Operation time as a prognostic indicator on postoperative complications following percutaneous nephrolithotomy by Alireza Pakdel, Abdolreza Mohammadi, Amirreza Shamshirgaran, Ehsan Zemanati Yar, Leila Zareian Baghdadabad, Farshid Alaeddini, Roghayeh Koohi Ortakand, Leonardo Oliveira Reis, Seyed Reza Hosseini, Seyed Mohammad Kazem Aghamir

“…Area under the receiver-operating characteristic curve analysis was used as a general indicator of quality. Results: Out of 165 enrolled patients, 157 were analyzed (8 excluded due to follow-up and surgery data issues). …”
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The negative impacts of bisphenols on thyroid function in adults with bisphenol A exposure level exceeding the tolerable daily intake by Ziwei Pei, Lei Zhang, Yan Bao, Jingguang Li, Qin Zhuo

“…In order to explore the health risk to thyroid function of BPs, in this study, we assessed the internal exposure levels of BPs and the relationships between urinary BPs and thyroid function in general adults. We carried out a cross-sectional study in Chengdu, China, recruiting 1486 adults without special indentities and diseases (aged 18–68), and measured 6 BPs in urine. …”
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Fermi Unassociated Sources in the MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey by Morgan Himes, Preshanth Jagannathan, Dale A. Frail, Frank Schinzel, Neeraj Gupta, S. A. Balashev, F. Combes, P. P. Deka, H.-R. Klöckner, E. Momjian, J. D. Wagenveld

“…Over 2000 γ -ray sources identified by the Large Area Telescope on NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope are considered unassociated, meaning that they have no known counterparts in any other frequency regime. We have carried out an image-based search for steep spectrum radio sources, with in-band spectral index < −1.4, within the error regions of Fermi unassociated sources using 1–1.4 GHz radio data from the MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey (MALS) data release. …”
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Can verbal autopsies be used on a national scale? Key findings and lessons from South Africa's national cause-of-death validation study by Monique Maqungo, Nadine Nannan, Beatrice Nojilana, Erin Nichols, Diane Morof, Mireille Cheyip, Chalapati Rao, Carl Lombard, Jessica Price, Kathleen Kahn, Lorna J. Martin, Francois Bezuidenhout, Ria Laubscher, Chodziwadziwa Kabudula, Tracy Glass, Oluwatoyin Awotiwon, Nesbert Zinyakatira, Noluntu Funani, Jané Joubert, Debbie Bradshaw, Pamela Groenewald

“…Background Verbal autopsy (VA), though imperfect, serves as a vital tool to determine cause-of-death, particularly for out-of-facility deaths, but challenges persist in integrating VA into Civil Registration and Vital Statistics systems. …”
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Impact of Biomass Burning on Air Quality in Temuco City, Chile by Felipe Reyes, Sofía Ahumada, Francisca Rojas, Pedro Oyola, Yeanice Vásquez, Claudio Aguilera, Andres Henriquez, Ernesto Gramsch, Choong-Min Kang, Sanna Saarikoski, Kimmo Teinilä, Minna Aurela, Hilkka Timonen

“…The measurements were carried out at two sites, Las Encinas and Padre Las Casas, in spring and winter. …”
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A Real-Time End-to-End Framework with a Stacked Model Using Ultrasound Video for Cardiac Septal Defect Decision-Making by Siti Nurmaini, Ria Nova, Ade Iriani Sapitri, Muhammad Naufal Rachmatullah, Bambang Tutuko, Firdaus Firdaus, Annisa Darmawahyuni, Anggun Islami, Satria Mandala, Radiyati Umi Partan, Akhiar Wista Arum, Rio Bastian

“…During real-time testing in the hospital, the model exhibits a 97.17% accuracy, 95.80% sensitivity, and 98.15% specificity; only 3 out of the 53 US videos in the real-time process were diagnosed incorrectly. …”
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The Psychometric Properties of the Persian Migraine-Specific Quality of Life Questionnaire Version 2.1 in Episodic and Chronic Migraines by Alireza Zandifar, Samaneh Sadat Masjedi, Faraidoon Haghdoost, Fatemeh Asgari, Navid Manouchehri, Mahboobeh Banihashemi, Mohammad Reza Najafi, Abbas Ghorbani, Behzad Zolfaghari, Ali Gholamrezaei, Vahid Shaygannejad, Mohammad Saadatnia

“…At the third week from the baseline, participants filled out MSQ and MIGSEV. Internal consistency (Cronbach alpha) and test-retest reproducibility (intraclass correlation coefficients) were used to assess reliability. …”
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Validation Protocol of Vitamin D Supplementation in Patients with HIV-Infection by Elisabet Lerma-Chippirraz, Roberto Güerri-Fernández, Judit Villar García, Alicia González Mena, Ana Guelar Grinberg, María Milagro Montero, Luisa Sorli, Sonia Calzado, Juan Pablo Horcajada, Adolfo Díez-Pérez, Hernando Knobel Freud

“…Multivariate analysis of factors related to normalization was carried out. With a median follow-up of 2 years, 82.1% of patients with deficiency and 83.9% of cases with insufficiency reached levels above 20 ng/mL. …”
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Influence of multimodal low-opioid anesthesia on the dynamics of аnnexin V in blood plasma during cardiac surgery by S.R. Maruniak, O.A. Loskutov, O.M. Druzhyna, I.R. Malish, N.V. Korotchuk

