Ultrasound-Guided Peripheral Nerve Blocks Performed by Orthopedic Surgeons: A Retrospective, Multicenter Study in Akita Prefecture, Japan by Tatsuru Tomioka, Seietsu Senma, Yuichiro Narita, Masakazu Urayama, Satoshi Yumoto, Hiroki Ito, Toshiaki Aizawa, Tsuyoshi Shirahata, Hiroshi Aonuma, Nozomi Kaga, Norimitsu Masutani, Yusuke Yuasa, Hikaru Saito, Kunio Ebata, Kentaro Ouchi, Naohisa Miyakoshi, Yoichi Shimada

“…The block site and the hospital where the block was performed showed a significant relationship with the addition of local anesthetics to the surgical site (P<0.001). Surgery time, age at surgery, and surgical site showed no significant relationships with the addition of local anesthetics. …”
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Immediate results of the еndovascular aneurysm repair in abdominal aortic aneurysm patients with an unfavorable proximal neck by S.M. Furkalo, V.A. Kondratyuk, O.A. Vlasenko, I.V. Khasyanova, A.V. Khohlov, P.A. Gindich, I.A. Mazanovich, O.O. Pustyntsev

“…EVAR in the groups were carried out without significant complications or fatal cases; in the first group, the duration of the operation (p = 0.01), the amount of contrast (p = 0.03) and the fluoro time (p = 0.01) were significantly increased than in the 2nd group. …”
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Broad-line Region Characterization in Dozens of Active Galactic Nuclei Using Small-aperture Telescopes by Catalina Sobrino Figaredo, Doron Chelouche, Martin Haas, Michael Ramolla, Shai Kaspi, Swayamtrupta Panda, Martin W. Ochmann, Shay Zucker, Rolf Chini, Malte A. Probst, Wolfram Kollatschny, Miguel Murphy

“…We introduce a new PRM formalism to determine the time delay between continuum and line emission using combinations of auto- and cross-correlation functions. …”
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Comparison of precision of a paperless electronic input method versus the conventional paper form in an andrology laboratory: a prospective study by Kevin K. W. Lam, Percy C. K. Tsang, Connie C. Y. Chan, Evans P. K. Ng, Tak-Ming Cheung, Raymond H. W. Li, Ernest H. Y. Ng, William S. B. Yeung

“…Such practice inevitably increases the running cost and delays the reporting time. The present study was to establish a paperless electronic data entry system for semen analysis and compare its precision with the conventional paper method. …”
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Postoperative Outcomes After Robotic Liver Resection of Caudate Lobe: A Systematic Review by Gabriela Del Angel Millan, Gianluca Cassese, Fabio Giannone, Celeste Del Basso, Mariantonietta Alagia, Marco Lodin, Igor Monsellato, Marco Palucci, Federico Sangiuolo, Fabrizio Panaro

“…Tumor size varied significantly between 0.9 and 7.7 cm in the largest diameter. The mean operative time was 184.5 min (range 70–522 min), and the estimated blood loss was 95.5 mL (range 10–1500 mL). …”
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ViT-Based Face Diagnosis Images Analysis for Schizophrenia Detection by Huilin Liu, Runmin Cao, Songze Li, Yifan Wang, Xiaohan Zhang, Hua Xu, Xirong Sun, Lijuan Wang, Peng Qian, Zhumei Sun, Kai Gao, Fufeng Li

“…These inspection techniques take too much time and affect patients’ compliance and cooperation, while difficult for clinicians to comprehend the principle of detection decisions. …”
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AI-based carbon peak prediction and energy transition optimization for thermal power industry in energy-intensive regions of China by Chenhao Huang, Zhongyang Lin, Jian Wu, Penghan Li, Chaofeng Zhang, Yanzhao Liu, Weirong Chen, Xin Xu, Jinsong Deng

“…Lastly, the tailored energy transition strategies were suggested according to the spatial distributions of carbon peak time nodes under each scenario. The results showed that, compared to the baseline, the carbon peak under the Economic Development Scenario will be delayed by three years, with an additional 92.74 Mt CO2; while under the Environmental Protection and Energy Transition Scenarios, the peak will be advanced by five and three years, with 106.48 and 73.86 Mt CO2 reductions, respectively. …”
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Robot-Assisted versus Laparoscopic-Assisted Gastrectomy among Gastric Cancer Patients: A Retrospective Short-Term Analysis from a Single Institution in China by Li-Fei Sun, Kai Liu, Xue-Shang Su, Xuan Wei, Xiao-Long Chen, Wei-Han Zhang, Xin-Zu Chen, Kun Yang, Zong-Guang Zhou, Jian-Kun Hu

