Comparison of Illumina and Oxford Nanopore sequencing data quality for Clostridioides difficile genome analysis and their application for epidemiological surveillance by Semeh Bejaoui, Sofie Holtsmark Nielsen, Astrid Rasmussen, John Eugenio Coia, Dorte Terp Andersen, Tobias Bruun Pedersen, Martin Vad Møller, Marc Trunjer Kusk Nielsen, Dorte Frees, Søren Persson

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Efficacy and Prognostic Factors for Y-90 Radioembolization (Y-90) in Metastatic Neuroendocrine Tumors with Liver Metastases by Erica S. Tsang, Jonathan M. Loree, Janine M. Davies, Sharlene Gill, David Liu, Stephen Ho, Daniel J. Renouf, Howard J. Lim, Hagen F. Kennecke

“…We identified 49 patients with metastatic liver-dominant NETs across BC Cancer’s six regional centres who received Y-90 between June 2011 and January 2017 in British Columbia, Canada. …”
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Promotion of Lotus tenuis and calf early weaning as a good management practice for breeding herds in marginal soils of the Flooding Pampa (Argentina) by M. BAILLERES, M.P. CAMPESTRE, C.J. ANTONELLI, G. MELANI, A. MENÉNDEZ, O.A. RUIZ

“…. & Kit.) es un buen ejemplo de naturalización beneficiosa en la Cuenca del Río Salado, es decir, en una de las más importantes regiones dedicada a la cría de bovinos en el país. …”
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Impact of a new case-based payment scheme on volume distribution across public hospitals in Zhejiang, China: does ‘Same disease, same price’ matter by Meiteng Yu, Jing Liu, Tao Zhang

“…Methods Data were obtained from 104 hospitals, including 12 tertiary and 14 secondary hospitals from each of four regions: Jinhua (intervention) vs. Taizhou (control), and Hangzhou (intervention) vs. …”
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Assessing national exposure to and impact of glacial lake outburst floods considering uncertainty under data sparsity by H. Chen, Q. Liang, J. Zhao, S. B. Maharjan

“…To effectively mitigate these risks and enhance regional resilience, it is imperative to conduct an objective and holistic assessment of GLOF hazards and their potential impacts over a large spatial scale. …”
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The Role of Physical Activity in Pregnancy: Impact on Preeclampsia, Gestational Diabetes Mellitus, and Labor Outcomes by Paulina Woźniak, Ewa Wietrzykowska, Wiktoria Gajek-Flanczewska, Sebastian Flanczewski, Małgorzata Wirkijowska, Jakub Wirkijowski, Katarzyna Wójtowicz, Agata Walczak, Dominika Sobolewska, Katarzyna Michalczyk-Fraszka, Martyna Śliwińska, Anna Podraza

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Evaluation of Hydrocarbon Generation Using Structural and Thermal Modeling in the Thrust Belt of Kuqa Foreland Basin, NW China by Chengfu Lyu, Xixin Wang, Xuesong Lu, Qianshan Zhou, Ying Zhang, Zhaotong Sun, Liming Xiao, Xin Liu

“…The Kuqa Basin is a typical foreland basin in northwest China, characterized by compressive foreland fold-and-thrust belts and a regionally distributed huge salt layer. A large number of overthrust faults, fault-related folds, and salt-related structures are formed on the thrust belt due to strong compression and structural deformation, causing difficulty in simulation of the basin. …”
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Laboratory capacity-building during COVID-19 in Somalia: improving access to essential diagnostics for national health security in a fragile setting by Salvador Figuereo, Sahra Isse Mohamed, Desalegn Takele, Abdulrahman M. Sheikh, Solomon Chane Abera, Ayni Muhiadin Mohamed, Mutaawe Lubogo, Hassan Mukhtar Abukar, Mary Joan Karanja, Sulaiman Bangura, Antoine Abou Fayad, Ali Haji Adam, Abdinasir Yusuf Osman, Sk Md Mamunur Rahman Malik

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COMBINED TREATMENT OF LOCALLY-ADVANCED BLADDER CANCER by I. V. Chernyshev, Y. V. Samsonov, D. V. Perepechin, A. M. Ulbashev

“…In the combined treatment of bladder cancer chemotherapy is the component that systemic exposure to the tumor, the way of regional and distant metastases. The study included 132 patients with locally advanced bladder cancer who were treated for 2005–2013, divided into four groups: NACT + CE — 27 people (20.5%), CE + ACT — 21 (15.9%), NACT + CE + ACT — 21 (15.9%) only CE — 63 (47.7%). …”
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Acrylamide Induces Antiapoptotic Autophagy and Apoptosis by Activating PERK Pathway in SH-SY5Y Cells by Yiqi Wang, Ying Liu, Xing Zhang, Yang Jiao, Lian Duan, Ruijie Cheng, Ning Yang, Hong Yan

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Efektifitas Metode Preference Selection Index (PSI) dalam Menentukan Penyaluran Dana Bantuan Sosial COVID-19 pada Kecamatan Mandau by Teuku Radillah, Fauzansyah, Pulla Pandika Widodo, Hafiz Mursalan, Budi Permana Putra

“…To restore the economy amid this pandemic, the government is trying to provide COVID-19 social assistance funds in every sub-district in various regions, including Mandau District in Duri City, such as assistance with staple foods. …”
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Socio-economic assessment of dog population management systems: a scoping review by Rabina Ghimire, Parimala Mohanty, Elly Hiby, Andrew Larkins, Andrew Larkins, Salome Dürr, Sonja Hartnack

