Elements of Success After Metatarsectomy Healing of Neuropathic Diabetic Foot Ulcers by Hossein Hemmati, Behrang Motamed, Sedighe Masoudi Taramsari, Mohammad Taghi Ashoobi, Mohaya Farzin, Habib Eslami Kenarsari, Rastin Hosseinzaeh Asli, Zahra Abbasi Ranjbar, Milad Sarafi

“… Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is one of the most significant and destructive complications in diabetic patients. It is not only the main cause of patients' foot amputation but is also related to their mortality rate. …”
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The Relationship Between Screen Time, Sleep and Obesity by Dominika Lewandowska, Dominika Rosińska-Lewandoska, Zofia Podraza, Dominika Strep, Julia Grabowska, Jakub Rosiński, Zofia Głowniak, Maciej Kwiatkowski, Izabela Kwiatkowska, Malwina Soja

“…Analysis of the Literature The review investigates three main aspects: the impact of screen time on sleep quality, the bidirectional relationship between sleep disturbances and obesity, and how excessive screen time contributes to energy imbalance and weight gain. …”
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Examining reliability of WHOBARS: a tool to measure the quality of administration of WHO surgical safety checklist using generalisability theory with surgical teams from three New... by Jennifer M Weller, Carmen Skilton, Derryn A Gargiulo, Oleg N Medvedev, Simon J Mitchell, Alan F Merry

“…All elective and acute cases (adults and children) involving surgery under general anaesthesia during normal working hours were eligible.Participants The study included 243 surgical staff members, 138 (50.12%) women.Main outcome measure Absolute generalisability coefficient that accounts for variance due to items, phases, sites and raters for the WHOBARS measure of the quality of WHO Surgical Safety Checklist administration.Results The WHOBARS in its present form has demonstrated good generalisability of scores across teams and raters (G absolute=0.83). …”
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Metal Biomonitoring Through Arboreal Species in Riparian Ecosystems: <i>Pithecellobium dulce</i> as a Bioindicator Species by Sayuri Hernández-Maravilla, María Luisa Castrejón-Godínez, Efraín Tovar-Sánchez, Hugo Albeiro Saldarriaga-Noreña, Alexis Rodríguez, Marcos Eduardo Rosas-Ramírez, Patricia Mussali-Galante

“…However, it is polluted by multiple wastewater discharges from different origins, with toxic metals being the main pollutants. Therefore, environmental monitoring strategies based on bioindicator species are necessary to evaluate the ecosystem health of riparian ecosystems. …”
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White Matter Biomarkers Associated with Motor Change in Individuals with Stroke: A Continuous Theta Burst Stimulation Study by K. P. Wadden, S. Peters, M. R. Borich, J. L. Neva, K. S. Hayward, C. S. Mang, N. J. Snow, K. E. Brown, T. S. Woodward, S. K. Meehan, L. A. Boyd

“…Continuous theta burst stimulation (cTBS) is a form of noninvasive repetitive brain stimulation that, when delivered over the contralesional hemisphere, can influence the excitability of the ipsilesional hemisphere in individuals with stroke. cTBS applied prior to skilled motor practice interventions may augment motor learning; however, there is a high degree of variability in individual response to this intervention. The main objective of the present study was to assess white matter biomarkers of response to cTBS paired with skilled motor practice in individuals with chronic stroke. …”
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Dynamic Splitting Behavior and the Constitutive Relationship of Frozen Sandstone Containing a Single Fissure by Tao Zhao, Gengshe Yang, Lei Wang, Hailiang Jia, Yuzhe Qiao

“…The results show the following: (1) the fissure angle does not significantly affect the dynamic tensile strength of frozen fractured sandstone but mainly affects the failure mode of the sample. (2) The dynamic tensile strength of fractured sandstone has a negative linear correlation with the freezing temperature. (3) When the fissure angle is small, only tensile cracking occurs; when the fissure angle is large, tensile cracking occurs along both the loading direction and the fissure; and shear cracking occurs along the fissure as well. (4) Regardless of the fissure angle, tensile cracking is initiated at the stress-concentration zone and then propagates towards the loading end. …”
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Challenges and Novelties in the Treatment of Obesity in Adults. A review by Karolina Kuczapska, Marek Kurowski, Anna Gliwa, Monika Ryglewicz, Dariusz Fabian, Elżbieta Leszczyńska-Knaga, Natalia Jakubczyk, Weronika Rutkowska-Kawalec, Paweł Moczydłowski, Karolina Michalczuk

