Trends in the prevalence of Chronic Kidney Disease in the United States, 1999–2018 by Mansi Zhuang, Mansi Zhuang, Xiaogang Lv, Yanan Zhu, Nan Zheng, Yiqiang Zhan, Yiqiang Zhan

“…The increasing prevalence of diabetes during the study period highlights its significant role as a CKD risk factor.ConclusionThe prevalence of CKD in the U.S. has been rising over the period 1999–2018, and varying across demographic groups, underscoring significant disparities and risk factors. …”
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Fetal-BET: Brain Extraction Tool for Fetal MRI by Razieh Faghihpirayesh, Davood Karimi, Deniz Erdogmus, Ali Gholipour

“…Using this dataset, we developed and validated deep learning methods, by exploiting the power of the U-Net style architectures, the attention mechanism, feature learning across multiple MRI modalities, and data augmentation for fast, accurate, and generalizable automatic fetal brain extraction. …”
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Screening and Profiling the Antioxidant Properties of Psychrophilic Microalgae and Cyanobacteria from the Baltic Sea by Vyacheslav F. Dolganyuk, Stanislav A. Sukhikh, Egor V. Kashirskih, Elena V. Ulrikh, Olga E. Kremleva, Olga O. Babich

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Consumer Risk Perception of Food Contamination as an Influencer to Purchase Irradiated Ground Beef, Chicken, and Leafy Greens – United States, October 2022 by Michael Ablan, Tamara N. Crawford, Michelle Canning, Misha Robyn, Katherine E. Marshall

“…Despite this, there has been limited application of food irradiation in the U.S. During October 7–9, 2022, we licensed data from a Porter Novelli Public Services survey (N = 1,008) to examine consumer risk perception of contamination of ground beef, chicken, and leafy greens with pathogens, and the potential influence risk perception has on purchasing irradiated versions of these foods. …”
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Ankara’da Bulunan Bir Ortaokuldaki 8. Sınıf Öğrencilerinin Güneşten Korunma Özyeterliliklerinin Güneşten Korunma Davranışlarına Etkisi by Şerife Zehra Altunkürek, Eylül Kaya

“…Veriler tanımlayıcı istatistik, Mann Whitney U testi, Kruskal-Wallis ve Spearsman’s Korelasyon kullanılarak analiz edilmiştir. …”
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Patterns and Drivers of Surface Energy Flux in the Alpine Meadow Ecosystem in the Qilian Mountains, Northwest China by Yongxin Tian, Zhangwen Liu, Yanwei Fan, Yongyuan Li, Hu Tao, Chuntan Han, Xinmao Ao, Rensheng Chen

“…This study examines the energy flux patterns and their driving factors in the alpine meadows of the Qilian Mountains, focusing on how the meteorological variables of net radiation (<i>R_n</i>), air temperature, vapor pressure deficit (<i>VPD</i>), wind speed (<i>U</i>), and soil water content (<i>SWC</i>) influence sensible heat flux (<i>H</i>) and latent heat flux (<i>LE</i>). …”
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Toxicity and Availability of Manganese in the Growth of Tropical Grasses in Contaminated Soil by Enilson de Barros Silva, Willian Cleisson Lopes de Souza, Barbara Olinda Nardis, Luís Reynaldo Ferracciú Alleoni, Paulo Henrique Grazziotti, Lauana Lopes dos Santos, Iracema Raquel Santos Bezerra, Flávio Antônio Fernandes Alves, Wesley Costa Silva, Bento Gil Uane, Sandra Antunes do Nascimento

“…The Aruana of M. maximus grass has greater potential for phytoextraction of Mn-contaminated soils, followed by Basilisk of Urochloa decumbens, Xaraés and Marandu of U. brizantha, and Tanzânia of M. maximus. The Mehlich-1, DTPA pH 7.3, USEPA 3051, and 3052 extractors were efficient in extracting and evaluating Mn availability in soil for tropical grasses. …”
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Impacto psicológico de la pandemia de la COVID-19 en personal sanitario by Yoander Nápoles-Zaldivar, Ivonne María Nodarse-Palacios, Wilber Jesús Riverón-Carralero, Sergio César Lorenzo-González, Onelis Góngora-Gómez

“…Se utilizó la prueba de U de Mann-Whitney para buscar diferencias en la puntuación general reportada. …”
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A DFT study of lithium intercalation and metallization on oxygen-vacancy containing TiO2(110) by J. Juan, M.G. Sandoval, P. Bechthold, E.A. González, P.V. Jasen

“…We investigate the possible adsorption sites for Li on perfect and defective TiO2(110) using DFT+U calculations. Two systems with an oxygen di-vacancy are generated and we test the diffusion and the effects of increasing the number of Li in the most stable configurations. …”
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Improving explainability of post-separation suicide attempt prediction models for transitioning service members: insights from the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servi... by Emily R. Edwards, Joseph C. Geraci, Sarah M. Gildea, Claire Houtsma, Jacob A. Holdcraft, Chris J. Kennedy, Andrew J. King, Alex Luedtke, Brian P. Marx, James A. Naifeh, Nancy A. Sampson, Murray B. Stein, Robert J. Ursano, Ronald C. Kessler

