancer-treatment induced bone loss (CTIBL), antiresorptive agents have been shown to improve bone mineral density (BMD) and to reduce the risk of fractures. …”
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Optimal adjustment of deep neural network parameters in estimating lost vital sign data in body wireless sensor networks by Aboulfazl Ebrahimi, Mahboubeh Shamsi, Morteza Mohajjel

“…Loss of measured data greatly reduces WBAN accuracy. …”
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A Case of Severe Asthma with Eosinophilic Otitis Media Successfully Treated with Anti-IgE Monoclonal Antibody Omalizumab by Azusa Okude, Etsuko Tagaya, Mitsuko Kondo, Manabu Nonaka, Jun Tamaoki

“…After 2 months of omalizumab treatment, not only asthma, but also hearing loss improved. It is suggested that early initiation of omalizumab therapy may inhibit the progression of progressive EOM.…”
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Dielectric and Microwave Properties of Siloxane Rubber/Carbon Black Nanocomposites and Their Correlation by Omar A. Al-Hartomy, Falleh Al-Solamy, Ahmed Al-Ghamdi, Nikolay Dishovsky, Vladimir Iliev, Farid El-Tantawy

“…It has been established that the increasing frequency and filler content lead to an increase in the relative permittivity and tangent of dielectric loss angle. At higher filler content, the effects become more pronounced, especially those upon dielectric loss. …”
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The Role of Sulfatides in Liver Health and Disease by Lin Chen, Montserrat Elizalde, Gloria Alvarez-Sola

“…We have recently demonstrated how loss of function of GAL3ST1, a limiting enzyme involved in sulfatide synthesis, reduces tumorigenic capacity in cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) cells. …”
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Systemic Corticosteroids Therapy in the Management of Acute Zonal Occult Outer Retinopathy by San-Ni Chen, Chang-Hao Yang, Chung-May Yang

“…OCT examination revealed disrupted ellipsoid zone at the macular area in 8 eyes and outer nuclear layer (ONL) loss in 1 eye. At the end of follow-up, all patients had improvement of visual field. …”
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Occupational Therapy for Adults with Overweight and Obesity: Mapping Interventions Involving Occupational Therapists by Svetlana Solgaard Nielsen, Jeanette Reffstrup Christensen

“…Several studies showed significant weight loss. However, the studies possessed high heterogeneity and showed insufficient explication of the role and contribution of occupational therapy to the outcomes. …”
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RadiomixNet: Integrating Radiomics and Feature Extraction for Advanced Pneumonia Diagnosis by Rahul Gowtham Poola, Siva Sankar Yellampalli

“…The performance of these classifiers was evaluated using metrics such as Cohen’s Kappa, Accuracy, Matthews Correlation Coefficient, Sensitivity, Youden’s Index, Specificity, Log Loss, and Brier Score. Among these, Gradient Boosting demonstrated superior performance across all feature sets, achieving a Cohen’s Kappa of 0.93, MCC of 0.88, Youden’s Index of 0.82, and a Log Loss of 0.27.…”
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Compact Vitis vinifera-Inspired Ultrawideband Antenna for High-Speed Communications by Jeremiah O. Abolade, Dominic B. O. Konditi, Vasant M. Dharmadhikary

“…The proposed antenna is built on an FR4 substrate with a dielectric constant of 4.4, a loss tangent of 0.02, and a thickness of 1.5 mm. …”
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Intravascular Large B-Cell Lymphoma Mimicking Temporal Arteritis by Ifeyinwa Emmanuela Obiorah, Metin Ozdemirli

“…This case supports the “mimicking nature” of this rare entity with an unusual presentation with proptosis and visual loss, simulating temporal arteritis and a rare involvement of the retroperitoneal lymph nodes. …”
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Designing a terahertz optical sensor based on helically twisted photonic crystal fiber for toxic gas sensing by Vahid Sharif, Hana Saberi, Hassan Pakarzadeh

“…The PCF consists of twelve hollow pipes arranged circularly around the hollow core to support THz radiation propagation. Low-loss polymer Topas is used as the background material of cladding. …”
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Effects of Adding Livestock and Poultry Manure to Field Strips of Straw on Soil Organic Carbon Components by Xinyu Zhao, Jiapeng Ji, Jinggui Wu

“…Correlation analysis revealed a significant positive relationship between SOC, straw mass loss rate, and straw carbon release rate. Furthermore, there was a significant positive correlation between organic carbon components such as DOC, EOC, POC, and MBC with CPMI, while showing a significant negative correlation with the oxidation stability coefficient (KOS). …”
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Quantification of land use threats to a flagship species and its meadow habitats within urban landscape by K. Krzosek, P. Nowicki

“…In recent decades insects have experienced severe declines worldwide, and the main threats to their populations include the loss, fragmentation and deterioration of their habitats, due to land use changes such as urbanisation, afforestation, and natural succession. …”
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