Association of Early and Late Contrast-Associated Acute Kidney Injury and Long-Term Mortality in Patients Undergoing Coronary Angiography by Zhubin Lun, Jin Liu, Liwei Liu, Jingjing Liang, Guanzhong Chen, Shiqun Chen, Bo Wang, Qiang Li, Haozhang Huang, Zhidong Huang, Danyuan Xu, Yunzhao Hu, Ning Tan, Jiyan Chen, Yong Liu, Jianfeng Ye

“…CA-AKI was defined as an increase ≥50% or ≥0.3 mg/dL from baseline in the 72 hours after the procedure. Early CA-AKI was defined as having the first increase in SCr within the early phase (<24 hours), and late CA-AKI was defined as an increase in SCr that occurred for the first time in the late phase (24–72 hours). …”
Get full text

Clinical Evolution of Central Pontine Myelinolysis in a Patient with Alcohol Withdrawal: A Blurred Clinical Horizon by Abdul S. Mohammed, Prajwal Boddu, Dina F. Yazdani

“…Central pontine myelinolysis (CPM), a potentially fatal and debilitating neurological condition, was first described in 1959 in a study on alcoholic and malnourished patients. …”
Get full text

Cystatin C as a Predictor of Mortality and Cardiovascular Events in a Population with Chronic Kidney Disease by Ana Vigil, Emilia Condés, Luis Vigil, Paloma Gallar, Aniana Oliet, Olimpia Ortega, Isabel Rodriguez, Milagros Ortiz, Juan Carlos Herrero, Carmen Mon, Gabriela Cobo, Juana Jimenez

“…The only independent predictors of mortality during followup were baseline cystatin C (OR = 0.100; 95% CI: 0.021–0.463) and baseline uric acid (OR = 1.377; 95% CI: 1.070–1.773). …”
Get full text

Improving source code suggestion with code embedding and enhanced convolutional long short‐term memory by Yasir Hussain, Zhiqiu Huang, Yu Zhou

“…On average, DeepSN achieves 7.6% higher accuracy than the best baseline.…”
Get full text

Comparison of Perioperative Ranibizumab Injections for Diabetic Macular Edema in Patients Undergoing Cataract Surgery by Erhan Yumuşak, Kemal Örnek

“…In group 1, compared to baseline value, foveal thickness (FT) increased significantly at 1 month and showed a significant decrease up to month 3. …”
Get full text

Pragmatic performance, its relationship with symptom severity, and early clinical predictors of pragmatics in 5 ~ 6-year-old children with autism spectrum disorder by Lu Qian, Ning Ding, Hui Fang, Ting Xiao, Bei Sun, HuiYun Gao, XiaoYan Ke

“…First, the differences in pragmatic performance between the ASD and TD groups at follow-up were analyzed. …”
Get full text

Mortality and immunological indicators of men who have sex with men living with HIV on antiretroviral therapy: a 10-year retrospective cohort study in Southern China by Huaxiang Lu, Huanhuan Chen, Shujia Liang, Yuhua Ruan, He Jiang, Jinghua Huang, Guangjie Tan, Xiuling Wu, Jianjun Li, Chen Gong, Qiuying Zhu, Guanghua Lan

“…Except for the first viral load (P = 0.379), the median and last viral loads of the former were significantly lower than those of the latter (P < 0.001). …”
Get full text

Healthy dietary patterns and the incidence of chronic kidney disease: results from a prospective cohort study by Yong-Ping Lu, Bin Xia, Xiao-Hua Wang, Qiang-Sheng He, Chang-Bo Qu, Ying-Ying Xie, Tian-Jiao Cui, Si-Qing Wu, Jin-Yu Zhao, Zhi-Hua Zheng, Ting Zhu, Jin-Qiu Yuan, Chun Tang

“…Participants, who completed at least one online 24-hour dietary recall assessment, were included in the study. The baseline for analysis was the first 24-hour dietary recall in 2011, with follow-up extending until the earliest occurrence of CKD diagnosis, death, or the end of the study period. …”
Get full text

Supplementation with essential amino acids in the early stage of carbohydrate reintroduction after a very-low energy ketogenic therapy (VLEKT) improves body cell mass, muscle stren... by Giuseppe Annunziata, Ludovica Verde, Vincenzo D’Orsi, Massimiliano Caprio, Stefania Gorini, Silvia Savastano, Annamaria Colao, Giovanna Muscogiuri, Luigi Barrea

