⁴⁰Ar ∕ ³⁹Ar age constraints on the formation of fluid-rich quartz veins from the NW Rhenohercynian zone (Rursee area, Germany) by A. A. O. Huseynov, J. Wijbrans, K. Kuiper, J. van der Lubbe

“…The Rursee area (Rhenish Massif, Germany), part of the Variscan foreland zone on the Avalonia microcontinent, represents a key locality for studying Variscan quartz vein formation. Based on structural grounds, two groups/types of Rursee quartz veins have been linked with the early stages of Variscan, but their absolute ages are still unknown.…”
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Evaluation of Technical and Anthropometric Factors in Postures and Muscle Activation of Heavy-Truck Vehicle Drivers: Implications for the Design of Ergonomic Cabins by Esteban Ortiz, Daysi Baño-Morales, William Venegas, Álvaro Page, Skarlet Guerra, Mateo Narváez, Iván Zambrano

“…In countries like Ecuador, making major structural changes to cabin design is not feasible. …”
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Seropositive juvenile rheumatoid arthritis: analysis of the spectrum of clinical manifestations and therapy according to a retrospective study by М. I. Kaleda, I. P. Nikishina, E. S. Fedorov, S. V. Arsenyeva, A. N. Shapovalenko

“…Demographic indicators, data from clinical, laboratory, and instrumental examinations, and performed therapy were assessed.Results and discussion. …”
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Synovial cesys in children: clinical features, diagnostics, treatment (analytical review of the literature and own observation) by V.S. Konoplitskyi, Yu. Ye. Korobko, B.L. Pavlenko, H.M. Rudenko, O.A. Korobko, S.V. Klymenko

“…Synovial cysts are structurally mucinous pseudotumors that usually arise from the underlying joint capsule, bursa, tendon sheath, or subchondral bone. …”
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Resveratrol supplementation improves productivity and health in heat-stressed lactating Holstein cows by M.R.R. Nair, K. Frady, Z. Yu, J.M. Cantet, M.S. Hasan, A.G. Ríus

“…Body weights were recorded twice weekly. Data were analyzed using the MIXED procedure in SAS (SAS Institute Inc.). …”
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Comparative Analysis of Fecal Microbiota and Metabolomic Profiles in Male and Female Leizhou Goats Offered a 10% Crude Protein Diet Among Four Energy Levels by Hu Liu, Wenji Wang, Weishi Peng, Anmiao Chen, Xiaogao Diao, Xia Yang, Jianmin Chai, Yuanting Yang, Ke Wang, Jiancheng Han, Hanlin Zhou

“…Therefore, to investigate the differences in the structure and function of the gut microbiota between female and male goats, we analyzed their fecal microbiota and metabolites when fed a 10% crude protein diet at four different energy levels—7.01, 8.33, 9.66, and 10.98 MJ/kg DM. …”
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Clinical-pathagenetic, Age, Gender, Genetic Aspects of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Nonviral Chronic Hepatitis Without, and also with Comorbid Hypothyroidism; Improving of... by Prysyazhnyuk V., Voloshyn O.

“…The correlation between the cytokines plasma content and the biochemical markers of cytolytic, cholestatic, intoxication syndromes, lipid profile are indicative of their important role in pathogenesis of NAFLD and CH. Changes in the structural and functional parameters of the heart, increase of the left ventricle myocardium mass and its index, and ejection fraction reduction were determined with age among NAFLD patients and CH patients. …”
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Cryogenic Thermo-Optical Coefficient of SU-8 Measured Using a Racetrack Resonator at 850 nm by Salvador A. Medina-Rangel, Nicola Maraviglia, John O’Hara, Artem S. Vorobev, Simone Iadanza, Emanuele Pelucchi, Liam O’Faolain

“…SU-8 is an emerging polymer material for integrated optical circuits that has demonstrated good structural properties in a cryogenic environment. In this article, we investigate the thermo-optical properties of SU-8 for a wavelength <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>λ</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>850</mn><mtext> </mtext><mi mathvariant="normal">n</mi><mi mathvariant="normal">m</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, from room temperature to cryogenic temperature down to 14 K. …”
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Skin mastocytoma in dogs, complex treatment and survival of animals by B. B. Ivashkiv, A. R. Mysak

