Can “LITE” Procedure Combined With a Short Course Antibiotic Treatment Be Effective in Treating the Chronic PJI?—A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial by Yang Chen, Haiqi Ding, Qijin Wang, Zida Huang, Chaofan Zhang, Wenbo Li, Yansheng Lin, Yufeng Guo, Xinyu Fang, Wenming Zhang

“…Results A total of 60 patients with chronic PJI who completed the LITE procedure were included in the study (30 patients per group). All patients were followed for a minimum of 24 months (mean 39.2 ± 13.0 months). …”
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Parallel randomised trial testing community fibrosis assessment for suspected non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: outcomes from LOCATE-NAFLD by Sanjeewa Kularatna, James O'Beirne, Adrian Barnett, Patricia C Valery, Elizabeth Powell, Ingrid J Hickman, Ruth Tulleners, David Brain, Katherine Stuart, Carolyn McIvor, Elen Witness, Melanie Aikebuse

“…Participants in the intervention arm received a FibroScan outside of the hospital setting, with results provided to their primary care provider and the referring hepatologist. All participants were followed up 12 months after randomisation to measure their clinical and patient-reported outcomes.Results 97 participants were recruited from October 2020 to December 2022. …”
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Trends in incidence, mortality, and DALYs of cystic echinococcosis in Central Asia from 1992 to 2021: an age-period-cohort analysis by Wulan Talafuhan, Kaibinuer Tuoheti, Ye Lixia, Qi Shuang, Mieyier Yeerjiang, Guzalinuer Aizezi, Wei Jingjing, Peierdun Mijiti, Peierdun Mijiti

“…Although mortality and DALY rates decreased across all age groups, the decline was less than the global trend. …”
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Racial differences in takotsubo cardiomyopathy outcomes in a large nationwide sample by Raja Zaghlol, Amit K. Dey, Sameer Desale, Ana Barac

“…After the adjustment for differences in age, gender, comorbidities (using the enhanced Charlson comorbidity index), hospital location/teaching status, and socio‐economic factors, all differences were significantly attenuated or eliminated. …”
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Rheological properties and coalescence stability of degassed crude oil emulsion: Influence of supercritical CO2 treatment by Guangyu Sun, Fujun Sheng, Qingyi Li, Chuanxian Li, Fei Yang, Bo Yao, Yansong Zhao

“…As for the pour point, yield stress, and viscosity/apparent viscosity, they are all enlarged greatly after scCO2 treatment, due to the scCO2 extraction effect. …”
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Perinatal emotional skills groups for women and birthing people with borderline personality disorder: outcomes from a feasibility randomised controlled trial by Paul Moran, Debra Bick, Lucy Biddle, Belinda Borries, Rebecca Kandiyali, Farah Mgaieth, Vivan Patel, Janice Rigby, Penny Seume, Vaneeta Sadhnani, Nadine Smith, Michaela Swales, Nicholas Turner

“…Results A total of 100% of the pre-specified sample (n = 48) was recruited over 6 months, and we obtained 4-month outcome data on 92% of randomised participants. In all, 54% of participants allocated to perinatal ESGs attended 75% of the full group treatment (median number of sessions: 9 (interquartile range 6–11). …”
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A Review on the Nomenclature and Taxonomy of the Old World Thread-Legged Bug Genus <i>Pleias</i> (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae) by Zhuo Chen, Hu Li, Wanzhi Cai

“…The bibliographies, diagnosis, and known distribution records are presented for all described species, and three new species [<i>P. fashengi</i><b>sp. n.…”
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Effect of colchicine on physiological and biochemical properties of <i>Rhodococcus qingshengii</i> by Yu. A. Markova, L. A. Belovezhets, V. N. Nurminsky, I. S. Kapustina, N. V. Ozolina, V. V. Gurina, A. L. Rakevich, A. V. Sidorov

