Expression of PD-1 on CD4+ Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes in Tumor Microenvironment Associated with Pathological Characteristics of Breast Cancer by Yan-Jie Zhao, Jian Zhang, Feng Shi, Zhi-Ping Hu, Jiang-Ping Wu, Guang-Jiang Wu, Rui-Bin Wang, Quan Zhou, Hong Chang, Ying-Nan Li, Qing-Kun Song

“…Elderly patients intended to have a lower level of CD4+/PD-1− tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (p<0.05). …”
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Effect of Different Doses of Sugammadex on Recovery and Hemodynamic Parameters in Reversing Neuromuscular Blockade in Patients Undergoing Electroconvulsive Therapy by Kadir ARSLAN, Gozde UCUKSARAC, Hale CETIN ARSLAN, Erkan AYDIN, Ayca Sultan SAHIN

“…The average time to recovery of spontaneous breathing, eye-opening time, time to comply with voluntary commands, and time to reach MAS 9 were found to be significantly lower in group 3 (p&lt;0.001, p&lt;0.001, p&lt;0.001, and p=0.002, respectively). …”
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An ensemble prediction approach to weekly Dengue cases forecasting based on climatic and terrain conditions by Sougata Deb, Cleta Milagros Libre Acebedo, Gomathypriya Dhanapal, Chua Matthew Chin Heng

“…Results: The proposed ensemble prediction achieved a mean absolute error of 21.55, 4.26 points lower than the 25.81 obtained by a standard negative binomial model. …”
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Serum Muscle Enzymes as Indicator for Gingival Wound Healing in Rabbits Orally Receiving Pomegranate Peel Extract by Bakhtiar Muhialdin Ahmed

“…The third group; the control group (25 rabbits) was treated as the study group, except they didn’t receive the extract. At the lower right central incisor, a gingival injury was created, seven days after the operation the sutured was removed. …”
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Temporal dynamics of summer phytoplankton communities and their response to environmental changes in the northern Yellow Sea (2011-2020) by Yibo Wang, Yibo Wang, Zhiliang Liu, Zhiliang Liu, Yanping Qi, Yang Chen, Yang Chen, Haibo Zhang, Xihan Liu, Xihan Liu, Du Su, Du Su

“…The Yellow Sea Cold Water Mass prominently influenced summer phytoplankton community structure, exhibiting lower phytoplankton abundance, Dia/Dino index, and species richness in the cold water mass region, where adaptable species such as Tripos muelleri and Paralia sulcata predominated. …”
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Self-Perceived Barriers to Pediatric Cancer Care in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Cross-Sectional Multinational Study by Ole Stoeter, Nikolaus C.S. Mezger, Tamara Koenig, Eric Chokunonga, Girum Tessema, Adugna Fekadu Damise, Alda Stevy Makouanzi, Esther Majaliwa, Mahine Ivanga, Bakarou Kamate, Franck Gnahatin, Sarah Nambooze, Ima-Obong A. Ekanem, Toralf Bernig, Biying Liu, Sumit Gupta, Eva Johanna Kantelhardt

“…For chemotherapy, respondents who indicated themselves as rich had lower odds of perceiving the (poor) health of the child as a barrier (OR, 0.06 [95% CI, 0.01 to 0.36]). …”
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Experimental Study and Failure Mechanism Analysis of Rubber Fiber Concrete under the Compression-Shear Combined Action by Juntao Zhang, Zhenpeng Yu, Xinjian Sun, Guangli Zhang, Wenguo Pan

“…The shear stress of the concrete specimen containing rubber particles was significantly lower than those without rubber particles. Comparatively, fibers showed little effect on the shear stress. …”
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Comparison of different universal adhesives’ bond strength to laser-assisted bleached enamel by Fatma Dilsad Oz, Ayşe Rüya Yazıcı, Cansu Atalay

“…In etch&amp;rinse application mode, Adhese Universal resulted in significantly lower bond strength values (p&lt;0.05) than Single Bond Universal and All-Bond Universal. …”
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Identification of species in the genus Nitraria L. (Nitrariaceae) based on nucleotide variability of nuclear ribosomal DNA by T. A. Poliakova, E. V. Banaev, M. A. Tomoshevich

“…The average GC content was 61.5 %. The GC content was lower in N. sibirica (59.2 %) than in N. schoberi and N. komarovii (62.7 %). …”
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Effect of propofol and ciprofol in patients undergoing bronchoscopy: protocol for a double-blind, randomised controlled trial by Fang Chen, Cheng Li, Dongliang Li, Jinxuan Tang, Jiayu Huang

