Comparative Results of “Epi-Off” Conventional versus “Epi-Off” Accelerated Cross-Linking Procedure at 5-year Follow-Up by Cristina Ariadna Nicula, Dorin Nicula, Anca Maria Rednik, Adriana Elena Bulboacă

“…Cases with different stages of keratoconus and topographic evidence of progression were included. …”
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Correlation of HER2 expression and clinicopathological characteristics in patients with urothelial carcinoma in China by WANG Shanshan, YE Dingwei, YANG Li, CHENG Fan, YANG Tiejun, ZHANG Xiaoping, YU Zhixian, ZHANG Qingyun, YANG Yong

“…HER2 expression was significantly associated with various clinical and pathological characteristics such as Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status, history of cardiovascular disease, history of metabolic disorders, smoking, UC disease location, differentiation grade, pathological type, and tumor stage. Conclusion: Retrospective analysis of multi-center data shows that HER2 expression is frequently observed in Chinese UC patients, with an overexpression rate of up to 58.4%. …”
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Hurricane Effects on a Shallow Lake Ecosystem and Its Response to a Controlled Manipulation of Water Level by Karl E. Havens, Kang-Ren Jin, Andrew J. Rodusky, Bruce Sharfstein, Mark A. Brady, Therese L. East, Nenad Iricanin, R. Thomas James, Matthew C. Harwell, Alan D. Steinman

“…Hence, the lake’s submerged plant community appeared to revert to an earlier successional stage despite what appeared to be better conditions for growth. …”
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Trends and ethnic disparity in endometrial cancer mortality in South Africa (1999-2018): A population-based Age-period-cohort and Join point regression analyses. by Gbenga Olorunfemi, Elena Libhaber, Oliver Chukwujekwu Ezechi, Eustasius Musenge

“…Thus, targeted efforts geared towards prevention and prompt treatment of endometrial cancer among the high-risk groups should be pursued by stake holders.…”
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Implementasi Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) untuk Klasterisasi Cerita Berbahasa Bali by Ngurah Agus Sanjaya ER

“…In this research, the individual distribution of topics in Balinese folklores is used to group stories based on common topics. The research stages include story digitization, tokenization, case-folding, stemming, topic search with LDA, document representation and agglomerative hierarchical clustering. …”
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Model Prognosis Masa Pengobatan Pasien Tuberkulosis Dengan Metode C4.5 by Rusdah Rusdah, Brian Agni Bregastantyo

“…Through the Data Understanding and Data Preprocessing stages, a new attribute is produced, namely the Length of Treatment. …”
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Research Progress of Nerve Mobilization in Basic and Clinical Rehabilitation by Shuo LUAN, Quanshou LING, Miaoshang ZENG, Anni LIN, Yingping JIANG

“…The"sliding technique"results in the relative large longitudinal excursion of nerve with a minimal increase of strain, thus it seems less aggressive than"tensioning technique"and might be more appropriate for acute injuries at the early stage. While the"tensioning technique"usually leads to significant changes in nerve tension to increase the distance between each end of the nerve tract and prevent tissue adhesion during the convalescence period. …”
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Pengaruh Tehnik Akupresur dan TENS Terhadap Intensitas Nyeri Persalinan Kala I Fase Aktif by Nelly Karlinah, Joserizal Serudji, Iskandar Syarif

“…The objective of this study was to determine the effect of acupressure and TENS techniques on pain intensity first stage of labor active phase. This study had been done in Kampar Kiri Tengah and Perhentian Raja health care centres. …”
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Hubungan Tingkat Kecemasan dalam Menghadapi Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) dengan Kelulusan OSCE pada Mahasiswa Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Andalas by Dinda Putri Amir, Detty Iryani, Laila Isrona

“…</em><em>OSCE is a part of comprehensive exam that examine medical skills of the students who will enter their clinical stage. Although this exam is similiar like skills lab exam but the matters of exam is more complex and the setting of exam is different too, so these situations cause anxiety in students toward OSCE. …”
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Mechanism of Exogenous Silicon in Enhancing Cold Stress Tolerance in <i>Solanum lycopersicum</i> L. Seedlings: Insights from Resistance and Quality Indicators by Fan Zhang, Yihong Zhao, Yuanbo Zhang, Yu Shi, Leiping Hou, Abid Khan, Ruixing Zhang, Yi Zhang

“…Environmental stress, notably the exposure to low temperatures during the early developmental stages of seedlings, has been identified as a critical determinant impacting the yield and quality of tomato crops cultivated in greenhouses. …”
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MathVision: An Accessible Intelligent Agent for Visually Impaired People to Understand Mathematical Equations by Muhammad Awais Ahmad, Tauqir Ahmed, Muhammad Aslam, Amjad Rehman, Faten S. Alamri, Saeed Ali Bahaj, Tanzila Saba

“…The input image is divided into a grid by the YOLOv7 model, and each grid cell is responsible for finding equations that fall into its respective category. bounding box coordinates, object labels, and probability scores are predicted for each equation. In the next stage, a fine-tuned DenseNet is utilized for detailed feature extraction from mathematical equation images. …”
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Effects of sexual counseling and education based on self-efficacy theory on the sexual function of women with breast cancer by Azadeh Jamshidi, Farzaneh Noroozi, Razieh Bagherzadeh, Tayebeh Gharibi

“…Data collection utilized demographic information forms and a sexual function index for women, which consists of 19 questions that assess six domains of women’s sexual function (desire, arousal, lubrication, orgasm, satisfaction, and pain during intercourse) over a period of 4 weeks and completed by participants during the pre-test, post-test, and follow-up stages. Descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation, percentage, frequency) and analytical tests, including the independent t-test, Mann‒Whitney U test, Chi-square test, and Fisher’s exact test and repeated-measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) followed by post hoc LSD test were used for data analysis, considering a significance level of less than 0.05 in all cases. …”
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Tumor Microenvironment Responsive Key Nanomicelles for Effective Against Invasion and Metastasis in Ovarian Cancer Using Mice Model by Liu Y, Kong L, Yu Y, Zang J, Zhang L, Guo RB, Li ST, Cheng L, Li XT, Chen YQ

