Nebulised 3% hypertonic saline versus 0.9% saline for treating patients hospitalised with acute bronchiolitis: protocol for a randomised, double-blind, multicentre trial by Sara Szupieńko, Aleksandra Buczek, Henryk Szymański

“…Being a common reason for hospitalisation, it affects 13–17% of all hospitalised children younger than 2 years. …”
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Multijunction solar cell parameter estimation based on metaheuristic algorithms by Marwa M. Elzalabani, Doaa M. Atia, Aref Y. Eliwa, Belal A. Abou Zalam, Mahmoud S. AbouOmar

“…In terms of errors, and execution time, the TSA algorithm performs the poorest in all three circumstances with RMSE value greater than 0.16.…”
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Pembelajaran Bermuatan HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skill) di Jurusan Tadris Bahasa Indonesia by Indrya Mulyaningsih, Itaristanti Itaristanti

“…The study population consisted of all lecturers and students of the Indonesian Department of Social Sciences FITK IAIN Syekh Nurjati Cirebon. …”
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Extended Use of The Spanner® Temporary Prostatic Stent in Catheter-Dependent Men with Comorbidities by Angelo J. Cambio, Richard M. Roach, Paul Arnold, Joseph Cambio, Clifford D. Gluck, Sean P. Heron

“…Voiding success was defined as PVR ≤ 150 ml at all visits. Results. One hundred seven men were enrolled at 8 US sites; 82/107 (76.6%) completed the trial, and 79/107 (73.8%) successfully maintained PVR ≤ 150 ml for the trial duration. …”
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Work engagement of psychiatric nurses: a scoping review protocol by Yuichi Kato, Tsuyoshi Mukaihata, Toshiyuki Swa, Hirokazu Fujimoto

“…The first author will screen all potentially relevant publications, and the second author will independently screen a random sample comprising 10% of the manuscripts. …”
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Fecal Microbiota Transplantation Improves the Quality of Life in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Yao Wei, Weiming Zhu, Jianfeng Gong, Dong Guo, Lili Gu, Ning Li, Jieshou Li

“…One patient was excluded due to intolerance. All the other patients finished the study well. …”
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Experimental Study on the Self-Healing Behavior of Fractured Rocks Induced by Water-CO2-Rock Interactions in the Shendong Coalfield by Jinfeng Ju, Quansheng Li, Jialin Xu

“…During the experiment, which ran for nearly 15 months, all three specimens exhibited decreasing permeabilities. …”
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Intoxication by Cyanide in Pregnant Sows: Prenatal and Postnatal Evaluation by André T. Gotardo, Isis M. Hueza, Helena Manzano, Viviane M. Maruo, Paulo C. Maiorka, Silvana L. Górniak

“…Sows treated with 4.0 mg/kg KCN showed an increase in the number of dead piglets at birth. Weaned piglets from all KCN-treated groups showed histological lesions in the thyroid glands with features similar to those found in their mothers. …”
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Cardiac Myxoma: Typical Presentation but Unusual Histology by Hassan H. AlAhmadi, Noor Said Alsafwani, Mohamed A. Shawarby, Fayez Ahmed

“…Glandular differentiation within these tumors is rare, occurring in approximately 3% of all cardiac myxomas. Its presence can complicate the diagnostic process. …”
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Morphological change in an isolated population of red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) in Britain by Kim E. Chandler, Eloy Gálvez-López, Stuart Black, Andrew C. Kitchener, Kat Hamill, Bethan Roberts, Sean Doherty, Philip G. Cox

“…Significant differences in cranio-mandibular shape were found between all populations, with 1990s Formby red squirrels exhibiting a morphology associated with reduced masticatory efficiency. …”
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Immunomodulatory effect of hepatitis B virus (HBV) antigens and MRSA antigens on immune response by Entidhar A. Hadi, Mohammad Abd-Kadhum Al-Saadi, Kaiser N. Madlum

