Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on epidemiological and clinical characteristics of inpatients with burns in a Northwest China burn centre: a retrospective study by Jiaqi Liu, Jian Feng, Yuheng Zhang, Yiwei Cui, Shuao Xiao, Yige Han, Yongqian Bian, Xueyong Li

“…The proportions of burns due to scald and flame increased, while electrical injury cases and proportions decreased significantly (both p=0.001). The estimated range of % total body surface area (TBSA) for children increased from 8% (IQR: 5–12%) to 10% (IQR: 8–15%) in children (p<0.001) and from 8% (IQR: 4–18%) to 11% (IQR: 6–25%) in adults (p<0.001). …”
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In-vivo high-resolution χ-separation at 7T by Jiye Kim, Minjun Kim, Sooyeon Ji, Kyeongseon Min, Hwihun Jeong, Hyeong-Geol Shin, Chungseok Oh, Robert J. Fox, Ken E. Sakaie, Mark J. Lowe, Se-Hong Oh, Sina Straub, Seong-Gi Kim, Jongho Lee

“…In-vivo high-resolution mapping of iron and myelin distribution, estimated by χ-separation, could provide a deeper understanding of brain substructures, assisting the investigation of their functions and alterations. …”
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Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among People Living with HIV in Libreville, Gabon by Samira Zoa-Assoumou, Hervé M’boyis-Kandem, Pelagie Saphou-Damon, Davy Ulrich Leger Mouangala, Guy-Francis Nzengui, Marina Mbani-Okoumba, Claudine Kombila-Koumavor, Gael Mourembou, Brama Ibrahim, Angelique Ndjoyi-Mbiguino

“…The surveillance of diseases of global health concern in PLHIV is crucial to estimate population-level exposure and inform public health responses.…”
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Familial Hypercholesterolemia: Genetics, Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment - A Literature Overview by Maciej Rutkiewicz, Sabina Przygodzka, Katarzyna Gadżała, Karolina Garbino, Katarzyna Brudniak, Antoni Szuścik, Magdalena Czyczerska

“…According to many researchers, the frequency of prevalence is estimated at 1:200 in the global population. Many studies showed that illness is underdiagnosed and therefore undertreated. …”
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Alpha/beta values in pediatric medulloblastoma: implications for tailored approaches in radiation oncology by Danny Jazmati, Dennis Sohn, Juliane Hörner-Rieber, Nan Qin, Edwin Bölke, Jan Haussmann, Rudolf Schwarz, Niklas David Niggemeier, Arndt Borkhardt, Florian Babor, Triantafyllia Brozou, Melissa Felek, Balint Tamaskovics, Patrick Melchior, Thomas Beez, Beate Timmermann, Marc Remke, Stefanie Corradini, Rémi Till Schulz, Ronja-Linda Preugschas, Wilfried Budach, Christiane Matuschek

“…This study presents significant potential by enabling the estimation of radiobiological fractionations and dose effects in young, vulnerable patients, highlighting its importance for advancing patient-specific therapeutic strategies.…”
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Non-contact tracking of shoulder bones using ultrasound and stereophotogrammetry by Ahmed Sewify, Ahmed Sewify, Maxence Lavaill, Maxence Lavaill, Dermot O’Rourke, Dermot O’Rourke, Maria Antico, Maria Antico, Peter Pivonka, Peter Pivonka, Davide Fontanarosa, Davide Fontanarosa, Saulo Martelli, Saulo Martelli

“…The bone registration approach used was based on in silico analyses that investigated the effects of different — 1) registration algorithms (Iterative-Closest-Point–ICP, and Coherent Point Drift–CPD) and 2) initial estimate levels of the bone model pose relative to the targeted final bone pose—on the overall registration efficiency and accuracy in a controlled environment.ResultsCPD provided the highest accuracy in the simulation at the cost of 8x longer computation compared to ICP. …”
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The impact of oxidative balance on all-cause and cause-specific mortality in US adults and cancer survivors: evidence from NHANES 2001–2018 by Juan Wu, Yingdong Han, Menghui Yao, He Zhao, Zhikai Li, Tiange Xie, Yun Zhang, Xuejun Zeng

