Association of Mediterranean, high-quality, and anti-inflammatory diet with dementia in UK Biobank cohort by Ji-eun Youn, Yu-Jin Kwon, Yae-Ji Lee, Seok-Jae Heo, Ji-Won Lee

“…High-quality anti-inflammatory diets play a significant role in reducing the risk of dementia, with stronger effects observed in specific subgroups.…”
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Communication skills of residents: are they as good as they think? by Namra Qadeer Shaikh, Ali Aahil Noorali, Asma Altaf Hussain Merchant, Noreen Afzal, Maryam Pyar Ali Lakhdir, Komal Abdul Rahim, Syeda Fatima Shariq, Rida Ahmad, Saqib Kamran Bakhshi, Saad Bin Zafar Mahmood, Shayan Shah, Muhammad Rizwan Khan, Muhammad Tariq, Adil H. Haider

“…Major barriers impeding effective patient-resident communication were long working hours, inadequate time, and difficulty understanding patients’ language (p < 0.001). …”
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Association between the dietary inflammatory index and infertility: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Yasamin Zahedi, Shayan Bonyanpour, Seyed Danial Alizadeh, Sarah Ravankhah, Alireza Zare, Bahareh Izadi, Shant Apelian, Eghbal Sekhavati, Reza Tabrizi, Reza Tabrizi

“…Meta-analyses were conducted using random-effects models, and the heterogeneity of studies was evaluated using I2 statistics.ResultsOf the 801 studies screened, nine met the inclusion criteria, involving 17,711 individuals. …”
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A Quantitative Risk Assessment Model for <i>Listeria monocytogenes</i> in Non-Ready-to-Eat Frozen Vegetables by Ursula Gonzales-Barron, Régis Pouillot, Juliana De Oliveira Mota, Akio Hasegawa, Ana Allende, Qingli Dong, Matthew J. Stasiewicz, Jovana Kovacevic, Vasco Cadavez, Laurent Guillier, Moez Sanaa

“…Based on available published data, the model was coded in nine sequential R functions designed to assess the effectiveness of blanching, the improvement in processing environment hygiene, the implementation of sampling schemes at the end of processing, and improved consumer instructions on the product’s package. …”
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Inter‐ and Intrahospital Price Variation for Common Cardiovascular Admission Diagnoses, Diagnostic Tests, and Therapeutic Procedures by Kriyana P. Reddy, Shreya Mehta, Lauren A. Eberly, Sameed Ahmed M. Khatana, Paula Chatterjee, Alexander C. Fanaroff, Peter W. Groeneveld, Jay Giri, Ashwin S. Nathan

“…Multivariate linear mixed‐effects models were fit to determine the association between hospital characteristics and hospital‐level median commercial negotiated rates. …”
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Tagging large CNV blocks in wheat boosts digitalization of germplasm resources by ultra-low-coverage sequencing by Jianxia Niu, Wenxi Wang, Zihao Wang, Zhe Chen, Xiaoyu Zhang, Zhen Qin, Lingfeng Miao, Zhengzhao Yang, Chaojie Xie, Mingming Xin, Huiru Peng, Yingyin Yao, Jie Liu, Zhongfu Ni, Qixin Sun, Weilong Guo

“…We also develop a user-friendly interactive platform, WheatCNVb ( http://wheat.cau.edu.cn/WheatCNVb/ ), for exploring the CNVb profiles over ever-increasing wheat accessions, and also propose a QR-code-like representation of individual digital CNVb fingerprint. …”
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Physics of beam-driven ion cyclotron emission in the large plasma device by O. Samant, R.O. Dendy, S.C. Chapman, S.K.P. Tripathi, T. Carter, B. Van Compernolle, J.W.S. Cook

“…Because LAPD is cylindrical, the plasma physics giving rise to the observed ICE spectrum necessarily excludes toroidal effects. Our approach, previously successful for toroidal plasma ICE, assumes slab geometry and hence is well adapted to LAPD. …”
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Exploring grant writing coaching and its role in professional development of health equity investigators: A qualitative study by Yulia A. Levites Strekalova, Selin Kavak, Vanessa Caridad Rodriguez, Sara Midence, Lee S. Caplan, Winston Thompson, Muhammed Y. Idris, Jonathan Stiles, Priscilla Pemu, Alexander Quarshie, Adriana Baez, Maritza Salazar Campo, Elizabeth Ofili

“…Data were transcribed, coded, and analyzed using the Framework Method, identifying key roles related to coaching practices. …”
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‘I am happy because I am pregnant, but becoming a mother is not easy,’ the experience of pregnancy, antenatal depression, and perception of yoga in rural pregnant women in Maharash... by Rahul Shidhaye, Kalyani Shinde, Unnati Thete, Sonali Shelke, Chitra Thanage, Shamal Talole, Swapnali Palande, Suryabhan Gore

“…We used NVivo 9 (QSR) to store and code the data, and a thematic content analysis approach to analyse and synthesize the findings. …”
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After the fire: A qualitative study of the role of long-term recovery organizations in addressing rural communities’ post-wildfire needs by Kathleen Moloney, Jamie Vickery, Jeremy Hess, Nicole Errett

“…As the cumulative burden of wildfire damage is projected to increase, understanding an effective community recovery process is critically important. …”
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The association between anthocyanin intake and myopia in adolescents: a cross-sectional study of NHANES by Ying Chen, Ying Chen, Ying Chen, Qinglin Xu, Qinglin Xu, Lu Lv, Lu Lv, Yun Liu, Yun Liu, Zhidan Zhang, Zhidan Zhang, Zhikuan Yang

