Anti-HBs Positivity Related to Past HBV Infection and Vaccination in Older Adults in Polish Population—Cohort-Based Study by Katarzyna Zięba, Kacper Jagiełło, Joanna Musialik, Łukasz Wierucki, Adam Hajduk, Małgorzata Mossakowska, Jerzy Chudek

“…Female gender, living in a town or city, having better education, and suffering from coronary artery disease, or depression independently increased the rate of past hepatitis B. …”
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Fetal-BET: Brain Extraction Tool for Fetal MRI by Razieh Faghihpirayesh, Davood Karimi, Deniz Erdogmus, Ali Gholipour

“…<italic>Results:</italic> Evaluations on independent test data, including data available from other centers, show that our method achieves accurate brain extraction on heterogeneous test data acquired with different scanners, on pathological brains, and at various gestational stages. …”
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Discrete vulnerability to pharmacological CDK2 inhibition is governed by heterogeneity of the cancer cell cycle by Vishnu Kumarasamy, Jianxin Wang, Michelle Roti, Yin Wan, Adam P. Dommer, Hanna Rosenheck, Sivasankar Putta, Alec Trub, John Bisi, Jay Strum, Patrick Roberts, Seth M. Rubin, Costakis Frangou, Karen McLean, Agnieszka K. Witkiewicz, Erik S. Knudsen

“…In cancer models that are genetically independent of CDK2, pharmacological inhibitors suppress cell proliferation by inducing 4N cell cycle arrest and increasing the expressions of phospho-CDK1 (Y15) and cyclin B1. …”
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Prevalence of undernutrition and associated factors among adolescent pregnant women in Dolo-Ado town, Somali region, Ethiopia by Abdirahman Ahmed, Abdulkarim Mohammed, Mahamed Dol Ateye, Saleha Abdusamed

“…Descriptive statistics were used for data description, and binary logistic regression was performed to explore the associations between independent and dependent variables. Results A total of 380 pregnant adolescents participated, achieving a 100% response rate. …”
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Optimization of microstructure for HRE-free Nd-Fe-B magnets with improved properties by Yuxin Zhao, Rui Han, Meng Zheng, Xun Duan, Xiaoning Shi, Xianjun Hu, Hongsheng Chen, Dong Zhou, Shengzhi Dong, Wei Li

“…Furthermore, first-order reversal curve (FORC) analysis confirmed that the fine-crystalline magnets exhibit superior temperature stability, attributed to a reduced local demagnetization field and a more independent demagnetization process.…”
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Pedobarographic Measurements of Rheumatoid Feet Compared with Clinical Parameters by Yasemin YUMUSAKHUYLU, Bilinc DOGRUOZ KARATEKIN, Selin TURAN TURGUT, Afitap ICAGASIOGLU, Esra SELIMOGLU, Sadiye MURAT, Esen KASAPOGLU, Bekir TURGUT

“…Rheumatoid feet investigation showed that foot involvement is independent of the disease duration, whereas midfoot plantar pressures are associated with the body mass index. …”
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State of the literature discussing smoke-free policies globally: A narrative review by Jacqueline A. Teed, Meagan O. Robichaud, Michelle Duren, Hebe N. Gouda, Ryan David Kennedy

“…The search identified 4469 unique citations; 134 articles met the criteria for inclusion and underwent data extraction by two independent coders. The sample included articles published in or about jurisdictions in each WHO region, in high- and low- and mediumincome countries, and articles that discussed policies regulating smoke-free indoor workplaces, indoor public places, public transport, outdoor/quasi-outdoor environments, and other (unspecified) public places. …”
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Exploring the significance of medical humanities in shaping internship performance: insights from curriculum categories by Chao Ting Chen, Anna Y.Q. Huang, Po-Hsun Hou, Ji-Yang Lin, His-Han Chen, Shiau-Shian Huang, Stephen J. H. Yang

“…In addition, multiple variables regression was done to know the independent impact of MH on internship grades.Results MH showed the important roles in predicting internship performance in the machine learning model, with substantially reduced predictive accuracy after excluding MH variables (e.g. …”
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Clinical utility of receptor status prediction in breast cancer and misdiagnosis identification using deep learning on hematoxylin and eosin-stained slides by Gil Shamai, Ran Schley, Alexandra Cretu, Tal Neoran, Edmond Sabo, Yoav Binenbaum, Shachar Cohen, Tal Goldman, António Polónia, Keren Drumea, Karin Stoliar, Ron Kimmel

“…For development and validation, we collected 19,845 slides from 7,950 patients across six independent cohorts representative of diverse clinical settings. …”
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A Bioclinical Pattern for the Early Diagnosis of Cardioembolic Stroke by Bruno Zecca, Clara Mandelli, Alberto Maino, Chiara Casiraghi, Giovanbattista Bolla, Dario Consonni, Paola Santalucia, Giuseppe Torgano

