On the nascent wind of oxygen-rich AGB stars: scrutiny of a sample of nearby stars by Darriulat, Pierre, Hoai, Do Thi, Nhung, Pham Thi Tuyet, Diep, Pham Ngoc, Ngoc, Nguyen Bich, Thai, Tran Thi, Anh, Pham Tuan

“…The commonly accepted mechanism governing the formation of the nascent wind in oxygen-rich AGB stars combines an initial boost above the photosphere, given by shock waves resulting from stellar pulsations and convective cell partition, with a subsequent acceleration fuelled by the radiation pressure of the star on dust grains. …”
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Sepsis in Internal Medicine: blood culture-based subtypes, hospital outcomes, and predictive biomarkers by Gaetano Zizzo, Gabriele Guazzardi, Daniela Bompane, Francesco Di Terlizzi, Giorgio Rotola, Ilario Stefani, Michela Medugno, Mario Bucalo, Antonino Mazzone

“…BackgroundSepsis is a challenging condition increasingly managed in medical wards, however literature and clinical evidence in this hospital setting are lacking.MethodsUsing the computational i2b2 framework, we retrospectively analyzed data from patients admitted to internal medicine units of four hospitals in Lombardy (Italy) between January 2012 and December 2023, with a discharge diagnosis of sepsis, septic shock, or septicemia.ResultsA total of 4,375 patients were recruited. …”
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Phylogenetic analysis, metabolic profiling, and environmental adaptation of strain LCG007: a novel Rhodobacteraceae isolated from the East China Sea intertidal zone by Cuizhu Liang, Jiahua Wang, Jie Liu, Zekai Wang, Junwei Cao, Xi Yu, Li Zhang, Jiasong Fang, Jiasong Fang

“…In terms of environmental adaptability, the genes that encode for DNA photolyase, heat and cold shock proteins, and enzymes responsible for scavenging reactive oxygen species, along with those involved in the uptake and biosynthesis of osmoprotectants such as betaine, γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA), and trehalose collectively enable strain LCG007 to survive in the dynamic and complex intertidal zone environment. …”
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Daily Usage of Proton Pump Inhibitors May Reduce the Severity of Critical Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Elderly Patients by Hidetaka Matsuda, Takuto Nosaka, Yu Akazawa, Yasushi Saito, Yoshihiko Ozaki, Kazuto Takahashi, Tatsushi Naito, Kazuya Ofuji, Masahiro Ohtani, Katsushi Hiramatsu, Yasunari Nakamoto

“…Bleeding severity was assessed using the shock index (SI) and estimated bleeding volume; 49 patients met the criterion for the mild group and 48 for the moderate/severe group. …”
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Equivalent experimental study on rock breaking of SC-CO2 and industrial emulsion explosive by Nan JIANG, Yingkang YAO, Bin ZHU, Xuedong LUO

“…Industrial explosives blasting generates more intense shock waves, but the SC-CO2 method produces a higher peak combined stress because the high-pressure gas from SC-CO2 rock breaking creates a gas wedge effect. …”
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Conversion from Nonshockable to Shockable Rhythms and Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Outcomes by Initial Heart Rhythm and Rhythm Conversion Time by Wanwan Zhang, Shengyuan Luo, Daya Yang, Yongshu Zhang, Jinli Liao, Liwen Gu, Wankun Li, Zhihao Liu, Yan Xiong, Ahamed Idris

“…Among 24,849 adult OHCA patients of presumed cardiac etiology with initial asystole or PEA in the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium Cardiac Epidemiologic Registry (version 3, 2011–2015), we examined the association of shockable rhythm conversion with prehospital return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC), survival, and favorable functional outcome (modified Rankin Scale score ≤3) at hospital discharge by initial rhythm and rhythm conversion time (time from cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) initiation by emergency medical providers to first shock delivery), using logistic regression adjusting for key clinical characteristics. …”
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Investigating The Performance Of Local And Indigenous Businesses In Times Of Economic Recession With Emphasis On Developing The Capabilities Of Cooperatives In Sistan And Baluchest... by Ali Asghar Tabavar, Abdoulnaser Derakhshan, Sahar Arefi

