Observation of the efficacy of long-term citrate anticoagulation in patients with maintenance hemodialysis by ZHUANG Feng, BI Xiao, DING Feng

“…Objective To explore the effectiveness and safety of long-term citrate anticoagulant therapy in maintenance hemodialysis patients.Methods Twenty-six patients with high-risk bleeding tendency who underwent hemodialysis in the blood purification room of Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital from January 2016 to December 2019 were selected,and all of them were treated with citrate anticoagulation for more than 3 months.We observed the clinical symptoms,adverse reactions and blood coagulation in the filter and pipeline during the treatment.The changes of coagulation indexes,electrolytes（blood sodium,potassium,chlorine,calcium,magnesium） and related biochemical indexes（parathyroid hormone,alkaline phosphatase,lipoprotein） were measured regularly before and after dialysis.We also analyzed the changes of bone metabolism in patients before and after citrate anticoagulant therapy.Results The patient had a good tolerance to citric acid anticoagulation and no serious complications occurred.In a total of 1 612 cases of hemodialysis,all treatments were not interrupted due to coagulation in the filter or pipeline.The filters were found to have only grade 2 blood clotting after the end of dialysis in 11 times of dialysis,and the total anticoagulant effectiveness reached 99.31%.Only 3.72% of the dialysis cases in the venous kettle were founded a few blood clots after dialysis which accounted for 3.72%（60/1 612）.There were no significant changes in blood coagulation function（PT,APTT）,serum sodium,magnesium,free calcium and total calcium before and after single dialysis（P>0.05）;but serum creatinine and potassium decreased significantly,while chlorine and HCO^-₃ increased（P<0.05）.There was no significant difference in the changes of calcium,parathyroid hormone and alkaline phosphatase after 3 months and 6 months of dialysis（P>0.05）.Conclusions Citrate anticoagulation can be carried out in maintenance hemodialysis for a long time.It has good curative effect and high safety,and has a broad application prospect.…”
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Analysis of electrical–thermal‐stress characteristics for eccentric contact strip in the valve‐side bushing of converter transformer by Yongqi Wang, Kai Liu, Mu Lin, Hao Tang, Xining Li, Guangning Wu

“…Through the test and calculation, it can be seen that the contact resistance of the normal contact strip changes with the height in the form of a typical first‐order exponential function. The contact resistance value is between 200 and 400 μΩ under the actual mounting height; for the brand‐new contact strip, the maximum temperature difference is 2.984 K without other interference; and after 15 min, the maximum displacements of the upper and lower half‐ring strips reached are 84.3 and 83.7 μm, respectively, due to the thermal expansion. …”
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New method of surgical correction of lesser toes deformity by S. N. Leonova, I. V. Usoltsev, M. A. Kosareva

“…As a result of the application of the proposed method, it was possible to achieve deformity correction, eliminate the lateral deviation of the second toe in the metatarsophalangeal joint, restore congruence in the joint, achieve consolidation of bone fragments without loss of correction, and improve the appearance and function of the foot. Three months after the operation, a statistically significant improvement was determined, according to the AOFAS LMIS scale, having reached 94.5 ± 4.64 points, which made it possible to speak about the achievement of a good functional result of treatment. …”
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Research on RF Intensity Temperature Sensing based on 1D-CNN by DING Meiqi, GUI Lin, WANG Ziyi, SHANG Disen, QIAN Min, LI Qiankun

“…【Results】The experimental results show that the RMSE of the prediction model based on 1D-CNN reaches the order of 10^-3, while the RMSE of the traditional algorithms is usually in the order of 10^-1. …”
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Effects of nickel, lead, and copper stress on the growth and biochemical responses of Aegilops tauschii seedlings by Ning Wang, Hao Chen, Yaowu Tian

“…Finally, the evaluation using the membership function method revealed that among the three heavy metals, A. tauschii exhibited the strongest adaptation to Cu, followed by Ni and Pb.…”
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Application of artificial neural networks for predicting soil settlement in geotechnical applications with plastic waste reinforcement above buried pipes by Sinan A. Al-Haddad, Hala Adnan Abbas, Luttfi A. Al-Haddad, Mustafa I. Al-Karkhi

“…The ANN model, configured with two hidden layers of 10 and 6 neurons respectively, had used the hyperbolic tangent (tanh) activation function and trained with the Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm. …”
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Using Plasmodium knowlesi as a model for screening Plasmodium vivax blood-stage malaria vaccine targets reveals new candidates. by Duncan N Ndegwa, Prasun Kundu, Jessica B Hostetler, Alejandro Marin-Menendez, Theo Sanderson, Kioko Mwikali, Lisa H Verzier, Rachael Coyle, Sophie Adjalley, Julian C Rayner

