18F-FDG-PET/CT for polymyalgia rheumatica: agreement and diagnostic accuracy of routine PET scan report vs. standardized PMR PET scores by Kornelis S. M. van der Geest, Rob G. J. Grootelaar, Karin Bouwman, Maria Sandovici, Andor W. J. M. Glaudemans, Elisabeth Brouwer, Riemer H. J. A. Slart, Riemer H. J. A. Slart

“…Background18F-FDG-PET/CT may reveal widespread inflammation of musculoskeletal structures in polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR). Currently, scans are subjectively analysed based on the overall gestalt of the scan. …”
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Exploiting process thermodynamics in carbon capture from direct air to industrial sources: The paradigmatic case of ionic liquids by Sergio Dorado-Alfaro, Daniel Hospital-Benito, Cristian Moya, Pablo Navarro, Jesús Lemus, José Palomar

“…Nowadays, available CC technologies present main shortcomings for being applied to the huge wide range of CO2 partial pressure involved in currently-of-interest industrial CC scenarios (from 0.0004 bar in direct air capture to 13 bar in pre-combustion system: it means five orders of magnitude). …”
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Estudo exploratório das iniciativas acerca da segurança do paciente em hospitais do Rio de Janeiro. [Exploratory study of patient safety measures at hospitals in Rio de Janeiro] by Ruth Francisca Freitas de Souza, Lolita Dopico da Silva

“…However, contrary to what is currently proposed, they implemented the measures that require less investment, and their actions were directed mainly to continued professional development. …”
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A Digital Tool for Assessing Well-Being at the Workplace and in Personal Life: Development and Validation of the Quan Well-Being Index by Georgia A Floridou, Freya Katre, Emile Jeuken

“…It is important to develop a validated measurement instrument that enables users to assess and track their well-being over time. Currently, no digital measurement instrument comprehensively evaluates well-being across both personal and professional domains. …”
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Suicide among youth and young adults in Canada: bereaved parents’ perspectives on the systems of care by Toula Kourgiantakis, Deborah Cooper, David Cooper, Shelley Craig, Eunjung Lee, Jori Jones, Carrie K. Y. Lau, Romy-Naïma Tousignant, Jonathan B. Singer, Marjorie Johnstone, Juveria Zaheer

“…Methods This qualitative study used a community-based participatory research approach in partnership with Eli’s Place, a rural residential treatment centre currently in development for young adults with serious mental illness. …”
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Inequity in the transmission of malaria infection among children and adolescents: a cohort study in rural Guinea by Almamy Amara Toure, Sidikiba Sidibe, Aboubacar Sidiki Magassouba, Abdoul Habib Beavogui, Mamoudou Conde, Abdoulaye Fodé Toure, Tiany Sidibe, Kaba Saran Keita, Alexandre Delamou, Seni Kouanda

“…These findings highlight the need for targeted, equity-sensitive interventions that address structural vulnerabilities and seasonal dynamics to reduce the malaria burden and promote health equity.…”
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A review of deep learning-based few sample fault diagnosis method for rotating machinery by Ke WU, Jun WU, Qiming SHU, Weiming SHEN, Wenbin SONG

“…The self-supervised learning-based fault diagnosis methods exploit the structural information of data to construct pseudo-labels. …”
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Sustainable Development Clauses in the International Law of the Sea by A. N. Vylegzhanin, A. M. Korzhenyak

“…The research involves methods of legal construction, legal modeling, analysis and synthesis, systematic, struc­tural-functional, formal-logical, formal-legal, histori­cal and chronological methods.  …”
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Disorders of the central nervous system cognitive and mnestic functions in genetic arterial hypertension and with the use of beta-blockers of different generations by A. O. Svitlytskyi, A. A. Yehorov, O. V. Melnikova, T. A. Hrekova

“…Arterial hypertension is currently one of the most common diseases in the world. …”
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Mendelian randomization reveals probucol’s preventive role in Behçet’s disease via circulating metabolites by Zhang Hongchen, Zhang Yijia, Xu Yubo, Zhong Jianguang, Sun Mouyuan, Li Jian, Li Jin

“…Abstract Behçet’s disease (BD) is a chronic, recurrent condition for which effective preventive medications are currently lacking. This disease often disrupts lipid metabolism, adversely affecting vascular endothelial function. …”
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THE CONTENT OF INTERLEUKINS IN ORAL FLUID OF PATIENTS WITH NON-REMOVABLE METAL CERAMIC PROSTHESES by Yu. M. Hotsko, L. Ye. Lapovets

