Efficacy of Human-Recombinant Epidermal Growth Factor Combined with Povidone-Iodine for Pressure Ulcers and Its Influence on Inflammatory Cytokines by Zunjiang Zhao, Dalun Lv, Baode Zhang, Liu Yong, Rongtao Zhang, Xiukun Wang

“…Of them, 50 patients who received conventional treatment were assigned to the control group (Con group), while 55 patients treated with rh-EGF combined with PVI were assigned to the observation group (Obs group). The two groups were compared in clinical efficacy, PU alleviation (total area reduction rate, total depth reduction rate, and total volume reduction rate), healing time, pain degree (Visual Analog Scale [VAS] score), inflammatory indexes (interleukin-8 [IL-8], tumor necrosis factor-α [TNF-α], and hypersensitive C reactive protein [hs-CRP]), and hydroxyproline content in the wound. …”
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Phase stability, microstructure and thermodynamic properties of NbMoZrTiV lightweight high-entropy refractory alloy by Wenjie Chen, Xinmei Li

“…Following prolonged annealing at 600 °C, the microhardness of the alloy reaches a maximum of 667.88 HV0.2. It was observed that as the annealing temperature increased, the residual stresses were gradually released, resulting in a corresponding decrease in alloy hardness. …”
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Evaluation of primary health care nurses’ knowledge and neonatal screening performance for phenylketonuria in Alexandria by Esraa Mohammed Abd El-Samie Ismail, Wafaa Mohamed Elarousy, Shaymaa Saeed Mohamed Badawe, Rasha Mohamed Abohadida

“…Two tools were used to collect the necessary data: nurses’ knowledge regarding phenylketonuria disease assessment sheet and nurses’ performance about newborn screening for phenylketonuria observational checklist. Results It was found that the mean age of participant was 42.94 ± 5.0 and 52% of them had completed their technical level of education and the means years of experience was 17.64 ± 4.84. …”
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Comparative analysis of transfer learning performance on generalised EEG data for use in a depression diagnosis task by Shusharina, Natalia Nikolaevna

“…It is also worth noting the crucial role of the representativeness of the data set for training the donor network, since it is the completeness of real observations that increases the effectiveness of augmentation, which leads to an increase in the number of “useful” features in the latent space of the network and the best conditions for transfer learning in the target task. …”
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Learning styles used by first-year undergraduate students in Medical Sciences. Cienfuegos, 2019-2020 by María Cristina Núñez Martínez, Lizgrace Llano Arana, Addys Teresita Stable Rodríguez, Ana Lidia Suárez Denis, Rosa María Masot Rivero, Daylis García Morales

“…From the universe of 152 first-year students from the selected careers, a sample of 121 was determined, representing 80.6%. The observation of the process, the documentary analysis, the application of surveys and the Kolb learning test were used. …”
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Biologics in ocular inflammatory diseases – Experience from a tertiary referral eye care center in South India by Kalpana Babu, PG Padmapriya, Anand P Rao, Ramesh Jois

“…Methods: This was a retrospective observational study conducted at the uveitis and ocular inflammatory diseases clinic of a tertiary eye care hospital in South India between 2016 and 2023. …”
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Validación de constructo de la escala ESTE-R para medición de la soledad en la vejez en Bucaramanga, Colombia by Ara Mercedes Cerquera Córdoba, María Lucía Cala Rueda, Mayra Juliana Galvis Aparicio

“…Existen múltiples instrumentos que permiten medir propiedades que aunque no son observables, son de vital importancia para comprender la conducta humana y el trabajo con esta. …”
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Assessment of Immuno-histochemical Expression of CD44 in Renal Tumors by Banan Mohammed, khalid Abdulfattah Khattab, Payman Salim

“…Among all cases, a positive CD44 expression was observed in 35 (46.05%) cases; among the malignant cases, CD44 was positive in 32 (45.71%). …”
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Sleep Deprivation Influences Circadian Gene Expression in the Lateral Habenula by Beilin Zhang, Yanxia Gao, Yang Li, Jing Yang, Hua Zhao

“…This study focuses on the participation of LHb clock genes in regulating sleep homeostasis, as the nature of their involvement is unclear. In this study, we observed changes in sleep pattern following sleep deprivation in LHb-lesioned rats using EEG recording techniques. …”
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Choroid and Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Thickness in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbation by Özkan Kocamış, Duygu Zorlu

