Efficacy and safety of non-pharmacological interventions for neonatal pain: an overview of systematic reviews by Xufei Luo, Qiao Shen, Zixuan Huang, Hongyao Leng, Xianlan Zheng

“…Objectives To synthesise current evidence from systematic reviews (SRs) regarding the efficacy and safety of non-pharmacological interventions to prevent and treat pain in newborn infants.Design Overview of SRs.Data sources We searched PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, CINAHL, Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Chinese Biomedical Literature Database (CBM), Wanfang Database, Chinese Science and Technology Periodical Database (VIP) and Google Scholar to identify all relevant SRs published in the last 5 years.Eligibility criteria for selecting studies We included SRs that evaluated the efficacy and safety of non-pharmacological interventions for neonatal pain.Data extraction and synthesis Two reviewers independently extracted the data, assessed the methodological quality using a Measurement Tool to Assess Systematic Reviews (AMSTAR) 2 and graded the evidence quality with the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE).Results A total of 29 SRs were included in this overview, of which 28 focused on procedural pain and only 1 focused on postoperative pain. …”
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Prevalence and clinicopathological Spectrum of Auto-Immune Liver Diseases & Overlap syndrome by Annapoorani Varadarajan, Archana Rastogi, Rakhi Maiwall, Chhagan Bihari, Sherin Thomas, Vikrant Sood, Saggere Muralikrishna Shasthry

“…Clinical, demographic, and laboratory parameters were retrieved. Two pathologists independently reviewed the liver biopsies and reassessed 18 histopathological parameters. …”
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“The Founder and Father of his Empire”: Voltaire on the Peace of Nystad and the Imperial Status of Russia by S. A. Mezin

“…According to Voltaire, the specific feature of the Russian Empire, created by Peter I, lies in the fact that it was a self-civilizing empire, bringing enlightenment on the neighboring «barbaric» peoples.The author of the paper, reviewing specific cases, arrives at a conclusion, that Voltaire’s works of high confidence for their time took a worthy standing in the world historiography of the Petrine era, due to a wide range of sources, the historian’s ability for their critical assessment, his seeking to maintain a certain evaluation independence in the description of events from different perspectives, his commitment to historical truth, his talent of a writer.The work is carried out within the project, aimed at publishing a first complete scientific edition of «The History of the Russian Empire under Peter the Great» in Russian.…”
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Deformation Failure and Support Test of Surrounding Rock in Deep Arched Roadway with Straight Wall by Shuqi Pan, Shuaitao Liu, Liming Cao, Jianqiang Guo, Chao Yuan

“…Later, a large-scale deep mine roadway simulation test system independently developed by the company was used to carry out the roadway deformation and failure test. …”
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Association of functional health literacy and cognitive ability with self-reported diabetes in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing: a prospective cohort study by Ian J Deary, Chloe Fawns-Ritchie, Jackie Price

“…Additionally adjusting for health behaviours and body mass index fully attenuated cross-sectional associations between functional health literacy and cognitive ability with diabetes status, and partly attenuated associations between functional health literacy and cognitive ability with self-reporting diabetes during follow-up.Conclusions Adequate functional health literacy and better cognitive ability were independently associated with lower likelihood of reporting diabetes.…”
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Elevated levels of serum alpha-2-macroglobulin associate with diabetes status and incident CVD in type 1 diabetes by Baohai Shao, Janet K. Snell-Bergeon, Ian H. de Boer, W. Sean Davidson, Karin E. Bornfeldt, Jay W. Heinecke

“…After adjusting for potential confounders, A2M independently predicted incident CVD, with a mean hazard ratio of 3.3 and 95% CI of 1.8–6.1. …”
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Strength and durability of indirect protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection through vaccine and infection-acquired immunity by Sophia T. Tan, Isabel Rodríguez-Barraquer, Ada T. Kwan, Seth Blumberg, Hailey J. Park, Justine Hutchinson, David Leidner, Joseph A. Lewnard, David Sears, Nathan C. Lo

“…Here, we show that both vaccine-derived and infection-acquired immunity independently yield indirect protection to close social contacts with key differences in their strength and waning. …”
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Milestones and Timescale of Poststroke Recovery: A Cohort Study by Marianna Loi, Alberto Zaliani, Marta Abbamonte, Elena P. Ferrari, Roberto Maestri, Luigi Trojano, Pietro Balbi

“…Moreover, two commonly used outcome measures, a measure of global functioning (Functional Independence Measure (FIM™)) and a measure of neurological poststroke deficit (Fugl-Meyer scale), were collected for the investigations of possible predictors. …”
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Substrate system outperforms water-culture systems for hydroponic strawberry production by George Kerrigan Hutchinson, Lan Xuan Nguyen, Zilfina Rubio Ames, Krishna Nemali, Rhuanito Soranz Ferrarezi

