FEATURES OF EXPRESSION OF CD133 AND CD44 MARKERS OF TUMOR STEM CELLS WITH METASTATIC AND NON-METASTATIC GASTRIC CANCER by A. B. Sagakyants, O. I. Kit, E. P. Ulyanova, E. Yu. Zlatnik, I. A. Novikova, O. G. Shulgina, Yu. A. Gevorkyan, N. V. Soldatkina, N. S. Samoylenko, E. A. Dzhenkova, A. V. Shaposhnikov

“…A special role in the pathogenesis and metastasis of the tumor is assigned to tumor stem cells (TSC ),  responsible for resistance to chemotherapy and radiotherapy and causing tumor progression.Objective: to determine the CD 44 and CD 133 markers of TSC in tumor tissues of non-metastatic and metastatic gastric cancer using the immunohistochemical method.Material and Methods. A prospective study of tumors in patients with gastric cancer was conducted: Group 1 – 20 people with T3–4aN0–3M0G2 tumor, average age 58.9 ± 9.7; Group 2 – 20 people with T3–4aN0–3M1G2 tumor, with metastases in the peritoneum, average age 53.4 ± 11.9. …”
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Cardiac and vascular remodeling in arterial hypertension: the role of concomitant obesity by V. N. Kandilova

“…The aim of the study evaluation of the structural and functional changes of the heart and common carotid arteries (CCA) in patients with AH I–III degree with the definition of significant criteria for their remodeling in patients with the absence and presence of accompanying obesity (OB) of varying degrees.Materials and methods. 124 patients (86 men and 38 women) aged 27 to 81 years (average age 55.7 ± 1.01 years) were examined. …”
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Features of the epidemic situation on tuberculosis in the conditions of climate change in the Far North of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) by Svetlana Zorina, Egor Prokopyev, Maria Vinokurova, Olga Kondrateva, Mr Ruslan Khachetlov, Irina Lizinfeld, Liubov Parolina

“…Accordingly, it is important to estimate TB incidence and mortality rates under climate change. Methods: Statistical data on annual average temperature, tuberculosis incidence, and mortality rates in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) over the past 40 years (1984–2023) were analyzed. …”
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Prophages in Bacteroides fragilis: Distribution and genetic diversity by Paolo Gaibani, Rocco Latorre

“…Objectives: We evaluated the distribution, epidemiology, and relationships of prophage regions among 500 Bacteroides fragilis group genomes. Methods: Average nucleotide identity (ANI) analysis was carried out to characterize the genome at the species level and phylogenetic analysis was performed to identify the genomic relationship among B. fragilis genomes. …”
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Changes in Physicochemical Properties and In Vitro Digestibility of Broken Rice Starch by Ultrasound and Quercetin Dual Treatment by Ping Yang, Chenhao Qiu, Na Zhang

“…Size exclusion chromatography (SEC) images showed that both the molecular weight (from 72,080.96 kDa to 85,141.95 kDa) and amylose content (from 15.94% to 26.76%) increased significantly, while the branching degree and average degree of polymerization of amylopectin decreased, suggesting that the ultrasonic treatment processing method had a significant impact on the formation of the quercetin–starch complexes. …”
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Functional Capacity of Patients Operated on Due to Lumbar Discopathy in the Early Postoperative Period by Agnieszka Królikowska, Małgorzata Słomińska, Jacek Furtak

“…The functional capacity of patients after surgery of the lumbar spine turned out to be low, a large part of the respondents showed a medium and high degree of disability. The degree of disability increased with the severity of pain. …”
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Integration of Convolutional Neural Network and Image Processing for Pulp Fibril Detection and Measurement by Tanachot Chirakitsakul, Pakaket Wattuya, Phichit Somboon, Panthira Jansakra, Chakrit Watcharopas

“…The patch-based classification approach effectively filters out irrelevant objects, especially those whose features visually resemble fibrils, thus improving fibril segmentation accuracy. The method was comprehensively validated against expert-labeled ground truth images and achieved a promising average error rate of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$0.4494~{\pm }~0.4187$ </tex-math></inline-formula>. …”
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Predicting patient visits at the psychiatric polyclinic of a public hospital in Bali, Indonesia: A forecasting approach using single exponential smoothing by Ni Made Ratih Comala Dewi Dewi, Putu Cintariasih, Ni Wayan Suryani, Luh Gde Nita Sri Wahyuningsih

“…With a high degree of forecasting accuracy, the method offers practical applications for hospital administrators to plan for future patient volume, optimize resource allocation, and ensure sufficient service capacity. …”
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Bone Segmentation in Low-Field Knee MRI Using a Three-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Network by Ciro Listone, Diego Romano, Marco Lapegna

“…Low-field MRI offers advantages in cost, patient comfort, and accessibility but presents challenges related to lower signal quality. Our method achieved a Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC) of 0.9838, Intersection over Union (IoU) of 0.9682, and Average Hausdorff Distance (AHD) of 0.0223, with an inference time of approximately 3.96 s per volume on a GPU. …”
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Influence Maximization in Social Networks Using Discrete Manta-Ray Foraging Optimization Algorithm and Combination of Centrality Criteria by Zaynab Azizpour, Saeid Taghavi Afshord, Bagher Zarei, Mohammad Ali Jabraeil Jamali, Shahin Akbarpour

