Inclusion of Pediatric Dentistry in the Curricular Structure of Dental Courses in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil by Elisa Maria Rosa de Barros Coelho, Amanda Baptista da Silva Heck, Gabriela Fernandes Kern dos Santos, Simone Helena Ferreira, João Batista Blessmann Weber, Paulo Floriani Kramer

“…Pediatric dentistry is curricular and normally available between the seventh and ninth semesters, with a total hourly load between 120 and 420 hours, generally in two consecutive semesters. Conclusion: The state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, underwent an exponential expansion of dental courses, especially in the form of private schools. …”
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Two-Stage Treatment of Enterocutaneous Fistulas by V. Yu. Struchkov, S. V. Berelavichus, E. A. Akhtanin, D. S. Gorin, M. V. Dvukhzhilov, A. A. Goev, A. I. Burmistrov, P. V. Markov, A. G. Kriger

“…Two-stage treatment including multicomponent therapy (nutritional support, infection generalization control, local wound treatment) and reconstructive surgery allowed to reduce mortality rates to 3.4 %, which proves the effectiveness of this method.…”
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Designing hydrogel for application in spinal surgery by Rongpeng Dong, Shuang Zheng, Xueliang Cheng

“…Current treatments for spinal diseases are predominantly limited to surgical interventions, drug injections, and conservative treatments. Generally, these treatment modalities have limited or no long-term benefits. …”
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Answer Distillation Network With Bi-Text-Image Attention for Medical Visual Question Answering by Hongfang Gong, Li Li

“…Consequently, the accuracy of predictions for open-ended questions is generally lower than that for closed-ended questions. …”
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Rare Manifestation of a Rare Disease, Acute Liver Failure in Adult Onset Still’s Disease: Dramatic Response to Methylprednisolone Pulse Therapy—A Case Report and Review by Nalini Valluru, Venkata S. Tammana, Michael Windham, Eyasu Mekonen, Rehana Begum, Andrew Sanderson

“…Here, we present a case of 22-year-old woman with no significant medical history who initially came with fever, arthralgias, myalgias, generalized weakness, and sore throat. Laboratory data showed mildly elevated transaminases and markedly elevated ferritin levels. …”
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Earth Pressure of Three-Dimensional Stress States under Different Strength Criteria and Its Application by Yu Zhang, Jin Liu, Te-Jia Fan, Chen-Yang Xu, Tian-Yi Meng, Yang Zhao, An Su

“…The formulas are derived on the basis of the Mohr–Coulomb, spatially mobilized plane (SMP), σ3 SMP, Lade–Duncan, axisymmetric compression- (AC-) SMP strength, and generalized Mises (Gen-Mises) criteria and then extended to clay. …”
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Novel Application of Statistical Methods to Identify New Urinary Incontinence Risk Factors by Theophilus O. Ogunyemi, Mohammad-Reza Siadat, Suzan Arslanturk, Kim A. Killinger, Ananias C. Diokno

“…To test their utility in mining large data sets, and as a preliminary step to creating a predictive index for developing UI, logistic regression, generalized estimating equations (GEEs), and proportional hazard regression (PHREG) methods were used on the existing MESA data. …”
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Green Supply Chain Management, Environmental Degradation, and Energy: Evidence from Asian Countries by Yi Yu, Wanwan Zhu, Yuan Tian

“…The purpose of this study is to test the relationship among green logistics, environmental degradation, and energy demand. The system generalized method of moment (system GMM) is used to study the data of Asian countries and four subregions in Asia. …”
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Inhibition of zinc dendrite growth by a preferential crystal surface modulation strategy by Weihua Zhou, Junrun Feng, Zhuo Chen, Ziming Wan, Haoyu Feng, Lin Sheng, Zhuo Peng, Wenyuan Zhang, Zhangxiang Hao

“…Considering that Zn (002) promotes the uniform deposition of Zn while Zn (100) is generally more stable and less reactive, adjusting the ratio of active Zn (002) to Zn (100) can significantly enhance the stability and reversibility of Zn metal. …”
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Accuracy Improvement Capability of Advanced Projectile Based on Course Correction Fuze Concept by Ahmed Elsaadany, Yi Wen-jun

“…Improvement in terminal accuracy is an important objective for future artillery projectiles. Generally it is often associated with range extension. …”
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Multimodal Autism Spectrum Disorder Method Using GCN With Dual Transformers by Tianming Song, Zhe Ren, Jian Zhang, Yawei Qu, Yingying Cui, Zhengda Liang

