The Physicochemical and Rheological Properties of Green Banana Flour–Wheat Flour Bread Substitutions by Yasmeen M. Bashmil, Frank Bekes, Michael Ruderman, Hafiz A. R. Suleria, Rudi Appels, Frank R. Dunshea

“…Although increasing the amount of GBF replacement generally improved dough quality with all banana cultivars, GBF from Cavendish and Ladyfinger showed a greater improvement than Ducasse. …”
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Experimental and Theoretical Study on the Failure of Sandwich Specimens with Tabs under Four-Point Bending by V. N. Paimushin, S. A. Kholmogorov, M. V. Makarov, N. V. Levshonkova

“…The relationships between the transverse shear stresses and strain in the facing layers were assumed to be physically nonlinear, with the shear modulus being a function of the shear strain.Using the generalized variational principle of virtual displacements, a system of nonlinear differential equilibrium equations for the facing layers and tabs was derived. …”
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Spatial analysis of hyperspectral images for detecting adulteration levels in bon-sorkh (Allium jesdianum L.) seeds: Application of voting classifiers by Golshid Fathi, Seyed Ahmad Mireei, Mehrnoosh Jafari, Morteza Sadeghi, Hassan Karimmojeni, Majid Nazeri

“…Despite the promising performance of artificial neural networks in distinguishing pure bon-sorkh and shallot seeds, the voting classifiers demonstrated better generalization in classifying pure test images and were therefore applied to detect adulteration levels and identify the spatial distribution of bon-sorkh and shallot seeds. …”
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Association of aerobic capacity and muscular strength with health-related quality of life in adolescents: A school-based cross-sectional study by Bianca Lins dos Santos, João Paulo Rodrigues dos Santos, José Damião Saraiva Gomes-Júnior, Eriston de Souza Bezerra, Samuel Lira da Silva Barbosa, Bárbara Gicélia da Silva Araújo, Fabio Thiago Maciel da Silva, João Pedro Magalhães, Vera Lúcia Zymbal, Eduardo Caldas Costa, Rodrigo Alberto Vieira Browne

“…HRQoL was measured using the validated KIDSCREEN-27 questionnaire. A generalized gamma regression model was used to estimate coefficients (β) and 95% confidence intervals for HRQoL domains, adjusting mutually for aerobic capacity and muscle strength as predictors. …”
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Canonical correlation analysis of family burden of disease and quality of life in caregivers of people living with schizophrenia: evidence from Schizophrenia-specific cohort in the... by Ximei Wang, Teng Zhang, Mingsong Li, Bo Yang, Liming Wang, Chuanwen Fu, Nishang Zhang, Zhengxu Li, Ce Yang, Zhimin Zhao, Qiong Meng, Yuemei Feng, Jianzhong Yin

“…Family members are the primary caregivers of people living with schizophrenia in China, the quality of life of caregiver of people living with schizophrenia is generally poorer, which may indirectly affect the quality of life of the people with schizophrenia. …”
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Visualization of Right Adrenal Vein in Non‐Contrast‐Enhanced MDCT and Its Guiding Role for Right Adrenal Venous Sampling by Hong‐liang Xiong, Li Du, Jiao Yang, Wei‐Tong Hu, Jia‐Bing Huang, Yun‐De Li, Xi Chen, Yi‐Fei Dong

“…The visualization rate of RAV in non‐contrast‐enhanced MDCT was 81.9% (n = 194), with 73.7% (n = 143) clearly displayed and 26.3% (n = 51) generally displayed. In 6.2% (n = 12) of patients who can display RAV, RAV formed a common trunk with the accessory hepatic vein and then merged into the inferior vena cava. …”
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Time trends in malaria incidence from 1992 to 2021 in high-risk regions: An age‑period‑cohort analysis based on the Global Burden of Disease study 2021 by Yu Cao, Hao Wu, Yongping Zhang, Xueyi Wu, Jingjing Li, Hanwu Chen, Wei Gao

“…From 1992 to 2021, age-standardized malaria incidence rates generally declined across highest-risk regions, although Sub-Saharan Africa saw the smallest decline, with a net drift of –0.74% (95% confidence interval: –1.32 to 0.17). …”
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Mean arterial pressure at the initiation of continuous renal replacement therapy as a prognostic indicator in patients with acute kidney injury by Haiying Song, Yuheng Liao, Haofei Hu, Qijun Wan

“…Mortality at 28 and 90 days post-CRRT initiation was analyzed using multivariate regression, generalized additive models, smooth curve fitting, and sensitivity analyses.Results A total of 1,142 patients were included, with 28-day and 90-day mortality rates of 62.1% and 71.8%, respectively. …”
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Plastome characterization and its phylogenetic implications on Lithocarpus (Fagaceae) by Lifang Yang, Shoujun Zhang, Chunya Wu, Xiaolong Jiang, Min Deng

“…Conclusions The plastome of Fagaceae is generally conserved. Nevertheless, genes related to metabolism, photosynthesis, and energy were under strong positive selection in Lithocarpus, likely driven by environmental pressures and local adaptation. …”
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Being a tree crop increases the odds of experiencing yield declines irrespective of pollinator dependence by Aizen, Marcelo A., Gleiser, Gabriela, Kitzberger, Thomas A., Milla, Ruben

