Complex Study of Settlements Dating from the Paleolithic to Medieval Period in the Ural Mountains on the Border of Europe and Asia by Valentina Prikhodko, Nikita Savelev, Vyacheslav Kotov, Sergey Nikolaev, Evgeny Ruslanov, Mikhail Rumyantsev, Elena Manakhova

“…The microbial biomass of the 0–10 cm layer is high, 520–680 µg C/g, and microbes cause the emission of 1.0 C-CO₂ µg/g of soil per hour. During the ancient settlements’ development, a favorable paleoclimate was noted based on the data cited. …”
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Smartphone-Based Intervention Targeting Norms and Risk Perception Among University Students with Unhealthy Alcohol Use: Secondary Mediation Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Tria... by Joseph Studer, John A Cunningham, Elodie Schmutz, Jacques Gaume, Angéline Adam, Jean-Bernard Daeppen, Nicolas Bertholet

“…Outcomes were drinking volume (DV) in standard drinks per week and the number of heavy drinking days (HDDs) assessed at baseline and 6 months. …”
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Preventable hospitalizations through ED: does the number of hospital beds matter under the global budget in a single-payer system in Taiwan? by Hsueh-Fen Chen, Hsueh-Fen Chen, Hsueh-Fen Chen, Hui-Min Hsieh, Hui-Min Hsieh, Hui-Min Hsieh, Wei-Shan Chang

“…The key independent variable is the number of hospital beds per 1,000 populations. Multivariate logistic regression models with and without a clustering function were used for the analyses.ResultsApproximately 59.26% of diabetes-related ACSCs ED visits resulted in ED hospitalizations. …”
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Burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease attributable to ambient ozone pollution across China and its provinces, 1990–2021: An analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Stud... by Yixuan Jiang, Fanshu Yan, Haidong Kan, Maigeng Zhou, Peng Yin, Renjie Chen, Jing Ni

“…The age-standardized rates of COPD deaths and DALYs per 100,000 populations ranged from 0.5 (95% UI, 0–1.4) and 8.1 (95% UI, 0.7–20.9) in Hong Kong to 22.8 (95% UI, 3.9–43.5) and 396.6 (95% UI, 68.9–763.7) in Xizang. …”
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Dairy intake and cognitive function in older adults in three cohorts: a mendelian randomization study by Natalia Ortega, Nick J. Mueller, Abbas Dehghan, Tosca O. E. de Crom, Armin von Gunten, Martin Preisig, Pedro Marques-Vidal, Marco Vinceti, Trudy Voortman, Nicolas Rodondi, Patricia O. Chocano-Bedoya

“…Second, we used the estimated dairy consumption in linear regression models on general cognition, assessed by the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and the Mental Alternation Test, executive function, verbal fluency, verbal learning, and memory. Results Per T-allele, total dairy intake and non-fermented was 24.8 and 15.3 g/day higher in PsyCoLaus, 57.9 and 49.8 g/day in the Rotterdam Study, and 0.31 and 0.29 times/day in CLSA, respectively. …”
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Health Risk of Ingested Heavy Metals in Fluidized Canned Milks: Are We Drinking Heavy Metals? by Victor Eshu Okpashi

“…Daily Fe intakes of Peak Milk was (1.6E − 01), Three Crown was (1.6E − 01), Coast was (1.4E − 01), Nunu was (1.4E − 01), Cowbell was (2.4E − 01), and Olympic was (1.8E − 01). Cu intakes per day for Three Crown, Coast, Nunu, Cowbell, and Olympic were (6.0E − 03), (4.0E − 03), (2.0E − 03), (2.0E − 03), and (4.0E − 03), respectively. …”
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Traditional Chinese medicine manual therapy for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: a case report by Bowen Zhu, Miaoxiu Li, Jun Ren, Tianxiang He, Xin Zhou, Shoujian Wang, Lingjun Kong, Min Fang, Min Fang

