Clinical and Public Health Challenge of Handling Synthetic Cathinone and Cannabinoid Abuse in Pediatric Care: A Narrative Review by Valerio Ricci, Giuseppe Maina

“…Public health measures, including stringent regulatory controls, targeted education initiatives, and robust surveillance systems, are critical to mitigating these risks. …”
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Research on the optimization model of anti-breast cancer candidate drugs based on machine learning by Zhou Dong, Hong Chen, Yuchen Yang, Hairong Hao

“…A Random Forest model combined with Shapley Additive Explanations (SHAP) values was then used to further select the top 20 descriptors with the greatest impact on biological activity. …”
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Diagnosis and Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease Using Learning Algorithm by Gargi Pant Shukla, Santosh Kumar, Saroj Kumar Pandey, Rohit Agarwal, Neeraj Varshney, Ankit Kumar

“…A dataset was obtained from Alzheimer’s Disease Neurological Initiative (ADNI) and converted from a 4D format to a 2D format. …”
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Systematic review on the zoonotic potential of Helicobacter pylori by Carmen Almagro-Martínez, Ana Alenda-Botella, Lorena Botella-Juan

“…A total of 393 studies were initially retrieved. After removing duplicates, 284 unique studies remained. …”
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Harnessing self-supervised learning to boost malicious traffic detection with enhanced attention by SUN Jianwen, ZHANG Bin, LI Hongyu, CHANG Heyu

“…Based on the MAE model, a self-supervised mask pre-training strategy was adopted, and a visual Transformer was utilized to extract rich traffic feature representations. By selectively focusing on the spatial and intervariable dependencies among different parts of the input packet sequence, a general traffic representation was learned, and the weight parameters of the encoder model were used to initialize subsequent tasks, which accelerated the model training process. …”
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Climate Services for Agriculture: Tools for Informing Decisions Relating to Climate Change and Climate Variability in the Wine Industry by Leanne Webb, Carly Tozer, Lynette Bettio, Rebecca Darbyshire, Bella Robinson, Aysha Fleming, Sigrid Tijs, Roger Bodman, Mahesh Prakash

“…Here, we describe the research behind the wine-grape specific indices and present sample outputs from the CSA platform for a site within a selected winegrowing region. We note the CSA platform has been developed through an extensive and continuing user engagement initiative, ensuring it meets the needs of the agriculture community as they grapple with how to make decisions based on longer term climate projections. …”
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Does the Decline in Caries Prevalence of Latin American and Caribbean Children Continue in the New Century? Evidence from Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis. by Thais Gimenez, Beatriz Albuquerque Bispo, Daniela Pereira Souza, Maria Eduarda Viganó, Marcia Turolla Wanderley, Fausto Medeiros Mendes, Marcelo Bönecker, Mariana Minatel Braga

“…Studies in those countries performed with 5-6 or 11-13 year-old children and that presented separate prevalence figures from primary and permanent teeth were selected. We performed a descriptive analysis of studies and meta-analysis to calculate the overall prevalence and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) in both primary and permanent teeth. …”
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Twist-Induced Beam Steering and Blazing Effects in Photonic Crystal Devices by Nicolas Roy, Beicheng Lou, Shanhui Fan, Alexandre Mayer, Michaël Lobet

“…The optimized devices exhibit a shared slant dependent on the selected diffraction order and that proves robust to the twist angle. …”
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The study of the effects of digital media applications in cross-cultural communication in the construction of cultural identity by Meng Yao

“…In the qualitative phase, 30 participants were selected for semi-structured interviews to provide deeper insights into the quantitative findings using thematic analysis in NVivo. …”
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Assessment of Yield Parameters in M3-Generation of Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) Treated with Different Concentrations of EMS by Uddin MD Waseem, G. Vijay Kumar, K. Srinivas Naik

“…Uniform and and healthy seeds were selected and they were treated with various concentrations (0.1%, to 0.6%) of EMS. …”
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Trends in public perceptions of patient safety during the COVID-19 pandemic: Findings from a repeated cross-sectional survey in Germany, 2019-2023. by Olga Amberger, Dorothea Lemke, Hardy Müller, David Schwappach, Max Geraedts, Beate S Müller

“…Self-reported data were collected annually from a randomly selected sample of 1,000 different adults aged 18 and older residing in Germany. …”
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Understanding what really helps to ensure access to diagnostic services in the Indian Public Health System: a realist synthesis of the Common Review Mission reports (2007-2021) by Erin Hannah, Nisha Basheer, Neha Dumka, Atul Kotwal

“… # Methods Common Review Mission (CRM) reports between 2007 and 2021 were selected for the study. Data relevant to diagnostic services were retrieved using defined search terms. …”
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A rare threat to patients with hematological malignancies: Saprochaete clavata by Elif Özge Damar Mıdık, Ayşe Batırel, Serap Demir Tekol

“…Prompt initiation of antifungal therapy is vital to decrease mortality.…”
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Multimodal Preoperative Management of Rectal Cancer: A Review of the Existing Guidelines by Ionut Negoi

“…Obtaining an accurate histological diagnosis before initiating treatment is essential. Comprehensive staging integrates clinical evaluation, thorough medical history analysis, assessment of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) levels, and computed tomography (CT) imaging of the abdomen and thorax. …”
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Optimization of CNN Activation Functions using Xception for South Sulawesi Batik Classification by Aswan Aswan, Eva Yulia Puspaningrum, Billy Eden William Asrul

“…The results demonstrate that selecting an optimal activation function substantially enhances convolutional neural network classification of complex batik patterns. …”
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Collective cell migration drives morphogenesis of the kidney nephron. by Aleksandr Vasilyev, Yan Liu, Sudha Mudumana, Steve Mangos, Pui-Ying Lam, Arindam Majumdar, Jinhua Zhao, Kar-Lai Poon, Igor Kondrychyn, Vladimir Korzh, Iain A Drummond

“…Lengthening of the nephron was, however, accompanied by an increase in tubule cell number, specifically in the most distal, ret1-positive nephron segment. The initiation of cell migration coincided with the onset of fluid flow in the pronephros. …”
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Matrix metalloproteinase-driven epithelial-mesenchymal transition: implications in health and disease by Ghazaleh Khalili-Tanha, Evette S. Radisky, Derek C. Radisky, Alireza Shoari

“…This review provides an integrated overview of the molecular mechanisms by which MMPs both initiate and sustain EMT under physiological and disease conditions. …”
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Secondary renocolic fistula caused by pyonephrosis by Prelević Rade, Milev Boško, Ignjatović Mihajlo, Jovanović Mirko, Prelević Danilo

“…The laparoscopic approach can be utilized in selected cases.…”
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Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development: the Changing Mission of the Higher School by M. A. Izmailova

“…Universities enter into an active dialogue with society to solve problems at different levels of economic systems, making efforts to combine the spheres of knowledge production, scientifc research expected by society, the transformation of knowledge and scientifc results into practice through the initiation of new directions and activities, technological transformation of the scientifc and educational space, diversifcation of channels of interaction with society…”
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A roadmap of priority evidence gaps for the co-implementation of malaria vaccines and perennial malaria chemoprevention by Jane Grant, Perennial Malaria Chemoprevention (PMC) community of practice sub-group on the co-implementation of malaria vaccines and PMC

“…Identified evidence gaps were prioritized to select urgent issues to inform co-implementation. …”
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