Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus in Finland in 2021–2023 – Genetic diversity of the viruses and infection kinetics in human dendritic cells by Eda Altan, Veera Avelin, Kirsi Aaltonen, Essi Korhonen, Larissa Laine, Erika Lindh, Ilkka Julkunen, Niina Tammiranta, Tiina Nokireki, Tuija Gadd, Laura Kakkola, Tarja Sironen, Pamela Österlund

“…This study revealed similar infectivity in human moDCs for all five H5N1 isolates, regardless of the observed genetic differences. …”
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A prospective study on association between comprehensive lifestyle scores and cognitive function changes in community-dwelling older adults in Tianjin city by Muya ZHANG, Xian CAI, Liping ZU, Huichao ZHAO, Tianyu WANG, Chenyu LI, Jing YUAN, Fei MA

“…Generalized estimating equation analysis showed that, compared with a healthy lifestyle, an unhealthy lifestyle was statistically associated with lower scores in full-scale intelligence quotient (β = – 2.839), verbal intelligence quotient (β = – 2.438), performance intelligence quotient (β = – 2.987), comprehension (β = – 1.260), digit symbol (β = – 2.372), block design (β = – 1.592), and object assembly (β = – 1.974) (all P < 0.05). ConclusionsAn unhealthy lifestyle is associated with cognitive decline among older adults in a community in Tianjin city. …”
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Multitask Learning-Based Pipeline-Parallel Computation Offloading Architecture for Deep Face Analysis by Faris S. Alghareb, Balqees Talal Hasan

“…To summarize, the proposed approach can assist in reducing the required execution time and memory capacity by processing all facial tasks simultaneously on a single deep neural network rather than building a CNN model for each task. …”
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Magnetic Reconnection between a Solar Jet and a Filament Channel by Garima Karki, Brigitte Schmieder, Pooja Devi, Ramesh Chandra, Nicolas Labrosse, Reetika Joshi, Bernard Gelly

“…A jet is particularly well studied in all the AIA channels with a flow reaching 100–180 km s ^−1 . …”
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Medication Administration Through Feeding Tubes in a Tertiary Hospital: A Retrospective Observational Study by Zhu Y, Zhu B, Jin P

“…Yuanchao Zhu, Bolin Zhu, Pengfei Jin Department of Pharmacy, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology, Institute of Geriatric Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing Key Laboratory of Assessment of Clinical Drugs Risk and Individual Application(Beijing Hospital), Beijing, 100730, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Pengfei Jin, Email j790101@163.comAim: This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and types of errors associated with oral medication administration via feeding tubes (FTs) in a tertiary hospital in Beijing.Methods: A retrospective observational study was conducted at Beijing Hospital between January 2018 and December 2022. All inpatients aged of 18 and above who received at least one oral medication via FTs were included. …”
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A mechanistic overview on green assisted formulation of nanocomposites and their multifunctional role in biomedical applications by Mahnoor, Khafsa Malik, Abeer Kazmi, Tahira Sultana, Naveed Iqbal Raja, Yamin Bibi, Mazhar Abbas, Irfan Anjum Badruddin, M. Mahmood Ali, Muhammad Nasir Bashir

“…The importance of nanocomposites constantly attains attention because of their unique properties all across the fields especially in medical perspectives. …”
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Strengthening public health education and humanitarian response through academic volunteerism by Faiza Rab, Mekdes Assefa, Salim Sohani, Ilja Ormel, Farwa Arshad, Ahmad Firas Khalid

“…Methods We used a qualitative case study design with an instrumental approach. All documents related to academic volunteers within the CRC database from September 2018 to August 2023 were gathered and reviewed. …”
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Effects of Intercropping and Mowing Frequency on Biological Nitrogen Fixation Capacity, Nutritive Value, and Yield in Alfalfa (<i>Medicago sativa</i> L. cv. Vernal) by Yao Wang, Jinsong Zhang, Chunxia He, Ping Meng, Jie Wang, Jun Gao, Pan Xue

“…Intercropping suppressed alfalfa yield but did not affect the total nitrogen content in the leaves or the nutritive value, and all mowing treatments resulted in land equivalent ratios (LERs) greater than 1. …”
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Classification of female MDD patients with and without suicidal ideation using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging and machine learning by Morteza Fattahi, Milad Esmaeil-Zadeh, Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh, Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh, Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh, Reza Rostami, Jamil Mansouri, Gholam-Ali Hossein-Zadeh, Gholam-Ali Hossein-Zadeh

“…Feature selection was conducted using a sequential backward floating selection approach along with a Random Forest Classifier and Elastic Net. While all four models yield significant results, fALFF demonstrated higher accuracy rates in classifying the three groups. …”
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Changes in Vitamin D Status in Overweight Middle-Aged Adults with or without Impaired Glucose Metabolism in Two Consecutive Nordic Summers by Petra Lundström, Kenneth Caidahl, Maria J. Eriksson, Tomas Fritz, Anna Krook, Juleen R. Zierath, Anette Rickenlund

