Oral nutritional supplements for gastric cancer – the review of current evidence by A. L. Potapov, V. E. Khoronenko, E. V. Gameeva, Zh. V. Khailova, A. D. Dorozhkin, V. Yu. Scoropad

“…It is recommended that the patient consume at least 200–250 ml of the mixture per day, and in the early postoperative period focus have to be made not on the target volume, but on signs of tolerability.…”
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Harmful impacts of microplastic pollution on poultry and biodegradation techniques using microorganisms for consumer health protection: A review by Mohamed E. Abd El-Hack, Elwy A. Ashour, Fatemah AlMalki, Asmaa F. Khafaga, Mahmoud Moustafa, Mohammed O. Alshaharni, Islam M. Youssef, Ahmed A. Elolimy, Sylwester Świątkiewicz

“…The contamination levels ranged from 0.03±0.04 to 1.19±0.72 particles per gram of chicken meat. In poultry, microplastics negatively affect production and harm vital organs such as the kidneys, spleen, and lungs. …”
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Efficacy of Wii-Fit on Static and Dynamic Balance in Community Dwelling Older Veterans: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial by Kalpana P. Padala, Prasad R. Padala, Shelly Y. Lensing, Richard A. Dennis, Melinda M. Bopp, Christopher M. Parkes, Mark K. Garrison, Patricia M. Dubbert, Paula K. Roberson, Dennis H. Sullivan

“…The exercise group performed Wii-Fit program while the control group performed a computer-based cognitive program for 45 minutes, three days per week for 8-weeks. The primary (Berg Balance Scale (BBS)) and secondary outcomes (fear of falling, physical activity enjoyment, and quality of life) were measured at baseline, 4 weeks, and 8 weeks. …”
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Post-treatment of rat aflatoxicosis by camel milk and silymarin by Nahla H. Hassaneen, Shabaan A. Hemeda, Abeer F. El Nahas, Ghadeer M. Albadrani, Muath Q. Al-Ghadi, Zuhair M. Mohammedsaleh, Sabreen E. Fadl, Eman M. El-Diasty, Hader I. Sakr, Hader I. Sakr

“…Camel milk group (supplied with 1.4 mg aflatoxin/kg diet) for 28 days and camel milk (1 milliliter of camel milk per kilogram of body weight) orally, from day 29 to day 43). …”
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Mild hyperthermia with magnetic resonance- guided high intensity focused ultrasound combined with salvage chemoradiation for recurrent rectal cancer by Jonathan Peng, Ari Partanen, Samuel Pichardo, Robert Staruch, Kaitlyn Perry, Merrylee McGuffin, Yuexi Huang, Kelvin KW. Chan, Shun Wong, Greg Czarnota, Kullervo Hynynen, William Chu

“…Radiation was delivered to a dose of 30.6 Gy in 1.8 Gy per fraction with concurrent capecitabine. MR-HIFU was delivered on days 1, 8 and 15 of concurrent chemoradiation. …”
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Experimental Assessment of Magnetic Nanofluid Injection in High-Salinity and Heavy-Crude-Saturated Sandstone: Mitigation of Formation Damage by Jimena Lizeth Gómez-Delgado, Nelson Gutierrez-Niño, Luis Felipe Carrillo-Moreno, Raúl Andres Martínez-López, Nicolás Santos-Santos, Enrique Mejía-Ospino

“…The results showed that 0.09511 mg of MGONs was adsorbed per gram of rock under dynamic conditions. Iron concentration in effluents stabilized after 3 pore volumes, indicating steady-state adsorption. …”
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Trends in Air Pollution in Europe, 2000–2019 by Wenche Aas, Hilde Fagerli, Andres Alastuey, Fabrizia Cavalli, Anna Degorska, Stefan Feigenspan, Hans Brenna, Jonas Gliß, Daniel Heinesen, Christoph Hueglin, Adéla Holubová, Jean-Luc Jaffrezo, Augustin Mortier, Marijana Murovec, Jean-Philippe Putaud, Julian Rüdiger, David Simpson, Sverre Solberg, Svetlana Tsyro, Kjetil Tørseth, Karl Espen Yttri