“…Half of them (n = 34) followed this first step of the re-educational phase of KeNuT protocol with VLEKT with supplementation with EAAs (Aminotrofic®: 4 g twice daily). …”
Get full text

Relationship between albumin-corrected anion gap and lumbar spine bone mineral density: a cross-sectional study by Aiguo Liu, Aiguo Liu, Ting Ying, Shuang Deng, Chenxu Wang, Chenxu Wang, Ziwen Zhao, Sitong Zhang, Han Xiao, Chengqing Yi, Dejian Li

Get full text

Comparative evaluation of intravenous versus intranasal dexmedetomidine on emergence delirium and hemodynamics in pediatric patients undergoing adenotonsillectomy: a randomized con... by Chenxu Dai, Chenxu Dai, Xuemei Zhao, Xuemei Zhao, Aoxue Li, Xuedong Zhang, Penglei Wang, Ye Zhang, Yun Wu

“…The primary outcome was the highest score on the pediatric anesthesia emergence delirium (PAED) score during the first 30 min after awakening. Secondary outcomes included the perioperative blood pressure and heart rate, time to awakening, postoperative pain score, and length of post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) stay.ResultsThe highest PAED and pain scores were significantly lower in the IV and IN DEX groups than those in the control group during the first 30 min after awakening. …”
Get full text

Genomic and Pathogenic Characteristics of Virulent Newcastle Disease Virus Isolated from Chicken in Live Bird Markets and Backyard Flocks in Kenya by Irene N. Ogali, Paul O. Okumu, Erick O. Mungube, Jacqueline K. Lichoti, Stephen Ogada, Grace K. Moraa, Bernard R. Agwanda, Sheila C. Ommeh

“…Our study provides the first description of the genomic and pathological characteristics of NDV of subgenotype Vd and lays a baseline in understanding the evolutionary dynamics of NDV and, in particular, Genotype V. …”
Get full text

An Online Map Matching Algorithm Based on Second-Order Hidden Markov Model by Xiao Fu, Jiaxu Zhang, Yue Zhang

“…Case study results show that the accuracy of the proposed algorithm outperforms the baseline algorithm built on the first-order HMM in various testing experiments.…”
Get full text

On Some Aspects of the Poetic of ri in Dante’s Divine Comedy: Possibilities of Semantic Clustering by Ülar Ploom

“…Next, examples will be presented of poetic research that examines the reiteration of seemingly asemantic linguistic elements related to a specific theme, name, or textual position, while considering how such repetitions, alongside rhythm, contribute to textual semantics. …”
Get full text

Spatially-constrained Keypoint Matching for Efficient Statistical Shape Modelling by Harkämper Lena, Großbröhmer Christoph, Himstedt Marian

“…We propose a novel solution for a spatially-constrained keypoint matching (FPFH++). It is based on a first attempt of a feature-based registration using Fast Point Feature Histograms (FPFH) compared to a baseline approach utilizing Coherent Point Drift (CPD).…”
Get full text

Entity Linking Based on Sentence Representation by Bingjing Jia, Zhongli Wu, Pengpeng Zhou, Bin Wu

“…Results illustrate that our model outperforms the baselines and achieves the superior performance.…”
Get full text

Global urban activity changes from COVID-19 physical distancing restrictions by Srija Chakraborty, Eleanor C. Stokes, Olivia Alexander

“…Metrics characterizing changes in lights from pre-COVID baseline in human settlements and quality assurance measures are reported. …”
Get full text

Clinical Rehabilitation Nursing of Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Based on Intelligent Medicine by Lingyan Zhao, Liyan Chu

“…Although on specificity metrics SCNet did not perform the best, it was about 1% lower than the best baseline model. However, the comprehensive performance of the SCNet model on Acc, Sen, F1-Score, and AP indicators showed that the model SCNet proposed in this paper had certain advantages, which was helpful for the clinical rehabilitation care of patients with COPD and could better assist doctors in treatment.…”
Get full text

Age Discrimination of Chinese Baijiu Based on Midinfrared Spectroscopy and Chemometrics by Shiqi Hu, Le Wang

“…Then, infrared spectrums of Baijiu samples are processed by smoothing, multivariate baseline correction, and the first and second derivative processing, but no significant variation can be observed. …”
Get full text

A Lightweight Conditional Diffusion Segmentation Network Based on Deformable Convolution for Surface Defect Detection by Jiusheng Chen, Yibo Zhao, Haibing Wang

“…The experimental results on DAGM2007, MT, AeBAD, and MVTec-AD indicate that the proposed model performs better than other baseline models.…”
Get full text