Medical Therapy of Steroid-Resistant Crohn's Disease by Bruce E Sands

“…Glucocorticosteroids are commonly used in the treatment of moderate to severe Crohn’s disease and are effective for the short term amelioration of symptoms. However, not all patients respond to corticosteroid therapy. …”
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Une chambre à soi : genres et corps en art by Luc Schicharin, Anne-Laure Vernet

“…During the course of 2 symposium respectively called « Genderqueer Workshop : a Reflexion on Contemporary Bodies through the Arts », and « A Room to One’s Own : Genders and Bodies in Art » held from March 2015 to January 2016, the problematic of political subjectivity has been approached through an aestethical and philosophical study of works of art which are organized according to the codes of contemporary art and of militant artistic practices coming from subcultures and popular cultures. …”
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Applying a Cerebellar Model Articulation Controller Neural Network to a Photovoltaic Power Generation System Fault Diagnosis by Kuei-Hsiang Chao, Bo-Jyun Liao, Chin-Pao Hung

“…In addition to significantly increasing the accuracy rate of the fault diagnosis, this model features a short training duration because the training process only tunes the weights of the exited memory addresses. …”
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Turning to friends in preference to parents for support in early adolescence: does this contribute to the gender difference in depressive symptoms? by Nicky Wright, Helen Sharp, Jessica Gay, Andrew Pickles, Jonathan Hill

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A no‐reference blurred colourful image quality assessment method based on dual maximum local information by Jian Chen, Shiyun Li, Li Lin

“…Second, an improved maximum gradient method that leverages information from different channel images is presented to calculate the maximum gradient variation within the ROI for final sharpness score. Experimental results illustrated that the proposed method has better performance under various measurements compared with the state‐of‐the‐art methods on LIVE, CSIQ, TID2008, TID2013, VCL@FER, IVC image databases.…”
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Lower Limb Metaphyseal Bone Is Lost in Men with Coeliac Disease and Does Not Relate to Parathyroid Status by Michael W. J. Davie, Sally F. Evans, Christopher A. Sharp

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Morphological comparison for the dorsal fin of Chrysichthys auratus, Synodontis schall, and Synodontis serratus (Teleosti: Siluriformes) collected from the Lake Nasser and the Rive... by Farrag Mahmoud M. S., Jawad Laith A., Park Joo M.

“…The anterolateral surfaces of the dorsal spine are marked by numerous short, irregular, shallow, anastomosing, longitudinal furrows. …”
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Demographic Correlates of Infant Feeding Practices and Growth Performance in the First Year of Life by Leila M. Shinn, Christy C. Tangney, Caitlyn Busche, Christine M. Sharp, Mary C. Mullen

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The Uncoupling of Disease Activity from Joint Structural Progression in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Treated with Filgotinib by Yoshiya Tanaka, Tatsuya Atsumi, Daniel Aletaha, Hendrik Schulze-Koops, Haruhiko Fukada, Chris Watson, Tsutomu Takeuchi

“…We evaluated the change from baseline (CFB) in modified total Sharp score (mTSS), erosion score, and joint space narrowing score among patients achieving Clinical Disease Activity Index (CDAI) remission (CDAI ≤ 2.8), low disease activity (LDA; 2.8 < CDAI ≤ 10), medium disease activity (MDA; 10 < CDAI ≤ 22), and high disease activity (HDA; CDAI > 22) at 24 weeks. …”
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Normal tissue radioprotection by amifostine via Warburg-type effects by Michael I. Koukourakis, Alexandra Giatromanolaki, Christos E. Zois, Dimitra Kalamida, Stamatia Pouliliou, Ilias V. Karagounis, Tzu-Lan Yeh, Martine I. Abboud, Timothy D. W. Claridge, Christopher J. Schofield, Efthimios Sivridis, Costantinos Simopoulos, Savvas P. Tokmakidis, Adrian L. Harris

