Improved productivity of seawater desalination systems through humidification–dehumidification process integrated with renewable and fogging technologies in a lowest cost by Ibrahim Nabil, Mohamed M. Khairat Dawood, Tamer M. Mansour, Ali I. Shehata, Abdalla M. Abdalla

“…An experimental study investigated how operational factors like the mass flow rate ratio, feed water temperature, feed water salinity, cooling water temperature, and nozzle orifice diameter affected the salinity of the produced water, freshwater productivity, and GOR. …”
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Anthropogenic Drivers of Small-Island Effects in Urban Remnant Woody Plants by Di Kong, Kai Wang, Lin Dong, Jinming Yang, Zhiwen Gao, Hong Liang

“…The positive relationship between species richness and area is a fundamental principle in ecology. However, this pattern deviates on small islands, where species richness either changes independently of area or increases at a slower rate—a phenomenon known as the Small-Island Effect (SIE). …”
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Mortalin overexpression predicts poor prognosis in early stage of non–small cell lung cancer by Jie Sun, Shuan-Long Che, Jun-Jie Piao, Ming Xu, Li-Yan Chen, Zhen-Hua Lin

“…Our studies suggested that Mortalin exhibited a primarily cytoplasmic staining pattern in the non–small cell lung cancers. The rate of strongly positive Mortalin expression was higher in the non–small cell lung cancer samples than in the adjacent non-tumor samples or in normal lung tissues. …”
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Residential status and health in middle and late life: a population-based study with new data from Spain by Miguel Requena, David Reher

“…A 10% random sample of the Spanish population, including 2 054 427 person years and 28 736 deaths, is used.Main outcome measure Registered deaths in the 2012 Spanish vital statistics.Methods Using a new data set based on linked administrative registers, we estimate unadjusted and adjusted mortality rates by coresidential situation. Differential mortality is measured by rate ratios (RR) estimated with Poisson regression. …”
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Impact of Caspase3/GSDME-Mediated Pyroptosis on Tumor Immune Microenvironment and Clinical Prognosis Across Multiple Cancers by Huang Y, Liu J, Lin C, Zhu Q, Wu L

“…Its uncontrolled growth pattern and metastasis characteristics are the fundamental reasons for the high mortality rate of cancer and its current incurability. …”
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Enhanced antibacterial and catalytic potential of L-Aspartic acid capped silver nanoparticles by Biswaprakash Sarangi, Shashikanta Behera, Sridhar Parida, Soumyaranjan Senapati, Niranjan Tripathy, Sneha Prabha Mishra

“…Furthermore, the as-synthesized Ag NPs demonstrated excellent catalytic reduction abilities against MB, MO, and 4-NP pollutants in the presence of sodium borohydride, achieving rate constants of 2.267 × 10−1, 1.331 × 10−1, and 1.828 × 10−1 min−1, respectively. …”
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Effect of Skin Protectants on the Total Inward Leakage of N95 Respirators: Testing with an Advanced Static Headform by Xinyi Niu, Sergey A. Grinshpun, Michael Yermakov, Roman Jandarov, Iliya Rivkin

“…This investigation deployed a standardized protocol that utilized the NIOSH advanced static manikin headform connected to a Breathing Recording and Simulation System (BRSS), producing a predetermined breathing pattern. The effect of skin protectants on the total inward leakage (TIL) was evaluated for three N95 FFR models, five different skin protectants, and two breathing flow rates. …”
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Evaluation of the combined effect of aripiprazole and sertraline in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder in adolescents by Fatemeh Assarian, Reza Safaei, Fatemeh Sadat Ghoreishi, Habibollah Rahimi

“…The results for obsessive thoughts followed a similar pattern, while a significant difference was observed between the two groups for compulsive behaviors. …”
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Spinal Surgery During COVID-19 Pandemic in Saudi Arabia by Faisal Konbaz, Taif Alqahtani, Nada Alharthi, Mohammad Baraja, Nazish Masud, Sami Aleissa, Fahad Alhelal, Majed Abalkhail

“…Postoperative complications were found in 11% of the patients. The readmission rate within 30 days, unplanned return to OR and ICU admission were 19%, 13%, and 11%, respectively. …”
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IMPAIRED REGULATORY MECHANISMS OF THE mTOR SIGNALING PATHWAY IN OSTEOARTHROSIS by Elena Vasilyevna Chetina, E A Bratygina, E M Zaitseva, E P Sharapova, A L Alekseyeva, N V Demin, S A Makarov