“…At multiple logistic regression NT-proBNP>200 pg/mL, G/A ratio>0.70, and NIHSS score were independent predictors of cardioembolic stroke with high accuracy of the model, either including (AUC, 0.91) or excluding (AUC, 0.84) atrial fibrillation. …”
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Instagram Versus Reality: Who Are Actually Plastic Surgeons? by Nikhi P. Singh, MD, MBA, Mary M. Holohan, MD, Cameron Harmon, BS, Kasra N. Fallah, MD, Jeffrey Gross, MD, Aadarsh Patel, MD, Carter J. Boyd, MD, MBA, Matthew R. Greives, MD, MS, Jorge de la Torre, MD, MSHA, Gayle Gordillo, MD, Timothy W. King, MD, PhD

“…Most attended medical school in the United States (93%), a minority received integrated plastic surgery training in the United States (14%), and the majority attended general surgery residency in the United States (57%) followed by independent plastic surgery residency in the United States (50%). …”
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Atypical Mucin Expression Predicts Worse Overall Survival in Resectable Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma by Yunzhen Qian, Yitao Gong, Yu Liu, Yusheng Chen, Ruijie Wang, Zhengjie Dai, Xuan Zou, Yesiboli Tasiheng, Guopei Luo, Xuan Lin, Xu Wang, He Cheng, Xianjun Yu, Chen Liu

“…MUC1 absence or MUC2 presence is independently associated with poor OS among patients with resectable PDAC. …”
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A Complementary Low Schottky Barrier Nonvolatile Bidirectional Reconfigurable Field Effect Transistor Based on Dual Metal Silicide S/D Contacts by Liu Xi, Ya Wang, Meile Wu, Lin Qi, Mengmeng Li, Shouqiang Zhang, Xiaoshi Jin

“…Instead of a program gate (PG) of conventional BRFET which needs independent power supply, the SFG and DFG of the proposed CLSB-NBRFET can be programmed by the CG itself. …”
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Machine learning based predictive model and genetic mutation landscape for high-grade colorectal neuroendocrine carcinoma: a SEER database analysis with external validation by Ruixin Wu, Ruixin Wu, Sihao Chen, Sihao Chen, Yi He, Yi He, Ya Li, Song Mu, Aishun Jin, Aishun Jin

“…The external validation cohort was sourced from two tertiary hospitals in Southwest China. Independent factors influencing both overall survival (OS) and cancer-specific survival (CSS) were identified using LASSO, Random Forest, and XGBoost regression techniques. …”
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Predicting Outcomes in Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Using scRNA‐Seq and Bulk RNA‐Seq: A Model Development and Validation Study by Jiaqi Zhang, Shunzhe Song, Yuqing Li, Aixia Gong

“…The RS was established as an independent risk factor for predicting prognosis. These findings may enhance understanding of ESCC's molecular profile and serve as a new prognostic tool for better patient stratification and treatment planning in clinical practice.…”
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Professional propaedeutic council in the university by N. N. Malyarchuk, G. M. Krinitzyna, E. V. Pashchenko, V. V. Pivnenko

“…Today, different levels of government have declared the need for providing professional working capacity of people with disabilities in order to become socially and financially independent and avoid social dependence; at the higher vocational school, there is a change vector for social policy concerning this category of citizens – from delivery of educational services to reorientation to their socialisation. …”
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A scoping review on the impact of women’s global leadership: evidence to inform health leadership by Anna Kalbarczyk, Rosemary Morgan, Kelly E Perry, Katherine Banchoff, Charlotte Pram Nielsen, Anju Malhotra

“…Such investments must not only target individual women, but also seek to foster organisational cultures that promote and retain women leaders and support their independent decision-making.…”
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Both CYP2C19 and PON1 Q192R Genotypes Influence Platelet Response to Clopidogrel by Thrombelastography in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome by Wenxing Peng, Xiujin Shi, Xiaoyu Xu, Yang Lin

“…In addition, both LOF CYP2C19 and PON1 192R variants are independent risk factors of HPR, which is measured by the relative platelet inhibition.…”
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Extrapolating Prognostic Factors of Primary Curative Resection to Postresection Recurrences Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatable by Radiofrequency Ablation by Hui Ma, Zhongchen Li, Jia Yuan, Lan Zhang, Xiaoying Xie, Xin Yin, Rongxin Chen, Zhenggang Ren

“…On multivariate analyses, the pathologic tumor grade (p=0.026 and p=0.038) and recurrence-free survival after primary curative resection (p=0.028 and p<0.001) emerged as independent risk factors of survival and HCC recurrence. …”
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Quality of Life Philosophy IV. The Brain and Consciousness by Søren Ventegodt, Niels Jørgen Andersen, Joav Merrick

“…Roughly speaking, you can envision a single nerve cell as a tiny, independent computer whose behavior is dependent on continuous calculations of all input. …”
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