Obstacles and opportunities for care collaboration through the utilisation of a preventive care process for frail older adults: a study protocol for a mixed methods study design by Åsa Larsson Ranada, Elisabet Rothenberg, Helle Wijk, Martina Karin Boström, Pia Skott, Anette Erichsen

“…Background Frail older adults constitute a significant vulnerable group with complex healthcare needs requiring collaboration between various care providers and professions. …”
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Perceptions of Cardiovascular Healthcare Professionals Regarding Clinical Trials: A Survey-Based Study from the Middle East by Zainab Atiyah Dakhil, Hasan Ali Farhan, Mohammed Dheyaa Marsool, Mohammed Saad Qasim, Michele Peters, Jose Leal

“…Results: We surveyed n = 255 specialists (20% were women); interventional cardiologists constituted 44.7%, followed by cardiology trainees at 31%. …”
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De-biasing microbiome sequencing data: bacterial morphology-based correction of extraction bias and correlates of chimera formation by Luise Rauer, Amedeo De Tomassi, Christian L. Müller, Claudia Hülpüsch, Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann, Matthias Reiger, Avidan U. Neumann

“…Furthermore, we show that computational correction of extraction bias based on bacterial cell morphology would be feasible using appropriate positive controls, thus constituting an important step toward overcoming protocol biases in microbiome analysis. …”
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Employee Retention and Organizational Performance: A Case Study of Centenary Bank in Kigezi Region Uganda. by Kaziro, Nicholas

“…The study targeted 97 respondents who constituted branch managers, departmental heads, committee members, audit officers, compliance officers, and support staff. …”
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Stakeholder Engagement and Quality of Roads in Kabale District: A Case Study of Kamuganguzi Sub-County. by Kyomugisha, Scarlet

“…The study findings revealed that the sample constituted of 50 respondents of which 70% were males and the 30% remaining were females. …”
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Standardization and validation of a novel reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction method for detecting virulent strains of the infectious bursal disease virus by Vladimir Longa-Bobadilla, Phillip Ormeño-Vásquez, Manuel Criollo-Orozco, Luis Tataje-Lavanda, Katherine Huamán-Gutierrez, Ángela Montalván, Mirko Zimic, Manolo Fernández-Sanchez, Manolo Fernández-Díaz

“…Conclusion: Our novel RT-PCR procedure has been demonstrated to be helpful in selectively amplifying the consensus sequence of the VP5 gene, indicating that this novel RT-PCR procedure constitutes an important and useful tool to execute initial discrimination of field-retrieved samples containing and not containing virulent strains of this virus before deciding to execute a blindly and more costly sequencing procedure of all the samples together.…”
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Leveraging genomic insights from the neglected malaria parasites P. malariae and P. ovale using selective whole genome amplification (SWGA) approach by Fathia Ben-Rached, Amit Kumar Subudhi, Chang Li, Mariah Alawi, Rohit Satyam, Sui Xu, Guoding Zhu, Raeece Naeem, Sara Mfarrej, Di Liu, Zenaida Stead, Caroline Askonas, Yaobao Liu, Jun Cao, Arnab Pain

“…Conclusions SWGA approach implemented here provides a powerful tool for enhancing genomic analysis of these neglected parasites, revealing population diversity, drug resistance markers, and hypervariable regions. This methodology constitutes a transformative tool to surmount the challenges of genomic analysis for neglected malaria parasites and can improve malaria research and control.…”
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Extracellular electron shuttles induced transformation and mobilization of Fe/As with the occurrence of biogenic vivianite by Jia Wang, Mengna Chen, Yalong Li, Yang Yang, Zuoming Xie

“…Microorganisms that utilize organic matter to reduce Fe oxides/hydroxides constitute the primary geochemical processes controlling the formation of high-arsenic (As) groundwater. …”
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Tectonometamorphic evolution of a subduction plate interface at the base of the Mirdita Ophiolite (Bajram Curri, northeastern Albania) by Madeline Richter, Kilian Pollok, Kujtim Onuzi, Kamil Ustaszewski

“…The assembly of obducted mantle rocks and metamorphic sole constitutes a plate interface that formed during the intraoceanic subduction stage preceding obduction; we call this a fossil intraoceanic plate interface in this paper. …”
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Incidence of methicillin, inducible clindamycin, and vancomycin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates in Gombe, Northeastern Nigeria by Haruna Adamu, Celestina T. Otegwu, Fatima B. Abdullahi, Babajide A. Tytler, Busayo O. Olayinka

“…A total of 54.6 % of the isolates were constitutive clindamycin resistant whereas 6.1 % were inducible clindamycin resistant. …”
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Assessment of Healthcare Solid Waste Composition, Generation and its Management: the case of Two Hospitals of Shashemene Town, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia by Gudeta Elie, Daniel Fitamo, Semere Gebreaegawi

“…Of the total solid waste generated, over half(GH: 53.3%; PH: 57.1%) constituted general waste (GW), and the remaining (GH: 46.7%; PH: 42.9%) comprised hazardous waste (HW), which exceeded the WHO threshold(10‒25%) intimates the lack of poor waste segregation. …”
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Clinical Characteristics of Inpatients with Diabetic Foot Ulcer Admitted with Non-Ulcer Complaints: A Retrospective Study by Li L, Li Y, Qin S, Zeng J, Ma W, Wei D

