COMPARISON OF THE INFLUENCE OF LONG-TERM TREATMENT BASED ON CARVEDILOL OR BISOPROLOL ON METABOLIC PARAMETERS IN HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS WITH OVERWEIGHT OR OBESITY RESULTS OF THE RAND... by S. Y. Martsevich, S. N. Tolpygina

“…A total of 105 patients were enrolled into open-label comparative stepped trial in two parallel groups. The patients were randomized into two groups: the group 1 (n=53) started treatment with carvedilol 25 mg daily and the group 2 (n=52) – with bisoprolol 5 mg daily. …”
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Study protocol for a 1-year, randomized, single-blind, parallel group trial of stand-alone indoor air filtration in the homes of US military Veterans with moderate to severe COPD i... by Brent Stephens, Insung Kang, Kaveeta Jagota, Zane Elfessi, Nancy Karpen, Saeed Farhoodi, Mohammad Heidarinejad, Israel Rubinstein

“…Low-cost sensors are used to measure particulate matter concentrations and plug load data loggers are used to measure air cleaner operation at high time resolution in each home throughout the study duration. …”
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Rapid bacterial identification and resistance detection using a low complexity molecular diagnostic platform in Zimbabwe. by Tinashe Mwaturura, Ioana D Olaru, Gwendoline Chimhini, Mutsa Bwakura-Dangarembizi, Marcia Mangiza, Simbarashe Chimhuya, Belinda Sado, Jackie Katunga, Andrew Tarupiwa, Agnes Juru, Tapfumaneyi Mashe, Christopher Pasi, Veronicah Chuchu, Seyi Gansallo, Birgitta Gleeson, Felicity Fitzgerald, Cecilia Ferreyra, Katharina Kranzer

“…<h4>Background</h4>Sepsis is a major cause of mortality in low-resource settings. Effective microbiological culture services are a bottleneck in diagnosis and surveillance.…”
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Targeting the tumor mutanome for personalized vaccination in a TMB low non-small cell lung cancer by Chuan Wang, Kaïdre Bendjama, Stephen Schoenberger, Oliver Wood, Gareth Thomas, Pandurangan Vijayanand, Tilman Sanchez-Elsner, Nathalie Silvestre, Natalia Savelyeva, Christian Ottensmeier, Katy McCann, Adrian von Witzleben, Jaya Thomas, Divya Singh, Konstantinos Boukas, Finn Cilius Nielsen, Jason Greenbaum, Bjoern Peters

“…Thereafter, we assessed the autologous T-cell reactivity to the candidate neoantigens using a long peptide approach in a cultured interferon gamma ELISpot and tracked the neoantigen-specific T-cells in the tumor by T-cell receptor (TCR) sequencing. In parallel, identified gene variants were incorporated into a Modified Vaccinia Ankara-based vaccine, which was evaluated in the human leucocyte antigen A*0201 transgenic mouse model (HHD).Results Sequencing revealed a tumor with a low mutational burden: 2219 sequence variants were identified from the primary tumor, of which 23 were expressed in the transcriptome, involving 18 gene products. …”
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Genetic Algorithm-Enhanced Direct Method in Protein Crystallography by Ruijiang Fu, Wu-Pei Su, Hongxing He

“…The test cases included high-solvent-content structures, high-resolution structures with medium solvent content, and structures with low solvent content and non-crystallographic symmetry (NCS). …”
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Effectiveness evaluation and field application of CO2-viscoelastic fluid synergistic flooding in low-permeability tight reservoirs by TANG Ruijia, CHEN Longlong, XIE Xuqiang, ZHAO Cong, WANG Beilei, JIANG Shaojing

“…In long-core displacement experiments, using a 0.3 PV slug of CMS followed by CO2 flooding increased the recovery rate by up to 27.79%. In double-tube parallel core displacement experiments, alternating CMS and CO2 proved most effective, as it successfully sealed the high-permeability cores and mobilized low-permeability cores, resulting in a 26.28% increase in recovery. …”
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An Automatic Generalization Method of a Block-Based Digital Depth Model Based on Surface Curvature Features by Dong Wang, Jian Dong, Lulu Tang, Mengkai Ma, Tian Xie

“…By integrating a multi-threaded parallel computation model, an efficient automated generalization workflow that encompasses data partitioning, fitting, computation, processing, and integration of the DDM is ultimately constructed. …”
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Embedded Hardware-Efficient FPGA Architecture for SVM Learning and Inference by B. B. Shabarinath, Muralidhar Pullakandam

“…In this paper, we propose Parallel SMO, a new algorithm that selects multiple violating pairs in each iteration, allowing batch-wise updates that enhance convergence speed and optimize parallel computation. …”
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Differential renal proteomics analysis in a novel rat model of iodinated contrast-induced acute kidney injury by Ying-Hao Deng, Xiu-Fen Wang, Xi Wu, Ping Yan, Qian Liu, Ting Wu, Shao-Bin Duan

