Identification of blast resistant finger millet (Eleusine coracana L.) genotype through phenotypic screening and molecular profiling by Isha Ojha, Kamaluddin, Vijay Sharma, Mohd. Tariq, Mukul Jain, Hoshiyar Singh Negi, Mukul Kumar, Shalesh Kumar Singh, Nitin Kumar, Vijay Kumar Kushwaha, Prashant Kaushik, Kirtan Dave

“…Furthermore, DNA fingerprinting of resistant genotypes with SSR markers displayed 10 polymorphic markers with an average of 2.6 alleles per locus. This points to the genetic diversity present within the germplasm. …”
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Adaptive Resource Allocation and Mode Switching for D2D Networks With Imperfect CSI in AGV-Based Factory Automation by Safiu A. Gbadamosi, Gerhard P. Hancke, Adnan M. Abu-Mahfouz

“…In the initial phase, the operational mode for each D2D user (DU) per cell is adaptively selected based on the channel gain ratio (CGR). …”
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Evaluating the role of CD44 in oral squamous cell carcinoma and potentially malignant disorders – An immunohistochemical study by Tharani V, Nandhini Gunasekaran, Rajkumar Krishnan, Swaathi R, Vasanthi V

“…Differences in the mean number of CD 44-positive cells per field among epithelial dysplasia, oral submucous fibrosis and squamous cell carcinomas were assessed using one-way ANOVA and comparison between the groups were analysed by using Bonferroni post hoc test. …”
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Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonist Treatment for Steroid-Induced Central Serous Chorioretinopathy Patients with Continuous Systemic Steroid Treatment by Jin Young Kim, Ju Byung Chae, Jisoo Kim, Dong Yoon Kim

“…A retrospective review was conducted of steroid-induced CSC patients who were treated with the MR antagonist spironolactone 50 mg once per day for at least 1 month. The primary outcome measure was complete resolution rate of subretinal fluid (SRF) after spironolactone treatment. …”
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Transforaminal Epiduroscopic Basivertebral Nerve Laser Ablation for Chronic Low Back Pain Associated with Modic Changes: A Preliminary Open-Label Study by Hyeun Sung Kim, Nitin Adsul, Farid Yudoyono, Byapak Paudel, Ki Joon Kim, Sung Ho Choi, Jeong Hoon Kim, Sung Kyun Chung, Jeong-Hoon Choi, Jee-Soo Jang, Il-Tae Jang, Seong-Hoon Oh

“…The preoperative VAS score of 7.79 ± 0.97 changed to 1.92 ± 1.38, postoperatively (P<0.01). As per Macnab’s criteria, seven patients (50%) had excellent, six patients (42.85%) had good, and one patient (7.14%) had fair outcomes. …”
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Acer palmatum thumb. Ethanol Extract Alleviates Interleukin-6-Induced Barrier Dysfunction and Dextran Sodium Sulfate-Induced Colitis by Improving Intestinal Barrier Function and Re... by Kwang-Youn Kim, Tae-Woo Oh, Hyun Ju Do, Ju-Hye Yang, In Jun Yang, Yong Hyun Jeon, Young-Hoon Go, Soon-Cheol Ahn, Jin-Yeul Ma, Kwang-Il Park

“…KIOM-2015E (100 mg/kg) was orally administered once per day to BALB/C mice with colitis induced by administration of 5% DSS in drinking water. …”
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Internet gaming disorder and the alternative five factor personality model: a study in a Spanish community sample by Anton Aluja, Oscar García, Ferran Balada, Neus Aymamí, Luis F. García

“…This study demonstrates the unidimensionality of the IGD-20, so it can be used as an ordinal dimensional measure to study the relationship between IGD symptoms and other related variables such as per-sonality in community samples. A multiple linear regression analysis revealed that up to 8% of the variance of the Internet Gaming Disorder-20 scale (IGD-20), as a dimensional scale, can be explained by low activity, high aggressiveness, introver-sion, non-planning impulsivity, sensation seeking, neuroticism and impulsiveness (attention impulsivity) using the Alterna-tive Five Factor Model (AFFM) of personality and the Barratt Impulsivity Scale (BIS-11). …”
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Fatal poisonings in Nordic countries in 2022 among people who use drugs by Pirkko Kriikku, Hilde Marie E. Edvardsen, Gunilla Thelander, Svava Thordardottir, Charlotte Uggerhøj Andersen, Ilkka Ojanperä, Anna K. Jönsson, Joachim Frost, Simon Kjær Hermansen, Gerd J.M. Delaveris, Kirsten Wiese Simonsen

“…The death rate (number of deaths per 100,000 inhabitants) among PWUD in 2022 was highest in Norway (8.03), followed by Iceland (7.20) and Finland (5.95), and lowest in Denmark (5.09). …”
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Clinico-epidemiological characteristics of patients reported with intra-hospital infection in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. Cienfuegos, 2015-2019 by Lourdes Elena Duany Badell, Sadis Suárez del Villar Seuret, Tania Cantero Martínez, Maribel Caridad Águila Toledo, Sarah Hernández Malpica, Vivian Hernández Monsón

“…<strong><br />Results:</strong> the average rate of infection associated with care was 3.5 per 100 discharges; Children under one year of age were more affected with 27.3%. …”
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A machine learning based algorithm accurately stages liver disease by quantification of arteries by Zhengxin Li, Xin Sun, Zhimin Zhao, Qiang Yang, Yayun Ren, Xiao Teng, Dean C. S. Tai, Ian R. Wanless, Jörn M. Schattenberg, Chenghai Liu

