Effect of Glutinous Rice Slurry on the Reinforcement of Silt in the Yellow River Basin by Microbially Induced Carbonate Precipitation (MICP): Mechanical Property and Microcosmic St... by Jianwei Yue, Limin Zhao, Baoxi Zhang, Qingmei Kong, Siyuan Wang, Hao Wang

“…When the concentration of cementitious liquid was 0.5 M and the mass ratio of cementitious liquid to bacterial liquid was 2 : 1, the amount of CaCO3 formed was the most, and the conversion rate of Ca2+ was more than 80%. …”
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Synthesis, Characteristics, and Field Applications of High-Temperature and Salt-Resistant Polymer Gel Tackifier by Guowei Zhou, Xin Zhang, Weijun Yan, Zhengsong Qiu

“…After a long period of high-temperature treatment, most of it can dissolve in water, increasing the viscosity of the suspension. …”
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TMSB4X is a regulator of inflammation-associated ferroptosis, and promotes the proliferation, migration and invasion of hepatocellular carcinoma cells by Linlin Tang, Yangli Jin, Jinxu Wang, Xiuyan Lu, Mengque Xu, Mingwei Xiang

“…The patients in high risk group and low risk groups showed distinct molecular characteristics. TMSB4X was the most important gene which dominated the classification, and it was highly expressed in HCC samples. …”
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Stapled Haemorrhoidopexy in Germany by Johannes Jongen, Jessica Schneider, Volker Kahlke, Tilman Laubert

“…At the end of 1999, however, it was known that 4th degree haemorrhoids were not suitable for SH, because of a high rate of recurrent prolapse. Most patients were pain free after a couple of days and went back to work again accordingly, however a small number of patients had severe pain after SH, some of them for a long period of time. …”
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Low Burden of Arrhythmia in Pediatric Patients and Patients With Congenital Heart Disease Participating in Cardiac Rehabilitation by Paul W. Warren, Clifford Chin, Alexander R. Opotowsky, Shankar Baskar, Richard J. Czosek, Wayne A. Mays, Zhiqian Gao, Adam W. Powell

“…Results There were 177 patients who participated in 4494 rehabilitation encounters over the 6‐year study period (median age, 17 years [14–22]). Most patients had congenital heart disease (63%). …”
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Prognostic significance of NT-proBNP and sST2 biomarkers in patients with post-myocardial infarction heart failure after a coronavirus infection by N. M. Kalashnikova, D. N. Zaitsev, A. V. Govorin, M. V. Chistyakova, B. T. Balzhitov

“…Using analysis of adverse cardiovascular events, such as recurrent myocardial infarction, cerebrovascular accident, hospitalization due to coronary artery disease, decompensated HF, which required hospitalization, a predictive model was developed using a neural network. There were following most important factors of the developed model: age, level of NT-proBNP and sST2, lung involvement according to computed tomography.Conclusion. …”
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End‐to‐End Crystal Structure Prediction from Powder X‐Ray Diffraction by Qingsi Lai, Fanjie Xu, Lin Yao, Zhifeng Gao, Siyuan Liu, Hongshuai Wang, Shuqi Lu, Di He, Liwei Wang, Linfeng Zhang, Cheng Wang, Guolin Ke

“…While the analysis of PXRD often requires extensive human manual intervention, and most automated method only achieved at coarse‐grained level. …”
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The Power of Syllabic Stress in Changing the Lexical Meanings of the Holy Quran by Sayyid Heydar Far‘ Shirazi

“…Therefore, different examples of these roles were selected according to the capacity of this research to clarify its comparative function in changing lexical meanings that the most important of which are: the distinguishing role of some types of verbs such as feminine and masculine, singular and dual (Arabic: المُثَنّی, Romanized: Al-muthannā) and triliteral doubled verbs (Arabic: ثُلاثی مُضاعَف, Romanized _THOLĀTHĪ_MOḌĀ‘AF) and triliteral root verbs (Arabic: ثُلاثی مَزید, the derivative forms: it is complex and has additions), the distinguishing role of some types of nouns such as triliteral root (Arabic: ثُلاثی مَزید, complex and has additions, Romanized _THOLĀTHĪ_MAZĪD) and simple triliteral root (Arabic: ثُلاثی مُجَرَّد, Romanized _THOLĀTHĪ_MOGARRAD), singular, dual and plural, the distinctive role between types of semantic letters and base letters such as the distinguishability between [واو, one of the letters of the Arabic alphabet, Waw] of a semantic letter and [واو] of a base letter, the distinguishability between [فاء, one of the letters of the Arabic alphabet, Feh] a semantic letter and [فاء] base of a base letter, the distinguishability between [أوْ, which means: or] of a semantic letter and [أوْ] of a base letter and cases of the distinguishability between the called noun (Arabic: مُنادی, interjection, the vocative) and attached pronoun and similar cases that have been analyzed in a descriptive and comparative method; so, that the value of the phoneme of stress becomes clear to the audience, however, the percentage of phonological value of stress is much less than the non-phonological value of stress on Arabic.…”
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Adoption and acceptability of a perioperative nutrition program among total joint arthroplasty patients by Derek S. Yocum, Leila Hammond, Emma Housholder, Néma McGlynn, Sara Y. Oikawa, Claudia Kabele, Adam Cien, Jeffrey D. Yergler