“…To address this, this paper introduces an enhanced discrete Manta-Ray Foraging Optimization (MRFO) algorithm tailored for IM. The proposed method integrates degree, closeness, and betweenness centrality measures into the fitness function and introduces a fused centrality index to improve the identification of influential nodes. …”
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Successful Intelligence (Analytical, Practical, Creative) Levels among Gifted Students by Hanifa Hassan yousif, Fawkeia Hassan Radwan, Moaid Ismail Jarjis

“…The results showed that the Gifted students are distinguished by an average level of successful intelligence, and the results pointed out that there were no statistically significant differences between males and females in the level of successful intelligence (total degree) and dimensional (analytical and creative)while the results also indicated that there were statistically differences in the practical dimension in favor of females, and the results of the Schiffe test showed that there was a statistically difference in the interest of Gifted students in Sulaymaniyah Governorate. …”
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Carbonaceous materials in petrochemical wastewater before and after treatment in an aerated submerged fixed-bed biofilm reactor by Trojanowicz Karol, Wojcik Wlodzimierz

“…Results of the studies for determining fractions of organic contaminants in a pretreated petrochemical wastewater flowing into a pilot Aerated Submerged Fixed-Bed Biofilm Reactor (ASFBBR) are presented and discussed. The method of chemical oxygen demand (COD) fractionation consisted of physical tests and biological assays. …”
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FACTORS DETERMINING THE LEVEL OF FINANCIAL LITERACY OF ACADEMIC YOUTH by Monika Szafrańska

“…The research was conducted in 2018 with the PAPI method on a group of 337 respondents. The interview was conducted with young people studying at the second largest academic centre in Poland – Kraków. …”
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Thermal Conductivity Performance of Silica Aerogel after Exposition on Different Heating under Ambient Pressure by Israa F. Al-sharuee

“…The varied thermal conductivity (insulation) of silica aerogel with heating for different pH has been investigated, it has been depended on ambient pressure drying method in the preparing silica aerogel samples, also six different pH of samples (1, 2, 3, 7, 8 and 9) were treated under five degree of heating with (50,100,150,200 and 250) ᴼC. …”
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Spatial Variation of Hypsometric Analysis in Nerwa Watershed by Hozan Sadiq Mawlood

“… The hypsometric analysis (area-relief analysis) of drainage basins is an effective method for measuring the percentage of subsurface materials remaining in watersheds and highlighting the influence of slope leveling factors on them. …”
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Can Smart Alloy Material Improve the Biomechanical Behavior of Prostheses Used in the Human Trachea? A Fluid-Structure Interaction Approach by Hamidreza Mortazavy Beni

“…Background and objective: The Shape-Memory Alloy (SMA) or smart alloy stent can be used in the upper respiratory system by reducing problems such as changing the shape according to the actual conditions of the body compared to other stents. Methods: In this study, the behavior of 2 types of SMA stents with different metallurgical properties was studied using the Finite Element Method (FEM). …”
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PSCP Cognitive Engagement Scale: A Scale Development Study by Seval Fer, Filiz Özek

“…An exploratory correlational method was employed to develop the scale. 446 university pre‐degree students learning English as a foreign language participated in the study. …”
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Study of cylindrical brush wear effect on its elastic characteristics, on required pressing force and on pressure at the outlet of hydraulic pneumatic accumulator for controlling p... by S. I. Tsekhosh, B. V. Zhuravsky, P. I. Tsekhosh

“…The dependences of the average stiffness coefficient on the degree of wear of the pile of a cylindrical brush, as well as the required pressing force on the degree of wear at different values of the width of the contact patch of the cylindrical brush are given.…”
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Comparison of different auxiliary techniques used during root canal filling removal in terms of the amount of apically extruded debris: In vitro study. by Ismail Uzun, Kevser Şenel, Rawan Alqawasmi

“…The System B + PTUR group had the highest extrusion (average 4.3 mg, SD ± 1.87 mg), indicating it as the method associated with the greatest debris displacement. …”
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SimMan 3G Simulation-Based Instruction for the Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Transfer Procedure by Wang L, Ren YQ, Qian Y, Sun RQ, Li DF

“…Following training, the conventional teaching group had a theoretical knowledge average score of 82.46± 10.91, the highest score was 92, and the lowest score was 64, operational skill average score of 88.35± 17.71, the highest score was 93, and the lowest score was 76, and patient transfer time of 97± 10.68 seconds, while the SimMan 3G simulation teaching group had a theoretical knowledge average score of 88.78± 13.55, the highest score was 96, and the lowest score was 78, operational skill average score of 95.32± 20.15, the highest score was 98, and the lowest score was 85, and patient transfer time of 68.25± 4.03 seconds.Conclusion: The training effect of the ECPR transfer process can be greatly improved by using the SimMan3G simulation-based teaching, and this method can also play a role in clinical continuing education with significantly less time and effort invested.Keywords: ECPR, simman 3G, simulation teaching, transfer process…”
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