Chinese Herbal Medicine Combined with Intravitreal Antivascular Growth Factor Agents in Treatment of Macular Edema Secondary to Retinal Vein Occlusion: A Systematic Review and Meta... by Su Xiaojuan, Li Xiaodong, Fu Zhongmei, Ye Hejiang

“…The results showed that BCVA of the anti-VEGF + CHM group significantly improved at 3 months (P<0.00001), 6 months (P=0.008), and 12 months (P=0.01), and CMT significantly reduced at 1 month (P=0.02), 2 months (P=0.0009), 3 months (P<0.05), 6 months (P<0.0001), and 12 months (P<0.00001) compared with the anti-VEGF group alone. At the same time, the anti-VEGF + CHM group has a better performance in reducing the number of injections (P<0.05) and improving the total effective rate (P<0.0001). …”
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A Simplified, Specific HPLC Method of Assaying Thiamine and Riboflavin in Mushrooms by Mohammad F. Hossain, Mamoon Rashid, Rajjit Sidhu, Randy Mullins, Susan L. Mayhew

“…No coeluting peaks were observed at the retention time of the vitamins and all the peaks were spectrally homogenous. …”
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Transmission of Genetic Variation from the Adult Generation to Naturally Established Seedlings of Fagus orientalis in the Hyrcanian Forest by Hamed Yousefzadeh, Malek Nasiri, Narjes Amirchakhmaghi, Seyedeh Alemeh Sabbagh, Łukasz Walas, Gregor Kozlowski

“…It is one of the most economically important tree species in this natural distribution range and has been exploited for a long time in the Hyrcanian forest. This study compared genetic variation between adult individuals and recent cohorts of 1–3-year-old seedlings using 14 SSR primers in four pure stands of F. orientalis with over 90% canopy cover. …”
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Cystic Fibrosis and Reproductive Outcomes: The Latest Insights into Fertility and Pregnancy by Weronika Małagocka, Karol Zagórski, Mateusz Kozik, Nina Skalska-Dziobek, Karolina Chybowska, Maria Naruszewicz, Przemysław Cetnarowski

“…Planning the pregnancy gives time to prepare the mother, optimize her nutrition status and make sure medications she takes are safe for the fetus. …”
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Colorectal Carcinoma with Extremely Low CA19-9 by Yutaka J. Kawamura, Aika Tokumitsu, Junichi Sasaki, Shingo Tsujinaka, Takafumi Maeda, Ken Mizogami, Fumio Konishi

“…Patients with CA19-9 level of less than 2 U/mL at the time of diagnosis were defined as Extremely Low CA19-9 (ELCA). …”
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Metabolomic profiles of preterm small-for-gestational age infants by Koh Okuda, Nobuhiko Nagano, Kimitaka Nakazaki, Kengo Matsuda, Wataru Tokunaga, Kazumasa Fuwa, Ryoji Aoki, Aya Okahashi, Ichiro Morioka

“…Metabolomic analyses were performed using capillary electrophoresis time-of-flight mass spectrometry. The median GA at birth was not significantly different between the two groups [SGA, 32 (26–36) weeks; non-SGA, 32 (25–35) weeks; p = 0.661)]. …”
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Risk Factors for Skin Cancer in the Salud Delicias Area by Yanet Hernández Caballero, María del Carmen Pérez Cuesta, Leticia Rómulo Ávila, Yoenny Peña García

“…The variables were studied: age, sex, skin color, occupation, time of exposure to the sun, means of protection, contact with chemical substances. …”
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Inhibition of Anti-Reflection Film Cracks on Plastic Substrates Using Nanolaminate Layer Deposition in Plasma-Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition by Chi-Chieh Wang, Cheng-Fu Wang, Meng-Chi Li, Li-Chen Su, Chien-Cheng Kuo

“…After inserting five 1 nm thick Al₂O₃ layers, the environmental test results were improved. The test time was increased from the original 56 h to 352 h.…”
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Effects of bioactive peptides combined with probiotics on serum uric acid in patients with hyperuricemia by HAN Dan，ZHAO Ya，HUANG Enshan，YE Shuhua，WANG Wanjin，WU Fangmin，WANG Dingliang，ZHANG Ronghua

“…However, there was no statistically significant interaction between the intervention time and group (both P>0.05). Subgroup analysis showed that after 28 days of interventions, the decrease in SUA levels in the patients aged 55 years and older and without hypertension in the intervention group was greater than those in the control group (both P<0.05). …”
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Development and Validation of LAMP Assays for Distinguishing MPXV Clades with Fluorescent and Colorimetric Readouts by Nazente Atceken, Sara Asghari Dilmani, Ahmed Choukri Abdullah, Mutlu Sarıkaya, Defne Yigci, Gozde Korkmaz, Savas Tasoglu

