Diagnosis and treatment of synthetic mid-urethral sling complications by Helen E. O’Connell, Christopher K. Harding, Gaurav Khatri, Phyllis Glanc, Eric Bautrant, Sarah Love-Jones, Karen Ward, Henry H. Yao, Ventia Hoe, Charlotte Korte, Nicolle Germano, Sanjeevan Kalavampara, Sherif Mourad, Hashim Hashim

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Pathway to care, treatment and disease burden of pulmonary arterial hypertension: a real-world survey of physicians and patients in Latin America by Mauricio Orozco-Levi, Rogerio Souza, Ignacio M Bluro, Julia Harley, Jose Luis Hernández Oropeza, Adrian Lescano, Gisela Meyer, Tatiana Pineda, Alicia Ramirez, Mark Small, Angelo Valencia, Tomás Pulido

“…Objectives To investigate clinical characteristics, symptom profile, testing practices, treatment patterns and quality of life (QoL) among patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in Latin America.Design Data from the Adelphi Real World PAH Disease Specific Programme, a cross-sectional survey with retrospective data collection.Setting University/teaching hospital, regional centres, private practices and government institutions in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico.Participants 246 physicians provided data for 958 patients, of which 533 patients also self-reported data.Results Mean (SD) patient age was 53.7 (17) years, 70% of patients were female and 79% were WHO functional class (WHO FC) I–II. …”
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Effective Compression and a Minimally Invasive Rail Plate to Optimize Bone Transport in Distraction Osteogenesis by E. López-Carreño, MD, E.P. López Avendaño, MD, L. Padilla Rojas, MD, A.Y. Martínez-Castellanos, MSc, I. Arámbula Rodríguez, MD, C. García López, MD, H. Campos Huerta, MD, L. Flores Huerta, MD

“…The Mann-Whitney U and Kruskal-Wallis tests were used for comparisons between and within groups. …”
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Preliminary performance analysis using the PPP-RTK service of the National Land and Mapping Center in Taiwan by J.-Y. Lin, C.-H. Chu, F.-Y. Chu, K.-W. Chiang, M.-L. Tsai

“…The experimental equipment includes a tactical-grade Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) and a low-cost receiver capable of receiving National Land Surveying and Mapping Center (NLSC) correction signals for PPP-RTK functionality. Furthermore, testing was conducted in various challenging outdoor urban environments to validate the proposed algorithm. …”
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THE CONTENT OF INTERLEUKINS IN ORAL FLUID OF PATIENTS WITH NON-REMOVABLE METAL CERAMIC PROSTHESES by Yu. M. Hotsko, L. Ye. Lapovets

“…Currently, the most common are the metal-ceramic structures, which have the high mechanical properties and are aesthetic and functional, because they restore chewing efficiency by 85-100% and provide a high level of adaptation to them. …”
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Oral health status, oral hygiene behaviors, and caries risk assessment of individuals with special needs: a comparative study of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia by Osama Khattak, Farooq Ahmad Chaudhary, Shahzad Ahmad, Muhammad Amber Fareed, Shazia Iqbal, Asma Shakoor, Mohammed Nadeem Baig, Haifa Ali Almutairi, Rakhi Issrani, Azhar Iqbal

“…Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted on 189 participants aged 13 years and older, including both young people and adults with hearing, visual, or intellectual disabilities from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia between September 2023 and April 2024. …”
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Multi-stage urethroplasy for anterior urethral strictures: objective parameters of long-term efficacy and patient-reported outcomes by V. P. Glukhov, A. V. Ilyash, K. S. Vasilev, N. V. Slyusarenko, R. S. Ismailov, V. V. Mitusov, D. V. Sizyakin, M. I. Kogan

“…Surgical and functional outcomes of urethroplasty were assessed through general blood and urine tests, physical examination, uroflowmetry, and retrograde urethrography and urethroscopy in case of urinary disorders.  …”
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Application of <i>Lactobacillus plantarum</i> and <i>Pediococcus lactis</i> on Lipid Metabolism, Anti-Inflammatory, and Fecal Microbiota in Cats by Shukun Liang, Xinshu Gu, Jintao Sun, Xiumin Wang, Hui Tao, Zhenlong Wang, Yougang Zhong, Jinquan Wang, Bing Han

“…Probiotics have been used in functional foods and dietary supplements, and in recent years, they have become more widely used in pets. …”
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POLYMORPHISM OF THE TP53 GENE IN PATIENTS WITH GASTRIC CANCER IN PROSPECTIVE AND CLINICAL CASE-CONTROL STUDIES by A. V. Belkovets, S. A. Kurilovich, V. N. Maksimov, Yu. I. Ragino, L. V. Scherbakova, O. V. Cheremisina, N. V. Cherdyntseva, M. V. Parulikova, M. I. Voevoda

“…DNA samples  from 80 gastric cancer patients (45 men and 35 women, mean age  61.0 ± 13.4 years) and from 87 age-and sex-matched controls were  analyzed. …”
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Association between transcranial direct current stimulation and disability and quality of life in individuals with Parkinsonism: cross-sectional study by Ravi Shankar Reddy, Ravi Shankar Reddy, Jaya Shanker Tedla, Jaya Shanker Tedla, Irshad Ahmad, Venkata Nagaraj Kakaraparthi, Snehil Dixit, Kumar Gular, Paul Silvian Samuel, Suhail Mansour Aljehani, Feras Ahmed Alarabi

