Antimicrobial resistance profile and molecular characterization of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus isolates in Tripoli Central Hospital, Libya by S Aetrugh, M Aboshkiwa, W Husien, M Erhuma, M Corrente, E Grandolfo, M Ellabib, T Emahbes, M Mustafa

“…Conclusion: Hospital-acquired MRSA and MRCNS isolates had higher resistance rates to non-beta lactam antimicrobial drugs than the respective community-acquired isolates. …”
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A Review on Biomechanics of Anterior Cruciate Ligament and Materials for Reconstruction by M. Marieswaran, Ishita Jain, Bhavuk Garg, Vijay Sharma, Dinesh Kalyanasundaram

“…The key conclusions of this review are as follows: (a) the highest shear forces on the anterior cruciate ligament occur during hyperextension/low flexion angles of the knee joint; (b) the characterization of the anterior cruciate ligament at variable strain rates is critical to model a viscoelastic behavior; however, studies on human anterior cruciate ligament on variable strain rates are yet to be reported; (c) a significant disparity on maximum stress/strain pattern of the anterior cruciate ligament was observed in the earlier works; (d) nearly all synthetic grafts have been recalled from the market; and (e) bridge-enhanced repair developed by Murray is a promising technique for anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, currently in clinical trials. …”
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Clinical and brain functional correlates of instrumental rigidity measurement in Parkinson’s disease by Yoshikazu Nakano, Shigeki Hirano, Mitsuyoshi Tamura, Yume Koizumi, Yoshihisa Kitayama, Michiko Izumi, Masahide Suzuki, Kosuke Yamagishi, Yutaro Suzuki, Shinobu Ikeda, Ayaka Arase, Tatsuya Yamamoto, Yoshitaka Yamanaka, Atsuhiko Sugiyama, Kazumoto Shibuya, Takuro Horikoshi, Takashi Uno, David Eidelberg, Satoshi Kuwabara

“…Twentynine patients underwent brain perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), and expression of PD-related covariance pattern (PDRP) was computed. Bias difference and elastic coefficient showed positive correlations with physician-rated rigidity (P < 0.002). …”
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Assessing Patients with Chronic Pain Using the Basic Personality Inventory as a Complement to the Multidimensional Pain Inventory by Howard J Burton, Stephen A Kline, Robin Hargadon, Barry S Cooper, Roger D Shick, May C Ong-Lam

“…It was anticipated that this pattern would be independent of sex. In addition, validity of the BPI as a measure of psychological distress among patients with pain was examined using psychiatric diagnostic ratings as independent criteria.…”
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Energetics of Eddy–Mean Flow Interaction in the Kuroshio Current Region by Yang Wu, Dalei Qiao, Chengyan Liu, Liangjun Yan, Kechen Liu, Jiangchao Qian, Qing Qin, Jianfen Wei, Heyou Chang, Kai Zhou, Zhengdong Qi, Xiaorui Zhu, Jing Li, Yuzhou Zhang, Hongtao Guo

“…The cross-stream variation is found in the energy conversion pattern in the along-coast region, whereas a mixed positive–negative conversion pattern is observed in the off-coast region. …”
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REGULARITIES OF FORMATION OF FLOW OF COOLANT BEHIND THE TVS-KVADRAT MIXING SPACING GRID OF THE PWR-TYPE REACTOR by S. M. Dmitriev, D. V. Doronkov, M. A. Legchanov, V. D. Sorokin, A. E. Khrobostov

“…During the studies of the local fluid dynamics of the coolant, the transverse flow rates were measured; also, the coolant flow rates were measured by cells of the TVS-Kvadrat experimental model. …”
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The impact of spatial placement on valence judgments of images: a comparative analysis between right-handed and left-handed individuals by Maisto Marta, Actis-Grosso Rossana

“…Thirty participants (15 right-handed, 15 left-handed) rated neutral images displayed in the center, right, or left visual field using a 9-point Likert scale. …”
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Respiratory Support with Limited Tidal Volume and Peak Pressure in Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome by A. V. Vlasenko, D. A. Ostapchenko, G. N. Meshcheryakov, P. Yu. Osipov

“…The paper presents the results of a study, which prove the advantages of artificial ventilation with a descending air flow on inspiration, tidal volume 6 ml/kg body weight; P peak &lt; 30 cm H2O in showing its efficiency, by optimizing the parameters of the respiratory pattern, by improving gas exchange in the lung, by reducing the time of respiratory support, the length of stay in an intensive care unit, and mortality rates as compared with artificial square-wave air flow on inspiration, TV 12—15 ml/kg body weight; Ppeak tracheal &gt;35 cm H2°.…”
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Paclitaxel resistance development is associated with biphasic changes in reactive oxygen species, mitochondrial membrane potential and autophagy with elevated energy production cap... by Satabdi Datta, Diptiman Choudhury, Amlan Das, Dipanwita Das Mukherjee, Nabanita Das, Sib Sankar Roy, Gopal Chakrabarti

“…Increase in extracellular acidification rates and oxygen consumption rates was found to be directly correlated with acquisition of resistance. …”
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Path to full immunisation coverage, role of each vaccine and their importance in the immunisation programme: a cross-sectional analytical study of India by Gunjan Taneja, Pawan Kumar, Disha Agarwal, Ajay Kumar Verma, Pritu Dhalaria, Sanjay Kapur, Ajeet Kumar Singh, Bhupendra Tripathi

“…The prevalence of absolute zero-dose children, antigen-wise zero dose, co-coverage rates and cascade levels for vaccine combinations are assessed. …”
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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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Advance, steadfast, retreat? Growth and establishment of white spruce seedlings at treelines in Alaska by Andreas Burger, Mario Trouillier, Martin Wilmking

“…In contrast, high seedling densities and growth rates at the cold treeline and cold forest indicate favorable conditions for seedling establishment and densification. …”
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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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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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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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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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