Evaluation of surgical treatment of gout-A retrospective study on 28 cases with tophi. by Ting Zhang, Bin Yang, Xiaohong Xu, Zengfang Zhang, Zhenglun Pan

“…Patients with lower inflammatory indices and fewer incisions exhibit faster postoperative recoveries. …”
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Effects of intrathecal administration of sodium nitroprusside and nicardipine on cerebral pial microcirculation, cortical tissue oxygenation, and electrocortical activity in the ea... by Hyoung Youn Lee, Najmiddin Mamadjonov, Kyung Woon Jeung, Yong Hun Jung, Wan Young Heo, Yong Soo Cho, Byung Kook Lee, Tag Heo

“…At 30 min after resuscitation from cardiac arrest, 30 pigs randomly received 4 mg of SNP, 4 mg of nicardipine, or saline placebo via subdural intracranial catheters and were observed for 5 h. Group effect and group-time interaction were assessed using linear mixed-effects models. …”
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Controlled Aeration Driven by Oxidation-Reduction Potential Affects Ester Profile in Wine Alcohol Fermentation with Different Starter Cultures by S. J. Xue, L. Wang, S. Chen, X. H. Liu, K. Hu, J. Jiang, Y. S. Tao, G. J. Jin

“…Different aeration levels driven by ORP were performed in wine alcohol fermentation with different starter cultures including Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Sc), Pichia fermentans (Pf), Hanseniaspora uvarum (Hu), and their mixes (Pf/Sc and Hu/Sc). …”
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Dynamics of Charge Transients in High Voltage Silicon and SiC NPN BJT Under High Injection Levels by Mana Hosseinzadehlish, Saeed Jahdi, Konstantinos Floros, Ingo Ludtke, Xibo Yuan

“…The absence of delay in 4H-SiC BJTs is due to the lower minority carrier lifetime and thinner base region, enabling higher DC gain and significantly faster transients. However, the current drop phenomenon is clearly seen in the 4H-SiC BJT in both measurements and TCAD modelling, which unlike the Silicon, is very sensitive to the peak collector current at HLI for a fixed base current due to its thinner base and more susceptance to the Early effect. …”
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Thrips dynamics in Allium crops: Unraveling the role of reproductive mode and weather variables in Thrips tabaci population development. by Bettina Porta, Ben Vosman, Pablo González Barrios, Richard G F Visser, Guillermo A Galván, Olga E Scholten

“…The thrips populations from each location studied were characterized by sequencing 33 individuals per sampling using the cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) gene. …”
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Temporal changes in hospital readmissions for postpartum hypertension in the US, 2010 to 2019; a serial cross-sectional analysis. by Ashwini Deshpande, Deepti Agnihotri, Alexa I K Campbell, Jerome J Federspiel, Evan R Myers, Osondu Ogbuoji

“…Moreover, the incidence of postpartum hypertension readmissions rose faster in pregnant patients without a history of hypertension compared to those with a history of hypertension (AAGR 8.3% vs. 5.1%).…”
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Fast and accurate imputation of genotypes from noisy low-coverage sequencing data in bi-parental populations. by Cécile Triay, Alice Boizet, Christopher Fragoso, Anestis Gkanogiannis, Jean-François Rami, Mathias Lorieux

“…This allows the creation of highly saturated genetic maps at reasonable cost, precisely localized recombination breakpoints (i.e., the crossovers), and minimized mapping intervals for quantitative-trait locus analysis. …”
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High temperature corrosion of commercial FeCrAl alloys (Kanthal AF) in nitrogen gas by Veskovič-Bukudura S., Kovač J., Karpe B., Umek P., Nagode A., Cerc-Korošec R., Bizjak M.

