Case report: An incidental finding of a left-sided supernumerary kidney by Aklilu Getachew, Nathan K. Suga, Jochebed K. Suga, Nuhamin D. Kiflemariam

“…A 35-year-old male patient presented to our hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with left lower flank pain. His blood pressure was elevated during the initial visit; however, the results of the physical examination and laboratory investigations were unremarkable. …”
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A Review of Complicated Cataract in Retinitis Pigmentosa: Pathogenesis and Cataract Surgery by Yingying Hong, Hongzhe Li, Yang Sun, Yinghong Ji

“…In this review, we discuss the current understanding of RP patients with complicated cataracts from morphology to potential pathogenesis to cataract surgical procedure and provide a concise description and the recommended management of related surgery complications to broaden the knowledge and lower the latent risks to yield better clinical outcomes.…”
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The Effects of Abandonment Options on Investment Timing and Profit Sharing of FDI by Weiwei Zhang, Minggao Xue

“…We also find that the introduction of the abandonment option reduces the optimal profit share in a cooperative framework and in turn the lower profit share increases the investment trigger, thereby having a positive effect on the investment threshold to hinder the investment. …”
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Crack paths in soft thin sheets by Roberto Brighenti, Andrea Carpinteri, Federico Artoni

“…The study reveals that higher strain rates facilitate the development of a simple Mode I crack path, while lower strain rates induce a mixed Mode in the first crack propagation stage, leading to the formation of new crack tips. …”
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Timber beam seismic design – A numerical simulation by Abdoullah Namdar, Yun Dong, Yuyi Liu

“…In beam with smaller length, higher seismic loading is caused lower displacement. The displacement is reduced with reduction length of the beam. …”
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Effect of Hubbard U-corrections on the electronic and magnetic properties of 2D materials: a high-throughput study by Sahar Pakdel, Thomas Olsen, Kristian S. Thygesen

“…On this basis we conclude that the Hubbard U correction will lead to lower predicted Curie temperatures in 2D materials. …”
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Functionalized Activated Carbon Derived from Biomass for Photocatalysis Applications Perspective by Samira Bagheri, Nurhidayatullaili Muhd Julkapli, Sharifah Bee Abd Hamid

“…AC has been reported as a potential support in photocatalytic systems because it improves the transfer rate of the interface charge and lowers the recombination rate of holes and electrons.…”
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Effect of carbon and manganese content on the microstructure and mechanical properties of high manganese austenitic steel by Gürol U., Can Kurnaz S.

“…The solution annealing fully dissolved the carbides in the alloys with lower carbon content (1wt%) and resulted in a homogeneous austenitic microstructure. …”
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Estimating the Impact and Cost of the WHO 2010 Recommendations for Antiretroviral Therapy by John Stover, Lori Bollinger, Carlos Avila

“…In July 2010, WHO published new recommendations on providing antiretroviral therapy to adults and adolescents, including starting ART earlier, usually at a CD4 count of 350 or lower, specific regimens for first- and second-line therapies, and other recommendations. …”
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Concurrent Diagnosis of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia and Follicular Lymphoma: An Unreported Presentation by Amy G. Starr, Sushma R. Jonna, Joeffrey J. Chahine, Bhaskar V. Kallakury, Chaitra S. Ujjani

“…We report a case of a 73-year-old male who presented with dyspnea and right-sided lower extremity edema in the setting of leukocytosis. …”
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Longitudinal investigation of albumin-to-globulin ratio for human cancers demonstrates benefit in postoperative serial remeasurement by Zhenhui Li, Chunxia Li, Ruimin You, Yanli Li, Lizhu Liu, Hongjiang Pu, Ming Lei, Wenliang Li, Tao Zhang, Dingyun You

“…The 5-year OS rates for the persistently normal, normalized, lowered and persistently low perioperative AGR groups were 84.0%, 80.7%, 78.5% and 70.2%. …”
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A Study on the Status and Influencing Factors of Pre-service Teachers' Professional Development at Comprehensive Universities in China by PING Cui, LI Guang

“…It was found that the overall professional development level of these pre-service teachers is relatively high, but the level of teacher professional competency is lower than the other dimensions, especially reflected in the need for further improvement indiscipline transformation capacity; The third-year pre-service teachers' development is rather difficult, with regards to the uncertainty of role identity and career planning. …”
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The effects of clinical and pharmacological factors on the ratio of clozapine to norclozapine in psychiatric patients by Anna Mach, Anna Wnorowska, Marcin Siwek, Marcin Wojnar, Marcin Wojnar, Maria Radziwoń-Zaleska

