Assessment of Expression Levels and Localization Patterns of Phospholipase C zeta in Different Grades of HOST in Human Sperm by Azra Allahveisi, Elham Yousefian

“…Analysis of the combined results confirmedthat there was a clear reduction in PLC-ζ immunofluorescence in Host grades 'a', 'f' and 'g' sperms.Conclusion: Our data suggest that HOST may represent a useful diagnostic tool for the selection of sperms exhibitinga higher level of PLC-ζ expression.…”
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A Comparison Study of Fatigue Behavior of S355J2+N, S690QL and X37CrMoV5-1 Steel by Vladimir Milovanović, Dušan Arsić, Miroslav Milutinović, Miroslav Živković, Marko Topalović

“…This article evaluates the fatigue properties of mild-strength S355J2+N, high-strength S690QL, and X37CrMoV5-1 steel grades. A SHIMADZU servo-hydraulic testing machine is used to perform uniaxial tensile tests under uniaxial fatigue stress-controlled, fully reversed conditions (tensile–compression testing with <i>R</i> = −1 stress ratio) in accordance with EN ISO and ASTM standards. …”
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A contabilidade e o hipertexto: um estudo sobre o uso de websites como meio de disseminação científica contábil por instituições de ensino superior brasileiras Accounting and hyper... by José Renato Sena Oliveira, Antonio Lopo Martinez

“…The sample was composed of the 303 programs graded A, B or C (medium or superior to the average) in the above mentioned Exam. …”
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A randomized, double-blind study to evaluate the acid-inhibitory effect of vonoprazan (20 mg and 40 mg) in patients with proton-pump inhibitor-resistant erosive esophagitis by Katsuhiko Iwakiri, Yuuichi Sakurai, Madoka Shiino, Hiroyuki Okamoto, Kentaro Kudou, Akira Nishimura, Naoki Hiramatsu, Eiji Umegaki, Kiyoshi Ashida

“…After 8 weeks’ treatment, the healing rate in subjects with baseline EE grades A–D was 60.0% (3/5 patients) in the 20 mg group and 71.4% (5/7 patients) in the 40 mg group. …”
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Understanding the risk of transmission of respiratory viral infections in childcare centres: protocol for the DISeases TrANsmission in ChildcarE (DISTANCE) multicentre cohort study by Xin Wang, Sheng Ye, You Li, Bing Lu, Chao Shi, Shuyu Deng, Bingbing Cong

“…Study subjects will be childcare attendees and teaching staff of different grades. A range of information will be collected from the study subjects and participating childcare centres, including attendance, contact behaviours (collected by onsite observers), respiratory viral infection (weekly respiratory throat swabs tested by multiplex PCR), presence of respiratory viruses on touch surfaces of childcare centres and weekly follow-up survey on respiratory symptoms and healthcare seeking among subjects tested positive for any respiratory viruses. …”
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A cross-sectional study to validate an administrative back pain severity classification tool based on the graded chronic pain scale by M. Hochheim, P. Ramm, M. Wunderlich, V. Amelung

“…Results showed a fair correlation between predicted CC and actual GCPS grades. A total of 69.7% of all cases were correctly classified. …”
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Interobserver Variation in Canine Hip Dysplasia Evaluation by Ledecky V., Hluchy M., Liptak T., Kuricova M.

“…They were asked to evaluate the ventro-dorsal radiographs according to the FCI system which is the most common system used in Europe to give the final grades (A, B, C, D, E). The grades were converted to numbers and the data were analysed using a one-way ANOVA test. …”
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Spherical Linear Diophantine Fuzzy Soft Rough Sets with Multi-Criteria Decision Making by Masooma Raza Hashmi, Syeda Tayyba Tehrim, Muhammad Riaz, Dragan Pamucar, Goran Cirovic

“…Nevertheless, these models have certain limitations for three indexes, satisfaction (membership), dissatisfaction (non-membership), refusal/abstain (indeterminacy) grades. A SLDFS with the use of reference parameters becomes an advanced approach to deal with uncertainties in MCDM and to remove strict limitations of above grades. …”
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Study of Clinico-Pathological Spectrum of Meningioma with WHO Grading by Jyothika Kumar, Poornima V Kamatar, Vidhisha Athanikar

“…Several histopathological patterns of meningiomas are classified and graded. A standard classification system aims at providing a tool for estimating the recurrence and overall survival of meningioma patients. …”
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Study of the Processes of Shaping the Hollow Billets from Antifriction Alloys by the Centrifugal and Continuous Casting Methods by O. M. Khoroshylov, V. V. Kurylyak, O. S. Podolyak, N. S. Antonenko

“…The depth of the deformation hole is established, at which the shear stress of the cut corresponds to the shear stress on the cut for samples of the studied bronze grades. A three-dimensional model is constructed and proposed for determining the yield of suitable continuous casting of hollow billets depending on both the surface temperature of the billets and the forces acting on the billet from the side of the withdrawal-roll set. …”
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A national data linkage study to determine the association of congenital anomalies with standardised education outcomes. by Anna Rawlings, Ieuan Scanlon, Svetlana Glinianaia, Judith Rankin, Maria Loane, Joan Morris, Dan Thayer, David Tucker, Sue Jordan

