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Open AccessLong-term secular trends in dermatomyositis and polymyositis mortality in the USA from 1981 to 2020 according to underlying and multiple cause of death mortality data
People with dermatomyositis (DM) or polymyositis (PM) often die from cancer, pulmonary, cardiac complications, or infections. In such cases, DM or PM might not be designated as the underlying cause of death (...
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BACH: Black-Box Attacking on Deep Cross-Modal Hamming Retrieval Models
The growth of online data has increased the need for retrieving semantically relevant information from data in various modalities, such as images, text, and videos. Thanks to the powerful representation capabi...
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Open AccessEnhanced stent visualization system for percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with chronic kidney disease: effects on contrast media volume and radiation exposure
We aimed to assess the impact of using enhanced stent visualization (ESV) systems on contrast media volume and radiation dose in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), especially for patients with chronic k...
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Open AccessSecular trends in cryoglobulinemia mortality in the USA in the era of direct-acting antivirals
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is the main etiology of cryoglobulinemia with mortality around 25%. Little is known on the changes in cryoglobulinemia mortality after the introduction of direct-acting antivirals (DAA)...
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Multi-level Fusion Based Deep Convolutional Network for Image Quality Assessment
Image quality assessment aims to design effective models to automatically predict the perceptual quality score of a given image that is consistent with human cognition. In this paper, we propose a novel end-to...
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When Distortion Meets Perceptual Quality: A Multi-task Learning Pipeline
Most of the existing studies about image quality assessment (IQA) focus on predicting image quality score without adequately considering image distortion clues, which is very significant in IQA tasks. To impro...
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The role of neutrophils in innate immunity-driven nonalcoholic steatohepatitis: lessons learned and future promise
The enrichment of innate immune cells and the enhanced inflammation represent the hallmark of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), the advanced subtype with a significantly increased risk of progression to en...
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MNK1 signaling induces an ANGPTL4-mediated gene signature to drive melanoma progression
The BRAFV600E mutation occurs in more than 50% of cutaneous melanomas, and results in the constitutive activation of the mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPK) pathway. MAP kinase-interacting serine/threonine-p...
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Increased Mer and Axl receptor tyrosine kinase expression on glomeruli in lupus nephritis
Mer and Axl receptor tyrosine kinases (MerTK and AxlTK) play important roles in the clearance of apoptotic cells and the inhibition of inflammatory responses. Previous studies demonstrated that they might part...
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Crystal structure and dielectric properties of Mn-substituted Bi1.5Zn1.0Nb1.5O7 pyrochlore ceramics as temperature stable LTCC material
As a potentially attractive candidate of LTCC material, (Bi1.5Zn0.5−x Mn x )(Zn0.5Nb1.5)O7 (x = 0.0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5) ceramics with improved tempe...
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Open AccessGraded Resistance Exercise And Type 2 Diabetes in Older adults (The GREAT2DO study): methods and baseline cohort characteristics of a randomized controlled trial
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is projected to affect 439 million people by 2030. Medical management focuses on controlling blood glucose levels pharmacologically in a disease that is closely related to lifestyle facto...