“…Elemental carbon has seen a reduction of approximately 4.5% per year since 2000. A similar reduction for organic carbon is only seen in winter when primary anthropogenic sources dominate. …”
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Blood Pressure and Haematological Indices in Twelve Communities in Ashanti, Ghana by Jacob Plange-Rhule, Sally M. Kerry, John B. Eastwood, Frank B. Micah, Sampson Antwi, Francesco P. Cappuccio

“…Systolic BP increased by 1.0 mmHg (95% CI 0.5–1.5), p<0.001, for women and 0.5 (0.1–1.0), p=0.027, for men per unit increase in haematocrit. Similar relationships were found for Hb and RBC but not for MCV or platelets. …”
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Novel Bat‐Monitoring Dataset Reveals Targeted Foraging With Agricultural and Pest Control Implications by Brian Lee, Samantha Sambado, D. Nākoa Farrant, Anna Boser, Kacie Ring, David Hyon, Ashley E. Larsen, Andrew J. MacDonald

“…While irrigated rice fields may provide abundant prey, wetland and water areas showed less than half the bat activity per hectare compared to rice fields. Controlling for land cover type, we found bat activity significantly associated with higher flying insect abundance, indicating that bats forage in areas where crop and nuisance pests are likely to be found. …”
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Postoperative Outcomes in Prepectoral Versus Retropectoral Immediate Implant-based Breast Reconstruction Across Body Mass Index Categories by Gauthier Zinner, MS, Jérôme Martineau, MD, Giang Thanh Lam, MD, Daniel Correia, MS, Daniel F. Kalbermatten, MD, PhD, Carlo M. Oranges, MD, PhD

“…The overall complication rate on a per breast basis was 26.4%. The overall complication rate did not differ across BMI groups (P = 0.314) and between PP and RP IBBR (P = 0.8083). …”
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SpecPCM: A Low-Power PCM-Based In-Memory Computing Accelerator for Full-Stack Mass Spectrometry Analysis by Keming Fan, Ashkan Moradifirouzabadi, Xiangjin Wu, Zheyu Li, Flavio Ponzina, Anton Persson, Eric Pop, Tajana Rosing, Mingu Kang

“…SpecPCM, with up to three bits per cell, achieves speedups of up to <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$82\times $ </tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$143\times $ </tex-math></inline-formula> for MS clustering and DB search tasks, respectively, along with a four-orders-of-magnitude improvement in energy efficiency compared with state-of-the-art (SoA) CPU/GPU tools.…”
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Submicron quantum dot light-emitting diodes enabled by pixelated topological meta-mirror by Ye Taikang, Tian Dadi, Wu Dan, Sun Xiao Wei, Wang Kai

“…And a minimum subpixel size of 0.6 μm and an ultra-high pixel density of 21,666 pixel per inch can be realized with a 3 × 3 topological meta-mirror array. …”
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Association Between Maternal Physical Activity From Pre-pregnancy to Child-rearing and Their Children’s Physical Activity in Early Childhood Among Japanese by Aya Yamada, Haruki Momma, Nozomi Tatsuta, Kunihiko Nakai, Takahiro Arima, Chiharu Ota, Nobuo Yaegashi, Ryoichi Nagatomi

“…Children’s physical activity level was measured at age 5.5 years using the WHO Health Behaviour School-aged Children questionnaire and defined as engaging in physical activity for at least 60 minutes per day for more than 5 days. Logistic regression analysis was used to determine the association between maternal and children’s physical activity levels. …”
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Synchronized autologous T-cell immunotherapy with hyperthermia to previously heavy treated advanced renal cell carcinoma by Jun Ren, Congcong Li, Dazhao Xu, Kun Wan, Chuxiong Zeng, Lina Hu, Xianzhi Guo, Feifei Huo, Xiumei Rong, Xinna Zhou, Tiecheng Wu, Xiaoli Wang, Bo Sun, JingJing Lou, Amy Hobeika, Michael A. Morse, Herbert Kim Lyerly

