Etiological characteristics of 3,691 cases of microbial keratitis: an 8-year longitudinal study by Yi Xu, Bianjin Sun, Yangyang Shen, Huijing Xu, Yunfeng Gu, Liping Mao, Ying Liang, Qingsong Lu, Meiqin Zheng

“…The microbial culture positivity rate is relatively low (38.72%). Trauma and foreign body entry emerged as significant risk factors. …”
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Urinary Hippuric Acid as a Sex-Dependent Biomarker for Fruit and Nut Intake Raised from the EAT-Lancet Index and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Analysis by Edwin Fernández-Cruz, Víctor de la O, Cristina M. Fernández-Diaz, Pilar Matía-Martín, M. Ángel Rubio-Herrera, Nuria Amigó, Alfonso L. Calle-Pascual, J. Alfredo Martínez

“…<b>Results</b>: The EAT-Lancet index, stratified by median adherence, effectively distinguished between high and low dietary intake of fruits (<i>p</i> = 0.012) and nuts (<i>p</i> < 0.001). …”
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New approach to predict wastewater quality for irrigation utilizing integrated indexical approaches and hyperspectral reflectance measurements supported with multivariate analysis by Mohamed Gad, Reda Abd El Hamed, Ezzat A. El Fadaly, Ibrahim E. Mousa, Aissam Gaagai, Hani Amir Aouissi, Mohamed Hamdy Eid, Mostafa R. Abukhadra, Haifa A. Alqhtani, Ahmed A. Allam, Salah Elsayed

“…Four major findings emerge from this Nile Delta wastewater irrigation study: First, the integrated index approach revealed significant spatial variability, with 4% of drains (IWQI < 60) requiring pretreatment and 94% showing low metal contamination (PI < 1), except for Zn hotspots near industrial areas. …”
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Lesion Volume as a Predictor for Return to Work After Endovascular Treatment: A 4‐Year Prospective Cohort Study by Gisle Berg Helland, Mona Kristiansen Beyer, Brian Anthony B. Enriquez, Hege Ihle‐Hansen, Håkon Ihle‐Hansen, Stein Andersson, Esten Høyland Leonardsen, Helle Stangeland, Bettina Ùjhelyi, Guri Hagberg, Hanne Flinstad Harbo, Anne Hege Aamodt, Einar August Høgestøl

“…Our findings suggest that a cutoff of 29 cm3 is suitable to distinguish between those with high and low chance of RTW.…”
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Genotyping by sequencing reveals the genetic diversity and population structure of Peruvian highland maize races by Carlos I. Arbizu, Carlos I. Arbizu, Isamar Bazo-Soto, Joel Flores, Rodomiro Ortiz, Raul Blas, Pedro J. García-Mendoza, Ricardo Sevilla, José Crossa, Alexander Grobman

“…Population divergence (FST) was very low (mean = 0.017), thus depicting extensive interbreeding among Peruvian maize. …”
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Advancing amorphous solid dispersions through empirical and hybrid modeling of drug–polymer solubility and miscibility: A case study using Ibuprofen by Matheus de Castro, Ana Sara Cordeiro, Mingzhong Li, Christian Lübbert, Catherine McColl, Jatin Khurana, Mark Evans, Walkiria S. Schlindwein

“…Demixing zones (liquid-liquid equilibrium - LLE) predicted by FH and PC-SAFT models suggest that for HPMCAS-based ASDs only very low drug loadings (< 5 % w/w) could potentially be stable at room temperature. …”
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Life history and ancestry of the late Upper Palaeolithic infant from Grotta delle Mura, Italy by Owen Alexander Higgins, Alessandra Modi, Costanza Cannariato, Maria Angela Diroma, Federico Lugli, Stefano Ricci, Valentina Zaro, Stefania Vai, Antonino Vazzana, Matteo Romandini, He Yu, Francesco Boschin, Luigi Magnone, Matteo Rossini, Giovanni Di Domenico, Fabio Baruffaldi, Gregorio Oxilia, Eugenio Bortolini, Elena Dellù, Adriana Moroni, Annamaria Ronchitelli, Sahra Talamo, Wolfgang Müller, Mauro Calattini, Alessia Nava, Cosimo Posth, Martina Lari, Luca Bondioli, Stefano Benazzi, David Caramelli

“…They identify, several phenotypic traits and a potential congenital disease in the infant, the mother’s low mobility during gestation, and a high level of endogamy. …”
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Prevalence and determinants of termination of pregnancy among reproductive-age women who had a short preceding birth interval in Sub-Saharan Africa: a multilevel analysis by Alebachew Ferede Zegeye, Tadesse Tarik Tamir, Enyew Getaneh Mekonen, Masresha Asmare Techane, Bewuketu Terefe, Belayneh Shetie Workneh

“…BackgroundTermination of pregnancy is one of the biggest five causes of maternal mortality in countries with low and middle incomes. Although termination of pregnancy is hazardous, its prevalence and determinates are not well studied in developing countries. …”
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A comparison of frequentist and Bayesian approaches to the Personalised Randomised Controlled Trial (PRACTical)—design and analysis considerations by Holly Jackson, Yiyun Shou, Nur Amira Binte Mohamed Azad, Jing Wen Chua, Rebecca Lynn Perez, Xinru Wang, Marlieke E. A. de Kraker, Yin Mo

