Clinical course and potential associated factors of progressive calcinosis cutis in early systemic sclerosis: a cohort study by Vassana Kanjanajarurat, Prathana Chowchuen, Chingching Foocharoen, Punthip Thammaroj

“…Odds ratio (OR) and their 95%CI were used to evaluate associated factors and calcinosis cutis progression.Results A total of 35 cases (155 per 100 person-year), showed progressive calcinosis cutis with the incidence of 22.6 per 100-person-years (95%CI 16.2–31.4). …”
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Towards neuromorphic compression based neural sensing for next-generation wireless implantable brain machine interface by Vivek Mohan, Wee Peng Tay, Arindam Basu

“…We demonstrate that a data CR of 15–265 per channel can be achieved by transmitting address-event pulses for two different biological datasets. …”
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The evolution replacing para rubber sawdust by using bagasse and rice straw with giant mimosa for substrate cultivation P. sajor-caju by Karupakorn Laeid-on, Arunrussame Sangsila

“…When evaluating mushroom proliferation, the 8th procedure to solve the bagasse: straw: giant mimosa (25:30:40%) gave the greatest average number of mushrooms per bag equal to 8.25. The technique that produced the lowest mushroom per bag of 100% of giant mimosa was 5.50, with diameter pileus ranging from 5.93 to 6.77 cm, and flower stripe length ranging from 3.12 to 3.75 cm. …”
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Uncoded chronic kidney disease prevalence in secondary care: a retrospective audit with population health implications by Samantha Dolan, Ajitesh Anand, Philip A. Kalra, Stuart Stewart

“…Results Uncoded CKD prevalence using discharge estimated GFR (eGFR) was 58.7% (n = 283), equating to 1.1 cases uncoded CKD per bed/month and 13.7 cases uncoded CKD per bed/year. …”
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Incidence and determinants of mortality among patients with colorectal cancer in oncology centers of Amhara region, Ethiopia, 2024: multicenter retrospective follow up study by Getachew Tesfaw Walle, Tegene Atamenta Kitaw, Seteamlak Adane

“…The overall incidence rate or incidence density of a colorectal cancer mortality rate was 2.9 per 100 person-months (95% CI: 2.5–3.4). Survival rates of colorectal cancer patients 1and 5 year was 69.78% and 16.1%, respectively. …”
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Evaluation of energy, carbon dioxide, and air emission implications of medium- and heavy-duty truck electrification in the United States using EPA’s regional TIMES energy systems m... by Andrew Zalesak, Noah Kittner, Daniel H Loughlin, Pervin Ozge Kaplan

“…Combining a tax of $100 per ton of CO _2 , increasing at 5% per year, with electrification targets would yield a net 52% reduction in energy system CO _2 emissions in 2050. …”
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Healthcare Resource Utilization and Costs Associated with Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease by Christopher M. Blanchette, Şerban R. Iorga, Aylin Altan, Jerry G. Seare, Ying Fan, Sandro Rossetti, Benjamin Gutierrez

“…Plan and patient paid healthcare costs and resource utilization per patient per month (PPPM) were described in total and by insurance type. …”
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Smoking as a causative factor in chronic kidney disease: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study by Yue Yang, Zheng Zhang, Hai-tao Lu, Qian-qian Xu, Li Zhuo, Wen-ge Li

“…This study applied bivariate causal analysis and two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) methods to examine the association between various smoking behaviors – initiation, cessation, age at initiation, cigarettes smoked per day, and lifetime smoking – and CKD, using genome-wide data. …”
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Influence of millet varieties on fertilizer application rates and plant spacing in Sudan savanna by Abdulrahman Ibrahim, Mannir Isah Kerau

“…During the two trial years, a noteworthy yield value was also observed for the grain yield (77.32 and 73.43g), total yield per hectare (1978 and 1725.43 kg/ha), harvest index (41.80 and 43.31), and biological yield (187.64 and 189.69) from 50cm plant spacing. …”
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The Effectiveness of Exercise Interventions for the Management of Frailty: A Systematic Review by Olga Theou, Liza Stathokostas, Kaitlyn P. Roland, Jennifer M. Jakobi, Christopher Patterson, Anthony A. Vandervoort, Gareth R. Jones

“…However, multicomponent training interventions, of long duration (≥5 months), performed three times per week, for 30–45 minutes per session, generally had superior outcomes than other exercise programs. …”
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Clinical Manifestations Associated with Overweight/Obesity in Puerto Ricans with Fibromyalgia Syndrome by Ruth M. Fred-Jiménez, Mariangelí Arroyo-Ávila, Ángel M. Mayor, Grissel Ríos, Luis M. Vilá