“…Increasing dietary anthocyanin intake may be an effective prevention strategy for ocular health.…”
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Lowered tackle height law variation in Scottish men’s community rugby: a video analysis evaluation of 18 702 tackles across two seasons by Debbie Palmer, Sharief Hendricks, Ross Tucker, Hannah Walton, Isla Shill, Neil Graham, Lara Paul, Hamish Gornall

“…This study investigated whether a law variation lowering the maximum legal height of the tackle, from the shoulder to the base of the sternum, was an effective approach to change players’ tackling behaviour and reduce head contact events in Scottish men’s community rugby.Methods This retrospective video analysis study compared game metrics and tackle characteristics from the pre (2022/2023) to lowered tackle height (LTH) season (2023/2024). …”
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Challenges and barriers to physician decision-making for prescribing and deprescribing among patients with multimorbidity in eastern China’s primary care settings: a qualitative st... by Ming Yan, Zhijie Xu, Andrew Farmer, Yu Xia, Mi Yao, Lingyan Wu, Xinmei Zhou, Liyan Han

“…Future research could develop and evaluate implementation strategies to address specific challenges and barriers to allow PCPs to make effective medication decisions for patients with multimorbidity.…”
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A SAM-adapted weakly-supervised semantic segmentation method constrained by uncertainty and transformation consistency by Yinxia Cao, Xin Huang, Qihao Weng

“…Given this challenge, this study introduces sparse point labels, a type of cost-effective weak labels, for semantic segmentation. Existing weakly-supervised methods often leverage low-level visual or high-level semantic features from networks to generate supervision information for unlabeled pixels, which can easily lead to the issue of label noises. …”
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Do neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) health workers know about retinopathy of prematurity (ROP)? A qualitative study at a Regional Referral Hospital in Uganda by Henry Muwonge, Innocent Ayesiga, Primrose Magala, Tom Didimus Ediamu, Hana El Diwany, Ian LY Yeung, Alex Wasomoka, Phillip Musoke, Elias Musiime, Abraham Tumwesigye, Pius Atwau, Noreen Atwijukire, Iddi Ndyabawe, Anne Mpaire Musika, Himanshu I Patel, Aeesha NJ Malik, Ibrahim Bwaga, Sheba Gitta Nakacubo

“…The data obtained were transcribed and coded, and themes were generated for further analysis.Results We identified key barriers and facilitators to effective ROP care. …”
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SpiNeRF: direct-trained spiking neural networks for efficient neural radiance field rendering by Xingting Yao, Xingting Yao, Qinghao Hu, Fei Zhou, Tielong Liu, Tielong Liu, Zitao Mo, Zeyu Zhu, Zeyu Zhu, Zhengyang Zhuge, Jian Cheng, Jian Cheng

“…However, this masking introduces irregular temporal lengths, making it intractable for hardware processors, such as graphics processing units (GPUs), to conduct effective parallel training. To address this issue, we present two methods: Temporal padding (TP) and temporal condensing-and-padding (TCP). …”
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Analysis of internet educational websites on tobacco cessation: A content analysis [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Ramya Shenoy, Ashwini Rao, Mithun Pai, G Rajesh, Kaveri Chengappa, B R Avinash

“…Both smoking and chewing forms of tobacco are highly prevalent, especially in India, and are implicated as causes of diseases, including oropharyngeal carcinomas. Effective tobacco cessation techniques and sources can help overcome addiction and reduce the disease burden in society. …”
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OBSCN undergoes extensive alternative splicing during human cardiac and skeletal muscle development by Ali Oghabian, Per Harald Jonson, Swethaa Natraj Gayathri, Mridul Johari, Ella Nippala, David Gomez Andres, Francina Munell, Jessica Camacho Soriano, Maria Angeles Sanchez Duran, Juha Sinisalo, Heli Tolppanen, Johanna Tolva, Peter Hackman, Marco Savarese, Bjarne Udd

“…OBSCN) has 121 non-overlapping exons and codes for some of the largest known mRNAs in the human genome. …”
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National Trends and Impact of Acute Kidney Injury Requiring Hemodialysis in Hospitalizations With Atrial Fibrillation by Lili Chan, Swati Mehta, Kinsuk Chauhan, Priti Poojary, Sagar Patel, Sumeet Pawar, Achint Patel, Ashish Correa, Shanti Patel, Pranav S. Garimella, Narender Annapureddy, Shiv Kumar Agarwal, Umesh Gidwani, Steven G. Coca, Girish N. Nadkarni

“…AKI‐D is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Without effective AKI‐D therapies, focus should be on early risk stratification and prevention to avoid this devastating complication.…”
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Proteome-wide Mendelian randomization reveals causal associations between plasma proteins and autoimmune thyroid disease by Yang Li, Weixi Zhu, Yijing Chen, Qingqing Kang, Ying Zhang, Pan Yang, Shumin Wang, Chao Liu, Yi Zhang, Qiu Zhang

“…Proteome-wide summary-level genome-wide association studies (GWAS) were collected from the UK Biobank Pharma Proteomics Project (UKB-PPP) and deCODE genetics, encompassing 2922 and 4719 plasma proteins, respectively. …”
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