“…Baseline characteristics between two groups were well balanced. The operation time of RAG was longer than that of LAG (333.1±61.4 min vs. 290.6±39.0 min, p=0.001), and the estimated blood loss was 62.4±41.2 ml in the RAG group and 77.7±32.3 ml in the LAG group (p=0.005), respectively. …”
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Evaluation of the cardiotoxicity of Echinochrome A using human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiac organoids by Su-Jin Lee, Eunji Kim, Yeeun Jeong, Jae Boum Youm, Hyoung Kyu Kim, Jin Han, Elena A. Vasileva, Natalia P. Mishchenko, Sergey A. Fedoreyev, Valentin A. Stonik, Sung Joon Kim, Hyang-Ae Lee

“…Contractility assays further demonstrated that EchA did not affect contraction velocity, relaxation velocity, or time to 50 % maximal contraction and relaxation. …”
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Effort-reward imbalance and health outcomes in emergency nurses: the mediating role of work–family conflict and intrinsic effort by Le Tong, Le Tong, Ling Zhu, Ling Zhu, Hao Zhang, Hao Zhang, Luying Zhong, Luying Zhong, Dongmei Diao, Dongmei Diao, Xiaoli Chen, Xiaoli Chen, Jianna Zhang, Jianna Zhang

“…Future research should focus on longitudinal studies to assess the effectiveness of these interventions over time.…”
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Establishing a physiologically based pharmacokinetic framework for aldehyde oxidase and dual aldehyde oxidase‐CYP substrates by Nihan Izat, Jayaprakasam Bolleddula, Pasquale Carione, Leticia Huertas Valentin, Robert S. Jones, Priyanka Kulkarni, Darren Moss, Vincent C. Peterkin, Dan‐Dan Tian, Andrea Treyer, Karthik Venkatakrishnan, Michael A. Zientek, Jill Barber, J. Brian Houston, Aleksandra Galetin, Daniel Scotcher

“…Subsequently, independent DDI studies with ketoconazole, itraconazole, rifampicin, and carbamazepine verified the fmCYP3A4, with predicted ratios of the area under the concentration–time curve (AUCR) within 1.5‐fold of the observations. …”
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Recovery of deformation surface of superelastic and shape memory NiTi alloy by Sneha Samal, Jan Tomáštík, Lukáš Václavek, Mohit Chandra, Jaromír Kopeček, Ivo Stachiv, Petr Šittner

“…Multicycle nanoindentation was performed for SE and SMA samples with a maximum load of 10 mN with a dwell time of 1s. SE shows elastic behaviour of the hysteresis curve that stabilizes after 10 cycles, however, SMA shows unrecovered strain with plasticity. …”
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Ion beam induced secondary electron tomography of acrylonitrile-styrene-acrylate/polycarbonate polymer blends for fused filament fabrication and injection moulding by J. Hernández-Saz, D. Moreno-Sanchez, L. M. Valencia, Y. Gómez, S. I. Molina, M. Herrera

“…The sputtering rate under the ion beam has been quantified for both neat ASA and neat PC to find optimal parameters for the iSE tomography, resulting in a current of 0.05 nA and a dwell time of 3 µs. Our results reveal significant differences in the morphology of ASA/PC blends depending on the fabrication method. …”
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Effect of intraoperative noise isolation on postoperative nausea and vomiting in patients undergoing gynecological laparoscopic surgery: protocol for a randomized controlled trial by Chong Fu, Fan Xia, Zihan Yan, Han-bing Xu, Wei-ming Zhao, Yi-shan Lei, Chang Xu, Wen-wen Huo, Duo-duo Tao, Juan Wang, Xi-sheng Shan, Ke Peng, Hong Liu, Fu-hai Ji, Hua-yue Liu

