Biomarker-Based Nomogram to Predict Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Response in Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer by Meritxell Pérez, Juan José Lozano, Mercedes Ingelmo-Torres, Montserrat Domenech, Caterina Fernández Ramón, J. Alfred Witjes, Antoine G. van der Heijden, Maria José Requena, Antonio Coy, Ricard Calderon, Begoña Mellado, Antonio Alcaraz, Antoni Vilaseca, Maria J. Ribal

“…<b>Conclusions</b>: Our nomogram based on gene expression and clinical data is a useful tool to predict downstaging and tumour relapse after NAC in MIBC patients. …”
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Assessment of pulmonary function in COPD patients using dynamic digital radiography: A novel approach utilizing lung signal intensity changes during forced breathing by Noriaki Wada, Akinori Tsunomori, Takeshi Kubo, Takuya Hino, Akinori Hata, Yoshitake Yamada, Masako Ueyama, Mizuki Nishino, Atsuko Kurosaki, Kousei Ishigami, Shoji Kudoh, Hiroto Hatabu

“…We collected raw signal intensity and gray-scale image data. The lung contour was extracted on the gray-scale images using our previously developed automated lung field tracking system and calculated the average of signal intensity values within the extracted lung contour on gray-scale images. …”
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Effects of Therapeutic Hypothermia and Minimal Enteral Nutrition on Short-Term Outcomes in Neonates with Hypoxic–Ischemic Encephalopathy: A 10-Year Experience from Oman by Manoj Malviya, Sathiya Murthi, Dhanya Jayaraj, Vidya Ramdas, Fadia Nazir Malik, Valsala Nair, Nusrabegam Marikkar, Mukesh Talreja, Tariq Sial, Prakash Manikoth, Renjan Varghese, Khalsa Ali Al Ramadhani, Salima Al Aisry, Said Al Kindi, Ahmed Al Habsi, Ranjit Torgalkar, Munawwar Ahmed, Mohammed Al Yahmadi

“…Background: Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) is the standard treatment for moderate to severe hypoxic–ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) in developed countries, but data on its safety and efficacy in low-middle-income countries are limited and often conflicting. …”
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Systematic evaluation of single-cell RNA-seq analyses performance based on long-read sequencing platforms by Enze Deng, Qingmei Shen, Jingna Zhang, Yaowei Fang, Lei Chang, Guanzheng Luo, Xiaoying Fan

“…Methods: To address this, we generated ONT and PacBio data from the same single-cell cDNA libraries containing different amount of cells. …”
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Branch Duct IPMN-Associated Acute Pancreatitis in a Large Single-Center Cohort Study by Nicolò de Pretis, Luigi Martinelli, Antonio Amodio, Federico Caldart, Salvatore Crucillà, Maria Sole Battan, Alberto Zorzi, Stefano Francesco Crinò, Maria Cristina Conti Bellocchi, Laura Bernardoni, Giulia De Marchi, Pietro Campagnola, Roberto Salvia, Armando Gabbrielli, Alessandro Marcon, Luca Frulloni

“…Eighteen patients (13.3%) developed main pancreatic duct dilation ≥ 5 mm. No patients developed dilation of the main pancreatic duct ≥ 10 mm, mural nodules, thickened cystic walls, or jaundice. …”
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High-Grade Pneumonitis Events in Patients With Unresectable, Locally Advanced NSCLC Treated With Definitive Chemoradiation Followed by Adjuvant Durvalumab by Ciani Ellison, MD, Michael Martens, PhD, Juliana Alvarez Argote, MD, Samantha Benz, MD, Adam Currey, MD, Candice Johnstone, MD, MPH, Slade Klawikowski, PhD, Katie Livingston, MD, John M. Longo, MD, Smitha Menon, MD, Saryleine Ortiz de Choudens, MD, Lindsay Puckett, MD, Janet Retseck, MD, PhD, Monica Shukla, MD, Jonathan Thompson, MS, MD, Elizabeth Gore, MD, FACR

“…Results: Multivariate analysis did not reveal significant factors associated with G5 pneumonitis. …”
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Histone lactylation drives liver cancer metastasis by facilitating NSF1-mediated ferroptosis resistance after microwave ablation by Jiayan Huang, Huijing Xie, Ju Li, Xiaotong Huang, Yunshi Cai, Rui Yang, Dongmei Yang, Wuyongga Bao, Yongjie Zhou, Tao Li, Qiang Lu

“…By performing an integrated analysis of proteomic and transcriptomic profiles, we revealed that HCC cells exhibited increased intracellular iron ion homeostasis and developed resistance to platinum-based drugs after exposure to sublethal HS. …”
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Neural connectivity and balance control in aging: Insights from directed cortical networks during sensory conflict by Guozheng Wang, Yi Yang, Xiaoxia Liu, Anke Hua, Xin Luo, Yiming Cai, Yanhua Song, Jian Wang, Jun Liu

