Development of a prognostic nomogram for ocular melanoma: a SEER population-based study (2000–2021) by Miyun Zheng, Miyun Zheng, Maodong Xu, Maodong Xu, Mengxing You, Mengxing You, Zhiqing Huang, Zhiqing Huang

“…The machine-learning model identified liver metastasis as the most significant predictor of survival, followed by age, radiotherapy, stage, and other factors that were incorporated into the nomogram. …”
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Development of volleyball skills in physical education lessons using visual imagery in 10-11-year-old schoolchildren by Iryna Krivyca, Olena Nesen, Yevheniia Strelnykova, Krzysztof Wnorowski

“…Ethical guidelines were followed throughout the study to ensure the well-being and safety of the participants. …”
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Risk Factors for the Occurrence of Depressive Disorders in Pediatric Patients With Tuberculosis by Mihailov OM, Stavar Matei L, Tocu G, Ciubara A, Mihailov R

“…It also seeks to correlate clinical and demographic data with CDI scores and evaluate changes over time to identify solutions that support early diagnosis and intervention.Results: Out of the initial 190 patients, 158 completed the CDI, as some did not return for follow-up evaluations or declined to participate. …”
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Current surgical treatment options for ocular complications of Stevens-Johnson and Lyell's syndromes by V.F. Chernysh, N.N. Haritonova, A.N. Kulikov, P.A. Kacherovich, A.A. Kol'bin

“…The authors emphasize that long-term follow-up by ophthalmologist will be required for patients who survived Stevens-Johnson and Lyell's syndromes. …”
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Assessing cardiovascular disease risk and social determinants of health: A comparative analysis of five risk estimation instruments using data from the Eastern Caribbean Health Out... by Jeremy I Schwartz, Christina Howitt, Sumitha Raman, Sanya Nair, Saria Hassan, Carol Oladele, Ian R Hambleton, Daniel F Sarpong, Oswald P Adams, Rohan G Maharaj, Cruz M Nazario, Maxine Nunez, Marcella Nunez-Smith

“…Framingham non-lab categorized the greatest percentage as high risk, followed by Framingham lab, ASCVD, WHO lab, and WHO non-lab. …”
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Is It Possible to Achieve Favorable Accelerated Dental Changes with No Periodontal Complications When Retracting Upper Anterior Teeth Assisted by Flapless Corticotomy Compared to T... by Hanin Nizar Khlef, Mohammad Younis Hajeer

“…The sample included 38 adult patients presenting with class II division 1 malocclusion (three males, 35 females; age range between 18 and 30 years), needing the extraction of upper first premolars followed by en-masse retraction. The sample was divided randomly and equally into two groups. …”
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Intestinal Parasitic Infections, Treatment and Associated Factors among Pregnant Women in Sao Tome and Principe: A Cross-Sectional Study by Alexandra Vasconcelos, Swasilanne Sousa, Nelson Bandeira, Marta Alves, Ana Luísa Papoila, Filomena Pereira, Maria Céu Machado

“…Ascaris lumbricoides (90.9%) was the most predominant parasite species identified followed by Trichuris trichiura (13.8%). Polyparasitism was observed in 25 cases (11.9%). …”
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Novel Poly-Arginine Peptide R18D Reduces α-Synuclein Aggregation and Uptake of α-Synuclein Seeds in Cortical Neurons by Emma C. Robinson, Anastazja M. Gorecki, Samuel R. Pesce, Vaishali Bagda, Ryan S. Anderton, Bruno P. Meloni

“…Methods: To induce intracellular α-syn aggregation, rat primary cortical neurons were exposed to α-syn seed (0.14 μM) for 2 h to allow uptake of the protein, followed by R18D treatment (0.0625, 0.125, 0.25, 0.5 μM), and a subsequent measurement of α-syn aggregates 48 h later using a homogenous time-resolved fluorescence (HTRF) assay. …”
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Sustainability of Mahogany Production in Plantations: Does Resource Availability Influence Susceptibility of Young Mahogany Plantation Stands to Hypsipyla robusta Infestation? by C. B. Darko, E. Opuni-Frimpong, S. A. Owusu, B. Kyere, A. J. Storer

“…K. grandifoliola recorded the fastest growth and most attacks followed by K. ivorensis and S. macrophylla. E. cylindricum recorded the least growth and no H. robusta infestation. …”
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Developing climate-resilient rice varieties (BRRI dhan97 and BRRI dhan99) suitable for salt-stress environments in Bangladesh. by Sanjoy K Debsharma, M Akhlasur Rahman, Mahmuda Khatun, Ribed F Disha, Nusrat Jahan, Md Ruhul Quddus, Hasina Khatun, Sharifa S Dipti, Md Ibrahim, K M Iftekharuddaula, Md Shahjahan Kabir

“…To assess the yield and stability, we used fifteen rice genotypes containing two tolerant checks BRRI dhan67, Binadhan-10 and the popular Boro rice variety BRRI dhan28 in different salinity "hotspot" in three successive years followed by additive main effects and multiplicative interaction (AMMI) model utilizing a randomized complete block (RCB) design with two replications. …”
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Kojic Acid Derivative as an Antimitotic Agent That Selectively Kills Tumour Cells by Giuseppina Pichiri, Marco Piludu, Terenzio Congiu, Nicole Grandi, Pierpaolo Coni, Monica Piras, Mariusz Jaremko, Joanna Izabela Lachowicz

