Incidence and risk factors for Graves’ orbitopathy in patients who underwent anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive treatment during medical treatment for Graves’ disease: investi... by Natsuko Watanabe, Jaeduk Yoshimura Noh, Ai Kozaki, Ran Yoshimura, Ai Yoshihara, Nami Suzuki, Masako Matsumoto, Miho Fukushita, Aya Kinoshita, Azusa Aida, Hideyuki Imai, Shigenori Hiruma, Toshu Inoue, Kosuke Inoue, Kiminori Sugino, Koichi Ito

“…The GO score, ranging from 0 to 8 points, showed moderate performance (area under the curve: 0.71, cut-off value: 5 points, sensitivity: 0.76, specificity: 0.59, positive predictive value: 0.12, negative predictive value: 0.97). …”
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NUMERICAL STUDY OF THE INTERFACE TRACKING WITH STRONG SHOCK by ZHANG XuMei, JIANG ZhiGang, ZHANG Liang, WEI ShaoHua

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Comparative legal analysis of the expertise in court under the criminal law of Ukraine and CIS countries by A. N. Protsenko

“…It is proved that in a situation of passivity of the parties to the criminal proceedings and the victim to make an informed decision in case it is necessary to establish certain circumstances of the offense, the court has the right to appoint an examination on its own initiative without any restrictions. …”
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Integrated Gaussian Processes for Tracking by Fred Lydeard, Bashar I. Ahmad, Simon Godsill

“…An appealing alternative to the traditional parametric Markovian dynamical models is the Gaussian Process (GP). GPs can offer additional flexibility and represent non-Markovian, long-term, dependencies in the target's kinematics. …”
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Image-Driven Hybrid Structural Analysis Based on Continuum Point Cloud Method with Boundary Capturing Technique by Kyung-Wan Seo, Junwon Park, Sang I. Park, Jeong-Hoon Song, Young-Cheol Yoon

“…Conventional approaches for the structural health monitoring of infrastructures often rely on physical sensors or targets attached to structural members, which require considerable preparation, maintenance, and operational effort, including continuous on-site adjustments. …”
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Dynamics Analysis and Experimental Research of Self-locking Descending Device of Mining Excavator by Bingbing Dong

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Metabolic Perturbations and Severe COVID-19 Disease: Implication of Molecular Pathways by Ersilia Nigro, Fabio Perrotta, Rita Polito, Vito D’Agnano, Filippo Scialò, Andrea Bianco, Aurora Daniele

“…Although symptoms are highly heterogeneous (ranging from absence of symptoms to severe acute respiratory failure), patients with metabolic-associated diseases often experience worse COVID-19 outcomes. This review investigates the association between metabolic disorders and COVID-19 severity, exploring the molecular mechanisms potentially underlying this relationship and those that are responsible for more severe COVID-19 outcomes. …”
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Examining the role of ClassPoint tool in shaping EFL students' perceived E-learning experiences: A social cognitive theory perspective by Huma Akram, Abbas Hussein Abdelrady

“…These inferences enrich the comprehension of the evolving discourse on interactive technological applications and offer insightful recommendations for teachers, programmers, and educational organizations directing to optimize ClassPoint integration in EFL learning.…”
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Computational Phenotyping of Obstructive Airway Diseases: A Systematic Review by Bashir MBA, Milani GP, De Cosmi V, Mazzocchi A, Zhang G, Basna R, Hedman L, Lindberg A, Ekerljung L, Axelsson M, Vanfleteren LEGW, Rönmark E, Backman H, Kankaanranta H, Nwaru BI

“…The comprehensiveness of variable reporting was the best quality indicator, while reproducibility measures were often lacking.Conclusion: Variations in phenotyping methods, study settings, participant profiles, and variables contribute to significant differences in characterizing asthma, severe asthma, COPD, ACO, and rhinitis phenotypes across studies. …”
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Whole-brain gray matter volume and fractional anisotropy of the posterior thalamic radiation and sagittal stratum in healthy adults correlate with the local environment by Keisuke Kokubun, Kiyotaka Nemoto, Toshiharu Ikaga, Yoshinori Yamakawa

