Renal prognostic value of serum monoclonal immunoglobulin in cryoglobulinemic glomerulonephritis by Lei Ma, Yuanyuan Xia, Yun Fan, Dan Zhou, Xinchen Yao, Yongzhong Zhong, Fan Yang, Feng Xu, Shaoshan Liang, Yujie Wang, Xiaodong Zhu, Dacheng Chen, Rong Tan, Zhengyun Zhu, Dandan Liang, Caihong Zeng

“…The MIg group had significantly lower eGFR levels, higher cryoglobulin levels, and higher rates of abnormal serum-free light chain ratios than the MIg/HBV/HCV negative group. …”
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Classification of finger movements through optimal EEG channel and feature selection by Murside Degirmenci, Yilmaz Kemal Yuce, Matjaž Perc, Matjaž Perc, Matjaž Perc, Matjaž Perc, Matjaž Perc, Yalcin Isler

“…This study design may result in an increasing number of false positives and a significant decrease in the prediction rates and classification performance. Moreover, recent studies have focused on improving prediction performance using complex feature extraction and machine learning algorithms while ignoring comprehensive EEG channels and feature investigation in the prediction of finger movements from EEGs. …”
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Calculation Model of Multi-roll Straightening Process Based on Bilinear Hardening and Power Hardening by ZHU Xiaoyu, CHENG Zixing, WANG Xiaogang, HAN Peisheng

“…To evaluate the applicability of different material models, five straightening schemes were designed, corresponding to plasticity rates of 33.4%, 50.0%, 66.7%, 75.0%, and 80.0%. The influence of various hardening coefficients on curvature and plasticity during straightening was investigated. …”
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Silent Revolution in Research for Sustainability by Bruce Alder

“…A variety of new arrangements have come into existence that promote international collaboration, including Horizon 2020 with its emphasis on societal challenges, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation which has inspired a family of grand challenges funds on health and development, and the Future Earth joint program of research for global sustainability. …”
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Analysis of complex chromosomal structural variants through optical genome mapping integrated with karyotyping by Xiaoxi Zhu, Huiling Zheng, Xue Wan, Hang Duan, Ying Qi, Weijia Tang, Fan Yang, Fan Yang, Limei Yu, Limei Yu

“…This advancement substantially enhances the diagnostic rates of genetic etiology in patients experiencing RSA. …”
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Dependence of Indicators of Daily Blood Pressure Monitoring on Activity of Pathological Process in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus by Abrahamovych O., Abrahamovych U., Kushyna A., Guta S., Synenkyi O.

“…According to the first goal was rated the BP in the SLE patients during the period of 24 hours, for which: a) were examined the average daily, maximum and minimum levels of systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), the average blood pressure; b) was analysed the daily index (DI) of SBP, DBP and the average blood pressure; c) was examined the time index (TI) of SBP, DBP and the average blood pressure. …”
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The Ethical Significance of Brain-Computer Interfaces as Enablers of Communication by Toma Gruica

“…Intracortical BCIs, by contrast, can restore communicative capacity by directly decoding neural signals associated with intended speech or movement.[5] One landmark study documented an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patient who, after entering CLIS, learned to use an implanted BCI speller to construct sentences at a rate of approximately one character per minute. The patient’s communications ranged from the mundane, such as requesting music, to expressions of existential significance involving care preferences.[6] Importantly, when researchers were asked how they would respond if the patient spelled “unplug my ventilator,” they emphatically stated that BCI output would not determine decisions regarding life support withdrawal. …”
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STRAIN LOCALIZATION PECULIARITIES AND DISTRIBUTION OF ACOUSTIC EMISSION SOURCES IN ROCK SAMPLES TESTED BY UNIAXIAL COMPRESSION AND EXPOSED TO ELECTRIC PULSES by V. A. Mubassarova, L. M. Bogomolov, A. S. Zakupin, I. A. Panteleev, O. B. Naimark

“…It can provide new information on properties of acoustic emission and deformation responses of loaded rock specimens to external electric pulses.The research task also included verification of reproducibility of the effect (AE activity) when fracturing rates responded to electrical pulses, which was revealed earlier in studies conducted at RS RAS. …”
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Risk of developing drug abuse in administration of a new hexaazaisowurtzitane derivative-based analgesic (experimental study) by S. G. Krylova, T. N. Pove’teva, K. A. Lopatina, Yu. V. Nesterova, E. P. Zueva, O. G. Afanas’eva, P. V. Kulpin, E. A. Kiseleva, N. I. Suslov, D. A. Kulagina, S. V. Sysolyatin, V. V. Zhdanov

