Screening 215 Lentil Genotypes under Salinity Stress During the Seedling Stage in Greenhouse Conditions by Ahmad Nezami, jafar Nabati, Mohammad Kafi, Elahe Boroumand Rezazadeh

“…Salinity stress was applied one week after germination. The irrigation method was closed-circuit trickle irrigation. …”
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Protocol for Home-Based Solution for Remote Atrial Fibrillation Screening to Prevent Recurrence Stroke (HUA-TUO AF Trial): a randomised controlled trial by Jing Tan, Yan Liang, Yong Liu, Wei Jiang, Duo Huang, Ning Tan, Chung-Wah Siu, Jo Jo Hai, Xiaoyu Huang, Jianfeng Ye, Ji-yan Chen, Chun Ka Wong, Mi Zhou, Li-Xue Yin, Ming-Liang Zuo, Kui Kai Lau, Zhen Lei, Yingqing Feng, Bryan P Yan, Wen-Sheng Yue, Wen-Jun Zhang, Yuk-Ming Lau, Hin-Wai LUI, Koon-Ho Chan, Toi Meng Mok, Weng-Chio Tam, Kun-Chong Tam, Xiuhua Feng, Xiaofei Jiang, Guanming Tan, Mario Alberto Evora

“…When a diagnosis of AF is made with the system, the patients will be called back for a formal cardiology consultation within 1 week. The primary endpoint is the time to first detection of AF at 24 months of follow-up. …”
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Effectiveness of a universal film intervention in reducing violence against children and increasing positive parenting among migrant and displaced caregivers from Myanmar: a commun... by Amanda Sim, Khaing Zar Lwin, Stephanie Eagling-Peche, G.J. Melendez-Torres, Seema Vyas, Francisco Calderon, Tawanchai Jirapramukpitak, Jamie Lachman, Sureeporn Punpuing, Andrea Gonzalez, Mary Soan, Nway Nway Oo, Ivet Castello Mitjans, Greg Tyrosvoutis, Eve Puffer

“…Participants were surveyed at baseline, endline approximately 4 weeks post-intervention, and follow-up approximately 4 months post-intervention. …”
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Association between short-term exposure to air pollutants and daily stroke incidence among residents in Qingdao city: a time series analysis of disease surveillance, environmental,... by Nan GE, Lu PAN, Xin ZHANG, Dandan LI, Yin WANG, Jingya YIN, Hui ZHOU, Haoyan YU, Xiuqin ZHANG, Chunsheng XU, Yuan FANG, Yan MA, Bingling WANG, Haiping DUAN

“…The distributed Lag nonlinear model (DLNM) was used to analyze the associations between daily mean concentrations of particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter of less than 2.5 mum (PM2.5), particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter of less than 10 mum (PM10), carbon monoxide (CO), ozone (O3), sulfur dioxide (SO2), and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) with daily stroke incidence, while controlling for the effects of potential confounders such as long-term trend and day of the week in Qingdao city. The effects of air pollutants on stroke incidence were analyzed using a single-pollutant model. …”
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The Protocol for the Multi-Ethnic, multi-centre raNdomised controlled trial of a low-energy Diet for improving functional status in heart failure with Preserved ejection fraction (... by Noelle Robertson, Melanie J Davies, Thomas Yates, Gerry P McCann, Gaurav Singh Gulsin, Emer M Brady, Joanne V Wormleighton, Eylem Levelt, Oliver Rider, Jiliu Pan, Christopher Miller, Iain Squire, Mehak Asad, Fardad Soltani, Michelle Hadjiconstantinou, Rachel L Brown, Joanna M Bilak

