Recruitment for Voluntary Video and Mobile HIV Testing on Social Media Platforms During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-Sectional Study by Piao-Yi Chiou, Wei-Wen Tsao, Chia-Lin Li, Jheng-Min Yu, Wen-Han Su, Zhi-Hua Liu, Cheng-Ru He, Yu-Chun Chang, Yi-Hsuan Tsai

“…The HIV-positive rate in the mobile group was 0.7% (7/973) with an average CD4 count of 460/μL, while in the video group, it was 1% (2/205) with an average CD4 count of 347/μL, indicating a later diagnosis. …”
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Comparison of the effects of IMRT and IMPT on MRI features of normal brain tissue: a retrospective study by Jian Xu, Lili Zhang, Tingting Liu, Qingzeng Liu, Jian Zhu

“…Methods A retrospective analysis included 113 patients undergoing brain-target radiotherapy: 44 receiving IMPT (average total dose: 5713.63 ± 774.32 cGy) and 69 receiving IMRT (average total dose: 5489.86 ± 627.05 cGy). …”
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Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment and Control of Hypertension in Russian Federation (Data of Observational ESSERF-2 Study) by Yu. A. Balanova, S. A. Shalnova, A. E. Imaeva, А. V. Kapustina, G. A. Muromtseva, S. V. Evstifeeva, V. I. Tarasov, A. N. Redko, I. A. Viktorova, N. N. Prishchepa, S. S. Yakushin, S. A. Boytsov, O. M. Drapkina

“…Hypertension was defined as an average systolic blood pressure (SBP)≥140 mmHg and/or average diastolic blood pressure (DBP)≥90 mmHg and/or antihypertensive therapy (AHT). …”
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Disparities in PrEP use and unmet need across PEPFAR-supported programs: doubling down on prevention to put people first and end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 by Trena I. Mukherjee, Mitchell Yep, Megan Koluch, Sisay Alemayehu Abayneh, Gizachew Eyassu, Elizabeth Manfredini, Sara Herbst

“…Tailoring PrEP scale-up strategies by age, sex, key population, and geography is crucial to achieving UNAIDS targets and ending the AIDS epidemic as a public health threat for all by 2030.…”
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Ballpark Estimates of Budget Space for Health Workforce Investments in the 47 Countries of the WHO African Region: A Modelling Study by James Avoka Asamani, San Boris Kouadjo Bediakon, Hamza Ismaila, Sunny Okoroafor, Regina Titi-Ofei, Adam Ahmat, Juliet Nabyonga-Orem, Ogochukwu Chukwujekwu, Kasonde Mwinga

“…Thus, expansion in the budget space will be a function of economic growth, (2) HWF prioritisation scenario, in which it was assumed that all parameters were held constant, but countries will prioritise at least 43% of their health budget for HWF employment – in line with the regional average and (3) health prioritisation scenario in which it is assumed that countries will prioritise at least 15% of public sector consumption (general government spending) for health – in line with the Abuja target – but maintain prevailing levels of HWF prioritisation from the health budget. …”
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Research on the micro-pore structure and multiscale fractal characteristics of shale under supercritical CO2 action: A case study of the Chang 73 submember in the Ordos Basin, Chin... by Lili Jiang, Leng Tian, Zhangxing Chen, Zechuan Wang, Wenkui Huang, Xiaolong Chai

“…Following ScCO2 treatment, the total specific surface area of shale samples decreases, whereas total pore volume, average pore diameter, and effective porosity increase. …”
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Impact of Initial Cardiology Telemedicine Evaluation on Follow-Up Visits for Common Conditions: Quasi-Experimental Study by Neil M Kalwani, Harrison Koos, Emily Kohn, Vijaya Parameswaran, Anica Oesterle, Marina Adrianzen, Febri Kurniawan, Lubna Qureshi, Rajesh Dash, Paul Heidenreich, David Scheinker, Fatima Rodriguez

“…Future studies should assess strategies to target initial care modalities to appropriate patients in cardiology clinics with early in-person evaluation for symptomatic patients.…”
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Pathomorphological analysis of the qualitative composition of the inflammatory infiltrate around the pilosebaceous unit of the scalp in perifolliculitis capitis abscedens et suffod... by O. V. Poslavska, O. L. Statkevych, T. V. Sviatenko, I. S. Shponka

“…Heads of men aged 34 to 48 years, the average age was 32.10 ± 9.42 years (the control group compared with the research group did not show a statistically significant difference, p > 0.05). …”
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High-Quality Damaged Building Instance Segmentation Based on Improved Mask Transfiner Using Post-Earthquake UAS Imagery: A Case Study of the Luding Ms 6.8 Earthquake in China by Kangsan Yu, Shumin Wang, Yitong Wang, Ziying Gu

“…Additionally, it used an enhanced bidirectional feature pyramid network (BiFPN) to integrate multi-scale features, improving the representation of targets of various sizes. Furthermore, a lightweight Transformer encoder has been used to process edge pixels, enhancing the efficiency of global feature extraction and the refinement of target edges. …”
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Osteoporosis in community-dwelling older adults: Prevalence and prevention and control strategies in general practice by Fan Meng, Minjie Dong, Jin Guo, Songtao Xu, Wei Yan, Jun Gu, Yirong Chen, Cheng Yang, Jun Wang, Lifang Xia, Jun Chen, Lingjie Fu