“…A total of 60 patients with COPD and 23 healthy controls were evaluated in the scope of this prospective, observational study. COPD patients were divided into two groups as those that were stable and those with an exacerbation based on the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) classification. …”
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Quality of Cucumbers Commercially Fermented in Calcium Chloride Brine without Sodium Salts by Erin K. McMurtrie, Suzanne D. Johanningsmeier

“…Additional research is needed to understand the atypical softening observed at the commercial scale and identify process controls for quality improvements.…”
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Sex-specific association of immunological markers in CS-delivered newborns with pre-pregnancy body mass index and gestational weight gain of mothers by Karolina Rak, Michaela Godyla-Jabłoński, Monika Bronkowska

“…The lowest PTR of beneficial IgG and their concentration in the UCS as well as the highest PTR of detrimental Lf-ANCA and their concentration in UCS were observed in newborns born to mothers with co-occurrence of both an excessive pBMI and GWG. …”
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Shenfu Injection Protects Brain Injury in Rats with Cardiac Arrest through Nogo/NgR Pathway by Haixia Deng, Zhanhong Tang, Peng Tuo, Ruihua Wu, Si Jia, Xuan Zhao, Deqing Huang, Yuguang Gao, Zhou Lan

“…The ultrastructure of the brain and hippocampus was observed by electron microscopy. Real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR), western blotting, and immunohistochemistry were used to detect Nogo receptor (NgR) expression in the hippocampus and cerebral cortex, and Nogo–NgR expression in CA/CPR model. …”
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Association between NSAIDs and Clostridium difficile-Associated Diarrhea: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Nitipong Permpalung, Sikarin Upala, Anawin Sanguankeo, Suthanya Sornprom

“…Methods. Relevant observational studies indexed in PubMed/MEDLINE and EMBASE up to February 2015 were analyzed and data were extracted from nine studies. …”
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Lounging Men, Standing Women: Pose and Posture in the Aesthetic Interior by Richard W. Hayes

“…The incident connects with other scenes that align Osmond, an aesthete, with furniture, cushions, and domestic décor as well with the bodily positions of sitting and resting. As Isabel observes of her husband, ‘he has a genius for upholstery’. …”
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A potential VEGF-driven hypothesis of calvarial centripetal proliferation in cerebral proliferative angiopathy by Shigeta Miyake, Timo Krings, Tze Phei Kee, Thierry A. G. M. Huisman

“…A trend toward calvarial thickening was observed in patients with concomitant signs of cerebral venous congestion (p = 0.06), while no significant association with age, sex, or symptoms was found. …”
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Hybrid Evaluation Method of Bridge Bearing Capacity by Pengzhen Lu, Said M. Easa, Ying Wu, Zhenyi Qi, Yizhou Zhuang

“…The second is the field test-based method, where the bearing capacity is evaluated using field tests combined with structural appearance observation. Considering the relative merits of these two methods, a new and improved method for bearing capacity evaluation is proposed and implemented by combining the design code, finite element model, and field loading tests. …”
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Risk Factors and Symptoms of Meibomian Gland Loss in a Healthy Population by Anna Machalińska, Aleksandra Zakrzewska, Krzysztof Safranow, Barbara Wiszniewska, Bogusław Machaliński

“…We correlated our findings with self-reported ocular symptoms, systemic medical history, lifestyle factors, and tear film abnormalities. Results. We observed that a high ocular surface disease index, a history of either chalazion or hordeolum, experience of puffy eyelids upon waking, and foreign body sensation all appeared to be predictors of an abnormal meiboscore after adjusting for age and sex (p=0.0007; p=0.001; p=0.02; p=0.001, resp.). …”
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Assessment of 8-hydroxy-2-deoxyguanosine activity, apoptosis, acetylcholinesterase and antioxidant enzyme activity in Capoeta umbla brain exposed to chlorpyrifos by Kirici Mahinur

“…In the case of AChE activity, which is one of the neurotoxic markers in the brain, while inhibition was determined only at the high concentration (110 μg l-1) at the end of 24 hours, a decrease in enzyme activity was observed at the end of 96 hours in both concentration groups. …”
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A renewable integrated multi-area system for LFC incorporating electrical vehicle with SoC estimation by F. Lalhmangaihzuala, Subir Datta, Samuel Lalngaihawma, Taha Selim Ustun, Akhtar Kalam

“…Their performance is observed and compared. The controller parameters undergo optimization by applying an innovative optimization method called the Mine Blasting algorithm, which utilizes an integral square error (ISE)-based fitness function. …”
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