Influence of Cavity Designs on Fracture Resistance: Analysis of the Role of Different Access Techniques to the Endodontic Cavity in the Onset of Fractures: Narrative Review by Mario Dioguardi, Davide La Notte, Diego Sovereto, Cristian Quarta, Angelo Martella, Andrea Ballini

“…Among these, 20 articles were finally selected for the purposes of this review, 11 literature reviews and 9 ex-vivo studies. …”
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New job, new habits? A multilevel interrupted time series analysis of changes in diet, physical activity and sleep among young adults starting work for the first time by Alena F. Oxenham, Tanya Braune, Esther van Sluijs, Hannah Fairbrother, Adam Martin, Eleanor M. Winpenny

“…Stratified analyses examined differences by selected individual and job characteristics, adjusted for covariates. …”
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Postpartum maternal bonding scale: Development and validation in a low- and middle- income country setting. by Bushra Khan, Seyi Soremekun, Waqas Hameed, Bilal Iqbal Avan

“…The study was conducted in the Thatta and Sujawal districts of Sindh, Pakistan.<h4>Results</h4>An initial pool of 44 items was developed following a literature review and interviews with postpartum women. …”
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Telehealth Modality Preferences for Video and Voice-Only Visits Among US Clinicians and the Public: Cross-Sectional, Web-Based Survey Study by Rachel C Forcino, Julie K Johnson, Glyn Elwyn

“…Quotas ensured equal representation across the selected clinical specialties. Adult members of the US general public completed a 26-item survey through Qualtrics’ research panel. …”
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The Effectiveness and Feasibility of Conversational Agents in Supporting Care for Patients With Cancer: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Xiao-han Jiang, Xiu-hong Yuan, Hui Zhao, Jun-sheng Peng

“…Two reviewers independently selected studies and extracted data. Study quality was then appraised using the Cochrane Risk of Bias 2.0 tool for RCTs and the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) Critical Appraisal Checklist for NRIs. …”
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DENTAL STATUS IN CHILDREN WITH MALIGNANT SOLID NEOPLASMS by Yu.V. Popelo

“…Researching the state of periodontal tissues indicated for the initial signs of the inflammation of the marginal edge of the gums. …”
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Success Factors of Growth-Stage Digital Health Companies: Systematic Literature Review by Estelle Pfitzer, Laura Bitomsky, Marcia Nißen, Christoph Kausch, Tobias Kowatsch

“…ResultsFrom the 2972 studies initially screened, 36 were selected, revealing 52 success factors. …”
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Safety findings from the phase 1/2 MOSAIC study of miransertib for patients with PIK3CA-related overgrowth spectrum or Proteus syndrome by Whitney Eng, Ionela Iacobas, Jonathan Perkins, Giuseppe Zampino, Chiara Leoni, Paola Sabrina Buonuomo, Alessandra Simonetti, Himanshu Goel, Michael Briones, Mo Huang, Gregory Goldmacher, Danny Liaw, Adrienne Hammill

“…The multicenter, open-label, phase 1/2 MOSAIC study (NCT03094832) was designed to evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of the selective pan-AKT inhibitor miransertib for participants with PROS or Proteus syndrome. …”
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Kinetics of Different Substituted Phenolic Compounds’ Aqueous OH Oxidation in Atmosphere by Dandan Hu, Zixuan Wang, Eleonora Aruffo, Xuanli Dai, Zhuzi Zhao, Zhaolian Ye

“…However, the unclear reaction kinetics and mechanics hinder the in-depth understanding of the SOA sources and formation processes. This study selected ten different substituted phenolic compounds (termed as PhCs) emitted from biomass burning as precursors, to investigate the kinetics using OH oxidation reactions under simulated sunlight. …”
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Exploration of the relationship between general health-related problems and subclinical coronary artery disease: a cross-sectional study in a general population by Rozemarijn Vliegenthart, Pim van der Harst, Moniek Y Koopman, Jorn J W Reijnders, Robert T A Willemsen, Rykel van Bruggen, Jan Willem C Gratama, Bastiaan L J H Kietselaer, M Yldau van der Ende

“…Therefore, using health-related symptoms does not seem useful to pre-select for CT-CCS.Trial registration number CCMO Register, NL17981.042.07 and NL58592.042.16.…”
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Evaluating a Chatbot as a Companion for Patients With Breast Cancer: Collaborative Pilot Study by Sebastian Daniel Boie, Esther Glastetter, Michael Patrick Lux, Felix Balzer, Christof von Kalle, Christian Lenz, Ulrike Müller

“…MethodsWe collaborated with one of Germany’s largest breast cancer Patient Representation Groups to collect authentic patient inquiries, receiving a total of 118 questions. After initial screening, we selected 104 medical questions, organized into 7 distinct categories: aftercare, bone health, ductal carcinoma in situ, diagnostics, nutrition and supplements, complementary medicine, and therapy. …”
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Early Diagnostic Prediction of Infective Endocarditis: Development and Validation of EndoPredict-Dx by Milena Ribeiro Paixão, Bruno Adler Maccagnan Pinheiro Besen, Lucas Zoboli Pocebon, Marilia Francesconi Felicio, Remo Holanda de Mendonça Furtado, Pedro Gabriel Melo de Barros e Silva, Danielle Menosi Gualandro, Marcio Sommer Bittencourt, Tânia Mara Varejão Strabelli, Roney Orismar Sampaio, Flávio Tarasoutchi, Rinaldo Focaccia Siciliano