“…It was established that in the structure of skin tumor lesions in dogs, MCTs reach 17.2 %. …”
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Impact of medical school on quality of life and mental health in Brazil: a cross-sectional comparative study by Marina Silveira de Resende, Isabelle Martins Santos, Eduardo Cardoso de Moura, Renata de Almeida Pedro, Marcelo Gobbo

“…To address these challenges, this study investigates the specific impact of medical education on students’ mental health and QoL, aiming to identify potential structural changes that could mitigate these negative outcomes.Design A cross-sectional study was conducted in private higher education institutions in Brazil.Setting Data were collected online via the QuestionPro platform in August 2024, encompassing 32 units located across 14 states and 4 geographic regions in Brazil.Participants The sample included 10 844 students, 33.7% of whom were enrolled in medicine and 66.3% in other fields (administration, agronomy, agribusiness, systems analysis and development, architecture, architecture and urbanism, biomedicine, computer science, accounting, economics, social communication/advertising and propaganda, law, physical education, nursing, civil engineering, computer engineering, production engineering, electrical engineering, mechatronics engineering, aesthetics and cosmics, pharmacy, physics, physiotherapy, speech, speech therapy, environmental management, commercial management, human resources management, financial management, history, Portuguese-English literature, logistics, marketing, mathematics, veterinary medicine, nutrition, dentistry, pedagogy, management processes, psychology, advertising and propaganda, computer networks, social work, information systems and theology). …”
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Rule with an iron hand: powerful CEOs, influential shareholders and corporate performance in Russia by Marina Zavertiaeva, Tatiana Ershova

“…Design/methodology/approach – Managerial power is divided into structural, ownership, expert and prestige. The proposed power metrics include not only CEOs but also the board of directors' characteristics that may restrict or enhance CEO power. …”
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Prediction of methylphenidate treatment response for ADHD using conventional and radiomics T1 and DTI features: Secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial by Mingshi Chen, Zarah van der Pal, Maarten G. Poirot, Anouk Schrantee, Marco Bottelier, Sandra J.J. Kooij, Henk A. Marquering, Liesbeth Reneman, Matthan W.A. Caan

“…Conclusion: While conventional and radiomics models performed equally well in predicting clinical improvement across children and adults during treatment, radiomics features offered enhanced structural information beyond conventional region-based volume and FA averages in children. …”
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Actions to Improve the Secondary Prevention of Fragility Fractures in Women with Postmenopausal Osteoporosis: A Social Return on Investment (SROI) Study by Olmo-Montes FJ, Caeiro-Rey JR, Peris P, Pérez del Río V, Etxebarria-Foronda Í, Cancio-Trujillo JM, Pareja T, Jódar E, Naranjo A, Moro-Álvarez MJ, García-Goñi M, Vergés J, Maratia S, Campos Tapias I, Prades M, Aceituno S

“…Unitary costs were sourced from scientific literature and official data, and intangible costs were estimated through surveys on women’s willingness to pay for better health-related quality of life. …”
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The effect of age and sex on brain metabolites: from childhood to adulthood by María Ortuño, Adriana Fortea, Isabel Valli, Emma Muñoz-Moreno, Roger Borràs, Irene Martínez-Serrano, Mireia Masias Bruns, Patricia Camprodon-Boadas, Enric Vilajosana, Lydia Fortea, Joaquim Raduà, Elena de la Serna, Inmaculada Baeza, Josefina Castro-Fornieles, Gisela Sugranyes

“…This cross-sectional study set out to examine the relationship between levels of neurometabolites and age and sex —key modulators of brain function and structure—, continuously from childhood to early adulthood, in areas relevant to the study of psychiatric disorders.Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (¹H MRS) data was acquired in the dorsomedial prefrontal region (dmPF) and the medial temporal lobe (mTL) in 128 healthy individuals aged 7 to 34 years, 68.5 % females (ndmPF = 124; nmTL = 75). …”
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Better public housing management in Ghana by Samson Aziabah

