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Open AccessEffect of Infusion Set Replacement Intervals on Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection in the Intensive Care Unit: Study Protocol of the INSPIRATION Study
The replacement intervals for infusion sets may differ among healthcare institutions, which may have an impact on the occurrence of central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI). Nevertheless, there ...
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Open AccessRecursive construction for expansions of tree Yang–Mills amplitudes from soft theorem
In this paper, we introduce a fundamentally different approach, based on a bottom-up methodology, for expanding tree-level Yang–Mills (YM) amplitudes into Yang–Mills-scalar (YMS) amplitudes and bi-adjoint-scal...
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Open AccessAn explicit expression of generating function for one-loop tensor reduction
This work introduces an explicit expression for the generating function for the reduction of an n-gon to an (n – k)-gon. A novel recursive relation of generating function is formulated based on Feynman Parametriz...
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Galectin-3 Mediates Endotoxin Internalization and Caspase-4/11 Activation in Tubular Epithelials and Macrophages During Sepsis and Sepsis-Associated Acute Kidney Injury
Besides being recognized by membrane receptor TLR4, lipopolysaccharide (LPS) can also be internalized into the cytosol and activate Caspase-4/11 pyroptotic pathways to further amplify inflammation in sepsis. T...
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Characteristics of Portable Air Floating-Electrode Dielectric-Barrier-Discharge Plasmas Used for Biomedicine
In this study, a portable air floating-electrode dielectric-barrier-discharge (FE-DBD) plasma generator has been developed with a weight of less than 200 g and a volume of less than 480 cm3. Considering the equiv...
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HSSAN: hair synthesis with style-guided spatially adaptive normalization on generative adversarial network
Hair synthesis plays a crucial role in generating facial images, but the complex textures and varied shapes of hair create obstacles in creating genuine images of hair on photographs utilizing generative adver...
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ROS-induced lipid peroxidation modulates cell death outcome: mechanisms behind apoptosis, autophagy, and ferroptosis
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) mediate lipid peroxidation and produce 4-hydroxynonenal and other related products, which play an important role in the process of cell death, including apoptosis, autophagy, and ...
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Open AccessPredicting cholangiocarcinoma in primary sclerosing cholangitis: using artificial intelligence, clinical and laboratory data
Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) patients have a risk of develo** cholangiocarcinoma (CCA). Establishing predictive models for CCA in PSC is important.
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Open AccessComparison of assessment of diaphragm function using speckle tracking between patients with successful and failed weaning: a multicentre, observational, pilot study
Diaphragmatic ultrasound has been increasingly used to evaluate diaphragm function. However, current diaphragmatic ultrasound parameters provide indirect estimates of diaphragmatic contractile function, and th...
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Open AccessApplication of Machine Learning for Clinical Subphenotype Identification in Sepsis
Sepsis is a heterogeneous clinical syndrome. Identification of sepsis subphenotypes could lead to allowing more precise therapy. However, there is a lack of models to identify the subphenotypes in such patient...
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Effects of physical exercise on body fat and laboratory biomarkers in cancer patients: a meta-analysis of 35 randomized controlled trials
A growing number of articles had reported the beneficial effects of physical exercise on reduced risks of cancer recurrence and mortality. However, the associations between physical exercise and laboratory bio...
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Open AccessReduction with degenerate Gram matrix for one-loop integrals
An improved PV-reduction (Passarino-Veltman) method for one-loop integrals with auxiliary vector R has been proposed in [1, 2]. It has also been shown that the new method is a self-completed method in [3]. Analyt...
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Open AccessExplainable Machine-Learning Model for Prediction of In-Hospital Mortality in Septic Patients Requiring Intensive Care Unit Readmission
Septic patients requiring intensive care unit (ICU) readmission are at high risk of mortality, but research focusing on the association of ICU readmission due to sepsis and mortality is limited. The aim of thi...
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Open AccessInterpretable Machine Learning for Early Prediction of Prognosis in Sepsis: A Discovery and Validation Study
This study aimed to develop and validate an interpretable machine-learning model based on clinical features for early predicting in-hospital mortality in critically ill patients with sepsis.
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Open AccessAssociation of Thiamine Use with Outcomes in Patients with Sepsis and Alcohol Use Disorder: An Analysis of the MIMIC-III Database
The association between thiamine use and clinical outcomes among patients with sepsis and alcohol use disorder (AUD) is unclear.
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Open AccessBoundary contributions of on-shell recursion relations with multiple-line deformation
The on-shell recursion relation has been recognized as a powerful tool for calculating tree-level amplitudes in quantum field theory, but it does not work well when the residue of the deformed amplitude ...
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Open AccessHigh-performance position-sensitive detector based on the lateral photoelectrical effect of two-dimensional materials
Two-dimensional (2D) materials such as graphene and transition-metal chalcogenides have been extensively studied because of their superior electronic and optical properties. Recently, 2D materials have shown g...
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Open AccessClinical course and outcome of 107 patients infected with the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, discharged from two hospitals in Wuhan, China
In December 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak was reported from Wuhan, China. Information on the clinical course and prognosis of COVID-19 was not thoroughly described. We described the clinic...
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Open AccessOne-loop CHY-integrand of bi-adjoint scalar theory
In this paper, the one-loop CHY-integrands of bi-adjoint scalar theory has been reinvestigated. Differing from previous constructions, we have explicitly removed contributions from tadpole and massless bubbles...
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The property study of sodium dodecyl benzenesulfonate and polyvinylpyrrolidone complexes
In this paper, the physicochemical properties between sodium dodecylbenzenesulfonate (SDBS) and polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) in aqueous solutions were studied at 25 °C by Ubbelohde viscometer, conductivity analy...