“…Co-training is introduced to simultaneously harness both functional magnetic resonance imaging and structural magnetic resonance imaging data, improving the model’s capacity to generalize across different datasets. This comprehensive method was rigorously evaluated using the ABIDE-I and ABIDE-II datasets, with performance assessed through nested ten-fold cross-validation and leave-one-out cross-validation. …”
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Resource-Exploration-Oriented Lunar Rocks Monocular Detection and 3D Pose Estimation by Jiayu Suo, Hongfeng Long, Yuebo Ma, Yuhao Zhang, Zhen Liang, Chuan Yan, Rujin Zhao

“…Finally, transfer learning experiments on real-world datasets validate its strong generalization capability, highlighting its effectiveness for lunar rock pose estimation in both simulated and real lunar environments.…”
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Multilayer Shielding Design for Intermediate Radioactive Waste Storage Drums: A Comparative Study between FLUKA and QAD-CGA by Wenqian Li, Xuegang Liu, Ming Li, Yilin Huang, Sheng Fang

“…The results of QAD-CGA are generally higher than those of FLUKA. The analysis shows that appropriate corrections in QAD-CGA can make the trend of the calculation results more consistent with the theory. …”
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Analysis of Engineering and Geological Conditions of International Submarine Optical Fiber Cable Routing in the East China Sea Section by Ti-qiang Zhang, Zi-xian Fan, Nan Ning, Jian-zhong Tang, Dai-xin Kou

“…The East China Sea section of the Chinese international submarine optical fiber cable generally starts from the Shanghai coast, crosses the East China Sea shelf and continental slope to the east, and intersects with the international optical fiber cable system in Okinawa Trough. …”
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Characterizing the impacts of seismic lines on the water budget of a Boreal Watershed in Alberta (Western Canada) by Daniels Kononovs, Christine Rivard, Dani Degenhardt, Katherine N. Snihur, Daniela Gutierrez-Rueda, Cody N. Lazowski, Kelly J. Rozanitis, Baptiste Coutret, Kurt O. Konhauser, Daniel S. Alessi

“…Seismic lines are one of the major footprints of the petroleum industry: they form cleared linear corridors in forests and their regeneration is generally poor. For this study, field measurements of soil, vegetation, water and snow were conducted on 5 paired (seismic line and adjacent undisturbed area) sites located in lowland and upland ecosites, and a 1-D physically based hydrologic model, the Simultaneous Heat and Water Model (SHAW), was used to investigate the impacts of seismic lines on the water budget over a year. …”
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Disrupting effects of neonicotinoids and their interaction with metals on thyroid hormone, an evidence of children in a rural area, South China by Ling-Chuan Guo, Pan Zhu, Chunyan Gui, Jing Deng, Yanhong Gao, Chaoyang Long, Han Zhang, Zhanlu Lv, Shengbing Yu

“…Based on linear regression, generalized additive model, and Bayesian kernel machine regression, neonicotinoids levels were found to be correlated with TH, TBG, and TSH levels, with stronger effects for metabolites than parent compounds in most cases. …”
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A Review on Colorectal Cancer and the Role of Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine as Complementary Therapy by Jie Ji, Hiu Ching Phang, Xian Gu, Riyanto Teguh Widodo, Bey Hing Goh, Phei Er Kee, Siew-Keah Lee, Ashok Kumar Janakiraman, Long Chiau Ming, Kai Bin Liew

“…For many years, surgery and chemotherapy have been the mainstay treatments for cancer, but patients with metastatic disease have generally faced poor outcomes. Currently, there is a renewal of interest to explore the potential of natural products to treat cancers. …”
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Physics-Informed Denoising Model for Dynamic Data Recovery of Power Systems by Jian Li, Guoqiang Lu, Yongbin Li, Dongning Zhao, Huaiyuan Wang, Yucheng Ouyang

“…In addition to demonstrating superior denoising performance, the generalization capability under diverse noise conditions is also deemed excellent.…”
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Mortality risk during heatwaves: An evaluation of effects by heatwaves characteristics in Serbia by Allen Michael J., Arsenović Daniela, Savić Stevan, Nikitović Vladimir

“…Results indicate that longer heatwaves generally have a greater impact on mortality, regardless of when they occur in the warm season. …”
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Association between Community Ambulation Walking Patterns and Cognitive Function in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease: Further Insights into Motor-Cognitive Links by Aner Weiss, Talia Herman, Nir Giladi, Jeffrey M. Hausdorff

“…Cognitive function is generally evaluated based on testing in the clinic, but this may not always reflect real-life function. …”
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