Prognostic Value of Metastatic Tumoral Caveolin-1 Expression in Patients with Resected Gastric Cancer by Der Sheng Sun, Soon Auck Hong, Hye Sung Won, Su Hyun Yoo, Han Hong Lee, Okran Kim, Yoon Ho Ko

“…Caveolin-1 (Cav-1), as the main component of caveolae, has complex roles in tumourigenesis in human malignancies. …”
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Triglycerides mediate the relationships of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) exposure with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) risk in US participants by Wenying Qiao, Jiashuo Li, Lijia Luo, Wenjuan Peng, Xi Wang, Ronghua Jin, Junnan Li

“…Meanwhile, weighted quantile sum (WQS) regression demonstrated the relationships between PFAS mixtures with NAFLD risk score and liver function, as well as perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) was identified as the main contributor to the increased NAFLD risk. Then, mediation analysis was conducted to explore whether serum lipids mediate the relationships. …”
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Abnormal Admission Chest X-Ray and MEWS as ICU Outcome Predictors in a Sub-Saharan Tertiary Hospital: A Prospective Observational Study by Hannington Ssemmanda, Tonny Stone Luggya, Clare Lubulwa, Zeridah Muyinda, Pascal Kwitonda, Humphrey Wanzira, Joseph Ejoku

“…Chest X-ray results were the main independent variable and MEWS was also gotten for all patients. …”
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Factors associated with Physical Activity Counseling by Health Workers Questionnaire: construction, validation and reliability by João Miguel de Souza Neto, Sanderson Soares da Silva, José Cazuza de Farias Júnior, Filipe Ferreira da Costa

“… The main purpose of this study is to describe the development, validation and reliability of a questionnaire to measure the associated factors of physical activity counseling by health workers. …”
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DIGITAL INFORMATION’S INFLUENCE ON FORMING TOURISM EVENT IMPRESSIONS: THE INTERPLAY OF GENDER AND TOURISM TYPES by Amany E. SALEM, Thowayeb H. HASSAN, Mahmoud I. SALEH, Mostafa A. HASSANIN, Hassan Marzok Elsayed MAHMOUD, Ashraf Mohamed ANAS, Hadeel Sa'ad AL-HYARI, Hisham Mohammad AL-SMADI, Yasmine E. HAMZA

“…Specifically, leisure and adventure tourism show stronger positive main effects on digital information perception compared to cultural tourism. …”
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A MULTICENTER STUDY OF BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA PATIENTS UNDERGOING TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION OF THE PROSTATE IN INDONESIA: A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS by Besut Daryanto, Kurnia Penta Seputra, Paksi Satyagraha, Taufiq Nur Budaya, Fauzan Kurniawan Dhani, Deddy Rasyidan Yulizar, Marta Hendry, Andrie Rhomdhon, Yudi Ambeng, Ryan Akhmad Adhi

“…Additionally, urinary retention has been identified as the main indication for TURP procedures in these patients. …”
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Vegetation Dynamics and Sensitivity Responds to Climate Change in the Upstream of the Yellow River, China by XiangYu Lan, RuoWei Li, Xin Wang, TianCai Zhou, YunHui Li, JieJi Duo, Jian Sun

“…Furthermore, vegetation in the southwestern mountainous areas was more sensitive to climate variability, and the VSI was mainly dominated by temperature and surface solar radiation. …”
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<i>Pseudomonas syringae</i> Pathovar <i>syringae</i> Infection Reveals Different Defense Mechanisms in Two Sweet Cherry Cultivars by Claudia Carreras, Alan Zamorano, Luis Villalobos-González, Paula Pimentel, Lorena Pizarro, María Francisca Beltrán, Weier Cui, Manuel Pinto, Franco Figueroa, Carlos Rubilar-Hernández, Analia Llanes, Assunta Bertaccini, Nicola Fiore

“…<i>syringae</i> is the main causal agent of bacterial canker in sweet cherry in Chile, causing significant economic losses. …”
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Training for Sustainable and Healthy Building for 2050: New Methodologies for an Integrated and Transnational Education Approach Targeting Skills Development for the Transition Tow... by Maria K. Koukou, Susana Lucas, Julia Justino, Silviano Rafael, Antonios D. Livieratos, Nelson Carriço, John Konstantaras, Michail Gr. Vrachopoulos, Anna Chiara Benedetti, Cecilia Mazzoli, Annarita Ferrante, Mohammad Abdollah Fadel Abdollah, Rossano Scoccia, Jacopo Famiglietti, Tomasz Bakoń, Joanna Aleksiejuk-Gawron

“…In responding to those challenges, the main objective of the research is to design, implement, and evaluate a novel, integrated, and transnational educational approach aimed at equipping professionals and students in the construction sector with the necessary skills to achieve sustainable and energy-efficient buildings. …”
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Analysis of Forest Cover in the Tumba-Lediima Nature Reserve (RTL-DRC) by Sylvestre Frey, André Musas A Musas, Nestor Anzola Kibamba, Sebastien Kidushi Mboma, Tege Simboni Simboni, Djonive Munene Asidi

“… This study analyzes the evolution of forest cover in the Tumba-Lediima Nature Reserve between 2010 and 2022, a period marked by increasing anthropogenic pressures.  The main drivers of deforestation identified are agricultural expansion, illegal exploitation of forest resources and urbanization. …”
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A Comparison of Machine Learning Algorithms for Predicting Alzheimer’s Disease Using Neuropsychological Data by Zakaria Mokadem, Mohamed Djerioui, Bilal Attallah, Youcef Brik

