Monocyte/Lymphocyte Ratio and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients by Yueqiang Wen, Xiaojiang Zhan, Niansong Wang, FenFen Peng, Xiaoran Feng, Xianfeng Wu

“…Kaplan-Meier analysis revealed that survival rates were significantly different among the three MLR groups (log rank=22.41, P<0.001). …”
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Los unos y los otros: identidades en el cine chileno (1960-2014) by Pablo Marín Castro

“…El presente ensayo se pregunta por los tipos humanos presentes en la producción fílmica y propone que es posible detectar y estudiar la presencia de espacios identitarios en el cine chileno, así como determinar el modo en que las identidades se ponen en juego cuando las contingencias políticas o el espíritu de una época cuestionan la inercia de grupos e individuos. …”
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Adaptive Buenos Aires. Architecture between diversity and demand of modernity by Francesco Casalbordino

“…In the 21st century, the processes linked to globalization bring significant changes to the way humans inhabit places influencing architectural design. …”
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Dywersyfikacja ryzyka, a ograniczenia w polityce inwestycyjnej Otwartych Funduszy Emerytalnych by Elżbieta Ociepa-Kicińska

“…Reforma systemu emerytalnego przeprowadzona w 1999 roku w Polsce miała na celu poprawę bezpieczeństwa środków gromadzonych na wypłatę świadczeń emerytalnych. …”
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Banded Net-Winged Beetle, Calopteron discrepans (Newman) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Lycidae) by Donald W. Hall, Marc A. Branham

“…EENY-413, a 4-page illustrated fact sheet by Donald W. Hall and Marc A. Branham, is part of the Featured Creatures collection. …”
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Exploration of the Long Noncoding RNAs Involved in the Crosstalk between M2 Macrophages and Tumor Metabolism in Lung Cancer by Fang Fang, Yuanshan Yao, Zhe Ma

“…A high fit of actual survival and nomogram-predicted survival was found using the calibration plot. …”
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« Agriculture, and Commerce as its Handmaid » by Pierre Gervais

“…While Jefferson considered that the correlated growths of merchant power and market activity were inherently dangerous, and should be strictly controlled, Hamilton took a much more positive view of the same phenomena.A second part relates these two positions to an as yet small sample of patriotic toasts given during the year 1793 and printed in Philadelphia and Boston papers. …”
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Coalescence of carbon nanotubes while preserving the chiral angles by Akira Takakura, Taishi Nishihara, Koji Harano, Ovidiu Cretu, Takeshi Tanaka, Hiromichi Kataura, Yuhei Miyauchi

“…These findings offer routes for the structure-selective synthesis of large-diameter nanotubes and modification of the properties of nanotube assemblies via postprocessing.…”
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A case of mania presenting with hypersexual behavior and gender dysphoria that resolved with valproic acid by Michelle R. Heare, Maria Barsky, Lawrence R. Faziola

“…Hypersexuality and gender dysphoria have both been described in the literature as symptoms of mania. Hypersexuality is listed in the <em>Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5</em> as part of the diagnostic criteria for bipolar disorder. …”
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Modelling of concepts "purpose", "goal", "task", and "function" in law by Vytautas Čyras

“…A task e = (u, v) represents a mean to implement the state v, which assumes u. …”
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RELIGIOUS COMMUNICATION IN THE CONTEXT OF CULTURE MEDIA by Maria S. Petrushkevych

“…The methodological basis is related to structuring, analytical analysis and synthesis of media features; highlighting phenomena that illustrate modern communicative situation; characteristics of media trends influence for the specific functioning of religious communication. …”
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The Interpretation of Indexicals in Hybrid Quotation: A Pragmatic Account by Philippe De Brabanter

“…I show that what is required in the case at hand is a situation-shift, and suggest how that shift can be articulated with other shifts. …”
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Influence of the Number of Axial Bexarotene Ligands on the Cytotoxicity of Pt(IV) Analogs of Oxaliplatin by Yulia N. Nosova, Ilia V. Zenin, Varvara P. Maximova, Ekaterina M. Zhidkova, Kirill I. Kirsanov, Ekaterina A. Lesovaya, Anna A. Lobas, Mikhail V. Gorshkov, Olga N. Kovaleva, Elena R. Milaeva, Markus Galanski, Bernhard K. Keppler, Alexey A. Nazarov

“…We present the synthesis and cytotoxic potencies of new Pt(IV) complexes with bexarotene, an anticancer drug that induces cell differentiation and apoptosis via selective activation of retinoid X receptors. …”
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Functional Brain Activity within the Medial and Lateral Portion of BA10 during a Prospective Memory Task by Francesco Barban, Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo, Emiliano Macaluso, Carlo Caltagirone, Alberto Costa

“…With a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) protocol we manipulated the saliency–stimulus-oriented (SO) attending– and the memory load – stimulus-independent (SI) attending–during a prospective memory (PM) task. …”
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Native Aquatic and Wetland Plants: Arrow Arum, Peltandra virginica by Kimberly A. Moore, Luci E. Fisher, Carl J. Della Torre, Lyn A. Gettys

“… Arrow arum is a native aquatic and wetland plant that is a welcome addition to water gardens, aquatic ponds, and wetland restoration and mitigation sites. The species is broadly adapted and extremely common throughout Florida, and its perennial nature assures a stellar performance year after year. …”
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Exoticism of the East at the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris and its echoes by Мария Нащокина

“…Golovkin’ summer house). …”
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HYDRAULIC ASPECTS OF LOGJAM FORMATION DURING EXTREME HIGH FLOODS by Andrey P. Lepikhin, Anna A. Wozniak

“…It is shown that for the formation of congestion of trees, the greatest danger is the presence in the stream of Large woody debris – trees with a developed crown and root system. …”

The Association of TNF-Alpha Inhibitors and Development of IgA Nephropathy in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Diabetes by Vedran Premužić, Ivan Padjen, Mislav Cerovec, Marijana Ćorić, Bojan Jelaković, Branimir Anić

“…Discontinuation of anti-TNF-alpha therapy and initiation of immunosuppressive therapy led to improvement in serologic abnormalities and renal function in two patients, while the third patient’s 24-hour proteinuria was only partially reduced, which supports previous reports on TNF-alpha inhibitor induced autoimmunity. …”
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Robot Dynamic Path Planning Based on Prioritized Experience Replay and LSTM Network by Hongqi Li, Peisi Zhong, Li Liu, Xiao Wang, Mei Liu, Jie Yuan

“…First, Prioritized Experience Replay (PER) is utilized to prioritize experience data and optimize storage and sampling operations through the SumTree structure, rather than the conventional experience queue. …”
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QUALITY CONTROL OF MODERN MEDICAL LINEAR ACCELERATORS by Y. V. Tsitovich, I. G. Tarutin, M. G. Kiselev

“…Linear accelerators devices and systems which are influencing on  accuracy of dose delivery and dose distribution within treated patients body volumes were considered. …”
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