Beyond MELD Score: Association of Machine Learning-derived CT Body Composition with 90-Day Mortality Post Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Placement by Elhakim, Tarig, Mansur, Arian, Kondo, Jordan, Omar, Omar M. F., Ahmed, Khalid, Tabari, Azadeh, Brea, Allison, Ndakwah, Gabriel, Iqbal, Shams, Allegretti, Andrew S., Fintelmann, Florian J., Wehrenberg-Klee, Eric, Bridge, Christopher, Daye, Dania

“…Patients who died within 90 days of TIPS had significantly higher MELD (18.9 vs. 11.9, p < 0.001) and lower SMA (123 vs. 144.5, p = 0.002), SMI (43.7 vs. 50.5, p = 0.03), SFA (122.4 vs. 190.8, p = 0.009), SFI (44.2 vs. 66.7, p = 0.04), VFA (105.5 vs. 171.2, p = 0.003), and VFI (35.7 vs. 57.5, p = 0.02) compared to those who survived past 90 days. …”
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Investigation of solar cell carrier lifetime using photoconductance lifetime measurements by Sng, Joseph Ding Wen

“…The hole-selective contact is achieved by inducing a strong band bending in Si, arising from the high work function (≳ 5.5 eV) of the TMO, to result in a strong upward bending at the n-type Si, leading to carrier inversion at the Si surface. …”
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Experimental investigation of orientation effect on flow boiling heat transfer performance of R134a refrigerant in minichannels by Wong, Isaac Kai Hunn

“…R134a was used as the working fluid flowing through the cold plate with closed (0 mm) and open (0.5 mm and 1 mm manifold gap) minichannels with uniform solid fins with a width of 2mm. …”
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Lanthanum strontium vanadate in solid oxide fuel cells. by Ge, Xiaoming.

“…When drawing a current of 0.2 A/cm2 at 900°C, the overpotential is 0.13 V in pure H2, and slightly higher in wet CH4, 0.20 V. …”
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Rethinking speech sound disorder (SSD) in non-syndromic cleft lip and palate: the importance of recognizing phonological and language difficulties by van Eeden, S, McKean, C, Stringer, H

“…Up to 40% continue to have SSD at age 5–6 years. These difficulties are typically described as articulatory in nature and often include cleft speech characteristics (CSC) hypothesized to result from structural differences. …”

Systematic review and meta-analysis of isolated posterior fossa malformations on prenatal ultrasound imaging (part 1): nomenclature, diagnostic accuracy and associated anomalies by D'Antonio, F, Khalil, A, Garel, C, Pilu, G, Rizzo, G, Lerman-Sagie, T, Bhide, A, Thilaganathan, B, Manzoli, L, Papageorghiou, AT

“…Prenatal diagnosis was not confirmed postnatally in 7.1% (95% CI, 2.3–14.5%) of cases. The rate of chromosomal anomalies in fetuses with isolated BPC was 5.2% (95% CI, 0.9–12.7%) and there was no associated CNS anomaly detected at prenatal MRI or only after birth. …”

Bahasa sarkastik dalam laman sosial Facebook by Nasrudin, Ezzah ‘Afifah

“…Bagi tema sarkastik, terdapat lima tema yang dikenal pasti, iaitu politik (42.5%), sosial (34.1%), ekonomi (14.2%), pendidikan (5%) dan agama (4.2%). …”
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Seroprevalence of BVD molecular detection of the virus in cattle and buffaloes and its risk factors in selected farms in Selangor and Sabah, Malaysia by Khalid, Nurulhidayah

“…Only one sample positive (1/253) following RT-PCR targeting conserved 5'UTR region of BVDV. Thus, BVDV antigen prevalence was 0.40% (95% CI=0.0-2.2). …”
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Images of international thinkers by Owens, P

AV Dicey on English imperialism by Middleton, A

“…This chapter asks how A.V. Dicey accounted for one of the nineteenth century’s most globally consequential revolutions in British political opinion: the growth of pro-imperial sentiment. …”

Nahj al-Balāghah: the wisdom and eloquence of ʿAlī: a parallel English-Arabic text by al-Raḍī, A-S

“…Tahera Qutbuddin’s meticulously researched critical edition based on the earliest 5th/11th-century manuscripts, with a lucid, annotated facing-page translation, brings to the modern reader the power and beauty of this influential text, and confirms the aptness of Raḍī’s title, “The Way of Eloquence.”…”

Advances in the chemistry of base-stabilized germanium(I) compounds towards C-C bond formation by Ong, Melissa Xin Yi

“…First, treatment of the amidinate-stabilized chlorogermylene and the 2-imino-5,6-methylenedioxylphenyl chlorogermylene with potassium graphite (KC8) afforded the amidinato germanium(I) dimer [RGeGeR] and the 2-imino-5,6-methylenedioxylphenyl germanium(I) dimer [LGeGeL] respectively. …”
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Multi-metal oxide catalyst for electrochemical water oxidation by Phang, Yi Fei

“…Optimizing the Mo dopant ratio results in high OER catalytic activity with overpotential lower than that for pristine NiCo2O4 by 100 mV at current density of 10 mA cm–2. Mo-doped NiCo2O4 shows also excellent catalytic activity on Ni foam (small overpotential of 265 mV at 10 mA cm–2) revealing its high intrinsic activity. …”
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Post-fire behaviour and resistances of S690 high strength steel welded I-section stub columns by Su, Andi, Jiang, Ke, Liang, Yating, Zhao, Ou

