Reducing the urge to be physically active in patients with anorexia nervosa through virtual reality: protocol for a randomised-controlled feasibility trial by Nina Timmesfeld, Georgios Paslakis, Georg Halbeisen

“…We define a set of three-tiered, formal progression criteria and employ a ‘traffic light system’ demarcating go (green), amend (amber) and stop (red) signals for advancing to the full-scale RCT.Ethics and dissemination The study was approved by the ethics committee of the Ruhr University Bochum’s Medical Faculty at Campus East-Westphalia (AZ 2024-1296, 9 December 2024). …”
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Extracorporeal Cardiac Shock Wave Therapy Ameliorates Clinical Symptoms and Improves Regional Myocardial Blood Flow in a Patient with Severe Coronary Artery Disease and Refractory... by Christian Prinz, Oliver Lindner, Thomas Bitter, Detlef Hering, Wolfgang Burchert, Dieter Horstkotte, Lothar Faber

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The Role of the Immune System in Huntington’s Disease by Gisa Ellrichmann, Christiane Reick, Carsten Saft, Ralf A. Linker

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Mental health in the Ruhr – Links between a neighborhood's characteristics and depression by Tom Meyer, Andreas Farwick

“…This paper addresses this gap by analyzing data from the Heinz Nixdorf Multigenerational Study (N = 2,897, age range = 18–90 years) of residents in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Essen, and Bochum (Germany) from 2013 to 2016. Using cluster-robust logistic regression, we investigated how neighborhood factors influence the likelihood of depression, accounting for individual-level characteristics.The findings indicate that high urbanization, perceived lack of nighttime safety, and especially neighborhood socio-economic disadvantage significantly increase the risk of depression, especially when considering length of residence. …”
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(State) empathy: how context matters by Katrin Heyers, Katrin Heyers, Robin Schrödter, Lena Sophie Pfeifer, Sebastian Ocklenburg, Sebastian Ocklenburg, Sebastian Ocklenburg, Onur Güntürkün, Ursula Stockhorst

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Proteoglycan Biosynthesis during Chondrogenic Differentiation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells by Christian Götting, Christian Prante, Joachim Kuhn, Knut Kleesiek

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Marked Regression of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy after Outflow Desobliteration in HOCM by Zisis Dimitriadis, Frank van Buuren, Nikola Bogunovic, Dieter Horstkotte, Lothar Faber

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Neurological post-COVID syndrome is associated with substantial impairment of verbal short-term and working memory by Jeyanthan Charles James, Hannah Schulze, Nadine Siems, Christian Prehn, Daniel R. Quast, Nadine Trampe, Ralf Gold, Simon Faissner

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Cell-free DNA release following psychosocial and physical stress in women and men by A. S. Limberg, F. Berg, E. Köper, C. Lindgraf, C. Gevers, R. Kumsta, E. M. Hummel, D. A. Moser

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Experimental Identification of the Void Fraction in a Large Hydrodynamic Offset Halves Bearing by Alexander Engels, Sören Wettmarshausen, Michael Stottrop, Thomas Hagemann, Christoph Weißbacher, Hubert Schwarze, Beate Bender

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Determining the feasibility of linked claims and vaccination data for a COVID-19 vaccine pharmacoepidemiological study in Germany—RiCO feasibility study protocol by Peter Ihle, Brigitte Keller-Stanislawski, Ingo Meyer, Nina Timmesfeld, Robin Denz, Katherina Meiszl, Katrin Scholz, Doris Oberle, Ursula Drechsel-Bäuerle, Hans H Diebner

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Predicting turbidity dynamics in small reservoirs in central Kenya using remote sensing and machine learning by Stefanie Steinbach, Anna Bartels, Andreas Rienow, Bartholomew Thiong’o Kuria, Sander Jaap Zwart, Andrew Nelson

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Evaluation of circulating tumor DNA as a prognostic and predictive biomarker in BRAF V600E mutated colorectal cancer—results from the FIRE‐4.5 study by Susanne Klein‐Scory, Alexander Baraniskin, Wolff Schmiegel, Thomas Mika, Roland Schroers, Swantje Held, Kathrin Heinrich, David Tougeron, Dominik P. Modest, Ingo Schwaner, Jan Eucker, Rudolf Pihusch, Martina Stauch, Florian Kaiser, Christoph Kahl, Meinolf Karthaus, Christian Müller, Christof Burkart, Sebastian Stintzing, Volker Heinemann

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Predictive value of CT-based and AI-reconstructed 3D-TAPSE in patients undergoing transcatheter tricuspid valve repair by Johannes Kirchner, Muhammed Gerçek, Hazem Omran, Kai Peter Friedrichs, Felix Rudolph, Tobias Rossnagel, Misagh Piran, Arseniy Goncharov, Maria Ivannikova, Volker Rudolph, Tanja Katharina Rudolph

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Measurement of Circulating 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D: Comparison of an Automated Method with a Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry Method by Armin Zittermann, Jana B. Ernst, Tobias Becker, Jens Dreier, Cornelius Knabbe, Jan F. Gummert, Joachim Kuhn

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Application of the Transmission Electron Microscope to the Examination of Spider Exuviae and Silk by Rainer F. Foelix

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First Autologous Cord Blood Therapy for Pediatric Ischemic Stroke and Cerebral Palsy Caused by Cephalic Molding during Birth: Individual Treatment with Mononuclear Cells by A. Jensen, E. Hamelmann

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Prevalence of delirium in German nursing homes: protocol for a cross-sectional study by Bernhard Holle, Romy Lauer, Horst Christian Vollmar, Petra Thürmann, Rebecca Palm, Jonas Dörner, Alexandre Houdelet-Oertel, Zafer Arslan, Ina Otte

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Mesostructural Design and Manufacturing of Open-Pore Metal Foams by Investment Casting by Alexander Martin Matz, Bettina Stefanie Mocker, Daniel Wyn Müller, Norbert Jost, Gunther Eggeler

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Long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination in a population-based pediatric cohort by Jakob Höppner, Christoph Maier, Anne Schlegtendal, Anna Hoffmann, Astrid Petersmann, Thomas Lücke, Nicole Toepfner, Folke Brinkmann

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