Experimental study on the corrosion of a downhole string under flue gas injection conditions by Songyan Li, Kaiqiang Zhang, Qun Wang

“…The corrosion rate of 13Cr is considerably lower than those of N80, P110, and X70, which shows good corrosion resistance performance. …”
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LEVEL OF PATIENTS’ SATISFACTION FROM PHYSICAL THERAPY SERVICES IN OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT OF TERTIARY CARE HOSPITALS IN PESHAWAR: A CROSS-SECTIONAL SURVEY by Asad Khan, Sakeena Masoud, Muhammad Yasir, Syed Alamdar Hussain, Usman Farooq, Huma Balqias, Syeda Kaniz Fatima Haider

“…The overall patient satisfaction from physical therapy services was 4.38±0.70 which showed that majority of the participants were satisfied with physical therapy services. …”
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Obstructive Sleep Disorders in Down Syndrome’s Children with and without Lower Airway Anomalies by Mariska De Lausnay, Stijn Verhulst, Kim Van Hoorenbeeck, An Boudewyns

“…Follow-up data (available for 49/70 patients) showed a significant improvement of OSA in both groups. …”
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Clinical significance of serological biomarkers and neuropsychological performances in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy by Chang Chiung-Chih, Lui Chun-Chung, Lee Chen-Chang, Chen Shang-Der, Chang Wen-Neng, Lu Cheng-Hsien, Chen Nai-Ching, Chang Alice Y W, Chan Samuel H H, Chuang Yao-Chung

“…Compared with the controls, gray matter atrophy in the hippocampal and parahippocampal areas, putamen, thalamus and supplementary motor areas were found in the patient group. The HSP70 levels showed an inverse correlation with hippocampal volume (R square = 0.22, <it>p </it>= 0.007) after controlling for the effect of age.…”
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Sequential feeding with diets varying in amino acid content for growing-finishing pigs by Welex Cândido da Silva, Paulo Henrique Reis Furtado Campos, Luan Sousa dos Santos, Alini Mari Veira, Alícia Zem Fraga, Luciano Hauschild

“…Compare to DP100, pigs in both SEQ programs had a similar average daily feed intake (ADFI), average daily gain (ADG), feed efficiency ratio (G:F) and body fat and lean mass ( p > 0.05). SEQ110-70 and SEQ70-110 showed similar ADFI, ADG, G:F and body lean mass (p > 0.05). …”
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Exogenous recombinant human growth hormone effects during suboptimal energy and zinc intake by Duro Debora, Tverskaya Rozalia, Cole Conrad, Scaglia Julio F, Rising Russell, Lifshitz Fima

“…Rats treated with GHi and fed both suboptimal energy and Zn (70/70) showed similar results to those fed suboptimal energy with appropriate Zn (70/100), along with significant increases in IGFBP-3 levels (322 ± 28 vs. 93 ± 28 ng/ml). …”
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The role of clopidogrel in the current treatment of acute coronary syndrome by I. S. Yavelov

“…According to a prospective randomized open-label PoPular Age study, clopidogrel combined with acetylsalicylic acid in patients with ACS without persistent ST segment elevations at the age of ≥70 years showed better adherence to treatment over the coming year as compared with clopidogrel combined with ticagrelor or prasugrel. …”
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Correlation Between the Talar Tilt Angle and Hindfoot Varus in Medial Ankle OA by Kyung-mu Kim MD, Hyun Seok Yim MD, Sung-Ha Hong BMed, Ki Sun Sung MD, PhD

“…Among the groups, tibio-talar angle of 70-80 showed a significantly different hindfoot alignment between the 2 subgroups (p=0.0187). …”
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TEM Study on the Evolution of Ge Nanocrystals in Si Oxide Matrix as a Function of Ge Concentration and the Si Reduction Process by Chew, Han Guan, Choi, Wee Kiong, Foo, Y.L., Chim, Wai Kin, Fitzgerald, Eugene A., Zheng, F., Samanta, S.K., Voon, Z.J., Seow, K.C.

“…When the Ge content is increased to slightly more than 70%, TEM showed that Ge nanocrysyals formed after annealing at 800°C for only 30 min for samples with and without the oxide barrier. …”
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Portal vein thrombosis in children and adolescents: 20 years experience of a pediatric hepatology reference center by Priscila Menezes Ferri, Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira, Eleonora Druve Tavares Fagundes, Shinfay Maximilian Liu, Mariza Leitão Valadares Roquete, Francisco José Penna

“…During the whole following period of the study, 39 patients (70.9%) showed at least one episode of upper gastrointestinal bleeding. …”
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Effects of Age on Long-Term Functional Recovery in Patients with Stroke by Jae Wan Yoo, Bo Young Hong, Leechan Jo, Joon-Sung Kim, Jung Geun Park, Bo Kyung Shin, Seong Hoon Lim

“…<i>Conclusions:</i> Long-term functional recovery occurred for up to 30 months after stroke. Patients aged ≥70 years showed functional decline between 6 and 30 months after onset. …”
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Automated image segmentation for cardiac septal defects based on contour region with convolutional neural networks: A preliminary study by Ria Nova, Siti Nurmaini, Radiyati Umi Partan, Sukman Tulus Putra

