How to Perform Cardiac Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound (cCEUS): Part I by Harald Becher, Andreas Helfen, Guido Michels, Nicola Gaibazzi, Roxy Senior, Christoph Frank Dietrich

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FEATURES OF TRANSFORMATIONS OF RED BLOOD CELLS IN CHILDREN WITH BRONCHIAL ASTHMA by E. N. Suprun, S. V. Suprun, O. E. Guseva, M. A. Loschenko, T. V. Pivkina, E. A. Savitskaya, S. V. Anuriev, V. A. Osmolkina, S. S. Braga

“…Children with bronchial asthma (2.6%) exhibited more frequent occurrence of destructive RBC forms than in healthy children (0.8%, р < 0.05), with predominance of stomatocytes (0.55% and 0,1%) which were >5-fold more common in children with bronchial asthma (р < 0.05). …”
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Barriers and facilitators to medication adherence: a qualitative study with general practitioners by Marja Airaksinen, Kirsi Kvarnström, Helena Liira

“…The medication management challenges identified were related to: patient-specific factors, the healthcare system, characteristics of drug therapies and the function and role of healthcare professionals as a team. …”
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Secular Resonances in Planet-hosting Binary Stars. I. General Theory by Nader Haghighipour, Michael Andrew

“…Using the concept of generalized disturbing function, we derive the formula for the locations of secular resonances and show that in systems where the perturbation of the secondary star is stronger, the locations of secular resonances are farther way from the primary and closer to the giant planets. …”
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Urząd generał-gubernatora w Rosji i w Królestwie Polskim by Stanisław Wiech

“…Despite all that, however, the power exercised by general-governor’s offices on Russian western frontiers (or, more precisely, on the eastern parts of partitioned Poland under Russian rule) were a better guarantee of a proper adjustment of the local administrative and political organs to their primary function that was effective management of regions that were ethnically, nationally, culturally, geographically, economically and religion-wise significantly different from those in the Russian Empire. …”
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Does constipation affect the effectiveness of washed microbiota transplantation in treating autism spectrum disorders? by Zihao Pan, Zheng Gao, Junyi Chen, Yongxi Quan, Jiating Xu, Xiaofeng Liang, Wenrui Xie, Xingxiang He, Xingxiang He, Lihao Wu, Lihao Wu

“…In general, WMT treatment had no significant effect on intestinal barrier function in patients with ASD. 4. …”
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Domain generalization for image classification based on simplified self ensemble learning. by Zhenkai Qin, Xinlu Guo, Jun Li, Yue Chen

“…The introduction of focal loss and complex sample loss weight further fine-tunes the model's sensitivity to hard-to-learn instances, enhancing generalization to difficult samples. Finally, a dynamic loss adaptive weighted voting strategy ensures more accurate predictions across diverse domains. …”
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Grid cells, place cells, and geodesic generalization for spatial reinforcement learning. by Nicholas J Gustafson, Nathaniel D Daw

“…Accordingly, although neural populations collectively offer a precise representation of position, our simulations of navigational tasks verify the suggestion that RL gains efficiency from the more diffuse tuning of individual neurons, which allows learning about rewards to generalize over longer distances given fewer training experiences. …”
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Problems of Development of Control Models and Mechanisms in Modern Ecosystems by T. Yu. Serebryakova, E. R. Fatkhullin

“…The article is devoted to internal control as one of the management functions and its organisational form, as well as problematic aspects of the formation of control mechanisms in connection with the development of information tools and sources of ecosystem management at all levels. …”
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Novel Approximate Distribution of the Generalized Turbulence Channels for MIMO FSO Communications by Wafaa M. R. Shakir, Ali S. Mahdi, Hani Hamdan, Jinan Charafeddine, Haitham Al Satai, Radouane Akrache, Samir Haddad, Jinane Sayah

“…Then, using this new representation, we introduce a novel closed-form probability density function (PDF) approximation for the sum of Gamma-Gamma random variates with generalized pointing errors and atmospheric attenuation of MIMO free-space optical (FSO) communications. …”
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A Generalized Helfrich Free Energy Framework for Multicomponent Fluid Membranes by Hao Wu, Zhong-Can Ou-Yang

