Would Integrating Inspiratory Muscle Training Into Pulmonary Rehabilitation of Adults With Burn Injuries Have Any Advantageous Effects? A Randomized, Double-Blind, Sham-Controlled... by Nabil Mahmoud Abdel-Aal, Maged A. Basha, Saleh M. Aloraini, Alshimaa R. Azab, FatmaAlzahraa H. Kamel

“…Conclusion An 8-week IMT program coupled with pulmonary rehabilitation increases respiratory muscle strength, pulmonary functions, and functional capacity in burn patients. …”
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Federated stochastic gradient averaging ring homomorphism based learning for secure data aggregation in WSN by Saravanakumar Pichumani, T. V. P. Sundararajan, S. M. Ramesh

“…Higher correlated sensor nodes are obtained using the Cosine Similarity function. Following which secure data aggregation is performed using Ring Homomorphism-based encryption/decryption. …”
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Health assessment and health trend prediction of wind turbine bearing based on BO-BiLSTM model by Zhenen Li, Yujie Xue

“…The network integrates the selected degradation features and constructs a health index curve; (4) Based on the constructed health index curve, optimize the BiLSTM network hyperparameters through Bayesian and establish a BO-BiLSTM network model to achieve a more accurate and scientific prediction of the health index trend.…”
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Minimally invasive open dismembered pyeloplasty technique: Miniature incision, muscle-splitting dissection, and nopelvis reduction in children by Farzaneh Sharifiaghdas, Mahboubeh Mirzaei, Azar Daneshpajooh, Shahin Abbaszadeh

“…All patients had a documented ureteropelvic junction obstruction (having T1/2 more than 20 min in diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid [DTPA] scan) with symptomatic stenosis or decreased kidney function (differential function <40%). …”
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Percutaneus Transluminal Angioplasty Using Carbon Dioxide Contrast in Chronic Limb Threatening Ischemia patient with Renal Failure by Saga Malela Aria Sabara, Suko Adiarto

“… Background: At the present times, it is estimated that more than 202 million patients suffer from peripheral arterial disease (PAD) worldwide. …”
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Comparison of Del Nido and histidine-tryptophan-ketoglutarate cardioplegia solutions: an animal study with prolonged ischaemia by Alexandro Hoyer, Maja-Theresa Dieterlen, Jagdip Kang, Hanna Oetzel, Karoline Wiesner, Kristin Klaeske, Philipp Kiefer, Susann Oßmann, André Ginther, Martin Kostelka, Suzanne de Waha, Michael A. Borger

“…Haemoglobin decreased after application of the cardioplegic solution. The decrease was more pronounced in the HTK group than in the DN group (p &lt; 0.01). …”
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RTL-Net: real-time lightweight Urban traffic object detection algorithm by Zhiqing Cui, Jiahao Yuan, Haibin Xu, Yamei Wei, Zhenglong Ding

“…To enhance real-time performance beyond the benchmark, we implemented lightweight designs for the loss function, backbone, neck, and head components. Firstly, a Powerable-IoU (PIoU) loss function was introduced to make the algorithm more suitable for different scales of targets and reduce false detection. …”
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The Impact of Cataract Surgery on Depression in Elderly Iranian Patients: A Case–Control Study by Kiumars Nowroozpoor Dailami, Mohammad Ali Heidari Gorji, Seyed Hamzeh Hoseini, Asadollah Farookhfar

“…Also, the results of this study showed that in all unilateral cataract patients who had eye surgery, visual function in the left and right eyes improved. Conclusion: We conclude that depression is more prevalent in patients with cataract compared to those without cataract. …”
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Hypothyroidism Due to Thyroid Amyloidosis Simultaneously With AL Renal Amyloidosis to Give Better Idea of Association of the Two Conditions by Guan C, Liu Y, Chen R, Zhu Y

“…Some researchers have analyzed thyroid function in newly diagnosed patients with AL amyloidosis, and found that the incidence of overt hypothyroidism is only 7%. …”
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Characteristics Associated with the Differential Activity of Nondominant and Dominant Affected Hands in Patients with Poststroke Right Hemiparesis by Jen-Pei Lee, Shuya Chen, Chien-Tsung Tsai, Hsu-Chih Chung, Wen-Dien Chang

“…Spontaneous arm use in patients with poststroke hemiparesis is crucial to the recovery of functional interaction. Patients with stroke and subsequent right hemiparesis have more difficulty adapting to a right-handed environment. …”
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Factors that promote H3 chromatin integrity during transcription prevent promiscuous deposition of CENP-A(Cnp1) in fission yeast. by Eun Shik Choi, Annelie Strålfors, Sandra Catania, Araceli G Castillo, J Peter Svensson, Alison L Pidoux, Karl Ekwall, Robin C Allshire

