High-performance CT features supporting accurate pre-operative tumor staging in colon cancer by Jianhua Yuan, Cangzheng Jin, Jianrong Si, Baobao Liu, Xiaohan Si, Jianzhi Chen

“…The diagnostic performance of these was further analyzed.ResultsBased on the postoperative pathological tumor staging (pT), 136 colon adenocarcinomas were classified into four stages: pT1 (n = 5), pT2 (n = 7), pT3 (n = 96), and pT4 (n = 28). …”
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Efficacy of non-invasive brain stimulation interventions on cognitive impairment: an umbrella review of meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials by Minmin Wu, Wenjing Song, Xue Wang, Lili Teng, Jinting Li, Jiongliang Zhang, Xinyue Li, Donghui Yu, Huanhuan Jia, Binhan Wang, Qiang Tang, Luwen Zhu

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Assessment of awareness of keratoconus and its relation to eye rubbing among Saudi Arabia population by Nuwayyir Abdullah Alqasimi, Lujain Hatim Aljohani, Renato Ambrósio, Renato Ambrósio, Renato Ambrósio, Renato Ambrósio, Renato Ambrósio, Bader Saad AlQahtani, Bader Saad AlQahtani, Nasser Saleh Al Haydar, Bdour Raja Alanazi, Danah Tariq Alfurayhan, Lina Sami Hussain Saber, Fatemah Saleh Alsalem, Nawaf Abdullah Alqahtani, Jose Manuel Vargas

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Sistem Pelacakan Dokumen Berbasis Seluler dan Kode QR by Monanta Alfiareza, Nori Wilantika

“…Metode pengembangan sistem menggunakan model prototyping. Sistem melibatkan 5 aktor, yaitu Petugas Pemeriksa Lapangan (PML), Koordinator Statistik Kecamatan (KSK), pegawai BPS kabupaten/kota, pegawai BPS RI, dan pimpinan. …”
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Impacts of drought on respiratory mortality in the upper midwest United States: a population subgroup assessment by Yeongjin Gwon, Yuanyuan Ji, Jesse D Berman, Azar M Abadi, Ronald D Leeper, Jared Rennie, Jesse E Bell

“…Our study suggests that the risks differs by subgroups: elevated risks in elderly (higher 14.4% and 9.8% for 6 and 12 month), White (15.1% and 9.0% higher for 6 and 12 month), males (12.7% and 5.1% higher for 6 and 12 month), females (15.8% and 11.1% higher for 6 and 12 month), urban 15.8% and 8.8% higher for 6 and 12 month), and rural (13.6% and 9.9% higher for 6 and 12 month) communities. …”
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Comparative transcriptomics reveal stage-dependent parasitic adaptations in the myxozoan Sphaerospora molnari by Monika M. Wiśniewska, Jiří Kyslík, Gema Alama-Bermejo, Alena Lövy, Martin Kolísko, Astrid S. Holzer, Anush Kosakyan

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Comparative analysis of dominant gut microbiota in Inflammatory Bowel Disease patients and healthy individuals: A case-control study by Alireza Ahmadi, Ebrahim Kouhsari, Shabnam Razavi, Nima Mohamadzadeh, Sima Besharat, Mohammad Ali Vakili, Taghi Amiriani

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Peering into the Black Box: Forward Modeling of the Uncertainty Budget of High-resolution Spectroscopy of Exoplanet Atmospheres by Arjun B. Savel, Megan Bedell, Eliza M.-R. Kempton, Peter C. B. Smith, Jacob L. Bean, Lily L. Zhao, Kaze W. K. Wong, Jorge A. Sanchez, Michael R. Line

“…We present an HRCCS observation simulator, scope , ^5 that incorporates spectral contributions from the exoplanet, star, tellurics, and instrument. …”
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Needs Assessment and Tailored Training Pilot for Emergency Care Clinicians in the Prehospital Setting in Rwanda by Naz Karim, Jeanne D’Arc Nyinawankusi, Mikaela S. Belsky, Pascal Mugemangango, Zeta Mutabazi, Catalina Gonzalez Marques, Angela Y. Zhang, Janette Baird, Jean Marie Uwitonze, Adam C. Levine

