Peripubertal DEHP exposure impairs reproductive function in adult male mice by inducing damage to Sertoli cells and disrupting the blood-testis barrier by XU Guiyong, XU Guiyong, ZHANG Lu, ZHANG Lu, SUN Fengqiong, SUN Fengqiong

“…In the 25, 125, 250 and 500 mg/kg DEHP exposure groups, the thickness of the seminiferous epithelium was obviously decreased, with more cellular vacuolization and notable epithelial atrophy and degeneration. …”
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CONCEPTS THROUGH A LINGUOSYNERGETIC LENS (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE CONCEPT OF DEATH) by Nataliia V. Tatsenko., Liliia O. Molhamova

“…The article discusses the functioning of a concept from a linguosynergetic perspective as a spontaneous equipment of the structure of a homeostatic hierarchical complex organized as an open nonlinear system. …”
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Carcinogenesis Associated with Toxin Nephropathy: Proposed Mediation by Phosphate Toxicity by Ronald B. Brown, John G. Mielke

“…Indeed, many carcinogens are also nephrotoxic and can impair kidney function. In turn, impaired renal function can dysregulate serum inorganic phosphate, leading to hyperphosphatemia and excess phosphate storage in tissues, which causes phosphate toxicity. …”
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Modeling severe uncontrolled asthma: Transitioning away from health states by Tereza Lanitis, Asif H. Khan, Irina Proskorovsky, Ivan Houisse, Andreas Kuznik, Siddhesh Kamat, Conrado Franco-Villalobos, Florence Joulain

“…Lung function declined at a higher rate compared with the general population. …”
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Tensor‐structured decomposition improves systems serology analysis by Zhixin Cyrillus Tan, Madeleine C Murphy, Hakan S Alpay, Scott D Taylor, Aaron S Meyer

“…Data reduction also helps make prediction models more replicable. Therefore, we propose that CMTF is an effective general strategy for data exploration in systems serology.…”
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Using respiratory polygraphy in diagnosing obstructive sleep apnea - our experiences by Novković Dobrivoje, Cvetković Gordana, Aćimović Slobodan, Milić Rade, Šarac Sanja, Urošević Radmila

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The ‘process of doing’ in everyday occupations – a challenge for young adults with cerebral palsy by L. Bergqvist, A. M. Öhrvall, M. Peny-Dahlstrand

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Clinical characteristics and frailty status in heart failure with preserved vs. reduced ejection fraction by Tomoyuki Hamada, Toru Kubo, Kazuya Kawai, Yoko Nakaoka, Toshikazu Yabe, Takashi Furuno, Eisuke Yamada, Hiroaki Kitaoka, Kochi YOSACOI study

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Effect of postoperative rehabilitation on quality of life in patients with vulvar cancer by T. A. Blbulyan, A. G. Solopova, A. E. Ivanov, E. I. Kurkina

“…Quality of life and sexual function, as well as psycho-emotional state were assessed using a set of questionnaires: quality of life of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) QLQ-C30, Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G) with an extension for vulvar cancer, Female Sexuality Index (FSFI) and WAM (well-being, activity, mood).Results. …”
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Impact of Uncontrolled Diabetes on Myocardial Global Longitudinal Strain: A Case–Control Study by Khaled Elenizi, Rasha Alharthi, Abdullah Alanazi, Nasser Alotaibi, Mubarak Alajmi, Abdulrahman Alsubaie, Sahar Gamil, Mohammed Alqahtani

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Risk of development of professional pathology of the voice apparatus in teachers of secondary schools. by T. A. Kovalchuk, I. V. Savushina

“…The frequency of functional voice disorders associated with profession varies from 13,7% to 70%, which requires the timely identification of the risk of developing professional laryngitis, development and implementation of modern effective risk management models. …”
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Patients With Mild ADPKD by Kidney Imaging but Low Estimated GFR by Seung Heyck Lee, Mauricio Miranda Cam, Taher Dehkharghanian, Fatemah Nasri, Saima Khowaja, Amirreza Haghighi, Xuewen Song, Korosh Khalili, York Pei

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«Healthy Personality» of a Modern University Student as a Research Concept by Zh. V. Puzanova, T. I. Larina

“…The issues of physiological and mental health of young people have always remained in the focus of researchers’ attention, however, there are practically no works where the “healthy personality” is considered more broadly, including the features of its functioning in a social context. …”
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Low pneumoperitoneum pressure facilitates postoperative pain relief and gastrointestinal function recovery in laparoscopic gastrointestinal surgery: a systematic review and meta-an... by Kai Lu, Xuefeng Peng, Ke Lan, Faqiang Zhang, Yong Cheng, Hua Yang

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Local Outlier Detection Method Based on Improved K-means by Yu ZHOU, Hao XIA, Xuezhen YUE, Peichong WANG

“…When clustering data into different numbers of clusters, the cost function value changes accordingly. The number of clusters is depicted on the <italic>x</italic>-axis, and the cost function value is on the <italic>y</italic>-axis. …”
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Advancing precision in medical image segmentation: A performance analysis of loss functions for COVID‐19 lung infection segmentation in computed tomography images by Emilio Delgado, Roberto Rodriguez‐Echeverria, Antonio Jesús Fernández‐García, Juan D. Gutiérrez, Miguel Ángel Suero‐Rodrigo

“…Observations revealed that AUFL‐generated segmentations had more precise boundaries and were more consistent with the expected anatomical regions of lung infections. …”
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Problem of Existence of Joint Distribution on Quantum Logic by Oľga Nánásiová, Karla Čipková, Michal Zákopčan

“…This paper deals with the topics of modeling joint distributions on a generalized probability space. An algebraic structure known as quantum logic is taken as the basic model. …”
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An Ecological Risk Assessment of the Dianchi Basin Based on Multi-Scenario Land Use Change Under the Constraint of an Ecological Defense Zone by Shu Wang, Quanli Xu, Junhua Yi, Qinghong Wang, Qihong Ren, Youyou Li, Zhenheng Gao, You Li, Huishan Wu

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Disrupted synaptic gene expression in Fabry disease: Findings from RNA sequencing by Laura López-Valverde, María E. Vázquez-Mosquera, Cristóbal Colón-Mejeras, J. Víctor Álvarez, Beatriz Martín López-Pardo, Lluis Lis López, Rosario Sánchez-Martínez, Manuel López-Mendoza, Mónica López-Rodríguez, Eduardo Villacorta-Argüelles, María A. Goicoechea-Diezhandino, Francisco J. Guerrero-Márquez, Saida Ortolano, Elisa Leao-Teles, Álvaro Hermida-Ameijeiras, María L. Couce

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On adaptive identification of systems having multiple nonlinearities by N. N. Karabutov

“…Methods applied include the adaptive identification method, implicit identified representation, S-synchronization of a nonlinear system, and the Lyapunov vector function method.Results. A generalization of the excitation constancy condition based on fulfilling the S-synchronizability for a nonlinear system is proposed along with a method for decomposing the system in the output space. …”
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