The Hidden Dangers: E-Cigarettes, Heated Tobacco, and Their Impact on Oxidative Stress and Atherosclerosis—A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis of the Evidence by Arianna Magna, Nausica Polisena, Ludovica Polisena, Chiara Bagnato, Elena Pacella, Roberto Carnevale, Cristina Nocella, Lorenzo Loffredo

“…It is essential to raise public awareness about the potential dangers associated with these products and implement protective measures, particularly for young people.…”
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Respiratory Syncytial Virus and Other Respiratory Viruses in Hospitalized Infants During the 2023–2024 Winter Season in Mexico by José J. Leija-Martínez, Sandra Cadena-Mota, Ana María González-Ortiz, Juan Carlos Muñoz-Escalante, Gabriel Mata-Moreno, Pedro Gerardo Hernández-Sánchez, María Vega-Morúa, Daniel E. Noyola

“…The high impact of RSV and other respiratory viruses indicates the need to implement specific preventive programs to reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with them.…”
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Cryo-EM reveals an extrahelical allosteric binding site at the M5 mAChR by Wessel A. C. Burger, Jesse I. Mobbs, Bhavika Rana, Jinan Wang, Keya Joshi, Patrick R. Gentry, Mahmuda Yeasmin, Hariprasad Venugopal, Aaron M. Bender, Craig W. Lindsley, Yinglong Miao, Arthur Christopoulos, Celine Valant, David M. Thal

“…Our mutagenesis studies reveal that selective M5 PAMs bind outside previously characterized M5 mAChR allosteric sites. …”
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COVID-19 and the HIV care continuum in Uganda: minimising collateral damage [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations] by Enock Kagimu, Jane Gakuru, Emily M. Martyn, Morris K Rutakingirwa, John Kasibante, Kenneth Ssebambulidde, Richard Kwizera, Jayne Ellis, Darlisha Williams, David B. Meya, Fiona V Cresswell

“…Reflecting on our current experience of the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda, we explore the potential impact of public health measures implemented to mitigate spread of COVID-19 on the HIV care continuum, and suggest areas of focus for HIV services, policy makers and governments to urgently address in order to minimise the collateral damage.…”
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Digital Twin for Climate Resilience: Transforming Smart Cities for a Sustainable Future by E. Ali, E. Ali, A. Mansour, A. Mansour, E. Mohammed Abdelkader, N. Elshaboury, T. Zayed

“…We categorize DT implementations into three spatial scales—small-scale assets, city-level systems, and global or Earth-level networks—illustrating the versatility and scalability of DT-driven interventions. …”
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ZnO-SnO2/WO3-x heterojunction artificial synapse for realization and integration of multiple biological cognitive functions by Pengfei Sun, Ruidong Li, Haotian Meng, Tao Sun, Song Gao, Yang Li

“…In current memristor-based neuromorphic computing research, several studies face the challenge of realizing only a single function at a time or having isolated functions. …”
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Advanced Interpretation of Bullet-Affected Chest X-Rays Using Deep Transfer Learning by Shaheer Khan, Nirban Bhowmick, Azib Farooq, Muhammad Zahid, Sultan Shoaib, Saqlain Razzaq, Abdul Razzaq, Yasar Amin

“…The research tackles a rarely studied clinical medical imaging issue that involves bullet identification and positioning within X-ray images. …”
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Genome-wide analyses of genomic diversity, population structure and selection signatures in Italian turkey populations by Medhat S. Saleh, Vincenzo Landi, Martijn F.L. Derks, Gerardo Centoducati, Martien A.M. Groenen, Pasquale De Palo, Elena Ciani, Maria G. Strillacci, Alessandro Bagnato, Nicola Pugliese, Elena Circella, Antonio Camarda

