Experience with Early Enteral Feeding in a Patient with Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation by V. V. Lomivorotov, S. M Yefremov, A. V. Bogachev, I. A. Kornilov

“…In addition, an inverse correlation was found between the serum concentration of lactate and the daily volume of diuresis. The rate of hourly diuresis had a direct correlation with respiratory index and an inverse correlation with oxygenation index. …”
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The 2015 guidelines for the laboratory diagnosis of rheumatic diseases by the All-Russian Public Organization «Association of Rheumatology of Russia» by E. N. Aleksandrova, A. A. Novikov, E. L. Nasonov

“…The important laboratory markers of RDs are acutephase indicators (erythrocyte sedimentation rate, C-reactive protein, etc.) that can assess the inflammatory activity of the disease, its progression pattern, and prognosis during the chronic inflammatory process, as well as therapeutic efficiency. …”
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An analysis of spatial distribution characteristics and driving factors of traditional villages in the Loess Plateau. by Xiaobin Bao, Yingna Yang, Jianqing Qi, Yanbing He

“…Among them, the density of cultural heritage sites (q = 0.546) is the primary driving factor, followed by annual precipitation (q = 0.458), population size (q = 0.457), and urbanization rate (q = 0.354). The interaction between factors is significant and mostly shows non-linear enhancement, for instance, the interactive explanatory power of population size and the density of cultural heritage sites is as high as 0.852.…”
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Reversible Adversarial Examples with Minimalist Evolution for Recognition Control in Computer Vision by Shilong Yang, Lu Leng, Ching-Chun Chang, Chin-Chen Chang

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Automatic Detection of Concrete Spalling Using Piecewise Linear Stochastic Gradient Descent Logistic Regression and Image Texture Analysis by Nhat-Duc Hoang, Quoc-Lam Nguyen, Xuan-Linh Tran

“…This improvement can enhance the capability of logistic regression in dealing with spall detection as a complex pattern classification problem. Experiments with 1240 collected image samples show that PL-SGDLR can help to deliver a good detection accuracy (classification accuracy rate = 90.24%). …”
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Association between Severity of Anemia and Maternal Factors During Pregnancy in Maternity Teaching Hospital/Erbil City by Hamdia Mirkhan Ahmed, Warda Hassan AboaAllah, Awaz Aziz Saeed

“…Recommendations: Work to increase the awareness programs to reduce the incidence of anemia during pregnancy Further studies have to done with more sample size because anemia during pregnancy is critical condition especially in case of severe anemia that increase the rate of morbidity and mortality . …”
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Identification of β-Dystrobrevin as a Direct Target of miR-143: Involvement in Early Stages of Neural Differentiation. by Maria Teresa Quaranta, Isabella Spinello, Rosa Paolillo, Gianfranco Macchia, Alessandra Boe, Marina Ceccarini, Catherine Labbaye, Pompeo Macioce

“…We also found that β-dystrobrevin pattern is delayed under hypoxic conditions, together with a delay in the differentiation and an increase in the proliferation rate of cells. …”
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Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever in Jepara, Indonesia: Ecological and spatial study based on Environment Parameters by Salsabila Zidny, Martini Martini, Wurjanto Muhammad Arie, Hestiningsih Retno, Yuliawati Sri

“…Kedung Village in Jepara Regency stands as one of the areas with the 3rd highest Incidence Rate of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF). Contributing factors to the surge in DHF cases include physical environment factors, population density, and vector breeding sites. …”
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Possibilities for the early detection of hypertensive disease in pregnant women by Ye. B. Savinova, L. A. Sokolova, S. V. Serdyukov, Ye. L. Nezhentseva

“…There was a considerable spread of risk factors for AH in this patient group. 26 % of them were found to have lesions of target organs (heart and/or arterial vessels); the rate of microalbuminuria registration was 41 %.Conclusion. …”
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Dynamic Micro-Vibration Monitoring Based on Fractional Optical Vortex by Fucheng Zou, Dechun Liu, Le Wang, Shengmei Zhao, Jialong Zhu

