ECG-LM: Understanding Electrocardiogram with a Large Language Model by Kai Yang, Massimo Hong, Jiahuan Zhang, Yizhen Luo, Suyuan Zhao, Ou Zhang, Xiaomao Yu, Jiawen Zhou, Liuqing Yang, Ping Zhang, Mu Qiao, Zaiqing Nie

“…Results: ECG-LM outperforms existing few-shot and zero-shot solutions in cardiovascular disease detection across all 3 tasks (diagnostic, rhythm, and form) while also demonstrating strong potential in ECG-related question answering. …”
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Pembentukan Daftar Stopword Goffman Transition Point dengan Pembobotan Emoji pada Analisis Sentimen di Twitter by Rizky Maulana Iqbal, Yuita Arum Sari, Edy Santoso

“…Many stopwords have been provided in digital libraries containing unimportant words, but not all of these words are not important in a particular data or case. …”
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Antiamoebic Chemoprophylaxis Using Quinfamide in Children: A Comparative Study by Nicolas Padilla, Rosalinda Diaz, Alfonso Alarcon, Roberto Barreda

“…The study participants who tested negative for cysts were divided into three groups: Group 1 had 102 patients who underwent quinfamide treatment and three CPS analyses after the 12 months of the study; Group 2 had 98 subjects who underwent the quinfamide treatment and three CPS analyses at months 3, 6, 9, and 12 after their entrance into the study; and Group 3 had 102 patients, who underwent the quinfamide treatment and series of three CPS analyses at months 6 and 12 of the study. All participants received the dose of quinfamide after providing stool samples and after a clinical gastrointestinal history was obtained. …”
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Evaluation of Theileria equi vertical transmission rate and routes in a cohort of asymptomatic mares and their foals by Lisa-Marie Hermans, Claire Bonsergent, Anne Josson, Gloria Rocafort-Ferrer, Marine Le Guyader, Sophie Angelloz-Pessey, Agnès Leblond, Laurence Malandrin

“…A species-specific nested PCR was performed on all blood samples (358) and on available samples of placenta (24), umbilicus (6) and colostrum (18). …”
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Occurrence of macrolides resistance in Legionella pneumophila ST188: Results of the Belgian epidemiology and resistome investigation of clinical isolates by Charlotte Michel, Fedoua Echahidi, Geraldine De Muylder, Max Sewell, Ian Boostrom, Olivier Denis, Owen B. Spiller, Denis Pierard

“…Acquired genes or mutations triggering resistance were extracted from all of them. Results: The number of Legionnaires’ disease cases has increased in Belgium. …”
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Metals in Fishes from Yongshu Island, Southern South China Sea: Human Health Risk Assessment by Zhai Wu, Ye Xu, Minggang Cai, Sha-Yen Cheng, Huorong Chen, Dongren Huang, Kai Chen, Yan Lin, Tianyao Li, Mengyang Liu, Hengxiang Deng, Minjie Ni, Hongwei Ke

“…In addition, Pb isotopic ratios indicated that all species had significant biological fractionation, which may not make them good tracers for source identification. …”
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A scoping review examining the relationship between green tea and skin cancers by Ram Lakhan, Louisa Summers, Olugbemiga Ekundayo, Jedidiah Radosevich, Sierra Turner, Sangyal Dorjee, Vinayak K. Nahar, Manoj Sharma

“…The inclusion criteria were: (1) articles published in the past approximately ten years; (2) in the English language; (3) published in peer-reviewed journals in the above databases; and (4) all accounts of descriptive and epidemiological or evaluation studies. …”

Effects of close-to-nature forest management on carbon stocks in Pinus tabulaeformis plantations in northern China by Jinmei Xu, Huiling Tian, Jun Xiao, Zhaochen Li, Wenfa Xiao, Runsheng Yin

“…Close-to-nature management increased the annual increment of the tree carbon stock in 47- and 56-year-old stands, as well as that of the soil carbon stock and ecosystem carbon stock in 56-year-old stands, and also that of litter carbon stock in all stands, whereas it decreased both soil and ecosystem carbon stocks’ annual increment in 10- and 47-year-old stands. …”
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Crisis response strategies of universities during the ongoing war: Beyond experience and responsibilities by Oleksandr Spivakovsky, Serhii Omelchuk, Daria Malchykova

“…Extraordinary threats of the large-scale stage of the Russian-Ukrainian war challenged the resilience and capability of all higher education institutions. However, their influence varied with location, infrastructure damage, internal capacity for changes and academic community resilience, external support, and solidarity initiatives. …”
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Secukinumab in the treatment of psoriatic arthritis: efficacy and safety results through 3 years from the year 1 extension of the randomised phase III FUTURE 1 trial by Philip J Mease, Arthur Kavanaugh, Andreas Reimold, Hasan Tahir, Jürgen Rech, Stephen Hall, Piet Geusens, Pascale Pellet, Evie Maria Delicha, Shephard Mpofu, Luminita Pricop

“…Sustained improvements in all efficacy endpoints were achieved with secukinumab through week 156. …”
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Correlation between the Serum Platelet-Derived Growth Factor, Angiopoietin-1, and Severity of Coronary Heart Disease by Sisi Pang, Zhengxian Tao, Xiaoyan Min, Chuanwei Zhou, Dijia Pan, Zhen Cao, Xiangming Wang