“…The patient initially recovered from centralized LBP with repeated TCMMT twice per week for 1 month. Subsequently, the frequency of TCMMT treatment was changed to 1–2 sessions weekly for 6 months. …”
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Inflammatory changes in the choroid plexus following subarachnoid hemorrhage: the role of innate immune receptors and inflammatory molecules by Peter Solár, Peter Solár, Václav Brázda, Václav Brázda, Martin Bareš, Alemeh Zamani, Parisa EmamiAref, Andrea Joukal, Lucie Kubíčková, Erik Kročka, Klaudia Hašanová, Marek Joukal

“…The number of CCR2 and CX3CR1 positive cells per choroid plexus area was manually counted. Immunohistochemical changes were confirmed by Western blot analyses.ResultsImmunohistochemical methods and Western blot showed increased levels of TLR9 and a slight increase in TLR4 and FRP2 following both subarachnoid hemorrhage as well as the application of artificial cerebrospinal fluid over time, although the individual periods were different. …”
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Health Economic Evaluation of Patients With Colorectal Liver Metastases Randomized to ALPPS or TSH: Analysis From the LIGRO Trial by Kristina Hasselgren, MD, PhD, Martin Henriksson, PhD, Bård I. Røsok, MD, PhD, Peter N. Larsen, MD, PhD, Ernesto Sparrelid, MD, PhD, Gert Lindell, MD, PhD, Nicolai A. Schultz, MD, PhD, Bjorn A. Bjørnbeth, MD, PhD, Bengt Isaksson, MD, PhD, Magnus Rizell, MD, PhD, Anna Lindhoff Larsson, RN, Per Sandström, MD, PhD, Bergthor Björnsson, MD, PhD

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Peningkatan Akurasi Metode Weighted Fuzzy Time Series Forecasting Menggunakan Algoritma Evolusi Differensial dan Fuzzy C-Means by Agus Fachrur Rozy, Solimun Solimun, Ni Wayan Surya Wardhani

“…Data yang digunakan pada penelitian ini adalah Jakarta Islamic Index (JKII) per bulan dari bulan Agustus 2018 hingga Juli 2023. …”
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Relationship between chlorophyll-a, sea surface temperature, and sea surface salinity by M. Hidayat, R. Wafdan, M. Ramli, Z. Muchlisin, S. Rizal

“…The minimum value of chlorophyll-a occurred in February, March and April, while the maximum value of approximately 2 milligram per cubic meter occured at stations 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7, but at 9 and 10, it increased to 12 - 14 mg/m3. …”
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Accurate phenotype-to-genotype mapping of high-diversity yeast libraries by heat-shock-electroporation (HEEL) by Marcus Wäneskog, Emma Elise Hoch-Schneider, Shilpa Garg, Christian Kronborg Cantalapiedra, Elena Schäfer, Michael Krogh Jensen, Emil Damgaard Jensen

“…HEEL also allows more than 107 yeast cells per reaction to be transformed with a circular plasmid molecule, which corresponds to an almost 100-fold improvement compared with current yeast transformation methods. …”
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Peroral Endoscopic myotomy (POEM) in pediatric achalasia: a retrospective cohort on institutional experience and quality of life by Thijs Kuipers, Carlijn Mussies, Aaltje Lei, Gwen M.C. Masclee, Marc A. Benninga, Paul Fockens, Barbara A.J. Bastiaansen, Albert J. Bredenoord, Michiel P. van Wijk

“…Only a fraction of the patients has an onset during childhood (estimated incidence of 0.1–0.18/ 100.000 children per year). No curative treatment is currently available. …”
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Epidemiology of neonatal disorders attributable to low birthweight-global burden of disease research, 1990–2021 by Qi Zhang, Lan Luo, Lai-lai Yan, Lai-lai Yan, Jing Guo, Hui-jun Wu, Zi-wei Zhang, Yu-hua Zhu, Rui Qiao, Rui Qiao

