CAG Expansion in Androgen Receptor Gene of Infertile Men in Erbil Governorate by Dashne Abdulla Salih, Karim Jalal Karim

“…The motility and normal morphology of sperm in infertile men have negative relation while sperm count and concentration have a positive relation with CAG expansion. …”
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Use of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Lower Extremity Research by Yongni Zhang, Yaning Zang, Jiayi Ren, Wenhao Guo, Ashley Disantis, Siyu Liu, RobRoy L Martin

“…A second search was done to count the use of PROMs in seven representative journals from January 2011 through May 2022. …”
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Resveratrol-derived carbon dots integrated into gelatin/chitosan multifunctional films for intelligent packaging by Tianxin Fu, Yuchao Feng, Shu Zhang, Yanan Sheng, Changyuan Wang

“…When applied to keeping pork fresh, the gelatin/chitosan/Res-CDs film significantly reduced the total viable bacterial count on the pork surface and effectively prevented pork discoloration. …”
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Research on algorithm for improving imaging accuracy of CFRP low speed impact damage by WU Xiangnan, CHENG Xiaojin, LI Qixin, SHANG Jianhua

“…The iterative training results demonstrate that when the iteration count reaches 200，the σEOL of different types of impact damage is greater than 1. …”
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Management of a Female Patient with Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Somatoform Disorder by E. A. Trush, E. A. Poluektova, A. G. Beniashvili, O. S. Shifrin

“…No abnormal changes were detected in examination at the clinic (complete blood count, serum chemistry tests, urinalysis or fecal tests, hydrogen and methane breath tests with lactulose, abdominal ultrasound, esophagogastroduodenoscopy, colonoscopy). …”
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Effect of Basal Testosterone and Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulphate Levels on in Vitro Fertilization Outcome in Normoresponders by İnci Kahyaoğlu, Nafiye Yılmaz, Serkan Kahyaoğlu, Ayten Türkkanı, Mahmut Nedim Çiçek, Leyla Mollamahmutoğlu

“…Day 2-4 basal concentrations of FSH, LH, E2, total testosterone, DHEAS and antral follicle count (AFC) were determined in preceding cycle. RESULTS: No significant difference was found between pregnant and non-pregnant groups regarding the AFC, hormone and controlled ovarian hyperstimulation (COH) parameters (total dose of gonadotrophins (1995.7±851.1 vs 2296.4±845.3 IU), >14 mm follicles (9.3±3.1 vs 7.3±3.9), retrieved oocytes (12.4±5.1 vs 8.7±6.1) or number of good quality embryos (7.4±3.7 vs 4,4±3.6) (p>0.05). …”
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Liver and spleen elastography in diagnosis of extrahepatic portal vein obstruction: pilot study by M. Yu. Nadinskaya, Ye. O. Liusina, Ch. S. Pavlov

“…Past history of portal hypertension, platelet count, serum albumin level, alanine and aspartate aminotransferase level; prothrombin according to international normalization ratio; grade of esophageal varices (EV); spleen longitudinal size according to abdominal ultrasound, liver and spleen stiffness were evaluated in both groups. …”
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Validation methods for encapsulated faecal microbiota transplantation: a scoping review by Nina Rågård, Simon Mark Dahl Baumwall, Sara Ellegaard Paaske, Mette Mejlby Hansen, Katrine Lundby Høyer, Susan Mikkelsen, Christian Erikstrup, Jens Frederik Dahlerup, Christian Lodberg Hvas

“…We identified eight validation covariables: donor selection, pre-processing, preservation, oxygen-sparing processing, microbial count, viability, engraftment and clinical effect outcomes, from which we constructed a model for quality assessment of encapsulated FMT that exhaustively categorised processing details and validation measures. …”
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Comparison of Birth Weights of Pre-Delivery Anemic and Non-Anemic Routine Iron Supplemented Pregnant Women by Tolga Atakul

“…Mean values for hemoglobin, hematocrit, mean corpuscular volume, red blood cell count and red cell distribution width were as follows; 10.9g/dL (±1.4), 34.6 % (±4.3), 84.6fL (±7.8), 4.1g/dL (±0.4), and 14.2 % (±2.5), respectively. …”
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The Effects of Preeclampsia Severity and Thrombocytopenia on the Prognosis of Hypertensive Pregnant Women by Emre Beşe, Fatma Devran Bıldırcın, Erdal Malatyalıoğlu