“…Additionally, bariatric surgery continues to offer great solution for severe obesity, combining restrictive and malabsorptive mechanisms for significant weight loss and metabolic benefits. The main procedures include gastric bypass with sleeve gastrectomy or duodenal switch. …”
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Analysis of influencing factors of narrative medicine competence in the clinical nursing population in Hunan province, China: a cross-sectional study by Chao Yang, Siqi Zhang, Hao Yin, Wanying Su, Hailing Qiu, Yingyan Pan, Qiong Qi

“…Objective To explore the current status of clinical nurses’ narrative medicine (NM) ability and its related influencing factors, so as to provide a theoretical basis for nursing managers to develop targeted nurse training programmes.Design A cross-sectional study.Setting A total of 1792 clinical nurses from eight medical institutions in Hunan province were selected as participants using convenience sampling.Main outcome measures Online questionnaires were employed to collect general data, NM competence scores, empathy ability scores and personality trait scores from the participants.Participants A total of 1820 questionnaires were collected, with 28 deemed invalid due to contradictory responses. …”
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Shared perceptions of flavored cigarette pack design among young adults who smoke in Mexico and the Philippines by Graziele Grilo⁺, Jennifer L. Brown⁺, Joanna E. Cohen, Katherine Clegg Smith

“…Conclusions Young adults who smoke in Mexico and the Philippines interpreted flavored cigarette pack design similarly and thought that young people are the main audience for these products. This suggests a successful marketing approach creating shared perceptions of flavored cigarette packs in different world regions. …”
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Pencil Beam Planar Ka-Band Antenna Array Using Waveguide Displaced Radiators Sections for Millimeter Wave Applications by Hany S. Hussein, Mohamed Ismeil, M. S. Yasseen, Yuri E. Sedelnikov, Mohamed N. Shaaban

“…Key results of the proposed design include a main lobe directivity of 29.9 dBi, a side lobe level (SSL) of -14.8 dB, width of radiation pattern of 3.6&#x00B0; at 37.5 GHz, and an impedance bandwidth of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$S_{11} \lt -10$ </tex-math></inline-formula> dB from 28 to 34.4 GHz and 34.9 to 37.9 GHz, validating the antenna&#x2019;s effectiveness.…”
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Iodide Adsorption onto Three Organic–Inorganic Composite Adsorbents by Huifang Zhang, Tan Guo, Quan Li, Haining Liu, Xiushen Ye, Zhijian Wu

“…Chemical adsorption is the main mechanism for all the three adsorbents. Ca(ALG) 2 –AgCl was found to be the best adsorbent owing to its highest adsorption capacity, suitable adsorption rate and insensitivity to solution pH, temperature and co-existing NaCl.…”
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Robotic Systems for Hand Rehabilitation—Past, Present and Future by Bogdan Gherman, Ionut Zima, Calin Vaida, Paul Tucan, Adrian Pisla, Iosif Birlescu, Jose Machado, Doina Pisla

“…<b>Results:</b> The analysis revealed three main categories of devices: rigid exoskeletons, soft exoskeletons, and hybrid devices. …”
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Experimental and numerical analysis of Carbon/Glass fiber reinforced thermoplastic wind turbine blade prepared by VARIM by H N Abhilash, K Raghunandana, Subraya Krishna Bhat, Aruna Prabhu, A Amar Murthy

“…As more blades approach the end of their lives and become unreformable once cured, recycling and disposal become more difficult, and environmental concerns increase. The main objective of the present work is to manufacture thermoplastic composites reinforced with fibers using the Vacuum Assisted Resin Infusion Moulding (VARIM) technique and assess their mechanical characteristics. …”
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Transcriptome and weighted gene co-expression network analysis of jujube (Ziziphus jujuba Mill.) fruit reveal putative genes involved in proanthocyanin biosynthesis and regulation by Wenqiang Wang, Yunfeng Pu, Hao Wen, Dengyang Lu, Min Yan, Minzhe Liu, Minyu Wu, Hongjin Bai, Lirong Shen, Cuiyun Wu

