Methicillin-Resistant Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci Carriage is a Protective Factor of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Nasal Colonization in HIV-Infected Patients: A... by Ying Li, Jialing Lin, Linghua Li, Weiping Cai, Jiaping Ye, Suiping He, Wencui Zhang, Ning Liu, Zijun Gong, Xiaohua Ye, Zhenjiang Yao

“…This cross-sectional study was conducted in Guangzhou, China. Participants completed a questionnaire and provided a nasal swab for further analysis. …”
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Implications of irrigation water quality in tropical farms by B. Guerra Tamara, A. Torregroza-Espinosa, D. Pinto Osorio, M. Moreno Pallares, A. Corrales Paternina, A. Echeverría González

“…The maximum and minimum pH values were 9.32 and 4.40, respectively; the maximum and minimum values of electrical conductivity were 669 and 19.80 µS/cm respectively; the maximum and minimum values of total dissolved solids were 478 and 11.80 mg/L respectively, and the maximum and minimum values of the sodium adsorption ratio were 1.72 and 0.01 mEq/L, respectively. …”
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Microbial Predominance and Antimicrobial Resistance in a Tertiary Hospital in Northwest China: A Six-Year Retrospective Study of Outpatients and Patients Visiting the Emergency Dep... by Caifeng Wang, Wen Li, Juanjuan Gao, Dancheng Zhang, Yali Li, Fang Li, Jine Lei

“…A retrospective study was conducted using the HIS database of a tertiary hospital between 2013 and 2018. …”
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Vimentin as a contributing factor in SARS-CoV-2-induced orchitis on postmortem testicular autopsy of COVID-19 cases: A case-control study by Soheila Akaberi-Nasrabadi, Azam Sabbaghi, Behzad M. Toosi, Parsa Ghorbanifaraz, Gholam-Reza Mahmoudiasl, Abbas Aliaghaei, Hajarsadat Faghihi Hosseinabadi, Shahrokh Paktinat, Mohammad-Amin Abdollahifar

“…Gene expression and immunohistochemical assays were conducted to evaluate the level of vimentin expression, cell proliferation, and leukocyte infiltration.  …”
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Innovations in Medical Education in Gastrointestinal Surgery Using Interactive Anatomical Tables by A. D. Kashtanov, E. O. Stetsyk, S. S. Dydykin, O. V. Kytko, E. M. Trunin, O. Yu. Aleshkina, A. N. Lavrentieva, A. N. Andreeva, D. S. Alekseeva, A. A. Muratova, A. Yu. Kharina, V. V. Tatarkin, A. S. Sokolova, V. N. Filatov, I. L. Samodova, E. A. Makeeva, E. S. Pekeldina, M. Yu. Kapitonova, T. S. Bikbaeva, I. A. Polkovova, B. A. Volel, T. M. Litvinova, E. N. Dudnik, N. V. Kireeva, K. V. Ivashkin, Yu. L. Vasil’ev

“…To control the effectiveness of the educational process, before the start of training, entrance testing was conducted in all groups. At the end of classes on individual topics, participants completed exit testing, as well as a questionnaire.Results. …”
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Identification of quality markers and mechanisms of Anzi Tiaochong Fang in the treatment of antiphospholipid syndrome-related recurrent pregnancy loss: chemical analysis, network p... by Shan He, Fei Ma, Jia Li, Da-yan Liu, Zhi-wei Wang, Peng-dian Chen, Jia-man Wu, Hong Chang, Yan Ning

“…GO and Reactome analyses were conducted using KOBAS-i. In vitro verification was performed using CCK-8, FDA staining, and ELISA. …”
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The evolutionary journey to a new normal for learning and capacity building of healthcare workers to prepare and respond to health emergencies across Africa by Boukaré Bonkoungou, Fausta Mosha, Amarachi Abianuru, Joseph Okeibunor, Heini Utunen, Giselle Balaciano, Ana C. Barbosa de Lima, Lauren Burke, Shannon McKenna, Sukriti Nag, Abdou Salam Gueye, Bruce Struminger

“…This paper aims to present the lessons learned.ResultsFrom April 2020 to February 2024, 287 virtual learning sessions were conducted with over 125,816 attendances from 173 countries and regions. …”
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Influence of network latency and bandwidth on robot-assisted laparoscopic telesurgery: A pre-clinical experiment by Ye Wang, Qing Ai, Taoping Shi, Yu Gao, Bin Jiang, Wuyi Zhao, Chengjun Jiang, Guojun Liu, Lifeng Zhang, Huaikang Li, Fan Gao, Xin Ma, Hongzhao Li, Xu Zhang, Yuanyuan Ji

