Evaluation of Cerebrospinal Fluid Pressure by a Formula and Its Role in the Pathogenesis of Glaucoma by Laura Landi, Federica Casciaro, Serena Telani, Carlo E. Traverso, Alon Harris, Alice C. Verticchio Vercellin, Lauren Saint, Michele Iester

“…Weight and height were measured to calculate body mass index (BMI), along with blood pressure, heart rate, visual acuity, and IOP. Biometrics exam, corneal pachymetry, peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness, and macular thickness were assessed. …”
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Vegetation Quality Assessment of the Shaanxi Section of the Yellow River Basin Based on NDVI and Rain-Use Efficiency by Zhao Liu, Danyue Wang, Lei Han, Hongliang Kang, Xinxin Cao

“…The results show the following: (1) The precipitation in the study area showed a spatial distribution pattern of more in the south and less in the north, in which Yulin City had the lowest precipitation overall, but it was an area with significant increasing precipitation. (2) The NDVI value of the Shaanxi section of the Yellow River Basin showed an overall upward trend from 2000 to 2019, with a growth rate of 0.327/10a. …”
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P-14 DETECTION OF CIRRHOSIS DUE TO ALPHA-1 ANTITRYPSIN DEFICIENCY IN ADULTS: PHENOTYPE STUDY IN COSTA RICA by Fernanda Vásquez Carit, Francisco Hevia Urrutia, Jorge Vargas Madrigal, Mildred Jiménez Hernández, Natassia Camacho Matamoros, Danny Alvarado Romero, Jorge Herrera Corrales

“…Conclusions: A1AT quantification has a 20% false-negative rate, so phenotype testing is recommended when there is suspicion. …”
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A descriptive retrospective study on children with newly diagnosed nephrotic syndrome presented to Tripoli Children Hospital during the period between Jan. to Dec. 2014 by N R Rhuma, A S El Boeshi, L T Sabei, A M Kara

“…Other factors studied seems to have no effect on the relapse rate of children with newly diagnosed NS.…”
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Causes of Neonatal Re-admission in 24 hours after Cesarean Section by Hayder Abdulsalam Alnakkash, Raid Mohammed Ridha Umran, Alaa Jumaah Manji Nasrawi

“…Results: Sixteen patients out of 33 readmitted neonates were male. the rate of neonatal readmission was 1.34%. Their average birth weight and gestational age were 2918.2 ± 619.2 gm and 36.8 ± 21.72 weeks respectively. …”
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Experimental study on nonlinear hygroscopic and strength behavior of mudstone under coupled temperature and humidity conditions for underground engineering by Weisheng Zhao, Lijun Han, Shuai Yan, Wei He

“…The results indicated that the equilibrium water content (EWC) exhibited a three-stage growth pattern with increasing humidity: rapid growth (0‒20% RH), slow growth (20‒60% RH), and accelerated growth (60‒100% RH), whereas it decreased with increasing temperature, although the rate of decrease slowed progressively. …”
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Elderly patients undergoing laparoscopic radical cystectomy benefit from dynamic D-dimer measurement in combination with vascular ultrasonography: reduction of VTE risk and improve... by Wenbo Gao, Haihong Ye, Yangkai Xu

“…The incidence of VTE event, major postoperative complications, major bleeding rate, and evaluation of activities of daily living within 30 days postoperatively were compared.ResultsThe preoperative and intraoperative parameters were similar between the two groups. …”
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Woody Species Composition, Structure, and Status of Regeneration in Pugnido Forest, Gambella Region, Western Ethiopia by Getinet Masresha, Yirgalem Melkamu, Getachew Mulu

“…However, forest resources are degrading at an alarming rate due to different anthropogenic factors. Pugnido Forest, which is among Ethiopia’s greatest woodland sections, also faced a similar challenge. …”
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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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Pneumothorax in a patient with pneumonia caused by SARS-CoV-2: A case report by Novković Ljiljana, Čekerevac Ivan

“…Immediately, nasal oxygen therapy with a flow rate of 8 L/min, with chloroquine phosphate, antibiotics, and symptomatic treatment, was initiated. …”
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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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The effectiveness of automatic laparoscopic diagnostics of liver pathology using different methods of digital images classification by D. N. Bayazitov, N. V. Kresyun, А. B. Buzinovsky

“…Hence developed AdaBoost based CAD system achieved 69.0 % correct classification rate (accuracy) for cirrhotic and 92.7 % for metastatic images. …”
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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

“…Repeated measures ANOVA revealed a significant reduction in total Y-BOCS scores in both groups (P<0.001, F=193.53). Additionally, the rate of score reduction over time was greater in the intervention group (aripiprazole + sertraline) (P<0.001, F=37.92). …”
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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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Vegetable Production in Changing Climate Scenario: Challenges and Mitigation by Prabal Thakur, ML Bhardwaj, Ramesh K Bhardwaj, Ashok K Thakur, Amit Vikram

“…People in high-income countries with higher carbon emission rate can buy organic products to promote such practices. …”
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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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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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