Efficacy of Tamsulosin plus Tadalafil versus Tamsulosin as Medical Expulsive Therapy for Lower Ureteric Stones: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Diwas Gnyawali, Manish Man Pradhan, Prem Raj Sigdel, Purushottam Parajuli, Sampanna Chudal, Sujeet Poudyal, Suman Chapagain, Bhoj Raj Luitel, Pawan Raj Chalise, Uttam Sharma, Prem Raj Gyawali

“…Participants were divided into two groups (Group A, tamsulosin plus tadalafil, and Group B, tamsulosin) from computer-generated random numbers. Therapy was continued for a maximum of 3 weeks. …”
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Exploring Soil Hydro-Physical Improvements Under No-Tillage: A Sustainable Approach for Soil Health by Gabriel-Dumitru Mihu, Tudor George Aostăcioaei, Cosmin Ghelbere, Anca-Elena Calistru, Denis Constantin Țopa, Gerard Jităreanu

“…A field experiment was conducted under an eight-year continuous cropping system, with a four-year rotation [winter wheat (<i>Triticum aestivum</i> L.)…”
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Dielectric barrier discharge plasma catalysis for CO2 conversion: Recent progress and perspectives by Longmei Li, Xiaohua Chen, Bella, Feiyang Hu, Xiaohua Zhang, Runping Ye, Lei Gong, Rongbin Zhang, Gang Feng, Sibudjing Kawi

“…To accelerate industrial translation, future research should focus on unraveling plasma-catalyst interactions through coupled in situ characterization and computational modeling, establishing fundamental structure-performance relationships under dynamic reaction conditions, and engineering scalable reactor systems that maintain catalytic integrity during continuous operation.…”
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Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor in the pelvis: a case report by Rika Ono, Tetsuro Tominaga, Takashi Nonaka, Yuma Takamura, Kaido Oishi, Toshio Shiraishi, Shintaro Hashimoto, Keisuke Noda, Terumitsu Sawai, Takeshi Nagayasu

“…The patient is at high risk of recurrence and close monitoring should be continued. Conclusions We encountered a rare case of MPNST. …”
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Temperature change and male infertility prevalence: an ecological study by Jiahua Qian, Chunbao Mo, Yuhe Si, Qianqian Zhang, Yihao Chen, Jiayu Zhu, Yifei Wang, Jianxiong Ma

“…Projections suggest that ongoing temperature increases may continue to drive up male infertility ASPR. Conclusion Temperature change may be associated with an increased male infertility prevalence.…”
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Tips on pre-emptive hemostasis of large vessels during endoscopic full-thickness resection of a large gastrointestinal stromal tumor by Abdullah Abbasi, MD, Maham Hayat, MD, Saurabh Chandan, MD, Sagar Pathak, MD, Muhammad K. Hasan, MD, Kambiz K. Kadkhodayan, MD, Peter V. Draganov, MD, Dennis Yang, MD

“…Innovation and development of dedicated devices are urgently needed to increase the efficiency and safety of these procedures as we continue to expand our therapeutic boundaries.…”
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Pathological complete response after monotherapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors for bifocal colon cancer in a patient with lynch syndrome and situs inversus totalis: a case repo... by Jun Feng, Wenbo Niu, Juan Zhang, Yuanyi Ding, Zheng Li, Jianfeng Zhang, Baokun Li, Chenhui Li, Feifei Wang, Guiying Wang, Guiying Wang, Guiying Wang, Bin Yu

“…Postoperatively, the patient continued sintilimab treatment for 2 years. In June 2024, he underwent a colostomy reversal and proximal colectomy. …”
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Correlation of the severity of the clinical presentation of SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia with respiratory function parameters in the post-COVID period by Slobodan Belic, Andjelka Ivanovic, Aleksandra Todorovic, Nikola Maric, Sandra Milic, Jovan Perić, Mihailo Stjepanović, Snjezana Krajisnik, Ivana Milosevic, Jelena Jankovic

“…Conclusions: Patients with COVID-19 infection who need oxygen support and MV continue to suffer from loss of respiratory function after the resolution of COVID-19 infection. …”
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Transdiagnostic Symptom Domains Have Distinct Patterns of Association With Head Motion During Multimodal Imaging in Children by Kavari Hercules, Zhiyuan Liu, Eleni Christofilea, Jia Wei, Gladys Venegas, Olivia Ciocca, Alice Dyer, Goeun Lee, Sasha Santini-Bishop, Heather Shappell, Dylan G. Gee, Denis G. Sukhodolsky, Karim Ibrahim

“…Conclusions: These findings have implications for advancing the development of computational and behavioral approaches for mitigating motion effects in youths, enhancing accessibility of imaging protocols and representativeness influences across child psychiatric disorders, and identifying brain-based biomarkers.…”
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Sarcoidosis-like reaction induced by immune checkpoint inhibitors in patients with advanced melanoma: A report of two cases and a brief review of the literature by Dujović Branko, Kandolf Lidija, Radević Tatjana, Petrov Nenad, Mijušković Željko

