Differences in Trocar Positioning within the Vertebral Body Using Two Different Positioning Methods: Effect on Trainee Performance by Atsushi Komemushi, Kenji Takizawa, Norimitsu Tanaka, Misako Yoshimatsu, Kunihiro Yagihashi, Yukihisa Ogawa, Atsuko Fujikawa, Iwao Uejima, Yuya Koike, Taiji Tamura, Makoto Takahashi, Jun Koizumi, Koichiro Yamakado, Seishi Nakatsuka, Tetsuya Yoshioka, Shozo Hirota, Kenji Nakamura, Yasuo Nakajima, Sachio Kuribayashi, Shuji Kariya, Noboru Tanigawa, Satoshi Sawada

“…The seminar consisted of vertebroplasty trainings using swine with the single-plane landmark method and with the ISOcenter Puncture (ISOP) method. All trainees were advised by an instructor as they operated the instruments and punctured the vertebra. …”
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Thermal radiation effects of ternary hybrid nanofluid flow in the activation energy: Numerical computational approach by Hakeem Ullah, Syed Arshad Abas, Mehreen Fiza, Aasim Ullah Jan, Ali Akgul, Magda Abd El-Rahman, Seham M. Al-Mekhlafi

“…Sherwood's number exhibits both growing and decreasing behaviors for Schmidt and Reynolds’ numbers. All the involved factors enhances the temperature profile. …”
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Impact of digital device utilization on public health surveillance to enhance city resilience during the public health emergency response: A case study of SARS-CoV-2 response in T... by Watcharaporn Chutarong, Roongaroon Thammalikhit, Rungwasun Kraiklang, Anurak Sawangwong, Orachorn Saechang, Yuqian Guo, Weiwen Zhang

“…The causal relationship model of the digital device utilization on public health surveillance enhancing the resilience of the cities met all the necessary criteria: X 2 / df  = 2.802, comparative fit index = 0.953, goodness of fit index = 0.901, normed fit index = 0.935, Tucker–Lewis index = 0.935, root mean square of approximation = 0.048, and root of mean square residual = 0.043. …”
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Isotropy of an Upper Limb Exoskeleton and the Kinematics and Dynamics of the Human Arm by Joel C. Perry, Janet M. Powell, Jacob Rosen

“…The results indicate that the kinematic joint distributions representing all 24 actions appear normally distributed except for elbow flexion–extension with the emergence of three modal centres. …”
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Insights into the contribution of multiple factors on Ixodes ricinus abundance across Europe spanning 20 years using different machine learning algorithms by Samantha Lansdell, Abin Zorto, Misaki Seto, Edessa Negera, Saeed Sharif, Sally Cutler

“…To assess which ML model was most suited to prediction of I. ricinus abundance, four performance metric values were calculated per model: Normalised Root Mean Square Error (NRMSE), Scatter Index (SI), Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) and R2, all of which describe the statistical relationship between predicted and actual I. ricinus abundance values. …”
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Transcervical resection of myoma (TCRM): Part I by Peng-Hui Wang, Szu-Ting Yang, Wen-Hsun Chang, Hung-Hsien Liu, Wen-Ling Lee

“…Sometimes, uterine fibroids are symptomatic and associated with compression syndrome, infertility, chronic pelvic pain and heavy menstrual bleeding. All need further intervention and treatment. Medication is often preferred and frequently applied but symptom-control rate is varied, resulting the need of further active treatment. …”
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Inhibition of NLRP3 enhances pro-apoptotic effects of FLT3 inhibition in AML by Helene Sieberer, Michela Luciano, Diana Amend, Constantin Blöchl, Anna Eglseer, Alina Steinkellner, Sebastian Rieser, Ancuela Andosch, Philip Steiner, Laura Hummer, Peter W. Krenn, Hieu-Hoa Dang, Christian G. Huber, Fritz Aberger, Theresa Neuper, Jutta Horejs-Hoeck

“…Abstract FLT3 mutations occur in approximately 25% of all acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients. While several FLT3 inhibitors have received FDA approval, their use is currently limited to combination therapies with chemotherapy, as resistance occurs, and efficacy decreases when the inhibitors are used alone. …”
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Patient‐derived acellular ascites fluid affects drug responses in ovarian cancer cell lines through the activation of key signalling pathways by Katharina Bischof, Andrea Cremaschi, Lena Eroukhmanoff, Johannes Landskron, Lise‐Lotte Flage‐Larsen, Alexandra Gade, Line Bjørge, Alfonso Urbanucci, Kjetil Taskén

“…Notably, we could nominate effective treatment combinations in almost all conditions except in 4 out of 30 conditions, in which trametinib or fludarabine showed higher efficacy alone. …”
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Prevalence and genomic insights of carbapenem resistant and ESBL producing Multidrug resistant Escherichia coli in urinary tract infections by Vidhyalakshmi Sivarajan, Amirtha Varshini Ganesh, Pavithra Subramani, Priyanka Ganesapandi, R. N. Sivanandan, Sneha Prakash, Nithyasri Manikandan, Arunasalam Dharmarajan, Frank Arfuso, Sudha Warrier, Marquess Raj, Kumar Perumal

“…The NDM-5 gene was common in all three isolates, with CTX-M-15 being present in CREC 3 and CREC 4. …”
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Effects of vitamin D supplementation in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Mahsa Ranjbar, Mehran Rahimlou, Maryam Fallah, Kurosh Djafarian, Hamed Mohammadi