“…Studies highlighted gaps mostly related to data availability and accessibility.ConclusionThe limitations of socio-economic data arise from a lack of standardized methodologies across regions and contexts and limited data collection efforts. …”
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP OF MEMORY IN PUBLIC SPACE AND SOCIAL COMMUNICATION: A POSTCOLONIAL APPROACH IN TIME OF WAR by Viktoriia Kovpak, Nataliia Lebid, Viktor Burenkov

“…The effectiveness of the use of such principles is analysed from a postcolonial perspective using the examples of regional restaurant business cases that construct the politics of memory by representing commercial historical narratives. …”
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Percepción y manejo de la muerte descendente de mango (Mangifera indica L.) en Actopan, Veracruz, México by Juan Carlos Noa-Carrazana, Norma Flores-Estévez, Felipe Roberto Flores-de la Rosa, Luis Guillermo Hernández-Montiel, Liliana Eunice Saucedo-Picazo

“…La muerte descendente es una grave enfermedad reportada en las regiones productoras de mango en México; sin embargo, no existe información sobre la percepción y el manejo que los productores de mango tienen respecto a esta enfermedad. …”
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Cerebral Cortical Activity During Academic Stress Amongst Undergraduate Medical Students at Kampala International University (Uganda) by Mujinya, Regan, Kalange, Muhamudu, Ochieng, Juma John, Ninsiima, Herbert Izo, Eze, Ejike Daniel, Afodun, Adam Moyosore, Nabirumbi, Ritah, Sulaiman, Sheu Oluwadare, Kairania, Emmanuel, Echoru, Isaac, Okpanachi, Alfred Omachonu, Matama, Kevin, Asiimwe, Oscar Hilary, Nambuya, Grace, Usman, Ibe Michael, Obado, Osuwat Lawrence, Zirintunda, Gerald, Ssempijja, Fred, Nansunga, Miriam, Matovu, Henry, Ayikobua, Emmanuel Tiyo, Nganda, Ponsiano Ernest, Onanyang, David, Ekou, Justine, Musinguzi, Simon Peter, Ssimbwa, Godfrey, Keneth Iceland, Kasozi

“…This strongly impairs their cortical regions in the brain, thus affecting their academic productivity. …”
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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions and relaxation on pediatric respiratory virus hospitalizations in Southwest China: a retrospective study by Ting Gong, Fengqi He, Yongle Zhao, Shuya Lu, Daiyin Tian, Daiyin Tian

“…BackgroundResearch from multiple regions indicates that Coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has altered the epidemiological characteristics of respiratory viruses.MethodsThis single-center retrospective study included children hospitalized for lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) from 2017 to mid-2024. …”
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Effectiveness of a specialist palliative home care nurse–patient consultation followed by an interprofessional telephone case conference compared with usual care among patients wit... by Judith Dams, Hans-Helmut König, Tim Friede, Nils Schneider, Stephanie Stiel, Martin Scherer, Silke Böttcher, Gabriella Marx, Ingmar Schäfer, Nadine Janis Pohontsch, Hendrik van den Bussche, Friedemann Nauck, Michael Freitag, Eva Hummers, Tina Mallon, Franziska Schade, Manuel Zimansky, Thomas Asendorf, Christiane A Mueller

“…The concept of KOPAL could serve as a blueprint for other regions and meet the challenges of geographical equity in end-of-life care.Trial registration number DRKS00017795; German Clinical Trials Register.…”
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The rapid detection of a neonatal unit outbreak of a wild-type Klebsiella variicola using decentralized Oxford Nanopore sequencing by Rhys T. White, Michelle Balm, Megan Burton, Samantha Hutton, Jamaal Jeram, Matthew Kelly, Donia Macartney-Coxson, Tanya Sinha, Henrietta Sushames, David J. Winter, Maxim G. Bloomfield

“…Methods Since early 2022, the hospital laboratory at Wellington Regional Hospital has been performing dWGS using the Oxford Nanopore MinION device. …”
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Effect of prenatal multiple micronutrient supplementation on birth weight in Ethiopia: protocol for a pragmatic cluster-randomised trial by Joanna Schellenberg, Charles Opondo, Tanya Marchant, Lars Åke Persson, Masresha Tessema, Atkure Defar, Alemneh Kabeta Daba, Girum Taye, Senait Alemayehu, Elias Asfaw, Anene Tesfa, Bedasa Tessema, Kalkidan Zenebe

“…Responding to that evidence, the government of Ethiopia decided to implement a 21 district pilot of the use of multiple micronutrient supplementation in routine antenatal care and requested an evaluation of implementation outcomes, including on birth weight.Methods and analysis A pragmatic, facility-based, randomised trial is being conducted in 42 districts over five regions of Ethiopia between January 2023 and December 2024. …”
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Germline variants of the genes involved in NF-kB activation are associated with the risk of COPD and lung cancer development by Baranasic Jurica, Niazi Yasmeen, Chattopadhyay Subhayan, Rumora Lada, Ćorak Lorna, Dugac Andrea Vukić, Jakopović Marko, Samaržija Miroslav, Försti Asta, Knežević Jelena

“…Therefore, the aim of this study was to search for the potential overlapping genetic biomarkers, with a focus on single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) located in the regulatory regions of immune-related genes. Additionally, the aim was to see if an identified SNP has potentially an effect on proinflamma-tory cytokine concentration in the serum of COPD patients. …”
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