Genome-wide DNA methylation profiling reveals a novel hypermethylated biomarker PRKCB in gastric cancer by Leyan Li, Xiao Fei, Huan Wang, Sihai Chen, Xinbo Xu, Huajing Ke, Yanan Zhou, Yi Hu, Cong He, Chuan Xie, Nonghua Lu, Jianping Liu, Yin Zhu, Nianshuang Li

“…DNA methylome analysis further revealed 4432 differentially-methylated probes (DMPs), with the gene PRKCB exhibited the most prominent average DNA methylation disparity (mean Δβ = 0.353). …”
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Adsorpsi Anilin oleh Karbon Aktif Magnetik Cangkang Kelapa Sawit by Hani Alfiyani, Nurlina Nurlina, Nelly Wahyuni

“…The results of the FTIR analysis showed the appearance of Fe–O absorption in wavenumbers 580.32 cm-1 indicating the presence of iron oxide in KAM. …”
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State-wide California 2020 carbon dioxide budget estimated with OCO-2 and OCO-3 satellite data by M. S. Johnson, S. D. Hamilton, S. Jeong, Y. Y. Cui, D. Wu, A. Turner, M. Fischer

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The Characteristic of Measles Epidemic Process in Kyrgyz Republic by M. S. Niiazalieva, O. V. Tsvirkun, V. S. Toygombaeva, I. Sh. Aldjambaeva, G. S. Ishenapysova, R. A. Frolov, G. S. Dadanova

“…The method of retrospective analysis of the incidence of measles in the Kyrgyz Republic in long-term dynamics, by age groups, according to vaccination history is used. …”
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Feasibility Study of Low- input Pistachio Production: Case Study of Dasht-e-Rabat Region- Shahr-e-Babak County by Farangissadat Hosseini Dana, Mehdi Nooripoor

“…The collected data were analyzed using SPSS software. Data analysis techniques were descriptive (i.e. coefficient of variations, mean score and standard deviation) and also inferential including one sample t-test and logistic regression. 3-Results and Discussion The findings of descriptive analysis of the factors affecting the possibility of low input pistachio production and one-sample t-test showed that among factors (contextual, economic, legal-institutional, technical, social and attitudinal) affecting the possibility of low-input pistachio production, the average status of the contextual, economic, legal-institutional and social factors were lower than the desired situation, but the technical factors and attitudes were in a favorable situations. …”
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The Study of Farnesyl Diphosphate and Squalene Synthase Gene Expression Levels in Artemisia absinthium Exposed to Environmental Gamma Radiation by Sadegh Rahbarnejad, Ali Asghari, Noraddin Hosseinpour Azad, Ehsan Shokri

“…Results: Statistical analysis using GraphPad Prism 10 software showed that the expression levels of both studied genes were higher in samples collected from radioactive points than in non-radioactive points. …”
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Analyzing Political Distrust as a Driving Factor for Protesting Political Actions in the Context of Security Threats and Political Corruption by Mahmoudreza Rahbarqazi, Morteza Ebrahimi

“…Hypotheses were examined using Partial Least Squares (PLS) analysis in Smart PLS software. The results indicated moderate levels of perceived corruption (mean = 2.49) and political distrust (mean = 2.31), while perceptions of security threats were slightly below average (mean = 2.01). …”
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Radiomics based on dual-energy CT virtual monoenergetic images to identify symptomatic carotid plaques: a multicenter study by Weiming Hu, Guihan Lin, Weiyue Chen, Jianhua Wu, Ting Zhao, Lei Xu, Xusheng Qian, Lin Shen, Zhihan Yan, Minjiang Chen, Shuiwei Xia, Chenying Lu, Jing Yang, Min Xu, Weiqian Chen, Jiansong Ji

“…The predictive performance was evaluated using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis and decision curve analysis (DCA). Plaque ulceration and plaque burden are independent risk factors for symptomatic carotid plaques. …”
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Evaluating accuracy and reproducibility of large language model performance on critical care assessments in pharmacy education by Huibo Yang, Mengxuan Hu, Amoreena Most, W. Anthony Hawkins, Brian Murray, Susan E. Smith, Sheng Li, Andrea Sikora

“…The purpose of this evaluation was to test various LLMs performance optimization strategies and performance on critical care pharmacotherapy questions used in the assessment of Doctor of Pharmacy students.MethodsIn a comparative analysis using 219 multiple-choice pharmacotherapy questions, five LLMs (GPT-3.5, GPT-4, Claude 2, Llama2-7b and 2-13b) were evaluated. …”
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Study of the relationship between the severity of alcoholic cardiomyopathy and the level of alcohol consumption in male and female rats in the model of “home drinking” by S. A. Kryzhanovskii, I. B. Tsorin, E. O. Ionova, V. V. Barchukov, V. N. Stolyaruk, M. B. Vititnova, L. G. Kolik, A. D. Durnev

“…According to cluster analysis, by the consumption of ethanol (CET), animals of both sexes are divided into 3 subgroups: low, medium and high CET, however, in males, the subgroup with an average CET prevails — 56 %, and in females with a high CET — 47 % (p = 0.0286), the low CET subgroup is minimal (16 %). …”
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Healthcare workers' priorities of WHO snakebite strategic objectives for the control and prevention of snakebite envenoming in Ghana: A machine learning statistical design of exper... by Eric Nyarko, Iddrisu Abugbil Atubiga, Emmanuel Tetteh Siame, José María Gutiérrez, Eduardo Alberto Fernandez

