Brain atrophy in heart failure patients following left ventricular assist device implantation or heart transplantation by D.Alan Herbst, MD, Banafsheh Shakibajahromi, MD, Michael V. Genuardi, MD, Amit Iyengar, MD, Dawn Mechanic-Hamilton, PhD, H. Branch Coslett, MD, Pavan Atluri, MD, Christopher G. Favilla, MD

“…LVAD patients experienced greater brain atrophy (median: 7.1 mL/year; IQR: 0.9–15.7) than transplant patients (median: 0.4 mL/year; IQR: −6.7–13.9), but this difference was non-significant (p=0.09). …”
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Experimental application of gliders communication system in South China Sea by Shuyang Jia, Shuyang Jia, Shuyang Jia, Baoheng Liu, Baoheng Liu, Sichen Zou, Xiaochuan Zhang, Xiaochuan Zhang, Xiaochuan Zhang

“…The underwater acoustic communication equipment is installed in the cabin and has a standby power consumption of only 5 mW. To verify the feasibility of this integration method, an offshore test was conducted in the South China Sea. …”
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Study of Stage Gap for a 2-bladed 2-stage Savonius-like-hydro-kinetic Turbine Performance Involving End Plates and Overlapping by K. C. Sarma, B. Nath, A. Biswas, R. D. Misra

“…The minimal stage gap is 5 mm, turbine braking loading 1250 g, 0.248 TSR, and 0.55 m/s water velocity yield the highest power coefficient (0.058), which is greater than some published SLHT designs. …”
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Identifying factors for pembrolizumab eligibility in head and neck cancer by Satoru Miyamaru, Daizo Murakami, Kohei Nishimoto, Yorihisa Orita

“…Methods We retrospectively analyzed 54 patients with R/M HNC treated with pembrolizumab from January 2020 to December 2022. …”
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Microstructural, electrochemical, and hot corrosion analysis of CoCrFeCuTi high entropy alloy reinforced titanium matrix composites synthesized by microwave sintering by S. Ragunath, N. Radhika, S Aravind Krishna, Alokesh Pramanik

“…The 12 wt% composite also achieved finer grains (0.345 μm) due to uniform internal heat generation from the process. …”
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A classification scheme of active faults in engineering. by Qingyun Zhou, Suge He, Zhenyu Zou

“…Standard buildings should avoid active faults with a fault displacement hazard level of Ⅰ ~ Ⅲ (faults that can generate earthquakes of magnitude m0 and above under a 4% exceedance probability over 100 years). …”
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Impacts of Sea Land Breeze on the Fog and PM2.5 Concentration in Tianjin, China by Lihong Meng, Erhui Yang, Lili Liu, Wei Wang, Jianbo Yang, Ping Qu

“…The vertical height of the sea breeze reached about 1200 m. The transportation of continuous water vapor and 90 m thick temperature inversion were the two main causes for the formation of coastal urban fog. …”
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Surface plasmon resonance biosensors for SARS-CoV-2 sensing: The role of silicon nitride and graphene by Talia Tene, Diana Coello-Fiallos, Myrian Borja, Narcisa Sánchez, Fabián Londo, Cristian Vacacela Gomez, Stefano Bellucci

“…Two configurations, Sys₃ and Sys₅, were developed and numerically evaluated under varying SARS-CoV-2 concentrations in PBS solution, ranging from 0.01 nM to 100 nM. Sys₃, optimized with Ag at 55 nm, Si₃N₄ at 13 nm, and ssDNA at 10 nm, demonstrated exceptional sensitivity (371.7°/RIU), low limit of detection, and high detection accuracy, making it suitable for precision applications. …”
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Uncovering new Higgses in the LHC analyses of differential t t ¯ $$ t\overline{t} $$ cross sections by Sumit Banik, Guglielmo Coloretti, Andreas Crivellin, Bruce Mellado

“…In this setup, the total 𝜒2 is reduced, compared to the SM, resulting in ∆χ 2 = 34 to ∆χ 2 = 158, corresponding to a significance of 5.8σ to 13σ, depending on the SM simulation used. Notably, allowing m S to vary, the combination of the distributions points towards m S ≈ 150 GeV, which is consistent with the existing γγ and WW signals, rendering a mismodelling of the SM unlikely. …”
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ASSESSMENT OF THE LEVEL OF SAFETY AND HEALTH AT WORK OF THE 400/220/110/20 kV MINTIA POWER SUBSTATION by Nicolae Daniel FÎȚĂ, Mila Ilieva OBRETENOVA, Adina TĂTAR, Florin MURESAN – GRECU, Gheorghe Eugen SAFTA, Mihai SCHIOPU

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Photodiagnosis and photodynamic recognition of cervical cancer with SEM and AFM images. by Sevcan Aytaç, Gürkan Özbey

“…It has been also observed that the surface roughness of the mAFM images was larger than nAFM and bAFM images. …”
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Deciphering CSU pathogenesis: Network toxicologyand molecular dynamics of DOTP exposure by Fang Cao, Cui Guo, Jing Guo

