Molecular spectroscopy of blood plasma differentiates metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis from steatosis by Barbora Nováková, Ondřej Vrtělka, Kateřina Králová, Lucie Habartová, Václav Šmíd, Karel Dvořák, Jaromír Petrtýl, Kateřina Žížalová, Jan Stříteský, Libor Vítek, Martin Leníček, Vladimír Setnička, Radan Brůha

“…Methods We analyzed blood plasma samples from 29 patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) and 24 MASLD patients with simple steatosis using Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy and electronic circular dichroism (ECD) spectroscopy to distinguish: (i) MASH; (ii) MASH with moderate to advanced fibrosis; and (iii) overall fibrosis. …”
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The Role of Water on the Oxidation Process of Graphene Oxide Structures by Ahmet Türk, Fatih Sargın, Kürşat Kanbur, Funda Ak Azem, Işıl Birlik

“…GO was produced with different amounts of water in the oxidation stage of Hummers Method. …”
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Data-Driven Health Status Assessment of Fire Protection IoT Devices in Converter Stations by Yubiao Huang, Tao Sun, Yifeng Cheng, Jiaqing Zhang, Zhibing Yang, Tan Yang

“…For validity assessment, a transformer-based time series reconstruction method is used, and anomaly thresholds are determined using the peaks over threshold (POT) approach from extreme value theory. …”
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Thermodynamics and solar radiative analysis in Jeffery-Hamel flow through non-parallel channel by novel improved residual power series method by Mohamed Bouzidi, Mohsin Ul Haq, Ikram Ullah, Saira Shukat, Hijaz Ahmad, Mohammad Mahtab Alam, Hamid Khan, Marouan Kouki

“…The governing system of partial differential equations can be transformed into ordinary differential equations (ODEs) using suitable transformations. …”
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Evaluation of Fibrosis Markers as a Potential Method for Diagnosing Non-Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease in Patients with Stable Coronary Artery Disease by N. N. Pakhtusov, A. O. Yusupova, K. A. Zhbanov, A. A. Shchedrygina, E. V. Privalova, Yu. N. Belenkov

“…To study the levels of fibrosis markers in patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD) and various types of coronary artery (CA) lesions (obstructive and non-obstructive), to identify possible differences for diagnosing the types of coronary obstruction.Material and methods. …”
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A Novel Rubber Composite Sleeper-Deformation-Prediction Model Based on Response Surface Method (RSM) and Machine Learning (ML) Techniques by Abdulmumin Ahmed Shuaibu, Zhiping Zeng, Ibrahim Hayatu Hassan, Wang Weidong, Hassan Suleiman Otuoze, Suleiman Abdulhakeem, Bushrah Baba Abdulrahman

“…The temperature data were filtered to remove noise and normalized based on the Log-Pearson Type III outlier detection method and Box-Cox transformation, respectively, before being used to develop temperature-dependent models for sleeper deformation. …”
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SEX DIFFERENCES OF VLF100 AND VLF50 SPECTRUM OF HEART RATE VARIABILITY IN HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS OF YOUNG AGE AND OLDER SUBJECTS WITH VASCULAR PATHOLOGY IN TERMS OF SEVEN-TEST, HYPERV... by Арнольд Наумович Флейшман, Татьяна Валентиновна Кораблина, Игорь Германович Халиулин, Станислав Альфредович Петровский, Артем Андреевич Неретин

“…Mathematical methods are the following: spectral analysis of HRV based on continuous wavelet transform and Hilbert-Huang transform, correlation analysis. …”
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The effect of Shen’an pills on serum parameters associated with tissue fibrosis in patients with chronic kidney failure by HAN Yi-tong, SUN Yi-jun, YANG Huan-rong

“…Objective To explore the therapeutic effect of Shen’an pills on renal fibrosis in patients with chronic kidney failure.Methods Those patients diagnosed with chronic kidney failure phase 3-5 by the department of nephrology in Weifang Yidu Centre Hospital from June 2016 to June 2017 were chosen to divide into the treatment group（n=42） and the control group（n=50）.All the patients were recommended to take some food with low content of valuable protein(0.6 g·kg^-1·d^-1) and low content of phosphorus,and to conduct symptomatic treatment with phosphate binders and hypotensive（if serum creatinine <265 μmol/L,ACEI or ARB was added）.At the same time,the patients in the treatment group took Shen’an pills regularly.All the patient in both the two group were observed for 6 months.Changes of the kidney function,inflammatory indicator and renal fibrosis indicator before treatment and at 3 months and 6 months after treatment were compared between the two groups.Results Before treatment,there were no significant statistical differences between the two groups（P>0.05）.At 3 months and 6 months after treatment,hypersensitive C reaction protein（Hs-CRP）,serum creatinine（SCr）,collagen type Ⅳ（Col-Ⅳ） and transformation growth factor（TGF-β） for the patients in the treatment group were all lower than those in the control group,with statistical significance of differences（P<0.05）.The levels of eGFR for the patients in the treatment group were also all lower than those in the control group,with statistical significance of differences（P<0.05）.Conclusions Clinical observations demonstrate that Shen’an pills can destroy the malignant cycle of "deficiency,dampness,stasis and poison",regulate water metabolism,promote blood circulation so as to remove blood stasis,and reduce toxins in the body,improving patients’ symptoms.At the same time,the ingredient rhubarb contained in Shen’an pills can postpone renal fibrosis,by inhibiting cell proliferation,inhibiting production of fibrogenic factors and regulating synthesis and decomposition of extracellular matrix.…”
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Optical soliton solutions, dynamical and sensitivity analysis for fractional perturbed Gerdjikov–Ivanov equation by Muhammad Shakeel, Fehaid Salem Alshammari, Hameed Gul Ahmadzai

