Association between serum uric acid levels and left ventricular hypertrophy based on electrocardiographic findings: a sex-specific analysis across cardiometabolic diseases by Anwar Ahmed Salim, Shin Kawasoe, Takuro Kubozono, Satoko Ojima, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Koji Higuchi, Yoshiyuki Ikeda, Hironori Miyahara, Koichi Tokushige, Mitsuru Ohishi

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Variation in KOOS JR improvement across total knee implant designs: a cohort study from Michigan Arthroplasty Registry Collaborative Quality Initiative by Eric R Cornish, Huiyong Zheng, David C Markel, Brian R Hallstrom, Richard E Hughes

“…There was variation in improvement from preoperative to postoperative unadjusted KOOS JR scores across implant designs (P < 0.001), ranging from 18.7 (95% confidence interval [CI] 16.8–20.6) to 27.0 (CI 24.9–29.2). …”
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Functional hemispheric disconnection procedures for chronic epilepsy: history, indications, techniques, complications and current practice in Europe. A consensus statement on behal... by Olaf E.M.G. Schijns, Daniel Delev, Marec von Lehe, Dirk van Roost, Karl Rössler, Tom Theys, Christian Auer, Thomas Blauwblomme, Marcelo Budke, Alexandre Rainha Campos, Santiago Candela Canto, Hans Clusmann, Christian Dorfer, Georg Dorfmüller, Arild Egge, Lorand Eröss, Sarah Ferrand-Sorbets, Flavio Giordano, Jürgen Honegger, Cihan Isler, Jugoslav Ivanovic, Thilo Kalbhenn, Atte Karppinen, Niklaus Krayenbühl, Rick H.G.J. van Lanen, Carlo E. Marras, Ioannis Mavridis, Daniel Nilsson, Julia Onken, Christian Raftopoulos, Jonathan Roth, Jordi Rumia, Thomas Sauvigny, Didier Scavarda, Karl Schaller, Christian Scheiwe, Sophie Schuind, Alexandra Seromenho-Santos, Kostas Fountas

“…Over the last decades the surgical landscape for hemispheric disconnection procedures changed from anatomical hemispherectomy to functional hemispherotomy with a reduction of complications and stable good seizure outcome. …”
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Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Bentho-Demersal Communities From Bottom Trawl Across the Moroccan Mediterranean Coast in Relation to Environmental Conditions: Implications for Fis... by Douaa Slimani, Souad Abdellaoui, Najib El Ouamari, Khaoula Kasmi, Rajae Mouedden, Imade Ouebdil, Nassir Kaddouri, Jamal Settih, Mostafa Layachi, Mohamed Fadili, Khalid Chaabane

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Age-related cognitive decline and associations with sex, education and apolipoprotein E genotype across ethnocultural groups and geographic regions: a collaborative cohort study. by Darren M Lipnicki, John D Crawford, Rajib Dutta, Anbupalam Thalamuthu, Nicole A Kochan, Gavin Andrews, M Fernanda Lima-Costa, Erico Castro-Costa, Carol Brayne, Fiona E Matthews, Blossom C M Stephan, Richard B Lipton, Mindy J Katz, Karen Ritchie, Jacqueline Scali, Marie-Laure Ancelin, Nikolaos Scarmeas, Mary Yannakoulia, Efthimios Dardiotis, Linda C W Lam, Candy H Y Wong, Ada W T Fung, Antonio Guaita, Roberta Vaccaro, Annalisa Davin, Ki Woong Kim, Ji Won Han, Tae Hui Kim, Kaarin J Anstey, Nicolas Cherbuin, Peter Butterworth, Marcia Scazufca, Shuzo Kumagai, Sanmei Chen, Kenji Narazaki, Tze Pin Ng, Qi Gao, Simone Reppermund, Henry Brodaty, Antonio Lobo, Raúl Lopez-Anton, Javier Santabárbara, Perminder S Sachdev, Cohort Studies of Memory in an International Consortium (COSMIC)

“…Associations varied across cohorts, suggesting that different rates of cognitive decline might contribute to the global variation in dementia prevalence. …”
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A novel SUN1-ALLAN complex coordinates segregation of the bipartite MTOC across the nuclear envelope during rapid closed mitosis in Plasmodium berghei by Mohammad Zeeshan, Igor Blatov, Ryuji Yanase, David JP Ferguson, Sarah L Pashley, Zeinab Chahine, Yoshiki Yamaryo-Botté, Akancha Mishra, Baptiste Marche, Suhani Bhanvadia, Molly Hair, Sagar Batra, Robert Markus, Declan Brady, Andrew R Bottrill, Sue Vaughan, Cyrille Y Botté, Karine G Le Roch, Anthony A Holder, Eelco Tromer, Rita Tewari

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Exploring the impact of an electronic health record implementation on user experiences across clinical programmes in a large Canadian community hospital: a qualitative study by Walter P Wodchis, Shelley Vanderhout, Kerry Kuluski, Terence Tang, Lucas Seuren, Jason X Nie, Elizabeth Mansfield, Chris Hayes, Robert Reid, Shipra Taneja, Christine L Heidebrecht, Rujuta Giri

