Bupivacaine–fentanyl isobaric spinal anesthesia reduces the risk of ICU admission in elderly patients undergoing lower limb orthopedic surgery by Wenxun Liu, Shuzhen Bao, Jiaxin Chen, Yan Li, Yinghua Gu, Qingshan Ye, Kerong Hai

“…Methods This study comprised a retrospective review of all lower limb orthopedic surgeries performed at our hospital between January 2013 and December 2019. …”
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Functional Properties of Human-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cell Spheroids: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review by Sarah Ezquerra, Amparo Zuleta, Rodrigo Arancibia, José Estay, Francisco Aulestia, Flavio Carrion

“…The databases PubMed and SciELO were used to find eligible articles, using free-words and MeSH terms related to the subject, finding 28 published articles meeting all inclusion and exclusion criteria. Of the articles selected 15 corresponded to studies using MSC derived from bone marrow, 10 from adipose tissue and 3 from umbilical cord blood or tissue. …”
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Evaluation of Pentraxin-3 and Interleukin-6 Levels in Serum and Gingival Crevicular Fluid in Patients with Generalized Periodontitis and Periodontal Health Controls before and afte... by Siamak Yaghobee, Sadegh Hasannia, Fatemeh Hamidzadeh, Saman Valadan Tahbaz, Rojin Shahmohammadi, Farzaneh Poursafar

“…Materials and Methods: In this study, 22 patients with periodontitis (12 males and 10 females) and 22 periodontal health controls (11 males and 11 females) were selected. All patients underwent full-mouth SRP. Serum and GCF samples were collected before and one month after SRP. …”
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Fully Automated Bone Age Assessment on Large-Scale Hand X-Ray Dataset by Xiaoying Pan, Yizhe Zhao, Hao Chen, De Wei, Chen Zhao, Zhi Wei

“…In the beginning, only 300 data are manually annotated and then the improved U-Net within the AL framework can robustly segment all the 12611 images in RSNA dataset. The AL segmentation model achieved a Dice score at 0.95 in the annotated testing set. …”
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An overview of healthcare-associated Candida auris outbreaks in Ministry of Health hospitals-Saudi Arabia 2020-2022; Retrospective multicentric study. by Khalid H Alanazi, Hala M Roushdy, Waad I ALzubaidi, Arwa S Alanazi, Nawal M Alanazi, Ahlam H Alamri, Yahya I Alnshbah, Nawaf M Al Almatrafi, Zainah M Al Shahrani, Adel S Alanazi, Nasser H Alshanbari

“…The data collected from the General Directorate of Infection Prevention and Control (GDIPC) platform comprises all patients' data for C. auris instances, whether infected or colonized.…”
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Proteomics and transcriptomics combined reveal specific immunological markers in autoimmune thyroid disease by Xia Chen, Hui Chen

“…Additionally, the serum levels of ISG15 in the hyperthyroid group were greater than those in both the control and hypothyroid groups (P<0.05), while the serum levels of ZNF683 in the hypothyroid group exceeded those in the control and hyperthyroid groups (P<0.05). Furthermore, all three biomarkers correlated with the thyroid function of the patients. …”
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Modern trends and conceptual approaches to understanding the essence of the concept of “national security” by Yu. O. Zahumenna

“…The development trends of the national, first of all, legal debate surrounding the concept of “national security of Ukraine” have been demonstrated. …”
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Protective Effect of CXCR3+CD4+CD25+Foxp3+ Regulatory T Cells in Renal Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury by Cao Jun, Li Qingshu, Wei Ke, Li Ping, Dong Jun, Luo Jie, Min Su

“…Blood urea nitrogen (BUN), serum creatinine (Scr) levels, and tubular necrosis scores, all measures of kidney injury, were greater in the IRI group than in the Sham group. …”
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Patterns of prescription opioid use in Swiss emergency department patients and its association with outcome: a retrospective analysis by Aristomenis K Exadaktylos, Gregor Lindner, Georg-Christian Funk, Bertram K Woitok, Petra Büttiker, Svenja Ravioli

“…Objectives We aimed to clarify the prevalence, indications, analgesic comedications and complications of prescription opioid use in patients presenting to a large emergency department (ED).Design Retrospective chart review.Setting Large, interdisciplinary ED of a public hospital.Participants All patients aged ≥18 years presenting between 1 January 2017, and 31 December 2018, with documentation on medication were included.Interventions None.Primary and secondary outcome measures Prevalence rates for prescription opioid use and its indication. …”
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CONTRAST ENHANCED SPECTRAL MAMMOGRAPHY (CESM) (REVIEW) by N. I. Rozhkova, I. I. Burdina, S. B. Zapirova, M. L. Mazo, S. P. Prokopenko, O. E. Yakobs