“…Results: The study identified 38 potential targets associated with CSU and highlighted six core targets—EGFR, BCL2, NFKB1, CASP3, ERBB2, and mTOR—through PPI network analysis. GO and KEGG analyses illuminated the roles of these targets in biological processes, cellular components, molecular functions, and signaling pathways, with a particular emphasis on the PI3K-Akt signaling pathway. …”
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MODELING AND SIMULATION OF A DUAL CHANNEL ACTIVE NOISE CONTROL SYSTEM FOR POWER TRANSFORMER USING FXLMS ALGORITHM by ADETONA SUNDAY, SALAWU RAIFU, ALABI MORUF

“…The noise emanating from a 100 MVA, 132/33 kV power transformer was captured with the help of a smart phone in flight mode in accordance with IEC 60076-10 standard of 2 m away from the transformer and 1 m apart between each measurement. …”
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Correlation of Anti-Müllerian Hormone with Polycystic Ovarian Disease and its Relation with Age by Sara Omer Muhammed, Chro Najmaddin Fattah

“…The mean±SD of BMI and AMH were 26.2±2.8 kg/m2 (ranged from 21.3 to 33.2 kg/m2) and 4.76±3.51 ng/ml (ranged from 0.1-14.6 ng/ml) respectively. …”
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Incidence and Implications of Culture-Positive Corneoscleral Rims in Corneal Transplantation by Meeraalam Z, Alreshidi SO, ALBalawi HB, Alali NM, Hashem F, Kirat OM

“…Zuheer Meeraalam,1 Shaker O Alreshidi,2 Hani B ALBalawi,3 Naif M Alali,3 Faris Hashem,3 Omar M Kirat4 1Ophthalmology Department, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; 2Ophthalmology Division, Department of Surgical Specialties, College of Medicine, Majmaah University, Majmaah, Saudi Arabia; 3Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia; 4Anterior Segment Division, King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaCorrespondence: Hani B ALBalawi, Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, 71491, Saudi Arabia, Email hb.albalawi@ut.edu.saBackground: Corneal transplantation is a critical procedure for restoring vision affected by different corneal pathologies. …”
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Local cOinage and Hospital Equipment Index (Lo Hei): projectile distance of Singapore coinage and healthcare-related equipment in a 3T magnetic resonance imaging scanner by Shao Jin Ong, James TPD Hallinan, Deborah Khoo, Desmond Hoon, Koon Liang Chia, Joanne Hang, Lycia Teo, Peijing Su, Michael Ong, Bertrand Ang, Swee Tian Quek

“…Among the tested objects, a can of pineapple drink (Lee Pineapple Juice) had the highest HUAT AH at a distance of more than 1.5 m. Conclusion: Some local coinage and commonly found objects within a healthcare setting demonstrate ferromagnetic activity with projectile potential from a distance of more than 1 m. …”
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EMFF-Net: Edge-Enhancement Multi-Scale Feature Fusion Network by Xuhui Guan, Jiwang Zhou, Jian Chen, Xiaodan Xu, Yizhang Jiang, Kaijian Xia

“…This represents a clear advantage over traditional CNNs and existing SOTA techniques, Especially, we achieved 81% mDice and 74% mIoU on the CVC-ColonDB dataset.…”
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Electrospun polyvinylpyrrolidone fibers with cobalt ferrite nanoparticles by Vinicio J. Cevallos, Sarah Briceño, Guillermo Solorzano, Jules Gardener, Alexis Debut, Raúl Dávalos, Werner Bramer-Escamilla, Gema González

“…PVP fibers showed an average diameter of 3.74μm with a resistance of 121.58 GΩ and 2.22μm and 1.20 GΩ with the incorporation of CoFe2O4 nanoparticles. …”
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The zebrafish moonshine gene encodes transcriptional intermediary factor 1gamma, an essential regulator of hematopoiesis. by David G Ransom, Nathan Bahary, Knut Niss, David Traver, Caroline Burns, Nikolaus S Trede, Noelle Paffett-Lugassy, Walter J Saganic, C Anthoney Lim, Candace Hersey, Yi Zhou, Bruce A Barut, Shuo Lin, Paul D Kingsley, James Palis, Stuart H Orkin, Leonard I Zon

“…Three different mon mutant alleles each encode premature stop codons, and enforced expression of wild-type tif1gamma mRNA rescues embryonic hematopoiesis in homozygous mon mutants. …”
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Retinal Artery Occlusion Associated with Prepapillary Arterial Loop: An Isolated Ocular Disease? Case Report and Literature Review by Mansour AM, Parodi MB, Casella AMB, Kheir WJ, Bashshur ZF

“…Ahmad M Mansour,1 Maurizio Battaglia Parodi,2 Antônio Marcelo Barbante Casella,3 Wajiha J Kheir,1 Ziad Fayez Bashshur1 1Department of Ophthalmology, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon; 2Department of Ophthalmology, University Vita-Salute Milan, Milan, Italy; 3Department of Ophthalmology, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Paraná, BrazilCorrespondence: Ahmad M Mansour, Department of Ophthalmology, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, Tel +961-337-7633, Email ammansourmd@gmail.comPurpose: When branch retinal artery occlusion is linked to prepapillary artery loop, is a systemic work-up necessary?…”
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