Parents' knowledge and practices of child eye health care: A scoping review. by Nor Diyana Hani Ghani, Norliza Mohamad Fadzil, Zainora Mohammed, Mohd Harimi Abd Rahman, Normah Che Din

“…This review was conducted and reported in line with the PRISMA-ScR. The methodological quality of the listed studies was assessed using A Modified McMaster Critical Review form based on the total score.…”
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Salivary Fractalkine Differentiating Periodontitis from Periodontally Healthy Subjects by Omer Mohammed Harbood, Raghad Fadhil Abbas

“…The AUC for salivary CX3L1 and its receptors, CX3R, was 0.93 and 0.8, respectively, to distinguish Stage I from patients with good periodontal health. …”
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Cross-cultural Adaptation, Translation, and Validation of Gujarati Version of Neck Disability Index in Patients with Chronic Neck Pain by Shlesha Vaidya, Shreya Vaid

“…In construct validity, convergent validity was confirmed by a high correlation of NDI-G with NPAD-G (r = 0.941, P < 0.01). Conclusion: The NDI-G was successfully translated into Gujarati, showing good psychometric properties. …”
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Understanding retinal tau pathology through functional 2D and 3D iPSC-derived in vitro retinal models by Lorenza Mautone, Federica Cordella, Alessandro Soloperto, Silvia Ghirga, Giorgia Di Gennaro, Ylenia Gigante, Silvia Di Angelantonio

“…Both 2D and 3D tau-mutant retinal models demonstrated an imbalance in tau isoforms, favoring 4R tau, along with increased tau phosphorylation, altered neurite morphology, and impaired cytoskeletal maturation. …”
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Response Modification Factor of RC Frames Strengthened with RC Haunches by Junaid Akbar, Naveed Ahmad, Muhammad Rizwan, Sairash Javed, Bashir Alam

“…Lateral force-displacement capacity and response curves were developed, which were analyzed to calculate the structure ductility and overstrength factors. The structure R factor is the product of ductility and overstrength factors, which exhibited substantial increase due to the proposed retrofitting technique. …”
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Molecular Diversity of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Associated with the Rhizosphere of <i>Vachellia seyal</i> Del. from Selected Saline Soils in Senegal by Anicet Georges Bruno Manga, Godar Sene, André Amakobo Diatta, Tahir Abdoulaye Diop, Gérard Barroso, Diederik van Tuinen

“…After DNA extraction, nested PCR, and sequencing of the large subunit region of the rRNA gene, different phylotypes from rhizospheric soils, roots, and spores were compared by phylogeny in order to investigate the role of salinity in arbuscular fungal diversity. …”
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Public Perception on the Implementation of PON XXI Event North Sumatera-Aceh at Situngkir Panguruan Beach in 2024 by Zuhriyah Zuhriyah, Azadeh Zarei, Louie Peter Gula, Samsuddin Siregar

“…The model explained 78.4% of variance in community satisfaction (adjusted R² = 0.784, p < 0.001). Conclusions. The implementation of PON XXI Event at Situngkir Panguruan Beach demonstrated successful integration of event requirements with community needs, particularly in economic opportunities and infrastructure development. …”
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Daños en brotes de duraznero asociado a trips y su relación con las malezas by C.M. de Borbón, F. Cardello

“…Se correlacionó positivamente la cantidad de trips con el porcentaje de brotes con daños severos observados (y = -5,8501 + 13,2739 x, r2 = 0,85). F. occidenatalis (75% cuartel D4, 78% cuartel G1) fue la especie más frecuente en brotes de duraznero, seguida de T. tabaci (24% cuartel D4, 18% cuartel G1). …”
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Electrochemical Method for the Assay of Organic Peroxides Directly in Acetonitrile by Vanina Ivanova, Mariya Pimpilova, Maria Stoyanova, Nina Dimcheva

“…Calibration plots showed a linear response and the very good reproducibility of the analytical result (R² ˃ 0.99). Further, in terms of accuracy, the method showed good results, since the BPO quantitative analysis was close to the theoretical response. …”
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Insights into structure, codon usage, repeats, and RNA editing of the complete mitochondrial genome of Perilla frutescens (Lamiaceae) by Ru Wang, Yongjian Luo, Zheng Lan, Daoshou Qiu

“…Within the genome, a total of 59 unique genes were identified, encompassing 37 protein-coding genes, 20 tRNA genes, and 2 rRNA genes. Additionally, 18 introns were observed in 8 protein-coding genes. …”
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A Systematic Literature Review and Bucher Indirect Comparison: Tildrakizumab versus Guselkumab by Kristian Garn Du Jardin, Pepi Hurtado Lopez, Mette Lange, Rachael McCool, Silvia Maeso Naval, Sandra Quickert

