Differences in the inflammatory response and outcome among hospitalized patients during different waves of the COVID-19 pandemic by Violeta Briciu, Violeta Briciu, Daniel-Corneliu Leucuta, Monica Muntean, Monica Muntean, Amanda Radulescu, Amanda Radulescu, Cristina Cismaru, Cristina Cismaru, Adriana Topan, Adriana Topan, Lucia Herbel, Melinda Horvat, Melinda Horvat, Mirela Flonta, Mihai Calin, Roxana Dobrota, Mihaela Lupse, Mihaela Lupse

“…Systemic inflammatory indexes like neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), derived neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (dNLR), lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio (LMR), platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), neutrophil-to-platelet ratio (NPR), Systemic Immune-Inflammation Index (SII), and systemic inflammation response index (SIRI) were calculated.ResultsThe Delta wave, characterized by the longest hospitalizations and the highest rates of severe cases and mortality, showed significant elevations in inflammatory biomarkers. …”
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Assessment of Preserved Ratio Impaired Spirometry (PRISm) Based on Different Definitions in the Early COPD Cohort by Dai C, Tang G, Yang H, Wu F, Deng Z, Zheng Y, Zhao N, Lu L, Wan Q, Wang Z, Peng J, Wu X, Zhou K, Cai G, Xiao S, Wen X, Yang C, Chen S, Yu S, Sun R, Zhou Y, Ran P

“…Furthermore, the prevalence of PRISm varied from 2.0% to 12.5% depending on the definitions and predicted equations, with the Chinese equation, LLN definition in Chinese equation and fixed definition in GLI equation yielding higher prevalence rates.Conclusion: Our findings highlight concerns about the comparability of studies and the interchangeability of various definitions and reference equations for PRISm.Keywords: PRISm, definitions, clinical features, prevalence, reference equations…”
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Tratamento de sequelas de queimadura de face com laser de CO2 fracionado em pacientes com fototipos III a VI Treatment of facial burn sequelae using fractional CO2 lasers in patien... by Alessandra Grassi Salles, Adelina Fátima do Nascimento Remigio, Valéria Berton Liguori Zacchi, Marcus Castro Ferreira

“…CONCLUSIONS: The treatment with CO2F laser with mild parameters was well tolerated and resulted in high satisfaction rates for patients with facial burn sequelae as well as improved skin texture, distensibility, and surface irregularities. …”
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Investigation of Population Changes and Determination of the Bean Pod Borer Helicoverpa armigera (Lepidoptera:Noctuidae) Peak in Bean Phaseolus vulgaris Linnaeus Fields by Pheromon... by Sedighe Ashtari

“…The investigation of the distribution and damage level of bean pod borer in important bean-growing areas of Markazi province over two years in five bean-growing regions (Arak, Khomain, Shazand, Milajerd, and Khondab) showed that Khomain and Khondab had the highest and lowest infestation rates, respectively. Red pods showed more sensitivity to this pest compared to green and white pods. …”
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Renal prognostic value of serum monoclonal immunoglobulin in cryoglobulinemic glomerulonephritis by Lei Ma, Yuanyuan Xia, Yun Fan, Dan Zhou, Xinchen Yao, Yongzhong Zhong, Fan Yang, Feng Xu, Shaoshan Liang, Yujie Wang, Xiaodong Zhu, Dacheng Chen, Rong Tan, Zhengyun Zhu, Dandan Liang, Caihong Zeng

“…The MIg group had significantly lower eGFR levels, higher cryoglobulin levels, and higher rates of abnormal serum-free light chain ratios than the MIg/HBV/HCV negative group. …”
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Classification of finger movements through optimal EEG channel and feature selection by Murside Degirmenci, Yilmaz Kemal Yuce, Matjaž Perc, Matjaž Perc, Matjaž Perc, Matjaž Perc, Matjaž Perc, Yalcin Isler

“…This study design may result in an increasing number of false positives and a significant decrease in the prediction rates and classification performance. Moreover, recent studies have focused on improving prediction performance using complex feature extraction and machine learning algorithms while ignoring comprehensive EEG channels and feature investigation in the prediction of finger movements from EEGs. …”
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Analysis of the Contextual Factors Influencing the Expansion of Construction Violations with an Emphasis on the Role and Position of Key Urban Stakeholders (Case Study: Isfahan Met... by Ahmad Shahivandi, Afsaneh Talebi Varnosfaderani

“…Additionally, natural population growth—encompassing births, improvements in healthcare, and reduced mortality rates—had a factor loading of 0.74, further impacting the urbanization process. …”
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Calculation Model of Multi-roll Straightening Process Based on Bilinear Hardening and Power Hardening by ZHU Xiaoyu, CHENG Zixing, WANG Xiaogang, HAN Peisheng

“…To evaluate the applicability of different material models, five straightening schemes were designed, corresponding to plasticity rates of 33.4%, 50.0%, 66.7%, 75.0%, and 80.0%. The influence of various hardening coefficients on curvature and plasticity during straightening was investigated. …”
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Dependence of Indicators of Daily Blood Pressure Monitoring on Activity of Pathological Process in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus by Abrahamovych O., Abrahamovych U., Kushyna A., Guta S., Synenkyi O.