“…Ciprofol (HSK3486) is a propofol analogue with good clinical safety, high potency and some advantages over propofol, including lower injection pain and haemodynamic depression in patients undergoing gastroscopy and colonoscopy. …”
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Prevalence of diabetes-related sarcopenia and its defining components within primary care: A cross-sectional study by Rubén Silva-Tinoco, Lilia Castillo-Martínez, Berenice Cabrera-Victoria, Eileen Guzmán-Olvera, Christian Hinojosa-Segura, Alejandro Avalos-Bracho, Cira Santillán-Díaz

“…Multivariable analyses showed that hip circumference and hypertriglyceridemia were associated with a lower risk of altered MF assessment, whereas the interactions between age and fat mass increased the risk. …”
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Atmospheric cold plasma alters plant traits and negatively affects the growth and development of fall armyworm in rice by Deepak Dilip, Nikitha Modupalli, Md Mahfuzur Rahman, Rupesh Kariyat

“…The effects of cold plasma treatment resulted in reduced damage by FAW, lower mass gain and longer pupation period on FAW compared to the untreated control. …”
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Grip Strength Measurement in Baseball Pitchers: A Clinical Examination to Indicate Stride Length Inefficiency by Ryan Crotin, Dan Ramsey

“… # Conclusions Clinical evaluation of grip strength has the potential to identify altered lower body mechanics and may be considered as a safe and effective monitoring strategy to integrate with motion capture in determining optimal stride lengths for baseball pitchers…”
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Creep Energy Evolution of Red-Bed Soft Rocks in South China under Chemical-Stress-Seepage Coupling by Shuguang Zhang, Fanyao Peng, Yingbo Li, Zhifeng Liu, Wenbo Liu

“…The density of dissipated energy in the creep phase is lower than that in the loading phase, but the opposite is true in the higher stress phase, and the law of energy dissipation can explain the hardening damage effect in the creep process of soft rock samples. …”
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Knowledge and attitude towards ankle sprain management among primary care physicians in the department of family medicine, King Fahad Armed Forces Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia by Abdullah A. Alzahrani, Norah A. AlQarni, Fahad S. Alghamdi, Tariq A. Alghamdi

“…Conclusion: The study found that primary care physicians have average knowledge about ankle sprains, diagnosis, classification, and treatment, with lower knowledge of follow-up plans. They need training and educational programs.…”
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October 7th Mass Casualty Attack in Israel: Injury Profiles of Hospitalized Casualties by Sharon Goldman, MPH, Ari M. Lipsky, MD, Irina Radimislensky, BSc, Adi Givon, BSc, Ofer Almog, MD, Avi Benov, MD, Israel Trauma Group, Eldad Katorza, MD, MSC, MBA, H. Bahouth, A. Bar, A. Braslavsky, D. Czeiger, D. Fadeev, A. L. Goldstein, I. Grevtsev, G. Hirschhorn, I. Jeroukhimov, A. Kedar, Y. Klein, A. Korin, B. Levit, I. Schrier, A. D. Schwarz, W. Shomar, D. Soffer, M. Weiss, O. Yaslowitz, I. Zoarets

“…The most frequently injured body regions were lower (49%) and upper (42%) extremities, abdominal (28%), and thoracic (23%) injuries. …”
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Decode Brain System: A Dynamic Adaptive Convolutional Quorum Voting Approach for Variable-Length EEG Data by Tao Xu, Yun Zhou, Zekai Hou, Wenlan Zhang

“…The results show that TOO yields a good accuracy (83.58%) at the trial level with a much lower computation (11.16%). It also has the potential to be used in variable signal processing in other application areas.…”
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Rotavirus Vaccination Protects Against Diabetes Mellitus Type 1 in Children in Developed Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Chrysoula Kosmeri, Achilleas Klapas, Nikolas Evripidou, Evanthia Kantza, Anastasios Serbis, Ekaterini Siomou, Fani Ladomenou

“…The pooled HR was 0.87 (95% CI: 0.78–0.98), indicating a 13% lower risk of T1D in vaccinated children compared to unvaccinated ones (<i>p</i> = 0.03). …”
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Elucidation of Nature of Gene Action and Estimation of Combining Ability Effects for Fruit Yield Improvement and Yield Attributing Traits in Brinjal Landraces by Neha Rajan, Sandip Debnath, Avijit kr. Dutta, Brijesh Pandey, Ajeet Kr. Singh, Ravindra Kumar Singh, Anjani Kumar Singh, Betty Nokobi Dugbakie

“…An estimated predictability ratio showed a high prevalence of nonadditive gene action, which was further confirmed by the lower narrow-sense heritability values for all traits. …”
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User Preference-Based Heterogeneous Network Management System for Vertical Handover by Samuel Ndegwa, Kumbirayi Nyachionjeka, Edwell T. Mharakurwa

“…In addition, compared to TOPSIS, the obtained results of the proposed algorithm demonstrated a lower handover failure rate and ping-pong rate for a velocity span of 1–30 m/s for the considered user applications.…”
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