Marine snow morphology drives sinking and attenuation in the ocean interior by Y. D. Soviadan, Y. D. Soviadan, Y. D. Soviadan, M. Beck, M. Beck, J. Habib, A. Baudena, A. Baudena, L. Drago, L. Drago, A. Accardo, R. Laxenaire, R. Laxenaire, S. Speich, P. Brandt, P. Brandt, R. Kiko, R. Kiko, R. Kiko, S. Lars, S. Lars

“…The different morphological categories of marine snow had different sinking speeds and attenuation for a similar size, indicating the effect of morphology on sinking speed. …”
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25 years of providing evidence on road safety interventions at the city level by Katherine Pérez, Katherine Pérez, Katherine Pérez, Elena Santamariña-Rubio, Maria José López, Maria José López, Maria José López, Maria José López, Lucia Artazcoz, Lucia Artazcoz, Lucia Artazcoz, Lucia Artazcoz, Josep Ferrando, Carlos Pastor, Adnan A. Hyder, Carme Borrell, Carme Borrell, Carme Borrell

“…Next, the paper quantifies the overall impact of road safety interventions by estimating the difference between the observed number of road traffic injuries and the expected number if no interventions had been implemented from January 2008 to December 2023, stratified by gender, injury severity, and mode of transport. …”
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Development of the Intersectoral Care Reported by Patients Survey for Primary and Oral Healthcare by Kirsten P. J. Smits, Marieke M. van der Zande, Reanne Hek, Pim W. J. J. Assendelft, Fred R. Rozema, Kenneth R. Wright, Maria C. Dolce, Christine A. Riedy, Jane R. Barrow, Fabian Hüttig, Stefan Listl

“…The experts were based in the United States, Germany and the Netherlands and had different professional backgrounds, including general practice and dentistry. …”
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Novel biophysical skin biomarkers discriminate topical anti‐inflammatory treatments based on their potential for local adverse effects by Simon G. Danby, Stephen Matcher, Robert Byers, Rosie Taylor, Sura Sahib, Paul Andrew, Kirsty Brown, Linda Kay, Carl Wright, Abi Pinnock, John Chittock, Mengqiu Duan, Amy Cha, Roni Adiri, Chuanbo Zang, John Werth, Michael J. Cork

“…The primary outcome was the difference in the change in epidermal thickness from days 1 to 29. …”
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Burden, clinical outcomes, and characteristics of tuberculosis in migrant populations in the middle East and North African region: A systematic review and meta-analyses by Taha Maatoug, Farah Seedat, Eman Elafef, Anissa Ouahchi, Ali Mtiraoui, Stella Evangelidou, Wejdene Mansour, Ana Requena-Méndez, Dominik Zenner

“…Migrant TB patients were younger (mean age difference: 12.8 years; 95 % CI 8.8–16.0; I2 = 86.5 %) and predominantly male (sex ratio: 1:5). …”
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Efficacy of acupuncture in reducing accidental injury risk in stroke patients: A national-scale cohort study by Ming-Jen Wang, Hui-Jer Chou, Shun-Ku Lin

“…After adjusting for various covariates, the acupuncture group had a reduced risk of accidental injuries with an adjusted hazard ratio (aHR) of 0.74 (95 % CI: 0.51–0.92). …”
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Co-design of a routine clinical review to improve the safety of high dose radical cure treatment for Plasmodium vivax malaria: findings from Cambodia and Ethiopia by Sarah A. Cassidy-Seyoum, Muthoni Mwaura, Keoratha Chheng, Muhaba Kejela, Kansite Gellebo Korra, Tsegaberhan Wodaj, Tamiru Shibiru Degaga, Michelle S. Hsiang, Lorenz von Seidlein, Rupam Tripura, Bipin Adhikari, Benedikt Ley, Dysoley Lek, Ric N. Price, Nora Engel, Kamala Thriemer

“…Results Participants in Cambodia and Ethiopia had different preferences for the material infrastructure of the day 3 review, from which a model for each country was developed. …”
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A machine learning approach to risk-stratification of gastric cancer based on tumour-infiltrating immune cell profiles by Yanping Hu, Bo Wang, Chao Shi, Pengfei Ren, Chengjuan Zhang, Zhizhong Wang, Jiuzhou Zhao, Jiawen Zheng, Tingjie Wang, Bing Wei, He Zhang, Rentao Yu, Yihang Shen, Jie Ma, Yongjun Guo

