An Intelligent Solar-Powered Traffic Lights that Monitor Traffic Flow Using Sensors and Adjust Signal Timings Based on Vehicle Density: A Case Study of Kampala-Uganda. by Asinguza, Blessed, Ariho, Chriscent

“…The proposed system will reduce delays, increase productivity, enhance safety, and free up personnel currently involved in manual traffic control. …”
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Iodine-131 Combined With Plasma Exchange Treatment in Graves’ Hyperthyroidism Patients With Severe Liver Injury Whose Average Model for End-Stage Liver Disease Scores >20 by Xin-Fang Zhu, Rong-Rong Ding, Bing-Yao Wang, Yun-hui Yang, Fu-Xia Ta, Yuan Wang, Qing-Mei Gao, Qi Zhang, Rong Xia, Xing-Guang Luo, Xuan Wang, Jian-Ming Zheng, Hui-Qing Zhu

“…The levels of hemoglobin, platelet count, alanine aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase, total bilirubin, direct bilirubin, alkaline phosphatase, glutamyl transpeptidase, MELD scores, free triiodothyronine, free thyroxine, antithyroid peroxidase autoantibody and serum thyrotropin receptor antibodies after PE treatment were significantly lower than before PE treatment (P < .05). …”
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The Effect of Prognostic Nutritional Index and Systemic Inflammatory Index in Endometrioid Type Endometrial Cancer by Varol Gulseren, Mine Daggez, Ertugrul Sen, Mehmet Dolanbay, Fulya Caglı, Bulent Ozcelik, İbrahim Serdar Serin, Kemal Gungorduk

“…Low and high PNI values do not affect disease-free (DFS) and overall survival (OS) significantly. 5-year mean DFS and OS differ significantly with low and high SII values. …”
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Effect of pre-hoop expansion deformation on the tensile and fatigue properties of zirconium plate by Haidong Qi, Xiping Song

“…The stress field simulation showed that after the pre-hoop expansion deformation, there existed a compressive stress, a stress-free zone and a tensile stress around the center-hole of specimens. …”
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Jewish national autonomy in Lithuania in 1919-1926th by Raimundas Valkauskas

“…The representatives of the Lithuanian governmental delegation at the Peace Conference signed the letter-declaration (August 5, 1919), containing the obligation to respect and guarantee the rights of the Jews: complete equality before the law; the free use of their own language; the rights to control their own religious, educational, and social institutions; and an equitable share of public funds allotted to educational, religious, or charitable purposes. …”
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Upper Extremity Superficial Vein Thromboses Presenting as Acute Neck Pain in a Young and Healthy Male: A Case Report by Kristen L Zosel, Max K Dummar, Benjamin G Adams, Nancy C Henderson, Richard B Westrick

“…The subject was able to return to his previous level of activity by six months and remained free of SVTs at two-year follow-up. # Discussion UESVT events are rare and can be challenging to identify. …”
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Gamma-knife radiosurgery for jugular foramen schwannomas. A systematic review and meta-analysis by Timoleon Siempis, Spyridon Voulgaris, George A. Alexiou

“…Pooled overall tumour control rate was 93.2 % (95 % CI 89.8–96.6) after a weighted mean follow-up of 54.07 months (95 % CI 46.8–61.3). Patient free survival was reported only in 4 studies and ranged from 87 % to 97 % and 76.9–93.8 % in 5 and 10 years respectively. …”
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Locally activated semisynthetic fluorescent biosensors for imaging cellular biochemistry by Coïs, Justine, Dumat, Blaise

“…Fluorogenic semisynthetic biosensors that are fluorescent only upon local activation by reaction with a genetically encoded self-labeling protein tag provide an additional level of selectivity, allowing wash-free imaging experiments. This minireview focuses on the latter class of hybrid sensors and provides an outlook on the different small molecular probe design strategies and self-labeling protein tag combinations (mostly SNAP-tag and HaloTag) for their construction. …”
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Efficacy and safety of laquinimod versus placebo in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials by Malik Waleed Zeb Khan, Aizaz Ali, Amna Hussain, Safeena Khan, Ammara Tahir, Muhammad Haris Khan, Touba Azeem, Abdul Moeez, Arysha Monis, Aban Masaud Mian, Fazia Khattak, Moosa Ali, Jibran Ikram

