Smoking Cessation by Phone Counselling in a Lung Cancer Screening Program: A Retrospective Comparative Cohort Study by Ankita Ghatak, Sean Gilman, Siobhan Carney, Anne V Gonzalez, Andrea Benedetti, Nicole Ezer

“…This is a retrospective cohort study of participants referred to provincial smoking cessation quit line in contemporaneous cohorts: self-referred participants, healthcare worker referred, and those referred by a lung cancer screening program if they were still actively smoking at the time of first contact. Baseline, covariates (sociodemographic information, smoking history, and history of mental health disorder) and quit intentions (stage of change, readiness for change, previous use of quit programs, and previous quit attempts) were compared among the three cohorts. …”
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Role of miR-16, 146a, 19b and 720 gene expressions in the pathogenesis and diagnosis of vitiligo by Olfat G. Shaker, Talal A. Abd elrahim, Somia Azzam, Mai Mohamed El-Zook, Nesreen M. Aboraia

“…For all patients Vitiligo area scoring index (VASI), vitiligo disease activity (VIDA), disease duration and extent percentages were calculated. …”
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Analysis of the Structural Behavior Evolution of Reinforced Soil Retaining Walls Under the Combined Effects of Rainfall and Earthquake by Xinxin Li, Xiaoguang Cai, Sihan Li, Xin Huang, Chen Zhu, Honglu Xu

“…Major earthquakes and rainfall may occur at the same time, necessitating further investigation into the dynamic characteristics and responses of reinforced soil retaining walls subjected to the combined forces of rainfall and seismic activity. Three sets of shaking table tests on model retaining walls were designed, a modular reinforced earth retaining wall was utilized as the subject of this study, and a custom-made device was made to simulate rainfall conditions of varying intensities. …”
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Potentials of Presepsin as a Novel Sepsis Biomarker in Critically Ill Adults: Correlation Analysis with the Current Diagnostic Markers by Mai S. Sater, Nourah Almansour, Zainab Hasan Abdulla Malalla, Salim Fredericks, Muhalab E. Ali, Hayder A. Giha

“…These measures were heart rate (HR), white blood count (WBC), C-reactive protein (CRP), procalcitonin (PCT), lactate plasma concentrations, and measures of hemostasis status (platelets count (PLT), fibrinogen, prothrombin time (PT), activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT), international normalization ratio (INR) and D-dimer). …”
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Meta-analysis examining the association between low platelet monoamine oxidase levels and Zuckerman's sensation seeking scale in a sex dependent manner by Jordan Winfield, Ian A. Mendez, Gabriel A. Frietze

“…In this meta-analysis, we investigated the association between low platelet MAO activity and sensation seeking behavior, as measured by Zuckerman's Sensation Seeking Scale (SSS). …”
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Paediatric norms for photopic electroretinogram testing based on a large cohort of Chinese preschool children by Henry Ho-lung Chan, Sonia Seen-hang Chan, Kai Yip Choi

“…Objective Full-field electroretinogram (ffERG) is an objective test to determine the electroretinal activities in response to light stimulation for investigating retinal physiology and diagnosing retinal diseases. …”
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Changing role of security alliances in the post-Cold War era by I. A. Istomin, A. V. Levchenko

“…In fact, states not only continue to consider military alliance as an important foreign policy tool but actively develop new forms of alliances and coalitions. …”
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Social media warfare: investigating human-bot engagement in English, Japanese and German during the Russo-Ukrainian war on Twitter and Reddit by Wentao Xu, Kazutoshi Sasahara, Jianxun Chu, Bin Wang, Wenlu Fan, Zhiwen Hu

“…The analysis of over 20 million tweets and 1 million Reddit comments revealed that bots predominantly operated on Twitter (X), while human users were more active on Reddit. Moreover, we found that English content demonstrated Granger causality with cascade size and depth in minor languages like Japanese and German (p < 0.05), with temporal correlations between human and bot posting frequencies significantly heightening toxicity in English compared to the other languages. …”
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Comprehensive Analysis of Metabolic Changes in Mice Exposed to Corilagin Based on GC-MS Analysis by Xu B, Wang C, Zhu X, Zhu L, Han G, Cui C

“…In recent years, numerous pharmacological activities of Corilagin have been reported, including anti-inflammatory, antiviral, hepatoprotective, anti-tumor, and anti-fibrosis effects. …”
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Depletion of key gut bacteria predicts disrupted bile acid metabolism in inflammatory bowel disease by Daniel Peterson, Christopher Weidenmaier, Sonia Timberlake, Rotem Gura Sadovsky

