Comparative in Vitro Study on the Antimicrobial Efficacy of Endodontic Sealers Against Common Oral Pathogens by Csaba Dudás, Zsuzsanna Bardocz-Veres, Anita Iulia Gyulai, Silvia Izabella Pop, Melinda Székely, Bernadette Kerekes-Máthé, Mónika Kovács

“…<b>Results</b>: The results showed that Endomethasone was the most effective sealer against all tested microorganisms, demonstrating consistent inhibition across all time intervals. MTA Fillapex also exhibited a significant antimicrobial effect, particularly against Streptococcus mutans, with its efficacy increasing over time. …”
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Evidence for direct dopaminergic connections between substantia nigra pars compacta and thalamus in young healthy humans by Giovanni Cirillo, Giuseppina Caiazzo, Federica Franza, Mario Cirillo, Michele Papa, Fabrizio Esposito

“…The impossibility of tract-tracing studies in humans has boosted advanced MRI techniques and multi-shell high-angular resolution diffusion MRI (MS-HARDI) has promised to shed more light on the structural connectivity of subcortical structures. …”
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A machine learning model reveals invisible microscopic variation in acute ischaemic stroke (≤ 6 h) with non-contrast computed tomography by Jiahe Tan, Mengjun Xiao, Zhipeng Wang, Shuzhen Wu, Kun Han, Haiyan Wang, Yong Huang

“…Results The random forest (RF) model demonstrated robust diagnostic performance across the training, validation, and independent test sets. …”
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Nasal Colonizers from Sows in the Federal District of Brazil Showed a Diverse Phenotypic Resistance Profile by Luciana Lana Rigueira, Fabiano José Ferreira de Sant’Ana, Bruno Stéfano Lima Dallago, Rômulo Salignac Araújo de Faria, Maurício Macedo Rodrigues, Pau Obregon-Gutierrez, Virginia Aragon, Simone Perecmanis

“…In this study, we isolated bacteria from the nasal cavities of 50 sows across 10 farms in the Federal District, Brazil. A total of 132 bacterial isolates were obtained and tested for phenotypic resistance to 23 antimicrobials using the disk diffusion method. …”
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Fluoride Release from Pediatric Dental Restorative Materials: A Laboratory Investigation by Angelo Aliberti, Roberta Gasparro, Maria Triassi, Mirko Piscopo, Pietro Ausiello, João Paulo Mendes Tribst

“…Higher temperatures generally enhanced fluoride diffusion across all materials. <b>Conclusions</b>: These findings emphasize the pivotal impact of environmental factors in fluoride release dynamics. …”
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Development and evaluation of a deep learning framework for pelvic and sacral tumor segmentation from multi-sequence MRI: a retrospective study by Ping Yin, Weidao Chen, Qianrui Fan, Ruize Yu, Xia Liu, Tao Liu, Dawei Wang, Nan Hong

“…We proposed a practical DL framework that integrates a 2.5D U-net and MobileNetV2 for automatic PST segmentation with a fast annotation strategy across multiple MRI sequences, including T1-weighted (T1-w), T2-weighted (T2-w), diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI), and contrast-enhanced T1-weighted (CET1-w). …”
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How scale affects N2O emissions in heterogeneous fields of a diversified agricultural landscape by Isabel Zentgraf, Maire Holz, Oscar Rodrigo Monzón Díaz, Matthias Lück, Katja Kramp, Valerie Pusch, Kathrin Grahmann, Mathias Hoffmann

“…Additionally, broader differences across management-influenced patches must be considered to better understand the drivers of N2O emissions. …”
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XAI-Based Assessment of the AMURA Model for Detecting Amyloid-&#x03B2; and Tau Microstructural Signatures in Alzheimer&#x2019;s Disease by Lorenza Brusini, Federica Cruciani, Gabriele Dall'glio, Tommaso Zajac, Ilaria Boscolo Galazzo, Mauro Zucchelli, Gloria Menegaz

“…Brain microstructural changes already occur in the earliest phases of Alzheimer&#x2019;s disease (AD) as evidenced in diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) literature. …”
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Competing microorganisms with exclusion effects against multidrug-resistant Salmonella Infantis in chicken litter supplemented with growth-promoting antimicrobials by María Alejandra Ospina Barrero, Maryeimy Varón-López, Lina M. Peñuela-Sierra

“…However, the effectiveness of such interventions may vary across farms due to differences in microbial ecology and environmental conditions.…”
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Occurrence and antimicrobial susceptibility of Salmonella enterica in milk along the supply chain, humans, and the environment in Woliata Sodo, Ethiopia by Seblewengel Ayichew, Ashagrie Zewdu, Bekele Megerrsa, Teshale Sori, Fanta D Gutema

“…Conclusions The study findings showed the occurrence of a considerable proportion of antimicrobial resistant Salmonella enterica across all sample sources, indicating potential transmission risks between cattle and humans via milk, and the milking environment. …”
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The brain’s structural connectivity and pre-reading abilities in young children with prenatal alcohol exposure by Mohammad Ghasoub, Meaghan Perdue, Xiangyu Long, Claire Donnici, Preeti Kar, Ben Gibbard, Chris Tortorelli, Carly McMorris, Deborah Dewey, Catherine Lebel