“…Grades of Recommendation, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) assessment shows moderate certainty of the evidence for all outcomes except for serum vitamin D, which has a high certainty of the evidence. …”
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Pacific sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, association with ocean currents and seasonal effects of upwelling using real-time Argos locations by Chelsea E. Clyde-Brockway, Chelsea E. Clyde-Brockway, Samir Harshad Patel, Gabriela Blanco, Samuel J. Friederichk, Stephen Morreale, Frank V. Paladino, Frank V. Paladino

“…Additionally, strengthened protection measures are critical to ensure the conservation of sailfish in Costa Rica, including elimination of all commercial sale.…”
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Abortion Rate Following Chorionic Villous Sampling and Amniocentesis in Twin Pregnancies by Fatemeh Golshahi, Fatemeh Rahimi-Sharbaf, Mahbobeh Shirazi, Sara Saeedi, Athar Abdolrazagh Nejad, Sahar Garfami, Nafise Saedi, Jafar Golshahi, Zeynab Amiriarya, Narjes Tavakolikia, Behrokh Sahebdel

“…Materials and methods: This retrospective observational study was conducted on 187 pregnant women who underwent amniocentesis or CVS in the perinatology department of Yas Hospital affiliated with Tehran University of Medical Sciences from January 2011 to March 2020. All participants were evaluated with amniocentesis or CVS by an expert perinatologist. …”
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Electromagnetic compatibility of active cardiovascular implants to occupational magnetic field environments: impact of the field direction by Hammen, Lucien, Pichon, Lionel, Le Bihan, Yann, Bensetti, Mohamed , Fleury, Gérard

“…It is based on an experimental approach using a specific test bench able to generate a controlled magnetic field in all space directions up to the high occupational exposure limits between 50 Hz and 3 kHz. …”
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Morphological and endoscopic diagnostic criteria of serrated adenomas of the colon by A. M. Nechipay, M. V. Zobnina, L. M. Cherkasova, I. B. Perfilyev, V. A. Krivopuskov

“…Definition of main morphological and endoscopic diagnostic criteria of all types of serrated adenomas will provide successful diagnostics along with differentiation with other epithelial colonic lesions that is required for proper choice of management approach.…”
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Subacute toxicity of isoliquiritigenin-zein phosphatidylcholine nanoparticles on biochemical, hematological, and histopathological parameters in Sprague-Dawley rats by Ke Yang, Kumar Ganesan, Fei Gao, Chunguang Xie, Jianping Chen

“…In the subacute toxicity study, no toxic reactions were observed in both species at all doses tested. Moreover, no significant changes in the biochemical, hematological and histopathological parameters were observed in both species. …”
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Hippocampal Atrophy in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients without Major Neuropsychiatric Manifestations by Shuang Liu, Yuqi Cheng, Yueyin Zhao, Aiyun Lai, Zhaoping Lv, Zhongqi Xie, Bibhuti Upreti, Xiangyu Wang, Xiufeng Xu, Chunrong Luo, Hongjun Yu, Baoci Shan, Lin Xu, Jian Xu

“…Eighty-five non-NPSLE patients with normal conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and seventy-seven matched healthy control (HC) subjects were recruited. All participants underwent the standard high-resolution volumetric MRI. …”
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Burnout and its relationship with depressive symptoms in primary school teachers under the “Double Reduction” policy in China by Yunhui Zhong, Shuixiu Lai, Yibo Li, Kan Yang, Hong Tang, Xiang-yang Zhang, Xiang-yang Zhang, Xiang-yang Zhang

“…The correlation coefficients between burnout subscale scores and depressive symptoms were 0.588 for emotional exhaustion, 0.585 for cynicism, and − 0.180 for professional efficacy (all p < 0.001).ConclusionOur findings indicate that the prevalence of burnout among primary school teachers in China is exceptionally high, particularly under the “Double Reduction” policy. …”
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Epidemiological and genomic analysis of Acinetobacter baumannii strains from retailed raw meat by Leila Hamze, Raquel Garcia-Fierro, Antoine Drapeau, Pauline François, Andrea Endimiani, Jean-Yves Madec, Marisa Haenni, Vincent Perreten, Agnese Lupo

“…To avoid this risk, accurate hands and kitchen utensils hygiene should be recommended to all those in contact with raw meat.…”
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Patella height ratios diagnose the same healthy knees differently by Martinique Vella-Baldacchino, Alessandra Cipolla, Zahid Asghar, Sally LiArno, Ahmad Faizan, Jean-Noel Argenson, Matthieu Ollivier

“…The inter-rater reliability of both ratios was calculated using kappa statistics. Two authors made all calculations and compared them for consistency using the intraclass correlation coefficient. …”
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Exploring the entrepreneurial behavior of vegetable growers: influential factors and implications for agricultural development by Niyati Thakur, Ravinder Sharma, Pankaj Thakur, Shilpa, Ashutosh Chaturvedi, Richa Khushwaha, Saswat Kumar Pani, Vijay Kumar Yadav, Akash Gaurav Singh, Ajit Sharma, Prashant Sharma

“…Notably, income consistently demonstrated a positive correlation with all aspects of entrepreneurial behavior, while experience and extension contact also exhibited significant positive relationships. …”
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