An Outbreak of a New Coronavirus Infection COVID-19 in an Educational Institution in Moscow by L N Mazankova, E R Samitova, I M Osmanov, N A Dracheva, V G Akimkin

“…A descriptive epidemiological method was used. Statistical data processing was not carried out due to the small sample size. …”
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Clinical Efficacy of Extracorporeal Shock Wave in the Treatment of Knee Osteoarthritis： A Meta-analysis by GU Jinyu, LI Kaiming, ZHANG Qing, LI Linghui, BAI Zixing, WANG Shangquan

“…Relative risk (RR) was used to analyze the binary variables; and the continuous variables with the same unit and measurement method were described by mean difference (MD), while the continuous variables with different measurement methods or units were described by standardized mean difference (SMD). …”
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A cross-sectional study on dentists’ learning preferences for learning about light-curing units and resin-based composites by Afnan O. Al-Zain, Khlood Baghlaf, Omar Abdulwassi, Reem Almukairin, Maram Alanazi, Elaf Alshomrani, Sultan Alftaikhah, Richard B. Price

“…Aim: To identify the parameters dentists use when choosing an LCU or resin-based composite (RBC) and to determine the most effective educational method for dentists to learn about LCUs. Methods: A cross-sectional study used a validated electronic questionnaire targeting dentists, interns, and students in private and government sectors. …”
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DVAEGMM: Dual Variational Autoencoder With Gaussian Mixture Model for Anomaly Detection on Attributed Networks by Wasim Khan, Mohammad Haroon, Ahmad Neyaz Khan, Mohammad Kamrul Hasan, Asif Khan, Umi Asma Mokhtar, Shayla Islam

“…Most current approaches focus on shallow learning methods such as community analysis, ego network or selection of subspace method. …”
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Study on the mechanism of Buzhong Yiqi Decoction in the treatment of rectal prolapse: related analysis of single-cell transcriptome sequencing based on surgical excision specimens by Chen Huaxian, Xiao Guozhong, Liu Fang, Lin Hongcheng

“…Smooth muscle cells and pericytes interact fibroblasts through PDGF-PDGFR ligand-receptor pairs, which were more highly expressed in the treatment group than in the control group. …”
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CO16 | The predictive value of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein for assessing thrombosis risk in non-small cell lung cancer

“… Background: Patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) are often diagnosed at advanced stages, which makes treatment significantly more challenging. Additionally, NSCLC is commonly associated with a high incidence of venous thromboembolic events (VTE), which further worsen the prognosis. …”
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Nutritional Status of Children and Its Associated Factors in Selected Earthquake-Affected VDCs of Gorkha District, Nepal by Asmita Shrestha, Chet Kant Bhusal, Binjwala Shrestha, Kiran Dev Bhattarai

“…This study was aimed at assessing the nutritional status and associated factors among 6-10-year-old children in selected earthquake-affected areas of Gorkha district, Nepal. Methods. A community-based cross-sectional study among 420 mothers having children of age groups 6-10 years (with anthropometric measurement among children) was conducted using a mixed method in selected earthquake-affected areas of Gorkha district, Nepal, from October 2015 to April 2016. …”
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CircBIRC6 affects prostate cancer progression by regulating miR-574-5p and DNAJB1 by Bin Zhao, Jinye Yang, Fengming Ran, Yuanlong Shi, Libo Yang, Yuanpeng Duan, Zhiyu Shi, Xin Li, Jianpeng Zhang, Zhiyao Li, Jiansong Wang

“…CircRNAs have been found to have regulatory roles in various diseases, such as diabetes, Central Nervous System (CNS) neuropathy, etc. where their application in cancer is even more valuable. Therefore, this paper aims to search for differentially expressed circRNAs in PCa and find downstream targeting pathways related to autophagy.Method By detecting the expression of circRNA in the samples, hsa_circ_0119816 was finally identified as the research target. …”
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Spatial variability characteristics of soil heavy metals in the cropland and its pollution source identification around the contaminated sites by LI Haiguang, SHI Jiachun, WU Jianjun

“…Hg concentrations in 3.85% of the surface soil samples exceeded the type Ⅱ limit. Nemerow index method assessment results showed that there were 25 soil samples exceeded the standard, with overproof rate of 48.08%. …”
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Electromagnetic shocking treatment induced grain bridging improved the impact toughness of 6082 aluminum alloys by Qian Sun, Qi Xiang, Guojing Ren, Lin Hua, Yi Yang

“…Stripy GBs are more commonly observed in HEST samples, indicating that nonlinear interface pre-melting and wetting are promoted by EST. …”
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DSS-induced Acute Intestinal Inflammation in Rats: Histological Features by Ilinca IOZON, Adrian-Florin GAL, Maria-Cătălina MATEI LAȚIU, Vasile RUS, Laura Cristina ȘTEFĂNUȚ

“…Later, the regular paraffin-processing technique was utilized and stained by Goldner’s trichrome method. Tissue samples were examined and both statistical and morphometric analysis were performed. …”
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Theory of Planned Behavior in predicting condom use in Latin-American Women by David Javier Enríquez-Negrete, Ricardo Sánchez-Medina, Susana Xóchitl Bárcena-Gaona, Itzel Guadalupe Chávez-Santos

