Circulating Clusterin and Osteopontin Levels in Asthma and Asthmatic Pregnancy by Brigitta Dombai, István Ivancsó, András Bikov, Dóra Oroszi, Anikó Bohács, Veronika Müller, János Rigó, Barna Vásárhelyi, György Losonczy, Lilla Tamási

“…Osteopontin and clusterin emerged as asthma biomarkers; however, their circulating levels during pregnancy are unknown yet. This cross-sectional study investigated peripheral osteopontin and clusterin levels and their relationship to disease control in 26 asthmatic pregnant (AP), 22 asthmatic nonpregnant (ANP), and 25 healthy pregnant (HP) women and 12 healthy controls (HNP). …”
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The efficacy and safety of rhGH treatment combined with letrozole/GnRHa in adolescent boys by Ying Zhang, Xin Yuan, Kenneth McCormick, Xiao-Hong Yang, Shi-Jun Chen, Rui-Min Chen

“…Abstract Objective In boys during puberty who were undergoing recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) treatment, we compared the therapeutic efficacy on growth, and any adverse reactions, of co-therapy with either letrozole or gonadotropin-releasing hormone analog (GnRHa). …”
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Multi-attribute temporal descriptive methods in sensory analysis applied in food science: Protocol for a scoping review. by Michel Visalli, Mara Virginia Galmarini

“…The research question was "how have multi-attribute temporal descriptive methods been implemented, used and compared in sensory analysis?". The eligibility criteria were defined using the PICOS (Population, Intervention, Comparator, Outcome, Study design) framework. …”
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Evaluating News In Press About Konya In Context Of City Image by Nur Görkemli, Başak Solmaz

“…Content analysis method will be used in this study…”
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Failure Mode and the Prevention and Control Technology of Buried PE Pipeline in Service: State of the Art and Perspectives by Pengcheng Li, Fei Wang, Jiajia Gao, Dong Lin, Jian Gao, Jianguo Lu, Enxi Qiu, Chang Liu

“…For instance, corrosion and welded joint leakage are the two common problems in steel pipelines during the service period, while PE pipelines have excellent corrosion resistance. …”
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Augmenting neurocognitive remediation therapy to Preventive Cognitive Therapy for partially remitted depressed patients: protocol of a pragmatic multicentre randomised controlled t... by Huibert Burger, Claudi Bockting, Marlies Brouwer, Gert J Geurtsen, Amanda M Legemaat, Johanne G J van der Stappen, Maria Semkovska, Isidoor O Bergfeld, Nicoline Lous, Damiaan A J P Denys

“…Individuals who experience subsyndromal depressive symptoms during remission (ie, partial remission of MDD) are especially at risk for a return to a depressive episode within an average of 4 months. …”
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Seasonal variation of different seminal parameters of breeding buffalo bulls by Hasan Riaz

“…Climatic data was also collected from the Regional Meteorological Center, Sahiwal, during the study period. The seminal parameter data of Nili Ravi buffalo bull was analyzed using the analysis of variance in the SPSS 13.0 program. …”
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Optimizing Public Spaces for Age-Friendly Living: Renovation Strategies for 1980s Residential Communities in Hangzhou, China by Min Gong, Ning Wang, Yubei Chu, Yiyao Wu, Jiadi Huang, Jing Wu

“…Then, the research team uses post-occupancy evaluation (POE) to assess the age-friendliness of outdoor public spaces. …”
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Resurgence of common respiratory viruses and mycoplasma pneumoniae after ending the zero-COVID policy in Shanghai by Pengcheng Liu, Menghua Xu, Lijuan Lu, Xunhua Zhu, Ran Jia, Niuniu Dong, Liyun Su, Jin Xu

“…However, China has begun to end the zero-COVID policies in late 2022. Here, we reported a resurgence of common respiratory viruses and Mycoplasma pneumoniae with unique epidemiological characteristics among children after ending the zero-COVID policy in Shanghai, China, 2023. …”
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Equalizer Design: HBOA-DE-trained radial basis function neural networks by Santosh Kumar Das, Satya Ranjan Pattanaik, Pradyumna Kumar Mohapatra, Saroja Kumar Rout, Abdulaziz S. Almazyad, Muhammed Basheer Jasser, Guojiang Xiong, Ali Wagdy Mohamed

“…Wireless communications are susceptible to various signal distortions during transmission, including inter-symbol interference, adjacent channel interference, and co-channel interference. …”
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Clinical evaluation of 3D PEEK implants for skull bone defects repair: a single center case serious by Mohamed Ahmed Elnaggar, Hossam Abdelhakim Elnoamany, Mohamed K. Eissa

