Machine learning using random forest to model heavy metals removal efficiency using a zeolite-embedded sheet in water by N.D. Takarina, N. Matsue, E. Johan, A. Adiwibowo, M.F.N.K. Rahmawati, S.A. Pramudyawardhani, T. Wukirsari

“…Based on the random forest models, the important variables affecting copper removal efficiency using zeolite-embedded sheet were its contents in water, followed by water temperature and potential of hydrogen. …”
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Synergistic impact of Salmonella typhimurium and Eimeria spp. coinfection on turkey poults: Growth performance, salmonella colonization, and ceca microbiota insights by Hamid Reza Rafieian-Naeini, Hanseo Ko, Doyun Goo, Venkata Sesha Reddy Choppa, Seshidhar Reddy Gudidoddi, Hemanth Reddy Katha, Woo Kyun Kim

“…A total of 420 one-day-old male turkey poults were randomly allocated into six treatments, with five replicated cages for each treatment, over a 21-day experimental period. The study followed a 2 × 3 factorial design. Treatments consisted of NC, negative control without any challenge; T1, challenged with 8000 oocysts of E. meleagrimitis and E. adenoeides at d 8; T2, challenged with 16,000 oocysts of E. meleagrimitis and E. adenoeides at d 8; T3, challenged with nalidixic acid-resistant Salmonella typhimurium (ST) at d 0; T4, challenged with ST at d 0 and 8000 oocysts of E. meleagrimitis and E. adenoeides at d 8; T5, challenged with ST at d 0 and 16,000 oocysts of E. meleagrimitis and E. adenoeides at d 8. …”
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Risk factors and renal outcomes of AKI in children with secondary steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome by Nannan Yu, XiaoJun Ouyang, Jie Li, Jie Gao, Shuhan Zeng, Hongjie Zhuang, Mengjie Jiang, Yuxin Pei, Xiaoyun Jiang

“…Children in the AKI group were more likely to progress to ESKD compared with children in the non-AKI group (p = 0.017) with a median follow‐up of 48.5months.Conclusion AKI occurred in 39.0% of total hospitalizations associated with secondary SRNS. …”
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Function mechanism of turbulent eddy and process intensification of particle-bubble collision in fine mineral flotation by Xiaoheng LI, Hainan WANG, Kaixin ZHENG, Lijun WANG, Xiaokang YAN, Haijun ZHANG, Jiongtian LIU

“…Unlike conventional collision mineralization, particles locally follow micro-scale eddies during macroscopic motion with the mainstream flow field, while bubbles rotate with the eddy body in the high vorticity region and carry particles during their rotation. …”
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Early Prediction of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Rupture Risk Using Numerical Biomechanical Analysis by Kristina Grassl, Thomas C. Gasser, Florian K. Enzmann, Alexandra Gratl, Josef Klocker, David Wippel, David C. Walcher, Elke R. Gizewski, Sabine H. Wipper

“…The matching criteria were as follows: aneurysm diameter, sex, and time period between imagings. …”
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Establishment and Maintenance of a Digital Therapeutic Alliance in People Living With Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia: Two Exploratory Single-Arm Studies by Cassandra Snipes, Cornelia Dorner‑Ciossek, Brendan D Hare, Olya Besedina, Tim Campellone, Mariya Petrova, Shaheen E Lakhan, Abhishek Pratap

“…In study 2, the 3-week orientation phase was followed by an abbreviated active 4-week phase. Digital literacy at baseline was evaluated using the Mobile Device Proficiency Questionnaire (MDPQ). …”
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The hidden crisis: double burden of malnutrition among refugee children in South Asia – a systematic review and meta-analysis from observational studies by Pooja Panchal, Mohd Usman, Tajung Longkumer, Reshma Susan Babu, Mahalaqua Nazil Khatib, Shariza Abdul Razak, Kavitha Menon

“…The study aims to assess the prevalence of malnutrition among refugee children in South Asia.MethodsThis systematic review and meta-analysis followed the standard Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) 2020 guidelines using CoCoPop mnemonic approach. …”
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Phase II trial of nab-paclitaxel plus ramucirumab in combination with nivolumab for unresectable advanced or recurrent gastric cancer after progression on first-line treatment incl... by Hidekazu Hirano, Naoki Takahashi, Yusuke Amanuma, Nobumi Suzuki, Daisuke Takahari, Takeshi Kawakami, Chie Kudo-Saito, Kengo Nagashima, Narikazu Boku, Ken Kato, Hirokazu Shoji