“…The peripheral blood apheresis was completed to produce ACT in vitro periodically .The nonimplantable in-depth hyperthermia device where the intratumor temperature could reach 42.5 C was performed for the average of 45 min, twice per week. One cycle ACT constituted three infusions of RetroNectin activated killer (RAK)cells at each 28 days interval. …”
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Maternal Diet Supplementation with n-6/n-3 Essential Fatty Acids in a 1.2 : 1.0 Ratio Attenuates Metabolic Dysfunction in MSG-Induced Obese Mice by Josiane Morais Martin, Rosiane Aparecida Miranda, Luiz Felipe Barella, Kesia Palma-Rigo, Vander Silva Alves, Gabriel Sergio Fabricio, Audrei Pavanello, Claudinéia Conationi da Silva Franco, Tatiane Aparecida Ribeiro, Jesuí Vergílio Visentainer, Elton Guntendeorfer Banafé, Clayton Antunes Martin, Paulo Cezar de Freitas Mathias, Júlio Cezar de Oliveira

“…Newborn mice were treated with monosodium L-glutamate (MSG, 4 mg g−1 body weight per day) for the first 5 days of age. A batch of weaned pups was sacrificed to quantify the brain and pancreas total lipids; another batch were fed a commercial diet until 90 days of age, where glucose homeostasis and glucose-induced insulin secretion (GIIS) as well as retroperitoneal fat and Lee index were assessed. …”
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A retrospective study to understand the differences in maternal mortality among women admitted in critical and stable conditions in Malawi by David Lissauer, James Chirombo, Nara Tagiyeva-Milne, Jennifer Riches, Rosemary Bilesi, Lumbani Makhaza, Laura Munthali, Malangizo Mbewe

“…Introduction Addressing the burden of preventable maternal deaths remains a critical focus of global health efforts in countries like Malawi which still has a high maternal mortality ratio of 381 deaths per 100 000 live births. We investigated the differences in case characteristics, survival and causes of death between pregnant and recently pregnant women who died, following their admission in stable or critical conditions to healthcare facilities in Malawi.Methods We conducted a retrospective analysis of maternal deaths of women from all district and central hospitals of Malawi between August 2020 and August 2022. …”
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Polysaccharide Fraction Isolated from <i>Saccharina japonica</i> Exhibits Anti-Cancer Effects Through Immunostimulating Activities by Min Seung Park, Seung-U Son, Tae Eun Kim, Se Hyun Shim, Bong-Keun Jang, Sunyoung Park, Kwang-Soon Shin

“…Furthermore, the prophylactic intravenous (<i>p.i.v.</i>) and per os (<i>p.p.o.</i>) injection of SJP boosted the cytolytic activity mediated by NK cells and CTLs against tumor cells. …”
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Utilization of an undergraduate emergency department research associate program for the screening and recruitment of research subjects with heart failure into a clinical study by Dillon J. Dzikowicz, Brenda Hernandez-Romero, Nancy Wood, Beau W. Abar, David H. Adler, Linwei Wang, Wojciech Zareba

“…Conclusion: The URMC EDRA program was highly effective in screening and consenting HF patients, successfully consenting 118 patients (14 per month). This is a significant achievement, especially given the study's strict inclusion and exclusion criteria. …”
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Perinatal midwifery care demand in a tertiary hospital: A time-series analysis by Luisa C. Eggenschwiler, Giusi Moffa, Valerie Smith, Michael Simon

“…Any unmet care demand was calculated in relation to pre-specified nurse-to-patient ratios for each care area by subtracting demand hours from available staff hours per shift. Results: In total, 17,558 cases were included and 13,149 worked shifts analysed. …”
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Performance augmentation of triangular solar still using sensible energy storage materials: thermo-exergo-economic and sustainability analyses by Sharma, Naveen, Patel, Ashutosh, Deep, Raman, Gautam, Shivam

“…The economic assessment revealed that employing SHSMs resulted in a reduction in the cost per liter of freshwater generation by up to 42.86% (for TSS-S) and a corresponding decrease in the payback period by up to 44.33% (for TSS-S) compared to TSS. …”
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