“…This test evaluates the effects of variables in the long term and also examines the reaction of variables to the shock of periods of economic recession. The first step in carrying out the estimation approach of vector error correction models is to check the meanness of the data. …”
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Tenecteplase vs Reteplase in Patients with Acute ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Adham Mohamed PharmD, Sara Mahmoud PharmD, Amr M. Fahmi PhD, Ahmed Mahfouz MSc, Tayseer Kanaan MD, Jihad Jaber MD, Mansour Alkhawi MD, Saleh Alkhalaf MD, Hassan Kodimi MD, Ahmed Shaaban MD, Omar Alshibli MD, Awad Almasalmeh MD, Salaheddin Arafa MD, Salah Elbdri MD, Suhail Falah MD, Fayez Altrad MD, Ezeldin Soaly MD, Rasha Elenany PharmD, Sumaya Alyafei PharmD, Abdul Rahman Arabi MD

“…Secondary outcomes included the incidence of major bleeding, cardiogenic shock, re-infarction and mortality. Results A total of 282 patients were included, 229 and 53 received tenecteplase and reteplase, respectively. …”
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Pregnancy and Postpartum Trends in Self‐Measured Blood Pressure and Derived Indices: The BOSHI Study by Seiya Izumi, Misato Nishimura, Noriyuki Iwama, Hasumi Tomita, Hirotaka Hamada, Taku Obara, Mami Ishikuro, Takahisa Murakami, Michihiro Satoh, Takuo Hirose, Masatoshi Saito, Takayoshi Ohkubo, Shinichi Kuriyama, Nobuo Yaegashi, Kazuhiko Hoshi, Yutaka Imai, Hirohito Metoki, the BOSHI Study Group

“…During pregnancy, the pulse rate (PR) showed an inverted U‐shaped trend and then sharply increased rapidly until the first postpartum day after delivery. The Shock Index showed a similar trend to that of the PR, decreased from labor until postpartum Day 8, and plateaued thereafter. …”
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Melanoma-Targeted Chemothermotherapy and In Situ Peptide Immunotherapy through HSP Production by Using Melanogenesis Substrate, NPrCAP, and Magnetite Nanoparticles by Kowichi Jimbow, Yasue Ishii-Osai, Shosuke Ito, Yasuaki Tamura, Akira Ito, Akihiro Yoneta, Takafumi Kamiya, Toshiharu Yamashita, Hiroyuki Honda, Kazumasa Wakamatsu, Katsutoshi Murase, Satoshi Nohara, Eiichi Nakayama, Takeo Hasegawa, Itsuo Yamamoto, Takeshi Kobayashi

“…Magnetite nanoparticles were conjugated with NPrCAP to introduce thermotherapeutic and immunotherapeutic effects through nonapoptotic cell death and generation of heat shock protein (HSP) upon exposure to alternating magnetic field (AMF). …”
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‘Queer Reverence’: Aubrey Beardsley’s Venus and Tannhäuser by Nicole Fluhr

“…His unfinished novel Venus and Tannhäuser, which Stanley Weintraub calls ‘a triumph of excess,’ exhibits to the full Beardsley’s penchant for shocking readers and mocking aesthetic conventions. …”
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The Phenotype of Diploid and Triploid F1 of Female Kohaku and Sanke Koi with Males White and Red Koi by . Alimuddin, K. Sumantadinata, Yani Hadiroseyani

“…Triploidization was done by heat shock at 40°C during 1,0-1,5 minutes after 2-3 minute from egg fertilization. …”
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Effects of Stocking Density on Fatty Acid and Amino Acid Composition in Muscle, Serum Cortisol, Stress and Immune Response in Large Yellow Croaker (<i>Larimichthys crocea</i>) by Youbin Yu, Liang Wang, Wenyun Huang, Duo Yu, Qiaoxuan Sun, Mingcao Cui

“…Levels of cortisol in serum, superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase (CAT) in liver, Na⁺-K⁺ ATPase and Na⁺-K⁺ ATPase gene in gills, and heat shock protein (HSP70/90) genes and glutathione S-transferase (GST) genes in the liver significantly increased under HD treatment. …”
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Transcriptomic responses of sponge holobionts to in situ, seasonal anoxia and hypoxia by Strehlow, Brian W., Schuster, Astrid, Francis, Warren R., Eckford-Soper, Lisa, Kraft, Beate, McAllen, Rob, Nielsen, Ronni, Mandrup, Susanne, Canfield, Donald E.

