Functional Outcome of Epidural Steroid Injection in the Treatment of Chronic Low Backache due to Intervertebral Disc Prolapse by R Sahaya Jose, SL Binesh, N Kattu Bava, M Syed Moosa

“…Of the patients in the study, more suffered from radiating pain to the left than the right (18 patients, or 51.43%), and 17 patients, or 48.57%, reported doing so. …”
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Some Insights on Kerr Lensing Effects by Kamel Aït-Ameur, Abdelkrim Hasnaoui

“…The main reason for this was that high-order beams are more divergent and less bright than the Gaussian beam. …”
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Equilibria (equilibrium states) problem statement for city transport systems by I. E. Agureev, A. V. Akhromeshin, V. A. Pyshnyi

“…Within the framework of the work, the following tasks were solved: a description of the structural levels of the objects of the road network and the centers of mass gravity as the main components of the model of transport systems was developed; the formulation of problems about the equilibrium states of transport systems at the corresponding structural levels was developed; the analysis of the obtained methodology was performed; a methodological analogy is established between different subsets of states at the same structural level, for example, between the centers of mass gravity and elements of the road network as objects of modeling by methods of the theory of macrosystems (this analogy can be extended to other subsets of states in transport systems, for example, types of transport systems, travel purposes, parking spaces, subsystems of the intelligent transport system and much more).…”
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Gender and age effects on the incidence and severity of chemotherapy-induced neuropathic pain: a propensity score matching analysis by Andreas A. Argyriou, Roser Velasco, Foteini Kalofonou, Pantelis Litsardopoulos, Montse Alemany, Dimitrios Rikos, Haralabos P. Kalofonos, Jordi Bruna

“…However, older men had more severe pain raters (PI-NRS), while scoring lower in TNSc® severities.…”
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GENERALIZED TONIC-CLONIC SEIZURES : CLASSIFICATION, ELECTRO-CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS, AND EFFICACY OF ANTIEPILEPTIC THERAPY by M. B. Mironov, N. V. Chebanenko, S. G. Burd, T. M. Krasilshikova, M. N. Sarzhina, M. M. Gunchenko, G. G. Avakyan, Yu. V. Rubleva, T. T. Batysheva, G. N. Avakyan

“…In 18.9% of patients, this treatment resulted in a more than two-fold decrease in the occurrence of seizures. …”
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Global, regional, and national epidemiology of Intracerebral Hemorrhage among women of childbearing age (1990–2021): incidence, mortality, DALYs, and risk factor analysis by Yuan Li, Wei Yang, Jixiang Xu, Guoming Pu, Sujun Liu, Chunmei Chen, Xiufang Che, Hua Huang, Hongjiang Pu, Hongjiang Pu

“…However, research specifically focusing on the global impact and trends of ICH among WCBA is limited. This study aims to present data on the burden of ICH among WCBA from 1990 to 2021 across 204 countries and regions, with an emphasis on health disparities, to inform more effective prevention and intervention strategies.MethodsUsing data from the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD 2021), this study evaluates the global, regional, and national impact of ICH from 1990 to 2021, focusing on incidence, prevalence, mortality, and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). …”
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Secretory phospholipase A2: a biomarker of inflammation in autoimmune, bacterial and viral diseases by S. P. Urazov, A. N. Chernov, A. V. Cherkas, A. V. Boikov, O. S. Glotov, S. V. Apalko, N. N. Sushentseva, I. A. Polkovnikova, V. V. Smirnov, S. G. Shcherbak

“…Secretory phospholipases A2 (sPLA2) represent a large superfamily of enzymes with a molecular weight of 14-19 kDa, including 15 groups and more than 30 isoforms belonging to four types: secretory (sPLA2), cytosolic (cPLA2), calcium-independent (iPLA2) and lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 (LP-PLA2, PAF-AH). …”
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Functioning in patients with major depression treated with duloxetine or a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor in East Asia by Novick D, Montgomery W, Haro JM, Moneta MV, Zhu G, Yue L, Hong J, Duenas H, Brugnoli R

“…This treatment difference was more apparent in the subgroup of patients with PPS at baseline. …”
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Radiation-hygienic passportization and USIDC-information basis for management decision making for radiation safety of the population of the Russian Federation Report 2: Characteris... by G. G. Onishchenko, A. Yu. Popova, I. К. Romanovich, A. N. Barkovsky, T. A. Kormanovskaya, I. G. Shevkun

“…This article presents a description of the sources of ionizing radiation and annual doses to the population as a whole for the Russian Federation and separately for the subjects, as well as for the most exposed population groups. …”
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Chronic coronary artery disease: aspects of recording and coding in clinical practice (results of a survey of physicians) by I. V. Samorodskaya, R. N. Shepel, E. P. Kakorina, O. M. Drapkina

