Impact of the Number of Administered Systemic Treatment Lines on Local Response to Radiation Therapy for Multiple Myeloma by Andrea Emanuele Guerini, MD, Eneida Mataj, MD, Paolo Borghetti, MD, Luca Triggiani, Ludovica Pegurri, MD, Stefania Nici, Stefano Riga, Alessandra Tucci, MD, Angelo Belotti, MD, Marco Lorenzo Bonù, MD, Giorgio Facheris, MD, Stefano Maria Magrini, Luigi Spiazzi, Michela Buglione

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Daily feeding frequency impacts muscle characteristics and fat deposition in finishing pigs associated with alterations in microbiota composition and bile acid profile by Luga Hu, Huayu Tang, Zhaoxi Xie, Hongyu Yi, Lunjie Feng, Pan Zhou, Yong Zhang, Jingbo Liu, Xiang Ao, Jianchuan Zhou, Honglin Yan

“…Therefore, this study aimed to explore the effects of feeding frequency on muscle growth, fat deposition, cecal microbiota composition, and bile acid composition in finishing pigs.MethodsSixteen Sichuan-Tibetan black pigs, with an initial weight of 121.50 ± 1.60 kg, were divided into two groups and fed either two meals (M2) or four meals (M4) per day. The trial lasted 30 days. The muscle fiber characteristics, lipid metabolism in adipose tissue, and cecal microbiota and bile acid composition were determined.ResultsThe present study revealed that pigs fed four meals exhibited a lower feed-to-gain ratio, abdominal fat weight, and average backfat thickness (p < 0.05), as well as a higher loin eye area (p = 0.09) and myofiber diameter in the longissimus muscle than their counterparts. …”
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The Rearing of Clown Loach (Chromobotia macracanthus) Larvae by Using Enriched Live Foods by . Chumaidi, . Nurhidayat, A. Priyadi

“…Larva umur empat hari dengan panjang rata-rata 5,58 ± 0,12 mm ditebar sebanyak 20 ekor per wadah.  Pemeliharaan larva dilakukan selama 28 hari. …”
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Delayed Graft Function in Kidney Transplants: Time Evolution, Role of Acute Rejection, Risk Factors, and Impact on Patient and Graft Outcome by Martin Chaumont, Judith Racapé, Nilufer Broeders, Fadoua El Mountahi, Annick Massart, Thomas Baudoux, Jean-Michel Hougardy, Dimitri Mikhalsky, Anwar Hamade, Alain Le Moine, Daniel Abramowicz, Pierre Vereerstraeten

“…Perioperative saline loading efficiently prevents ischemia-reperfusion injury, which is the predominant factor inducing DGF. DGF per se has no influence on patient and graft outcome. …”
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Effect of zinc added to a daily small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplement on diarrhoea, malaria, fever and respiratory infections in young children in rural Burkina Faso: a cl... by Elizabeth Yakes Jimenez, Sonja Y Hess, Souheila Abbeddou, Kenneth H Brown, Jean-Bosco Ouedraogo, Jérôme W Somé, Zinéwendé P Ouédraogo, Rosemonde M Guissou, Stephen A Vosti

“…Participants were visited weekly in their homes for morbidity surveillance for 9 months, and those with uncomplicated diarrhoea and malaria received treatment from the study field workers in the community.Main outcomes Incidence and longitudinal prevalence of diarrhoea, malaria, fever, and lower and upper RTI by intervention group.Results The incidence of diarrhoea, malaria and fever was 1.10 (±1.03 SD), 0.61 (±0.66 SD) and 1.49 (±1.12 SD) episodes per 100 child-days at risk, respectively, and did not differ by intervention group (p=0.589, p=0.856 and p=0.830, respectively). …”
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Efficacy of contralateral acupuncture in women with migraine without aura: protocol for a randomised controlled trial by Ling Zhao, Qifu Li, Yanan Wang, Jialei Feng, Xinghe Zhang, Siwen Zhao, Chonghui Xing, Yongli Song, Xuanxiang Zeng, Meng Kong, Yunqiu Zheng, Taipin Guo

“…Each group will be given 30-minute treatment sessions, once every other day, approximately three times per week, for a total of 24 treatments and follow-up visits two times. …”
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A tree-shaped high thermal conductivity channel in a stacked chip with minimizing maximum temperature difference and entropy generation rate by Xuetao Xi, Huijun Feng, Lingen Chen, Yanlin Ge

