Disulfidptosis-related gene SLC3A2: a novel prognostic biomarker in nasopharyngeal carcinoma and head and neck squamous cell carcinoma by Xinyi Zhang, Yiqi Lin, Liang Shi, Aixia Zhai, Chao Wu, Qian-Ying Zhu

“…IntroductionNasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), one of the most common malignancies of the head and neck, is characterised by a complex pathogenesis and an unfavourable prognosis. …”
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Implications of parental lifestyle changes and education level on adolescent offspring weight: a population based cohort study - The HUNT Study, Norway by Erik R Sund, Kirsti Kvaløy, Turid Lingaas Holmen, Marit Naess

“…Objective Obesity tends to cluster in families reflecting both common genetics and shared lifestyle patterns within the family environment. …”
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Clinico-Epidemiological Study of Morphological Patterns of Allergic Contact Dermatitis due to Lac Bangles in Females of Hadoti Region by Neha Sharma, Ramesh Kumar, Devendra Yadav, Asha Nyati, Suresh Kumar Jain, Apoorva Panwar

“…Objectives: To study clinical patterns of allergic CD due to lac bangles and to assess common contact allergens. Methodology: A retrospective study was conducted after approval by an ethical committee. …”
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The Paradox of Religiosity–Secularism in Formal Religious Education by Meryem Karataş

“…Fiqh, from the perspective of Islamic theology, contains normative principles that govern personal and social practices. …”
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Attention Deficits in Stroke Patients: The Role of Lesion Characteristics, Time from Stroke, and Concomitant Neuropsychological Deficits by Simona Spaccavento, Chiara Valeria Marinelli, Roberto Nardulli, Luigi Macchitella, Umberto Bivona, Laura Piccardi, Pierluigi Zoccolotti, Paola Angelelli

“…Attention deficits are common after a unilateral first stroke. In keeping with the hierarchical organization of attention functions, results confirm the important role of the right hemisphere for the intensive components of attention, also highlighting the involvement of left hemisphere functioning for the selective aspects, possibly indicating a role of its linguistic functions.…”
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Ketamine Use in Hysterosalpingography (the Jimah Procedure): A Follow-Up of Bilateral Tubal Evaluation of 27 Infertile  Women  at a Teaching Hospital, Ghana by Bashiru Babatunde Jimah, Anthony Baffour Appiah, Benjamin Dabo Sarkodie, Dorothea Anim

“…Pain, anxiety, and distress are common in radiological investigations including hysterosalpingogram (HSG). …”
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Development and Validation of an RP-HPLC Method for the Quantitative Analysis of Triclosan in Human Urine by Prince Karikari, James Oppong-Kyekyeku, Edmund Ekuadzi, Samuel Oppong Bekoe, Rita Opoku, Daniel Nimako Amprako, Emmanuel Addo-Yobo, Sandra Kwarteng Owusu, Bernard Arhin, Adegoke G. Falade, Ganiyu Arinola, Adeleye S. Bakarey, John I. Anetor, Kevin J. Mortimer

“…Triclosan (TCS), a synthesized chlorinated phenolic compound, is commonly utilized in consumable products as an antimicrobial agent. …”
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Prevalence, Spectrum, and Outcomes of Single Coronary Artery Detected on Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography (CCTA) by Rashid Al Umairi, Maryam Al-khouri

“…To examine the prevalence, anatomical distribution, and outcome of the single coronary artery anomaly detected on coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) in a single center in Oman. Methods. Retrospectively, we reviewed 4,445 patients who underwent coronary computed tomography angiography between September 2012 and August 2018 at the National Heart Center, Muscat, Oman. …”
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SymbolNet: neural symbolic regression with adaptive dynamic pruning for compression by Ho Fung Tsoi, Vladimir Loncar, Sridhara Dasu, Philip Harris

“…Unlike most existing SR methods that struggle with datasets containing more than $\mathcal{O}(10)$ inputs, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our model on the LHC jet tagging task (16 inputs), MNIST (784 inputs), and SVHN (3072 inputs).…”
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Investigations on Free Span Rectification for a Submarine Pipeline on Sand Wave Seabeds by Xing Zou, Botao Xie, Xuechun Bai, Yuanyuan Guo, Qingqing Yuan, Zhipeng Zang

“…Sand waves are large-scale bed forms commonly occurring on the continental shelf seabed and can result in free spans of submarine pipelines, which may have an influence on the stability of the pipelines. …”
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Intra-oral approach for excision of an unusual cystic mass in a 12-year-Old girl: A case report by Nasem Jamal Yousef, Issa Saad, Marwan Al-Raeei, Chadi Azmeh, Maya Saad, Zeina Darwich

“…Giant cell tumors are commonly found in the epiphysis of long bones, making their localization in the mandible exceptional. …”
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Software diversity evaluation method based on the properties of ROP/JOP gadgets by Yuning CHI, Yunfei GUO, Yawen WANG, Hongchao HU

