Frequency and Causes of Methotrexate Intolerance and Discontinuation in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients in Qena Governorate by Sondos Mohammed Sayed, Mohamed Ismail Abdelkareem, Eman Ragab Abdelradi, Wael Abd El-Mohsen Abady

“…All patients underwent a comprehensive history taking that included the reason for stopping methotrexate, a comprehensive clinical examination, a laboratory evaluation, and scoring of their disease activity. …”
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Is Objective Structured Practical Examination a Better Option than Conventional Practical Examination in Assessing Students’ Competency? An Analytical Research by Arup J. Rout, Pallabi Dasgupta, Tushar K. Saha, Daliya Biswas

“…Each student had to face both OSPE stations and conventional viva voce tables and their scores were recorded. A paired T-test was done to assess differences in mean marks between OSPE and CPE. …”
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An Investigation into Information Security Managerial Practices in Selected Public Sector Organizations. by Ahimbisibwe, Benjamin K., Nabende, Peter, Musiimenta, Florence

“…Being an in-depth inquiry, qualitative approach was used, survey questionnaires representing zero and one scores were designed to collect data. The respondents were purposively selected based on their knowledge in the subject area, cost-effectiveness and delivery of timely results. …”
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Absenteeism and Academic Performance of Pupils in Selected Primary in Buyanja Sub-County Rukungiri District. by Twesigye, Abel

“…It was concluded that children more frequently absent in early kindergarten obtained lower working memory and cognitive flexibility scores, as represented by 31 %. …”
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Comprehensive analysis of antimicrobial resistance dynamics among broiler and duck intensive production systems by Zsombor Szoke, Peter Fauszt, Maja Mikolas, Peter David, Emese Szilagyi-Tolnai, Georgina Pesti-Asboth, Judit Rita Homoki, Ildiko Kovacs-Forgacs, Ferenc Gal, Laszlo Stundl, Levente Czegledi, Aniko Stagel, Sandor Biro, Judit Remenyik, Melinda Paholcsek

“…This study examines AMR dynamics in Ross 308 broilers and Cherry Valley ducks over 15 months and 15 stocking periods under consistent rearing conditions. …”
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Reducing the Accumulative Charge on Fabric Filter Surfaces by Using a Bipolar Precharger by Pei Jia, Manqing Lin

“…The incorporation of a bipolar precharger into hybrid electrostatic filtration systems is a promising approach for reducing the risk of back corona and spark damage to the filter bag.…”
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Predicting Postoperative Re-Tear of Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Repair Using Artificial Intelligence on Imbalanced Data by Zhibin Zhang, Zhewei Zhang, Zhaoxiang Peng, Yihong Dong

“…The classification performance of the proposed method is tested on the dataset of whether rotator cuff is re-torn after surgery, and the results show that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance in a five-fold cross-validation setting.The code of this work is available at <uri>https://github.com/nishuihan111/WL-GCN.git</uri>.…”
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Preliminary efficacy and safety analysis: 12-month results in 83 patients using a novel approach of widefield radiation therapy for extensive skin field cancerization with or witho... by Andrew E. Potter, Christopher Baker, Stephen Shumack, Robert Sinclair, Walter J. Curran, David Christie, Bradley Wong, Peter Foley, Peter O’Brien, Lynda Spelman

“…It captures disease description, prior therapies, radiation prescription, clinical effect, skin cosmesis scores, and toxicity data. This analysis included 12-month follow-up data on 89 treated fields from a subset of 83 patients.Results Clinical success (>90% field clearance) was 96% (ESFC, n = 63) and 88% (ESFC with KC, n = 26). …”
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Computer-tomography features of hemodynamics in hepatocellular carcinoma foci depend on the stage of histological differentiation by U. N. Tumanova, N. I. Yashina, Ye. A. Dubova, G. G. Karmazanovsky, A. I. Schegolev

“…Decrease in histological differentiation grade and concomitant gain of malignant potential of neoplasm is associated to reduction of the total area ofbarterial blood vessels. Computer tomography scores should be applied as additional criteria of the tumor malignant potential and for estimation of treatment efficacy as well.…”
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Evaluation of an artificial intelligence-based system for real-time high-quality photodocumentation during esophagogastroduodenoscopy by Byeong Yun Ahn, Junwoo Lee, Jeonga Seol, Ji Yoon Kim, Hyunsoo Chung

“…APT captured images with higher mean opinion scores than those of endoscopists (3.88 vs. 3.41, P < .0.001). …”
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A data-driven intelligent fault diagnosis framework for permanent magnet in PMSM by Huizhen Wang, Lei Wang, QiYa Wu, Haoying Pei, Lijun Diao

“…Finally, the Pauta criterion is applied to process the intermediate Support Vector Domain Description (SVDD) variables, generating anomaly scores that classify PMSM health states based on segmented thresholds. …”
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Sex Disparities of Health-related Quality of Life in Moderate to Severe Psoriasis: A Real-world Analysis from the Swiss Psoriasis Registry (SDNTT) by Ramtin Lichtenberger, Lara Valeska Maul, Ion Birkenmaier, Iker Oyanguren, Melike Ak, Kristine Heidemeyer, Christoph Schlapbach, Nikhil Yawalkar, Alexander Egeberg, Simon Francis Thomsen, Jacob P. Thyssen, Christina Sorbe, Wolf-Henning Boehncke, Curdin Conrad, Antonio Cozzio, Georgios Kokolakis, Raphael Micheroli, Jashin J. Wu, Thomas Kündig, Alexander Navarini, Julia-Tatjana Maul

