The BONEBRIDGE active transcutaneous bone conduction implant: effects of location, lifts and screws on sound transmission by Seyed Alireza Rohani, Mandolin Li Bartling, Hanif M. Ladak, Sumit K. Agrawal

“…Vibration velocity of the cochlear wall was measured in all samples. Measurements were analyzed using a single-factor ANOVA to investigate the effect of each modification. …”
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The Impact of Electrophysiological Diversity on Pattern Completion in Lithium Nonresponsive Bipolar Disorder: A Computational Modeling Approach by Abraham Nunes, Selena Singh, Anouar Khayachi, Shani Stern, Thomas Trappenberg, Martin Alda

“…The effect was invariant to all other parameter settings in the model. Excitability variance, specifically hyperexcitability, increased the number of spuriously active neurons, increasing false alarm rates and producing pattern completion deficits. …”
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Knowledge and attitudes about human papillomavirus infection and prevention methods among medical science students in Novi Sad, Serbia: a cross-sectional study by Nikola Denda, Nemanja Maletin, Aleksandar Rašković, Dušan Prodanović, Zoran Golušin, Biljana Vučković, Marko Nemet, Milica Paut Kusturica

“…Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted among undergraduate students at the Faculty of Medicine in Novi Sad (MFNS). The study covered all study programs and was conducted in the period from 1 to 30 November 2023, using a specially created survey questionnaire for the purposes of this research. …”
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THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF PLASTIC SURGERY CASES IN A TERTIARY GENERAL HOSPITAL IN SURABAYA, INDONESIA by Dwika Intania Riano, Lavonia Berlina Adzalika, Indri Lakhsmi Putri, Rachmaniar Pramanasari

“…The majority of patients with burn injuries (31.3%), those with microtia (39.5%), those with cleft lip and palate (33%), and those with microtia (between the ages of 15 and 24) were all between the ages of 45 and 64. Patients who were men (52.6%) outnumbered those who were women (47.4%). …”
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The Expression Level of mRNA, Protein, and DNA Methylation Status of FOSL2 of Uyghur in XinJiang in Type 2 Diabetes by Jun Li, Siyuan Li, Ying Hu, Guolei Cao, Siyao Wang, Partab Rai, Xiaoli Wang, Kan Sun

“…FOSL2 protein and mRNA were downregulated and the DNA became hypermethylated, all of which may be involved in T2DM pathogenesis in this population.…”
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A Reproducible Analysis of Sequential Recommender Systems by Filippo Betello, Antonio Purificato, Federico Siciliano, Giovanni Trappolini, Andrea Bacciu, Nicola Tonellotto, Fabrizio Silvestri

“…On the contrary, when the number of model parameters becomes substantial, SASRec starts to clearly dominate all the other SRSs. This discrepancy underscores the significant impact that experimental configuration has on the outcomes and the importance of setting it up to ensure precise and comprehensive results. …”
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Legal foundations of the organization and activities of the Ukrainian SSR police in 1949–1950s by О. V. Brusakova, V. A. Hrechenko

“…The activities of the police were controlled and regulated by decisions and resolutions of the Communist Party of Ukraine. First of all, it concerned the selection of personnel and education of police personnel. …”
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Selective Solid-Phase Extraction of Pb(II) Ions Using an Ion-Imprinted Functionalized Sodium Trititanate Whisker Adsorbent Prepared by a Surface-Imprinting Technique by Wanzhen Xu, Wenming Yang, Wei Zhou

“…The relative selectivity factor (k′) values were all greater than 2.5. The developed method was successfully applied to the determination of the amounts of trace Pb(II) ions in traditional Chinese medicine samples with satisfactory results.…”
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Utilising affordable smartphones and open-source time-lapse photography for pollinator image collection and annotation by Valentin Ștefan, Aspen Workman, Jared C. Cobain, Demetra Rakosy, Tiffany M. Knight

“…Our results indicate that 89.81% of all Hymenoptera instances were identified to family level, 84.56% of pollinator family instances to genus level, and only 25.35% to species level. …”
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Implant Stability Changes for Nonsubmerged and Submerged Protocols for a Single Implant Mandibular Overdenture Using Ball Attachment by Ahmed Salah, Karim Foda, Mohamed Farouk Abdalla, Marwa Abdel Aal, Amr Naguib, Nouran Abdel Nabi

“…After a 3-month healing period, all patients were randomized using sealed envelopes into ball attachment and CM-LOC attachment. …”
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Development and Validation of Rabies Health Education Module (RaHEM) for Dog Owners in Kelantan, Malaysia: An ADDIE Model by Mohammad Fazrul Mohammad Basir, Suhaily Mohd Hairon, Mohd Ismail Ibrahim, Wan Mohd Zahiruddin Wan Mohamad, Nik Mohd Hafiz Mohd Fuzi, Ainin Syakirah Rosli, Mohammad Sabri Abdul Rahman, Anas Rosedi

