Comparative Analysis of Acral Melanoma in Chinese and Caucasian Patients by Kai Huang, Yu Xu, Emmanuel M. Gabriel, Subhasis Misra, Yong Chen, Sanjay P. Bagaria

“…Male gender, Breslow thickness, ulceration, and positive sentinel lymph nodes were independent poor prognostic factors on multivariate analysis. …”
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Three-dimensional tunnel face stability analysis with gate layout by discretization-based kinematic approach by Benchao Zhao, Gonglei Chen, Zhengwei Xu, Haining Liu, Hongyu Wang, Bohui Xing

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A data-driven approach to wireless channel available throughput estimation and prediction by Yao XIAO, Junshuo LIU, Zhifu LONG, Caiming QIU

“…The rapid development of wireless local area network technology has brought about new challenges that significantly affect the communication quality of wireless channels.Wireless channel quality is crucial for guiding routers in managing sudden congestion and selecting appropriate channels.A set of solutions using channel available throughput as an indicator was designed.Firstly, invasive data collection methods were used to collect channel data, and an artifical neural network was trained to estimate the available throughput of the channel at the current time.Subsequently, non-invasive data collection methods were utilized to collect channel data, and an improved recurrent neural network model was employed to predict the available throughput of the channel for a future period.Experiments on the real data show that the scheme can effectively estimate and predict the available throughput of the channel, providing guidance for router decisions.…”
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Outros olhares para outras Américas: cultura visual e fotografia na América Latina pós-tradicional by Sérgio Luiz Pereira da Silva

“…The photographic documentation, as one of the main artifacts of visual culture, has the power to provide an overview, through a non-verbal communication, between the registered fact, the cut-off of the Real, and the interpretations drawn on it, creating thereby art and realism. …”
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Differences in the effects and action modes of gut commensals against dextran sulfate sodium-induced intestinal inflammation by Dingwu Qu, Zhennan Gu, Saisai Feng, Leilei Yu, Fengwei Tian, Hao Zhang, Wei Chen, Qixiao Zhai

“…Anti-inflammatory properties (ratio of interleukin (IL)-10 and IL-12) of these strains were also evaluated in an in vitro mesenteric lymph nodes (MLN) co-culture system. Results showed that 4 probiotics (belonging to the species Bifidobacterium breve, Bifidobacterium bifidum, and Enterococcus faecalis) can alleviate colitis in normal mice. …”
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Escherichia coli in septic arthritis: prevalence and antibiotics susceptibility patterns by Masroora Ali Khan, Muhammad Kamran Taj, Zahid Khan, Imran Taj, Muhammad Naeem, Saima Azam

“…Suspected patients showed a significant increase in the levels of white blood cells (WBC), C-reactive protein (CRP), and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), notably, these levels were further elevated in E. coli-positive patients. …”
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Efficient and Accurate Optimal Linear Phase FIR Filter Design Using Opposition-Based Harmony Search Algorithm by S. K. Saha, R. Dutta, R. Choudhury, R. Kar, D. Mandal, S. P. Ghoshal

“…A comparison of simulation results reveals the optimization efficacy of the OHS over the other optimization techniques for the solution of the multimodal, nondifferentiable, nonlinear, and constrained FIR filter design problems.…”
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Student knowledge tracking based multi-indicator exercise recommendation algorithm by Bin ZHUGE, Zhenghu YIN, Wenxue SI, Lei YAN, Ligang DONG, Xian JIANG

“…Personalized exercise recommendation was an important topic in the era of education informatization, the forgetting laws of students in the learning process were ignored by the traditional problem recommendation algorithm, which failed to fully tap the students’ knowledge mastery level and the common characteristics of similar students, insufficient, could not reasonably promote students’ learning of new knowledge or help students find and fill omissions.In view of the above defects, a multi-index exercise recommendation method based on student knowledge tracking was proposed, which was divided into two modules: preliminary screening and re-filtering of exercises, focusing on the novelty, difficulty and diversity of exercise recommendation.Firstly, a knowledge probability prediction (SF-KCCP) model combined with students’ forgetting law was constructed to ensure the novelty of the recommended exercises.Then, students’ knowledge and concept mastery level was accurately excavated based on the dynamic key-value knowledge tracking (DKVMN) model to ensure that exercises of appropriate difficulty were recommended.Finally, the user-based collaborative filtering (UserCF) algorithm was integrated into the re-filtering module, and the similarity between student groups was used to achieve the diversity of recommendation results.The proposed method is demonstrated by extensive experiments to achieve better performance than some existing baseline models.…”
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General Results for the Transmuted Family of Distributions and New Models by Marcelo Bourguignon, Indranil Ghosh, Gauss M. Cordeiro

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Kidney and liver histopathology of sea bass Lates calcarifer infected with black body syndrome-associated bacteria by Sri Nuryati, Mauliza Yanti, Rahman, Sutiastuti Wahyuwardani