“…To compare the performance of these models, we used several key metrics, including Akaike Information Criterion corrected (AICc), the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC), the Root Average Squared Error (RASE), negative log-likelihood, and the total time taken to fit each model.…”
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Sex and Strain-Specific Variations in Motor Recovery Following Compression Spinal Cord Injury: Comparison of Sprague-Dawley and Wistar Rats by Negin Mojarad, David Doyle, Lucas Gorial Garmo, Ryan Graff, Kayla Reed, Payton Andrew Wolbert, Anusha Uprety, Brynn Stewart, Julien Rossignol, Gary L. Dunbar

“…Measures of locomotor performance using the Basso–Beattie–Bresnahan (BBB), CatWalk gait analysis, and horizontal ladder tests were taken postoperatively and weekly for seven weeks. …”
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Maternal alloimmune antibodies against HPA and HLA class I antigens are associated with reduced birthweight among healthy neonates delivered by Chinese women by Yang Xue, Wenlong Xin, Chao Li, Xing Zeng, Zhanyun Song, Chen Cao, Tongmao Zhao

“…Among 787 platelet antibody‐positive serum samples available for further analysis, 548 (69.6%) were positive for HLA class I antibodies bound to platelets, and 239 (30.4%) were positive for HPA antibodies. …”
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Knowledge, perceptions, and practices of dental professionals and students regarding obturation in endodontic procedures: a nationwide cross-sectional survey by Kalyani Garde, Ajinkya M. Pawar, Anuj Bhardwaj, Jatin Atram, Suraj Arora, Dian Agustin Wahjuningrum, Maria Febritania Wahyuni Huri, Dennys Kurnia

“…The study applied descriptive statistics and the chi-square test of proportion with a significance threshold of p < 0.05 and a 95% confidence interval for analysis to assess the participants’ comprehension, attitudes, and use of obturation procedures. …”
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Temporal changes in blood biomarkers associated with sleep apnoea severity: a retrospective cohort study in Finland by Satu Strausz, Sanna Toppila-Salmi, Tuula Vasankari, Hanna M Ollila, Mira Hellen, Toni Ruoranen, Hanna-Riikka Kreivi, Tiina Mattila

“…Haematological and metabolic laboratory values were collected 3 years before and after the first OSA diagnosis. Analysis of covariance was employed to compare parameter variations across severity levels, adjusted for age, sex and body mass index (BMI). …”
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Prevalence of Musculoskeletal Disorders in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease by E. D. Bazdyrev, N. A. Terentyeva, K. E. Krivoshapova, V. L. Masenko, E. A. Wegner, А. N. Kokov, S. A. Pomeshkina, O. L. Barbarash

“…The conducted correlation analysis revealed not only the relationship between the parameters of musculoskeletal function, but also their association with age, duration of AH, CAD, and type 2 DM.Conclusion. …”
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Sources and Radiations of the Fermi Bubbles by Vladimir A. Dogiel, Chung-Ming Ko

“…Analysis of the evolution of superbubbles in exponentially stratified disks concluded that the FB envelope would be destroyed by the Rayleigh–Taylor (RT) instabilities at late stages. …”
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Text-Guided Synthesis in Medical Multimedia Retrieval: A Framework for Enhanced Colonoscopy Image Classification and Segmentation by Ojonugwa Oluwafemi Ejiga Peter, Opeyemi Taiwo Adeniran, Adetokunbo MacGregor John-Otumu, Fahmi Khalifa, Md Mahmudur Rahman

“…Stable Diffusion and DreamBooth Low-Rank Adaptation produce images that look authentic, with an average Inception score of 2.36 across three datasets. …”
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Inversion Method of Initial In Situ Stress Field Based on BP Neural Network and Applying Loads to Unit Body by Xiaopeng Li, Xuejun Zhou, Zhengxuan Xu, Tao Feng, Dong Wang, Jianhui Deng, Guangze Zhang, Cunbao Li, Gan Feng, Ru Zhang, Zhilong Zhang, Zetian Zhang

“…The initial in situ stress field is the fundamental factor causing the deformation and failure of underground engineering and is an important basis for the feasibility analysis, design, and construction of underground engineering. …”
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Salivary periostin levels as a non-invasive biomarker and their clinical correlates among healthy and periodontitis patients—a cross-sectional analytical study by Priyanka Padalkar, Sunaina Shetty Yadadi, Gopinath Vivekanandan, Shishir Ram Shetty, Mangesh Andhare, Aditi Pashine, Vineet Vinay, Vijay Desai, Vijay Desai, Raghavendra M. Shetty, Raghavendra M. Shetty, Raghavendra M. Shetty

“…Unstimulated salivary samples from all subjects were taken, and periostin levels were quantified using an ELISA kit.ResultsThe average salivary periostin levels were 4.63 in the healthy group and 1.24 in the periodontitis group (P &lt; 0.05). …”
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