Liquid biopsy – a narrative review with an update on current US governmental clinical trials targeting immunotherapy by Fan Shen, Samar A. Zailaie, Brian Chiu, Anthony Magliocco, Consolato M. Sergi

“…We found 25 United States registered governmental clinical trials targeting immunotherapy and liquid biopsy, of which 20 trials are recruiting and five trials are not yet recruiting.Discussion Developments in medicine have led to a more comprehensive understanding of tumor features, including tumor load, tumor staging, heterogeneity, gene mutations, and clonal evolution. …”
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CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE AND ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION: VASCULAR WALL AS THE TARGET ORGAN IN COMORBID PATIENTS by N. A. Karoli, A. P. Rebrov

“…At that, the following parameters were important: the average systolic and diastolic BP levels, the BP load and variability indices, the time and rate of morning surge in systolic BP, and the circadian rhythm of BP.Conclusion. …”
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Conceptualization and performance evaluation of a super long span cable-stayed bridge with CFRP cables and CFRP–UHPC composite girders by Xingyu Tan, Zhi Fang, Yifan Chen, Jiaxing Chen

“…Facing the challenges in improving load-bearing efficiency and spanning capacity of cable-stayed bridges, this study introduces a novel super long span cable-stayed bridge system featuring carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) cables, and CFRP–ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) composite girders composed of CFRP trusses and UHPC decks. …”
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Investigation of the Cross-Cutting Polycrystalline Diamond Compact Bit Drilling Efficiency by Chun-Liang Zhang, Ying-Xin Yang, Hai-Tao Ren, Can Cai, Yong Liu, Ming Yang

“…Meanwhile, through the unit experiment and discrete element simulation, the cutting force, volume-specific load, and crack propagation were analyzed under different cutting modes. …”
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Stability Diagrams of Bed Evolution for Vertically Averaged and Moment (VAM) Models by Mohamed Hassan Elgamal, Mohd Aamir Mumtaz

“…Applying a small-amplitude perturbation analysis to an initially flat bed, while neglecting suspended load and bed slope effects, reveals two distinct modes of morphological instability under low-Froude-number conditions. …”
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Intra-cameral level of ganciclovir gel, 0.15% following topical application for cytomegalovirus anterior segment infection: A pilot study. by Samanthila Waduthantri, Lei Zhou, Soon-Phaik Chee

“…The clinical features of the disease activity and the central corneal thickness (CCT) were recorded at the baseline and post-treatment.…”
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An Autoregressive-Based Motor Current Signature Analysis Approach for Fault Diagnosis of Electric Motor-Driven Mechanisms by Roberto Diversi, Alice Lenzi, Nicolò Speciale, Matteo Barbieri

“…The MCSA approach is based on the premise that faults in the mechanical load driven by the motor manifest as changes in the motor’s current behavior. …”
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Chitosan-Coated Solid Lipid Nano-Encapsulation Improves the Therapeutic Antiairway Inflammation Effect of Berberine against COPD in Cigarette Smoke-Exposed Rats by Hongxiang Liu, Yifan Li, Xiaoying Zhang, Man Shi, Dexu Li, Ying Wang

“…The present study aimed to get together the biological features of SLNs with the advantages of chitosan to formulate an efficient nano-carrier platform for the oral delivery of Ber and evaluate the therapeutic effect of the prepared Ber-encapsulated nanoparticles on airway inflammation in cigarette smoke (CS)-induced COPD rats. …”
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Mine hoisting steel wire rope surface damage image recognition based on improved YOLOv8n by MAO Qinghua, YANG Fan, WANG Chao, TONG Xuyao, TONG Junwei, ZHANG Xuhui, XUE Xusheng

“…The Multi-Scale Attention Module (MSAM) was introduced into the YOLOv8n backbone network to enhance the model’s ability to distinguish between damage features and oil stain backgrounds, improving its anti-interference capability. …”
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ML-Driven Energy Savings for Cellular Baseband Units via Traffic Prediction by Aneta Kolackova, Viet Anh Phan, Jan Jerabek, Sergey Andreev, Jiri Hosek

“…PESBiU 2.0 uses granular interval datasets and machine learning (ML) models to predict traffic loads and optimize power states. The design features a hybrid architecture of Hyper Convolutional Neural Network-Long Short-Term Memory (Hyper-CNN-LSTM) model for accurate forecasting with a reinforcement learning (RL) decision engine based on Dueling Double Deep Q-Networks (DDDQN), making it the first framework to apply DDDQN for BBU energy optimization in 5G and beyond networks. …”
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High-Cycle Fatigue Fracture Behavior and Stress Prediction of Ni-Based Single-Crystal Superalloy with Film Cooling Hole Drilled Using Femtosecond Laser by Zhen Li, Yuanming Xu, Xinling Liu, Changkui Liu, Chunhu Tao