“…Additionally, the patients were analyzed in two subgroups according to their platelet counts, as the groups with low and normal platelet counts. …”
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Use of a Launderable Bed Barrier and Antibiotic Stewardship to Decrease Hospital Onset _Clostridioides difficile_ Infections in an Acute Care Hospital: A Retrospective Pre/Post Cas... by Edmond A. Hooker, Peter J. Mallow, Christine McKinney, Martin L. Gnoni, Francisco Fernandez Gonzales

“…**Results:** There were 34 HO-CDIs and 42 672 patient days in the pre-intervention period and 31 HO-CDIs and 65 882 patient days in the post-intervention period. The average monthly count of HO-CDI was 1.79 (SD 1.51) and 1.03 (SD 0.96) during the pre- and post-periods, respectively. …”
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Diagnostic Value of Mean Platelet Volume, Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio, and Platelet to Lymphocyte Ratio for Late-Onset Neonatal Sepsis by Behzad Barekatain, Elahe Mardani, Alireza Sadeghnia, Zahra Heidari

“…Therefore, we aimed to investigate the diagnostic value of complete blood count (CBC) parameters: mean platelet volume (MPV), neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), and platelet to lymphocyte ratio (PLR) which have been suggested in previous studies. …”
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Thromboelastography parameters in chronic viral liver disease and liver resection: a retrospective study by Ying Di, Jialu Li, Chunjuan Ye, Zheng Wang, Qianqian Zhu

“…After multivariable adjustment (including age, sex, liver disease aetiology, alanine aminotransferase [ALT], aspartate aminotransferase [AST], albumin, total bilirubin, haemoglobin and platelet count), TEG parameters (except R-times) were either weakly or inversely related to the severity of liver disease as defined by the MELD score (absolute r < 0.2 and P < 0.05 for all except R-times). …”
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Saturated Transposon Analysis in Yeast as a one-step method to quantify the fitness effects of gene disruptions on a genome-wide scale. by Enzo Kingma, Floor Dolsma, Leila Iñigo de la Cruz, Liedewij Laan

“…We show that the mean read count per transposon insertion site provides a metric for fitness that is robust across biological and technical replicate experiments. …”
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Studies of heavy metal contents and microbial composition of rhizosphere of <i>Panicum maximum</i> within and around auto mechanic workshop in Benin City by O Osazuwa, I Beckley, UC Osayamen

“…Comparatively, bacterial counts  outnumbered fungal counts. Percentage hydrocarbon degrading fungi was 133.3% in samples collected from Oredo, compared to 31.82 in the control. …”
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Effects of Ultrasonic Treatment Combined with Microporous Modified Atmosphere Packaging on Cold Storage Quality of Fresh-cut Jackfruit by Aiping FAN, Qiuhong DENG, Liping ZENG, Guangming YANG, Yubing LI, Chunyan LIU

“…The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of ultrasonic (US) treatment combined with microporous modified atmosphere packaging (MMAP) on the microbial count and refrigerated quality of fresh-cut jackfruit, and to determine the optimal means of preservation. …”
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Evaluation of the readability of informed consent forms commonly used in dermatology and cosmetology in Turkiye by Mine Mujde Kus

“…To ascertain the readability levels of the included texts, the mean number of words per sentence, the mean word count, the mean number of words with four syllables or more, and the mean number of syllables were calculated using the Bezirci-Yılmaz and Ateşman formulas. …”
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What Influences Low-cost Sensor Data Calibration? - A Systematic Assessment of Algorithms, Duration, and Predictor Selection by Lu Liang, Jacob Daniels

“…Although algorithms react differently to the number of predictors, their performance was typically boosted by adding more predictors, especially the particle count and humidity. Our study not only describes an approach of sophisticated data-driven calibration for practical applications, but also provides insights into the compounding impacts of parameters, samples, and predictors in algorithm performance.…”
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Hematological manifestations of autoimmune gastritis by Ye. A. Losik, V. T. Ivashkin

“…In 25,4% of patients with APCA changes in common blood count were revealed, most often - of MCV and the CI. …”
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BiAF: research on dynamic goat herd detection and tracking based on machine vision by Yun Hou, Mingjuan Han, Wei Fan, Xinyu Jia, Zhuo Gong, Ding Han

“…In this paper, we propose a machine vision-based grazing goat herd detection algorithm that enhances the streamlined ELAN module in YOLOv7-tiny, incorporates an optimized CBAM attention mechanism, refines the SPPCSPC module to reduce the parameter count, and improves the anchor boxes in YOLOv7-tiny to enhance target detection accuracy. …”
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