“…The performance measures were: probability of predicting the true best treatment, and novel proxy variables for power (probability of interval separation) and type I error (probability of incorrect interval separation). …”
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The impact of cell density variations on nanoparticle uptake across bioprinted A549 gradients by Luigi Di Stolfo, Wang Sik Lee, Dimitri Vanhecke, Sandor Balog, Patricia Taladriz-Blanco, Alke Petri-Fink, Alke Petri-Fink, Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser

“…SiO2 NP uptake per cell was around 50% higher in low-density regions compared to high-density areas across all time points, i.e., 6, 24, and 48 h post-exposure. …”
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Dairy cows' responses to 2 separation methods after 3 months of cow-calf contact by Anina Vogt, Susanne Waiblinger, Rupert Palme, Uta König von Borstel, Kerstin Barth

“…ABSTRACT: Weaning and separation remain among some of the biggest challenges for cow-calf contact systems, making the development of practical and low-stress separation methods mandatory for future success of these systems. …”
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Psychosocial Support and Quality of Life in CKD Patients on Hemodialysis Amidst the Sudan Conflict: A Cross-Sectional Study by Ahmed MohammedAlhassan Ismail Abdulsamad, Ibrahim Nagmeldin Hassan, Mohamed Ibrahim

“…High emotional support was associated with significantly higher QoL scores (mean overall QoL 58 ± 12) compared to low emotional support (mean overall QoL 42 ± 15, p < 0.01). …”
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Individual caries increments during adolescence in seven Norwegian cohorts born 1996–2002 by Hedda Høvik, Knut Helge Midtbø Jensen, Torunn Børsting, Randi Krog Eftedal, Göran Dahllöf, Bjørnar Hafell, Tone Natland Fagerhaug, Eva Lassemo, Marikken Høiseth, Abhijit Sen, Marit S. Skeie

“…The specific objectives were to examine time trends, increment variability between individuals, and whether baseline caries experience at 12 years or sex had an impact on the caries increment. …”
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Modeling Whole-Plant Carbon Stock in <i>Olea europaea</i> L. Plantations Using Logarithmic Nonlinear Seemingly Unrelated Regression by Yungang He, Weili Kou, Ning Lu, Yi Yang, Chunqin Duan, Ziyi Yang, Yongjun Song, Jiayue Gao, Weiyu Zhuang

“…The AGCS compatibility model effectively addresses the issue of component sums not equaling the total, while maintaining a low <i>RMSE</i> (1.918); (2) The LNSUR model improved the accuracy of the BGCS model more significantly (<i>R</i>² = 0.787), and the estimated total CS also had a smaller <i>RMSE</i> (0.241~0.418); (3) Whole-plant CS of <i>Olea europaea</i> L. in 15 sample plots was estimated using the CS independent model and the LNSUR model with an <i>R</i>² of 0.964. …”
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Metabolic syndrome in pregnancy and risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes: A prospective cohort of nulliparous women. by Jessica A Grieger, Tina Bianco-Miotto, Luke E Grzeskowiak, Shalem Y Leemaqz, Lucilla Poston, Lesley M McCowan, Louise C Kenny, Jenny E Myers, James J Walker, Gus A Dekker, Claire T Roberts

“…<h4>Methods and findings</h4>Low-risk, nulliparous women were recruited to the multi-centre, international prospective Screening for Pregnancy Endpoints (SCOPE) cohort between 11 November 2004 and 28 February 2011. …”
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Genome−wide association study and genomic prediction of sow resilience based on reproductive traits by L. Shi, W. Hao, Z. Li, H. Chaolu, L. Wang

“…High-resilience individuals outperformed low-resilience counterparts in terms of reproduction across three breeds. …”
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Development of a prediction model integrating PD-1 and ICOS for early differential diagnosis between autoimmune and viral encephalitis by Kaiyue Xu, Jinjing Jia, Yinghui Duan, Shuying Chen, Xinyi Xiao, Feng Zhu, Xin Wang, Yanzheng Gu, Jingluan Tian, Qun Xue, Qun Xue

“…BackgroundEarly diagnosis and treatment for encephalitis are crucial for improving patient outcomes and reducing the economic burden, especially given the overlapping symptoms and low specificity of auxiliary diagnostic tests between viral encephalitis (VE) and autoimmune encephalitis (AE). …”
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Uptake of the hepatitis B vaccine among brothel-based female sex workers in Kampala, Uganda by Joana Nakiggala, Mathias Lwenge, Doreen Nakalembe, Bridget Nagawa Tamale, Aisha Nalugya, Jovan Galiwango, Junior Mike Wejuli, Kenneth Tebandeke, John Bosco Isunju, Richard K. Mugambe, Tonny Ssekamatte

“…Conclusion The study revealed a low prevalence of hepatitis B vaccine uptake among FSWs, with less than a tenth completing the three-dose schedule. …”
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Novel non-curable resection prediction model for early colorectal cancer following endoscopic submucosal dissection based on inflammatory immune index by Xiunan Li, Lei Zhang, Biao Xu, Shu Ding, Jing Wang, Jing Wang, Yu Jia

“…Patients were categorized into high SII and low SII groups, and their clinical characteristics were comparatively analyzed. …”
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Optimal control for high-precision repeat ground-track orbits via convex optimization by Yanchao HE, Lei ZHANG, Yijun YANG, Qian CHEN

“…By formulating the optimization problem with multiple objective functions for RGT orbits, the proposed method allows one to compute the initial conditions, thus guaranteeing the repetition of ground tracks with high accuracy and low time consumption via nonlinear optimization techniques. …”
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