Dependence of Water Vapour Adsorption on the Polarity of the Graphene Surfaces of Multi-Wall Carbon Nanotubes by Robert H. Bradley, Aurik Andreu, Kelby Cassity, Susan Osbeck, Rodney Andrews, Mark Meier, Colin Johnston

“…Those from the untreated materials follow the pressure axis which lends them a Type III character in the BDDT classification. …”
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CONTRIBUTION TO THE GEOCHEMICAL STUDY OF KANZI AND MVUANGU PHOSPHATE ROCKS IN THE LEMBA OIL SUB-BASIN OF CENTRAL CONGO by Deko Oyema Bruno, Emmanuel Kazinguvu Atibu, Dan Mandjumba Yenor, Dominique Wetshondo Osomba, Loma Wonga Mathias, John Pote Wembonyama

“…The results of the Chemical Analyses (Oxides) and Chemical Elements are as follows: (1) Major oxides (%:) Al2O3 (21,21 – 17,24); SiO2 (14,85 – 30,40); P2O5 (19,48 -13,34 %) finally Fe2O3 (8,544 – 10,74 %), and other oxides with concentrations in mg/kg (MnO, ZnO, Rb2O, SrO, ZrO2, Nb2O5, Sb2O5, Ta2O5); (2) Major Chemical Elements (%): Aluminum (11.22- 9.124); Silicon (6.939-14.21); Phosphate (8.5-5.823 %) and several trace metallic elements that will be exposed in another soil and sediment matrix to assess the state of the environment prior to mining and petroleum activities. …”
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Subcutaneous Fat Obesity in a High Body Mass Index Donor Is Not a Contraindication to Living Donor Hepatectomy by Hirak Pahari, Amey Sonavane, Amruth Raj, Anup Kumar Agrawal, Ambreen Sawant, Deepak Kumar Gupta, Amit Gharat, Vikram Raut

“…The donor was discharged on POD-6 and recipient was discharged on POD-15. At 3 weeks of follow-up, the donor’s wound is clean and well-healed, and she is already back to doing her daily life activities without any pain with normal laboratory parameters. …”
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Migration of Health Workers and Its Impacts on the Nigerian Health Care Sector: Protocol for a Scoping Review by David Omiyi, Ebenezer Arubuola, Marcus Chilaka, Md Shafiqur Rahman Jabin

“…MethodsThis study will follow the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology. A search strategy will retrieve published studies from MEDLINE, CINAHL, Embase, Global Health, Academic Search Premiere, and Web of Science. …”
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A preoperative predictive model based on multi-modal features to predict pathological complete response after neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy in esophageal cancer patients by Yana Qi, Yanran Hu, Chengting Lin, Ge Song, Liting Shi, Hui Zhu

“…BackgroundThis study aimed to develop a multi-modality model by incorporating pretreatment computed tomography (CT) radiomics and pathomics features along with clinical variables to predict pathologic complete response (pCR) to neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy in patients with locally advanced esophageal cancer (EC).MethodA total of 223 EC patients who underwent neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy followed by surgical intervention between August 2021 and December 2023 were included in this study. …”
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Analysis of argument structure constructions in the large language model BERT by Pegah Ramezani, Pegah Ramezani, Achim Schilling, Achim Schilling, Patrick Krauss, Patrick Krauss

“…Additionally, Fisher Discriminant Ratio (FDR) analysis of attention weights revealed that OBJ tokens had the highest FDR scores, indicating they play a crucial role in differentiating ASCs, followed by VERB and DET tokens. SUBJ, CLS, and SEP tokens did not show significant FDR scores. …”
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The Exposure Assessment in Current Time Study: Implementation, Feasibility, and Acceptability of Real-Time Data Collection in a Community Cohort of Illicit Drug Users by Gregory D. Kirk, Beth S. Linas, Ryan P. Westergaard, Damani Piggott, Robert C. Bollinger, Larry W. Chang, Andrew Genz

“…Four sequential field trials targeting observation of 30 individuals followed for a four week period. Participants. Participants were recruited from an ongoing community-cohort of current or former injection drug users. …”
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Valuation method for sub-indicators of rock burst risk based on mining depth and tectonic stress by Zhen LI, Guanyang WU, Shangjin SI, Xin GAO, Xun LIU, Dongdong ZHANG, Chengxiang ZHANG, Jiachen LIU

“…Finally, a new sub-indicator of rock burst risk index based on mining depth and geostress was proposed. The results are as follows. Firstly, the high geostress behavior and dynamic instability of coal-rocks are generally obvious in the rock burst. …”
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Antioxidant and antibacterial activity of red seaweed Kappaphycus alvarezii against pathogenic bacteria by P. Bhuyar, M.H. Rahim, S. Sundararaju, G.P. Maniam, N. Govindan

“…Among the fatty acids determined levoglucosenone and 4-Pyridinemethanol were present in high percentages in hot water extract whereas Hexamethyl- cyclotrisiloxane followed by 1, 2, 5- Thiadiazole-3-carboxamide, 4-[(2-chloroethyl) amino]-N-(2-hydroxyethyl) were present in ethanolic extract of <em>K. alvarezi. …”
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Recreational prescription opioid misuse among college students in the USA: An application of the theory of planned behavior by Robert E. Davis, Martha A. Bass, Mary A. Ford, John P. Bentley, KoFan Lee, Nicole A. Doyle

