Transmitted blood infections and emerging vector-borne diseases in blood donors in northern Portugal by Ana Mota, Margarida Fonseca Cardoso

“…Conclusion: These results highlight the importance of a rigorous investigation at the time of donation in which the donor's history, including origin and movement in areas of greater geographic risk, are assessed. …”
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Development and Validation of Ecofriendly HPLC-MS Method for Quantitative Assay of Amoxicillin, Dicloxacillin, and Their Official Impurity in Pure and Dosage Forms by Atiah H. Almalki, Essraa A. Hussein, Ibrahim A. Naguib, Eglal A. Abdelaleem, Hala E. Zaazaa, Fatma F. Abdallah

“…The chromatographic separation was carried out by applying the mixture on a C18 column (3.5 µm ps, 100 mm × 4.6 mm id) using acetonitrile:water (65 : 35 by volume) as a mobile phase within only 4 min. …”
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Fabrication of Cu@Ag core-shell/nafion/polyalizarin: Applications to simultaneous electrocatalytic oxidation and reduction of nitrite in water samples by Afshin Maleki, Nader Amini, Reza Rezaee, Mahdi Safari, Nader Marzban, Mehran seifi

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Optimization of movement activity and the mental state of students by dance aerobics by Natalia Chuprun, Sergey Zakopaylo, Mykola Shulga, Alexander Gordienko

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Fast and accurate imputation of genotypes from noisy low-coverage sequencing data in bi-parental populations. by Cécile Triay, Alice Boizet, Christopher Fragoso, Anestis Gkanogiannis, Jean-François Rami, Mathias Lorieux

“…NOISYmputer consistently provides precise map size estimations when applied to real datasets while alternative tools may exhibit errors ranging from 3 to 1845 times the real size of the chromosomes in centimorgans. …”
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Development of a Gradient HPLC Method for the Simultaneous Determination of Sotalol and Sorbate in Oral Liquid Preparations Using Solid Core Stationary Phase by Ludmila Matysova, Oxana Zahalkova, Sylva Klovrzova, Zdenka Sklubalova, Petr Solich, Lukas Zahalka

“…A sodium dihydrogen phosphate dihydrate solution (pH 2.5; 17.7 mM) was used as the mobile phase buffer. The total analysis time was 4.5 min (+2.5 min for reequilibration). …”
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Mineral Characteristics and Organoleptic Properties of Musa balbisiana (Wild Banana) Pseudostem collected from San Francisco, Mainit, Surigao del Norte, Philippines and Incorporate... by G. Q. Diamola, E. C. Taer, R. J. C. Ferol, L. R. Antigro, B. C. Bagaipo

“…The study employed a completely randomized design with five treatments replicated three times, where patties were formulated with different proportions of M. balbisiana pseudostem core (MB): T1: Flour-based T2: MB 100% T3: MB 75% T5: MB 50% T5: MB 25%. …”
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Effects of Teenage Pregnancy on School Girl Education in Primary Schools in Katuna Town Council Kabale District. by Tumwebaze, Costance

“…Using simple random and purposive sampling techniques, a total of 100 respondents were selected to participate in the study. …”
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Patient and tumor factors contributing to distant metastasis in well-differentiated thyroid cancer: a retrospective cohort study by Usman Khan, Ayham Al Afif, Abdullah Aldaihani, Colin MacKay, Matthew H. Rigby, Murali Rajaraman, Syed Ali Imran, Martin J. Bullock, S. Mark Taylor, Jonathan R. B. Trites, Robert D. Hart

“…Multivariate Cox-proportional hazards model was used to evaluate the risk of developing distant metastasis over time. Kaplan-Meier analysis was used to compare survival between the DM and NDM groups. …”
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Development and routine implementation of deep learning algorithm for automatic brain metastases segmentation on MRI for RANO-BM criteria follow-up by Loïse Dessoude, Raphaëlle Lemaire, Romain Andres, Thomas Leleu, Alexandre G. Leclercq, Alexis Desmonts, Typhaine Corroller, Amirath Fara Orou-Guidou, Luca Laduree, Loic Le Henaff, Joëlle Lacroix, Alexis Lechervy, Dinu Stefan, Aurélien Corroyer-Dulmont