“…After four cycles of therapy, enlarged mediastinal lymph nodes were confirmed using computed tomography. Bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage and transbronchial biopsy showed chronic granulomatous inflammation. …”
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Small Modular Reactor based on NuScale with Thorium base by Diego M. E. Gonçalves, Marcelo Vilela da Silva, C. J. C. M. R. da Cunha, Giovanni L. Stefani

“…To meet substantial computational demands, they ran these simulations on the Lobo Carneiro supercomputer at NACAD/UFRJ. …”
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Research on the numerical simulation of dynamic explosion shock wave propagation characteristics between floors by Ke Wu, Bo Chen, Hao Li, Yunfeng Zhang, Damin Zhang, Yixuan Wu, Yaguang Sui

“…Within this 15 m range, constraints imposed by floor slabs lead to non-uniform and continuously varying vertical pressure distributions. …”
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Successful treatment of peritoneal recurrence after gastric cancer surgery with intravenous and intraperitoneal paclitaxel combined with S-1 chemotherapy: a case report by Kozo Miyatani, Wataru Miyauchi, Yusuke Kono, Yuji Shishido, Joji Watanabe, Takehiko Hanaki, Kyoichi Kihara, Tomoyuki Matsunaga, Manabu Yamamoto, Yoji Fukumoto, Naruo Tokuyasu, Shuichi Takano, Teruhisa Sakamoto, Soichiro Honjo, Toshimichi Hasegawa, Yoshiyuki Fujiwara

“…However, during adjuvant chemotherapy 12 months after surgery, tumor marker levels, which had been within normal range before surgery, increased with abdominal contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) revealing pelvic ascites. …”
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Testing an inverse modeling approach with gradient boosting regression for stroke volume estimation using patient thermodilution data by Vasiliki (Vicky) Bikia, Dionysios Adamopoulos, Dionysios Adamopoulos, Dionysios Adamopoulos, Marco Roffi, Marco Roffi, Georgios Rovas, Stéphane Noble, Stéphane Noble, François Mach, François Mach, Nikolaos Stergiopulos

“…The significant reduction in computational time of our method for SV assessment should make it suitable for real-time clinical applications.…”
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Smartphone-based activity research: methodology and key insights by Ryan W. Turlip, Daksh Chauhan, Hasan S. Ahmad, Mert Marcel Dagli, Bonnie Y. Hu, Richard J. Chung, Yohannes Ghenbot, Ben J. Gu, Nisarg Patel, Richelle J. Kim, Julia Kincaid, Akash Verma, Jang W. Yoon

“…Mathematical analysis can be harnessed to study quantifiable recovery and decline periods, which provide continuous and nuanced insight into patient's health throughout their spine disease and treatment course. …”
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SolarSegNet: A multimodal frequency-aware network for photovoltaic power stations extraction using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 images in coastal China by Fangxiong Wang, Zhiying Liao, Yingzi Hou, Zhenqi Cui, Yiqi Wang, Jiachen Gong, Haomiao Yu, Junfu Wang, Yuanyi Zhu, Qiao Yu, Jianfeng Zhu

“…Furthermore, PV regions mapping from 2019 to 2024 reveals continuous growth and a pronounced north-to-south expansion along China’s coast. …”
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Quality of intrapartum and newborn care in public healthcare facilities of Wolkite town, Central Ethiopia: facility-based cross-sectional study by Berhanu Semra Mulat, Amare Zewdie, Abebaw Wasie Kasahun, Molla Gashu, Adiam Nega, Tamirat Melis

“…Input quality, the experience of healthcare providers, friendly care, and continuous training were factors associated with the quality of intrapartum care. …”
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Impact of rare non-coding variants on human diseases through alternative polyadenylation outliers by Xudong Zou, Zhaozhao Zhao, Yu Chen, Kewei Xiong, Zeyang Wang, Shuxin Chen, Hui Chen, Gong-Hong Wei, Shuhua Xu, Wei Li, Ting Ni, Lei Li

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THE BLOOD FLOWS IN THE LEFT VENTRICLE AS PREDICTORS FOR MYOCARDIAL DYSFUNCTION IN DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY by V. A. Sandrikov, T. Yu. Kulagina, A. S. Krylov, A. M. Yatchenko

“…We had concluded that in DCMP, at the same time with high EDV and ESV there is incessance of blood flow which determines heart work by continuous blood motion, elasticity of magistral vessels and myocardium contraction.By echocardiography and computed tomography it was found that heart rotation is in order from the right to the left segments of basal area and then to descending and ascending segments of the heart apex.Conclusion. …”
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Improvement of high-viscosity oil production technology via the effective redistribution of energy resources by S. S. Rodin, Yu. L. Zotov, V. Yu. Moroshkin, E. A. Fedyanov, E. V. Shishkin

“…Therefore, refinement costs continue to increase. Furthermore, high production emissions affect the environment. …”
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