Late Metastatic Melanoma after 25 Years: A Case Report and a Brief Literature Review by Elena Pescarini, Gabriela Spanikova, Zacharia Mbaidjol, Eleonora De Antoni, Vincenzo Vindigni, Franco Bassetto

“…The incidence of cutaneous malignant melanoma has shown a drastic increase over recent decades, and approximately 70% of newly diagnosed melanoma are tumors with a Breslow thickness less or equal to 1 mm. In the literature, there are well-documented rare cases of late metastasis of thin melanoma, and given their growing incidence, it is expected in the future to see more cases of late recurrence. …”
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Effects of local infiltration of analgesia and tranexamic acid in total knee replacements: safety and efficacy in reducing blood loss and comparability to intra-articular tranexami... by Harish Sivasubramanian, Cheryl Marise Peilin Tan, Lushun Wang

“…Conclusion: Our study showed that both IA and PA TXA with analgesic components were equally efficient in reducing blood loss and improving immediate postoperative pain relief and functional outcomes.…”
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Antifibrotic Effect of Lactulose on a Methotrexate-Induced Liver Injury Model by Banu Taskin, Mümin Alper Erdoğan, Gürkan Yiğittürk, Damla Günenç, Oytun Erbaş

“…Eight rats were given no drugs. 16 MTX-given rats were divided into two equal groups. Group 1 subjects were given lactulose 5 g/kg/day, and group 2 subjects were given saline 1 ml/kg/day for 10 days. …”
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A Comparative Study Evaluated the Performance of Two-class Classification Algorithms in Machine Learning by Shilan Abdullah Hassan, Maha Sabah Saeed

“…In this study, 1026 patients, both men and women, are almost equally affected by CVDs. While heart attacks and strokes remain among the leading causes of mortality worldwide, the use of machine learning for predicting heart disease could potentially prevent premature deaths. …”
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Change of Structural and Adsorption Properties Due to Isomorphous Substitution in Hydrotalcite-like Materials by Gamal M.S. El Shafei

“…On maintaining the M 2+ /M 3+ ratio equal to three, it was possible to effect isomorphous substitution. …”
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An Accurate Estimation of the Eigenfrequency of an Offshore Wind Turbine Considered as the Stepped Euler-Bernoulli Beam in Three-Spring Flexible Foundation Using the Power Series M... by Mouafo Teifouet Armand Robinson, Zhenyu Wang

“…Frequencies produced in case 3 are the most accurate as the relative error is up to 0.01%, especially for the OWT with thicknesses higher or equal to 15 mm. This case appears to be more realistic as, practically, wall thickness of a wind tower varies with its height. …”
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Comparative Study on the Field- and Lab-Based Soil-Water Characteristic Curves for Expansive Soils by Bakht Zamin, Hassan Nasir, Muhammad Ali Sikandar, Waqas Ahmad, Beenish Jehan Khan, Mahmood Ahmad, Muhammad Tariq Bashir

“…I Khan’s soil showed the least suction equal to 595 kPa. The comparison of field and lab SWCCs for the potential sites presented a close agreement in the matric suction values beyond the air entry values (AEVs), particularly in the residual suction zones. …”
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Exploring Advances in Natural Plant Molecules for Allergic Rhinitis Immunomodulation in Vivo and in Vitro by Li B, Dong B, Xie L, Li Y

“…Bingquan Li,1,* Boyang Dong,1,* Liangzhen Xie,2 Yan Li2 1Graduate School, Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, Harbin, People’s Republic of China; 2Ear-Nose-Throat Department, The First Affiliated Hospital of Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, Harbin, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Liangzhen Xie; Yan Li, Email xieliangzhen888111@163.com; liyan888111@163.comAbstract: Allergic rhinitis (AR) is a prevalent allergic disease that imposes significant economic burdens and life pressures on individuals, families, and society, particularly in the context of accelerating globalization and increasing pathogenic factors. …”
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Towards personalized cardiometabolic risk prediction: A fusion of exposome and AI by Zeinab Shahbazi, Slawomir Nowaczyk

“…Assessments were conducted using both internal and external validation groups from a multi-center cohort, comprising 3,237 individuals diagnosed with CVD in South Korea within twelve years of their baseline visit, along with an equal number of participants without these conditions as a control group. …”
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Adaptive Balancing of Series-Connected SiC MOSFETs Based on Active Clamping and Comparison Circuitry by Shuai Shao, Wentao Cui, Yibo Jiang, Xingyu Pei, Junming Zhang

“…Each SiC MOSFET is paired with an active clamping module (ACM), which comprises an auxiliary switch and a capacitor. Equal voltage distribution across the SiC MOSFETs is achieved by maintaining balance among the voltages of the ACM capacitors. …”
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Impairment in personality functioning predicts young adult suicidal ideation and suicide attempt above and beyond depressive symptoms by Kiran Boone, Kennedy M. Balzen, Carla Sharp

