Evaluating the effectiveness of handheld ultrasound in primary blast lung injury: a comprehensive study by Shifeng Shao, Zhengbin Wu, Jun Liu, Zhikang Liao, Yuan Yao, Liang Zhang, Yaoli Wang, Hui Zhao

“…Primary blast lung injury (PBLI) is associated with high morbidity and mortality rates, while early diagnostic methods are limited. With advancements in medical technology, and portable handheld ultrasound devices, the efficacy of ultrasound in detecting occult lung injuries early remains unclear. …”
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SerpinA5 Inhibits Malignant Biological Behavior of Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma by Regulating Fn/Integrin-β1 Signaling Pathway by Yu WEI, Zhouhua ZHANG, Zhifang LI, Li ZHANG

“…ObjectiveTo investigate the effect of SerpinA5 on the malignant biological behavior of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) and its molecular mechanism. MethodsThe expression levels of the SerpinA5 gene in various tumors and adjacent normal tissues were analyzed by using the TIMER2.0 database. …”
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Clinical Efficacy of a Position-Responding Mandibular Advancement Device in Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea by Sung-Woon On, Dong-Kyu Kim, Min Hyuk Lee, Ji Hae Lee, Kyung Chul Lee, Soo-Hwan Byun, Seok Jin Hong

“…Methods. Fourteen patients diagnosed with OSA participated in this study. …”
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Comparative study of the efficacy and safety of Chondroguard® during its combined (intra-articular and intramuscular) and intramuscular injection in patients with knee osteoarthrit... by L. I. Alekseeva, E. P. Sharapova, N. G. Kashevarova, E. A. Taskina, A. M. Lila, A. N. Bogdanov, S. A. Bozhkova, A. A. Bagretsova, S. M. Noskov, E. A. Grunina

“…All the patients were prescribed nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as meloxicam 15 mg. To determine the efficiency of treatment, the investigators estimated the following parameters: pain intensity on a visual analogue scale (VAS), the total WOMAC index and its components (pain, stiffness, and functional insufficiency), sensory and affective-emotional pain characteristics (for the target joint) according to McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ) scores. …”
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Comparative assessment of primary and paraneoplastic gout in lung cancer by O. V. Syniachenko, Yu. V. Dumanskyi, Ye. D. Yehudina, O. Ye. Chernyshova, P. A. Stepko, D. M. Fedorov

“…The objective of the study: to compare the clinical and laboratory course of primary gout and disease in the LC patients compared with the tumor process clinical course in the other signs of PNPS presence and to identify risk factors. Materials and methods. 113 patients with gout (97 men and 16 women aged 33 to 79 years) were observed. …”
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Fracture identification and 3D reconstruction of coal-rock combinations based on VRA-UNet network by Dengke WANG, Longhang WANG, Yaguang QIN, Le WEI, Tanggen CAO, Wenrui LI, Lu LI, Xu CHEN, Yuling XIA

“…In the 3D reconstruction of coal-rock combinations fractures, in response to the problem that traditional threshold segmentation methods cannot accurately determine the threshold size between coal and rock, resulting in poor fracture segmentation performance, a new VRA-UNet coal-rock combinations fracture identification model based on deep learning theory is proposed, providing an optimized solution for accurate identification of coal-rock combinations fractures. …”
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Ecological adaptability of rice cultivars with different types under the low temperature and weak sunshine condition by LI Min, LUO Deqiang, JIANG Xuehai, ZHOU Weijia, GI Guangmei, WANG Xuehong, LI Shuxing

“…The root bleeding intensity of ecology-adaptive cultivars achieved 20.2 kg/(h·667m²) at the heading stage and 4.55 kg/(h·667 m²) at the maturity stage, which were 8.8% and 21.6% lower than that in the ecology-adaptive cultivars, respectively.According to the results, a strategy to increase the grain yield of the ecology-adaptive cultivars is suggested: keeping a higher filled grain ratio and a higher 1 000-grain mass, which are able to be accomplished by increasing nitrogen accumulation during the growth period from heading to maturity. Moreover, these methods such as cultivating strong roots and improving root activity are helpful to increase the amount of nitrogen absorption.…”
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Is the Hip Keeping the Ankle Out of Work after Total Ankle Arthroplasty? by Frank DiLiberto PT, PhD, Maxine Olson MS, Finola Summerville, Stacey Meardon PhD, PT, Anand Vora MD

