Correlation of serum C - reactive protein with clinical parameters in diabetic patients having chronic periodontitis before and after treatment by Arkhawan Ali Abdulhaq, Ziwar Ahmed Salih, Solaf Abdulqadir Mustafa

“…The result also shows significant decrease in all the periodontal parameters and CRP level at base line as compared to 3months after treatment when group I was compared to group II while there was no significant change in the CRP level in group I and HBA1c in group II at base line as compared to 3months treatment. …”
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Healthcare Resource Utilization and Cost Comparisons of High-Protein Enteral Nutrition Formulas Used in Critically Ill Patients by Matthew C. Bozeman, Laura L. Schott, Amarsinh M. Desai, Mary K. Miranowski, Dorothy L. Baumer, Cynthia C. Lowen, Zhun Cao, Krysmaru Araujo Torres

“…IMPACT® Peptide 1.5 (IP) was compared with Pivot® 1.5 (PC), and StdHP formulas. …”
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Randomized radial basis function neural network for solving multiscale elliptic equations by Yuhang Wu, Ziyuan Liu, Wenjun Sun, Xu Qian

“…The RRNN is firstly compared with a variety of DNN methods based on gradient descent optimization. …”
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Network Meta-Analysis of Once Weekly Selinexor-Bortezomib-Dexamethasone in Previously Treated Multiple Myeloma by Michael Dolph, Gabriel Tremblay, Adrienne M Gilligan, Hoyee Leong

“…Two population subsets were assessed: second-line patients (2L) and third-line or greater patients (3L+). Base case results compared all regimens against twice weekly bortezomib and dexamethasone (Vd) as the anchored comparator regimen. …”
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Beyond averages: dissecting urban-rural disparities in skilled antenatal care utilization in Bangladesh - a conway-maxwell-poisson regression analysis by Md. Muddasir Hossain Akib, Farzana Afroz, Bikash Pal

“…The analysis revealed that covariates have significantly different effects on SANC visits in rural areas compared to urban areas. For instance, women aged 35 and above in rural settings exhibited a 37% higher incidence rate of SANC visits (IRR = 1.37) compared to those under 20. …”
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A computational time integrator for heat and mass transfer modeling of boundary layer flow using fuzzy parameters by Muhammad Shoaib Arif, Wasfi Shatanawi, Yasir Nawaz

“…In addition, the scheme is compared with the existing first and second orders in time. …”
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Cost Effectiveness of Insulin Glargine versus Neutral Protamin Hagedorn Insulin in the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes Patients in Turkey by Ilhan Satman, Hayley Bennett, Candeger Yilmaz, Sazi Imamoglu, Goksun Ayvaz, Abdurrahman Comlekci, Demet Ozkaya, Toros Sahin

“…**Objective:** To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of insulin glargine compared to NPH insulin in patients with T2DM in Turkey, from a Social Security Institution perspective. …”
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Efficacy of high-dose steroids versus low-dose steroids in the treatment of immune checkpoint inhibitor-associated myocarditis: a case series and systematic review by Xiuyue Man, Hong Wang, Chen Chen, Xiaofeng Cong, Lemeng Sun, Xueru Sun, Chen Chen, Jing Zhang, Lei Yang

“…Additionally, we conducted a comprehensive literature review using PubMed, Embase, and the Cochrane Library to facilitate a comparative analysis of clinical responses. The primary aim was to compare clinical outcomes and therapeutic responses between patients treated with high-dose versus low-dose methylprednisolone.ResultsPatients receiving an initial high-dose intravenous methylprednisolone (1 g/day) exhibited a more rapid reduction in myocardial injury markers, including troponin I/T (cTnI/T), creatine kinase (CK), and N-terminal pro b-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP), compared to those receiving lower doses. …”
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Ecofriendly colorimetric set-up coupled with mathematical filtration strategy for simultaneous determination of ipratropium and fenoterol in their novel anti-asthmatic metered dose... by Salma N. Ali, Hoda M. Marzouk, Ahmed S. Fayed, Samah S. Saad

“…The developed method is based on the properly optimized reaction of drugs under study with the charge transfer reagent 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-1,4-benzoquinone (DDQ), resulting in orange-colored complexes measured at 464.3 and 514.0 nm for IPR and FEN, respectively. …”
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Çin Siyasi Düşüncesi ve Siyasi Tarihi Bağlamında Çinli Siyasi Elitler by Tuğrul Keskin

