Barriers and facilitators for the implementation of delayed-prescription of antibiotics in family medicine: a qualitative study by Aline Rinaldi, Serena Petrocchi, Luca Gabutti, Anna Bullo, Peter Johannes Schulz

“…Other relevant themes contributing to the formation of one’s opinion on delayed prescription included the participants’ perceived convenience of this prescribing practice and their desired level of autonomy during and after a medical encounter. Another theme that emerged was the potential impact of these stances on the interpersonal relationship between doctors and their patients. …”
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Removal of microplastics by algal biomass from aqueous solutions: performance, optimization, and modeling by Fatemeh Lotfigolsefidi, Mojtaba Davoudi, Maryam Sarkhosh, Ziaeddin Bonyadi

“…Abstract Microplastics (MPs) are emerging pollutants that pose significant risks to ecosystems due to their inherent toxicity, capacity to accumulate various pollutants, and potential for synergistic impacts. …”
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Novel Graphical Analyses of Runs of Homozygosity among Species and Livestock Breeds by Laura Iacolina, Astrid V. Stronen, Cino Pertoldi, Małgorzata Tokarska, Louise S. Nørgaard, Joaquin Muñoz, Anders Kjærsgaard, Aritz Ruiz-Gonzalez, Stanisław Kamiński, Deirdre C. Purfield

“…Runs of homozygosity (ROH), uninterrupted stretches of homozygous genotypes resulting from parents transmitting identical haplotypes to their offspring, have emerged as informative genome-wide estimates of autozygosity (inbreeding). …”
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Clinical implications of DNA ploidy, stroma, and nucleotyping in predicting peritoneal metastasis risk for gastric cancer by Jingwen Yuan, Yue Jiang, Fangfang Chen, Tian Li, Zhi Zeng, Shasha Ruan, Junfeng Yan, Jiatong Lu, Qiang Li, Jingping Yuan, Qiang Tong

“…Non-diploid status, high stroma, and chromosomal heterogeneity emerged as positive factors for peritoneal metastasis in gastric cancer. …”
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A Case of Isolated Primary Pleural Neurofibroma in a 39-Year-Old Woman by Kritika Krishnamurthy, John Alexis, Pukhraz Basra, Ana Maria Medina

“…A 39-year-old nonsmoker woman presented to the emergency room with complaints of progressively worsening chest pain of one month duration. …”
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Change of Body Composition and Adipokines and Their Relationship with Insulin Resistance across Pubertal Development in Obese and Nonobese Chinese Children: The BCAMS Study by Lu Xu, Ming Li, Jinhua Yin, Hong Cheng, Miao Yu, Xiaoyuan Zhao, Xinhua Xiao, Jie Mi

“…Our results demonstrated that gender-specific FAT% and leptin changed with pubertal development. Leptin emerged as a stronger predictor of IR than traditional anthropometric indices, suggesting a prominent role in the development of pubertal IR.…”
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Virtual Node-Driven Cloud–Edge Collaborative Resource Scheduling for Surveillance with Visual Sensors by Xinyang Gu, Zhansheng Duan, Guangyuan Ye, Zhenjun Chang

“…They balance workloads and need to meet real-time monitoring and emergency response requirements. Existing works have primarily focused on optimizing Quality of Service (QoS), latency, and energy consumption in edge computing under resource constraints. …”
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Is your medical device “easy to use”? Supplemental oxygen patients’ experiences and tradeoffs around portable oxygen concentrators and tanks by Marc Egeth, Naomi Cherne, Nichole Breeland, Samantha Sye, Jennifer Soosaar, Frederic Seifer, Stanislav Glezer

“…Overall, a diverse picture emerges of widely varying preferences for time/weight tradeoffs and strategies for travel with these devices.…”
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Global transcriptional modulation and nutritional status of soybean plants following foliar application of zinc borate as a suspension concentrate fertilizer by Eloisa Vendemiatti, Rafael Oliveira Moreira, Gabriel Lasmar dos Reis, Inty Omar Hernandez-De Lira, Eugenia Peña-Yewtukhiw, Franz Walter Rieger Hippler, Luis Omar Torres-Dorante, Kiran Pavuluri, Alex Valentine, Vitor L. Nascimento, Vagner Augusto Benedito

“…Furthermore, a gene lacking functional annotation (Glyma.03G180300) emerged as a novel potential marker of B status. Two genes (Glyma.16G118000, Glyma.16G199000) were consistently induced by Zn availability, highlighting their potential as biomarkers for assessing its status in soybean plants. …”
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Engineered Bacillus subtilis WB600/ZD prevents Salmonella Infantis-induced intestinal inflammation and alters the colon microbiota in a mouse model by Wei Li, Xue Wang, Keyuan Chen, Yaohong Zhu, Guiyan Yang, Yipeng Jin, Jiufeng Wang

