E-cigarette use among adolescents in Latin America: A systematic review of prevalence and associated factors by Juan S. Izquierdo-Condoy, Kenny Ruiz Sosa, Camila Salazar-Santoliva, Natalia Restrepo, Guillermo Olaya-Villareal, Juan S. Castillo-Concha, Valentina Loaiza-Guevara, Esteban Ortiz-Prado

“…Background: Electronic cigarettes, introduced as a safer tobacco alternative, have unintentionally exposed millions of youths to nicotine and harmful chemicals. …”
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Daratumumab for Bortezomib-Refractory Proliferative Glomerulonephritis With Monoclonal Immunoglobulin Deposits in Kidney Allograft: A Case Report by Zewei Chen, Shangxi Fu, Jun Wu, Xiaoling Luo, Zhiguo Mao, Dechao Xu, Xiang Gao

“…A human IgG monoclonal antibody that targets CD38 (daratumumab) was recently identified as a potential therapeutic option for treating PGNMID. …”
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The 2020 IDS Release of the Antwerp COR*-Database. Evaluation, Development and Transformation of a Pre-Existing Database by Sam Jenkinson, Francisco Anguita, Diogo Paiva, Hideko Matsuo, Koen Matthijs

“…The Antwerp COR*-IDS database 2020 is a transformed and harmonized historical demographic database in a cross-nationally comparable format designed to be open and easy to use for international researchers. …”
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The impact of SLCO1B1 polymorphisms on homocysteine concentrations: evidence for a stronger association in men by Xinyuan Hu, Yanfang Jiang

“…BackgroundHomocysteine (Hcy) is a risk factor for stroke. In this study, we investigated the relationship between gene polymorphisms, particularly SLCO1B1 and homocysteine (Hcy) concentrations in ischemic stroke patients, with a focus on identifying potential risk factors for elevated Hcy levels.MethodsA total of 177 ischemic stroke patients, including 99 with single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), underwent pharmacogenomics (PGx) sequencing tests, from September 2022 to November 2023 at the hospital. …”
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Understanding the Preferred Crystal Orientation of Sputtered Silver in Ar/N2 Atmosphere: A Microstructure Investigation by YuHao Hu, Jiajun Zhu, Chao Zhang, Wulin Yang, Licai Fu, Deyi Li, Lingping Zhou

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A rare case of double pituitary prolactinomas: the diagnostic application of intraoperative ultrasonography and DNA methylation markers by Jared C. Reese, Thomas M. Zervos, Jack Rock, Abeer Tabbarah, Houtan Noushmehr, Grayson Herrgott, Ana Valeria Castro

“…To detect a tumor missing through visual inspection, IOUS was performed. …”
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Corynebacteria from the respiratory microbiota modulate inflammatory responses and associate with a reduced pneumococcal burden in the lungs by Caroline Bergenfelz, Phuong Do, Liv Larsson, Hanna Ivarsson, Kasper Malmborn, Anders P. Håkansson

“…Corynebacteria induced a transient inflammatory response during healthy conditions in the absence of known pathogens. …”
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Edible Insects as an Alternative Source of Nutrients: Benefits, Risks, and the Future of Entomophagy in Europe—A Narrative Review by Wojciech Michał Jankowski, Dominik Przychodniak, Weronika Gromek, Emilia Majsiak, Marcin Kurowski

“…This raises concerns about the ability to feed such a population. In view of the above, it is necessary to search for alternative food sources. …”
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Cancer as an Embryological Phenomenon and Its Developmental Pathways: A Hypothesis regarding the Contribution of the Noncanonical Wnt Pathway by Jaime Cofre, Kay Saalfeld, Eliana Abdelhay

“…For gastrulation to occur in human embryos, a mechanism that simultaneously regulates many different processes, such as cell differentiation, proliferation, migration, and invasion, is required to consistently and effectively create a human being during embryonic morphogenesis. …”
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Utilizing slip conditions on transport phenomena of heat energy with dust and tiny nanoparticles over a wedge by Nazir Umar, Khan Umair, Almujibah Hamad, Gündoğdu Hami

“…The present problem investigates 3D flow over an expanding wedge geometry of a tangent-hyperbolic Casson fluid. A two-phase approach considers a liquid phase and a dusty fluid, while a Darcy–Forchheimer law is used to model this fluid flow to capture motion and heat transfer. …”
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Applications of Indocyanine Green in Breast Cancer for Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping: Protocol for a Scoping Review by Feryal Kurdi, Yahya Kurdi, Igor Vladimirovich Reshetov