“…Patients from the three clusters had varied pathologies, MMR statuses and TIIC distribution patterns (p < .05). …”
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Prevalence and risk factors for hyperhomocysteinemia: a population-based cross-sectional study from Hunan, China by Yanhui Dong, Yide Yang, Jian Li, Yuan Lv, Yuan Zeng, Shuqian Yuan, Ming Xie, Quanyuan He, Xiangli Ye, Carl-Friedrich Hocher, Bernhard K Kraemer, Xiuqin Hong, Berthold Hocher

“…Compared with the non-smoker, smoking participants have a 24% higher risk of hyperhomocysteinemia (OR=1.24, 95% CI: 1.006 to 1.53), while the risk for those quitting smoking are not significantly different (OR=1.14, 95% CI: 0.85 to 1.54). compared with those consuming fruit and vegetable at least once every day, those consuming less than once every day had a significantly higher risk of hyperhomocysteinemia (OR=1.29, 95% CI:1.11 to 1.50). …”
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Stroke risk associated with cold spells occurring during the warm season by Cheng He, Susanne Breitner, Siqi Zhang, Markus Naumann, Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann, Gertrud Hammel, Annette Peters, Michael Ertl, Alexandra Schneider

“…Warm-season cold spells also had significant associations with both transient ischemic attacks and ischemic strokes. …”
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Factors Associated with Absolute Neutrophil Count Dynamics and Docetaxel-Adryamicin-Cyclophosphamide (TAC) Chemotherapy Induced Neutropenia During Extended Filgrastim Administratio... by Ami Ashariati, Ugroseno Yudho Bintoro, Merlyna Savitri, Muhammad Noor Diansyah, Putu Niken Ayu Amrita, Pradana Zaky Romadhon, Andi Yasmin Wijaya, Winona May Hendrata, Steven Sheng Looi, Ahmad Amin Mahmudin

“…No sepsis incidence had manifested. Conclusion: CIN still occured in breast cancer patient receiving filgrastim primary prophylaxis regardless of age and neutropenia severity. …”
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The D-score: a metric for interpreting the early development of infants and toddlers across global settings by Girmay Medhin, Charlotte Hanlon, Susan P Walker, Iris Eekhout, Gary L Darmstadt, Linda Richter, Maureen M Black, Ann M Weber, Marta Rubio-Codina, Stef van Buuren, Sally M Grantham-McGregor, Maria Caridad Araujo, Susan M Chang, Lia CH Fernald, Jena Derakhshani Hamadani, Simone M Karam, Betsy Lozoff, Lisy Ratsifandrihamanana, Orazio Attanasio, Bernice M Doove, Emanuela Galasso, Pamela Jervis, Ana M B Menezes, Helen Pitchik, Sarah Reynolds, Norbert Schady

“…We constructed and validated a new metric, the Developmental Score (D-score), using existing data from 16 longitudinal studies.Methods Studies had item-level developmental assessment data for children 0–48 months and longitudinal outcomes at ages &gt;4–18 years, including measures of IQ and receptive vocabulary. …”
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Development of a Predictive Model of Occult Cancer After a Venous Thromboembolism Event Using Machine Learning: The CLOVER Study by Anabel Franco-Moreno, Elena Madroñal-Cerezo, Cristina Lucía de Ancos-Aracil, Ana Isabel Farfán-Sedano, Nuria Muñoz-Rivas, José Bascuñana Morejón-Girón, José Manuel Ruiz-Giardín, Federico Álvarez-Rodríguez, Jesús Prada-Alonso, Yvonne Gala-García, Miguel Ángel Casado-Suela, Ana Bustamante-Fermosel, Nuria Alfaro-Fernández, Juan Torres-Macho

“…XGBoost, LightGBM, and CatBoost algorithms were used to train different prediction models, which were subsequently validated in a hold-out dataset. …”
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The association between sociodemographic determinants and nomophobia among physiotherapists in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional study by Abdulelah M. Aldhahir, Jaber S. Alqahtani, Abdullah A. Alqarni, Omar A. Alqarni, Hassan Alwafi, Abdallah Y. Naser, Mohammed M. Alyami, Ahmed H. Alasimi, Husam I. Alahmadi, Mansour S. Majrshi, Shaima A. Alothman, Mohammed A. Zalah, Ghazi I. Hakami, Abdulaziz A. Rajhi, Ramya R. Sanjeevi, Karthick Balasubramanian, Khadijah N. Alshehri, Mohammed M. Alshehri

