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Open AccessComparison between the 0- and 30-s balloon dilation time in percutaneous transluminal angioplasty for restenosed arteriovenous fistula among hemodialysis patients: a multicenter, prospective, randomized trial (CARP study)
This study aims to compare patency rates of the 0- and 30-s (sec) balloon dilation time in hemodialysis (HD) patients with restenosis after percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA).
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Open AccessPeritoneal dialysis-associated peritonitis, caused by superior mesenteric artery thrombosis with intestinal necrosis: a case report
Peritoneal dialysis (PD)-associated peritonitis is a common complication of PD. Enteric peritonitis is defined as peritonitis arising from an intestinal or intra-abdominal organ source. The delay in the diagno...
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Open AccessTrimebutine prevents corneal inflammation in a rat alkali burn model
Alkaline burns to the cornea lead to loss of corneal transparency, which is essential for normal vision. We used a rat corneal alkaline burn model to investigate the effect of ophthalmic trimebutine solution o...
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Open AccessOrbital hybridization of donor and acceptor to enhance the conductivity of mixed-stack complexes
Mixed-stack complexes which comprise columns of alternating donors and acceptors are organic conductors with typically poor electrical conductivity because they are either in a neutral or highly ionic state. T...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Sequential Half-Aggregation of Lattice-Based Signatures
With \(\textsf {Dilithium} \) Dilithium and
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Orofacial symptoms suggestive of malignant lesions and the role of imaging: literature review and case presentation
Among the patients seeking dental treatment, some may present with symptoms that cannot be resolved by dental treatment alone. Patients with orofacial symptoms associated with malignant diseases, which require...
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Comparison of survival rates between incident hemodialysis patients and peritoneal dialysis patients: a 5-year prospective cohort study with propensity score matching
The effect of dialytic modality at the start of renal replacement therapy on prognosis is controversial.
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Adenosquamous carcinoma of the Bartholin gland treated with surgery and radiotherapy
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Treatment outcomes and prognostic factors in 47 patients with primary anorectal malignant melanoma in the immune therapy era
Primary anorectal melanoma (ARM) accounts for approximately 1.2% of all melanomas and 16.5% of all mucosal melanomas. ARM is associated with the shortest interval to disease progression and the highest rate of...
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Correction to: Radiomics analysis of [18F]-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography for the prediction of cervical lymph node metastasis in tongue squamous cell carcinoma
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Witness-Succinct Universally-Composable SNARKs
Zero-knowledge Succinct Non-interactive ARguments of Knowledge (zkSNARKs) are becoming an increasingly fundamental tool in many real-world applications where the proof compactness is of the utmost importance, ...
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How to Compile Polynomial IOP into Simulation-Extractable SNARKs: A Modular Approach
Most succinct arguments (SNARKs) are initially only proven knowledge sound (KS). We show that the commonly employed compilation strategy from polynomial interactive oracle proofs (PIOP) via polynomial commitm...
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Radiomics analysis of [18F]-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography for the prediction of cervical lymph node metastasis in tongue squamous cell carcinoma
This study aimed to create a predictive model for cervical lymph node metastasis (CLNM) in patients with tongue squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) based on radiomics features detected by [18F]-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose (1...
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Open AccessMetabolomic alterations in the blood plasma of older adults with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease (from the Nakayama Study)
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive disease, and the number of AD patients is increasing every year as the population ages. One of the pathophysiological mechanisms of AD is thought to be the effect of m...
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Relationships of hyperchloremia with hypertension and proteinuria in patients with chronic kidney disease
A few previous clinical studies have shown that chloride (Cl) contributes to the progression and development of hypertension or proteinuria. Therefore, we aimed to determine whether hyperchloremia is associate...
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Open AccessFoxf2 represses bone formation via Wnt2b/β-catenin signaling
Differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) into osteoblasts is a critical process for proper skeletal development and acquisition/maintenance of bone mass. However, since this regulatory mechanism has no...
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Two-Round n-out-of-n and Multi-Signatures and Trapdoor Commitment from Lattices
Although they have been studied for a long time, distributed signature protocols have garnered renewed interest in recent years in view of novel applications to topics like blockchains. Most recent works have ...
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Open AccessPrognostic factor analysis of definitive radiotherapy using intensity-modulated radiation therapy and volumetric modulated arc therapy with boluses for scalp angiosarcomas
Cutaneous angiosarcomas is a rare cancer with poor prognoses. The common radiotherapy techniques that have been reported so far are two pairs of lateral X-ray and electron fields. However, it is quite difficul...
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Controlled Ring-Expansion Polymerization Based on Acyl-Transfer Polymerization of Thiiranes with Aromatic Heterocycles as Initiators
This chapter describes the ring-expansion polymerization (REP) of thiiranes using aromatic benzothiazolone derivatives as initiators, including key fundamental addition reactions between thiiranes and active e...
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Mitaka: A Simpler, Parallelizable, Maskable Variant of Falcon
This work describes the Mitaka signature scheme: a new hash-and-sign signature scheme over NTRU lattices which can be seen as a variant of NIST finalist Falcon. It achieves comparable efficiency but is considerab...
