Salivary Acetylcholinesterase Activity Is Increased in Parkinson’s Disease: A Potential Marker of Parasympathetic Dysfunction by Tatyana Fedorova, Cindy Soendersoe Knudsen, Kim Mouridsen, Ebba Nexo, Per Borghammer

“…Importantly, the AChE activity/total protein ratio was significantly increased in PD patients, suggesting that increased AChE activity cannot be explained solely by upconcentration of saliva. The Unified PD Rating Scale (UPDRS) score displayed significant correlation with total salivary protein (P=0.002) and near-significant correlation with salivary flow (P=0.07). …”
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Overcoming Hesitancy and Barriers to Care with Integration of Telemedicine in a Free Student-run Health Clinic by Vikki A. Krysov, Michelle E. Balshin, Elijah N. Azar, Karina Cernioglo, David Perekopskiy, Altynay T. Nurpeissova, Lucy Zhonglu Shi

“…At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the clinic suspended in-person services and solely offered telemedicine visits. Most patients were hesitant to utilize telemedicine due to poor technological literacy, privacy concerns, and a preference for in-person care. …”
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A Precise Analysis of the Behavior of Pit Side Tunnels Caused by Deep Excavation by Huasheng Sun, Yuexin Zhao, Yadong Chen, Jiahui Li

“…The analysis sheds light on the deformation mechanisms and trends of pit-side tunnels not solely confined to the longitudinal axis but extending to the transverse plane as well, while systematically examining the influence of varying excavation depths and retaining wall stiffness on key tunnel parameters, including longitudinal deformation, diameter changes, bending strains, and soil pressure distributions around the tunnels. …”
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Epidemiology and risk factors of self-reported systemic allergic reactions to a Hymenoptera venom in beekeepers worldwide: a protocol for a systematic review of observational studi... by Igor Locatelli, Tanja Carli, Mitja Košnik, Andreja Kukec

“…The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Protocols 2015 statement will guide the reporting of this systematic literature review.Ethics and dissemination No ethics approval is needed to conduct the systematic literature review since it will be solely based on the published literature. Findings will be disseminated through the relevant conferences, peer-review and open-access journals.PROSPERO registration numberCRD42021260922.…”
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Administrative Contract as a Legal Form of Public Administration: Updating Doctrinal Approaches by V. R. Bila

“…In particular, the author has substantiated that the list of cases of concluding administrative contracts, under the Code of Administrative Judiciary of Ukraine, focuses solely on the determination of the substantive jurisdiction of administrative courts and is only a basis for forming the scope of the concept of “administrative contracts”, which is much more wider than the legal definition. …”
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Hybrid Simulated Annealing-Evaporation Rate-Based Water Cycle Algorithm Application for Medical Image Enhancement by Eyob Mersha Woldamanuel

“…Due to its high potential for finding a globally optimal solution, SA is applied solely to determine the optimized initial population of the ERWCA, thereby enhancing its convergence characteristics. …”
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A Covert α-Stable Noise-Based Extended Random Communication by Incorporating Multiple Inverse Systems by Areeb Ahmed, Zoran Bosnic

“…By spreading the tasks of encoding and decoding across various inverse systems, the suggested approach raises the difficulty level for eavesdroppers in retrieving the hidden stream of a binary message without the knowledge of ERCS parameters that are pre-shared solely between the intended receiver and transmitter. …”
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Digital Diagnostics: The Potential of Large Language Models in Recognizing Symptoms of Common Illnesses by Gaurav Kumar Gupta, Aditi Singh, Sijo Valayakkad Manikandan, Abul Ehtesham

“…The study focused on models including GPT-4, GPT-4o, Gemini, o1 Preview, and GPT-3.5, assessing their performance in identifying illnesses based solely on provided symptoms. Symptom-based prompts were curated from reputable medical sources to ensure validity and relevance. …”
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The Eurasian Space in Chinese Official and Academic Discourses by I. E. Denisov, I. A. Safranchuk

“…However, BRI should not be viewed solely as a Chinese blueprint for restructuring Eurasia. …”
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Comparative In Vitro Effects of Calcineurin Inhibitors on Functional Vascular Relaxations of Both Rat Thoracic and Abdominal Aorta by Ashok Jadhav, Venkat Gopalakrishnan, Ahmed Shoker

