Early Postoperative Safety of Total Hip Arthroplasty in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients by YANG Xingdong, YU Muyang, XU Yiming, ZHU Wei, HU Mingwei, WENG Xisheng, FENG Bin

“…After propensity score matching, 163 cases from SLE and control groups were included for analysis. (1) Regarding medical complications, compared with control group, SLE group showed significant differences in osteoporosis, respiratory system disorders, gastrointestinal diseases, urinary system disorders, hematologic abnormalities, and secondary or concomitant rheumatic diseases (all P < 0.05). (2) In terms of preoperative laboratory tests, SLE group had lower platelet counts, absolute lymphocyte counts, hemoglobin levels, hematocrit, albumin levels, blood glucose levels, and activated partial thromboplastin times than control group, while C-reactive protein, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and D-dimer levels were higher (all P < 0.05). (3) Regarding surgical-related indicators, a higher proportion of patients in SLE group had an ASA grade > 2 (15.95% vs. 3.07%, P < 0.001), but intraoperative blood loss was significantly smaller [324.7 (200.0, 500.0) mL vs. 421.8 (200.0, 500.0) mL, P=0.005]. (4) In terms of complications, SLE group exhibited a significantly higher incidence of major complications than control group (8.59% vs. 1.23%, P=0.005), with a relative risk of 1.081 (95% CI: 1.028-1.136). …”
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An analytical method for the desorption superposition effect in commingled production of coalbed methane and its application: A case study of the Xiaotun mine field in western Guiz... by Chen GUO, Yan JI, Chenyi ZHAO, Lingling LU, Xinhang YU, Junzhe GAO, Houqiang LI, Xuyang ZHANG, Xiang WANG, Hongbin HE, Runhan ZHANG

“…Isothermal adsorption curves discovered the matching of the coal seams' desorption stages. The low critical desorption pressures allowed various coal seams to directly enter the sensitive desorption stage after desorption, suggesting high desorption efficiency and effective matching. …”
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Utilizing Targeted Next-Generation Sequencing for Rapid, Accurate, and Cost-Effective Pathogen Detection in Lower Respiratory Tract Infections by Qin L, Liang M, Song J, Chen P, Zhang S, Zhou Y, Li H, Tang J, Ma Y, Yang B, Xu J, Zhang J

“…Furthermore, the diagnostic performance of tNGS was compared with that of culture, and its clinical impact was assessed.Results: After propensity score matching, the coincidence rate of tNGS was comparable to that of mNGS (82.9% vs 73.9%, P=0.079). …”
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Lipid Deposition in Skeletal Muscle Tissues and Its Correlation with Intra-Abdominal Fat: A Pilot Investigation in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Manoj Kumar Sarma, Andres Saucedo, Suresh Anand Sadananthan, Christine Hema Darwin, Ely Richard Felker, Steve Raman, S. Sendhil Velan, Michael Albert Thomas

“…<b>Background/Objectives:</b> This study evaluated metabolites and lipid composition in the calf muscles of Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients and age-matched healthy controls using multi-dimensional MR spectroscopic imaging. …”
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Clinical outcomes after immune checkpoint inhibitor-associated acute kidney injury: a cohort study by Vin-Cent Wu, Ting-Ya Yang, Min-Hsiang Chuang, Hong-Min Lin, Heng-Chih Pan, Yun Chou, Jui-Yi Chen

“…The control group consisted of 48 147 patients treated with ICPi but did not develop AKI (mean age, 65.3±13.1 years; 53.7% men). After matching, the ICPi-AKI group exhibited a higher risk of all-cause mortality (HR=1.27; 95% CI 1.02 to 1.61), MAKE (HR=3.83; 95% CI 1.72 to 8.40), MACE (HR=1.35; 95% CI 1.03 to 1.75)) compared with the non-ICPi-AKI group. …”
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Using Flow 3D Simulation, Multiple Nonlinear Regression Approach, and Artificial Neural Network Approach Approaches to Study the Behavior of Vertical Drop Structures by Shaikhli Hasan Al, Mohammed Sarah Hashim, Al-Khafaji Zainab

“…Downstream depth, pool depth, and energy loss closely matched experimental findings. Additionally, numerical impact velocities were compared with empirical equations across different scenarios, demonstrating minimal deviation. …”
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Environmental Performance, Financial Constraints, and Tax Avoidance Practices: Insights from FTSE All-Share Companies by Probowo Erawan Sastroredjo, Marcel Ausloos, Polina Khrennikova

“…Entropy balancing, propensity score matching analysis, the instrumental variable method, and the Heckman test are employed in our study to address potential endogeneity concerns. …”
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Potentiometric Sensor for Gadolinium(III) Ion Based on Zirconium(IV) Tungstophosphate as an Electroactive Material by Harish K. Sharma, Nadeem Sharma

“…Fixed interference method and matched potential method has been used for determining selectivity coefficient with respect to alkali, alkaline earth, some transition and rare earth metal ions that are normally present along with Gd(III) in its ores. …”
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Enhanced Heat Transfer Characteristics of Graphite Concrete and Its Application in Energy Piles by Qingwen Li, Lu Chen, Haotian Ma, Chung-Ho Huang