“…This contributes to an increase in membrane microviscosity, which is conf irmed by the data on the GP fluorescence of laurdan. All of the above indicates that colchicine induces a rearrangement of the Rhodococcus cell membrane, probably in the direction of increasing its microviscosity. …”
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Dietary supplementation of lysozyme can improve growth rate, laying performance, blood biochemistry, and mRNA levels of some related genes in different plumage-colored quails by Ibrahim Elkhaiat, Seham El-Kassas, Karima El-Naggar, Safaa Abdo, Haitham K. Shalaby, Mahmoud M. Azzam, Alessandro Di Cerbo, Mahmoud Alagawany, Reyad Y. Nofal

“…However, there were no significant differences in the case of brown-feathered quails in all LZ supplementations. Moreover, the different dietary LZ lowered FI in both quails with the lowest intake observed in the brown-feathered quails. …”
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Mutational Landscape of Bone Marrow CD19 and CD138 Cells in Waldenström Macroglobulinemia (WM) and IgM Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance (IgM MGUS) by Alessandra Trojani, Alessandro Beghini, Luca Emanuele Bossi, Marta Rachele Stefanucci, Cassandra Palumbo, Antonino Greco, Annamaria Frustaci, Barbara Di Camillo, Roberto Cairoli

“…Moreover, sequencing evaluation revealed recurrently frameshift or missense mutations involving NFKB2 (L473Afs) in 60% of IgM MGUS and 20% of WM/sWM, PTPN13 (P1546Tfs) in 20% of IgM MGUS and 7% of WM/sWM, CARD11 (S622del) in 20% of IgM MGUS and 20% of WM/sWM, KMT2C (I823T) in all IgM MGUS and 93% of WM/sWM, and ATM in 20% of IgM MGUS and 47% of WM/sWM patients. …”
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Exosomes secreted by ATF3/Nrf2-mediated ferroptotic renal tubular epithelial cells promote M1/M2 ratio imbalance inducing renal interstitial fibrosis following ischemia and reperfu... by Qiao Tang, Jiatao Xie, Yifei Wang, Chong Dong, Chong Dong, Qian Sun

“…Compared with the IR group, the above indexes were all alleviated in the IR+Fer-1 or IR+ATF3KD groups. …”
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Pharmacoeconomics and Utilisation of Antidiabetic Medications among Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients: A Longitudinal Study by Bikash Chandra Das, P Ansuman Abhisek, Deepak Choudhury, Suvendu Kumar Panda, Jayanti Prava Behera, Supriya Pradhan, Trupti Rekha Swain, Sasmita Mallick

“…The Average Cost-Effectiveness Ratio (ACER) for reducing a unit of FBS was higher compared to PPBS across all forms of the drug. The ACER at three months showed a constant increase, from 24.56 for metformin only to 2709.26 for insulin with Oral Hypoglycaemic Agents (OHA) for FBS, and from 7.83 for metformin only to 907.47 for insulin with OHA for PPBS. …”
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Perioperative SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Patients Undergoing Elective Surgery in Gynecology Clinic: Tertiary Center Experience by Gulnihal Reyhan Toptas, Eylem Unlubilgin, Tugba Kinay, Ali Riza Dogan, Mehmet Akif Akgul, Sitare Aslanova, Emel Ebru Ercan, Vakkas Korkmaz, Sezin Erturk Aksakal, Yaprak Ustun

“… OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to determine the incidence of perioperative “severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2)” infection among women, operated during Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) era. STUDY DESIGN: All patients who were operated on between March 11, 2020, and December 31, 2020, in our gynecology clinic were included in this cross-sectional study. …”
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Synergistic effect of mulch and nitrogen management on growth and essential oil yield of Salvia sclarea L. by Diksha Dhiman, Sakshi Vishvamitera, Sidharth Baghla, Sanatsujat Singh, Dinesh Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Ramesh Chauhan