“…Both systems have been independently studied for CEA strawberry production, but direct comparisons between them are still limited. …”
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Reliability of the Cutting Alignment Scoring Tool (CAST) to Assess Trunk and Limb Alignment During a 45-Degree Side-Step Cut by Lauren S Butler, Eryn K Milian, Amie DeVerna, Kevin Latz, Henry B Ellis, Alexa R Martinez, Kristin Hayden, Christian Gerstenkorn, Sara C Carpenito, Charles W Wyatt, Dai Sugimoto

“… # Study Design Repeated Measures # Methods Ten videos of a 45-degree side-step cut performed by adolescent athletes were independently rated on two occasions by six raters (2 medical doctors, 2 physical therapists, and 2 athletic trainers). …”
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Integrated Serosurveillance of Infectious Diseases Using Multiplex Bead Assays: A Systematic Review by Selina Ward, Harriet L. S. Lawford, Benn Sartorius, Colleen L. Lau

“…In November and December 2023, four databases were searched for studies utilising MBAs for the integrated serosurveillance of infectious diseases. Two reviewers independently screened and extracted data regarding the study settings and population, methodology, seroprevalence results, and operational implementation elements. …”
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Impact of central corneal astigmatism on postoperative visual outcomes in patients undergoing trifocal intraocular lens implantation by Lan Wang, Jiaqi Meng, Jiao Qi, Dongling Guo, Yi Lu, Xiangjia Zhu

“…Percentages of spectacle independence and patient satisfaction did not differ between groups. …”
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Tapentadol Prolonged Release for Severe Chronic Osteoarthritis Pain in the Elderly—A Subgroup Analysis of Routine Clinical Practice Data by Andreas Schwittay, Melanie Sohns, Birgit Heckes, Christian Elling

“…However, the mean baseline pain intensity of 7.1 (SD 1.5) was reduced by 3.8 points (p≤0.001), and sleep and quality of life measures had also markedly improved in the elderly: quality of sleep by 3 points, quality of life by 3.4 points, social activities by 3 points, and independence by 2.7 points (p≤0.001 for all measures; 11-point scale). …”
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Conceptual Transformations of Public Diplomacy by M. M. Lebedeva

“…Today the situation is much more complicated: along with “trackers” within the framework of unofficial channels of public diplomacy, there are actors of world politics who have significant independence in the world arena and often pursue state policy at their own discretion. …”
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Senescence-related circRNA circHIF-1α is associated with pancreatic cancer progression by Hao Hua, Yazu Deng, Dijie Zheng, Changhao Wu, Liwen Chen, Binbin Shi, Zhiwei He, Chao Yu

“…High circHIF-1α expression levels were found to independently predict poor survival outcomes. Subsequent treatments with DOX and H2O2 resulted in significantly lower levels of circHIF-1α. …”
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Systematic review of innate immune responses against Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex infection in animal models by Luisa Maria Nieto Ramirez, Carolina Mehaffy, Karen Marie Dobos

“…We searched two databases: National Library of Medicine and Web of Science. Two researchers independently extracted data based on specific inclusion and exclusion criteria.ResultsEighty-three articles were reviewed. …”
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Association Between Walking Speed and Urinary Incontinence in the Older Women. Which Patients Should be Referred to Geriatricians? by Volkan Atmis, Basak Guler

“…Three hundred and eighty-nine old aged women admitted to the Geriatrics Department of Ankara University were enrolled and urinary incontinence and type of urinary incontinence, Handgrip strength test, Timed up and Go test, Katz Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living, Lawton Index of Instrumental Activities of Daily Living, Mini Nutritional Assessment, Mini-Mental State Evaluation, Geriatric Depression Scale, Body Mass Index (BMI) of these participants were recorded. …”
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Comparative efficacy and safety of neoadjuvant radiotherapy for patients with borderline resectable, and locally advanced pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: a systematic review and... by Xin Wang, Dan Cao, Qingfeng Wang, Qiancheng Hu, Wanrui Lv

“…Two reviewers will perform search strategies and extract data independently. R0 resection rate and local control rate are defined as primary outcomes. …”
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Allele-specific PCR with fluorescently labeled probes: criteria for selecting primers for genotyping by V. A. Devyatkin, A. A. Shklyar, A. Zh. Fursova, Yu. V. Rumyantseva, O. S. Kozhevnikova

“…We hope that the presented protocol will allow research groups to independently design their own effective assays for testing for polymorphisms of interest.…”
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Phosphate binder in dialysis: a cross-sectional study of patients' adherence and pill burden by Brunelle Bruna Scavello Coelho Ferezin, Luiza Karla Ramos Pereira de Araújo, Carolina Marquez Lima, Hugo Abensur, Benedito Jorge Pereira, Maria Aparecida Dalboni, Rosa Maria Affonso Moyses, Rosilene Motta Elias

“…Logistic regression showed that female sex (HR 3.30, 95% CI: 1.39–7.84, p = 0.007) and hemodialysis vs. peritoneal dialysis (HR 4.55, 95%, CI: 1.26–16.39, p = 0.021) remained independently associated with a non-adherence behavior. …”
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