“…Abstract Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are instrumental in maintaining intestinal homeostasis and have emerged as potential therapeutic candidates for ameliorating intestinal bacterial infections. …”
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Evaluating the effect of viral posts on social media engagement by Emanuele Sangiorgio, Niccolò Di Marco, Gabriele Etta, Matteo Cinelli, Roy Cerqueti, Walter Quattrociocchi

“…A ‘sudden-type’ virality, with news emerging unexpectedly, reactivates the collective response process. …”
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Metagenomic analysis identifying a polymicrobial pulmonary infection in a non-HIV immunocompromised patient: a case report by Jing Duan, Jie Ding, Yupeng Wei, Yingxin Zhang, Zhiqing You, Ding Li, Chao Chen

“…Conclusion For immunocompromised patients with multiple infections and atypical symptoms, mNGS emerged as a reliable approach to pathogen detection and guiding antibiotic therapy.…”
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Time series predictions in unmonitored sites: a survey of machine learning techniques in water resources by Jared D. Willard, Charuleka Varadharajan, Xiaowei Jia, Vipin Kumar

“…We review relevant state-of-the art applications of machine learning for streamflow, water quality, and other water resources prediction and discuss opportunities to improve the use of machine learning with emerging methods for incorporating watershed characteristics and process knowledge into classical, deep learning, and transfer learning methodologies. …”
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Obesity and Chronic Inflammation: Implications for Rheumatoid Arthritis, Spondyloarthritis, and Ulcerative Colitis by Ada Corrado, Ilaria Guadagni, Giovanna Picarelli, Angela Variola

“…Obesity, marked by persistent low‐grade inflammation, influences the progression, response to treatment, and clinical management of patients with RA, SpA, and UC. Besides, the emerging role of sarcopenic obesity, a special subtype of obesity with malnutrition, should be considered in the definition of the appropriated therapeutic interventions. …”
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Research and Application of a Smart Monitoring System to Monitor the Deformation of a Dam and a Slope by Yongfei Wang, Dingbin Shen, Jiankang Chen, Liang Pei, Yanling Li, Xiang Lu, Lei Zhang

“…The proposed system realizes the all-weather real-time monitoring of deformation and enhances the emergency response capability of special conditions in dams during the operation period.…”
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An Improved Harmony Search Algorithm for Proactive Routing Protocol in VANET by Ravie Chandren Muniyandi, Mohammad Kamrul Hasan, Mustafa Raad Hammoodi, Ali Maroosi

“…The harmony search (HS) is an emerging metaheuristic optimization algorithm with features of simplicity and exploration efficiency. …”
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False-Negative CSF Cryptococcal Antigen with Cryptococcus gattii Meningoencephalitis in Southeastern United States: A Case Report and Literature Review by Shawn Esperti, Austen Stoelting, Andrew Mangano, Dveet Patel, Jilian Sansbury, Robert Sherertz

“…We present this case of Cryptococcus gattii meningoencephalitis to highlight the risk factors, characteristics, and challenges in diagnosis and treatment of an emerging disease in the Southeastern United States.…”
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Implementation and Performance of Lightweight Authentication Encryption ASCON on IoT Devices by Gabriela Cagua, Valerie Gauthier-Umana, Carlos Lozano-Garzon

“…Lightweight cryptographic algorithms have emerged to address these challenges, with ASCON gaining recognition for its robustness and efficiency. …”
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The protective role of GLP-1 in neuro-ophthalmology by Sohum Sheth, Aashay Patel, Marco Foreman, Mohammed Mumtaz, Akshay Reddy, Ramy Sharaf, Siddharth Sheth, Brandon Lucke-Wold

“…Recently, GLP-1RAs have been approved for the treatment of obesity and recognized for their cardioprotective effects. Emerging evidence indicates some GLP-1RAs can cross the blood-brain barrier and may have neuroprotective effects. …”
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Tracking the genetic diversity of SARS-CoV-2 variants in Nicaragua throughout the COVID-19 pandemic by Gerald Vásquez Alemán, Cristhiam Cerpas, Jose G. Juarez, Hanny Moreira, Sonia Arguello, Josefina Coloma, Eva Harris, Aubree Gordon, Shannon N. Bennett, Ángel Balmaseda

“…We highlight the critical role of ongoing genomic surveillance in identifying emergent lineages and informing public health strategies.…”
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