Platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio and neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio associated with disease activity in patients with Takayasu’s arteritis: a case-control study by Juan Du, Lili Pan, Taotao Li, Hua Liao

“…We compared the PLR and NLR between patients and healthy controls, and also analysed the correlations between PLR or NLR and indices of TAK disease activity.Results Increased PLR and NLR were observed in patients with TAK. PLR was positively correlated with hs-C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) (r=0.239, p=0.010) and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) (r=0.270, p=0.010). …”
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Face Recognition Method for Underground Engineering Based on Dual-Target Domain Adaptation and Discriminative Feature Learning by Yongqiang Yu, Cong Guo, Lidan Fan, Jiyun Zhang, Liwei Yu, Peitao Li

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La toponimia glífica nahua y sus reminiscencias gráficas en los mapas nativos e indoespañoles del Acolhuacan meridional, ca. 1579-1613 by Daniel Martínez González

“…La evidencia visual contenida en las creaciones cartográficas aquí apenas mencionadas sugiere que, aunque las formas nativas de nombrar los lugares —incluyendo mapas, planos indígenas, pintores, cuerpos de conocimiento y saberes teórico-prácticos—seguían vigentes incluso en fechas tardías respecto al siglo del contacto europeo-mesoamericano, en un lapso breve de tiempo los topónimos glíficos en los mapas de tierras dejaron de pintarse como signos de un sistema de escritura de tipo logosilábico. …”
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Scoping review: relationship between glucose tolerance and pulmonary decline in cystic fibrosis by Raina Tomoda, Deborah Jane Holmes-Walker

“…Studies that assessed glucose levels from glucose tolerance test (GTT) and/or CGM and their relationship to %FEV1 and FVC were included. A total of 10 studies were included. …”
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Sociological approach in managing high school violence in Serbia in the COVID - 19 postpandemic period by Milosavljević-Stević Milena, Radosavljević Života, Anđelković Aleksandar

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Psychological Patient-reported Outcomes Cannot Predict a Second Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury in Patients who Return to Sports after an Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstructio... by Ramana Piussi, Rebecca Simonson, Johan Högberg, Roland Thomeé, Kristian Samuelsson, Eric Hamrin Senorski

“… # Results In total, 641 (355 men, 61%) patients (24.8 \[SD 7.6\] year old at ACL reconstruction) were included. The cut-off values were not able to differentiate patients who suffered a second ACL injury up to 24 months after RTS and ACL reconstruction from patients who did not. …”
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Integrating manual annotation with deep transfer learning and radiomics for vertebral fracture analysis by Jing Wang, Zhirui Dong, Huanxin He, Zhiyang Gao, Yukai Huang, Guangcheng Yuan, Libo Jiang, Mingdong Zhao

“…AUCs compared via Delong test, and clinical utility assessed by decision curve analysis (DCA). Results Patients were split into training (175) and test (43) sets. …”
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The relationship between the atherogenic index of plasma and postoperative myocardial injury following non-cardiac surgery under general anaesthesia: a retrospective cohort study by Yuanjun Zhou, Liping Zhong, Yilin Liao, Yuting Zhong

“…Restricted cubic splines (RCS) were used to explore the potential nonlinear relationship between AIP and MINS. …”
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Endoscopic Precise Resection of Haglund's Deformity Using K-wire (Novel Technique) by KR Rohit, Parthiban Jeganathan, Sai Vineet Damodar Premkumar, AK Sanjay, Suresh Perumal

“…Our study included 15 patients, 11 of whom were female and four were male. Patients were evaluated preoperatively and postoperatively with an American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS) score. …”
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The Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic Shoulder & Elbow Score used as a Patient-Reported Outcome Measure for the Youth and High School Aged Baseball Athlete by Ryan Monti, Alicia Fernandez-Fernandez

