Accuracy assessment of PACS workstation monitor measurements compared to real-time ultrasound imaging of abdominal organs by Mohammed Alsaadi, Salman Alomaireenie, Tariq Abd Al-Sattar, Mohsen Alshaibani, Abdulrahman Alfuraih

“…Radiological display monitors integrated with Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) are commonly employed for post-acquisition analysis; however, the accuracy of PACS-derived measurements compared to real-time US remains underexplored. …”
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Color Stability of a New Rice Husk Composite in Comparison with Conventional Composites after Exposure to Commonly Consumed Beverages in Malaysia by Kacharaju Kranthi Raja, Padmini Hari, Melissa Queen Kha Chin, Kiran Singbal, Ismail M. Fareez

“…Statistical analysis was carried out by performing a mixed ANOVA and Tukey’s post hoc test in order to analyse the differences in ΔE. …”
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Incidence and Factors of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Hepatitis C Virus Patients Achieving Sustained Virological Response After Direct-Acting Antiviral Treatment by Juferdy Kurniawan Kurniawan, Dhaneswara Adhyatama Wicaksono, Evy Yunihastuti, Arif Masnjoer

“…Considering there are differences in DAA types, virus genotypes, and patient profiles in Indonesia, this study was conducted to assess the incidence and factors influencing HCC in HCV patients after SVR post DAA therapy. The objective of this study to determine the incidence and factors influencing HCC in HCV patients achieving SVR after DAA treatment. …”
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Future expectations, career choices and related factors among dental students: a cross sectional study by Gulaiym Batyrbekova, Tülin Çoban, Hatice Canan Hekimoğlu, Dilek Yıldırım Pak, Merve Büke Şahin, Mustafa Barış Güncü, Banu Çakır

“…The most important factors affecting the post-graduation working plans were work life balance and economic stability. …”
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Chemokine CXCL8 promotes HIV-1 replication in human monocyte-derived macrophages and primary microglia via nuclear factor-κB pathway. by Manmeet K Mamik, Anuja Ghorpade

“…Chemokines play crucial roles in trafficking of leukocytes and trafficking of HIV-1-infected across the blood-brain barrier play an important role in HIV-1 central nervous system disease. In the post-antiretroviral therapy era, low level of productive replication of HIV-1 in brain is a critical component of neuropathogenesis regulation. …”
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Innovations at the intersection of homelessness and substance use during the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review by Hannah Passmore, Sam Craft, Rachel Krieger, Sunny Tang, Sofia Sacerdote, Emily Lumbis, Stephanie Blaufarb, Kelly M. Doran

“…Further evidence is needed to determine which COVID-19 pandemic-related innovations were most impactful and how they should be prioritized and continued post-pandemic.…”
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Cardiac Rehabilitation After Mitral Valve Intervention: Tailored Assessment, Management, and Exercise Training by Francesco Perone, Monica Loguercio, Federica Sabato, Annalisa Pasquini, Marina Ostojic, Ashot Avagimyan, Vaida Sileikiene, Joanna Popiolek-Kalisz, Aneta Aleksova, Marco Ambrosetti

“…Specifically, we focus our review on the tailored assessment and management of these patients from post-operative to cardiac rehabilitation.…”
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Effects of Multidirectional Knee Strengthening Exercises Using Elastic Bands on Elderly Patients Aged 65 and Older With Knee Osteoarthritis by Sang-woo Yoon, Suhn-yeop Kim

“…Between-group differences before and after the intervention were analyzed using the independent t-test, and withingroup differences were examined using the paired t-test for pre-post intervention comparisons of the dependent variables. …”

Neural Network Prediction of ICU Length of Stay Following Cardiac Surgery Based on Pre-Incision Variables. by Rocco J LaFaro, Suryanarayana Pothula, Keshar Paul Kubal, Mario Emil Inchiosa, Venu M Pothula, Stanley C Yuan, David A Maerz, Lucresia Montes, Stephen M Oleszkiewicz, Albert Yusupov, Richard Perline, Mario Anthony Inchiosa

“…Predictive modeling may be of value in early anticipation of risks of post-operative morbidity and utilization of ICU facilities.…”
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Pre-clinical evaluation of a low-cost tool for skin temperature measurements as a proxy to assess autonomic nerve function in leprosy neuropathy. by Arjan J Knulst, Fleur van den Bogaert, Alexander Kuipers, Lieke Roelofs, Jenny Dankelman, Wim Brandsma, Corine Knulst-Verlaan, Suraj Maharjan

“…A Matlab script was developed to post-process the raw temperature data into filtered data. …”
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Increased antimicrobial resistance against azithromycin during COVID: role of irrational utilization by Sidra Tanwir, Arif Sabah, Ambrina Khatoon, Faisal Iqbal Afridi

“…This data was taken for the period of three years i.e. 2019 (Pre-COVID) to 2021 (Post-first wave of COVID) to establish trends of both consumption and antibiotic resistance. …”
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PERBEDAAN KADAR GLUKOSA SERUM DAN PLASMA NATRIUM FLUORIDA (NaF) DENGAN PENUNDAAN PEMERIKSAAN by Albert Agung, Dwi Retnoningrum, I. Edward KSL I. Edward KSL