“…Participants will undergo glycometabolic profiling, echocardiography, MRI for cardiovascular structure and function, body composition analysis (including visceral and subcutaneous adiposity quantification), Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) and Six-Minute Walk Test (6MWT), at baseline and 12 weeks. An optional 24-week assessment will include non-contrast CMR, 6MWT, KCCQ score. …”
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Hydroxychloroquine plus personal protective equipment versus personal protective equipment alone for the prevention of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 infections among healthcare wor... by Rohina Joshi, Sudha Vidyasagar, Niveditha Devasenapathy, Rinaldo Bellomo, Vivekanand Jha, Chirag Patel, Vijay Kumar, Lachlan Donaldson, Oommen John, Balasubramanian Venkatesh, Michael John, Naomi Hammond, Jeyaraj Pandian, Ashwani Kumar, Arpita Ghosh, S Radhakrishnan, Rajib Paul, Bharath Kumar Tirupakuzhi Vijayaraghavan, Dorrilyn Rajbhandari, Sheila Nainan Myatra, Amritendu Bhattacharya, Sumaiya Arfin, Abhinav Bassi, Lachlan Hugh Donaldson, Naomi E Hammond, Mallikarjuna Kunigari, Cynthia Amrutha, Syed Haider Mehdi Husaini, Subir Ghosh, Santosh Kumar Nag, Hari Krishnan Selvaraj, Viny Kantroo, Kamal D Shah, Sheila Myatra, Amritendu Battacharya, Pavan Kumar Vecham, Evangeline Elvira, Gomathi Parthasarathy, Archana Ragunathan, Gnanavel Rajendra Kunjurao, Pavithra Sampath Kumar, Hilda Nirmala Kumari, Jayanthi Swaminathan, Murshid Cheriyeri Peediyekkal, Arun Chander Yadav, Aarthi Venkatramanan, Cynthia Amrutha Sukumar, Dharini Prasad, Krishnanda Nayak, Ravindra Prabhu, Rohini Bilagi, Akash Bhange, Bhumika Patel, Ekta Ramchandani, Jinesh Patel, Krupa Gandhi, N Prathyusha, Rayshma Rao Bonshlay Lakshmanan, S Hari Krishnan, Abhishek George Mehta, Mousumi Pradhan, Syed Haider Mehdi Husaini, Shahid Ali Siddique, Naved-ur Rahman, Mohammad Jamalludeen, Mounika Amarneni, Suresh Sankar, Vidya Rajesh Joshi, Alka Yadav, Nikhil Modi, Rinku Dahiya, Serena Knowles, Nikita Bathla, Fatima Butt

“…Participants randomised in HydrOxychloroquine Prophylaxis Evaluation were followed for 6 months.Setting 9 hospitals across India.Participants Healthcare workers in an environment with exposure to COVID-19 were randomised in a 1:1 ratio to hydroxychloroquine plus use of personal protective equipment or personal protective equipment alone. 886 participants were screened and 416 randomised (213 hydroxychloroquine arm and 203 personal protective equipment).Intervention Participants in intervention arm received 800 mg of hydroxychloroquine on day of randomisation and then 400 mg once a week for 12 weeks in addition to the use of personal protective equipment. …”
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Health and associated economic benefits of reduced air pollution and increased physical activity from climate change policies in the UK by Heather Walton, David Dajnak, Mike Holland, Dimitris Evangelopoulos, Dylan Wood, Christian Brand, Nosha Assareh, Gregor Stewart, Andrew Beddows, Shawn YC Lee, Daniela Fecht, Yunzhe Liu, Bethan Davies, Anna Goodman, Tuan Vu, Sean Beevers

“…Shifts from car to walking and cycling for transport were converted to METhrs/week. Literature concentration–response functions were combined with baseline rates from routine statistics/other sources. …”
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Perioperative tislelizumab plus chemotherapy for locally advanced gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma (NEOSUMMIT-03): a prospective, nonrandomized, open-label, phase 2 trial by Run-Cong Nie, Shu-Qiang Yuan, Ya Ding, Yong-Ming Chen, Yuan-Fang Li, Cheng-Cai Liang, Mu-Yan Cai, Guo-Ming Chen, Wei Wang, Xiao-Wei Sun, De-Sheng Weng, Dan-Dan Li, Jing-Jing Zhao, Xiao-Jiang Chen, Yuan-Xiang Guan, Zhi-Min Liu, Yao Liang, Ma Luo, Jun Chi, Hai-Bo Qiu, Zhi-Wei Zhou, Xiao-Shi Zhang, Ying-Bo Chen