“…The level of suspicion, based on clinical judgment, guides decisions regarding the initiation of empirical treatment and the selection of appropriate diagnostic tools. …”
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Reduced interhemispheric connectivity in traumatic brachial plexopathies after bionic reconstruction by Galia V Anguelova, Agnes Sturma, Oskar Aszmann, Mehmet S Yildirim, Anna Boesendorfer, Victor Schmidbauer, Karl-Heinz Nenning, Gregor Kasprian

“…Traumatic brachial plexus lesions (TBPL) can lead to permanent impairment of hand function despite timely brachial plexus surgical treatment. In selected cases with no recovery of hand function, the affected forearm can be amputated and replaced by a bionic hand to regain prehensile function. …”
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Use of constitutive and inducible oncogene-containing iPSCs as surrogates for transgenic mice to study breast oncogenesis by Christine Nguyen, Julie P. T. Nguyen, Arnav P. Modi, Ihsaan Ahmad, Sarah C. Petrova, Stuart D. Ferrell, Sabrina R. Wilhelm, Yin Ye, Dorthe Schaue, Sanford H. Barsky

“…Abstract Background Powerful constitutive and inducible transgenic / bitransgenic / tritransgenic murine models of breast cancer have been used over the past two decades to shed light on the molecular mechanisms by which the given transgenic oncogenes have interacted with other cellular genes and set in motion breast cancer initiation and progression. However, these transgenic models, as in vivo models only, are expensive and restrictive in the opportunities they provide to manipulate the experimental variables that would enable a better understanding of the molecular events related to initial transformation and the target cell being transformed. …”
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Propósitos de la Educación Física en Educación Secundaria: revisión bibliográfica (Purposes of Physical Education in Secondary Education: a bibliographic review) by Óscar Romero-Chouza, Joaquín Lago-Ballesteros, Belén Toja-Reboredo, Miguel González-Valeiro

“…As a result, a total of 38 items were selected that met all the requirements for inclusion. …”
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Retrospective antimicrobial consumption surveillance at health facility level in Dodoma Region, Tanzania by Karin Wiedenmayer, Samuel Mungai, Romuald Mbwasi, Calvin Andeve Omolo, Eva Ombaka, Rajabu Mohamedi Kingo

“…This study aimed to investigate regional AMC and resistance patterns in a representative area of Tanzania and to introduce a method for determining AMC in low-resource settings.Design and methods We conducted a retrospective study using prescription data collected over 5 years (2013–2017) from multiple hospitals and selected primary health facilities in the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. …”
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A spatial clustering-based approach to design monitoring networks of infectious diseases: a case study of hand, foot, and mouth disease by Shuting Li, Yuanhua Liu, Ke Li, Zengliang Wang, Michael P. Ward, Wei Tu, Jiayao Xu, Rui Yuan, Lele Zhang, Na Wang, Jidan Zhang, Yu Zhao, Henry S. Lynn, Zhaorui Chang, Zhijie Zhang

“…We developed Spatial Cluster Stratified Sampling (SCSS) to select sample cities for infectious diseases exhibiting spatial autocorrelation. …”
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Cohort profile: patient characteristics and quality-of-life measurements for newly-referred patients with atrial fibrillation—Keio interhospital Cardiovascular Studies-atrial fibri... by Iwao Nakamura, Ikuko Ueda, Keiichi Fukuda, Shun Kohsaka, John A Spertus, Taku Inohara, Nobuhiro Ikemura, Takehiro Kimura, Kenneth Mahaffey, Kojiro Tanimoto, Masahiro Suzuki, Makoto Akaishi, Hideo Mitamura, Seiji Takatsuki

“…However, reports covering non-selected AF population within Asian countries remain scarce. …”
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Effects of selenium-enriched yeast and astragalus polysaccharide on slaughter performance, serum biochemical and antioxidant indexes of mule duck by LI Li, MIAO Zhongwei, XIN Qingwu, ZHU Zhiming, ZHANG Linli, LI Zhongrong, ZHENG Nenzhu

“…Then 144 mule ducks with similar initial body mass were selected and divided into four groups with three replications per group according to a completely randomized design. …”
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Dissection of the genetic basis and molecular mechanism of ovule number per ovary in oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) by Muslim Qadir, Muslim Qadir, Muslim Qadir, Xinyi Lin, Farhan Nabi, Kishore Kumar Ashok, Xue-Rong Zhou, Qingbin Sun, Peiman Shi, Xinfa Wang, Jiaqin Shi, Hanzhong Wang

“…Among these, four were identical to the reported and two were repeatedly detected with relatively large effects, highlighting their potential for marker-assisted selection. Phytohormone quantification of ovaries (at the ovule initiation stage) from two pools of high and low ONPO lines showed significant differences in the levels of nine sub-types of phytohormones, suggesting their important roles in regulating ovule number. …”
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