“…At baseline, women reported significantly lower quality of life than men, with higher Dermatological Life Quality Index scores in the IL-17 inhibitor group (15.0 vs 11.0, p = 0.027), IL-12/23 inhibitor group (7.5 vs 7.0, p = 0.049), and non-biologic therapy group (13.0 vs 9.0, p < 0.001). …”
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Chemical test and cellular bioactivities and flavor enhancer properties of mung bean protein via glycation reaction by Srisukpachin Nuttakarn, Tabtimmai Lueacha, Sedtananun Saranya, Laohakunjit Natta, Sonklin Chanikan

“…Results showed that the MPI:Glu ratio of 1.5:1 and reaction time for 150 min (MRP) were the optimum conditions that contributed to the highest teriyaki and savory scores of 2.54 and 2.25, respectively. MRP explored bioactivities, both chemical test and cellular bioactivity. …”
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Efficacy and safety of glycyrrhizic acid and essential phospholipids (Phosphogliv) combination for alcoholic liver disease: results of the double-blind randomized placebo-controlle... by I. G. Bakulin, N. A. Bokhan, P. O. Bogomolov, N. I. Geyvandova, M. V. Matsiyevich, M. A. Vinnikova, V. G. Morozov, O. M. Khromtsova, G. S. Soldatova, O. Yu. Shiryayev, R. D. Ilyuk, K. V. Rybakova, A. G. Katkovskaya, S. V. Teplykh, A. A. Bagretsova, M. V. Krasnova, Ye. V. Alekseyeva, A. V. Anipchenko, Ye. V. Baskakov

“…The dynamics of serum alanine transaminase (ALT), aspartate transaminase (AST), liver scores by noninvasive FibroMax test was applied to assess the treatment efficacy and safety, along with change in quality of life of patients. …”
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Traffic-related air pollutants (TRAP) in relation to respiratory symptoms among security guards by Muniandy Pravin, Abdul Aziz Nurhanim, Zainal Abidin Nur Balqishanis, Mohd Jamil Putri Anis, Ahnan Karthiga

“…The study utilized environmental monitoring to assess the concentration of TRAP PM2.5 and a questionnaire adopted from the American Thoracic Society Division of Lung Diseases questionnaire (ATS-DLD-78A) was administered to eligible respondents to observe symptoms of cough, phlegm, wheezing, and shortness of breath. Approximately 45% of the respondents reported experiencing cough as a respiratory symptom when exposed to high levels of TRAP PM2.5. …”
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Reims/Durocortorum, cité des Rèmes : les principales étapes de la formation urbaine by Robert Neiss, François Berthelot, Jean-Marc Doyen, Philippe Rollet

“…BC, settlements multiplied in the centre of the basin shaping the siting of the future town. Shortly before the Conquest, an oppidum precisely delineated the settlement’s boundaries, and the latter quickly grew later on. …”
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Rules for investigation of patients with asymptomatic elevation of serum aminotransferase activity by M. V. Mayevskaya, V. T. Ivashkin, Ye. N. German

“…Nowadays investigation of blood biochemistry scores, which reflect functional state of body organs and systems, deeply settled in medical practice. …”
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Flexible assessment of biosecurity in small- and medium scale poultry farms in low and middle income countries by Søren Saxmose Nielsen, Naomi P. Kemunto, Dishon M. Muloi, Anders Miki Bojesen, Theodore Knight-Jones, Dreck Ayebare, Michel Dione, Eugine L. Ibayi, Louise Ladefoged Poulsen, Arshnee Moodley

“…The experts conducted a knowledge aggregation process to assign weights to the different areas and individual questions within the questionnaires. The median scores from the final expert elicitation informed the weighting of questions in the newly developed questionnaire. …”
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Maternal Serum Nitric Oxide Levels in Adolescent Pregnancies by Hasan Onur Topçu, Ali İrfan Güzel, Kuntay Kokanalı, Sabri Cavkaytar, Dilek Uygur, Salim Erkaya

“…Factors analyzed between adolescent pregnancies and reproductive age pregnancies (age range 20-35 years old) were; age, gravidity, parity, gestational weeks, umbilical and middle cerebral artery Doppler velocimetry values, birth weigts, APGAR 5. minute scores and MSNO levels. Statistical analyses were carried out by using the statistical packages for SPSS 15.0 for Windows (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) with Chi-square (χ2) test and Student’s t test. …”
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MLDFNet: A Multilabel Dual-Flow Network for Change Detection in Bitemporal Remote Sensing Images by Daniyaer Sidekejiang, Panpan Zheng, Liejun Wang

“…Extensive experiments demonstrate that MLDFNet significantly outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods, achieving outstanding F1 scores of 91.72&#x0025;, 97.84&#x0025;, and 94.85&#x0025; on the LEVIR-CD, CDD, and BCDD datasets, respectively. …”
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