Publications by authors named "Hector M Perez"

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  • The study explores the evolution of China's cultural and creative industries (CCI) and its significance for urban development, focusing primarily on City A while comparing it with other cities.
  • It highlights the positive influence of advanced technologies, like deep learning and information management, in enhancing CCI growth, achieving a high recommendation accuracy for cultural projects at 94.74%.
  • The research identifies key factors affecting CCI, namely sustainable profitability and cultural influence, emphasizing the importance of investments, funding, and university research in shaping City A's CCI trajectory.
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The advanced level of medical care is closely related to the development and popularity of a city, and it will also drive the development of tourism. The smart urban medical system based on big data analysis technology can greatly facilitate people's lives and increase the flow of people in the city, which is of great significance to the city's tourism image dissemination and branding. The medical system, with eight layers of architecture including access, medical cloud service governance, the medical cloud service resource, the platform's public service, the platform's runtime service, infrastructure, and the overall security and monitoring system of the platform, is designed based on big data analysis technology.

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  • About one-third of the global population has latent tuberculosis (TB), which can become active, particularly in individuals co-infected with HIV, leading to significant health risks.
  • HIV-TB co-infection causes chronic inflammation and hormonal imbalances affecting key hormones like cortisol and DHEA.
  • A new method of HPLC-MS/MS was used to measure plasma hormones in HIV-TB patients, revealing higher levels of DHEA and its metabolites compared to healthy individuals, and finding correlations with T cell counts and lung-restricted TB.
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Background: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a ubiquitous disease. However, PDs prevalence in the population of agricultural communities lacks understanding and there has been no epidemiological study on the association between pesticides exposure factors and risk for PD.

Objectives: To investigate the potential association between organophosphate pesticides exposure and Parkinsonism by using a screening questionnaire in agricultural areas.

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Co-infections with HIV and HCV/HBV are frequently found due to the similar routes of transmission (sexual, parenteral and vertical). Since the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) there has been a notably decrease in patients morbidity and mortality, nevertheless with the prolonged survival, many of these patients are at risk of developing chronic complication, secondary to the infection of hepatotropic viruses. End stage liver disease is one of the main causes of morbid-mortality among HIV patients in developed countries.

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