Loss of FXR or Bile Acid-dependent Inhibition Accelerate Carcinogenesis of Gastroesophageal AdenocarcinomaSummary by Theresa Baumeister, Andrea Proaño-Vasco, Amira Metwaly, Karin Kleigrewe, Alexander Kuznetsov, Linus R. Schömig, Martin Borgmann, Mohammed Khiat, Akanksha Anand, Julia Strangmann, Katrin Böttcher, Dirk Haller, Andreas Dunkel, Veronika Somoza, Sinah Reiter, Chen Meng, Robert Thimme, Roland M. Schmid, Deepa T. Patil, Elke Burgermeister, Yiming Huang, Yiwei Sun, Harris H. Wang, Timothy C. Wang, Julian A. Abrams, Michael Quante

“…Background & Aims: The incidence of Barrett esophagus (BE) and gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma (GEAC) correlates with obesity and a diet rich in fat. …”
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Understanding patient pathways to Mother and Baby Units: a longitudinal retrospective service evaluation in the UK by Nikolina Jovanović, Žan Lep, Giles Berrisford, Aysegul Dirik, Julia Barber, Bukola Kelani, Olivia Protti

“…Background Mother and Baby Units are specialised psychiatric facilities for women during and after pregnancy. …”
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Fracture Resistance of Reattached Teeth: <i>In Vitro</i> Evaluation of Various Reattachment Techniques by Ankita Agrawal, Sandhya K Punia, Yogender Kumar, Shilpi Kushwaha, Deepak Sharma

“…Aims and background: Fragment reattachment remains a preferred conservative treatment, offering a balance between esthetic recovery, patient satisfaction, and functionality. …”
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Panel data regression approach on inclusive green growth by E. Juniardi, S. Amar, H. Aimon

“…BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: This study is investigated on endogenous variables inclusive of green growth by developing the concept of inclusive green growth in Indonesia. …”
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Urban Surface Water Mapping from VHR Images Based on Superpixel Segmentation and Target Detection by Qingwei Liu, Yugang Tian, Lihao Zhang, Bo Chen

“…Recently, very high resolution (VHR) images have shown considerable potential for urban compositions mapping. However, fewer spectral bands, shadows, and high spectral heterogeneity of VHR images hinder the application of traditional methods. …”
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Concurrent and predictive validity of nutritional screening tools in hospitalized pediatric patients: Protocol for a single-center, prospective, observational study by Maria Camila Arbeláez Grajales, Dianna Ramírez-Prada, Frank Carrera-Gil

“…Summary: Background and aim: Early identification of nutritional risk is essential in the care of hospitalized children. …”
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Motor Imagery EEG Classification Based on Multi-Domain Feature Rotation and Stacking Ensemble by Xianglong Zhu, Ming Meng, Zewen Yan, Zhizeng Luo

“…Background: Decoding motor intentions from electroencephalogram (EEG) signals is a critical component of motor imagery-based brain–computer interface (MI–BCIs). …”
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Measurement Matters: A Metrological Approach to Renal Preimplantation Biopsy Evaluation to Address Uncertainty in Organ Selection by John O.O. Ayorinde, MD (UK), Xavier Loizeau, PhD, Victoria Bardsley, MBBS (UK), Spencer Angus Thomas, PhD, Marina Romanchikova, PhD, Alex Samoshkin, PhD, Gavin J. Pettigrew, MD (UK)

“…Background. Preimplantation biopsy combines measurements of injury into a composite index to inform organ acceptance. …”
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Integrating DNA and RNA sequencing for enhanced pathogen detection in respiratory infections by Dejian Gu, Jie Liu, Jiaping Wang, Yuting Yi, Yuxing Chu, Rui Gao, Hao Liu, Jun She, Binghuai Lu

“…Bioinformatics simulation confirmed the method’s high specificity and robustness. In 281 patients of clinical validation cohort, tNGS exhibited a sensitivity of 97.73% and specificity of 75.41% compared to the composite reference standard, which notably surpasses those of culture-based and conventional microbiological methods (CMT). …”
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Investigation of dental health and salivary microbiota characteristics of children with visual impairment in Guangzhou, China by Qiong feng, Wengyan Huang, Xuedan Zhao, Ting Sheng, Bo Peng, Si Meng, Weijia Liu, Lihong Ge, Lijing Wang, Janak Lal Pathak, Qianzhou Jiang, Rong Lin, Sujuan Zeng