“…All 108 animal telesurgeries, conducted from January 2023 to June 2023, were performed effectively over a total duration of 3866 min. …”
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AI-based carbon peak prediction and energy transition optimization for thermal power industry in energy-intensive regions of China by Chenhao Huang, Zhongyang Lin, Jian Wu, Penghan Li, Chaofeng Zhang, Yanzhao Liu, Weirong Chen, Xin Xu, Jinsong Deng

“…Secondly, multi-scenario predictions of carbon emissions from the thermal power industry were conducted based on robust Random Forest models. Lastly, the tailored energy transition strategies were suggested according to the spatial distributions of carbon peak time nodes under each scenario. …”
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Healthy lifestyle before and during pregnancy to prevent childhood obesity: study protocol for a parallel group randomised trial — the PRE-STORK trial by Tina Vilsbøll, Signe S Torekov, Julie Lyng Forman, Romain Barrès, Andreas Andersen, Filip K Knop, Signe Foghsgaard, Klaus Bønnelykke, Thomas Bergholt, Karoline Kragelund Nielsen, Christina Anne Vinter, Majken Lillholm Pico, Louise Groth Grunnet, Nina Kornerup, Julie Hagstrøm Danielsen, Ronni Eg Sahl, Mette Yun Johansen, Louise Kelstrup, Nida Ghauri, Emilie Grønlund, Lærke Lund

“…Children conceived during the trial will constitute a birth cohort, monitoring the effects on their health until the age of 18 years.Ethics and dissemination The trial has been approved by the Regional Committee on Health Research Ethics in the Capital Region of Denmark (identification number H-22011403) and will be conducted in agreement with the Declaration of Helsinki. …”
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Identification of flavor generated from irradiation of chicken breast via SPME-GC-MS and GC-IMS by Ying Xu, Yueyan Zhang, Shiqing Song, Lingyun Yao, Min Sun, Huatian Wang, Chuang Yu, Qian Liu, Jun Lu, Tao Feng

“…Sensory evaluation was conducted on irradiated chicken breasts, and partial least squares regression (PLSR) analysis was performed in combination with the volatile compound concentration to identify the characteristic compounds that contributed significantly to the fruity, musty, greasy, chicken flavor and paint flavor. …”
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Effort-reward imbalance and health outcomes in emergency nurses: the mediating role of work–family conflict and intrinsic effort by Le Tong, Le Tong, Ling Zhu, Ling Zhu, Hao Zhang, Hao Zhang, Luying Zhong, Luying Zhong, Dongmei Diao, Dongmei Diao, Xiaoli Chen, Xiaoli Chen, Jianna Zhang, Jianna Zhang

“…This study aimed to explore these interactions and their impact on nurse health.MethodsA prospective cross-sectional survey was conducted from 30 tertiary hospitals across 19 provinces in mainland China. …”
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Practice patterns among early-career primary care (ECPC) physicians and workforce planning implications: protocol for a mixed methods study by Richard J Gibson, Tara Sampalli, Tara Kiran, Richard H Glazier, Agnes Grudniewicz, Kimberlyn McGrail, David Snadden, Ian Scott, M Ruth Lavergne, Laurie J Goldsmith, David Rudoler, Emily Gard Marshall, Megan Ahuja, Doug Blackie, Fred Burge, Steve Hawrylyshyn, Lindsay Hedden, Jacalynne Hernandez-Lee, Kathleen Horrey, Mike Joyce, Adrian MacKenzie, Maria Mathews, Rita McCracken, Madeleine McKay, Charmaine McPherson, Goldis Mitra, Gail Tomblin Murphy, Sabrina T Wong

“…The goal of this study is to inform primary care planning by: (1) identifying values and preferences shaping the practice intentions and choices of family medicine residents and early career PCPs, (2) comparing practice patterns of early-career and established PCPs to determine if changes over time reflect cohort effects (attributes unique to the most recent cohort of PCPs) or period effects (changes over time across all PCPs) and (3) integrating findings to understand the dynamics among practice intentions, practice choices and practice patterns and to identify policy implications.Methods and analysis We plan a mixed-methods study in the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Ontario and Nova Scotia. We will conduct semi-structured in-depth interviews with family medicine residents and early-career PCPs and analyse survey data collected by the College of Family Physicians of Canada. …”
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In Vitro Antibacterial Activity of Crude Extracts of Artocarpus heterophyllus Seeds against Selected Diarrhoea-Causing Superbug Bacteria by Asio Eve, Adamu Almustapha Aliero, Doreen Nalubiri, Rasheed Omotayo Adeyemo, Saheed Adekunle Akinola, Theophilus Pius, Saphurah Nabaasa, Susan Nabukeera, Bashir Alkali, Ibrahim Ntulume

