Prevalence of chronic kidney disease in Saudi Arabia: an epidemiological population-based study by Mohammed A. Alshehri, Husain Y. Alkhlady, Zuhier A. Awan, Mohammed Ridha Algethami, Hadiah B. Al Mahdi, Hussam Daghistani, Khalid Orayj

“…Abstract Background Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a prevalent global health issue affecting millions of patients worldwide, impacting quality of life, impeding physical and psychological well-being, causing financial stress, and increasing mortality rates. …”
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ECOGEOGRAFÍA Y RIESGO DE DESASTRE: APORTES ANALÍTICOS DESDE LA GEOGRAFÍA FÍSICA by Sergio Caruso, Abril Schofrin, Lia Bachmann

“…En la actualidad, a raíz de la magnitud de los impactos que los eventos del medio físico (sismos, inundaciones, etc.) tienen sobre las sociedades, ha conducido a que esta temática sea de suma centralidad en la opinión pública, académica, científico-técnica, política y social a nivel global y nacional.  En este contexto, el presente artículo tiene por objetivo presentar un conjunto de herramientas teórico-conceptuales provenientes del campo de la Geografía Física para analizar dichas situaciones, dejando de lado las interpretaciones fisicalistas y haciendo foco en la integración de las múltiples interacciones que se suceden entre los procesos sociales y naturales. …”
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A novel lightweight model for tea disease classification based on feature reuse and channel focus attention mechanism by Junjie Liang, Renjie Liang, Dongxia Wang

“…On the other hand, the popular vision transformer(ViT) model has a higher recognition accuracy as it has better global feature expression ability than CNN model. …”
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Comparing the emotional impact of the UK COVID-19 lockdown in very preterm and full-term born children: a longitudinal study by Zeyuan Sun, Zeyuan Sun, Laila Hadaya, Laila Hadaya, Marguerite Leoni, Marguerite Leoni, Paola Dazzan, Emily Simonoff, Serena J. Counsell, A. David Edwards, Chiara Nosarti, Chiara Nosarti, Lucy Vanes

“…IntroductionThe COVID-19 pandemic has caused a global mental health crisis, especially for those individuals who are vulnerable to stress and anxiety due to pre-existing mental health problems. …”
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Workload-capacity imbalances and their impact on self-management complexity in patients with multimorbidity: a multicenter cross-sectional study by Binyu Zhao, Yujia Fu, Jingjie Wu, Erxu Xue, Chuyang Lai, Dandan Chen, Qiwei Wu, Jianing Yu, Qiaoyu Wu, Zhihong Ye, Jing Shao

“…Introduction Multimorbidity is increasing globally, emphasizing the need for effective self-management strategies. …”
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Implementation of international experience in reforming the institute of public administration by Zagurskyy O., Hubska O., Slobodian I.

“…The study found that the transformation of public administration is inevitable, since modern national forms of government and management are incompatible with the needs of the new socio-economic practice of a globalizing society. At the same time, without transformation, it is impossible to achieve a qualitatively new level of management, the main characteristics of which can be synthesized. …”
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Unravelling the transcriptomic symphony of muscle ageing: key pathways and hub genes altered by ageing and caloric restriction in rat muscle revealed by RNA sequencing by Gulam Altab, Brian J. Merry, Charles W. Beckett, Priyanka Raina, Inês Lopes, Katarzyna Goljanek-Whysall, João Pedro de Magalhães

“…Hence, we employed high-throughput RNA sequencing to survey the global changes in protein-coding gene expression occurring in skeletal muscle with age. …”
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RvXmBlendNet: A Multi-architecture Hybrid Model for Improved Skin Cancer Detection by Farida Siddiqi Prity, Ahmed Jabid Hasan, Md Mehedi Hassan Anik, Rakib Hossain, Md. Maruf Hossain, Sazzad Hossain Bhuiyan, Md. Ariful Islam, Md Tousif Hasan Lavlu

“…Abstract Skin cancer, one of the most dangerous cancers, poses a significant global threat. While early detection can substantially improve survival rates, traditional dermatologists often face challenges in accurate diagnosis, leading to delays in treatment and avoidable fatalities. …”
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Motor Neuron Disease Systematic Multi-Arm Adaptive Randomised Trial (MND-SMART): a multi-arm, multi-stage, adaptive, platform, phase III randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlle... by Jeremy Chataway, Suvankar Pal, Charis Wong, Elizabeth Elliott, Jenna M Gregory, Siddharthan Chandran, Judith Newton, Shuna Colville, Maria Stavrou, Christopher J Weir, Nigel Stallard, Malcolm R Macleod, Michelle Steven, Richard Anthony Parker, Arpan R Mehta, Robert J Swingler, Mahesh K B Parmar, Rachel S Dakin, Jill Williamson

“…Despite decades of research and clinical trials there remains no cure and only one globally approved drug, riluzole, which prolongs survival by 2–3 months. …”
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Effects of Production System With or Without Growth-Promoting Technologies on Growth and Blood Expression of (Cyto)Chemokines and Heat Shock and Tight Junction Proteins in <i>Bos t... by Mark Branine, Ashley K. Schilling-Hazlett, Pedro H. V. Carvalho, Kim R. Stackhouse-Lawson, Edilane C. Martins, Julia T. da Silva, Laura Amundson, Chris Ashworth, Mike Socha, Sami Dridi

