Role of interleukin-4 receptor α polymorphism in patients with asthma and its correlation with asthma severity by Nidhi Girdhar, Karan Sharma, Satyajit Deshpande, Siddharth Sharma, Vishal Chopra, Anil Sontakke

“…It is defined by the history of respiratory symptoms such as wheeze, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and cough that vary over time and intensity, together with variable expiratory airflow limitation. …”
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Current state and development of the City park in Skopje by Jasminka Rizovska Atanasovska, Iskra Apostolovska, Nikolčo Velkovski, Vlatko Andonovski, Divna Penčić

“…In the last ten years intensive work on its reconstruction has been done, so there is more relevant data for the Park for this recent period of time. Besides its establishment, this paper presents the current state of the Park, its main characteristics and functions. …”
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Deep immunophenotypic dissection and clinical impact of T cells in the follicular lymphoma microenvironment by Sary El Daker, David Qualls, Andriy Derkach, Samida Beqaj, Leonardo Boiocchi, Venkatraman Seshan, Jeeyeon Baik, Menglei Zhu, Gilles Salles, Ahmet Dogan, Mikhail Roshal, Pallavi Galera

“…FL-UT cases with either increased T-reg TC or increased T follicular helper cells (TFH) showed reduced time to first treatment (…”
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An NR2B-Dependent Decrease in the Expression of trkB Receptors Precedes the Disappearance of Dopaminergic Cells in Substantia Nigra in a Rat Model of Presymptomatic Parkinson's Dis... by Eduardo Riquelme, Jorge Abarca, Jorge M. Campusano, Gonzalo Bustos

“…Immunohistochemical studies revealed a decrease in trkB expression in SN pars compacta (SNc) seven days after 6-OHDA injection. At this time point, no change in the number of tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) immunoreactive (TH-IR) cells is detected, although a decrease is evident 14 days after neurotoxin injection. …”
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Assessment of Guinea Savanna River system to evaluate water quality and water monitoring networks by G.A. Aliyu, N.R.B. Jamil, M.B. Adam, Z. Zulkeflee

“…The analysis of changes in water quality in a monitoring network system is important because the sources of pollution vary in time and space. This study utilized analysis of the water quality index calculation, hierarchical cluster analysis, and mapping. …”
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Effects of oxidation and precursors (lysine, glyoxal and Schiff base) on the formation of Nε-carboxymethyl-lysine in aged, stored and thermally treated chicken meat by Suhong Huang, Xiaoli Dong, Yulong Zhang, Ming Huang, Yuandong Zheng

“…As post-mortem ageing and storage time increased, the CML content in cooked chicken breast significantly increased from 1.81 mg/kg to 2.00 mg/kg during 0−6 h, and then decreased from 2.00 mg/kg to 1.80 mg/kg during 6 h−1 day, finally increased again during 1−7 days, while the CML contents of raw and cooked leg significantly and continuously increased from 1.78 mg/kg to 2.08 mg/kg. …”
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Administration of FTY720 during Tourniquet-Induced Limb Ischemia Reperfusion Injury Attenuates Systemic Inflammation by Anthony D. Foster, Diego Vicente, Jonathan J. Sexton, Luke Johnston, Nick Clark, Crystal Leonhardt, Eric A. Elster, Thomas A. Davis, Matthew J. Bradley

“…Animals were randomized to receive an intravenous bolus of either vehicle control or FTY720 15 min after band placement. Rats (n=10/time point) were euthanized at 6, 24, and 72 hr post-IRI. …”
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Antireflux Metal Stent for Initial Treatment of Malignant Distal Biliary Obstruction by Shinichi Morita, Yasuaki Arai, Shunsuke Sugawara, Miyuki Sone, Yasunari Sakamoto, Takuji Okusaka, Shigetaka Yoshinaga, Yutaka Saito, Shuji Terai

“…Technical success, functional success, complications, causes of recurrent biliary obstruction (RBO), time to RBO (TRBO), and reintervention were compared between the groups. …”
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Classifying vocal responses of broilers to environmental stressors via artificial neural network by T. Lev-ron, Y. Yitzhaky, I. Halachmi, S. Druyan

“…These findings highlight the potential of using a single model to accurately classify multiple types of broiler stress calls. By enhancing the timing of human intervention during critical growth stages, the proposed method may significantly improve broiler welfare and farm management efficiency.…”
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“Iconoclasm” in the early years of Soviet power (1918–1921) by Rogozny, Pavel G.