“…This included assessing the basic process and costs associated with enrolling the target population, as well as examining the prevalence and risk factors of osteoporosis, to provide evidence supporting general practitioners to develop precise prevention and control strategies. …”
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Comparative pharmacodynamics of intranasal and enteral administration of captopril for uncomplicated hypertensive crises by I. L. Kechyn, V. V. Hladyshev, I. О. Pukhalska

“…Uncomplicated hypertensive crises without acute or progressive damage to the target organs pose a potential threat to the patient’s life and require rapid reduction of arterial pressure within hours or days in an outpatient setting. …”
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Numerical investigation on vane leading edge impingement cooling performance under influences of ribs established between adjacent jets by Junfei Zhou, Guangtao Song, Lidanyang Zhao, Jinglei Xu, Zhe Wang

“…Results indicate that, with the application of ribs, the area-averaged Nusselt number increases about 4.3%–11.3% and the impingement heat transfer is more uniformly distributed along the target channel axis. …”
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Identifying and Prioritize the Multiple Roles of Government in the Process of Sports Industry Privatization by Hassan Gharehkhani, Hojat Mohammadi Moghani

“…Among the five identified roles, the role of drafting regulations with an average of 3.38 in the first priority, the political role with an average of 3.17 in the second priority, the managerial-executive role with an average of 3.05 in the third priority, the economic role with an average of 2.76 in the fourth priority and the cultural role ranked fifth with an average of 2.63.Conclusion: According to the results, it is suggested that the government take into account the multiple roles identified and the priority level of each of them by creating a specialized department for the privatization of sports within the structure of the Ministry of Sports.…”
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Uptake and user characteristics of MyChart within a Canadian community hospital with a diverse patient population: A comparative study. by Shelley Vanderhout, Shipra Taneja, Kamini Kalia, Terence Tang, Walter P Wodchis

“…MyChart users were slightly younger than non-users (an average age of 53.5 vs. 56.9 years) and visited the hospital more often (an average of 5.7 vs. 3.1 annual visits). …”
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Tissue Distribution and Proliferation Characteristics of pVA1-like Plasmid After Infection with Vibrio parahaemolyticus in the Pacific White Shrimp Penaeus vannamei by Xingqi SU, Qiang FU, Xupeng LI, Jie KONG, Jiteng TIAN, Baoxiang CAO, Ning LIU, Sheng LUAN, Kun LUO, Xianhong MENG

“…Pathological studies indicate that when the toxin encounters the hepatopancreas (the target organ), it leads to the separation and disintegration of epithelial cells, turning them into substrates for bacterial replication, ultimately compromising the function of the hepatopancreas. …”
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An intelligent log-seismic integrated stratigraphic correlation method based on wavelet frequency-division transform and dynamic time warping: A case study from the Lasaxing oilfie... by Mian Lu, Dongmei Cai, Xiandi Fu, Shunguo Cheng, Yu Sun, Pengkun Liu, Yanli Jiao

“…The effectiveness of the proposed method was verified through a stratigraphic correlation experiment on the SA0 Formation of the Xingshugang block in the Lasaxing oilfield, the Songliao Basin, China. In this block, the target layer exhibits sublayer thicknesses ranging from 5 m to 8 m, an average sandstone thickness of 2.1 m, and pronounced heterogeneity. …”
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Interleukin 24 Promotes Mitochondrial Dysfunction, Glucose Regulation, and Apoptosis by Inactivating Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3 Beta in Human Prostate Cancer Cells by Anastassiya Kim, Sual Lopez, Simira Smith, Alphons Sony, Jennifer Abreu, Columba de la Parra, Moira Sauane

“…GSK3β inhibition disrupts average glucose utilization in cancer cells, potentially creating metabolic stress that could be exploited therapeutically.…”
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Terahertz virus-sized gold nanogap sensor by Ji Gangseon, Kim Hwan Sik, Cha Seong Ho, Lee Hyoung-Taek, Kim Hye Ju, Lee Sang Woon, Ahn Kwang Jun, Kim Kyoung-Ho, Ahn Yeong Hwan, Park Hyeong-Ryeol

“…Large-area high-density 20 nm-gap rectangular loop structures, containing a resonant frequency in the terahertz range, were fabricated on a 4-inch wafer using atomic layer lithography. When target viruses with a 60 nm diameter were located on the nanogaps, we observed a significant redshift of the resonant peak already with an average number of about 100 viruses per unit loop due to the strong field confinement and enhancement near the gap. …”
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Efficient Rescue of Retinal Degeneration in Pde6a Mice by Engineered Base Editing and Prime Editing by Zhiquan Liu, Siyu Chen, Alexander E. Davis, Chien‐Hui Lo, Qing Wang, Tingting Li, Ke Ning, Qi Zhang, Jingyu Zhao, Sui Wang, Yang Sun

“…Here, it is illustrated that the engineered BE and PE systems, particularly PE, exhibit high efficiency in rescuing a target point mutation with minimal bystander effects in an RP mouse model carrying the Pde6a (c.2009A > G, p.D670G) mutation. …”
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Implications of Intra-Individual Variability in Motor Performance on Functional Mobility in Stroke Survivors by Neha Lodha, Prakruti Patel, Evangelos A. Christou, Anjali Tiwari, Manfred Diehl

“…IIV in motor performance predicts postural balance and braking response time and can potentially serve as an indicator of increased vulnerability and an important target for stroke rehabilitation.…”
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