A Retrospective Patient Chart Review and Survey in Patients with Cryopyrin-associated Periodic Syndromes Treated with Anakinra by Helen J. Lachmann, Renée J.G. Arnold, Marco Gattorno, Isabelle Koné-Paut, Alberto Ferreira, Jasmin Kümmerle-Deschner

“…A secondary objective included comparing chart review and patient recall of symptoms and AEs. …”
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Effect of bleaching materials and whitening mouth wash on surface roughness of two types of composite resin materials nanohybrid and nanofill: an In‐vitro Study by Manal M. Taher, Nsar M. Aziz, Intesar S. Toma

“… Background and objective: Bleaching teeth is one of the effective, comparatively safe, aesthetic treatments in dentistry. …”
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Burden and pattern of diseases among tribes of South-West Rajasthan by Rakhi Dwivedi, Prachi Goel, Riddhi Jain, Aditya Sharma, Pradeep Dwivedi, Pratibha Singh, Kuldeep Singh

“…Results: Over three consecutive years, tribal blocks had a higher load of diseases compared to the non-tribal blocks of the Sirohi district. …”
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The effect of an information brochure on patients undergoing cardiac catheterization on their anxiety, knowledge and fear: A randomized controlled study. by Maria Malliarou, Vasiliki Pappa, Iokasti Papathanasiou, Ilias Andreanidis, Athanasios Nikolentzos, Ioannis Apostolakis, Pavlos Sarafis

“…In terms of stress, patients with co-morbidities scored 7.39 points higher, meaning they experienced more symptoms of permanent anxiety, compared to patients who did not have an underlying disease. …”
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E2F1 activates breast stromal fibroblasts and promotes their paracrine pro-carcinogenic effects by Layla A. Al-Kharashi, Falah H. Al-Mohanna, Abdelilah Aboussekhra, Abdelilah Abousekhra

“…We have shown that CAFs express higher levels of E2F1 compared to their adjacent tumor counterpart fibroblasts (TCFs). …”
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Squeeze-and-Excitation Vision Transformer for Lung Nodule Classification by Xiaozhong Xue, Yanhe Ma, Weiwei Du, Yahui Peng

“…This result shows a significant improvement compared to ViT and SE-CNN.…”
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Treatment and outcomes of high-risk neuroblastoma in Southeast Asia: a single-institution experience and review of the literature by Anselm Chi-Wai Lee, Chan Hon Chui, Robert Kwok, Kim Shang Lee, Chee Meng Fong, Wilfred Hing-Sang Wong

“…Conclusion: Intensified medical and surgical treatment for high-risk neuroblastoma proved to be effective, with superior survival rates compared to previous data from Southeast Asia.…”
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Estimating the Torsional Capacity of Reinforced Concrete Beams Using ANFIS Models by Zhao Wenwu, Zeng Shaowu, Gong Guilin, Li Qiangqiang, Li Kexing

“…The 𝐴𝑁𝐹 − 𝐺𝑇𝐴 obtained lower 𝑆𝑀𝐴𝑃𝐸 index values of 5.2192 and 5.39 compared to the values of 8.0622 and 9.3783 obtained by the 𝐴𝑁𝐹 − 𝐻𝐵𝐴 during the learning and assessment phases, respectively.…”
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Evaluation and Correction of the Ambient Particle Spectral Light Absorption Measured Using a Filter-based Aethalometer by Gang Zhao, Yingli Yu, Ping Tian, Jing Li, Guo Song, Chunsheng Zhao

“…This study evaluated σabs by comparing the values measured with an AE33 using Tape 8050, an AE33 using Tape 8060 (which differs from Tape 8050 in material), and a three-wavelength photoacoustic soot spectrometer (PASS-3) during two field campaigns in eastern China. …”
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DLiGRU-X: Efficient X-Vector-Based Embeddings for Small-Footprint Keyword Spotting System by Zong-En Wu, Shao-Jung Chan, Yeshanew Ale Wubet, Kuang-Yow Lian