“…It was found that nitridation of the FeCrAl alloy is a faster process than oxidation during annealing in a nitrogen gas with low oxygen partial pressure and represents the main cause of alloy degradation.…”
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Path Planning Optimization of Smart Vehicle With Fast Converging Distance-Dependent PSO Algorithm by Muhammad Haris, Haewoon Nam

“…The goal is to identify a collision-free path that satisfies key criteria such as shortest distance and smoothness. …”
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Performance of a Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion (CSII) Pump With Acoustic Volume and Flow Sensing in Simulated High-Consequence Situations by Robert D. Butterfield, Nathaniel M. Sims

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Analgesia and sedation strategies in neonates undergoing whole-body therapeutic hypothermia: A scoping review. by Mahima Joshi, Javed Muneer, Lawrence Mbuagbaw, Ipsita Goswami

“…Dexmedetomidine has additional benefits of thermal tolerance, neuroprotection, faster recovery, and less likelihood of seizures. …”
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Surfaces environmental monitoring of SARS-CoV-2: Loop mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) and droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) in comparison with standard Reverse-Transcription qua... by Simona Spiteri, Irene Salamon, Luna Girolamini, Maria Rosaria Pascale, Federica Marino, Carlo Derelitto, Laura Caligaris, Simone Paghera, Manuela Ferracin, Sandra Cristino

“…By contrast, specificity (SP) was higher for RT-LAMP (75%) respect to ddPCR (66%). Comparing the faster RT-LAMP with the sensitive ddPCR the 26% and 74% of SE and SP for RT-LAMP, were reported. …”
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Computationally Efficient Minimum-Time Motion Primitives for Vehicle Trajectory Planning by Mattia Piccinini, Simon Gottschalk, Matthias Gerdts, Francesco Biral

“…In autonomous racing, motion primitives have been used as computationally faster alternatives to model predictive control, for online obstacle avoidance. …”
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Ensemble Deep Learning Object Detection Fusion for Cell Tracking, Mitosis, and Lineage by Imad Eddine Toubal, Noor Al-Shakarji, D. D. W. Cornelison, Kannappan Palaniappan

“…Building upon our previous work, we propose a new deep learning-based method, EDNet, for cell detection, tracking, and motility analysis that is more robust to shape across different cell lines, and models cell lineage and proliferation. …”
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A new process for extracting vanadium by direct calcification using the heat of molten vanadium slag by Qu J.-W., Zhang T.-A., Lv G.-Z., Chen Y.

“…Compared with the traditional process, the new process saved much energy, and it was faster and more efficient. The XRD results showed that CaV2O5, Ca7V4O17, and Ca3V2O8 were gradually formed in the molten vanadium slag with increasing CaO addition. …”
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Standardised packaging, minimum excise tax, and RYO focussed tax rise implications for UK tobacco pricing. by Rosemary Hiscock, Nicole H Augustin, J Robert Branston, Anna B Gilmore

“…<h4>Methods and findings</h4>Nielsen electronic point of sale (EPOS) data (May 2015 to April 2018) were used to calculate real (inflation adjusted) monthly price per stick overall, by cigarette type (FM and RYO) and by seven market segments. …”
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AutoLDP: An accurate and efficient artificial intelligence-based tool for automatic labeling of digital pathology by Yingnan Zhao, Huifen Ye, Jing Yang, Su Yao, Maohua Lv, Zhihong Chen, Yunrui Ye, Qingru Hu, Cheng Lu, Zaiyi Liu, Ke Zhao, Zhihua Chen

“…Results: The AutoLDP system was 20 times faster than manual labeling. The files per minute in the solid-state drives of CRAFT ​+ ​ParSeq were the highest among all methods at 136.95 in validation set 1 and 170.95 in validation set 2. …”
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Gaussian Function Fusing Fully Convolutional Network and Region Proposal-Based Network for Ship Target Detection in SAR Images by Peipei Zhang, Guokun Xie, Jinsong Zhang

“…The traditional SAR ship detection methods usually consist of two modules, one module named land-sea segmentation for removing the complicated land regions, and one module named ship target detection for realizing fine ship detection. …”
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Short-Term Effects of Tillage Practices on Soil Organic Carbon Turnover Assessed by δ13C Abundance in Particle-Size Fractions of Black Soils from Northeast China by Aizhen Liang, Shenglong Chen, Xiaoping Zhang, Xuewen Chen

“…Compared to the initial level, total SOC tended to be stratified but showed a slight increase in the entire plough layer under short-term NT. …”
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Formation Mechanism of Preferential Flow Paths and Seepage Characteristics of a Novel Growable Pile for Heap Leaching of Rare Earth by Wei Ju, Jianhua Yang, Zemin Wang, Chi Yao, Xiaobo Zhang

“…The results show that, under the horizontal liquid injection condition, the fine particles of the rare earth move away from the liquid injection end and also toward the lower part of the pile. …”
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