A comparative analysis of height trend and nutrition among 1983 to 2005 birth cohort of Ilorin metropolis, Kwara State, Nigeria by Ade Stephen Alabi, Peace Eyitayo Olagunju, Adeola Alabi, Joshua Abidemi Owa, Yetunde Elizabeth Owa, Abosede Mary Ayoola, Dare Ezekiel Babatunde, Oluwatoyin Ezekiel Olasehinde, Titilayo Temitope Adeoye

“…Height was found to have positively increased among the 1983 to 2005 birth cohorts of Ilorin metropolis with the most significant increase being observed in the Males. This study also revealed a positive correlation between Diary and Carbohydrate consumption and increase in height, especially among males. …”
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Moving beyond post hoc explainable artificial intelligence: a perspective paper on lessons learned from dynamical climate modeling by R. J. O'Loughlin, D. Li, R. Neale, T. A. O'Brien, T. A. O'Brien

“…Such component-level understanding routinely leads to model improvements and may also serve as a template for thinking about AI-driven climate science. …”
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Risk Factors for the Occurrence of Depressive Disorders in Pediatric Patients With Tuberculosis by Mihailov OM, Stavar Matei L, Tocu G, Ciubara A, Mihailov R

“…The CDI (Children’s Depression Inventory) was administered to assess depressive symptoms over the course of the study.Objective: The study aims to determine the prevalence of depressive disorders in children and adolescents by analyzing risk factors such as age, gender, place of origin, and access to medical services, as well as the effectiveness of CDI as a diagnostic tool. It also seeks to correlate clinical and demographic data with CDI scores and evaluate changes over time to identify solutions that support early diagnosis and intervention.Results: Out of the initial 190 patients, 158 completed the CDI, as some did not return for follow-up evaluations or declined to participate. …”
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Perceptions in 3.6 Million Web-Based Posts of Online Communities on the Use of Cancer Immunotherapy: Data Mining Using BERTopic by Xingyue Wu, Chun Sing Lam, Ka Ho Hui, Herbert Ho-fung Loong, Keary Rui Zhou, Chun-Kit Ngan, Yin Ting Cheung

“…Furthermore, this study also demonstrates the effectiveness of BERTopic in analyzing large amounts of data to identify perceptions underlying social media and online communities.…”
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Bright night sleeping environment induces diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance in non-human primates by Shuxing Wang, Zhenyi Chen, Zihao Liang, Qiang Xu, Jiankai Zhang

“…Data pertaining to the glucose metabolism such as concentrations of fasting glucose, glycosylated hemoglobin, plasma insulin and C-peptide were collected monthly and analyzed.Results1) Bright night exasperated glucose metabolism in individuals with pre-existing diabetes, led to premature death; 2) Stronger white light intensity-dependently induced diabetes and IFG in previous healthy monkeys: the brighter the light, the quicker the metabolism disturbance and IFG developed, and also the higher morbidity of LID and IFG; 3) Exposure to nocturnal light had a synergistic impairing effect on glucose metabolism with aging and weight. 4) Female were more susceptible to night brightness.ConclusionsLight in sleeping environment exacerbates glucose metabolism in individuals with pre-existing diabetes, leads to IFG and diabetes in healthy primates. …”
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Aplikasi Pencari Kerja Sampingan Berbasis Framework Flutter by Desy Intan Permatasari, M. Udin Harun Al Rasyid, Yuliarta Rizki Nusantoko

“…Users can choose a side job based on the desired location. Then, users can also provide side jobs for another users so that people will have no difficulty in finding conventional/offline side job information because everything is available in one application. …”
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Research of <i>PNPLA3</i> I148M Gene Polymorphism in Patients with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, with Liver Cirrhosis and with Hepatocellular Carcinoma by V. V. Petkau, G. A. Tsaur, E. N. Bessonova, A. A. Karimova

“…The presence of the minor G allele also increases the likelhood of transition from NAFLD to LC (OR = 2.38; 95 % Cl: 1.41–4.02; p = 0.010) and HCC in the presence of cirrhosis (OR = 2.17; 95 % Cl: 1.15–4.08; p = 0.039). …”
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Estimación de biomasa y carbono en árboles de Cupressus lusitanica Mill. en Costa Rica by William Fonseca González, Marilyn Rojas Vargas, Ronny Villalobos Chacón, Federico Alice Guier

“…La fracción de hojas y raíz fue más difícil de modelar, presentaron menor ajuste y error más alto. El fuste posee el 61.7 % de la biomasa total del árbol, las ramas 17.1 % y la raíz 9.1 %. …”
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Comparison of the Efficacy and Tolerability of Dienogest and Dienogest Plus Ethinylestradiol on Endometriosis Related-Pain by Tolga Karacan, Huseyin Kiyak, Eser Ozyurek, Mevlide San, Engin Oral

“…Although the dienogest plus ethinylestradiol group also decreased by 20%, the difference was not significant. …”
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Adherence to four healthy lifestyles and their influencing factors among residents aged 35 to 75 years in Fujian province: a longitudinal study by Ze YANG, Xin FANG, Yefa ZHANG, Wenling ZHONG, Tiehui CHEN, Jingyu CHEN, Yanrong YIN, Xiaoqing LI

“…The correlation between these lifestyle habits and socio-demographic characteristics such as sex, age, and education level was also explored. ResultsAfter age and sex standardization, the adherence rates to the four individual healthy lifestyle habits among the 31 610 residents in Fujian province, from the highest to the lowest, were non-drinking or moderate drinking (95.7%), non-smoking (76.2%), adequate physical activity during leisure time (26.1%), and a healthy diet (11.4%). …”
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Genomic characterization of chronic lymphocytic leukemia in patients of African ancestry by Cecilia Bonolo de Campos, Chantal E. McCabe, Laura A. Bruins, Daniel R. O’Brien, Sochilt Brown, Renee C. Tschumper, Cristine Allmer, Yuan Xiao Zhu, Kari G. Rabe, Sameer A. Parikh, Neil E. Kay, Huihuang Yan, James R. Cerhan, John N. Allan, Richard R. Furman, J. Brice Weinberg, Danielle M. Brander, Diane F. Jelinek, Marta Chesi, Susan L. Slager, Esteban Braggio