“…Among N management practices, N2 outperformed for all the morpho-physiological and yield parameters studied except stem diameter and produced at par outcomes with N5 in case of flower spike per plant, LAI, chlorophyll a and b, flower spike yield, EO content and yield. …”
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Is the flipped classroom more effective than the traditional classroom in clinical medical education: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Xu-Ying Shi, Qing Yin, Qiu-Wen Wang, Bing-Rui Lu, Guo-Xiang Li, Shu-Hong Huang, Zhi-Gang Sun

“…This meta-analysis aims to rigorously compare the effects of flipped classroom (FC) and traditional classroom (TC) teaching models on students’ learning in clinical medicine.MethodsWe conducted a systematic search for all randomized and quasi-randomized controlled trials (RCTs/Q-RCTs) comparing traditional classrooms and flipped classrooms in the context of clinical medical education. …”
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PlaceField2BVec: A bionic geospatial location encoding method for hierarchical temporal memory model by Zugang Chen, Shaohua Wang, Kai Wu, Guoqing Li, Jing Li, Jian Wang

“…In recent years, some methods (such as Place2Vec, Space2Vec, and Sphere2Vec) were proposed to encode geospatial point as a high-dimensional vector. However, all these geospatial location encoders were designed to generate a real number vector. …”
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Rate of Perceived Exertion Based on Repetitions in Reserve Versus Percentage of One-Repetition Maximum for Resistance Training Prescription in Cardiac Rehabilitation: A Pilot Study by Alessandro Gismondi, Ferdinando Iellamo, Giuseppe Caminiti, Barbara Sposato, Emanuele Gregorace, Valentino D’Antoni, Deborah Di Biasio, Sara Vadalà, Alessio Franchini, Annalisa Mancuso, Valentina Morsella, Maurizio Volterrani

“…Patients in the RPE group showed significant increases in strength across all the exercises of the protocol (leg press 24.25 ± 17.07 kg; chest press 7.25 ± 3.41 kg; seated row 13.88 ± 7.57 kg; leg extension 14.24 ± 4.53 kg; shoulder press 5.75 ± 4.06 kg; lat pulldown 7.50 ± 4.66 kg). …”
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Measuring. Monitoring. Management. Control by S.V. Logunov, E.V. Blagodyrenko, I.S. Gerasimenko, N.A. Kupriyanov

“…The various types of means used for satellite observation (optical and radar) have complementary characteristics, the generalization of which would allow for daily all-weather measurements of the current navigation parameters of maneuvering satellites and to maintain their catalog with accuracy corresponding to the coordinate spread within tens of centimeters. …”

Estimated inpatient malnutrition prevalence, screening tool utilization, and dietitian referral rates across hospitals during extension of phase 2 of More-2-Eat by Yingying Xu, Rachel A. Warren, Shirley M. Peters, Sonya Boudreau, Tina N. Strickland, Mari Somerville, Brenda L. MacDonald, Heather Keller, Leah E. Cahill

“…Results: Nutrition screening at admission occurred for 54.9% of audited patients, with variation among sites (p<0.001). 34.5% of these screened patients were at nutritional risk, of whom 79.8% were referred to a dietitian. 14.4% of all charts audited had a malnutrition diagnosis as per SGA, as did 28.5% of patients screened by the CNST. 94.2% of patients who underwent SGA were diagnosed with malnutrition. …”
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Quantitative accuracy of preclinical in ovo PET/MRI: influence of attenuation and quantification methods by Theresa Balber, Katarína Benčurová, Manuela Mayrhofer, Joachim Friske, Martin Haas, Claudia Kuntner, Thomas H. Helbich, Marcus Hacker, Markus Mitterhauser, Ivo Rausch

“…Results In general, not accounting for the self-attenuation of the egg and the hardware parts caused an underestimation of the PET signal of around 49% within the egg. Accounting for all sources of attenuation allowed a proper quantification with global offsets of 2% from the true activity. …”
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