Improving the Algorithm for the Management of Patients with Viral Hepatitis Using Contrast-Free Hepatic Arterial Spin Labelling Magnetic Resonance Perfusion by E. N. Simakina, T. G. Morozova

“…ASL MR perfusion in VH patients allows to predict fibrotic changes in the hepatic parenchyma (AUROC 0.934 (95% CI 0.845–0.957)), provides information about changes in blood flow in the parenchymal structure (p < 0.005). The algorithm for the examination of VH patients should include contrast-free ASL MR perfusion at admission (AUROC 0.865 (95% CI 0.843–0.928)) and in dynamic follow-up (AUROC 0.915 (95% CI 0.881–0.946)).…”
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Clinical and pathological features of 10 cases of Fabry’s disease with renal damage by HE Juan, WANG Di, TIAN Xiu-juan, YU Yan, XU Guo-shuang

“…Objective To investigate the clinical manifestations and pathological features of the hereditary disease(Fabry’s disease)with renal damage.Methods The clinical manifestations,and laboratory tests and renal pathology data of 10 cases of Fabry’s disease,mainly relating to renal damage,were collected from Department of Nephrology,Affiliated Xijing Hospital of Air Force Military Medical University from September 1997 to January 2020,and the clinical manifestations,pathological features,treatment and prognosis of Fabry’s disease were discussed.Results All the 10 patients were male,and aged 13～66 years with an average age of 28.6.Renal damage was characterized by proteinuria(9 cases,90%),microscopic hematuria(7 cases,70%),and decreased glomerular filtration rate(7 cases,70%),with 3 cases(30%)progressing to end-stage renal disease(ESRD).Outside the kidney,ventricular septal hypertrophy(3 cases,30%),skin rash(3 cases,30%),limb paresthesia(2 cases,20%),keratopathy(1 case,10%),and hearing loss(3 cases,30%)were found.The pathological manifestations of the kidney were diffused vacuolar degeneration and foam-like degeneration of podocytes observed under light microscope,partially accompanied by foam-like degeneration of renal tubular epithelial cells.Segmentalized or nodular sclerosis was observed in the glomeruli,which was easily misdiagnosed as focal segmental glomerulosclerosis.Under electron microscope,the cytoplasm of tissue cells showed a large number of layered circular myelin sheath-like bodies and zebra bodies.Conclusions Fabry’s disease is common in young men,and renal damage is lack of specificity.Most of the manifestations are mild to moderate proteinuria and different degrees of renal insufficiency,and can progress to ESRD.Pathological examination of the kidney is of great significance.Osmiophilic myelin sheath-like inclusion body is its characteristic structure.Among extrarenal manifestations cardiac lesions are the most common.…”
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A Graphite Ore Grade Recognition Method Based on Improved Inception-ResNet-v2 Model by Xueyu Huang, Renjie Pan, Jionghui Wang

“…Key improvements include: 1) To enhance the extraction of global feature information from graphite mine data, a global average pooling branch is incorporated into the Inception-resnet architecture. 2) Incorporating a <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$1\times 1$ </tex-math></inline-formula> convolutional layer at the tail of the model to control channel dimensions and employing the LeakyReLU activation function to address the limitations of the ReLU activation function. 3) Designing an LDP-Conv structure to replace certain <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$3\times 3$ </tex-math></inline-formula> convolutions and incorporating a channel attention mechanism to improve feature capture. 4) Optimizing the Stem module to expand the early-stage receptive field and reconstructing the network architecture. …”
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Hypopituitarism: features of the debut and differential diagnosis (clinical case) by Vera S. Ledneva, Irina A. Bavykina, Anna S. Ivannikova, Kristina O. Ovsyannikova, Mikhail B. Remezov

“…According to objective examination data, no other symptoms of endocrine pathology were detected except for excessive development of subcutaneous fat. …”
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The Perception of Corruption Among Retailers in Central Asia and Eastern Europe During and After the 2008 Crisis by Halil Dincer Kaya, Engku Ngah S. Engkuchik

“…When we differentiate the retailers with respect to size, structure, legal form, gender of the owners, gender of the top manager, and whether or not they held an international quality certification, we found that, the results hold for all classifications of retailers. …”
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Determinants of Bank Risk-Taking: The Role of Capital Adequacy Ratio, Return on Equity to Total Assets, and Loan to Deposit Ratio in The Indonesian Banking Sector by Angkut Angkut, Fadhil Yamaly, Mister Candera

“…The novelty of this study lies in the simultaneous analysis of three key indicators influencing bank risk-taking, providing a comprehensive perspective on the relationship between capital structure, profitability, and liquidity in Indonesia’s banking sector. …”
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Research Capacity Strengthening in Low and Middle Income Countries - An Evaluation of the WHO/TDR Career Development Fellowship Programme. by Michael Käser, Christine Maure, Beatrice M M Halpaap, Mahnaz Vahedi, Sara Yamaka, Pascal Launois, Núria Casamitjana

