Comparing the Global Tariff and Actual Costs of Surgeries at Imam Khomeini Hospital Affiliated with Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences by Jamil Sadeghifar, Nasim Eyvani, GHasem Rajabi Vasukolai, Naser Farhamand Moghadam, Shahram Ekhtyari

“…The research population included financial records for surgeries under the global tariff, covering the last six months of 2020 and the first six months of 2021. …”
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Causal associations between dietary habits and liver cancer risk: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study by Wen-Hao Hu, Jia-An Sun, Chang Liu

“…Epidemiological evidence suggests a potential correlation between dietary habits and the incidence of liver cancer. However, establishing a definitive causal relationship remains uncertain. …”
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Grip Strength Measurement in Baseball Pitchers: A Clinical Examination to Indicate Stride Length Inefficiency by Ryan Crotin, Dan Ramsey

“… # Results Subjects with shorter stride lengths revealed a significant decline in grip strength in the dominant arm from baseline (pre-game; 45.1 kg vs. post-game; 43.2 kg, p=0.017, ES=0.28), however all other tests involving dominant grip strength changes and offset analyses were not statistically different for under-stride and over-stride length conditions…”
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Probing DCV5T-Me for Organic Photovoltaics: A Comprehensive DFT and NEGF Study by Souraya Goumri-Said, Rachida Rahmani, Abdelkader Chouaih, Mohammed Benali Kanoun

“…These results suggest that DCV5T-Me possesses the structural and electronic attributes necessary for high-power conversion efficiency, making it a competitive candidate for next-generation non-fullerene OPV devices.…”
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GENDER INFLUENCE AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES SYSTEM: A STUDY OF BABCOCK UNIVERSITY AND UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS by VICTOR A. ADESIYAN, BABAJIDE JACOB, SEIGHA SONIA GESIERE, WOLE-TAIWO OLAYINKA

“…The study revealed that gender discrimination affects both male and female students, leading to lower self-esteem, uneven performance across disciplines, and influencing study time and career choices. …”
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Estimating the Pile Settlement Using a Machine Learning Technique Optimized by Henry's Gas Solubility Optimization and Particle Swarm Optimization by Saravana Kumar, Savarimuthu Robinson

“…Ensuring constructional projects are safe, like stacked structures, requires consideration to immunize structures over the period. Pile settlement (PS) is an important project problem and is receiving a lot of attention to prevent failure before construction starts. …”
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CONGENITAL PSEUDOARTHROSIS TIBIA IN CHILD WITH NEUROFIBROMATOSIS TYPE 1 TREATED WITH THE COMBINED VASCULARIZED FIBULAR GRAFT AND ELASTIC STABLE INTRAMEDULLARY NAIL (ESIN) by Sulis Bayusentono, Trixie Brevi Putri

“…Case: A 13-year-old boy complained about crooked right lower leg since 1-year old, and fractured at 11 years old. …”
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Can aid foster Africa's attainment of a just energy transition and external debt sustainability? by Kalimanshi Nsakaza, Talumba Ireen Chilipaine

“…The study concluded that in driving the JET, solar and bioenergy energy are a crucial renewable energy source for Africa that have the potential to revitalize the continent's renewable energy market as it. We recommend that Power market frameworks are a viable alternative that can be created by policymakers to promote and draw in private sector investment. …”
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Unravelling a mechanistic link between mitophagy defect, mitochondrial malfunction, and apoptotic neurodegeneration in Mucopolysaccharidosis VII by Nishan Mandal, Apurba Das, Rupak Datta

“…This was evidenced by lower Atg8a-II levels, reduced Atg1 and Ref(2)P expression along with accumulation of lipofuscin-like inclusions and multilamellar bodies. …”
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A study of lipid profile peculiarities and atherogenic index of plasma in patients younger than fifty years of age with newly diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis by Varsha R. Bhatt, Kavita K. Krishna, Vishal Asrani, Rajat Chauhan

“…Conclusions: Serum HDL level was significantly lower, and TC, TG levels and AIP were significantly higher in younger patients of early DMARD naïve RA pointing to a higher CV risk.…”
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Influence of teaching a structured and humanized method of care on the perception of medical student attitudes in the doctor-patient relationship. by Higor Chagas Cardoso, Edna Regina Silva Pereira, Viviane Soares, Marcelo Fouad Rabahi

“…<h4>Discussion and conclusion</h4>The findings showed that training in the use of the SEAGULL structured method led to a significant increase in PPOS scores related to the humanization of care by these students, with emphasis on the domain of sharing information, power, and responsibility with patients.…”
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Comparing the clinical effects of balanced electrolyte solutions versus normal saline in managing diabetic ketoacidosis: A systematic review and meta-analyses by Rozinadya Tamzil, Normalinda Yaacob, Norhayati Mohd Noor, Kamarul Aryffin Baharuddin

