Investigating the Relationship between Financialization and Long-Term Use of Short-Term Debt by Seyed Reza Seyed Nezhad Fahim

“…The sample includes 143 firms over a ten-year period from 2013 to 2022. …”
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Assessment of Immunoscore, MRI Tumor Regression Grade, and Neoadjuvant Rectal Score in Predicting Pathologic Response in Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer in the Averectal Study by Mustafa Natout, Ahmad Machmouchi, Hero Hussain, Laudy Chehade, Noura Abbas, Rim Turfa, Joseph Kattan, Sally Temraz, Ayman Tawil, Mousa Elkhaldi, Omar Jaber, Rula Amarin, Tala Alawabdeh, Maya Charafeddine, Monita Al Darazi, Ali Shamseddine

“…<b>Background/Objectives</b>: Predictive tools are needed to assess the response to treatment and guide treatment decisions for locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC). …”
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Gait physiotherapy with motor imagery in people with Parkinson’s disease: a protocol for randomized control GAITimagery trial by Constanza San Martín Valenzuela, Constanza San Martín Valenzuela, Constanza San Martín Valenzuela, Esperanza Ramírez Murcia, Estela Aznar-Requena, Dalia García Sotolongo, Rebeca Rosas-Martín, M. Luz Sánchez-Sánchez, M. Luz Sánchez-Sánchez

“…This still-to-be-finish study will support the therapeutic decisions on whether or not to allocate session time to imagery exercises depending on the effect size achieved and the comparison with a control gait training.…”
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Health service factors affecting the COVID-19 vaccination campaign in a Ghanaian metropolis: A qualitative exploratory study by Susanna Aba Aba Abraham, Gifty Osei Berchie, Dorcas Obiri-Yeboah, John Oti Amoah, Dorcas Frempomaa Agyare, Deogratias Kaheeru Sekimpi, Diana Bosomtwe-Duker, Andrews Adjei Druye

“…The Directorate initiates and implements policy decisions across the region. It is also the only metropolis in the region that recorded about 5970 of the total COVID-19 cases recorded in Ghana.Participants Eleven vaccinators who had been trained for the COVID-19 vaccination and had participated in the campaign for at least 6 months were purposively sampled through the Regional Public Health Unit.Results Four themes were derived from the data after analysis; ‘vaccine-related issues’; ‘staffing issues’; ‘organising and planning the campaign’ and ‘surveillance and response systems’. …”
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A splice donor variant in SLAMF1 is associated with canine atopic dermatitis by Oliver P. Forman, Jamie Freyer, Abigail Kerr, Julia D. Labadie, Michael Denyer, Debbie J. Gow, Janet Alexander, Michelle Daya, Yaindrys Rodriguez Olivera, Cecilia Lozoya, Christian Leutenegger, Christian Savard, Jason T. Huff, Rebecca Chodroff Foran

“…The study identifies SLAMF1 as a potential pharmaceutical target and the associated variant as a biomarker to enable dog breeders to make informed breeding decisions to reduce risk of CAD in future generations. …”
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Advances in Endo-Hepatology: The Role of Endoscopic Ultrasound in the Management of Portal Hypertension by Angelo Bruni, Giuseppe Dell’Anna, Jayanta Samanta, Jacopo Fanizza, Francesco Vito Mandarino, Jahnvi Dhar, Antonio Facciorusso, Vito Annese, Sara Massironi, Alberto Malesci, Giovanni Marasco, Elton Dajti, Leonardo Henry Eusebi, Giovanni Barbara, Gianfranco Donatelli, Silvio Danese, Lorenzo Fuccio

“…EUS-based assessment of PH in advanced liver disease can refine diagnostic workup and prognostication, supporting therapeutic decisions. Additionally, EUS-guided liver biopsy (EUS-LB) achieves high-quality histological samples with fewer complications compared to percutaneous techniques, enabling thorough evaluation of chronic liver diseases and vascular abnormalities. …”
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Classifying breast cancer and fibroadenoma tissue biopsies from paraffined stain-free slides by fractal biomarkers in Fourier Ptychographic Microscopy by Vittorio Bianco, Marika Valentino, Daniele Pirone, Lisa Miccio, Pasquale Memmolo, Valentina Brancato, Luigi Coppola, Giovanni Smaldone, Massimiliano D’Aiuto, Gennaro Mossetti, Marco Salvatore, Pietro Ferraro

“…Above all, we show that combining the decisions of the single images, each patient’s slide can be classified with no error. …”
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Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in children of United Kingdom healthcare workers: a prospective multicentre cohort study protocol by Shamez N Ladhani, Mark David Lyttle, Derek Fairley, James McKenna, Claire Mcginn, Kathryn Ferris, Chris Watson, Hannah Mitchell, Jennifer Evans, Michael Corr, Rebecca Moore, Gala Rowe-Setz, Steven Foster, Lisa McFetridge, Sharon Christie, Julieann Maney, Michael David Shields, Tom Waterfield

“…The children will undergo phlebotomy at baseline, 2 months and 6 months to measure IgM and/or IgG positivity to SARS-CoV-2. A sample size of 675 patients is required to detect a 5% change in seroprevalence at each time point assuming an alpha of 0.05 and a beta of 0.2. …”
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Proteomic, metabolomic and lipidomic profiles in community acquired pneumonia for differentiating viral and bacterial infections by Samuel Rischke, Robert Gurke, Ann-Sophie Zielbauer, Nicole Ziegler, Lisa Hahnefeld, Michaela Köhm, Aimo Kannt, Maria JGT Vehreschild, Gerd Geisslinger, Gernot Rohde, Carla Bellinghausen, Frank Behrens, CAPNETZ Study group

