Esophageal cancer burden attributable to alcohol use and low consumption of vegetables from 1990 to 2021 across countries with different sociodemographic characteristics by Yi-Kai Ma, Yue-Ting Zhou, Cai-Xia Liu

“…Exposure levels for alcohol and vegetable intake were defined, and data were standardized using the global population structure to ensure comparability. Trend lines for the disease burden were plotted using R version 4.3.0 (R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria). …”
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Dilated Blood and Lymphatic Microvessels, Angiogenesis, Increased Macrophages, and Adipocyte Hypertrophy in Lipedema Thigh Skin and Fat Tissue by Sara AL-Ghadban, Walter Cromer, Marisol Allen, Christopher Ussery, Michael Badowski, David Harris, Karen L. Herbst

“…The aims of this project are to investigate blood vasculature, immune cells, and structure of lipedema tissue in a cohort of women. …”
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Effect Factor of Arsenite and Arsenate Removal by a Manufactured Material: Activated Carbon-Supported Nano-TiO2 by Qian Luo, Gang Li, Meifeng Chen, Fanxin Qin, Haiyan Li, Yu Qiang

“…In addition, material properties were studied including the structure of crystallinity, surface morphology, functional groups, and surface texture by XRD, TEM/SEM, FTIR, and BET methods, respectively. …”
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A Forecasting Method for COVID-19 Epidemic Trends Using VMD and TSMixer-BiKSA Network by Yuhong Li, Guihong Bi, Taonan Tong, Shirui Li

“…Specifically, the TSMixer module employs a multilayer perceptron (MLP) structure to alternately model along the temporal and feature dimensions, capturing cross-time and cross-variable dependencies. …”
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Assessing stressor exposure, chemsex use, and adjustment disorder in a sample of men who have sex with men by Martin Robinson, Yafit Levin, Rahel Bachem, Nadia Badran, Kostas Papageorgiou, Emanuele Fino

“…Among those who reported exposure to a stressor (n = 376), the factorial structure of the International Adjustment Disorder Questionnaire (IADQ) was assessed using Confirmatory Factor Analysis. …”
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Preparation and Physicochemical Properties of High-purity Isomaltooligosaccharides by Sequential Simulated Moving Bed Chromatography by Shenghui RUAN, Xiqun ZHENG, Xiaolan LIU, Liangyu LI

“…Meanwhile, after 7 days of storage in environments with relative humidity of 43% and 0, the moisture retention rates of high-purity isomaltooligosaccharides were 77.96% and 15.56% respectively. Its chemical structure could still maintain high stability at 352.5 ℃. …”
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A Precise Detection Method for Tomato Fruit Ripeness and Picking Points in Complex Environments by Xinfa Wang, Xuan Wen, Yi Li, Chenfan Du, Duokuo Zhang, Chengxiu Sun, Bihua Chen

“…Aiming at the problems faced in practical applications, such as low accuracy of tomato ripeness and picking points detection in complex greenhouse environments, which leads to wrong picking, missed picking, and fruit damage by robots, this study proposes the YOLO-TMPPD (Tomato Maturity and Picking Point Detection) model. YOLO-TMPPD is structurally improved and algorithmically optimized based on the YOLOv8 baseline architecture. …”
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Purification of Iodine from High-temperature Argon Environment by Bismuth Sulfide-modified Zeolite by SONG Shilong1, 2, LIAO Lei1, 2, LEI Hao2, MA Lan3, ZHANG Yongde2, , ZOU Hao2

“…The physical phase of the composites was analyzed by XRD, the specific surface area and pore size by BET, the structure of functional groups by FT-IR, the morphology of the materials before and after modification and the distribution of the elements by SEM and EDS, the loading after modification by ICP-OES, and the content of C and H in the composites by elemental analyzer, and the valence change of the composites before and after the adsorption as well as the strength of the binding energy were analyzed by XPS, the thermal stability of the composites was analyzed by TGA. …”

Identification of lipid metabolism-related genes in dapagliflozin treated rats with diabetic cardiomyopathy by bioinformatics by Xun Huang, Yunhong Wang, Rong Wan, Zhigang You, Lin Huang

“…And the Acsbg1 and Etnppl were located at UCAGG in the RNA secondary structure.ConclusionThis study identified 2 hub genes (Acsbg1 and Etnppl) as potential new focal points for diagnosing and treating DCM.…”
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Inequalities in local government expenditure on environmental and regulatory services in England from 2009 to 2020: a longitudinal ecological study by Ben Barr, Mark Alan Green, Helen E Clough, Xingna Zhang, Katie Fahy, Iain Edward Buchan, Lauren Murrell, Roger Gibb, Marie Anne Chattaway

“…Models analysed trends by local authority structure, population density and deprivation level.Results ER services saw the largest cuts in unitary authorities, declining by 1.9%. …”
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Vocal constraints on song amplitude in star finches Bathilda ruficauda by Hana Goto, Masayo Soma, Ayumi Mizuno, Henrik Brumm