“…High latitude, obesity, and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are all risk factors for vitamin D deficiency. However, the seasonal variation in vitamin D concentrations (25[OH]D) in such populations before and after sun exposure during the summer is unknown. …”
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Students conceptual understanding of logic material in terms of assessment diagnostic result by Zahra Nugraheni, Sofwan Hadi

“…The common mistakes that students made were in the sixth indicator, i.e. developing necessary or sufficient terms of a concept which only 2 of all students answered correctly.…”
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Effect of Inflammation on Gingival Mesenchymal Stem/Progenitor Cells’ Proliferation and Migration through Microperforated Membranes: An In Vitro Study by M. Al Bahrawy, K. Ghaffar, A. Gamal, K. El-Sayed, V. Iacono

“…Results. GMSCs demonstrated all predefined stem/progenitor cell characteristics. …”
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Efficacy Analysis of Hypofractionated Radiotherapy for Oligometastatic Tumors: A Retrospective Study by Qian Sun MD, Hanqing Zhao MS, Xianwen Zhang MS, Suli Zhang MS, Zelai He MD, Gengming Wang MD, Hao Jiang MS, Aili Xuan MS, Xianming Li MD

“…The patients received standard treatments plus HFRT for all metastatic foci. The dose fractionation regimen was adjusted according to the location and size of the patient’s metastatic foci. …”
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Flow Cytometry of the Side Population: Tips & Tricks by Irene Sales-Pardo, Ariadna Avendaño, Vanessa Martinez-Muñoz, Marta García-Escarp, Raquel Celis, Phil Whittle, Jordi Barquinero, Joan Carles Domingo, Pedro Marin, Jordi Petriz

“…First, because the ability to discriminate SP cells is based on the differential retention of Ho342 during a functional assay; second, because of the difficulties in setting the right experimental and acquisition conditions; and third, because the analysis of the acquired data requires an extensive expertise on flow cytometry to accurately detect the SP events. Methods: First of all and mainly for the SP application, the laser beam paths were exhaustively checked to ensure the lowest coefficients of variation. …”
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Transcriptionally Active Human Papillomavirus in Male Genital Lichen Sclerosus, Penile Intraepithelial Neoplasia, and Penile Squamous Cell Carcinoma by Georgios Kravvas, Boyu Xie, Aiman Haider, Michael Millar, Hussain M Alnajjar, Alex Freeman, Asif Muneer, Christopher B Bunker, Aamir Ahmed

“…High-risk HPV was prevalent in undifferentiated PeIN (77%) and less so in PeSCC (46%) and was exiguous or absent in all other tissues. LR HPV was only observed in 2 tissue cores. …”
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Linking PM Pollution to the Respiratory Health of Children: A Cross-sectional Study from Ahmedabad City in Western India by Khyati M. Kakkad, Chirantap Oza, Priya Dutta, Varsha Chorsiya, Prashant Rajput

“…A cross-section observational study of all patients, under 6, with respiratory illnesses admitted in the Pediatric ward from 1st November 2017‒31st December 2018 at a tertiary care hospital in Ahmedabad has been conducted to decipher the seasonal impact of PM2.5 on respiratory admissions. …”
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Spectrum of bacterial keratitis at a tertiary eye center in Indonesia by Rifna Lutfiamida, Rien Widyasari, Kara Citra Kalandra

“…Gentamicin demonstrated broad sensitivity across all bacterial types (85.7%; 95% CI, 78.2–93.2%), surpassing fluoroquinolones. …”
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Integrated technique of buffalo fertility management in Nepal by Bhuminand Devkota, Shatrughan Shah, Gokarna Gautam

“…Among several factors compromising the treatment response of anestrus buffaloes in terms of pregnancy outcome, poor body condition score, sub-normal levels of some blood metabolic parameters, and gastrointestinal parasitic infection are more common. Putting together all those information, we developed an integrated technique of buffalo fertility management that includes anthelmintic treatment at least one month prior to the initiation of specific timed artificial insemination (TAI) protocol and nutritional management by means of providing vitamin–mineral supplementation in addition to improving the roughage supply and energy-protein content in the ration soon after anthelmintic treatment until two weeks after AI. …”
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Climate change and its impacts on hydrological regimes over the Bengal delta by M.H. Ali, P. Biswas, S.M.Q. Hassan, M.A. Islam

“…Both scenarios predict rising temperatures in all locations throughout the cold (January) and hot (April) months throughout the 21st century, with higher increasing trends under SSP8.5. …”
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Illiberal Peacebuilding dan Ekstraktivisme di Indonesia: Studi Manajemen Konflik Autoritarian terhadap Konflik Sumber Daya Alam tahun 2018-2022 by Jasmine Rafifah Fathia Putri, Adhi Cahya Fahadayna

“…The distribution of natural resource utilization is often exploited by certain parties, where not all elements of society can enjoy the economic benefits from Indonesia's natural wealth. …”
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