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The bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine, initially developed to provide protection against TB, also protects against leprosy; and the magnitude of this effect varies. Previous meta-analyses ...

The Mahabharat is one of the two major epics in Sanskrit of ancient India It contains over one lakh couplets and is thrice as long as the Bible However only a fraction of the narration actually deals ...

We conducted extensive experiments on two publicly available skin lesion segmentation datasets (ISIC2017 and ISIC2018). Our method achieved state-of-the-art results compared to previous studies. DSNET ...

Patients with CLE who have specific patient characteristics may have lower treatment response than patients who do not have these characteristics.