“…Plant phytochemical screening was conducted using standard methods. The antibacterial activity was carried out using the agar well diffusion method and compared to the standard antibiotics ceftriaxone and vancomycin. …”
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Predicting the environmental suitability for onchocerciasis in Africa as an aid to elimination planning. by Elizabeth A Cromwell, Joshua C P Osborne, Thomas R Unnasch, Maria-Gloria Basáñez, Katherine M Gass, Kira A Barbre, Elex Hill, Kimberly B Johnson, Katie M Donkers, Shreya Shirude, Chris A Schmidt, Victor Adekanmbi, Olatunji O Adetokunboh, Mohsen Afarideh, Ehsan Ahmadpour, Muktar Beshir Ahmed, Temesgen Yihunie Akalu, Ziyad Al-Aly, Fahad Mashhour Alanezi, Turki M Alanzi, Vahid Alipour, Catalina Liliana Andrei, Fereshteh Ansari, Mustafa Geleto Ansha, Davood Anvari, Seth Christopher Yaw Appiah, Jalal Arabloo, Benjamin F Arnold, Marcel Ausloos, Martin Amogre Ayanore, Atif Amin Baig, Maciej Banach, Aleksandra Barac, Till Winfried Bärnighausen, Mohsen Bayati, Krittika Bhattacharyya, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Sadia Bibi, Ali Bijani, Somayeh Bohlouli, Mahdi Bohluli, Oliver J Brady, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Zahid A Butt, Felix Carvalho, Souranshu Chatterjee, Vijay Kumar Chattu, Soosanna Kumary Chattu, Natalie Maria Cormier, Saad M A Dahlawi, Giovanni Damiani, Farah Daoud, Aso Mohammad Darwesh, Ahmad Daryani, Kebede Deribe, Samath Dhamminda Dharmaratne, Daniel Diaz, Hoa Thi Do, Maysaa El Sayed Zaki, Maha El Tantawi, Demelash Abewa Elemineh, Anwar Faraj, Majid Fasihi Harandi, Yousef Fatahi, Valery L Feigin, Eduarda Fernandes, Nataliya A Foigt, Masoud Foroutan, Richard Charles Franklin, Mohammed Ibrahim Mohialdeen Gubari, Davide Guido, Yuming Guo, Arvin Haj-Mirzaian, Kanaan Hamagharib Abdullah, Samer Hamidi, Claudiu Herteliu, Hagos Degefa de Hidru, Tarig B Higazi, Naznin Hossain, Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, Mowafa Househ, Olayinka Stephen Ilesanmi, Milena D Ilic, Irena M Ilic, Usman Iqbal, Seyed Sina Naghibi Irvani, Ravi Prakash Jha, Farahnaz Joukar, Jacek Jerzy Jozwiak, Zubair Kabir, Leila R Kalankesh, Rohollah Kalhor, Behzad Karami Matin, Salah Eddin Karimi, Amir Kasaeian, Taras Kavetskyy, Gbenga A Kayode, Ali Kazemi Karyani, Abraham Getachew Kelbore, Maryam Keramati, Rovshan Khalilov, Ejaz Ahmad Khan, Md Nuruzzaman Nuruzzaman Khan, Khaled Khatab, Mona M Khater, Neda Kianipour, Kelemu Tilahun Kibret, Yun Jin Kim, Soewarta Kosen, Kris J Krohn, Dian Kusuma, Carlo La Vecchia, Van Charles Lansingh, Paul H Lee, Kate E LeGrand, Shanshan Li, Joshua Longbottom, Hassan Magdy Abd El Razek, Muhammed Magdy Abd El Razek, Afshin Maleki, Abdullah A Mamun, Ali Manafi, Navid Manafi, Mohammad Ali Mansournia, Francisco Rogerlândio Martins-Melo, Mohsen Mazidi, Colm McAlinden, Birhanu Geta Meharie, Walter Mendoza, Endalkachew Worku Mengesha, Desalegn Tadese Mengistu, Seid Tiku Mereta, Tomislav Mestrovic, Ted R Miller, Mohammad Miri, Masoud Moghadaszadeh, Abdollah Mohammadian-Hafshejani, Reza Mohammadpourhodki, Shafiu Mohammed, Salahuddin Mohammed, Masoud Moradi, Rahmatollah Moradzadeh, Paula Moraga, Jonathan F Mosser, Mehdi Naderi, Ahamarshan Jayaraman Nagarajan, Gurudatta Naik, Ionut Negoi, Cuong Tat Nguyen, Huong Lan Thi Nguyen, Trang Huyen Nguyen, Rajan Nikbakhsh, Bogdan Oancea, Tinuke O Olagunju, Andrew T Olagunju, Ahmed Omar Bali, Obinna E Onwujekwe, Adrian Pana, Hadi Pourjafar, Fakher Rahim, Mohammad Hifz Ur Rahman, Priya Rathi, Salman Rawaf, David Laith Rawaf, Reza Rawassizadeh, Serge Resnikoff, Melese Abate Reta, Aziz Rezapour, Enrico Rubagotti, Salvatore Rubino, Ehsan Sadeghi, Abedin Saghafipour, S Mohammad Sajadi, Abdallah M Samy, Rodrigo Sarmiento-Suárez, Monika Sawhney, Megan F Schipp, Amira A Shaheen, Masood Ali Shaikh, Morteza Shamsizadeh, Kiomars Sharafi, Aziz Sheikh, B Suresh Kumar Shetty, B Suresh Kumar Shetty, Jae Il Shin, K M Shivakumar, Biagio Simonetti, Jasvinder A Singh, Eirini Skiadaresi, Amin Soheili, Shahin Soltani, Emma Elizabeth Spurlock, Mu'awiyyah Babale Sufiyan, Takahiro Tabuchi, Leili Tapak, Robert L Thompson, Alan J Thomson, Eugenio Traini, Bach Xuan Tran, Irfan Ullah, Saif Ullah, Chigozie Jesse Uneke, Bhaskaran Unnikrishnan, Olalekan A Uthman, Natalie V S Vinkeles Melchers, Francesco S Violante, Haileab Fekadu Wolde, Tewodros Eshete Wonde, Tomohide Yamada, Sanni Yaya, Vahid Yazdi-Feyzabadi, Paul Yip, Naohiro Yonemoto, Hebat-Allah Salah A Yousof, Chuanhua Yu, Yong Yu, Hasan Yusefzadeh, Leila Zaki, Sojib Bin Zaman, Maryam Zamanian, Zhi-Jiang Zhang, Yunquan Zhang, Arash Ziapour, Simon I Hay, David M Pigott

