Prospects for the characterization of habitable planets by Mazevet, Stephane, Affholder, Antonin, Sauterey, Boris, Bixel, Alex, Apai, Daniel, Ferriere, Regis

“…With thousands of exoplanets now identified, the characterization of habitable planets and the potential identification of inhabited ones is a major challenge for the coming decades. We review the current working definition of habitable planets, the upcoming observational prospects for their characterization and present an innovative approach to assess habitability and inhabitation. …”
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Exploring Current Evidence on the Past, the Present, and the Future of the Heart Team: A Narrative Review by Alexandru Burlacu, Adrian Covic, Mircea Cinteza, Paula Madalina Lupu, Radu Deac, Grigore Tinica

“…Forty-eight studies were included, if reference was made to Heart Team structure and functionality. Results. We depicted the structure and the timeline of Heart Team, along with actual evidence-based recommendations from European Guidelines. …”
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Evaluating Surveillance Breast Imaging and Biopsy in Older Breast Cancer Survivors by Tracy Onega, Julie Weiss, Roberta diFlorio, Todd MacKenzie, Martha Goodrich, Steven Poplack

“…We used generalized estimating equations (GEE) to model associations of breast surveillance with women’s characteristics. …”
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Pharmacomicrobiomics: a new field contributing to optimizing drug therapy in Parkinson’s disease by Yi Zhang, Chengjun Mo, Penghui Ai, Xiaoqin He, Qin Xiao, Xiaodong Yang

“…Moreover, we discuss potential mechanistic insights into the complex associations between gut microbiota and drug metabolism. …”
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Case Control Analyses of Acute Endophthalmitis after Cataract Surgery in South India Associated with Technique, Patient Care, and Socioeconomic Status by Taraprasad Das, Anjli Hussain, Thomas Naduvilath, Savitri Sharma, Subhadra Jalali, Ajit B. Majji

“…Purpose. We investigated acute endophthalmitis incidence following cataract surgery vis-a-vis the current technological and postoperative care changes in higher and lower socioeconomic categories of patients in South India. …”
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Association between Obesity and Asthma in Preschool Mexican Children by Francisco Vázquez-Nava, Jaime Morales Romero, Arturo Córdova-Fernandez, Atenógenes H. Saldívar-González, Carlos F. Vázquez-Rodríguez, Maria del C. Barrientos-Gómez, Dolores Lin-Ochoa, Rodríguez Eliza M. Vázquez

“…The results obtained to date are debatable. We investigated the association between obesity and asthma in 1,160 preschool Mexican children. …”
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Factors associated with readmission after long-term administration of tolvaptan in patients with congestive heart failure by Shoko Yamashita, Miki Takenaka, Masayuki Ohbayashi, Noriko Kohyama, Tatsuya Kurihara, Tomiko Sunaga, Hisaaki Ishiguro, Mari Kogo

“…Introduction: We investigated the factors associated with readmission in patients with congestive heart failure (HF) receiving long-term administration of tolvaptan (TLV) to support treatment decisions for HF. …”
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Prospective Cohort Study on Refractive Changes after Trabeculectomy by Kentaro Iwasaki, Yoshihiro Takamura, Shogo Arimura, Takahiro Tsuji, Takehiro Matsumura, Makoto Gozawa, Masaru Inatani

“…We prospectively evaluated refractive changes in the eyes of 97 patients who underwent trabeculectomy at Fukui University Hospital, Fukui, Japan. …”
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Therapeutic potential of boric acid as a local drug delivery agent in periodontitis: a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis by Reham Abdel-Fatah, Ghada A. Elhusseiny, Wafaa Saleh

“…Methods Following PRISMA guidelines, we registered a comprehensive protocol with PROSPERO. …”
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Novel proteomics-based plasma test for early detection of multiple cancers in the general population by Ashkan Afshin, Mohammad H Forouzanfar, Bogdan Budnik, Hossein Amirkhani

