Risk of stroke associated with proton pump inhibitor use among individuals with and without pre-existing cardiovascular diseases: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Muhammed Shabil, Bijaya K. Padhi, Mahalaqua Nazli Khatib, Soumya V. Menon, Mandeep Kaur, Mukesh Kumari, Puneet Sudan, K. Satyam Naidu, Quazi Syed Zahiruddin, Sarvesh Rustagi, Divya Sharma, Mithhil Arora, Rakesh Kumar Sharma, Edward Mawejje, Prakasini Satapathy, Sanjit Sah

“…Five RCTs involving patients with CVD reported a pooled RR of 1.158 (95% CI: 0.914 to 1.466), indicating no significant risk increase. …”
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Causal associations of ambient particulate matter 10 and Alzheimer’s disease: result from a two-sample multivariable Mendelian randomization study by Zehan Huang, Guodong He, Shuo Sun, Yingqing Feng, Yuqing Huang

“…In the univariate MR, pooled meta-analysis of genetically predicted PM10 was associated with a 99% increased risk of AD (95% CI: 1.25, 3.15, p = 0.004) per 1 standard deviation (SD) increment of PM10 by IVW, and in the multivariable MR with pooled meta-analysis, we found that each SD increase in PM10 was associated with a 127% increase in the risk of AD (95% CI: 1.33, 3.86, p = 0.002) after accounting for education levels. …”
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Protein kinase inhibitors as targeted therapy for glioblastoma: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled clinical trials by José Pinto-Fraga, Celia García-Chico, Simone Lista, Pedro Miguel Lacal, Giuseppe Carpenzano, Maurizio Salvati, Alejandro Santos-Lozano, Grazia Graziani, Claudia Ceci

“…In newly diagnosed GBM, no significant differences were observed in median [-1.02 months, 95 % confidence interval (CI), −2.37–0.32, p = 0.14] and pooled [hazard ratio (HR) = 1.13, 95 % CI, 0.95–1.35, p = 0.17) OS, or in median (0.34 months, 95 % CI, −0.9–1.58, p = 0.60) and pooled (HR = 0.98, 95 % CI, 0.76–1.27, p = 0.89) PFS, when comparing PKI addition to standard chemo-radiotherapy versus chemo-radiotherapy alone. …”
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Health-related quality of life and health state utility value in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Guixiang Zhao, Siyuan Lei, Ya Li, Zhenzhen Feng, Jiansheng Li

“…The results of the meta-analysis revealed that the pooled SGRQ total score was 45.28 (95% confidence interval [CI] 41.10-49.47), the mean EQ-5D utility score was 0.75 (95% CI: 0.72–0.79), the total EQ-5D VAS score was 66.88 (95% CI: 63.75–70.01), and the pooled SF-36 physical component summary (PCS) and mental component summary (MCS) score were 36.70 (95% CI: 32.98–40.41) and 48.99 (95% CI: 47.44–50.55), respectively. …”
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Parentage Verification and Segregation Distortion Patterns of Microsatellite Markers in Olive Flounder (<i>Paralichthys olivaceus</i>) Full-Sib Families by Songhyun Gwon, Eunjeong Kim, Wonse Lee, Jisung Han, Yoonkwon Nam

“…Parentage assignments were conducted within an expanded pool of 647 candidate parents (including the actual 14 parents), encompassing both closely related and moderately distant individuals. …”
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Formation of SS316L Single Tracks in Micro Selective Laser Melting: Surface, Geometry, and Defects by Zhiheng Hu, Balasubramanian Nagarajan, Xu Song, Rui Huang, Wei Zhai, Jun Wei

“…Besides, the top surface of the tracks is observed with “double-crest” morphology, due to the high recoil pressure gradient generated by the extremely fine spot size. In addition, molten pool geometry (width, depth, and height) has been characterized to study the mode of the molten pool in micro-SLM. …”
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Criticality safety analysis for eccentric loading of fuel assemblies in spent nuclear fuel cask by Seok Geun Cho, Keon Il Cha, Kyoon Ho Cha

“…Several studies have been performed to investigate the effect of increasing reactivity on eccentric loading and random displacement in spent nuclear fuel pools; However, studies within spent nuclear fuel casks have not been performed. …”
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A Comparison of Physical Soil Organic Matter Fractionation Methods for Amended Soils by Sarah Duddigan, Liz J. Shaw, Paul D. Alexander, Chris D. Collins

“…Using five different physical fractionation methods, on soils either nontreated or with a history of amendment with a range of exogenous organic matter inputs (Irish moss peat; composted horse manure; garden compost) and a resulting range of carbon contents (6.8 to 22.2%), we show that method selection had a significant impact on both the total C recovered and the distribution of the recovered C between unprotected, physically protected, or chemically protected conceptual pools. These between-method differences most likely resulted from the following: (i) variation in the methodological fractions obtained (i.e., distinguishing between aggregate size classes); (ii) their subsequent designation to conceptual pools (e.g., protected versus unprotected); and (iii) the procedures used in sample pretreatment and subsequent aggregate dispersion and fractionation steps. …”
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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE KEY ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN LANGUAGE TERMS IN STUDIES OF INTEREST GROUP POLITICS by I. I. Pisarev