“…Abstract A major histologic feature of cirrhosis is the loss of liver architecture with collapse of tissue and vascular changes per unit. We developed qVessel to quantify the arterial density (AD) in liver biopsies with chronic disease of varied etiology and stage. 46 needle liver biopsy samples with chronic hepatitis B (CHB), 48 with primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) and 43 with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) were collected at the Shuguang Hospital. …”
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Testosterone: Relationships with Metabolic Disorders in Men—An Observational Study from SPECT-China by Jing Cheng, Bing Han, Qin Li, Fangzhen Xia, Hualing Zhai, Ningjian Wang, Michael Jensen, Yingli Lu

“…Body mass index (B −0.32, 95%CI −0.35 to −0.29) and obesity (OR 0.40, 95%CI 0.35–0.45) had the largest association magnitude per one SD increment in TT, while blood pressure and hypertension (OR 0.90, 95%CI 0.84–0.98) had the smallest. …”
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Biological Characteristics and Medical Treatment of Breast Cancer in Young Women—A Featured Population: Results from the NORA Study by P. Pronzato, G. Mustacchi, A. De Matteis, F. Di Costanzo, E. Rulli, I. Floriani, M. E. Cazzaniga

“…This cohort study suggests that age per sè is an important prognostic factor. The restricted role of early diagnosis and the aggressive behavior of cancer in this population make necessary the application of targeted medical strategies crucial.…”
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Advancing Wildlife Protection: Mask R-CNN for Rail Track Identification and Unwanted Object Detection by Istiak Mahmud, Md. Mohsin Kabir, Jungpil Shin, Chayan Mistry, Yoichi Tomioka, M. F. Mridha

“…A railway traffic dataset with an input size of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$512\times512$ </tex-math></inline-formula> pixels was used to test the proposed methodology, which came up with results with a mean average precision of 0.9375 and a frame rate of 30 frames per second. According to the findings of the experiments, the suggested approach can apply to identify objects on railroads in the real world.…”
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Buried Interface Smoothing Boosts the Mechanical Durability and Efficiency of Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells by Erxin Zhao, Yongshuai Gong, Yixin Dong, Wanlei Dai, Chou Liu, Tinghuan Yang, Nan Wu, Ye Yang, Zheng Zhang, Chenqing Tian, Buyi Yan, Dongxue Liu, Lu Zhang, Tianqi Niu

“…Flexible perovskite solar cells (F-PSCs) have the advantages of high power-per-weight, solution processability, and bending durability and have emerged as a competitive photovoltaic technology for various applications. …”
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Posthospital Discharge Medical Care Costs and Family Burden Associated with Osteoporotic Fracture Patients in China from 2011 to 2013 by Zhao Xie, Russel Burge, Yicheng Yang, Fen Du, Tie Lu, Qiang Huang, Wenyu Ye, Weihua Xu

“…The mean direct medical care costs per patient totaled 3,910¥, while mean indirect medical costs totaled 743¥. …”
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The effect of consuming bread contaminated with heavy metals on cardiovascular disease and calculating its risk assessment by Kambiz Ahmadi Angali, Majid Farhadi, Abdolkazem Neisi, Bahman Cheraghian, Mehdi Ahmadi, Afshin Takdastan, Abdolah Dargahi

“…Bread consumption increases Cd intake by 0.479 (β = 4.799 × 10–1) and cardiovascular disease incidence by 11.97% (OR = 1.1197) per unit. The findings indicated that bread intake in the study region is not correlated with non-carcinogenic or carcinogenic risks, since the cancer risk and incremental lifetime cancer risk for both groups were below 1*10^-6. …”
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Maternal singing and speech have beneficial effects on preterm infant’s general movements at term equivalent age and at 3 months: an RCT by Manuela Filippa, Gianluca Filippa, Elisa Della Casa, Alberto Berardi, Odoardo Picciolini, Sara Chiara Meloni, Clara Lunardi, Alessandra Cecchi, Alessandra Sansavini, Luigi Corvaglia, Luigi Corvaglia, Didier Grandjean, EVC Group, Fabrizio Ferrari

“…The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of maternal singing and speaking in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) on preterm infants’ GMs at term equivalent age and at 3 months.MethodsIn this multi-center randomized clinical trial, 56 stable preterm infants (25–32 weeks) were randomized to either an intervention group – in which mothers were asked to speak and sing to their infants for 20 min, 3 times per week, for 2 weeks – or to a control group. GMs were recorded both before and after the intervention – which took place at term equivalent age – and again at 3 months corrected age. …”
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Investigating the compressive behavior of zeolite-based porous mechanical metamaterials by Dosung Lee, JunHo Song, Kyoungmin Min, Namjung Kim

“…Notably, the nonlinear group exhibited a higher average Young’s modulus (0.403 MPa), compressive stress (0.780 MPa), and energy absorption (139,498 J/m3) than other groups, while the linear group exhibited an average Young’s modulus per volume fraction 9.52 % higher than other groups. …”
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Population dynamics and seasonal variation in biological characteristics of black sea bream (Acanthopagrus schlegelii) in Zhanjiang coastal waters, China by Hagai Nsobi Lauden, Shaoliang Lyu, Alma Alfatat, Happiness Moses Mwemi, Jamaluddin Fitrah Alam, Ning Chen, Xuefeng Wang

“…Length-weight relationship (LWR) analysis indicated positive allometric growth in females and nearly isometric growth in males, with significant seasonal variations in condition factors (K). Yield Per Recruit (YPR) analysis identified a maximum sustainable exploitation rate (Emax) of 0.421, with a conservative management approach suggested at E0.1 = 0.355. …”
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Caregivers' Preferences of COVID-19 Vaccination for Children: A Cross-sectional Study From Rural South India by U.C SAMUDYATHA, Bhavyashree BALAJI, Meghna SINGH, Megha GOWDA

“…Vaccination at home was desired for chronically ill and out-of-school children. RI as per age was associated with the willingness to vaccinate. …”
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