Abortion-related complications in Brazil: results from the World Health Organization Multi-country Survey on Abortion (MCS-A) by Nelio Neves Veiga Junior, Luiz Francisco Cintra Baccaro, Adriana Mendonça da Silva Alexandrino, Alexandre Volta Andrade do Nascimento, Camila Tereza Camilo Clerot, Cintya Andreia do Nascimento Santos, Claudia Lucrécia de Matos Silva, Claudio Lucio de Medeiros Albuquerque, Débora Paulo Santos, Demétrio Antonio Gonçalves da S. Gomes, Édson Cunha de Araújo Junior, Elizabete das Chagas Vilanova, Georgina Costa Teixeira, Graciete Helena Nascimento dos Santos, Guilherme Augusto Guerra Avelar, Iara Elce Lopes Barros, Jaqueline Polon Abboud, Jeane Cristina Antas Lins, Joanne Thalita Pereira Silva, Kelma H. Aguiar de Lucena, Lara Wanderley Paes Barbosa, Lia Ferreira Caixeta Barreto de Siqueira, Luciana de Melo Freitas Carneiro, Lucila Nagata, Márcia de Oliveira Pereira Lúcio, Maria Cleane Rodrigues da Silva, Maria da Conceição Ribeiro Simões, Maria Fernanda da Mota Magalhães, Mariana Viana Almeida, Michelle Regina Faria Lira, Nádia Martins de Paula Souza, Rafael Martins Papa, Rafael Ribeiro Matos, Renata Porto Pinheiro, Roberta Souza dos Anjos, Suelen Miranda de Jesus, Tedy Roger Flores Ynturias, Valéria Cristina Gonçalves, Viviane Resende de Abreu Caetano

“…Women with hemorrhage, infection or organs injury were invited to answer an interview about experience of care. Statistical analysis was performed using chi-square test and Poisson regression models. …”
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Association of the newly proposed dietary index for gut microbiota and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality among individuals with diabetes and prediabetes by Wenjing Song, Daoqin Liu, Zihe Xing, Luqing Jiang, Yu Tang, Zichen Xu, Lei Li, Shuai Yan, Xia Fu, Yuping Wang, Qiwen Wu

“…The present cohort study examined the longitudinal relationship between DI-GM scores and both overall mortality and mortality from cardiovascular disease in this clinically vulnerable population.MethodThe investigation used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2007–2018. …”
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Comorbidity patterns and immune-metabolic differences in patients with acute-episode of schizophrenia spectrum disorders by Guoping Wu, Zhe Dong, Zhongcai Li, Qiongxian Zhao, Song Chen, Qing Dong, Liqiong Huang, Yaru Zhang, Xuan Wang, Sai Chen, Hongbing Liu, Zanzong Sun, Shengmei Ban, Baopeng Tian, Yunlong Tan

“…Comorbidity patterns were identified through latent class analysis (LCA) based on the 20 most common comorbid conditions among SSD patients. …”
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Camellia sinensis phytochemical profiling, drug-likeness, and antibacterial activity against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria: in vitro and in silico insights by Farouk Boudou, Amal Belakredar, Ahcene Keziz, Huda Alsaeedi, David Cornu, Mikhael Bechelany, Mikhael Bechelany, Ahmed Barhoum, Ahmed Barhoum

“…Density Functional Theory analysis revealed significant variations in electronic properties among the selected compounds, with quercetin exhibiting the smallest HOMO-LUMO gap (2.31 eV), suggesting high reactivity. …”
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Social capital as a moderator of the relationship between violent community environment and psychological distress by Miguel A. Pérez-Sastré, Carmen García-Peña, Luciana Ramos-Lira, Luis Ortiz-Hernández

“…Objective: To evaluate the modifying effect of social capital on the relationship between living in violent communities and the presence of psychological distress in adolescents and youth in Mexico. Method: The analysis of the Social Cohesion Survey for the Prevention of Violence and Crime (ECOPRED, by its acronym in Spanish) was conducted. …”
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ANÁLISIS ESTRUCTURAL DE TUBERÍAS DE OLEODUCTOS ABOLLADAS POR CARGA EXPLOSIVA by G LATORRE, R MORA, F MEJÍA U, A MARTÍNEZ, R SUÁREZ

