The Referenced Vertex Ordering Problem: Theory, Applications, and Solution Methods by Omer, Jérémy, Mucherino, Antonio

“…We then discuss how upper and lower bounds can be computed during the enumeration to design a branch-and-bound algorithm. …”
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Telomere Length and Oxidative Damage in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Leping Ma, Cui Liu, Ran Song, Yeping Qian, Feng Zhang

“…Pooled results showed that compared with controls, children and adolescents with ASD were associated with significantly shorter TL (SMD = –0.48; 95% CI = –0.66– –0.29; p < 0.001; particularly in males), lower total antioxidant capacity (TAC: SMD = –1.15; 95% CI = –2.01– –0.30; p = 0.008), and higher oxidative DNA (8-hydroxy-2′-deoxyguanosine, 8-OHdG: SMD = 0.63; 95% CI = 0.03–1.23; p = 0.039), lipid (hexanolyl-lysine, HEL: SMD = 0.37; 95% CI = 0.13–0.62; p = 0.003), and protein (3-nitrotyrosine, 3-NT: SMD = 0.86; 95% CI = 0.21–1.51; p = 0.01; dityrosine, DT: SMD = 0.66; 95% CI = 0.521–0.80; p < 0.01) damage. …”
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Extracellular electron shuttles induced transformation and mobilization of Fe/As with the occurrence of biogenic vivianite by Jia Wang, Mengna Chen, Yalong Li, Yang Yang, Zuoming Xie

“…The As re-adsorption percentage in the Gt*As group was lower than that in the Gt-As group, with decreases of 30.2 %, 16 %, and 10.3 % at pH, 6.0, 7.0, and 8.0, respectively. …”
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Equine piroplasmosis in different geographical areas in France: Prevalence heterogeneity of asymptomatic carriers and low genetic diversity of Theileria equi and Babesia caballi by Maggy Jouglin, Claire Bonsergent, Nathalie de la Cotte, Mickaël Mège, Céline Bizon, Anne Couroucé, Élodie-Anne Lallemand, Agnès Leblond, Louise C Lemonnier, Aurélia Leroux, Ilaria Marano, Alexandre Muzard, Émilie Quéré, Marion Toussaint, Albert Agoulon, Laurence Malandrin

“…Notably, T. equi carrier frequency was significantly lower in the northern region (Ile de France) compared to the southeastern regions. …”
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Assessing the Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices of Cigarette Smokers and Use of Alternative Nicotine Delivery Systems in Pakistan: A Cross-Sectional Study by Abdul Hameed, Daud Malik

“…The average s-KAP score for young adults below the age of 20 was much lower than the national average but improved with the level of education. …”
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SMARCA4-related Coffin-Siris syndrome in newborn: a case report and literature review by Yuqian Wang, Li Zhang, Jing Zhu, Liu Yang, Chan Wang, Ning Zou

“…ObjectiveOur objective was to examine the clinical and genetic features of Coffin-Siris syndrome resulting from a pathogenic variant in the SMARCA4 gene.MethodsThe clinical data and molecular genetic test results of a newbron with Coffin-Siris syndrome involving a pathogenic variant in the SMARCA4 gene were retrospectively analyzed, and the related literatures were reviewed.ResultsA newborn exhibited inspiratory dyspnea following birth and developmental anomalies (coarse appearance, thick hair, long eyelashes, broad nasal tip, flat nasal bridge, thin upper lip, thick lower lip, digital anomalies, cleft palate, supraglottic laryngeal chondromalacia, stenosis of the left upper bronchus and hypotonia). …”
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The Clinical Impact of Tumor Grade Heterogeneity in Nonmuscle- invasive Urothelial Carcinoma of the Bladder by Meftun Culpan, Ferhat Keser, Ayberk İplikci, Gözde Kır, Gökhan Atış, Asif Yıldırım