“…However, increased doses of CLO resulted in lower CNR values (p = 0.005). Concomitant use of other psychotropic drugs increased the CNR (p = 0.001).DiscussionThe results of our study indicate a need for personalized CLO treatment. …”
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Subthalamic hGAD65 Gene Therapy and Striatum TH Gene Transfer in a Parkinson’s Disease Rat Model by Deyu Zheng, Xiaohua Jiang, Junpeng Zhao, Deyi Duan, Huanying Zhao, Qunyuan Xu

“…And the levels of glutamic acid and GABA in the internal segment of the globus pallidus (GPi) and substantia nigra pars reticulata (SNr) were obviously lower than the control groups. However, hGAD65 gene transfer did not effectively protect surviving dopaminergic neurons in the SNc and VTA. …”
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Mid-infrared detection device using magnetite substrates deposited by radio frequency sputtering method by Kazuma Iwasaki, Seishi Abe, Tadao Tanabe

“…Magnetite with Pt nanoparticles exhibited a two-orders-of-magnitude decrease in electrical resistance compared to that without Pt nanoparticles. This contributes to lower device power consumption. Its sensitivity is comparable to that of magnetite without Pt nanoparticles, with a signal-to-noise ratio of 1.66. …”
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Experimental Study on Bond Behavior between Plain Reinforcing Bars and Concrete by Guohua Xing, Cheng Zhou, Tao Wu, Boquan Liu

“…The results indicated that the bond stress experienced by plain bars is quite lower than that of the deformed bars given equal structural characteristics and details. …”
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Energetic disorder dominates optical properties and recombination dynamics in tin-lead perovskite nanocrystals by Dandan Wang, Yusheng Li, Yongge Yang, Chao Ding, Yuyao Wei, Dong Liu, Hua Li, Huan Bi, Shikai Chen, Sujun Ji, Boyu Zhang, Yao Guo, Huiyun Wei, Hongshi Li, Shuzi Hayase, Qing Shen

“…Furthermore, we link these disorders to the tin-induced symmetry-lowering distortions in tin-lead alloyed PNCs. These findings illuminate critical design principles for highly luminescent, low-toxicity tin-lead PNCs, accelerating their adoption in optoelectronic applications.…”
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PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF ETHERNET TRANSMISSION USING M-ARY PULSE AMPLITUDE MODULATION TECHNIQUES by APENA WALIU OLALEKAN, OLASUNKANMI OMOWUMI GRACE, SALAKO ANUOLUWAPO

“…The results show that PAM-16 has a BER of .which is significantly lower than that of PAM-2 and PAM-4. Additionally, Hamming code were used to detect and correct errors that are inherent in the design and the efficiency of each level of PAM used was analyzed. …”
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The relationship between the Ottawa Valve Collapse Scale (OVCS) and clinical outcomes in septoplasty patients by Phillip Staibano, James P. Bonaparte

“…The goal of this study was to determine, in patients who have nasal obstruction due to a septal deviation, whether those with a higher OVCS grade will have a reduced improvement in patient-centered clinical outcomes at one-year following septoplasty with inferior turbinate diathermy compared to those with a normal or lower OVCS grade. This study was a prospective study of 78 patients who completed an assessment using the NOSE questionnaire before and at one-year following the surgical intervention. …”
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Malware detection approach based on improved SOINN by Bin ZHANG, Lixun LI, Shuqin DONG

“…To deal with the problems of dynamic update of detection model and high computation costs in malware detection model based on batch learning,a novel malware detection approach is proposed by combing SOINN and supervised classifiers,to reduce computation costs and enable the detection model to update dynamically with the assistance of SOINN′s incremental learning characteristic.Firstly,the improved SOINN was given.According to the whole alignment algorithm,search the adjusted weights of neurons under all input sequences in the learning cycle and then calculate the average value of all adjusted weights as the final result,to avoid SOINN′s stability under different input sequences and representativeness of original data,therefore improve malware detection accuracy.Then a data preprocessing algorithm was proposed based on nonnegative matrix factor and Z-score normalization to transfer the malware behavior feature vector from high dimension and high order to low dimension and low order,to speed up and avoid overfitting and further improve detection accuracy.The results of experiments show that proposed approach supports dynamic updating of detection model and has a significantly higher accuracy of detecting unknown new samples and lower computation costs than tradition methods.…”
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