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Toshiki Kuno, Takahisa Mikami, Yuki Sahashi et al. · 2022 · Scientific Reports
Acute kidney injury (AKI) after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is associated with a significant risk of morbidity and mortality. The traditional risk model provided by the National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) is useful for predicting the preprocedural risk of AKI, although the scoring system requires a number of clinical contents. We sought to examine whether machine learning (ML) techniques could predict AKI with fewer NCDR-AKI risk model variables within a comparable PCI database in Japan. We evaluated 19,222 consecutive patients undergoing PCI between 2008 and 2019 in a Ja
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E. S. Skordas, N. V. Sarlis, P. A. Varotsos · 2010 · Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science
Electric field variations that appear before rupture have been recently studied by employing the detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) to quantify their long-range temporal correlations. These studies revealed that seismic electric signal…
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R. G. Waruna Jinadasa, Bihong Li, Benjamin Schmitz et al. · 2016 · ChemSusChem
Abstract A series of monobenzoporphyrins ( WH1 – WH4 ) bearing different conjugated spacer groups were designed and synthesized as sensitizers for dye‐sensitized solar cells. Although a phenyl spacer only has a minimal impact on the…
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Thomas Milic · 2015 · Swiss Political Science Review
Abstract After the vote of 9 February 2014, many attributed the surprising result to voter ignorance. The basic claim was that the majority of those voting in favour of the initiative possessed only a weak understanding of what the likely…
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Tomoaki Natsukawa, Norikazu Maeda, Shiro Fukuda et al. · 2017 · Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis
AIMS: Adiponectin, an adipocyte-specific secretory protein, abundantly exists in the blood stream while its concentration paradoxically decreases in obesity. Hypoadiponectinemia is one of risks of cardiovascular diseases. However, impact…
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Holger Hopp, Teresa Kieseier, Jenny Jakisch et al. · 2021 · Multilingua
Abstract This paper reports findings of a project on pedagogical translanguaging (PTL) among 128 fourth-grade students learning English as a foreign language (EFL) in German primary schools. Over a period of six months, 20% of lesson time…
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Shaharudin Jakpar, Michael Tinggi, Akmal Hisham Tak et al. · 2018 · UNIMAS Review of Accounting and Finance
This study is conducted to analyse the credibility of the fundamental analysis and technical analysis on predicting the stock return and compare both models to determine which model is more credible to be used as a good trading strategy by…
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Anton Kotelyanskii, Gregory M. Kapfhammer · 2014
Although search-based test-data generators, like EvoSuite, efficiently and automatically create effective JUnit test suites for Java classes, these tools are often difficult to configure. Prior work by Arcuri and Fraser revealed that the…
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Gabriëlle J. M. Tuijthof, M. M. de Vaal, I. N. Sierevelt et al. · 2011 · Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology Arthroscopy
PURPOSE: During arthroscopies, bleeding episodes occur as a result of tissue damage. Irrigation systems assist in minimizing these disturbances. The performance of three arthroscopic irrigation systems in clearing bleeding episodes was…
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Shan-Chuan Teng, Yunn-Wen Lien · 2022 · PLoS ONE
Mind wandering has been argued to be beneficial for breaking through mental impasses, which leads to better creative performance upon a second attempt (i.e., the incubation effect). However, the evidence is inconsistent. Different from the propensity for mind wandering that has been the focus of past studies, in this study we further examined the role of diversity (i.e., non-repetitiveness of mind wandering respective to its content) and types of mind wandering along the dimensions of intentionality and awareness during incubation when engaging in a 0-back task (a mind wandering-prone conditio
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Mark van Veen, Inge van Weeghel, Bauke Koekkoek et al. · 2014 · International Journal of Social Psychiatry
BACKGROUND: Risk of suicide is notoriously difficult to assess, and no gold standard is available, in terms of an instrument of first choice. Many different instruments are in use, among which are some that are not properly…
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Axel Åkerblom, Lars Wallentin, Anders Larsson et al. · 2013 · Clinical Chemistry
BACKGROUND: The estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) independently predicts cardiovascular death or myocardial infarction (MI) and can be estimated by creatinine and cystatin C concentrations. We evaluated 2 different cystatin C…
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Sorena Keihani, Douglas Rogers, Bryn Putbrese et al. · 2019 · The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care
BACKGROUND: In 2018, the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) published revisions to the renal injury grading system to reflect the increased reliance on computed tomography scans and non-operative management of high-grade…
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Charlotte Lindblad Wollmann, Kyle D. Hart, Can Liu et al. · 2020 · Acta Obstetricia Et Gynecologica Scandinavica
INTRODUCTION: Predicting a woman's probability of vaginal birth after cesarean could facilitate the antenatal decision-making process. Having a previous vaginal birth strongly predicts vaginal birth after cesarean. Delivery outcome in…
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Muna Canales, Terri Blackwell, Areef Ishani et al. · 2016 · American Journal of Nephrology
<b><i>Background:</i></b> Recently, the first estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) formula specifically developed for community-dwelling older adults, the Berlin Initiative Study Equation 2 (BIS2), was…
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Xinyang Zhang, Alexander Palevski, Aharon Kapitulnik · 2022 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Resistivity saturation is found on both superconducting and insulating sides of an “avoided” magnetic-field-tuned superconductor-to-insulator transition (H-SIT) in a two-dimensional In/InO x composite, where the anomalous metallic behavior…