“…Yang Liu,1,2 Liang Kong,1,2 Yang Yu,1,2 Juan Zang,1,2 Lu Zhang,1,2 Rui-Bo Guo,1,2 Shu-Tong Li,1,2 Lan Cheng,1,2 Xue-Tao Li,1,2 You-Qiang Chen1,2 1School of Pharmacy, Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Dalian, 116600, People’s Republic of China; 2Shenyang Key Laboratory of Chinese Medicine Targeted Delivery Key Laboratory, Shenyang, 110847, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Xue-Tao Li; You-Qiang Chen, School of Pharmacy, Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shengming 1 Road 77, Double D Port, Dalian, 116600, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86411 8589 0170, Fax +86411 8589 0128, Email lixuetao1979@163.com; 89427765@qq.comBackground: Ovarian cancer is difficult to detect in its early stages, and it has a high potential for invasion and metastasis, along with a high rate of recurrence. …”
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Development and validation of a machine learning-based model to predict survival in patients with cirrhosis after transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shuntResearch in context by Binlin Da, Huan Chen, Wei Wu, Wuhua Guo, Anru Zhou, Qin Yin, Jun Gao, Junhui Chen, Jiangqiang Xiao, Lei Wang, Ming Zhang, Yuzheng Zhuge, Feng Zhang

“…The RF model outperformed other scoring systems, such as the (Child-Turcotte-Pugh score) CTP, (model for end-stage liver disease) MELD, (sodium MELD) MELD-Na, (Freiburg index of post-TIPS survival) FIPS and (Albumin-Bilirubin) ALBI, showing the highest (area under the curve) AUC of 0.82 (95% CI: 0.72, 0.91) and 0.7 (95% CI: 0.60, 0.79) in predicting 1-year survival across the testing set and external validation cohort. …”
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Effects of 24 Weeks of Growth Hormone Treatment on Bone Microstructure and Volumetric Bone Density in Patients with Childhood-Onset Adult GH Deficiency by Hongbo Yang, Kemin Yan, Yuping Xu, Linjie Wang, Qi Zhang, Fengying Gong, Huijuan Zhu, Weibo Xia, Hui Pan

“…Our results provide evidence for improvement of vBMD and bone microarchitecture in AGHD patients at a relatively early stage of rhGH treatment.…”
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THE RECEPTION OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITION AS A WAY OF FORMING AMERICAN PERSONALISM: THE POST-SECULAR VIEW by V. O. Patsan

“…Bowne to lay the epistemological foundations for overcoming the impersonalist modes of thought in the philosophical-humanitarian space of North America. At the emergent stage of the historical-philosophical process defined as its post-secular period the topicality of studying American personalism in the indicated aspect of its genesis is predetermined by developing the personalistic inspiration of post-non-classical philosophy into renewing the interaction of philosophical and theological discourses initial for the personalist thought and intended to reunite rationality with its spiritual sources in the course of reflecting the personal mode of being realized on the ground of theism. …”
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Designing a Policy-Making Model for Biomass Energy Development Training in the Agricultural Supply Chain Sector by Tahereh Pourelmi, Seyed Mohammad Shobeiri, Enayatollah Yazdanpanah, Gholam Reza Bakhshi Khaniki, Mahdieh Rezaei

“…Considering that the lack of appropriate policies regarding the management of the supply chain of agricultural products can lead to the inefficiency of the supply chain of agricultural products in various stages including supply of inputs, production and distribution, and marketing of products, it is suggested that planning and related policies should be implemented in order to improve the infrastructure that leads to increasing the efficiency of some logistics subsystems such as transportation, warehousing, communication, and information systems. …”
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A c-type lectin HcLec1 with dual function of immunology and mineralization from the freshwater oyster (Hyriopsis cumingii Lea) by Xiaofeng Chen, Xiaoya Shen, Shijun Liu, Wenjuan Li, Wenjuan Li, He Wang, Jiale Li, Jiale Li, Zhiyi Bai, Zhiyi Bai

“…BackgroundShell and pearl formation in bivalves is a sophisticated biomineralization process that encompasses immunological and mineralization aspects, particularly during shell repair and the initial stages of pearl cultivation when a nucleus is inserted. …”
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Delta Neutrophil Index in Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery: An Innovation in Postoperative Mortality Assessment by Bilgiç A, Toprak B, Kaya H

“…Abdulkadir Bilgiç,1 Burak Toprak,2 Hamide Kaya3 1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mersin University Faculty of Medicine Hospital, Mersin, Turkey; 2Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mersin City Education and Research Hospital, Mersin, Turkey; 3Department of Microbiology, Mersin University Faculty of Medicine Hospital, Mersin, TurkeyCorrespondence: Burak Toprak, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mersin City Education and Research Hospital, Kuzeykent District, 31131 Street No: 1, Floor: 6, Flat No: 11, Yeni&scedil;ehir, Mersin, 33120, Turkey, Email brk.tprk@gmail.comBackground: Recent interest has focused on the role of inflammatory markers in assessing coronary artery disease (CAD) severity, especially in the early stages. However, there remains a gap in identifying reliable biomarkers to predict postoperative mortality in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). …”
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The Fake History: Soviet Totalitarianism and the Memory of the Guerrilla War by Bernardas Gailius

“…Therefore, historical culture includes all stages of history telling and writing—from family to university. …”
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