“…Studying the brain’s structural connectivity and its relationship to pre-reading/reading skills in young children with PAE can help understand the roots of reading deficits associated with PAE. 363 diffusion MRI scans from 135 children (114 scans from 53 children with PAE) were collected between ages 3–7 years. …”
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Evaluation of an implementation package to deliver the COPD CARE service by Michelle A Chui, Jen Birstler, David Goodrich, Edward Portillo, Molly Lehmann, Timothy Hagen, Martha Maurer, Jordyn Kettner, Sonia Bhardwaj, M Shawn McFarland, Natasha Virrueta, Blake Henderson

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Silver Dimolybdate Nanorods: In Vitro Anticancer Activity Against Breast and Prostate Tumors and In Vivo Pharmacological Insights by João Victor Barbosa Moura, Natália Cristina Gomes-da-Silva, Luciana Magalhães Rebêlo Alencar, Wellington Castro Ferreira, Cleânio da Luz Lima, Ralph Santos-Oliveira

“…In vitro cytotoxicity was evaluated using MTT assays on MDA-MB-231 and PC-3 cell lines across concentrations ranging from 1.56 to 100 µg/mL. …”
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Case study of radiation absorptive and chemical reactive impacts on unsteady MHD natural convection flowing of Cu-Al2O3/H2O hybridized nanofluid by Rekha Satish, Buchanahalli Thimmaiah Raju, Mummadisetty Umamaheswar, Vijayakumar Varma Sibyala, Charankumar Ganteda, Assmaa Abd-Elmonem, Fayza Abdel Aziz ElSeabee, Neissrien Alhubieshi, Mohamed R. Eid, Wasim Jamshed, Hijaz Ahmad

“…The investigation has been conducted across a broad spectrum of magnetic parameters, thermal Grashof numbers, mass Grashof numbers, radiation absorption parameters, and chemical reaction parameters. …”
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Neurobehavioral mechanisms of fear and anxiety in multiple sclerosis by Lil Meyer-Arndt, Rebekka Rust, Judith Bellmann-Strobl, Tanja Schmitz-Hübsch, Lajos Marko, Sofia Forslund, Michael Scheel, Stefan M. Gold, Stefan Hetzer, Friedemann Paul, Martin Weygandt

“…Participants completed a functional MRI (fMRI) fear generalization task to assess fear processing and diffusion-weighted MRI for graph-based structural connectome analyses. …”
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pH-responsive agarose hydrogel for enhanced gastrointestinal ibuprofen delivery: A novel pressure-sensitive adhesive system by Anil K. Philip, Betty Annie Samuel, Yagub S. Saleh, Saurabh Bhatia, Bassim I. Mohammad, Hayder A. Al-Aubaidy

“…The hybrid matrix demonstrated pH-dependent swelling ratios ranging from 1.58 ± 0.09 (pH 1.2) to 3.29 ± 0.12 (pH 7.4) and programmable mechanical properties, with the storage modulus decreasing from 2000 ± 150 Pa to 1000 ± 90 Pa across pH 1.2–9.0 (F = 28.4, p < 0.001). The hierarchically porous architecture (11.33 ± 6.27 μm) enables Fickian diffusion-controlled release (Korsmeyer-Peppas n = 0.30–0.41), while molecular dynamics simulations confirm stable drug-polymer interactions (ΔG = −25.3 kJ/mol). …”
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A Retrospective Study on the Prevalence and Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Gram-Positive Cocci in a Pediatric Department: A Single-Center Report from Egypt by Mona Moheyeldin AbdelHalim, Shimaa A. Abdel Salam, Marwa O. Elgendy, Ahmed M. Abdel Hamied, Sultan M. Alshahrani, Ahmed R. N. Ibrahim, Heba Sherif Abdel Aziz

“…Antimicrobial susceptibility testing was performed using the Kirby–Bauer disc diffusion method, and vancomycin MIC was confirmed using the VITEK 2 system. …”
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Multi-channel spatio-temporal graph attention contrastive network for brain disease diagnosis by Chaojun Li, Kai Ma, Shengrong Li, Xiangshui Meng, Ran Wang, Daoqiang Zhang, Qi Zhu

“…Moreover, temporal dependencies across windows are captured by integrating feature embeddings through a self-attention mechanism, and the inter-window recurrent contrastive constraint is devised to extract higher-order spatio-temporal topological features. …”
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Enhancing Fricke Xylenol Gel Dosimeter's Response to Radiation with Optimized Preparation Methods by Syed Shajid, ABHIJIT MANDAL, Kalyan Mondal, Gogul Priean V, Bratindranath Mukherjee, Praveen Chandra Pandey, Himanshu Mishra, Ritusha Mishra, Ganeshkumar Patel, Ankur Mourya, Lalit Aggarwal, Sunil Choudhary

“…This procedure was repeated across gel formulations prepared under differing pH conditions. …”
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Exploring high entropy alloys: A review on thermodynamic design and computational modeling strategies for advanced materials applications by Peter Ifeolu Odetola, Bukola Joseph Babalola, Ayodeji Ebenezer Afolabi, Ufoma Silas Anamu, Emmanuel Olorundaisi, Mutombo Christian Umba, Thabang Phahlane, Olusoji Oluremi Ayodele, Peter Apata Olubambi

“…Furthermore, the review explores the burgeoning applications of HEAs across diverse sectors, such as aerospace, automotive, energy, and biomedical engineering, highlighting their transformative potential. …”
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