Secure Transmission for Energy Efficient Parallel Mixed FSO/RF System in Presence of Independent Eavesdroppers by Dipti R. Pattanayak, Vivek K. Dwivedi, Vikram Karwal, Abhijeet Upadhya, Hongjiang Lei, G. Singh

“…In order to improve the PLS of the energy efficient co-operative communication system, diversity combining techniques have been introduced at the destination node. In addition to this, collusion and non collusion eavesdropper scenarios are considered to make the system more practical. …”
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Clinical prognosis evaluation of alpha-fetoprotein-positive gastric cancer: comprehensive analysis and development of a novel nomogram for survival prediction by Fei Zuo, Yunyan Tan, Wenjun Mao, Zhaoqing Tang, Tianping Luo

“…The AFP-positive group demonstrated significantly more aggressive clinicopathological features, including larger tumor size (p < 0.05), deeper invasion (higher T-stage), increased lymph node metastasis (higher N-stage), and higher rates of distant metastasis (p = 0.035). …”
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gene polymorphism as a poor prognostic factor for papillary thyroid cancer by Selvihan Beysel, Nilnur Eyerci, Ferda Alparslan Pinarli, Mahmut Apaydin, Muhammed Kizilgul, Mustafa Caliskan, Ozgur Ozcelik, Seyfullah Kan, Erman Cakal

“…Carriers of the FokI T allele were at an increased risk of more advanced tumor-node-metastasis stage, greater tumor size, multifocality, and extra-thyroidal invasion of papillary thyroid cancer compared with the CC genotype. …”
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Probabilistic human health risk assessment of PM2.5 exposure in communities affected by local sources and gold mine tailings by Nomsa Duduzile Lina Thabethe, Nomsa Duduzile Lina Thabethe, Tafadzwa Makonese, Daniel Masekameni, Derk Brouwer

“…The study recommends revising the current South African PM2.5 NAAQS to adopt more stringent measures and align them to international benchmarks to safeguard the public from adverse health effects due to PM2.5 exposure.…”
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Malnutrition exacerbates pathogenesis of Lutzomyia longipalpis sand fly-transmitted Leishmania donovani by Eva Iniguez, Johannes Doehl, Pedro Cecilio, Tiago Donatelli Serafim, Caroline Percopo, Yvonne Rangel-Gonzalez, Somaditya Dey, Elvia J. Osorio, Patrick Huffcutt, Sofia Roitman, Claudio Meneses, Mara Short, Jesus G. Valenzuela, Peter C. Melby, Shaden Kamhawi

“…However, parasite dissemination was more pronounced in MN-SF that had a significantly higher acute (P ≤ 0.001) and chronic (P ≤ 0.0001) splenic parasite burden compared to WN-SF. …”
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Liposomal structure tuned J-aggregated ICG as enhanced NIR-II imaging nanoprobe by Haoli Yu, Yuesong Wang, Yan Chen, Mengyuan Cui, Huiting Xu, Yang Liu, Mingxi Li, Min ji, Fang Yang

“…Furthermore, for a mouse model of mammary tumors with lymph node metastasis, IF7 peptide-modified IJA-CLPs (IF7-IJA-CLPs) can successfully discriminate tumor cell-metastasized lymph nodes with more than 4-fold fluorescence signal improvement. …”
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Exceptional outcome: CD-30-positive relapsed enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma (EATL) treated with brentuximab vedotin alone, showing significant improvement in weight and alb... by Kainat Memon, Cathy Burton

“…A computed tomography (CT) scan confirmed diffuse ulcerative enteropathy of the jejunum with mesenteric nodes. A CD30-positive T cell lymphoma was diagnosed on biopsy from a right groin node. …”
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Massive blood loss during highly traumatic surgical intervention in pediatric oncology (clinical case) by N. V. Matinyan, E. I. Belousova, A. A. Tsintsadze, D. A. Kuznetsov, E. A. Kovaleva, A. P. Kazantsev, G. B. Sagoyan, A. M. Suleymanova, M. V. Rubanskaya, S. R. Varfolomeeva

“…The 3-year-old patient underwent surgical intervention in the following volume: median laparotomy, nephradrenalectomy on the right (lesion 10–15–20 cm in size), paracaval and aortocaval lymph node dissection (conglomerate 7–8 cm in size), resection of S5-S6-S7 liver segments, resection of the right domes of the diaphragm. …”
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Primary staging with 2[18F]-FDG-PET/CT and -PET/MRI and radiotherapy response evaluation with MRI in uterine cervical cancer: an interim analysis of a prospective clinical trial by Maja Aasa, David Lindquist, Ulrika Ottander, Sara N. Strandberg

“…Abstract Background In uterine cervical cancer (UCC), tumour staging is performed according to the 2018 International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) system, where imaging is incorporated, or the more generic Tumour Node Metastasis (TNM) classification. …”
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Long Noncoding RNA GATA3-AS1 Promotes Cell Proliferation and Metastasis in Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Suppression of PTEN, CDKN1A, and TP53 by Xuee Luo, Ning Zhou, Le Wang, Qinghua Zeng, Hongying Tang

“…The high expression of GATA3-AS1 was significantly correlated with larger tumor size, advanced TNM stage, and more lymph node metastasis. High GATA3-AS1 expression was markedly correlated with shorter overall survival times of HCC patients. …”
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Clinical and morphological response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by chemoradiotherapy in a patient with locally advanced gastric cancer: a case report by V. Yu. Skoropad, D. Yu. Mironova, I. V. Kolobaev, T. A. Agababyan, E. S. Zhavoronkova, V. N. Grinevich, S. A. Ivanov, A. D. Kaprin

