Quality Evaluation of Artemisia capillaris Thunb. Based on Qualitative Analysis of the HPLC Fingerprint and UFLC-Q-TOF-MS/MS Combined with Quantitative Analysis of Multicomponents by Ying Dai, Zhihua Dou, Rongrong Zhou, Lin Luo, Li Bian, Yufeng Chen, Jinhua Tao, Zhixian Chen

“…Second, the components of common peaks in the HPLC fingerprints were identified by ultrafast liquid chromatography- (UFLC-) Q-TOF-MS/MS. Finally, the contents of the components unambiguously confirmed by reference substances were determined, and the correlation between the contents of chlorogenic acid and the contents of others was analyzed. …”
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The Impacts of Breakthrough Drug Classes on Total Healthcare Expenditures by Zeynal Karaca, Steven N. Wiggins

“…Third, we separately estimated the effects of each of these groups of drugs on drug and non-drug expenditures. Finally, we measured the cost impact of drug use in a more general way than in the existing literature. …”
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Serum Levels and Placental Expression of NGAL in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus by Xiaoqian Yin, Yan Huo, Li Liu, Yixing Pan, Suxin Liu, Runfang Wang

“…Maternal serum NGAL levels positively correlated with the NGAL levels found in the cord blood of the control (r = 0.399, P=0.012) and the GDM subjects (r = 0.349, P=0.014). Finally, the expression of NGAL protein levels in the placenta (1.22 ± 0.39 vs. 0.65 ± 0.23, P<0.001) and umbilical cord (0.65 ± 0.23 vs. 0.25 ± 0.10, P<0.001) were higher in GDM women than those noted in the control subjects. …”
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On $ \left(\mathit{p}, \mathit{q}\right) $-fractional linear Diophantine fuzzy sets and their applications via MADM approach by Hanan Alohali, Muhammad Bilal Khan, Jorge E. Macías-Díaz, Fahad Sikander

“…Last, we compared the ranking results of the produced approaches with the obtained ranking results of the techniques using several numerical instances to demonstrate the validity and superiority of the developed techniques. Finally, a few comparisons between the findings were made.…”
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Influence of Omega-3 and Green Tea Extract on Alcohol-Induced Liver Injury in Rats by Ridha Hassan Hussein, Zana Hassan Ibrahim

“…Biochemical parameters including: lipid profiles: (total cholesterol (TC), triglycerides (TG), high density lipoprotein-cholesterol (HDL-C) and low density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C), serum malondialdehyde (MDA), liver function tests (LFT): (Serum albumin (ALB), serum total protein (TP), total serum bilirubin (TSB), serum alkaline phosphatase (ALP), serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT), and serum aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and finally hepatic histological changes were also investigated. …”
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Comprehensive Analysis of PDLIM3 Expression Profile, Prognostic Value, and Correlations with Immune Infiltrates in Gastric Cancer by Xinpeng Hu, Minfeng Chen, Qiang Ruan, Changzheng Shi, Jinghua Pan, Liangping Luo

“…PDLIM3 expression had significant positive correlations with a variety of immune marker subsets. Finally, correlations were found between PDLIM3 and crucial markers of signaling pathways involving PI3K/Akt and p38 MAPK. …”
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Circulating MMP-12 as Potential Biomarker in Evaluating Disease Severity and Efficacy of Sublingual Immunotherapy in Allergic Rhinitis by Yandan Zhou, Min Xu, Wei Gong, Xiaoming Kang, Renzhong Guo, Jie Wen, Dinggang Zhou, Manjing Wang, Dazhi Shi, Qiancheng Jing

“…The serum concentrations of MRGPRX2 and MMP-12 were significantly higher in the AR group than the HC group, and the elevated MMP-12 levels were correlated with VAS and TNSS, and serum MRGPRX2 levels were correlated with VAS. Finally, 100 and 80 patients completed 1-year and 3-year follow-up and were classified into effective and ineffective groups. …”
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Determination of the Hydration Damage Instability Period in a Shale Borehole Wall and Its Application to a Fuling Shale Gas Reservoir in China by Haicheng She, Zaiqiang Hu, Zhan Qu, Yao Zhang, Hu Guo

“…Then, combined with the shale hydration stress and strength deformation theory, a damage evolutionary equation for shale with water was derived, and the shale damage evolutionary limit equation and the method of determining the collapse cycle were established. Finally, the method was applied to the Fuling Shale Gas Field, the largest shale gas field in China, and a shale wellbore collapse cycle of approximately seven days in the field was obtained. …”
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Embryonic, Larval, and Early Juvenile Development of the Tropical Sea Urchin, Salmacis sphaeroides (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) by M. Aminur Rahman, Fatimah Md. Yusoff, A. Arshad, Mariana Nor Shamsudin, S. M. N. Amin

“…Pluteus larva started to feed unicellular algae in 2 d, grew continuously, and finally attained metamorphic competence in 35 d after fertilization. …”
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Causal Discovery of Flight Service Process Based on Event Sequence by Qian Luo, Lin Zhang, Zhiwei Xing, Huan Xia, Zhao-Xin Chen