“…Objective: To assess the causal relationships among the variables proposed by the TCP to determine if they predict consistent condom use in two groups of Latina women and to identify the inter-group similarities in both groups and the discrepancies with what the model proposes for the North American population. Method: A set of variables were evaluated in two samples of Latina women (Mexican and Argentine): consistency of condom use, intention to use condoms in the next sexual encounter, the subjective norm of friends and parents, attitudes towards condoms, and perceived behavioral control to use condoms. …”
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Criteria for determining breeding‐pair status of male mallards captured in decoy traps by Michael G. Brasher, J. Brian Davis, Matthew R. Kaminski, Robert B. Emery, Richard M. Kaminski, Guy A. Baldassarre

“…Previous studies assigned pair status based on behavioral observations of randomly captured and marked birds, but this method limits control over sample sizes of paired and unpaired individuals. …”
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Heterogeneous clinical phenotypes of sporadic early-onset Alzheimer’s disease: a neuropsychological data-driven approach by Deepti Putcha, Yuta Katsumi, Alexandra Touroutoglou, Ani Eloyan, Alexander Taurone, Maryanne Thangarajah, Paul Aisen, Jeffrey L. Dage, Tatiana Foroud, Clifford R. Jack, Joel H. Kramer, Kelly N. H. Nudelman, Rema Raman, Prashanthi Vemuri, Alireza Atri, Gregory S. Day, Ranjan Duara, Neill R. Graff-Radford, Ian M. Grant, Lawrence S. Honig, Erik C. B. Johnson, David T. Jones, Joseph C. Masdeu, Mario F. Mendez, Erik Musiek, Chiadi U. Onyike, Meghan Riddle, Emily Rogalski, Stephen Salloway, Sharon Sha, R. Scott Turner, Thomas S. Wingo, David A. Wolk, Kyle Womack, Maria C. Carrillo, Gil D. Rabinovici, Bradford C. Dickerson, Liana G. Apostolova, Dustin B. Hammers, the LEADS Consortium

“…Conclusion A neuropsychological data-driven method to phenotype EOAD individuals uncovered a more detailed understanding of the presenting heterogeneity in this atypical AD sample compared to clinical judgment alone. …”
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Leveraging expression from multiple tissues using sparse canonical correlation analysis and aggregate tests improves the power of transcriptome-wide association studies. by Helian Feng, Nicholas Mancuso, Alexander Gusev, Arunabha Majumdar, Megan Major, Bogdan Pasaniuc, Peter Kraft

“…For example, when gene expression explains 2% of the variability in outcome, and the GWAS sample size is 20,000, the average power difference between the ACAT combined test of sCCA features and single-tissue, versus single-tissue combined with Generalized Berk-Jones (GBJ) method, single-tissue combined with S-MultiXcan, UTMOST, or summarizing cross-tissue expression patterns using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) approaches was 5%, 8%, 5% and 38%, respectively. …”
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Attention-Based Convolutional Aggregation: An Efficient Model for Off-Gas Profile Forecasting and Dynamic Pre-Control of BOF Steelmaking by Tian-yi Xie, Jun-guo Zhang, Lan-jie Li, Fei Zhang, Shuai Liu, Han-jie Guo

“…First, a data pre-processing method was proposed based on the characteristics of the off-gas curves, where there are many samples, but each sample contains limited time-steps. …”
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Utilization of Rural Resource Assets: Time-Space Estimate on the Total Factor Productivity by Lan Wang, Cong Li

“…In this paper, time measure and space measurement are adopted alternatively, and spatiotemporal vertical-horizontal progressive deduction is built with the improved model, so as to set up a perfect spatiotemporal dynamic effect evaluation system: First of all, improve the U-HDM-GML index model, study on the improvement strategy for input redundancy and unexpected output redundancy in the utilization efficiency of rural collective resources assets in various provinces of China, as well as the equilibrium rupture relation between the two from the perspective of global space and time, and at the same time of fulfilment of time measurement and estimation, provide support for better expressing the spatial effect in terms of improving approach and strategy; secondly, measure the improvement strategy of the total factor productivity of research samples with the spatial expletory ESDA test method, and it is also applicable to global spatial effect evaluation system; finally, apply FE-SDM to further analyze the difference of spatial effect of total factor productivity in rural resource asset utilization. …”
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High prevalence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i> and <i>Escherichia coli</i> in clinical infections in a tertiary care hospital in southwe... by Oluwatoyin Akinde, Babatunde Odetoyin

“…In this study, we investigated the prevalence of ESBL production among clinical K. pneumoniae and E. coli isolates, determined their susceptibility profile, and identified risk factors associated with their infections in a tertiary care hospital. Materials and Methods: two hundred ninety-one non-duplicate isolates from diverse clinical samples were collected and matched with patients' biographical information. …”
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Promoted field emission and cell attachment of TiO2 nanorods/carbon fiber with hydrogen doping induced by cold atmospheric‐pressure Ar/H2 plasma jet by Xinyu Zhu, Zihao Yin, Guozhi Ma, Limin Li

“…In the cell attachment experiments, H:TNCF exhibits more attached cells with a larger cell attachment area, compared with the TNCF sample. …”
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Community healthcare workers’ satisfaction with ward-based outreach team services in Tshwane district, South Africa by J. V. Ndimande, G. A. Ogunbanjo, S. N. Nyalunga, A. Masango-Makgobela, T. Bongongo

“…Using a 95% confidence level and 5% confidence interval, the sample size was 310. However, we over-sampled to 431 participants. …”
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