The efficacy of physiological parameters in assessing the clustering of cardiovascular risk factors (CCRF) among children and adolescents by Wu Yan, Luting Peng, Yanan Shi, Mengyao Cao, Qingqing Zheng, Shenghu Gao, Qianqi Liu, Xiaonan Li

“…The Delong tests were utilized to compare the differences and determine predictive superiority. Results A total of 9039 children and adolescents were included, among whom 37.9% were overweight or obese. …”
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Development of scalable coastal and offshore kelp farming for marine biomass production by Michael Stekoll, Scott Lindell, Clifford A. Goudey, Hauke L. Kite‐Powell, David Bailey, Kendall Barbery, Loretta Roberson, Tamsen Peeples, Nicholas Mangini, Alf Pryor, Alexandra Meyer, Charles Yarish

“…There were three major aspects of the research: (1) optimize nursery production and seeding lines for outplanting; (2) design an economical, modular outplanting structure; and (3) develop methods to efficiently harvest the product. Farm designs were based on catenary structures and the use of spreader bars with variable spacing of grow‐lines and line types. …”
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Patient Satisfaction with Dental Services: A Cross-Sectional Studyof Five Public Sector Dental Hospitals in Karachi by Sana Iqbal, Sheeza Shah, Bismillah Naeem, Sameera Kazi, Atiya Noor, Mirza Hamid Baig

“… Objective: This study assessed patient satisfaction with dental facilities, services, and treatment while identifying key areas for improvement in five public sector dental hospitals in Karachi, Pakistan. Methods: This multi-centered cross-sectional study was conducted at five public sector dental teaching hospitals over three months. …”
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Cortical adaptations in Tai Chi practitioners during sensory conflict: an EEG-based effective connectivity analysis of postural control by Guozheng Wang, Xiaoxia Liu, Yiming Cai, Jian Wang, Ying Gao, Jun Liu

“…Methods Fifty-two young adult participants (long-term TC practitioners = 22; non-practitioners = 30) performed balance tasks under sensory congruent and conflict conditions using a virtual reality headset with a rotating supporting surface. …”
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Characteristics of sleep quality and influencing factors in patients with burning mouth syndrome: a preliminary analysis by LU Chenghui, YANG Chenglong, ZHOU Xuan, JIANG Xinxiang, TANG Guoyao

“…Objective To investigate the sleep quality in patients with burning mouth syndrome (BMS) and its influencing factors, providing a basis for developing sleep intervention measures to reduce the impact of BMS symptoms. Methods This study was reviewed and approved by the Medical Ethics Committee, and informed consent was obtained from patients. …”
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Comparison of growth, photosynthetic, and chlorophyll fluorescence characteristics of different native cultivars in Castanea henryi by XU Bin, WU Jingyi, WU Jianfeng, SU Xinyu, ZHAO Junru, ZHU Zhoujun, LI Jianxin

“…With the Li-6800 system maintained at identical chamber settings to those used for light-response curve measurements, a 30-minute light adaptation was performed before parameter determination. The recorded parameters included: initial fluorescent light (F0); maximal fluorescence (Fm), PS Ⅱ primary light energy conversion efficiency (Fv/Fm), potential efficiency of primary conversion of PS Ⅱ (Fv/F0), actual photochemical efficiency of PS Ⅱ (Fv'/Fm'), photochemical quenching coefficient (qP), electron transport rate (ETR), and non-photochemical quenching (NPQ). …”
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Effect of Two Different Pretreatments of Brewers Spent Grain Used as Feed Ingredient on Nutritional, Immunological, and Metabolical Parameters in Gilthead Seabream (<i>Sparus aurat... by Francisca P. Martínez-Antequera, Paula Simó-Mirabet, Verónica de las Heras, Marta Román, Juan Miguel Mancera, Juan Antonio Martos-Sitcha, Francisco J. Moyano

“…To address these limitations, various pretreatment methods (physical, chemical, or enzymatic) can be applied prior to its inclusion in feed formulations. …”
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Vaccine sero-monitoring and sero-surveillance of Peste des petits ruminants in small ruminants in West Gojjam zone, Amhara region, Ethiopia by Mesafint Mandefro, Saddam Mohammed Ibrahim, Demeke Sibhatu, Nebiyou Kassa, Kemal Emiyu, Kebede Debebe, Bereket Dessalegn, Mastewal Birhan, Molalegne Bitew

“…BackgroundPeste des petits ruminants (PPR) is an acute or subacute, highly contagious, and economically important, transboundary disease of small ruminants caused by Peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV).ObjectivesThe objective of this study was to determine the seroconversion rate in PPR vaccinated flock of sheep (Sekela district) and the seroprevalence of PPRV in unvaccinated flocks of sheep and goats (Yilmanadensa district).MethodsA cross-sectional study was conducted from January to March 2022 in two selected districts of West Gojjam zone, Ethiopia. …”
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Optimized Production of Virus-like Particles in a High-CHO-Cell-Density Transient Gene Expression System for Foot-and-Mouth Disease Vaccine Development by Ana Clara Mignaqui, Alejandra Ferella, Cintia Sánchez, Matthew Stuible, Romina Scian, Jorge Filippi, Sabrina Beatriz Cardillo, Yves Durocher, Andrés Wigdorovitz