“…Heat stress (HS) induced by global warming is a real welfare, productivity, and economic burden of cattle production. …”
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Clinical depression prevalence and associated factors among adolescents with sickle cell anemia in dar es salaam, tanzania: a cross-sectional study by Linda Paul Athman, Agnes Jonathan, Fatima Musa, Honesta John Kipasika, Isihaka Mahawi, Florence Urio, Mwashungi Ally, Ritah Mutagonda, Lulu Chirande, Julie Makani, Emmanuel Balandya

“…Abstract Background Depression commonly arises among adolescents who have experienced long-standing psychosocial difficulties, especially those facing chronic illnesses such as sickle cell anemia (SCA). SCA is a global health concern, and Tanzania is one of the countries with a high incidence, estimated at 8,000–11,000 births per year. …”
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Identification of core biomarkers for tuberculosis progression through bioinformatics analysis and in vitro research by Zhanpeng Chen, Qiong Wang, Quan Ma, Jinyun Chen, Xingxing Kong, Yuqin Zeng, Lanlan Liu, Shuihua Lu, Xiaomin Wang

“…Abstract Tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), remains a significant global public health issue with high mortality rates and challenges posed by drug-resistant strains, emphasizing the continued need for new therapeutic targets and effective treatment strategies. …”
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¿Está la luxación de la hemiartroplastia resuelta? by Firas Nehme Abouzeid, Alejandro Mardomingo Alonso, Rafael Rubio Quevedo, Segundo José Sánchez Gutiérrez, Miguel González López

“…Resultados: La tasa de mortalidad global de los 28 pacientes con luxación fue del 42% en los primeros 12 meses frente al 21% en el grupo de control (p <0,001). …”
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Relation Between Humor Styles and Psychopathological Symptoms in Healthcare Professionals: A Cross-Sectional Study by Miriam Leñero-Cirujano, Héctor González-Ordi, Juan Ignacio Torres-González, Jacinto Gómez-Higuera, Sergi Piñar-Rodríguez, Elena López-Bermejo Minaya, Gregorio Jesús Alcalá-Albert, Álvaro Carmona-Pestaña, María Nieves Moro-Tejedor

“…Being female, working night shifts, and having temporary contracts were positive predictors of most global indices of the LSB-50. <b>Conclusions</b>: This study highlights the importance of considering different types of humor as a potential strategy for improving the mental health of healthcare professionals, as well as the influence of other independent variables related to their personal and work environment. …”
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Risk factors for disruptive behaviours: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of quasi-experimental evidence by Essi Viding, Francesca Solmi, Simon Russell, Lucy Karwatowska, Bianca Lucia De Stavola, Sara Jaffee, Jean-Baptiste Pingault

“…Introduction Disruptive behaviour disorders, including oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder, are a common set of diagnoses in childhood and adolescence, with global estimates of 5.7%, 3.6% and 2.1% for any disruptive disorder, oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder, respectively. …”
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Effects of temporal, spatial, and environmental factors on ciliates community in northeastern South China Sea, with notes on co-occurrence patterns of environment, phytoplankton, a... by Weiwei Liu, Zijun Cheng, Shaowei Wen, Gang Li, Zhixin Ke, Daning Li, Yehui Tan

“…This study improves our understanding for the mechanisms of community structuring of microzooplankton in the open sea across both space and time.IMPORTANCECiliates are important components of microplanktons and play a crucial role in global nutrient cycling. There is still large knowledge gap on their structuring mechanisms from continental shelf to deep basin. …”
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HCFC-141b (CH3CCl2F) Emission Estimates for 2000–2050 in Eastern China by Dayu Zhang, Jing Wu, Zehua Liu, Tong Wang, Yueling Zhang, Dongmei Hu, Lin Peng

“…Abstract HCFC-141b (CH3CCl2F) has dual environmental impacts on ozone depletion and climate change, with the ozone depletion potential of 0.11 and the global warming potential of 782, and its emissions has attracted international attention. …”
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Guttiferone K Exerts the Anti-inflammatory Effect on Mycobacterium Tuberculosis- (H37Ra-) Infected Macrophages by Targeting the TLR/IRAK-1 Mediated Akt and NF-κB Pathway by Qingwen Zhang, Jinxia Sun, Yan Fu, Weigang He, Yinhong Li, Hongsheng Tan, Hongxi Xu, Xin Jiang

“…Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) remains a great threat to global health, killing more people than any other single infectious agent and causing uncontrollable inflammation in the host. …”
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Protocol for a randomised ‘screen-and-treat’ Helicobacter pylori eradication trial in 14–18-years-old adolescents residing in three regions of Chile: effectiveness and microbiologi... by Ximena Aguilera, Camila Cabrera, Sergio George, Yalda Lucero, Beatriz Zabala Torres, Lilian Fernández, Nora Mamani, Anne Lagomarcino, Miguel O'Ryan

“…Introduction Gastric cancer is a major global health concern, being the final stage of a long-term process, primarily associated with Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection. …”
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Prevalence of Undernutrition and Associated Factors among Pregnant Women in a Public General Hospital, Tigray, Northern Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study Design by Ebud Ayele, Guesh Gebreayezgi, Teklewoini Mariye, Degena Bahrey, Gebrekiros Aregawi, Gebregziabher Kidanemariam

“…Background. Undernutrition is a global health problem, particularly in pregnant women. …”
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