Evaluation of Tele-rheumatology during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Asian Population: A Pilot Study by Amit Sandhu, Amit Agarwal, Paramvir Kaur, Meenakshi Sharma, Harnoor Sra, Manvi Singh, Nishant Jaiswal, Anil Chauhan, Anju Gupta, Meenu Singh

“…Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune condition associated with a potential for deformities. It is one of the common conditions to seek health care. Hence, the present study was conducted to assess the telemedicine services for patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis during the COVID-19 pandemic in an Asian Indian population. …”
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Dual anti-CTLA-4 and anti-PD-1 blockade in metastatic basal cell carcinoma by Sandip P. Patel, Eleanor Cano-Linson, Young Kwang Chae, Shiruyeh Schokrpur, Christopher D. Lao, Benjamin C. Powers, Adrienne I. Victor, Adedayo A. Onitilo, Sarah Shin, Naoko Takebe, Sara Threlkel, Christine M. McLeod, Helen X. Chen, Elad Sharon, Megan Othus, Christopher W. Ryan, Charles D. Blanke, Razelle Kurzrock

“…Of 15 patients evaluable for clinical benefit, five partial responses (PRs) and five stable disease >6 months (total = 10/15 (66.7%)) were seen. The most common toxicities included fatigue (37.5%), pruritis (31.3%), and diarrhea (25%). …”
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Scrotal Skin Metastases Revealing a Prostatic Adenocarcinoma by Idriss Ziani, Zayd El Boukili El Makhoukh, Ahmed Ibrahimi, Omar Bellouki, Jihane Benahmed, Yasmine Laraqui, Fouad Zouidia, Hachem El Sayegh, Lounis Benslimane, Yassine Nouini

“…Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men. Cutaneous metastasis from prostate cancer is an unusual clinical finding. …”
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Liver diseases: epidemiology, causes, trends and predictions by Can Gan, Yuan Yuan, Haiyuan Shen, Jinhang Gao, Xiangxin Kong, Zhaodi Che, Yangkun Guo, Hua Wang, Erdan Dong, Jia Xiao

“…Various factors including viruses, alcohol, metabolites, toxins, and other pathogenic agents can compromise liver function, leading to acute or chronic injury that may progress to end-stage liver diseases. While sharing common features, liver diseases exhibit distinct pathophysiological, clinical, and therapeutic profiles. …”
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Reversible Manifestations of Hypothyroidism causing Diagnostic Dilemma: A Case Series by Kaushik Hazra, Somnath Maitra, Sunetra Roy, Isha Ghosh

“…Hypothyroidism causes a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations, with various signs and symptoms. Some symptoms are common and aid in diagnosis, while the uncommon manifestations may be the sole feature causing diagnostic delays, leading to increased morbidity and mortality. …”
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Generating a Full Cycle of Alternative Current Using a Triboelectric Nanogenerator for Energy Harvesting by Aso Ali Abdalmohammed Shateri, Fengling Zhuo, Nazifi Sani Shuaibu, Rui Wan, Liangquan Xu, Dinku Hazarika, Bikash Gyawali, Xiaozhi Wang

“…However, horizontal mechanical energy is more common than rotational energy in many practical applications. …”
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Self-Reported Childhood Maltreatment and Traumatic Events among Israeli Patients Suffering from Fibromyalgia and Rheumatoid Arthritis by Raneen Hellou, Winfried Häuser, Inbal Brenner, Dan Buskila, Giris Jacob, Ori Elkayam, Valerie Aloush, Jacob N. Ablin

“…PTSD was significantly more common among FMS patients compared with RA patients, as well as childhood emotional abuse and physical and emotional neglect. …”
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CPTU-Based Offshore Wind Monopile Rigid Bearing Mechanism Analysis by Jie Zhou, Renjie Gu, Panpan Shen, Chengjun Liu, Zeyao Li, Kefan Zhu, Zhenming Shi

“…The piezocone penetration test (CPTU) is a common marine in situ test to exactly acquire soil parameters. …”
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A texture-modified dessert with high nutritional value designed for people with dysphagia: effect of refrigeration and frozen storage by María Cartagena, Larisa Giura, Diana Ansorena, Iciar Astiasaran

“…Dysphagia is commonly associated with malnutrition and an increased choking risk. …”
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Diagnosis and Treatment of Elderly and Senile Chronic Constipation: an Expert Consensus by V. T. Ivashkin, M. G. Mnatsakanyan, V. S. Ostapenko, А. P. Pogromov, V. M. Nekoval, E. A. Poluectova, Yu. V. Kotovskaya, N. K. Runikhina, N. V. Sharashkina, P. V. Tsarkov, N. O. Tkacheva, Yu. N. Belenkov

“…Chronic constipation is a common issue in geriatrics. Aside to age-related physiological bowel disfunction, a higher constipation incidence is conditioned by declined physical activity and frailty, polypharmacy and a series of secondary constipation-developing chronic states and diseases. …”
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Factors related to painful somatic symptoms in patients with depression: The role of gender and anhedonia by A. Pérez-Morenilla, A. Salazar, I. Failde, F. González-Sáiz, J.A. Micó

“…Background: Pain is common in Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), but other related factors have received scant attention. …”
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The Proapoptotic Effect of MB-653 Is Associated with the Modulation of Metastasis and Invasiveness-Related Signalling Pathways in Human Colorectal Cancer Cells by Libor Sokoli, Peter Takáč, Mariana Budovská, Radka Michalková, Martin Kello, Natália Nosálová, Ľudmila Balážová, Šimon Salanci, Ján Mojžiš

