Virtual care for prostate cancer survivorship: protocol for an evaluation of a nurse-led algorithm-enhanced virtual clinic implemented at five cancer centres across Canada by Antonio Finelli, Ricardo Rendon, Joseph A Cafazzo, Robert Hamilton, Alejando Berlin, Jacqueline L Bender, Denise Bryant-Lukosius, Quynh Pham, Jason Hearn, Ian Brown, Andrew H Feifer, Geoffrey Gotto

“…Knowledge translation efforts will include diffusion, dissemination, and application approaches to ensure that knowledge is translated to both academic and lay audiences.…”
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Electrokinetics of CO₂ Reduction in Imidazole Medium Using RuO₂.SnO₂-Immobilized Glassy Carbon Electrode by Mostafizur Rahaman, Md. Fahamidul Islam, Zannatul Mumtarin Moushumy, Md Mosaraf Hossain, Md. Nurnobi Islam, Mahmudul Hasan, Mohammad Atiqur Rahman, Nahida Akter Tanjila, Mohammad A. Hasnat

“…The electrode fabrication process involved the drop-casting method, where RuO₂.SnO₂ was incorporated onto the surface of the GCE. …”
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Development and Validation of an MRI‐Based Radiomics Nomogram to Predict the Prognosis of De Novo Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer Patients by Wen‐Qi Liu, Yu‐Ting Xue, Xu‐Yun Huang, Bin Lin, Xiao‐Dong Li, Zhi‐Bin Ke, Dong‐Ning Chen, Jia‐Yin Chen, Yong Wei, Qing‐Shui Zheng, Xue‐Yi Xue, Ning Xu

“…This helps in understanding the prognosis and improves the shared decision‐making process.…”
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Green synthesis and characterization of silver-doped ZnO nanoparticles using tobacco leaf extract: A novel hydrothermal approach for antibacterial and antifungal applications by Jebel Haji Mahamud, Abebe Belay Gemta, Alemu Kebede Hordofa, Getachew Abebe Argaw, Umer Sherefedin, Muktar Ahmed, Tesfaye Feyisa Hurrisa, Gurumurthi T.

“…This eco-friendly method utilizes tobacco leaf aqueous extract as a reducing and stabilizing agent, combined with a hydrothermal process at 120 °C for 6 h to control nanoparticle formation. …”
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Development of plasma burn-through simulation code and validation in SUNIST-2 and EAST by Ximan Li, Zichong Song, Yunxiao Wei, Runze Chen, Wenbin Liu, Zhengbo Cheng, Jinping Qian, Yi Tan, Long Zeng, Zhe Gao

“…A full electromagnetic plasma burn-through simulation code has been developed to improve understanding of the plasma breakdown and initiation process in tokamaks, including spherical tokamaks. …”
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Eco-benign synthesis of multifunctional silver nanoparticles using leptochloa fusca for enhanced biomedical and catalytic applications by Riaz Ahmad Khan, Hidayat Ullah Khan, Shahnaz, Kamran Tahir, Moamen S Refat, Abdel Majid A Adam, Amnah Mohammed Alsuhaibani

“…These findings suggest that LF-AgNPs exhibit significant capability for integration into catalytic process of MB reduction and selected biomedical applications.…”
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Iterative Forecasting of Financial Time Series: The Greek Stock Market from 2019 to 2024 by Evangelos Bakalis, Francesco Zerbetto

“…Furthermore, the drift and diffusion terms are calculated at each iteration. The proposed model is general, allowing the kind of stochastic process to vary from one iterative step to another, and its applicability is not restricted to financial data. …”
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Preparation of Phosphorus-Doped Boron Nitride Aerogel and Its Heavy Metal Ion Adsorption Properties by Junzhong ZHANG, Zheng LIU, Bo LIU, Yanlong LI

“…Kinetic analysis indicated that the adsorption process followed pseudo-second-order kinetics (R2 > 0.985) for P-BNaerogel, driven by chemisorption via coordination bonds between metal ions and P=O groups, whereas BNaerogel adhered to pseudo-first-order kinetics (R2 > 0.996), indicative of physical adsorption. …”
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Green Synthesis and Characterization of Silver Nanoparticles from <i>Minthostachys acris</i> Schmidt Lebuhn (Muña) and Its Evaluation as a Bactericidal Agent Against <i>Escherichia... by Fabián Ccahuana Ayma, Ana María Osorio Anaya, Gabrielle Caroline Peiter, Silvia Jaerger, Ricardo Schneider

“…Based on this, the present study aims to carry out green synthesis (biosynthesis), characterization, and antibacterial evaluation of reduced and stabilized silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) with aqueous extracts of <i>Minthostachys acris</i> in a simple, ecological, and environmentally safe manner. The extraction process of the organic components is performed using two methods: immersion and the agitation of the leaves of <i>Minthostachys acris</i> Schmidt Lebuhn (Muña) at 0.1% for different times (0.5, 1, 3, 6, and 10 min). …”
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Monolithic Microlens VCSELs With High Beam Quality by Youwen Huang, Xing Zhang, Jianwei Zhang, Yiyang Xie, Werner Hofmann, Yongqiang Ning, Lijun Wang

