Liver and spleen elastography in diagnosis of extrahepatic portal vein obstruction: pilot study by M. Yu. Nadinskaya, Ye. O. Liusina, Ch. S. Pavlov

“…Past history of portal hypertension, platelet count, serum albumin level, alanine and aspartate aminotransferase level; prothrombin according to international normalization ratio; grade of esophageal varices (EV); spleen longitudinal size according to abdominal ultrasound, liver and spleen stiffness were evaluated in both groups. …”
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Characteristics of the qualification of exceeding authority or official authority by a military official personal by subjective characters by A. A. Sakovskyi, I. I. Kostiuk

“…The methodological basis of the research is based on the analysis of normative legal acts, law enforcement and jurisprudential analysis, as well as on the analysis of judicial practice. …”
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Phenotypic and Functional Changes in Peripheral Blood Natural Killer Cells in Crohn Disease Patients by Suzanne Samarani, Patrick Sagala, Prevost Jantchou, Guy Grimard, Christophe Faure, Colette Deslandres, Devendra K. Amre, Ali Ahmad

“…Moreover, they show that treatment of the patients tends to normalize their NK cells. The results suggest that NK cells are very likely to play a role in the immunopathogenesis of Crohn disease.…”
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Computational predictions of magnetic resonance acoustic radiation force imaging for breast cancer focused ultrasound therapy by Chloe K. Nelson, Michelle Kline, Allison Payne, Christopher R. Dillon

“…Characterization of the focal zone spatial distributions had a normalized root mean squared difference of 8.1% (SD: 2.5%). …”
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Historical and Legal Preconditions for the Origin of Local Legal Regulation of Labor Legal Relations in Ukraine by V. V. Sychova

“…The author has revealed the content of a number of normative and legal acts of the Russian Empire, the norms of which were aimed at regulating labor legal relations. …”
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Tibetan–Chinese speech-to-speech translation based on discrete units by Zairan Gong, Xiaona Xu, Yue Zhao

“…We evaluate the performance of HuBERT model under various configurations to select the optimal setup based on Phone-unit Normalized Mutual Information (PNMI) values. After fine-tuning the chosen HuBERT model on specific corpora, we introduce auxiliary tasks to enhance translation performance. …”
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Timeline of cognitive impairments after radiotherapy for head and neck cancer: A review by K. Wickborn, C.W.J. van der Weijden, E.F.J. de Vries, T.W.H. Meijer, M.C.A. Kramer, J.M. Spikman, A.M. Buunk, A. van der Hoorn

“…Overall, studies indicated a decline in cognitive performance post-radiotherapy compared to baseline scores, control groups, or normative data. The literature on acute effects is scarce and studies with complete neuropsychological assessments are missing. …”
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Challenges of Research Performance Evaluation in Iran: A Qualitative Study by Nadia Saniee, Shahram Sedghi, Abdolreza Noroozi chakoli, Salime Goharinezhad, Leila Nemati anaraki

“…The most critical challenges included a lack of normalization in research evaluation, lack of suitable scientometric training, lack of importance of scientometrics in research management, the necessity to change the scientometricians role, absence of scientometrician in research policy-making, the focus of universities ranking systems on research indicators, the emphasis of universities ranking systems on quantity, the over-focus on quantitative indicators, the incompleteness of scientometric indicators, the lack of proper application of scientometric indicators, the role of scientometricians in improving the research quality, and the need for balanced attention to the quantity and quality of research. …”
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Measures to support students’ research activities and scientific mentoring in Russian universities by P. A. Ambarova, N. V. Shabrova

“…The results of an empirical study conducted in 2024 using the methods of traditional analysis of documents (normative legal acts on measures to support research and development at the federal, regional and local levels) and a semi-structured interview with scientific mentors from among academic staff of universities (n = 30) are presented.   …”
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Pixel-Level Recognition of Pavement Distresses Based on U-Net by Deru Li, Zhongdong Duan, Xiaoyang Hu, Dongchang Zhang

“…Data augmentation, batch normalization, momentum, transfer learning, and discriminative learning rates are used to train the model. …”
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Features of the Application of the Amnesty Institution under the Laws of the Russian Empire (1845-1917) by G. G. Dedurin, D. G. Zavrichko

“…The peculiarities of the application of the amnesty institution under the legislation of the Russian Empire are studied, in particular, the Regulations on Criminal and Correctional Punishments of 1845, 1885, 1903, tsarist manifestos, the Amnesty Act of 1905, etc. Thus, the normative consolidation of concepts and partially the procedures of “pardon” and “condonation” was reflected in the Criminal and Correctional Penal Code of 1845, which were duplicated in the Regulations of 1885 and 1903. …”
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A multi-task model for failure identification and GPS assessment in metro trains by Pratik Vinayak Jadhav, Sairam V. A, Siddharth Sonkavade, Shivali Amit Wagle, Preksha Pareek, Ketan Kotecha, Tanupriya Choudhury