“…To achieve continental elimination of transmission, mapping surveys will need to be conducted across all implementation units (IUs) for which endemicity status is currently unknown. …”
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Occurrence of efavirenz, levonorgestrel, ibuprofen, and diclofenac in wastewaters of limpopo province, South Africa by E.P. Munzhelele, W.B. Ayinde, W.M. Gitari, G.K. Pindihama, R. Mudzielwana

“…The physicochemical parameters such as pH, electrical conductivity, total dissolved solids, and dissolved oxygen of the influent and effluent were determined in the field, while total organic carbon (TOC) and chemical oxygen demand (COD) were determined in the laboratory. …”
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Exploring the link between exposure to volatile organic chemicals and incidence of infertility:A cross-sectional study by Wen Zhang, Jiarong He, Fang Zhao, Jing Pan, Jiefu Wen, Lijun Jiang, Mingming Zhang

“…Nevertheless, a definitive consensus regarding the association between VOCs and the incidence of infertility remains elusive. Method: Conducted as a cross-sectional study, this research utilized data from three survey cycles of the NHANES program spanning from 2013 to 2018. …”
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Developing a codesigned text message-based digital oral health education resource (TOOTH) by Shalinie King, Lauren Adriel Church, Edel O’Hagan, Dion Candelaria, Aboli Pawar, Ashley Cooper, Rebecca Chen, Alice Gibson

“…Methods A total of three focus groups (one clinician and two consumers) were conducted to identify themes that were used to draft text message content. …”
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Effect of intraoperative noise isolation on postoperative nausea and vomiting in patients undergoing gynecological laparoscopic surgery: protocol for a randomized controlled trial by Chong Fu, Fan Xia, Zihan Yan, Han-bing Xu, Wei-ming Zhao, Yi-shan Lei, Chang Xu, Wen-wen Huo, Duo-duo Tao, Juan Wang, Xi-sheng Shan, Ke Peng, Hong Liu, Fu-hai Ji, Hua-yue Liu

“…Secondary outcomes include PONV severity at 24 and 48 h, antiemetic use, pain scores, need for rescue analgesia, Quality of Recovery-15 (QoR-15) scores, Richards-Campbell Sleep Questionnaire (RCSQ) scores, hemodynamic interventions, extubation time, length of stay in PACU and hospital, adverse events (hypertension, hypotension, bradycardia, tachycardia, desaturation after extubation, postoperative shivering, emergence agitation, allergic reactions, severe arrhythmias arrhythmia, cardiac arrest, hypothermia), patient satisfaction, and postoperative complications based on the Postoperative Morbidity Survey (POMS). Analyses will be conducted using modified intention-to-treat (mITT) and per-protocol (PP) populations. …”
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Engineering geological evaluation of Bowa Dayole dam site, North Shewa Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia by Ashu Fekadu, Yadeta C. Chemeda, Shankar Karuppannan, Endalu Tadele Chala

“…The packer test revealed that the hydraulic conductivity with representative Lu values of less than 1 which indicated that excessive leakage at the dam site would not be expected. …”
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