“…Eligible patients were administered three preoperative and five postoperative 3-week cycles of treatment with PD-1 antibody tislelizumab plus SOX (S-1 and oxaliplatin) regimen. …”
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Moscatilin inhibits vascular calcification by activating IL13RA2-dependent inhibition of STAT3 and attenuating the WNT3/β-catenin signalling pathway by Tingting Zhang, Mengmeng Zhu, Jialing Ma, Zhenghong Liu, Zhidan Zhang, Meijie Chen, Yaping Zhao, Huaxin Li, Shengnan Wang, Xiaoning Wei, Wenwen Zhang, Xiaoxiao Yang, Peter J. Little, Danielle Kamato, Hao Hu, Yajun Duan, Baotong Zhang, Jianbo Xiao, Suowen Xu, Yuanli Chen

“…Methods: Male C57BL/6J mice (25-week-old) were subjected to nicotine and vitamin D3 (VD3) treatment to induce vascular calcification. …”
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Effectiveness of the BNT162b2 XBB.1.5-adapted vaccine against COVID-19 hospitalization related to the JN.1 variant in Europe: a test-negative case-control study using the id.DRIVE... by Jennifer L. Nguyen, Marianna Mitratza, Hannah R. Volkman, Leonie de Munter, Thao Mai Phuong Tran, Catia Marques, Mustapha Mustapha, Srinivas Valluri, Jingyan Yang, Andrés Antón, Irma Casas, Eduardo Conde-Sousa, Laura Drikite, Beate Grüner, Giancarlo Icardi, Gerrit Luit ten Kate, Charlotte Martin, Ainara Mira-Iglesias, Alejandro Orrico-Sánchez, Susana Otero-Romero, Gernot Rohde, Luis Jodar, John M. McLaughlin, Kaatje Bollaerts

“…Protection was sustained through five months; VE was 52.2% (95% CI 41.3–61.1) 2 to <4 weeks after vaccination, 48.9% (95% CI 17.9–68.2) at 4 to <8 weeks, and ranged from 54.6% to 59.5% at 4-week intervals from 8 to <22 weeks. …”
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Intratumoral pan-ErbB targeted CAR-T for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: interim analysis of the T4 immunotherapy study by Fiona Reid, Sophie Papa, John Maher, Jean-Pierre Jeannon, James Spicer, Victoria Gibson, Selvam Thavaraj, Michael Metoudi, Christopher Fisher, Nicholas Beckley-Hoelscher, Andrew Hope, Maria Elstad, Antonella Adami, Richard Beatson, Molly Sarah George, Daniela Achkova, Evangelia Williams, Sefina Arif, Abdel Douri, Marc Delord, Mike Lyne, Dharshene Shivapatham, Sakina Gooljar, Arindam Mitra, Linda Gomm, Cienne Morton, Rhonda Henley-Smith, Alice Santambrogio, Cynthia Andoniadou, Sarah Allen, Gary J R Cook, Ana C Parente-Pereira, David M Davies, Farzin Farzaneh, Anna Schurich, Teresa Guerrero-Urbano

“…CAR T-cell batches were manufactured from 40 to 130 mL of whole blood using a 2-week semiclosed process. A single CAR T-cell treatment, formulated as a fresh product in 1–4 mL of medium, was injected into one or more target lesions. …”
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Burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance among hospitalised patients in Spain: findings from three nationwide prospective studiesResearch in context by Germán Peñalva, Rafael Cantón, María Teresa Pérez-Rodríguez, Juan José González-López, Jesús Rodríguez-Baño, Ester del Barrio-Tofiño, Cristina Kirkegaard-Biosca, Isabel Sánchez-Romero, Andrea Gutiérrez-Villanueva, Teresa Marrodán-Ciordia, José Manuel Guerra-Laso, Cristóbal del Rosario-Quintana, Laura Suárez-Hormiga, Jordi Cámara, Mireia Puig-Asensio, Eva Heredero, María Antonia Sepúlveda, Juan Carlos Rodríguez-Díaz, Esperanza Merino, Emilia Cercenado, Sofia de la Villa, María Siller, Francisco Arnaiz, Cristina Seral, José Antonio Lepe, José Miguel Cisneros, José Ramón Paño-Pardo

