Exploring the Impact of Homophily Attitude, Physical, and Social Attractiveness on Purchase Intentions by Honya Ghasemi, Ramin Bashir Khodaparasti, Hooshmand Bagheri Garbollagh

“…With this burgeoning trend, the branded app market has grown steadily, surpassing all other types of mobile commerce. Augmented reality applications add a new dimension to the customer experience by covering the customer's face or surroundings with virtual products. …”
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Ultrasonic radiomics-based nomogram for preoperative prediction of residual tumor in advanced epithelial ovarian cancer: a multicenter retrospective study by Shanshan Li, Qiuping Ding, Lijuan Li, Yuwei Liu, Hanyu Zou, Yushuang Wang, Xiangyu Wang, Bingqing Deng, Qingxiu Ai

“…The comprehensive model outperformed models based on either clinical or radiomic features alone, achieving an accuracy of 0.84, a sensitivity of 0.80, a specificity of 0.75, a precision of 0.88, a positive predictive value of 0.81, a negative predictive value of 0.86, an F1-score of 0.78, and an AUC of 0.82 in the external validation set.ConclusionsThe comprehensive model, which integrated clinical and ultrasound radiomic features, exhibited strong performance and generalizability in preoperatively identifying patients likely to achieve complete resection of all visible disease.…”
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Adults with Longstanding Strabismus: Psychosocial and Functional Impacts and Reasons behind Surgery Delay by Rami Al-Omari, Hisham M Jammal, Yousef Khader, Dema Atoum, Wedad Al-dolat, Moawiah Khatatbeh

“…Total AS-20 (and its subscales: psychosocial and function) scores were calculated and analyzed. All relationships between sociodemographic characteristics, the onset of deviation, presence of diplopia, type and size of deviation, and the changes in the scores of AS-20 (and its subscales) were investigated. …”
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A sterol panel for rare lipid disorders: sitosterolemia, cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis and Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome by Alexander Bauer Westbye, Lili L. Dizdarevic, Sandra R. Dahl, Emil Andreas Asprusten, Yngve Thomas Bliksrud, Anita Lövgren Sandblom, Ulf Diczfalusy, Per M. Thorsby, Kjetil Retterstøl

“…Serum from patients with the rare lipid disorders sitosterolemia (n = 7), Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome (SLOS; n = 1), and cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis (CTX; n = 1) were analyzed. All seven sitosterolemia patients had greatly elevated levels of free plant sterols (sitosterol, campesterol, and stigmasterol) compared to the controls. …”
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Combined Therapy of Catheter Ablation and Left Atrial Appendage Closure for Patients with Atrial Fibrillation: A Case-Control Study by Bin-Feng Mo, Jian Sun, Peng-Pai Zhang, Wei Li, Mu Chen, Jia-Li Yuan, Yi Yu, Qun-Shan Wang, Yi-Gang Li

“…The procedures were successfully performed in all the patients. Procedure-related complications of the combined group included one pericardial effusion and two groin haematomas, which did not differ significantly with those of the CA-only group (3.9% vs. 2.6%, P=0.650) or the LAAC-only group (3.9% vs. 2.6%, P=0.650), respectively. …”
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Effects of Long-Term Dietary Administration of Kale ( Brassica oleracea L. var. acephala DC) Leaves on the Antioxidant Status and Blood Biochemical Markers in Rats by Katarzyna Papierska, Ewa Ignatowicz, Jadwiga Jodynis-Liebert, Małgorzata Kujawska, Róża Biegańska-Marecik

“…Kale administration did not affect the activities of glutathione peroxidase and paraoxonase 1, glutathione concentration, lipid peroxidation level, and the level of DNA damage in the liver and the whole blood leukocytes. TEAC increased upon all doses of kale leaves by 30–90% in males and by 40–90% in females. …”
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Comprehensive analysis of publications concerning combinations of immunotherapy and targeted therapies for hepatocellular carcinoma: a bibliometric study by Biling Gan, Lei Wu, Shunan Zhou, Zhihong Chen, Fan Wu, Lianqun Xu, Zhenrong Chen, Honghui Ma, Peijia He, Dan Fang, Ning Shi