“…Subgroup analyses revealed statistically significant improvements among participants under 65 years of age (disability mean difference = −3.3, 95% CI: −6.17 to −0.43, p = 0.023) and those in Hoehn and Yahr stages 1–2 (QoL mean difference = −3.7, 95% CI: −6.16 to −1.24, p = 0.004). …”
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Significant differences in knee kinematics of healthy subjects with high and low anterior tibial laxity by Shiyang Chen, Shaohua Chen, Qingyang Kang, Fangzheng Lin, Fangzheng Lin, Fangzheng Lin, Shuting Zheng, Xixi Liu, Chunhong Guo, Chunhong Guo, Yongjin Li, Yongjin Li, Dingkun Lin, Dingkun Lin, Xiaolong Zeng

“…However, further research is needed to explore the clinical functional effects of knee laxity.…”
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Deep learning-based body composition analysis from whole-body magnetic resonance imaging to predict all-cause mortality in a large western populationResearch in context by Matthias Jung, Vineet K. Raghu, Marco Reisert, Hanna Rieder, Susanne Rospleszcz, Tobias Pischon, Thoralf Niendorf, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Henry Völzke, Robin Bülow, Maximilian F. Russe, Christopher L. Schlett, Michael T. Lu, Fabian Bamberg, Jakob Weiss

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Infant Parent Support (IPS): a multidisciplinary intervention to improve the mental health of children with a social worker - a study protocol for a feasibility randomised controll... by Jaycee Pownall, Karen Crawford, Lindsay Dalgarno, Judith Fisher, Sharon Graham, Fiona Turner, Helen Minnis, Kathleen Boyd, Abril Seyahian, Alex McConnachie, Nicola Cosgrave, Matt Forde, Carol Atkinson, Janet McCullough, Kapil Sayal, Dennis Ougrin

“…IPS will i) adopt a relationship-focused approach to comprehensive understanding of family functioning, ii) incorporate child and parent mental health and neurodevelopmental awareness, and iii) ensure a poverty aware approach throughout. …”
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CAMELS-IND: hydrometeorological time series and catchment attributes for 228 catchments in Peninsular India by N. K. Mangukiya, K. B. Kumar, P. Dey, S. Sharma, V. Bejagam, P. P. Mujumdar, P. P. Mujumdar, A. Sharma, A. Sharma

“…Furthermore, the dataset includes predicted streamflow time series from a regionally trained long short-term memory (LSTM)-based hydrological model for all 472 catchments which can fill gaps in observed streamflow data or serve as a benchmark for testing and developing new hydrological models. We envision that CAMELS-IND will provide a strong foundation for a community-led effort toward gaining new hydrological insights from hydrologically distinct Indian catchments and solving pertinent issues related to water management, quantification and risk assessment of hydrologic extremes, unraveling regional-scale hydrologic functioning, and climate change impact assessment of catchments across India. …”
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miRNA let-7f-5p-encapsulated labial gland MSC-derived EVs ameliorate experimental Sjögren’s syndrome by suppressing Th17 cells via targeting RORC/IL-17A signaling axis by Yufei Xie, Maosheng Chai, Yixiao Xing, Peiru Zhou, Pan Wei, Hong Hua

“…These modified EVs were subsequently tested in an experimental SS mouse model to evaluate their therapeutic potential. …”
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A real-world study on the clinicopathological profile, treatment outcomes and health-related quality of life, anxiety and depression among patients with desmoid tumor at two tertia... by Ghazal Tansir, Aparna Sharma, Bivas Biswas, Suryadev Narayan Sah, Somnath Roy, S. V. S. Deo, Sandeep Agarwala, Shah Alam Khan, Sameer Bakhshi, Deepam Pushpam

“…Categorical and continuous variables were compared by chi square and independent samples T- tests respectively. Anxiety, depression and QoL were prospectively measured among 30 patients using Hospital Anxiety and Depression (HADS) and Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G) scales respectively between 2022 to 2023.Results200 patients were included with a male-predominant (n=111, 55.5%) population and median age 26.5 (2.5-75) years. …”
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Characteristics of positive and negative effects on the quality of life of breast cancer patients by Jin Zhao, De-Shuang Yang, Yi-Qi Liu, Yan-Kun Wu, Chao Chen, Ji-Tao Li, Ren-Gang Wu

“…SPSS 24.0 was used to analyze and process the data. Independent-sample t-tests, one-way ANOVA and Pearson correlation analysis, were used to analyze PA and NA in different treatment phases. …”
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The use of modern military technologies in the light of the law of weapons and the law of targeting by Behzad Seyfi

“…Rapid technological changes and the expansion of the range of technology have severely tested the applicability of the law of armed conflict. …”
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A digital intervention to improve mental health and interpersonal resilience for young people who have experienced online sexual abuse: the i-Minds non-randomised feasibility clini... by Sandra Bucci, Filippo Varese, Ethel Quayle, Kim Cartwright, Amanda Larkin, Cindy Chan, Prathiba Chitsabesan, Victoria Green, William Hewins, Matthew Machin, Alice Newton, Erica Niebauer, John Norrie, Gillian Radford, Cathy Richards, Marina Sandys, Victoria Selby, Sara Shafi, Jennifer Ward, Pauline Whelan, Matthias Schwannauer

“…Methods A mixed-methods, non-randomised study in young people aged 12–18 years exposed to technology-assisted sexual abuse across two United Kingdom sites. …”
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Dispositivo de posicionamiento de muestras biológicas para su irradiación en un canal radial de un reactor nuclear // Biological samples positioning device for irradiations on a ra... by Maritza Rodríguez - Gual, Felix Mas - Milián, Airton Deppman, Paulo Rogerio Pinto - Coelho

“…Was experimentally tested the proposed solution, which</p><p>demonstrates the practical validity of the device. …”
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