“…The research results also show that the heat transfer coefficient of the concrete exhibits greater improvement when the graphite content is greater than 15% under the same environmental temperature. …”
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Kinetics and Kinematics of Shape Tracing in Children with Probable Developmental Coordination Disorder (pDCD) by Michal Hochhauser, Yfat Ben Refael, Esther Adi-Japha, Rachel Bartov

“…Background: Children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) exhibit visual–motor deficits affecting handwriting. …”
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Information Processing Biases and Attachment Styles in Adolescents with Dissociative Disorders by Ritwika Nag, Nishant Goyal, Madhumita Bhattacharyya

“…Background: Dissociative disorders invade and interfere with the person’s continuity of normal psychological functioning and exhibit slower or impaired processing of threat-related information and attachment styles play a significant role in their psychopathology. …”
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Decision Making Cognition in Primary Progressive Aphasia by Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht, Teresa Torralva, María Roca, Daniela Szenkman, Agustin Ibanez, Pablo Richly, Mariángeles Pose, Facundo Manes

“…We sought to investigate the decision making profile of Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) by assessing patients diagnosed with this disease (n = 10), patients diagnosed with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD, n = 35), and matched controls (n = 14) using the Iowa Gambling Task, a widely used test that mimics real-life decision making. …”
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Endophytic Fungi of <i>Calea pinnatifida</i> (Asteraceae): Dereplication of Crude Extracts, Antimicrobial Properties, and Identification of New Tetronic Acid Derivative Produced by... by Bianca Barna, Lhaís Araújo Caldas, Jackson Monteiro, Augusto Leonardo dos Santos, Renata Castiglioni Pascon, Marcelo Afonso Vallim, Marcelo José Pena Ferreira, Sarah Santos Gonçalves, Glaucia Queiroz dos Santos, Anderson Messias Rodrigues, Jamile Ambrósio de Carvalho, Suzan Pantaroto de Vasconcellos, Patricia Sartorelli

“…Of these, five were identified based on matches with the GNPS spectral library, and four were predicted based on the molecular network. …”
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Application of lacrimal gland ultrasonography in the evaluation of chronic ocular graft-versus-host-disease by Mingxia Zhong, Siyuan Liu, Jinghan Luo, Qin Zhang, Zhou Yang, Shanshan Zhang

“…Demographics and transplantation-related information were collected for all participants, including age, gender, donor-recipient HLA matching, donor-recipient ABO matching, donor-recipient gender combination and duration after allo-HSCT. …”
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The characteristics of intestinal microflora in infants with rotavirus enteritis, changes in microflora before and after treatment and their clinical values by Qiyan Yan, Yuanyuan Chen, E-Bin Gao, Yanbo Lu, Junhua Wu, Haiyan Qiu

“…Compared to the healthy group, the RV-infected group exhibited reduced microbial diversity. Both groups shared Firmicutes as the dominant phylum. …”
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Semantic-Assisted LIDAR Tightly Coupled SLAM for Dynamic Environments by Peng Liu, Yuxuan Bi, Jialin Shi, Tianyi Zhang, Caixia Wang

“…Additionally, in point cloud feature extraction and matching processes, we incorporate constraint conditions based on semantic information to enhance accuracy and improve pose estimation precision. …”
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Genetic Algorithms in Antennas and Smart Antennas Design Overview: Two Novel Antenna Systems for Triband GNSS Applications and a Circular Switched Parasitic Array for WiMax Applic... by Stylianos C. Panagiotou, Stelios C. A. Thomopoulos, Christos N. Capsalis

“…The first system is a modified PIFA and the second one is a helical antenna above a ground plane. Both systems exhibit enhanced performance characteristics, such as sufficient front gain, input impedance matching, and increased front-to-back ratio. …”
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Verbal Memory Impairments in Children after Cerebellar Tumor Resection by Matthew P. Kirschen, Mathew S. Davis-Ratner, Marnee W. Milner, S. H. Annabel Chen, Pam Schraedley-Desmond, Paul G. Fisher, John E. Desmond

“…Verbal working memory (VWM) tasks were administered to children following surgical resection of cerebellar pilocytic astrocytomas and age-matched controls. Anatomical MRI scans were used to quantify the extent of cerebellar lobular damage from each patient's resection. …”
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Effects of Various Extents of High-Frequency Hearing Loss on Speech Recognition and Gap Detection at Low Frequencies in Patients with Sensorineural Hearing Loss by Bei Li, Yang Guo, Guang Yang, Yanmei Feng, Shankai Yin

“…This study explored whether the time-compressed speech perception varied with the degree of hearing loss in high-frequency sensorineural hearing loss (HF SNHL) individuals. 65 HF SNHL individuals with different cutoff frequencies were recruited and further divided into mildly, moderately, and/or severely affected subgroups in terms of the averaged thresholds of all frequencies exhibiting hearing loss. Time-compressed speech recognition scores under both quiet and noisy conditions and gap detection thresholds within low frequencies that had normal thresholds were obtained from all patients and compared with data from 11 age-matched individuals with normal hearing threshold at all frequencies. …”
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Rolling Bearings Fault Diagnosis under Variable Speed Conditions Based on Multitime-Frequency Ridge Extraction by Qing Xiong, Yixuan Li, Xiaoli Qiu, Dong Yu, Weihua Zhang, Qingze Chen

“…The vibration signals of rolling bearings under variable speed conditions exhibit time-varying, nonstationary, and nonlinear characteristics, making it challenging to extract fault features. …”
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