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The LIFE STREAMS Project for the Recovery of the Native Mediterranean Trout in Six Italian Pilot Areas: Planning and Adoption of Conservation Actions by Antonella Carosi, Lorenzo Talarico, Claudia Greco, Antonia Vecchiotti, Susanna D’Antoni, Alessandro Longobardi, Stefano Macchio, Marco Carafa, Paolo Casula, Antonio Perfetti, Paola Amprimo, Alessandro Rossetti, Federico Morandi, Davide Alberti, Pietro Serroni, Stefano Raimondi, Diego Mattioli, Nadia Mucci, Massimo Lorenzoni

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DMoVGPE: predicting gut microbial associated metabolites profiles with deep mixture of variational Gaussian Process experts by Qinghui Weng, Mingyi Hu, Guohao Peng, Jinlin Zhu

“…DMoVGPE utilizes a dynamic gating mechanism, implemented through a neural network with fully connected layers and dropout for regularization, to select the most relevant Gaussian Process experts. …”
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Machine-Based Resistance Training Improves Functional Capacity in Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Archie Kirk, James Steele, James P. Fisher

“…It has been proposed that training interventions should implement exercises associated with the movements needed in everyday life. …”
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TinyCO2: High‐performance, low‐cost CO2 enrichment for field‐grown plants by Paige V. Kouba, Matthew E. Gilbert, Thomas N. Buckley, Andrew M. Latimer

“…We envision the TinyCO2 design being implemented in a multitude of field‐based eCO2 studies, perhaps as part of a globally distributed collaborative network experiment.…”
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Drawing on the walls from architecture to street art. Interview with “MILLO” the street artist architect by Caterina Palestini

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Reliability and Quality of Complex Systems by I.V. Peshkov, V.A. Zhigulin, N.A. Fortunova

“…The generated HDL code was studied. The estimation of the consumed resources of the FPGA was carried out. …”

Digital traceability in horticulture: a systematic review of edge-cloud-blockchain-terminal (ECBT) integration with IoT and AI technologies by Yan Huang, Xin Li, Luyi Xu, Yongqiang Ma

“…Following PRISMA guidelines, we analyzed 40 high-quality studies selected from 156 peer-reviewed articles retrieved from Web of Science, Scopus, and IEEE Xplore databases (2022–2025) using combined technology (“IoT” OR “blockchain” OR “AI” OR “edge computing”) and application (“traceability” OR “supply chain”) search terms. …”
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Nursing regulation in Canada: Insights from a scoping review. by Patrick Chiu, Natalie J Thiessen, Sobia Idrees, Kathleen Leslie, Janice Y Kung

“…Canadian nursing regulators have implemented various innovations to reform regulatory approaches to address workforce challenges, system demands, governance reforms, and a drive for efficiency. …”
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Engaging Female Community Health Volunteers (FCHVs) for cardiovascular diseases risk screening in Nepal. by Lal B Rawal, Yuewen Sun, Padam K Dahal, Sushil C Baral, Sudeepa Khanal, Abriti Arjyal, Shraddha Manandhar, Abu S Abdullah

“…Female Community Health Volunteers (FCHVs) in Nepal are the key drivers to implementing frontline health services. We explored the potential for engaging FCHVs for CVD risk screening at the community level in Nepal.…”
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K.M. Takhtarev is one of the First Professional Sociologists in Russia. To the 150th Anniversary of His Birth by A. O. Boronoev

“…The role of Takhtarev in the development of genetic sociology as a sociological direction studying the dynamics of forms of society and social institutions is emphasized.Conclusion. …”
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A procedure for dual simple t-cannulation in the small intestine of pigs using a single right flank laparotomy by A.L. Petry, S.A. Gould, J.F. Patience

“…Singular cannulation in the small intestine of pigs is a common methodology for studying nutrient digestibility, delivering compounds into the gastrointestinal tract, or repeated tissue and digesta sampling. …”
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Subcortical Brain Segmentation Based on a Novel Discriminative Dictionary Learning Method and Sparse Coding by Xiang Li, Ying Wei, Yunlong Zhou, Bin Hong

“…The influence of different parameters was studied and the performance of the proposed method was also compared with the non-local patch-based segmentation, the sparse representation classifier based segmentation, the discriminative dictionary learning segmentation, and several deep learning methods. …”
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