“…Prehospital oxygen administration for patients with a saturation level of <95% significantly increased pre- to post-training (66.7% to 71.7%; Δ = 5.0%; Δ95% CI 1.9,−8.1%). No significant changes were noted in patient treatment outcomes or other process indicators due to small sample sizes. …”
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Electrodermal activity and skin temperature characteristics related to stress and depression: A 4-week observational study of office workers by Yuki Ishikawa, Tatsuki Sugio, Kiko Shiga, Keisuke Izumi, Kazumichi Minato, Momoko Kitazawa, Sayaka Hanashiro, Ryo Takemura, Hiroyuki Uchida, Taishiro Kishimoto

“…Results: Participants with PHQ-9 scores ≥5 showed higher median skin conductance and median tonic signal, although these differences lost statistical significance after Bonferroni correction. …”
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Knowledge, attitudes and practices of oral HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among healthcare workers in the Ekurhuleni District, South Africa by E Mahlare, E Ramutshila, A Musekiwa, L Kuonza, T Mabuto

“…Nurses had better practices in HIV PrEP delivery compared with health promoters (aOR 2.5; 95% CI 1.0 - 5.9; p=0.04). Conclusion. Among the healthcare workers tasked with generating demand and identifying clients eligible for HIV PrEP services, low knowledge of HIV PrEP and negative attitudes towards HIV PrEP may be barriers to the uptake of HIV PrEP. …”
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Pengaruh Pemberian Kefir Madu terhadap Profil Lipid Tikus Galur Sprague Dawley Sindroma Metabolik by Ibnu Malkan Bakhrul Ilmi, Angga Hardiansyah, Nikmatul Luailiya, Putri Aria Avrilian, Avliya Quratul Marjan, Dina Sugiyanti, Nur Hayati

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Race as a prognostic factor of breast mucinous carcinoma by Dingyuan Wang, Yang Wang, Songlin Gao, Rongshou Zheng, Guijian Wu, Jianping Wang, Can Lu, Kena Bu, Chun Zhang, Wanqing Chen, Bailin Zhang

“…Specifically, non-Chinese American patients had a worse OS compared to Chinese patients (adjusted HR = 2.59, 95% CI: 1.15–5.83, P = 0.022). Chemotherapy significantly improved OS only in black BMC patients (adjusted HR = 0.52, 95% CI: 0.27–0.98, p = 0.045), but not in other racial/ethnic groups. …”
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Characterization of the genomic landscape of canine diffuse large B-cell lymphoma reveals recurrent H3K27M mutations linked to progression-free survival by Anna Darlene van der Heiden, Raphaela Pensch, Sophie Agger, Heather L. Gardner, William Hendricks, Victoria Zismann, Shukmei Wong, Natalia Briones, Bryce Turner, Karin Forsberg-Nilsson, Cheryl London, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Maja Louise Arendt

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Erratum to ‘Cost differences between autologous and nonautologous cranioplasty implants: A propensity score–matched value driven outcomes analysis’ [World Neurosurgery: X (22C) (20... by Matthew Findlay, Sawyer Z. Bauer, Diwas Gautam, Matthew Holdaway, Robert B. Kim, Walid K. Salah, Spencer Twitchell, Sarah T. Menacho, Gurpreet S. Gandhoke, Ramesh Grandhi