“…Effects of length ratio of first order channel to elemental channel, length and width of first order channel, heat-generation-rate per volume, temperature of heat sink and thermal-conductivity of TSHTCC on its MTD and EGR are analyzed. …”
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Exploration of the quantitative-effectiveness association between acupuncture temporal parameters and chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy in cancer patients: a dose-response... by Hao Tian, Qin Luo, Liuyang Huang, Liuyang Huang, Liuyang Huang, Guang Chen, Mingsheng Sun, Fanrong Liang

“…The nonlinear dose-response analysis suggests that pain improvement achieves the MCID at 16 treatment sessions, over 8 weeks, with a frequency of twice per week. Furthermore, analysis of the treatment duration chart shows that acupuncture maintains therapeutic effects during the follow-up period. …”
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Spirituality-based palliative care education on quality of life, death anxiety, and resilience of heart failure patients: Randomized controlled clinical trial by Roghayeh Balaghi Inaloo, Mostafa Bijani, Leila Nikrouz, Azizallah Dehghan, Abdulhakim Alkamel, Ali Taghinezhad, Zahra Khiyali

“…Methods: This investigation employed a randomized controlled clinical trial design without blinding, incorporating both experimental and control groups. 80 patients who were randomly assigned to intervention and control groups (40 patients per group). Participants were recruited from patients receiving treatment at a teaching hospital in southern Iran between June and October 2022. …”
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Automated method of bronchus and artery dimension measurement in an adult bronchiectasis population by Angelina L.P. Pieters, Qianting Lv, Jennifer J. Meerburg, Tjeerd van der Veer, Eleni-Rosalina Andrinopoulou, Pierluigi Ciet, James D. Chalmers, Michael R. Loebinger, Charles S. Haworth, J. Stuart Elborn, Harm A.W.M. Tiddens

“…The median (range) percentage of BA pairs defined as widened was 69 (55–84)% per CT using a cut-off value of 1.5 for Bout/A, and 53 (42–65)% of bronchial wall were thickened using a cut-off value of 0.14 for Bwt/A. …”
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<i>Sambucus nigra</i>-Lyophilized Fruit Extract Attenuated Acute Redox–Homeostatic Imbalance via Mutagenic and Oxidative Stress Modulation in Mice Model on Gentamicin-Induced Nephr... by Kamelia Petkova-Parlapanska, Ivaylo Stefanov, Julian Ananiev, Tsvetelin Georgiev, Petya Hadzhibozheva, Veselina Petrova-Tacheva, Nikolay Kaloyanov, Ekaterina Georgieva, Galina Nikolova, Yanka Karamalakova

“…Balb/c mice were divided into four (n = 6) groups: controls; <i>S. nigra</i> extract per os (120 mg kg⁻¹ day⁻¹ bw); GM (200 mg kg⁻¹ day⁻¹ bw) (4); and GM + <i>S. nigra</i> therapy. …”
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Frequency of Fibromyalgia in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection and Its Relationship with Vitamin D Levels and Quality of Life by Havva Talay Calis, Fatma Gul Ulku Demir, Ulas Serkan Topaloglu, Hatice Sayan, Deniz Kamalak Guzel, Emel Guler, Fatma Samli, Caglar Karabas, Serap Tomruk Sutbeyaz, Hatice Kayis Topaloglu

“…Patients were diagnosed with fibromyalgia and arthritis as per the 2010 American College of Rheumatology diagnostic criteria. …”
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Investigating the Asymmetric Relationship between Investor Sentiments and Fluctuations in the Overall Index via the Markov Switching Method by keyvan Shahab Lavasani, Leila Shabani Rezvani, Mohammad Ebrahim Samavi

“…Moreover, extraction results of instantaneous response functions showed that the inserted shocks to the variables in recession and boom periods may lead to different reactions.   Conclusion As per the research findings, the likelihood of market continuity stands at 41.54% during the boom regime and 58.46% during the recession regime. …”
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Comparing Deep Learning models for mapping rice cultivation area in Bhutan using high-resolution satellite imagery by Biplov Bhandari, Timothy Mayer