“…Nevertheless, both anoxia and hypoxia caused upregulation of heat shock proteins (HSPs), indicating cellular level adaptations to deoxygenation stress. …”
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Association between clinical-biological characteristics of Klebsiella pneumoniae and 28-day mortality in patients with bloodstream infection by Xiaofeng Yu, Yi Zhao, Xiao Sun, Jiahui Luan, Haiyan Wang, Tianyu Sun, Tongtong Lin, Xia Zhou, Wei Yang, Ziguang Deng, Bo Liu, Hongyun Cao

“…These factors included an elevated qSOFA score (odds ratio [OR] 2.98, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.21–7.31, p = 0.017), presence of septic shock (OR 8.21, 95% CI 1.63–41.93, p = 0.008), and nosocomial infection (OR 7.72, 95% CI 1.71–34.74, p = 0.002). …”
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A Real World Report on Intravenous High-Dose and Non-High-Dose Proton-Pump Inhibitors Therapy in Patients with Endoscopically Treated High-Risk Peptic Ulcer Bleeding by Lung-Sheng Lu, Sheng-Chieh Lin, Chung-Mou Kuo, Wei-Chen Tai, Po-Lin Tseng, Kuo-Chin Chang, Chung-Huang Kuo, Seng-Kee Chuah

“…Before case-control matching, the high-dose PPI group had higher creatinine level, higher percentage of shock at presentation, and higher Rockall scores. …”
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Target Groups for a Short Dexamethasone Course among Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients by Armen Oganesyan, Ruslan Menzulin, Yury Surovoy, Andrei Nikiforchin, Kirill Zykov

“…Patients ≥65 years experienced hyperglycemia, bacterial infection, and septic shock significantly more often than younger patients who received dexamethasone (p=0.002, p=0.025, and p<0.001, respectively). …”
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Lignans are the main active components of Schisandrae Chinensis Fructus for liver disease treatment: a review by Ke Fu, Shu Dai, Cheng Ma, Yafang Zhang, Shenglin Zhang, Cheng Wang, Lihong Gong, Honglin Zhou, Yunxia Li

“…The mechanism mainly involved adenosine 5’-monophosphate-activated protein kinase, endoplasmic reticulum stress, sterol regulatory element binding protein 1c, autophagy, transforming growth factor-β, mitogen-activated protein kinase, microRNA, nuclear factor kappa-B, nuclear factor erythroid-2-related factor 2, heat shock proteins and pregnane X receptor signaling pathways. …”
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The Utility of Neutrophil CD64 and Presepsin as Diagnostic, Prognostic, and Monitoring Biomarkers in Neonatal Sepsis by Heba E. Hashem, Rania M. Abdel Halim, Sherin A. El Masry, Amira M. Mokhtar, Noureldin M. Abdelaal

“…Significant increase in nCD64 (P<0.001) and hs-CRP (P=0.018) values was observed in severe sepsis/septic shock patients compared to nonsevere sepsis patients. …”
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Global Observations of Geomagnetically Induced Currents Caused by an Extremely Intense Density Pulse During a Coronal Mass Ejection by Terry Z. Liu, Xueling Shi, Michael D. Hartinger, Vassilis Angelopoulos, Craig J. Rodger, Ari Viljanen, Yi Qi, Chen Shi, Hannah Parry, Ian Mann, Darcy Cordell, Hadi Madanian, Daniel H. Mac Manus, Michael Dalzell, Ryan Cui, Ryan MacMullin, Greg Young‐Morris, Christian Noel, Jeffrey Streifling

“…It caused substantial dayside displacements of the bow shock and magnetopause, changes of 6RE and 1.3−2RE, respectively, which in turn caused large amplitude GMD in the magnetosphere and on the ground across a wide local time range. …”
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