The Role of Genetic and Immune Factors for the Pathogenesis of Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis in Childhood by Priscila Menezes Ferri, Ana Cristina Simões e Silva, Soraya Luiza Campos Silva, Diego Junior Queiroga de Aquino, Eleonora Druve Tavares Fagundes, Débora Marques de Miranda, Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira

“…Differences in clinical and laboratory findings were observed in young patients, including higher incidence of overlap syndromes, mostly with autoimmune hepatitis, higher serum levels of aminotransferases and gamma-glutamyl transferase, and lower incidence of serious complications as cholangiocarcinoma. …”
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Anterior Spinal Artery Syndrome: Reversible Paraplegia after Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery by J. Bredow, J. Oppermann, K. Keller, F. Beyer, C. K. Boese, K. Zarghooni, R. Sobottke, P. Eysel, J. Siewe

“…Postoperatively, the patient developed an acute anterior spinal artery syndrome with motor paraplegia of the lower extremities as well as loss of pain and temperature sensation with retained proprioception and vibratory sensation. …”
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A comparative study of replicative properties of antitumor recombinant vaccinia viruses on human glioblastoma cell culture U87 and monkey kidney cell culture CV-1 by R. A. Maksyutov, I. V. Kolosova, T. V. Tregubchak, I. A. Razumov, S. N. Shchelkunov

“…Furthermore, the virus with five virulence genes deleted (genes encoding hemagglutinin, γ-interferonbinding protein, thymidine kinase, complementbinding protein and Bcl2-like inhibitor of apoptosis), which has significantly lower reactogenicity and neurovirulence compared to the original strain LIVP of VACV, was studied. …”
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Efficient Learning of Hyperrectangular Invariant Sets Using Gaussian Processes by Michael Enqi Cao, Matthieu Bloch, Samuel Coogan

“…Our main assumption is that, given any hyperrectangle of states, lower and upper bounds for the unknown components are available. …”
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Comprehensive analysis of the circRNA expression profile and circRNA-miRNA-mRNA network in pelvic organ prolapse by Qian Wang, Zuoxi He, Lisha Ding, Yuqing Liu, Xiaoli Zhang, Tao Wang, Xiaoyu Niu

“…Furthermore, RT-qPCR confirmed that the expression levels of two circRNAs (hsa_circ_0067962 and hsa_circ_0057051) were significantly lower in the POP group. The two validated DEcircRNAs were abundantly involved in the collagen catabolic process. …”
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Bioinspired origami-based soft prosthetic knees by Siyuan Gao, Chengxu Yang, Hongting Chen, Xinqiang He, Lecheng Ruan, Qining Wang

“…The proposal might lead to a paradigm shift in the lower limb prosthetic design.…”
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A Case of Anterior Spinal Artery Syndrome Caused by Streptococcus mitis Endocarditis by Aria Mahtabfar, Hamoon Eshraghi, Melroy D’Souza, William Berrigan, Kathleen Casey

“…In the ED, his vital signs were stable, and his examination was significant for a flaccid paralysis of the right lower extremity. Diagnosis of septic emboli secondary to IE was made after the echocardiogram showed the presence of vegetations on the aortic valve, blood cultures were positive for Streptococcus mitis, and thoracic spine MRI was indicative of an infarction at T10. …”
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HCHs and DDTs in Soils around Guanting Reservoir in Beijing, China: Spatial-Temporal Variation and Countermeasures by Tie-yu Wang, Bing Tan, Yong-long Lu

“…The level of HCHs and DDTs residues in the south reservoir is lower than that in the north reservoir. The middle region has the highest HCHs and DDTs concentrations, especially near the Beixinpu town. …”
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From the Criminalization of Substances to the “War on Drugs” Policy: A Century of Prohibitionism in Brazil by José Guilherme Magalhães e Silva, Luís Felipe Zilli, Letícia Godinho de Souza

“…Political innovations implemented in Brazil since the 1990s (especially decriminalization and damage reduction models) have been able to neither shake the definition of drugs as a moral and criminal problem, nor prevent its instrumentalization as a policy of socio-spatial control of lower classes.…”
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Seasonal Changes and Spatial Variation in Water Quality of a Large Young Tropical Reservoir and Its Downstream River by Teck-Yee Ling, Norliza Gerunsin, Chen-Lin Soo, Lee Nyanti, Siong-Fong Sim, Jongkar Grinang

“…The results show that seasons impacted the water quality of the Bakun Reservoir, particularly in the deeper water column. Significantly lower turbidity, SRP, and TP were found during the wet season. …”
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Study on multi-satellite cooperative spectrum cognitive method integrating Stackelberg game and federated learning by Xiaojin DING, Yehui XU, Wen BAO, Gengxin ZHANG