“…Indocyanine green (ICG) has emerged as a promising agent for fluorescence imaging in SLN mapping. …”
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Neoadjuvant or concurrent atezolizumab with chemoradiation for locally advanced cervical cancer: a randomized phase I trial by Jyoti Mayadev, Dmitriy Zamarin, Wei Deng, Heather A. Lankes, Giulio Pesci, Hayeon Kim, Junzo P. Chino, Barbara Banbury, Ned Sherry, Elad Sharon, Sharad A. Ghamande, Catherine Ferguson, Loren Mell, Laura Holman, Cara Mathews, David O’Malley, Alexander Olawaiye, Elizabeth Hopp, Charles Leath, Larry Copeland, Robert Mannel, Roisin O’Cearbhaill, Carol Aghajanian, Russell J. Schilder

“…NRG-GY017 (NCT03738228) was a randomized phase I trial of atezolizumab (anti-PD-L1) neoadjuvant and concurrent with CRT (Arm A) vs. concurrent with CRT (Arm B) in patients with high-risk node-positive LACC. …”
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Une barbacane de la fin du Moyen Âge à Chartres (Eure-et-Loir) by Vincent Acheré

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A Deep Learning Filter that Blocks Phishing Campaigns Using Intelligent English Text Recognition Methods by Yonghui Tang, Fei Wu

“…Most of the sophisticated attacks in the modern age of cybercrime are based, among other things, on specialized phishing campaigns. A challenge in identifying phishing campaigns is defining a classification of patterns that can be generalized and used in different areas and campaigns of a different nature. …”
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Unravelling a mechanistic link between mitophagy defect, mitochondrial malfunction, and apoptotic neurodegeneration in Mucopolysaccharidosis VII by Nishan Mandal, Apurba Das, Rupak Datta

“…Cognitive disability and neurodegeneration are prominent symptoms of Mucopolysaccharidosis VII (MPS VII), a lysosomal storage disorder caused by β-glucuronidase enzyme deficiency. …”
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A Novel Music Recommendation Method Combining Music Sub-Personality and Social Network Behavior Analysis by Chunhua Ju, Zhiyi Huang, Fuguang Bao

“…In order to recommend music conforming to the people’s sentiment state in real time，a novel music recommendation method combining music sub-personality and social network behavior analysis was proposed.Through sentiment analysis of the users’ words and sentences which was released on Weibo and other social network，the method calculated the users’ music preference in a sentiment state，the most suitable music was recommend to users in that sentiment state.Experimental results show that the proposed method can alleviate the effect of user data sparsity on the recommendation results.…”
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Demographic disparities in unimproved drinking water and sanitation in Ghana: a nationally representative cross-sectional study by Felix Boakye Oppong, Divine Darlington Logo, Dennis Boateng, Ephraim Kumi Senkyire

“…This study explored the use of unimproved drinking water and unimproved sanitation and assessed their association with demographic factors.Design This was a secondary data analysis of the 2017 Ghana Maternal Health Survey, a nationally representative cross-sectional survey. …”
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Experimental Investigation on Temperature-Resistant CO₂ Foam Flooding in a Heterogenous Reservoir by Mei Tian, Yi Wu, Yuhua Shi, Guohua Cao, Yu Sun, Maozhu Li, Wei Wang, Li Gao, Zhipeng Wang, Yiqiang Li

“…Gas channeling treatment is a huge challenge for oil displacement and CO₂ sequestration in the practical CO₂ flooding process. …”
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Burkholderia cepacia Complex: Emerging Multihost Pathogens Equipped with a Wide Range of Virulence Factors and Determinants by Sílvia A. Sousa, Christian G. Ramos, Jorge H. Leitão

“…More recently, these bacteria became recognized as a threat to hospitalized patients suffering from other diseases, in particular oncological patients. …”
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A Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of Core Stability Exercises in Patients with Non-Specific Low Back Pain by Zachary Smrcina, Sarah Woelfel, Christopher Burcal

“…# Background Low back pain affects millions of people worldwide and can be a difficult condition to manage clinically. Many cases do not have a discernable etiology, further increasing the complexity of finding an effective intervention. …”
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