Modeling outbreaks of COVID-19 in China: The impact of vaccination and other control measures on curbing the epidemic by Wenting Zha, Han Ni, Yuxi He, Wentao Kuang, Jin Zhao, Liuyi Fu, Haoyun Dai, Yuan Lv, Nan Zhou, Xuewen Yang

“…Wearing masks and getting vaccinated were the most effective measures among all the prevention and control measures. …”
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Efficacy and safety of a biosimilar laronidase versus the reference laronidase in patients with mucopolysaccharidosis type I by Ali Rabbani, Mohammadreza Alaei, Samaneh Norouzi Asl, Aria Setoodeh, Marjan Shakiba, Shadab Salehpour, Peyman Eshraghi, Omid Salehpour, Araz Sabzvari, Hamidreza Kafi, Ali Jarollahi

“…Among all, nasopharyngitis was the most common reported AE. In conclusion, the biosimilar Laronidase was shown to have a comparable efficacy and safety profile compared with the reference Laronidase. …”
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Electroencephalography-Based Recognition of Low Mental Resilience Using Multi-Condition Decision-Level Fusion Approach by Rumaisa Abu Hasan, Tong Boon Tang, Muhamad Saiful Bahri Yusoff, Syed Saad Azhar Ali

“…Fusion of SVM scores from the eyes-closed, eyes-open and task conditions improved the classification accuracy to more than 85%.Conclusion: The pilot trial reveals the EC as the most promising EEG feature type in assessing mental resilience due to its measure of causality in brain activity, and demonstrates that the fusion of decisions among different mental conditions can help improve the recognition of low mental resilience. …”
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Stage-specific gene pair ratios highlight genes and mechanisms related to presymptomatic and symptomatic Multiple Myeloma by Grigoris Georgiou, George Minadakis, Nestoras Karathanasis, Kyriaki Savva, Efi Athieniti, Marilena M. Bourdakou, George M. Spyrou

“…Background/aim: Multiple Myeloma (MM) is the second most common blood cancer, characterised by the accumulation of malignant plasma cells and the production of large amounts of a monoclonal immunoglobulin protein, in the bone marrow. …”
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Physicochemical and biological characterization of the Roble river, Upper Cauca, western Colombia Caracterización fisicoquímica y biológica del río Roble, Alto Cauca, occidente de... by Carlos A. García-Alzate, Cesar Román-Valencia, Donald C. Taphorn, Melissa I. Gonzalez

“…To determine dial and seasonal differences as well as productivity and the trophic status of the lower Roble river, a tributary of the Vieja and upper Cauca rivers of west Colombia, we sampled phytoplankton, zooplankton, fish and macroinvertebrates and recorded physicochemical variables (dissolved oxygen, percent oxygen saturation, pH, conductivity, relative humidity, environmental, water, maximum and minimum temperatures, width, depth, current velocity, substrate, CO2, COD, BOD, total calcium and magnesium hardness, total, dissolved and suspended solids, alkalinity, acidity, chlorine and turbidity) during the wet and dry seasons. Most physicochemical variables such as relative humidity, dissolved oxygen and percent oxygen saturation showed low coefficients of variation, except for oxygen deficit. …”
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Structural evolution mechanisms and design strategies of layered cathodes for sodium-ion batteries by Li Zhang, Jun Wang, Wenhai Ji, Nuria Tapia-Ruiz, Martin Winter, Jie Li

“…Sodium-ion batteries are one of the most promising energy storage systems but still cannot replace the status of lithium-ion batteries. …”
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MFGaussian: multi-modal data fusion based 3D Gaussian splatting for accurate and robust scene representation by Ran Yang, Yang Liu, Ruofei Zhong, Zhanying Wei, Mengbing Xu, Shuai Liu, Peng Yan

“…Compared to traditional methods, emerging technologies like Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) for novel view synthesis offer more realistic and comprehensive expression capabilities. However, most of these related technologies still rely on traditional methods and require extensive and dense input views, which poses challenges to the reconstruction in the real-world scenarios. …”
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The Use of Tocilizumab in 40 Patients With Polyarticular Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: the Results of a Retrospective Study by Mikhail M. Kostik, Irina A. Chikova, Eugenia A. Isupova, Margarita E. Dubko, Vera V. Masalova, Tatyana S. Likhacheva, Ludmila S. Snegireva, Ekaterina V. Gaidar, Olga V. Kalashnikova, Vyacheslav G. Chasnyk

“…Predictors for achieving inactive disease were the initial (at the onset of tocilizumab therapy) number of peripheral blood leukocytes < 9.0X109/l [relative risk (RR) 1.92; 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.9–4.6)] and the absence of prior biological therapy (RR 1.92, 95% CI 0.9–4.6). The most frequent side effects of tocilizumab therapy were transient hypercholesterolemia (in 13), hypertriglyceridemia (in 4), transient grade II neutropenia (in 1).Conclusion. …”
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Evaluating free-bound polyphenols, flavonoids and antioxidant properties of pigmented maize landraces by Pallabika Gogoi, Paras Sharma, Giridhar Goudar, Anwesha Mahajan, R. Ananthan, Mohar Singh, Anita Kumari, Subhash Kalpuri, T. Longvah

“…A total of 19 individual polyphenols were analyzed, which were observed in most of the pigmented maize. The white maize depicted comparatively higher phenolics, and all the maize showed higher in-vitro antioxidant properties in the free fraction of phenolic acid. …”
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Influence of insecticide resistance on the biting and resting preferences of malaria vectors in the Gambia. by Majidah Hamid-Adiamoh, Davis Nwakanma, Benoit Sessinou Assogba, Mamadou Ousmane Ndiath, Umberto D'Alessandro, Yaw A Afrane, Alfred Amambua-Ngwa

