Physicians’ clinical experience and perspectives following a pilot, blended learning, point of care ultrasound course in Ghana- a mixed methods analysis by Anna Pathak, Felix Limbani, Yaw Asante Awuku, Angela Booth, Elizabeth Joekes

“…To expand POCUS expertise in Ghana, we co-developed and piloted a context specific, multi-disciplinary, blended learning programme, targeted at physicians of any grade or speciality providing acute care in the public health sector. …”
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Watt-Level Output Power Operation From Diode-Laser Pumped Circular Buried Depressed-Cladding Waveguides Inscribed in Nd:YAG by Direct Femtosecond-Laser Writing by Gabriela Salamu, Florin Jipa, Marian Zamfirescu, Nicolaie Pavel

“…A classical step-by-step translation of the medium method, as well as a newly developed helical-moving technique, were employed to fabricate waveguides with 100- <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mu\mbox{m}$</tex-math></inline-formula> diameter. …”
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Air quality monitoring in dairy farms: Description of air quality dynamics in a tunnel-ventilated housing barn and milking parlor of a commercial dairy farm by A. Jannat, Amanda Johnson, D. Manriquez

“…Understanding these dynamics provides the opportunity to develop mitigation strategies for enhancing air quality within dairy facilities.…”
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Genomic sequencing and evolutionary analysis of bovine kobuvirus in Yunnan Province, China by Guojun Wang, Qiuhui Deng, Peiying Zhu, Veerasak Punyapornwithaya, Xuseng Shi, Yan Liu, Xinhui Duan, Zailei Li, Wengui Li

“…Positive samples were inoculated into Vero cells for continuous passage, followed by molecular biology, immunofluorescence, and electron microscopy identification. …”
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&lsquo;Services were completely shut down&rsquo;: access to rehabilitation in the rural Eastern Cape Province of South Africa during COVID-19 by Madri Engelbrecht, Lieketseng Ned

“…Practitioners suggested that integrated collaborative health and rehabilitation service delivery enabled the continuation of some service aspects to some persons with disabilities. …”
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Self-Harm in Eating Disorders (SHINE): a mixed-methods exploratory study by Maria Michail, Helen Bould, Anna Lavis, Sheryllin McNeil, Anthony Winston, Kalen Reid, Christina L Easter, Rosina Pendrous

“…However, why a young person may develop and continue to experience both an eating disorder and self-harm is unclear. …”
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Organizational approaches to prevent bedsores by A. V. Kapshytar

“…Alternative ways are special plastic splint, bedsore mattresses with continuously changing pressure in individual sections, beds, cushions, pads and mattresses filled with water, air, foam, gel. …”
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Efficacy, safety, and immunogenicity of biosimilars compared with the biologic etanercept in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Aurélio Matos Andrade, Juliana da Motta Girardi, Erica Tatiane da Silva, Jakeline Ribeiro Barbosa, Daniella Cristina Rodrigues Pereira

“…The analysis measures were relative risk (RR) for dichotomous data and mean difference (MD) for continuous data. The statistical analysis for preparing meta-analyses was developed by the Review Manager 5.1.4 software. …”
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Comparison Between Norepinephrine Alone Versus Norepinephrine/Vasopressin Combination for Resuscitation in Septic Shock by Rania M. Hussien, Hanaa A. El-Gendy, Mohamed I. Elsaidy, Mostafa S. Abdelhamid, Tarek S. Shabana

“…Thirty-nine (86.7%) patients in the NE group continued with the studied drugs combination after 48 hours versus 22 (48.9%) in NE/VP group (P<.001). …”
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Tibiofemoral Joint Contact Force Estimation Based on OpenSim Musculoskeletal Modeling by WANG Xiaoling, JIAN Jiawei, XIE Qiurong, LIAN Zhanghui, GUO Chunming, GUO Jiemei, LI Yurong

“…ObjectiveA full-body musculoskeletal model is developed based on OpenSim, which has a knee joint structure with double contact points and three degrees of freedom, and to estimate the knee joint load, so as to provide the reliable basis for precise diagnosis of the patients with knee osteoarthritis and formulation of customized rehabilitation plan in clinic.MethodAuthorized public data set from Stanford university, published by the Shiley Center for Orthopaedic Research &amp; Education at Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California, was used to collect four subjects who had been undergone the total knee arthroplasty and implanted the pressure testing equipment. …”
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Image Classification Model Based on Contrastive Learning With Dynamic Adaptive Loss by Quandeng Gou, Jingxuan Zhou, Zi Li, Fangrui Zhang, Yuheng Ren

