Enhanced computerized cognitive remediation therapy improved cognitive function, negative symptoms, and GDNF in male long-term inpatients with schizophrenia by Peiyun Zhang, Lingyun Chen, Qianqian Qin, Chao Liu, Haijiao Zhu, Wenqing Hu, Wenqing Hu, Xinyu He, Kaihong Tang, Qi Yan, Hongmei Shen, Hongmei Shen

“…The CCRT intervention consisted of 40 individual 40-min sessions over 8 weeks, conducted five times a week. Psychiatric symptoms, cognition, and serum levels of BDNF and GDNF were assessed at baseline, 4 weeks, and 8 weeks.ResultsCompared to the control group, the CCRT group exhibited decreased total Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale and negative subscale scores, as well as increased Montreal Cognitive Assessment and Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status scores. …”
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20 kHz X-ray diffraction on Cu thin films explores thermomechanical fatigue at high strain-rates by T. Ziegelwanger, M. Reisinger, B. Vedad, K. Hlushko, S. Van Petegem, J. Todt, M. Meindlhumer, J. Keckes

“…Heating the Cu film for 500°C at the rapid heating rate of 106 K/s induced a compressive stress of up to –276 MPa, which is almost five times higher than the values measured using the wafer curvature method at the heating rate of 10−1 K/s. …”
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A Comparison of the Clinical and Epidemiological Profile of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever with Dengue and COVID-19 in Hospitalized Children, Sonora, México, 2015–2022 by Gerardo Álvarez-Hernández, Cristian Noé Rivera-Rosas, Jesús René Tadeo Calleja-López, Jehan Bonizú Álvarez-Meza, Maria del Carmen Candia-Plata, Denica Cruz-Loustaunau, Antonio Alvídrez-Labrado

“…The comparison of their main clinical and epidemiological manifestations in hospitalized children can help identify characteristics that improve empirical suspicion and timely therapeutic interventions. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on a series of patients aged 0 to 18 years, hospitalized between 2015 and 2022, with a diagnosis of RMSF, dengue, or COVID-19. …”
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Craniofacial Brown Tumor in Patients with Secondary Hyperparathyroidism to Chronic Renal Failure: Report of Two Cases in Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital by Diani Kartini, Maria K. Siswiandari, Gunawan Wibisana, Erwin D. Yulian, Ahmad Kurnia, Sonar S. Panigoro, Azdi Z. Albar, Muchlis Ramli

“…Dialysis is performed two times/week over the last 7 years. Our patients presented with an intraoral mass of the hard palate since 12 months ago and decreased body height of 10 cm. …”
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A Millimeter-Wave Single-Bit Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface With High-Resolution Beam-Steering and Suppressed Quantization Lobe by Aditya S. Shekhawat, Bharath G. Kashyap, Russell W. Raldiris Torres, Feiyu Shan, Georgios C. Trichopoulos

“…It consists of four metasurface tiles of 256 radiating elements (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$16\times 16$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) connected on a separate control board that houses the control unit and power supply. …”
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Efficient Production of Methyl Oleate Using a Biomass-Based Solid Polymeric Catalyst with High Acid Density by Anping Wang, Heng Zhang, Hu Li, Song Yang

“…Even if the mass of oleic acid in the reactant increased to 20 g, solid acid showed good catalytic performance, and the yield of methyl oleate was 94.4%. After four times of reuse, the yield of the catalyst can still reach 85.7%, which indicates that the catalyst has good catalytic activity and stability, and has potential application prospects.…”
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Effects of Motor Training on Accuracy and Precision of Jaw and Finger Movements by Yinan Chen, Song Wu, Zhengting Tang, Jinglu Zhang, Lin Wang, Linfeng Yu, Kelun Wang, Peter Svensson

“…Movements were repeated 10 times each. The variability in the amplitude of the movements was expressed as percentage in relation to the target position (Daccu—accuracy) and as coefficient of variation (CVprec—precision). …”
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Ferromagnetic Fe-TiO2 spin catalysts for enhanced ammonia electrosynthesis by Jingnan Wang, Kaiheng Zhao, Yongbin Yao, Fan Xue, Fei Lu, Wensheng Yan, Fangli Yuan, Xi Wang

“…Compared to conditions without an external magnetic field, the FE and NH3 yield for Fe-TiO2 under an external magnetic field is increased by ~21.8% and ~ 3.1 times, respectively. In-situ characterization and theoretical calculations show that spin polarization enhances the critical step of NO hydrogenation to NOH by optimizing electron transfer pathways between Fe and NO, significantly boosting NO3RR activity.…”
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CRISPR screen reveals modifiers of rAAV production including known rAAV infection genes playing an unexpected role in vector production by Emily E. O’Driscoll, Sakshi Arora, Jonathan F. Lang, Beverly L. Davidson, Ophir Shalem

“…However, manufacturing rAAV vectors is an expensive, timely, and labor-intensive process that limits the commercial use of AAV-mediated gene therapies. …”
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The protoplast two-way fusions and fusant characteristics of Antrodia cinnamomea and Cordyceps militaris by Wei-Kuang Lai, Yang-Chang Wu, Tai-Sheng Yeh, Chun-Ren Hsieh, Yi-Hong Tsai, Chien-Kei Wei, Chi-Ying Li, Ying-Chen Lu, Fang-Rong Chang

“…In comparison with the initial cultures of 4 fusants, the yields of adenosine, biomass, cordycepic acid, cordycepin, total polysaccharide, and total triterpenoids were increased up 1.305−50.1563 times in the optimal medium conditions. For gene stability tests, those of the four fusants and their outputs were stabilized within 10 generations.…”
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Parameter Distributions for the Drag‐Based Modeling of CME Propagation by Gianluca Napoletano, Raffaello Foldes, Enrico Camporeale, Giancarlo deGasperis, Luca Giovannelli, Evangelos Paouris, Ermanno Pietropaolo, Jannis Teunissen, Ajay Kumar Tiwari, Dario Del Moro

