Multistate Markov model application for blood pressure transition among the Chinese elderly population: a quantitative longitudinal study by Bin Zhao, Juan Xiong, Yuxin Wang, Xujuan Zheng, Yiqin Zhang, Liping Xu, Lina Zhou

“…The corresponding probabilities for elderly men were 21.73%, 38.56% and 51.70%, respectively. For elderly women starting in the elevated state, the probabilities of developing hypertension were 25.07%, 43.03% and 56.32% in the next 1, 2 and 3 years, respectively; while the corresponding changes for elderly men were 20.96%, 37.65% and 50.86%. …”
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Long-Term Safety and Effectiveness of Canakinumab in Patients with MKD/HIDS: Interim Analysis of the RELIANCE Registry by Prasad T. Oommen, Tilmann Kallinich, Juergen Rech, Norbert Blank, Julia Weber-Arden, Jasmin B. Kuemmerle-Deschner

“…Most patients received higher than the recommended starting dose of canakinumab throughout the study. …”
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Advancing Pandemic Preparedness in Healthcare 5.0: A Survey of Federated Learning Applications by Saeed Hamood Alsamhi, Ammar Hawbani, Alexey V. Shvetsov, Santosh Kumar

“…Specifically, FL offers the potential to revolutionize pandemic preparedness within Healthcare 5.0 in several vital ways: it enables collaborative learning from distributed data sources without compromising individual data privacy, facilitates decentralized decision-making by empowering local healthcare institutions to contribute to a collective knowledge pool, and enhances real-time surveillance, enabling early detection of outbreaks and informed responses. We start by laying out the concepts of FL and Healthcare 5.0, followed by an analysis of current pandemic preparedness and response mechanisms. …”
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Godsdiens en Christelike teologie in die skadu van menslike outonomie: wetenskapsfilosofiese verkenninge by W. J. Richards

“…In the last section an effort is made to show how Reformed philosophy (preliminary as it may be, yet starting, as it does, from the same belief in God) tries to counter undesirable and detrimental trends in culture, while at the same time stimulating those which can honour God through service in His Kingdom. …”
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Thabo Mbeki’s Decolonial Idea of an African in the African Renaissance by William Jethro Mpofu

“…For the African of Mbeki’s representation and observation, the dream of liberation from colonialism collapsed into a nightmare of coloniality, and the starting point of an African renaissance is the decolonial effort to dare dream and imagine another Africa and other Africans built from the ashes of the colonisers and the colonised. …”
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Body mass index trajectories and mortality in community-dwelling older adults: population-based cohort study by Martin C Gulliford, Hari Pai

“…Number of long-term conditions, cigarette smoking and socioeconomic position were evaluated as effect modifiers.Results Data were analysed for 16 924 participants with 31 857 BMI records; mean age at study starts, 61.6 (SD 10.9) years; mean BMI, 27.5 (4.7) Kg/m2. …”
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கொங்கு நாட்டின் இராசிபுர வட்டார சிறுதெய்வங்களும் வழிபாட்டு முறைகளும் / Deities and Worshipping Methods in the Rasipuram Region of Kongu Nadu... by செ. தனபால் / S. Dhanapal

“…At first, he created the natural forces as deities and started worshipping them. Eventually, he created male and female deities and worshipped them by giving them an image and a name. …”
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A novel bladder cancer surveillance schedule using bladder Cx for patients on annual surveillance by Arjun Guduguntla, Thomas Whish‐Wilson, Lauren Chandler, Dennis Gyomber

“…Patients and Methods In 2022, 109 eligible and consenting patients were identified, with 98 commencing on the new surveillance program, starting with CxM instead of cystoscopy. A negative CxM, would result in a planned flexible cystoscopy in 12 months. …”
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The BET inhibitor JQ1 targets fat metabolism and counteracts obesity by Claudia Fornelli, Alessia Sofia Cento, Lorenzo Nevi, Raffaella Mastrocola, Gustavo Ferreira Alves, Giuseppina Caretti, Massimo Collino, Fabio Penna

“…Moreover, we preliminarily observed that JQ1 administration markedly reduces white adipose tissue mass, suggesting a potential role of BET proteins on visceral fat deposition during aging. Objectives: Starting from those observations, the aim of this study was to investigate the ability of JQ1 to reduce adiposity in a chronic diet-induced obesity (DIO) mouse model mimicking the human metabolic syndrome. …”
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Numerical Evaluation of the Opening Effects on the Reinforced Concrete Slab Structural Performance by Meysam Aminitabar, Omar Kanaani, Amir Reza Eskenati

