Perioperative outcomes of video-assisted versus right anterior thoracotomy mitral valve replacement: an observational study by Gehad Awad, Fetoh Alaaeldin Fetoh, Noureldin Noaman Gwely, Usama Hamza, Sameh Amer, Yomna Mohammed Yehya, Amr Abdellateef

“…This observational study has been designed to evaluate and compare operative and short-term postoperative outcomes of video-assisted versus right anterior thoracotomy mitral valve replacement. …”
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Implementasi Algoritme Morus V2 untuk Pengamanan Data Pada Perangkat Bluetooth Low Energy by Diah Ratih Destyorini, Ari Kusyanti, Reza Andria Siregar

“…BLE is considered fast and energy-efficient in sending data over short distances. BLE is used as a client-server communication that receives data from sensors.  …”
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Tradition and Development of Lithuanian Terminology by Antanas Smetona

“…It may have its roots in the early 19th century, but the time of its formation is the middle of the 20th century. However, during this short period of time, due to the efforts of terminologists—both linguists and specialists in the subject areas - the Lithuanian terminology has successfully played its proper role in the Lithuanian language of science and technology. …”
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Perception of phage therapy and research across selected professional and social groups in Poland by Maciej Żaczek, Marcin W. Zieliński, Andrzej Górski, Andrzej Górski, Andrzej Górski, Beata Weber-Dąbrowska, Ryszard Międzybrodzki, Ryszard Międzybrodzki, Ryszard Międzybrodzki

“…Further, each participant had a chance to take part in a short quiz (consisting of 12 questions) verifying their basic knowledge about bacteriophages, their history, biology and therapeutic connotations. …”
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New strategies in management of severe alcoholic hepatitis by P. Ye. Tkachenko, I. I. Komkova, M. V. Mayevskaya, V. T. Ivashkin

“…Prescription of prednisolone and Adomet combination at severe alcohol-induced hepatitis increases the treatment response rate to corticosteroids, promotes decrease of short-term mortality and results in significantly less frequent development of hepatorenal syndrome as compared to standard therapy.…”
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Leveraging machine learning and rule extraction for enhanced transparency in emergency department length of stay prediction by Waqar A. Sulaiman, Charithea Stylianides, Andria Nikolaou, Andria Nikolaou, Zinonas Antoniou, Ioannis Constantinou, Lakis Palazis, Anna Vavlitou, Theodoros Kyprianou, Theodoros Kyprianou, Efthyvoulos Kyriacou, Antonis Kakas, Antonis Kakas, Marios S. Pattichis, Andreas S. Panayides, Constantinos S. Pattichis, Constantinos S. Pattichis

“…We utilized the MIMIC IV-ED dataset, comprising over 400,000 patient records, to classify ED LOS into short (≤4.5 hours) and long (>4.5 hours) categories. …”
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Integration of metabolomic and transcriptomic analyses reveals regulatory functions of the ChREBP transcription factor in energy metabolism by Jie An, Inna Astapova, Guofang Zhang, Andrew L. Cangelosi, Olga Ilkayeva, Hannah Marchuk, Michael J. Muehlbauer, Tabitha George, Joseph Brozinick, Mark A. Herman, Christopher B. Newgard

“…GalNac-siChREBP treatment reduces expression of genes involved in coenzyme A (CoA) biosynthesis, with lowering of CoA and short-chain acyl-CoA levels. Despite suppression of pyruvate kinase, pyruvate levels are maintained, possibly via increased expression of pyruvate and amino acid transporters. …”
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Investigating the Asymmetric Impact of the Stock Market Index on the Real Estate Price Index by Sakineh Sojoodi, Morteza Ashoor, Elmira Azizi Norouzabadi

“…ResultsFindings show that in the short run, positive and negative shocks in the stock market index have no significant effect on the housing price index, but in the long term, positive shocks in the stock market index have a positive effect on the housing price index, while the effect of negative shocks on the housing price index is insignificant. …”
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Modeling Stock High-Low Price Range: Fractional Cointegrating VAR Approach (FCVAR) by Elham Farzanegan

“…Moreover, to design portfolio allocation and diversification strategies, one should mix assets that haven’t short-term behavior with indices that show long-term relationships. …”
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Giant and irregular pituitary neuroendocrine tumors surgery: comparison of simultaneous combined endoscopic endonasal and transcranial and purely endoscopic endonasal surgery at a... by Jun Fu, Wenwei Luo, Chunlin Zhang, Zhicheng Wang, Wenjian Fan, Yuanxiang Lin, Dezhi Kang, Jianping Song, Changzhen Jiang, Xiaorong Yan

“…This study aims to compare the efficacy and short outcome of CECS and purely EES in the management of GIPitNETs to better understand the advantages and limitations of each surgical approach. …”
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Advancing arabic dialect detection with hybrid stacked transformer models by Hager Saleh, Hager Saleh, Hager Saleh, Abdulaziz AlMohimeed, Rasha Hassan, Mandour M. Ibrahim, Saeed Hamood Alsamhi, Moatamad Refaat Hassan, Sherif Mostafa