“…A panel of P. vivax proteins predicted to function in erythrocyte invasion were expressed as full-length recombinant ectodomains in a mammalian expression system. …”
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YOLO-SAG: An improved wildlife object detection algorithm based on YOLOv8n by Lingli Chen, Gang Li, Shunkai Zhang, Wenjie Mao, Mei Zhang

“…Training stability is enhanced by introducing the Softplus activation function, which increases detection accuracy; incorporating the AIFI enhances intra-scale feature interaction, reducing missed and false detections. …”
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The relationship of the prevalence of caries with the immune status of preschool and schoolage children in the city of Makhachkala by T. F. Kosyreva, F. I. Osmanovа

“…Immunoglobulin IgA, which plays a protective function in humoral immunity, decreased by more than 70% by the period of permanent bite. …”
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Predictive Capabilities and Limitations of Stream Interaction Region Observations at Different Solar Longitudes by R. C. Allen, G. C. Ho, L. K. Jian, G. M. Mason, S. K. Vines, D. Lario

“…Through comparing 10 years of SIRs/CIRs observed at L1 and at STEREO, we have investigated the probability of sequentially detecting SIRs/CIRs at two locations as a function of the difference in heliospheric longitude and latitudinal separation between the two spacecraft. …”
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Effect of Inorganic and Nano-zinc oxide on Feed Intake, Weight Gain and Feed Conversion of Awassi Lambs by Razzaq Sabih Maky Baiee, Ali Ahmed Alaw Qotbi, Hayder Mohammed Hassan Habeeb

“… Zinc is one of the components of many enzymes that performs catalytic, structural and regulatory functions and important in the processes of cell metabolism, regulating appetite, growth and immune function. …”
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The impact of automation on the safety of drug dispensing in nursing homes by Idoia Beobide Telleria, Alex Ferro Uriguen, Blanca Miró Isasi, Silvia Martínez Arrechea, Maria Isabel Genua Goena

“…We analyze patient function, cognition and pharmacological data in two time periods. …”
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Book publishing in Vyatka region in the early XX century by Yu. V. Pershina

“…The aboriginal translation сommission has functioned in the province. A major role in organizating the book trade in Vyatka region played a warehouse created by the provincial zemstvo in 1894. …”
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REDISTRIBUTION OF BASE STATIONS LOAD IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORKS by Igor Ruban, Heorhii Kuchuk, Andrey Kovalenko

“…In the suggested modification of the method, the function assessing the bandwidth of the uplink channel is added to the base stations, as well a threshold value for using its bandwidth. …”
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Analysis Method for the Pouring Stage of Concrete-Filled Steel Tube (CFST) Arch Bridges Considering Time-Varying Heat of Hydration and Elastic Modulus by Mengsheng Yu, Xinyu Yao, Kaizhong Xie, Tianzhi Hao, Xirui Wang

“…The calculated value of the example reaches 154 mm, while the influence of the lateral displacement is relatively small and recoverable. …”
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PO65 | Utilization of emicizumab in acquired hemophilia A: a case report

“…Emicizumab, a bispecific antibody that mimics the function of activated FVIII irrespective of the presence of neutralizing antibodies, demonstrated to prevent bleeds and to allow to postpone or individualize the immunosuppression. …”
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Reliability Analysis of Compressive Fatigue Life of Cement Concrete under Temperature Differential Cycling by Chengyun Tao, Lin Dong, Tianlai Yu, Qian Chen

“…At a 95% reliability probability, the decrease can reach 77.5%–87.5%. Based on the exponential function, a concrete fatigue life prediction model based on different reliability levels was established. …”
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A lightweight semantic segmentation method for concrete bridge surface diseases based on improved DeeplabV3+ by Zhiyuan Yu, Chunquan Dai, Xiaoming Zeng, Yunlong Lv, Haisheng Li

“…Finally, the focal loss function was used to solve the problem of sample imbalance. …”
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Renal assessment after pediatric living related liver transplantation by Tawhida AbdelGhaffar, Noha Mohamed, Marianne Shenouda, Ragia Said

“…However, the impact of LT on renal function in this population remains underestimated. …”
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Buckling of Rectangular Plates under Nonlinear Creep by S. B. Yazyev, A. S. Chepurnenko

“…Finally, the problem was reduced to a system of two differential equations, in which the desired functions were the stress and deflection functions. …”
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