“…For An. coluzzii, the prevalence of most mutation markers was higher in the outdoor (allele freq. = 0.92, 95%CI: 0.81-0.98) than indoor-resting (allele freq. = 0.78, 95%CI: 0.56-0.86) mosquitoes. …”
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Electrical and viscoelastic parameters of erythrocytes as predictors of exacerbation in inflammatory bowel diseases by M. V. Kruchinina, I. O. Svetlova, A. V. Azgaldyan, A. A. Gromov, V. M. Generalov, I. N. Yakovina, A. A. Shestov

“…Cluster analysis of the values of erythrocyte parameters – predictors of exacerbation made it possible to stratify the risk of exacerbation: at the most altered levels of parameters – the development of exacerbation after 2.5–4.5 months, intermediate levels – after 4–6 months, minimally changed – after 8–12 months (predictive accuracy – 92 %). …”
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Research on Parallel Computing Method for Neutron Transport on Tetrahedral Unstructured Meshes Based on COME by ZHONG Yangyu, ZHANG Tiancheng, ZHOU Xiafeng

“…The computational time for different parallel strategies indicates that the TETRIS achieves parallel efficiency of over 50% in most cases when utilizing over 100 cores. The acceleration factor achieved by the Krylov subspace method reaches a maximum of 3.47.…”

Production of subtilisin proteases in bacteria and yeast by A. S. Rozanov, S. V. Shekhovtsov, N. V. Bogacheva, E. G. Pershina, A. V. Ryapolova, D. S. Bytyak, S. E. Peltek

“…Details are provided on the methods for expression optimization of industrial subtilases of various strains: the details of the most important parameters of cultivation, i. e., composition of the media, culture duration, and the inf luence of temperature and pH. …”
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Surgical simulation in emergency management and communication improves performance, confidence, and patient safety in medical students by Mazlum Baris, Nils von Schaper, Hannah Sofie Weis, Klaus Fröhlich, Christian Rustenbach, Anne Herrmann-Werner, Christian Schlensak, Christoph Salewski

“…Notably, the retest outcomes demonstrated significant surgical performance improvements following the targeted lessons (e.g. blood loss pre-test 906 ± 468 mL, retest 292 ± 173 mL, p < 0.01, n = 35 teams), with the most pronounced enhancements observed in confidence and emergency communication skills (confidence pre-test 2.42 ± 0.52, retest 3.55 ± 0.64, p < 0.01, n = 35 teams). …”
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EEG feature extraction methods in motor imagery-based brain-computer interfaces: a systematic review and network meta-analysis by Jiahao Cheng, Peng Chen, Yufeng Deng, Yi Luo, Fengyan Chen, Jiwang Ma, Fei Wang, Fen Xu, Sheng Guo, X. San Liang, Tao Zhang

“…The Common Spatial Pattern (CSP) method remains the most common single method, often integrated into hybrids. …”
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Investigating the link between APCI1307K mutation and breast cancer in a Jordanian Arab population by Baha Sharaf, Hira Bani Hani, Anas Zayed, Maha Barbar, Suhaib Khater, Ahmad Hushki, Rashid Abdel-Razeq, Mohammad Titi, Reem Al-Halalsheh, Suleiman Mahafdah, Lin Ashour, Hikmat Abdel-Razeq, Hikmat Abdel-Razeq

“…Breast cancer was the most common primary tumor (n = 56, 41.2%). Among them, 41 (73.2%) had a screening colonoscopy, and 12 (29.3%) were found to have colorectal polyps, while 41.7% (5/12) had low-grade dysplasia. …”
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Sequence analysis and preliminary study on the correlation with ovulation of the cyp19a1a gene in Hemibagrus guttatis by Xian-bo Zhang, Jin-li Hu, Ning Qin, Zhou Zhou, Qing-lan Zhou, Ting Liu

“…Multiple sequence alignment and phylogenetic analysis revealed that Cyp19a1a of H. guttatis was most closely related to that of Hemibagrus wyckioides and clustered with other teleost fish. …”
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Changes in prostate volume during prostate SBRT delivered on an MR-Linac and correlation with acute toxicity by Jason Gurewitz, Cheongeun Oh, Sungmin Woo, Jiyu Kim, Adam Bruzzese, Ting Chen, Hesheng Wang, David Byun, Michael J. Zelefsky

“…Baseline TZ measurements most strongly predict high-volume swelling. Acute toxicity was not associated with volumetric change.…”
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Prevalence, antibiotic resistance, resistance and virulence determinants of Campylobacter jejuni in China: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Zhao Li, Hua Cai, Biyao Xu, Qingli Dong, Kai Jia, Zijie Lin, Xiang Wang, Yangtai Liu, Xiaojie Qin

“…The resistance of C. jejuni to most antibiotics has increased in the last 20 years. …”
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Effect of Hypoglycemic Drugs on Patients with Heart Failure with or without T2DM: A Bayesian Network Meta-analysis by Zhaolun Zhang, Siqi Liu, Jiawen Xian, Yali Zhang, Chunyu Zhang, Zhiyuan Wang, Hongmei Deng, Jian Feng, Lei Yao

“…Sotagliflozin was the most effective in reducing the risk of re-admission due to HF and all-cause death, with a cumulative probability of 0.84 and 0.83, respectively. …”
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