“…Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a gradient degeneration of essential cognitive activities such as memory, thinking, and cognition. AD mainly affects elderly individuals and is recognized as the most common cause of dementia. …”
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Assessing the feasibility of a bowel management program for patients with neurogenic bowel function after spinal cord injury by Jiayi Feng, Jiayi Feng, Jiayi Feng, Xingyi Mu, Xingyi Mu, Lei Xu, Lei Xu, Tongxia Xia, Tongxia Xia

“…The program is based on evidence-based nursing, expert meeting and pre-experiment construction, the construction process is standardized and scientific, and the content is comprehensive, mainly includes 4 dimensions of bowel assessment, bowel intervention, assessment indices and discharge follow-up, which were carried out at the time of admission (T1), discharge (T2) and 1 month after discharge (T3) of patients in the experimental group, while the control group used routine orthopedic bowel management, and bowel function indices, quality of life and laboratory tests were used as outcome indices, and differences in the observed indices of patients in the two groups were compared to validate the effect of the program. …”
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Assessment of temporal and spatial eutrophication index in a water dam reservoir by F. Esfandi, A.H. Mahvi, M. Mosaferi, F. Armanfar, M. Hejazi, S. Maleki

“…The worst condition was observed in Qaranqu River as the main input to the reservoir. Due to the significant impact of suspended particles resulting from erosion of the surrounding lands on TSI value, there is an urgent need for mitigation measures to intercept eutrophication.…”
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Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of High-Entropy Alloy FeCoNiCr(X) Produced by Laser Directed Energy Deposition Process: Effect of Compositional Changes by Ekaterina Kovalenko, Igor Krasanov, Ekaterina Valdaytseva, Stanislav Stankevich, Olga Klimova-Korsmik, Marina Gushchina

“…Fine-grained and dendrite structures were observed. Cu-element is mainly found in cracks. The HEA FeCoNiCrCu alloy was compared with another HEA FeCoCrMnNi, successfully obtained by the same L-DED technology. …”
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Effects of exogenous selenium application on quality characteristics, selenium speciation, and in vitro bioaccessibility of rice pancakes by Feiran An, Kun Zhuang, Lingling Shangguan, Lan Yao, Jun Dai

“…In Se-enriched rice pancakes, selenocystine (SeCys2) and methylselenocysteine (MeSeCys) are the main Se species. When sodium selenite was added at 3.3 μg/mL, the maximum values of SeCys2 and MeSeCys were 328.35 ± 33.43 and 311.11 ± 49.48 μg/kg, respectively. …”
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Prestack Inversion Identification of Dolomite Reservoirs in the Fourth Member of the Sinian Dengying Formation in Moxi Area, Sichuan Basin, SW China by Yong Wu, Xuxu Wang, Lu Zhou, Chongyang Han, Lianjin Zhang, Xuemei Lan, Peng Lu

“…AVO forward analysis reveals that whether the gas reservoir of dolomite reservoir is located at the top of the fourth member of Dengying Formation is the main factor affecting the variation of AVO type. …”
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<i>Artemisia herba</i>-<i>alba</i> Essential Oil: Chemical Composition, Phytotoxic Activity and Environmental Safety by Beáta Baranová, Daniela Gruľová, Flavio Polito, Vincent Sedlák, Mária Konečná, Marta Mydlárová Blaščáková, Ismail Amri, Vincenzo De Feo, Janka Poráčová

“…The principal component of the EO was camphor (26.02%), with α- and β-thujone (9.60 and 8.38%, respectively), 1,8-cineole (8.02%), piperitenone (5.29%) and camphene (4.95%) as the main components. The EO demonstrated variable phytotoxic effects with a dose-dependent manner, inhibiting both the germination and the radical elongation of the tested seeds, and was also found to be environmentally safe for the selected organisms. …”
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The therapeutic potential of vitamins A, C, and D in pancreatic cancer by Alban Piotrowsky, Markus Burkard, Hendrik Schmieder, Sascha Venturelli, Olga Renner, Luigi Marongiu

“…While the antitumor effect of vitamin C is probably mainly due to its pro-oxidative effect in supraphysiological concentrations, vitamin A and vitamin D exert their effect by activating nuclear receptors and influencing gene transcription. …”
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Age and Sex Structure of the Population of the Potapovo and Sintashta Cultures in the Late Bronze Age Based on the Materials of Funerary Monuments from the Volga-Ural Region by Artem V. Bogdanash, Еgor P. Kitov

“…According to archaeological data, both of them belong to a single cultural block; nevertheless, issues of their correlation and primacy in the time of origin are still debatable. 336 markers of gender and age definition in the individuals were applied. Calculations of the main demographic indicators were carried out; histograms of the ratio of age and gender groups were constructed for each culture under consideration. …”
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Medical care in the fight against COVID-19. Cienfuegos Pediatric University Hospital 2021-2022 by Lairí García Ríos, Milenys Acosta Fonseca, Juan Carlos Yanes Macías, Jesús Alberto García Sosa, Aymé Marrero Gil, Diana Rosa Sánchez Cabrera

“…Cienfuegos and Cumanayagua were the municipalities with the most cases; there was a predominance of children under five years of age (88.3%), mainly those under one year of age (49.2%). The asymptomatic clinical presentation was preponderant and mild symptoms. 1.1% of the total required intensive care and the lethality was 0.04%. …”
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