“…Content validity indices for all topics exceeded the acceptable threshold of 0.83, with an overall module CVI of 0.91 for relevance and 0.88 for clarity. …”
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Adaptive High-Performance Optimization Tool for Real-Time Operation of Renewable-Based Virtual Power Plants by Oluwaseun Oladimeji, Alvaro Ortega, Lukas Sigrist, Bogdan Marinescu, Vinu Thomas

“…However, real-time operation, particularly for ancillary services like Frequency Containment Reserve and automatic Frequency Restoration Reserve, remains challenging since the offered delivery of such ancillary services needs to be guaranteed at all times. In this paper, the proposed Adaptive High-performance Optimal Real-time operation Algorithm (AHORA) addresses these challenges by executing re-dispatches every four seconds, mitigating internal and external disturbances while ensuring compliance with System Operator requirements. …”
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Positive Correlation Between Serum Limonene Levels and Muscle Health in a Representative Adult Population in the United States by Chang-Chin Wu, Yu-Wei Fang, Chikang Wang, Chien-Yu Lin

“…<b>Results:</b> Our analysis revealed that, except for test 2 of hand 1, all grip strength measures showed a positive correlation with ln-limonene levels. …”
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Human Neutrophil Antigen Genotype and Allele Frequencies in Iranian Blood Donors by Behnaz Esmaeili, Behnaz Bayat, Atefe Alirezaee, Mona Delkhah, Mohammad Reza Mehdizadeh, Zahra Pourpak

“…The present study provides the first report of the HNA allele and genotype frequencies among the Iranian population. All HNAs (HNA-1 to HNA-5) were typed using the PCR-SSP and flow cytometer. …”
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A minimally invasive technique for correcting extra-articular malunions of metacarpal fractures by Zitao Han, Xu Zhang, Yadong Yu, Xiaoliang Yang, Wei Du, Guisheng Zhang

“…Results Bone healing was achieved in all patients after a mean of 5.4 weeks (range, 4–10 weeks). …”
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Investigating the effectiveness of theory-based interventions for improving treatment adherence of patients with type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A systematic review of Randomised Control... by Despoina Menti, Caroline Limbert, Georgios Lyrakos

“…Discussion and Conclusion: Most theory-based interventions were effective in improving adherence of T2DM patients, especially SCT, which successfully improved all three aspects of treatment (i.e., medication taking, diet and physical exercise). …”

Spatial distribution and migration law of respirable dust in fully mechanized mining face by Xiangjun CHEN, Xiangyang YE, Yibo LI, Peiqi ZUO

“…In addition, the maximum mass concentration of dust generated in the direction of the working face can reach 1 600 mg/m3; in the inclined direction of the working face, the farther away from the coal wall, the lower the dust mass concentration generated by the drum cutting coal, and the dust mass concentration decreases to 0 mg/m3 at a distance of 4-5 m from the coal wall; in the section from 80 m to 280 m, all the dust generated by moving the frame is concentrated on the side of the hydraulic support; in the range of 40 m to 240 m, the mass concentration of exhaled dust carried by ventilation is evenly distributed in the height direction of the working face.…”
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STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF SMART TOURISM DESTINATIONS: A CROSS-GENERATIONAL STUDY by Elena BOTEZAT, Olimpia BAN, Adela Laura POPA, Dorin Cristian COITA, Teodora Mihaela TARCZA, Lidia CHIRICOI

“…The results showed, after a MAXQDA Analytics Pro analysis, that for all four generations considered, the number of respondents who identified strengths is higher than those who mentioned weaknesses. …”
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Evaluation of Analgesic Effects of Different Doses of Vitamin D3 in Two Animal Models of Pain in Swiss Albino Mice by Shakeeb Siraj Dhorajiwala, Rajan P. Nerurkar, Kanchan R. Singh

“…Results: In hot-plate method, 60 and 260 μg/kg of Vitamin D3 raised mean LP when compared to baseline and negative control and all groups recorded higher percentage MPE values when compared to negative control. …”
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Profiling protease cleavage patterns in plasma for pancreatic cancer detection by Morgan R. Stewart, Arnaud Quentel, Elise Manalo, Jose Montoya Mira, Srivathsan Ranganathan, Bruce P. Branchaud, Jared M. Fischer, Eugene Tu, Fehmi Civitci, Yu-Jui Chiu, Adem Yildirim

“…In this proof of concept study, we first screened all 360 substrates using a small cohort (n = 13) to identify the top 5 substrates that best separate different conditions. …”
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