Theoretical understanding of water splitting by analyzing nanocatalyst photoabsorption spectra by Gollapalli Prince, Caspary Toroker Maytal

“…In the recent decade, a combination of different theoretical methods starting from density functional theory up to Bethe–Salpeter equation accounting for excitonic effects helped to establish that the *O intermediate is the rate limiting step in agreement with experimental data. …”
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Moxibustion in patients with shoulder bursitis by Misaida Reinoso Sollet, Emilia Labrada Aguilera, Richard Garib Hernández, Eliet Cambara Pérez

“…Moxibustion was used in 61.90%, without other natural and traditional medicine techniques; pain relief started from the fifth session and reached its maximum value in the ninth, in which 47.6% reported pain relief. …”
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Assessing the Effect of Plastic Granules on Mechanical Properties of Clay Soil for Road Subgrade. by Nasasira, Ezra

“…Finally, there was an increase in CBR values with the increase of plastic granules addition and then started to decrease and of which the optimum CBR value was determined from the graph of CBR values against percentages of plastic granules and was found out to be 3.1at 11% plastic granules addition.…”
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Biorefinery of sunflower by-products: Optimization of twin-screw extrusion for novel biostimulants by Jing Li, Hoang Khai Trinh, Lucas Tricoulet, Stéphane Ballas, Laurent Labonne, Danny Geelen, Philippe Evon

“…Optimal extraction conditions were obtained with starting material ground to a coarse size of 6 mm on average in alkaline aqueous solvent (pH 10) at a liquid-to-solid ratio of 5.5 injected at two different points using a 3 D length of reversed screw elements at the rotation speed of 200 rpm. …”
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Semiotic insights on the socio-cultural influence of the San Sebastian Church architectural facade, Lumban, Laguna, Philippines by Ronald Allan S. delos Reyes, Jomel Paulo G. Ebron, Jhona N. Gamez, Christie C. Amores, Ma Rovilla C. Sudaprasert

“…These interactions have paved the way in the expeditious construction of churches and cathedrals once Spanish rule was established in the 16th century. One of the starting points of this building program was the San Sebastian Church in the town of Lumban, Laguna, the first to be built outside of Manila in Luzon. …”
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Factors influencing the implementation of a teacher professional development program to improve teaching quality by Lucas Silva Didier, Kim Schildkamp, Adrie J. Visscher, Roel J. Bosker

“…Despite voluntary participation and initial interest, 15 of the 17 schools dropped out within 2–3 months of starting the program. Through 12 semi-structured interviews with professional learning community coordinators from nine schools, we investigated four key attributes of the TPD program to understand implementation challenges: its added value, compatibility, clarity, and tolerance. …”
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TRACtion: A collaborative, community-researcher agenda-setting approach by Adam Millard-Ball, Juan Matute, Monisha Reginald, Carolyn Pugh, Chase Engelhardt, tamika l butler

“…We then used the working group priorities as the starting point for focused literature reviews, identifying questions that are already well researched and those where future research could address the themes raised by the working groups. …”
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European Guideline on IgG4-related Digestive Disease — UEG and SGF Evidence-based Recommendations by J.-M. Lohr, U. Beuers, M. Vujasinovic, D. Alvaro, J. B. Frøkjær, F. Buttgereit, G. Capurso, E. L. Culver, E. de-Madaria, E. Della-Torre, S. Detlefsen, E. Dominguez-Munoz, P. Czubkowski, N. Ewald, L. Frulloni, N. Gubergrits, D. G. Duman, Th. Hackert, J. Iglesias-Garcia, N. Kartalis, A. Laghi, F. Lammert, F. Lindgren, A. Okhlobystin, G. Oracz, A. Parniczky, R. M. P. Mucelli, V. Rebours, J. Rosendahl, N. Schleinitz, A. Schneider, E. FH van Bommel, C. S. Verbeke, M. P. Vullierme, H. Witt, the UEG guideline working group

“…Treatment with glucocorticoids should be weight-based and initiated at a dose of 0.6-0.8 mg/kg body weight/day orally (typical starting dose 30-40 mg/day prednisone equivalent) for 1 month to induce remission and then be tapered within two additional months. …”
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PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF GEO-ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH OBTAINED DURING THE 3rd INTERNATIONAL EXPEDITION OF THE R/V “MARE NIGRUM” (01.06.2024 – 15.06.2024) by M.M. Ievlev, O.V. Chubenko, V.O. Iemelianov, N.O. Fedoronchuk

“…The DOORS-3 program was developed as part of Work Package 4. The project started on June 1, 2021 and will end on May 31, 2025, and will last 48 months. …”
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A novel isothermal whole genome sequencing approach for Monkeypox Virus by Matthias Licheri, Manon Flore Licheri, Lukas Probst, Cora Sägesser, Pascal Bittel, Franziska Suter-Riniker, Ronald Dijkman

“…This approach yielded from 88% up to 100% genome coverage using either alkaline denatured extracted DNA or clinical material as starting material, with the highest coverage generated by clinical material. …”
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APMAT analysis reveals the association between CD8 T cell receptors, cognate antigen, and T cell phenotype and persistence by Jingyi Xie, Daniel G. Chen, William Chour, Rachel H. Ng, Rongyu Zhang, Dan Yuan, Jongchan Choi, Michaela McKasson, Pamela Troisch, Brett Smith, Lesley Jones, Andrew Webster, Yusuf Rasheed, Sarah Li, Rick Edmark, Sunga Hong, Kim M. Murray, Jennifer K. Logue, Nicholas M. Franko, Christopher G. Lausted, Brian Piening, Heather Algren, Julie Wallick, Andrew T. Magis, Kino Watanabe, Phil Mease, Philip D. Greenberg, Helen Chu, Jason D. Goldman, Yapeng Su, James R. Heath