“…Solitons solutions and further solutions of the obtained model are sorted out by using the Sardar sub-equation (SSE) method and the generalized unified method. The different types of soliton solutions such as bright, kink, periodic, and exact dark solitons are achieved. …”
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Efficacy of neoadjuvant, adjuvant, and perioperative immunotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer across different PD-L1 expression levels: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Zhenlong Zhang, Zhenlong Zhang, Yuchen Lin, Shuchen Chen

“…BackgroundImmune checkpoint inhibitors, particularly anti-PD-1/PD-L1 monoclonal antibodies, have transformed non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treatment. …”
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Similarities and differences of a proliferation-inducing ligand expression in lacrimal gland lesions of patients with IgG4-associated ophthalmic diseases and mucosa-associated lymp... by Lvfu He, Lvfu He, Lisha Zhan, Yu Yang, Weimin He

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Electron Impact Ionization and Partial Ionization Cross Sections of Plasma-Relevant SiCl_<i>x</i> (x = 1–3) Molecules by Savinder Kaur, Ajay Kumar Arora, Kasturi Lal Baluja, Anand Bharadvaja

“…In this approach, the binary-encounter-Bethe model is modified through a two-step process, namely, transforming the binding energies of the occupied orbitals and introducing a scaling factor. …”
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NMT-translation – basic models, quality assessment by I. A. Borunov

“…In order to achieve this goal, the following tasks were formulated: to review and analyze the main NMT models, including Seq2Seq, Transformer, BERT and their variations, in order to identify their peculiarities and applicability to the translation of different types of texts; to study and evaluate the quality of translation made with the help of modern NMT systems; to carry out a comparative analysis of the translation of legal texts using the methods of contextual analysis, structural-semantic and comparative-comparative analysis; to determine the limitations of the existing NMT models; to identify the advantages and limitations of the existing NMT models for the translation of legal texts. …”
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Airport-FOD3S: A Three-Stage Detection-Driven Framework for Realistic Foreign Object Debris Synthesis by Hanglin Cheng, Yihao Li, Ruiheng Zhang, Weiguang Zhang

“…Additionally, a three-stage image blending method considering size transformation, a seamless process, and style transfer was proposed. …”
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Fusion of Recurrence Plots and Gramian Angular Fields with Bayesian Optimization for Enhanced Time-Series Classification by Maria Mariani, Prince Appiah, Osei Tweneboah

“…We introduce a novel framework that transforms time series into image representations by fusing recurrence plots (RPs) with both Gramian Angular Summation Fields (GASFs) and Gramian Angular Difference Fields (GADFs). …”
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The possibilities of immunohistochemistry for assessing the pathogenetic mechanisms of action of compounds with a suspected antitumor effect. Part I. General indicators of the proc... by M. A. Akimenko, O. A. Voronova, M. S. Alkhuseyn-Kuliaginova, A. B. Alnikin, N. A. Kornienko, M. A. Dodokhova, M. V. Gulyan, I. M. Kotieva

“…It is advisable to use information about the possible cytotoxic effect of candidates for antitumor drugs using an immunohistochemical method for studying organs and systems of experimental animals at different stages of the development of the tumor process by indirect markers of tumor progression activity. …”
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Text-Enhanced Graph Attention Hashing for Cross-Modal Retrieval by Qiang Zou, Shuli Cheng, Anyu Du, Jiayi Chen

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Multi-label Classification Based on Label-Aware Variational Autoencoder by SUN Hongjian, XU Pengyu, LIU Bing, JING Liping, YU Jian

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Numerous Multi-Wave Solutions of the Time-Fractional Boussinesq-like System via a Variant of the Extended Simple Equations Method (SEsM) by Elena V. Nikolova, Mila Chilikova-Lubomirova

“…The key developments over the original SEsM in the proposed analytical framework include the following: (1) an extension of the original SEsM by constructing the solutions of the studied FNPDEs as complex composite functions which combine two single composite functions, comprising the power series of the solutions of two simple equations or two special functions with different independent variables (different wave coordinates); (2) an extension of the scope of fractional wave transformations used to reduce the studied FNPDEs to different types of ODEs, depending on the physical nature of the studied FNPDEs and the type of selected simple equations. …”
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Public preferences for health and non-health outcomes of Universal Basic Income and alternative income-based policies: A mixed-method feasibility study by Neil McHugh, David Bomark, Rachel Baker, Verity Watson, Neil Craig, Ruth Lightbody, Clare Bambra, Victoria McGowan, Cam Donaldson

“…All methods adopted a socially inclusive perspective. …”
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