“…The purpose of this analysis was to identify the most frequently used Russian equivalents of the English terms under study selected from a pool of options revealed during terminological analysis.Based on the terminological and statistical analyses of the pool of the Russian equivalents of the three key terms of the English language interest group politics research vocabulary, the author identifies the most highly recommended ones of them for application in the Russian language research publications.…”
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Clinical Accuracy of Instrument-Read SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Rapid Diagnostic Tests (Ag-IRRDTs) by Ali Umit Keskin, Pinar Ciragil, Aynur Eren Topkaya

“…Across all datasets, pooled Ag-IRRDT sensitivity was 67.1% (95% CI: 65.9%–68.3%) and specificity was 99.4% with a tight CI. …”
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Clinical Aspects of Trace Elements: Zinc in Human Nutrition - Assessment of Zinc Status by Michelle M Pluhator, Alan Br Thomson, Richard N Fedorak

“…Because the limiting and vulnerable zinc pool has not been identified, it becomes a challenge to determine which of the many zinc pools is most susceptible to deficiency. …”
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Perfectionism and compulsive exercise: a systematic review and preliminary meta-analysis by Elizabeth Bills, Shannon R. Muir, Rose Stackpole, Sarah J. Egan

“…We hypothesised that there would be significant, small-moderate pooled correlations between perfectionism dimensions and compulsive exercise. …”
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Incidence of Congenital Limb Reduction Defects: A Systematic Review by Gabrielle Levesque, Renitha Reddi, Harpreet Chhina, Alison M. Elliott, Colleen Pawliuk, Jeffrey Bone, Anthony Cooper

“…The average pooled incidence of CLRDs was 4.48/10,000 (95% confidence interval = 3.89–5.16) with the highest incidence in Western Asia and the lowest in Eastern Asia. …”
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Mitral Valve Repair by Irbaz Hameed, MD, Adham Ahmed, BS, Christina Waldron, BS, Percy T. Algarate, MD, Michal Kawczynski, MD, Maurish Fatima, MBBS, BS, Amnah Alhazmi, MBBS, Samantha Colon, BS, Alexandria Brackett, MA, MLIS, Samuel Heuts, MD, PhD, Peyman Sardari Nia, MD, PhD, Mario Gaudino, MD, PhD, Vinay Badhwar, MD, Arnar Geirsson, MD

“…The overall pooled 10-year survival was 70.8% (95% CI: 68.9%-72.8%). …”
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Survey on multipath TCP congestion control by Pei LIU, Yong-mao REN, Jun LI

“…First，several congestion control algorithms of multipath TCP recently had been introduced and discussed.Next,some simulation experiments in NS2 was did,the performance of MPTCP congestion control algorithm in TCP fairness of the bottleneck link,resource pooling and flapness was analyzed.At last,some problems existed and possible research directions in the future was pointed out.…”
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Using Flow 3D Simulation, Multiple Nonlinear Regression Approach, and Artificial Neural Network Approach Approaches to Study the Behavior of Vertical Drop Structures by Shaikhli Hasan Al, Mohammed Sarah Hashim, Al-Khafaji Zainab

“…Key flow parameters, such as downstream depth, pool depth, and energy loss, were calculated and validated against experimental data. …”
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Study on forming process and microstructure of FeCrAl-ODS alloy by selective laser melting by Shenghua Zhang, Fudong Li, Yu Wang, Zhonghua Li, Senming Zhang, Yen-Ling Kuo, Peikang Bai, Bin Liu

“…The longitudinal section of the SLM-formed FeCrAl-ODS alloy exhibited a typical molten pool structure with a layered distribution characteristic of SLM-formed alloys. …”
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Research on Fire Suppression Characteristics of Compressed Air Foams in Full-Scale 220 kV Converter Transformer by Yike Guo, Tao Chen, Biao Zhou, Peng Zhang, Yuwei Wang, Xuyao Wang, Danping Hao

“…The model mainly considered the oil pool fires and oil spill fires that form after explosions, causing the casing to completely fall out. …”
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Automatic MRI Image Classification Using Attention and Residual CNNs With Enhanced Image Denoising Filters by Suganya Athisayamani, A. Robert Singh, Faten Khalid Karim, Samih M. Mostafa

“…In the proposed architecture, the spatial attention module achieves these benefits by applying operations such as average pooling, max pooling, and sigmoid activation to selectively highlight key spatial regions in MRI images, leading to improved classification accuracy and overall performance. …”
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Model-Based Analysis of Muscle Strength and EMG-Force Relation with respect to Different Patterns of Motor Unit Loss by Chengjun Huang, Maoqi Chen, Yingchun Zhang, Sheng Li, Ping Zhou

“…This study presents a model-based sensitivity analysis of the strength of voluntary muscle contraction with respect to different patterns of motor unit loss. A motor unit pool model was implemented including simulation of a motor neuron pool, muscle force, and surface electromyogram (EMG) signals. …”
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