“…Aortic rings from the thoracic region are more sensitive to CNIs, since the vasodilator response to ACh is solely mediated by NO while in the AA, ACh likely recruits other endothelial mediators besides NO to maintain vasodilatation.…”
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MAOA uVNTR Polymorphism Influence on Older Adults Diagnosed with Diabetes Mellitus/Systemic Arterial Hypertension by Gabriel Moura Alves Seixas, Renata de Souza Freitas, Caroline Ferreira Fratelli, Calliandra Maria de Souza Silva, Luciano Ramos de Lima, Marina Morato Stival, Silvana Schwerz Funghetto, Izabel Cristina Rodrigues da Silva

“…The allelic variants detected among the participants were the 2R, 3R, 4R, and 3R/4R heterozygous genotypes. Genotypes solely containing the 3R allele had patients who marked yes for smoking and alcoholism, and only those with the 3R genotypes (female 3R/3R homozygote or male 3R∗ hemizygote) were significant. …”
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Justified Suspicion: Symptomatic Syphilitic Alopecia in a Patient with Well-Controlled HIV by Robert Jame, Yousif Al-Saeigh, Leo L. Wang, Kevin Wang

“…For example, ocular syphilis may present in an otherwise asymptomatic individual (Rein, 2020) and alopecia may arise as the sole indication of acute syphilitic infection (Doche et al., 2017). …”
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Any Sugar with That? Assessment of Dissolved Sucrose as Supplementary Feed in Nursery Rearing of Juvenile Bivalves by Andy Jordan, Bradley Skelton, Maria Mugica, Andrew Jeffs

“…One method of feeding juvenile bivalves that has received minimal attention is the use of dissolved nutrients to reduce the reliance on live microalgae as a sole feed input. This study aimed to determine whether dissolved sucrose could work as a supplement to live microalgae. …”
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ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITIES AND IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT IN ADOLESCENTS WITH GENDER DYSPHORIA REFERRED TO SPECIALIZED GENDER IDENTITY SERVICES by MILLA KARVONEN, KIRSTIN GOTH, MAX KARUKIVI, KIM KRONSTRÖM, RIITTAKERTTU KALTIALA

“…We suggest that it is, thus, imperative to conduct a comprehensive and holistic evaluation of adolescents seeking medical GR, not relying solely on self-reports. However, higher AIDA scores indicating poorer identity development were connected to not being considered eligible for medical GR. …”
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Molecular identification and genetic diversity analysis of Cryptosporidium spp. infecting dogs from central and northern Jordan: Detection of zoonotic genotype IId. by Rami M Mukbel, Eman M Etoom, Haifa B Hammad, Heidi L Enemark, Marwan M Abu Halaweh

“…C. parvum isolates worldwide displayed solely the zoonotic IId genotypes, namely, IIdA20G1, IIdA22G1, IIdA18G1, and IIdA19G1. …”
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Study on compaction characteristics and mechanical model of dry crushing filling material under lateral confinement condition by Youlin Xu, Shaokang Wu, Zhisong Chen, Xukun Wu, Jitao Zhang, Bing Xiao

“…Notably, the internal pressure structure strength is influenced by factors such as maximum particle size D, grading coefficient n, and particle size distribution continuity, rather than solely by the proportion of large particles. The evolution of acoustic emission signals and energy-time curve during waste rock confined axial compression synchronizes with the compaction process. …”
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Species distribution modelling using MaxEnt: overview and prospects by Yuliia Novoseltseva

“…Assessing niche models solely based on AUC can be misleading, therefore, for a more reliable assessment of variable importance, it is worth supplementing it with permutation importance and the jackknife method. …”
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Streptomyces sp. MUM 195J: A Promising Probiotic for Controlling Vibrio parahaemolyticus Infection in Aquaculture by Joanna Xuan Hui Goh, Loh Teng-Hern Tan, Jodi Woan-Fei Law, Giva Kuppusamy, Janaranjani M, Kooi-Yeong Khaw, Wei Hsum Yap, Kok-Gan Chan, Vengadesh Letchumanan, Learn-Han Lee, Bey-Hing Goh

“…The repercussions of antimicrobial resistance have underscored the drawbacks of the contemporary practice of relying solely on antibiotics in disease control. The aquaculture industry needs a safer, environmentally viable, and economically efficient means for disease management. …”
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Factors associated with receiving a Functional Disorder diagnostic label: A systematic review. by Mais Tattan, Judith Rosmalen, Denise Hanssen

“…Excluded studies were those not mentioning diagnostic labels, only involving single pain symptoms, and studies solely focusing on functional neurological symptoms. …”
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Cesarean section and the gestational duration of subsequent pregnancies: A nationwide register-based cohort study. by Felix Evers, Christopher Flatley, Karin Ytterberg, Julius Juodakis, Pol Solé-Navais, Bo Jacobsson

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