“…The stacking model compares various models, including long-short-term memory (LSTM), gated recurrent units (GRU), convolutional neural network (CNN), and two transformer models using different word embedding. …”
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Efficacy of non-surgical mechanical debridement with and without adjunct antimicrobial photodynamic therapy in the treatment of peri-implantitis among patients undergoing chemother... by Asma Saleh Almeslet, Malak Mohammed ALOsaimi, Chitra Jhugroo, Abdullah Faraj Alshammari, Darshan Devang Divakar, Cristalle Soman

“…Nevertheless, poor oral hygiene of the participants and the short-term follow-up may have influenced the results. …”
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From bench to bedside: Developing CRISPR/Cas-based therapy for ocular diseases by Qing Zhao, Linxin Wei, Youxin Chen

“…The Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein (Cas) has emerged as a promising tool for treating ocular diseases through gene editing and expression regulation. …”
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An electrolyte-gated transistor for the monitoring of a CRISPR/Cas activity by Pierre Guermonprez, Le Tu Anh, Louis Renaud, Pierre Nioche, Eric Krejci, Aurélie Alleaume-Butaux, Nicolas Battaglini, Vu Thi Thu, Sébastien Sanaur, Benoît Piro

“…Reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) remains the gold standard, but clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats linked to a Cas endoribonuclease particle (CRISPR/Cas) have recently revolutionized the recognition step of two RNAs, i.e. the CRISPR-RNA (crRNA) and the target, providing a much better selectivity compared to the naked hybridization on which RT-PCR is based. …”
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Different lysine-to-methionine ratios in a low-protein diet affect the microbiome and metabolome, influencing the jejunal barrier function in Tibetan sheep by Fengshuo Zhang, Zhenling Wu, Yu Zhang, Quyangangmao Su, Kaina Zhu, Xuan Chen, Shengzhen Hou, Linsheng Gui

“…IntroductionThe objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of the dietary lysine (Lys)/ methionine (Met) ratio in a low-protein diet on short-chain fatty acid (SCFA) profiles, villus morphology, antioxidant capacity, and immune status of the jejunum in Tibetan sheep.MethodsA total of 90 weaned Tibetan sheep, each 2 months old with an initial weight of 15.37 ± 0.92 kg, were randomly divided into three treatment groups. …”
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Mechanistic investigation and the optimal dose based on baicalin in the treatment of ulcerative colitis–A preclinical systematic review and meta-analysis by Jinchen Chong, Zepeng Chen, Jiaze Ma, Linhai He, Yijia Zhu, Zhihua Lu, Zhengxi Qiu, Chen Chen, Yugen Chen, Feng Jiang

“…Abstract Background Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a type of inflammatory bowel disease, and current treatments often fall short, necessitating new therapeutic options. Baicalin shows therapeutic promise in UC animal models, but a systematic review is needed. …”
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DsTau: study of tau neutrino production with 400 GeV protons from the CERN-SPS by The DsTau collaboration, Shigeki Aoki, Akitaka Ariga, Tomoko Ariga, Sergey Dmitrievsky, Elena Firu, Dean Forshaw, Tsutomu Fukuda, Yuri Gornushkin, Ali Murat Guler, Maria Haiduc, Koichi Kodama, Masahiro Komatsu, Muhtesem Akif Korkmaz, Umut Kose, Madalina Miloi, Antonio Miucci, Motoaki Miyanishi, Mitsuhiro Nakamura, Toshiyuki Nakano, Alina Neagu, Hiroki Rokujo, Osamu Sato, Elizaveta Sitnikova, Yosuke Suzuki, Tomoki Takao, Svetlana Vasina, Mykhailo Vladymyrov, Thomas Weston, Junya Yoshida, Masahiro Yoshimoto

“…The experimental method is based on a use of high resolution emulsion detectors for effective registration of events with short lived particle decays. Here we present the motivation of the study, details of the experimental technique, and the first results of the analysis of the data collected during test runs, which prove feasibility of the full scale study of the process in future.…”
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Community Work Participation and Outcomes in Nyagatare District, Rwanda. by Jean Marie Vianney, Ruzindana

“…Conclusion and recommendations of the study were drawn basing on the results of the study. In short, the whole research process involved proposal writing, data collection, data analysis, presentation, discussion of results, summary, conclusions and recommendations. …”
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Unignorable Emissions and Potential Health Effects of Unregulated Pollutants from Nonroad Engines Using Greener Fuels — A Review by Lulu Duan, Yu-Lun Hsieh, Sheng-Lun Lin, Wan Nurdiyana Wan Mansor, Muhammad Isyhraff Azhan Bin Mansor, Hyojun Lee, Chien-Er Huang, How-Ran Chao, Mengjie Song, Minseop Song

“…Biodiesel and oxygenated fuels significantly reduce PAHs and soot emissions, but their effect on VOCs varies with fuel type and engine load. …”
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Examining the Chemical and Optical Properties of Biomass-burning Aerosols and their Impact on Oxidative Potential by Suman Yadav, Taveen Singh Kapoor, Pradnya Vernekar, Harish C. Phuleria

“…Our findings suggest that emissions from biomass cooking may pose a substantial risk to a large population, in particular to women and young children in rural areas and that the toxicity of the emitted PM from biomass cooking is likely due to soot and the absorbing OC in PM.…”
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