“…Here, we describe Antigen-TCR Pairing and Multiomic Analysis of T-cells (APMAT), an integrated experimental-computational framework designed for the high-throughput capture and analysis of CD8 T cells, with paired antigen, TCR sequence, and single-cell transcriptome. Starting with 951 putative antigens representing a comprehensive survey of the SARS-CoV-2 viral proteome, we utilize APMAT for the capture and single cell analysis of CD8 T cells from 62 HLA A*02:01 COVID-19 participants. …”
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Rauwolfia vomitoria- a promising medical plant for benign prostatic hyperplasia management; yet with challenges by George Awuku Asare, Perpetua Dagadu, Samuel Adjei, Bernice Asiedu, Samkeliso Takaidza, Vivash Naidoo, Brodrick Amoah, Ifeoma Celestina Orabueze, Kwasi Bugyei

“…Additionally, a reduction in relative prostate weight compared to the model group was observed, though not statistically significant (p > 0.05). However, a significant reduction in prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels was seen in the RVARE-treated groups (Model vs Gp 3, p = 0.001; Model vs Gp 4, p = 0.000; Model vs Gp 5, p = 0.001). …”
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Cross-cultural adaptation: South African Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Knowledge Questionnaire by Lorisha Manas, Tawanda Chivese, Ankia Coetzee, Magda Conradie, Linzette D. Morris

“…All versions of the SA-GDMKQ had a statistically significant (p  0.001) positive linear correlation between the total scores. …”
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A woman’s place is in theatre: women’s perceptions and experiences of working in surgery from the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland women in surgery working grou... by Maria Irene Bellini, Yitka Graham, Catherine Hayes, Roxanna Zakeri, Rowan Parks, Vassilios Papalois

“…The quantitative data were analysed through descriptive statistics and qualitative analysis was undertaken using a constant comparative analysis of the participants’ comments, to identify salient patterns (themes).Results A total of 81 female participants replied (42% response rate based on the Facebook group members), with 88% (n=71) perceiving surgery as a male-dominated field. …”
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Estimation of cytoprotective effect of bismuth tripotassium dicitrate on gastric mucosa at <i>H. pylori</i> eradication and long-term drug intake by A. V. Kononov, S. I. Mozgovoi, L. B. Rybkina, S. S. Bunova, A. G. Shimanskaya

“…Only at comparison of P53 expression level in each sampling point statistically significant differences before and after treatment (Wilcoxon W-matched-pairs ranks criterion) have been found only in group of patients who continued treatment.Conclusions. …”
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Assessment of point-of-care quantitative serum canine pancreatic lipase testing for diagnosing acute pancreatitis in dogs by Pin-Chen Liu, Pin-Chen Liu, Kendy Tzu-yun Teng, Kendy Tzu-yun Teng, Tsia-Lu Lin, Chi-Hsuan Sung, Tsun-Li Cheng, Chi-Chung Chou, Chi-Chung Chou

“…The intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) was used for statistical analysis to assess the agreement between assays and the internists’ consensus score.ResultsDogs with suspected acute pancreatitis had significantly higher serum Vcheck CPL (median: 843 μg/L, range: 77–2001, p &lt; 0.0001) than healthy control dogs (median: 94 μg/L, range: 49–294). …”
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Clinical treatment score Post-5 Years (CTS5) predicts the benefit of postmastectomy radiotherapy in patients with T1-2N1 luminal breast cancer by Ke Liu, Guan-Qiao Li, Si-Qi Li, Xue-Qin Chen, San-Gang Wu

“…The chi-square test, binomial logistic regression, Kaplan-Meier analysis, and multivariable Cox proportional hazard model were used for statistical analyses. Results: A total of 11190 patients were included with a median follow-up time of 76 months. …”
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Family-focused intervention programme to foster adolescent mental health and well-being: protocol for a multicountry cluster randomised factorial trial (FLOURISH Phase 2) by Heather M Foran, Marija Raleva, Nina Heinrichs, Graham Moore, Yulia Shenderovich, Xiang Zhao, Judith Simon, Antonio Piolanti, Viorel Babii, Janina Mueller, Franziska Waller, Dennis Wienand, Swetha Sampathkumar, Ivo Kunovski

“…Data will be collected at baseline and postintervention, approximately, 8 weeks later. Statistical analyses will include regression models to assess the main and interaction effects of the intervention components and cost analyses.Ethics and dissemination The study received ethical approval from the University of Klagenfurt in Austria (approval number: 2023–013), the Medical Faculty at St. …”
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Toxic Assessment of Heavily Traffic-related Fine Particulate Matter Using an in-vivo Wild-type Caenorhabditis elegans Model by Meng-Ching Chung, Kuo-Lin Huang, Japheth L. Avelino, Lemmuel L. Tayo, Chih-Chung Lin, Ming-Hsien Tsai, Sheng-Lun Lin, Wan Nurdiyana Wan Mansor, Ching-Kai Su, Sen-Ting Huang

“…On the other hand, sublethal endpoints of reproduction exhibited statistically significant dose-dependent reduction, although Day A and Day C did not decrease the egg-laying capability of the worms. …”
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Septoplasty: defining a desirable clinical outcome according to baseline symptom scores by Rolf Haye, Rolf Haye, Liv Kari Døsen, Magnus TarAngen, Caryl Gay, Are Hugo Pripp, Olga Shiryaeva

“…ObjectiveThe results of septoplasty are usually reported as statistically significant improvements in baseline scores, but these may be difficult to interpret clinically. …”
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