“…Objective: to study the pattern of impaired regulatory mechanisms of the mammalian target of rapamycin (TOR) signaling pathway, by monitoring gene expression in the blood of patients with osteoarthrosis (OA) at different stages of the disease. …”
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Antibacterial therapy for Lyme disease in children by S.O. Nykytyuk, S.S. Levenets, T.V. Hariyan, I.P. Mironets, A.S. Sverstiuk

“…The incidence rate in Ternopil region significantly exceeds the national average — 28.7 versus 13.25 per 100,000 population. …”
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Etiology, antibiotic susceptibility and prognostic factors of pediatric community-acquired sepsis in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Abel Abera Negash, Daniel Asrat, Workeabeba Abebe, Tewodros Hailemariam, Andualem Wubete, Abraham Aseffa, Mario Vaneechoutte

“…We sought to determine the etiology, role of Streptococcus pneumoniae, antibiotic susceptibility pattern, and prognostic factors in children with CAS in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. …”
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Ice and snow thickness of the IGAN Glacier in the Polar Urals from ground-based radio-echo sounding 2019 and 2021 by I. I. Lavrentiev, G. A. Nosenko, A. F. Glazovsky, A. N. Shein, M. N. Ivanov, Ya. K. Leopold

“…The glacier has lost about 3.2 × 106 m3 of ice per last decade, if the rate of loss continues, it may disappear in 40–50 years. …”
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Nonlinear association between AST/ALT ratio and 28-day all-cause mortality following ICU admission in critically ill cirrhotic patients: a retrospective cohort study by Zhigang Xu, Baohong Xu

“…Results The study involved 2,090 critically ill liver cirrhosis patients, averaging 59.1 years old, with 65% male and a 28-day post-ICU admission mortality rate of 29%. The AST/ALT ratio was linked to mortality risk (adjusted odds ratio (OR) 1.1, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.0–1.2; p = 0.015), showing a nonlinear pattern with a critical point at 3.6. …”
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Spatiotemporal distribution and ecological factors of disease burden in Inner Mongolia’s working age population with brucellosis from 2015 to 2020 by Lei Yu, Huiqiu Zheng, Yanling Wang, Xinyan Wang, Xuemei Wang

“…Spatiotemporal Bayesian modeling was utilized; thus, the spatiotemporal variation pattern of disease burden of brucellosis was analyzed. …”
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Interleukin-27 ameliorates coxsackievirus-B3-induced viral myocarditis by inhibiting Th17 cells by Hengshan Zhu, Chuang Lou, Ping Liu

“…However, the expression pattern and functional role of IL-27 in viral myocarditis (VMC) has not been investigated. …”
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On the Performance of a Miniaturized Reactive Loaded Monopole Antenna for Ex Vivo Catheter Applications by Debarati Ganguly, Jogesh Chandra Dash, Debdeep Sarkar

“…Further, the in-phantom Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) values for both antennas are evaluated using simulation and verified with the measured SAR values such as 22 W/kg and 19.6 W/kg for Design1 and 2 respectively, using an in-house experimental setup. …”
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Advances in application of ultrasound in diagnosis of diabetic nephropathy by GUO Juan, YANG Zhifang, JI Ri

“…As the global incidence rate of diabetes continues to rise, the clinical diagnosis and treatment of DN have become increasingly critical. …”
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Echocardiographic assessment of left atrial structural and functional changes after catheter ablation in paroxysmal atrial fibrillation with preserved ejection fraction by Qi Zhang, Nan Nan Liu, Jing Shu Sun, Zu Lu Wang, Ming Liang, Gui Shen Li, Mei Yi Wang

“…After catheter ablation, LA reverse remodeling exhibits a pattern of “functional recovery preceding structural recovery”. …”
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Sexually transmitted infections among patients attending the General Practice Clinic, Wesley Guild Hospital, Ilesa, Nigeria by S.S. Olakolu, E.A. Abioye Kuteyi, O.O. Oyegbade

“…The aim of this study was to describe the pattern of STIs among patients attending a Nigerian general practice (GP) clinic. …”
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