“…We systematically investigate the effects of TC, CCD frame rate, and interference contrast on measurement performance. …”
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Endoscopic assessment of the J pouch in ulcerative colitis: A narrative review by Shintaro Akiyama, Edward L Barnes, Tsubasa Onoda, Naoki Ishikawa, Mamiko Shiroyama, Yuka Ito, David T Rubin, Kiichiro Tsuchiya

“…Up to 50% of patients with ulcerative colitis postoperatively develop pouchitis and the rate of chronic inflammatory pouch conditions requiring pouch excision or diverting ileostomy is reported to be 10%. …”
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Development of a Mobile-Based Application for Classifying Caladium Plants Using the CNN Algorithm by Rudy Chandra, Tegar Arifin Prasetyo, Heni Ernita Lumbangaol, Veny Siahaan, Johan Immanuel Sianipar

“…The best model is found with the parameter epoch 100, learning rate 0.001, and batch size 64. The model is then implemented in a mobile application with two menus, "Take a photo" and "Choose an image," which will display the classification output and confidence values of the four types of Caladiums. …”
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Developing the Language of EFL Students’ Paragraph Writing through Enhanced Readers’ Awareness of Summary and Reading Comprehension Skills by Ali Saleh Mohammad Al-Attas

“…The students’ performances analyzed at comprehension text and pattern of summarization. Results showed that teaching techniques positively impacted students’ comprehension and summarization skills, with an 82% success rate in paragraph writing as a reflection of writing skills. …”
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Numerical Modeling of 3D Flow Field in a Seawater Intake System Study Case: Bandar Abbas Seawater Desalination Plant by Akbar Safarzadeh, Mehdi Shafieefar

“…To accurately simulate turbulent flow with sudden strain rate, separating and circulating zones within the basin, the Reynolds Stress Model (RSM) was used as the turbulence closure model. …”
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Reference Signal Design in OFDM ISAC for Long-range and High-speed UAV Detection by Aimin TANG, Shuhan WANG, Wenze QU

“…Then, to address the challenge of high-speed detection, the paper incorporates range-rate into the Chinese Remainder Theorem-based method. …”
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Effective Sectoral Policy and Civil Service (on the Example of the Health Sector) by G. A. Borshevskiy

“…At the same time, we proved that during post-Soviet years did not occur in the real development of healthcare in Russia: the sector entered a protracted crisis and only in the very last period returned to the initial level, but at a very slow rate. We concluded that the healthcare system is currently developing at a faster pace than the civil service system that manages it. …”
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Apprehension-Based Training: A Novel Treatment Concept for Anterior Shoulder Dislocation – A Case Report by Alon Rabin, Livneh Noyman, Noa Yaakobi, Efi Kazum

“…Four months after treatment, quality of life and shoulder function remained improved, and the subject reported a reduced rate of ASD. # Discussion Apprehension-based training involving gradual exposure to shoulder instability loads may hold potential for improving the management of patients with ASD. …”
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Clinicopathological profile of anaplastic lymphoma kinase-positive nonsmall cell lung cancer: An Indian perspective by A P Dubey, Nikhil Pathi, Anvesh Rathore, S Viswanath, Abhishek Pathak, Rahul Sud, S K Rai

“…Results: Out of 270 patients of NSCLC, 15 (7.4%) tested positive for ALK-EML4 fusion. Rate of positivity was higher in females (13.7%) than in males (5%). …”
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Cysticercosis in Madagascar by Jean-François Carod, Pierre Dorny

“…A national control program has been developed aiming to decrease the seroprevalence rate from 16 to 10% in 2015. The aim of the country is now to implement a CC control and elimination program. …”
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Novel anti-bacterial activities of β-defensin 1 in human platelets: suppression of pathogen growth and signaling of neutrophil extracellular trap formation. by Bjoern F Kraemer, Robert A Campbell, Hansjörg Schwertz, Mark J Cody, Zechariah Franks, Neal D Tolley, Walter H A Kahr, Stephan Lindemann, Peter Seizer, Christian C Yost, Guy A Zimmerman, Andrew S Weyrich

“…We observed that activated platelets surround Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus), forcing the pathogens into clusters that have a reduced growth rate compared to S. aureus alone. Given the microbicidal activity of β-defensins, we determined whether hBD family members were present in platelets and found mRNA and protein for hBD-1. …”
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