“…The determination of the level of аnnexin V in the blood was carried out before CPB and after bringing the sternum by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. …”
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Short-Term Restriction of Physical and Social Activities Effects on Brain Structure and Connectivity by Yajuan Zhang, Lianghu Guo, Zhuoyang Gu, Qing Yang, Siyan Han, Han Zhang

“…MRI data were collected from 20 participants before the lockdown, from 29 participants (14 original, 15 new) two months post-lockdown, and from 27 out of the 29 participants four months post-lifting of the lockdown. …”
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Human health risk assessment of aluminium in water treated with aluminium-based coagulants in a rural area by Fernando García-Ávila, Tatiana Encalada-Alvear, Luis M. Alvarez-Altamirano, Alex Avilés-Añazco, Lorgio Valdiviezo-Gonzalez, Emigdio Alfaro-Paredes

“…The risk assessment was carried out using the Hazard Index (HI), which allows the quantification of the potential risk associated with exposure to aluminium through drinking water. …”
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Precision livestock farming applied to the dairy sector: 50 years of history with a text mining and topic analysis approach by Lucia Trapanese, Giovanna Bifulco, Alfio Calanni Macchio, Francesca Aragona, Sissy Purrone, Giuseppe Campanile, Angela Salzano

“…A comprehensive search on the Scopus® bibliometric database was carried out using various related keywords such as: “precision livestock farming, sensors, machine learning and dairy”. …”
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Field Development Optimization for Low-Productivity Gas Wells under Intermittent Production by Wei Tian, Yi Liu, Xuri Li, Youliang Jia, Yixuan Wang, Li Li, Zhengyan Zhao, Weihong Ding, Wenxin Zhou, Wenyue Sun

“…This strategy allows formation pressure recovery during the shut-in period, which leads to a higher gas rate during the production period to carry liquids out of the wellbore. However, unreasonable operating schedules can result in problems such as insufficient formation pressure recovery and issues of liquid loading. …”
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Proximal Femoral Nail versus Dynamic Hip Screw Fixation for Trochanteric Fractures: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials by Xiao Huang, Frankie Leung, Zhou Xiang, Pei-Yong Tan, Jing Yang, Dai-Qing Wei, Xi Yu

“…The purpose of this meta-analysis was to find out whether the proximal femoral nail was better than the dynamic hip screw in the treatment of trochanteric fractures with respect to operation time, blood transfusion, hospital stay, wound complications, number of reoperation, and mortality rate. …”
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Distributed optimization and scheduling strategy for source load storage distribution grid based on alliance chain by Jinhua Tian, Yueyuan Zhang, Yanan Gao, Yu Qin, Bihan Fan, Cheng Zhang, Qiqi Zang

“…Distributed scheduling calculations were carried out using a consensus algorithm that includes leadership nodes. …”
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Laparoscopic and Open Distal Pancreatectomy—An Initial Single-Institution Experience with a Propensity Score Matching Analysis by Irena Plahuta, Žan Šarenac, Medeja Golob, Špela Turk, Bojan Ilijevec, Tomislav Magdalenić, Stojan Potrč, Arpad Ivanecz

“…From 2016 to 2023, 108 distal pancreatectomies were carried out, 19 (17.6%) laparoscopically and 89 (82.4%) openly. …”
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Do Unresectable Giant Cell Tumors of Bone Treated With Denosumab Progress After Discontinuation of Treatment? by DENO Research Group, Carolina de laCalva, Manuel Angulo, Paula González‐Rojo, Ana Peiró, Pau Machado, Juan Luis Cebrián, Roberto García‐Maroto, Antonio Valcárcel, Pablo Puertas, Gregorio Valero‐Cifuentes, Óscar Pablos, Miriam Maireles, María Luisa Fontalva, Iván Chaves, Aida Orce, Luis Coll‐Mesa, Israel Pérez, Fausto González, María delCarmen Sanz, Isidro Gracia

“…Methods and Results This is a multicenter, retrospective, descriptive study carried out in seven Spanish hospitals with multidisciplinary sarcoma and musculoskeletal tumor boards, between 2009 and 2019. …”
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QoE-Driven Big Data Management in Pervasive Edge Computing Environment by Qianyu Meng, Kun Wang, Xiaoming He, Minyi Guo

“…To realize high accuracy of high-dimensional big data and the transmission of accurate data through out the pervasive edge computing environment, in this study we focused on the following two aspects. …”
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Preclinical use of a clinically-relevant scAAV9/SUMF1 vector for the treatment of multiple sulfatase deficiency by Maximiliano Presa, Rachel M. Bailey, Somdatta Ray, Lauren Bailey, Saurabh Tata, Tara Murphy, Pierre-Alexandre Piec, Harold Combs, Steven J. Gray, Cathleen Lutz

“…Methods We engineered a viral vector (AAV9/SUMF1) to deliver working copies of the SUMF1 gene and tested the vector in Sumf1 knock out mice that generally display a median lifespan of 10 days. …”
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Exploring Adsorption Performance of Functionalized Mesoporous Silicas with a Different Pore Structure as Strong Cation-Exchange Sorbents for Solid-Phase Extraction of Atropine and... by Fernando L. Vera-Baquero, Sonia Morante-Zarcero, Damián Pérez-Quintanilla, Isabel Sierra

“…The loading solvents, loading volume, analyte concentration, and elution volume were studied, using 50 mg of both materials. Analyses were carried out by ultra-high performance liquid chromatography coupled to triple quadrupole tandem mass spectrometry. …”
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