“…Lan Li,1,2 Yue Li,2,3 Shuang Qin,2 Jing Zeng,2 Wanxia Ma,2 Dong Wei2 1Medical Examination Center, Chengdu Second People’s Hospital, Chengdu, 610017, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Diabetic Foot Care Center, Chengdu Second People’s Hospital, Chengdu, 610017, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Clinical Medicine, Chengdu Medical College, Chengdu, 610500, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Dong Wei, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Diabetic Foot Care Center, The Chengdu Second People’s Hospital, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610017, People’s Republic of China, Tel/Fax +86 02867830801, Email weidong314@126.comBackground: Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) inpatients admitted with non-ulcer complaints constitute a neglected group that might suffer from more non-standard treatments. …”
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Sub-seasonal Patterns of PM10 and Black Carbon in a Coastal City: A Case Study of Salé, Morocco by Anas Otmani, Abdeslam Lachhab, Abdelfettah Benchrif, Mounia Tahri, Mohamed Azougagh, Mohammed El Bouch, El Mahjoub Chakir

“…Particularly, BC10 constituted roughly 16 ± 6% of PM10 mass. PM10 levels peaked in autumn and winter, with an examination of the possible impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on PM10 fluctuations. …”
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Assessment of factors predicting the nutritional status of geriatric people in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia by Samar Lafi Aljohani

“…The age of almost half of them (49.2%) ranged between 60 and 69 years, and males constituted 56.4% of them. Overall, 17.3% of the participants were malnourished, whereas 41.4% were at risk of malnutrition. …”
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Perception of phage therapy and research across selected professional and social groups in Poland by Maciej Żaczek, Marcin W. Zieliński, Andrzej Górski, Andrzej Górski, Andrzej Górski, Beata Weber-Dąbrowska, Ryszard Międzybrodzki, Ryszard Międzybrodzki, Ryszard Międzybrodzki

“…To the best of our knowledge, with 1,098 collected questionnaires, this article constitutes the first large-scale analysis on phage therapy perceptions, interest and knowledge among ordinary people in a country with a long, internationally recognized, tradition of treating patients with phages. …”
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Verbascoside Inhibits the Activation of NLRP3 Inflammasome and Improves BV-2 Cell Inflammatory Damage by Wenjing HUANG, Fang CHENG, Min DU, Jiayi CHEN, Wei XIANG, Ke SHI, Xingliang XIE, Yanmei SHENG

“…Conclusion: VB can ameliorate OGD-induced inflammatory damage in BV-2 cells, which may constitute the primary pharmacodynamic basis for the anti-inflammatory effects of OEE. …”
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HINT1 suppression protects against age-related cardiac dysfunction by enhancing mitochondrial biogenesis by Michio Sato, Tsuyoshi Kadomatsu, Jun Morinaga, Yuya Kinoshita, Daisuke Torigoe, Haruki Horiguchi, Sumio Ohtsuki, Shuji Yamamura, Ryoko Kusaba, Takanori Yamaguchi, Goro Yoshioka, Kimi Araki, Tomohiko Wakayama, Keishi Miyata, Koichi Node, Yuichi Oike

“…Conclusion: Our findings suggest that mitochondrial biogenesis in cardiomyocytes decreases with age and could underlie cardiac dysfunction, and that the Caren-HINT1-mitochondrial biogenesis axis may constitute a mechanism linking CR to resistance to cardiac aging. …”
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Patient participation in free cataract surgery: a cross-sectional study of the low-income elderly in urban China by Bo Qu, Hui Chen, Xuhua Tan, Xiaohang Wu, Haotian Lin, Zhenzhen Liu, Lixia Luo, Bo Zhang, Erping Long, Duoru Lin, Weirong Chen, Yizhi Liu, Haofeng Jiang, Jingjing Chen, Zhuoling Lin, Xiaoyan Li, Jinzhu Tang, Yingfen Lin

“…Those patients with a monthly family income of 1000–2999¥ (US$161–482) per capita constituted the largest patient population. The free clinics in the parks and the free cataract surgery were highly rated (9.46 and 9.11 of 10 points) by the beneficiaries.Conclusions The telephone survey revealed a high level of patient satisfaction regarding the free cataract surgery programme. …”
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Application of deep learning models on single-cell RNA sequencing analysis uncovers novel markers of double negative T cells by Tian Xu, Qin Xu, Ran Lu, David N. Oakland, Song Li, Liwu Li, Christopher M. Reilly, Xin M. Luo

“…Abstract Double negative T (DNT) cells are a unique subset of CD3 + TCRαβ + T lymphocytes that lack CD4, CD8, or NK1.1 expression and constitute 3–5% of the total T cell population in C57BL/6 mice. …”
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Desregulación emocional en población con TDAH; una aproximación teórica/Emotional dysregulation in the population with ADHD. A Theoretical Approach by Alejandra Alpizar

“…English  Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder, whose nuclear symptoms constitute inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity, the latter may be verbal, motor and cognitive, but also emotional, expressed by emotional dysregulation, which affects a person’s ability to emotionally self-regulate and inhibit emotions. …”
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