“…The majority of the participants who purchased the nutrition program (78.7%, n = 85) were satisfied with it, and 65.7% (n = 71) believed it improved their surgical recovery. The most common reason cited for non-participation was cost.ConclusionA nutrition program, implemented using a pragmatic adjunctive model, was adopted by many of the patients who underwent arthroplasty, regardless of demographics. …”
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Risk of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Community-Acquired Pneumonia Patients: Use of an Artificial Neural Network Model by Jipeng Mo, Shihui Ling, Mingxia Yang, Hui Qin

“…When ANNs were used in the test group, their sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy were 85.0%, 87.3%, and 86.5%, respectively; when ANNs were used to predict ARDS, the area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was 0.943 (95% confidence interval (0.918–0.968)). The nine most important independent variables affecting the ANNs models were lactate dehydrogenase (100%), activated partial thromboplastin time (84.6%), procalcitonin (83.8%), age (77.9%), maximum respiratory rate (76.0%), neutrophil (75.9%), source of admission (68.9%), concentration of total serum kalium (61.3%), and concentration of total serum bilirubin (50.4%) (all important >50%). …”
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Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Oligometastatic Recurrent Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Retrospective Cohort Study From a Single Tertiary Center by Atsuto Katano, Masanari Minamitani, Shingo Ohira, Subaru Sawayanagi, Hideomi Yamashita

“…Results The study cohort included 33 patients with a median age of 68 years. Most patients had one treated lesion, with SBRT doses ranging from 25–50 Gy in 4–10 fractions. …”
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An Analytical Study of Iqbal’s Poetry on Kashmiri Nationalism by Anees Rashid Hashmi, Khawaja Zahid Aziz

“…<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; line-height: normal;"><em><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi;">The occupation, slavery and violence are against the nature and most notorious in the life of nations who are suffered from cultural, structural, physical and potential violence which badly impacted upon all five factors of human life activities i.e., economic, environmental, political, security and societal. …”
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Efficacy of local injection therapy versus wrist splinting in moderate idiopathic carpal tunnel syndrome: the results of a randomized clinical trial by D. A. Grozova, N. A. Suponeva, D. A. Grishina, A. O. Chechotkin, A. V. Mansurova, E. V. Gnedovskaya, A. O. Gushcha

“…Carpal tunnel syndrome is the most common compression mononeuropathy. The choice of the preferred conservative treatment method is still relevant, especially for the patients with the moderate severity of the disease. …”
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The Effectiveness of PCR in Diagnosis of Fungal Keratitis by G. I. Krichevskaya, L. A. Kovaleva, I. D. Zyurnyayeva, P. V. Makarov, A. E. Andryushin

“…PCR diagnostic kits for the differential detection of Candida albicans DNA and total fungi DNA (DNA Fungi), which allows to identify most pathogenic fungi without determining their species were used. …”
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Atypical neurological symptoms at high altitude: a systematic literature review by Wiktor Łagowski, Olga Grodzka, Izabela Domitrz

“…Background: Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS) is a prevalent and potentially debilitating condition affecting individuals who participate in high-altitude journeys, mostly above 2500 m. The main symptoms of AMS, listed in the Lake Louise Symptom score used to diagnose AMS, are headache, dizziness, nausea, and fatigue. …”
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Phytoplankton group classification by integrating trait information and observed environmental thresholds by Hoang Vuong Dang, Kermode Stephanie, Peisheng Huang, Cayelan C. Carey, Matthew R. Hipsey

“…We minimized subjectivity in phytoplankton group classification by first applying multiple correlation analysis and principal component analysis to identify the most important environmental factors for threshold analysis. …”
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Sex‐Based Disparities in Index Cases of Familial Hypercholesterolemia in Vietnam: A Cross‐Sectional Study by Ngoc‐Thanh Kim, Doan‐Loi Do, Mai‐Ngoc Thi Nguyen, Thanh‐Tung Le, Hong‐An Le, Thanh‐Huong Truong

“…Statins were prescribed to most patients (93.6%), with a higher proportion of men than women receiving high‐intensity statin therapy. …”
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Evaluation of Peri-apical Healing in Patients of Apical Periodontitis with Mature Necrotic Teeth Treated using A-PRF+versus i-PRF: A Research Protocol by Tejas Suryawanshi, Manoj Chandak, Aditya Patel, Shweta Sedani, Palak Hirani

“…Need of the study: This study will compare injectable PRF and A-PRF+ as scaffolds in non surgical endodontic treatment of mature teeth with non vital pulp and apical periodontitis to identify the most effective platelet concentrate for periapical healing. …”
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Results of dynamic monitoring of the spectrum of bacterial causes of acute urinary tract infections in children by H. O. Lezhenko, O. Ye. Pashkova, K. V. Samoylyk

“…Gram-positive microflora has been represented by bacteria of the genus Enterococcus, in 2018–2020 in most samples was isolated Enterococcus faecium (28.1 %), in 2014–2016 among the representatives Enterococcus faecalis prevailed (38.9 %). …”
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Craniomandibular osteology of a new massopodan sauropodomorph (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) from the Late Triassic (latest Norian) of Canton Aargau, Switzerland by Alessandro Lania, Ben Pabst, Torsten M. Scheyer

“…Abstract Non-sauropodan sauropodomorphs represented the most abundant and diverse herbivore component of the Gondwanan continental paleoecosystems during the Late Triassic. …”
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