“…The comparison accuracy of contour prediction for U-Net was 99.01%, while V-Net was 93.70%. This shows that the U-Net has better accuracy than the V-Net model architecture. …”
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A Study on the Effectiveness of Korean Medicine Treatment for Patients’ Involved in Traffic Accidents and the Analysis of Factors Affecting the Effectiveness of Korean Medicine Tre... by Seon-Hye Kim, Hye-Ryeon Kim, Won-Suk Sung, Hyun-Seok Cho, So-Ri Moon, Dong-Ho Keum, Seung-Deok Lee, Eun-Jung Kim

“…The patients with higher initial pain levels (VAS ≥70) also showed significant improvement in EQ-VAS scores. …”
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The effects of high temperature and low humidity on crop water stress index of seed pumpkin plants (Cucurbita pepo L.) in semi-arid climate conditions by Ali Beyhan Ucak, Joanna Kocięcka, Daniel Liberacki, Burak Saltuk, Atilgan Atilgan, Piotr Stachowski, Roman Rolbiecki

“…The mean CWSI values in the I70 (0.40) and I35 (0.56) treatments were 42% and 100% higher, respectively than those in the full irrigation (I100) treatment (0.28). While the I70 treatment showed manageable water stress with minimal impact, the I35 treatment experienced severe stress, significantly reducing crop growth and yield. …”
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Effect of drops containing Lactobacillus reuteri (DSM 17938 and ATCC PTA 5289) on plaque acidogenicity and other caries-related variables in orthodontic patients by Sahal Alforaidi, Andrea Bresin, Naif Almosa, Anna Lehrkinder, Peter Lingström

“…In addition, the AUC7.0 showed a significant difference at three weeks between the test and placebo (p = 0.00002). …”
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Expression Pattern Analysis of Zinc Finger Protein Genes in Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Under Phosphorus Deprivation by Xiao-juan LI, Cheng-jin GUO, Wen-jing LU, Wei-wei DUAN, Miao ZHAO, Chun-ying MA, Jun-tao GU, Kai XIAO

“…The both differentially up- and down-regulated genes exhibited contrasting expression patterns, of these, TaWRKY70;5 showed significantly up-regulated at 1 and 6 h and down-regulated at 24 h whereas TaAN1AN20-8;2 displayed significantly upregulated at 1 h and downregulated at 6 h under deprivation Pi condition. …”
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Broccoli (<i>Brassica oleracea</i> L. var. <i>italica</i>) Sprouts as the Potential Food Source for Bioactive Properties: A Comprehensive Study on In Vitro Disease Models by Thanh Ninh Le, Hong Quang Luong, Hsin-Ping Li, Chiu-Hsia Chiu, Pao-Chuan Hsieh

“…Five-day-old sprouts extracted by 70% ethanol showed significant antioxidant activities, analyzed to be 68.8 &#956;mol Trolox equivalent (TE)/g dry weight by 2,2&#8242;-azino-bis-3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulphonic (ABTS) assay, 91% scavenging by 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) assay, 1.81 absorbance by reducing power assay, and high phenolic contents by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). …”
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KPNA2 expression is a potential marker for differential diagnosis between osteosarcomas and other malignant bone tumor mimics by Lucen Jiang, Jianghuan Liu, Qingzhu Wei, Yiyang Wang

“…Several subtypes of osteosarcoma were analyzed, and immunostaining of KPNA2 was frequent in osteoblastic samples (90.9%), with 39 samples (70.9%) showing strong-intensity staining. KPNA2 positivity was observed in ten of 13 (76.9%) chondroblastic, two of 6 (33.3%) fibroblastic, three of 4 (75%) telangiectatic and two of 3 (66.7%) giant cell-rich osteosarcoma samples. …”
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Time-Dependent Profiles of MicroRNA Expression Induced by Ischemic Preconditioning in the Gerbil Hippocampus by Miao Sun, Toru Yamashita, Jingwei Shang, Ning Liu, Kentaro Deguchi, Juan Feng, Koji Abe

“…In contrast, mmu-miR-125b-5p and mmu-miR-132–5p, related to fused in sarcoma/translocated in liposarcoma (FUS/TLS), showed similar increases at both doses. mmu-miR-181c-5p and mmu-miR-378a-5p, related to heat shock protein 70 (HSP70), also showed accelerated expression after three doses. …”
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Dose-Effect of Zearalenone on the Localization and Expression of Growth Hormone, Growth Hormone Receptor, and Heat Shock Protein 70 in the Ovaries of Post-weaning Gilts by Tingting Song, Xiufeng Liu, Xuejun Yuan, Weiren Yang, Faxiao Liu, Yanmeng Hou, Libo Huang, Shuzhen Jiang

“…The mRNA and protein expression of GH was lower in the ZEA1.5 group than in the control (p &lt; 0.05). Hsp70 results showed adverse responses to increasing ZEA levels in gilt ovaries, suggesting that Hsp70 played an important role in alleviating ZEA-induced oxidative stress.…”
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