Prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection in the general population in Wuzhou, China: a cross-sectional study by Liumei Yan, Qiliang He, Xinyun Peng, Sen Lin, Meigu Sha, Shujian Zhao, Dewang Huang, Jiemei Ye

“…The 14C-urea breath test was employed to determine the current H. pylori infection status of 19,307 individuals. …”
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Cadmium and lead uptake by wild swamp eel in the populous river by N. Nurhasanah, L. Sulistyowati, E. Riani, M. Cordova

“…In addition, quality control and quality assurance standards were employed, and Certified Reference Materials were used to ensure the quality of data and instruments.FINDINGS: The average concentrations of cadmium (0.7825±0.3768 milligram per kilogram) and lead (36.9333±14.9040 milligram per kilogram) were greater than their natural levels. …”
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Cultural revitalization for tourism development from an Indigenous perspective: the case of Ta Oi people, A Luoi District, Thua Thien Hue province, Vietnam by Thu-Suong Thi Nguyen, Diem-Huong Thi Phan, Diem-Huong Thi Phan, Diem-Hang Le Doan, Diem-Hang Le Doan, Minh-Ngoc Thi Chau, Thanh-Thuy Thi (Jessica) Doan, Thanh-Thuy Thi (Jessica) Doan

“…This study, grounded in constructivist grounded theory, emphasizes the importance of conducting research from the local perspective to maintain authenticity in cultural preservation and to balance the interests of local people, tourists, and stakeholders.MethodsThe qualitative research method employed included fieldwork and focus group discussions conducted in A Luoi district, Thua Thien Hue province, Vietnam. …”
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Enhanced preoperative prediction of breast lesion pathology, prognostic biomarkers, and molecular subtypes using multiple models diffusion-weighted MR imaging by Litong He, Feng Li, Yanjin Qin, Yuling Li, Qilan Hu, Zhiqiang Liu, Yunfei Zhang, Tao Ai

“…For molecular subtypes comparisons, we employed the Kruskal-Wallis test followed by Bonferroni. …”
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Using the CIPP Model to elicit perceptions of health professions faculty and students about virtual learning by Sakineh Gerayllo, Mohammadali Vakili, Leila Jouybari, Zahra Moghadam, Ali Jafari, Alireza Heidari

“…This questionnaire-based study employed the comprehensive CIPP Model (Context, Input, Process, Product) to obtain the perspectives of both faculty members and students from six different faculties at one university in Iran concerning implementation of virtual learning in during COVID 19. …”
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Predicting Treatment Outcomes in Patients with Low Back Pain Using Gene Signature-Based Machine Learning Models by Youzhi Lian, Yinyu Shi, Haibin Shang, Hongsheng Zhan

“…Five-fold cross-validation was employed to ensure robust model evaluation and minimize overfitting. …”
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Exploring the Impact of Homophily Attitude, Physical, and Social Attractiveness on Purchase Intentions by Honya Ghasemi, Ramin Bashir Khodaparasti, Hooshmand Bagheri Garbollagh

“…MethodologyThis study employs a descriptive-correlational research design. …”
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Population Pharmacokinetics of Pegcetacoplan in Patients with Geographic Atrophy or Neovascular Age-related Macular Degeneration by Ryan L. Crass, PharmD, Komal Prem, MD, Francois Gauderault, PhD, Ramiro Ribeiro, MD, PhD, Caroline R. Baumal, MD, Brandon Smith, PhD, Daniel Epling, PhD, Sunny Chapel, PhD

“…Considering a high proportion of samples were below the limit of quantification (BLQ) in serum following intravitreal administration, the M3 method of likelihood-based handling of data BLQ was employed in NONMEM (version 7.4). Covariate model development was performed using stepwise forward (α = 0.05) and backward (α = 0.001) selection. …”
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Association between daily sitting time and sarcopenia in the US population: a cross-sectional study by Alei Zhang, Yanlei Li, Jinlei Zhou, Yuan Zhang, Shanggao Xie, Haiyu Shao, Tingxiao Zhao, Tao Tang

“…Stratified analyses and interaction testing were employed to investigate population-specific characteristics of this association. …”
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A multicenter, cross‐sectional analysis to assess the safety and usage pattern of brivaracetam in the management of partial‐onset seizure with BAEs—BREEZE study: A post‐hoc analysi... by Arvind Sharma, Krishnaprasad Korukonda, Amit Haldar, Usha Kant Misra, R. V. Anand, Yakshdeep Dave, Girish Kulkarni

“…Descriptive and analytical statistics employed using SPSS version 29.0.1.0. Results Per protocol (PP) analysis included 8479 eligible patients from 1069 sites, gender; 5771 (68.06%) male and 2708 (31.94%) female with mean age 41.21 ± 12.74 years. …”
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Exploring the Prevalence and Components of Metabolic Syndrome in Sub-Saharan African Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Nelson Musilanga, Hussein Nasib, Given Jackson, Frank Shayo, Clarkson Nhanga, Saleh Girukwigomba, Ambokile Mwakibolwa, Samson Henry, Keneth Kijusya, Edgar Msonge

