Comparative Value of Simple Inflammatory Markers in the Prediction of Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction in Postacute Coronary Syndrome Patients by Panagiotis Aggelopoulos, Christina Chrysohoou, Christos Pitsavos, Lambros Papadimitriou, Catherine Liontou, Demosthenes Panagiotakos, Eleftherios Tsiamis, Christodoulos Stefanadis

“…Results. CRP levels and WBC count were significantly higher in those who developed LVSD compared to those who did not. …”
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Comparison of chewing activity in patients requiring complete denture with two different occlusions by Jiyar Amin Ali, Rizgar Mohammed Ameen Hasan

“…Conclusion: Within the limitations of this study, it has beenconcluded that the chewing ability was higher in patients who were provided with complete dentures fabricated with the LO scheme as compared to those patients who received complete dentures made with BBO scheme. …”
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Neonatal and Maternal Risk Factors for Indirect Hyperbilirubinemia: A Cross-Sectional Study from Bahrain by Hasan M. Isa, Noor Y. AlBuainain, Fatema Y. Bunajem, Abdulrahman S. Masood, Yusuf A. Bucheery

“…Intravenous immunoglobulins (IVIG) and exchange transfusion were used in 44 (10.9%) and 14 (3.5%) patients, respectively. Neonates who received IVIG had significantly higher bilirubin levels than those who did not (P=0.005). …”
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Comparative Analysis of Pre-trained based CNN-RNN Deep Learning Models on Anomaly-5 Dataset for Action Recognition by Fayaz Ahmed Memon, Umair Ali Khan, Pardeep Kumar, Imtiaz Ali Halepoto, Farida Memon

“…Sukkur IBA Journal of Computing and Mathematical Sciences…”
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Offline English Handwritten Character Recognition using Sequential Convolutional Neural Network by Muhammad Iqbal, Muniba Humayun, Raheel Siddiqi, Christopher J. Harrison, Muneeb Abid Malik

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Determinants of 5-year survival in patients with advanced NSCLC with PD-L1≥50% treated with first-line pembrolizumab outside of clinical trials: results from the Pembro-real 5Y glo... by Mieke Van Hemelrijck, Salvatore Grisanti, Avinash Aujayeb, Martin Forster, Giannis Mountzios, Andrea Napolitano, Bruno Vincenzi, Joachim G J V Aerts, Marina Garassino, Valter Torri, Solange Peters, Alex Friedlaender, Alfredo Addeo, Giuseppe Lo Russo, Roberto Ferrara, Diego Signorelli, Alessandro Russo, So Yeon Kim, Jarushka Naidoo, Scott Gettinger, Heather Wakelee, Martin Sebastian, Mark Awad, Abdul Rafeh Naqash, Alessio Cortellini, Raffaele Giusti, Michele De Tursi, Federica Zoratto, Marco Russano, Rita Chiari, Biagio Ricciuti, Andrea De Giglio, Alain Gelibter, Giuseppe Tonini, Amin H Nassar, Alessandra Curioni-Fontecedro, Eleni Karapanagiotou, Emilio Bria, Jack Bell, Paolo Bironzo, Joao V Alessi, Alessandro Morabito, David J Pinato, Francesco Passiglia, Carlo Genova, Francesca Mazzoni, Alessandro Inno, Francesco Grossi, Luca Cantini, Lorenza Landi, Luigi Della Gravara, Margarita Majem, Uma Mukherjee, Federica Biello, Alessandro Leonetti, Annalisa Guida, Marianna Macerelli, Gabriele Minuti, Giulio Metro, Thomas Newsom-Davis, Eleni Josephides, Andrea Camerini, Elisa Roca, David O’Reilly, Mingjia Li, Laura Mezquita, Teresa Gorría, Claudia A M Fulgenzi, Lauren Young, Joel W Neal, Javier Baena, Francesco Pantano, Jacobo Rogado, Mary Jo Fidler, Teresa Beninato, Federica Pecci, Alessandro Di Federico, Kazuki Takada, Leonardo Brunetti, Talal El Zarif, Laura Moliner, Alberto Servetto, Sukumar Kalvapudi, Sai Yendamuri, Edoardo Garbo, Giuseppina Rita Di Fazio, Monica Loza, Ritujith Jayakrishnan, Michele Montrone, Nichola O Awosika, Bartlomiej Tomasik, Maximilian Rost, Isabelle Monnet, Francesco Agustoni, Artur Katz, Dwight Hall Owen, Michele Ghidini, Armida D’Incecco, Gianpaolo Spinelli, Monica Verrico, Manuel Dupont, Rafael Di Marco Barros, Diego Luigi Cortinovis, Chiara Bennati, Frank Aboubakar Nana, Anne-Marie Dingemans, Taher Abu Hejleh

“…Individual patient-level data (IPD) from the experimental arm of the KEYNOTE-024 trial were extracted (KN024 IPD cohort) to compare the long-term outcomes between the two cohorts. To further assess the reproducibility of clinical trial results, we reconstructed the “KN024 look-alike” cohort by excluding patients with an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group-performance status (ECOG-PS)≥2, those requiring corticosteroids with doses ≥10 mg of prednisolone/equivalent, patients with positive/unknown epidermal growth factor receptor/anaplastic lymphoma kinase genotype, and those with pre-existing autoimmune disease. …”
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Ìtúpalẹ̀ Ewì Aláwòrò-Ẹkùn Láàrin Àwọn Àwórì by Rifqat Ọpẹyẹmí Sanni ́