“…All patients with a new diagnosis of infection with any of 10 selected MDROs plus Clostridioides difficile during the study period (one week in 2018 and 2019 and two weeks in 2023) were included. …”
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Investigating causal relationships between entrepreneurial education and sustainable employment generation in Islamic Azad Universities in Tehran by Sana Abdulali, Mohammad Naghi Imani GelepordesariI, Asghar Sharifi

“…Today, the cost situation is such that a real worker has to work several tens of hours a week to cover his expenses. But in the meantime, what is sustainable employment? …”
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Efficacy and safety of perioperative sintilimab plus platinum-based chemotherapy for potentially resectable stage IIIB non-small cell lung cancer (periSCOPE): an open-label, single... by Xiangyang Yu, Chujian Huang, Longde Du, Chunguang Wang, Yikun Yang, Xin Yu, Shengcheng Lin, Chenglin Yang, Hongbo Zhao, Songhua Cai, Zhe Wang, Lixu Wang, Xiaotong Guo, Baihua Zhang, Zhentao Yu, Jie He, Kai Ma

“…The participants received two cycles of intravenous neoadjuvant treatment with PD-1 inhibitor sintilimab (200 mg), pemetrexed (500 mg/m2) for adenocarcinoma, paclitaxel (175 mg/m2) or nab-paclitaxel (260 mg/m2) for other histological subtypes, plus carboplatin (area under the curve 5) or cisplatin (75 mg/m2) on the first day of each 3-week cycle. Surgical resection was performed 28–42 days later. …”
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Asymmetries and Circumstellar Interaction in the Type II SN 2024bch by Jennifer E. Andrews, Manisha Shrestha, K. Azalee Bostroem, Yize Dong, Jeniveve Pearson, M. M. Fausnaugh, David J. Sand, S. Valenti, Aravind P. Ravi, Emily Hoang, Griffin Hosseinzadeh, Ilya Ilyin, Daryl Janzen, M. J. Lundquist, Nicolás Meza, Nathan Smith, Saurabh W. Jha, Moira Andrews, Joseph Farah, Estefania Padilla Gonzalez, D. Andrew Howell, Curtis McCully, Megan Newsome, Craig Pellegrino, Giacomo Terreran, Patrick Wiggins, Brian Hsu, Collin T. Christy, Noah Franz, Xiaofeng Wang, Jialian Liu, Liyang Chen

“…High-cadence photometry from the ground and Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite show that the SN brightened quickly and reached a peak M _V  ~ −17.8 mag within a week of explosion, and late-time photometry suggests a ^56 Ni mass of 0.050 M _⊙ . …”
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Technical note: A fast and reproducible autosampler for direct vapor equilibration isotope measurements by J. Pyschik, S. Seeger, S. Seeger, B. Herbstritt, M. Weiler

“…Moreover, VapAuSa triples sample throughput per week while also reducing the direct labor time to just 10 % of that required for manual processing.…”
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Is it Time to Recognize Political Anxiety as a Social Determinant of Health? by Brandon Ambrosino