“…Still, it improves the cross-entropy loss to develop a dynamic adaptive loss, enabling the model to learn indistinguishable features effectively. …”
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Smart Healthy Schools: An IoT-enabled concept for multi-room dynamic air quality control by Alessandro Zivelonghi, Alessandro Giuseppi

“…The cloud-based LoRa system is capable of continuous and simultaneous monitoring of a variety of sensors and IAQ parameters including indoor/oudoor temperatures, rel. humidities and human-emitted excess CO2. …”
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Outcomes and Complications of Wright Medical INVISION Talus for Complex Total Ankle Arthroplasty by Yvonne C. Conway MD, Spenser Cassinelli MD, Scott Whitlow MD, Gregory A. Lundeen MD, MPH

“…This measurement was not able to be obtained for one patient with a prior subtalar fusion due to talar continuity with calcaneus. In the two patients that had either implant failure or required reoperation, the talar thickness measured 0.5mm and 2.9mm, respectively. …”
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Kalar1 and Kalar2, Newly Released Wheat Varieties for Cultivation under Rain-fed Conditions by Star Ali Awtaq, Ali Shamsullah Azeez, Yadgar Ali Mahmood, Narmeen Rashid Abdulkareem, Khalil Musa Jamal

“…This project was conducted at the Directory of Garmian Agricultural Research to develop new cultivars through four field trials from 2009 to 2013. …”
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Being a professional nurse until retirement – a qualitative interview study in Germany by Lisa Schmedding, Theresa A. Forbrig, Johannes Gräske

“…Thematic categories were developed using a structured content analysis approach following Kuckartz, supported by both deductive and inductive coding via the MAXQDA software to identify key themes related to job retention. …”
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Germline microRNA-based signatures predict toxicity and response to anti-CTLA-4 therapy by Joanne B. Weidhaas, Kristen M. McGreevy, Nicholas Marco, Nora Sundahl, Christopher R. Cabanski, Christine Spencer, Theresa LaVallee, Piet Ost, Donatello Telesca

“…Conclusions Our findings continue to support the utility of mirSNPs as predictive biomarkers of immune checkpoint therapy, for both toxicity and response. …”
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If not us, then who? Ethnographic insights into nurses’ role in redesigning a rural health service to meet changing demands by Helle Krone-Hjertstrøm, Bente Norbye, Birgit Abelsen, Aud Uhlen Obstfelder

“…First, ‘Absent present PCPs’ highlights how nurses ensure continuity of care during the intermittent absence of primary care physicians (PCPs). …”
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PO68 | Whole blood hypercoagulable profiles in a patient with markedly elevated lipoprotein(A) plasma levels and thrombotic complications: a case report

“…Six months later, she developed acute ischemia of the left lower extremity, which required sequential thrombectomy, bypass, and angioplasty. …”
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Reactive Oxygen Species: A Double-Edged Sword in the Modulation of Cancer Signaling Pathway Dynamics by Manisha Nigam, Bajrang Punia, Deen Bandhu Dimri, Abhay Prakash Mishra, Andrei-Flavius Radu, Gabriela Bungau

“…This refined understanding advances the field by highlighting context-specific vulnerabilities in tumor redox biology and guiding more precise therapeutic strategies. Continued research on redox-regulated signaling and its interplay with inflammation and therapy resistance is essential to unravel ROS dynamics in tumors and develop targeted, context-specific interventions harnessing their dual roles.…”
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Molecular mechanism of acquired drug resistance in the EGFR‐TKI resistant cell line HCC827‐TR by Tao Yu, Qian Xia, Ting Gong, Jing Wang, DianSheng Zhong

“…However, most patients will develop acquired resistance after 9–13 months. This study investigated novel molecular mechanisms of acquired resistance to EGFR‐TKIs to identify a potential new treatment for EGFR‐TKI resistant NSCLC patients. …”
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