“…In addition, the social revolution that took place in Russia developed new subjects that began to appear in iconography, which is clearly demonstrated by the icon with the name “Physical Labor of the Holy Family” being a part of the collection of the Museum of the History of Religion in St. Petersburg. At that time, such or similar subjects in iconography were called “working on” icons. …”
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BSG-WSL: BackScatter-guided weakly supervised learning for water mapping in SAR images by Kai Wang, Zhongle Ren, Biao Hou, Weibin Li, Licheng Jiao

“…Extracting and analyzing water resources in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images is crucial for flood management and environmental resource planning due to the ability to monitor ground all-weather and all-time. However, extracting water entirely from high-resolution SAR images in diverse scenarios is challenging due to variable water shapes, many low-intensity land covers similar to water, and scarce labels. …”
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A systematic review on the impact of breastfeeding on cancer risk, weight loss, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes mellitus in mothers, and the role of fathers, medical person... by Olga Krupa, Daria Rybak, Katarzyna Kamińska-Omasta, Bartosz Omasta, Kuba Borys Romańczuk, Magdalena Agata Czerska, Paulina Dorota Pietrukaniec, Szymon Przemysław Stolarczyk, Zofia Martyna Wójcik, Kinga Furtak

“…It highlights the relationship between the timing of breastfeeding and the onset of specific conditions, as well as the role of fathers and health care providers in the breastfeeding process. …”
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Ensemble modelling reveals spiny monkey orange (Strychnos spinosa Lam.) as a vulnerable wild edible fruit tree in West Africa by Hospice Gérard Gracias Avakoudjo, Mahunan Eric José Vodounnon, Rodrigue Idohou, Aly Coulibaly, Achille Ephrem Assogbadjo

“…This study aimed at modelling the historical distribution and assessing the potential impacts of future climate on spiny monkey orange (Strychnos spinosa Lam.) population across West Africa using the Shared Socio-economic Pathways (SSP 245 and SSP 585) scenarios at the 2041–2060- and 2081–2100-time horizons. Bioclimatic and soil variables were used at a resolution of 30 arcseconds with 588 occurrence records analysed using five algorithms (Random Forest (RF), Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Boosted Regression Trees, and Generalized Linear Model (GLM)) and four global climate models (CanESM5, CNRM-CM6-1, HadGEM3-GC31-LL, and MIROC6). …”
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Adherence to prehospital thoracostomy practice guidelines for traumatic cardiac arrest: A retrospective study by Nicolas Beysard, Tara Agudo, Peter Serfozo, Tobias Zingg, Perrine Truong, Roland Albrecht, Vincent Darioli, Mathieu Pasquier

“…We sought to analyse the prehospital management and clinical course of patients with TCA, focusing on changes over time in the use of thoracostomy. Methods: In this single-centre retrospective observational study, we included patients with TCA managed by physicians of the prehospital service of Lausanne University Hospital from 2012 to 2024. …”
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Towards a sustainable set of European Core Health Indicators (ECHI) by Mariken J. Tijhuis, Eveline A. van der Wilk, Sarka Dankova, Angela Fehr, Silvia Ghirini, Mika Gissler, Romana Haneef, Heidi Lyshol, Emanuele Scafato, Stefanie Seeling, Hanna Tolonen, Thomas Ziese, Irisa Zīle-Velika, Peter W. Achterberg

“…As the ECHI set was defined more than ten years ago, it is time to review its current needs and readiness for the future. …”
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Preliminary study of utilizing a patient derived tumor spheroid model to augment precision therapy in metastatic brain tumors by Chun-Jen Chang, Kai-Wen Kan, Yu-Yin Shih, Yu-Han Nan, Yu-Chung Juan, Chih-Hsiu Tu, Chen-Ting Yang, Wei-Lin Hsu, Der-Yang Cho, Ming-You Shie, Yi-Wen Chen, Chun-Chung Chen

“…This PDTS offers real-time results within three weeks, simultaneous testing of multiple drugs, and the ability to culture and store tumor cells for reproducibility. …”
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Seroprevalence of Helicobacter pylori in a population of 15 to 35 years old in Mashhad by Mahdieh Khoshakhlagh, Mohammadreza Tarahomi, Fatemeh Asgharian, Arghavan Kamali, Safoora Sa'd Abadi, Kimia Jafarpour, Samaneh Abolbashari, Mojtaba Meshkat, Aida Gholoobi

“…We have determined the seroprevalence of H. pylori in the young adult population of Mashhad city for the first time. Materials and Methods: We carried out a cross-sectional study on 933 individuals between the ages of 15 and 35 in Mashhad. …”
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Learning Power Systems Waveform Incipient Patterns Through Few-Shot Meta-Learning by Lixian Shi, Qiushi Cui, Yang Weng, Yigong Zhang, Shilong Chen, Jian Li, Wenyuan Li

“…For better data processing, a waveform image conversion strategy is proposed to convert waveforms into understandable images from the time domain perspective. Then, an adaptive image fusion strategy is developed to concurrently analyze voltage and current images. …”
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Deciphering the significance of neutrophil to lymphocyte and monocyte to lymphocyte ratios in tuberculosis: A case-control study from southern India [version 2; peer review: 2 appr... by Poorva Bakshi, Shikha Jayasheelan, Rakshatha Nayak, Sharada Rai

“…While AFB culture remains a gold standard for diagnosing TB and other mycobacterial infections, its limitations include slow turnaround time, and the requirement for specialized resources and expertise. …”
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Per1/Per2 double knockout transcriptome analysis reveals circadian regulation of hepatic lipid metabolism by Yiran Bu, Si Chen, Mengcheng Ruan, Libang Wu, Hualin Wang, Na Li, Xiuju Zhao, Xiaoli Yu, Zhiguo Liu

“…At the end of the experiment, mice were sacrificed at zeitgeber time (ZT) 0 (7:00 am) or ZT12 (7:00 pm). Pathological indicators were determined using histological and biochemical methods. …”
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