“…For example, if a patient who complains of sleeplessness comes in for an examination the week before an election wearing a t-shirt advertising a political candidate, a physician might find this clinically relevant. …”
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Changes in laboratory value improvement and mortality rates over the course of the pandemic: an international retrospective cohort study of hospitalised patients infected with SARS... by Ramakanth Kavuluru, Xuan Wang, Paul Avillach, Florence Bourgeois, Kee Yuan Ngiam, Gabriel A Brat, Isaac Kohane, Tianxi Cai, Yuk-Lam Ho, Yuan Luo, Harrison G Zhang, Kelly Cho, Vincent Benoit, Antoine Neuraz, Chuan Hong, Sehi L'Yi, Griffin Weber, Bryce W Q Tan, Alba Gutiérrez-Sacristán, Clara-Lea Bonzel, Nathan P Palmer, Alberto Malovini, Valentina Tibollo, Meghan R Hutch, Molei Liu, Riccardo Bellazzi, Luca Chiovato, Fernando J Sanz Vidorreta, Trang T Le, William Yuan, Bertrand Moal, Michele Morris, David A Hanauer, Sarah Maidlow, Kavishwar Wagholikar, Shawn Murphy, Hossein Estiri, Adeline Makoudjou, Patric Tippmann, Jeffery Klann, Robert W Follett, Nils Gehlenborg, Gilbert S Omenn, Zongqi Xia, Arianna Dagliati, Shyam Visweswaran, Lav P Patel, Danielle L Mowery, Emily R Schriver, Malarkodi Jebathilagam Samayamuthu, Sara Lozano-Zahonero, Daniela Zöller, Amelia L M Tan, Byorn W L Tan, John H Holmes, Petra Schubert, Brett K. Beaulieu-Jones, Miguel Pedrera-Jiménez, Noelia García-Barrio, Pablo Serrano-Balazote, Andrew South

“…The secondary outcome was the average rate of change in laboratory values during the first week of hospitalisation.Results Baseline Charlson Comorbidity Index and laboratory values at admission were not significantly different between the first and second waves. …”
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Antiviral efficacy of fluoxetine in early symptomatic COVID-19: an open-label, randomised, controlled, adaptive platform trial (PLATCOV)Research in context by Podjanee Jittamala, Simon Boyd, William H.K. Schilling, James A. Watson, Thundon Ngamprasertchai, Tanaya Siripoon, Viravarn Luvira, Elizabeth M. Batty, Phrutsamon Wongnak, Lisia M. Esper, Pedro J. Almeida, Cintia Cruz, Fernando R. Ascencao, Renato S. Aguiar, Najia K. Ghanchi, James J. Callery, Shivani Singh, Varaporn Kruabkontho, Thatsanun Ngernseng, Jaruwan Tubprasert, Wanassanan Madmanee, Kanokon Suwannasin, Amornrat Promsongsil, Borimas Hanboonkunupakarn, Kittiyod Poovorawan, Manus Potaporn, Attasit Srisubat, Bootsakorn Loharjun, Walter R.J. Taylor, Farah Qamar, Abdul Momin Kazi, M. Asim Beg, Danoy Chommanam, Sisouphanh Vidhamaly, Kesinee Chotivanich, Mallika Imwong, Sasithon Pukrittayakamee, Arjen M. Dondorp, Nicholas P.J. Day, Mauro M. Teixeira, Watcharapong Piyaphanee, Weerapong Phumratanaprapin, Nicholas J. White

“…Measurements were taken daily between days 0 and 7 and analysed in a modified intention-to-treat population (>2 days follow-up).The viral clearance rate was estimated under a Bayesian hierarchical linear model fitted to the log10 viral densities measured in standardised duplicate oropharyngeal swab eluates taken daily over one week (18 measurements per patient). Secondary endpoints were all-cause hospital admission at 28 days, and time to resolution of fever and symptoms. …”
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Development and Evaluation of an AI-based Exergame Training System for Ice-Hockey Players: a Randomized Controlled Trial by Nicole Sieber, Simon Walser, Thomas Weber, Raphael Gubler, Hannes Badertscher, Patrick Eggenberger

“…While the control group followed the regular team training, the intervention group additionally trained twice weekly over five weeks with the novel exergame for 11 min per session (i.e., 3 x 3 min with 1 min rest). …”
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