“…Previous in vivo and in silico studies (docking, molecular modeling, molecular dynamics simulation) on the multi-target mechanism of thiowurtzine explain the absence of its morphine-like effect by the fact that the major targets of the analgesic are TRPA1 receptors and voltage-gated Ca 2+ channels. With a high degree of probability, the conclusions made herein predict no drug abuse development when thiowurtzine is used in the clinical setting. …”
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Crosstalk between delayed and immediate subjective evaluation tasks by Guangqi Niu, Johan Lauwereyns

“…To investigate potential influences across subjective evaluations, the present study employed a dual-task paradigm in which an immediate rating task was embedded in a delayed choice task. …”
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Reduced threat-safety discrimination and generally enhanced generalization responses in adversity exposed youth with emerging psychiatric symptoms by Zhiling Qiao, Celine Samaey, Lise Jennen, Victor Mazereel, Davy Vancampfort, Bart Boets, Ruud van Winkel

“…Contrary to our hypothesis, this effect was driven by their enhanced risk ratings for the safety cue rather than blunted responses to the danger cue. …”
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Screening for psychosocial distress and depression among cancer patients in a regional cancer centre in Nigeria: a cross-sectional study by Nwosu et al.

“…The predictors of psychosocial distress were the presence of co-morbidities (AOR=2.6; 95%CI: 1.3- 5.1) and good self-rated health status (AOR= 0.2; 95%CI: 0.1-0.3). The predictors of depression were the outpatient setting of care (AOR=0.4; 95%CI: 0.2-0.7) and good self-rated health (AOR= 0.3; 95%CI: 0.2-0.4). …”

Automation of multicriteria ranking of students using ePortfolio by L. A. Ponomareva, O. N. Romashkova, A. N. Belyakova, V. S. Zabolotnikova

“…The authors described the scheme of the information system (IS) operation “ePortfolio”, presented a process interaction pattern for the portfolio formation, as well as a diagram of business processes under calculating an individual rating. …”
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Pain chronobiology in clinical trial participants with fibromyalgia: a comparison with neuropathic pain by Ryan Navarro, Wilma Hopman, Ian Gilron

“…In these trials, pain intensity (0–10 scale) was rated at 8:00 am and 8:00 pm during a 7-day pretrial baseline period and throughout each trial. …”
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Assessing aesthetic impressions with pictorial measures: A novel approach in empirical aesthetics by Ivan Z. Stojilović

“…Findings revealed that the size of marked regions modestly predicted ratings on Interestingness and Comprehensibility scales, though the explained variance was limited. …”
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ADHD-hyperactive/impulsive subtype in adults by Stephen V. Faraone, Jeanne M. Landgraf, Paul S. Hodgkins, David W. Goodman, Christopher Gibbins, Margaret D. Weiss

“…Twenty-three patients out of the total sample of 691 patients (3%) received a clinician diagnosis of ADHD - hyperactive/impulsive subtype. Review of the ratings on the ADHD-RS-IV demonstrated, however, that this group had ratings of inattention comparable to the inattentive group. …”
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Optimizing security and energy efficiency in IoT-Based health monitoring systems for wireless body area networks by Mohammed Naif Alatawi

“…Additionally, a trust aggregation engine is implemented to quantify the trustworthiness of nodes using both global and local ratings. The healthcare provider assigns global ratings, while local ratings are crowdsourced from remote users or monitoring agents. …”
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Finger drawing on smartphone screens enables early Parkinson's disease detection through hybrid 1D-CNN and BiGRU deep learning architecture. by Zhaohui Zhu, E Wu, Pengfei Leng, Jiajun Sun, Mingming Ma, Zhigeng Pan

“…Our hybrid model combined multi-scale convolutional feature extraction (using parallel 1D-Convolutional branches) with bidirectional temporal pattern recognition (via gated recurrent unit [GRU] networks) to analyze movement abnormalities and detect the disease.…”
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Assessing Patients with Chronic Pain Using the Basic Personality Inventory as a Complement to the Multidimensional Pain Inventory by Howard J Burton, Stephen A Kline, Robin Hargadon, Barry S Cooper, Roger D Shick, May C Ong-Lam

“…It was anticipated that this pattern would be independent of sex. In addition, validity of the BPI as a measure of psychological distress among patients with pain was examined using psychiatric diagnostic ratings as independent criteria.…”
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The impact of spatial placement on valence judgments of images: a comparative analysis between right-handed and left-handed individuals by Maisto Marta, Actis-Grosso Rossana

“…Thirty participants (15 right-handed, 15 left-handed) rated neutral images displayed in the center, right, or left visual field using a 9-point Likert scale. …”
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