“…All patients underwent preoperative CT scans for custom implant design using computer-aided design (CAD) software. The 3D-printed PEEK implants were fabricated and implanted during surgery. …”
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The influence of language and culture on a South African corporate by Nirvana Bechan, Ronelda Visser

“…These interviews were transcribed verbatim and studied by means of narrative analysis using a specialised software package to provide better insight into the roles that language and culture play in a South African organisation. …”
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Stability of agronomic traits in interspecific hybrid potato clones in the Central Region of European Russia by M. S. Khlopyuk, N. A. Chalaya, E. V. Rogozina

“…Growing conditions were characterized using the hydrothermal coefficient. Environmental sustainability was determined by calculating the parameters of plasticity (bI) and stability (σ2) according to N. …”
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UNDERSTANDING THE DRIVERS FOR COMMUNITY-BASED PREVENTION OF AFRICAN SWINE FEVER SPREAD: A CASE STUDY OF KASAWO AND KATOSI SUB COUNTIES, MUKONO DISTRICT, UGANDA by Savino Biryomumaisho, Geofrey Otuba, John Okongo, Frank Mwiine

“…Blood samples were collected from pigs of all ages and sex in the two sub counties and ASF virus antibodies were tested using competitive ELISA. Out of the 777 collected blood samples, none was seropositive for ASF virus antibodies. …”
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Association between the prognosis and comorbidity of active cancer in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension by Hiroyuki Fujii, Yu Taniguchi, Yuichi Tamura, Miki Sakamoto, Sachiyo Yoneda, Kenichi Yanaka, Noriaki Emoto, Ken-ichi Hirata, Hiromasa Otake

“…However, the clinical effects of cancer, which is one of the associated medical conditions of CTEPH, remain unclear. We aimed to investigate prognosis in patients with CTEPH and comorbid cancer. …”
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Adomas Jakštas - Dambrauskas (1860-1938) as a Lithuanian public figure and literary man by Vanda Stonienė

“…Jakštas-Dambrauskas, one of the most prominent Lithuanian personalities at the end of the 19th century and during the first three decades of the 20th century. …”
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MFFTNet: A Novel 3D Point Cloud Segmentation Network Based on Multi-Scale Feature Fusion and Transformer Architecture by Hao Bai, Xiongwei Li, Qing Meng, Shulong Zhuo, Lili Yan

“…The encoder is designed as a hierarchical pyramid structure that extracts relatively sparse local center points and fuses local features during progressive downsampling. …”
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Effect of maternal HIV infection on birth outcomes among HIV positive women in Sub Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Worku Necho Asferie, Tigabu Munye Aytenew, Amare Kassaw, Habtamu Shimels Hailemeskel, Solomon Demis Kebede, Bosena Tebeje Gashaw, Demewoz Kefale

“…Conclusion Women living with HIV are at greater risk for giving low birth weight babies, preterm delivery than HIV negative women. We recommend that Health care providers and other stakeholders should focus on maternal HIV screening and providing special care to protect them from adverse birth outcomes during antenatal period.…”
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Predicting the Viscosity of Petroleum Emulsions Using Gene Expression Programming (GEP) and Response Surface Methodology (RSM) by Abubakar A. Umar, Ismail M. Saaid, Aliyu A. Sulaimon, Rashidah M. Pilus

“…The data obtained from the RSM analysis was used to develop a prediction model using gene expression programming (GEP). …”
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Improving Clinical Management of Diabetic Macular Edema: Insights from a Global Survey of Patients, Healthcare Providers, and Clinic Staff by Focke Ziemssen, Michelle Sylvanowicz, Winfried M. Amoaku, Tariq Aslam, Bora Eldem, Robert P. Finger, Richard P. Gale, Laurent Kodjikian, Jean-François Korobelnik, Xiaofeng Lin, Anat Loewenstein, Paul Mitchell, Moira Murphy, David R. Owens, Nick Parker, Ian Pearce, Francisco J. Rodríguez, Jude Stern, S. James Talks, David T. Wong, Tien Yin Wong, Jane Barratt

“…Abstract Introduction In contrast with patients receiving therapy for retinal disease during clinical trials, those treated in routine clinical practice experience various challenges (including administrative, clinic, social, and patient-related factors) that can often result in high patient and clinic burden, and contribute to suboptimal visual outcomes. …”
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