“…Although cardiologists (59,2%) were less likely than internists/general practitioners/family doctors (65,9%) to believe that one or more of the 4 codes analyzed could be used only on the basis of risk factors, differences did not reach significance (p=0,1). …”
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Personal perspective on the role of urethroscopy in the diagnosis and treatment strategy selection for short strictures of the bulbar urethra by M. I. Katibov, A. B. Bogdanov, O. B. Loran

“…Therefore, it is advisable to use urethroscopy examination more actively in patients with urethral stricture.…”
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Enhancing winter climate simulations of the Great Lakes: insights from a new coupled lake–ice–atmosphere (CLIAv1) system on the importance of integrating 3D hydrodynamics with... by P. Xue, P. Xue, P. Xue, C. Huang, Y. Zhong, M. Notaro, M. B. Kayastha, X. Zhou, C. Zhao, C. Peters-Lidard, C. Cruz, E. Kemp

“…CLIAv1 also enhances the simulation of over-lake atmospheric conditions, including air temperature, wind speed, and sensible and latent heat fluxes, underscoring the importance of resolving complex lake dynamics for reliable regional Earth system projections. More importantly, the key contribution of this study is the identification of critical physical processes that influence lake thermal structure and ice cover – processes that are missed by 1D lake models but effectively resolved by 3D lake models. …”
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PENGEMBANGAN LKS BERBASIS KONTEKSTUAL DENGAN PENDEKATAN PROBLEM POSING MATERI LINGKARAN DI MTs NEGERI AMBON by Rusmin Madia, Abdul Manaf, Syamsu Alam, Mariana Mariana

“…By integrating real-world contexts and active learning strategies, this tool addresses the limitations of traditional teaching methods and provides a more engaging and effective learning experience for students…”
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Integrating Patient Choice and Collaborative Care Managers to Implement eHealth Tools in Depression: Self-Report Pilot Study by Jennifer Severe, Adrienne Lapidos, Danielle S Taubman, Amy Sochowicz, Sophia Wolk, Daniela Lopez, Abigail Biehl, Sagar V Parikh

“…Most participants (n=26, 81%) presented with moderate to moderately severe depression (Patient Health Questionnaire-9=11‐19) and a marked level of impairment in different areas of functioning. …”
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Health-related quality of life in patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumor: data from a real-world cohort compared with a normative population by D. van de Wal, D. den Hollander, I.M.E. Desar, H. Gelderblom, A.W. Oosten, A.K.L. Reyners, N. Steeghs, W.T.A. van der Graaf, O. Husson

“…HRQoL was most affected by fatigue, in addition to pain, dyspnea, and financial difficulties, which all occurred more often in patients treated in a palliative setting compared with patients in the curative setting. …”
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Unsupervised clustering for sepsis identification in large-scale patient data: a model development and validation study by Na Li, Kiarash Riazi, Jie Pan, Kednapa Thavorn, Jennifer Ziegler, Bram Rochwerg, Hude Quan, Hallie C. Prescott, Peter M. Dodek, Bing Li, Alain Gervais, Allan Garland

“…After preprocessing 592 variables (demographics, encounter characteristics, diagnoses, medications, laboratory tests, and clinical management) and applying data reduction, we presented 55 principal components to eight different clustering algorithms. …”
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Decreased expression of MGMT in correlation with aberrant DNA methylation in esophageal cancer patients from North India by Asad Ur Rehman, Snigdha Saikia, Mohammad Askandar Iqbal, Istaq Ahmad, Sadaf, Afzal Anees, PS Aravinda, Pramod Kumar Mishra, Suresh Hedau, Sundeep Singh Saluja, Subhash Medhi, Syed Akhtar Husain

“…The absence of O-6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase protein coincided with the methylated cases in 84% (38/45), whereas in 07 cases, out of the 45 methylated, O-6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase protein was present. The aggressive esophageal cancer patients having methylated O-6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase had more than 50% cases with no/mild expression of the O-6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase protein ( p  > 0.001). …”
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LncRNA HULC and LncRNA HOTAIR expression profile are strong predictors of direct antiviral agents therapy response in chronic Hepatitis C Virus-infected patients by Muhammad Shahid, Iram Amin, Rabia Nawaz, Samia Afzal, Muhammad Usman Ghani, Mahnoor Fatima, Humera Naveed, Fiza Farooq, Umm e Habiba, Muhammad Idrees

“…Abstract Background Globally, more than 71 million people have chronic hepatitis C (CHC) infection, including 10% of the Pakistani population. …”
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Natural killer cells: origin, phenotype, function by E. V. Tyshchuk, V. A. Mikhailova, S. A. Selkov, D. I. Sokolov

“…In general, a variety of mechanisms that regulate the activity of NK cells may complement the specific functions of lymphocytes, thus making the immune system more efficient.…”
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Coffee plant disease identification with an attentive multi-image segmentation framework (MISF) with CycleGAN by Savitri Kulkarni, P. Deepa Shenoy, K.R. Venugopal

“…This research presents a novel approach to coffee plant disease identification by leveraging an attentive image to-image translation system based on CycleGAN. …”
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