“…By comparing different post-nephrectomy times and dehydration times, we constructed a new, short-course CI-AKI model using dehydration for 24 h two weeks after unilateral nephrectomy. We found that the low-osmolality contrast media iohexol caused more severe renal function decline, renal morphological damage, and mitochondrial ultrastructural alterations compared to the iso-osmolality contrast media iodixanol. …”
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Low dose influenza virus challenge in the ferret leads to increased virus shedding and greater sensitivity to oseltamivir. by Anthony C Marriott, Brian K Dove, Catherine J Whittaker, Christine Bruce, Kathryn A Ryan, Thomas J Bean, Emma Rayner, Geoff Pearson, Irene Taylor, Stuart Dowall, Jenna Plank, Edmund Newman, Wendy S Barclay, Nigel J Dimmock, Andrew J Easton, Bassam Hallis, Nigel J Silman, Miles W Carroll

“…Importantly, these observations were not seen in treated animals when the high dose challenge was used. In summary, low dose challenge gives a disease that more closely parallels the disease parameters of human influenza infection, and provides an improved pre-clinical model for the assessment of influenza therapeutics, and potentially, influenza vaccines.…”
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Efficient incremental training using a novel NMT-SMT hybrid framework for translation of low-resource languages by Kumar Bhuvaneswari, Murugesan Varalakshmi

“…However, extensive research is imperative to make these models perform equally well for low-resource languages. This paper proposes a novel approach to integrate the best features of the NMT and SMT systems for improved translation performance of low-resource English–Tamil language pair. …”
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Dynamic Aggregation and Augmentation for Low-Resource Machine Translation Using Federated Fine-Tuning of Pretrained Transformer Models by Emmanuel Agyei, Xiaoling Zhang, Ama Bonuah Quaye, Victor Adeyi Odeh, Joseph Roger Arhin

“…Machine Translation (MT) for low-resource languages, such as Twi, remains a persistent challenge in natural language processing (NLP) due to the scarcity of extensive parallel datasets. …”
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Large scale loss of data in low-diversity illumina sequencing libraries can be recovered by deferred cluster calling. by Felix Krueger, Simon R Andrews, Cameron S Osborne

“…Massively parallel DNA sequencing is capable of sequencing tens of millions of DNA fragments at the same time. …”
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Analysis and Optimization of Output Low-Pass Filter for Current-Source Single-Phase Grid-Connected PV Inverters by Gurhan Ertasgin, David M. Whaley

“…In this study, the design of output low-pass capacitive–inductive (CL) filters is analyzed and optimized for current-source single-phase grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) inverters. …”
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A Low-Complexity Transformer-CNN Hybrid Model Combining Dynamic Attention for Remote Sensing Image Compression by L. L. Zhang，X. J. Wang，J. H. Liu, Q. Z. Fang

“…To address these issues, we propose a new low-complexity end-to-end image compression framework combining CNN and transformer. …”
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Improving the impact of menstrual health innovations in low- and middle-income countries: a theory of change and measurement framework by Marni Sommer, Garazi Zulaika, Margaret L Schmitt, Samantha Khandakji, Kristin Neudorf, Leeat Gellis, Penelope A Phillips-Howard

“…There exists growing global attention focused on tackling the menstrual management related challenges facing adolescent girls and women in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). This includes a surge of growth in new and locally produced menstrual products, often accompanied by innovative distribution approaches aimed at enhancing accessibility, along with the provision of menstruation-related education. …”
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How digital economy and green and low carbon policies affect non-agricultural employment?—Evidence from China by Zhiguang Hu

“…Abstract Amid the parallel advancement of green transition and digitalization, the joint mechanisms by which digital economy development and green low-carbon policies promote non-agricultural employment (NAE) remain insufficiently examined. …”
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GPU-Accelerated Eclipse-Aware Routing for SpaceWire-Based OBC in Low-Earth-Orbit Satellite Networks by Hyeonwoo Kim, Heoncheol Lee, Myonghun Han

“…Low-Earth-Orbit (LEO) satellite networks offer a promising avenue for achieving global connectivity, despite certain technical and economic challenges such as high implementation costs and the complexity of network management. …”
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Series Compensated Low Frequency Transformers Emulating Multipulse Rectifiers for Harmonic Current Content Minimization in Electrical Grids by Carlos A. Munoz, Carlos R. Baier, Jesus C. Hernandez, Esteban I. Marciel, Pedro E. Melin

“…This paper explores the use of series compensated low frequency transformers (SCLFT), operating in parallel to traditional low frequency transformers (LFT), to attenuate harmonic distortion caused by nonlinear loads in electrical networks. …”
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Fast segment anything model applied in a low-cost camera-based system for oyster growth monitoring by Vinícius Batista, Vitorino Biazi, Andreia C. M. Rodrigues, Amadeu M. V. M. Soares, Carlos Marques

“…The size of oysters is obtained by measuring the distance between the parallel lines of the bounding box that is generated surrounding them. …”
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