Use of anti-retroviral therapy in tuberculosis patients on second-line anti-TB regimens: a systematic review. by Matthew Arentz, Patricia Pavlinac, Michael E Kimerling, David J Horne, Dennis Falzon, Holger J Schünemann, Sarah Royce, Keertan Dheda, Judd L Walson, ART study group

“…Second line TB drugs when combined with ART may increase drug interactions and lead to higher rates of toxicity and greater noncompliance. This systematic review sought to determine the benefit of ART in the setting of second line drug therapy for drug resistant TB.…”
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Long-Term Multimodal Exercise Intervention for Patients with Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration: Feasibility and Preliminary Outcomes by Miyuki Nemoto, Kiyotaka Nemoto, Hiroyuki Sasai, Shinji Higashi, Miho Ota, Tetsuaki Arai

“…Feasibility was measured using dropout and attendance rates. Cognitive, psychological, physical, and behavioral function tests were conducted before and after the intervention. …”
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The Impact of Shape and Decoration on User Experience and Visual Attention in Anthropomorphic Robot Design by Tao Song

“…Eighty undergraduate students were divided into four groups, each viewing one of four stimuli: (a) Non-hat and Non-pattern, (b) Hat and Non-pattern, (c) Non-hat and Pattern, and (d) Hat and Pattern. …”
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Joint analysis of Borexino and SNO solar neutrino data and reconstruction of the survival probability by Francesco Vissani

“…Solar neutrino oscillations are supported by KamLAND’s antineutrino measurements, but certain solar neutrino data – the observed shape of the 8B flux and the difference between day and night counting rates measured in Super-K – do not fit well with the ensuing oscillation pattern. …”
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Environmental evolution of coastal regions in northern Beibu Gulf, South China, based on sedimentary elemental records and carbon-nitrogen isotope composition by Jing Guo, Zihan Pan, Xiaomin Yan, Man Wu, Hengtong Qiu, Wanyi Li, Wenlong Huang, Di Wu, Baoming Xue, Zhiming Mo, Guilin Xu

“…Multiple Linear Regression results showed that C and N contents and sedimentation rates were responsible for the variation of carbon burial rates during the past decades. …”
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Trends in cancer incidence and mortality in the process of metropolitanization of Shanghai, 1973–2017 by Jiejie Qin, Jiejie Qin, Jiejie Qin, Jiejie Qin, Mengyin Wu, Shulin Zhao, Shulin Zhao, Shulin Zhao, Kai Gu, Renzhi Cai, Ziwei Tang, Defeng Zhu, Jingyan Tian, Jingyan Tian, Wei Yao, Baiyong Shen, Baiyong Shen, Baiyong Shen, Yan Shi

“…The most common cancer sites diagnosed were lung, colorectal, female breast, and male prostate in Shanghai in 2017, similar to the pattern in high-income countries. Stricter air control strategies, lower divorce rates, healthier lifestyles, and more effective HPV vaccination campaigns may be useful actionable measures of cancer prevention.ConclusionsThe longitudinal cancer data from the real world, which span decades, reported here and Shanghai’s experience in cancer prevention and control can be a reference for government guidelines in preventing population-level cancer incidence during city development.…”
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Improved chaotic fruit fly optimization with elman neural network based data-driven approach on product reviews classification by Mohammed Alghamdi, Najla I. Al-shathry, Yahia Said, Hasan Beyari, Shaymaa Sorour, Khalid Nazim Abdul Sattar, Fouad Shoie Alallah, Abdulrhman Alshareef

“…Customer satisfaction is effectively enhanced by performing a Sentiment Analysis (SA) of many customer ratings on E-commerce platforms. Yet, predicting the correct sentiment difference in customer feedback is challenging due to complicated logic, sequence length, and text pattern adjustments. …”
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Neuroanatomical Insights: Convergence and Divergence of Tinnitus with Normal or Mild Hearing Loss by Xingqian Shen, Jing Li, Hui Pan, Linlin Wang, Yangming Leng, Hongjun Xiao, Bo Liu, Wenliang Fan

“…In addition, we also found a significant correlation between the Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS), the Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS), and Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) scores of patients with idiopathic tinnitus and cortical characteristic parameters in the above brain regions. …”
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Association between cumulative uric acid exposure and metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease by Yunpeng Li, Hong Ji, Fei Tian, Xinyu Ge, Liying Cao, Xiangming Ma

“…Corresponding cumulative incidence rates were 52.20%, 52.49%, 58.29%, and 60.50% respectively. …”
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Dorsal epidural disc migration—MRI characteristics and surgical microdiscectomy treatment: Case report and review of the literature by Antonios Michailidis, MD, Ioannis Tsifountoudis, MD, PhD, Dimitrios Kitridis, MD, FEBOT, MSc, PhDc, Konstantinos Tasoulis, MD, Kostas Charatsis, MD, Giannetopoulos Dimitrios, MD