“…Survey-weighted Cox proportional hazards models were used to estimate hazard ratios for mortality risks. Restricted cubic spline analyses were performed to examine potential non-linear relationships. …”
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Cryptic species and hybridisation in corals: challenges and opportunities for conservation and restoration by Riginos, Cynthia, Popovic, Iva, Meziere, Zoe, Garcia, Vhon, Byrne, Ilha, Howitt, Samantha M., Ishida, Hisatake, Bairos-Novak, Kevin, Humanes, Adriana, Scharfenstein, Hugo, Richards, Thomas, Briggs, Ethan, Clark, Vanessa, Lei, Chuan, Khan, Mariam, Prata, Katharine E.

“…This hidden biodiversity creates challenges for coral conservation and restoration planning that are not well appreciated, including hiding true population declines, biasing estimates for species’ phenotypic breadth, overestimating the resilience of species to stressors, yielding uncertainty in evolutionary dynamics inferred from past studies, and implying that reproductive barriers may limit mating between local and translocated corals. …”
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Assessment of patient preferences for assisted reproductive technology in China: a discrete choice experiment by Lingli Zhang, Xin Li, Jiali Chen, Yanyan Liu, Yanjun Sun, Yuwen Bao, Xiaodan Qian, Kexing Fang, Bin Wan, Haixia Ding

“…We recruited 465 participants.Outcomes measures Patient-reported preferences for each attribute were estimated using a mixed logit model. The latent class model was also used to investigate preference heterogeneity.Results All attributes were associated with patient preferences. …”
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Performance of the AmpliSeq NGS panel in thyroid nodules with indeterminate cytology by Wiame Potonnier, Erell Guillerm, Claude Bigorgne, Cécile Ghander, Malanie Roy, Florence Coulet, François Ansart, Fabrice Menegaux, Laurence Leenhardt, Isabelle Brocheriou, Gabrielle Deniziaut, Camille Buffet

“…The main objective was to estimate the negative predictive value (NPV) of malignancy of the AmpliSeq panel in Bethesda III and IV thyroid nodules. …”
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Healthcare waste characteristics and management in regional hospital and private clinic by S. Ajbar El Gueriri, F. El Mansouri, F. Achemlal, S. Lachaal, J. Brigui, A. Fakih Lanjri

“…The survey also discovered that the hazardous fraction of waste generated in the regional hospital center was 40 percent, which was much higher than the World Health Organization’s estimation. The daily amount of hazardous waste generated increased from 260.49 kilograms to 436.81 kilograms post-COVID-19. …”
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Long-term results of antiviral therapy in patients with chronic hepatitis C with sustained virologic response by T. M. Ignatova, T. N. Lopatkina, V. P. Chulanov, Ye. V. Gaydasheva, S. N. Batskikh, G. V. Mikhaylovskaya, D. T. Abdurakhmanov, S. Yu. Karpov, Ye. N. Nikulkina, O. A. Chernova

“…Aim of investigation. To estimate frequency of late relapses and clinical outcomes in patients with chronic hepatitis C (CHC) with sustained virologic response (SVO) achievement at antiviral therapy (AVT).Material and methods. …”
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Effect of dietary starch inclusion, feeding level and their combination on nutrient digestibility, bile acid balance, faecal waste production and characteristics of yellowtail king... by Yaqing Zhang, Roel M. Maas, Peter Horstmann Zuther, Jeroen Kals, Satya Prakash, Thomas W.O. Staessen, Fotini Kokou, Johan W. Schrama