“…The orientation of the fracture surface is mainly perpendicular to the load direction, with minor inclined facets in localized areas. …”
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Quantifying the impacts of right-turn-on-red, exclusive turn lanes, and pedestrian movements on the efficiency of urban transportation networks by Hao Liu, Zecheng Xiong, Vikash V. Gayah

“…Overall, prohibiting left turns on two-way streets still provides the largest operational performance of all networks with these features considered.…”
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Whole genome sequencing of 378 prostate cancer metastases reveals tissue selectivity for mismatch deficiency with potential therapeutic implications by Daniel J. Vis, Sander A. L. Palit, Marie Corradi, Edwin Cuppen, Niven Mehra, Martijn P. Lolkema, Lodewyk F. A. Wessels, Michiel S. van der Heijden, Wilbert Zwart, Andries M. Bergman

“…Notably, liver and visceral metastases have a higher tumor mutational load (TML) than bone and lymph node metastases, independent of genetic traits associated with neuroendocrine differentiation. …”
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Qualitative Analysis of the Student Perspectives on AnaVu – A Three-dimensional Stereoscopic Neuroanatomy Visualization Tool by Nithin Kadakampallil Raju, Doris George Yohannan, Aswathy Maria Oommen, Amruth S. Kumar, S. Devanand, U. T. Minha Resivi, Navya Sajan, Neha Elizabeth Thomas, Nasreen Anzer, Bejoy Thomas, Jayadevan Enakshy Rajan, Umesan Kannanvilakom Govindapillai, Pawan Harish, Tirur Raman Kapilamoorthy, Chandrasekharan Kesavadas, Jayanthi Sivaswamy

“…Background: Prior research by the authors studied the objective impact on medical students’ academic course, the perceived cognitive load, quantified subjective feedback while teaching using AnaVu, a low resource stereoscopic projection system. …”
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Investigating the role of KARS in lung adenocarcinoma via single-cell RNA sequencing by Huafang Hu, Yan Zhong, Guangbiao Li, Ru Deng, Jingfu Lin, Wenkun Wu, Yonghong Li

“…The upregulation of KARS was also correlated with distinct genetic mutations and a higher mutational load in LUAD. The heightened activity of KARS was implicated in LUAD progression. …”
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A Fault Diagnosis Method for Oil Well Electrical Power Diagrams Based on Multidimensional Clustering Performance Evaluation by Xingyu Liu, Xin Meng, Ze Hu, Hancong Duan, Min Wang, Yaping Chen

“…Compared to traditional methods, we introduce fourteen new features of the electrical parameters, encompassing multidimensional analyses in the time domain, frequency domain, and time-frequency domain, significantly enhancing the richness and accuracy of feature extraction. …”
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Hybrid Maghemite (γ-Fe2O3) Nanoparticle/Graphene Nanosheet Nanocomposite for Terahertz-Shielding Applications by Samuel Augustus D. Toledo, Alvin Karlo G. Tapia, Gil Nonato C. Santos

“…At the same time, the films retained some of the distinct features of the polymer matrix and GNS with localized clusters of the magnetic nanoparticles. …”
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Sizing and designing of an adsorption chiller with phase change material thermal storage for an office building: Case study Nigeria by Mkpamdi Eke, Tagne Takote Brice Clausel, Cosmas Anyanwu, Onyekwere Ojike, Fidelis Abam

“…Results showed a cooling load of 2.7–3.5 kW, requiring a cooling capacity of 250 W/m² over 10 h with a performance coefficient (COP) of 0.68. …”
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Enhanced ensemble learning-based uncertainty and sensitivity analysis of ventilation rate in a novel radiative cooling building by Majid Mohsenpour, Mohsen Salimi, Atieh Kermani, Majid Amidpour

“…Passive cooling, especially radiative cooling, offers potential to reduce cooling loads and improve energy efficiency. However, most studies focus on idealized conditions, neglecting the real-world variability of indoor and outdoor environments. …”
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Potato precision planter metering system based on improved YOLOv5n-ByteTrack by Cisen Xiao, Changlin Song, Junmin Li, Min Liao, Yongfan Pu, Kun Du

“…Initially, the C3-Faster module is introduced, which reduces the number of parameters and computational load while maintaining detection accuracy. Subsequently, re-parameterized convolution (RepConv) is incorporated into the feature extraction network architecture, enhancing the model’s inference speed by leveraging the correlation between features. …”
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