Endovascular exclusion of the entire aortic arch with branched stent-grafts after surgery for acute type A aortic dissectionCentral MessagePerspective by Augusto D'Onofrio, MD, PhD, Giorgia Cibin, MD, Michele Antonello, MD, Piero Battocchio, MD, Michele Piazza, MD, Raphael Caraffa, MD, Alberto Dall'Antonia, MD, Franco Grego, MD, Gino Gerosa, MD

“…Mean intensive care unit stay and hospital stay were 3 and 19 days, respectively. We did not observe any major adverse events. …”
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The Influence of Work Efficiency, Strategic Leadersip, and Organizational Change Mediated by Digital Transformation on the Organizational Performance of Indonesian Army Hospitals by Fauzi Mustakman, Willy Arafah, Sarfilianty Anggiani

“…The study's findings explain 10 hypotheses, consisting of 7 direct effect hypotheses, of which 4 were supported and 3 were not. Additionally, there were 3 indirect effect hypotheses, where 1 was supported and 2 were not. …”
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Replication and virulence in pigs of the first African swine fever virus isolated in China by Dongming Zhao, Renqiang Liu, Xianfeng Zhang, Fang Li, Jingfei Wang, Jiwen Zhang, Xing Liu, Lulu Wang, Jiaoer Zhang, Xinzhou Wu, Yuntao Guan, Weiye Chen, Xijun Wang, Xijun He, Zhigao Bu

“…The incubation periods were 3–5 days for virus-inoculated pigs and 9 days for contact pigs. …”
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Optimization of Retrospective Gated-ECG Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography by Dose Reduction in Patients with Different Body Mass Indexes by Behzad Fazlkhah, Mona Fazel Ghaziyanii, Leyla Dinparast, Vahid Alinejad, Yunus Soleymani, Davood Khezerloo

“…Subjective image quality assessment scores were 3.18, 3.5, and 3.73 out of 4 in groups A, B, and C, respectively. …”
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Toxicity and horizontal transfer of bifenthrin and dimefluthrin against the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), and the efficacy of their dus... by Ming-rong LIANG, You-ming SHUANG, Jie-fu DENG, Li-ya PENG, Sen-quan ZHANG, Chen ZHANG, Yi-juan XU, Yong-yue LU, Lei WANG

“…The results showed that the LD50 (lethal dose) values of bifenthrin and dimefluthrin were 3.40 and 1.57 ng/ant, respectively. The KT50 (median knockdown time) and KT95 (95% knockdown time) values of a 20 μg mL–1 bifenthrin dose were 7.179 and 16.611 min, respectively. …”
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A safe technical modification and mid-term results in the removal of locking screws with damaged heads by Abdurrahman Ozcelik, Mustafa Kavak

“…Among the removed screws, 14 (63.7%) were 3.5 mm, 4 (18.2%) were 2.7 mm, 3 (13.6%) were 2.4 mm, and 1 (4.5%) was 4.5 mm. …”
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Construction of an Evidence Ecosystem‐Based Postoperative Pain Management Programme for Paediatric Patients by Jin‐Xia Yang, Yue Liu, Zhen Yu, Fang Zhang, Wen‐Ying Yao, Guo‐Ying Wang, Zi‐sheng Ai

“…Results In the second round of expert consultation, the return rate of valid questionnaires was 100%, the expert authority coefficient was 0.83, the importance scores and feasibility scores of each entry were > 3.5, the coefficients of variation were < 0.25, the Kendall's harmony coefficients of the importance scores of the entries were 0.650 (χ2 = 273.134, p < 0.001) and those of the feasibility scores were 0.649 (χ2 = 272.720, p < 0.001). …”
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Safety and efficacy of a feed additive consisting of an essential oil derived from the leaves of Salvia officinalis L. (sage oil) for use in all animal species (FEFANA asbl) by EFSA Panel on Additives and Products or Substances used in Animal Feed (FEEDAP), Roberto Edoardo Villa, Giovanna Azimonti, Eleftherios Bonos, Henrik Christensen, Mojca Durjava, Birgit Dusemund, Ronette Gehring, Boet Glandorf, Maryline Kouba, Marta López‐Alonso, Francesca Marcon, Carlo Nebbia, Alena Pechová, Miguel Prieto‐Maradona, Ilen Röhe, Katerina Theodoridou, Maria de Lourdes Bastos, Paul Brantom, Andrew Chesson, Josef Schlatter, Johannes Westendorf, Paola Manini

“…For the other species, the calculated safe concentrations in complete feed were 3 mg/kg for chickens for fattening and turkeys for fattening, 4 mg/kg for laying hens and rabbits, 5 mg/kg for piglets, 6 mg/kg for pigs for fattening, 7 mg/kg for sows and dairy cows, 11 mg/kg for veal calves (milk replacers) and salmonids, 10 mg/kg for cattle for fattening, sheep/goats and horses, 12 mg/kg for dogs and 2 mg/kg for cats. …”
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Centering Weight Management Clinical Decision Support in Primary Care on Patients With Obesity and Practitioners: A Proof‐Of‐Concept Study by Kimberly A. Gudzune, Jessica L. Schwartz, Kelly Olsson, Erik Almazan, Thomas Grader Beck, Jyotsna Ghosh, Wendy L. Bennett, Jeanne M. Clark