“…Furthermore, this approach is inherently time-consuming. Consequently, in clinical practice, monitoring patients in clinical trials in compliance with the RANO-BM criteria is rarely achieved. …”
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Comparison of thromboelastographic profiles and clinical characteristics in children with severe Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia by Yong-tao Li, Yu-mei Ma, Fu-li Dai, Zhen Peng, Ya-ping Dai, Ke Zhi, Hai-hong Feng, Shu-jun Li

“…TEG parameters indicated a hypercoagulable state with shorter R time (P < 0.001), shorter K time (P < 0.001), and higher MA (P = 0.003). …”
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Learning Curve of Uniportal Compared With Biportal Endoscopic Techniques for the Treatment of Lumbar Disc Herniation by Yuquan Liu, Xiang Li, Haining Tan, Xinyi Hao, Bin Zhu, Yong Yang, Lingjia Yu

“…However, after gaining UFE experience, the S2FB only showed significant improvement in operation time (p = 0.041) during the process of learning UBE compared to S1BF. …”
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What happens to patients in the long term when we do not repair their cuff tears? Ten-year rotator cuff quality of life index (RC-QOL) outcomes following nonoperative treatment of... by Richard S. Boorman, MD, MSc, FRCSC, Kristie D. More, MSc, Sarah L. Koles, MD, MSc, FRCPC

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Formation of advanced glycation end products in raw and subsequently boiled broiler muscle: biological variation and effects of postmortem ageing and storage by Suhong Huang, Xiaoli Dong, Yali Zhang, Yuru Chen, Yajie Yu, Ming Huang, Yuandong Zheng

“…The contents of CML in raw and boiled (100 °C, 30 min) broiler briskets and legs which were from white feather broilers (n = 8) and yellow feather broilers (n = 8) with ageing and storage at 4 °C for 0–168 h were determined. …”
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Rockfish abundance, recruitment, and community structure trends in the western Strait of Juan de Fuca, Washington, 2005-2023 by Shawn E. Larson, Katie Shelledy, Daniela Escontrela Dieguez, Jeff Christiansen, Amy Y. Olsen, Zachary Randell, Megan H. Williams, Chris VanDamme, Dayv Lowry, William Jasper

“…Diver-operated video (DOV) surveys were conducted annually to quantify patterns in bottomfish (rockfish and other species associated with rocky reefs) abundance and stability over time. Divers performed 100-meter video transects devised to be both non-invasive and repeatable, for assessing both relatively sessile bottomfish and for schooling, transitory rockfish species. …”
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Unburned habitat essential for amphibian breeding persistence following wildfire by Larissa L. Bailey, Richard Henderson, Wendy A. Estes-Zumpf, Charles C. Rhoades, Ellie Miller, Dominique Lujan, Erin Muths

“…Understanding short-term geographic- and species-specific variation in response to wildfires provides the basis to explore time to recovery (e.g., when wood frogs return to burned breeding sites) or to determine if declines in breeding distributions intensify over time.…”
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Enhancing Semi-Supervised Learning With Concept Drift Detection and Self-Training: A Study on Classifier Diversity and Performance by Jose L. M. Perez, Roberto S. M. Barros, Silas G. T. C. Santos

“…Semi-supervised classifiers often consume a lot of memory and run-time, and the addition of a detection mechanism increases the computational cost. …”
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Effect of KRAS mutation status on clinicopathological characteristics and overall survival in patients with rectal cancer by Shengbin Zheng, Zhijie You, Guodon Guo, Zhijing Lin, Siming Wang, Guohua Yang

“…In contrast, the survival time for KRASG12D was significantly poorer than that for wKRAS, while no such difference was observed for KRASG13D. …”
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Ultrasound-guided vs. fluoroscopy-guided percutaneous leverage reduction for severely displaced radial neck fractures in children: a comparative analysis of clinical and radiologic... by Xing Wu, Jingdong Xia, Xiongtao Li, Xiaoliang Chen, Si Wang, Xiantao Shen

“…Additionally, the US group had a significantly lower number of FL images and radiation dose (3.59 ± 1.57 times, 9.56 ± 6.08 mGy) than the FL group (22.26 ± 8.07 times, 69.68 ± 34.70 mGy; P < 0.001). …”
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Longitudinal MRI evaluation of the efficacy of non-enhanced lung cancer brain metastases by Xian Zhang, Jun Yang, Hong Hu, Yong Wang, Zhenfeng Zhang, Jinhao lv, Junping Li

“…In contrast, the median progression-free follow-up time for enhanced BM was 35.5 months, yielding a disease control rate of 100%. …”
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