“…Descriptive norms had the strongest relationship to intention (OR = 1.37, 95% CI 1.23 to 1.54, P < .001), followed by subjective norms (OR = 1.33, 95% CI 1.20 to 1.48, P < .001), and finally attitude (OR = 1.13, 95% CI 1.09 to 1.17, P <.001). …”

A Personalized Muscle–Tendon Assessment and Exercise Prescription Concept Reduces Muscle–Tendon Imbalances in Female Adolescent Athletes by Theresa Domroes, Kolja Weidlich, Sebastian Bohm, Falk Mersmann, Adamantios Arampatzis

“…A control group (n = 15) followed their usual training. In the intervention group, athletes with a deficit in tendon stiffness (strain ≥ 9%; n = 6) or no muscle–tendon imbalances (strain between 4.5% and 9%; n = 15) performed exercises (3x/week for 32 weeks) with a personalized load to reach ~ 6.2% tendon strain to predominantly promote tendon or both muscle and tendon adaptation. …”
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Re-Engagement in Physical Activity Slows the Decline in Older Adults’ Well-Being – A Longitudinal Study by Hon Lon Tam PhD, Kai Chow Choi PhD, Ying Lau PhD, Leona Yuen Ling Leung DN, Alex Siu Wing Chan PhD, Lilin Zhou BSc, Eliza Mi Ling Wong PhD, Jonathan Ka Ming Ho DN

“…Among the 3300 older adults (50.5% men; age 66.9 ± 5.7 years) during the five years of follow-up, engagement in physical activity increased from 31.7% to 59.6%. …”
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Effectiveness of direct patient outreach with a narrative naloxone and overdose prevention video to patients prescribed long-term opioid therapy in the USA: the Naloxone Navigator... by Jason M Glanz, Ingrid A Binswanger, Shane R Mueller, Komal J Narwaney, Nicole M Wagner, Stanley Xu, Courtney R Kraus, Kris Wain, Sheila Botts

“…The 6 min video was designed to educate patients about opioid overdose and naloxone, increase overdose risk perception and prompt them to purchase naloxone from the pharmacy. Over an 8-month follow-up, opioid risk behaviour was assessed with the Opioid-Related Behaviours in Treatment survey instrument, and overdose and naloxone knowledge was measured with the Prescription Opioid Overdose Knowledge Scale after viewing the video at baseline. …”
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Protocol for faecal microbiota transplantation in irritable bowel syndrome: the MISCEAT study – a randomised, double-blind cross-over study using mixed microbiota from healthy dono... by Lenka Kramna, Ondrej Cinek, Jakub Hurych, Jiri Vejmelka, Lucie Hlinakova, Vladyslav Larionov, Michal Kulich, Pavel Kohout

“…Food records, dietary questionnaires, anthropometry, bioimpedance, biochemistry and haematology workup will be obtained at study visits during the follow-up period. The primary outcome is the change in the IBS-SSS between the baseline and 4 weeks after the intervention for each patient compared with placebo. …”
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Correlation Analysis of Twig and Leaf Characteristics and Leaf Thermal Dissipation of <i>Hippophae rhamnoides</i> in the Riparian Zone of the Taohe River in Gansu Province, China by Qun Li, Min Ma, Yurui Tang, Tingting Zhao, Chengzhang Zhao, Bo Li

“…<b>Important Findings</b>: The results are as follows: from the full sight zone to the canopy cover zone, the population characteristics and the twig, leaf, and photosynthetic fluorescence physiological characteristics of <i>H. rhamnoides</i> demonstrated significant changes (<i>p</i> < 0.05). …”
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External validation and revision of the Lafontaine criteria for unstable distal radius fractures: a retrospective study by Pornpanit Dissaneewate, Phatklao Thanavirun, Yanin Tangjaroenpaisan, Kantapon Dissaneewate

“…Patients who underwent immediate surgery, were lost to follow-up before 4 weeks, or had unacceptable alignment after reduction were excluded. …”
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Travoprost Intracameral Implant in Eyes with Glaucoma or Ocular Hypertension: Early Short-Term Real-World Outcomes by Teymoorian S, Kaur J

“…In the consistent cohort of eyes with 3-month follow-up data (n=54), mean IOP reduced from 19.6± 3.8 mmHg preoperatively to 13.1± 2.5 mmHg at 3 months (33.2% reduction, p=0.001). …”
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Evaluation of choices and time spent on an open online elective course by undergraduate medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic by Z Mfeka, A Turner, J E Wolvaardt, D Muganhiri

“…Students in both years reported spending the most average time on courses related to clinical knowledge (Healthcare Practitioner), followed by financial literacy and management (Professional), diversity management (Collaborator), and priority actions to identify and/or respond to (Health Advocate). …”
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Predictive Value of Initial 18F-FDG PET/CT for Identifying EGFR and KRAS Mutations in Patients with Non-small-cell Lung Cancer by Ozge Vural Topuz, Nur Buyukpinarbasili

“…Groups were based on gene mutation status as follows: EGFR-mutations (mt) vs. EGFR wild-type (EGFR-wt) and KRAS-mt vs. …”
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Prescription pattern, glycemic control status, and predictors of poor glycemic control among diabetic patients with comorbid chronic kidney disease in Ethiopia: a facility-based cr... by Oumer Sada Muhammed, Minimize Hassen, Samuel Mamusha

“…Methods A facility-based cross-sectional study was conducted from March 15 to May 15, 2024, from the electronic medical records of diabetic patients with comorbid chronic kidney disease who had received regular treatment and follow-up at the adult diabetes mellitus clinic of Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital. …”
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