Are Deep Tissue Cultures a Reliable Alternative to Bone Biopsy for Diagnosing Diabetic Foot Osteomyelitis? A Comparative Diagnostic Study by Serap Ulusoy, İbrahim Kılınç, Belgin Coşkun, Müge Ayhan

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Predictive Validity of Preclerkship Performance Metrics on USMLE Step 2 CK Outcomes in the Step 1 Pass/Fail Era by Aharonian K, Sanders M, Schlesinger T, Winter V, Simanton E

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Effects of harvest season and altitude on the traceability of Fenghuang Dancong tea: Based on stable isotopes and machine learning by Wenwen Liu, Jie Zhao, Wan Wei, Shuilian Liang, Lu Xiao, Manqin Fu, Xu Wang, Yan Chen

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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

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Pharmacoepidemiological and drug interaction analysis in the treatment of chronic renal and hepatic failure by O. V. Zhukova, D. S. Fokina, O. V. Ruina, M. V. Khazov

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Developing an artificial intelligence-based progressive growing GAN for high-quality facial profile generation and evaluation through turing test and aesthetic analysis by Shahab Kavousinejad, Kazem Dalaie, Mohammad Behnaz, Soodeh Tahmasbi, Asghar Ebadifar, Hoori Mirmohammadsadeghi

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Renal Impact of a High-Loading Dose of Amikacin in Critically Ill Patients by Laleh Mahmoudi, Arezoo Ahmadi, Motahareh Mahi-Birjand, Effat Alemzadeh, Parvin Askari, Ramin Niknam, Mojtaba Mojtahedzadeh

“…Urinary IL-18 levels within groups demonstrated a significant increase peaking on day 3, with no significant within-group differences over the 7-day follow-up. …”
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Prognostic impact of coronary microvascular dysfunction assessed by AMR in acute coronary syndrome patients with chronic kidney disease by Ziyu Guo, Yike Li, Qiang Chen, Jingang Zheng, Jingang Zheng

“…During a median follow-up of 23.0 months, higher prevalence rate of MACEs (28.3% vs. 15.1%, P = 0.003) and death (20.2% vs. 4.1%, P = 0.001) were observed in the CMD group. …”
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The Burden of Hospital Illness Associated with Disseminated Versus Isolated Pulmonary Coccidioidomycosis in the United States by Craig I. Coleman, Jessica Bylyku, Andria Latifi, Belinda Lovelace, Ryan Shan, Lahar Miriyapalli, Fariba Donovan

“…DCM was associated with a longer mean hospital LOS (4.51 days, 95%CI = 3.39–5.63) and higher mean all-cause costs ($20,008, 95%CI = $15,313–$24,704) versus IPCM. …”
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Refining distant metastasis stage in oral squamous cell carcinoma by Xiaodong Sun, Qigen Fang, Junhui Yuan, Xu Zhang, Liyuan Dai, Fei Liu, Lisong Lin, Hui Zhao

“…Compared to stage IVc1 (defined as ≤ 3 metastatic foci within a single anatomic site), stage IVc2 (4–5 metastatic foci in one site or 2–5 foci across two sites) and stage IVc3 (all other distant metastasis patterns) were associated with hazard ratios of 1.35 (95% CI: 1.10–1.47) and 1.87 (95% CI: 1.51–2.43), respectively. …”
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A prospective study on the management of urinary bladder injuries in a military hospital in Yemen by Nasser Albaddai, Khaled Alkohlany, Aziz Shamsan, Wael Alsaqaf, Abdullah Al-Sakkaf, Ahmed Farei, Abdaljaleel AL-BAIDAI

“…Outcomes included healing confirmed by cystography, complication rates (Clavien-Dindo classification), and length of hospital stay. Results Of 44 patients (95.5% male; mean age 26.8 ± 8.6 years), 77.3% underwent surgical repair, primarily for penetrating injuries and high-grade bladder trauma. …”
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Health-related quality of life in children and adolescents born very preterm and its correlates: a cross-sectional study by Dirk Bassler, Giancarlo Natalucci, Sarah R Haile, Mark Adams, Susi Kriemler, Gabriela P Peralta, Thomas Radtke, Ajay N Bharadwaj, Alexander Moeller