“…Because pollinator dependence and plant growth form were partially correlated, we disentangled the effect of each of these two predictors using a series of generalized linear mixed models that evaluated direct and indirect associations. …”
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How Do Changes in Grassland Phenology and Its Responses to Extreme Climatic Events in Central Asia? by Xinwei Wang, Jianhao Li, Jianghua Zheng, Liang Liu, Xiaojing Yu, Ruikang Tian, Mengxiang Xing

“…The direct effects of CDHEs and CMHEs on grassland phenology were generally negative, except for the direct positive effect of CDHEs on LOS. …”
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A Research on the Effect of Heterogeneities on Sandstone Matrix Acidizing Performance by Jianye Mou, Lei Wang, Shicheng Zhang, Xinfang Ma, Boyang Li

“…Conventional acidizing designs generally neglected the effect of heterogeneities of mineral and flow field distributions both in areal and vertical directions and assumed that the acid front propagates with a piston-like style. …”
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Potential clinical application of the cancer antigen CA‑62 for differential diagnosis of prostate cancer and benign prostatic hyperplasia at the elevated prostate‑specific antigen... by Zh. R. Cherkasova, S. A. Tsurkan, A. I. Prostyakova, A. M. Boroda, A. A. Rozhkov, Yu. N. Pirogova, N. M. Nikitina, M. I. Sekacheva

“…This includes 144 prostate cancer samples, 79 generally healthy volunteers‑men and 102 samples from patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). …”
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Dual-stream disentangled model for microvascular extraction in five datasets from multiple OCTA instruments by Xiaoyang Hu, Xiaoyang Hu, Jinkui Hao, Quanyong Yi, Yitian Zhao, Jiong Zhang

“…In addition, we validated the performance of D2Net on four OCTA datasets (OCTA-500, ROSE-O, ROSE-Z, and ROSE-H) acquired using different instruments, demonstrating its robustness and generalization capabilities in retinal vessel segmentation compared to other state-of-the-art methods.…”
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Using Information Extraction to Normalize the Training Data for Automatic Radiology Report Generation by Yuxiang Liao, Haishan Xiang, Hantao Liu, Irena Spasic

“…Using the new scheme, we manually annotated a total of 550 MIMIC-CXR reports for model training and evaluation and 50 CheXpert reports for evaluating the model’s generalization ability. We developed a joint entity and relation model and proposed a novel auxiliary component to enhance the model performance by interpreting token-level information. …”
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Deletion of cyclin dependent kinase inhibitor 2a gene as a marker of oropharyngeal carcinomas non-associated with human papillomavirus and its prognostic value by I.S. Shponka, Bondarenko O.O. Bondarenko ч, O.V. Kovtunenko, V.V. Rakhmanov

“…Patients with human papilloma virus associated oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma generally have better treatment outcomes and prognosis compared to those with non-papillomavirus-associated oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma. …”
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Exploring the role of splicing in TP53 variant pathogenicity through predictions and minigene assays by Cristina Fortuno, Inés Llinares-Burguet, Daffodil M. Canson, Miguel de la Hoya, Elena Bueno-Martínez, Lara Sanoguera-Miralles, Sonsoles Caldes, Paul A. James, Eladio A. Velasco-Sampedro, Amanda B. Spurdle

“…Prediction of aberration types using SpliceAI-10k calculator generally aligned with the corresponding assay results, though maximum SpliceAI score did not accurately predict level of aberrant expression. …”
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Battle of the axes: simulation-based assessment of fine needle aspiration biopsies for thyroid nodules by Shireen Samargandy, Justine Philteos, Mirko Manojlovic Kolarski, Jason Xu, Eric Monteiro, Allan Vescan

“…Conclusion Thyroid UGFNA using the long-axis technique may have an increased success rate and is generally favored by trainees for being easier to perform. …”
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Improving Clinical Management of Diabetic Macular Edema: Insights from a Global Survey of Patients, Healthcare Providers, and Clinic Staff by Focke Ziemssen, Michelle Sylvanowicz, Winfried M. Amoaku, Tariq Aslam, Bora Eldem, Robert P. Finger, Richard P. Gale, Laurent Kodjikian, Jean-François Korobelnik, Xiaofeng Lin, Anat Loewenstein, Paul Mitchell, Moira Murphy, David R. Owens, Nick Parker, Ian Pearce, Francisco J. Rodríguez, Jude Stern, S. James Talks, David T. Wong, Tien Yin Wong, Jane Barratt

“…Too many appointments, too short treatment intervals, difficulties in traveling to the clinic or arranging adequate support to travel, out-of-pocket costs, office/parking fees, and long waiting times were noted by all as contributing to increase the burden on the patient and caregiver. Patients generally desired more in-depth discussions with their provider, which would help with information exchange and better expectation-setting. …”
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Experimental assessment of Acanthopagrus schlegelii biomass based on environmental DNA technology by Yan Liu, Mengyi Zhang, Liangming Wang, Changping Yang, Yukai Yang, Qijian Xie, Manting Liu, Cheng Chen, Chunbin Jia, Binbin Shan

“…The study achieved three key findings: (1) The research on the release and degradation mechanisms of A. schlegelii eDNA indicated that the Generalized Additive Model (GAM) effectively fits the variation patterns of eDNA concentration. …”
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