“…Electroencephalography (EEG) data were analyzed using generalized partial directed coherence (GPDC) to assess the directed functional connectivity and network efficiency. …”
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Peer-Assisted Lifestyle (PAL) intervention: a protocol of a cluster-randomised controlled trial of a health-coaching intervention delivered by veteran peers to improve obesity trea... by Stephanie L Orstad, Melanie Jay, Victoria Sweat, Sandra Wittleder, Scott E Sherman, Jeannette M Beasley, Shea Smith, Binhuan Wang, Allison Squires, Laura Wong, Yixin Fang, Paula Doebrich, Damara Gutnick, Craig Tenner

“…Patients in the EUC arm receive non-tailored healthy living handouts. In-person data collection occurs at baseline, month 6 and month 12 for patients in both arms. …”
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Association Between Size of Left Ventricle and Long‐Term Cardiovascular Events by Yun‐Jiu Cheng, Zi‐Li Liao, Li‐Juan Liu, Yue‐Dong Ma, Xu‐Miao Chen, Ze‐Xuan Wu, Hui‐Qiang Wei, Wei‐Dong Lin, Yi‐Jian Liao, Su‐Hua Wu, Yu‐Mei Xue, Li‐Chun Wang, Yang Wu

“…Background The prognostic significance of small left ventricle (LV) in the general population and its association with cardiovascular disease remain elusive. Methods Using data from the UK Biobank, 39 363 participants underwent baseline cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging and were categorized into 3 groups based on left ventricular end‐diastolic volume index: small, normal, and large LV. …”
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Navigator programme for hospitalised adults experiencing homelessness: protocol for a pragmatic randomised controlled trial by Lucie Richard, Rosane Nisenbaum, Vicky Stergiopoulos, Kerry McBrien, Michael Liu, Rebecca Brown, Anita Palepu, Jesse Jenkinson, Gabriel Fabreau, Cheryl Pedersen, Katherine Francombe Pridham, Sareeha Virani, Fred Ellerington, Alyssa Ranieri, Oluwagbenga Dada, Matthew To, Stephen Hwang

“…The Navigator Programme is a Critical Time Intervention case management programme that was developed to help homeless patients with their postdischarge needs and to link them with community-based health and social services. …”
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The Cumulative Atherogenic Index of Plasma Exposure in Carotid Plaque by YanChen Zhao, MD, XiaoYu Zhao, MD, YunFei Li, MD, YueRuiJing Liu, MD, JinQi Wang, PhD, JiaHe Wang, MD, ZhiYuan Wu, PhD, Jia Liu, PhD, XiuHua Guo, PhD, LiXin Tao, PhD

“…External validation was conducted using data from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study. …”
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Integrating CT radiomics and clinical features using machine learning to predict post-COVID pulmonary fibrosis by Qianqian Zhao, Yijie Li, Chunliu Zhao, Ran Dong, Jiaxin Tian, Ze Zhang, Lin Huang, Jingwen Huang, Junhai Yan, Zhitao Yang, Jiangnan Ruan, Ping Wang, Li Yu, Jieming Qu, Min Zhou

“…Results Seventy-eight features were extracted and reduced to ten features for model development. These included two qCT radiomics signatures: (1) whole lung_reticulation (%) interstitial lung disease (ILD) texture analysis, (2) interstitial lung abnormality (ILA)_Num of lung zones ≥ 5%_whole lung_ILA. …”
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HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES FOR INCREASING ADAPTIVE CAPABILITIESOF PREGNANT WOMEN by T. S. Krivonogova, O. M. Gerget, A. A. Ber, Ya. S. Pekker

“…Rotov was used, namely, the consideration of information measure as a measure of biological object preference behavior. Analysis of the results with information criterion of curve types using cluster analysis allowed to identify 4 standard types of adaptation strategies for pregnant women: adaptive, compensatory, compensatory-adaptive and maladaptive compensatory type of response. …”
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PANORAMA DOS ESTUDOS SOBRE AUTOEFICÁCIA E SATISFAÇÃO NO TRABALHO DE DOCENTES DA EDUCAÇÃO BÁSICA by Enizete Andrade Ferreira, Erika Cristina de Carvalho Silva Pereira, Maely Ferreira Holanda Ramos

“…It is remarkable, given the answers obtained from the analysis of the data, the importance of the aforementioned categories in the teaching action. …”
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Prediction of Soil Carbon Sequestration in Rangelands Regarding the Depth and Elevation of Sample Locations using Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) (Case Study: Lar Wat... by zeinab jafarian, zhila ghorbani