“…Abstract Background The prevalence of visual impairment (VS) among children in China is increasing. …”
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International Ski and Snowboard Federation consensus statement on warm-up and cool-down in competitive alpine and freestyle skiers and snowboarders by Vincent Gouttebarge, Evert Verhagen, Roald Bahr, Jörg Spörri, Sheree Bekker, Caroline Bolling, Wolfgang Schobersberger, Lars Engebretsen, Maarit Valtonen, Johannes Scherr, Marine Alhammoud, Hubert Hörterer, Dave Collins, Gerald Mitterbauer, Oriol Bonell Monsonís, Julie Harvey, Lisa Beck, Jan Seiler, Karlheinz Waibel, Tina Weirather

“…The selected panel members represented a group of experts diverse in terms of gender, expertise/background, level of competition and skiing and snowboarding discipline. …”
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Cross-cultural adaptation, validity, and reliability of fall risk questionnaire in to Amharic language by Samuel Teferi Chanie, Mengstu Melkamu Asaye, Yisak Girma Guadie, Berhanu Mengistu, Moges Gashaw

“…Abstract Background The fall risk questionnaire (FRQ) is a proficient older adult’s fall risk level assessment scale. …”
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Value of urinary lipoarabinomannan levels for tuberculosis diagnosis and monitoring of therapy by Yiqun Xiong, Zhihong Shen, Bo Dong, Ying Wang, Ying Zhu, Hongxia Wei, Dongliang Zhang, Yang Che

“…BackgroundThe urinary lipoarabinomannan (LAM) assay has emerged as a promising tool for tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis and treatment monitoring. …”
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Motion correction of simultaneous brain PET/MR images based on tracer uptake characteristics by Sheng-Chieh Chiu, Jose Angelo U. Perucho, Yu-Hua Dean Fang

“…In the retrospective human study, we evaluated the detectability of age-related amyloid burden in healthy controls under different co-registration methods as a demonstrative use case. TCBC significantly enhanced the detectability of age-related amyloid burden with stronger correlations across all five regions of evaluation, such as the medial orbitofrontal cortex (p < 0.001), precuneus (p = 0.004), and early amyloid-β composite (p = 0.002), compared to FSMC (p = 0.004, 0.007, and 0.006, respectively) and uncorrected (p = 0.378, 0.023, and 0.039, respectively) methods. …”
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Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Variants Associated With Blood Pressure Among 2 Cohorts of Older Adults by Thomas W. Buford, Todd M. Manini, John A. Kairalla, Mary M. McDermott, Carlos A. Vaz Fragoso, Haiying Chen, Roger A. Fielding, Abby C. King, Anne B. Newman, Gregory J. Tranah

“…We examined the role of mitochondrial genomic variation in blood pressure by sequencing the mitochondrial genome. Methods and Results Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) data from 1755 participants from the LIFE (Lifestyle Interventions and Independence for Elders) studies and 788 participants from the Health ABC (Health, Aging, and Body Composition) study were evaluated using replication analysis followed by meta‐analysis. …”
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Peroperative evaluation of vascularity of various flaps by fluorescein technique by V Bhattacharya, Goyal Sunish, Sanjib Singh Nepram, H Singh Manihar, Adil Bashir Sheikh

“…Aims: This study deals with experimental and clinical efficiency of fluorescein dye technique to evaluate the vascularity of flaps of various compositions. Materials and Methods: The experimental study was conducted on rats to standardize the technique. …”
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Novel Pathogenicity of Secretory Proteins from Acinetobacter Radioresistens in Experimental Models by Yuki Suzuki, Toshifumi Osaka, Hidehiro Ueshiba, Naoko Yanagisawa, Satoru Nagata

“…This study investigated the pathogenicity of proteins released extracellularly by Acinetobacter radioresistens (A. radioresistens), isolated from the small intestine of two patients with severe Kawasaki disease, in a mouse model. Methods: The sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis analysis of culture supernatants derived from Acinetobacter species showed large variations in protein compositions among species and strains. …”
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Application of Microgravity Experiments in Plastic Surgery: A Literature Review by Jonathan Cornacchini, MD, Yanis Berkane, MD, PhD, Vlad Tereshenko, MD, PhD, Olivier Camuzard, MD, PhD, Alexandre G. Lellouch, MD, PhD, Elise Lupon, MD, PhD

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Color Masking of Two Types of Medium Translucency Lithium Disilicate Ceramic Restorations by Spectrophotometry by T Rostamzadeh, S Alipour, F Golsorkhtabar

“…The discs were placed on 3 substrates: amalgam, composite and non-precious gold-colored alloy (NPG). …”
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Optimizing Utilization of Transport Capacities in the Cold Chain by Introducing Dynamic Allocation of Semi-Trailers by Ratko Stanković, Tomislav Pereglin, Tomislav Erdelić

“…<i>Background:</i> Road transport companies utilize transport capacities as fixed compositions of tractors and semi-trailers, while the possibility of exchanging semi-trailers is considered ad hoc, after some unforeseen circumstances emerge on the route. …”
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