Behavioral Modeling and Predistortion of Dual-Band Power Amplifiers by Majid Ahmed, Ahmad Dalbah, Oualid Hammi, Wenhua Chen, Fadhel M. Ghannouchi

“…These are even more challenging since the dominant distortions products can vary depending on the carrier aggregation scenario and, most importantly, the spacing between the two bands. …”
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Rituximab for children with immune thrombocytopenia: a systematic review. by Yi Liang, Lingli Zhang, Ju Gao, Die Hu, Yuan Ai

“…<h4>Conclusions/significance</h4>Randomized controlled studies on effect of rituximab for children with ITP are urgently needed, although a series of uncontrolled studies found that rituximab resulted in a good platelet count response both in children with primary and children secondary ITP. Most adverse events associated with rituximab were mild to moderate, and no death was reported.…”
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STUDY OF MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE BY MULTICOLOR FLOW CYTOMETRY IN MULTIPLE MYELOMA AFTER AUTOLOGOUS HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION by I. V. Galtseva, L. P. Mendeleeva, Y. O. Davydova, M. V. Solov’ev, N. M. Kapranov, L. A. Kuzmina, E. O. Gribanova, T. V. Gaponova, V. G. Savchenko

“…The study included40 MMpatients in CR at +100 days after ASCT and showed that the most common aberrations of PC were: abnormal absence of CD19 and/or CD27, decreased expression of CD38 and abnormal presence of CD56. …”
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Risk factors for late presentation of symptomatic uterine fibroid in urban Nigeria: A mixed method study by Ayoola J. Fakunmoju, Olufunke A. Fayehun, Oluwasomidoyin O. Bello

“…Background: Uterine fibroids (UFs) are the most common benign tumours of the uterus and are often asymptomatic. …”
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“We Will Not Change Our Attitude Towards You, Until You Change Your Attitude Towards Us”. How Washington Considered the Reaction of Western European Communist Parties to The Events... by V. T. Yungblud, M. V. Bakshaev

“…The article reveals to what extent the US administration was aware of the critical attacks against the USSR and the CPSU by the most powerful Western European Communist parties to determine how the factor of Eurocommunism influenced the Afghan vector of the US policy in 1979-1982 and how the American course turned out for the Communist parties themselves. …”
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Chikungunya in a pediatric cohort: Asymptomatic infection, seroconversion, and chronicity rates. by Blenda de Jesus Pereira, Michelle Queiroz Aguiar Brasil, Jessica de Jesus Silva, Juqueline Rocha Cristal, Isabele de Pádua Carvalho, Maria Carolina Prado Miranda, Daniela Paixão, Ricardo Khouri, Thiago Cerqueira-Silva, Fernanda Castro Boulos, Manoel Barral-Netto, Esper Georges Kalas, Aldina Barral, Antônio Bandeira, Viviane Sampaio Boaventura

“…Our study demonstrates that, within the pediatric population, most CHIKV infections are symptomatic. We observed a small but significant frequency of negative antibody responses following acute infection and instances of chronic disease. …”
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Opportunities and Challenges to Improve Postpartum Care: Payors’ and Purchasers’ Perspectives in California by Lindsay Parham, Renee Clarke, MariaDelSol De Ornelas, Sabrina Li, Sylvia Guendelman

“…Introduction: U.S. maternal mortality rates are two to three times higher than other high-income countries, with most deaths occurring postpartum. Fragmented care, exacerbated by health insurance gaps and workforce shortages, underscores systemic deficiencies. …”
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Global, regional, and national temporal trends in mortality and disease burden of nasopharyngeal carcinoma attributable to smoking from 1990 to 2021 and predictions to 2040 by Defeng Liu, Lulu Zhuang, Yueze Li, Jinming Yu, Minghuan Li

“…The disease burden was most severe in Asia. Males bore a significantly higher burden than females, mainly concentrated in middle-aged and older populations. …”
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Method for creating a digital relief model for the small river watershed area by Daniil S. Iskrichev, Yuri G. Bezborodov

“…Areas with increased slopes, most susceptible to erosion and diffuse washout, were identified. …”
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Real-time Data Sharing Platform Technology for Rail Transit Management Systems by LIU Chao, LI Shen, SU Cheng, WANG Wei, HUANG Qing

“…Finally, a qualitative and quantitative comparison is conducted to evaluate the suitability of different middleware options, identifying the most appropriate middleware for platform implementation. …”
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Assessment of beneficial role of an insectivorous bird, jungle babbler (Turdoides striatus) predation, on Helicoverpa armigera infesting pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan) crop by Bhavna Bharucha, G. S. Padate