“…Trends and influencing factors were investigated through Joinpoint regression, health inequality analysis, and frontier modeling.ResultsIn 2021, the global age-standardized mortality rate (ASMR) and age-standardized disability-adjusted life year (DALY) rate (ASDR) for neonatal diseases associated with low birth weight (LBW) were 22.76 [95% uncertainty interval (UI): 19.63–26.40] and 2,227.54 (95% UI: 1,939.96–2,563.52) per 100,000, respectively. Over the past 32 years, these rates have consistently declined, with average annual percentage changes (AAPCs) of −1.40 [95% confidence interval (CI): −1.48 to −1.33] for ASMR and −1.27 (95% CI: −1.34 to −1.21) for ASDR. …”
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Long-term exposure to air pollution and lower respiratory infections in a large population-based adult cohort in Catalonia by Anna Alari, Otavio Ranzani, Carles Milà, Sergio Olmos, Xavier Basagaña, Payam Dadvand, Talita Duarte-Salles, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Cathryn Tonne

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Mycochemistry, antioxidant, anticancer activity, and molecular docking of compounds of F12 of ethyl acetate extract of Astraeus asiaticus with BcL2 and Caspase 3 by Swapan Kumar Ghosh, Koushik Pandey, Madhuparna Ghosh, Pradip Kumar Sur

“…Out of them Hexadecanoic acid, 9,12-Octadecadienoic acid and 3,4,5,6 Tetramethyloctane, exhibited suitable properties for drug -preparation and they showed anticancer activity and antioxidant activity as per NIST data base and library search. We have tried to focus on anticancer compounds derived from the partial purification (F12) of mushroom extract (AAEA) from this edible mushroom against cancer (cervical, lung, and breast) cell lines. …”
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SOIL TILLAGE VARIANTS AND SULPHUR FERTILIZATION AFFECT NODULATION, N2 FIXATION AND YIELD OF BAMBARA GROUNDNUT (Vigna subterreana) IN SOUTHEAST NIGERIA by M.A.N. Anikwe, Nnamnani D.E, Ikengannyia E.E, J.C. Eze, Obidike-Ugwu, E. O

“…At 30 DAP, the plots treated with till+gypsum1 (21 kg/ha), till+gypsum2 (42 kg/ha), no-till+gypsum2 (42 kg/ha), no-till+gypsum1 (21 kg/ha), and till+no gypsum had 62-63 % higher soil sulphur content (P= 0.05) than the control plots. The nodule count per plant in plots treated with no-till+gypsum2 (42 kg/ha) was greater than that in the control plot, plots with no-till+gypsum1 (21 kg/ha), and plots with till+gypsum2 (42 kg/ha) by 72-74 % at 30, 60, and 90 DAP across two seasons. …”
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Stochastic demethylation and redundant epigenetic suppressive mechanisms generate highly heterogeneous responses to pharmacological DNA methyltransferase inhibition by Mie K. Jakobsen, Sofie Traynor, Aaraby Y. Nielsen, Christina Dahl, Mette Staehr, Simon T. Jakobsen, Maria S. Madsen, Rasmus Siersbaek, Mikkel G. Terp, Josefine B. Jensen, Christina B. Pedersen, Anup Shrestha, Jonathan R. Brewer, Pascal H. G. Duijf, Odd L. Gammelgaard, Henrik J. Ditzel, Alexei F. Kirkin, Per Guldberg, Morten F. Gjerstorff

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A dual-band microwave sensor for glucose measurements utilizing an enclosed split ring metamaterial-based array by Abhishek Kandwal, Ziheng Ju, Louis W.Y. Liu, Rohit Jasrotia, Choon Kit Chan, Zedong Nie, Ali M. Almuhlafi, Hamsakutty Vettikalladi

“…At 9.2 GHz, there was no significant resonant frequency shift with varying glucose concentrations, but the magnitude of the reflection coefficient changed with the glucose concentration nonlinearly in an amount-dependent manner, with a sensitivity of 16.6 dB per unit glucose concentration within the clinical diabetic range. …”
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Healthcare performance of leprosy management in peripheral health facilities of Dhanusa and Mahottari, Nepal by Ram Kumar Mahato, Uttam Ghimire, Bijay Bajracharya, Binod K. C., Deepak Bam, Deepak Ghimire, Uttam Raj Pyakurel, David T. S. Hayman, Basu Dev Pandey, Chuman Lal Das, Krishna Prasad Paudel

“…An average of 6 patients (paucibacillary, PB, or multibacillary, MB) per health facility registered within the 2018/2019 fiscal year were also enrolled in the study. …”
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