“…A cross-sectional study was performed in 144 patients with FMS (per American College of Rheumatology (ACR) classification criteria). …”
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Physiological Characteristics of Type 1 Diabetes Patients during High Mountain Trekking by Bartłomiej Matejko, Andrzej Gawrecki, Marta Wróbel, Jerzy Hohendorff, Teresa Benbenek-Klupa, Dorota Zozulińska-Ziółkiewicz, Maciej T. Malecki, Tomasz Klupa

“…There were more hyperglycemic episodes (≥180 mg/dL) per patient on day 3 vs. day 1 (p<0.05) and more severe hyperglycemic episodes (>250 mg/dL) per patient on days 2 (p<0.05) and 3 (p<0.05) vs. day 1. …”
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Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder: epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis by J. Čemerkaitė, I. Kaukėnaitė, R. Liutkevičienė

“…The incidence of NMOSD ranges from 0.039 to 0.73 per 100,000 adult population, and the highest incidence estimates are associated with African and Asian ethnicities. …”
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EVALUATION OF REFILLABLE DRINKING WATER QUALITY BASED ON MPN COLIFORM AND ESCHERICHIA COLI INSESETAN VILLAGE, SOUTH DENPASAR, BALI by Pande Nyoman Tri Saguna Wyasena, Ni Luh Gede Sudaryati, I Putu Sudiartawan, I Made Dwi Mertha Adnyana

“…The Ministry of Health standard 492/Menkes/PER/IV/2010 is used to assess drinking water quality. …”
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Case Report of HIV and Neurosyphilis Coinfection in a Recent Migrant: Old Diseases in New Faces by Alexa Van Besien, Ian Paolo Mauricio, Ronald Belfort, Joseph Lykins

“…The patient’s neurological exam was non-focal, but laboratory evaluation showed an elevated paraprotein gap (6.7 grams per deciliter). This prompted concern for infectious etiology. …”
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Long-Term Effects of Maternal Smoking on Quality of Life. Results from the Copenhagen Perinatal Birth Cohort 1959–61 by SØren Ventegodt, Joav Merrick

“…The children whose mothers were nonsmokers or smoked less than three cigarettes a day had a quality of life that was 2.7% better than those children whose mothers had smoked over ten cigarettes per day. At first glance these figures seem small; however, when compared with other early life factors we see that mothers smoking more than ten cigarettes per day is one of the most important early predictors in our study for the quality of life (QOL) of the child as an adult. …”
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Plasma Treatment Maintains Surface Energy of the Implant Surface and Enhances Osseointegration by Fernando P. S. Guastaldi, Daniel Yoo, Charles Marin, Ryo Jimbo, Nick Tovar, Darceny Zanetta-Barbosa, Paulo G. Coelho

“…Five adult beagle dogs received 8 implants (n=2 per surface, per tibia). After 2 weeks, the animals were euthanized, and half of the implants (n=20) were removal torqued and the other half were histologically processed (n=20). …”
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Standard <i>vs.</i> mass training in basic life support and defibrillation: a prospective analysis among Italian high school students within a municipal project by Luca Dal Corso, Massimiliano Aldegheri, Elena Anselmi, Alberto Burro, Francesca Moretti, Fabio Rossi, Simone Sebastiani, Davide Silvagni, Michele Zandonà, Maria Angela Cerruto

“…Between January 2023 and April 2024, high school students attended either SE sessions (24 students per session) or ME sessions (100 students per session). …”
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Patient-Independent Epileptic Seizure Detection with Reduced EEG Channels and Deep Recurrent Neural Networks by Nadine El-Dajani, Tim Friedrich Lutz Wilhelm, Jan Baumann, Rainer Surges, Bernd T. Meyer

“…When using all channels of the 10–20 EEG cap system, the CNN-LSTM model achieved a sensitivity of 73%, with fewer than two seizures being falsely detected per hour. The usage of BTE channels as input to the proposed epileptic seizure detection produced a promising sensitivity of 68% with around 10 false alarms per hour.…”
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Separation and Determination of Fe(III) and Fe(II) in Natural and Waste Waters Using Silica Gel Sequentially Modified with Polyhexamethylene Guanidine and Tiron by Svetlana Didukh, Vladimir Losev, Elena Borodina, Nikolay Maksimov, Anatoly Trofimchuk, Olga Zaporogets

“…The limit of detection for iron was 0.05 μg per 0.100 g of the sorbent. The calibration graph was linear up to 20.0 μg of Fe per 0.100 g of the sorbent. …”
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