“…Transcriptome analysis revealed that the differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were mainly enriched in ribosome, glycolysis/gluconeogenesis, fructose and mannose metabolism. 17 DEGs encoding PAL, CHS, CHI, CHS, F3’H, LAR, ANR, C4Hs, 4CLs, FLSs, DFRs and UFGTs involved in PA biosynthesis were relatively abundant. …”
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A co-registration method to validate in vivo optical coherence tomography in the breast surgical cavity by Rowan W. Sanderson, Renate Zilkens, Peijun Gong, Imogen Boman, Ken Y. Foo, Skandha Shanthakumar, James Stephenson, Wei Ling Ooi, José Cid Fernandez, Synn Lynn Chin, Lee Jackson, Mireille Hardie, Benjamin F. Dessauvagie, Anmol Rijhumal, Saud Hamza, Christobel M. Saunders, Brendan F. Kennedy

“…To address this, we present a method for robust co-registration of in vivo OCT scans with histology performed, not on the main specimen, but on cavity shavings corresponding directly to the tissue scanned in vivo. …”
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An Efflux Pumps Inhibitor Significantly Improved the Antibacterial Activity of Botanicals from Plectranthus glandulosus towards MDR Phenotypes by Gravalain Nanmeni, Alex T. Tedonkeu, Aimé G. Fankam, Armelle T. Mbaveng, Brice E. N. Wamba, Paul Nayim, Gabin T. M. Bitchagno, Raïssa T. Nzogong, Maurice D. Awouafack, Mathieu Tene, Veronique P. Beng, Victor Kuete

“…The overall results obtained in this study show that some fractions from P. glandulosus, mainly fractions C and D, should be investigated more for their possible use to fight against MDR bacteria.…”
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Evaluation of Antibiotic Resistance and Biofilm Production among Clinical Strain Isolated from Medical Devices by Veronica Folliero, Gianluigi Franci, Federica Dell’Annunziata, Rosa Giugliano, Francesco Foglia, Rossella Sperlongano, Anna De Filippis, Emiliana Finamore, Massimiliano Galdiero

“…Patients with DRIs often have negative outcomes following the failure of antibiotic treatment. Resistant DRIs are mainly due to the MDs contamination by bacteria producing biofilm. …”
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Spatial-Temporal Patterns of Litterfall Mercury Concentration and Flux in Typical Vegetation in China by Shuyu Han, Xiang Niu, Bing Wang, Zhangwei Wang, Xiaoshan Zhang, Qiang Wang, Jiajie Du, Pingping Liu, Donghuan Liu, Fengshi Pan, Tingyu Xu

“…Furthermore, leaf mercury fluxes of the 5 vegetation types ranged from 177.58 to 410.50 mg/(hm2·year), and the accumulation of mercury mainly occurred in autumn. The comprehensive quantification of mercury fluxes in this paper provides data support for the long-term monitoring of litterfall and fundamental information to potentially solve the problem of mercury pollution in China.…”
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VEGFR-2 Expression in Glioblastoma Multiforme Depends on Inflammatory Tumor Microenvironment by Jana Jaal, Marju Kase, Ave Minajeva, Mikk Saretok, Aidi Adamson, Jelizaveta Junninen, Tõnis Metsaots, Tõnu Jõgi, Madis Joonsalu, Markus Vardja, Toomas Asser

“…The expression of VEGFR-2, one of the main targets of antiangiogenic therapy, depends on GBM microenvironment. …”
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Case report: Clonal evolution analysis of a rare case of meningioma lung metastases identifies actionable alterations in matched longitudinal tumour samples by Nicola Cosgrove, Orla M. Fitzpatrick, Orla M. Fitzpatrick, Liam Grogan, Liam Grogan, Bryan T. Hennessy, Bryan T. Hennessy, Simon J. Furney, Sinead Toomey

“…Whole genome characterization and clonal evolution analysis confirmed neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2) gene loss as the main driver of this cancer. In the same cancer clone as NF2, we identified a BRCA2 (p.E51K) mutation was present in all tumors, which may represent a potential driver event, though evidence supporting this is currently limited. …”
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