“…Objective This study explored experiences with implementing and using the Epic electronic health record (EHR) across different clinical programmes within a single Canadian hospital system and specifically examined how local configuration decisions and implementation of its features and functionalities integrated well or introduced friction within workflows.Design Qualitative description methodology involving semistructured interviews analysed using thematic analysis.Setting A large community hospital in Canada.Participants Healthcare providers, administrative staff and clinical leaders from seven clinical programmes.Results 66 individuals participated in interviews. …”
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Association between intraoperative lactate levels and acute kidney injury after on-pump cardiac surgery: a retrospective cohort study across two centers by Dong Xu Chen, Yu Yang Zhang, Xing Long Xiong, Leng Zhou, Jing Shi

“…The association between lactate levels and outcomes was evaluated using restricted cubic spline functions with five knots in our retrospective statistical modeling approach. …”
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The operational municipal solid waste management policy focuses on identifying waste generation behavior across multiple levels in mega cities, a case study by Hamed Alimoradiyan, Ahmad Hajinezhad, Hossein Yousefi, Mario Giampietro

“…Abstract The results of an effort to create a thorough framework that efficiently arranges and combines quantitative data characterizing the performance of Urban Waste Management Systems (UWMS) across a range of scales and dimensions are presented in this study. …”
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Lymphocyte activation gene 3 served as a potential prognostic and immunological biomarker across various cancer types: a clinical and pan‐cancer analysis by Yifan Liu, Yuntao Yao, Xinyue Yang, Maodong Wei, Bingnan Lu, Keqing Dong, Donghao Lyu, Yuanan Li, Wenbin Guan, Runzhi Huang, Guofeng Xu, Xiuwu Pan

“…Conclusion High LAG3 gene expression was an independent risk factor in kidney neoplasms. It also functioned as a biomarker for prognosis, TIME and immunotherapy efficacy in the pan‐cancer dimension.…”
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Antibiotic use for common illnesses in children living with disability: a multi-country study across 42 low- and middle-income countriesResearch in context by Shengyue Qiu, Mingli Xu, Yuanyang Wu, Chaojie Liu, Xiying Li, Xinyi Yang, Haohai Xia, Ruonan Wang, Zishu Ma, Fanqian Meng, Xinping Zhang, Gordon Liu, Hannah Kuper, Shanquan Chen, Lianping Yang

“…Disability status was assessed using the Washington Group-Child Functioning Module. Reported antibiotic use was measured by whether children with disabilities received antibiotic treatment for common childhood illnesses. …”
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Using the diel cycle of ocean microbes to better understand their biogeochemical functions by Philip W. Boyd, Benjamin A. S. Van Mooy

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Functional analysis and interaction networks of Rboh in poplar under abiotic stress by Jing Wang, Xiaojiao Liu, Yude Kang, Aizhong Liu, Ping Li

“…Despite their importance, Rbohs in poplar species remain under-explored, especially in terms of their characteristics and functional diversity across different species within the same genus.MethodsIn this study, we employed bioinformatics methods to identify 62 Rboh genes across five poplar species. …”
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Multimodal Neuroimaging of Obesity: From Structural-Functional Mechanisms to Precision Interventions by Wenhua Liu, Na Li, Dongsheng Tang, Lang Qin, Zhiqiang Zhu

“…This systematic review addresses a critical gap by synthesizing evidence on obesity-induced neuroplasticity across structural, functional, and molecular domains through advanced neuroimaging. …”
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Prediction of Functionally Important Phospho-Regulatory Events in Xenopus laevis Oocytes. by Jeffrey R Johnson, Silvia D Santos, Tasha Johnson, Ursula Pieper, Marta Strumillo, Omar Wagih, Andrej Sali, Nevan J Krogan, Pedro Beltrao

“…We used structural information and phosphoproteomic data for 13 other species in order to predict functionally important phospho-regulatory events. We found that the degree of conservation of phosphosites across species is predictive of sites with known molecular function. …”
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Functional outcome measures for distal radius fractures: A systematic review by Briony Norton, Benjamin Bugden, Karen PY Liu

“…Results: This review analysed 119 studies. Thirty-one functional outcome measures were used across 36 countries. …”
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Functional analysis of Casein Kinase 1 in a minimal circadian system. by Gerben van Ooijen, Matthew Hindle, Sarah F Martin, Martin Barrios-Llerena, Frédéric Sanchez, François-Yves Bouget, John S O'Neill, Thierry Le Bihan, Andrew J Millar

“…Although very few clock components appear to be shared across higher species, Casein Kinase 1 (CK1) is known to affect timekeeping across metazoans and fungi, but has not previously been implicated in the circadian clock in the plant kingdom. …”
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Testing the Temperature-Mortality Nonparametric Function Change with an Application to Chicago Mortality by Hamdy F. F. Mahmoud

“…A permutation-based test is used to assess whether the shapes of these functions differ across time, while a bootstrap procedure evaluates the consistency of change points. …”
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Understanding Adaptive Skills in Borderline Intellectual Functioning: A Systematic Review by Cristina Orío-Aparicio, Cristina Bel-Fenellós, Carmen López-Escribano

“…This article presents a systematic review conducted across the ProQuest, WoS, SCOPUS, and EBSCOhost databases, aiming to develop a profile of the adaptive functioning in individuals with BIF. …”
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Ecological drivers of taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of bryophytes in an oceanic island by Anabela Martins, Flavien Collart, Manuela Sim‐Sim, Jairo Patiño

“…Herein, we aimed to characterize taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic bryophyte diversity on Madeira Island within and across areas at varying elevations. …”
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