A Qualitative Exploration of Stakeholders’ Preferences for Early-Stage Rectal Cancer Treatment by Merrill E. Rubens, Timothy P. Mayo, Radhika K. Smith, Sean C. Glasgow, Mary C. Politi

“…Barriers to SDM included variable clinician motivation due to lack of training or perception of patients’ desires or abilities to engage, as well as time-constrained encounters. A decision aid could help facilitate SDM for early-stage rectal cancer by providing standardized, evidence-based information about treatment options that align with clinicians’ and patients’ decision needs.…”
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Policy and strategies addressing prevention and control of antimicrobial resistance in Brazil: A scoping review protocol. by Joslaine de Oliveira Nunes, Raissa Allan Santos Domingues, Roberto Mauro Pinto Coelho Barcellos, Bárbara Manuella Cardoso Sodré Alves, Isis Polianna Silva Ferreira de Carvalho, Noemia Urruth Leão Tavares

“…It has both social and economic consequences; therefore, timely review of public health policies that have been designed to manage AMR is essential. …”
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Rapid life-history evolution reinforces competitive asymmetry between invasive and resident species by Chapuis, Elodie, Jarne, Philippe, David, Patrice

“…In addition, our experiments suggest that A. marmorata populations having experienced competition by P. acuta for sufficient time in nature, have evolved to become even less tolerant to it. …”
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Optimal Lighting of Optical Devices for Oral Cavity by Chia Hung Yeh, Liang Gie Huang, Man Yee Chan

“…The development of oral lighting devices in this study will reduce the burden on physicians in nonprofessional fields, reduce the time of surgery for patients to maintain the health of doctors, and rise the level of medical equipment to increase surgical safety.…”
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Clinical Holistic Medicine: Holistic Rehabilitation by Søren Ventegodt, Mark Gringols, Joav Merrick

“…Quality of life, health, and ability are often lost at the same time and most often in one decaying existential movement over 5 or 10 years. …”
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Technical, forensic and organisational aspects of work with Monero cryptocurrency by V. V. Nosov, O. V. Manzhai, V. O. Kovtun

“…It has been concluded that law enforcement agencies should focus on classical investigative measures to identify Monero users of interest. At the same time, there are effective mechanisms for documenting traces of work with the Monero payment system and proven methods for extracting passphrases to crypto-wallets and other sensitive information on the movement of funds in the Monero system from computer equipment.…”
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Ensemble Deep Learning Technique for Detecting MRI Brain Tumor by Rasool Fakhir Jader, Shahab Wahhab Kareem, Hoshang Qasim Awla

“…To segment and classify brain analysis, laboratory personnel employ manual examination via screen; this requires a lot of labour and time. On the other hand, the devices used by specialists are not practical or inexpensive for every doctor or institution. …”
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Eclampsia Characteristics and Outcomes: A Comparison of Two Eras by Mauro H. Schenone, Dorothy Miller, Jacques E. Samson, Giancarlo Mari

“…The occurrence of eclampsia has decreased over time. The earlier the onset is, the worse the outcome appears to be.…”
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Organization of live animal transportation process in the Russian Federation by M. A. Shibayev, I. M. Klinovitskaya, A. V. Belchikhina, A. K. Karaulov

“…According to the analysis results 4.49 billion animals, including 4.41 billion poultry, 79.8 million large and small ruminants, pigs, horses, fur animals and bees were moved within the country in 2021. At the same time the number of issued veterinary accompanying documents for movements of cattle, poultry and pigs (i.e. in fact the transportations themselves) is much higher than the number of movements of other species. …”
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Desired Compensation Adaptive Robust Control of an Active Vibration Isolation System by Bo Zhao, Weijia Shi, Ming Zhang, Jiaxin Li, Feng Li

“…Furthermore, the computing time and the influence of the measurement noise can be reduced effectively by reason of desired compensation. …”
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Global, regional, and national burden of esophageal cancer using the 2019 global burden of disease study by Liangchao Sun, Kaikai Zhao, Xiaoli Liu, Xue Meng