“…This lens is fabricated by a one-step diffusion-limited wet etch process. VCSELs with microlenses with different curvature radius are designed, fabricated, and characterized, as well as reference VCSEL devices without the microlens. …”
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Mucoadhesive Mini-Containers with Unidirectional Drug Release Capacity for Macromolecular Therapeutics by Han CS, Choi YR, Jung WY, Kang JH, Kim DW, Park CW

“…To address these barriers, we have designed a novel mini-container system with unidirectional drug release and enhanced mucoadhesion capacities.Methods: Mini-containers composed of ethyl cellulose shells of varying degrees of viscosity were fabricated using a simple molding process and integrated with catechol-conjugated chitosan (CC) to improve their mucosal adhesion capacity and structural stability.Results: The catechol substitution levels were optimized (CC-A, CC-B, and CC-C), with the CC-C formulation exhibiting the highest degree of substitution (20.93%) and superior adhesion capacity, maintaining 80% attachment on porcine small intestinal mucosa after 72 h. …”
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Elderly People's Online Health Information Seeking Behavior Based on Evolutionary Dynamics by Chunling GAO, Liyuan JIANG

“…[Purpose/Significance] It is of great significance to analyze the current situation of elderly people's online health information seeking behavior, grasp its hot topics and development trend, to meet the health information needs and improve the health literacy level of the elderly people, and to promote the high-quality development of health services for the elderly people. [Method/Process] In this study, the DTM model was used to perform dynamic topic mining and analysis of Sina Weibo post content from 2016 to 2023, and the topic evolution, topic semantic evolution and topic information entropy trend were each investigated. …”
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Properties and anti-fungal activity of liquid by-products from softwood bark carbonization by Mariem Zouari, Faksawat Poohphajai, Kristine Meile, Marica Mikuljan, Rene Herrera Diaz

“…Four different fractions of pyrolysis liquid were collected during variable temperature phases of the pyrolysis process: F1 (25–260 °C), F2 (260–512 °C), F3 (512–800 °C), and F4 (800–25 °C). …”
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Using dead-reckoning to track movements and map burrows of fossorial species by James Redcliffe, Jesse Boulerice, Itai Namir, Rory Wilson, William J. McShea, Hila Shamon

“…In addition, the 2D dead-reckoning process documented all turns (100%) in our plastic tunnel system and had a mean error of 15.38 cm over all test tunnel lengths of up to 4 m. …”
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Understanding the key criteria for shared mobility providers in their evaluation of potential markets by Elnert Coenegrachts, Thierry Vanelslander, Ann Verhetsel, Joris Beckers

“…These criteria are evaluated using pairwise judgements and calculating the principal eigenvector values, as featured in the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) analysis framework, in order to determine their relative importance. …”
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Enhancing methane production during anaerobic digestion of municipal organic solid wastes by ethanol-type fermentation pretreatment coupled with biochar addition by WANG Ning, LI Mei, LI Yuan, ZHAO Zhiqiang*

“…However, IHT is highly dependent on mass transfer and diffusion rates, which can be hindered during the treatment of municipal organic solid wastes (MOSW), mainly including food waste and waste activated sludge. …”
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Application of Image Segmentation Algorithm Based on Partial Differential Equation in Legal Case Text Classification by Jingliang Sun

“…The PDES image segmentation algorithm is an effective natural language processing method for text classification management. …”
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Interfacial wetting-induced nanorheology of thin polymer films by Haiyang Zhang, Quanyin Xu, Weilong Gong, Shasha Liu, Jintian Luo, Rodney D. Priestley, Biao Zuo

“…The rheological response and chain dynamics of thin polymer films underpin nanoscale polymer processing, yet molecular confinement alters such behavior. …”
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Applications of Two Methods in Exact Wave Solutions in the Space-Time Fractional Drinfeld–Sokolov–Wilson System by Elahe Miri Eskandari, Nasir Taghizadeh

“…Therefore, FDEs have been the focus of many studies due to their frequent appearance in several applications such as physics, engineering, signal processing, systems identification, sound, heat, diffusion, electrostatics and fluid mechanics, and other sciences. …”
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Enhanced Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution by TiO₂: A Synergistic Approach with Defect-Rich SnS₂ and Ti₃C₂ MXene Cocatalysts by Saminathan Varadarajan, Andiappan Kavitha, Periasamy Selvaraju, Sankaran Esakki Muthu, Krishnamoorthy Gurushankar, Sengottaiyan Shanmugan, Karthik Kannan

“…The inefficient separation of photo-induced electron–hole pairs has hindered this process. This study introduces a synergistic approach using defect-rich SnS₂ and Ti₃C₂ MXene as cocatalysts in a two-step hydrothermal process to address this challenge. …”
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