Research studies on patients' illness experience using the Narrative Medicine approach: a systematic review by Chiara Fioretti, Gabriella Pravettoni, Silvia Riva, Ketti Mazzocco, Serena Oliveri, Marianna Masiero

“…This paper aims to review Narrative Medicine research studies on patients' and their caregivers' illness experience.Setting and participants MEDLINE, Psycinfo, EBSCO Psychological and Behavioural Science, The Cochrane Library and CINAHL databases were searched to identify all the research studies which focused on the Narrative Medicine approach reported in the title, in the abstract and in the keywords the words ‘Narrative Medicine’ or ‘Narrative-based Medicine’. …”
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Association between Portal Vein Thrombosis and Survival in Non-Liver-Transplant Patients with Liver Cirrhosis: A Systematic Review of the Literature by Xingshun Qi, Junna Dai, Man Yang, Weirong Ren, Jia Jia, Xiaozhong Guo

“…PubMed, EMBASE, and Cochrane Library databases were searched for all relevant papers which evaluated the prognostic value of PVT in predicting the survival of liver cirrhosis. …”
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Chromosome-level and haplotype-resolved genome assembly of Bougainvillea glabra by Lan Lan, Haiyan Li, Shisong Xu, Yueting Xu, Qingyun Leng, Linbi Zhang, Linqiao Wu, Junmei Yin, Zhiqiang Wu, Junhai Niu

“…By combining the high-confidence different evidence of genome structure annotation pipeline we annotated each haplotype containing ~33,000 predicted genes, of which 86% were functionally annotated by different databases. These high-quality haplotypes assembly and annotation results will serve as a great genomic resource to explore the ornamental traits and environmental adaptability and accelerate improvement in future.…”
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Blockchain-IoT Healthcare Applications and Trends: A Review by Wafaa A. N. A. Al-Nbhany, Ammar T. Zahary, Asma A. Al-Shargabi

“…This review addresses IoT-based blockchain types and technologies, healthcare applications, sensors, hardware tools, application databases, programming languages, software tools, challenges and open issues, and solutions with their advantages and limitations. …”
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Detailed biogeographical mapping as a useful novel tool for the conservation of endemic taxa: a case of study for Iberian orchids [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Angel Penas, Alejandro González-Pérez, Raquel Alonso-Redondo, Norma Yolanda Ochoa-Ramos, Aitor Álvarez-Santacoloma, Sara del Río, Giovanni-Breogán Ferreiro-Lera

“…Distribution data were collected from existing biodiversity databases and integrated into a Geographic Information System (GIS). …”
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Effects of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation on Proinflammatory Cytokines: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Tábata Cristina do Carmo Almeida, Francisco Winter dos Santos Figueiredo, Valter Cordeiro Barbosa Filho, Luiz Carlos de Abreu, Fernando Luiz Affonso Fonseca, Fernando Adami

“…For this systematic review, we searched in six databases to identify randomized controlled trials with the criteria: humans older than 18 years (adults), use of TENS in the experimental group, and having at least one pre- and postintervention blood level of at least one proinflammatory cytokine. …”
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Support Vector Machine Based on Adaptive Acceleration Particle Swarm Optimization by Mohammed Hasan Abdulameer, Siti Norul Huda Sheikh Abdullah, Zulaiha Ali Othman

“…In the face and iris recognition systems, performance is evaluated using two human face databases, YALE and CASIA, and the UBiris dataset. …”
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Adjunctive Therapies to Cerclage for the Prevention of Preterm Birth: A Systematic Review by Emily A. DeFranco, Amy Miyoshi Valent, Tondra Newman, Jodi Regan, Jessica Smith, Louis J. Muglia

“…We searched PubMed and Cochrane databases without date criteria with restriction to English language and human studies and performed additional bibliographic review of selected articles and identified 305 total studies for review. …”
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Unveiling immunogenic characteristics and neoantigens in endometrial cancer with POLE hotspot mutations for improved immunotherapy by Jian Huang, Shuangna Song, Yihua Yin, Yinyan He, Huimin Wang, Ye Gu, Laman He, Xintao Wang, Xiaocao Miao, Zhigang Zhang, Xueli Zhang, Yiran Li, Yiran Li

“…However, the potential of immunotherapy for endometrial cancer (EC) with POLE mutations remains underexplored.MethodsWe utilized multiple databases and clinical specimens to investigate the immunogenicity profiles of EC patients carrying POLE mutations. …”
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Educational Technologies aimed at promoting parental care of premature newborns at home: an integrative review by Luciana Ribeiro de Carvalho, Marcelo Victor Freitas Nascimento, Marcia Teles de Oliveira Gouveia, Carla Daniele Araújo Feitosa

“…Methods: Integrative review based on primary studies published in full, in all languages, with no defined time frame, in the following databases: National Library of Medicine; Scopus, Web of Science, Embase and Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde Brasil. …”
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Efficient Iris Recognition Based on Optimal Subfeature Selection and Weighted Subregion Fusion by Ying Chen, Yuanning Liu, Xiaodong Zhu, Fei He, Hongye Wang, Ning Deng

