Does Technetium-99m Diethylenetriaminepentaacetate Clearance Predict the Clinical Course of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis? by Marco Mura, Gelorma Belmonte, Stefano Fanti, Angela Maria Pacilli, Luca Fasano, Maurizio Zompatori, Mario Schiavina, Mario Fabbri

“…At T0 (diagnosis) and T1 (follow-up), each patient had pulmonary function tests (forced vital capacity, diffusing capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide and partial arterial O2 pressure), extension of fibrosis evaluated by HRCT visual score and 99mTc-DTPA lung clearance. …”
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Graves’ Ophthalmopathy: VISA versus EUGOGO Classification, Assessment, and Management by Jesús Barrio-Barrio, Alfonso L. Sabater, Elvira Bonet-Farriol, Álvaro Velázquez-Villoria, Juan C. Galofré

“…GO follows a biphasic course in which an initial active phase of progression is followed by a subsequent partial regression and a static inactive phase. Although the majority of GO patients have a mild, self-limiting, and nonprogressive ocular involvement, about 3–7% of GO patients exhibit a severe sight-threatening form of the disease due to corneal exposure or compressive optic neuropathy. …”
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Using a Synthetic Borehole Model to Determine the Pore Aspect Ratio Dependence of Velocities from Acoustic Well-Logging Data by Xiao Feng, Tianyang Li, Bingrui Du, Wenxin Kong

“…In this study, we established a synthetic borehole model by selecting different particle sizes of cement, carbonate cuttings, and micro-silicon as the matrix, and silicon disks as the pores in carbonate rocks. …”
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Modern vaccines and coronavirus infections by Yu. A. Belikova, Yu. V. Samsonov, E. V. Abakushina

“…This review is on recent advances in the development of new generation vaccines, as well as those developed using earlier time-tested technologies: live attenuated vaccines, inactivated vaccines, recombinant vaccines, subunit vaccines, virus-like particle-based vaccines, synthetic peptide vaccines, DNA vaccines and mRNA vaccines. …”
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UPLC-Q-TOF/MS-based metabolomics reveals modulatory effects of Mesona chinensis Benth polysaccharide in liver injury mice induced by cyclophosphamide by Yuzhen Hong, Mingyue Shen, Qiang Yu, Yi Chen, Jianhua Xie

“…The principal component analysis (PCA) and orthogonal partial least squares discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA) scores plots of the liver and feces samples showed a clear separation among normal, model and high-dose of MP (MPH). …”
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Exploration Degree Bias: The Hidden Influence of Node Degree in Graph Neural Network-Based Reinforcement Learning by Peter Tarabek, David Matis

“…Moreover, analysis of DQN and PPO RL agents illustrates how EDB can distort exploration patterns, with DQN exhibiting EDB under low exploration rates and PPO showing a partial ability to counteract these effects through its probabilistic sampling mechanism. …”
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A Single-Stage Isolated Battery Charger Using Nonbridged Positive Cuk Converter Configuration by Tanmay Shukla, N. P. Patidar, Apsara Adhikari

“…This article presents a nonbridged isolated positive Cuk (NB-IPCuk) converter-based single-stage battery charging system (SSBCS). …”
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Inhibition of early EHDV2-Ibaraki infection steps in bovine cells by endosome alkalinization or ikarugamycin, but not by blockage of individual endocytic pathways by Maya Malka, Inbar Czaczkes, Shlomi Kashkash, Shirel Shachar, Eran Bacharach, Marcelo Ehrlich

“…As a member of the Sedoreoviridae family, the EHDV particle is devoid of a membrane envelope and is predicted to employ endocytic pathways for infection. …”
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Analysis of Techno–Economic and Social Impacts of Electric Vehicle Charging Ecosystem in the Distribution Network Integrated with Solar DG and DSTATCOM by Ramesh Bonela, Sriparna Roy Ghatak, Sarat Chandra Swain, Fernando Lopes, Sharmistha Nandi, Surajit Sannigrahi, Parimal Acharjee

“…The optimal locations and capacities of the EVCE, solar DG, and DSTATCOM are determined using an improved particle swarm optimization algorithm based on the success rate technique. …”
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Tectonic Keratoplasty to Restore the Bulbar Wall after Block Excision of Benign and Malignant Intraocular Tumors by Emilio Balestrazzi, Luigi Mosca, Maria Antonietta Blasi, Maria Ilaria Giannico, Angelo Balestrazzi

“…Two patients were affected by anterior uveal malignant melanoma, and 2 patients were referred to us for large epithelial iris cysts with anterior chamber angle involvement and partial corneal failure. A simultaneous block removal of the lesion and adjacent iris, cornea (when necessary), ciliary body, and sclera was performed; the resulting defect was covered by a tectonic whole thickness corneal graft. …”
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Characterization of Zebrafish von Willebrand Factor Reveals Conservation of Domain Structure, Multimerization, and Intracellular Storage by Arunima Ghosh, Andy Vo, Beverly K. Twiss, Colin A. Kretz, Mary A. Jozwiak, Robert R. Montgomery, Jordan A. Shavit