“…The testing programme used three S690 high strength steel welded I-sections — I-80×60×5, I-100×100×5 and I-140×70×5, and for each aforementioned I-section, seven geometrically identical stub column specimens were prepared and tested after exposure to different levels of elevated temperature (including 30 °C, 300 °C, 600 °C, 700 °C, 800 °C, 900 °C and 950 °C). …”
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Investigation of remelting effects on controlling microstructure morphology in powder bed fusion by Wong, Wendell Shun Yin

“…Ultimate tensile strength (UTS) has improvements between 16.58 % to 21.45 % from 528.5 ± 58.5 MPa to 641.9 ± 16.4 MPa while maximum elongation, has improvements between 8.78 % to 19.55 % from 38.70 ± 1.56 % to 46.27 ± 2.74 %. …”
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Performance of toughened acrylic thermoplastic composites under mode I loading by Ng, Ronald Zi Foong

“…However, the Diolen®/Elium® 1% XT100 and Diolen®/Elium® 2.5% XT100 composites exhibited higher fracture toughness values with 5.58% and 50.95% improvement respectively. …”
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ENIGMA CHEK2gether project: a comprehensive study identifies functionally impaired CHEK2 germline missense variants associated with increased breast cancer risk by Stolarova, Lenka, Kleiblova, Petra, Zemankova, Petra, Stastna, Barbora, Janatova, Marketa, Soukupova, Jana, Achatz, Maria Isabel, Ambrosone, Christine, Apostolou, Paraskevi, Arun, Banu K., Auer, Paul, Barnard, Mollie, Bertelsen, Birgitte, Blok, Marinus J., Boddicker, Nicholas, Brunet, Joan, Burnside, Elizabeth S., Calvello, Mariarosaria, Campbell, Ian, Chan, Sock Hoai, Chen, Fei, Chiang, Jian Bang, Coppa, Anna, Cortesi, Laura, Crujeiras-González, Ana, De Leeneer, Kim, De Putter, Robin, DePersia, Allison, Devereux, Lisa, Domchek, Susan, Efremidis, Anna, Engel, Christoph, Ernst, Corinna, Evans, D. Gareth R., Feliubadaló, Lidia, Fostira, Florentia, Fuentes-Ríos, Olivia, Gómez-García, Encarna B., González, Sara, Haiman, Christopher, Hansen, Thomas van Overeem, Hauke, Jan, Hodge, James, Hu, Chunling, Huang, Hongyan, Ishak, Nur Diana Binte, Iwasaki, Yusuke, Konstantopoulou, Irene, Kraft, Peter, Lacey, James, Lázaro, Conxi, Li, Na, Lim, Weng Khong, Lindstrom, Sara, Lori, Adriana, Martinez, Elana, Martins, Alexandra, Matsuda, Koichi, Matullo, Giuseppe, McInerny, Simone, Michailidou, Kyriaki, Montagna, Marco, Monteiro, Alvaro N. A., Mori, Luigi, Nathanson, Katherine, Neuhausen, Susan L., Nevanlinna, Heli, Olson, Janet E., Palmer, Julie, Pasini, Barbara, Patel, Alpa, Piane, Maria, Poppe, Bruce, Radice, Paolo, Renieri, Alessandra, Resta, Nicoletta, Richardson, Marcy E., Rosseel, Toon, Ruddy, Kathryn J., Santamariña, Marta, Dos Santos, Elizabeth Santana, Teras, Lauren, Toland, Amanda E., Trentham-Dietz, Amy, Vachon, Celine M., Volk, Alexander E., Weber-Lassalle, Nana, Weitzel, Jeffrey N., Wiesmuller, Lisa, Winham, Stacey, Yadav, Siddhartha, Yannoukakos, Drakoulis, Yao, Song, Zampiga, Valentina, Zethoven, Magnus, Zhang, Ze Wen, Zima, Tomas, Spurdle, Amanda B., Vega, Ana, Rossing, Maria, Del Valle, Jesús, De Nicolo, Arcangela, Hahnen, Eric, Claes, Kathleen B. M., Ngeow, Joanne, Momozawa, Yukihide, James, Paul A., Couch, Fergus J., Macurek, Libor, Kleibl, Zdenek

“…Purpose: Germline pathogenic variants in CHEK2 confer moderately elevated breast cancer risk (odds ratio, OR ~ 2.5), qualifying carriers for enhanced breast cancer screening. …”
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Synergy of compress strain and antioxidant of platinum-copper for enhanced the oxygen reduction performance by Zhang, Jun, Liang, Pingjuan, Xu, Xinlan, Wang, Rong, Liu, Shuyue, Wang, Chunyuan, Liu, Boyu, Luo, Laizheng, Jin, Meng, Liu, Huan, Yi, Huan, Lu, Shi-Yu

“…Benefiting from its structural and compositional advantages, the resulting Pt0.38Cu0.62/N-HCS catalyst delivers exceptional electrocatalytic activity for ORR, with a half-wave potential (E1/2) of 0.837 ​V, a mass activity of 0.672 A mgPt-1, and a Tafel slope of 50.66 ​mV dec-1, surpassing that of commercial Pt/C. …”
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Effect of pre-load on diffusion characteristics of composite material by Chew, Xin Yun

“…The aim of this project was to study the water absorption properties of the composite when immersed in salt water – the salt water had a salt to water concentration of 3.5%. The composite material being studied in this project was E-glass reinforced BMI. …”
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Development of carbon-based sensors using recycled ash by Lum, Lucas Yu Xiang

“…The changes to the electrical characteristics were measured through an I-V probe while structural changes were characterised through Raman spectroscopy. …”
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