“…Key eligibility criteria are as follows: (1) advanced gastric or esophagogastric junction cancer, (2) histologically confirmed diagnosis of adenocarcinoma, (3) refractory to first-line treatment including fluoropyrimidines, platinum, and an anti-PD-1/PD-L1 antibody, (4) performance status of 0–1, and (5) at least one measurable lesion. …”
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UX Evaluation with Standardized Questionnaires in Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence: A Systematic Literature Review by Ignacio Díaz-Oreiro, Gustavo López, Luis Quesada, Luis A. Guerrero

“…Europe is the region with the most extended use, followed by Asia. Within Europe, Germany greatly exceeds the rest of countries (RQ1). …”
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Testing a Web-Based Interactive Comic Tool to Decrease Obesity Risk Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Preadolescents: Randomized Controlled Trial by May May Leung, Katrina F Mateo, Marlo Dublin, Laura Harrison, Sandra Verdaguer, Katarzyna Wyka

“…MethodsA total of 89 Black or African American and Hispanic preadolescents with a mean age of 10.4 (SD 1.0) years from New York City participated in a pilot 2-group randomized study, comprising a 6-week intervention and a 3-month follow-up (T4) period. Of the 89 participants, 61% were female, 62% were Black, 42% were Hispanic, 53% were overweight or obese, and 34% had an annual household income of <US $20,000. …”
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'Which treatment do you believe you received?' A randomised blinding feasibility trial of spinal manual therapy by Javier Muñoz Laguna, Astrid Kurmann, Léonie Hofstetter, Emanuela Nyantakyi, Julia Braun, Lauren Clack, Heejung Bang, Mazda Farshad, Nadine E. Foster, Milo A. Puhan, Cesar A. Hincapié, the SALuBRITY Blinding Clinician Group

“…Results Of 85 adults screened, 81 participants were randomised (41 [51%] with SMT lifetime experience; 29 [39%] with recent LBP), and 80 (99%) completed follow-up. At study visit 1, 50% of participants in the active SMT arm (Bang BI: 0.50 [95% confidence interval (CI), 0.26 to 0.74]) and 37% in the placebo SMT arm (0.37 [95% CI, 0.10 to 0.63]) had a correct belief about their assigned intervention, beyond chance. …”
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Effects of the MyBFF@school obesity intervention program with nutrition education intervention on nutrition knowledge and attitude of secondary schoolchildren: a cluster randomized... by Rusidah Selamat, Junidah Raib, Nur Azlina Abdul Aziz, Norlida Zulkafly, Ainan Nasrina Ismail, W Nurul Ashikin W Mohamad, Ainol Aizuddin Zulkiply, Muhammad Yazid Jalaludin, Fuziah Md. Zain, Zahari Ishak, Abqariyah Yahya, Abdul Halim Mokhtar

“…The intervention group was given NEI consisting of a nutrition education module carried out by trained personnel for 24 weeks on top of the existing curriculum while the control group only followed the existing school curriculum by the Ministry of Education. …”
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Syphilis reactivity among blood donors in Brazil: associated factors and implications for public health monitoring by Natalia A. Braga, Sheila de Oliveira Garcia Mateos, Renata Buccheri, Vivian I. Avelino-Silva, Donald E. Warden, Cesar de Almeida-Neto, Maisa Ribeiro, Luiz Amorim, Paula Loureiro, Nelson Fraiji, Marcio K. Oikawa, Eduard Grebe, Mars Stone, Ester C. Sabino, Brian Custer, for the NHLBI Recipient Epidemiology and Donor Evaluation Study-IV-Pediatric (REDS-IV-P)

“…Methods Blood donations collected at five Brazilian blood centers between January 2020 and February 2022 were screened with treponemal or non-treponemal assays according to local protocols, followed by alternate Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA); samples with reactive or indeterminate results in the alternate ELISA were further tested with the rapid plasma reagin (RPR), and categorized as RPR-positive or RPR-negative. …”
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Identification and validation of BATF as a prognostic biomarker and regulator of immune cell infiltration in acute myeloid leukemia by Zhe Zhao, Dongmei Wang, Dongmei Wang, Xue Sheng, Shuying Li, Tingting Liu, Mengyuan Chang, Lei Feng, Di Zhang, Chunyan Ji, Chunyan Ji, Fei Lu, Jingjing Ye