“…In order to reduce the risk of rapid spread of homogeneous attacks in network systems, and enhance network and software security, software diversification technologies are applied widely nowadays.Software diversification aims to generate functionally equivalent but internally changed program variants, thereby alter a single operating environment and mitigating homogenization attacks.The existing diversified technical evaluation index ROP gadgets survival rate is difficult to directly reflect the safety impact and the evaluation method is single.In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the diversification method more comprehensively and effectively, a software diversification evaluation method based on the properties of ROP/JOP gadgets is proposed, by analyzing common code reuse attacks, and turns abstract quantification into concrete indicators evaluates the security gain and effect of diversified methods from three aspects of space, time and quality.The method first discusses how diversification techniques affect ROP/JOP attacks according to the three properties of gadgets similarity, damage degree and availability.Nine kinds of diversification methods, such as instruction replacement, NOP insertion, and control flow flattening, are used to diversify the GNU coreutils assembly to generate diversification assembly.Experiments based on the property of gadgets are carried out on the diverse assemblies, and the effectiveness of different diversification methods and the impact on attacks are evaluated according to the experimental results.The experimental results show that this method can accurately evaluate the security gain of software diversification methods, the diversification technology will lead to the increase of the attack chain space required by the ROP/JOP attack, the longer time to construct the attack chain and the lower the attack success rate.The effects of different diversification methods are different, it has a guiding role for the follow-up research on diversified technologies with higher safety gains.…”
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Camptocormia in Parkinson's Disease by Kazuo Abe, Yutaka Uchida, Masaru Notani

“…Our findings indicate that camptocormia is a relatively common sign in PD and that patients with camptocormia scores on the PDQ-8 compared with PD patients without camptocormia. …”
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Fatigue in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: protocol of the Dutch multicentre, longitudinal, observational FAntasTIGUE study by Mirjam A G Sprangers, Martijn A Spruit, Emiel F M Wouters, Daisy J A Janssen, Jean W M Muris, Judith B Prins, Yvonne M J Goërtz, Milou Looijmans, Melissa S Y Thong, Jeannette B Peters, Chris Burtin, Yvonne Meertens-Kerris, Arnold Coors, Jan H Vercoulen

“…Introduction Fatigue is the second most common symptom in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). …”
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Pleural Rosai-Dorfman disease complicated with renal clear cell carcinoma: a case report and literature review by Sudan Tang, Sudan Tang, Xinju Yang, Shunan Wang, Shunan Wang, Qin Xiao, Qin Xiao

“…Although the lymph nodes are the most commonly affected site, some patients may present with extranodal involvement, particularly in the skin, nasal cavity, eyes, and bones. …”
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A Simplified Analysis Model for Predicting the Crack Width and Deflection of Reinforced UHPC Shallow T-Shaped Beams Under Four-Point Bending by Zhe Zhang, Yichuan Wang, Binchen Yuan, Ping Zhu

“…To obtain closed-form solutions, the proposed simplified analysis model directly incorporates the bond properties from bond tests, thereby eliminating the reliance on constant bond stress simplification and the subsequent necessity for member calibration, which is commonly required in existing design codes for UHPC-based structures. …”
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Development of a Simple and Powerful Analytical Method for Formaldehyde Detection and Quantitation in Blood Samples by Yong-Hyun Kim, Jeongsik Park

“…The pretreated samples were analyzed using a high-performance liquid chromatography-UV system, which is the most common choice for analyzing small-molecule aldehydes like formaldehyde. …”
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Inter-laboratory ring test for environmental DNA extraction protocols: implications for marine megafauna detection using three novel qPCR assays by Lauren Kelly Rodriguez, Lorenzo De Bonis, Jack McKee, James A. McKenna, Teddy Urvois, Eleonora Barbaccia, Eileen Dillane, Caterina Lanfredi, Helene Hjellnes, Armelle Jung, Enrico Villa, Arianna Azzellino, Jon-Ivar Westgaard, Erwan Quéméré, Bettina Thalinger

“…Each laboratory contributed eight to eleven samples collected throughout the North-East Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea near sperm whales, porbeagle sharks, basking sharks, bottlenose dolphins and common dolphins. After lysis, aliquots were exchanged between laboratories before subsequent DNA extraction using each facility’s preferred method. …”
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Determination of parasites at cultured and captured fishes in seyhan dam lake in adana by Hakan İnce, Uğur Uslu

“…<p> <b> Conclusions:</b> The presence of common parasites in these fish in the same environment has resulted in a more careful protective system in the aquaculture system.…”
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Operational Strategy for Low-Carbon Supply Chain under Asymmetric Information of Fairness Concerns by Guangxing Wei, Xu Zhang, Xinghong Qin, Binta Bary

“…Carbon emission reduction has become a common hot topic around the world. Although the previous literature has proven that the asymmetric information and fairness concerns would influence the operational strategy for low-carbon supply chain, it hardly touched the asymmetric information of fairness concerns, which contradicted practical observations and experimental evidence. …”
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