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Hemorrhagic Stroke in a Young Adult with Undiagnosed Asymptomatic Dandy–Walker Malformation by Haleem Abdul, Joseph Burns, Andrea Estevez, Carlos Nasr El-Nimer, Brinsley Ekinde, Sherard Lacaille

“…Stroke is an exceptionally rare presentation of this malformation, with only one ischemic event reported in the literature. This case offers a rare opportunity for diagnosis in an adult presenting with a hemorrhagic stroke of the basal ganglia in an otherwise asymptomatic young adult male. …”
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Prominosomes - a particular class of extracellular vesicles containing prominin-1/CD133? by Jana Karbanová, Kristina Thamm, Christine A. Fargeas, Ilker A. Deniz, Aurelio Lorico, Denis Corbeil

“…Abstract Extracellular membrane vesicles (EVs) offer promising values in various medical fields, e.g., as biomarkers in liquid biopsies or as native (or bioengineered) biological nanocarriers in tissue engineering, regenerative medicine and cancer therapy. …”
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Biology and Control of Horse Purslane and Common Purslane in Sugarcane by Dennis Calvin Odero, Ron Rice, Les Baucum

“…Horse purslane and common purslane are broadleaf weeds associated with sugarcane fields in muck (organic) and mineral soils of South Florida. Growers often confuse these two weed species with each other. …”
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Partially Erupted Prominence Material as a Diagnostic of Coronal Mass Ejection Trajectory by B. A. Hovis‐Afflerbach, B. J. Thompson, E. I. Mason

“…This trajectory is typically assumed to be radial, but often the CME moves outward with some spatial offset from the source region where the eruption initially occurred. …”
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Sans cesse redessiner les gestes d’émancipation by Nicolas Go

“…This short contribution aims to be an introduction to the so often debated issue of pupil autonomy- not starting from the notion of autonomy itself, but from what I would like to suggest as possible conditions to its clarification, ie the principles of “authorization” (empowerment) and cooperation. …”
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Radiofrequency Ablation for Treatment of Refractory Gastric Antral Vascular Ectasia: A Systematic Review of the Literature by M. Maida, S. Camilleri, M. Manganaro, S. Garufi, G. Scarpulla

“…GAVE is an uncommon cause of upper nonvariceal bleeding and often manifests itself as occult bleeding with chronic anemia. …”
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Otra lengua y otros pecados: el tratado Lingua (1525) de Erasmo y su traducción española de Bernardo Pérez de Chinchón (1533) by Elvezio Canonica

“…We carry a study of the translation and the changes it induces that directed the reception of the Erasmian work (the most often translated in Spain after the Enchiridion) for the Spanish public. …”
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Research of Tooth Cutting Theory and Milling Test on Small Module Spiral Bevel Gear by Bingyi Chui, Hua Zhang, Jianjun Yang

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Reshaping vitreoretinal surgery: Intraoperative optical coherence tomography as a tool for enhancing surgical decision-making in complex cases by Yin-Hsi Chang, Gavin S. W. Tan, Hung-Da Chou, Andrew S. H. Tsai

“…Common scenarios include membrane peeling procedures, retinal detachments, choroidal–retinal biopsies, Argus implants, and subretinal injections. iOCT offers the surgeon a better understanding of the retinal microarchitectural changes and timely intraoperative feedback, directing a future view of precision surgery. …”
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THE RIGID-FLEXIBLE COUPLING VIBRATION CHARACTERISTICS ANALYSIS AND STRUCTURE IMPROVEMENT OF CENTRIFUGAL ELECTRIC SPINDLE by HE QingZhong, WANG YongBin, ZHAO XianDan, WANG YuHao

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