Asthma and obesity – A prospective observational study of bariatric surgery’s effect on asthma control by Mariana Bragança, Luís Amaral, Hugo Santos Sousa, Fernando Resende, André Pinho, John Preto, Eduardo Lima da Costa, José Luís Plácido

“…Obesity is a risk factor for asthma and is associated with more severe disease, poor response to treatment, and more frequent exacerbations. …”
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Photo and spectral fluorescence analysis of the spinal cord injury area in animal models by A. M. Udeneev, N. A. Kalyagina, V. F. Reps, V. V. Kozlova, L. A. Pigunova, D. I. Pozdnyakov, A. S. Skobeltsin, V. B. Loschenov

“…The general trend found in the data is a more intense and uniform fluorescence of the dorsal region of rats with methylene blue and a less intense, but more contrasting distribution of indocyanine green. …”
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Cognitive training gain transfer in cognitively healthy aging: per protocol results of the German AgeGain study by Florian U. Fischer, Florian U. Fischer, Bianca Kollmann, Bianca Kollmann, Dominik Wolf, Alexandra Sebastian, Alexandra Sebastian, Kristel Knaepen, David Riedel, Andreas Mierau, Andreas Mierau, Nicolas Ruffini, Nicolas Ruffini, Kristina Endres, Kristina Endres, Jennifer Winter, Heiko K. Strüder, Gerard N. Bischof, Gerard N. Bischof, Sofia Faraza, Sofia Faraza, Bernhard Baier, Harald Binder, Alexander Drzezga, Alexander Drzezga, Alexander Drzezga, Stefan Teipel, Stefan Teipel, Andreas Fellgiebel, Andreas Fellgiebel, Oliver Tüscher, Oliver Tüscher, Oliver Tüscher, Oliver Tüscher, Oliver Tüscher

“…However, their interaction was associated with long-term transfer over 3 months: subjects with higher mean diffusivity of the corpus callosum and more bilateral functional activity or conversely with lower diffusivity of the corpus callosum and more lateral functional activity were more likely successful long-term transferers.DiscussionWe demonstrated successful training gain transfer in 41.1% of subjects, among whom 25.7% maintained the transfer over 3 months. …”
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Assessing the Operation of a Well Field by Coupling EPANET to the Results of a Hydrogeological Study by Ștefan-Dragoș Găitănaru, Iulian Iancu, Sanda-Carmen Georgescu, Andrei-Mugur Georgescu

“…Due to the increased development of urban areas and climate change, water resource management is gaining more attention. Among the most important aspects under scrutiny is improving the reliability of water resources. …”
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Phytochemical Screening, Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Properties of Litsea floribunda Gamble, Leaf and Bark Extract by Karthik Madhayan, Venkadachalam Balamurugan, Sunder Suganya

“…The leaf extract showed more antioxidant activitiessuch as total antioxidant, ABTS, superoxide radical scavenging, FRAP, and DPPH reducing power activities were done respectively. …”
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Features state of hemostasis and immunopathological reactions in epstein-barr virus infection in children by S. A. Hmilevskaya, I. A. Zaitseva, N. I. Zryachkin, I. A. Berezhnova

“…Interferon therapy in complex treatment of children, the sick EBV-mononucleosis, contributed to a more rapid regression of a number of clinical symptoms of disease and normalization gemostaziologicheskikh of indicators. …”
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Study on the Influence of Graphite Tailings on the Properties of Foamed Concrete by Wenhao Zhang, Wenning Tang, Shaopeng Hu, Hao Xu, Guang Huo, Xiaoheng Sun, Jiandong Ge

“…This article presents the application of untreated graphite tailings in foamed concrete by studying the properties of graphite tailings. …”
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Design and Economic Optimization of Microgrid by Syed Mahaboob Shareef, Prasanth B. Venkata, Kumaraswamy I, Raju B. Sreenivasa, Ramya P. Sai, Rao Y. Ranga

“…Microgrids are small in ratings compared to the conventional energy sources and are independent power producers that can be more reliable and eco-friendly. HOMER helps to determine the proper combination of energy sources. …”
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Synthesis and Structure–Activity Relationship of Porous Coordination Polymers and Their Composites as Photocatalysts: Environmental Remediation by Wenting Li, Wei Kang, Ting Zhou, Nina Wu, Huan Pang

