The clinical implication of CD45RA+ naïve T cells and CD45RO+ memory T cells in advanced pancreatic cancer: a proxy for tumor biology and outcome prediction by Junjie Hang, Junjie Huang, Siyuan Zhou, Lixia Wu, Yingwei Zhu, Lina Zhu, Hanyu Zhou, Kequn Xu, Hua Jiang, Xuguang Yang

“…CD4+ naïve/memory ratio showed close correlations with hemoglobin, red blood cell (RBC), absolute neutrophil count (ANC) and platelet while CD8+ naïve/memory ratio was correlated with hemoglobin, RBC and CEA. …”
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Associations between brominated flame retardants exposure and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: Mediation analysis in the NHANES by Yulan Cheng, Jingyi Su, Xiangdong Wang, Ruiyao Huang, Zixuan Zhao, Kai Tian, Tianxiang Gu, Xiaoke Wang, Lin Chen, Xinyuan Zhao

“…Additionally, mediation analysis showed that absolute neutrophil cell count (ANC) and lymphocyte count (LC) (inflammation markers) have significantly mediated influences on the correlations of PBB153, PBDE85, and PBDE28 with N AFLD risk. …”
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Uncovering women's healthcare access challenges in low- and middle-income countries using mixed effects modelling approach: Insights for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals... by Bewuketu Terefe, Belayneh Shetie Workneh, Gebreeyesus Abera Zeleke, Enyew Getaneh Mekonen, Alebachew Ferede Zegeye, Agazhe Aemro, Berhan Tekeba, Tadesse Tarik Tamir, Mulugeta Wassie, Mohammed Seid Ali

“…Women aged 25-34 years, and 35-49 years, had primary education, and secondary or higher education, married women, poorer, middle, richer, and richest wealth indices, had mass media exposure, first birth at age ≥20 years, birth interval of 24-36, 37-59 and >59 months as compared to < 24 months birth interval, had health insurance, delivered at a health facility, had at least one ANC visit, being from lower-middle-income countries, upper-middle-income countries, regions like West Africa, South Asia, and East Asia/Pacific compared to women living in East Africa, low literacy rates, medium literacy rates, and high literacy rates as compared to very low literacy rate were associated with lower odds of having problems accessing healthcare respectively. …”
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Ethnic and racial discrimination in maternal health care in Mexico: a neglected challenge in the search for universal health coverage by Edson Serván-Mori, Sergio Meneses-Navarro, Rocío García-Díaz, Diego Cerecero-García, David Contreras-Loya, Octavio Gómez-Dantés, Arachu Castro

“…We defined ECMH as adequate antenatal care (ANC), skilled and/or institutional delivery care, timely postpartum care, and complication-free postpartum/puerperium. …”
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FAM134B-mediated endoplasmic reticulum autophagy protects against cisplatin-induced spiral ganglion neuron damage by Fan Wang, Yue Xu, Yajie Wang, Qian Liu, Yanan Li, Weiwei Zhang, Huiming Nong, Junhong Zhang, Hao Zhao, Huaqian Yang, Lingchuan Guo, Jianfeng Li, Jianfeng Li, Hong Li, Qianqian Yang

“…The reactive oxygen specie (ROS) levels were evaluated by MitoSOX Red and 2′,7′-Dchlorodihydrofluorescein diacetate (DCFH-DA) probe. Anc80-Fam134b shRNA was used to knockdown the expression of FAM134B in SGNs.ResultsWe first found the expression of FAM134B in the cytoplasm of SGNs, especially in the fourth postnatal day mice. …”
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Peripheral blood biomarkers as differential diagnostic markers of disease severity in neonates with hyperbilirubinemia by Dereje Mengesha Berta, Negesse Cherie, Berhanu Woldu, Aregawi Yalew, Elias Chane, Amare Mekuaninnit, Mebratu Tamir, Zufan Yiheyis, Abiy Ayele Angelo, Zewudu Mulatie, Adamu Kassie, Bisrat Birke Teketelew