“…Hasil pengamatan histopatologi organ ginjal dan hati benih ikan kakap putih yang diinfeksi dengan bakteri yang menyebabkan BBS menunjukkan kerusakan nekrosis yang tergolong pada derajat normal dan ringan.   Kata kunci: bakteri, histopatologi, kakap putih …”
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O KOM, O KOM, IMMANUEL – VENI, VENI EMMANUEL:

“…It is argued that its popularity, even in circles outside the church, indicates that it could bring church people and people in the public domain together and be a medium through which believers and non-believers, or people who experience doubt, could communicate with each other. …”
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Potential of the CLARA test facility for VHEE radiotherapy research by Deepa Angal-Kalinin, Deepa Angal-Kalinin, Deepa Angal-Kalinin, Stewart Boogert, Stewart Boogert, James Kevin Jones, James Kevin Jones

“…A new beam line has been designed to maximise the exploitation of the CLARA facility in a variety of scientific fields, including novel acceleration and new modalities of radiotherapy. …”
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Efficacy of Dental Bleaching with Whitening Dentifrices: A Systematic Review by Bruno G. S. Casado, Sandra L. D. Moraes, Gleicy F. M. Souza, Catia M. F. Guerra, Juliana R. Souto-Maior, Cleidiel A. A. Lemos, Belmiro C. E. Vasconcelos, Eduardo P. Pellizzer

“…Only randomized clinical trials in adults that compared the use of so-called whitening dentifrices to the use of nonwhitening dentifrices were selected. The outcome was tooth color change. …”
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Effect of the Fabrication Technique on Compressive Properties of Cu-PTFE Composites by Xuezhi Tang, Zhijun Wang, Jianping Yin, Jianya Yi

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Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) induced bone loss by inhibiting FoxO1-mediated defense against oxidative stress in osteoblast by Liming Xue, Jiale Xu, Ping Xiao, Yiping Jiang, Yuanjie Lin, Chao Feng, Yu’e Jin, Zhijun Zhou, Guoquan Wang, Dasheng Lu

“…Cell proliferation, ALP activity, bone nodule formation, ROS levels, and cell apoptosis were assessed after treating osteoblasts with different concentrations of PFOS. …”
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Magnetic Circuit Design and Optimization Analysis of Cylindrical Magnetorheological Brake by Huang Jin, Wang Jian, Chen Song

“…According to the traditional excitation coil magnetorheological device,it is powered on for a long time to produce high temperature resulting in brake efficiency failure problems of MRF. A novel cylindrical magnetorheological device using permanent magnet instead of coil as magnetic source is designed. …”
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Hamiltonian simulation of minimal holographic sparsified SYK model by Raghav G. Jha

“…The circuit complexity for Hamiltonian simulation of the sparsified SYK model with N Majorana fermions and q=4 (quartic interactions), which retains holographic features (referred to as ‘minimal holographic sparsified SYK’) with k≪N3/24 (where k is the total number of interaction terms times 1/N) using the second-order Trotter method and Jordan-Wigner encoding is found to be O˜(kαN3/2log⁡N(Jt)3/2ε−1/2) where t is the simulation time, ε is the desired error in the implementation of the unitary U=exp⁡(−iHt) measured by the operator norm, J is the disorder strength, and constant α<1. …”
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Neurotoxic Effect of Myricitrin in Copper-Induced Oxidative Stress Is Mediated by Increased Intracellular Ca²⁺ Levels and ROS/p53/p38 Axis by Ignacija Vlašić, Antonio Krstačić-Galić, Anđela Horvat, Nada Oršolić, Anja Sadžak, Lucija Mandić, Suzana Šegota, Maja Jazvinšćak Jembrek

“…This study investigated the effects of myricitrin (1–20 μg/mL) on copper-induced toxicity (0.5 mM CuSO₄) in the neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cell line. At non-toxic concentrations, myricitrin exacerbated copper’s toxic effects. …”
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Thermal Hydraulic and Neutronics Coupling Analysis for Plate Type Fuel in Nuclear Reactor Core by Linrong Ye, Mingjun Wang, Xin’an Wang, Jian Deng, Yan Xiang, Wenxi Tian, Suizheng Qiu, G. H. Su

“…The simulation results with coupling and noncoupling analysis methods were compared to demonstrate the feasibility of coupling code, and it shows that the accuracy of the proposed coupling method is higher than that of the traditional method. …”
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Fibroblast Growth Factor and Mineral Metabolism Parameters among Prevalent Kidney Transplant Patients by Madhumathi Rao, Priyanka Jain, Temitope Ojo, Gautam Surya, Vaidyanathapuram Balakrishnan

“…Cross-sectional study of 106 kidney transplant patients enrolled November 2005–October 2009 at Tufts Medical Center (TMC), Boston. …”
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