“…The study include some three main aspects: (a) Characterization of the dents considering their geometry, materials (hardness, metallographic structure, efforts, etc) influences of explosive charges and of the operation pressure as well as hydrostatic pressure tests overa real scale pipe, (b) Creation and validation of a new method for dent evaluation and (c) Discussion of the analysis through numeric modeling. …”
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Sistema de detección de señales de tráfico para la localización de intersecciones viales y frenado anticipado by Gabriel Villalón-Sepúlveda, Miguel Torres-Torriti, Marco Flores-Calero

“…The method is based on segmentation by color on the RGB-normalized space (ErEgEb) for generating regions of interest (ROIs), the classification of the type of signal using YCbCr and ErEgEb spaces to build a statistical template, where to remove the background has proposed a probability distribution function that models the color of the objects of interest and its background. …”
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Antimicrobial Activity and the Synergy Potential of <i>Cinnamomum aromaticum</i> Nees and <i>Syzygium aromaticum</i> (L.) Merr. et Perry Essential Oils with Antimicrobial Drugs by Soraia El Baz, Bouchra Soulaimani, Imane Abbad, Zineb Azgaou, El Mostapha Lotfi, Mustapha Malha, Noureddine Mezrioui

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Renal function and clinical outcomes in survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest by Hao-Wei Lee, Ming-Jen Kuo, Pai-Feng Hsu, I-Hsin Lee, Chih-Yu Yang, Teh-Fu Hsu, Chorng-Kuang How, Yenn-Jiang Lin, Chin-Chou Huang

“…Among patients without ESRD, 82.5% developed AKI, of which 31.0% achieved AKI recovery, while 61.0% were discharged with impaired renal function. Multivariable analysis using regression models revealed that unfavorable neurological outcomes at discharge and higher mortality at 2 years were associated with AKI (odds ratio [OR] 7.684, 95% confidence interval (CI) 2.683–22.010, P < 0.001; hazard ratio [HR] 2.159, 95% CI 1.272–3.664, P = 0.004), AKI without recovery (OR 5.275, 95% CI 2.049–13.583, P < 0.001; HR 5.470, 95% CI 3.304–9.862, P < 0.001), and impaired pre-discharge renal function (OR 3.164, 95% CI 1.442–6.940, P = 0.004; HR 2.876, 95% CI 1.861–4.443, P < 0.001). …”
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The Influence of Compensation, Competency and Workload on Employee Performance Surabaya Health Office with Job Satisfaction as an Intervening Variable by Dhian Wulandari, Agus Sukoco

“…The research population was all ASN of the Surabaya Health Office with a sample of 56 respondents taken using a simple random sampling technique. The data analysis method uses Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) based on Partial Least Square (PLS). …”
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Directed modification of β-mannanase substrate affinity based on rational design by Wei Xihuan, Wang Chunjuan, Zhao Mei, Li Jianfang, Wu Minchen

“…Firstly, the three-dimensional (3-D) structure of a docked complex of Auman5A with mannobiose was predicted through homology modeling and molecular docking simulation. On the basis of this 3-D structure, 38 amino acid sites in proximity to mannobiose within 8 Å were located by using the PyMol software. …”
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Hospitalizations and doctor visits among older adults in Europe: cross-country differences using a multilevel approach by Elisa Amo-Saus, Roberto Martinez-Lacoba, Isabel Pardo-García, Pablo Moya-Martínez

“…The analysis included 27 countries. We fitted multilevel mixed-effects logistic regression models with hospitalization and doctor visits per person per year as dependent variables. …”
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Enteric-coated microencapsulation improves the therapeutic effect of cinnamon oil on artificially infected chicken with Escherichia coli by Huanling Xing, Fang Zhou, Jianhao Lin, Junfeng Ban, Junyi Huang, Xinghai Li, Hanjun He, Yanqun Li, Mei Bai, Xiangxiu Liang, Hong Wu