“…This unusual migration pattern presents unique diagnostic challenges, as it can mimic other serious spinal pathologies such as epidural abscesses, hematomas, and synovial cysts. …”
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ANALYSIS OF THE EFFICIENCY OF CRYOGENIC TREATMENT FOR TONGUE CANCER by T. D. Tabolinovskaya, I. N. Pustynsky

“…The cryogenic treatment results that have no analogues in Russian and foreign practice were analyzed in 121 patients with tongue cancer. The data on survival rates were used to objectively evaluate the efficiency of tongue cancer cryodestruction in accordance with the extent and pattern of a tumor process. …”
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TREATMENT OF IgG4-RELATED DISEASE by E. V. Sokol, V. I. Vasilyev

“…IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is a fibroinflammatory condition characterized by the occurrence of tumor-like foci in different organs with a unique histological pattern (moirо-like fibrosis, obvious lymphoplasmacytic infiltration with large numbers of IgG4+ plasma cells, and obliterating phlebitis) and elevated serum IgG4 levels in the majority of patients. …”
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EARTH SURFACE DEFORMATION OF THE SAKHALIN ISLAND FROM GPS DATA by A. S. Prytkov, N. F. Vasilenko

“…Recently, the seismic activity has been increased in the areas characterized by intensive surface deformation, while the areas of low deformation rates correlate with the zones of weak and sparse seismicity.…”
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Research on hybrid dynamic load balancing algorithm in heterogeneous hierarchical wireless networks by NING Guo-qin1, ZHU Guang-xi1, PENG Lie-xin1, LU Xiao-feng1

“…A hybrid dynamic load balancing algorithm based on the combination of channel borrowing scheme and load transfer scheme was proposed.The hotspot cells can borrow channels from homogeneous cells with light workload in the compact pattern.At the same time,some ongoing calls can be transferred from hotspot cells into the overlapping hetero-geneous cells with light workload according to certain conditions.The number of borrowed channels and transferred on-going calls per load balancing period was computed by the remainder available channels and new calls arrival rates in the hotspot cell.Simulation results show that the proposed hybrid dynamic load balancing algorithm can decrease the block-ing probabilities,dropping probabilities of hotspot cell system and overall heterogeneous system,the channel utilization of overall heterogeneous system is increased accordingly.…”
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Dynamics of mental state and prolactin levels in patients with chronic schizophrenia during aripiprazole therapy by L. N. Gorobets, I. V. Dorovskikh, A. V. Litvinov, V. S. Bulanov, S. K. Gamdullaev, T. A. Pavlova

“…The effectiveness of therapy does not depend on the background values of the hormone: at high rates, prolactin levels decrease, and at low rates, they increase. …”
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A Concept-Value Network as a Brain Model by Kieran Greer

“…With this idea, the actual length of the connection is important, because it is related to firing rates and neuron synchronization, but the signal type is less important. …”
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Microfluidic flow-cell with passive flow control for microscopy applications. by Nicholas A W Bell, Justin E Molloy

“…Our approach allows simple sequential sample exchange with controlled flow rates, sub-5 μL sample chamber size and zero dead volume. …”
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Nasal carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in healthcare workers at Banadir Hospital, Mogadishu, Somalia by Abdullah Dahir H. Aweis, Abdullah Dahir H. Aweis, Abdullah Dahir H. Aweis, Hassan Ga’al, Daud M. Ishaq Aweis, Gallad Dahir Hassan

“…A total of 27 (23.70%) MRSA cases were isolated and were susceptible to vancomycin and linezolid.ConclusionSome hospital locations had higher MRSA prevalence, with the postnatal care, neonatal ICU, and isolation wards having the highest isolation rates.…”
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Post-marketing safety concerns with dolutegravir: a pharmacovigilance study based on the FDA adverse event reporting system database by Juan Su, Long He, Menglei Wang

“…Notably, subgroup analyses revealed that progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (n = 9) in males, progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (n = 6) and deafness neurosensory (n = 3) in the 18–45 age group, and hepatic necrosis (n = 4) in the 46–65 age group were rated as high clinical priority. The overall onset time for all AEs exhibited an early failure pattern, with a median onset time of 74 days (IQR 19–310.5), whereas the median onset time for designated medical events (DMEs) was 59 days (IQR 12–186).ConclusionThe long-term safety of DTG requires reassessing its risk-benefit ratio. …”
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Associated Determinants of Surface Urban Heat Islands across 1449 Cities in China by Yuanzheng Li, Lan Wang, Min Liu, Guosong Zhao, Tian He, Qizheng Mao

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