Clinical and molecular analysis of JCPyV and BKPyV infection and associated risk of urothelial carcinoma development in the upper tract by Chun-Nun Chao, Chi-Feng Hung, Wei‑Hong Lai, Chun-Liang Tung, Wan-Yun Yeh, Kai-Wu Yang, Meilin Wang, Ya-Yan Lai, Pei-Lain Chen, Cheng-Huang Shen

“…The OR of UTUC was higher by 10.34-fold in patients with mutant p53 and by 10.37-fold in those with simultaneous LT and mutant p53 expression. …”
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Factors associated with early hospital readmission for acute decompensation of cirrhosis - prospective cohort study by Tamara Liana Zocche, Cláudia Maccali, Fernanda Cristina de Augustinho, Elayne Cristina de Morais Rateke, Camila Matiollo, Ariane Borgonovo Rayes, Dariana Carla Maggi, Esther Buzaglo Dantas-Corrêa, Leonardo de Lucca Schiavon, Janaina Luz Narciso-Schiavon

“…In the logistic regression analysis, CLIF-SOFA variables (odds ratio [OR] 1.137, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.003–1.289, p=0.045) and several complications present in the initial hospitalization (OR 1.503, 95% CI 1.074–2.105, p=0.018) independent of early readmission. …”
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Analyzing the Influence of Managerial Traits and Financial Strategies on Corporate Risk-taking in the Tehran Stock Exchange by Gholamreza Karami, Ali Asghari

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Research on the quantification and automatic classification method of Chinese cabbage plant type based on point cloud data and PointNet++ by Chongchong Yang, Chongchong Yang, Lei Sun, Lei Sun, Jun Zhang, Jun Zhang, Xiaofei Fan, Xiaofei Fan, Dongfang Zhang, Dongfang Zhang, Tianyi Ren, Tianyi Ren, Minggeng Liu, Minggeng Liu, Zhiming Zhang, Zhiming Zhang, Wei Ma, Wei Ma

“…K-medoids clustering analysis was then used for the unsupervised classification of the data, and specific quantification of Chinese cabbage plant types was performed based on the classification results. Finally, we combined 1024 feature vectors with 10 custom dimensionless features and used the optimized PointNet++ model for supervised learning to achieve the automatic classification of Chinese cabbage plant types. …”
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Transforming Growth Factor-β Protects against Inflammation-Related Atherosclerosis in South African CKD Patients by Muzamil Olamide Hassan, Raquel Duarte, Therese Dix-Peek, Caroline Dickens, Sagren Naidoo, Ahmed Vachiat, Sacha Grinter, Pravin Manga, Saraladevi Naicker

“…TGF-β1 and TGF-β2 levels were significantly lower in patients with carotid plaque compared to those without carotid plaque [TGF-β1: 31.9 (17.2 – 42.2) versus 45.9 (35.4 – 58.1) ng/ml, p=0.016; and TGF-β2: 1.46 (1.30 – 1.57) versus 1.70 (1.50 – 1.87) ng/ml, p=0.013]. In multiple logistic regression, age, TGF-β2, and TGF-β3 were the only independent predictors of subclinical atherosclerosis in CKD patients [age: odds ratio (OR), 1.054; 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.003 – 1.109, p=0.039; TGF-β2: OR, 0.996; 95% CI: 0.994–0.999, p=0.018; TGF-β3: OR, 0.992; 95% CI: 0.985–0.999, p=0.029). …”
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Real-world short-term outcomes and treatment regimen comparisons in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma treated with first-line immune combinations by Masato Kikuta, Sei Naito, Takahiro Osawa, Kazuyuki Numakura, Takafumi Narisawa, Yuki Takai, Mayu Yagi, Yuya Sekine, Ojiro Tokairin, Nobuo Shinohara, Tomonori Habuchi, Norihiko Tsuchiya

