Mouth Breathing and Orthodontic Referral in Pediatric Practice: A Cross-Sectional Survey by Tulca Büyükpatır Türk, Barış Erkut Türk, Yeşim Kaya

“…Attitudinal orientation toward orthodontic treatment may play a more influential role in referral behavior than awareness alone.…”
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Impact of order set implementation on appropriate treatment of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) by Han Pham, Michell J. Stein, Lacy J. Worden

“…Participants: Patients who are 18 years of age or older admitted for treatment of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) between October 1, 2021, and August 1, 2023. Methods: This retrospective cohort study aimed to evaluate a composite endpoint of appropriate empiric antimicrobial selection, dosing, and duration in accordance with the national guidelines after the implementation of a CAP order set. …”
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Exploring Different Effects of Exclusive Enteral Nutrition (EEN) and Corticosteroids on the Gut Microbiome in Crohn’s Disease Based on a Three-Stage Strategy by Dong Guo, Liang Fang, Ruiqing Liu, Yu Li, Liang Lv, Zhaojiao Niu, Dong Chen, Yanbing Zhou, Weiming Zhu

“…However, corticosteroids have a greater impact on inflammatory indicators, while EEN has a more obvious effect on nutritional indicators. Principal component analysis suggests that there are different compositional changes in the gut microbiome after corticosteroids and EEN treatment. …”
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A novel drought index integrating GNSS and precipitation data for drought monitoring in Brazil by Wei Chen, Miao Tang, Zhongshan Jiang, Min Zhong, Wei Feng

“…We develop a novel composite drought index, the GNSS and Precipitation based Multivariate Standardized Drought Index (GP-MSDI), integrating Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and precipitation data to improve drought characterization in Brazil. …”
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Training Load, Fatigue, and Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury Risk in Male Collegiate Handball Players: A Two-Season Prospective Cohort Study by Anwar Ali S Syed, J David Mathew James

“…The findings indicate that persistent fatigue, more than training volume alone, significantly predicts ACL injury risk in collegiate handball players. …”
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The Role of Latvian Catholic Church Textiles in Perfecting People’s Aesthetic Values by Aija Jansone

“…At the same time, the pursuit of everything new, methodically led to a reduction in the specificity of traditional lifestyle. …”
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Study of influence of base-vehicle on biological activity of vasopressin in the transbuccal dosage forms by Al Nasir Eiad, О. L. Drozdov, H. P. Lysianska, О. B. Kharaponova

“…In this regard, using the alternative transbuccal route of administration is more perspective for the vasopressin derivatives. …”
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Retention Protocols and Factors Affecting Retainer Choice among Iraqi Orthodontists by Mushriq F. Abid, Ali M. Al-Attar, Akram F. Alhuwaizi

“…According to the respondents, bonding a fixed retainer to all anterior teeth was most common (79.7%), fabricated, and adapted directly inside the patient’s mouth (75.1%). More than half used flowable composite (54.8%) and recommend leaving the retainer forever (53.8%). …”
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Sustainable bamboo: Technological innovations and patent insights for a greener future by Himalay R. Patel, Rahil Mathakia, Urvashi C. Mangroliya, Viralkumar B. Mandaliya

“…In the food sector, innovations such as vacuum packaging, natural preservatives and advanced processing methods have improved the shelf life and nutritional integrity of bamboo shoots. …”
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Rapid and sensitive rGO/AuNP-based electrochemical nano-biosensor for detection of E. coli and S. aureus in less than an hour by Vedashree V. Sirdeshmukh, Shreeram S. Joglekar, Preeti Nigam Joshi, Anup A. Kale

“…Electrochemical detection methods are quick and can provide point-of-care diagnosis. …”
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Rolling Resistance Evaluation of Pavements Using Embedded Transducers on a Semi-Trailer Suspension by William Levesque, André Bégin-Drolet, Julien Lépine

“…Road agency initiatives to reduce traffic-related greenhouse gas emissions are limited by the inability of current experimental methods to assess pavement impacts on vehicle energy consumption. …”
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Comparative Corrosion and Wear Behaviors of Cermet Coatings Obtained from Conventional and Recycled Powders by Dino Woelk, Julian Eßler, Ion-Dragos Utu, Gabriela Marginean

“…One solution is to coat these components using methods like thermal spraying to apply cermet coatings such as Cr₃C₂-NiCr or WC-Co-Cr. …”
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Machine learning metallic glass critical cooling rates through elemental and molecular simulation based featurization by Lane E. Schultz, Benjamin Afflerbach, Paul M. Voyles, Dane Morgan

“…We compare results for features derived from easy-to-compute functions of elemental properties to more complex physically motivated properties using ab initio, machine-learning potentials, and empirical potential molecular dynamics methods. …”
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BiEHFFNet: A Water Body Detection Network for SAR Images Based on Bi-Encoder and Hybrid Feature Fusion by Bin Han, Xin Huang, Feng Xue

“…Experiments conducted on the ALOS PALSAR dataset demonstrate that the proposed BiEHFFNet outperforms existing methods across multiple evaluation metrics, achieving more accurate water body detection.…”
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Effects of Elizabethan Collar and Wound Protection Corset on Pain and Discomfort Levels in Cats Undergoing Ovariohysterectomy by Ayhan Isil, Latif Emrah Yanmaz

“…Animals Twenty‐six healthy female cats. Methods Animals were randomly assigned to two groups after midline celiotomy: One group wore an EC (n = 13), and the other wore a WPC (n = 13). …”
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Vortioxetine improves symptomatic and functional outcomes in major depressive disorder: a novel dual outcome measure in depressive disorders by М. С. Christensen, Н. Loft, R. S. McIntyre

“…With symptomatic remission and functional recovery as the overarching therapeutic objectives of antidepressant therapy, composite endpoint measures that conjointly consider both aspects of treatment are needed. …”
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Evaluating the Cardiovascular Impact of Rheumatoid Arthritis through Clinical Disease Activity Index Scores: A Cross-sectional Study at a Rural Teaching Hospital by Keyur Saboo, Sunil Kumar, Sourya Acharya, Rajesh Sarode, Rinkle Gemnani, Avinash Parepalli

“…The Clinical Disease Activity Index (CDAI) is a validated composite index used to assess disease activity in patients with RA, which may guide therapeutic decisions and help monitor disease progression or response to treatment. …”
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An approach to forecasting damage due to unfavorable circumstances associated with indistinguishability of source data by V. F. Zolotukhin, A. V. Matershev, L. A. Podkolzina

“…The tasks are to consider this kind of uncertainty which includes indistinguishability of the true system condition and the real value of its quantitative characteristics; to formulate a combinatorial problem for the case when a rather dangerous composite feature is determined by the joint manifestation of two or more simple features.Materials and Methods. …”
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Problematic Digital Technology Use Measures in Children Aged 0 to 6 Years: Scoping Review by Špela Selak, Janja Horvat, Mark Žmavc

“…Existing composite measures conceptualize problematic use as either a group of risky behaviors or as a group of symptoms of a presumed underlying disorder, with the latter being more common. …”
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Association between use of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors, glucagon-like peptide 1 agonists, and dipeptidyl peptidase 4 inhibitors with kidney outcomes in patients with... by Shuo Yang, Wei He, Lu Zhao, Yaochuan Mi

“…<h4>Conclusions</h4>In this network meta-analysis, although none of the three new antidiabetic drug classes reduced the composite renal events in participants with type 2 diabetes, GLP-1 receptor agonists may be more effective. …”
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