“…(Mean difference [MD] −4.73, 95% confidence interval [CI] −2.72–4.92; I2 = 92%; P = 0.180). However, there was a significantly lower postresuscitation chloride concentration in the BES (MD 2.96 95% CI − 4.86 to − 1.06; I2 = 59%; P = 0.002). …”
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Optimizing the PM2.5 Tradeoffs: The Case of Taiwan by Shihping Kevin Huang, Sin-Yao Chen, Kuei-Lan Chou, Wei Chung Hsu, Kang-Hua Lai, Tung-Hung Chueh, Lopin Kuo, William Lu

“…Abstract The causes of PM2.5 is dynamic and systematic. However, many studies approach the PM2.5 problem by focusing only on either socioeconomic factors or geo-meteorological factors in isolation such data insufficiency might undermine the effort to control PM2.5. …”
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Evaluation of the Results of Patients Who Were Treated with Laparoscopic Simple Tunnel Hysterosacropexy Method to Prevent Uterine Prolapse: A New Approach by Erdal Seker, Evindar Elci

“…Since the peritoneum is not cut during the surgery; intestinal injury prevalence and mesh exposure rates are lower. …”
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ADDED VALUES OF SOCIAL CRM: THE EXAMINATION OF CUSTOMER PERSPECTIVE by Amila Pilav-Velic, Anes Hrnjić, Ljubica Milanović Glavan, Azra Hanić

“…On the other hand, companies prefer this type of direct and targeted communication considering its reasonably lower costs, greater ability to target specific categories of visitors, the speed of response, etc. …”
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Effects of Vegetation Restoration on Soil Infiltration and Runoff in the Gully Regions on the Loess Plateau by MA Xueyan, MU Xingmin, WANG Shuangyin, BAI Yungang, NIU Fangpeng

“…[Results] (1) Vegetation restoration significantly increased the values of soil infiltration characteristics and capacity, with the order of artificial forest > natural grassland > corn farmland. (2) Compared to bare ground, grassland increased the transformation of rainfall into soil storage, reduced surface runoff, and led to the appearance of multiple layers of interflow. (3) Compared to bare ground, grassland showed more rapid changes in soil moisture content, richer runoff components, and less runoff volume. (4) When the intensity of rainfall on bare ground was much greater than the infiltration capacity of the land, surface runoff would be formed rapidly, and the amount of infiltration would be small, and there was a shallow and relatively impermeable layer in naturally restored grassland, and there was a big difference between the infiltration capacity of the upper and lower soil layers, so as to form a loamy mid-stream. …”
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Limb Dominance Does Not Affect Y-Balance Test Performance in Non-Athlete Adolescents by Carissa A. Stoddard, Sharon Wang-Price, Satoko E. Lam

“…Overall, the between-day intra-rater reliability for maximum reach and mean reach scores was moderate-to-good for both limbs (ICC~3,1~ = 0.59 - 0.83), but was poor for the composite score on the dominant limb (ICC~3,1~ = 0.42) and maximum anterior reach on non-dominant limb (ICC~3,1~ = 0.48)…”
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Correlation of lipid profiles with coronary artery plaque levels in patients undergoing coronary angiography by Sedanur Uzunpolat Yayla, Ayse Semra Demi̇r Akca, Mustafa Ozan Cakir, Gozde Nur Turmus, Abdulkerim Yayla, Sema Soner Karanfi̇l, Tugba Ci̇msi̇r Soran

“…When we categorized the lipid profiles as low, optimal and high, LDL, triglyceride and total cholesterol values were found to be significantly higher and HDL values were found to be significantly lower in those with a stenosis degree of 50% and above (p [Med-Science 2024; 13(4.000): 937-41]…”
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Analysis of vehicle carbon emission characteristics on expressways in mountainous plateau areas based on the coupled simulation of CarSim/TruckSim and MOVES. by Jianping Gao, Xin Huang, Yunyong He, Enhuai He, Lu Sun, Changfeng Yang

“…Expressways in mountainous plateau areas exhibit complex driving conditions and harsh climatic characteristics that continuously impact vehicle carbon emissions throughout their entire lifecycle and determine the carbon emission levels of expressways during the operational period. To study the carbon emission characteristics of expressways in the western Sichuan Plateau mountainous area, a coupling simulation analysis method combining CarSim/TruckSim simulation software and the Motor Vehicle Emissions Simulator (MOVES) was employed to analyze the spatial distribution characteristics of vehicle-specific power (VSP). …”
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Extensive paralogism in the environmental pangenome: a key factor in the ecological success of natural SAR11 populations by Carmen Molina-Pardines, Jose M. Haro-Moreno, Francisco Rodriguez-Valera, Mario López-Pérez

“…Furthermore, this study demonstrates the power of long-read metagenomics in capturing the full genetic diversity of environmental SAR11 populations, overcoming the limitations of second-generation sequencing technologies in genome assembly. …”
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