“…Abstract Risk of U.S. Army soldier suicide-related behaviors increases substantially after separation from service. …”
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Wastewater-based estimation of temporal variation in shedding amount of influenza A virus and clinically identified cases using the PRESENS model by Hiroki Ando, Michio Murakami, Masaaki Kitajima, Kelly A. Reynolds

“…In this study, we applied two mathematical models to previously collected wastewater and clinical data from four U.S. states during the 2022/2023 influenza season, dominated by the H3N2 subtype. …”
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Attaching artificial Achilles and tibialis cranialis tendons to bone using suture anchors in a rabbit model: assessment of outcomes by Obinna P. Fidelis, Caleb Stubbs, Katrina L. Easton, Caroline Billings, Alisha P. Pedersen, David E. Anderson, Dustin L. Crouch

“…Statistical analyses (Mann–Whitney U test and Fisher’s exact test) revealed no significant effect of tendon implantation timing or suture size on either the timing or frequency of suture anchor failure. …”
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CHARACTERISTICS OF THE 2007 CANICULAR SUMMER IN ROMANIA by OCTAVIA BOGDAN, ION MARINICĂ, LOREDANA-ELENA MIC

“…Mit einem kontinentalgemäßigten Klima, kennzeichnet sich Rumänien durch die Anwesenheit der vier Jahreszeiten: zwei extreme u.z. warmer Sommer, manchmal heiß, und kalter Winter, manchmal frostig, sowie zwei Übergangsjahreszeiten – der Frühling und der Herbst, in denen sich die Klimamerkmale der ersten zwei gegenseitig durchdringen. …”
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Endoplasmic reticulum stress-related CLIP4 plays a procarcinogenic role in hepatocellular carcinoma: an integrated analysis by Anqi Wang, Sitong Yan, Weijia Jiang, Xiang Chen, Yuhan Huang, Xiangyu Zu, Xiao Du, Lulu Fan, Jiatao Liu, Guoping Sun

“…CCK-8, colony formation, EdU staining, wound-healing, Transwell, western blotting and RT-qPCR were used to detect the effects of CLIP4 on the proliferation, migration and epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) of HCC cells. …”
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Sex differences in the time trends of sepsis biomarkers following polytrauma by Cédric Niggli, Philipp Vetter, Jan Hambrecht, Hans-Christoph Pape, Ladislav Mica

“…Time-dependent inflammatory markers (CRP, PCT, WBC) were analyzed using the Mann–Whitney U-test and binary logistic regression. The Closest Top-Left Threshold Method determined time-specific sepsis thresholds. …”
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Osteoblastic Differentiation and Mitigation of the Inflammatory Response in Titanium Alloys Decorated with Oligopeptides by Aroa Álvarez-López, Raquel Tabraue-Rubio, Rafael Daza, Luis Colchero, Gustavo V. Guinea, Martine Cohen-Solal, José Pérez-Rigueiro, Daniel González-Nieto

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不同拮抗剂在促性腺激素释放激素拮抗剂方案中的应用 by 夏婷婷, 万子晴, 陶林林, 林晓琪, 欧建平

“…结果3组患者年龄、体质量指数、抗缪勒管激素等一般资料无差异；3组患者获卵数、扳机日LH&gt;10 U/L所占比例、中重度卵巢过度刺激综合征（OHSS）发生率、成熟卵子数、新鲜胚胎移植临床妊娠率及活产率差异均无统计学意义（<italic>P </italic>&gt; 0.05）。…”
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The Effect of Additional TiO2 Nanofluid on Heat Transfer Rate and Thermal Resistance on Processor Cooling with Ultrasonic Vibration by Dhiya'ul Ro'id Alfaris, Sudarmadji Sudarmadji

“…The result of this research shows that the U value of aquadest bottom fluid with vibration increases from 2834.563579 W/m².…”
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Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Accelerate Epithelial Tight Junction Assembly via the AMP-Activated Protein Kinase Pathway, Independently of Liver Kinase B1 by P. Rowart, P. Erpicum, J.-M. Krzesinski, M. Sebbagh, F. Jouret

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The Genetic Expression Difference of A2058 Cells Treated by Plasma Direct Exposure and Plasma-Treated Medium and the Appropriate Treatment Strategy by Chao-Yu Chen, Chung-Hsien Chou, Yun-Chien Cheng

“…This study investigated the effects of direct and indirect treatments of Argon-based CAP to cancer cells (A2058, A549, U2OS and BCC) and fibroblasts (NIH3T3 and L929) on cell viability. …”
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