Joint association of the inflammatory marker and cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome stages with all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality: a national prospective study by Yifei Cao, Wenfeng Wang, Shidong Xie, Yanfang Xu, Zishan Lin

“…Systemic inflammation was assessed using multiple indicators, and time-dependent ROC analysis identified the systemic inflammatory response index (SIRI) as the most effective inflammatory marker. …”
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Optimization of energy output from PVT-PCM systems with emerging metal-organic frameworks phase change materials by Bourhan Tashtoush, Malak Al Ghadi

“…During the night hours, system B demonstrated considerable enhancements in water outlet temperature compared to system A, thereby improving night-time thermal energy output. Moreover, it was observed that elevated flow rates diminished latent heat storage in the phase change material layer and outlet water temperatures in both systems, while electrical power output was influenced by flow rate solely in system A. …”
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Sneak Peek: Food, Waste, and Packaging Characteristics of South Australian School Children’s Lunchboxes by Neha Kishan Lalchandani, Clare Hume, Lynne Giles, Shona Crabb, Jo Hendrikx, Caroline Miller

“…Lunchboxes were photographed at two time points on the same day: before first morning break to capture food and packaging and post-lunch break to capture food waste. …”
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Determination of Factors Affecting Sleep Quality in Postoperative Patients and Improvement of Correctible Causes by Ayşegül Özgök, Gökçe Selçuk Sert, Dilek Öztürk Kazancı

“…We showed that a long operation time (5 hours and more) impairs postoperative sleep quality, thyroid diseases affect sleep quality badly, and sleep disorders are more common especially in patients with COPD. …”
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Preliminary Experiment on the Effect of 18% Substitute Salt on Home Blood Pressure Variability in Hypertensives by Jing Li, Lisha Mu, Huakun Rao, Yangfeng Wu, Hao Wang, Hongbing Tao, Lihong Mu

“…Also, there was no statistically significant change in morning (F = 1.137, P = 0.352) and night diastolic (F = 0.344, P = 0.481) BPV and morning systolic BPV (F = 0.663, P = 0.930) over time during the intervention period, except for that night systolic BPV had a downward trend (F = 2.778, P = 0.016) and had decreased 2.04 mmHg (95% CI: 0.84 to 3.23, P = 0.001) after intervention. …”
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Investigating the effects of previous injury on subsequent training loads, physical fitness, and injuries in youth female basketball players by Yuanqi Huang, Shaonan Wang, Changfei Li, Yukun Wang, Zhanshuang Bai, Zhanshuang Bai, Binghao Lv, Yuheng Gui, Zhongjian Wei

“…Furthermore, the incidence of non-contact injuries was significantly higher in the high-risk group than low-risk group, which would result in more training time lost (all p < 0.05).ConclusionThis study identified the impact of previous injury status on subsequent training load, physical fitness, and injuries in youth female basketball players. …”
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RNA sequence analysis landscape: A comprehensive review of task types, databases, datasets, word embedding methods, and language models by Muhammad Nabeel Asim, Muhammad Ali Ibrahim, Tayyaba Asif, Andreas Dengel

“…RNA sequence analysis through conventional wet-lab methods is expensive, time-consuming and error prone. To enable large-scale RNA sequence analysis, empowerment of wet-lab experimental methods with Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications necessitates scientists to have a comprehensive knowledge of both DNA and AI fields. …”
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Assessing Nonlinear Dynamics and Trends in Precipitation by Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD) and Fractal Approach in Benin Republic (West Africa) by Médard Noukpo Agbazo, Gabin Koto N’Gobi, Eric Alamou, Basile Kounouhewa, Abel Afouda

“…Climate dynamics and trends have significant environmental and socioeconomic impacts; however, in the Benin Republic, they are generally studied with diverse statistical methods ignoring the nonstationarity, nonlinearity, and self-similarity characteristics contained in precipitation time series. This can lead to erroneous conclusions and an unclear understanding of climatic dynamics. …”
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THE MUNICIPAL LEGAL AWARENESS: STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS by Denis O. Bobrovnyk

“…The article is devoted to the study of the structure of municipal legal consciousness, which plays a special role (along with municipal psychology) in the processes of forming the globalist potential of the territorial community. This is the first time that this topic has been studied in domestic law. …”
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Integration of Umbilical Cord Mesenchymal Stem Cell Application in Hydroxyapatite-Based Scaffolds in the Treatment of Vertebral Bone Defect due to Spondylitis Tuberculosis: A Trans... by Ahmad Jabir Rahyussalim, Ahmad Nugroho, Muhammad Luqman Labib Zufar, Irfan Fathurrahman, Tri Kurniawati