“…During coronary arteriography (CAG) or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), blood in the peripheral artery and in the local coronary artery was collected from all the patients. Serum PDGF and Ang-1 levels were measured by ELISA. …”
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Efficacy of Wii-Fit on Static and Dynamic Balance in Community Dwelling Older Veterans: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial by Kalpana P. Padala, Prasad R. Padala, Shelly Y. Lensing, Richard A. Dennis, Melinda M. Bopp, Christopher M. Parkes, Mark K. Garrison, Patricia M. Dubbert, Paula K. Roberson, Dennis H. Sullivan

“…Of 30 randomized subjects, 27 completed all aspects of the study protocol. There were no study-related adverse events. …”
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A comprehensive review on eutectic phase change materials: Development, thermophysical properties, thermal stability, reliability, and applications by Abhishek Anand, Muhamad Mansor, Kamal Sharma, Amritanshu Shukla, Atul Sharma, Md Irfanul Haque Siddiqui, Kishor Kumar Sadasivuni, Neeraj Priyadarshi, Bhekisipho Twala

“…The eutectics possess a wide range of temperatures and have the properties of all of their constituents. At present organic-organic, organic-inorganic, and organic-inorganic eutectics are widely studied. …”
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Are Electromyography Data a Fingerprint for Patients with Cerebral Palsy (CP)? by Mehrdad Davoudi, Firooz Salami, Robert Reisig, Dimitrios A. Patikas, Nicholas A. Beckmann, Katharina S. Gather, Sebastian I. Wolf

“…The gait and EMG indices were compared between the responders using the nonparametric Mann–Whitney test. The ND for all kinematics and kinetics parameters significantly improved (<i>p</i>-value < 0.05) after the surgery. …”
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Beyond averaging: A transformer approach to decoding event related brain potentials by Philipp Zelger, Manuel Arnold, Sonja Rossi, Josef Seebacher, Franz Muigg, Simone Graf, Antonio Rodríguez-Sánchez

“…The attention maps above all showed a focus on the time window around 150 to 200 ms, where the average based analysis did not indicate relevant potentials.Employing these attention maps, we were able to gain new perspectives on the ERPs, discovering the attention maps potential as a tool for delving deeper into the analysis of event-related potentials.…”
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A mediation analysis of meteorological factors on the association between ambient carbon monoxide and tuberculosis outpatients visits by Tianfeng He, Tianfeng He, Xujun Qian, Jing Huang, Guoxing Li, Xinbiao Guo

“…This study aims to investigate the short-term association between low-level CO exposure and PTB outpatient visits in a developing region.MethodsWe conducted a time-series study utilizing a distributed lag non-linear model (DLNM) combined with mediating effect analysis, based on daily CO and PTB cases from 2011 to 2020 in Ningbo, China.ResultsAmong all patients with PTB, a 0.1 mg/m3 increase in CO concentration was associated with an increased risk of PTB outpatient visits in the single-pollutant model, particularly at lag days 2–6. …”
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Evaluation of ChatGPT-4 for the detection of surgical site infections from electronic health records after colorectal surgery: A pilot diagnostic accuracy study by Josep M. Badia, Daniel Casanova-Portoles, Estela Membrilla, Carles Rubiés, Miquel Pujol, Joan Sancho

“…Results: ChatGPT achieved a sensitivity of 100 %, correctly identifying all SSIs detected by manual methods. The specificity was 54 %, indicating the presence of false positives. …”
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Epidemiological Analysis of Fungal Infection Disease in Pediatric Population: Focus on Hospitalization from 2007 to 2022 in Veneto Region in Italy by Lorenzo Chiusaroli, Claudia Cozzolino, Silvia Cocchio, Mario Saia, Carlo Giaquinto, Daniele Donà, Vincenzo Baldo

“…We extracted ICD-9 codes related to fungal infections from hospital discharge records (HDRs) in the pediatric population of Veneto, located in the north-east of Italy, between 2007 and 2022. We included all children admitted to the hospital with a primary or secondary diagnosis during admission for other reasons. …”
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Phytochemicals of Vitis vinifera L. var. King Ruby protect mice from benzo(a)pyrene-induced lung injury by Gehad S. Ahmedy, Hend M. Selim, Mona El-Aasr, Souzan M. Ibrahim, Suzy A. El-Sherbeni

“…Mice of 10 groups (n = 6) was treated as follows: Group I (negative control group), group II (disease control, mice received B(a)P 125 mg/kg, orally), groups III-V (mice received 100, 200, and 300 mg/kg of VLME, followed by B(a)P), group VI (mice received only 300 mg/kg of VLME), groups VII-XI (mice received 100, 200, and 300 mg/kg of MCF, followed by B(a)P), group X (mice received only 300 mg/kg of MCF). On the seventh day, all groups received a single oral dose of B(a)P 125 mg/kg body, except group I, VI and X. …”
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Nd:YAG Laser Vitreolysis for Symptomatic Vitreous Floaters: Application of Infrared Fundus Photography in Assessing the Treatment Efficacy by Xiaolei Sun, Jingyi Tian, Jinyan Wang, Jingjing Zhang, Ying Wang, Gongqiang Yuan

“…No severe Nd:YAG vitreolysis procedure-related complications occurred in all patients except one mild retinal injury. There were no significant changes in intraocular pressure and visual acuity after the laser treatment. 43 eyes had improved symptoms; in 8, floaters had disappeared; and 4 had no changes according to VFQ-25 scores. …”
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