“…We found that vocal amplitude was linked to the phonetic structure of the syllables. More complex sounds (measured as higher syllable bandwidth and higher Wiener entropy) were produced at lower amplitudes than less complex sounds. …”
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Clinical and Epidemiological Characteristics of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in the Republic of Saha (Yakutia) by S. S. Sleptsova, S. I. Malov, E. D. Savilov, S. I. Semenov, V. K. Semenova, L. A. Stepanenko, O. B. Ogarkov, I. V. Malov

“…The Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) is a hyperendemic region of the Russian Federation in terms of the incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma with a predominance of the male population in its structure. The rate of decrease in the incidence of liver cancer in the country will depend on the effectiveness of the regional program for the elimination of viral hepatitis and the decrease in the incidence of cirrhosis of the liver of non-infectious etiology.…”
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MODERN APPROACHES TO CLINICAL AND LABORATORY DIAGNOSTICS OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS EARLY ONSET by D. G. Rekalov, S. Y. Dotsenko, A. V. Kylinich

“…Conclusion: For the purpose of early diagnosis and prognosis of joint erosions appropriate set of laboratory monitoring indicators (ESR, CRP, RF and ACPA anti-MCV) characterize the pathological changes of the articular structure in patients with eRA. The introduction into the routine clinical practice US of joints allows to reach high accuracy of the diagnosis of eRA (before the erosive and destructive changes of bone tissue), which significantly improvement prognosis of the patients. …”
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Novel diagnostic criteria for atrial cardiomyopathy in patients with type 2 diabetes and atrial fibrillation by E. A. Polyanskaya, A. S. Veklich, N. A. Koziolova

“…The groups did not differ significantly in terms of sex, age, cardiovascular risk factors, risk of stroke and bleeding when using anticoagulants, clinical and laboratory parameters, and the structure of drug therapy. The following parameters significant differ between the groups: LAVI (according to study design), mid-regional pro-atrial natriuretic peptide (MR-proANP), glomerular filtration rate (GFR) calculated by creatinine, tissue inhibitor of matrix metalloproteinases 1 (TIMP-1). …”
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MMEFU-Net: A Mamba-Guided Multi-Encoder Fusion U-Net for Tumor Segmentation in CT Images by Renzheng Xue, Zifeng Zhang, Yaxin Zhao, Qing Zhang, Minghui Liang

“…The architecture integrates a multi-encoder structure comprising a detail branch, a context branch, and a Mamba-guided branch to extract complementary features, addressing the limitations of single-encoder models. …”
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Factors influencing the development of practical skills of interns working in regional hospitals of the Western Cape province of South Africa by Joerg Jaschinski, Marietjie R. de Villiers

“…An obstacle to skills training at university was the structure of the teaching tertiary hospital, with its emphasis on rare diseases and lack of opportunities for hands-on experience. …”
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Prevention and treatment of influenza and ARVI in pregnant women by I. I. Baranov, V. V. Malinovskaya, E. N. Vyzhlova, T. A. Semenenko

“…Influenza and acute respiratory viral infections continue to occupy leading positions in the structure of infectious pathology. The high risk categories of the disease include pregnant women who, due to hormonal and physiological changes occurring in the body during the period of carrying a child, are at risk of developing severe/complicated course of respiratory infections, especially in the third trimester of pregnancy. …”
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Cognitive and affective processes in second language oral communication: a mixed methods research by Arlene Portugal-Toro, Francisco José García-Peñalvo, Luis Antonio Balderas Ruiz, Angélica Vences Esparza

“…To evaluate the students’ oral communication skills, a semi-structure interview guide was administered and coded according to a Cambridge assessment scale.ResultsThe results indicate that certain cognitive-affective variables are associated with oral communication skills in English: (a) in affective processes, risk-taking and motivation are variables that are highly correlated with oral communication; (b) within cognitive processes, the learning variable shows a strong positive correlation with oral communication; (c) some affective and cognitive variables are positively interrelated, suggesting the importance of studying these factors in conjunction; (d) the qualitative findings both complement and reinforce the quantitative results.DiscussionThis article offers a distinct contribution to English language teaching by integrating multiple variables that influence students’ ability to communicate effectively in English, offering insights that may inform more holistic approaches to developing student’s communicative skills. …”
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Percutaneous clamp reduction technique using plate as a position template during minimally invasive plate osteosynthesis for the treatment of tibial shaft fractures by Yutao Cui, Guangkai Ren, Yanbing Wang, Baoming Yuan, Chuangang Peng, Dankai Wu

“…Conclusions By using the plate, which can perfectly match the anatomical structure, as a positional template to assist the percutaneous clamp reduction, a more accurate and reliable reduction was achieved with minimal surgical disturbance. …”
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Extraction of exact symbolic stationary probability formulas for Markov chains in finite space with application to production lines. part II: unveiling accurate formulas for very s... by Konstantinos S. Boulas, Georgios D. Dounias, Chrissoleon T. Papadopoulos

“…Comprehending the formula structure enables the formulation of a straightforward model for throughput estimation for fully balanced short serial production lines using genetic programming for lines up to thirteen stages.DiscussionThe enormous size of the exact formulas highlights the need for more computational support for production lines larger than four stages without buffers. …”
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