“…To further investigate the mechanism of action of BATF in AML, RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) analysis was performed, followed by pathway enrichment analysis using Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathway analysis. …”
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Hybrid precoding and power allocation for mmWave NOMA systems based on time delay line arrays by Gangcan SUN, Xinli WU, Wanming HAO, Zhengyu ZHU

“…Methods:To reduce inter-user interference,an improved K-means algorithm is proposed to group users and select a cluster head for each group of users, which maximizes the correlation of user channels in the same cluster and reduces the correlation between users in different clusters as much as possible;Then,a low-complexity analog precoding is designed to maximize the array gain of the antenna based on the relevant user channel matrix composed of the cluster head set, followed by a digital precoding designed to eliminate inter-user interference with the maximum equivalent channel gain between beams using a forced-zero technique; Finally, an EE maximization problem is formed to optimize the transmit power under users'quality of services and total transmit power constraints,and a two-layer iterative algorithm is proposed for the resulting non-convex optimization problem. …”
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Associations of health literacy with metabolic status and quality of life among comunity patients with type 2 diabetes in Shanghai by YANG Liping, SONG Haihong, SHEN Jue, GAO Jinli, ZHANG Zhiping, QIAN Liuyu, GONG Huan

“…ObjectiveTo investigate the current status of health literacy among type 2 diabetes mellitus patients in Shanghai communities, to analyze its correlation with glycemic and lipid metabolic indicators and quality of life (QoL), and to provide an evidence for the development of effective intervention measures.MethodsA follow⁃up survey was conducted among diabetic patients diagnosed at hospitals above the secondary level from March to June, 2023, who were part of a diabetes cohort study jointly established by Songnan Community in Baoshan District and the Shanghai Institute of Endocrinology. …”
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Global vaccine research and application hotspots and trends: a systematic bibliometric analysis based on SCIE highly cited papers by Liming Liang, Xinyu Wang, Yue Zhu, Xu Xia, Runfeng Shi, Huilin Cao, Meixin He, Yuyu Wang, Caizhen You

“…The number of highly cited papers for vaccines peaked in 2021 and 2022, followed by a rapid decline. Highly cited papers came from 7133 institutions in 153 countries, and the most influential country in the field of vaccines was the USA, which published 1733 highly cited papers, accounting for 53.19% of the highly cited papers. …”
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HPLC and GC-MS analyses of phytochemicals from Ficus carica leaf extract and essential oil along with their antimicrobial properties by Maximilian Lackner, Abdelfattah Z.M. Salem, Mohamed Z.M. Salem, Abeer A. Mohamed, José Luis Ponce-Covarrubias, Shady Selim

“…The EO at 2000 μL/mL exhibited the maximum activity against P. carotovorum with an inhibition zone (IZ) value of 15.66 mm. This was followed by the ACE at 2000 μg/mL with IZ value of 14.66 mm. …”
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Comparative study of single-port single-channel and single-port multi-channel adrenalectomy in various maximum tumor diameters by Pengcheng Zhang, Yuhan Pei, Yunlai Zhi, Fanghu Sun, Ninghong Song

“…In Group C, no significant difference was observed between single-channel and multi-channel groups in terms of hospital stay, blood loss, pain score, incision length, vascular injury, and subcutaneous emphysema incidence (P > 0.05), but significant differences were found in operation time and the incidence of additional puncture holes (P < 0.05). Postoperative follow-up ranged from 4 to 22 months, with an average of 11.5 months, and no complications were observed. …”
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FKBP5 as a key regulator of metabolic processes in birds: Insights from chicken pectoral muscle by Pengfei Du, Xiangli Zhang, Yao Zhu, Ziyang Wang, Xuemeng Si, Huaiyong Zhang, Yanqun Huang, Wen Chen

“…However, FKBP5 expression in the pectoral muscle initially shows a slight drop, followed by a sharp increase over time after insulin administration (P < 0.01). …”
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