“…Results: The results of the analysis of variance (ANOVA) revealed that only soil sampling depth significantly affected the soil CS, but the effect of sampling location and the interaction effect of depth and height were not significant. …”
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Diffusion and Risks of House Prices in the Netherlands by Alfred Larm Teye

“…The methodology adopts a new Bayesian graphical approach which enables a data-driven identification of the important regions where the diffusion may predominantly emerge. …”
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Late-onset telomere biology disorders in adults: clinical insights and treatment outcomes from a retrospective registry cohort by Mareike Tometten, Fabian Beier, Martin Kirschner, Yannic Schumacher, Jeanette Walter, Margherita Vieri, Kim Kricheldorf, Alexander Röth, Uwe Platzbecker, Markus Radsak, Philippe Schafhausen, Selim Corbacioglu, Britta Höchsmann, Stefan Balabanov, Claas Hinze, Jörg Chromik, Michael Heuser, Michael Kreuter, Marcin W. Wlodarski, Miriam Elbracht, Ingo Kurth, Steffen Koschmieder, Jens Panse, Susanne Isfort, Robert Meyer, Tim H. Brümmendorf

“…Patients aged ≥18 years with an age-matched telomere length (TL) <10th percentile in lymphocytes, a detection of either a variant of uncertain significance, a pathogenic, or a likely pathogenic variant in TBD-associated genes, and available clinical data were included in this analysis. Based on this, a novel point-based algorithm for categorization into proven, probable, and suspected-only TBD cases was developed. …”
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ViSHWaS: Violence Study of Healthcare Workers and Systems—a global survey by Faisal Nawaz, Daniel Martin Simadibrata, Vikas Bansal, Ramesh Adhikari, Mariam Elsaban, Rahul Kashyap, Priyadarshini Bhattacharjee, Jorge Salluh, Hassan Dawood Alli, Joanna Lee, Dattatreya Mukherjee, Tanja Kovačević, Mohammad Yasir Essar, Christos Tsagkaris, Genesis Camacho-Leon, Faizan Ahmad, Akshat Banga, Hans Mautong, Razan Alamoudi, Umme Habiba Faisal, Gaurang Bhatt, Tanya Amal, Ayushi Mendiratta, Bhaswanth Bollu, L V Simhachalam Kutikuppala, Ivan Huespe, Aisha Khalid, Mohammed Amir Rais, Alisha Lakhani, Piyush Garg, Harsha Pattnaik, Raghu Gandhi, Ramesh Pandit, Pierre Ciza N, Nimsi Barrios, Kelly Meza, Susan Okonkwo, Amuza Dhabuliwo, Hafeez Hamza, Arash Nemat, Anne Kampa, Rakhtan K Qasba, Pranjal Sharma, Taru Dutt, Pratikkumar Vekaria, Faisal A Nawaz, Salim Surani, L V Simhachalam Kutikuppala, Divya Randhawa, Rakhtan Qasba, Trupti Pandit, Ayesha Khalid, Ravina Verma, Kush Shah, John Counsell, Naresh Dasari, Melissa Schlenker, Raghavendra Tirupathi, Gowthami Sai Jagirdhar, Nancy Nagib, Benjamin Schlenker, Taha Mansoor, N Pierre Ciza, Leydi Del Lema, Susan Sheila, Bello Saifullah Muhammad, Barakat Kolawole, L V Kutikuppala, Keidy Zamora, Bikona Ghosh, Sama Soliman, Zainab Ayoob, Lina Almahmoud, Dohha Mohammed, Oyindamola Obadare, Era Mae Ramirez, Kalloush Shahed, Mohammed Yasir Essar, Sarya Swed, Temaa Alklani, Ishimwe Florent, Goodluck Nchasi, Daren Poh How, Mohamed Elfagieh, Moath Almekhlafi, Reshon Hadmon, Anasonye Emmanuel, Yosra Magdi Makki, Rodrigue Ndabashinze, Hussein Dawoud, Dimitrios Kantas, Daniella Myriam Pierre, Zeynep Pelin Orhan, Usama Oguz, Hedys Selene Mogollón, Ramesha Remy, Marija Vukoja, Srdjan Gavrilovic, Alicja Rydzewska Rosolowska, Umme Faisal, Franz Lopez, Salem Ramirez, Lisdamys Morera Gonzalez, Mohammed Alkawak, Marco Antonio Villar, Kelly Maza, Shehu Bledi, Jonida Naska

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Competing risk and random survival forest models for predicting survival in post-resection elderly stage I–III colorectal cancer patients by Qian Zhang, Rongxuan Xu, Wenchong Zhen, Xueting Bai, Zihan Li, Yixin Zhang, Wei Wu, Zhihan Yao, Xiaofeng Li

“…The Fine-Gray subdistribution risk and RSF models we developed have good discrimination power and accuracy. …”
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