Comparison of Smile Parameters, Maxillary Arch Changes and Perceived Smile Attractiveness in Patients Treated with Conventional and Self-ligating Bracket Systems: An Observational... by Rieshy Vasudevan, Selvapriya Selvam, Shweta Nagesh

“…Results: In Group 1, the average age was 17.5±4.7 years, while in Group 2 it was 16.5±5.6 years. …”
Get full text

Inequality and heterogeneity in medical resources for children with autism spectrum disorders: a study in the ethnic minority region of southern China by Yingying Lin, Guozhi Chen, Huaxiang Lu, Rongfei Qin, Jinsheng Jiang, Weiwei Tan, Caibin Luo, Ming Chen, Qin Huang, Liangliang Huang, Aihu Dong, Jian Qin

“…The main analysis methods was multiscale geographically weighted regression (MGWR). …”
Get full text

Optimization and Machine Learning in Modeling Approaches to Hybrid Energy Balance to Improve Ports’ Efficiency by Helena M. Ramos, João S. T. Coelho, Eyup Bekci, Toni X. Adrover, Oscar E. Coronado-Hernández, Modesto Perez-Sanchez, Kemal Koca, Aonghus McNabola, R. Espina-Valdés

“…A neural network time series (NNTS) model trained on average year data achieved high accuracy (R²: 0.9253–0.9695). …”
Get full text

Hospitalization, mortality, and health service delivery pattern among Iranian Hajj pilgrims by age, sex, and province in 2013–22 by Pirhossein Kolivand, Pirhossein Kolivand, Peyman Saberian, Jalal Arabloo, Peyman Namdar, Taher Doroudi, Taher Doroudi, Ali Marashi, Masoud Behzadifar, Fereshte Karimi, Soheila Rajaei, Behzad Raei, Seyed Jafar Ehsanzadeh, Arash Parvari, Samad Azari, Samad Azari

“…With the exception of heart attacks, other factors significantly impacted the average number of pilgrim hospitalizations at a 5% error level. …”
Get full text

The Assessment of the Effects of Implementing Special Improvement Plan on Rural Housing Development (Case Study: Abrisham Rural District) by Farhad Azizpour, Zohreh Sadeghi

“…Friedman test results show that the suitability of material type to meet the needs of villagers with the highest average ranking is first in comparison with other indicators. …”
Get full text

Impact of mango peel pectin and Bacillus iranensis on growth, immunity, and gene expression in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) by Anisa Rilla Lubis, Nguyen Vu Linh, Khambou Tayyamath, Supreya Wannavijit, Punika Ninyamasiri, Chanagun Chitmanat, Wanaporn Tapingkae, Einar Ringø, Hien Van Doan, Maria Ángeles Esteban

“…ACH50 values were notably higher in the T4 group, indicating enhanced immune function. Gene expression analysis revealed that T4 significantly upregulated GPX and GSR in the head kidney, while GST-α expression remained unchanged across all treatments. …”
Get full text

Genomic characterization of Leishmania (V.) braziliensis associated with antimony therapeutic failure and variable in vitro tolerance to amphotericin B by Laura Natalia Gonzalez-Garcia, Aura María Rodríguez-Guzmán, Carolina M. Vargas-León, Samanda Aponte, Liliana A. Bonilla-Valbuena, J. Manuel Matiz-González, Ana M Clavijo-Vanegas, Germán Andrés Duarte-Olaya, Catherine Aguilar-Buitrago, Daniel Alfonso Urrea, Jorge Duitama, Maria C. Echeverry

“…(V.) braziliensis (MHOM/BR/75/M2904 and M2903). The average number of heterozygous SNPs in clinical isolates is at least 75% higher than the reference genomes, and the allele dosages suggest an overall ploidy of two, except in chromosome 31. …”
Get full text

Challenges of Statin Therapy in Clinical Practice (According to Outpatient Register «PROFILE» Data) by S. Yu. Martsevich, Yu. V. Lukina, N. P. Kutishenko, A. V. Zagrebelnyy, S. N. Tolpygina, V. P. Voronina, N. A. Dmitrieva, O. V. Lerman, E. S. Nekoshnova, I. V. Budaeva, S. V. Blagodatskikh, B. B. Aslanova

“…The general information of the study was based on data from 2,457 patients who were included in the register before November 30, 2020: 1,250 men (50.9%) and 1,207 (49.1%) women. A more detailed analysis was performed for groups of patients with high          and very high CV risk who had indications for statin treatment at the time of inclusion in the register: out of 2457 patients, 1166 people had very high CV risk, 395 was at high CV risk (a total of 1561 people, the average age of patients was 64.4±11.0 years).Results. …”
Get full text

Retrospective antimicrobial consumption surveillance at health facility level in Dodoma Region, Tanzania by Karin Wiedenmayer, Samuel Mungai, Romuald Mbwasi, Calvin Andeve Omolo, Eva Ombaka, Rajabu Mohamedi Kingo

“…Resistance data were quantitatively analysed, with particular attention given to penicillinase-sensitive penicillins and their resistance rates among gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria.Results Analysis revealed that single penicillins, particularly amoxicillin, dominated prescriptions, accounting for 25% to 60% of hospitals and 13% to 29% of primary health centres. …”
Get full text