“…IL-4 and IL-5 concentration results revealed a significant increase in all treated groups as compared with control untreated group I. …”
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PaleAle 6.0: Prediction of Protein Relative Solvent Accessibility by Leveraging Pre-Trained Language Models (PLMs) by Wafa Alanazi, Di Meng, Gianluca Pollastri

“…When evaluated on the more challenging 2024 test set, PaleAle 6.0 maintained a strong performance, achieving 79.74% accuracy in the two-state prediction and 55.30% accuracy in the four-state prediction, with a PCC of 73.08 for real-value predictions, outperforming all previously benchmarked predictors.…”
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Robust Identification of Vegetation Change Using Shapelet-Based Temporal Segmentation of Landsat Time-Series Stacks: A Case Study in the Qilian Mountains by Lipeng Jiao, Randolph H. Wynne

“…Then, an iterative shapelet searching algorithm is performed on each given time series trajectory to filter out all atypical subseries. Finally, a multiple-spectral-index-based thresholding method is developed to measure the difference in spectral indices' statistical values between atypical and typical (stable) subseries. …”
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Biomechanical Analysis of the Forces Exerted during Different Occlusion Conditions following Bilateral Sagittal Split Osteotomy Treatment for Mandibular Deficiency by Yuan-Han Chang, Man-Yee Chan, Jui-Ting Hsu, Han-Yu Hsiao, Kuo-Chih Su

“…The results showed that all of the different occlusion conditions that this study evaluated placed high stress on the miniplate. …”
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Association of blood pressure and left ventricular mass with subclinical coronary atherosclerosis by Weiting Huang, Calvin Chin, Rehena Sultana, Chirk Jenn Ng, Jonathan Jiunn Liang Yap, Enver De Wei Loh, Swee Yaw Tan, Siew Ching Kong, Khung K Yeo

“…Individuals with high LVMI had higher BP than those with normal LVMI. Across all LVMI groups, higher BP was associated with the presence of CAC. …”
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Successful Treatment of Caesarean Scar Pregnancies by Local Treatment Only by Shinji Tanigaki, Chie Nagata, Kazunori Ueno, Nobuaki Ozawa, Shinichi Nagaoka, Kei Tanaka, Haruhiko Sago, Mitsutoshi Iwashita

“…MTX was administered weekly if β-hCG levels stayed beyond the expected values. Outcomes. All cases achieved β-hCG normalization without additional systemic MTX, with one case having a successful pregnancy after treatment. …”
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Correlation Between Flying Insect Diversity and Environmental Factors in Various Land Use Types in Paseh District, Sumedang Regency, West Java by Susanti Withaningsih, Bilhaq Fahmi Ilmi, Parikesit Parikesit

“…The CCA results showed that temperature strongly and positively correlated with insect diversity across all land uses, while wind speed correlated positively with insect diversity in gardens. …”
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Behavior of eco-friendly concrete reinforced with hybrid recycled fibers by Radwa Defalla Abdel Hafez1, Raghda Osama Abd-Al Ftah, Bassam Abdelsalam Abdelsalam, Ibrahim Saad Agwa

“…The recycled fibers don’t reveal any significant effects on the compressive strength and the elastic modulus of concrete. All recycled fiber ratios improved the concrete behavior for tensile and flexural resistance. …”

Developing country demand for crop germplasm conserved by the U.S. National Plant Germplasm System by Kelly Day Rubenstein, Paul W. Heisey

“…In developing countries, nearly all samples were received by scientists (98%). The most frequent purpose for requesting samples was basic research, followed by adding to collections, evaluating for specific traits, and breeding/prebreeding. …”
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Genetic Variation of Lentil Landraces Across Different Altitudes in Azerbaijan by Babayeva Sevda, Shikhaliyeva Kamila, Qurbanova Qamar, Hajiyeva Sabina, Izzatullayeva Vusala, Rustamov Khanbala, Abbasov Mehraj

“…Primers SSR 156 and SSR 323 showed transferability between all studied species/subspecies within the genus Lens. …”
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