Coronary artery calcium and cardiovascular risk factors analysis after radiotherapy for breast cancer (the CLARIFIER: a gender-based preventive medicine study) by Daniela Trabattoni, Maria Cristina Leonardi, Maria Elisabetta Mancini, Barbara A. Jereczek-Fossa, Barbara A. Jereczek-Fossa, Federica Cattani, Giulia Santagostino Baldi, Alice Bonomi, Arianna Galotta, Saima Mushtaq, Saima Mushtaq, Andrea Annoni, Davide Alio, Maria Giulia Vincini, Cristiana Iuliana Fodor, Ludovico La Grutta, Piero Montorsi, Piero Montorsi, Gianluca Pontone, Gianluca Pontone

“…The risk of cardiac events was associated with increased age, early menopause, hypertension, high cholesterol levels, and smoking habits at the time of RT.ConclusionThis study helps to identify women at high-risk for cardiovascular events before RT and implement the best possible prevention of late post cancer treatment events. …”
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The Epidemiology of Respiratory Syncytial Virus and the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Retrospective Evaluation by Paolo Solidoro, Antonio Curtoni, Cristina Costa, Francesco Giuseppe De Rosa, Alessandro Bondi, Francesca Sidoti, Nour Shbaklo, Filippo Patrucco, Davide Favre, Elisa Zanotto, Silvia Corcione, Rocco Francesco Rinaldo

“…The aim of the current study was to evaluate the epidemiology of RSV in the Piedmont population and the consequences of containment measures applied during the pandemic on viral circulation in the immediate and medium-term post-pandemic phase. Methods: This study considered all biological samples analyzed for RSV at the City of Health and Science of Turin collected from 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2023. …”
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Empowering orthopedic nurses’ and nurse’s aides through a multimodal geriatric mobile team: a mixed methods study by Bastien Genet, Judith Cohen-Bittan, Rebecca Bonnetain, Alicia Amal, Luca Royer, Marie-Eva Rollet, Pauline Glasman, Angélique Bergeot, Michaël Nicolas, Jean-Sébastien Cadwallader, Jacques Boddaert, Lorène Zerah

“…Quantitative evaluation focused on post-operative care in four key areas: pain management, mobilization, nutritional screening, and continence care, along with adherence to the mobile team’s recommendations. …”
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Improved functional outcomes and cost benefits of door-to-needle time under 30 min in acute ischemic stroke: an observational study by Jia Dong James Wang, Ying-Qiu Dong, Joshua Y. P. Yeo, Kevin Soon Hwee Teo, Shiyang Ng, Mingxue Jing, Bernard P. L. Chan, Leonard L. L. Yeo, Magdalene L. J. Chia, Louis Widjaja, Lily Y. H. Wong, Pamela Lim, Shikha Kumari, Diarmuid Murphy, Hock-Luen Teoh, Benjamin Y. Q. Tan

“…Further research is needed to assess feasibility and broader impact of implementing a 30-min DTN goal in routine clinical practice.…”
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The donor management algorithm in transplantation of a composite facial tissue allograft.. First experience in Russia by V. V. Uyba, K. K. Gubarev, S. E. Voskanyan, M. A. Volokh, V. L. Vinogradov, N. V. Kalakutskiy, G. G. Khubulava, A. I. Zakhlevnyy, I. Yu. Murashov, A. F. Lesnyakov, E. S. Romanova, V. A. Shcherbakov, V. V. Aleksandrov, A. S. Samoylov, M. V. Zabelin

“…Establishing of facial VCA transplantation Program is a complicated process for transplant centers and can hardly be implemented without a properly organized post-mortem organ donation system at a national level. …”
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Efficacy of psychotherapy versus pharmacotherapy, or their combination, in chronic depression: study protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis using aggregated and... by Toshi A Furukawa, Pim Cuijpers, Adriani Nikolakopoulou, Julia Müller, Elisabeth Schramm, Martin B Keller, Daniel N Klein, Moritz Elsaesser, Efthimiou Orestis, Nana-Adjoa Kwarteng, Theodoros Evrenoglou

“…The main outcome is depression severity measured on a continuous observer-rated scale for depression at 6 months post-treatment (range 3–12 months). Two reviewers will independently screen and select eligible studies based on the predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria. …”
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Investigating the relationship between clinical competence and the incidence of needle-stick injuries (NSIs) and their contributing factors in nurses: a descriptive cross-sectional... by Omid Zarei, Fatemeh Zeraatpishe, Najimeh Beygi, Maryam talebi moghadam, Seyede Fatemeh Mousavi Shahraki, Mohammad Mehdi Naghizadeh, Mostafa Bijani

“…Conclusions Considering that the majority of nurses working in hospitals exhibited moderate to low levels of clinical competence, it is recommended that hospitals implement an annual clinical competence assessment for nurses. …”
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the coverage and timeliness of routine childhood vaccinations in the Gambia, 2015–2021 by Oghenebrume Wariri, Chris Grundy, Beate Kampmann, Uduak Okomo, Golam Sarwar, Kris A Murray, Lamin Saidy, Chigozie Edson Utazi, Alieu Sowe, Malick Sogur, Sidat Fofanna, Esu Ezeani, Bai-Lamin Dondeh

