Outcomes of Del Nido and hyperkalemic blood cardioplegia in adult cardiac surgery with prolonged aortic cross-clamp times★ by Szpytma Malgorzata, Gimpel Damian, Ross Jordan, Newland Richard F., Crouch Gareth, Rice Gregory D., Bennetts Jayme S., Baker Robert A.

“…Therefore, this study aimed to assess the safety and efficacy of our DNC strategy by comparing post-operative troponin profiles and clinical outcomes between Del Nido and hyperkalaemic cardioplegia for cases with aortic cross-clamp times of greater than 90 min. Methods: A single-centre, retrospective cohort study at Flinders Medical Centre and Flinders Private Hospital of patients undergoing composite cardiac surgery with a cross-clamp time longer than 90 min. …”
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Effects of different plant-derived fermentation products as soil amendments on microbial community structure and mitigation of soil degradation caused by replanting by Xinyue Miao, Pengyuan Lv, Lixiang Wang, Yi Zhou, Ergang Wang, Yu Zhan, Guixiang He, Zhiqi Liang, Jinglou Zhang, Changbao Chen, Qiong Li

“…Notably, bacterial networks exhibited greater complexity post-treatment, suggesting a more responsive nature to environmental changes compared to fungi. …”
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Physico-Chemical Properties and Push-Out Bond Strength to Root Dentine of Calcium Silicate-Based Sealers by Ivana Milanovic, Vesna Miletic, Bojan Dzeletovic, Djordje Antonijevic, Tatjana Savic Stankovic, Danilo Pavlovic, Ana Despotovic, Violeta Petrovic

“…The conventional and disk methods exhibited similar push-out bond strength results, but the data were more homogeneously distributed in the disk method. (4) All calcium silicate-based sealers exhibited a higher pH than AH Plus. …”
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Double-diffusive magnetoconvection in a tilted porous parallelogrammic domain with discrete heated-cooled segments: Leveraging machine learning and CFD approach by P. Ravindra, M. Sankar, Suresh Rasappan, Wardah Abdullah Al Majrafi, Pugalarasu Rajan, S. Sanal Kumar

“…Through comprehensive and methodical numerical simulations, the effects of all parameters are thoroughly captured. …”
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The Effect of Deep Cryogenic Treatment on the Electrocatalytic Performance of a Pd@CFs Catalyst for Methanol Oxidation by Chenxing Wang, Jiahui Mo, Haoting Wang, Jia Liu, Gege He, Xinhai He, Yanyan Song

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Effects of CAD/CAM ceramics and thicknesses on translucency and color masking of substrates by Abdullah Saeed Alayad, Abdulaziz Alqhatani, Mohammed S. Alkatheeri, Mohammed Alshehri, Mohammed A. AlQahtani, Aljoharah Ebrahim Bin Osseil, Rawan Abdullah Almusallam

“…Objective: To compare the translucency and masking of zirconia-reinforced lithium silicate with lithium disilicate glass-ceramic and hybrid composite. Materials and methods: One hundred and twenty disc-shaped specimens were fabricated using Enamic, Celtra Duo, IPS E.max CAD, and Suprinity. …”
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Assessment of quality of maternal and newborn care and its determinants: a national study of primary health care facilities in Nigeria by Toluwani Oluwatola, Saheed Dipo Isiaka, Oluomachukwu Omeje, Folake Oni, Olugbemisola W. Samuel, Sidney Sampson, Hilda Ebinim, Oluwadamilare Olatunji, Oluwafisayo Ayodeji, Dolapo Ajibola, Stallone Ngobua, Oluwafunmilayo Dehinbo, Helen Ukoh, Leyira Ken-Aminikpo, Segun Adenipekun, Hilary I. Okagbue

“…This study aimed to assess the quality of MNCs among 25,840 public primary healthcare centers (PHCs) across Nigeria, analyze subnational variations, and determine the influence of contextual variables on the quality of care (QoC) by PHCs. Methods Data from a nationwide PHC assessment conducted in 2022 were utilized to create the composite index of care for PHC facilities in Nigeria. …”
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An efficient privacy-preserving multilevel fusion-based feature engineering framework for UAV-enabled land cover classification using remote sensing images by S. Nagadevi, G. Abirami, R. Brindha, T. Prabhakara Rao, Gyanendra Prasad Joshi, Woong Cho

“…Abstract In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted more attention. UAVs have numerous manifest benefits over traditional manned aircraft, mainly regarding operator safety, operational expense, and the possibility of complex/hazardous environments such as land cover classification and accessibility for civil applications. …”
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mHealth Intervention for Dementia Prevention through lifestyle Optimisation (MIND-PRO) in a primary care setting: protocol for a randomised controlled trial in people with low SES... by Esther Van den Berg, Ron Handels, Henrike Galenkamp, Eric P Moll van Charante, Marieke P Hoevenaar-blom, Anne Roos van der Endt, Martien J H Kas

