Comprehensive management application of sulodexide on proteinuria: 2 case reports by Li Zhou, Wenge Li

“…Proteinuria is an important sign of kidney function decline and one of the common clinical manifestations in patients with chronic kidney disease and diabetic kidney disease, which are often accompanied by a gradual decline in kidney function. …”
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A Molecular and Whole Body Insight of the Mechanisms Surrounding Glucose Disposal and Insulin Resistance with Hypoxic Treatment in Skeletal Muscle by R. W. A. Mackenzie, P. Watt

“…Although the mechanisms are largely unidentified, the chronic or intermittent hypoxic patterns occurring with respiratory diseases, such as chronic pulmonary disease or obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and obesity, are commonly associated with glucose intolerance. Indeed, hypoxia has been widely implicated in the development of insulin resistance either via the direct action on insulin receptor substrate (IRS) and protein kinase B (PKB/Akt) or indirectly through adipose tissue expansion and systemic inflammation. …”
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Detecting and measuring Microplastic pollution in Al Hoceima City's harbor, northern Morocco by Iliass Achoukhi, Yahya EL Hammoudani, Khadija Haboubi, Abdelhak Bourjila, Abdelaziz Touzani, Kamal Reklaoui, Fouad Dimane

“…Predominant size categories were 0.2–0.5 mm, accounting for over 50 % of the total, and clear and blue were the most common colors. The average microplastic density was calculated at 9.40 ± 4.50 items/m³. …”
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FAULT DIAGNOSIS OF ROLLING BEARING BASED ON UNSUPERVISED FEATURE ALIGNMENT by ZHANG Tao, JIA Qian, XIN YueJie

“…By minimizing the second-order statistical difference and the maximum mean difference of the joint distribution, the differences in the feature distributions of the source domain and target domain were reduced, and the common features of the two domains were extracted. …”
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Megestrol Acetate-Induced Symptomatic Hypogonadism in a Male Patient by Lubna Bashir Munshi, Yumiko Tsushima, Kwan Cheng, Maria Brito

“…Exogenous glucocorticoid use is the most common cause of iatrogenic AI. Our aim is to bring attention to another broadly prescribed medication, megestrol acetate (MA), as the cause of suppression of both these axes. …”
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Optimized Liveness Detection for Fast and Accurate Fingerprint Anti-Spoofing With Optical Coherence Tomography by Yilong Zhang, Heyou Yu, Haohao Sun, Yongbo Yao, Haixia Wang, Jian Liu, Yuanjie Dang, Ronghua Liang, Peng Chen

“…Liveness anti-spoofing is commonly detected by additional detection equipment or by extracting the liveness information from the OCT data. …”
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Chronic Appendicitis: Possible Differential Diagnosis in Patients with Chronic Abdominal Pain by Iva Ljubas, Ivana Jurca, Dora Grgić

“…After diagnosis, treatment usually begins with antibiotics, and the next most common step is surgery. The optimal treatment for this condition is unknown. …”
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Weapon-Target Assignment Problem by Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm Based on Decomposition by Xiaoyang Li, Deyun Zhou, Qian Pan, Yongchuan Tang, Jichuan Huang

“…The weapon-target assignment (WTA) problem is a key issue in Command & Control (C2). Asset-based multiobjective static WTA (MOSWTA) problem is known as one of the notable issues of WTA. …”
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Picudo de la melaleuca (nombre común sugerido) Oxyops vitiosa (Pascoe) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae) by James P. Cuda, Susan A. Wineriter, Gary R. Buckingham, Ted D. Center, Kenneth T. Gioeli

“…This 5-page fact sheet is the Spanish-language version of EENY211/IN368: Melaleuca Snout Beetle, Melaleuca Weevil (unofficial common names), Oxyops vitiosa (Pascoe) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae), written by J.P. …”
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A Misguiding Osteoid Osteoma in the Bicipital Tuberosity of the Radius by Konstantinos Ditsios, Nikolaos Papadakis, Ioannis Theodoroudis, Lazaros Kostretzis, Panagiotis Konstantinou, Iosafat Pinto, Anastasios Christodoulou