“…The x-ray mammography is the conducting method among of all radiological methods of diagnostics. Nevertheless a number of restrictions of method reduces its efficiency. …”
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Iodide Adsorption onto Three Organic–Inorganic Composite Adsorbents by Huifang Zhang, Tan Guo, Quan Li, Haining Liu, Xiushen Ye, Zhijian Wu

“…Chemical adsorption is the main mechanism for all the three adsorbents. Ca(ALG) 2 –AgCl was found to be the best adsorbent owing to its highest adsorption capacity, suitable adsorption rate and insensitivity to solution pH, temperature and co-existing NaCl.…”
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Impact of multiple maize technology package adoption on the production efficiency and food security of smallholder farmers in Ethiopia: Evidence from the Sidama region by Ashenafi Guye, Tewodros Tefera, Million Sileshi, Abdi-Khalil Edriss

“…The highest technical, allocative, and economic efficiency and food consumption scores, which are 33 %, 37 %, 47 %, and 17, respectively, were achieved when farm households adopted all technology packages simultaneously, followed by the adopters of two packages in combination. …”
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Formulation of Cefdinir Ternary Solid Dispersion and Stability Study under Harsh Conditions by Naamaa A. Naama, Ghaidaa S. Hameed, Dalya Basil Hanna, Zainab H. Mahdi

“…This research concludes that CEF solubility, antibacterial activity enhancement, and stability insurance could be obtained by preparing CEF ternary SD. All the ternary SD prepared capsule formulas showed enhancements in release compared to commercial capsules. …”
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Biological and residual activity of candidate larvicide formulation, SumiLarv 2MR, against an exotic invasive mosquito Anopheles stephensi Liston, 1901 (Diptera: Culicidae) in Ethi... by Delenasaw Yewhalaw, Ebisa Erena, Teshome Degefa, Yehenew G. Kifle, Endalew Zemene, Eba Alemayehu Simma

“…Observations of adult emergence were conducted until all pupae either emerged or died. Results showed that SumiLarv 2MR demonstrated a nine-month residual efficacy, SumiLarv 0.5G provided seven weeks of efficacy, and Abate 1SG showed a five-week efficacy. …”
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Evaluation of Minds in Motion, a fitness program for people living with dementia and their caregivers by Pria Nippak, Jocelyn Badali, Julien Meyer, Housne Begum, Nalini Sen, Mya Rana-Nippak

“…Results: Participants experienced significant improvements in chair stands (+12.9%), bicep curls (+17.2%), and 8 feet up & go (+10.5%) but not in the chair sit and reach exercise. Almost all of the participants (99%) enjoyed the program and staff and volunteers (99%) self-reported improvement in their skills in working with people with dementia, with a strong reduction in the proportion of staff and volunteers disclosing “very limited skill” in dealing with PWD, from 15 to 18% to 9–12% of respondents. …”
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Digestive Fermentation, Antioxidant Status, and Haemato-Biochemical Indices of Growing Rabbits Fed on Diets Supplemented with Ziziphus spina-christi Leaf by Suha Hashim Abduljawad

“…Chemical compositions were comparable in all of the contents of the tested diet. Quantities of gas released from the control diet were higher, and then the gases released decreased significantly (P<0.05) with the addition of ZL. …”
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Enhancing trauma triage in low-resource settings using machine learning: a performance comparison with the Kampala Trauma Score by Mike Nsubuga, Timothy Mwanje Kintu, Helen Please, Kelsey Stewart, Sergio M. Navarro

“…Additionally, a multinomial logistic regression model using the KTS was developed as a benchmark for the ML models. Results All four ML models outperformed the KTS model, with the RF and GB both achieving AUC-ROC values of 0.91, compared to 0.62 (95% CI: 0.61–0.63) for the KTS (p < 0.01). …”
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Benchmarking LLM chatbots’ oncological knowledge with the Turkish Society of Medical Oncology’s annual board examination questions by Efe Cem Erdat, Engin Eren Kavak

“…Results Claude 3.5 Sonnet outperformed the other models, passing all eight exams with an average score of 77.6%. …”
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Desenvolvimento rural do semiárido brasileiro: transformações recentes, desafios e perspectivas by Antonio Marcio Buainain, Junior Ruiz Garcia

“…The results of this intervention are still uncertain, especially in rural areas, where massive poverty does hinder, and maybe block at all, the inclusion of large share of the population into the new wave of development and opportunities created by these investments. …”
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Unveiling the Robust Struct-Electromagnetic Characteristics of CdAB2 Chalcopyrite (A = Cr, Mn, Fe; B = P, As): A Comprehensive Ab-Initio Study by D. Vijayalakshmi, Tholkappiyan Ramachandran, G. Jaiganesh, G. Kalpana, Fathalla Hamed

“…Our results reveal that all the CdAB2 compounds exhibit compelling spin-splitting of energy states near the Fermi level (EF). …”
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