“…Uji statistik menggunakan independent T-test, uji Mann-Whitney, uji Kruskal-Wallis dengan uji post-hoc Mann-Whitney. Hasil : Rerata kadar glukosa serum pada pemeriksaan sebelum 2 jam, 4 jam, dan 8 jam adalah 98,00 mg/dL, 93,07 mg/dL, dan 83,73 mg/dL. …”
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Randomized Quantization for Privacy in Resource Constrained Machine Learning at-the-Edge and Federated Learning by Ce Feng, Parv Venkitasubramaniam

“…Traditional approaches typically apply differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) to preserve privacy, followed by quantization techniques as a post-processing step to reduce model size and communication overhead. …”
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Acetyl-CoA carboxylase herbicide resistance and fitness of spring milletgrass (Milium vernale) populations infesting winter cereal monoculture in Greece by Aristeidis P. PAPAPANAGIOTOU, Assewer ABICHOU, Theodore SPANOS, Ioannis LIVIERATOS, George MENEXES, Ioannis VASILAKOGLOU, Ilias G. ELEFTHEROHORINOS

“…Bieb.) populations, originating from winter cereal monoculture fields in northwestern Greece, were studied to elucidate the levels and underlying mechanisms of resistance to acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACCase)- and acetolactate synthase (ALS)-inhibiting post-emergence herbicides. Whole-plant rate-response assays showed that the R1 and R2 populations were highly cross-resistant to aryloxyphenoxypropionate ACCase-inhibitors clodinafop-propargyl and diclofop-methyl, but they were susceptible to the cyclohexanedione ACCase-inhibitor clethodim and the ALS-inhibitors mesosulfuron-methyl + iodosulfuron methyl-sodium and pyroxsulam. …”
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Application of Human Epineural Patch (hEP) as a Novel Strategy for Nerve Protection and Enhancement of Regeneration After Nerve Crush Injury by Katarzyna Kozlowska, Weronika Radecka, Sonia Brodowska, Lucile Chambily, Dominika Kuc, Amber Lopez, Maria Siemionow

“…Animals were assessed over 6 or 12 weeks post-injury. Evaluations included motor recovery (Toe-Spread test), sensory recovery (Pinprick test), muscle denervation atrophy (the gastrocnemius muscle index (GMI)), histomorphometry (myelin thickness, axonal density, fiber diameter, and percentage of myelinated fibers), and immunofluorescence (GFAP, Laminin B, NGF, S-100, VEGF, vWF, HLA-DR, and HLA-I) assessments. …”
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Remineralization ability of different root canal sealers by Raghad A Al-Askary, Wiaam M.O. AL-Ashou, Sawsan H. Al-Jubori

“…Method: Twenty rabbits were used in this study, they were randomly divided into 4 groups equally depending on the observation time“3,7,14, and 28 days” post-implantation. Each rabbit was generally anesthetized,“7cm”long incision was made on the skin of the right and left sides of the ventral aspect of the mandible of each rabbit, 4 bony cavities of approximately“5mm”in depth and“2mm”in diameter (2 cavities on the left side and 2 cavities on the right side of mandible of each rabbit) were made in the cortical surface of the buccal alveolar bone. …”
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Characterizing changes in transcriptome and kinome responses in testicular cells during infection by Ebola virus by Andrew L. Webb, Brayden G. Schindell, Geoff Soule, Abu B. Siddik, Bernard Abrenica, Harram Memon, Ruey-Chyi Su, David Safronetz, Jason Kindrachuk

“…We assessed viral replication kinetics and host responses of mouse testicular Leydig cells and Sertoli cells infected with EBOV Makona (i.e. infectious EBOV) and collected samples up to 28 days post-infection. Viral replication was apparent in both cell lines, but intracellular early viral loads were much higher in Leydig cells compared to Sertoli cells. …”
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Effectiveness of Local Wound Infiltration with Morphine, Ketorolac, and Bupivacaine Compared to Bupivacaine Alone Following Tibial Osteotomy in Pediatric Patients: A Randomized Con... by Piyanuch Musikachart, Thanase Ariyawatkul, Jidapa Wongcharoenwatana, Nath Adulkasem, Perajit Eamsobhana

“…The combination group showed a trend towards higher mean pain levels compared to the control group at almost every time point from 4 hours to 48 hours post-operation. The maximum mean postoperative pain level in both groups, at four hours, was higher in the combination group, with a maximum mean postoperative pain level of 2.1 vs. 1.9. …”
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Becoming God in Life and Nature: Watchman Nee and Witness Lee on Sanctification, Union with Christ, and Deification by Michael M. C. Reardon, Brian Siu Kit Chiu

“…Though deification was universally affirmed by the early church and retained in various forms in medieval and early Protestant theology, post-Reformation Western Christianity marginalized this theme in favor of juridical and forensic soteriological categories. …”
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APPLICATION OF INTERVALIC HYPOXIC-HYPEROXIC ENTRAINMENT TO PREVENTION OF INTRA AND EARLY POSTOPERATIONAL COMPLICATIONS IN CORONARY BYPASS GRAFTING by D. S. Tuter, R. N. Komarov, O. S. Glazachev, A. L. Syrkin, L. P. Severova, E. V. Ivanova, F. Yu. Kopylov

“…The rate of complications was evaluated, during the operation and in post-surgery period. The level of troponin I was measured before operation, in 2 and 24 hours after, as well as level of lactate in venous blood before and after operation.Results. …”
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