Influence of Preheating Procedure and Polymerization Modes on Degree of Conversion of Contemporary Resin Composites by Mutlu Özcan, Başak Yazkan, Nilgün Akgül, Ahmet Erdem, Özge Gizem Yenidünya

“…Regarding the polymerization mode, the ranking depending on the significant differences among all preheated composites tested at both time intervals was HM > SM > XM.Conclusion: Preheating generally exhibited favorable effects on the DC of all tested composites, with the most significant impact observed in VCB. …”
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Analysis of macular retinal thickness in polyarteritis nodosa using spectral domain optical coherence tomography by Che-Ning Yang, Chia-Ping Chen, Yi-Ting Hsieh

“…Paired t-tests or Wilcoxon Signed-Rank tests were used to assess the differences in thickness of different retinal layers between groups, followed by linear regression analysis to evaluate the correlations with disease durations. …”
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Matching Into Integrated Plastic Surgery: The Impact of USMLE Step 1 Transition to Pass/Fail: Did the 2019 Predictions Come True in 2024? by Lyndsay R. Boyd, MD, Lawrence O. Lin, MD, Jeffrey E. Janis, MD, FACS

“…A total of 68.1% of PDs agree that it was more difficult to differentiate applicants without a numerical step 1 score. A total of 51.5% of PDs reported using step 2 clinical knowledge scores to screen applicants. …”
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Drawing as a learning tool for anatomy: design and implementation of a method. by Elena Martínez Carracelas, Miguel Ángel Fernández-Villacañas Marín, Matilde Moreno Cascales, Diego Flores Funes

“…The first drawing of the first session scored with a median of 8/25 ±4.0, being 11/25 ± 5.0 (p=0.00) the first drawing score of the fourth session. …”
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Rebuilding Participatory Institutions in Brazil: The <i>PPA Participativo</i> Between Corporate Demands and Climate and Animal Rights by Priscila Delgado de Carvalho, Priscila Zanandrez, Diego Matheus de Menezes

“…However, animal rights also ranked among the most-voted proposals. The program of the Ministry of the Environment on climate change reached the top position in this segment, largely due to its strong campaigning strategy. …”
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Face Recognition Method for Underground Engineering Based on Dual-Target Domain Adaptation and Discriminative Feature Learning by Yongqiang Yu, Cong Guo, Lidan Fan, Jiyun Zhang, Liwei Yu, Peitao Li

“…<xref ref-type="disp-formula" rid="deqn3-deqn5">(3)</xref> The high Rank-1 accuracies and area under curve (AUC) values of the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves on the three domains indicate that the proposed face recognition method can adapt to the complex working conditions in underground engineering environments.…”
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Thrombogenic Markers in Patients with Hereditary Thrombophilia by Karima Maricel Gondres Legró, Jorge Calá Fernández, Yusmairy Matos Lores, Vivian Robert Tamayo, Lázaro Ibrahim Romero García, Yordanys Páez Candelaria

“…<br /><strong>Results:</strong> protein S deficiency ranked first with 22 (56.4 %). The combination of altered parameters that predominated was protein C and S deficiency with 8 (20.5 %). …”
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High performance of a low input, mixed western Australian farming system: public policy implications from the case of Tolga farm by Bradley Plunkett, Daniel Roberts, Sudarshan Kharel, Kevin Foster, Tim Overheu, Brendon Savage

“…Abstract Tolga is a 5,200 ha sheep and cropping farm located near Kulin in Western Australia (WA). …”
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Research priorities for preterm lung health research across the lifespan: a community priority setting partnership by Anne McKenzie, Shannon J Simpson, Naomi R Hemy, Amber Bates, Belinda Frank

“…Participants identified the following top 10: (1) lifelong impacts; (2) interventions, treatments or supports; (3) ongoing lung health follow-up; (4) diagnostic tools, resources and education for primary healthcare providers; (5) resources to inform and empower families; (6) relationship to physical health and developmental issues; (7) preventing and/or treating lung infections; (8) additional supports, resources and research for minority groups; (9) impact on mental well-being; and (10) likelihood of asthma diagnosis.Conclusion Priorities identified through the PSP will be invaluable in informing future research into prematurity-associated lung disease.…”
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Drawing the future: gender and future occupational aspirations of young children in Sweden by Sarah Wamala-Andersson, Matt X. Richardson, Karin Schölin Bywall, Therese Norgren, Nick Chambers

“…IntroductionResearch on young children’s occupational aspirations and the factors shaping them is still limited, especially in early interventions addressing gender disparities in high-status fields like STEM.MethodsThis is the first study in Sweden utilizing the Drawing the Future method, surveyed 1,832 children (aged 5–13) from 28 schools in Skåne region of southern, asking them to draw their dream jobs. …”
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Impact of adjuvant trastuzumab therapy and its discontinuation on cardiac function and mortality in patients with early-stage breast cancer: An analysis based on the Japanese Recei... by Keiko Miyazato, Hiroshi Ohtsu, Akihiko Shimomura, Naohiro Yonemoto, Chikako Shimizu, Kazuhiro Sase, Shinichiro Ueda