“…The Kruskal–Wallis Test showed that the age group 51–60 years had the highest NMP-Q scores (Md = 99, x 2 (4, N = 1003) = 57.31, p < .001) in comparison to other age groups. …”
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Urgent natural foci infections transmitted by ticks in Saint-Petersburg by V. V. Nechaev, A. A. Yakovlev, A. N. Uskov, L. E. Boburina, N. V. Lavrova, M. N. Pogromskaya, B. I. Aslanov, A. O. Shapar, S. V. Pavlenko, L. N. Pozhidaeva, A. K. Ivanov, A. I. Kravtsova, S. A. Leppik, E. I. Vitovich, M. I. Fedunyak

“…The long-term dynamics of TBE and Lyme borreliosis incidence had did not have significant upward or downward trends, it was characterized by synchronous fluctuations. …”
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Nurses' experiences of participating in employee assistance program and factors influencing its effectiveness: a qualitative study by Xuanhao Fan, Xuanhao Fan, Jiehao Zhuang, Jiehao Zhuang, Zhongqing Chen, Ziyi Xiong, Niu Yang, Jiangfeng Pu, Jiangfeng Pu, Peng Xu, Lifang Chen, Huigen Huang, Huigen Huang

“…The integration of multiculturalism and the enhancement of publicity could promote the two-way understanding between nurses and EAP, while ensuring that the EAP had long-term, flexible, targeted, and professional characteristics was key to its effective implementation. …”
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Longitudinal Assessment of Area of Reticular Pseudodrusen in Eyes with Age-Related Macular Degeneration by Swetha Bindu Velaga, MS, Ahmed Roshdy Alagorie, MD, Muneeswar Gupta Nittala, MPhil, Noel C. Moore, PhD, Yeunjoo E. Song, PhD, Jonathan Haines, PhD, Margaret A. Pericak-Vance, PhD, Dwight Stambolian, MD, Zhihong Hu, PhD, Ye He, MD, PhD, Srinivas R. Sadda, MD

“…The mean volumetric choroidal thickness was not significantly different from baseline 182.2 ± 94.36 (134.20–227.90) to month 24 178.2 ± 41.10 (109–258). …”
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Association between air pollutant exposure, body water distribution and sleep disorder indices in individuals with low-arousal-threshold obstructive sleep apnoea by Ming Liu, Kang-Yun Lee, Cheng-Yu Tsai, Yi-Chun Kuan, Wen-Te Liu, Jiunn-Horng Kang, Hsin-Chien Lee, Cheng-Jung Wu, Huei-Tyng Huang, Wen-Hua Hsu, Arnab Majumdar, Po-Hao Feng, Chien-Hua Tseng, Kuan-Yuan Chen

“…Air pollutant exposure at different time intervals (1, 3, 6 and 12 months) was estimated using the nearest station estimation method, and government air-quality data were also obtained. …”
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Effect of acute kidney injury and overall survival in patients with postoperative head and neck cancer who received chemoradiotherapy with cisplatin: A supplementary analysis of th... by Yoshinori Imamura, Naomi Kiyota, Makoto Tahara, Takeshi Kodaira, Ryuichi Hayashi, Hiroshi Nishino, Yukinori Asada, Hiroki Mitani, Shigemichi Iwae, Naoki Nishio, Yusuke Onozawa, Nobuhiro Hanai, Akira Ohkoshi, Hiroki Hara, Nobuya Monden, Masato Nagaoka, Shujiro Minami, Ryo Kitabayashi, Keita Sasaki, Akihiro Homma, the Head and Neck Cancer Study Group of the Japan Clinical Oncology Group (JCOG‐HNCSG)

“…However, in the 3‐weekly arm, patients with AKI had poorer OS than those without AKI (HR, 1.83; 95% CI, 1.04 to 3.21). …”
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Dual-mulching under no-tillage promotes maize root growth and improves yield by optimizing soil hydrothermal conditions in semi-arid regions by Jia Wang, Jun Fan, Huan Wang, Xi Wang, Yuzhu Xing, Yongquan Gao, Mingde Hao

“…SWS had a greater impact on yield than soil temperature, with pre-sowing SWS having the greatest effect on yield. …”
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