“…The critical dietary starch content was estimated to be 6 %. Above a 6 % dietary starch content, fat digestibility and faecal removal efficiency decreased, while non-removed faeces increased with the dietary starch content. …”
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Machine learning model and nomogram to predict the risk of heart failure hospitalization in peritoneal dialysis patients by Liping Xu, Fang Cao, Lian Wang, Weihua Liu, Meizhu Gao, Li Zhang, Fuyuan Hong, Miao Lin

“…Baseline moderate or severe renal disease, systolic blood pressure (SBP), body mass index (BMI), age, Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) score were strongly associated with HF hospitalization, whereas age, CCI score, creatinine, age, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), total cholesterol, baseline estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) were the most significant predictors of mortality. …”
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Impact Assessment of Energy Transition Policy on Air Quality over a Typical District of the Pearl River Delta Region, China by Weidong Chen, Haixian Li, Yun Zhu, Jicheng Jang, Che-Jen Lin, Pen-Chi Chiang, Shuxiao Wang, Jia Xing, Tingting Fang, Jie Li, Qingshan Yang, Kaiming Zheng

“…Using Shunde District as a case study, we developed the emission inventories of CO2 and air pollutants, projected the trend of CO2 emissions, and estimated the air quality under three energy transition scenarios using the Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning (LEAP) model and the Weather Research and Forecasting-Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling (WRF-CMAQ) system. …”
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Host-symbiont-gene phylogenetic reconciliation by Menet, Hugo, Trung, Alexia Nguyen, Daubin, Vincent, Tannier, Eric

“…We evaluate the capacity of our method on simulated data, notably its capacity to infer horizontal gene transfers, and its ability to detect hostsymbiont co-evolution by comparing host/symbiont/gene and symbiont/gene models based on their estimated likelihoods. Then we show in a aphid enterobacter system that some reliable transfers detected by our method, are invisible to classic 2-level reconciliation. …”
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Soybean Water Monitoring and Water Demand Prediction in Arid Region Based on UAV Multispectral Data by Shujie Jia, Mingyi Cui, Lei Chen, Shangyuan Guo, Hui Zhang, Zheyu Bai, Yaoyu Li, Linqiang Deng, Fuzhong Li, Wuping Zhang

“…Surface soil models accurately estimated 0–200 cm soil moisture distribution (R² = 0.9995). …”
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The association between peripheral eosinophil count and chronic kidney disease: evidence from NHANES 1999–2018 by Shisheng Han, Meng Jia, Wenli Yuan, Yi Wang, Yan Lu, Yanqiu Xu, Li Shang

“…This cross-sectional study utilized data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES 1999–2018) to comprehensively explore the association between PEC and CKD.Methods Survey-weighted generalized multivariate linear regression was employed to evaluate the associations between PEC, urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio (UACR), and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), with meticulous adjustment for potential covariates. …”
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Burden of hospitalizations in newly diagnosed heart failure patients in Poland: real world population based study in years 2013–2019 by Przemysław Leszek, Daniel Waś, Kinga Bartolik, Kladiusz Witczak, Andrzej Kleinork, Bohdan Maruszewski, Katarzyna Brukało, Paulina Rolska‐Wójcik, Małgorzata Celińska‐Spodar, Tomasz Hryniewiecki, Marta Załęska‐Kocięcka

“…All‐cause mortality was related to the number of hospitalization with adjusted estimated hazard ratios: 1.550 (95% CI: 1.52–158) for the second HF hospitalization, 2.158 (95% CI: 2.098–2.219) for third, and 2.788 (95% CI: 2.67–2.91) for the fourth HF hospitalization and subsequent ones, as compared with the first hospitalization. …”
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Assessing the Colorectal Cancer Landscape: A Comprehensive Exploration of Future Trends in 216 Countries and Territories from 2021 to 2040 by Meysam Olfatifar, Fariba Rafiei, Amir Sadeghi, Elnaz Ataei, Mohammad Amin Habibi, Mehdi Pezeshgi Modarres, Zohreh Ghalavand, Hamidreza Houri

“…The primary objective of this study is to furnish sex-specific estimations encompassing various geographical regions. …”
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