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David Curtis · 2014 · The Psychiatric Bulletin
Summary In the Oxford Community Treatment Order Evaluation Trial (OCTET), patients were randomised either to be made subject to a community treatment order (CTO) or to be managed with Section 17 leave and discharge. No differences in…
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Falko Dahm, Hassan Syed, Sebastian Tomescu et al. · 2022 · Arthroscopy
Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate biomechanical differences of medial patellofemoral ligament (MPFL) reconstruction, medial quadriceps tendon femoral ligament (MQTFL) reconstruction, and a combination of these techniques…
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Tom Burns · 2010 · The Psychiatrist
Summary UK mental healh services have been distinguished by their continuity of care but recently there has been a move to separating consultant responsibility for in-patient and out-patient care. Local examples of the success of this…
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Rachael Storo, Cole Easson, Mahmood Shivji et al. · 2021 · Frontiers in Microbiology
Profiles of symbiotic microbial communities (“microbiomes”) can provide insight into the natural history and ecology of their hosts. Using high throughput DNA sequencing of the 16S rRNA V4 region, microbiomes of five shark species in South…
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Sergio Luis‐Lima, Tomás H. Higuera Linares, Laura Henríquez-Gómez et al. · 2019 · Journal of Clinical Medicine
Type 2 diabetes mellitus represents 30-50% of the cases of end stage renal disease worldwide. Thus, a correct evaluation of renal function in patients with diabetes is crucial to prevent or ameliorate diabetes-associated kidney disease. The reliability of formulas to estimate renal function is still unclear, in particular, those new equations based on cystatin-C or the combination of creatinine and cystatin-C. We aimed to assess the error of the available formulas to estimate glomerular filtration rate in diabetic patients. We evaluated the error of creatinine and/or cystatin-C based formulas
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Yan Tong, Peter Jezzard, Thomas W. Okell et al. · 2020 · Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
PURPOSE: To improve the labeling efficiency of pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling (PCASL) at 7T using parallel transmission (pTx). METHODS: maps were acquired in the labeling plane for tagging pulse design. Complex weights of the labeling pulses for each of the 8 transmit channels were calculated to produce a homogenous radiofrequency (RF) -shimmed labeling across the ROIs. Variable-Rate Selective Excitation (VERSE) pulses were also implemented as a part of the labeling pulse train. Whole-brain perfusion-weighted images were acquired under conditions of RF shimming, VERSE with RF shimmin
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Takeshi Kuroda, Naohito Tanabe, Daisuke Kobayashi et al. · 2012 · BMC Nephrology
BACKGROUND: The kidney is a major target organ for systemic amyloidosis that often affects the kidney including proteinura, and elevated serum creatinine (Cr). The correlation between amount of amyloid deposits and clinical parameters is not known. The aim of this study was to clarify correlation the amyloid area in all renal biopsy specimen and clinical parameters. METHODS: Fifty-eight patients with an established diagnosis of AL amyloidosis participated in the study. All patients showed amyloid deposits in renal biopsies. We retrospectively investigated the correlation between clinical data
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Georgia Verardi, Maximiliano Sérgio Cenci, Tamires Timm Maske et al. · 2016 · Brazilian Oral Research
Oral rehabilitation with osseointegrated implants is a way to restore esthetics and masticatory function in edentulous patients, but bacterial colonization around the implants may lead to mucositis or peri-implantitis and consequent implant loss. Peri-implantitis is the main complication of oral rehabilitation with dental implants and, therefore, it is necessary to take into account the potential effects of antiseptics such as chlorhexidine (CHX), chloramine T (CHT), triclosan (TRI), and essential oils (EO) on bacterial adhesion and on biofilm formation. To assess the action of these substance
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Cristina Neves Girao Salgado Soares, Flávia Lucisano Botelho do Amaral, Marcelo Ferraz Mesquita et al. · 2017 · PubMed
This in vitro study evaluated the efficacy of toothpastes containing abrasive and chemical whitening agents in reducing the extrinsic discoloration of dental enamel. Sixty slabs of dentin from human teeth were sealed so that only the…
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Remco van Dijk, Sem J. Aronson, Dirk R. de Waart et al. · 2017 · Scientific Reports
Abstract We aimed to identify potent biliverdin reductase (BVRA) inhibitors as a novel concept for the treatment of severe unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia. 1280 FDA-approved compounds were screened in vitro for their ability to inhibit…
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Rezzy Eko Caraka, Yusra Yusra, Toni Toharudin et al. · 2021 · Sustainability
Background and objectives: The impacts of COVID-19 are like two sides of one coin. During 2020, there were many research papers that proved our environmental and climate conditions were improving due to lockdown or large-scale restriction…
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Nadia A. Abdelmegeed Abdelwahed, Bahadur Ali Soomro, Naimatullah Shah · 2022 · Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal
Purpose The study investigates the intention to adopt climate change and the pro-environmental behaviours among the residents of a developing country (Pakistan) through the theory of planned behaviour (TPB). Design/methodology/approach…
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Yukari Kobayashi, Jennifer A. Tremmel, Yuhei Kobayashi et al. · 2015 · Journal of the American Heart Association
Background Although a myocardial bridge ( MB ) is often regarded as a benign coronary variant, recent studies have associated MB with focal myocardial ischemia. The physiological consequences of MB on ventricular function during stress…
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W. Roether, J. E. Lupton · 2011 · Ocean Science
Abstract. Observations of tritium and 3He in the Tyrrhenian Sea, 1987–2009, confirm the enhanced vertical mixing of intermediate waters into the deep waters that has been noted and associated with the Eastern Mediterranean Transient in…
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