Assessing the Accuracy of Dermoscopy for Scabies Diagnosis in Dark African Skin by Nkechi Anne Enechukwu, Ikenna Akuakolam, Iloduba N Aghanya, Chetanna C Anaje, Ogochukwu I Ezejiofor, Enzo Errichetti

“…While definitive diagnosis involves identifying adult mites, eggs, or scybala from the microscopy of scrapings obtained from representative sites; it is invasive, time-consuming and not feasible in very young or non-cooperating patients. …”
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Evaluating the effectiveness of a mental health literacy module - A randomized controlled trial among school teachers by Vidya Prabhu, Lena Ashok, Veena Ganesh Kamath, Amitha Puranik, Sebastian Padickaparambil, Nikitha Sibil Rebello, Praveen Arhanthabailu, Varalakshmi Chandrasekaran

“…Repeated measures ANOVA adjusted for cluster effect was used to assess the change in knowledge, management, attitudes and beliefs over time in the intervention arm. Results: Significant improvement was observed in the intervention arm as compared to the control arm across the domains of knowledge and attitudes and beliefs with an increase in mean knowledge score of 3.34 (95 % CI: 2.14 to 4.55 p < 0.001) and an increase in mean attitudes and beliefs score of 0.95 (95 % CI: 0.42 to 1.49 p < 0.001). …”
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Bioactive potential and storage behavior of low molecular mass peptides in Pilsner and IPA style craft beers by Roberta Nogueira Pereira da Silva, Angelica Priscila Parussolo Tonin, Gabriela Soares Macello Ramos, Juliana Furtado Dias, Eduardo Cesar Meurer, Maria Gabriela Bello Koblitz

“…Pilsner beers, typically clear due to added chill-proofing proteases, showed reduced peptide intensity over time, whereas IPA, which often remains hazy and lacks such enzymes, exhibited increased peptide levels. …”
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PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors related adverse events: A bibliometric analysis from 2014 to 2024 by Qingya Song, Zongliang Yu, Wenping Lu, Zhili Zhuo, Lei Chang, Heting Mei, Yongjia Cui, Dongni Zhang

“…The USA ranked first in publication count and total citations. Over time, publication types transitioned from case reports to clinical trials. …”
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Ethnic Architectural Heritage Identification Using Low-Altitude UAV Remote Sensing and Improved Deep Learning Algorithms by Ting Luo, Xiaoqiong Sun, Weiquan Zhao, Wei Li, Linjiang Yin, Dongdong Xie

“…First, UAV images are used as the data source to provide high-resolution images for research on ethnic architecture recognition and to solve the problems associated with the high costs, time consumption, and destructiveness of traditional methods for ethnic architecture recognition. …”
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Increasing Safety of Vulnerable Road Users in Scenarios With Occlusion: A Collaborative Approach for Smart Infrastructures and Automated Vehicles by Thiago de Borba, Ondrej Vaculin, Hormoz Marzbani, Reza Nakhaie Jazar

“…It allows AVs to react to a critical situation with a longer time-to-collision than other systems relying only on onboard sensors, increasing the chance of successful avoidance even when implementing smoother maneuvers. …”
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Features of the initial stage of digitalization of the executive authority of Ukraine: historical and legal overview by E. Najafli

“…It is highlighted that this process continued within the stage of primary digitalization (1993–2003) without a clear conceptual vision of its political and legal essence, specificity and purpose of digitalization of the executive power, and its deployment in these conditions coincided in time with the unfinished institutionalization of the system of executive power bodies in Ukraine, which was determined first by the incompleteness of the constitutional process and the conceptual ambiguity of the constitutional model of the executive power system institutionalized in Ukraine (until 1996), and later by attempts to combine the digitalization of the executive power with attempts to reform it within the framework of the administrative reform paradigm (since 1998). …”
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Evaluation of the effectiveness of the Iran-package of essential non-communicable disease (IraPEN) program in reducing cardiovascular disease risk in pilot areas by Somayeh Derakhshan, Davood Khalili, Alireza Mahdavi, Seyed-Saeed Hashemi-Nazari, Amir Kavousi, Fatemeh Hadavandsiri, Afshin Ostovar, Koorosh Etemad

“…The trend analysis of risk factors over time confirmed these findings. Conclusion The program was modestly effective in reducing CVD risk in the pilot areas. …”
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Stability prediction of circular sliding failure soil slopes based on a genetic algorithm optimization of random forest algorithm by Shengming Hu, Yongfei Lu, Xuanchi Liu, Cheng Huang, Zhou Wang, Lei Huang, Weihang Zhang, Xiaoyang Li

“…However, due to the hidden, sudden, and uncertain nature of landslide disasters, traditional geological survey and investigation methods are time-consuming and laborious, and it is difficult to timely and accurately investigate and predict slope stability over a large area. …”
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Radiochemistry and Preclinical PET Imaging of Ga-Desferrioxamine Radiotracers Targeting Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen by Eleni Gourni PhD, Luigi Del Pozzo BSc, Mark Bartholomä PhD, Yvonne Kiefer BSc, Philipp T. Meyer MD, PhD, Helmut R. Maecke PhD, Jason P. Holland D.Phil

“…Compared to 68 Ga-1, 68 Ga-4 and 68 Ga-7 resulted in decreased tumor uptake but enhanced blood pool clearance and reduced residence time in the kidney. The study highlights the importance of maximizing protein binding affinity during radiotracer optimization.…”
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Kinetics of carbon dioxide, methane and hydrolysis in co-digestion of food and vegetable wastes by D. Pham Van, M.G. Hoang, S.T. Pham Phu, T. Fujiwara

