A group psychological intervention for postnatal depression in British mothers of South Asian origin – the ROSHNI-2 RCT by Nusrat Husain, Karina Lovell, Carolyn A Chew-Graham, Farah Lunat, Penny Bee, Matthias Pierce, Najia Atif, Saadia Aseem, Kamaldeep Bhui, Peter Bower, Traolach Brugha, Nasim Chaudhry, Akbar Ullah, Linda Davies, Nadeem Gire, Deepali Sharma, Jahanara Miah, Waqas Ahmed, Joe Kai, Ilyas Mirza, Jillian Morrison, Naeem Mohmed, Atif Rahman, Shanaya Rathod, Najma Siddiqi, Waquas Waheed, Christopher Williams, Nosheen Zaidi, Richard Emsley, Richard Morriss

“…Background Postnatal depression is more common in British South Asian women than white women in the United Kingdom. …”
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Factors influencing smoking cessation in Lebanese patients with bladder cancer: A cross sectional study by Georges Horkoss, Joey El Khoury, Rami Halabi, Anthony Kanbar, Serge Assaf, Anthony Mina, Sabine El Breidi, Charbel Dabal, Charbel El Hachem, Maher Abdessater, Rodrigue Saad, Antoine Kassis, Raghid El Khoury

“…A sample of patients diagnosed with BCa between 2015 and 2020 were contacted and data was collected between the months of September 2022 and May 2023. …”
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Study protocol for a randomized double-blinded placebo-controlled trial on mepolizumab for patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps, NSAID exacerbated respiratory dis... by Annina Lyly, Annina Lyly, Johanna Sahlman, Johanna Sahlman, Karoliina Pajala, Karoliina Pajala, Maija Salminen, Maija Salminen, Saara Sillanpää, Saara Sillanpää, Jura Numminen, Jura Numminen, Tanzeela Hanif, Tanzeela Hanif, Tanzeela Hanif, Anu Laulajainen-Hongisto, Mika Mäkelä, Paula Kauppi, Iiris Kangasniemi, Markus Lilja, Markus Lilja, Sari Hammaren-Malmi, Paula Virkkula, Sanna Toppila-Salmi, Sanna Toppila-Salmi, Sanna Toppila-Salmi

“…While evidence suggests that mepolizumab alleviates respiratory symptoms in N-ERD patients, placebo-controlled studies remain limited.MethodsThe aim of this prospective randomized, placebo-controlled, multicenter study is to investigate whether mepolizumab reduces polyp size, symptom scores, and exacerbations more than placebo during the 16-week treatment period in patients with uncontrolled CRSwNP, N-ERD and asthma. …”
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APOKASC-3: The Third Joint Spectroscopic and Asteroseismic Catalog for Evolved Stars in the Kepler Fields by Marc H. Pinsonneault, Joel C. Zinn, Jamie Tayar, Aldo Serenelli, Rafael A. García, Savita Mathur, Mathieu Vrard, Yvonne P. Elsworth, Benoit Mosser, Dennis Stello, Keaton J. Bell, Lisa Bugnet, Enrico Corsaro, Patrick Gaulme, Saskia Hekker, Marc Hon, Daniel Huber, Thomas Kallinger, Kaili Cao, Jennifer A. Johnson, Bastien Liagre, Rachel A. Patton, Ângela R. G. Santos, Sarbani Basu, Paul G. Beck, Timothy C. Beers, William J. Chaplin, Katia Cunha, Peter M. Frinchaboy, Léo Girardi, Diego Godoy-Rivera, Jon A. Holtzman, Henrik Jönsson, Szabolcs Mészáros, Claudia Reyes, Hans-Walter Rix, Matthew Shetrone, Verne V. Smith, Taylor Spoo, Keivan G. Stassun, Ji Wang

“…In the third APOKASC catalog, we present data for the complete sample of 15,808 evolved stars with APOGEE spectroscopic parameters and Kepler asteroseismology. …”
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Analysis of the Effectiveness of Hydrogel Based on Patikan Kebo Leaf Extract and Honey in Therapy of II Degree Burns by Winda Puji Lestari Roro, Khorinnisa Hayatul, Nurtiara Alma, Lita Septiana Enggel, Yuliyanti Dwi, Nur Handayani Santi

“…Treatment of burns such as using toothpaste, butter, oil, and ice is less effective in treating burns. A safer and more effective alternative is needed as a dressing for burn wounds. …”
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Study on Soil-Water Characteristics of Expansive Soil under the Dry-Wet Cycle and Freeze-Thaw Cycle considering Volumetric Strain by Lisi Niu, Aijun Zhang, Jiamin Zhao, Wenyuan Ren, Yuguo Wang, Zhichao Liang

“…The results show that the volumetric water content is modified to consider the volume shrinkage effect of expansive soil, and the modification is more obvious in the high matric suction range. The smaller the initial dry density is, the worse the water-holding capacity of the sample is, and the smaller the air intake value is. …”
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Bioluminescent Whole-Cell Bioreporter Bacterial Panel for Sustainable Screening and Discovery of Bioactive Compounds Derived from Mushrooms by Calin Trif, Jovana Vunduk, Yardnapar Parcharoen, Aporn Bualuang, Robert S. Marks