“…Patients with mixed-grade tumors had lower rates of pT1 stage diseases than those with high-grade tumors (42.5% vs. 64.0%, respectively) and higher rates than those with low-grade tumors (14.7% vs. 42.5%, respectively) (p=0.001). …”
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Role of Janus Kinase inhibitors in the management of pulmonary involvement due to Long COVID-19 disease: A case control study by Pawan Kumar Singh, Vinod Kumar Sharma, Lokesh Kumar Lalwani, Dhruva Chaudhry, Manjunath B. Govindagoudar, Chaudhari Pramod Sriram, Aman Ahuja

“…The number of patients off oxygen support at 4 weeks was higher in the JAKi group (85% in the corticosteroid group vs. 95.2% in the JAKi group, P = 0.269), and the median time to liberation from oxygen support was significantly lower in JAKi group (19 days in corticosteroid group vs. 9 days in JAKi group, P < 0.001). …”
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Complement Receptors C5aR and C5L2 Are Associated with Metabolic Profile, Sex Hormones, and Liver Enzymes in Obese Women Pre- and Postbariatric Surgery by Reza Rezvani, Jessica Smith, Marc Lapointe, Picard Marceau, Andre Tchernof, Katherine Cianflone

“…Hepatic C5L2 mRNA expression was elevated in pre- versus postmenopausal women (P<0.01) and correlated positively with circulating estradiol, estrone, ApoB, ApoA1, ApoA1/B, waist circumference, age, and LDL-C (all P<0.05). While plasma ASP was lower in pre- versus postmenopausal women (P<0.01), the hepatic C5L2/C5aR mRNA ratio was increased (P<0.001) and correlated positively with estrone (P<0.01) and estradiol (P<0.001) and negatively with circulating ApoB and liver enzymes ALT, AST, and GGT (all P<0.05). …”
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Investigation of the Effect of Astaxanthin on Autophagy in Renal Ischemia-reperfusion Modeled Rats by Aysegul KISAOGLU, Evren KOSE, Nesibe YILMAZ, Kevser TANBEK, Azibe YILDIZ, Umit YILMAZ, Rumeyza Hilal CIRIK, Davut OZBAG

“…Superoxide dismutase (SOD) and total antioxidant status (TAS) were significantly lower in the I/R group than in the sham group (p&lt;0.05), whereas malondialdehyde (MDA) and total oxidant status (TOS) values were higher (p&lt;0.05). …”
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Growth, feed conversion and retention, and proximate of eel juvenile treated by immersion of recombinant giant grouper growth hormone by Boyun Handoyo, . Alimuddin, Nur Bambang Priyo Utomo

“…Protein (7.15±0.08%) and lipid (9.95±0.10%) retentions in 12 mg/L rElGH-treated fish were higher (p<0.05) than those of control (protein 6.17±0.07%; lipid 5.73±0.06%). Lower in protein content (12.73%), while higher content in lipid (8.35%) and crude carbohydrate (3.22%) were found in 12 mg/L rElGH-treated fish compared to those of control (13.24%, 5.90%, and 1.76%, respectively). …”
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The Association of Neutrophil/Lymphocyte and Platelet/Lymphocyte Ratios and Hematological Parameters with Diagnosis, Stages, Extrapulmonary Involvement, Pulmonary Hypertension, Res... by Celalettin Korkmaz, Sinan Demircioglu

“…Mean platelet volume (MPV), hemoglobin (Hgb), and mean corpuscular volume (MCV) were lower among patients than controls. A positive moderate correlation was detected between NLR and CD4/CD8 in blood, while there was a strong positive correlation between CD4/CD8 in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) and positive moderate correlation between PLR and CD4/CD8 in BAL. …”
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PECULIARITIES OF THE COURSE OF PREGNANCY AND DELIVERY IN WOMEN WITH IN VITRO FERTILIZATION AT HIGH RISK OF PRETERM BIRTH by Ya.V. Shymanska