“…The primary effectiveness outcome is a composite score of systolic blood pressure, non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and body mass index. …”
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Remaining Useful Life Prediction for Rolling Bearings Based on TCN–Transformer Networks Using Vibration Signals by Xiaochao Jin, Yaping Ji, Shiteng Li, Kailang Lv, Jianzheng Xu, Haonan Jiang, Shengnan Fu

“…By employing the proposed HI construction method, the average comprehensive bearing performance index, used to evaluate RUL prediction accuracy, is improved by 8.69% across the entire dataset compared to the original feature-based composite index. …”
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Comparative prospective study of the performance of chest pain scores and clinical assessment in an emergency department cohort in Singapore by Mingwei Ng, Hong Jie Gabriel Tan, Fei Gao, Jack Wei Chieh Tan, Swee Han Lim, Marcus Eng Hock Ong, R Ponampalam

“…Methods This single‐center prospective cohort‐study that enrolled 1200 patients was conducted by a large urban tertiary center in Singapore. …”
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Results of the prospective observation in routine practice of hypertensive patients with concomitant chronic respiratory diseases. Part II. Predictors of adverse events by M. I. Smirnova, V. M. Gorbunov, A. S. Kurekhyan, G. F. Andreeva, Ya. N. Koshelyaevskaya, А. D. Deev

“…It is necessary to improve the control of office and ambulatory blood pressure, blood lipids, especially in the presence of CRD, to improve the control of CRDs themselves. The method of 24-hour blood pressure monitoring should be used more often in routine practice, including assessing the degree of nocturnal blood pressure reduction and its variability.…”
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Integrating GIS and remote sensing for soil attributes mapping in degraded pastures of the Brazilian Cerrado by Rômullo Oliveira Louzada, Ivan Bergier, Édson Luis Bolfe, Jayme Garcia Arnal Barbedo

“…Correlation-based metrics (T3/T4) were more effective in 72 % of models than mean-based approaches (T1/T2). …”
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Comprehensive Analysis of a Parcel-Level Crop Mapping (PARCM) Framework From the Perspective of Spatial Heterogeneity and Spatiotemporal Transferability by Chen Wang, Jiaqi Chen, Cheng Cai, Mengyu Liu, Ziming Wang, Haoyu Zhang, Huanxue Zhang

“…PARCM performed well in regions with fewer crop types (low compositional heterogeneity) and more uniform distribution (low configurational heterogeneity), with OA exceeding 90%. …”
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Non-compaction cardiomyopathy. Part I: clinical and genetic heterogeneity and predictors of unfavorable prognosis by T. G. Vaikhanskaya, L. N. Sivitskaya, T. V. Kurushko, T. V. Rusak, O. D. Levdansky, N. G. Danilenko, O. G. Davydenko

“…Adverse cardiovascular events were taken as the composite end point: life-threatening VTA, death, heart transplantation.Results. …”
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Bio-oil production by pyrolysis of Azolla filiculoides and Ulva fasciata macroalgae by S. Pourkarimi, A. Hallajisani, A. Alizadehdakhel, A. Nouralishahi

“…Azolla ‎filiculoides and Ulva fasciata, at optimized conditions were determined and compared. METHODS: For this purpose, the effects of temperature (300-500 °C), carrier gas flow rate (0.2-0.8 L/min), ‎and heating rate (10-20 °C/min) on the final bio-oil production were optimized using response ‎surface methodology established by a central composite design. …”
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Characteristics of Wellens’ Syndrome in the Current PCI Era: A Single-Center Retrospective Study by Li Zhou, Xuhe Gong, Hui Chen, Tianhui Dong, He-he Cui, Hongwei Li

“…On coronary angiography, single-vessel lesions were more common in the Wellens group (11.6% vs. 5.3%, P=0.016), and almost all (97.1%) of these patients received drug-eluting stents. …”
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Special features for functionalization of carbon nanotubes nanopowders by N. O. Oliinyk, G. D. Ilnytska, G. A. Bazaliy, I. M. Zaitseva, M. A. Marinich, O. M. Sizonenko, A. S. Torpakov

“… Physical and mechanical properties of carbon nanotube (CNT) powders depend on the method of their synthesis and chemical refinement. …”
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Effects of combination antihypertensive therapy on intracardiac hemodynamics and blood vessels in patients with coronary heart disease, post-infarction cardiosclerosis and arterial... by M. M. Dolzhenko, S. A. Bondarchuk, L. Ye. Lobach

“…Prescriptions of the fixed-dose combination of amlodipine with the ACE inhibitor lisinopril was more effective in terms of the LV measurements (p < 0.05) and LV diastolic function as evidenced by decreased E/A, E/E’ and IO of the LA (p < 0.05) as compared to the data in the group of amlodipine with the angiotensin 2 receptor blocker valsartan. …”
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A hybrid fuzzy logic–Random Forest model to predict psychiatric treatment order outcomes: an interpretable tool for legal decision support by Alexandre Hudon, Alexandre Hudon, Alexandre Hudon, Alexandre Hudon

“…Fuzzy logic features such as severity, compliance, and a composite Burden_Score also significantly contributed to prediction accuracy. …”
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