“…Methods: Ten people after TAA (69.6±8.6 years, 5 female, 45.4±9.2 months post TAA) and five healthy control participants (66.8±8.3 years, 2 female) have completed this ongoing case-control study. …”
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Reproductive impacts and disease burden of metritis and placental retention in dairy cows: A longitudinal monitoring study in Southern Vietnam (2022–2024) by Thuong Thi Nguyen, Lien Thi Bich Nguyen, Khang Nguyen Duong, Thuan Khanh Nguyen

“…Materials and Methods: A longitudinal study was conducted on a dairy herd monitored through skin conductance responses activity sensors and DataFlow™ II software (Allflex Livestock Intelligence, MSD Animal Health Intelligence, USA). …”
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Population-Level Dissemination of a Smoking Cessation Smartphone App: Quasi-Experimental Comparison of Values-Based Messages in Social Media Advertisements by Jonathan B Bricker, Margarita Santiago-Torres, Kristin E Mull, Brianna M Sullivan, Ravi Mehrotra

“…The study population included a selected media market of individuals living in 7 metro cities of India – Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Pune – who were exposed to one of 6 social media advertisements from January 16 to May 5, 2024. MethodsThe advertisement campaign design for each of the identified values, based on previous smoking cessation trial data, followed a collaborative iterative process. …”
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Recruiting Medical, Dental, and Biomedical Students as First Responders in the Immediate Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Prospective Follow-Up Study by Nicolas Schnetzler, Victor Taramarcaz, Tara Herren, Eric Golay, Simon Regard, François Mach, Amanta Nasution, Robert Larribau, Melanie Suppan, Eduardo Schiffer, Laurent Suppan

“…MethodsThis was a prospective follow-up study, conducted between November 2021 and March 2022 at the University of Geneva Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland. …”
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Merging of the Fukushima Health Management Survey With the National and Local Cancer Registry to Refine the Detection of Thyroid Cancer Cases After the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nucle... by Reiko Kimura‐Tsuchiya, Masanori Nagao, Shigehira Saji, Fumikazu Hayashi, Tetsuya Ohira, Hiroki Shimura, Fumihiko Furuya, Satoru Suzuki, Satoshi Suzuki, Tetsuo Ishikawa, Susumu Yokoya, Hitoshi Ohto, Seiji Yasumura

“…Methods The FHMS‐eligible residents' information was supplemented by merging and cross‐validating the FHMS and CR data using the Fukushima Prefectural Cancer Registry (FPCR), 2008–2015, and the National Cancer Registry (NCR), 2016–2018. …”
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GULP1 as a novel diagnostic and predictive biomarker in hepatocellular carcinoma by Hyung Seok Kim, Jung Hwan Yoon, Ji Yi Choi, Moon Gyeong Yoon, Geum Ok Baek, Minji Kang, Se Ha Jang, Won Park, Yunjin Go, Jestlin Tianthing Ng, Suk Woo Nam, Jee-Yeong Jeong, Ji Eun Han, Hyo Jung Cho, Su Bin Lim, Soon Sun Kim, Jae Youn Cheong, Jung Woo Eun

“…Methods We analyzed genomic datasets from The Cancer Genome Atlas and Gene Expression Omnibus databases via least absolute shrinkage and selection operator Cox regression and 10-fold cross-validation, leading to the development of a 15-gene risk score model, which was validated using three independent datasets. …”
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Predictive modeling of electrochromic performance in ammonium metatungstate solutions using machine learning algorithms by Bocheng Jiang, Honglong Ning, Muyun Li, Rihui Yao, Chenxiao Guo, Yucheng Huang, Zijie Guo, Dongxiang Luo, Dong Yuan, Junbiao Peng

“…Decision tree regression (DTR) and kernel ridge regression (KRR) emerged as the most effective ML methods for these ECDs.…”
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The Сontent of Some Humoral and Metabolic Vasoactive Factors in the Blood of the Cirrhotic Patients and Their Dependence on the Hepatopulmonary Syndrome Severity Degree by Abrahamovych M., Tolopko S., Fayura O.