“…Retrospective data from 28 subjects with throwing arm pain were compared to 28 prospective subjects actively participating in baseball with no pain. …”
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RETRACTED: An Infrared Small Target Detection Method Based on a Weighted Human Visual Comparison Mechanism for Safety Monitoring by Yuanyuan Chen, Huiqian Wang, Yu Pang, Jinhui Han, En Mou, Enling Cao

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The relationship between weight-adjusted waist index and peripheral artery disease by Zhe Wu, Yang Liu, Bin Wang

“…However, research on the relationship between WWI and PAD remains scarce.MethodsRelevant data from the NHANES 1999–2004 were selected. Multiple logistic regression and restricted cubic spline (RCS) analyses were used to assess the relationship between WWI and the risk of PAD. …”
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O INVESTIMENTO EM CULTURA COMO ESTRATÉGIA DE CONSTRUÇÃO DE MARCA: O caso dos bancos brasileiros a partir dos anos 90 by Maria Eduarda da Mota Rocha

“…A explicação pode ser situada em dois processos muito interligados: por um lado. a abertura do espaço público permitiu a manifestação de setores organizados da sociedade em defesa de interesses coletivos ameaçados pela livre atuação do capital ; por outro lado , desde pelo menos o ajuste do governo Figueiredo, o capital bancário é o grande beneficiário das políticas econômicas, exceções feitas ao Plano Cruzado e a um breve momento de adaptação ao Plano Real. As altas taxas de juros que caracterizam estas políticas econômicas respondem simultaneamente pelo aumento da lucratividade do setor bancário e pelo estrangulamento do setor produtivo, das famílias e do Estado, chamados a pagar a conta. …”
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Aktif Tektonik Rejim İçerisinde, Çanakkale Boğazı: Tenkit ve Derleme by Ebru Özcan, Şebnem Önder, Tolga Komut

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Study and application on the size effect and end effect of red sandstone mechanical properties by Feng Chen, Jinyang Du, Yanhong Du, Ruxuan Li, Chun’an Tang, Yishan Pan, Gen Li

“…Dense, hard, and brittle red sandstone was used in the experiments, and specimens with different heights, cross-sectional areas, and cubic volumes were prepared. By measuring stress–strain curves, uniaxial compressive strength, and other physical and mechanical parameters, the effects of size effect on rock strength and failure modes were analyzed. …”
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Human&vehicle-in-the-loop test method in human factors research on automated vehicles: Conceptualization, realization, case-study, and lessons learned by Markus Steimle, Vanessa Stange, Mark Vollrath, Markus Maurer

“…While the patterns of results obtained in the video study and driving simulator study were replicated in the Hu&ViL study in the first scenario involving longitudinal vehicle acceleration, the vehicle dynamics of the real vehicle changed the pattern of results in the second scenario involving lateral vehicle acceleration. …”
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Building with Jelly, or, Concrete as the Concretion of the Abstract by Alan Díaz Alva

“…Expanding Jappe’s value-critical analysis of reinforced concrete with Moishe Postone’s account of how the peculiar social ‘self-mediating’ character of abstract labour in capitalism explains the transformation of labour into pure means and of its tools and products in mere objects, I intend to complement the question of cosmotechnics with an explanation of the decline of technodiversity grounded on the abstract logic of capital. …”
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Linearity of natural versus laboratory-imparted remanence demagnetization diagram and reliability of relative paleointensity estimation by Toshitsugu Yamazaki, Jiaxi Li

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The Association of Joint Power Kinetic Variables with Running Injuries: A Case-Control Study by Matt Dewald, Jennifer Dalland, Josie Stockland

“…The primary question was what joint power kinetic variables were different between non-injured and injured runners…”
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Fatigue property evaluation of 7075/6061 aluminum alloy TIG welded overlap joints by LIAO Xiangyun, WANG Ruijie, LIU Guoshou, ZHAO Pinglin, CHANG Yaguang, WANG Zhongde

“…Constant-amplitude fatigue tests were conducted on overlap specimens of 7075/6061 aluminum alloy TIG fillet weldes. …”
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