“…In this work, we propose a generalized Helfrich free-energy functional describe equilibrium shapes and phase behaviors related to membrane heterogeneity with via curvature-component coupling in a unified framework. …”
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A Generalized Bandsplit Neural Network for Cinematic Audio Source Separation by Karn N. Watcharasupat, Chih-Wei Wu, Yiwei Ding, Iroro Orife, Aaron J. Hipple, Phillip A. Williams, Scott Kramer, Alexander Lerch, William Wolcott

“…Psychoacoustically motivated frequency scales were used to inform the band definitions which are now defined with redundancy for more reliable feature extraction. A loss function motivated by the signal-to-noise ratio and the sparsity-promoting property of the 1-norm was proposed. …”
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Development of generalized terrain-following FVCOM model for the steep terrain seas by Yixuan Bu, Yang Chen, Yang Chen, Shouxian Zhu, Wenjing Zhang, Guangsong Cao, Zhenguo Ding

“…In this study, a continuous layer index function, λ, was adopted as a generalized vertical coordinate to replace the sigma coordinate in the FVCOM model. …”
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Graph-Theoretic Limits of Distributed Computation: Entropy, Eigenvalues, and Chromatic Numbers by Mohammad Reza Deylam Salehi, Derya Malak

“…For regular graphs and general graphs, we establish bounds on the optimal rate—characterized by the chromatic entropy for the <i>n</i>-fold graph products—that allows a receiver for asymptotically lossless computation of arbitrary functions over finite fields. …”
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Study on Heat Transfer of Fluid in a Porous Media by VOF Method with Fractal Reconstruction by Shuai Liu, Qingyong Zhu, Wenjun Xu

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Multiplicity of weak solutions in double phase Kirchhoff elliptic problems with Neumann conditions by Ahmed Ahmed, Mohamed Saad Bouh Elemine Vall, Salah Boulaaras

“…Ricceri, which extends a more general variational principle, we confirm the existence of countless weak solutions for this complex system. …”
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Analysis of quality of life of rectal cancer patients after transanal total mesorectal excision and laparoscopic total mesorectal excision: a retrospective cohort study by CHEN Jiayu, LI Yue, CHEN Fan, LI Yuxue, FENG Shidong, HUANG Qi, LI Dawei, LIAO Zhiwei

“…Analysis of EORCT QLQ-C30 results indicated equivalent overall quality of life between the two groups; however, the TaTME group reported significantly more severe insomnia (P=0.020). No significant differences were observed in LARS severity or total scores between the groups, though the TaTME group demonstrated superior functional outcomes in terms of incontinence for liquid stools and clustering of stools (P=0.007, P=0.004). …”
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POLYMORPHISM OF THE MATRIX METALLOPROTEASES 2 AND 9 AND AORTIC STIFFNESS IN ADULTS WITH ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION by A. V. Sakovskaya, V. A. Nevzorova, M. P. Isaeva, K. V. Guzev

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Renal hyperfiltration is associated with a reduced incidence of hypertension in individuals younger than 70 by Hee-Jung Ha, Min Kyoung Kang, Jeong Hwa Kim, Youn-Hee Choi, Tae-Jin Song

“…The eGFR levels, determined by applying the 2009 Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) equation, were employed to evaluate the renal function. An incidence of hypertension was confirmed when a diagnosis of (primary or secondary) hypertension (International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10 codes I10-I11) was noted at least once per year during outpatient or inpatient care with a prescription for antihypertensive medication or at least one more surpassing 140/90 mmHg from a health examination after the index date after excluding diagnosis of secondary hypertension. …”
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Reactive Attachment Disorder in the General Population: A Hidden ESSENCE Disorder by Rachel Pritchett, Jennifer Pritchett, Emma Marshall, Claire Davidson, Helen Minnis

“…This paper describes the characteristics of all children who were given a suspected or likely diagnosis of reactive attachment disorder in an epidemiological study of approximately 1,600 children investigating the prevalence of RAD in the general population. We found that children with RAD are more likely to have multiple comorbidities with other disorders, lower IQs than population norms, more disorganised attachment, more problem behaviours, and poorer social skills than would be found in the general population and therefore have a complex presentation than can be described as ESSENCE. …”
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