“…A major contribution of the work is its comparative analysis between Chinese and Turkish political modernizations. …”
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A Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization-Tuning Algorithm for the Prediction of Nanoparticle Morphology from Microscopic Images by Abhishek Singh, Thaseem Thajudeen

“…Typically, 2-dimensional features from the images are compared to available structures in a database or regression equations are used to predict 3-dimensional morphological parameters including fractal dimension and pre-exponential factor. …”
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Genotoxic impact of BPA and analogs (BPE, BPZ, and BADGE) on Mytilus galloprovincialis: insights from biomarker analysis by Beyza Nalbantlar, Özlem Çakal Arslan

“…Overall, all chemicals significantly increased MN frequency in hemolymph, gill, and hepatopancreas cells compared to controls, with variations based on the chemical and exposure duration. …”
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Acupuncture as an independent or adjuvant therapy to standard management for menopausal insomnia: A systematic review and meta-analysis. by Xiaoni Zhang, Chengyong Liu, Shan Qin, Chaoming Chen, Xiaoqiu Wang, Yuanyuan Jiang, Wenzhong Wu

“…<h4>Objective</h4>This systematic review aimed to clarify if acupuncture is more effective for menopausal insomnia compared with sham acupuncture, standard care (sedative hypnotics and/or MHT) or waitlist control.…”
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Web 3.0: The future of the decentralized Internet by Božić Tamara

“…The comparability is made on the evolution of the Internet through the stages and impact on users. …”
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Modelling the air quality impacts of a zero emission zone scenario in the city of Milan by Andrea Piccoli, Valentina Agresti, Marco Bedogni, Giovanni Lonati, Guido Pirovano

“…The impact of the policy can be inferred by comparing the two scenarios.Road traffic emission in 2030 are expected to strongly decrease from the 2017 levels (−84% for NOx and −28% for PM2.5). …”
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A COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR ANALYZING CONCRETE MIXTURE EXPERIMENTS BASED ON OSADEBE’S REGRESSION MODEL by IFEANYI AGWUOCHA, UCHECHUKWU COLLINS ANYA, CHIOMA TEMITOPE GLORIA AWODIJI, LAWRENCE ETTU

“…In this research work, a MATLAB based computer program, named MIX-PRE, was formulated for analyzing concrete mixture experiments using the Osadebe’s regression model. It was tested by comparing results obtained from it to previous studies by Anya and Okere. …”
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The Effect of Elevated Basal Follicle Stimulating Hormone Levels on Assisted Reproductive Technology Cycle Outcomes by Inci Kahyaoglu, Hatice Yilmaz Dogru, Sezin Erturk Aksakal, Iskender Kaplanoglu, Serdar Dilbaz, Leyla Mollamahmutoglu

“…The rate of embryo transfer per started cycle was significantly higher in group I compared to group III and group IV (p=0.001). Clinical pregnancy rates per embryo transfer were comparable among the groups. …”
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Patient “No-Show” Prior to Elective Primary Total Hip Arthroplasty Increases Risk of Postoperative Anemia by Jeffrey S. Mun, BA, Matthew W. Parry, MD, MS, Alex Tang, MD, Jesse J. Manikowski, MS, Cory Crinella, PA-C, John J. Mercuri, MD, MA

“…When comparing NS and AA patients who both experienced postoperative anemia-related complications, the NS patients had significantly greater intraoperative blood loss compared to AA patients (mean ± standard deviation: 412.6 mL ± 310.2 vs 357.3 mL ± 269.0, P = .028). …”
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Effect of nursing process-based nursing decision implementation on emergency patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction by Tiantian Wan, Caixia Wang, Jingli Shi, Shujian Wu

“…Further comparison of post-intervention outcomes between the IG and CG showed no statistically significant differences in serum BNP and cardiac troponin I levels (P > 0.05), with the confidence intervals (CIs) indicating that the changes between the two groups were comparable. However, when comparing post-intervention LVEF between the groups, the IG showed a significantly higher LVEF than the CG (P < 0.05), with a CI of (P = 0.03, 95% CI [0.05, 0.18]). …”
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Staphylococcus aureus susceptibilities from wounds of patients who use illicit fentanyl by Drew T. Dickinson, Stephen Saw, Lauren Dutcher, Christina Maguire, Adrienne Terico, Margaret Lowenstein, Sonal Patel

“…Methods: We described susceptibilities of S. aureus isolated from wound cultures among the PWUF cohort and compared these to the health system’s wound antibiogram. …”
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