“…Results The IMDC risk model demonstrated a c-index of 0.684 (OS) for entire cohort, 0.600 (PFS), 0.596 (TTF2), and 0.624 (OS) for IO-IO, and 0.667 (PFS), 0.702 (TTF2), and 0.751 (OS) for IO-TKI. …”
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Rate of Suture Material Absorption Does Not Impact Short Term Outcome of Tubularized Incised Plate Repair of Distal Penile Hypospadias in Children: A Randomized Controlled Study by Mohamed Abdelwahab, Mohamed Salah, Waseem Aboul Ela, Ahmed Salem, Amr Amin Ragab, Ahmed Mahmoud Shouman, Mohamed Abdelghany

“…The number of children with complications was 8/39 (20.5%) in group (A) while it was 9/39 (23.1%) in group (B) (p = 0.784). The rates of urethro- cutaneous fistula, wound dehiscence and wound infection were 4/39 (10.3%), 2/39 (5.1%) and 4/39 (10.3%) in group A, while they were 4/39 (10.3%), 3/39 (7.7%) and 5/39 (12.8%) in group B respectively, (p = 1.000, 0.644 and 0.723 respectively). …”
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Time-varying intensity of ventilatory inefficiency and mortality in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome by Lianlian Jiang, Hui Chen, Wei Chang, Qin Sun, Xueyan Yuan, Zongsheng Wu, Jianfeng Xie, Ling Liu, Yi Yang

“…Furthermore, a significant increase in the risk of death was related to daily exposure to VR > 2 (HR 1.088 per day, 95% CI 1.034–1.147) and its cumulative effect (HR 1.085 per area, 95% CI 1.050–1.122), whereas PaCO2 was found to be insignificant. …”
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Muՙtezilî Usûlcülerin Mecaz Tanımları Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme by Yasin Akan

“…Cessâs (öl. 370/981) ve Bâkıllânî (öl. 403/1013) düşünsel mülahazalar içermeyen sade bir tanım yaparken Mu‘tezilî usûlcülerden Ebü’l-Hüseyin el-Basrî (öl. 436/1044) mecaza dair kelâmî mülahazalar içeren komplike bir tanım geliştirmiştir. …”
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Difficultés diagnostiques de la tuberculose cérébrale by Chahrazed Benrabah

“…Globally and among all tuberculosis cases, WHO reports 14% extra-pulmonary tuberculosis (EPT) without concomitant pulmonary involvement. …”
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Eating difficulties among Nigerian community-dwelling stroke survivors: prevalence, correlates, and association with quality of life by Adekola B. Ademoyegun, Adebukola G. Ibitoye, Wasiu A. Rasaq, Oluwafunmilayo A. Adeniyi, David O. Fabuluje, Israel A. Ojo, Taofeek O. Awotidebe, Chidozie E. Mbada

“…The results showed that EDs were associated with haemorrhagic stroke (r = 0.158; p = 0.016), right-sided hemiplegia (r = 0.172; p = 0.008), increasing stroke severity (r = 0.466; p < 0.001), increasing co-morbidity (r = 0.384; p < 0.001), poor oral health (r = 0.511; p < 0.001), poor mental health (r = 0.260; p < 0.001), poor affected grip strength (r= -0.157; p = 0.016), poor nutritional status (r= -0.362; p < 0.001), low functional ability (r= -0.415; p < 0.001), and low social support (r= -0.257; p < 0.001). …”
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Sexual dimorphism in basal and post stress parameters of neuro-endocrine-immune complex, metabolome, electrocardiogram, and gastric mucosa at rats by Oksana Fihura, Mykhaylo Korda, Ivan Klishch, Sofiya Ruzhylo, Oksana Melnyk, Walery Zukow, Roman Yanchij, Alyona Vorobienko, Oleksandr Plyska, Dariya Popovych, Igor Popovych

“…The experiment conducted on the same 18 males and 20 females rats Wistar line. 10 animals remained intact and other rats after a week of tap water (n=10) or phytoadaptogen “Balm Truskavets’” (n=18) administration were exposed to water-immersion and restraint stress (WIRS). …”
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Association between exposure to ambient air pollutants and metabolic syndrome in the vicinity of the Taklamakan Desert by Zhe Wang, Weidong Ji, Yushan Wang, Lin Li, Kai Wang, Hongze Liu, Yining Yang, Yi Zhou

