Sexual dysfunction and quality of life across age groups in multiple sclerosis patients: a prospective cross-sectional analysis by Reza Dehghaniathar, Ali Faegh, Fahimeh Hajiakhoundi, Behnam Shakiba, Zeynab Najjar

“…Research indicates that sexual disorders are more prevalent in MS patients compared to other neurological conditions and are approximately five times more common than in the general population. This study utilized the Sexual Intimacy and Desires in MS Patients Questionnaire (MSISQ-19) and the Quality of Life in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis Questionnaire to investigate the impact of sexual disorders on the quality of life in MS patients. …”
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Children with COVID-19 Who Manifest Febrile Seizure by Lilia Dewiyanti, Neni Sumarni, Joseph Deni Lie, Zuhriah Hidajati, Harancang Pandih Kahayana, Adriana Lukmasari, Cipta Pramana

“…Various studies have been conducted to gain more knowledge about SARS-CoV-2, but studies in the pediatric population are still very limited. We report a case of a boy aged two years and seven months who came to the hospital with an atypical generalized seizure for less than 5 minutes and immediately regained consciousness after the seizure. …”
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The Minimally Invasive Effect of Breast Approach Endoscopic Thyroidectomy: An Expert's Experience by Wei Zhang, Zhi-guo Jiang, Dao-zhen Jiang, Xiang-min Zheng, Hong-liang Shen, Cheng-xiang Shan, Sheng Liu, Ming Qiu

“…Twenty-four patients who underwent BAET and 19 patients who underwent conventional thyroidectomy were the study population. Postoperative pain was assessed by a visual analog scale (VAS). …”
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Regulatory mechanism analysis of signal transduction genes during rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) germination under aluminum stress using WGCNA combination with QTL by Chenyang Li, Ruili Wang, Jiana Li, Qingyuan Zhou, Cui Cui

“…Seeds of aluminum-sensitive (S) and aluminum-resistant (R) lines screened from the recombinant inbred lines (RILs) population of rapeseed were treated with 80 µg·ml-1 AlCl3 (ST, RT). …”
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Pressure treatment enables white-light emission in Zn-IPA MOF via asymmetrical metal-ligand chelate coordination by Qing Yang, Weibin Wang, Yunfeng Yang, Pengyuan Li, Xinyi Yang, Fuquan Bai, Bo Zou

“…This modification unexpectedly endows the targeted sample with a new emergent electronic state to narrow the singlet-triplet energy gap, which effectively accelerates the spin-flipping process for boosted triplet excitons population. Time delay phosphor-converted light-emitting diodes are fabricated with long emission time up to ~7 s after switching off, providing significant advancements for white-light and time-delay lighting applications.…”
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Real-world assessment of effectiveness and safety of filgotinib in 286 patients with ulcerative colitis in 9 UK centres by David Young, Sohail Rahmany, Deborah Taylor, Emma Davis, Michael Colwill, Sonia Kalyanji Mehta, Roisin Campbell, Karl Hazel, Karishma Sethi-Arora, Susan Ritchie, Ashley I Heinson, Helen Moyses, Keith Bodger, Emma Johnston, Lucy Hicks, Anjan Dhar, Jimmy Limdi, Rachel Cooney, John Paul Seenan, Kamal Patel, Alissa Walsh, Fraser Cummings

“…We aimed to describe the treatment population, effectiveness and safety of filgotinib in a real-world cohort of patients with UC. …”
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Oral health-related knowledge, attitude and practices among nurses: a hospital-based questionnaire survey from a tertiary healthcare setting in Faridabad, India by Manu Raj, Sakshi Sharma, Megha Jain, Shilpa Khullar Sood

“…Among participants, 235 (78.4 %) were females. In the study population, 220 (73.4%) were nursing diploma holders, 55 (18.6%) had a bachelor’s degree, 20 (6.6%) had a post-graduate nursing diploma and 5 (1.5%) completed their master’s degree. …”
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Development of sugar- and fat-reduced pulse cookies with improved predicted glycemic behavior by Xinying Suo, Marianna Tagliasco, Matteo Bonfini, Laura Bonfili, Oscar Moreno Araiza, Anna Baggio, Anna Maria Eleuteri, Nicoletta Pellegrini, Elena Vittadini

“…The developed products are expected to be a suitable base for the development of snacks for elderly consumers, who are the population niche that, due to health issues, is most likely to be interested in this type of cookies.…”
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Digitized thermo-responsive shape memory matrix band for tooth restorations by Chao Liu, Qin Huang, Bin Feng, Guanchen Ye, Yu Wang, Tianer Zhu, Junjie Wu, Lining Lin, Dongqi You, Haiping Yang, Weifang Zhang