“…In particular, Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is characterized by a low concentration of secondary bile acids (SBAs), whose transformation from primary bile acids (PBAs) is an essential function performed solely by gut bacteria. BA-transformation activity mediated by the bile acid inducible (bai) operon has been functionally characterized in the genus Clostridium, and homologous bai gene sequences have been found in metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) belonging to other taxa in the human gut, but it is unclear which species of bai-carrying bacteria perform physiologically significant amounts of bile acid transformation in healthy and sick individuals. …”
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mRNA technology as one of the promising platforms for the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine development by A. A. Ilyichev, L. A. Orlova, S. V. Sharabrin, L. I. Karpenko

“…It is worth noting that mRNA-vaccines can efficiently activate both components of the immune system, i. e. …”
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Comparison of Decadal Trends among Total Solar Irradiance Composites of Satellite Observations by Nicola Scafetta, Richard C. Willson

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Comparison of Outcomes and Recurrence in Chronic Subdural Hematoma Patients Treated by Burr-Hole Drainage with or without Irrigation by Jongwook Choi, Kum Whang, Sungmin Cho, Jongyeon Kim

“…We therefore recommend the use of active irrigation during burr-hole drainage surgery in CSDH patients.…”
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Design, Synthesis, and Pharmacological Screening of Novel Porphyrin Derivatives by Ahmed A. Fadda, Rasha E. El-Mekawy, Ahmed El-Shafei, Harold S. Freeman, David Hinks, Manal El-Fedawy

“…Dyes 2d and 2f which bear methoxy functionality exhibited markedly higher antihaemolysis activity than the other analogs. Molecular modeling methods using ZINDO/INDO-1, with a configuration interaction of 26, and TD-DFT using the energy functional B3LYP and the basis set DGTZVP were used to study the vertical electronic excitations of porphyrins 2a–f and it was shown that the calculated using TD-DFT method was in excellent agreement with the experimental results, while the ZINDO method was inferior. …”
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Gum and Resin Production and Marketing: Implications for Pastoral Livelihood in Adadle District, Somali Region, Ethiopia by Bishar Ahmed Yussuf, Latamo Lameso Lelamo, Mahamud Mahamed Abdi

“…Even though collecting and selling gum and resin is one of the main livelihood activities in Ethiopia’s remote pastoral areas, there are few case studies that adequately reflect national realities. …”
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Digital cognitive training in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a study protocol of a randomised controlled trial by Sally Richmond, Hannah Kirk, Kim Cornish, Mark A Bellgrove, Tori Gaunson, Meg Bennett

“…Results will be disseminated through peer-reviewed journals, conference presentations, media outlets, the internet and various community/stakeholder activities.Trial registration number ACTRN12620000964910, UTN U1111-1250-2620.…”
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Registered Nurses' Experience of Person‐Centred Care Through Digital Aids in Primary Care Setting During the COVID‐19 Pandemic by Annika Kjällman Alm, Ove Hellzen, Malin Rising‐Holmström

“…This meant implementing innovative digital tools or artificial intelligence and developing a mental frame of mind that embraces new ways and activities to perform primary care through technology. …”
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The association of sexual frequency with cardiovascular diseases incidence and all-cause mortality by Tian-Qi Teng, Jing Liu, Meng-Meng Wang, De-Gang Mo, Rui Chen, Jia-Chao Xu, Zi-Han Dong, Ning Zhang, Hai-Chu Yu

“…Abstract Sexual activity exists in a complex relationship with human health. …”
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Diagnostic utility of LEF1 and β-catenin in WNT pathway tumors with CTNNB1 mutation by Can Li, Lingdan Dong, Li Zhu, Wenbin Guan

“…Our study emphasizes the importance of LEF1 as a complementary marker to β-catenin in diagnosing BA, DF, SPN, and other WNT pathway tumors activated by exon 3 CTNNB1 gene mutation. The combined use of LEF1 and β-catenin enhances diagnostic accuracy and may help the identification of these tumor types.…”
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Split Application of Potassium Reduces Rice Chalkiness by Regulating Starch Accumulation Process Under High Temperatures by Xinyue Zhang, Youfa Li, Junjie Dong, Yuanze Sun, Haowei Fu

“…Specifically, the split application of K fertilizer reduced the enzymatic activities of SuSy, ADPGase, and SBE by 3.17–34.20% at 5–10 DAA, and GBSS and SSS by 6.48–13.50% at 5 DAA, but enhanced them by 5.50–54.90% from 15 DAA and 2.07–97.10% from 10 DAA. …”
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