“…A random-effects model was employed to estimate the weighted pooled prevalence of metabolic syndrome in sub-Saharan Africa. …”
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Assessing the Impact of Distance Traveled and Birth Volumes of Hospital Maternity Units on Newborn Outcomes: Population-Based Cohort Study by Anna Cantarutti, Riccardo Boracchini, Roberto Bellù, Raffaella Ronco, Federico Rea, Anna Locatelli, Rinaldo Zanini, Giovanni Corrao

“…Given the hierarchical structure of our data (births nested within hospitals), we employed log-binomial regression models with random intercepts to estimate relative risks and 95% CIs for evaluating the association between HMU volumes (≥1500 births/year) and RTD (<5 km) with the risk of being transferred and/or death after birth (primary outcome). …”
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Association between the triglyceride-glucose index and its combined obesity indicators and the risk of hypertension in middle-aged and older Chinese adults: A nationwide cross-sect... by Huoping Zheng, Meiling Xu, Jing Yang, Mingjun Xu

“…Additionally, a restricted cubic spline model was employed to investigate the dose-response relationship between the TyG index, its combined obesity indicators, and the risk of hypertension. …”
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A high number of tumor deposits (≥ 4) is an isolated predictor of local recurrence and distant metastasis in non-metastatic colorectal cancer: a single center study by Ahmed Bendari, Ebubekir Ucar, Alaa Bendari, Hamed Hammoud, FNU Kiran, Reham Al-Refai, Sunder Sham, Sanjay Kirshan Kumar, Ryan Des Jean, Manju Harshan

“…Design An analytical cross-sectional design was employed, and our hospital clinical and pathology databases were queried for non-metastatic CRC (stage I-III). …”
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Knockdown of Gfi1 increases BMSCs exosomal miR-150-3p to inhibit osteoblast ferroptosis in steroid-induced osteonecrosis of the femoral head through BTRC/Nrf2 axis by Liwen Zheng, Changjie Zhang, Lele Liao, Zhijie Hai, Xin Luo, Haoliang Xiao

“…To verify the targeting relationship between growth factor independence 1 (Gfi1) and the miR-150-3p promoter, as well as between miR-150-3p and beta-transducin repeat containing E3 ubiquitin protein ligase (BTRC), respectively, chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP), RNA immunoprecipitation (RIP), and dual luciferase assays were employed. It was found that BMSCs-Exos-miR-150-3p mitigated DEX-triggered ferroptosis in osteoblasts. …”
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Conditional diffusion-generated super-resolution for myocardial perfusion MRI by Changyu Sun, Changyu Sun, Neha Goyal, Yu Wang, Darla L. Tharp, Senthil Kumar, Talissa A. Altes

“…The forward diffusion process introduces Gaussian noise incrementally, while the reverse process employs a U-Net architecture to progressively denoise the images, conditioned on the low-resolution input image.ResultsWe trained and validated the model on a retrospective dataset of dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) perfusion MRI, consisting of both stress and rest images from 47 patients with heart disease. …”
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Histopathology of liver, kidney, intestine, spleen, and bile of catfish with Jaundice by Farhan Asrido, Sri Nuryati, Widanarni Widanarni

“…This study aims to compare the histopathological structure of the liver, kidney, intestine, spleen, and bile of naturally jaundiced catfish and those injected with bacteria associated with jaundice. The study employed the observation method, using three variables: healthy catfish as a control (K), yellow catfish treated with Aeromonas spp. bacteria associated with jaundice (KP), and yellow catfish from the farm (KL). …”
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Clinical outcome analysis for surgical fixation versus conservative treatment on rib fractures: a systematic evaluation and meta-analysis by Penglong Zhao, Qiyue Ge, Haotian Zheng, Jing Luo, Xiaobin Song, Liwen Hu

“…The Cochrane Collaboration Risk of Bias 2 (RoB 2) and the Newcastle–Ottawa Scale (NOS) tool were employed to assess methodological quality, and relative risks (RR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated to evaluate the outcome measures. …”
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Public Benefit and Public Interest – Two Sides of the Same Coin? by Tina Sever

“…Design/methodology/approach: The research is based on a content analysis research design, reviewing secondary literature sources. It employs qualitative methods by analysing the relevant theoretical points, rules, and constitutional case law in the Slovenian legal system, as well as selected European Court of Human Rights case law. …”
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Exploring lipidome mediated inflammatory pathways in acute pancreatitis using mendelian randomization by Wenbin Liu, Song Yang, Yuhan Li, Dava Tenzing, Ruizi Shi, Yang Jiang, Hao Deng, Enqiang Mao, Ying Chen, Yihui Wang

“…Abstract Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a severe gastrointestinal condition with an increasing incidence of hyperlipidemic etiology. The investigation employed a two-sample, bidirectional Mendelian randomization method to investigate potential causal relationship between lipidome profiles, inflammatory mediators, and AP. …”
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