“…Meanwhile, the concentration of maximum compressive stresses which is equivalent to the main minimum stresses was at the compressive edge, started at the area of the collectors, and stretched to the edge of the opening. …”
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ANALITINĖ ETIKA NEOPOZITYVIZMO IR POSTPOZITYVIZMO IDĖJŲ KONTEKSTE by Rūta Marija Marija Vabalaitė

“…The significance of the social context is started to be recognised. Some theories make efforts to deduce the ethical statements from the facts of human nature but such efforts may be questionable. …”
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The Seasons by James Thomson and the Baltic German Poetry about the Seasons in the Era of Baltic Enlightenment by Kairit Kaur

“…Some years before Thomson the famous Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi had created his violin concerto The Four Seasons (1718) and a German poet and senator from the city of Hamburg, Barthold Hinrich Brockes, had started to publish his series Irdisches Vergnügen in Gott (Earthly Delight in God) (1721–1748) in which he meticulously described many objects from and views of nature as God’s creations, inspired by English and Dutch physical theology. …”
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Prof. Juozas Eretas' views on the history of Lithuanian culture: from „Tėvynės sargas" to „Naujoji Romuva" by Aldona Vasiliauskienė

“…As soon as he completed his work in one area, he would immediately start work in a new one. This strenuous life came to an end in 1928, due to his failing health. …”
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The Cajun Renaissance and Cajun English. The Social, the Linguistic, the Imaginary by Olivier Glain

“…This paper focuses on Cajun English and the sociolinguistic implications of the Cajun Renaissance, a sociocultural movement that started in the 1960s in Southern Louisiana. Being either a monolingual French speaker or a bilingual French-English speaker was long at the heart of what it meant linguistically to be Cajun (Dubois and Horvath 2001). …”
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Implementation of the project to strengthen the profile of pancasila students in primary schools by Nadia Rahma, Dea Mustika

“…The results of the research show that the implementation of the Project for Strengthening the Profile of Pancasila Students at SDN 006 Air Molek Satu includes several activities, namely starting from the formation of a team of facilitators. …”
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Russia and NATO’s ‘Open Door’ Policy in the Post-Bipolar Period by P. Ye. Smirnov

“…The North Atlantic Alliance (NATO) was not dissolved after completing the mission it had been created for; moreover, it started taking on ever new responsibilities to keep the European allies in the U.S. sphere of influence. …”
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Post‐operative incidence of lymphedema after RARP with or without extended pelvic lymph node dissection in a cohort study by Andries Clinckaert, Laura Ysenbaardt, Annabel Bijnens, Charlotte Van Calster, Inge Geraerts, Steven Joniau, Nele Devoogdt, Luc Bijnens, Wouter Everaerts

“…Conclusions In this cohort study, approximately one in four patients undergoing RARP with ePLND developed lower limb and/or midline oedema, whereas one in ten patients started decongestive lymphatic therapy for symptomatic lymphedema. …”
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Exploring the Impact of the Multimodal CAPABLE eHealth Intervention on Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients With Melanoma Undergoing Immune-Checkpoint Inhibition: Prospective... by Itske Fraterman, Lucia Sacchi, Henk Mallo, Valentina Tibollo, Savannah Lucia Catherina Glaser, Stephanie Medlock, Ronald Cornet, Matteo Gabetta, Vitali Hisko, Vadzim Khadakou, Ella Barkan, Laura Del Campo, David Glasspool, Alexandra Kogan, Giordano Lanzola, Roy Leizer, Manuel Ottaviano, Mor Peleg, Konrad Śniatała, Aneta Lisowska, Szymon Wilk, Enea Parimbelli, Silvana Quaglini, Mimma Rizzo, Laura Deborah Locati, Annelies Boekhout, Lonneke V van de Poll-Franse, Sofie Wilgenhof

“…HRQoL data were measured with the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire-Core 30 at baseline (T0), 3 months (T1), and 6 months (T2) after start of treatment. Mixed effects linear regression models were used to compare HRQoL between the 2 groups over time. …”
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Investigation of the Operations of Open Pit Iron Mineralization for Acid Mine Drainage (Adana/Saimbeyli) by Ayşe Dokuzlar, Nil Yapıcı

“…However, it is recommended that kinetics test should be performed after mining activities start in the region as there is a potential to generate acid during conducting mining operations.…”
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Tocilizumab, an Exploratory Treatment for Severe COVID-19 Patients by Yong Wang, Yongfeng Chen, Xiangdong Zhou

“…The CRP levels of 76.92% (10/13) of the patients were above the normal range before the start of TCZ therapy and gradually declined after the TCZ treatment. …”
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