Survival and Prognostic Factors in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treated by Percutaneous Ethanol Injection: A 10-Year Experience by Roberto Mazzanti, Umberto Arena, Pietro Pantaleo, Lorenzo Antonuzzo, Greta Cipriani, Bruno Neri, Clara Giordano, Fabio Lanini, Serena Marchetti, Paolo Gentilini

“…Surgical treatments are considered to be the only curative procedures available, and only for a minority of patients. …”
Get full text

Effective practices in enhancing autonomous English language learning through YouTube by Ritueli Daeli, Santosa Santosa

“…The study underscores the need for curating high-quality educational content and developing tools to support self-regulation among learners. …”
Get full text

NASSDA as a Data-Collaborative Network to Enhance Social Science Research in East Asia by Pei-Shan Liao, Shuai Wang, Hiroshi Ishida, Hearan Koo, Won-ho Park

“…Although the advantages of sharing social science data has been recognized, challenges persist, particularly for data repositories focusing on curation and dissemination. In this article, we introduce the establishment of the Network of Asian Social Science Data Archives (NASSDA), a collaborative network among social science data depositories in East Asia. …”
Get full text

School Health Services Practices in Primary Schools as Reported by Teachers in Wassit and The-Qar Governorate in Iraq by Sameeha Naser Abed, Rawaa Kamel Abed, Fatimah Haran Daham

“… School health plays an important role in preventive and curative management that will reflect positively on young children, all workers in school, and academic performance. …”
Get full text

Diabetes Mellitus in Outpatients in Debre Berhan Referral Hospital, Ethiopia by Tesfa Dejenie Habtewold, Wendwesen Dibekulu Tsega, Bayu Yihun Wale

“…The prevalence of diabetes mellitus among outpatients in Debre Berhan Referral Hospital was 0.34% and several clinical and behavioral factors contribute to the occurrence of diabetes mellitus which impose initiation of preventive, promotive, and curative strategies.…”
Get full text

Médecines créoles guyanaise et haïtienne face au Covid-19 by Marc-Alexandre Tareau, Guillaume Odonne

“…The preeminent use of bitter plants, in prevention as well as in curative therapy, is in line with the traditional theory of Creole medicine, which perceives fever as the result of « dirty blood » that only the bitterness of the plants would allow to cure effectively.In Creole nosologies, Covid-19 falls into the macro-category of « fever diseases ». …”
Get full text

A Multi-Faceted Approach to Trending Topic Attack Detection Using Semantic Similarity and Large-Scale Datasets by Insaf Kraidia, Afifa Ghenai, Samir Brahim Belhaouari

“…To support this methodology, we curated large-scale, high-quality datasets comprising 7,000 Arabic and 28,000 English tweets, applying tailored preprocessing steps to ensure efficiency and accuracy. …”
Get full text

Turmeric-black pepper-honey nanoemulsion formulation and antiulcerogenic effect evaluation against ethanol-induced gastric ulcers in rats. by Amirah Adlia, Cynthiana Christabella Aslan, Lia Safitri, I Ketut Adnyana

“…The antiulcer activity was determined by measuring the ulcer area, ulcer index, curative index, ulcer severity score, and histology. …”
Get full text

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

“…Symptom-based prompts were curated from reputable medical sources to ensure validity and relevance. …”
Get full text

Examining HPO by organ and system to facilitate practical use by clinicians by Eisuke Dohi, Terue Takatsuki, Yuka Tateisi, Toyofumi Fujiwara, Yasunori Yamamoto

“…A manual search for terms within each category revealed that the HPO contains a mix of terms with four major attributes: (1) Disease Name, (2) Condition, (3) Test Data, and (4) Symptoms and Findings. Manual curation showed that the ratio of symptoms and findings varied from 0 to 93.1% across categories. …”
Get full text

The synergism of occlusal splints along with therapeutic exercise on individuals with temporomandibular joint disorders – A pilot study by Tanuj Bachani, Fathima Banu Raza, Anand Kumar Vaidyanathan