“…Different concentrations of enteric CEO microcapsules and CEO were used to treat artificially infected chicken E. coli models, respectively. Cecal content was collected for 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis and metabonomics. …”
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Global burden of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, 2010 to 2021 by Gong Feng, Giovanni Targher, Christopher D. Byrne, Yusuf Yilmaz, Vincent Wai-Sun Wong, Cosmas Rinaldi Adithya Lesmana, Leon A. Adams, Jerome Boursier, George Papatheodoridis, Mohamed El-Kassas, Nahum Méndez-Sánchez, Silvia Sookoian, Laurent Castera, Wah-Kheong Chan, Feng Ye, Sombat Treeprasertsuk, Helena Cortez-Pinto, Hon Ho Yu, Won Kim, Manuel Romero-Gómez, Atsushi Nakajima, Khin Maung Win, Seung Up Kim, Adriaan G. Holleboom, Giada Sebastiani, Ponsiano Ocama, John D. Ryan, Monica Lupșor-Platon, Hasmik Ghazinyan, Mamun Al-Mahtab, Saeed Hamid, Nilanka Perera, Khalid A. Alswat, Qiuwei Pan, Michelle T. Long, Vasily Isakov, Man Mi, Marco Arrese, Arun J. Sanyal, Shiv Kumar Sarin, Nathalie Carvalho Leite, Luca Valenti, Philip N. Newsome, Hannes Hagström, Salvatore Petta, Hannele Yki-Järvinen, Jörn M. Schattenberg, Marlen I. Castellanos Fernández, Isabelle A. Leclercq, Gulnara Aghayeva, Abdel-Naser Elzouki, Ali Tumi, Ala I. Sharara, Asma Labidi, Faisal M. Sanai, Khaled Matar, Maen Al-Mattooq, Maisam Waid Akroush, Mustapha Benazzouz, Nabil Debzi, Maryam Alkhatry, Salma Barakat, Said A. Al-Busafi, John Rwegasha, Wah Yang, Agyei Adwoa, Christopher Kenneth Opio, Mohammadjavad Sotoudeheian, Yu Jun Wong, Jacob George, Ming-Hua Zheng

“…Smoothing spline models were used to evaluate the relationship between the burden of MASLD and SDI. …”
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Non-invasive biopsy diagnosis of diabetic kidney disease via deep learning applied to retinal images: a population-based study by Ziyao Meng, MEng, Zhouyu Guan, MD, Shujie Yu, MBBS, Yilan Wu, BSc, Yaoning Zhao, BSc, Jie Shen, PhD, Cynthia Ciwei Lim, MMed, Tingli Chen, MD, Dawei Yang, PhD, An Ran Ran, PhD, Feng He, MSc, Haslina Hamzah, BSc, Sarkaaj Singh, MSc, Anis Syazwani Abd Raof, MSc, Jian Wen Samuel Lee-Boey, MBBS, ProfMBBS Soo-Kun Lim, MBBS, ProfMD Xufang Sun, MBBS, Shuwang Ge, MD, ProfMD Gang Xu, MD, Prof Hua Su, MD, Yang Cheng, MD, Feng Lu, PhD, ProfPhD Xiaofei Liao, PhD, ProfPhD Hai Jin, PhD, Chenxin Deng, MMed, Lei Ruan, MD, ProfMD Cuntai Zhang, MD, Chan Wu, MD, ProfMD Rongping Dai, MD, Yixiao Jin, MSc, Wenxiao Wang, PhD, Tingyao Li, BSc, Ruhan Liu, PhD, Jiajia Li, PhD, Jia Shu, BEng, Yuwei Lu, MBBS, Xiangning Wang, MD, Qiang Wu, MD, Yiming Qin, BEng, Jin Tang, MD, Xiaohua Sheng, MD, Qiong Jiao, MD, ProfPhD Xiaokang Yang, MD, ProfPhD Minyi Guo, MD, Gareth J McKay, PhD, ProfPhD Ruth E Hogg, PhD, Gerald Liew, MBBS, Evelyn Yi Lyn Chee, PhD, ProfPhD Wynne Hsu, PhD, ProfPhD Mong Li Lee, PhD, Simon Szeto, MBChB, ProfMD Andrea O Y Luk, MBChB, ProfMD Juliana C N Chan, MBChB, Carol Y Cheung, PhD, Gavin Siew Wei Tan, FRCSEd, Yih-Chung Tham, PhD, ProfMD PhD Ching-Yu Cheng, PhD, Charumathi Sabanayagam, MD PhD, ProfPhD Lee-Ling Lim, MD PhD, ProfMD PhD Weiping Jia, MD PhD, ProfMD PhD Huating Li, MD PhD, Bin Sheng, Prof, Tien Yin Wong, Prof