“…Helicoverpa is known to feed on flowers, pods, and seeds and is the most important biotic constraint affecting pigeon pea yields. …”
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Myxoid Liposarcoma of the Thigh in Early Puerperium—Rare Case Report and Narrative Review by Tomasz Machałowski, Piotr Gutowski, Edyta Zagrodnik, Aleksandra Godlewska, Katarzyna Śmieja, Oliwia Kawałek, Anna Grzymała-Figura, Sylwester Michał Ciećwież, Katarzyna Gross-Kępińska, Małgorzata Szczuko, Maciej Ziętek

“…Background: Liposarcoma (LPS) is a rare malignant tumor, but it is also one of the most common adult soft-tissue sarcomas. Myxoid liposarcoma (MLPS) accounts for 30% of all LPS cases. …”
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Aggregation of Nanochemical Microcrystals in Urine Promotes the Formation of Urinary Calculi by Yanting Lou, Wei He, Zhengyao Song

“…In the composition of nanocrystals, element O accounts for the most, accounting for 42.54% of all elements. This indicates that the aggregation of nanocrystals in urine will lead to the rapid increase in the size of nanocrystals, which will eventually lead to the formation of stones.…”
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Fossil seeds of Sideroxylon L. (Sapotaceae) from the Neogene of Europe and their relationships to extant species in Macaronesia and West Asia by Edoardo Martinetto, Steven R. Manchester, Rubén Barone, Ulf Swenson

“…Based on distinctive features of seed morphology, we demonstrate that closely related plants were native in the Neogene of central Europe. The most similar fossils occur in the Neogene of Italy and are assigned to Sideroxylon ruminatiusculum Martinetto, Manchester, R.Barone et Swenson sp. nov. …”
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Common single nucleotide polymorphisms in genes related to immune function and risk of papillary thyroid cancer. by Alina V Brenner, Gila Neta, Erich M Sturgis, Ruth M Pfeiffer, Amy Hutchinson, Meredith Yeager, Li Xu, Cindy Zhou, William Wheeler, Margaret A Tucker, Stephen J Chanock, Alice J Sigurdson

“…Overall, the complement and coagulation cascade pathway was the most significant pathway (P(Pathway)= 0.02) associated with PTC risk largely due to the strong effect of SERPINA5. …”
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Spatiotemporal variability of air temperature biases in regional climate models over the Greenland ice sheet by Federico Covi, Regine Hock, Åsa Rennermalm, Xavier Fettweis, Brice Noël

“…Daily variability within each month is captured well by both climate models and the reanalysis at most locations. Finally, all three models perform overall better in the ablation zone during summer, i.e. where and when considerable melt production occurs.…”
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Thermogravimetric investigations of cream with minoxidil by I. V. Gnitko, I. I. Berdei, V. V. Gladishev, B. S. Burlaka

“…Minoxidil is one of the most effective and modern medications, which is used in modern trichology for hair growth stimulation in case of androgenic and other forms of alopecia. …”
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Estimation of Spatiotemporal Changes of Land Cover in Llapi River Catchment (Northeastern Part of Kosova) by Valbon Bytyqi, Besarta Ibrahimi, Tropikë Agaj

“…Aim of the study: In recent decades, Kosovo in general and the Llapi River catchment in particular have experienced landscape transformation, which resulted in Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) changes, mainly in the flat terrains where most of country’s population is concentrated. Other landscapes have experienced changes too, but on a smaller scale. …”
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Application of Internet of Things Technology for Ventilation and Environmental Control in Conventional Open-Air Pig Housing Systems in Thailand by Suphalerk Khaowdang, Nopparat Suriyachai, Saksit Imman, Kowit Suwannahong, Surachai Wongcharee, Torpong Kreetachat

“…Zone 3, incorporating both fans and a water-spraying system, demonstrated the most effective environmental control, achieving lower ammonia (3.0 ppm) and hydrogen sulfide (2.93 ppm) levels, with an average temperature of 28.85 °C and relative humidity of 47.15%. …”
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Children's Technology Use during the Pandemic Period by Nihal Dulkadir Yaman, Ramazan Dulkadir, Fatih Yaman

“…As a result of the analyses, the most significant finding of the study is that children spent a significant amount of time with technological devices during the pandemic and this had a negative impact on their sleep patterns and physical health. …”
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