“…Gender-specific analysis revealed consistently higher rates in males, with increasing gaps over time. Correlations with SDI indicated a negative association, and frontier analysis underscored the impact of socio-economic progress on disease control. …”
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U.S.-UK Voting Cohesion in the United Nations General Assembly: Important Votes (2001–2019) by A. O. Mamedova

“…-UK cohesion was higher on non-proliferation and human rights. At the same time, there were differences regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and development, especially in those cases when the US and the EU disagreed. …”
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Enhanced silk production and pupal weight in Bombyx mori through CRISPR/Cas9-mediated circadian Clock gene disruption. by Daniel J Brady, Alessio Saviane, Matteo Battistolli, Irene Varponi, Federica Barca, Kunihiro Shiomi, Silvia Cappellozza, Federica Sandrelli

“…By analysing larval development timing, as well as the weights of late instar larvae, pupae, and cocoon components in ClkΔ29 mutants and in ClkΔ1922 silkworms (carrying an independently generated Clk- null allele), we showed that CLK contributes to physiological processes regulating B. mori development and growth. …”
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Correlates of disappointment in a relationship of generations X, Y, Z: behavioural inhibition/activation system and sense of coherence by Monika Baryła-Matejczuk, Małgorzata Artymiak, Marta Pawelec

“…Fertility decline, increased number of divorces, increased expectations related to interpersonal relationships and at the same time a decline in the ability to establish and maintain such have been observed over the years by experts in various disciplines. …”
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Growth response of Douglas fir to the first early and delayed thinning by Dušek David, Novák Jiří

“…A dominant tree height of 10 m was used as the threshold to define well-timed thinning. The data were analysed using Bayesian hierarchical modelling, and generalized hierarchical models were employed. …”
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Tumor Metastasis to the Liver, and the Roles of Proteinases and Adhesion Molecules: New Concepts from In Vivo Videomicroscopy by Alan C Groom, Ian C MacDonald, Eric E Schmidt, Vincent L Morris, Ann F Chambers

“…In vivo videomicroscopy permits direct observations of sequential steps in hematogenous metastasis as they occur in living animals over time. These steps include initial arrest of cells in the microcirculation, extravasation, postextravasation migration and growth in the target organ. …”
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Physical Activity and Risk of Diagnosed and Undiagnosed Prediabetes among Males and Females in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2007-2014 by Mabeline Velez, Lisa Chasan-Taber, Eva Goldwater, Nicole VanKim

“…Patterns were similar for leisure-time MVPA, but conflicting for occupational PA; females with 10-20 MET-hrs/week had a higher risk of diagnosed prediabetes (OR =1.71, 95% CI 1.11-2.61) and males with >20 MET-hrs/week had a higher risk for undiagnosed prediabetes (OR =1.17, 95% CI 1.02-1.35) after adjustment. …”
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Application of Response Surface Methodology (RSM) for Simultaneous Optimization of Kinetic Parameters Affecting Gold Leaching in Thiosulfate Based Media: A Statistical Approach by Nomsa P. Baloyi, Joseph M. Nseke, Mamookho E. Makhatha

“…The contribution percentages of the effects of time, thiosulfate [S2O3], ammonia [NH3], and copper [Cu] concentrations were calculated as 12.81%, 5.88%, 5.19%, and 4.65%, respectively. …”
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Robust kernel extreme learning machines for postgraduate learning performance prediction by Hongxing Gao, Tianzi Xu, Nan Zhang

“…The RK-ELM model can automatically detect any data that may be corrupted by uncertain disturbances, thereby enhancing the robustness and generalization ability of the model. We take 873 full-time postgraduate students from universities in Zhejiang Province, China as the research object, and then form a dataset based on the postgraduates’ questionnaire results and their grade point averages in the current academic year. …”
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Evaluation of Serum Vascular Adhesion Protein-1 as a Potential Biomarker in Thyroid Cancer by Zhigang Hu, Pengxin Zhao, Kaili Zhang, Leilei Zang, Haiying Liao, Weiyuan Ma

“…Serum VAP-1 was measured by time-resolved immunofluorometric assay. Diagnostic value of presurgical VAP-1 for thyroid cancer was conducted by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves. …”
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