Change in exercise capacity, physical activity and motivation for physical activity at 12 months after a cardiac rehabilitation program in coronary heart disease patients: a prospe... by Paul Da Ros Vettoretto, Anne-Armelle Bouffart, Youna Gourronc, Anne-Charlotte Baron, Marie Gaume, Florian Congnard, Bénédicte Noury-Desvaux, Pierre-Yves de Müllenheim

“…However, the decile shifts analysis did not confirm that the positive shift of the distribution of the performances over time was uniform. …”
Get full text

Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles from plant Astragalus fasciculifolius Bioss and evaluating cytotoxic effects on MCF7 human breast cancer cells by Fatemeh Nosrati, Baratali Fakheri, Habib Ghaznavi, Nafiseh Mahdinezhad, Roghayeh Sheervalilou, Bahman Fazeli-Nasab

“…The obtained Anz@AgNPs exhibited Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) centered at 443 nm, with an average particle size calculated to be about 16 nm. …”
Get full text

Photosynthetic pigments and phenolic potential of Rhodiola rosea L. from plant communities of different ecology and geography by Sergeeva Irina Yu., Zaushintsena Alexandra V., Bryukhachev Evgeniy N.

“…The obtained data underwent a statistical analysis based on Statistica 6.0 software. Results and discussion. …”
Get full text

Peculiarities of chemo-resistant HIV/AIDS-associated tuberculosis in patients who died from co-infection by A. S. Shalmin, E. M. Raznatovskya, R. М. Yasinskiy

“…That’s why studying the clinical course of HIV/AIDS-associated tuberculosis and analysis of causes of death of these patients are highly actual today. …”
Get full text

Wound healing activity of ointment containing essential oils of yarrow floodplain herb by S. D. Trzhetsinsky, V. I. Mozul, G. A. Gernova, N. S. Fursa

“…The essential oil obtained by method of hydrodistillation. Analysis of essential oils has been carried out on a chromatograph Agilent Technology – 6890 with mass spectrometric detector 5973 N. …”
Get full text

Postnatal instead of normally-timed cervical screening (PINCS-1): a protocol for a feasibility study of paired-sample cervical screening and urine self-sampling at 6 weeks and 12 w... by Emma J Crosbie, Sudha Sundar, Alex Sargent, Karin Denton, Jo Morrison, Lorna McWilliams, Holly Baker-Rand, Rebecca Newhouse, Victoria Cullimore, Adam R Brentnall, Kim Chu

“…Peak incidence of cervical cancer coincides with average age of childbirth, and women with young children are less likely to be screened. …”
Get full text

The effect of aerobic exercise along with living in enriched environment on spatial memory and brain-derived neurotrophic factor in the Hippocampal tissue of Elderly female Wistar... by Mozhgan Mozhgan Abdullahzadeh Nobejari, Behrouz Abdoli, Rana Rana Fayaz Milani

“…Therefore,  One-way analysis of variance with Tukey's post-hoc test (P<0.05) were used to analyze the data.Results: BDNF increased in all groups significantly (P<0.001), and comparisons between groups were significant except for control vs sham (P=0.27) and Alzheimer's vs Aerobic Alzheimer's (P=0.20) groups. …”
Get full text

Comprehensive duck DNA fingerprinting based on machine learning for breed identification by DengKe Yan, Feng Zhu, HaoLin Wang, ZhongTao Yin, ZhuoCheng Hou

“…Four characteristic molecular marker selection methods (Delta, Average Euclidean Distance (AED), Polymorphism Information Content (PIC), and Fixation Index (FST)) and four machine learning classification algorithms (Random Forest (RF), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), and Naive Bayes (NB)) were tested. …”
Get full text

Classification of endoscopic spine procedures by Mazda Farshad, MD, Christoph J. Laux, MD, Florian Wanivenhaus, MD, José M. Spirig, MD, Jonas Widmer, PhD, Michael Kelly, MD, Javier Quillo-Olvera, MD, Jin-Sung Kim, MD, Facundo van Isseldyk, MD, Sohrab Gollogly, MD, James Yue, MD, Xuexiao Ma, MD, Vincent Hagel, MD, Frédéric Cornaz, MD

“…In cases of no clear consensus (ie, agreement of less than 10%), an additional analysis considering only the responses from surgeons with experience of more than 500 endoscopic spine surgeries was performed. …”
Get full text

Оrgan-preserving operations in the abdominal gun-shot penetrating woundings of large bowel. Experience of the medical help delivery in military environment Аntiterroristic operatio... by O. Yu. Usenko, I. A. Lurin, K. V. Gumenuk, V. V. Nehoduiko, R. M. Mykhaylusov, R. V. Saliutin

“…All the wounded persons were men, aged from 19 to 58 yrs old, (34 ± 5.2) yrs old at average. Penetrating cross-cutting abdominal woundings have occurred in 48 (31.8%) patients, the blunt – in 103 (68.2%). …”
Get full text

The Social Cost of Nasal Sequelae in Patients with Cleft Lip and Palate in a Peruvian University Dental Clinic by Córdova-Aguilar A, Ramos W, Blanco-Victorio DJ, López-Ramos RP, Best Bandenay PY, Castañeda Saldaña E, De La Cruz-Vargas JA

“…Additionally, most were attended with Seguro Integral de Salud (46.7%), most had no daily income (50.0%), and the average quality of life score was 8.1. The highest direct cost reported was dental treatment (S/5756.89 ± S/359.22) and hospitalization (S/5013.60 ± S/880.15), statistically significant (p&lt; 0.05). …”
Get full text