“…Using proximity extension assay, we measured more than 3000 high-abundance and low-abundance proteins in each sample. …”
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Reconstructing Paleofluid Circulation at the Hercynian Basement/Mesozoic Sedimentary Cover Interface in the Upper Rhine Graben by Chrystel Dezayes, Catherine Lerouge

“…In this paper, we focus on paleocirculation at the Hercynian basement/sedimentary cover interface in the tectonic environment of the Upper Rhine graben. …”
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The disappearing COVID-Naïve Population and comparative Roche vs. Abbott Test sensitivity: evidence from antibody seroprevalence in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin by Lorenzo Franchi, Vladimir Atanasov, Mark Stake, Garrett Bates, Kristen Osinski, John R Meurer, Bernard Black

“…Abstract We study the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in a diverse population in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin from May 2021 to June 2022. …”
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Ticam2 ablation facilitates monocyte exhaustion recovery after sepsis by Blake A. Caldwell, Susanti Ie, Amy Lucas, Liwu Li

“…Using a cecal slurry injection sepsis model, we monitored the establishment and recovery of monocyte exhaustion in Ticam2 -/- mice. …”
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Passing plastic: traces of plastic in the fecal samples of a high Arctic seabird in Tunu (East Greenland) by Justine Ammendolia, Garth A. Covernton, Alexandra Skrepnyk, John F. Dower, Shoshanah Jacobs

“…We identified 25 potential microplastic particles (>100 µm in size), 19 of which were analyzed for material composition using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy and Raman micro-spectroscopy. …”
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The deleterious effects of CDK4/6 inhibition on renal recovery post-acute kidney injury by Shanshan Zhou, Rouzhang Peng, Yanting Shen, Liuwei Huang, Suying Han, Jun Wang, Jie Guo

“…Palbociclib (Palb) was administered during the acute stage or post the acute stage of AKI and mice were sacrificed 21 days post injury. We found that Palb could cause renal senescence and renal fibrosis. …”
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Defect modeling in semiconductors: the role of first principles simulations and machine learning by Md Habibur Rahman, Arun Mannodi-Kanakkithodi

“…Through multiple case studies, we explore how DFT has been successfully applied to understand defect behavior across a variety of semiconductors, and how ML approaches integrated with DFT can efficiently predict defect properties and facilitate the discovery of new materials with tailored defect behavior. …”
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An XBB.1.5-based inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine partially protects against XBB.1.5 and JN.1 strains in hamsters by Ryuta Uraki, Mutsumi Ito, Maki Kiso, Kiyoko Iwatsuki-Horimoto, Masafumi Endo, Seiya Yamayoshi, Yoshihiro Kawaoka

“…While mRNA vaccines have been widely used worldwide, it is essential that we continue to prepare alternative vaccine modalities. …”
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Genetic Risk Prediction for Normal-Karyotype Acute Myeloid Leukemia Using Whole-Exome Sequencing by Seong Gu Heo, Eun Pyo Hong, Ji Wan Park

“…We identified 21 nonsynonymous single nucleotide variants (SNVs) located in a coding region of 18 genes. …”
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The surgical time-out: the relationship between perceptions of a safety-task anchor and surgical team workflow by Vivian J. Zagarese, Ivan Hernandez, Neil M. A. Hauenstein, Roseanne J. Foti, Sarah H. Parker

“…Abstract Background The surgical time-out is a critical safety measure used in the operating room (OR). We examined the mediating relationship of the length of the time-out between team perceived usefulness of the time-out, and the rate at which the circulating nurse left the OR to retrieve instruments. …”
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Soil erosion susceptibility maps and raster dataset for the hydrological basins of North Africa by Adil Salhi, Sara Benabdelouahab, Essam Heggy

“…We generate soil erosion maps for the major hydrological basins of North Africa using Google Earth Engine and multiple hydroclimatic and land use datasets, covering 5.8 million square kilometers. …”
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