“…The observed IC50 in tumoural cell lines were as follows: Caco2 (IC50 = 68.2 mM), SW480 (IC50 = 15.5 mM), and HT29 (IC50 = 4.7 mM). …”
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Mechanisms and thresholds of land use affecting surface water quality in Hangzhou City’s residential areas by Qianhu Chen, Jinye Huang

“…The conclusions are as follows: (1) Surface water pollution varied among different types of residential areas, with NH3-N and TP being the most significantly impacted indicators of water quality. (2) The development of set density and fragmentation of green space were the major reasons for the increase in pollutant concentration. …”
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Risk prediction models for stress urinary incontinence after pelvic organ prolapse (POP) surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Bi Jun Yu, Hao Chong He, Li Wang, Han Mei Shao, Ying Min Liu, Xiao Ying Yan, Jian Liu

“…Future research should follow TRIPOD and PROBAST principles, focus on addressing sources of heterogeneity, improve model development through robust designs, large sample sizes, comprehensive predictors, and novel modelling approaches, and validate tools that can be effectively integrated into clinical decision-making to manage stress urinary incontinence after pelvic floor reconstruction.…”
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Five lessons from a mid-level health manager intervention to increase uptake of tuberculosis prevention therapy in Uganda: ‘it is a completely different thing to implement what you... by Jason Johnson-Peretz, Canice Christian, Cecilia Akatukwasa, Fred Atwine, Elijah Kakande, Moses R. Kamya, Diane V. Havlir, Carol S. Camlin, Gabriel Chamie

“…The five practices were as follows: data-based decision-making, root-cause analysis, quality assurance, evidence-based empowerment, and sharing best practices with colleagues. …”
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How patients and informal caregivers can be trained to effectively contribute to improved quality of healthcare services: action research on the development of the Dutch Patient As... by Carolin Sehlbach, Sjim Romme, Max Hermans, Matthijs Hugo Bosveld, Angela Plak, Marloes Amantia van Bokhoven

“…Patients and informal caregivers who participated as patient and partner educators in health professions education in the Netherlands could participate.Intervention Participants followed the Patient As a Person Academy, a 15-week training programme that aims to prepare patients and informal caregivers to become patient partners.Results Participants reported that the Patient As a Person Academy’s focus on self-management skills, understanding healthcare professionals’ perspectives and communication skills helped them to engage in meaningful dialogue with healthcare professionals as patient partners and made them more confident in their roles. …”
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Description of a new surgical approach for elbow arthroplasty: Selective Triceps-On Medial Paraolecranon (STOMP) approach by Carlos Prada, MD, Sirat Khan, MBBS, PhD, Thomas Goetz, MD, Bashar Alolabi, MD, MSc

“…The main indications leading to elbow arthroplasty was rheumatoid arthritis (n = 18, 49%) followed by primary or secondary elbow osteoarthritis (n = 9, 24%) and distal humeral fracture (n = 7, 19%). …”
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Systemic nitric oxide metabolites and the chance of pre-diabetes regression to normoglycemia: A 9-year cohort study by Zahra Bahadoran, Parvin Mirmiran, Fereidoun Azizi, Asghar Ghasemi

“…Methods: This cohort study included 541 middle-aged Iranian men and women with Pre-DM, recruited in 2006-2008 and followed up to 2015-2017. The colorimetric Griess method was used to measure serum NOx concentration. …”
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Umbilical Cord Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Derived Small Extracellular Vesicles Deliver miR-21 to Promote Corneal Epithelial Wound Healing through PTEN/PI3K/Akt Pathway by Xiaolong Liu, Xuran Li, Guangyuan Wu, Pengfei Qi, Yanyan Zhang, Zhiyu Liu, Xinyue Li, Yu Yu, Xiangmei Ye, Yang Li, Dongguang Yang, Yueqiu Teng, Ce Shi, Xin Jin, Sen Qi, Yuting Liu, Shudan Wang, Ying Liu, Fenglin Cao, Qingran Kong, Zhenkun Wang, Hong Zhang

“…Full-length transcriptome sequencing was performed to identify the differentially expressed genes associated with HUMSC-sEVs treatment, followed by validation via real-time PCR and Western blot. …”
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Optimization of the Fermentation Process for Pine-needle Sweet-potato Glutinous Rice Wine and Analysis of Its Antioxidant Activity by Jie YOU, Rusheng XIE, Weibin WU

“…Results: The optimized fermentation conditions were as follows: pine needle mass addition of 3.3%, initial sugar content of 22.5°Bx, fermentation time of 7 d, yeast mass addition of 0.20%, solid (raw material mass):liquid (distilled water volume) ratio of 1:3 (g/mL), and fermentation temperature of 30 ℃. …”
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Worldwide Research Trends on Diabetic Foot Ulcers (2004–2020): Suggestions for Researchers by Pin Deng, Hongshuo Shi, Xuyue Pan, Huan Liang, Shulong Wang, Junde Wu, Wei Zhang, Fasen Huang, Xiaojie Sun, Hanjie Zhu, Zhaojun Chen

“…The University of Washington had the greatest number of publications within this time period (n=103), and it had the most cooperative units and was in the core position in all research institutions, followed by the University of Manchester (n=94) and the University of Miami (n=92). …”
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