“…This effect was confirmed on normal mouse NCTC hepatocytes, but not on hepatoma cells. A sharp reduction of acetyl-CoA and ATP levels in NCTC cells indicated reduced mitochondrial usage of pyruvate. …”
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Symptoms of anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder 6 weeks and 6 months after ICU: Six out of 10 survivors affected by E van der Merwe, L Stroud, G Sharp, N van Vuuren, M Mosola, T Fodo, F Paruk

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Intra-Articular Injection of Human Bone Marrow–Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Knee Osteoarthritis: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Controlled Trial by Bong-Woo Lee, Jennifer Jooha Lee, Joon-Yong Jung, Ji Hyeon Ju

“…The MSC group showed between-group improvement in WOMAC (–5.0 ± 3.6 vs. –0.1 ± 5.5, P = 0.02) and KOOS (23.9 ± 18.3 vs. 7.2 ± 15.9, P = 0.028) scores at 9 months compared with the control group. …”
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CPK1 activates CNGCs through phosphorylation for Ca2+ signaling to promote root hair growth in Arabidopsis by Meijun Zhu, Bo-Ya Du, Yan-Qiu Tan, Yang Yang, Yang Zhang, Yong-Fei Wang

“…The loss-of-function mutants cpk1-1, cpk1-2, cngc5-1 cngc6-2 cngc9-1 (shrh1/short root hair 1), and cpk1 shrh1 show similar RH phenotypes, including shorter RHs, more RH branching, and dramatically attenuated cytosolic Ca2+ gradients at RH tips. …”
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Modeling and analysis of ensemble average solvation energy and solute–solvent interfacial fluctuations by Shao Yuanzhen, Chen Zhan, Zhao Shan

“…Central in the construction of VISM is an interface separating the solute and the solvent. However, traditional sharp-interface VISMs fall short in adequately representing the inherent randomness of the solute–solvent interface, a consequence of thermodynamic fluctuations within the solute–solvent system. …”
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Ecological Footprint Awareness of Generation Z: A Case Study of Selçuk University Faculty of Science by Halil Osman Erbek, Yunus Akdoğan, Tenzile Erbayram

“…However, in today's rapidly industrializing world, population growth and lack of awareness about ecological footprints negatively impact biological capacity. …”
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Automated Estimation of Acute Infarct Volume from Noncontrast Head CT Using Image Intensity Inhomogeneity Correction by Keith A. Cauley, Gino J. Mongelluzzo, Samuel W. Fielden

“…In clinical cases (41 acute infarcts in 30 patients), calculated infarct volumes using FSL IIC correlated with the ASPECTS scores (Pearson r = 0.680) and the admission NIHSS (Pearson r = 0.544). …”
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An inquary on how to apply the approach of of Residents in Codification of conceptual concepts of the Persistent Iranian Neighbourhood updated with uses the Grounded theory meth... by Ensie Goharinasab, Hossein Zabihi, Shirin Toghyani

“…While some modern neighborhoods are planned in a short time. On the contrary, the process is moving traditional neighborhoods. …”
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Mendelian Randomisation Study of Childhood BMI and Early Menarche by Hannah S. Mumby, Cathy E. Elks, Shengxu Li, Stephen J. Sharp, Kay-Tee Khaw, Robert N. Luben, Nicholas J. Wareham, Ruth J. F. Loos, Ken K. Ong

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A brief essay on the administrative system of astrakhan kalmyks by Ivan Cherkasov: problem of authorship, reflection of the main stages of kalmyk history and features of public adm... by Evgeniy A. Gunaev

“…The author examines the problem of authorship of the work and the content of the essay, which reflects the main stages of Kalmyk history and the peculiarities of public administration according to the rules of administration of the Kalmyk people in 1825, 1834 and 1847. …”
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Ion-specific effects in polyelectrolyte solutions: chain–chain interactions, chain rigidity and dynamics by Hotton, Claire, Sakhawoth, Yasine, Rollet, Anne-Laure, Sirieix-Plénet, Juliette, Tea, Lingsam, Combet, Sophie, Sharp, Melissa, Hoffmann, Ingo,  Nallet, Frédéric, Malikova, Natalie

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