“…Two Deep Learning approaches, point-based (DNN) and patch-based (U-Net), models were used in conjunction with cloud-computing platforms. Four different models per Deep Learning approaches (DNN and U-Net) were trained: (1) Red, Green, Blue, and Near-Infrared (RGBN) channels from Planet, (2) RGBN and Elevation data (RGBNE), (3) RGBN and Sentinel-1 data (RGBNS), and (4) RGBN with Elevation and Sentinel-1 data (RGBNES). …”
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Acute Consumption of Bordo Grape Juice and Wine Improves Serum Antioxidant Status in Healthy Individuals and Inhibits Reactive Oxygen Species Production in Human Neuron-Like Cells by Cristiane Copetti, Fernanda Wouters Franco, Eduarda da Rosa Machado, Marcela Bromberger Soquetta, Andréia Quatrin, Vitor de Miranda Ramos, José Cláudio Fonseca Moreira, Tatiana Emanuelli, Cláudia Kaehler Sautter, Neidi Garcia Penna

“…In contrast, wine (dealcoholized) exhibited a per se effect by inducing the production of RS and reducing cell viability. …”
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Retrieval and Evaluation of Global Surface Albedo Based on AVHRR GAC Data of the Last 40 Years by Shaopeng Li, Xiongxin Xiao, Christoph Neuhaus, Stefan Wunderle

“…Our quantitative evaluations indicate that GAC43 demonstrates the best stability, with a linear trend of ±0.002 per decade at nearly all pseudo invariant calibration sites (PICS) from 1982 to 2020. …”
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Hubungan Status Gizi dengan Derajat Pneumonia pada Balita di RS. Dr. M. Djamil Padang by Mia Nurnajiah, Rusdi ., Desmawati .

“…The indicator used for nutritional status was based on weight per age with CDH chart referred by WHO-NCHS. Fifty one subjects (91,1%) with pneumonia (mil to moderate) had good nutritional status and 18 subjects (8,9%) with severe pneumonia were lack in their nutritional status. …”
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Nonlinear Association Between the Liver Fat Content and the Risk of Hyperuricemia in Prediabetic Individuals: Evidence from Cross-Sectional Health Screening Data in China by Liu A, Li X, Zhang X, Chen K, Zou Z, Sun Y, Zhou J, Li Z, Wu X, Lv X, Li H, Guo Z, Li Y

“…Importantly, a nonlinear relationship between LFC and hyperuricemia risk was identified in the prediabetic individuals, showing a significant increase in hyperuricemia risk when LFC exceeded 8.4% (OR per standard deviation = 1.05, 95% CI: 1.02– 1.08, P < 0.001).Conclusion: In individuals with prediabetes, a higher LFC is associated with an elevated risk of hyperuricemia, especially when LFC exceeds 8.4%.Keywords: hyperuricemia, LFC, prediabetes, Chinese adults…”
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Temporal patterns of macrophage‐ and neutrophil‐related markers are associated with clinical outcome in heart failure patients by Dominika Klimczak‐Tomaniak, Elke Bouwens, Anne‐Sophie Schuurman, K. Martijn Akkerhuis, Alina Constantinescu, Jasper Brugts, B. Daan Westenbrink, Jan vanRamshorst, Tjeerd Germans, Leszek Pączek, Victor Umans, Eric Boersma, Isabella Kardys

“…Serially measured biomarkers predicted the PE in a multivariable model adjusted for baseline clinical characteristics [hazard ratio (95% confidence interval) per 1‐standard deviation change in biomarker]: CD163 [2.07(1.47–2.98), P < 0.001], TRAP [0.62 (0.43–0.90), P = 0.009], GRN [2.46 (1.64–3.84), P < 0.001], SPON1 [3.94 (2.50–6.50), P < 0.001], and PGLYRP1 [1.62 (1.14–2.31), P = 0.006]. …”
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Diagnostics and treatment of exocrine pancreatic insufficiency: clinical guidelines of the Russian gastroenterological Association by V. T. Ivashkin, I. V. Mayev, A. V. Okhlobystin, S. A. Alekseyenko, Ye. V. Beloborodova, Yu. A. Kucheryavy, T. L. Lapina, A. S. Trukhmanov, I. B. Khlynov, M. V. Chikunova, A. A. Sheptulin, O. S. Shifrin

“…The starting dose of pancreatic enzymes for adults is 25 000 units of lipase per meal, which should be subsequently increased up to achievement of complete response confirmed by both clinical and laboratory scores. …”
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