“…Osteoid osteoma is a benign bone tumor that appears most frequently in young patients. It is more common in males and it concerns mostly the long bones of the lower limb. …”
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Evidence of eared doves consumption and the potential toxic exposure during the Regional Development period in Quito-Ecuador by Roberto Ordoñez-Araque, Andrés Mosquera, José Luis Román-Carrión, Paul Vargas-Jentzsch, Luis Ramos-Guerrero, José Luis Rivera-Parra, Martha Romero-Bastidas, Carlos Montalvo-Puente, Jenny Ruales

“…The animal bones retrieved from the settlement, which dated from 25 to 203 cal AD, were identified as belonging to Zenaida cf. auriculata, commonly known as eared dove. Ancient starch was discovered in the sediments inside the vessels. …”
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THE ROLE OF ANTIBIOTICS IN TREATING SALIVARY GLAND INFECTIONS by Irina Adriana Beuran, Simona Claudia Stefan, Elisabeta Maria Vasca, Robert Marius Grosu, Marius Petrea, Gabriel-Valeriu Popa, Bogdan Oprisan

“…For example, bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus, commonly involved in salivary gland infections, respond well to antibiotic therapy, which reduces inflammation and associated pain.…”
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Oxidative Stress in Lead and Cadmium Toxicity and Its Amelioration by R. C. Patra, Amiya K. Rautray, D. Swarup

“…Lead and cadmium are the common environmental heavy metal pollutants and have widespread distribution. …”
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Plasticity of Cells and Ex Vivo Production of Red Blood Cells by Takashi Hiroyama, Kenichi Miharada, Ryo Kurita, Yukio Nakamura

“…More recently, it was reported that enucleated RBCs could be abundantly produced from human embryonic stem (ES) cells. The common obstacle for application of these methods is that they require very high cost to produce sufficient number of RBCs that are applicable in the clinic. …”
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Emotional Burnout, Perceived Sources of Job Stress, Professional Fulfillment, and Engagement among Medical Residents in Malaysia by Sami Abdo Radman Al-Dubai, Kurubaran Ganasegeran, Wilson Perianayagam, Krishna Gopal Rampal

“…Mean (±SD) age of the respondents was 26.5 (±1.6). The most common source of job stress was “fear of making mistakes.” …”
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Cellular Automata Based Modeling for Evaluating Different Bus Stop Designs in China by Haoyang Ding, Wei Wang, Tianming Luo, Zhen Yang, Ye Li, Zhibin Li

“…Three typical types of bus stops which are common in China are considered in the model, including two types of curbside bus stops and one type of bus bay stops. …”
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Clozapine-Induced Late Agranulocytosis and Severe Neutropenia Complicated with Streptococcus pneumonia, Venous Thromboembolism, and Allergic Vasculitis in Treatment-Resistant Femal... by Christina Voulgari, Raphael Giannas, Georgios Paterakis, Anna Kanellou, Nikolaos Anagnostopoulos, Stamata Pagoni

“…We present a case of a 33-year-old Caucasian woman with a 25-year history of refractory psychotic mania after switching to a 2-year clozapine therapy. …”
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Innovative Diagnostic Approaches and Treatment Strategies for Endometriosis: Current Trends and Future Direction - Review by Wiktoria Domino, Joanna Śnieżna, Wojciech Florczak, Karol Dzwonnik, Urszula Zelik, Jagienka Włodyka, Gabriela Trestka, Maria Przygoda, Jakub Dziewic, Kamila Stępień, Sabina Adamczyk

“…Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are commonly used to alleviate symptoms, while hormonal therapies, such as combined oral contraceptives, GnRH agonists, and progestogens, aim to inhibit ovulation and estrogen production to reduce inflammation and slow disease progression. …”
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Transferable Targeted Adversarial Attack on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Image Recognition by Sheng Zheng, Dongshen Han, Chang Lu, Chaowen Hou, Yanwen Han, Xinhong Hao, Chaoning Zhang

“…Since contrastive learning (CL) is commonly applied to enhance a model’s generalization, we utilize it to improve the generalization of adversarial examples generated on a source model to unseen target models in the black box scenario. …”
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Kenyans’ Perceptions of the Risks of COVID-19 Vaccines: A Scoping Review by Faith Anyango Ochieng’, Donal O'Mathuna

“…Results: Twenty-eight articles were included in the scoping review. The most common themes leading to vaccine hesitancy among Kenyans were vaccine safety, vaccine side effects, and lack of knowledge about COVID-19 vaccines. …”
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