Radiotherapy-Induced Lung Cancer Risk in Breast Cancer Patients: A Retrospective Comparison of Hypofractionated and Standard Fractionated 3D-CRT Treatments by Alessia D’Anna, Giuseppe Stella, Elisa Bonanno, Giuseppina Rita Borzì, Nina Cavalli, Andrea Girlando, Anna Maria Gueli, Martina Pace, Lucia Zirone, Carmelo Marino

“…An Eclipse™ plug-in script was developed using the Eclipse Scripting Application Programming Interface (ESAPI) to extract patient and treatment data from the Treatment Planning System and compute Organ At Risk (OAR) volume, Organ Equivalent Dose (OED), Excess Absolute Risk (EAR), and Lifetime Attributable Risk (LAR) using the Schneider Mechanistic Model and reference data from regional populations, A-bomb survivors, and patients with Hodgkin’s Disease (HD). …”
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Clinical profiles and care of transgender children and adolescents who receive specialized consultations: do individuals who are assigned female at birth differ? by Chystelle Lagrange, Nina Verger, Julie Brunelle, Fanny Poirier, Hugues Pellerin, Nicolas Mendes, Gregor Mamou, Nifoular Forno, Laetitia Martinerie, David Cohen, Agnès Condat

“…Besides, most gender identity clinics have pointed to a recent switch in favor of an increase in the number of adolescents assigned females at birth (AFAB) over assigned males at birth (AMAB). Method We collected data on sociodemographic characteristics, and psychiatric and social vulnerabilities according to sex assigned at birth for all youths who were treated at the French largest gender identity clinic. …”
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Travel Matrix Decomposition for Understanding Spatial Long-Distance Travel Structure by Hiromichi Yamaguchi, Mashu Shibata, Shoichiro Nakayama

“…Mobile phone location data enable us to obtain accurate and temporally detailed long-distance travel distribution. …”
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Harmonics Monitoring Survey on LED Lamps by Abdelrahman Ahmed Akila, Kamelia Youssef, Ibrahim Yassin

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Radioactive Background of Granito Madeira, North Amazonas, Brazil by Vanderlei Vilaça MOURA, Talita Oliveira Santos, Claubia Pereira BEZERRA

“…This work presents the results of the natural radiation monitoring of Granito Madeira. 30,000 dose rates were collected with a sodium iodide scintillator transported on tracks within the Floresta Amazônica. These data were treated and georeferenced. As a result, an annual dose relative to gamma radiation of 6.0 mSv.year-1 was obtained. …”
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Correlation between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Mental Well-being of Women in Emerging Adulthood by Linda Ernawati, Prita Augusttiarini, Chandra Yudistira P

“…The sample was based on chance. Collecting data by distributing questionnaires. The analytical technique used is chi-square analysis. …”
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A Comparative Study on the Multidimensional Features of Hereditary and Sporadic Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma Patients: A Single-Center Retrospective Study by Muzaffer Serdar Deniz, Narin Nasiroglu Imga, Belma Ozlem Tural Balsak, Asiye Safak Bulut, Furkan Savas, Busranur Cavdarli, Cevdet Aydin, Oya Topaloglu, Reyhan Ersoy, Bekir Cakir

“…Demographic, clinical, laboratory, radiological, histopathological, and genetic data were collected. <i>Results:</i> hMTC patients were significantly younger at diagnosis, with a comparable gender distribution (<i>p</i> = 0.738), and more often had a previous case of MTC within the family history. …”
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Prevalence of malaria and associated factors among pregnant women in East Dembia District Northwest Ethiopia by Mekonnen Sisay, Meseret Kebede, Atalay Goshu Muluneh

“…The data was entered using EPI info version 7 and transferred to SPSS version 20 for analysis. …”
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Body composition and risk of heart failure: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis by Sarah Lewington, Reem Malouf, Rishi Caleyachetty, Nazrul Islam, Ben Lacey, Hannah Taylor, Ayodipupo S. Oguntade, Danyao Jin