“…According to the first goal was rated the BP in the SLE patients during the period of 24 hours, for which: a) were examined the average daily, maximum and minimum levels of systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), the average blood pressure; b) was analysed the daily index (DI) of SBP, DBP and the average blood pressure; c) was examined the time index (TI) of SBP, DBP and the average blood pressure. …”
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Crosstalk between delayed and immediate subjective evaluation tasks by Guangqi Niu, Johan Lauwereyns

“…To investigate potential influences across subjective evaluations, the present study employed a dual-task paradigm in which an immediate rating task was embedded in a delayed choice task. …”
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Reduced threat-safety discrimination and generally enhanced generalization responses in adversity exposed youth with emerging psychiatric symptoms by Zhiling Qiao, Celine Samaey, Lise Jennen, Victor Mazereel, Davy Vancampfort, Bart Boets, Ruud van Winkel

“…Contrary to our hypothesis, this effect was driven by their enhanced risk ratings for the safety cue rather than blunted responses to the danger cue. …”
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Analysis of complex chromosomal structural variants through optical genome mapping integrated with karyotyping by Xiaoxi Zhu, Huiling Zheng, Xue Wan, Hang Duan, Ying Qi, Weijia Tang, Fan Yang, Fan Yang, Limei Yu, Limei Yu

“…This advancement substantially enhances the diagnostic rates of genetic etiology in patients experiencing RSA. …”
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Screening for psychosocial distress and depression among cancer patients in a regional cancer centre in Nigeria: a cross-sectional study by Nwosu et al.

“…The predictors of psychosocial distress were the presence of co-morbidities (AOR=2.6; 95%CI: 1.3- 5.1) and good self-rated health status (AOR= 0.2; 95%CI: 0.1-0.3). The predictors of depression were the outpatient setting of care (AOR=0.4; 95%CI: 0.2-0.7) and good self-rated health (AOR= 0.3; 95%CI: 0.2-0.4). …”

Automation of multicriteria ranking of students using ePortfolio by L. A. Ponomareva, O. N. Romashkova, A. N. Belyakova, V. S. Zabolotnikova

“…The authors described the scheme of the information system (IS) operation “ePortfolio”, presented a process interaction pattern for the portfolio formation, as well as a diagram of business processes under calculating an individual rating. …”
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STRAIN LOCALIZATION PECULIARITIES AND DISTRIBUTION OF ACOUSTIC EMISSION SOURCES IN ROCK SAMPLES TESTED BY UNIAXIAL COMPRESSION AND EXPOSED TO ELECTRIC PULSES by V. A. Mubassarova, L. M. Bogomolov, A. S. Zakupin, I. A. Panteleev, O. B. Naimark

“…It can provide new information on properties of acoustic emission and deformation responses of loaded rock specimens to external electric pulses.The research task also included verification of reproducibility of the effect (AE activity) when fracturing rates responded to electrical pulses, which was revealed earlier in studies conducted at RS RAS. …”
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Pain chronobiology in clinical trial participants with fibromyalgia: a comparison with neuropathic pain by Ryan Navarro, Wilma Hopman, Ian Gilron

“…In these trials, pain intensity (0–10 scale) was rated at 8:00 am and 8:00 pm during a 7-day pretrial baseline period and throughout each trial. …”
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Finger drawing on smartphone screens enables early Parkinson's disease detection through hybrid 1D-CNN and BiGRU deep learning architecture. by Zhaohui Zhu, E Wu, Pengfei Leng, Jiajun Sun, Mingming Ma, Zhigeng Pan

“…Our hybrid model combined multi-scale convolutional feature extraction (using parallel 1D-Convolutional branches) with bidirectional temporal pattern recognition (via gated recurrent unit [GRU] networks) to analyze movement abnormalities and detect the disease.…”
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Assessing aesthetic impressions with pictorial measures: A novel approach in empirical aesthetics by Ivan Z. Stojilović

“…Findings revealed that the size of marked regions modestly predicted ratings on Interestingness and Comprehensibility scales, though the explained variance was limited. …”
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Risk of developing drug abuse in administration of a new hexaazaisowurtzitane derivative-based analgesic (experimental study) by S. G. Krylova, T. N. Pove’teva, K. A. Lopatina, Yu. V. Nesterova, E. P. Zueva, O. G. Afanas’eva, P. V. Kulpin, E. A. Kiseleva, N. I. Suslov, D. A. Kulagina, S. V. Sysolyatin, V. V. Zhdanov

“…Previous in vivo and in silico studies (docking, molecular modeling, molecular dynamics simulation) on the multi-target mechanism of thiowurtzine explain the absence of its morphine-like effect by the fact that the major targets of the analgesic are TRPA1 receptors and voltage-gated Ca 2+ channels. With a high degree of probability, the conclusions made herein predict no drug abuse development when thiowurtzine is used in the clinical setting. …”
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Optimizing security and energy efficiency in IoT-Based health monitoring systems for wireless body area networks by Mohammed Naif Alatawi

“…Additionally, a trust aggregation engine is implemented to quantify the trustworthiness of nodes using both global and local ratings. The healthcare provider assigns global ratings, while local ratings are crowdsourced from remote users or monitoring agents. …”
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