“…We sequenced 59 putative driver genes and found an increased frequency of high-impact mutations in AA CLL, including genes of the DNA damage repair (DDR) pathway. Telomere erosion was also increased in AA CLL, amplifying the notion of increased genomic instability in AA CLL. …”
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Fotografía del rodaje de la película Plácido, de Luis García Berlanga (Plana de l'Om, Manresa, 1961) by Col·lecció Francesc Escala Bartrolí

“…And the appliance store advertising Philips and Kelvinator has become a clothing store (Zebra). The pavement has also undergone a clear transformation, and the large lamppost seen on the left has disappeared. …”
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Inhibition of TFF3 synergizes with c-MET inhibitors to decrease the CSC-like phenotype and metastatic burden in ER+HER2+ mammary carcinoma by Chuyu He, Xuejuan Wang, Yi-Shiou Chiou, Basappa Basappa, Tao Zhu, Vijay Pandey, Peter E. Lobie

“…The combination of AMPC and c-METis also synergistically suppressed the in vivo growth of ER+HER2+ MC cell-derived xenografts and abrogated lung metastasis. …”
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Goats who stare at video screens – assessing behavioural responses of goats towards images of familiar and unfamiliar con- and heterospecifics by Deutsch, Jana, Lebing, Steve, Eggert, Anja, Nawroth, Christian

“…Our findings indicate that goats are capable of discriminating between two-dimensional con- and heterospecific faces, but also raise questions on their ability to categorise other individuals regarding their familiarity using 2D face images alone. …”
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Socio-economic determinants and spatial analysis of access to sanitation among older adults in Ghana by Ebenezer Nana Kwaku Boateng, Yvonne Ami Adjakloe, Addae Boateng Adu-Gyamfi, Amos Apraku, Simon Mariwah, Razak M. Gyasi

“…In addition, separated/divorced (AOR: 1.374, CI 1.263, 1.494], p-value < 0.001), widowed (AOR: 1.143, CI 1.059, 1.234, p-value < 0.001) and never-married (AOR: 1.208, CI 1.077, 1.354, p-value < 0.001) individuals were more likely to have sanitation access compared to those living informally/living together. Also, those attending or attended school in the past (AOR: 2.749, CI 2.662, 2.838, p-value < 0.001) had significantly higher odds of sanitation access than those who never attended. …”
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A prospective, cross-sectional study to establish age-specific reference intervals for neonates and children in the setting of clinical biochemistry, immunology and haematology: th... by Susan M Donath, Monsurul Hoq, Vicky Karlaftis, Susan Mathews, Janet Burgess, John Carlin, Paul Monagle, Vera Ignjatovic

“…Differences in reagent formulations, methodologies and analysers can also impact on a reference interval. To date, no direct comparison of reference intervals for common analytes using different analysers in children has been published. …”
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Assessment of students’ ability to represent determinants of health and health systems science content on concept maps in a pre-clerkship curriculum by Tovah Tripp, Miriam Hoffman, Mitchell Miller, Joshua S. Josephs

“…To help students contextualize and bring HSS principles into practice, PPPC at HMSOM requires that concept maps include not just basic science content from the week but also explicitly HSS topics and the DoH. Methods We reviewed group concept maps from 7 pre-clerkship courses. …”
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Analysis of a mouse germ cell tumor model establishes pluripotency-associated miRNAs as conserved serum biomarkers for germ cell cancer detection by Amanda R. Loehr, Dennis M. Timmerman, Michelle Liu, Ad J. M. Gillis, Melia Matthews, Jordana C. Bloom, Peter K. Nicholls, David C. Page, Andrew D. Miller, Leendert H. J. Looijenga, Robert S. Weiss

“…These findings reveal that expression of the miR-290-295 and miR-371-373 clusters in mice and humans, respectively, is a conserved feature of malignant TGCTs, further validating the mouse model as representative of the human disease. These data also highlight the potential of serum miR-371-373 assays to improve patient outcomes through early TGCT detection, possibly even prenatally.…”
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Mapping the future: The current landscape and future directions of evidence-based practice in Saudi radiology departments. by Walaa Alsharif, Faisal Alrehily, Fahad H Alhazmi, Awadia Greeballah, Abdulaziz A Qurashi, Shrooq Aldahery, Adnan Alahmadi, Amirah Alsaedi, Sultan Alshoabi, Khalid M Alshamrani, Awatif M Omer, Raghad Aljuhani

“…Over half of the participants (74.3%) strongly agreed that they understood and were familiar with EBP. They also felt confident in their ability to conduct scientific research in radiology (Mean = 4.27) and believed that they should actively initiate projects (Mean = 4.10). …”
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Applying in machine learning and deep learning in finance industry: A case study on repayment prediction by Nguyễn Phát Đạt, Hồ Mai Minh Nhật, Trương Công Vinh, Lê Quang Chấn Phong, Lê Hoành Sử

“…Employed techniques encompass Logistic Regression (LR), K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGB), Light Gradient Boosting Machine (LGBM), in conjunction with deep learning architectures such as Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN). Following methodological refinement, it becomes apparent that ensemble learning approaches, exemplified by XGB and LGBM, exhibit markedly superior predictive performance, surpassing conventional models with an accuracy rate exceeding 85%. …”
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