“…At age 17, household deprivation reduced 3-fold the odds of achieving any five GCSEs grades A*-C. Conclusions Children with congenital anomalies from the most deprived communities and households are at particular risk of low education achievement. …”
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Comparison of three imaging and navigation systems regarding accuracy of pedicle screw placement in a sawbone model by Nils Beisemann, Jula Gierse, Eric Mandelka, Frank Hassel, Paul A. Grützner, Jochen Franke, Sven Y. Vetter

“…Two blinded observers classified screw placement according to the Gertzbein Robbins grading system. Grades A and B were considered acceptable and Grades C-E unacceptable. …”
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Bone Mineral Density and Biochemical Markers of Bone Turnover During the First Year of Injury in Patients with Spinal Cord Injury by Roop Singh, Rajesh Kumar Rohilla, Gaurav Saini, Narender Kumar Magu, Kiranpreet Kaur

“…The BMD in motor-complete SCI patients [American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) grades A and B] had significant lower values than motor-incomplete SCI patients (ASIA C and D) at the hip (p < 0.05) and proximal tibial epiphysis (p < 0.05). …”
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Quality of the femoral cement mantle in total hip arthroplasty using the direct anterior hip approach by Eustathios Kenanidis, MD, MSc, PhD, Rajiv Kaila, MBChB, MRCS (Eng), MSc, MFSEM(UK), FEBOT, Lazaros Poultsides, MD, MSc, PhD, Eleftherios Tsiridis, MD, MSc, PhD (London), FACS, FRCS, Panayiotis Christofilopoulos, MD

“…The cement mantle was graded A in 39.25%, B in 53.0%, and C in 7.75% of anteroposterior radiographs and similarly for lateral radiographs (40.1% A, 51.75% B, 9.5% C). 93% of stems had neutral alignment. …”
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Closing the Loop With Cortical Sensing: The Development of Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation for Essential Tremor Using the Activa PC+S by Tomasz M. Fra̧czek, Benjamin I. Ferleger, Timothy E. Brown, Margaret C. Thompson, Andrew J. Haddock, Brady C. Houston, Jeffrey G. Ojemann, Andrew L. Ko, Jeffrey A. Herron, Howard J. Chizeck

“…Based on our results we identify several key areas for future work. “Graded” aDBS will allow the system to smoothly tune the stimulation level to symptom severity, and frequent automatic calibration of the algorithm will allow aDBS to adapt to the time-varying dynamics of the disease without additional input from a clinician. …”
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Long-term outcomes of moyamoya disease following indirect revascularization in middle adulthood: A prospective, quantitative study by Sheng-Che Chou, Ya-Fang Chen, Chung-Wei Lee, Shih-Hung Yang, Meng-Fai Kuo

“…Available post-operative angiography demonstrated Matsushima grading A in 18 of 20 hemispheres. The mean TTP score of all 27 hemispheres improved from 5.0 ± 3.3 pre-operatively to 12.0 ± 2.1 after surgery (p < 0.001). …”
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Impact of Aging on Liver Histological Findings of Autoimmune Liver Diseases by Yuki Haga, Tatsuo Kanda, Katsuhiro Hagiwara, Reina Sasaki, Masato Nakamura, Shin Yasui, Makoto Arai, Xia Jiang, Shuang Wu, Shingo Nakamoto, Osamu Yokosuka

“…Among 101 AIH patients, fibrosis stages F1, F2, F3, and F4 were 37, 32, 19, and 13, respectively, and inflammatory activity grades A1, A2, and A3 were 22, 25, and 54, respectively. …”
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Denture Plaque Biofilm Visual Assessment Methods: A Systematic Review by Khaing Myat Thu, Andy Wai Kan Yeung, Lakshman Samaranayake, Walter Yu Hang Lam

“…A total of 21 indices were described in the included studies, of which seven graded a divided denture surface, while the remainder graded entire denture surface. …”
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Automatic detection and voxel‐wise mapping of lumbar spine Modic changes with deep learning by Kenneth T. Gao, Radhika Tibrewala, Madeline Hess, Upasana U. Bharadwaj, Gaurav Inamdar, Thomas M. Link, Cynthia T. Chin, Valentina Pedoia, Sharmila Majumdar

“…Post hoc, three radiologists independently graded a second dataset with the aid of the model predictions in an artificial (AI)‐assisted experiment. …”
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Application of a Bayesian graded response model to characterize areas of disagreement between clinician and patient grading of symptomatic adverse events by Thomas M. Atkinson, Bryce B. Reeve, Amylou C. Dueck, Antonia V. Bennett, Tito R. Mendoza, Lauren J. Rogak, Ethan Basch, Yuelin Li

“…AEs included 13 multiple attribute patient-reported symptoms that had corresponding unidimensional clinician AE grades. A Bayesian IRT Model was fitted to calculate the latent grading thresholds between raters. …”
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