“…Ohun gbogbo tí a tọ́ ka sí nípa ewì alohùn Aláwòrò-Ẹkùn àti ìlò ohun èlò pọ̀ mọ́ ewì alohùn wọ̀ nyí jẹ́ kí a lè sọ pé ipa pàtàkì ni àwọn ewì alohùn ń kó nínú bíbọ ìbọ àti ọdún láwùjọ Yorùbá, àti ní pàtàkì jùlọ nínú ìbọ Aláwòrò-Ẹkùn láàrin àwọn Àwórì ní ìpínlẹ̀ Èkó. …”
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Endoscopic ultrasound-guided hepaticogastrostomy and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography-guided biliary drainage for distal malignant biliary obstruction due to pancreat... by Naminatsu Takahara, Yousuke Nakai, Kensaku Noguchi, Tatsunori Suzuki, Tatsuya Sato, Ryunosuke Hakuta, Kazunaga Ishigaki, Tomotaka Saito, Tsuyoshi Hamada, Mitsuhiro Fujishiro

“…Methods We enrolled 56 patients with pancreatic cancer and asymptomatic DI who underwent EUS-HGS (n=25) or ERCP-BD (n=31). …”
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Antistaphylococcal Efficacy of Cefepime, Meropenem, and Piperacillin-Tazobactam in Patients with Polymicrobial Infection with MSSA Bacteremia or Pneumonia by Laila M. Najia, Eric Pyles, Arnaldo Lopez-Ruiz, Bibidh Subedi

“…There is a paucity of literature describing de-escalation techniques in patients with polymicrobial infections with one offending organism being methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) being treated with β-lactam therapy. …”
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Language and Style in Ọbasa’s Poetry by Afọlabi Ọlabimtan (deceased)

“…In the Ìjúbà (prologue) to Iwe ̀ ́ Kinni ́ ́ Awo ̀ n Ake ̣ wi, he writes: ̀ O di odụ ́n mó ̣kànléló ̣gbò ̣n nísisiyi (AD 1896) ti mo ti be ́ ̀ ̣re si ̀ ś aạ ́yan kíko -̣́ jo ̣ àwon o ̣ ̀ ̣rò ̣ ogbo ̣ ́ ̣n àtaiyebáyé ti àwon baba n ̣ ́là wa, tí i máa hán jade nínú orin, ègè, rárà, ìjálà, ìpesạ ̀, àròfò ̣, oríkì, ìlù, fèrè àti àgbékà ò ̣ro ̣̀ won…̣ (Obasa 1927: i)  (For the past thirtyone years (1896-1927) I have been assembling Yorùbá traditional sayings which embody the wisdom of our fore-fathers. …”
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Emission Factors of PAHs Components and Bioreactivity in PM2.5 from Biomass Burning by Xinye Zhu, Kin-Fai Ho, Tzu-Ting Yang, Vincent Laiman, Jian Sun, Zhenxing Shen, Hsiao-Chi Chuang

“…Emission factors were measured from biomass samples included maize straw (MS), wheat straw (WS), wood branches (WBs), MS briquettes (MSBs), MSB charcoal (MSC), WS briquettes (WSBs), WSB charcoal (WSC), WB briquettes (WBBs), and WBB charcoal (WBC). …”
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Muscle selection and dosing in patients undergoing treatment with abobotulinumtoxinA for lower limb spasticity in real-world practice by Richard D. Zorowitz, Jorge Jacinto, Stephen Ashford, Mathieu Beneteau, Pascal Maisonobe, Christian Hannes, Alberto Esquenazi

“…Objective: Describe abobotulinumtoxinA (aboBoNT-A) dosing parameters in the real-world management of lower limb spasticity (LLS). …”
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Associations between White Blood Cell Count and the Development of Incidental Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease by Goh Eun Chung, Jeong Yoon Yim, Donghee Kim, Min-Sun Kwak, Jong In Yang, Su Jin Chung, Sun Young Yang, Joo Sung Kim

“…In this retrospective longitudinal cohort study, we recruited participants who underwent abdominal ultrasonography and blood samplings during medical checkups in both 2005 and 2010. …”
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Closing the gap while standing still: clinimetric properties of a low-cost balance platform and a user-friendly app for posturography by Tom Vredeveld, John F. Stins, Annelies J. van Vliet, Vincent C.M. Tuinder, Stephan P.J. Ramaekers, Michel W. Coppieters, Annelies L. Pool-Goudzwaard

“…Background The Wii Balance Board (WBB) is used as a rehabilitation tool for balance or strength interventions and posturography in balance tasks. …”
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Evaluation of Serum Bilirubin as a Predictive Marker for Simple and Complicated Appendicitis in Sulaimani Emergency Teaching Hospital by Seerwan Hama Shareef, Dara Ahmed Mohammed, Goran Ameer Ahmed

“…This prospective study aims to evaluate serum bilirubin as a laboratory marker for simple and complicated appendicitis. We also investigated the diagnostic value of bilirubin in acute appendicitis and compared it with the WBC. …”
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