“…Secondary outcomes include PONV severity at 24 and 48 h, antiemetic use, pain scores, need for rescue analgesia, Quality of Recovery-15 (QoR-15) scores, Richards-Campbell Sleep Questionnaire (RCSQ) scores, hemodynamic interventions, extubation time, length of stay in PACU and hospital, adverse events (hypertension, hypotension, bradycardia, tachycardia, desaturation after extubation, postoperative shivering, emergence agitation, allergic reactions, severe arrhythmias arrhythmia, cardiac arrest, hypothermia), patient satisfaction, and postoperative complications based on the Postoperative Morbidity Survey (POMS). …”
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Extraction, Chemical Composition and Antidiabetic Potential of Crude Polysaccharides from Centella asiatica (L.) Urban by Meng Li, Muhammad Shahid, Xiaobin Zhang, Douglas Law, Mukram Muhammad Mackeen, Arnida Hani Teh, Ahmad Abdul Kareem Najm, Shazrul Fazry, Babul Airianah Othman

“…Initial single-factor experiments identified key extraction parameters, further optimized through response surface methodology (RSM) with optimal conditions determined as a liquid-to-solid ratio of 24.43:1 (mL/g), extraction time of 60.76 min, and a temperature of 83.31℃. Alcohol insoluble residue (AIR) extraction yielded three crude polysaccharide fractions (P50, P70, and P90). …”
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Comparison of glimepiride and linagliptin in the treatment of non-alcoholic hepatic disease with type 2 diabetes mellitus by Feng Tian, Yali Guo, Liping Zhou, Qunying Yao, Xiaoyan Liang, Jiaxin Lu, Aiping He, Jie Shen

“…Material and methods A total of 86 patients with NAFLD with T2DM were randomly categorized into two groups and treated with either linagliptin (5 mg/daily) or glimepiride (2 mg/daily) for 6 months. Furthermore, real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction was used to evaluate the expression level of miR-210 in the patients’ serum. …”
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High serum CA19-9 predicts severe cholecystitis in calculous cholecystitis patients by Shouwen Wang, Dachen Zhou, Wanjin Chen, Qi Guo, Liujin Hou, Ruolin Wu, Wei Wang, Muhammad Annus Khan, Muhammad Ahmad, Fan Huang, Meijuan Zheng, Guobin Wang, Hongchuan Zhao, Xiaoping Geng, Xiaojun Yu

“…Conclusions This study demonstrated that higher level of serum CA19-9 correlates with more severe cholecystitis in calculous cholecystitis patients for the first time, which will provide helpful information for clinical practice and basic research in related field.…”
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Detection and characterization of bovine hepacivirus in cattle and sheep from Hulunbuir, northeastern China by Jingge Ma, Jingge Ma, Zhiwei Wei, Liang Li, Wei Wang, Ziyan Liu, Ziyan Liu, Ning Liu, Feng Wei, Xiangyu Zheng, Zedong Wang

“…Recombination analysis revealed the intergenerational relationships among the viral strains obtained from cattle and sheep.ConclusionWe identified genetic diversity in subtype G strains in cattle and detected a BovHepV strain in a sheep for the first time in northeastern China, confirming cross-species transmission and co-circulation between cattle and sheep, thus expanding the virus’s host range.…”
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Clinical Laboratory Validation Study of a High Sensitivity Troponin I Assay on a POCT (Point of Care Testing) Device by Fabio Grunspun Pitta, Adriana Caschera Leme, Simone Rodrigues Gomes, Tarsila Perez Mota, Fernanda Vieira Paladino, José Leão de Souza Júnior, Rosemeire de Paula Braz, Thais Cristine Rodrigues Leonel Lamounier, Jéssica Buzin Gomes Ferreira, Carlos Eduardo dos Santos Ferreira

“…The biggest concern regarding the techniques for troponin evaluation is the time required between collection and delivery of the result. …”
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Reproductive strategies in loggerhead sea turtle Caretta caretta: polyandry and polygyny in a Southwest Atlantic rookery by Laís Amorim, Lara Chieza, Jake A. Lasala, Sarah de Souza Alves Teodoro, Wesley D. Colombo, Ana Carolina Barcelos, Paula Rodrigues Lopes Guimarães, João Luiz Guedes da Fonseca, Ana Claudia Jorge Marcondes, Alexsandro Santos, Sarah Vargas

“…Our research aimed to investigate the presence of multiple paternity in loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) nests for the first time in Brazil. We analyzed 534 hatchlings from 43 nests associated with 42 females during the 2017/18 to 2019/20 nesting seasons, using four highly polymorphic, species-specific microsatellite markers (nDNA). …”
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