“…Secondary analysis compared very preterm born children to another cohort of healthy children from the same time period. A classification tree analysis explored potential correlates of HRQOL.Results On average, preterm children, both <28 and 28–31 weeks gestational age, had similar KINDL total score to fullterm sibling controls (−2.3, 95% CI −3.6 to −0.6), and to population controls (+1.4, 95% CI 0.2 to 2.5). …”
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Longitudinal Resilience and Risk Factors in Pediatric Postoperative Pain (LORRIS): Protocol for a Prospective Longitudinal Swiss University Children’s Hospitals-Based Study by Cosima Locher, Ulrike Held, Helen Koechlin, Jana Hochreuter, Thomas Dreher, Carol-Claudius Hasler, Sandro Canonica, Jennifer Rabbitts

“…A total of five assessment time points is planned: 3 weeks before surgery (baseline), 2 weeks after surgery (post) and 3 months (follow-up (FU) 1), 6 months and 12 months after surgery. …”
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“Could we have predicted this?” The association of a future mental health need in young people with a non‐specific complaint and frequent emergency department visits by Andrea Fang, Melissa Hersh, Natalia Birgisson, Olga Saynina, Nancy E Wang

“…Patients with ≥1 ED revisit, regardless of diagnostic category, had 1.3 times the odds of a future mental health visit. …”
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Outcome Analysis of the Role of 95° Angled Blade Plate in the Management of Difficult Proximal Femur Fractures by Sunil K Dash, Harekrushna Sahu, Geetanjali Arora, Hatia Marandi, Abhinash Negi

“…The patients were operated on using a 95° ABP and were periodically followed up with radiographs and clinical examinations for fracture union at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months. Results: The study cohort consisted of 18 patients (11 males, 7 females) with a mean age of 47.3 years. …”
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Discriminating Children with Speech Sound Disorders from Children with Typically Developing Speech Using the Motor Speech Hierarchy Probe Words: A Preliminary Analysis of Mandibula... by Linda Orton, Richard Palmer, Roslyn Ward, Petra Helmholz, Geoffrey R. Strauss, Paul Davey, Neville W. Hennessey

“…This preliminary study first examined the effectiveness of the mandibular control subtest of the MSH-PWs in distinguishing between typically developing (TD) and speech sound-disordered (SSD) children aged between 3 years 0 months and 3 years 6 months. Secondly, we compared automatically derived kinematic measures of jaw range and control with MSH-PW consensus scoring to assist in identifying deficits in mandibular control. …”
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Design a Robust DDoS Attack Detection and Mitigation Scheme in SDN-Edge-IoT by Leveraging Machine Learning by Habtamu Molla Belachew, Mulatu Yirga Beyene, Abinet Bizuayehu Desta, Behaylu Tadele Alemu, Salahadin Seid Musa, Alemu Jorgi Muhammed

“…Consequently, XGBoost was deployed at the edge of the SDN-IoT for live traffic classification, showing improved performance by classifying live traffic within 3.946 ms and using only 8.80% of memory with a 0.5-second window size.…”
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Epidemiology and structure of congenital anomalies of the newborns in the region of Novi Sad (Vojvodina, Serbia) in 1996 and 2006 by Ristivojević Anđelka, Lukić-Đokić Petra, Katanić Dragan, Dobanovački Dušanka, Jovanović-Privrodski Jadranka

“…During 1996 there were 6,099 births and major congenital anomalies were found in 215 infants, representing 3.5%. In 2006 there were 6,628 births and major congenital anomalies were noted in 201 newborns, which is 3%. …”
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Spatiotemporal dynamics of geomorphology, landuse, and storm surge inundation of FDMN settled in Bhasan Char island using geo-spatial techniques by Mubtasim Ishraq Antoo, Md. Bodruddoza Mia, Md. Asif Hasan, Mahfuzur Rahman Khan, Pavel Khan, Tareq Chowdury, Anupom Hasib Rose, Kazi Matin Uddin Ahmed

“…Additionally, the research utilizes water indices to understand the seasonal geomorphic dynamics of the island and performs a supervised classification to assess land utilization and coverage alterations. …”
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Gene selection based on adaptive neighborhood-preserving multi-objective particle swarm optimization by Sumet Mehta, Fei Han, Muhammad Sohail, Bhekisipho Twala, Asad Ullah, Fasee Ullah, Arfat Ahmad Khan, Qinghua Ling

“…For example, it achieves 100% classification accuracy on Leukemia and Small-Round-Blue-Cell Tumor (SRBCT) using only 3–5 genes, improving accuracy by 5–15% over competitors while reducing gene subsets by 40–60%. …”
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