Inequalities in ownership and availability of home-based vaccination records in 82 low- and middle-income countries by Aluísio J D Barros, Cesar G Victora, Daniel R Hogan, M Carolina Danovaro-Holliday, Bianca O Cata-Preta, Thiago M Santos, Andrea Wendt, Luisa Arroyave, Tewodaj Mengistu

“…Inequalities according to age, sex, household wealth, maternal education, antenatal care and giving birth in an institutional setting were studied, as were associations between HBR ownership and vaccine coverage. Pooled analyses were carried out using country weights based on child populations.Results An HBR was seen for 67.8% (95% CI 67.4% to 68.2%) of the children, 9.2% (95% CI 9.0% to 9.4%) no longer had an HBR, 12.8% (95% CI 12.5% to 13.0%) reportedly had an HBR that was not seen and 10.2% (95% CI 9.9% to 10.5%) had never received one. …”
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Effects of milk extracellular vesicles from Holstein Friesian and Brown Swiss heat-stressed dairy cows on bovine mammary epithelial cells by S. Castellani, L. Basiricò, A. Maggiolino, C. Lecchi, P. De Palo, U. Bernabucci

“…Then BME-UV1 cells were incubated for 24 h with different pooled milk sEVs (H-TN, H-HS, B-TN, B-HS). Cell viability and apoptosis assay, reactive oxygen species production, and mRNA expression of heat shock proteins and antioxidant genes by reverse transcription and real time PCR were determined. …”
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Application of MRI image segmentation algorithm for brain tumors based on improved YOLO by Tao Yang, Xueqi Lu, Lanlan Yang, Miyang Yang, Jinghui Chen, Hongjia Zhao

“…A series of optimizations were made to the original YOLOv5 algorithm, introducing the Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ASPP), Convolutional Block Attention Module (CBAM), Coordinate Attention (CA) for structural improvement, resulting in several optimized versions, namely YOLOv5s-ASPP, YOLOv5s-CBAM, YOLOv5s-CA, YOLOv5s-ASPP-CBAM, and YOLOv5s-ASPP-CA. …”
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Socioeconomic factors and sex effects of postpartum maternal depression on offspring internalizing symptoms: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Yang Geng, Wenlan Liu, Zhiying Yu, Hui Zhang, Yun Li, Weihua Zhao

“…Methods We systematically searched PubMed, Embase, PsycINFO, CNKI, and SinoMed databases from inception to November 28, 2023, and selected longitudinal cohort studies that quantified sex differences in internalizing symptoms of children and adolescents. Pooled standardized mean differences (SMDs) were calculated using random-effects models. …”
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Effects of blood flow restriction training on cardiometabolic health and body composition in adults with overweight and obesity: a meta-analysis by Hao Kong, Yilin Zhang, Mingyue Yin, Kai Xu, QingGuo Sun, Yun Xie, Olivier Girard

“…ObjectiveThis meta-analysis aims to evaluate the effects of blood flow restriction (BFR) training on cardiometabolic health and body composition in adults with overweight and obesity.MethodFollowing PRISMA guidelines, a systematic search of PubMed (MEDLINE), EMBASE, Web of Science, Cochrane, and Scopus databases was conducted on 15 March 2024. Pooled effects for each outcome were summarized using Hedge’s g (g) through meta-analysis-based random effects models, and subgroup analyses were used to explore moderators.ResultsA total of 11 studies with 242 participants (Age:32.6 ± 3.6, BMI:27.2 ± 3.5) were included. …”
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The relationship between walking speed and changes in cardiovascular risk factors during a 12-day walking tour to Santiago de Compostela: a cohort study by Frank L J Visseren, Yolanda van der Graaf, Wilko Spiering, Remy H H Bemelmans, Paulus P Blommaert, Annemarie M J Wassink, Blai Coll

“…Changes in risk factors were compared between gender-pooled groups with faster and slower walking speed. …”
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Conservation agricultural practices promoted arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal colonization and glomalin content on sandy clay loam of southern India by Knight Nthebere, Tata Ram Prakash, Padmaja Bhimireddy, Latha P. Chandran, Jayasree Gudapati, Meena Admala, Kavuru Prasad