“…Article screening and selection will be performed by two reviewers independently, and disagreements will be adjudicated by consensus or by a third reviewer. Data from eligible articles will be extracted, and article quality will be assessed using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale. …”
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CLINICAL HETEROGENEITY AND IMPACT OF TREATMENT INITIATION TIME IN NON-HODGKIN LYMPHOMA by FET Filho, ACC Farias, IL Pontes, FAC Silva, LA Gurgel, RM Ribeiro, RS Andrade, DS Oliveira

“…Data on clinical parameters such as age, time to chemotherapy, and time to death were collected. …”
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Patterns of uveitis in a Philippine eye clinic by Harvey S. Uy, MD, Irene W. Tam, OD

“…Objective: To describe the distribution and clinical characteristics of endogenous uveitis among patients in a Philippine eye clinic. …”
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Waveshape of terahertz radiation produced by two-color laser-induced air plasmas by A. Stathopulos, S. Skupin, B. Zhou, P. U. Jepsen, L. Bergé

“…The spatial and spectral distributions of terahertz (THz) pulses emitted by two-color air plasmas are theoretically investigated for focused laser pulses and in the filamentation regime. …”
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Treatment of e-cigarette use among hospitalised adolescents and young adults: a protocol for intervention development and evaluation of preliminary efficacy and implementation outc... by Delwyn Catley, Kimber P Richter, Karen Wilson, Shelbie Wooten, Melissa K Miller, Abbey Masonbrink

“…Introduction Hospitalisation represents an opportunity to identify and treat e-cigarette use among adolescents and young adults (AYAs). …”
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Awareness and perception of prevention and management options of sexually transmitted infections among students at secondary school in Rivers State, Nigeria by Florence Mandah, Oluebubechukwu Udi, Pamela Thompsom-Abiye, Basil Ogbu

“…Content of the instrument was explained to participants in simple English language. Data were analyzed using statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 26.0, and presented in frequency distribution table. …”
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Determination of the Prevalence of Ascaris lumbricoides in Children under the Age of Five Years Attending at Kongowe Health Centre, Kibaha District, Pwani Region by Adnan A. Hamad, Godfrey O. Mauti

“…Background. The worldwide distribution and occurrence show that more than 1.8 billion people, accounting for 28% of the global population, are infected with A. lumbricoides infection due to poor hygiene. …”
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Age, Spatial, and Temporal Variations in Hospital Admissions with Malaria in Kilifi County, Kenya: A 25-Year Longitudinal Observational Study. by Polycarp Mogeni, Thomas N Williams, Gregory Fegan, Christopher Nyundo, Evasius Bauni, Kennedy Mwai, Irene Omedo, Patricia Njuguna, Charles R Newton, Faith Osier, James A Berkley, Laura L Hammitt, Brett Lowe, Gabriel Mwambingu, Ken Awuondo, Neema Mturi, Norbert Peshu, Robert W Snow, Abdisalan Noor, Kevin Marsh, Philip Bejon

“…<h4>Methods and findings</h4>We conducted a longitudinal observational study of children admitted to Kilifi County Hospital in Kenya and linked it to data on residence and insecticide-treated net (ITN) use. …”
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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

“…Demographics, reoperation, complications, and radiographic data were collected. Immediate postoperative images were used to measure the height of bone remaining underneath the talar tray at the thinnest remaining portion of the posterior talus. …”
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The preoperative neutrophil‐to‐lymphocyte ratio is not a marker of prostate cancer characteristics but is an independent predictor of biochemical recurrence in patients receiving r... by Zhi Cao, Jin Ji, Chao Zhang, Fubo Wang, Huan Xu, Yongwei Yu, Yinghao Sun

“…No significant differences in the NLR distributions among clinicopathological variables were observed (P > 0.05) when the original NLR data were utilized. …”
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Prevalence of Intestinal Parasitic Infections and Associated Factors among Presumptive Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients at Debre Tabor Referral Hospital, South Gondar, Northwest Eth... by Debaka Belete, Azanaw Amare, Tesfaye Andualem, Desie Kasew, Sirak Biset

“…The data was coded, cleaned, and analyzed by SPSS version 23. …”
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Analysis of the gear tooth gearing by the module m = 2.625 mm of hydraulic pumps by A. V. Krivosheya, V. V. Voznyy, V. E. Melnyk

“…For the statistical evaluation of the data obtained, distribution curves were constructed. …”
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