“…The network had common dense, batch normalization, and Gaussian noise layers, followed by output sigmoid layers for each output. …”
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Acupuncture Modulates Disrupted Whole-Brain Network after Ischemic Stroke: Evidence Based on Graph Theory Analysis by Xiao Han, He Jin, Kuangshi Li, Yanzhe Ning, Lan Jiang, Pei Chen, Hongwei Liu, Yong Zhang, Hua Zhang, Zhongjian Tan, Fangyuan Cui, Yi Ren, Lijun Bai, Yihuai Zou

“…Compared with the healthy subjects, the stroke patients had a decreased normalized small-worldness (σ), global efficiency (Eg), and the mean local efficiency (Eloc) of the whole-brain network in the resting state. …”
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Lactoferrin Decreases the Intestinal Inflammation Triggered by a Soybean Meal-Based Diet in Zebrafish by Pilar E. Ulloa, Camila J. Solís, Javiera F. De la Paz, Trevor G. S. Alaurent, Mario Caruffo, Adrián J. Hernández, Patricio Dantagnan, Carmen G. Feijóo

“…Likewise, the transcription of genes involved in neutrophil migration and intestinal mucosal barrier functions (mmp9, muc2.2, and β-def-1) were increased in 50SBM larvae but were normally expressed in 50SBM+LF1.5 larvae. To determine the influence of intestinal inflammation on the general immune response, larvae were challenged with Edwardsiella tarda. …”
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Ascorbic acid alleviates reproductive toxicity of di-(2-ethyl hexyl) phthalate in female Wistar rats by Kalaivani Manokaran, Ravi Sankar Bhaskaran, Jayesh Mudgal, Prabu Paramasivam, Sachin Shetty, Deepak Nayak, Sunitha Carnelio, Vennila Jaganathan, Dharani Abirama Sundari Shanmugam, Karkala Sreedhara Ranganath Pai

“…Conclusions: Ascorbic acid demonstrates protective effects against DEHP-induced reproductive toxicity in female rats, likely through mitigating oxidative stress and normalizing hormone levels and ovarian function.…”
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Contribution of hypoxia-inducible factor 1alpha to pathogenesis of sarcomeric hypertrophic cardiomyopathy by Sarala Raj Murthi, Andreas Petry, Bachuki Shashikadze, Jan B. Stöckl, Manuel Schmid, Gianluca Santamaria, Karin Klingel, Damir Kračun, Xinpei Chen, Sabine Bauer, Joachim P. Schmitt, Florian Flenkenthaler, Josh Gorham, Christopher N. Toepfer, David Potěšil, Pavel Hruška, Zbyněk Zdráhal, Zsuzsanna Mayer, Mathieu Klop, Luisa Lehmann, Yishi Qin, Laura Papanakli, Nadine Spielmann, Alessandra Moretti, Thomas Fröhlich, Peter Ewert, Stefan Holdenrieder, Jonathan G. Seidman, Christine E. Seidman, Agnes Görlach, Cordula M. Wolf

“…Cardiomyocyte-specific abolishment of Hif-1a blunted the disease phenotype, as evidenced by decreased left ventricular wall thickness, reduced myocardial fibrosis, disordered SRX/DRX state and ROS production. cHif1aKO induced normalization of pro-hypertrophic and pro-fibrotic left ventricular remodeling signaling evidenced on whole transcriptome and proteomics analysis in α-MHC719/+ mice. …”
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Wild pea (<i>Pisum sativum</i>Pisum sativum L. subsp. <i>elatius</i> (Bieb.) Aschers. et Graebn. s.l.) at the periphery of its range: Zagros Mountains by O. E. Kosterin, V. S. Bogdanova, A. V. Mglinets

“…It was found that wild peas representing the evolutionary lineage B produce poorly open and poorly coloured flowers (as reported by us earlier) only in the greenhouse conditions but normally pigmented and open flowers in the wild and mesh houses at open air in Israel. …”
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Correcting scale distortion in RNA sequencing data by Christopher Thron, Farhad Jafari

“…In this study, we aimed to detect and correct for expression level-dependent errors which are not corrected by conventional normalization techniques. We examined several RNA-seq datasets from the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), Stand Up 2 Cancer (SU2C), and GTEx databases with various types of preprocessing. …”
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MEDICAL SERVICES OR MEDICAL CARE – AN URGENT ISSUE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTIONS by E. V. Pesennikova, O. V. Gridnev, S. S. Kuchits

“…To consider the relationship between the concepts of “medical service” and “medical care” in the work of public medical institutions, based on the analysis of normative legal documents of the modern period.Materials and methods. …”
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Prevention of Foodborne Listeriosis by JM Farber, J Harwig, A Carter

“…The primary concern of the Health Protection Branch is contaminated foods in which L monocytogenes can grow well, and which would not normally be heated prior to consumption. Worldwide, the disease appears to be increasing in incidence, but definite links to foods are difficult to make. …”
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