HBCRAG-BASED RISK SCORE PERFORMS BETTER THAN THE HBV DNA-BASED SCORES FOR HCC PREDICTION IN GREY ZONE PATIENTS WHO ARE HBEAG-NEGATIVE

HBcrAg-based risk score performs better than the HBV DNA-based scores for HCC prediction in grey zone patients who are HBeAg-negative

Background & Aims: Risk scores have been designed to predict the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in treatment-naive patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB).However, little is known about their predictive accuracy in HBeAg-negative patients in the grey zone (GZ).We aimed to develop a HBcrAg-based HCC risk score and explore whether

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The acquisition of compositional definiteness in Norwegian

This paper aim to explain why the prenominal definiteness marker found in modified structures only is acquired much later than the suffixal definite article in Norwegian.The coexistence of the two definiteness markers is the result of the so-called double definiteness Beach Poncho phenomenon in Norwegian which occurs in definite structures involvin

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Time Deixis in Engineering Discourse

Nowadays, it has become commonly accepted that the meaning of linguistic elements is interconnected with the context of their use.Deixis is one of the classical pragmatic phenomena that illustrates Spot Gel that context-dependence is inherent in language as meaning of deictic expressions cannot be constructed without the identification of the speec

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