“…The HM approach highlights and recommends a defined structure to manage public houses. The actors in the structure include the district assembly, the coordinating director, the housing unit, the works department, and tenants, whose roles, responsibilities, and relationships are clearly defined. …”
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Measurement-guided therapeutic-dose prediction using multi-level gated modality-fusion model for volumetric-modulated arc radiotherapy by Changfei Gong, Changfei Gong, Changfei Gong, Yuling Huang, Yuling Huang, Yuling Huang, Junming Jian, Junming Jian, Junming Jian, Wenheng Zheng, Wenheng Zheng, Wenheng Zheng, Xiaoping Wang, Xiaoping Wang, Xiaoping Wang, Shenggou Ding, Shenggou Ding, Shenggou Ding, Yun Zhang, Yun Zhang, Yun Zhang

“…Quantitative experimental predictions show that the proposed model achieved the lowest values for the mean absolute error (37.99) and root mean square error (4.916), and the highest values for the peak signal-to-noise ratio (52.622), structural similarity (0.986) and universal quality index (0.932). …”
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Cross-species comparison of rodent and human decision-making in the Iowa Gambling Task in select neurological and psychiatric disorders: translational approach to examine age- and... by Varsha Singh, Manjari Tripathi, Sarat P. Chandra, Rohit Verma, Sushil Kumar Jha, Harvinder Singh Chhabra, Mrinmoy Chakravarty, Mrinmoy Chakravarty, Shambhovi Mitra, Indupriya B, Ankit Jha, Sakshi Sharma, Jyotsna Pandey, Divyanshi Pandey, Insha Shamshad, Ekta Ahlawat, Titli Saha, Chloé César, Suman Jain

“…This non-analogous structural–functional mapping of brain regions and cognitive deficits result in rodent models that fail to establish causal links of brain pathophysiology and clinical conditions, and the model remains a poor depiction of cognitive deficits experienced by humans. …”
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High-Dose Ceftriaxone in Elderly Patients with Enterococcal Infective Endocarditis: Population Pharmacokinetics of Free Ceftriaxone and Dose Optimization by Beatriz Fernández Rubio, Fernando Docobo Pérez, Laura Herrera Hidalgo, Luis Eduardo López-Cortés, Rafael Luque Márquez, José Manuel Lomas Cabezas, Luis Fernando López-Cortés, Marta Mejías Trueba, Ana Belén Guisado Gil, Alicia Gutiérrez Valencia, Arístides de Alarcón González, María Victoria Gil Navarro

“…Ceftriaxone free concentration was measured at three time-points: before the administration (C_min) and two and four hours after ceftriaxone administration (C₂ and C₄). Both structural and covariate population pharmacokinetic models were built. …”
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Integrated multi-omics profiling reveals the role of the DNA methylation landscape in shaping biological heterogeneity and clinical behaviour of metastatic melanoma by Andrea Anichini, Francesca P. Caruso, Vincenzo Lagano, Teresa M. R. Noviello, Rossella Tufano, Gabriella Nicolini, Alessandra Molla, Ilaria Bersani, Francesco Sgambelluri, Alessia Covre, Maria F. Lofiego, Sandra Coral, Anna Maria Di Giacomo, Elena Simonetti, Barbara Valeri, Mara Cossa, Filippo Ugolini, Sara Simi, Daniela Massi, Massimo Milione, Andrea Maurichi, Roberto Patuzzo, Mario Santinami, Michele Maio, Michele Ceccarelli, Roberta Mortarini, On behalf of the EPigenetic Immune-oncology Consortium Airc (EPICA) investigators

“…Abstract Background We developed an integrated multi-omics analysis in metastatic melanoma (MM) cohorts to associate DNA methylation profiles with tumor progression, survival, response to adjuvant immunotherapy, structure of the tumor immune microenvironment and transcriptional programs of immunity and melanoma differentiation. …”
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Ecological responses of Orientallactaga sibirica: Variations in body size and trophic niche across changing habitats by Qi-qige Buren, Xin Li, Guo-kang Chen, Guo-hui Ye, Shan-shan Sun, Yong-ling Jin, Ming-ming, He-Ping Fu, Shuai Yuan

“…The trophic niche width of O. sibirica varied across habitat types, being widest in the warm-temperate semi-humid zone and at mid-altitudes. Segmented structural equation modeling revealed that elevation and mean annual temperature exerted significant negative effects on O. sibirica body size by affecting FVC, whereas annual precipitation had a significant positive effect on body size, mediated through FVC. …”
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