“…Materials and methods. Into the study there were involved 80 patients [23 women (28.75 %) and 57 men (71.25 %) aged 27 to 67 years old] with LC, in a randomized manner with preliminary stratifi cation by the presence of HPS to achieve the aim. …”
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The Effect of Deficit Irrigation on Yield and Its Related Traits in Promising Chiti Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) Genotypes under Zanjan Province Climatic Condition by Seyedeh Soudabeh Shobeiri, Ali Akbar Asadi

“…Materials and MethodsIn order to investigate the effects of deficit irrigation on some phenological and yield traits of chiti beans, 14 promising chiti bean genotypes obtained from breeding programs along with Sadri and Kosha control cultivars, in two consecutive crop years from 2022 to 2023, at Kheirabad Zanjan Research Station, in two conditions normal irrigation (irrigation cycle of 5 days) and deficit irrigation (irrigation cycle of 9 days) were investigated. …”
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Frog Skin Peptides Hylin-a1, AR-23, and RV-23: Promising Tools Against Carbapenem-Resistant <i>Escherichia coli</i> and <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i> Infections by Annalisa Chianese, Annalisa Ambrosino, Rosa Giugliano, Francesca Palma, Preetu Parimal, Marina Acunzo, Alessandra Monti, Nunzianna Doti, Carla Zannella, Massimiliano Galdiero, Anna De Filippis

“…A microdilution assay evaluated the antibacterial effect, determining the peptides’ minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC). …”
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Second-harmonic generation microscopy of murine scleral remodeling by collagenase and reparative collagen mimetic peptides by Daniel E. Savage, Daniel E. Savage, Aldo Tecse, Aldo Tecse, Jiaxi Zhou, James A. Germann, Mark R. Buckley, Mark R. Buckley, Robert O. Baratta, Brian J. Del Buono, Eric Schlumpf, Michael Telias, Michael Telias, Susana Marcos, Susana Marcos

“…This investigation is a pilot study to determine if a novel collagen mimetic peptide (CMP) has a reparative function for scleral collagen organization after collagenase digestion, a cause for scleral thinning and increased creep rates, as this may have application in the pharmacologic treatment of myopia.MethodsFresh, ex vivo, scleral tissue samples from 3 albino Sprague–Dawley rats (5 eyes) and from 8 C57/Black mice (8 eyes) underwent sequential collagenase digestion and treatment with a CMP solution. …”
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Wireless skin sensors for electrocardiogram and heart rate monitoring in the neonatal intensive care unit: a prospective feasibility, safety, and accuracy study by Eva Senechal, Daniel Radeschi, Shasha Lv, Emilie Jeanne, Ana Saveedra Ruiz, Lydia Tao, Brittany Dulmage, Wissam Shalish, Robert Edward Kearney, Guilherme Sant’Anna

“…Accuracy was measured using bias and 95% limits of agreement, and the coefficient of determination. The ability of the wireless sensors to detect normal and abnormal HR values was evaluated using a Clark Error Grid. …”
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Contrast-enhanced US Bosniak Classification: intra- and inter-rater agreement, confounding features, and diagnostic performance by Dong-dong Jin, Bo-wen Zhuang, Ke Lin, Nan Zhang, Bin Qiao, Xiao-yan Xie, Xiao-hua Xie, Yan Wang

“…Purpose To explore intra- and inter-rater agreement for US features, identify confounding features, and assess the diagnostic performance of CEUS Bosniak classification. Materials and methods This retrospective study included patients with complex CRMs who underwent CEUS examination from January 2013 to August 2023. …”
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