“…A 10 μg/m³ increase in concentration was associated with the following respective odds ratios: PM1 (1.341, 95 % CI: 1.331, 1.351), PM2.5 (1.036, 95 % CI: 1.034, 1.037), PM10 (1.006, 95 % CI: 1.005, 1.007), O3 (1.385, 95 % CI: 1.374, 1.396), and CO (1.015,95 %, CI: 1.0147, 1.016). …”
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Robotic Assistance is Associated With No Intraoperative Fluoroscopy or Radiation Exposure During Direct Anterior Total Hip Arthroplasty by Sean Sequeira, MD, Alan Brett, PhD, Joseph Nessler, MD, Benjamin Frye, MD, Michael A. Mont, MD

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Exploration of Degradation Mechanism of Chlorogenic Acids in Stevia Based on UPLC-QTOF MS/MS by Juan-juan WU, Zi-xuan WANG, Yun-he LIAN, Li-juan HOU, Zhi-ping NIU, Wen-chang WANG, Di WU

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Formation of Stripped Stars from Stellar Collisions in Galactic Nuclei by Charles F. A. Gibson, Fulya Kiroğlu, James C. Lombardi Jr., Sanaea C. Rose, Hans D. Vanderzyden, Brenna Mockler, Monica Gallegos-Garcia, Kyle Kremer, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Frederic A. Rasio

“…The observed spectra of several TDEs, such as ASASSN-14li, show high nitrogen-to-carbon (N/C) abundance ratios, leading to questions about their progenitors. …”
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A Randomized Trial of Insulin Glargine plus Oral Hypoglycemic Agents versus Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion to Treat Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes by Shuo Lin, Mu Chen, Wanling Chen, Keyi Lin, Panwei Mu, Bilian Zhu, Wen Xu, Manman Wang, Jianping Weng, Longyi Zeng

“…Groups A and B have comparable time to glycemic control (3.6 ± 1.2 days and 4.0 ± 1.4 days), MAGE (3.40 ± 1.40 mmol/L vs. 3.16 ± 1.38 mmol/L; p=0.484), and 24-hour mean blood glucose (7.49 ± 0.96 mmol/L vs. 7.02 ± 1.03 mmol/L). …”
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A Study of the Corrosion Behavior of AHSS Complex-Phase CP 780 Employing an Electrochemical Noise Technique Analyzed by Different Methods by Maria Lara-Banda, Facundo Almeraya-Calderón, Jesús Manuel Jáquez-Muñoz, Demetrio Nieves-Mendoza, Miguel Angel Baltazar-Zamora, Javier Olguín-Coca, Francisco Estupiñan-Lopez, Jose Cabral Miramontes, Griselda Santiago-Hurtado, Citlalli Gaona-Tiburcio

“…Data were recorded at 1024 s, at 1 data per second in a 3.5 wt. % NaCl electrolyte, according to ASTM G199-09. …”
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Ordinary and Extraordinary Permittivities of 4H SiC at Different Millimeter-Wave Frequencies, Temperatures, and Humidities by Tianze Li, Lei Li, Xiaopeng Wang, James C. M. Hwang, Shana Yanagimoto, Yoshiyuki Yanagimoto

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Dye sensitized photocatalytic degradation of congo red and rhodamine B by 1,3,5-Benzenetricarboxylic acid based metal organic frameworks Ni3(BTC)2.12H2O, (Ni0.8Co0.2)3(BTC)2.12H2O... by Kavitha Karuppiah, Anushree Raju, Anuradha Natarajan, Swedha Mohan, Dhinakaran Subramani, Kumaran Rajendran, Vanjinathan Mahalingam, Gopalakrishnan Arumugam, Samikannu Prabu, Kung-Yuh Chiang, Vasanthi Rajaraman

“…The exceptional performance of Cu₃(BTC)₂ is attributed to its large surface area (1064 m2g−1). The incorporation of cobalt into the (Ni₀.₈Co₀.₂)₃(BTC)₂ framework enhanced the degradation rates compared to pure Ni₃(BTC)₂. …”
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