“…Thus, separation of fermentation and methanogenesis by various reactors may reduce the price of methane enrichment significantly. There was a lag time between methanogenesis and fermentation in reactors (λ = 7-11 days). …”
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The learning curve for laparoscopic-assisted single-port mediastinoscopic esophagectomy: an analysis of proficiency by Wenhao Li, Xiangfeng Gan, Liangzhan Lv, Yingmeng Wu, Weizhao Huang, Yi Liang, Qingdong Cao

“…Compared with the preliminary stage, the procedure time [275 (250–300) vs 178.5 (161.5–205.0) min, P < .001], bleeding volume [100 (100–200) vs 50 (50–80) mL, P < .001], postoperative hospital stays [15 (13–31) vs 13 (11–17) d, P = .006], and the incidence of anastomotic fistula(20.9% vs 5.2%, P = .017) were significantly lower in the proficiency stage, whereas the number of harvested total lymph nodes [17 (12–23) vs 22 (16–29), P = .002], total mediastinal lymph nodes [7 (5–11) vs 13 (9–18), P < .001] and the rate of recurrent laryngeal nerve lymph node harvest (71.4% vs 96.6%, P < .001) was significantly higher. …”
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Impact of non-participation bias due to psychiatric illness on mortality and cardiovascular event estimates: a Danish longitudinal population study by Christian Torp-Pedersen, Mads Rasmussen, Christina Ellervik, Anders Jorgensen, Henrik E Poulsen, Zerlina Rygner

“…Here, we investigate the mental health bias in a population study and the potential impact on estimates of cardiovascular morbidity and overall survival.Design Data were retrieved from nationwide registries.Setting The Danish General Suburban Population Study (GESUS), a cross-sectional community study conducted in Naestved Municipality, Denmark, from 2010 to 2013.Participants 49 707 subjects invited to participate in GESUS.Main outcome measures Factors related to non-participation were examined using multivariable logistic regression and time-to-event data using Cox proportional hazards models.Results Of 21 203 (43%) participants, 823 (3.9%) had a psychiatric diagnosis. …”
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Relationship between serum insulin-like growth factor 1 levels and ischaemic stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Jinhui Li, Simiao Chen, Lan He, Yangni Li, Weinan Yang, Yishu Zhang, Lincheng Zhang, Yuyan Zhang

“…According to subgroup analysis, heterogeneity comes from country, sample size, male and the time from symptom onset to blood collection. Sensitivity analysis showed that there was no significant influence of any individual study on the pooled MD. …”
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Clinical Comparative Study of Intravitreal Injection of Triamcinolone Acetonide and Aflibercept in the Treatment of Diabetic Retinopathy Cystoid Macular Edema by Yanxia Zhu, Jun Li, Songping Yu, Bangxun Mao, Jia Ying

“…The times of drugs injection and occurrence of adverse reactions in both groups were statistically analyzed. …”
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Algorithm of Strawberry Disease Recognition Based on Deep Convolutional Neural Network by Li Ma, Xueliang Guo, Shuke Zhao, Doudou Yin, Yiyi Fu, Peiqi Duan, Bingbing Wang, Li Zhang

“…However, the traditional identification methods have high misjudgment rate and poor real-time performance. In today's era of increasing demand for strawberry yield and quality, it is obvious that the traditional strawberry disease identification methods mainly rely on personal experience and naked eye observation and cannot meet the needs of people for strawberry disease identification and control. …”
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Dinamika dan Profil Undecided Voters Menjelang Pemilu 2024 di Indonesia by Vincentius Gitiyarko Priyatno

“…Unlike abstaining from voting (golput), this position is more temporary, given that there is still time to consider their options for the upcoming elections. …”
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Application of human-in-the-loop hybrid augmented intelligence approach in security inspection system by Ying Huang, Ying Huang, XiaoKan Wang, XiaoKan Wang, Yong Zhang, Yong Zhang, Li Chen, Li Chen, HongJi Zhang

“…Additionally, it is less time-consuming, further improving the system’s overall efficiency. …”
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Tibiofemoral Joint Contact Force Estimation Based on OpenSim Musculoskeletal Modeling by WANG Xiaoling, JIAN Jiawei, XIE Qiurong, LIAN Zhanghui, GUO Chunming, GUO Jiemei, LI Yurong

“…The root mean square error of the estimated and measured peak contact force of the medial and lateral sides were 0.43±0.25 BW and 0.34±0.24 BW, and the errors at the time of peak contact force onset were 44.09±34.66 ms and 67.52±61.19 ms. …”
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Risk Factors of Upper Limb Lymphedema after Breast Cancer Surgery in Women by Jinghui HUANG, Feng HUANG, Pei ZHU, Shuainan SHEN, Kefan CAO, Cheng LIU, Fanfu FANG, Bai LI

“….), the tumor data (pathological type, stage, postoperative hormone receptor, the Her-2, number of lymph node dissection, number of positive lymph nodes, etc.) and the treatment data (surgery way, axillary lymph node processing way, whether to accept radiation therapy, whether to accept postoperative chemotherapy, chemotherapy program, chemotherapy cycles, whether to accept endocrine therapy, endocrine medication and medication time, etc.), establishing the clinical data bases of BCRL. …”
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