“… The dental bridges are often used to replace missing teeth. Currently, the most common are the metal-ceramic structures, which have the high mechanical properties and are aesthetic and functional, because they restore chewing efficiency by 85-100% and provide a high level of adaptation to them. …”
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The model of intermediate assessment of future teachers’ professional competencies by I. V. Golovina, Kh.-Akh. S. Khaladov, T. Yu. Medvedeva, G. A. Paputkova, A. V. Milekhin

“…The study presents the main structural and dynamic components of the model for the intermediate assessment of professional competencies of students in pedagogical training programs. …”
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Reims/Durocortorum, ville gauloise ? Hypothèses pour une nouvelle problématique des origines de l’agglomération by Robert Neiss

“…The new chronological elements, collected in the ditch of the great enclosure, as well as along the roads at the city’s exit, tend to date these structural installations to well before the Conquest. …”
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ETHIOPATHOGENETIC PARALLELS OF MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES IN CHRONIC DENTAL CARIES AND ITS COMPLICATIONS by B.M. Fylenko

“… Tooth decay is a global health problem and a major cause of tooth loss in the adult population. Currently, the most recognized theory of dental caries development is the chemical-parasitic theory of V.D. …”
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Exploring challenges in implementing antimicrobial stewardship interventions across eight African nations: A multi case study by Ms Maxencia Nabiryo, Miss Maxencia Nabiryo, Dr Helena Rosado, Miss Frances Garraghan, Miss Claire Brandish, Miss Victoria Rutter

“…Introduction: The Commonwealth Partnerships for Antimicrobial Stewardship (CwPAMS) programme, funded by the UK Department of Health and Social Care's Fleming Fund and managed by the Commonwealth Pharmacists Association (CPA) and Tropical Health and Education trust (THET), currently supports 24 health partnerships (HPs) developing and implementing antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) interventions in 73 health facilities across eight African countries: Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. …”
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Kasabach-Merritt syndrome in an adult treated by embolization prior to liver transplantation: a case report. by Xóchitl García-León, René Malé-Velázquez, Esteban Martínez-Villaseñor, Álvaro Calleros-Camarena

“…It presents complications such as intralesional hemorrhage, mass effect in adjacent structures, and rupture with intraperitoneal hemorrhage. …”
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Variations and controlling factors of soil CO2 release at daytime and nighttime scales in the loess hilly regions of China by Yarong Sun, Senbao Lu, Yunming Chen

“…Soil carbon dioxide (CO2) release is a critical ecosystem process affecting regional and global carbon cycles. Currently, one of the key uncertainties in projecting carbon-climate feedback is the ongoing poor representation of the deep and nighttime soil CO2 release. …”
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Identifying Molecular Properties of Ataxin-2 Inhibitors for Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 2 Utilizing High-Throughput Screening and Machine Learning by Smita Sahay, Jingran Wen, Daniel R. Scoles, Anton Simeonov, Thomas S. Dexheimer, Ajit Jadhav, Stephen C. Kales, Hongmao Sun, Stefan M. Pulst, Julio C. Facelli, David E. Jones

“…Compounds were clustered based on structural similarity independently for the three models using the SimpleKMeans algorithm into the optimal number of clusters (<i>n</i> = 26). …”
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Tricin selectively combats KRAS-mutant non-small cell lung cancer by inhibiting the PDGF-BB-induced SRC/MAPK/AP-1/PD-L1 signaling pathway and potentiating the antitumor effect of a... by Jia-Xin Li, Jia-Xin Li, Shi-Yu Tan, Li-Qi Li, Yu-Hong Zheng, Lin Zhao, Hui-Rong Zhu, Hai-Lang He, Yan-Yu Zhang, Run-Ze Li, Tian-Yu Bao, Yi-Zhong Zhang, Xiao-Man Yang, Hao Zhang, Hui-Hui Chen, Bo-Wen Wu, Xin Lin, Xiao-Sheng Lin, Xiao-Sheng Lin, Yin Cheng Lin, Xin-Bing Sui, Ying Xie, Xian-Mei Zhou, Pei-Yu Yan

“…BackgroundKRAS is a commonly mutated gene that is present in approximately 30% of NSCLC patients. Currently, the identification of effective therapies for KRAS-mutant NSCLC is difficult for reasons of the structural and biochemical characteristics of the KRAS protein. …”
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“They Know You Better Than the Transplant Team”: An Interpretive Description Study Exploring the Perspectives of Living Kidney Donors About Care Received From Family Physicians by Katya Loban, Charo Rodriguez, Antoine Przybylak-Brouillard, Elie Fadel, Heather Badenoch, Peter Nugus, Ann Bugeja, Justin Gill, Marie-Chantal Fortin, Emilie Trinh, Scott McKay, Shaifali Sandal

“…Our specific research questions were: (1) How do LKDs perceive the role of FPs currently integrated into the donation trajectory? …”
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