“…To solve the problem of the weak spectrum-cognitive ability caused by monitoring angle, direction resolution, limited processing ability and peak power for a low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellite, a multi-satellite cooperative spectrum cognitive method integrating Stackelberg game and federated learning was proposed.Firstly, considering the available computing resource, cognitive performance, processing and transmission delay of each spectrum cognitive satellite, a cooperative-satellite selection and computing-resource allocation algorithm was built for multiple spectrum-cognitive tasks.Secondly, based on the selected satellites and the allocated computing resources, a low-complexity multi-satellite cooperative spectrum cognitive strategy was further designed, which could automatically sense the spectrum holes, and detect interference as well as identify the modulation mode.Simulation results demonstrate that compared to the single-node cognitive method, the designed multi-satellite cooperative spectrum cognitive strategy can obtain a better cognitive performance.Moreover, comparing with the existing model, the model utilized in the designed strategy can effectively achieve 96.69% and 93.32% lower number of parameters and required floating point operations per second, whilst maintaining the performance.…”
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A Model Reduction Method for Parallel Software Testing by Tao Sun, Xinming Ye

“…We have proved the equivalence and have analyzed the reduction effort, so that we could get the same testing result with much lower testing workload. Finally, some practices and a performance analysis show that the method is effective.…”
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Distributed Task Offloading Game in Multiserver Mobile Edge Computing Networks by Shuang Chen, Ying Chen, Xin Chen, Yuemei Hu

“…The experimental results show that the MPOD algorithm can converge after a limited number of iterations and can obtain the offloading strategy with lower cost.…”
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Vigor for In Vitro Culture Traits in S. melongena  ×  S. aethiopicum Hybrids with Potential as Rootstocks for Eggplant by Irene Calvo-Asensio, Jaime Prohens, Carmina Gisbert

“…Rooting ability in the interspecific hybrids was lower in in vitro micropropagated plants (35–60%) than in plants regenerated from explants (100%). …”
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On the enhancement of the efficiency of concentrated solar power plants using nanofluids based on a linear silicone fluid and Pt nanoparticles by Juan Jesús Gallardo, Desireé De los Santos, Iván Carrillo-Berdugo, Rodrigo Alcántara, Javier Navas

“…Thus, to improve the efficiency of the concentrated solar power (CSP) plants, with lower environmental impact, is of great interest. …”
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RESEARCH ON ISOTHERMAL FORGING OF ALUMINUM ALLOYAUTOMOBILE DIFFERENTIAL CASE by YU Rui, WANG ZhongLei

“…The results show that in the isothermal forging process of the differential housing, the blank is gradually formed into a differential housing with the shape of the fixed lower die under the motion action of die forging and pressing; the maximum equivalent stress mainly occurs in the complex shape and the transition point of sudden change of the differential housing; the tensile strength and the yield strength are different at different positions, but the variation range is small; with the increase of the isothermal forging temperature, the tensile strength and yield strength of the forged differential housing piece show the trend of first increasing and then decreasing, and the best isothermal forging is 425℃. …”
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Estimation of International Gold Price by Fusing Deep/Shallow Machine Learning by Wenjing Chen

“…The results suggested that the prediction results of gold price have a comparable lower error measurement and perform better.…”
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Bidding Strategies for Energy Storage Participation in Electricity Market Considering Uncertainty of Wind Power and Carbon Trading by ZHANG Xianwen, YIN Gaowen, SHEN Feifan, HUANG Sheng, WEI Juan

“…The energy storage at the upper power supply side, as a leader, makes bidding decisions with the goal of maximizing its own comprehensive income, while the lower power trading center as a follower completes market clearing with the minimum cost of social power purchase and balance regulation. …”
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Protective effects of vitamin e in experimentally induced rhabdomyolysis by Javad Tajik, Reza Kheirandish, Hamideh Rohani, Shima Abbasi

“…<p> <b>Results:</b> Glycerol + vitamin E groups had lower (P<0.05) creatinine, lactate dehydrogenase and creatine kinase levels than the glycerol group, and the administration of vitamin E caused lesser renal tubular damages in glycerol + vitamin E group rather than in glycerol group.…”
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Synergistic Chemical Modification and Physical Adsorption for the Efficient Curing of Soluble Phosphorus/Fluorine in Phosphogypsum by Junsheng Zhou, Yue Yang, Huiquan Li, Ganyu Zhu, Haoqi Yang

“….% quicklime reduces the soluble phosphorus to below the detection limits and significantly lowers the free water content in the PG. Through SEM, XRD, and FT-IR analyses, it was found that zeolite powder adsorbs fluorine and phosphorus through encapsulation, while quicklime chemically reacts to form insoluble calcium phosphate and calcium fluoride. …”
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