“…However, there was an increase in HepB0 coverage before as well as after the peak of the third wave in 2021 compared with the pre-pandemic period (pre-third wave peak OR = 1.83, 95% CI 1.06 to 3.14; post-third wave period OR=2.20, 95% CI 1.23 to 3.92). …”
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Psychological interventions mitigated occupational stress in high-risk workers in Shenzhen, China by Naixing Zhang, Wei Zhou, Aipin Xiao, Shaofan Weng, Liuzhuo Zhang, Dexiang Zhu, Jinlin Wang, Ling Nian, Dafeng Lin, Dafeng Lin

“…Baseline occupational stress detection rates and high social support rates were analyzed, along with their post-intervention changes, to comprehensively evaluate the intervention effectiveness.ResultsThe cohort comprised 3,237 participants, with a median age of 31 years, 92.18% were male, and 96.14% were Han Chinese. …”
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A Coherent Approach-Based Fine-Tuning of Segment Anything Model Plus Watershed Algorithm for Instance Segmentation of Mitochondria in Electron Microscopy Images by Zahra Faska, Lahbib Khrissi, Imadeddine Mountasser, Khalid Haddouch, Nabil El Akkad, Samah Alshathri, Walid El-Shafai

“…A visual comparison is shown between our fine-tuning SAM model and U-Net, along with an examination of different watershed post-processing strategies to discriminate between adjacent or conjoined instances. …”
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Bridging the gap in mental health literacy: co-adapting and feasibility testing a digital intervention to improve mental health literacy amongst young people aged 12–14 in the UK by Emily Vicary, Helen Brierley, Jack Wilkinson, Melody Adesina, Penny Bee, Karina Lovell, Naz Uzun, Emily Bee, Helen Brooks

“…Then, Phase 2 was a multi-site, cluster-randomized feasibility trial with a nested mixed-methods process evaluation conducted at two community sites (N = 19, 12 completing 4-week post-intervention data and 11 completing 3-month follow-up). …”
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Residual/recurrent lesions after cold-knife conization for high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia: risk factor analysis and clinical management recommendations by Chenchun Wu, Peng Guo, Peng Guo, Pengchong Huang, Lili Guo, Lili Xiong

“…ObjectiveThis study aims to evaluate the risk factors of residual/recurrent lesions of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia 2/3 (CIN2/3) in patients who underwent cold-knife conization (CKC).MethodsA total of 976 patients with CIN2/3 who were treated with CKC were retrospectively analyzed. Post-CKC follow-up involved a thin-prep cytology test (TCT) and human papillomavirus (HPV) tests. …”
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Design and Evaluation of Real-Time Data Storage and Signal Processing in a Long-Range Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) Using Cloud-Based Services by Abdusomad Nur, Yonas Muanenda

“…The results show latencies of 40 ms per batch of access with low standard deviations of a few milliseconds, and latency per sample decreases for increasing the sample size, paving the way toward the development of scalable, cloud-based data storage services integrating additional post-processing for more precise feature extraction. …”
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Are treatment plans optimized on the basis of acuros XB dose calculation robust against anatomic changes during online adaptive radiotherapy for lung cancer regarding dose homogene... by Khouya Aymane, Santiago Alina, Ringbaek Toke, Guberina Nika, Guberina Maja, Gauler Thomas, Lübcke Wolfgang, Zylka Waldemar, Pöttgen Christoph, Stuschke Martin

“…The adaptive plans were verified on a subsequent post-adaptation CBCT (CBCT2) of the same dose fraction. …”
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Security and religion in democratizing Tunisia: re-enacting surveillance through religious narratives and gendered dynamics by Fabrizio Leonardo Cuccu, Alessandra Bonci

“…Finally, we present the case of the wa’ydhat in the post-revolutionary setting as a critical example of securitization of Islam, and cooperation between security and religious management.…”
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Incidence of recovery rate and predictors among hospitalized COVID- 19 infected patients in Ethiopia; a systemic review and meta-analysis by Fassikaw Kebede Bizuneh, Getaye Tizazu Biwota, Tsheten Tsheten, Tsehay Kebede Bizuneh

“…Although mortality risk and clinical features of COVID-19 are well-documented, recovery patterns and prognostic factors post-admission remain inconclusive, particularly in resource-limited settings like Ethiopia. …”
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PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA FROM CYBER THREATS by Elizaveta Zainutdinova

“…The study proposes both compliance and post-control measures aimed at preventing breaches and addressing their root causes. …”
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Landscape preferences evaluation: Planning of neighborhood parks in Tehran with community-oriented approach by Amir Semiari, Zahra Sadeghi, Fereshteh Rahmani, Farnaz Khaje Saeed

“…Data analysis was performed using the independent t-test, dependent t-test and ANOVA with the Bonferroni post hoc test within the group in software SPSS. …”
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The Overlooked Threat of Hospital Falls During the Discharge Period: A Statewide Retrospective Analysis of Patient Safety Event Reports by Christine E. Sanchez, Rebecca Jones

“…While previous research has primarily focused on inpatient or post-discharge falls, the transitional period surrounding discharge has been understudied…”
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Health Navigator intervention to address the unmet social needs of populations living with cancer attending outpatient treatment at a major metropolitan hospital in Australia: prot... by Sean Martin, Kate Neadley, Annabel Smith, Mark Boyd, Christopher Hocking, Cheryl Shoubridge

“…Most HN interventions are implemented in primary care, despite evidence that disadvantaged populations face substantial barriers to accessing such care, and these interventions are limited in Australia. …”
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