“…The experimental results, on three public and renowned iris databases (CASIA-V3 Interval, Lamp, andMMU-V1), demonstrate that our proposed methods outperform some of the existing methods in terms of correct recognition rate, equal error rate, and computation complexity.…”
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Diagnostic and Prognostic Value of Hyperammonemia in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis, Hepatic Encephalopathy, and Sarcopenia (Experts’ Agreement) by M. Yu. Nadinskaia, M. V. Maevskaya, I. G. Bakulin, E. N. Bessonova, A. O. Bueverov, M. S. Zharkova, S. V. Okovityi, A. S. Ostrovskaya, K. A. Gulyaeva, V. T. Ivashkin

“…The questions and statements were based on the search and critical analysis of medical literature by keywords in Englishand Russian-language databases. The formulated questions could be combined into four categories: hepatic encephalopathy, sarcopenia, hyperammonemia, and ammonia-lowering therapy.Conclusions. …”
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Comprehensive Quality Evaluation of Red Jujube Vinegars Made from Different Varieties Based on Principal Component Analysis by QI Tingting, ZHANG Zhifeng, YANG Xinyu, ZHANG Ruoshi, ZHANG Shuying, REN Jingnan, FAN Gang

“…In order to determine good jujube varieties for the production of vinegar, databases of soluble solids, total acid, transmittance, color, total phenols, total flavonoids, antioxidant properties and volatile flavor components were constructed for jujube vinegars made from four different varieties, Ruoqiang grey jujube from Xinjiang, Zanhuang jujube from Hebei, Tanzao jujube from Shanxi, and Tongxin round jujube from Ningxia. …”
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Accurate pulse time distribution determination using MLEM algorithm in integral experiments by S.Y. Zhang, Y.B. Nie, Y.Y. Ding, Q. Zhao, K.Z. Xu, X.Y. Pan, H.T. Chen, Q. Sun, Z. Wei

“…Results are compared across multiple nuclear databases such as CENDL-3.2, ENDF/B-VIII.0, JENDL-5.0, and JEFF-3.3 libraries. …”
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Glioblastoma-derived migrasomes promote migration and invasion by releasing PAK4 and LAMA4 by Zhe Huang, Ming Wang, Yitian Chen, Hua Tang, Kuo Tang, Mingkuan Zhao, Wei Yang, Zhengjun Zhou, Junjie Tian, Wei Xiang, Shenjie Li, Qinglian Luo, Luotong Liu, Yanru Zhao, Tao Li, Jie Zhou, Ligang Chen

“…We found that expression levels of key migrasome formation factor, tetraspanin 4 (TSPAN4), correlated positively with pathological grade and poor prognosis of GBM based on the databases and clinical samples analysis. Subsequently, we knocked down TSPAN4 and found that GBM cell migration and invasion were significantly inhibited due to the reduced formation of migrasomes. …”
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Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescents from the Age Range of 2 to 19 Years Old in Brazil by Janaina R. Niehues, Ana Inês Gonzales, Robson R. Lemos, Poliana Penasso Bezerra, Patrícia Haas

“…The following electronic databases were searched (from September through November 2013): Medline (PubMed), LILACS, and SciELO, using the descriptors and Boolean operators (obesity) and (overweight) and (child) and (prevalence) and (Brazil). …”
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Biomarkers of Periodontal Tissue Remodeling during Orthodontic Tooth Movement in Mice and Men: Overview and Clinical Relevance by Fabrizia d'Apuzzo, Salvatore Cappabianca, Domenico Ciavarella, Angela Monsurrò, Armando Silvestrini-Biavati, Letizia Perillo

“…Citations to potentially published trials were conducted by searching PubMed, Cochrane databases, and scientific textbooks. Additionally, hand searching and contact with experts in the area were undertaken to identify potentially relevant published and unpublished studies. …”
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The Referral System between Primary and Secondary Health Care in Saudi Arabia for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review by Mohammed Senitan, Ali Hassan Alhaiti, James Gillespie, Badar Faiz Alotaibi, George Binh Lenon

“…A single reviewer employed a systematic approach to searching the literature databases with regard to the question: what are the attributes of referral systems in Saudi Arabia for patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D)? …”
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Prevalence of red, orange, and green microbial complexes in periodontal pockets of chronic kidney disease patients on hemodialysis: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Diego José Gambin, Jayne de Oliveira Manica, Daniela Dal Olmo Merib, Caroline Mirek, Felipe Gomes Dallepiane, Thais Mageste Duque, João Paulo De Carli, Micheline Sandini Trentin

“…The search strategy included two independent reviewers who searched the PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, Cochrane, and Lilacs databases in August 2024, using MeSH terms and keywords defined with the PICOS acronym. …”
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Factors Affecting the Survival of Patients with Oligometastatic Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer: A Meta-Analysis by Yu Shi, Jianxin Yang, Ninghua Yao, Minghai Shao, Wenxiu Ding, Wanrong Jiang, Xinchen Sun

“…A literature search was conducted in databases including PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane library up to March 2017. …”
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