“…Furthermore, this review highlights the opportunities, challenges, and future perspectives of MOFs and MOF composite photocatalysts, aiming to design more innovative MOF‐based photocatalytic systems using green and sustainable strategies. …”
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Students’ perception of attributes of independent colleges of business profile in the market of higher education in Poland by Dejnaka Agnieszka, Kulig-Moskwa Katarzyna, Łobos Krzysztof, Nogieć Joanna, Szewczyk Mirosława

“…The evaluations are presented in comparison with other academic institutions having the same profile, both independent and public ones. …”
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The development of universal alopecia during therapy with TNF-α inhibitors in patients with ankylosing spondylitis: description of three cases by M. V. Kireeva, E. M. Agafonova, A. E. Dimitreva, K. V. Sakharova, S. O. Krasnenko, Sh. F. Erdes

“…The article presents 3 clinical cases of the development of UA during therapy with TNF-α. …”
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HPTLC Fingerprint Profile and Identification of Antidiabetic and Antioxidant Leads from Bauhinia rufescens L by Wadah Osman, Mona S Mohammed, Hassan S Khalid, Abdelkhalig Muddathir, Shaza W. Shantier, Bashier Osman, Iman Abdoon

“…Two potential compounds were successfully isolated and identified which may provide new leads for more potent analogues in drug discovery.…”
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Predicting the Risk for Pathological Fracture in Bone Metastases by Pavlos Altsitzioglou, Shinji Tsukamoto, Costantino Errani, Yasuhito Tanaka, Andreas F. Mavrogenis

“…The link between metastatic lesions and pathological bones is especially troubling since more metastases mean a higher chance of painful fractures, which can reduce mobility and often require surgery. …”
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A Comparative Study of Multiple Object Detection Using Haar-Like Feature Selection and Local Binary Patterns in Several Platforms by Souhail Guennouni, Ali Ahaitouf, Anass Mansouri

“…The proposed application deals with real-time systems implementation and the results give a metric able to select where the cases of object detection applications may be more complex and where it may be simpler.…”
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Decolonising Australian Gold Rush Narratives with Critical Geopolitics by Robin A. Bellingham, Aleryk Fricker

“…While Country is central to Indigenous being, knowledges and pedagogy, Australian public and school education and curricula regularly fail to engage with Country and place in its historical, political, institutional, more-than-human, and relational dimensions. This paper investigates how colonial discourse and narratives permeate public and schooling education resources about mining and the Australian gold rush, including those presented in local Victorian gold rush museums. …”
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IgG4-related lung disease mimicking COPD: case report and review by Zaman Talha, PeiLiang Wu, Abdulkadir Ali Abdi Mohamed, Chengshui Chen

“…Abstract IgG4-RD is a systemic fibroinflammatory condition with a wide range of clinical presentations, including involvement of the respiratory system. …”
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Management of extensive maxillofacial injury related to a Tyre Blast: A rare case report by Sanjay S. Rao, Sridhar D. Baliga, Abhinav Bhatnagar

“…Conclusion: Due to the etiology and severity of injury, these injuries are challenging to operate and are more prone to infection following surgery. These require careful management skills. …”
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Evaluation of the Geomechanical Properties of Bashkirian Carbonate Rocks at the Tatarstan Republic for Optimization of Hydraulic Fracturing by Ziganshin Eduard, Kolchugin Anton, Dautov Ayrat, Nurieva E.

“…Carbonate reservoirs are hard-to-recover reservoir rocks due to the high degree of heterogeneity. A more detailed study of the lithological features and physical properties of carbonate rocks is an important and integral part of the complex reservoirs development. …”
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Style-VT: Style Conditioned Chord Generation by Variational Transformer With Chord Substitution by Kyowon Song, Dongyoung Seo, Junsu Na, Heecheol Yang

“…By extensive experiments, we demonstrate that Style-VT generates a more flexible chord progressions and achieves higher harmonic similarities with human-composed chords than the existing methods.…”
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Leveraging Intelligent Machines for Sustainable and Intelligent Manufacturing Systems by Somkiat Tangjitsitcharoen, Nattawut Suksomcheewin, Alessio Faccia

“…This study presents an intelligent machine developed for real-time quality monitoring during CNC turning, aimed at improving cutting efficiency and reducing production energy. …”
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