“…The bioassay’s strength is its ability to efficiently analyze a large number of extracts simultaneously while also assessing several different mechanisms of toxicity, significantly reducing screening time. All samples analyzed exhibited more than one cellular effect, as indicated by the reporter bacteria. …”
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Experimental Research on Polymers for the Restoration of Cultural Relic Buildings by Xinyu Wang, Jianwei Yue, Tuo Huang

“…When the initiator content is ≥4%, the curing time is significantly shortened to 20–67 min, and the incorporation of glycerol prolongs the curing time by more than 100 min through the dilution reaction system. …”
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Experimental Study on the Brittle-Ductile Response of a Heterogeneous Soft Coal Rock Mass under Multifactor Coupling by Weijian Yu, Genshui Wu, Baifu An, Ping Wang

“…After a gas drainage event causes different degrees of initial porosity in the coal seam, the heterogeneity of the coal mass becomes much more obvious. In this paper, soft coal testing samples with different degrees of heterogeneity were prepared first by a new special experimental research method using hydrogen peroxide in an alkaline medium to generate oxygen. …”
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Enhancing students' argumentation skills through socio-scientific real-world inquiry: A quasi-experimental study in biological education by Anwari Adi Nugroho, Sajidan Sajidan, Suranto Suranto, Mohammad Masykuri

“…Analysis of the effect size on each aspect of argumentation skills in the control group and experimental group using Cohen's Effect Size method. The analysis results showed that the SSRI learning model was more effective in improving argumentation skills than the inquiry learning. …”
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Dental Identification Based on Single Tooth Feature Concatenation by Li Yuan, Luoji Zhu, Kang-Hyun Jo, Yanfeng Li

“…To address the challenges of difficult samples with fewer teeth, a progressive random tooth dropout training strategy is devised to aid learning. …”
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Knowledge of mental disorders in primary healthcare nurses in the Western Cape, South Africa by John J. Musafiri, Million Bimerew, Jennifer Chipps

“…A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data from a sample of 246 PHC nurses in the Cape Town metropole. …”
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A Hypergraph powered approach to Phenotype-driven Gene Prioritization and Rare Disease Prediction by Shrinithi Natarajan, Niveditha Kundapuram, Nisarga Bhaskar, Sai Sailaja Policharla, Bhaskarjyoti Das

“…The proposed method outperforms existing state-of-the-art tools such as Phenomizer and GCN, in terms of both prediction accuracy and processing speed. …”
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Energy-Efficient Vacuum Sublimation Drying of Camel Milk: Numerical Simulation and Parametric Analysis by Arshyn Altybay, Ayaulym Rakhmatulina, Dauren Darkenbayev, Symbat Satybaldy

“…A three-dimensional model was developed and solved using the finite element method to simulate temperature evolution and sublimation interface progression during drying. …”
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Assessing the capability of electrical capacitance tomography for monitoring chopped maize mass flow rates in field forage harvesters by Zbigniew Gut, Aleksander Lisowski, Jacek Klonowski, Adam Świętochowski

“…The study’s results could significantly impact the development of precision farming technologies, particularly forage harvester monitoring systems. By providing a more accurate and reliable method for measuring mass flow rates, the ECT system could enhance the efficiency and quality of crop production. …”
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The Energy Potential of Harvested Wood Fuel by Refugees in Northern Uganda by Bernard Barasa, Loy Turyabanawe, Gertrude Akello, Paul Makoba Gudoyi, Claire Nabatta, Andrew Mulabbi

“…It is worthy to note that the supplies of wood fuel are more likely to dwindle in the near future. This study explored the determinants of harvested wood-fuel choices and their energy potential. …”
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Associations between physical fitness and different aspects of screen time in children and adolescents by Qiang Dong, Hengjia Liu, Qiang Fu

“…This study suggests that higher PF levels are strongly associated with less time spent in front of screens in a large sample of children and adolescents. From a public health perspective, enhancing muscular and cardiorespiratory fitness may be an adequate method to reduce screen time and re-allocate it to a more active lifestyle.…”
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Adaptive dual-graph learning joint feature selection for EEG emotion recognition by Liangliang Hu, Congming Tan, Yin Tian

“…Adaptive dual-graph learning simultaneously constructs a local similarity graph and a global structural graph to comprehensively capture both local similarities and global dependencies among EEG samples. Additionally, a graph-based semi-supervised label propagation method is employed, leveraging both global and local structural information embedded in the dual graphs to propagate emotional labels from a small subset of labeled data to unlabeled samples, thereby enabling more accurate emotion estimation in the target domain. …”
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Coupling coordination mechanism of higher education and industrial economy: evidence from higher education institutions in Chongqing, China by Pengfei Guo, Hang Chen, Xinyun Hu

“…Abstract Based on the sample data of 63 higher education institutions in Chongqing from 2013 to 2022, this paper adopts the entropy value method and the coupling coordination degree evaluation model to measure the coupling coordination degree and coupling mechanism between higher education and industrial economy in Chongqing. …”
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<i>Histoplasma capsulatum</i> in Bat Species in Portugal by Jaqueline T. Bento, Ana Cláudia Coelho, Hugo Rebelo, João R. Mesquita

“…Despite using a sensitive method, no positive samples were detected. These results align with other European studies, suggesting that <i>Histoplasma capsulatum</i> circulates at low levels in European bat populations. …”
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