“…Laquinimod was also significantly better than placebo in maintaining a relapse-free status (risk ratio [RR] = 1.14 95% CI = 1.06, 1.22, I 2  = 10%). …”
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THE DYNAMICS OF STATE-SOCIETY RELATIONS AND DEMOCRATIZATION IN NIGERIA by OGBONNA Emmanuel Chijioke, ALUKO Bayode, ADEYANJU Joseph

“…Focusing mainly on secondary data, the paper argues that all the factors facilitative of democratisation, free, fair, and periodic elections, protection of civil and political rights, political literacy, accountability, and freedom of the press, remain on the shoulders of constructive state-society relations. …”
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Potential of ultrasound investigation in diagnostics of pseudomembranous colitis in surgical patients by O. A. Alekseyechkina, E. Ya. Dubrov, Ye. S. Vladimirova, T. P. Pinchuk, G. P. Titova

“…Set of ultrasound signs, according to which it is possible to suspect pseudomembranous colitis is determined: thickening and lamination of walls of the large intestine, paracolic edema, free fluid in abdominal cavity, depositions of fibrin on parietal and visceral peritoneum. …”
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Droplet microfluidic screening to engineer angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) catalytic activity by Evelyn F Okal, Philip A. Romero, Pete Heinzelman

“…Our assay detects substrate cleavage via free amino acid release, providing a precise measurement of biologically relevant peptidase activity. …”
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Cognitive strategies for UAV trajectory optimization: Ensuring safety and energy efficiency in real-world scenarios by Mushtaq Muhammad Umer, Hein Venter, Owais Muhammad, Tamoor Shafique, Fuad A. Awwad, Emad A.A. Ismail

“…An optimization problem is formulated with external and internal safety constraints, and traversing collision free paths. The proposed work offers an energy efficient RRT algorithm, which is used to assess multiple trajectory alternatives. …”
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Analysis and optimization of energy harvesting characteristics of converter valve magnetic field self-powered harvester by WANG Wei, SU Wenbo, XU Chenjin, WU Yuwei, SHI Yuchen

“…At the same time, it can meet the needs of long-term maintenance-free detection of power equipment in narrow and high temperature space such as converter stations.…”
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Seropositivity for Bovine Viral Diarrhea and Enzootic Bovine Leukemia viruses in Blanco Orejinegro cattle in Colombia and infection associated-factors by A. Saldarriaga-Saldarriaga, M. Londoño-Gil, L. G. González-Herrera, J. C. Rincón-Flórez, A. López-Herrera

“…For BVD, seropositivity obtained was 50,6%, and the factors associated with seropositivity identified were having had a history of the disease in the herd, and using semen from bulls that are not known to be free for the infection. We suggest establishing control measures considering the factors associated with each viral infection to limit their expansion in the BON cattle production systems of Colombia.…”
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Security Challenges: Appraisal of Threats to Nigeria’s Sovereignty in the Fourth Republic (1999-2019) by Olanrewaju Rafiu Memud, Solomon A. Ojo

“…The study recommends good governance and unadulterated fiscal federalism, free and fair elections; discourage culture of impunity, proactiveresponse to intelligence information gathering/usage; and non[1]politicization of unfolding socio-political issues. …”
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PERFORMANCES OF INSURANCE MARKET IN MONTENEGRO IN CONDITIONS OF FINANCIAL CRISIS by Miljana Novićević, Vladimir Kašćelan, Julija Cerović

“…Therefore, the control of business of insurance companies, licensed brokers and insurance agents, directing insurance companies to invest free funds into nonrisky forms of property and adequate promotion of insurance activities can provide reduction in negative impacts of economic events, i.e. affect insurance companies so that they realize the best possible business results in this and later period. …”
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NATIONAL SECURITY AND BORDER MANAGEMENT IN WEST AFRICA: A STUDY OF NIGERIA-NIGER RELATIONS by IYANU-OLUWA AYOBAMI AYODELE, UMARU TOYIN SHIRU

“…The efforts of the states can be impeded based on the ECOWAS Protocol on Free Movement of Goods and Persons which will not allow restriction of people in and out of ECOWAS region.  …”
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Seed endophytes of malting barley from different locations are shaped differently and are associated with malt quality traits by Oyeyemi Ajayi, Ramamurthy Mahalingam

“…Association analysis showed a significant negative correlation between bacterial alpha diversity indices (Faith PD and Shannon indices) and malt quality traits for barley protein (BP), free amino nitrogen (FAN), diastatic power (DP) and alpha amylase (AA), while fungal alpha diversity (Shannon and Simpson) showed significant negative relationship with β-D-glucan content. …”
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