“…Besides, mean cell volume (MCV), absolute neutrophil count (ANC), neutrophil to lymphocyte (NLR) and platelet to lymphocyte ratio (PLR), can exhibit significant discriminative ability to differentiate high-risk groups from intermediate and low-risk groups as well as low-risk groups from intermediate and high-risk groups. …”
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Disparities in the uptake of HPV-related cancer prevention strategies among women by HIV status in Puerto Rico by Marievelisse Soto-Salgado, Melisa Ramos-Sepúlveda, Jeslie M. Ramos-Cartagena, Maribel Tirado-Gómez, Humberto M. Guiot, Cristina Muñoz-Masso, Lorena González-Sepúlveda, Ana Patricia Ortiz

“…Methods: We performed a secondary data analysis of women aged 21+ years (n = 469) evaluated at the Anal Neoplasia Clinic (ANC) of the University of Puerto Rico Comprehensive Cancer Center between 2014 and 2023. …”
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Determinants of the Continuum of Maternal Healthcare Services in Northwest Ethiopia: Findings from the Primary Health Care Project by Asmamaw Atnafu, Adane Kebede, Bisrat Misganaw, Destaw Fetene Teshome, Gashaw Andargie Biks, Getu Debalkie Demissie, Haileab Fekadu Wolde, Kassahun Alemu Gelaye, Mezgebu Yitayal, Tadesse Awoke Ayele, Telake Azale, Terefe Derso, Tsegaye Gebremedhin, Endalkachew Dellie

“…The maternity continuum of care is the continuity of maternal healthcare services that a woman uses, which includes antenatal care (ANC 4+), skill birth attendant (SBA), and postnatal care (PNC) within 48 hours of delivery. …”
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Virtual SDN embedding with differentiated QoS under multiple controller by Zhi-yuan ZHAO, Xiang-ru MENG, Yu-ze SU, Zhen-tao LI

“…In SDN virtua1ization environment under mu1tip1e contro11ers，with the goa1 of minimum the mean de1ay between contro1 paths，the 1oad imba1ance of contro11ers，and the cost of embedding，mathematica1 mode1s of the contro11er p1acement and the virtua1 SDN embedding prob1em were bui1t，and a virtua1 SDN embedding method with differentiated QoS under mu1tip1e contro11ers was proposed.The simu1ation resu1ts show that the proposed a1gorithm can satisfy various virtua1 networks QoS for users，keep 1oad ba1ance between contro11ers and increase the acceptance ratio and the revenue/cost ratio.…”
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Research of single sign-on in grid by MENG Fan-rong1, XIE Hong-xia1, WANG Ru-chuan2, XIA Shi-xiong1

“…Grid was a kind of new-type network computing platform following World Wide Web;An infrastructure of sharing different resources including webpage in an all-round way was offered.In order to complete one task,many re-sources were often needed the participants to assort with,so single sign-on to simplify users’ operations was needed.The disadvantages of single sign-on were analyzed,and a solution based on SAML was proposed,the test and the perform-ance evaluation to it had been carried on.…”
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Simplified MD-LSD demapping algorithm for BICM-ID systems with multi-dimensional mappings by GONG Feng-kui, GE Jian-hua, WANG Yong

“…Simulation results show that the perform- ance degradation of the simplified MD-LSD algorithm can be ignored when the list length is in a certain range.…”
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Os convivas da morte no banquete das almas: presença de eguns em um conto de João Antônio by Gilberto Figueiredo Martins

“…In the short story analyzed in this essay - "Eguns" - João Antônio (1937-1996), a writer from São Paulo, presents a narrator who describes in detail an unusual religious celebration held in Bahia, meant for the cult of ances- tors. Contemplative and respectful, it sticks to tell what is allowed by the religious tradition. …”
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ARDCH:adaptive round distributed cluster head scheme for multimedia sensor networks by LI Rui-fang, LI Ren-fa, LUO Juan

“…The node deployment and location-related multimedia data in WMSN were analyzed.Based on the energy ef-ficiency and communication range,an adaptive round distributed cluster head（ARDCH） scheme was proposed.To bal-ance the energy consumption of nodes in WMSN,the cluster headers were selected according to the communication cost and the remaining energy,and the work round of cluster headers were adjusted dynamically by the remaining energy.The multi-channel communication between different clusters was employed in ARDCH to avoid inter-cluster interference.By comparison with other clustering protocols,the simulation results show that ARDCH is more appropriate for WMSN and prolong the life cycle of network.…”
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Data distribution strategy based on the X-RDP array codes by Wu-nan WAN, Wang SUO, Yun CHEN, Tuo WANG