“…The permanent shape could be designed and customized in software or retrieved from imaging database collected from large general population. Only warm saline or water was needed to trigger the shape transformation without any auxiliary tools. …”
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Development of large-fruited bird cherry cultivars on the basis of wild species for northern and eastern regions of Russia by V. S. Simagin, A. V. Lokteva

“…Suppositions are made about the prospects of further breeding for the large fruit trait on the basis of the same genetic sources or with the use of other sources of large fruit size in hybridization.Thus, preliminary selection of the best genotypes in nature and in introduced populations, followed by their crossing within their own species and with other species, makes it possible to produce genotypes with larger fruits than the average fruit size for a population and considerably larger than in their parents. …”
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Association between microplastics and the functionalities of human gut microbiome by Bei Gao, Lixia Chen, Lizhi Wu, Shirui Zhang, Sunan Zhao, Zhe Mo, Zhijian Chen, Pengcheng Tu

“…The findings are of significance to improve the understanding of functional changes in the gut microbiome associated with microplastic exposure, as well as raising awareness regarding the health risks of microplastics in the human population.…”
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Emulating a randomized clinical trial with real-world data to evaluate the effect of antidepressant use in PTSD patients with high suicide risk by Oshin Miranda, Xiguang Qi, M. Daniel Brannock, Ryan Whitworth, Thomas Kosten, Neal David Ryan, Gretchen L. Haas, Gretchen L. Haas, Gretchen L. Haas, Levent Kirisci, LiRong Wang

“…The outcome is a new onset of an SRE.ResultsCitalopram exhibited a significantly fewer case with new SREs compared to other most used antidepressants such as venlafaxine, duloxetine, and mirtazapine–even after adjusting for multiple comparisons and other covariants.DiscussionFindings suggest potential risks associated with certain antidepressants in the PTSD population, emphasizing cautious prescription considerations.…”
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Development of the adaptive spring bread wheat cultivar ‘Omskaya Yubileynaya’ under the conditions of the Siberian region by N. A. Popolzukhina, P. V. Popolzukhin, A. A. Gaidar, Yu. Yu. Parshutkin, N. A. Yakunina

“…A decision was taken to apply multifold individual selection in accordance with the composition of agronomic traits in the mutant × cultivar hybrid population Lutescens 3 × [F5 B1 (Mutant 777 × G7251/03) × G7251/03] × Rosinka 3 (Mutant 112 × Irtyshanka 10) with backcrossing. …”
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Reservoir ecological health assessment Methods: A systematic review by Esi Esuon Biney, Charles Gyamfi, Anthony Yaw Karikari, Deborah Darko

“…The study employed the Protocol, Search, Appraisal, List, Synthesis, Analysis, and Reporting (PSALSAR) Framework and the Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome, and Context (PICOC) framework to identify 61 relevant literature. …”
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A comparison of CXR-CAD software to radiologists in identifying COVID-19 in individuals evaluated for Sars CoV-2 infection in Malawi and Zambia. by Sam Linsen, Aurélie Kamoun, Andrews Gunda, Tamara Mwenifumbo, Chancy Chavula, Lindiwe Nchimunya, Yucheng Tsai, Namwaka Mulenga, Godfrey Kadewele, Eunice Nahache Kajombo, Veronica Sunkutu, Jane Shawa, Rigveda Kadam, Matthew Arentz

“…In order to better prepare for future pandemics, there is a need for representative training data to optimize performance in key populations, and ongoing data collection to maintain diagnostic accuracy, especially as new disease strains emerge.…”
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Setting the top 10 priorities for obesity and weight-related research (POWeR): a stakeholder priority setting process by Paul Aveyard, Susan A Jebb, Nerys M Astbury, Anisa Hajizadeh, Ailsa R Butler, Lucy Goddard, Philippa Seeber, Bruce Crawley

“…Targeted research funding in these areas of top priority would lead to needed and impactful knowledge generation for the field of obesity and weight regulation and thereby improve population health.…”
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Validism in the Elderly. Social Context and Functional Capacity by Mairovy Hernández Romero, Hilda María Delgado Acosta, Lourdes Elena Duany Badell, Belkis González Aguiar, Ismaray Sacerio González, Zenia Tamara Sánchez García

“…<strong>Foundation:</strong> aging is a fact that affects the entire world population, and considerably, the most developed countries, in which life expectancy has been increasing as reflected in the United Nations report. …”
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Attracting pollinators vs escaping herbivores: eco-evolutionary dynamics of plants confronted with an ecological trade-off by Yacine, Youssef, Loeuille, Nicolas

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Effects of screentime on the health and well-being of children and adolescents: a systematic review of reviews by Russell M Viner, Neza Stiglic

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What integrated care means from an older person’s perspective? A scoping review protocol by Amy Marshall, Manasi Murthy Mittinty, Gillian Harvey

“…One way of improving the management of multimorbidity in the older population is through the provision of ‘integrated care’. …”
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