“…This value increased at the three-month follow-up but decreased at the six-month follow-up time, 97±8.19 U/L and 90.33±4.16 U/L, respectively. …”
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Clinical and ultrasound assessment of body composition in preterm infants at discharge: an observational study by Beatriz del Rey Hurtado de Mendoza, Montserrat Izquierdo Renau, Elsa García González, Carla Balcells-Esponera, Emilio J Inarejos Clemente, Isabel Iglesias-Platas

“…Nutritional factors played a small effect in BC at the time of discharge.…”
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Population Health Management to identify and characterise ongoing health need for high-risk individuals shielded from COVID-19: a cross-sectional cohort study by Adrian Pratt, Richard Wood, Charlie Kenward, Sam Creavin, Jennifer A Cooper

“…The study was performed at a time considered to be relatively early in the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK.Participants 1 013 940 individuals from 78 contributing general practices.Results Compared with the groups considered at ‘low’ and ‘moderate’ risk (ie, eligible for the annual influenza vaccination), individuals at high risk were older (median age: 68 years (IQR: 55–77 years), cf 30 years (18–44 years) and 63 years (38–73 years), respectively), with more primary care/community contacts in the previous year (median contacts: 5 (2–10), cf 0 (0–2) and 2 (0–5)) and had a higher burden of comorbidity (median Charlson Score: 4 (3–6), cf 0 (0–0) and 2 (1–4)). …”
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The Role of Syrian Christians (Shuwām) in the Nahda Movement of the 19th Century by Turgay Gökgöz

“…To keep up with advancements in the West, Kavalian Mehmet Ali Pasha initially focused on translating Western languages, particularly French and Italian - the language of diplomacy at the time - into Arabic and later into Turkish. These Syrians had migrated to Egypt after the first quarter of the 1700s and were present in Egypt after Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt. …”
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Dexmedetomidine Attenuates Monocyte-Endothelial Adherence via Inhibiting Connexin43 on Vascular Endothelial Cells by Yunfei Chai, Runying Yu, Yong Liu, Sheng Wang, Dongdong Yuan, Jimei Chen

“…Current studies have identified the multifaceted protective functions of dexmedetomidine on multiple organs. For the first time, we clarify effects of dexmedetomidine on monocyte-endothelial adherence and whether its underlying mechanism is relative to connexin43 (Cx43), a key factor regulating monocyte-endothelial adherence. …”
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Protocol paper: randomized controlled trial of the smart online-to-offline model development for chronic diseases management through digital health in real world setting by Jae Eun Shin, Juho Choi, Heejung Lee, Suk-Won Lee, Juhwan Oh

“…Innovative digital health services have the potential to revolutionize chronic disease management by providing patients with real-time, personalized care and empowering them to take an active role in their health. …”
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Nomogram to Predict the Survival of Chinese Patients with Alcohol-Related Liver Disease by Fangfang Duan, Chen Liu, Yuwei Liu, Chunyan Chang, Hang Zhai, Huichun Xing, Jun Cheng, Song Yang

“…A nomogram was developed and internally validated for predicting the probability of their survival at different time points.…”
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A novel lightweight model for tea disease classification based on feature reuse and channel focus attention mechanism by Junjie Liang, Renjie Liang, Dongxia Wang

“…Based on the proposed model, an Android app has been developed to realize real-time, offline recognition of tea diseases in the field.…”
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Microstructural optimization by two-step tempering treatment and quantitative analysis of microstructure effect on the toughness at −40 °C in CrNiMoV steel by Li Wang, Junwei Qin, Yuzhi Zhu, Kaixuan Chen, Yanlin Wang, Zidong Wang

“…This study proposes a novel two-step tempering process that optimizes the microstructure by shortening tempering time and accelerating cooling, effectively avoiding the strength-ductility trade-off. …”
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Brodalumab: Six-Year US Pharmacovigilance Report by Mark G. Lebwohl, John Y. Koo, April W. Armstrong, Bruce E. Strober, Soo Han Yoon, Nicole N. Rawnsley, Earl L. Goehring, Gina D. Mangin, Abby A. Jacobson

“…Brodalumab exposure was estimated as time from the first to last prescription-dispensing authorization dates. …”
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The Cost-effectiveness of Celecoxib versus Non-steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs plus Proton-pump Inhibitors for Treating Osteoarthritis in Algeria by Nadir Hammoumraoui, Sid Ahmed Kherraf, Joaquin Mould-Quevedo, Tarek A. Ismail

“…The ICER of celecoxib+PPI was lower than that of comparators over all time horizons. These findings were confirmed with CEACs generated via PSA. …”
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