“…Overall, mean scores for usefulness, usability, and acceptability were 3.2 (SD 0.8), 3.5 (SD 0.9), and 3.6 (SD 0.9), respectively. …”
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Impact of domestic white LED light on cognitive functions and amelioration of blue light blocking lens (BBL) on healthy adults by Mousumi Ghosh, Hari Prakash Palaniswamy, Nishitha. G, Stelyna Joylin, Shwetha. T.S, M. Sanjana, R.P. Radhika, Nagarajan Theruveethi

“…The participants' mean PSQI and Mini-Cog™ scores (n = 15) were 3 and 5, respectively. The behavioral functioning of participants using a 2-back task revealed enhancement in working memory cognition by fastening the response time (ms) from base to post-WLED to post-WLED + BBL (p < 0.001). …”
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Relieving Effect of <i>Artemisia ordosica Krasch</i> Extract on DSS-Induced Colitis by Regulating Immunity, Antioxidant Function, Gut Microbiota, and Bile Acid Metabolism in Mice by Min Jiang, Xuekai Zhang, Xiao Jin, Binlin Shi, Yuanqing Xu, Zheqi Wang

“…The half-maximal inhibitory concentrations (IC₅₀) for scavenging DPPH and hydroxyl radicals were 3.126 mg/mL and 6.139 mg/mL, with a 95% confidence interval of 95%. …”
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Optimization of electric vehicle charging facility layout considering the enhancement of renewable energy consumption capacity and improvement of PSO algorithm by Di Zheng, Baobao Zheng

“…The results showed that the maximum function values of the designed algorithm were 3.56 × 10–14, 5.32 × 100, and 1.08 × 101 for unimodal, multimodal, and composite functions, respectively, and the standard deviations of the algorithm were 2.01 × 10–14, 3.557 × 100, and 8.56 × 10–1, all of which were smaller than comparison algorithms. …”
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New insights into developmental biology of Eimeria tenella revealed by comparative analysis of mRNA N6-methyladenosine modification between unsporulated oocysts and sporulated oocy... by Qing Liu, Bingjin Mu, Yijing Meng, Linmei Yu, Zirui Wang, Tao Jia, Wenbin Zheng, Wenwei Gao, Shichen Xie, Xingquan Zhu

“…Methylated RNA immunoprecipitation sequencing (MeRIP-seq) analysis showed that m6A modification was most abundant in the coding sequences, followed by stop codon. There were 3,903 hypermethylated and 3,178 hypomethylated mRNAs in sporulated oocysts compared with unsporulated oocysts. …”
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Ectopic intrathyroidal thymus in children: Prevalence, imaging findings and evolution by Oğuz Bülent Erol, Dilek Şahin, Zuhal Bayramoğlu, Ravza Yılmaz, Yunus Emre Akpınar, Ömer Faruk Ünal, Ensar Yekeler

“…The mean of anteroposterior (ap), transverse (tr), and craniocaudal (cc) diameters in the initial US examinations were 3.1±1.19 mm, 4.89±1.86 mm, and 6.45±3.92 mm respectively. …”
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Sustainable Synthesis of Diamond-like Carbon and Giant Carbon Allotropes from Hyperbaric Methanol–Water Mixtures Through the Critical Point by Mohamad E. Alabdulkarim, Vibhor Thapliyal, James L. Maxwell

“…Freeform carbon fibres were 3D-printed from CH₃OH:H₂O mixtures using hyperbaric-pressure laser chemical vapour deposition (HP-LCVD). …”
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A simple sonographic approach to thoracic transforaminal epidural injections for zoster-associated pain involving multiple nerves: an exploratory prospective cohort study by Shuyue Zheng, Dan Wang, Li Yue, Liangliang He

“…Median levels of cephalad-caudad epidural contrast spread were 3, 4, and 5 ml following injections of 2, 3, and 4 ml. …”
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Digital Future of Emergency Medical Services: Envisioning and Usability of Electronic Patient Care Report System by Samer Al Haliq, Mohammed Al Jumaan

“…The overall mean of the ePCR system’s three subscales: system usefulness, information quality, interface quality, and overall satisfaction were 3.39 (SD = 1.152), 3.30 (SD = 1.052), 3.57 (SD = 1.064), and 3.37 (SD = 1.239), respectively. …”
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Association between cardiometabolic index and biological aging in the US population: evidence from NHANES 2015–2020 by Miao Sun, Shuang Bao

“…In the crude or adjusted models, the OR (95% CI), for the highest group versus the reference were 3.608 (3.108, 4.188), 3.397 (2.920, 3.952), and 1.550 (1.299, 1.850), respectively, when categorizing CMI into different groups. …”
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Antibiogram of bacterial isolates obtained from infants and children at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH). by Emmanuel Onyekachukwu Ibeneme , Zenoh Danjuma Ali * , Glory Philemon Bebia , Joy Chinweokwu Ezema , JosephusBoniface.

“…S. aureus was the most isolated 22(56.4%), followed by P. aeruginosa 7(17.9%), Streptococci, Coliform, and Proteus were 3(7.7%), 6(15.4%) and 1(2.6%) respectively. Female children had more bacterial isolates 19(73.1%) compared to male 17(70.1%). …”
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Changes in the Subtalar Joint Alignment after Supramalleolar Osteotomy for Varus Ankle Arthritis by Ming-Zhu Zhang MD, PhD

“…(A and C, preoperative; B and D, postoperative, the pre and postoperatively SIA were 3 degrees and 10 degrees; the pre and postoperatively FAO were -5.77% and -1.89%). …”
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