“…Conclusion: Combination therapy, which included stabilization splint and home care exercises for moderate to severe TMD patients, led to earlier curative changes in the temporomandibular joint and improved functional jaw movements, along with a reduction in pain. …”
Get full text

Seed quality of Aristolochia macrophylla Lam. and A. manshuriensis Kom. in St. Petersburg by K. G. Tkachenko, G. A. Firsov, A. V. Volchanskaya

“…The study and mobilization of natural flora species in botanical gardens allow the curators to save biological resources of useful plant species, and recommend them for urban landscaping. …”
Get full text

Efficacy of Human-Recombinant Epidermal Growth Factor Combined with Povidone-Iodine for Pressure Ulcers and Its Influence on Inflammatory Cytokines by Zunjiang Zhao, Dalun Lv, Baode Zhang, Liu Yong, Rongtao Zhang, Xiukun Wang

“…All in all, rh-EGF combined with PVI has a definite curative effect on patients with PUs. It can promote PU alleviation and hydroxyproline secretion in the wound and inhibit pain and inflammatory reactions, which is worthy of clinical promotion.…”
Get full text

Circumstances for Committing Crimes in the Banking Sector: Normative and Legal Aspect by V. V. Korniienko

“…The key factors in the situation of committing crimes in the presented area are: search for opportunities for criminal enrichment by using existing powers; conspiracy of officials of commercial banks with representatives of supervisory agencies (curators from some units of the National Bank of UKraine) in order to cover up criminal activity; development of a plan of financial fraud with representatives of commercial organizations in order to steal the entrusted funds and their further legalization. …”
Get full text

Aggressive Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Presenting with Metastasis to the Pancreas by Firas Warda, Sam Ho, Enoch Kuo, Dinesh Rao, Marilu Jurado-Flores

“…Surgical resection can be curative and can be followed by radioactive iodine ablation therapy if cancer cells show avidity. …”
Get full text

Bringing Intelligence to SAR Missions: A Comprehensive Dataset and Evaluation of YOLO for Human Detection in TIR Images by Mostafa Rizk, Israa Bayad

“…To support the investigation, a novel dataset comprising 17,148 thermal images with 90,882 instances of human subjects representing various conditions and scenarios has been carefully curated. This dataset is used for training and evaluating different variants of YOLOv8 and YOLOv7. …”
Get full text

Present(ed) bodies, absent agency: “patients’ perspectives” at the Museum Vrolik of the body and medicine by Azia Lafleur

“…Their presence/absence is investigated by using embodied inquiry to attend to the affective encounter between the audience and the bodily remains on display, as felt through the embodied experiencing of visiting the exhibit and mediated by the cultural, physical and institutional context and curation of the Vrolik itself. To analyze the resulting data, I take the museum as a site of storytelling with its curatorial techniques and texts acting as narratological frames and “orientation devices”. …”
Get full text

Complex biochemical characteristics of <i>Coriandrum sativum</i> L. by T. V. Khmelinskaya, A. E. Smolenskaya, A. E. Solovyeva

“…Accessions with an optimal component composition for a balanced human diet were identified and recommended for quality-oriented breeding, including the development of cultivars for health-friendly, curative and preventive nutrition. The selected accessions are of interest as source material for breeding programs and practical utilization.…”
Get full text

A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF VIDEO-BASED FEEDBACK IN HIGHER EDUCATION (2003-2022): TRENDS, GAPS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS by Nagaletchimee Annamalai, Arathai Din Eak

“…Data was systematically curated from the Dimensions database. Out of an initial 25,747 publications, 1,532 publications were selected for final analysis after refining the keyword search to ensure relevance to the subject. …”
Get full text

Prevalence of Osteoporosis in Women Over 50 Years of Age: Preventive and Therapeutic Management Skills by Enrique Rodríguez Reyes, Carlos Alberto Valverde González, Walter Alberto Vayas Valdiviezo

“…<strong><br />Conclusions</strong>: the level of knowledge of women about osteoporosis is insufficient and does not allow them to adopt preventive or curative measures. Among the predisposing and causing factors of osteoporosis are poor diet and lack of exercise.…”
Get full text