“…Histological examination of lymph nodes revealed pathological complete response. The patient is alive after 33 months of gollow-up without the evidence of disease progression. …”
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The association between nutritional risk and survival time among patients with pancreatic cancer following pancreaticoduodenectomy: a retrospective cohort study by Qiuju Tian, Jing Su, Leying Chen, Min Zhang, Beiwen Wu, Baiyong Shen

“…Patients aged 18 years or more who received pancreaticoduodenectomy for pancreatic cancer in our center between December 2019 and June 2022 from the follow-up database were included in the study. …”
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Adult Pancreatoblastoma: Clinical Insights and Outcomes Compared to Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC) by Han Yin, Fernanda Romero-Hernandez, Amir Ashraf Ganjouei, Jaeyun Jane Wang, Audrey Brown, Kenzo Hirose, Ajay V. Maker, Eric Nakakura, Carlos Corvera, Kimberly S. Kirkwood, Alexander Wilhelm, June S. Peng, Adnan Alseidi, Mohamed A. Adam

“…Pancreatoblastoma patients were younger than PDAC patients (56 vs. 69 years, <i>p</i> < 0.001). More pancreatoblastoma patients were managed at academic institutions (63.0% vs. 40.7%, <i>p</i> = 0.047). …”
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Differences and analogies in thyroid cancer discovered incidentally or by thyroid-related screening: a multicenter study by Laura Croce, Rosaria Maddalena Ruggeri, Camilla Virili, Carlo Cappelli, Marsida Teliti, Pietro Costa, Spyridon Chytiris, Antonio Nicocia, Francesca Coperchini, Maria Flavia Bagaglini, Flavia Magri, Alfredo Campennì, Mario Rotondi

“…The ID group patients were more frequently males, significantly older and with a higher BMI than the TD group ones; they had a higher rate of non-thyroidal cancers and cardiovascular/metabolic comorbidities. …”
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Localización del tumor de colon: derecho versus izquierdo como factor pronóstico para supervivencia en cáncer de colon. Análisis de una cohorte retrospectiva by S.P. Molina-Meneses, L.J. Palacios-Fuenmayor, F.D. Molina-Mercado, D.F. Caycedo-Medina, R. Castaño-Llano, L.R. Gómez-Wolff, Y.E. Pérez-García

“…Most of the patients did not have lymph node dissemination (N0: 54.7%), but there were more positive lymph nodes (28 vs. 16.5%) and more microsatellite instability (48 vs. 4 patients) in right-sided tumors. …”
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CONFIDENCE treatment success: long-term real-world effectiveness and safety of ocrelizumab in Germany by Mathias Buttmann, Martin S. Weber, Martin S. Weber, Sven G. Meuth, Sandra Blümich, Stefanie Hieke-Schulz, Petra Dirks, Julius C. Eggebrecht, Tjalf Ziemssen

“…These results support early intervention with high-efficacy ocrelizumab treatment to optimize long-term outcomes for pwRMS.Trial registrationhttps://catalogues.ema.europa.eu/node/3142/administrative-details, identifiers ML39632 and EUPAS22951.…”
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Medical care and initial health status of French children returnees from jihadist group operation areas: A cross-sectional study from 2017 to 2020 in one referral French hospital by J. Goutines, L.L. Pham, N. Lucidarme, C. Briand, A. Malka, C. Baker, M. Veyret-Morau, A. Mapelli, A. Klein, T. Baubet, L. De Pontual

“…Conclusions: Nutritional impairment and psychomotor or behaviour troubles were more frequent than other diseases in our cohort. …”
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Soft Error in Saddle Fin-Based DRAM at Cryogenic Temperature by Minsang Ryu, Minki Suh, Jonghyeon Ha, Minji Bang, Dabok Lee, Hojoon Lee, Hyunchul Sagong, Dong-Seok Kim, Jungsik Kim

“…The decrease in storage node potential (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$V_{SN}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) caused by charge sharing varies by up to 1.31% between 77 and 300 K. …”
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Povetacicept (ALPN-303; TACI vTD-Fc), an enhanced, potent dual inhibitor of BAFF and APRIL, ameliorates experimental autoimmune myasthenia gravis in C57BL/6N mice by Elena Rinaldi, Elisa Puleo, Alessandra Consonni, Martina Miglietti, Renato Mantegazza, NingXin Wang, Stanford L. Peng, Katherine E. Lewis, Stacey R. Dillon, Fulvio Baggi

“…Povetacicept treatment also reduced the number of total B220+ and Ki67+ proliferating cells in draining lymph node follicles and resulted in modifications of splenic T and B cell subset frequencies, compared to controls.DiscussionThe potent, dual BAFF/APRIL inhibitor povetacicept significantly improves clinical disease activity in EAMG, associated with reductions in pathogenic anti-AChR autoantibodies and superior to comparator therapeutic interventions based on WT TACI-Fc, CD20 depletion, or FcRn inhibition. …”
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Detection of Mycobacteria in Arabian camels and antimycobacterial potential of Moringa oleifera by Sahar A. Allam, Eman Mahrous, Sahar T. M. Tolba, Samy M. Mohamed, Mohamed T. Ragab, Rania I. Mohamed

“…Mycobacterium was isolated from 9.4% (3/32) of the lung samples and 2.4% (1/41) of the recovered lymph node samples. The isolated strains had ideal culture characteristics of Mycobacterium. …”
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