“…The proposed model is validated on the Google Speech Command public dataset, and its performance is compared with other recently proposed deep learning models for KWS. …”
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The Food Resources and Kitchen Skills intervention: Protocol of a randomized controlled trial. by Armando Peña, Emily Dawkins, Mariah Adams, Lyndsi R Moser, Amy Carter, Rebecca L Rivera, Deanna Reinoso, Wanzhu Tu, Richard J Holden, Daniel O Clark

“…<h4>Conclusions</h4>Establishing that a food insecurity and SMES intervention, compared to usual care services, is feasible in FQHCs and efficacious for improving blood pressure and related outcomes would have important public health implications. …”
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Perivascular space imaging during therapy for medulloblastoma. by Ruitian Song, John O Glass, Shengjie Wu, Yimei Li, Giles W Robinson, Amar Gajjar, Thomas E Merchant, Wilburn E Reddick

“…Patients who had undergone a shunt procedure exhibited a significantly reduced PVS compared to those who had not undergone the procedure. …”
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Impact of Dienogest Alone or in Combination with Ethinylestradiol on the Quality of Life of Women with Endometriosis: A Prospective Cohort Study by Mujde Canday, Suleyman Salman

“… OBJECTIVE: We aim to compare the effectiveness of oral contraceptives and dienogest, primarily by considering the quality of life scale. …”
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Homogeneous Model in Finite Element Analysis for Natural Frequency Calculation of Axisymmetric Shells by Volodymyr Lipovskyi

“…The study analyzes the impact of the simplified homogeneous model on the deviation and error of natural frequencies compared to real structures. Design / Method / Approach. …”
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MODELING AND SIMULATION OF A DUAL CHANNEL ACTIVE NOISE CONTROL SYSTEM FOR POWER TRANSFORMER USING FXLMS ALGORITHM by ADETONA SUNDAY, SALAWU RAIFU, ALABI MORUF

“…Also, the MSE value of -72 dB was obtained in the proposed dcANC with FXLMS, compared with -64 dB obtained from scANC with FXLMS algorithm. …”
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A study regarding student satisfaction on medical graduate license examinations and career guiding sessions around the globe including the NEXT (National Exit Test) exam of India... by Bhanupriya Shivshankar Pande, Amit Jagannath Patil, Aashutosh Ramakant Patel, Dnyaneshwari Pande, Vaishnavi Galande, Rohit Garde

“…A significant difference was obtained for NEXT exam difficulty level when compared with foreign medical license exams. (P <0.001, ?…”
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Multi-key fully homomorphic encryption scheme based on NTRU bootstrapping by ZHENG Junhua, JIANG Hongwei, LIU Rong, LI Yixiu, LI Wen, WENG Jian

“…The proposed scheme was compared with the existing mainstream multi-key fully homomorphic encryption scheme in theory. …”
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Performance of Polyurethane Adhesive in Hardwood Cross-Laminated Timber by Bradia T. Henfield, Tamara Suely Filgueira Amorim Franca, Frederico Franca, Franklin Quin Jr, Rachel A. Arango, Katie M. Ohno

“…Results indicated significant variations in adhesive performance among the hardwood CLT specimens compared to SP, with differences in both shear strength and delamination resistance. …”
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Health Canada's use of its priority review process for new drugs: a cohort study by Joel Lexchin

“…Objectives Priority reviews of new drug applications are resource intensive and drugs approved through this process have a greater likelihood of acquiring a serious safety warning compared to drugs approved through the standard process. …”
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TRAUMATIC CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY. IS URGENT INTERVENTION SUPERIOR TO DELAYED INTERVENTION? A META-ANALYSIS EVALUATION by I Ketut Martiana, Donny Permana, Lukas Widhiyanto

“…Introduction: Cervical spine is the most mobile part of the human spine, thus making it the most vulnerable compared to all the other vertebral structures. Surgical procedures are usually performed within the first 24 hours, or 4-6 weeks after trauma in order to prevent any secondary trauma. …”
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