“…Lipidomic, metabolomic and proteomic profiling were conducted on plasma samples of 69 patients suffering either from viral or bacterial CAP. …”
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Public views of coronavirus science and scientists: findings from a cross-sectional survey [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] by Tim J. Peters, Michelle L. Taylor, Rachael Gooberman-Hill, Lucy Yardley, Ulrika Maude, Jo Stubbs, Richard Huxtable

“…Understanding how members of the public view science, scientists and scientific uncertainty should enhance approaches to communication and individuals’ decisions to engage with public health measures, including restrictions and vaccination programmes. …”
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Role of Inflammatory Markers as a Risk Factor for Community-Acquired Pneumonia Management by Ruta Nutautiene, Irmantas Aleksa, Ieva Janulaityte, Erika Skrodeniene, Kristina Bieksiene, Diana Zaliaduonyte, Darius Batulevicius, Astra Vitkauskiene

“…They can help to differentiate etiologically, assess disease severity, and make treatment decisions.…”
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Optimized AI and IoT-Driven Framework for Intelligent Water Resource Management by Mahmoud Badee Rokaya Mahmoud, Dalia Ismaeil Ibrahim Hemdan, Samah Hazzaa Alajmani, Raneem Yousif Alyami, Ghada Elmarhomy, Hassan Hashim, El-Sayed Atlam

“…Additional performance measures comprise precision (89.0%), recall (95.2%), F1-score (0.92), and inference speed (0.003 ms/sample). Although quantization has reduced the computational overhead, we still see a 13.02% increase in the model size as seen in Experiment 6, leading to a trade-off that needs to be optimized further. …”
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The effect of technology stress on knowledge concealment with the mediating role of job fatigue and moderating work autonomy by Hossein Jamali, Mehdi Kabirinaeini, Zeynab Elahi

“…The statistical population of this research consisted of 250 employees of Saman Electronic Payment Company. To determine the sample size, Cochran's formula was used, based on which 150 people were selected as the statistical sample. …”
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Analysis of causal effects on metabolic syndrome and inflammatory bowel disease: a Mendelian randomization study by Danyang Zhang, Haitao Shi, Chongcao Wei, Fenrong Chen, Pan Zhang, Xin Gao, Yan Wang

“…Results Univariate two-sample MR (TSMR) revealed that WC was significantly linked to the risk of Crohn’s disease (CD) (OR = 1.659; 95% CI: 1.144–2.405; p = 0.008) and IBD (OR = 1.383; 95% CI: 1.050–1.822; p = 0.021). …”
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Hyperspectral Inversion of Soil Cu Content in Agricultural Land Based on Continuous Wavelet Transform and Stacking Ensemble Learning by Kai Yang, Fan Wu, Hongxu Guo, Dongbin Chen, Yirong Deng, Zaoquan Huang, Cunliang Han, Zhiliang Chen, Rongbo Xiao, Pengcheng Chen

“…This study presents a method to improve soil heavy metal content estimation using hyperspectral technology, ensuring a robust model that supports policymakers in making informed decisions about land use, agriculture, and environmental protection.…”
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Vineyard maturity increases arbuscular mycorrhizal and decreases plant pathogen fungal relative abundance in bulk soil across a 1,000 km Chilean gradient by César Marín, Felix Dittrich, Martti Vasar, Felipe Gaínza‐Cortés, Patricia Silva‐Flores, Paula Aguilera

“…Our results present several caveats: the molecular marker was not the most commonly used for arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, bulk soil was sampled (instead of roots), and all abundances were relative. …”
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Breeding estimation of the winter wheat varieties in the conditions of the southern forest-steppe of Western Siberia by I. V. Pototskaya, S. S. Shepelev, A. S. Chursin, A. M. Kovalchuk, V. P. Shamanin

“…According to the breeding estimation of the studied samples in the field seasons of 2020–2022 there was a significant correlation between winter resistance of plants and winter wheat productivity (r = 0.59), as well as an inverse correlation between productivity and gluten percentage (r = –0.36), grain ash content (r = –0.73) and sedimentation (r = –0.38). …”
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Two-thirds of older people is interested in information meetings on end-of life care to stimulate advance care planning: a national survey by Tessa D. Bergman, Annicka G. M. van der Plas, Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen, H. Roeline W. Pasman

“…Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted on a randomly drawn sample of 1242 Dutch older people (≥ 65 years; response 93.2%) from a nationwide panel. …”
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Early re-examination of chest CT may be unnecessary when patients with psittaci pneumonia at low and intermediate risk on Pneumonia Severity Index present with response to initial... by Ming Chen, Shu Ying Zeng, Sheng Jia Lu, Miao Shi, Qing Qian Zhang

“…Larger sample studies are needed in the future for further verification.Clinical trial registrationhttps://www.medicalresearch.org.cn/login, identifier MR-33-25003507.…”
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The Value of Thin Layer Cytology in Cancer Patients’ Pericardial Effusions by Christos Lafaras, Evdokia Mandala, Kyranna Lafara, Ioannis Kalafatis, Thomas Achladas, Vasiliki Koukoulitsa, Chrysoula Gouta, Theodora Tsiouda, Soultana Skevoudi

“…Immunocytochemistry (IHC) can identify specific markers for various types of cancer, enabling a more accurate diagnosis and guiding further treatment decisions.…”
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