“…We here focus on the ensemble modeling of Coronal Mass Ejections (CME) arrival times and arrival velocities using a drag‐based model, which is well‐suited for this purpose due to its simplicity and low computational cost. …”
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The impact of long-term care insurance on the health status and healthcare expenditure of older adults in China by Ran An, Ran An, Ran An, Shujie Xiu, Xiaosheng Yang, Shishi Wang

“…These include consider the differences among the various pilot cities and social strata to allow policy adjustments and improvements in a timely, establish a dynamic and diversified long-term care insurance financing mechanism, encourage collaboration between medical institutions and elder care facilities, establish effective contact between LTCI and medical institutions, and use incentive policies such as tax relief to provide financial support and subsidies.…”
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Evaluation of an enhanced ResNet-18 classification model for rapid On-site diagnosis in respiratory cytology by Wei Gong, Deep K. Vaishnani, Xuan-Chen Jin, Jing Zeng, Wei Chen, Huixia Huang, Yu-Qing Zhou, Khaing Wut Yi Hla, Chen Geng, Jun Ma

“…Abstract Objective Rapid on-site evaluation (ROSE) of respiratory cytology specimens is a critical technique for accurate and timely diagnosis of lung cancer. However, in China, limited familiarity with the Diff-Quik staining method and a shortage of trained cytopathologists hamper utilization of ROSE. …”
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Burden and challenges in managing TB infection among people with occupational exposure to silica in India by B. Kalottee, P. Mahajan, A. Nuken, D. Nair, P. Thekkur, A.M.V. Kumar, V. Rai, M. Parmar, H. Solanki, R. Rao, S.K. Mattoo, R. Kumar

“…CONCLUSIONS: Compared to the general population, individuals with occupational exposure to silica have an almost two times higher prevalence of TBI. Further research is required to identify the threshold of silica exposure to be considered for screening for TBI. …”
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High throughput single cell metagenomic sequencing with semi-permeable capsules: unraveling microbial diversity at the single-cell level in sewage and fecal microbiomes by Meilee Ling, Judit Szarvas, Vaida Kurmauskaitė, Vaidotas Kiseliovas, Rapolas Žilionis, Rapolas Žilionis, Baptiste Avot, Baptiste Avot, Patrick Munk, Frank M. Aarestrup

“…In shallow sequencing data, we aimed for 10-times more cells and detected 12,731 and 17,909 SAGs, of which we used 2,456 and 1,599 for further analysis for sewage and fecal samples, respectively. …”
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Environmental sustainability of urban expansion: Implications for transport emissions, air pollution, and city growth by Susana Lopez-Aparicio, Henrik Grythe, Arkadiusz Drabicki, Konrad Chwastek, Kamila Toboła, Lidia Górska-Niemas, Urszula Kierpiec, Miha Markelj, Joanna Strużewska, Bartosz Kud, Gabriela Sousa Santos

“…In both city layouts, network-wide improvements of public transport travel times gave significantly reduced emissions. Combined, our findings highlight the importance of co-beneficial urban planning strategies to balance CO2 emissions reduction, and air pollution exposure in expanding cities.…”
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Poor Reporting of Outcomes Beyond Accuracy in Point-of-Care Tests for Syphilis: A Call for a Framework by Yalda Jafari, Mira Johri, Lawrence Joseph, Caroline Vadnais, Nitika Pant Pai

“…Point-of-care (POC) diagnostics for syphilis can contribute to epidemic control by offering a timely knowledge of serostatus. Although accuracy data on POC syphilis tests have been widely published, few studies have evaluated broader outcomes beyond accuracy that impact patients and health systems. …”
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Collision-Free Path-Planning for Six-DOF Serial Harvesting Robot Based on Energy Optimal and Artificial Potential Field by Lufeng Luo, Hanjin Wen, Qinghua Lu, Haojie Huang, Weilin Chen, Xiangjun Zou, Chenglin Wang

“…After obtaining the space coordinates of grape picking point and anticollision bounding volume, the path points were drew out by the proposed method. 10 times picking tests for grape anticollision path planning were implemented on the developed simulation system, and the success rate was up to 90%. …”
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Implementation of Antigen-Based Diagnostic Assays for Detection of Histoplasmosis and Cryptococcosis among Patients with Advanced HIV in Trinidad and Tobago: A Cross-Sectional Stud... by Ayanna Sebro, Jonathan Edwards, Omar Sued, Leon-Omari Lavia, Tricia Elder, Robert Jeffrey Edwards, Patrick Eberechi Akpaka, Nadia Ram-Bhola, Roanna Morton-Williams Bynoe, Yanink Caro-Vega, Isshad John, Freddy Perez

“…The findings underscore the critical role of systematic use of fungal antigen-based diagnostic assays among patients with AHD to improve the timely diagnosis and treatment of fungal infections among people living with HIV in resource-limited settings and to improve patient outcomes and survival.…”
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Ischemic Heart Disease Prognosis: A Hybrid Residual Attention-Enhanced LSTM Model by D. Cenitta, R. Vijaya Arjunan, Ganesh Paramasivam, N. Arul, Anisha Palkar, Krishnaraj Chadaga

“…Well-timed prediction and an accurate diagnosis of Ischemic Heart disease (IHD) can reduce the risk of death, whereas an inaccurate diagnosis can prove fatal. …”
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