“…This approach offered insights into the contributions of countries, institutions, authors, journals, references, and key terms within the field.ResultsA total of 506 studies published between 2014 and 2023 were included, with all articles in English. Mainland China dominated the publication output, contributing 40% (N = 202), followed by significant contributions from the United States and Japan. …”
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Biofloc technology on the intensive aquaculture of bronze corydoras ornamental fish Corydoras aeneus with different stocking densities by Iis Diatin, Muhammad Agus Suprayudi, Tatag Budiardi, Enang Harris, Widanarni Widanarni

“…The results showed that the daily length and weight-growth rate among treatments were not significantly different (P>0.05), while survival rate and the number of fish production on all treatments were significantly different (P<0.05). …”
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Does drug dispensing influence patients’ medication knowledge and medication adherence? A systematic review and meta-analysis by Elizabete Priscila Costa Santana, Haidelucia Rodrigues Vieira Javarini, Dyego Carlos Souza Anacleto de Araújo, Sabrina Cerqueira-Santos, Tiago Marques Reis, Genival Araujo dos Santos-Junior, Kérilin Stancine Santos Rocha

“…Four studies evaluated the influence of drug dispensing on the patient’s medication knowledge, and all showed that knowledge increased after dispensing. …”
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Assessing the Impact of Distance Traveled and Birth Volumes of Hospital Maternity Units on Newborn Outcomes: Population-Based Cohort Study by Anna Cantarutti, Riccardo Boracchini, Roberto Bellù, Raffaella Ronco, Federico Rea, Anna Locatelli, Rinaldo Zanini, Giovanni Corrao

“…MethodsWe conducted a population-based cohort study including all live births in hospitals without intensive care units between 2016 and 2019 in the Lombardy region, Italy. …”
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Sequence-structure based prediction of pathogenicity for amino acid substitutions in proteins associated with primary immunodeficiencies by Ekaterina S. Porfireva, Anton D. Zadorozhny, Anastasia V. Rudik, Dmitry A. Filimonov, Alexey A. Lagunin, Alexey A. Lagunin

“…The best SSPR models demonstrated high accuracy, with an average ROC AUC of 0.831 ± 0.037, a Balanced accuracy of (0.763 ± 0.034), MCC (0.457 ± 0.06), and F-measure (0.623 ± 0.07) across all genes, outperforming the most popular bioinformatics tools.ConclusionsThe best created SSPR models for the prediction of pathogenicity of amino acid substitutions related with PIDs have been implemented in a freely available web application SAV-Pred (Single Amino acid Variants Predictor, http://www.way2drug.com/SAV-Pred/), which may be a useful tool for medical geneticists and clinicians. …”
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Influence of different priming treatments on germination potential and seedling establishment of four important hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) cultivars by Saba Latif, Rahmatullah Qureshi, Abdul Rauf, NoshinIlyas, Qaiser Hussain, Syed Sabir Hussain Shah, Sabith Rehman, Arshad Mahmood Khan, Nasrullah Khan, Mostafa A. Abdel-Maksoud, Abdul Malik, Sabiha Fatima, Bushra Hafeez Kiani

“…Furthermore, cocopeat demonstrated superior performance as a seedling growth medium across all cultivars, indicating its potential for hemp cultivation practices. …”
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Predicting cardiovascular outcomes in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes by combining risk factor trajectories and machine learning algorithm: a cohort study by Qi Huang, Xiantong Zou, Zhouhui Lian, Xianghai Zhou, Xueyao Han, Yingying Luo, Shuohua Chen, Yanxiu Wang, Shouling Wu, Linong Ji