“…The article is a part of the research project at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology No.2 of Higher Education Institution Poltava State Medical University "The role of chronic infection of the uterus and lower genital tract in the formation of obstetric and gynecological pathology" (state registration No. 0117U005276, implementation period 2017-2022). …”
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Relationship between albumin-corrected anion gap and lumbar spine bone mineral density: a cross-sectional study by Aiguo Liu, Aiguo Liu, Ting Ying, Shuang Deng, Chenxu Wang, Chenxu Wang, Ziwen Zhao, Sitong Zhang, Han Xiao, Chengqing Yi, Dejian Li

“…Furthermore, a U-shaped relationship was identified, with a turning point at an ACAG value of 22.15, indicating that lower ACAG levels were associated with decreased BMD, while higher levels showed a positive effect. …”
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Gene Expression of CD70 and CD27 Is Increased in Alopecia Areata Lesions and Associated with Disease Severity and Activity by Radwa El- Sayed Mahmoud Marie, Noha M. Abd El-Fadeel, Yara El-Sayed Marei, Lina M. Atef

“…Additionally, CD70 and CD27 gene expression was significantly lower in non-lesional biopsies compared to HCs (p<0.001). …”
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Realization of the genetic potential of frost hardiness in apple hybrids of different ploidy by N. G. Krasova, Z. E. Ozherelieva, A. M. Galasheva

“…The modelling of a three-day artificial thaw (+2 °C) with the following temperature lowering to –30 °C showed that in all studied apple seedlings the damages of bark, cambium and wood were reversible and did not exceed 2.0 points while in immune, triploid forms 31-2-130 and ELS 31-36-149, the damages did not exceed 1.2 points. …”
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Designing multivalent NiMn-based layered nanosheets with high specific surface area and abundant active sites for solid-state hydrogen storage in magnesium hydride by Tao Zhong, Tian Xu, Liuting Zhang, Fuying Wu, Yiqun Jiang, Xuebin Yu

“…Microstructure observations and density functional theory calculations revealed that first, the hydrogen pumping effect of Mg2Ni/Mg2NiH4 promotes the adsorption and desorption of hydrogen molecules on the surface of MgH2, second, MnOx drew electrons from Mg2Ni, producing a new Density of State structure with a lower d-bond center. This unique change further strengthens the Mg2Ni/Mg2NiH4 pump effect on MgH2. …”
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An optimized method for counting viral particles using electron microscopy by B. N. Zaitsev, O. S. Taranov, N. B. Rudometova, N. S. Shcherbakova, A. A. Ilyichev, L. I. Karpenko

“…This study aims to develop a method making it possible to detect the number of viral particles more precisely and work with samples in which the concentration of particles is lower than 107/ml. The method includes a concentration of viral particles on the polyethersulfone membrane applied in centrifugal concentrators and subsequent calculation using an electron microscope. …”
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A retrospective comparative study of endoscopic and microscopic Tympanoplasty by Ying-Chieh Hsu, Chin-Lung Kuo, Tzu-Chin Huang

“…The consumption of medical resources in the TEES group was lower than that of the MES group (TEES versus MES) regarding the average operating time (87.8 ± 19.01 min (mins) versus 110.2 ± 17.0 (mins) (p <  0.0001)) and the mean duration of anesthesia ((for general anesthesia patients) (122.1 ± 21.25 mins versus 145.8 ± 16.88 mins) (p ≤  0.0001)). …”
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Association of a Liver Allocation Policy Change With Domestic Travel for Liver Transplantation by Katie Ross-Driscoll, PhD, MPH, Chandrashekhar Kubal, MD, PhD, Arrey-Takor Ayuk-Arrey, MPH, Jonathan Fridell, MD, David Axelrod, MD, MBA

“…Among 83 033 liver candidates, 76% were listed in their home region. Black race, lower educational attainment, increased neighborhood social deprivation, and Medicaid were significantly associated with decreased odds of traveling beyond a neighboring region. …”
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