“…Differences in initial cranioplasty failure rates between custom and autologous grafts were insignificant (12.5 % custom vs. 23.4 % autologous, p = 0.18). On univariate analysis, autologous implants cost 46.8 % of custom grafts during the initial hospitalization period (p < 0.01) and 58.7 % of custom grafts once long-term aggregated costs were factored (p < 0.01). …”
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Risk factors for Clostridioides difficile infection among patients diagnosed with inflammatory intestinal and rheumatological diseases in the biologic era by Helena Martínez-Lozano, Paula Saralegui-Gonzalez, Elena Reigadas, Pablo Ramón Fueyo-Peláez, Aurea García-García, José Miranda-Bautista, Luis Alcalá, Juan Carlos Nieto, María Elena Lobato-Matilla, Ignacio Marín-Jiménez, Patricia Muñoz, Luis Menchén

“…The diagnosis of IBD was the major risk factor for developing CDI in the overall population (OR: 18.29, CI 95%: 5.59–59.80, p < 0.001). Within the IBD-cohort, patients with ulcerative colitis had an increased risk for CDI compared to Crohn’s disease (OR:2.00, 95% CI: 1.18–3.42, p = 0.011). …”
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Long-Term Real-World Outcomes of Tenofovir Alafenamide in Chronic Hepatitis B: Detailed Analysis of Treatment-Naive and Experienced Patients by Yu-Xuan Song, Guang-Jun Song, Hui Ma, Bo Feng, Yan-Di Xie

“…The baseline body mass index (BMI) <25 kg/m2 (p=0.02) and HBsAg <3.3 log10IU/mL (p=0.04) were identified as predictive factors for a decrease in HBsAg ≥0.5 log10IU/mL at 48 weeks. The eGFR levels were consistently lower in the treatment-experienced patients throughout the study. …”
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Associations between interpersonal violence and cigarette smoking, e-cigarette use, and dual use among Mexican adolescent students by Rosibel Rodríguez-Bolaños, Evangelina Díaz-Andrade, Evangelina Díaz-Andrade, Paula Ramírez-Palacios, Anabel Rojas-Carmona, Anabel Rojas-Carmona, Katia Gallegos-Carrillo, Inti Barrientos-Gutiérrez, Lizeth Cruz-Jiménez, Dèsirée Vidaña-Pérez, Edna Arillo-Santillán, James F. Thrasher, James F. Thrasher

“…Almost half (46.9%) of adolescents reported having been the target of physical violence, followed by psychological violence (42.6%), neglect (34.9%), digital violence (12.3%), and sexual violence (5.2%). In adjusted multinomial models, adolescents who experienced physical violence (Adjusted Relative Risk Ratios: ARRR = 2.28, 95% CI [1.05–4.96]) were more likely to exclusively smoke cigarettes. …”
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Use of hazardous barium slag as a supplementary cementitious material in calcium aluminate cement: Evolution of engineering properties and microstructure by Chen-xi Dong, Zhao Duan, Jiang-shan Li, Xin Chen, Wei Zhang, Haitao Cao, Nianqin Wang

“…In this study, incorporating BS at a replacement ratio of up to 20 % improved the fluidity of a CAC slurry by 16 % and increased its 3-d and 90-d unconfined compressive strengths by 2.5 % and 42 %, respectively, compared to pure CAC. …”
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Integrating Bulk and Single-Cell Transcriptomic Data to Identify Ferroptosis-Associated Inflammatory Gene in Alzheimer&rsquo;s Disease by Zhou H, Peng Y, Huo X, Li B, Liu H, Wang J, Zhang G

“…Huiqin Zhou,1– 3,&ast; Yunjia Peng,2,3,&ast; Xinhua Huo,2,3 Bingqing Li,2,3 Huasheng Liu,4 Jian Wang,3,5 Gaihua Zhang1 1College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, People’s Republic of China; 2Hunan Guangxiu Hospital, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, People’s Republic of China; 3National Engineering Center of Human Stem Cell, Changsha, People’s Republic of China; 4Department of Radiology, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, People’s Republic of China; 5The Institute of Reproduction and Stem Cell Engineering, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, People’s Republic of China&ast;These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Gaihua Zhang, The National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory of Animal Peptide Drug Development, College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China. …”
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