Evaluating the Efficacy of Primary Treatment for Graves’ Disease Complicated by Thyrotoxic Periodic Paralysis by Rita Yuk-Kwan Chang, Brian Hung-Hin Lang, Ai Chen Chan, Kai Pun Wong

“…Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis (TPP) is a potentially life-threatening complication of Graves’ disease (GD). The present study compared the long-term efficacy of antithyroid drugs (ATD), radioactive iodine (RAI), and surgery in GD/TPP. …”
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A Novel Insight into Paraptosis-Related Classification and Signature in Lower-Grade Gliomas by Xi-Feng Qian, Jia-Hao Zhang, Yue-Xue Mai, Xin Yin, Yu-Bin Zheng, Zi-Yuan Yu, Guo-Dong Zhu, Xu-Guang Guo

“…Lower-grade gliomas (LGG) are the most common intracranial malignancies that readily evolve to high-grade gliomas and increase drug resistance. …”
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The Armorican Quartzite: when trilobites ruled the Ordovician seas of the Villuercas-Ibores-Jara UNESCO Global Geopark, Spain by Ivan Cortijo, Sören Jensen, Manolo Garcia, Teodoro Palacios, José María Barrera

“…Cruziana is a common and widespread trace fossil in Lower Palaeozoic strata that is generally attributed to the activity of trilobites. …”
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Memory Property of Grey Accumulation Generation Sequence by Lifeng Wu, Xiaohui Gao, Yan Chen

“…The influence of grey accumulation generation operator on the memory of time sequence is discussed. …”
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Digitalisation Profile of the Elderly and ‘Grey Digital Violence’ by Hatice Oğuz Özgür

“…These negative experiences were described as ‘grey digital violence’ in the current study. The elderly are sometimes exposed to actions such as deception, fraud, insult and humiliation by those who use digital technologies with bad intentions. …”
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Research on the Method of Ground Stress Balance under Complex Conditions Based on Geometric Tracing by Ge Wang

“…To deal with such problems, this paper proposes a general ground stress balance method based on geometric tracing by iteratively superimposing the static displacement field of the numerical model with the initial node coordinates of the numerical model. …”
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Circular Polarization and Wavelength Selective Gratings Based on Holographic Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Templates by Hsien-Kuo Chin, Hui-Ying Kuo, Yang-Chen Zheng, Jia-De Lin, Chia-Rong Lee

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Heberferón®’s economic feasibility in patients with high-grade brain tumors without therapeutic options by María Margarita Ríos Cabrera, Iraldo Bello Rivero, Javier Cruz Rodríguez

“…<p><strong>Foundation:</strong> neoplastic diseases in general and particularly those of the central nervous system constitute health problems that negatively impact personal, family and society life. …”
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Blinding HT: Hiding Hardware Trojan signals traced across multiple sequential levels by Ying Zhang, Minghui Ge, Xin Chen, Jiaqi Yao, Zhiming Mao

“…The proposed HT has stealthiness, general applicability and imperceptibility.…”
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Cardiometabolic deaths in black and white men: Tracing the risks from early- to mid-adulthood by Rebecca Arden Harris, Sameed Ahmed M. Khatana, Judith A. Long

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The effect of trace minerals on the stability of retinol acetate, cholecalciferol and selenomethionine stability within premixes by M. Concarr, I. Sinkunaite, R. Murphy

“…In general, the premixes formulated with the sulphate trace mineral source were found to have higher losses of retinol acetate and cholecalciferol than those formulated with the proteinate trace mineral source. …”
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Systemic low-grade inflammation associated with specific depressive symptoms: insights from network analyses of five independent NHANES samples by Lin Chen, Yun-Ai Su, Tianmei Si, Jingyu Lin, Haiming Huang, Jingxu Chen

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On computation of the ordinary Hilbert series for Sibirsky graded algebras of differential system s(3,5) by Lidia Mușinschi, Victor Pricop

“…The generalized and ordinary Hilbert series for Sibirsky graded algebras of comitants and invariants of autonomous polynomial differential systems are of particular importance for some problems of qualitative theory of differential systems. …”
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Physical and Compaction Properties of Granular Materials with Artificial Grading behind the Particle Size Distributions by Ming-liang Chen, Gao-jian Wu, Bin-rui Gan, Wan-hong Jiang, Jia-wen Zhou

“…Granular materials in geotechnical engineering is generally considered to be mixtures of clay, sand, and gravel that commonly appear in slopes, valleys, or river beds, and they are especially used for the construction of earth-rock-filled dams. …”
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Food Grade Nanofiber of Polylactic Acid by Electrospinning: Physicochemical Characterization of Solutions and Parameters of the Technique by Dalila Fernanda Canizales-Rodríguez, Francisco Rodríguez-Félix, José Agustín Tapia-Hernández, Carmen Lizette Del-Toro-Sánchez, Saúl Ruíz-Cruz, Santiago P. Aubourg, Daniela Denisse Castro-Enríquez, Carlos Gregorio Barreras-Urbina, Silvia Elena Burruel-Ibarra, José Luis Pompa-Ramos, Lorena Armenta-Villegas

“…The main objective of this work was to obtain food grade nanofibers (FGNs) of PLA (FGN-PLA) by electrospinning, for which different food grade solutions (FGSs) of PLA (FGS-PLA) concentrations with food grade solvent acetone (FGSA) were made and characterized via viscosity, density, conductivity, surface tension measurements, and rheological properties, and to correlate its effect on the FGN-PLA production by electrospinning as well as the effect of technique process parameters (distance from needle to collector plate and flow rate) on fiber characteristics was investigated. …”
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Development of Open Transport of Aqueous Fluid from Pegmatite Revealed by Trace Elements in Garnet by Astin Nurdiana, Atsushi Okamoto, Masaoki Uno, Noriyoshi Tsuchiya

“…We investigated the fluid flow and elemental transport from a granitic body to the middle crust by determining the trace element compositions of garnet in pegmatites related to a quartz diorite intrusion and metamorphic rocks on Kinkasan Island, northeast Japan. …”
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CALCULATION OF TECHNOLOGICAL PARAMETERS OF OUT-PIPE REAGENT CIRCULAR IRRIGATION OF GRAVEL-PACKED FILTERS OF WATER SUPPLY WELLS by V. V. Ivashechkin, V. V. Veremenyuk, P. A. Avtushko

“…Near-filtering zone is given uniform and movement is quasi-steady-state.Equations’ system is composed including: joint equation of movement and mass conservation and generalized equation of kinetics, which describes kinetics of colmatant dissolution in the regime of out-pipe watering of ring gravel pack of well taking into account the change of structure of porous medium. …”
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Clinical medicine for Intensive Care especialists. Questions to an expert. by Alfredo Darío Espinosa Brito, Juan Francisco Rocha Hernández

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An Intelligent Gray Prediction Model Based on Fuzzy Theory by Weili Wu

“…In view of the uncertainty of the control signal of the research object, this paper introduces the gray system theory to conduct cluster analysis on the fire control computer and mainly introduces the general whitening weight function. …”
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Race as a prognostic factor of breast mucinous carcinoma by Dingyuan Wang, Yang Wang, Songlin Gao, Rongshou Zheng, Guijian Wu, Jianping Wang, Can Lu, Kena Bu, Chun Zhang, Wanqing Chen, Bailin Zhang

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