“…The theoretical analysis shows that the comprehensive proper-ties of the X-RDP codeis better than other popular MDS codes in encoding and decoding efficiency, small writes and bal-ance performance, thus the X-RDP code is practically meaningful for storage systems.…”
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Joint sparse model based data reconstruction algorithm for wireless sensor network by Yi-yin LIU, Guo-rui LI, Li TIAN

“…The data of wireless sensor network has strong joint sparse characteristics,by utilizing compressed sensing theory,compressed data by joint encoding,and then reconstructed the data by joint decoding,the sensed data can be gathered with low computational cost.A synchronous subspace pursuit algorithm based on joint sparse model and com-pressed sensing theory was proposed.By utilizing the sparsity of the sensed data,it selected the correct joint subspace and reconstruct the original signal group accurately with fewer observations in a backtracking iterative manner.Com-pared with SCoSaMP algorithm and SP algorithm,the proposed algorithm presents better data reconstruction perform-ance under the conditions of different sparsity and sampling rate.…”
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Distributed locating algorithm for wireless sensor networks-MDS-MAP（D） by MA Zhen, LIU Yun, SHEN Bo

“…A new distributed locating algorithm MDS-MAP（D） was proposed,which attempted to improve the perform-ance of node localization in wireless sensor networks.The process of the computation about node relative coordinates and the aggregation from local network to global network are introduced explicitly.Further,the analyses to computational complexity and the simulations of the algorithm are also present.MDS-MAP（D）,which is based on node clustering mechanism and uses connectivity of nodes to estimate the coordinates of nodes,reduces the complexity and energy con-sumption of node localization on the absence of distance measurement with high precision.The simulation and analysis results indicate that the complexity of node localization algorithm falls to O（Nm 2）,m < N from O（N 3） and the accu-racy is improved 1%～3%.…”
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Functional requirements and design of simulation cloud platform for data center by Junwen LIU, Jiaxing XUAN

“…Electric power information system is related with the safe operation of grid.To ensure the running stability of information system,comprehensive test was needed to conduct before the system is running.Considering actual needs of the power industry at present,it's necessary to establish independent environment to conduct function of in-formation system and non-functional test so as to achieve effective operation and maintenance of information system,finding loopholes and improving robustness of the system.Based on the analysis of development of cloud data center simulation platform,the research studies construction technology,which applies to the data center cloud platform and puts forward deployment implementation plan targeted to functional requirements of platform.In this way,the guid-ance role of construction was achieved on the later cloud platform.…”
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Construction mechanism for service path over reconfigurable service-centric network by Dan ZHAO, Feng WEN, Xin XU, Peng WANG, Bo CHEN

“…In order to enhance the flexible and intelligent network's service ability,a novel architecture called recon-figurable service-centric network (ReSCNet) was proposed which decomposed traditional network capabilities and ser-vices into fine-grained network functional unit.Then based on service routing matrix algorithm to orchestrate and deploy atomic service flexibly,a service path was built which possess smaller cost,lower time delay,higher degree of load bal-ance and higher reliability.Finally,the performance of service routing matrix algorithm was evaluated on the innovation experiment platform NetFPGA-10G.The simulation results show that the algorithm has a better performance and can cus-tomize an optimal service path for users while meet the specific functions and performance constraints.…”
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Layer-by-Layer Self-Assembled Graphene Multilayer Films via Covalent Bonds for Supercapacitor Electrodes by Xianbin Liu, Na Wen, Xiaoli Wang, Yuying Zheng

“…With the π-π conjugated structure and a large number of spaces in the framework, the graphene multi‐ layer films exhibited excellent electrochemical perform‐ ance. The uniform ultrathin electrode exhibited a capacitance of 41.71 μF/cm2 at a discharge current of 0.1 μA/cm2, and displayed excellent stability of 88.9 % after 1000 charge-discharge cycles.…”
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Multi-core helper thread prefetching for irregular data intensive applications by Jian-xun ZHANG, Zhi-min GU, Xiao-han HU, Min CAI

“…The experiment results show that helper thread prefetching can improve the perform-ance of irregular applications effectively.…”
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