“…Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers worldwide and has a high mortality rate. …”
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Semantic search helper: A tool based on the use of embeddings in multi-item questionnaires as a harmonization opportunity for merging large datasets – A feasibility study by Karl Gottfried, Karina Janson, Nathalie E. Holz, Olaf Reis, Johannes Kornhuber, Anna Eichler, Tobias Banaschewski, Frauke Nees, IMAC-Mind Consortium

“…The approach’s feasibility and applicability were evaluated through a use case analysis involving data from four large cohort studies with heterogeneous data obtained with a different set of instruments for common constructs. Results With the prototype, we effectively identified potential harmonization pairs, which significantly reduced manual evaluation efforts. …”
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The effect of strain rate on macrozones of the α+β phase region during thermal deformation in near-α titanium alloys by Xiaolei Wang, Mengjia Wang, Peihao Ye, Wujing Fu, Guojian Cao, Qihang Han, Xuewen Li, Hao Wu, Guohua Fan

“…However, macrozones characterized by sharp local textures are common microstructural inhomogeneities in titanium (Ti) alloys, which significantly reduce the fatigue resistance of Ti alloy components. …”
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An Overview of Solar Orbiter Observations of Interplanetary Shocks in Solar Cycle 25 by Domenico Trotta, Andrew Dimmock, Heli Hietala, Xochitl Blanco-Cano, Timothy S. Horbury, Rami Vainio, Nina Dresing, Immanuel Christopher Jebaraj, Francisco Espinosa Lara, Raúl Gómez-Herrero, Javier Rodriguez-Pacheco, Yulia Kartavykh, David Lario, Jan Gieseler, Miho Janvier, Milan Maksimovic, Nasrin Talebpour Sheshvan, Christopher J. Owen, Emilia K. J. Kilpua, Robert F. Wimmer-Schweingruber

“…Comparison with large surveys of shocks at 1 au shows that shocks in the quasi-parallel regime and with high speed are more commonly observed in the inner heliosphere. The wave environment of the shocks has also been addressed, with about 50% of the events exhibiting clear shock-induced upstream fluctuations. …”
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Identification and Characterization of a Cryptic Genomic Deletion-Insertion in EYA1 Associated with Branchio-Otic Syndrome by Hao Zheng, Jun Xu, Yu Wang, Yun Lin, Qingqiang Hu, Xing Li, Jiusheng Chu, Changling Sun, Yongchuan Chai, Xiuhong Pang

“…Branchio-oto-renal spectrum disorder (BORSD) is characterized by hearing loss accompanied by ear malformations, branchial cysts, and fistulae, with (branchio-oto-renal syndrome (BORS)) or without renal abnormalities (BOS (branchio-otic syndrome)). As the most common causative gene for BORSD, dominant mutations in EYA1 are responsible for approximately 40% of the cases. …”
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Prognositc Significance of Microcystic Elongated and Fragmanted (MELF) Myometrial Invasion Pattern: A Retrospective Study by Oguzhan OKCU, Gokce ASKAN, Bayram SEN, Cigdem OZTURK, Seda DUMAN OZTURK, Gulname FINDIK GUVENDI

“…Objective: Endometrioid endometrial carcinomas (EEC) are the most commonly diagnosed malignancies of the female genital tract. …”
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Hormonal Contraceptives and Athletic Outcomes - analysis of potential effects of oral contraceptives on strength, endurance, mood, and overall competitive results by Dominika Lewandowska, Dominika Rosińska-Lewandoska, Dominika Strep, Anna Podraza, Julia Grabowska, Maciej Kwiatkowski, Patryk Romańczyk, Julia Białczak, Weronika Kanownik, Jakub Rosiński

“… Introduction Hormonal contraceptives, particularly oral contraceptives (OC), are commonly used by female athletes to regulate menstrual cycles, manage hormonal fluctuations, and prevent unwanted pregnancies. …”
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FutureMS cohort profile: a Scottish multicentre inception cohort study of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis by David Hunt, Siddharthan Chandran, Peter Connick, Peter Foley, Patrick K A Kearns, Sergio E Baranzini, Adam D Waldman, Sarah J Martin, Elizabeth Freyer, F J Carod-Artal, Lee Murphy, Amy Stenson, Jessie Chang, Rozanna Meijboom, Elizabeth N York, Yingdi Chen, Christine Weaver, Katarzyna Hafezi, Stacey Thomson, Adil Harroud, Margaret McLeod, Jonathon O'Riordan, Niall J J MacDougall

“…Purpose Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an immune-mediated, neuroinflammatory disease of the central nervous system and in industrialised countries is the most common cause of progressive neurological disability in working age persons. …”
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Negative symptoms in schizophrenia: a study in a large clinical sample of patients using a novel automated method by Robert Stewart, Hitesh Shetty, Matthew Broadbent, Angus Roberts, Rashmi Patel, Philip McGuire, Richard D Hayes, Nishamali Jayatilleke, Genevieve Gorrell, Chin-Kuo Chang, Richard Jackson, Nadia Foskett, Caroline Johnston

“…Negative symptoms were associated with younger age, male gender and single marital status, and with increased likelihood of hospital admission (OR 1.24, 95% CI 1.10 to 1.39), longer duration of admission (β-coefficient 20.5 days, 7.6–33.5), and increased likelihood of readmission following discharge (OR 1.58, 1.28 to 1.95).Conclusions Negative symptoms were common and associated with adverse clinical outcomes, consistent with evidence that these symptoms account for much of the disability associated with schizophrenia. …”
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