“…ML-CVD-C also provided more accurate cardiovascular risk estimates, though all models tended to overestimate the prevalence of high-risk cases. …”
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Hyoid bone-based sex discrimination among Egyptians using a multidetector computed tomography: discriminant function analysis, meta-analysis, and artificial intelligence-assisted s... by Afaf Abdelkader, Susan A. Ali, Ahmed Abdeen, Ehab S. Taher, Asmaa Y. A. Hussein, Mamdouh Eldesoqui, Mohamed Abdo, Liana Fericean, Bănăţean-Dunea Ioan, Samah F. Ibrahim, Ashraf M. Said, Darine Amin, Elturabi E. Ebrahim, Amany M. Allam, Mihaela Ostan, Khaled A. Bayoumi, Tabinda Hasan, Ekramy M. Elmorsy

“…The results indicated that all measured dimensions of the hyoid bone were substantially larger in males confront to females. …”
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Clinical features of cystic neutrophil granulomatous mastitis in 62 cases by Mengjie Wang, Dongxiao Zhang, Na Fu, Min Liu, Hongkai Zhang, Shuo Feng, Yifei Zeng, Wenjie Zhao, Jianchun Cui, Khattak Mazher Mansoor

“…Results: Sixty-two patients, with an average age of 33.30 years, were all female. Among the 62 patients, some patients had a history of oral psychotropic drugs, hyperprolactinemia, pituitary tumors, non-puerperal mastitis (NPM), and breast trauma history, or a family history of breast cancer. …”
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Microbial profile of burn wound injuries in the Northern West Bank − A retrospective cohort study by Sameh Natsha, Hester Lacey, Souad Belkebir, Ann Attili, Aya Atatra, Rawand Daragmeh, Anas Abu-Safa, Baljit Dheansa, Rasha Khayyat

“…Overall length of stay (LOS) was 17.27 days in all patients and 28.2 days in those with MDR, with increasing LOS significantly associated with positive culture and MDR development of MDR (p < 0.001). …”
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Conditional diffusion-generated super-resolution for myocardial perfusion MRI by Changyu Sun, Changyu Sun, Neha Goyal, Yu Wang, Darla L. Tharp, Senthil Kumar, Talissa A. Altes

“…Our results showed significant image quality improvements, with a 5.1% reduction in nRMSE, a 1.1% increase in PSNR, and a 2.2% boost in SSIM compared to GAN-based super-resolution method (P &lt; 0.05 for all metrics using paired t-test) in retrospective study. …”
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Propensity score matched comparison of lymph node upstaging in early-stage lung cancer: open versus minimally invasive surgery with standardized lymphadenectomy by Julia Zimmermann, Julia Walter, Valentina Pfeiffer, Julia Kovács, Gökçe Yavuz, Johannes Schön, Mircea Gabriel Stoleriu, Christian Ketscher, Niels Reinmuth, Rudolf A. Hatz, Amanda Tufman, Christian P. Schneider

“…Methods This retrospective study reviewed data of all patients undergoing lobectomy at the Lung Tumor Center Munich between 2011 and 2020. …”
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Exome Sequencing Identified a Recessive RDH12 Mutation in a Family with Severe Early-Onset Retinitis Pigmentosa by Bo Gong, Bo Wei, Lulin Huang, Jilong Hao, Xiulan Li, Yin Yang, Yu Zhou, Fang Hao, Zhihua Cui, Dingding Zhang, Le Wang, Houbin Zhang

“…A Chinese family with 7 members including two individuals affected with severe early-onset RP was studied. All patients underwent a complete ophthalmic examination. …”
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Spin‐coating fabrication of high‐yield and uniform organic thin‐film transistors via a primer template growth by Zhenxin Yang, Jiale Su, Junzhan Wang, Xuanhe Li, Fushun Li, Juntao Hu, Nan Chen, Zhang Tao, Delong Yang, Deng‐Ke Wang, Qiang Zhu, Yuhui Liao, Zheng‐Hong Lu

“…Using PT, we fabricated organic thin‐film transistors (OTFTs) using solutions containing various small molecules such as rubrene and 2‐decyl‐7‐phenyl‐[1]benzothieno[3,2‐b][1]benzothiophene. The device yield of all fabricated OTFTs is consistently 100% while achieving a high average mobility of 1.62 cm2 V−1 s−1 with a device‐to‐device variation of 7.7% measured in ambient air condition. …”
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