“…We searched MEDLINE, MEDLINE In-Process, MEDLINE(R) Daily Epub Ahead of Print, and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials for Phase III randomized controlled trials between 1946 and November 2018. …”
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Sliding Mode Real-Time Control of Photovoltaic Systems Using Neural Estimators by J. A. Ramos-Hernanz, O. Barambones, J. M. Lopez-Guede, I. Zamora, P. Eguia, M. Farhat

“…We have analyzed the performance of such model and we found that it is very accurate (MSE = 0.062 A and R = 0.991 with test dataset). We also have tested the performance of the overall SMC design with both simulated and real tests, concluding that it guarantees that the power in the output of the converter is very close to the power of the photovoltaic module output.…”
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Azurin a potent anticancer and antimicrobial agent isolated from a novel Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain by Nourhan A. Zaghloul, Mona K. Gouda, Yasser Elbahloul, Nancy M. El Halfawy

“…Among twenty Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates, we identified one isolate that demonstrated potent and remarkable azurin synthesis using the VITEK 2 system and 16S rRNA sequencing. The presence of the azurin gene was confirmed in the genomic DNA using specific oligonucleotide primers, and azurin expression was also detected in the synthesized cDNA, which revealed that the azurin expression is active. …”
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A nomogram to predict sarcopenia in middle-aged and older women: a nationally representative survey in China by Jiayi Yang, Zihao Chen, Xinxin Dai, Liyao Jiang, Liyan Dai, Yu Zhao

“…Subsequently, a visual nomogram prediction model was developed by incorporating the identified risk factors into R4.1.2 software.ResultsAge, area, education, marriage, waist circumference, stroke, body pain, depression, and region may be closely related to Chinese women with sarcopenia. …”
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Transplantation of Neural Stem Cells Cotreated with Thyroid Hormone and GDNF Gene Induces Neuroprotection in Rats of Chronic Experimental Allergic Encephalomyelitis by Xiaoqing Gao, Guangqiang Hu, Li Deng, Guangbi Fan, Chaoxian Yang, Jie Du

“…Furthermore, T3/NSCs and GDNF-T3/NSCs grafting increased the expression of mRNA for PDGFαR, GalC, and MBP in lesion areas of brain compared with NSCs grafting, and the expression of mRNA for GalC and MBP in GDNF-T3/NSCs group was higher than that in T3/NSCs group. …”
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Oxidative Stability of Virgin Avocado Oil Enriched with Avocado Leaves and Olive-Fruit-Processing By-Products (Leaves, Pomace) via Ultrasound-Assisted Maceration by Ioanna Pyrka, Stavros Stefanidis, Stella A. Ordoudi, Sofia Lalou, Nikolaos Nenadis

“…The IP values correlated (<i>r</i> = 0.796, <i>p</i> = 0.002) only with total polar phenol content. …”
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Minimum Description Length and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis in Predictive Modeling by Petr Silhavy, Katerina Hlavackova-Schindler, Radek Silhavy

“…Various regression models and feed-forward neural networks were evaluated using criteria such as MAE, MAPE, RMSE, and Adjusted <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$R^{2}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>. We employed the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to determine the relative importance of these criteria. …”
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Una metodología novedosa para identificar el origen y evolución del crecimiento de grietas de fatiga en acero by Federico Nunez, Sidney Guralnick, Thomas Erber

“…Con ayuda de un SEM, se obtuvo una serie de microgramas de las superficies fracturadas de muestras de dos tipos de acero AISI-1018, después de haber aplicado una serie de ensayos de fatiga con relación de esfuerzo R=-1. Se usaron varios niveles de carga controlada por deformación unitaria en el rango ±0.0008 < s < ±0.0014 siguiendo una carga de tipo sinusoidal. …”
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Evaluation and comparison of drying models in open sun drying and photovoltaic and LPG burner assisted hybrid solar drying system by Tubagus Rayyan Fitra Sinuhaji, Suherman Suherman, Hadiyanto Hadiyanto, Ardi Ardan, Sulistia Rahmawati

“…Data were analyzed with thin-layer drying models, with the Midili model being the most accurate (R2 > 0.98). Drying trials were conducted at 40 °C, 45 °C, and 50 °C, with the target moisture content set at 7–8%. …”
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Morphological and Molecular Characterization of Toxigenic Aspergillus flavus from Groundnut Kernels in Kenya by Robert O. Okayo, Darius O. Andika, Mathews M. Dida, George O. K’Otuto, Bernard M. Gichimu

“…The expression analysis of aflR, aflS, aflD, aflP, and aflQ genes in the aflatoxin biosynthesis pathways was conducted to confirm the positive identification of A. flavus. …”
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