“…The LAMP technique has the advantages of not requiring thermal cycling and achieving higher amplification in a shorter time compared to qPCR. Different types of LAMP assays were developed in this study to benefit from these advantages. …”
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Blockchain enabled policy-based access control mechanism to restrict unauthorized access to electronic health records by Nadeem Yaqub, Jianbiao Zhang, Muhammad Irfan Khalid, Weiru Wang, Markus Helfert, Mansoor Ahmed, Jungsuk Kim

“…As a result, any Subject can know at any time who currently has the right to access his data. …”
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GNSS reflectometry from low-cost sensors for continuous in situ contemporaneous glacier mass balance and flux divergence by Albin Wells, David Rounce, Louis Sass, Caitlyn Florentine, Adam Garbo, Emily Baker, Christopher McNeil

“…In this study, we evaluate three approaches for direct, continuous measurements of the climatic mass balance, flux divergence and elevation change at a site on Gulkana Glacier in Alaska using low-cost global navigation satellite system (GNSS) sensors, GNSS interferometric reflectometry (GNSS-IR), banded ablation stakes with time-lapse cameras and combinations thereof. Cumulative climatic mass balance over the season was 4.85 m and the three approaches were within 0.08 m through early July before the snowpack melted, and within 0.28 m through mid-August. …”
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No impairment of quality of life after radiotherapy for prostate cancer by Maria M. Meier, Oliver Koelbl, Isabella Gruber

“…Patients completed the questionnaires after a median time of 60.3 and 65.2 months after salvage and definitive radiotherapy. …”
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Association between Red Blood Cell Distribution Width and In-Hospital Mortality among Congestive Heart Failure Patients with Diabetes among Patients in the Intensive Care Unit: A R... by Kai Zhang, Yu Han, Yu Xuan Gao, Fang Ming Gu, Tianyi Cai, Rui Hu, Zhao Xuan Gu, Jia Ying Liang, Jia Yu Zhao, Min Gao, Bo Li, Dan Cui

“…The primary outcome of the study was in-hospital mortality at the time of hospital discharge. We examined the association between RDW on ICU admission and in-hospital mortality using multivariable logistic regression models, restricted cubic spline analysis, and subgroup analysis. …”
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Application Effect of Transparent Supervision Based on Informatization in Prevention and Control of Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Nosocomial Infection by Xiaoqin Wu, Quansheng Lu, Guo Feng, Hongxia Kan, Liran Shi

“…We performed transparent supervision on CRKP patients detected by the real-time monitoring system for nosocomial infection. …”
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Parameter estimation and uncertainty quantification for an epidemic model by Alex Capaldi, Samuel Behrend, Benjamin Berman, Jason Smith, Justin Wright, Alun L. Lloyd

“…We assessthe informativeness of individual data points in a given time series to determine when more frequent sampling (if possible) would prove to be most beneficial to the estimation process. …”
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Soybean cultivars under the foliar application of a compounded biofertilizer in different plant phenological stages and doses by Fernando Simoni Bacilieri, Roberta Camargos de Oliveira, Ludyellen Cristina Medeiros Santos, Mara Lúcia Martins Magela, Regina Maria Quintão Lana, Ernane Miranda Lemes

“…However, it is still necessary to consider the interactions of the BF with the crop genetics chosen for the region of cultivation and the best dose and time of application.…”
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The Prediction of Day‐to‐Day Occurrence of Low Latitude Ionospheric Strong Scintillation Using Gradient Boosting Algorithm by Xiukuan Zhao, Guozhu Li, Haiyong Xie, Lianhuan Hu, Wenjie Sun, Sipeng Yang, Yi Li, Baiqi Ning, Hisao Takahashi

“…Using the long‐term ground‐based GNSS receiver and ionosonde data collected in the Brazilian longitude sector during 2012–2020, an ionospheric strong scintillation prediction model based on the gradient boosting algorithms extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost), light gradient boosting machine (LightGBM), and CatBoost is created and tested. It is for the first time that the XGBoost, LightGBM, and CatBoost are utilized to predict the day‐to‐day occurrence of regional ionospheric scintillation during post‐sunset hours. …”
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Military medicine and morale: Perceptions of inequities in triage impact national security by Tanisha M. FAZAL, Jane L. SUMNER, Jessica KORONA-BAILEY, Tracey Pérez KOEHLMOOS

“…Women, married respondents, and those with a longer time in their unit had lower morale scores. Discussion: Respondents who received a randomly assigned prompt indicating that they would be less likely to receive medical care if injured on the battlefield report significantly lower levels of morale compared to respondents who did not receive this prompt. …”
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Correlation between macroscopic and microscopic mechanical behavior of tuff material under uniaxial compression by Jin Linlin, Ma Hongfa, Yu Jiang, Wang Feng, Yin Dawei, Qu Xiao, Yang Yingsong, Tao Minghao

“…Crack formation around mineral boundaries resulted in sharp increases in acoustic emission (AE) counts and slight stress fluctuations, whereas the development of shear cracks within minerals stabilized AE counts over time. Energy evolution patterns from numerical simulations mirrored experimental observations, highlighting energy accumulation in the pre-peak phase and rapid dissipation post-peak. …”
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