“…A highly significant positive correlation of AMF-CP and T-GRSP pool with SOC (r = 0.951∗∗ and 0.756∗∗), SMBC (r = 0.872∗∗ and r = 0.761∗∗), β-GaA (r = 0.916∗∗ and r = 0.832∗∗) and WSA1–2mm (r = 0.888∗∗ and 0.882∗∗), respectively was also observed. …”
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Anemia in pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prevalence, determinants, and health impacts in Egypt by Ahmed Azzam, Heba Khaled, Alrefaey K. Alrefaey, Amar Basil, Sarah Ibrahim, Mohamed S. Elsayed, Muhammad Khattab, Nashwa Nabil, Esraa Abdalwanees, Hala Waheed Abdel Halim

“…A meta-analysis was conducted using a random-effects model to estimate pooled prevalence, odds ratios (OR), and standardized mean differences (SMD). …”
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Anemia, Thrombocytopenia, and Changes in Biochemical Parameters Occurring in Patients with Uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum Malaria: Data Analysis from Antimalarial Efficacy-Ran... by Khadime Sylla, Roger Tine, Doudou Sow, Souleye Lelo, Annie Abiola, Jean Louis NDiaye, Magatte NDiaye, Kuaku Folly, Léon Amath NDiaye, Oumar Gaye, Babacar Faye

“…Data from patient with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria were pooled from different open-randomized trial evaluating the efficacy of Artesunate-Mefloquine (ASMQ), Artesunate-Amodiaquine (ASAQ), Artemether-Lumefantrine (AL), and Dihydro-artemisinin-Piperaquine (DHAPQ) combinations. …”
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Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Key Genes Involved in the Response of <i>Triticum urartu</i> to Boron Toxicity Stress by Gul Sema Uyar, Anamika Pandey, Mehmet Hamurcu, Tomas Vyhnanek, Mustafa Harmankaya, Ali Topal, Sait Gezgin, Mohd. Kamran Khan

“…Wild wheat progenitors, such as <i>Triticum urartu</i> Thumanian ex Gandilyan, possess a broader gene pool that harbors several genes conferring tolerance to various biotic and abiotic stresses. …”
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Association between exposure to tobacco information through mass media, smoking households and secondhand smoke exposure in adolescents: Survey data from South Korea by Wenbin Du, Gaoran Chen, Minmin Gu, Huixin Deng, Won G. Choi

“…Methods The present study uses pooled data from the Korean adolescent health behavior online survey conducted in 2015, 2018 and 2021, with 157944 participants. …”
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Risk Factors and Pharmacological Interventions Impacting Cerebrovascular Ischemic Events in Giant Cell Arteritis: A Narrative Review by Muhammad Osama Siddiqui, Mohammad Ali Syed, Ayaan Ahmed Qureshi, Mustafa Hussain Imam, Jatin Motwani, Verkha Kumari, Arooba Siddiqui, Noor Ul Ain, Mohammed Hammad Jaber

“…Cerebrovascular ischemic events (CIE), such as stroke and transient ischemic attacks, are serious but rare complications of GCA, with a pooled prevalence of 4%. Some studies found that within 2 weeks of GCA diagnosis, 74% and 34% of patients experience transient or severe ischemic events, respectively. …”
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Adaptive Hierarchical Multi-Headed Convolutional Neural Network With Modified Convolutional Block Attention for Aerial Forest Fire Detection by Md. Najmul Mowla, Davood Asadi, Shamsul Masum, Khaled Rabie

“…This enhanced framework addresses prior challenges by integrating adaptive pooling, concatenated convolutions for multi-scale feature extraction, and an improved attention mechanism incorporating shared fully connected layers, Glorot initialization, rectified linear units (ReLU), layer normalization, and attention-gating. …”
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Exploring how graft length shapes root system architecture and morphology in grapevine rootstocks by Mathieu Larrey, Jean-Pascal Tandonnet, Clément Saint Cast, Sarah Jane Cookson, Philippe Vivin