“…In the prospective study, compared with the metadata model, DeepDKD could detect DKD with higher sensitivity (89·8% vs 66·3%, p<0·0001). …”
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Investigative needle core biopsies support multimodal deep-data generation in glioblastoma by Kenny K. H. Yu, Sreyashi Basu, Gerard Baquer, Ryuhjin Ahn, Jennifer Gantchev, Sonali Jindal, Michael S. Regan, Zaki Abou-Mrad, Michael C. Prabhu, Marc J. Williams, Alicia D. D’Souza, Seth W. Malinowski, Kelsey Hopland, Yuval Elhanati, Sylwia A. Stopka, Alexei Stortchevoi, Charles Couturier, Zhong He, Jingjing Sun, Yulong Chen, Alexsandra B. Espejo, Kin Hoe Chow, Smitha Yerrum, Pei-Lun Kao, Brittany Parker Kerrigan, Lisa Norberg, Douglas Nielsen, The GBM TeamLab, Vinay K. Puduvalli, Jason Huse, Rameen Beroukhim, Betty Y. S. Kim, Sangeeta Goswami, Adrienne Boire, Sarah Frisken, Michael J. Cima, Matthias Holdhoff, Calixto-Hope G. Lucas, Chetan Bettegowda, Stuart S. Levine, Tejus A. Bale, Cameron Brennan, David A. Reardon, Frederick F. Lang, E. Antonio Chiocca, Keith L. Ligon, Forest M. White, Padmanee Sharma, Viviane Tabar, Nathalie Y. R. Agar

“…Finally, we investigate the utility of stereotactic biopsies as a method for generating patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models. …”
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Polarization Characteristics of the Hyperactive FRB 20240114A by Jin-Tao Xie, Yi Feng, Di Li, Yong-Kun Zhang, Deng-Ke Zhou, Yuanhong Qu, Xiang-han Cui, Jian-Hua Fang, Jia-Ying Xu, Chen-Chen Miao, Mao Yuan, Chao-Wei Tsai, Pei Wang, Chen-Hui Niu, Xianglei Chen, Mengyao Xue, Junshuo Zhang

“…This algorithm is independent of spectral models and remains unaffected by the removal of interference-affected channels in the data, ensuring robust performance.…”
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Epigenetic clocks as mediators of health behaviors and mortality in middle-aged and older adults by Xing-Ling Chen, Qiang-Qiang Zhao, Sheng-Rong Lin, Xing-Ling He, Xiao-Jiao Zhang, Si-Jing Li, Zi-Ru Li, Jia-Hui Chen, Hua Zhang, Xiao-Fang Li, Yue-Hui Zhou, Hui-Li Liao, Shu-Ning Sun, Zhong-Qi Yang, Shi-Hao Ni, Lu Lu

“…This study investigates associations between lifestyle factors, EAA biomarkers, and mortality risk. Method: The 2532 adults of 50 years or older that registered in NHANES between 1999–2002.This study evaluated compares first- to third-generation epigenetic clocks (HannumAge, HorvathAge, PhenoAge, GrimAge2, DunedinPoAm) in predicting mortality risk associations between five lifestyle domains (diet, abdominal adiposity, physical activity, smoking, alcohol) and EAA were analyzed via multivariable regression, with mediation models testing EAA’s role in lifestyle-mortality relationships. …”
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Study the effect of Lactobacillus plantarum ATCC 14917 for caries prevention and anti-obesity by Wei Yang, Wei Yang, Mingxin Jiang, Bairu Chen, Bairu Chen, Kongzhao Jiang, Nan Ma, Nan Ma, Yimin Li, Yimin Li, Meng Wang, Meng Wang, Meihua Bao, Meihua Bao, Chengyue Wang, Chengyue Wang, Xiaopeng Yang, Xiaopeng Yang

“…Lactobacillus plantarum, has gained attention recently due to its probiotic properties, useful traits, and potential medical applications.ObjectiveExamining the anti-obesity and anti-caries effects of L. plantarum ATCC 14917 on dental caries and obese rat models caused by a high-fat and high-sugar diet is the aim of this study.MethodIn vitro, we assessed the L. plantarum strain’s probiotic properties, such as its antibacterial activity and ability to build biofilms, to determine its ability to inhibit Streptococcus mutans. …”
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Panoramic spatial enhanced resolution proteomics (PSERP) reveals tumor architecture and heterogeneity in gliomas by Ziyan Xu, Yunzhi Wang, Tao Xie, Rongkui Luo, Heng-Li Ni, Hang Xiang, Shaoshuai Tang, Subei Tan, Rundong Fang, Peng Ran, Qiao Zhang, Xiaomeng Xu, Sha Tian, Fuchu He, Wenjun Yang, Chen Ding

“…We demonstrated the utility of this method for determining the streamlined large-scale spatial proteomic features of gliomas. …”
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