“…The results of this evaluation may be of interest for other efforts in the field of research capacity strengthening in LMICs or, generally, to other professional development schemes of a similar structure.…”
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An efficient outsourced attribute-based encryption scheme in the device-to-device mobile network by Huawei Wang, Ye Li, Yingnan Jiao, Zhengping Jin

“…In our definition of outsourcing threshold decryption, the decryption, which is a computationally expensive operation, is outsourced to multiple semi-trusted and lightweight computing devices determined by an access structure and can be jointly taken by these devices. …”
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Confidence evaluation for feature selection in expanded feature space based on density of states by Koki Obinata, Yasuhiko Igarashi, Kenji Nagata, Keitaro Sodeyama, Masato Okada

“…We demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed methods through their application to a crystal structure dataset. Our results show that the DoS analysis reveals the presence of a large number of models with a comparable performance with the best model reported in a previous research work. …”
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Investigating the quality of Karst water resources: A case study on Fars Namdan plain by Mohammadsadegh Talebi

“…One of the distinctive features of our Iran is the lack of water, which has affected the natural environment and economic-social structure. Indiscriminate exploitation of water sources and inefficient traditional irrigation systems have made the society face the challenge of water supply. …”
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Community-acquired pneumonia. Diagnosis, treatment approaches by A. A. Anderzhanova, Yu. A. Meleshkina

“…The article presents current data on the prevalence and etiology of community-acquired pneumonia, shows the contribution of each of the possible pathogens to the structure of the disease. …”
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Development of Engineering Models of Nanosatellites for Student Training by V. Е. Evchik, A. A. Spiridonov, D. V. Ushakov, V. S. Baranova, I. A. Shalatonin, V. A. Saechnikov

“…The experience gained in conducting experiments, processing telemetry, and structuring information in the database is used for further development. …”
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Neutrophil Extracellular Traps Drive Kidney Stone Formation by Zhiming Yang, Xiong Chen, Guannan Qi, Jie Gu, Zheng Liu, Xiaobo Zhang

“…HE, Periodic Acid-Schiff and Von Kossa staining were applied to determine histological structure, calcium deposits and stone formation in the kidneys. …”
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Cosmological Constraints from Combining Photometric Galaxy Surveys and Gravitational Wave Observatories by E.L. Gagnon, D. Anbajagane, J. Prat, C. Chang, J. Frieman

“…Spatial variations in survey properties due to selection effects generate substantial systematic errors in large-scale structure measurements in optical galaxy surveys on very large scales. …”
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Psychometric properties of the Georgian version of Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: a cross-sectional study by Tanja Manser, Nikoloz Gambashidze

“…Objectives To study the psychometric properties of the Georgian version of the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSPSC-GE).Design Cross-sectional study.Setting Three Georgian hospitals.Participants Staff of participating hospitals (n=579 responses, response rate 41.6%).Primary and secondary outcome measures Psychometric properties (Model fit, internal consistency, construct validity) of the instrument, factor structure derived from the data.Results HSPSC-GE demonstrated acceptable construct validity but highly limited internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha 0.35–0.87). …”
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Aerobic exercise regulates Rho/cofilin pathways to rescue synaptic loss in aged rats. by Yan Li, Li Zhao, Boya Gu, Jiajia Cai, Yuanyuan Lv, Laikang Yu

“…This neuroprotection is associated with changes in the synaptic structure plasticity. However, the mechanisms of exercise-induced synaptic plasticity in the aging brain are still unclear. …”
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Neutral-current background induced by atmospheric neutrinos at large liquid-scintillator detectors: III. Comprehensive prediction for low energy neutrinos by Jie Cheng, Min Li, Yu-Feng Li, Gao-Song Li, Hao-Qi Lu, Liang-Jian Wen

“…In order to have deeper understanding of the characteristics of atmospheric neutrino NC interactions in LS, we investigate the model dependence of NC background predictions by using various data-driven models, including the initial neutrino-nucleon interactions, nuclear ground-state structure, final-state interactions, nuclear deexcitation processes, and secondary interactions of final-state particles.…”
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Autonomous Quadrotor Path Planning Through Deep Reinforcement Learning With Monocular Depth Estimation by Mahdi Shahbazi Khojasteh, Armin Salimi-Badr

“…The proposed method employs a two-stage structure comprising a depth estimation and a decision-making module. …”
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Revision and validation of the “Motivational Climate in Physical Education Scale” (MCPES) in Chinese educational context by Qiang Zhang, Yingying Sun, Erzhen Fan, Wenjing Deng

“…Confirmatory factor analysis supported the four-factor structure (χ2/df = 3.38, GFI = 0.92, NFI = 0.90, RMSEA = 0.07, CFI = 0.93, IFI = 0.93, SRMR = 0.05). …”
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Evaluation of Upper Limb Muscle Activation Using Musculoskeletal Model with Wearable Assistive Device by M. F. Ashari, A. Hanafusa, S. Mohamaddan

“…An assistive upper arm device was integrated into the musculoskeletal model, and the desired assistive force is translated to the arm joint along with a tendon routing structure. Assisting movement by the wearable device was evaluated by measuring muscle activation with-assist and without-assist conditions. …”
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