“… Interpersonal factors and depression are believed to be some of the main drivers of suicidal thoughts and behaviors, but other factors may be equally or more important. Drawing on psychodynamic (mentalization) theory, we propose that personality functioning, in particular an incoherent sense of self, may be an important driver of suicidal thoughts and behaviors over and above factors of interpersonal functioning and depression. …”
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A study of psychological violence in intimate partner relationships among university students: a mixed-methods research by Berra Keçeci, Durmuş Ümmet

“…Regarding perceptions of gender roles, two main themes emerged: gender equality and relationship roles. Media interactions yielded three main themes: interaction engagement, social learning effects, and the role of media within relationships. …”
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SCWOMP Recovery Algorithm for 5G MIMO Communication Symbol Detection by Tao Fu, Yanfeng Yu, Cheng Liu

“…An increase in the rate of reduction of the reconstruction probability of the SCWOMP algorithm is significantly lower than that of other algorithms; when sparsity is equal to 70, the reconstruction probability becomes 0, indicating that SCWOMP has a wider reconfigurable range and has a significant performance effect. …”
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TMFN: a text-based multimodal fusion network with multi-scale feature extraction and unsupervised contrastive learning for multimodal sentiment analysis by Junsong Fu, Youjia Fu, Huixia Xue, Zihao Xu

“…However, current approaches treat modalities equally, not maximizing text’s advantages. To solve these problems, we propose a novel method named a text-based multimodal fusion network with multi-scale feature extraction and unsupervised contrastive learning (TMFN). …”
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A decision support system based on classification algorithms for the diagnosis of periodontal disease by Abdulrahman Alshehri, Mohammed Dahman, Mousa Assiri, Abdulkarim Alshehri, Sharifah Alqahtani, Mohammed Shaiban, Bashyer Alqahtani, Sabah Althbyani, Hatem Alhefdi, Khalid Hakami, Abdulbari Ali, Abdullah Saeed

“…Nevertheless, the SVM and decision tree models equally yielded robust results with a balanced generalizability across metrics. …”
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Effect of Aloe vera gel on the parotid glands of streptozotocin-induced diabetic albino rats: histological and immunohistochemical study. by Shukria Mohammed Hussein

“…A total of 40 adult albino rats were divided equally into 4 groups. The groups consist of normal untreated group, normal treated with Aloe vera gel group (300mg/kg/day administered orally once daily for 21 consecutive days), untreated diabetes mellitus group and diabetes mellitus treated with Aloe vera gel (300mg/kg/day administered orally once daily for 21consecutive days). …”
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Optimization of Aqueous Extraction Conditions of Inulin from the Arctium lappa L. Roots Using Ultrasonic Irradiation Frequency by Farzaneh Esmaeili, Mahnaz Hashemiravan, Mohammad Reza Eshaghi, Hassan Gandomi

“…The results demonstrated that the highest inulin efficiency was extracted by water in the conventional method, which is equal to 10.32%. The optimum conditions of ultrasound-assisted water extraction for independent variables including sonication time and temperature as well as solid/water ratio were 36.65 min, 55.48°C, and 1 : 35 g/ml, respectively, which were determined on the maximization of inulin and total phenol content and minimization of IC50. …”
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Improving Super-Resolution in Face Images by Modeling Image Degradation Using Pairs of High-Quality and Low-Quality Images by Ahmad Dolatkhah

“…The obtained results show that the criterion of perceptual similarity of the obtained image is equal to 38.4%, which is comparable to recent researches. …”
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THE U.S. QUEST FOR NEW TECHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF MILITARY SUPERIORITY: DILEMMAS OF THE THIRD OFFSET STRATEGY by V. I. Bartenev

“…However, not all channels of such influence have been examined with equal rigor. Whereas numerous researchers have explored meticulously the impact of technologies on warfare, the issues of using military-technological breakthroughs to achieve political goals have been addressed less frequently. …”
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Unified Compact Formulas of Output Characteristics for External Hydraulic Gear-motors by Liu Ping, Li Yulong, Hou Xinyu, Zhang Lihua

“…The results show that through the interval of the output characteristic meshing-line, the output speed and torque curve can be directly obtained from the speed and torque curve of meshing tooth-profile; under the symmetrical relief-groove type, the average output speed is the smallest, the average torque is the biggest, and the ripple coefficients of the output speed and torque are the smallest; the offset range of the relief-groove and the range of the output speed and torque regulating are larger under small backlash type than large backlash type; with small backlash and symmetrical relief-groove type, the average output speed is smaller, the average output torque is larger, and the ripple coefficient of the output speed and torque is smaller; the torque-ripple coefficient of the gear-motor is completely consistent with the flow-ripple coefficient of the gear-pump; the torque-ripple coefficient is slightly less than the speed-ripple coefficient, and can be approximately equal under the condition of large tooth-number; when high-speed is pursued, the type combination of large backlash and relief groove limit-offset shall be selected; with the pursuit of large torque or high output ripple-quality, the type combination of small backlash and symmetrical relief-groove shall be selected, etc. …”
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