“…Under this framework, this paper proposes a new Markov blanket discovery algorithm that does not assume causal sufficiency to discover causal factors and uses benchmark data sets for testing. Finally, the actual flight service data are used for causal discovery among flight service nodes. …”
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Association between non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio and serum thyroid function measures: Recent Findings from NHANES 2007–201... by Mo-Yao Tan, Ping Zhang, Shan Wu, Si-Xuan Zhu, Ming Gao

“…In Mendelian randomization (MR), the inverse variance weighting method (IVW) is used as the primary analytical approach.ResultsThis study finally comprised 3,881 adults aged 20 years and older. …”
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Confounding Risk Factors in Developing Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus among Children and Adolescents at Sulaimani Chronic Diabetes Health Center by Pary Mohammad Azize, Chia H. Sadiq

“…Residency and Family history of autoimmune disease were ranked in the fifth line of factor, finally the weakest factor is nationality by total variance of 8.552%. …”
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Experimental Study on Acoustic Emission and Resistivity Response of Sandstone under Constant Amplitude Cyclic Loading by Kui Wang, Xue Li, Zheng Huang, Mingjie Zhao

“…The damage of rocks gradually accumulates under the action of periodic cyclic load, and finally, fatigue damage occurs, which affects the stability of the project. …”
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Experimental Study on the Influence of Freezing Pressure on the Uniaxial Mechanical Properties of Ice by Baosheng Wang, Weihao Yang, Peixin Sun, Xin Huang, Yaodan Zhang, Fengjun Chen

“…In this method, the water is frozen into the standard cylindrical ice specimen under high hydraulic pressure in a triaxial pressure chamber, and then, the temperature field and stress field of the ice specimens are adjusted to the initial state of the test; finally, an in situ mechanical test is conducted in the triaxial chamber. …”
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Design and performance analysis of wireless body area networks in complex indoor e-Health hospital environments for patient remote monitoring by Erik Aguirre, Peio Lopez-Iturri, Leyre Azpilicueta, Carmen Rivarés, José Javier Astrain, Jesús Villadangos, Francisco Falcone

“…Both the measurements and simulation results illustrate the strong influence of the presented scenario on the overall performance of the wireless body area networks: losses due to material absorption and the strong influence of multipath components due to the great number of obstacles and the presence of persons make the use of the presented method very useful. Finally, an android-based application for the monitoring of patients is presented and tested within the emergency room scenario, providing a flexible solution to increase interactivity in health service provision.…”
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Strategy Design of PM2.5 Controlling for Northern Thailand by Karuna Jainontee, Prapat Pongkiatkul, Ying-Lin Wang, Roy J. F. Weng, Yi-Ting Lu, Ting-Shiuan Wang, Wang-Kun Chen

“…This study takes Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai provinces in Northern Thailand as the study areas to identify pollution episodes, analyze PM2.5 source trajectories, and finally propose pollution control strategies accordingly. …”
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Practical analysis of using PPPH and raPPPid for Precise Point Positioning in Europe by Saber Mohamed, El-Mewafi Mahmoud, Awad Ahmed

“…RMSE in Up direction estimated by raPPPid varied from 0.8 cm to 5.2 cm, while RMSE in Up direction estimated by PPPH varied from 0.9 cm to 5.5 cm. 3D Positioning error was also estimated by both software and it was found that the 3D positioning error estimated by raPPPid varied from 0.2 cm to 2.2 cm, whereas the 3D positioning error estimated by PPPH varied from 0.9 cm to 4.1 cm. Finally, the average convergence time achieved by raPPPid was 16.5 minutes, while the average convergence time achieved by PPPH was 32 minutes.…”
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Efficacy and Safety of Emergent Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation in Patients with Acute Decompensated Aortic Stenosis: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Ruochen Shao, Junli Li, Tianyi Qu, Xiaoying Fu, Yanbiao Liao, Mao Chen

“…By searching PubMed, EMBASE, and Cochrane databases, we obtained the studies comparing the clinical outcomes of emergent TAVI and elective TAVI. Finally, 14 studies were included. Results. A total of 14 eligible articles with 73,484 patients were included in this meta-analysis. …”
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Numerical Simulation Study of Fines Migration Impacts on an Early Water Drainage Period in Undersaturated Coal Seam Gas Reservoirs by Xiaolong Peng, Suyang Zhu, Zhenjiang You, Zhimin Du, Peng Deng, Chaowen Wang, Mingwei Wang

“…Then, two dewatering strategies, including fast and moderate depressurization, are compared using the proposed models to study their effects on coal properties and following production. Finally, the production history of a CSG well in the Qinshui Basin, China, is utilized for history matching in a field case study. …”
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Analysis of Three-Dimensional Damage Constitutive Model of Frozen Sand Based on the Influence of Intermediate Principal Stress and Temperature by Shilong Ma, Zhaoming Yao, Shuang Liu, Xuan Pan

“…This allows for a constitutive model of frozen sand damage under the three-dimensional stress state to be established. Finally, the model parameter values through low-temperature three-dimensional test data were able to be determined. …”
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