“…While novel vaccine technologies have been explored, most fail to meet industrial scalability, cost-efficiency, or multiserotype flexibility required for effective FMD control. …”
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Co-creation and evaluation of online care maps for children with medical complexity by Sherri Adams, Madison Beatty, Blossom G. Dharmaraj, Clara Moore, Arti D. Desai, Leah Bartlett, Erin Culbert, Eyal Cohen, Jennifer N. Stinson, Julia Orkin

“…Methods This mixed methods study utilized an exploratory sequential design. …”
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DEVELOPMENT OF THE AXIOSPHERE OF THE FUTURE TEACHER IN THE DIALOGUE SPACE OF MODERN EDUCATION by N. A. Astashova, S. K. Bondyreva, A. P. Smantser

“…These values have separable functions. Firstly, they determine the content and nature of the educational activity. …”
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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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Research Progress on Information Model of Urban Green Space by Wei ZHANG, Yahan YAN

“…ObjectiveWith the rapid development of urban information models, 3D virtual scenes, and digital twin cities, the methods and standards for city information modeling have been widely adopted. …”
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Linking Electrocardiogram and Echocardiogram: Comparing Classical Machine Learning and Deep Learning Neural Networks for the Detection of Regional Wall Motion Abnormalities by Shantanu M. Joshi, Hana R. Shaik, Shivam Rai Sharma, Philip Strong, Uma Srivatsa, Imo Ebong, Hyoyoung Jeong, Chen-Nee Chuah, Lihong Mo

“…Future studies are needed to determine the optimal CNN architecture that balances the target classifier performance and computational efficiency for ease of deployment with larger datasets.…”
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Advances in research on lithium in coal-bearing strata and its isotopes by Yun ZHANG, Yingchun WEI, Daiyong CAO, Xin LI, Liangliang JIN, Bo DONG, Xin WANG

“…The isotopic fractionation of lithium in coal-bearing strata is primarily affected by factors including temperature, weathering, metamorphism, and the formation of secondary clay minerals. The methods for determining lithium content in samples from coal-bearing strata have been relatively mature, and high-precision techniques for lithium isotope tests have offered a possibility for the extensive application of lithium isotopes. …”
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Applying the Nonadoption, Abandonment, Scale-Up, Spread, and Sustainability (NASSS) Framework to Adapt the CHAMP App for Pediatric Feeding Tube Weaning: Application and Case Report by Dana M Bakula, Alexandra Zax, Sarah Edwards, Kristina Nash, April Escobar, Rachel Graham, Amy Ricketts, Ryan Thompson, Sarah Bullard, Julianne Brogren, Leah Shimmens, Lori A Erickson

“…MethodsWe used the Non-adoption, Abandonment, Scale-up, Spread, and Sustainability (NASSS) framework as a formative tool and conducted a case study beta test. …”
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Features of blood parameters and adaptational status of Balb/c and C57Bl/6 mice lines in the absence of special influences by G. V. Zhukova, E. M. Frantsiyants, A. I. Shikhlyarova, I. V. Kaplieva, L. K. Trepitaki, P. S. Kachesova, A. V. Galina, N. D. Ushakova, E. V. Shalashnaya, O. G. Ishonina

“…The revealed regulatory and metabolic interlinear differences can determine the features in the reaction of the body of animals belonging to different lines to the malignant process and efficiency of antitumor therapy.…”
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Neuro-fuzzy inference system and white shark optimization of coagulation-flocculation of aquaculture wastewater treatment by A.F. Mohamed, H. Rezk

“…Therefore, the objective of this study is determining the optimal operating condition of coagulation-flocculation through optimizing the values of the three input parameters.METHODS: Artificial intelligence and recent optimzation algorithms are integrated to achieve the purpose of this study work. …”
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Skin melanoma cells produce diverse gelsolin (GSN) isoforms, which play non-redundant roles in cells’ proliferation and motility by Ewa Mazurkiewicz-Stanek, Aleksandra Makowiecka, Iryna Kopernyk, Michał Majkowski, Anna Boguszewska-Czubara, Tomasz Trombik, Paweł Karpiński, Piotr Donizy, Antonina J. Mazur

“…To date, no studies have been conducted to determine whether GSN diverse isoforms are produced by melanoma cells in vivo and melanoma cell lines. …”
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Uncertainty-aware automatic TNM staging classification for [18F] Fluorodeoxyglucose PET-CT reports for lung cancer utilising transformer-based language models and multi-task learni... by Stephen H. Barlow, Sugama Chicklore, Yulan He, Sebastien Ourselin, Thomas Wagner, Anna Barnes, Gary J.R. Cook

“…This is combined with an uncertainty classification task (‘u’) to account for studies with ambiguous TNM status. Methods 2498 reports were annotated by a nuclear medicine physician and split into train, validation, and test datasets. …”
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