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ASO Visual Abstract: Palliative Surgery for Patients with Gastroesophageal Junction or Gastric Cancer—A Report on Clinical Observational Outcomes
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Palliative Surgery for Patients with Gastroesophageal Junction or Gastric Cancer: A Report on Clinical Observational Outcomes
Few studies have focused on palliative surgery in patients with advanced gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) or gastric cancer. We sought to evaluate clinical observational outcomes following palliative surgery in...
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Learning ratio performance on a brief visual learning and memory test moderates cognitive training gains in Double Decision task in healthy older adults
Cognitive training using a visual speed-of-processing task, called the Useful Field of View (UFOV) task, reduced dementia risk and reduced decline in activities of daily living at a 10-year follow-up in older ...
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Open AccessArea Socioeconomic Status is Associated with Refusal of Recommended Surgery in Patients with Metastatic Bone and Joint Disease
This study sought to identify associations between the Yost Index, a geocoded area neighborhood socioeconomic status (nSES) score, and race/ethnicity with patient refusal of recommended surgery for metastatic ...
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Jujube shell-derived organic/inorganic nitrogen-doped porous carbon: electrochemical properties and contribution of nitrogen-doped forms to ion adsorption and storage
Biomass-derived nitrogen-doped porous carbon was prepared using jujube shell as the precursor through a two-step process involving activation and nitrogen-do**. Different nitrogen sources, organic-N and inor...
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Recent Progress on Designing Carbon Materials by Structural Tuning and Morphological Modulation as K+-Storage Anodes
Potassium-ion batteries (PIBs) have attracted tremendous attention during the past several years due to their abundant reserves, wide distribution, fast ionic conductivity, and high operating voltage. The prim...
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Open AccessIDH1-mutant metabolite D-2-hydroxyglutarate inhibits proliferation and sensitizes glioma to temozolomide via down-regulating ITGB4/PI3K/AKT
The heterogeneous molecular subtypes of gliomas demonstrate varied responses to chemotherapy and distinct prognostic outcomes. Gliomas with Isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) mutation are associated with better...
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Open AccessReliability, validity and minimal detectable change of the Chinese Version of the Assessment of Physical Activity in Frail Older People (APAFOP-C)
Physical activity (PA) is essential in mitigating frailty syndrome, and it is necessary to measure PA in older adults with frailty. Assessment of Physical Activity in Frail Older People (APAFOP) is a suitable ...
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Comparison of laser and traditional lancing devices for capillary blood sampling in patients with diabetes mellitus and high bleeding risk
Despite the importance of self-monitoring blood glucose (SMBG) for management of diabetes mellitus (DM), frequent blood sampling is discouraged by bleeding risk due to dual-antiplatelet agent therapy (DAPT) or...
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Identifying p53-independent apoptosis
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Post-Vaccination Delivery of CpG ODNs Enhances the Th2-Associated Protective Immunity of the Smallpox DNA Vaccine
Potential threat of smallpox bioterrorism and concerns related to the adverse effects of currently licensed live-virus vaccines suggest the need to develop novel vaccines with better efficacy against smallpox....
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Premature ovarian insufficiency associated with environmental chemical exposure among Korean women: a study based on the Korean National Environmental Health Survey (2009–2012)
As the prevalence of premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) continues to increase, exposure to environmental chemicals is being discussed as one factors causing POI but the vast majority of POI is idiopathic an...
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Cochlear implantation in patients with Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease: two cases with a review of the literature
To report two cases of bilateral cochlear implantation (CI) in Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease (CMT) patients with novel mutations. Furthermore, we conducted a detailed literature review on the profile and outcome...
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Study on the brassinosteroids modulated regulation of the style growth in Forsythia suspensa (Thunb.) Vahl
Forsythia suspensa (Thunb.) Vahl is a self-incompatible, heterostylous plant with style-length dimorphism. Heterostyly is a unique flower polymorphism in dioecious angiosperms. Previous research has demonstrated ...
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Trajectory Tracking of Differential Wheeled Mobile Robots with Input Saturation and Mismatched Centers
In this paper, we consider differential wheeled mobile robots whose control inputs are the angular velocities of the right and left driving wheels. We assume the inputs are saturated (i.e., a physical limitati...
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Creatine kinase elevation in chronic hepatitis B patients with telbivudine therapy: influence of telbivudine plasma concentration and single nucleotide polymorphisms of TK2, RRM2B, and NME4
To study the correlations of genetic variants of telbivudine phosphorylase kinases and telbivudine plasma concentration with creatine kinase elevation in chronic hepatitis B patients who received telbivudine.
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MSSTN: a multi-scale spatio-temporal network for traffic flow prediction
Spatio-temporal feature extraction and fusion are crucial to traffic prediction accuracy. However, the complicated spatio-temporal correlations and dependencies between traffic nodes make the problem quite cha...
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Cell-Free Supernatant of Bacillus subtilis G2B9-Q Improves Intestinal Health and Modulates Immune Response to Promote Mouse Recovery in Clostridium perfringens Infection
Clostridium perfringens is one of the critical causative agents causing diarrhea in piglets, with significant economic losses to the pig industry. Under normal gut microbiota homeostasis and well-managed barns, d...
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Open AccessWhole-genome landscape of histone H3K4me3 modification during sperm cell lineage development in tomato
During male gametogenesis of flowering plants, sperm cell lineage (microspores, generative cells, and sperm cells) differentiated from somatic cells and acquired different cell fates. Trimethylation of histone...
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A covalent molecular design enabling efficient CO2 reduction in strong acids
Molecular complexes are an important class of catalysts for the electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CO2RR). However, selective CO2RR in strong acids remains challenging due to competition with the ...