“…This study aimed to investigate whether varying rootstock cutting length (8, 20, 30, and 50 cm), and as a consequence the initial pool of reserves, influences root system architecture (RSA) and root morphological traits of two scion/rootstock combinations, Vitis riparia cv. …”
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The direct and urinary electrolyte-mediated effects of ambient temperature on population blood pressure: A causal mediation analysis by Ayesha Mukhopadhyay, Momenul Haque Mondol, Mahbubur Rahman, Leanne Unicomb, Rizwana Khan, Hoimonty Mazumder, Mohammad Nahian Ferdous, Emily V. Pickering, Konstantinos C. Makris, Alberto J. Caban-Martinez, Faruk Ahmed, Mohammad Shamsudduha, Fawaz Mzayek, Chunrong Jia, Hongmei Zhang, Anwar Musah, Lora E. Fleming, Matthew P. Smeltzer, Howard H. Chang, John L. Jefferies, Csaba P. Kovesdy, Xichen Mou, Abu Mohd Naser

“…We evaluated the direct and urine electrolyte-mediated effects of ambient temperature on BP. We pooled 5,624 person-visit data from a community-based stepped-wedge randomized control trial in southwest coastal Bangladesh from December 2016 to May 2017. …”
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Metabolic resistance to pyrethroids with possible involvement of non-coding ribonucleic acids in Anopheles funestus, the major malaria vector in western Kenya by Isaiah Debrah, Daibin Zhong, Maxwell G. Machani, Godfrey Nattoh, Kevin O. Ochwedo, Collins M. Morang’a, Ming-Chieh Lee, Linda E. Amoah, Andrew K. Githeko, Yaw A. Afrane, Guiyun Yan

“…RNA-seq was conducted on a combined pool of specimens that were resistant and unexposed, and the results were compared with those of the FANG susceptible reference strain. …”
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The Antiobesity Effect of GLP-1 Receptor Agonists Alone or in Combination with Metformin in Overweight /Obese Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: A Systematic Review and Meta-Ana... by Xiaorui Lyu, Taibiao Lyu, Xue Wang, Huijuan Zhu, Hui Pan, Linjie Wang, Hongbo Yang, Fengying Gong

“…The random-effect model was used to pool data extracted from the included literature. …”
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Classification and diagnosis of cervical lesions based on colposcopy images using deep fully convolutional networks: A man-machine comparison cohort study by Binhua Dong, Huifeng Xue, Ye Li, Ping Li, Jiancui Chen, Tao Zhang, Lihua Chen, Diling Pan, Peizhong Liu, Pengming Sun

“…The Dense-U-Net model was created by applying the methods of “deepening the network structure,” “applying dropout” and “max pooling.” Moreover, image-based and population-based diagnostic performances of the AI algorithm and physicians with different levels of specialist experience were compared. …”
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Pharmacological interventions for the management of anesthesia and sedation in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Xianghong Lian, Xianghong Lian, Xianghong Lian, Yang Jing, Yang Jing, Yang Jing, Ting Luo, Ting Luo, Ting Luo, Yixin Guo, Yixin Guo, Yixin Guo, Yunzhu Lin, Yunzhu Lin, Yunzhu Lin

“…Data from the eligible studies were combined to calculate pooled risk ratios or standardized mean differences, and some included studies are presented in a narrative synthesis.ResultsForty studies with 196 DMD participants were included in the analysis. …”
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Biochar Application and Mowing Independently and Interactively Influence Soil Enzyme Activity and Carbon Sequestration in Karst and Red Soils in Southern China by Wenjia Luo, Daniel F. Petticord, Shiwen Zhu, Shaowu Zhu, Yuanlong Wu, Xun Yi, Xinyue Wang, Yili Guo, Xuxin Song

“…Mowing led to reduced polyphenol oxidase activity, but the presence of biochar mitigated these losses, protecting SOC pools (increased from 0.03 to 0.79 mg/g/2h). This study highlights biochar as an effective tool for enhancing SOC stability in karst grasslands, particularly in acidic soils, and suggests that integrating biochar into mowing regimes may optimize carbon sequestration while reducing fire risk. …”
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