“…In contrast, Clr6 complex II (Clr6-CII; equivalent to Rpd3S) histone deacetylase function has a more subtle impact on the stability of transcribed H3 chromatin and acts to prevent the ectopic accumulation of CENP-A(Cnp1) at specific loci, including subtelomeric regions, where CENP-A(Cnp1) is preferentially assembled. …”
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A systematic review of the therapeutic potential of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide precursors for cognitive diseases in preclinical rodent models by Musaab Abdulrazzaq Qader, Leila Hosseini, Nasrin Abolhasanpour, Farnaz Oghbaei, Leila Maghsoumi-Norouzabad, Hanieh Salehi-Pourmehr, Fatemeh Fattahi, Reza Naghdi Sadeh

“…Studies have revealed that treatment with NAD+ rescues cognitive deficits by inhibiting inflammation, oxidative stress, and apoptosis and improving mitochondrial function. Preclinical evidence has demonstrated that treatment with NAD+ precursors may be more effective in learning and memory recovery in AD, TBI, diabetes, aging, VAD, and schizophrenia. …”
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Development of an analog topology for a multi-layer neuronal network by Luã da Porciuncula Estrela, Marlon Soares Sigales, Elmer A. Gamboa Peñaloza, Marcelo Lemos Rossi, Mateus Beck Fonseca

“…The paper also discusses the design of a multiplier circuit and a hyperbolic function activation circuit used in the neural network. …”
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Modified Ramos-Louzada-G family with baseline Weibull distribution: Properties, characterizations, regression, and applications by John Kwadey Okutu, Nana K. Frempong, Atinuke O. Adebanji, Simon K. Appiah

“…Key statistical properties, including quantile function, moments, and entropy measures underlying the distribution have been derived, and characterizations have also been provided based on the ratio of two truncated moments and the hazard rate function. …”
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Insights into diversity, host-range, and temporal stability of Bacteroides and Phocaeicola prophages by Nejc Stopnisek, Stina Hedžet, Tomaž Accetto, Maja Rupnik

“…Abstract Background Phages are critical components of the gut microbiome, influencing bacterial composition and function as predators, parasites, and modulators of bacterial phenotypes. …”
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The role of repeat kidney biopsy in patients with lupus nephritis (case report) by N. Yu. Nikishin, E. A. Aseeva, A. A. Mesnyankina, S. K. Soloviev, E. S. Stolyarevich, V. A. Zelenov, A. M. Lila

“…The main principle of LN therapy is to prevent deterioration of renal function, but a consensus on outcome assessment criteria and clinically relevant short- and long-term goals for LN therapy has not yet been reached. …”
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Baxdrostat and finerenone: new aldosterone synthase-aldosterone-mineralocorticoid receptor hormonal system inhibitors for the drug treatment of resistant arterial hypertension by O. B. Kuzmin, N. V. Buchneva, V. V. Belyanin, V. V. Zhezha, M. V. Stolbova

“…Patients with resistant hypertension are included in a group of people at high risk of cardiovascular and renal complications, including accelerated progression of chronic kidney disease with a more rapid transition to the final stage of the disease. …”
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Cisplatin-Induced Stria Vascularis Damage Is Associated with Inflammation and Fibrosis by Na Zhang, Jing Cai, Lei Xu, Haibo Wang, Wenwen Liu

“…More importantly, cisplatin induced activations of perivascular-resident macrophage-like melanocytes (PVM/Ms) and interleukin-1beta (IL-1β) as well as increased expressions of profibrotic proteins such as laminin and collagen IV in SV. …”
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Application of ultrasound-guided microwave ablation combined with polidocanol injection in benign cystic-solid thyroid nodules and recurrence analysis by Sichen Yang, Dali Huang

“…Conclusion Ultrasound-guided MWA combined with polidocanol injection is more effective in treating benign cystic-solid thyroid nodules. …”
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Understanding the Role of Organic Hole Transport Layers on Pinhole Blocking and Performance Improvement in Sb2Se3 Solar Cells by Thomas P. Shalvey, Christopher H. Don, Leon Bowen, Tim D. Veal, Jonathan D. Major

“…A Schottky barrier at the Au‐Sb2Se3 contact despite the deep work function of gold implies Fermi level pinning due to a defective interface, which each of the organic HTMs are equally capable of alleviating.…”
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