“…TZ was administered for 12 and 5 months in CMP_PSM and INT_PSM, respectively. …”
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COOL-LAMPS. VII. Quantifying Strong-lens Scaling Relations with 177 Cluster-scale Strong Gravitational Lenses in DECaLS by Simon D. Mork, Michael D. Gladders, Gourav Khullar, Keren Sharon, Nathalie Chicoine, Aidan P. Cloonan, Håkon Dahle, Diego Garza, Rowen Glusman, Katya Gozman, Gabriela Horwath, Benjamin C. Levine, Olina Liang, Daniel Mahronic, Viraj Manwadkar, Michael N. Martinez, Alexandra Masegian, Owen S. Matthews Acuña, Kaiya Merz, Yue Pan, Jorge A. Sanchez, Isaac Sierra, Daniel J. Kavin Stein, Ezra Sukay, Marcos Tamargo-Arizmendi, Kiyan Tavangar, Ruoyang Tu, Grace Wagner, Erik A. Zaborowski, Yunchong Zhang, (COOL-LAMPS Collaboration)

“…Additionally, the correlations described here should have utility in ranking strong-lensing candidates in upcoming imaging surveys—such as Rubin/Legacy Survey of Space and Time—in which an algorithmic treatment of strong lenses will be needed due to the sheer volume of data these surveys will produce.…”
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An overview of pink eye infection to evaluate its medications: group decision-making approach with 2-tuple linguistic T-spherical fuzzy WASPAS method by M. Waheed Rasheed, Hind Y. Saleh, Areen A. Salih, Jahangeer Karamat, Muhammad Bilal

“…The computation procedure for this methodology is thoroughly given to rank the alternatives; (5) to confirm the viability of the suggested approach, thorough computational and simulation assessments are conducted. …”
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Establishment of a CRISPR-Based Lentiviral Activation Library for Transcription Factor Screening in Porcine Cells by Yingjuan Liang, Xiaoxia Yao, Jingxin Han, Jinpeng Wang, Xiao Zhang, Donglin Zhao, Chaoqian Jiang, Lishuang Geng, Shihao Lv, Zhonghua Liu, Yanshuang Mu

“…After the lentiviral transduction and deep sequencing of the CRISPR sgRNAs library, the highest ranking candidate genes were identified, including 31 transcription factors activating OCT4 gene expression and 5 transcription factors inhibiting OCT4 gene expression. …”
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Respuesta al tratamiento inmunosupresor de pacientes con hepatitis autoinmune by Harlim Rodríguez Rodríguez, Marcia Samada Suárez, Teresita Pérez González, Lisset Barroso Márquez, Zucel Danay Cruz Hernández, Yunia Tusen Toledo, Ludmila Martínez Leyva

“…Para estimar la función de supervivencia se utilizó la curva de Kaplan-Meier y Log-rank para la comparación de medias. Resultados: El 71,9 % de los enfermos estaban con cirrosis en el momento del diagnóstico. …”
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Factors affecting patient satisfaction during endoscopic procedures by Maryam Ghazala, E-Hinna Rashk, Sardar Saman, Khan Jahangir, Isram Javaria, Hassan Fayyaz

“…The relationship between various factors and patient satisfaction was analysed using Spearman's rank correlation. Results: The majority of patients (50.9 %) underwent endoscopy, with 59.4 % being males and 40.6 % females. …”
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Assessment of Weight Management Practices among Adults in the United Arab Emirates by Amita Attlee, Nour Atmani, Viktor Stromtsov, Fatima Ali, Rim Tikarly, Sarah Ryad, Ghada Salah, Hayder Hasan, Reyad Obaid

“…Out of 21 selected WM practices, popular strategies included increasing physical activity (52.9%), eating less fat (51.1%), consuming fewer calories (43.3%), joining gym (27.5%), skipping meals (26.1%), and consuming natural herbs and teas (20.7%). …”
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6-month survival of patients with acute myeloid leukemia who received modified chemotherapy at Wahidin Sudirohusodo Hospital by Edwinda D. Ratu, Tutik Hardjianti, Dimas Bayu, Syakib Bakri, Nasrum Mahmud, Andi Alfian Zainuddin

“…Survival analysis was performed using the Kaplan-Meier curve, log-rank, and statistic test. Results. The cohort consisted of 25 males (51%) and 24 females (49%) with a mean age of 42 years. …”
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Etiology and Prognosis of Cardiogenic Shock in a Secondary Center without Surgical Back-Up by Laurent Bonello, Marc Laine, Etienne Puymirat, Victoria Ceccaldi, Mélanie Gaubert, Franck Paganelli, Pr Franck Thuny, Thibaut Dabry, Guillaume Schurtz, Clement Delmas, Julien Mancini, Gilles Lemesle

“…At one month, the all-cause mortality rate was 39.5% and was similar between ACS and CHF (43% vs 35%, respectively; p=0.7). …”
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Correlation between carbapenem susceptibility in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and modified antibiotic heterogeneity index: a multicenter observational study using a surveillance platform by Keisuke Sawada, Takaaki Kato, Shuji Kono, Hiromi Kaneko, Hayato Nakano, Shinobu Inada, Tatsuya Isogawa, Tadahiro Shimizu, Namiko Takahashi, Haruki Takano, Hiroaki Chiba, Makoto Sugimoto, Ryo Inose, Yuichi Muraki, Hideki Araoka

“…The optimal mAHI cutoff value for predicting 90% susceptibility was 0.765, with a sensitivity of 67.7% and specificity of 76.5%. Conclusions: The mAHI may be a better predictor of carbapenem susceptibility than other commonly used indicators. …”
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