“…The ability of this organism to generate thousands of offspring and its optical transparency make it unique and complementary to mammalian models of hemostasis. Previously, partial clones of zebrafish vwf have been identified, and some functional conservation has been demonstrated. …”
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Non-Destructive Quantitative Analysis of Azodicarbonamide Additives in Wheat Flour by High-Throughput Raman Imaging by Xiaobin Wang, Chunjiang Zhao

“…Raman images of pure wheat flour, pure ADA, and wheat flour-ADA mixed samples were collected respectively, and the average Raman spectra of each sample were calculated. A partial least squares (PLS) model was established by using the linear combination spectra of pure wheat flour and pure ADA and the average Raman spectra of mixed samples. …”
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PSO-Aided Inverse Design of Silicon Modulator by Zijian Zhu, Yingxuan Zhao, Zhen Sheng, Fuwan Gan

“…As a result, we incorporate the inverse design method with the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm and achieve a G-shaped doping profile for the modulator, exhibiting superior <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$V_{\pi } L$</tex-math></inline-formula> of 0.68 V<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\cdot$</tex-math></inline-formula>cm and low loss of 9.3 dB/cm. …”
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Thin Air Resulting in High Pressure: Mountain Sickness and Hypoxia-Induced Pulmonary Hypertension by Jan Grimminger, Manuel Richter, Khodr Tello, Natascha Sommer, Henning Gall, Hossein Ardeschir Ghofrani

“…With rising altitude the partial pressure of oxygen falls. This phenomenon leads to hypobaric hypoxia at high altitude. …”
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Study on Effect of Producing Region on the Metabolome Composition of Rice by LIU Fu-ying, CHEN Xue-feng, WANG Xin, CHEN Guo-yan, GUO Ying, SUN Jing-han, YANG Shui-yan, NIE Xu-heng

“…By principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least square discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA), the results showed that the numbers of differential metabolites between the comparison groups (GJYH290 vs MLYH290, MZYH290 vs GJYH290, MZYH290 vs MLYH290) were 130, 180, and 192, respectively, only 6 different metabolites were common to all three comparison groups, with the main metabolic pathways involving amino acid metabolism and flavonoid metabolism. …”
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Renal Sinus Lipomatosis in Transplanted Kidneys: An Unusual Clinical Case by Luca Apicella, Gianfranco Vallone, Sossio Vitale, Gianluca Garofalo, Luigi Russo, Riccardo Gallo, Stefano Federico, Massimo Sabbatini

“…Paradoxically, after a short course of steroids, the recovery of renal function and the partial resolution of calyceal dilatation were observed. …”
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AI based predictive acceptability model for effective vaccine delivery in healthcare systems by Muhammad Shuaib Qureshi, Muhammad Bilal Qureshi, Urooj Iqrar, Ali Raza, Yazeed Yasin Ghadi, Nisreen Innab, Masoud Alajmi, Ayman Qahmash

“…Primarily, the contribution of this study is to classify vaccine acceptability into Low, Medium, Partial High, and High categories. Secondly, this study implements the Feature Importance method to make the model highly interpretable for healthcare providers. …”
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Performance of PMMA/Ta2O5 Composites as Medical Radiation Shielding: WinXCom and MCNP6 Studies by Mustafa Çağlar

“…In this study, the gamma radiation shielding capacity of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) composites reinforced with varying proportions of Ta₂O₅ (5%, 10%, and 20% wt) was investigated through the utilization of Windows version of photon cross sections on a personal computer (WinXCom) software and the Monte Carlo N-Particle 6 (MCNP6) code. The alignment of the WinXCom and MCNP6 results, despite their different methodologies, provides a robust and reliable understanding of the radiation shielding performance of these composites. …”
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The Direct and Indirect Losses to Ukraine’s Economy Caused by Hostilities by Samborska Oksana Yu., Materynska Olha A.

“…The article studies the partial or complete destruction of the leading and budget-forming sectors of the country’s economy, damage to world-famous enterprises; losses at the national level of certain sectors of the economy as a result of hostilities on the territory of Ukraine are calculated. …”
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Development of Ternary and Quaternary Catalysts for the Electrooxidation of Glycerol by L. M. Artem, D. M. Santos, A. R. De Andrade, K. B. Kokoh, J. Ribeiro

“…XRD results showed the main peaks of face-centered cubic Pt. The particle sizes obtained from XRD and HRTEM experiments were close to values ranging from 3 to 8.5 nm. …”
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