Endoscopic Epidurolysis for the Management of Chronic Spinal Pain: A Delphi-Based Italian Experts Consensus by Matteo Luigi Giuseppe Leoni, Felice Occhigrossi, Michael Tenti, William Raffaeli, ISAL Research Study Group

“…Conclusion The study highlights the need for standardized protocols in EE to ensure consistent and effective treatment of chronic spinal pain. …”
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Expanding the structural resolution of glycosylation microheterogeneity in therapeutic proteins by salt-free hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry by Yutian Gan, Steffen Lippold, John Stobaugh, Christian Schöneich, Feng Yang

“…Hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography-fluorescence-mass spectrometry (HILIC-FLR-MS) is the gold standard for structural analysis of released glycans, but lacks information on site specificity and occupation. …”
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Multi-environment and multi-parameter screening of stability and coating efficiency of gold nanoparticle bioconjugates in application media by Junjie Wang, Stefano Giordani, Valentina Marassi, Anna Placci, Barbara Roda, Pierluigi Reschiglian, Andrea Zattoni

“…The developed methodology can fill the vacancy of standard reference quality control (QC) procedures for bioconjugate synthesis and application in (bio)sensors and Nano-pharmaceutics, screening in a short time many combinations, easily scaling up to the semi-preparative scale or translating to different bioconjugates.…”
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Antibacterial and Antioxidant Activities of Triterpenoids and Cyclic 1,7-Diarylheptanoids from the Stem Bark of Myrica salicifolia: A Combined Experimental and Computational Study by Abraham Dilnesa Gashaw, Kibrom Gebreheiwot Bedane, Taye B. Demissie, Japheth O. Ombito, Estifanos Ele Yaya, Mekonnen Abebayehu Desta

“…The lowest binding affinity for compound 7 was found to be −7.26 to −10.35 kcal/mol against PqsA protein of P. aeruginosa, pyruvate kinase (PK) enzyme of S. aureus, LuxS protein of S. pyogenes, and DNA gyrase B of E. coli, which showed better binding affinity compared to the standard drug ampicillin (−7.36 to −8.03 kcal/mol) and ciprofloxacin (−6.19 to −6.83 kcal/mol). …”
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Bayesian deep learning applied to diabetic retinopathy with uncertainty quantification by Masoud Muhammed Hassan, Halbast Rashid Ismail

“…Finally, we computed the entropy and standard deviation on the obtained predictive distribution to quantify the model uncertainty. …”
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Breast cancer: relation between quality of life and physical activity level by Marina Ribovski, Adriana Coutinho de Azevedo Guimarães, Leonessa Boing, Fabiana Flores Sperandio, Mirella Dias, Nycolle Martins Reis

“…A total of 158 women (56±9 years) answered a structured questionnaire, at a standardized interview, about sociodemographic and clinical information; economic situation (IBGE – Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística); physical activity (IPAQ – International Physical Activity Questionnaire); and quality of life (QLQ-C30 – Quality of Life Questionnaire; QLQ-BR23). …”
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Projecting the Potential Budget Impact Analysis of Paliperidone Palmitate in Egyptian Adult Patients with Schizophrenia by Gihan Elsisi, Mohamed Ezzat, Mohamed Ramadan

“…PP may potentially be cost-saving compared with the standard of care in chronic schizophrenia in Egyptian representative healthcare settings. …”
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Analyzing Transit Systems Using General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) by Generating Spatiotemporal Transit Networks by Diyi Liu, Jing Guo, Yangsong Gu, Meredith King, Lee D. Han, Candace Brakewood

“…The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) is an open standard format for recording transit information, utilized by thousands of transit agencies worldwide. …”
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Risk Factors Associated with Helminthic Intestinal Infection in Lurambi Subcounty, Kakamega, Kenya by Ruth W. Kiiti, Elizabeth N. Omukunda, Jackson C. Korir

“…Stool samples were examined using the standard quantitative Kato-Katz technique. The data was analyzed using SPSS version 20 and Epi Info version 7.2.3.1. …”
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Biomedical named entity recognition using improved green anaconda-assisted Bi-GRU-based hierarchical ResNet model by Ram Chandra Bhushan, Rakesh Kumar Donthi, Yojitha Chilukuri, Ulligaddala Srinivasarao, Polisetty Swetha

“…The MACCROBAT dataset was obtained from Kaggle and underwent several pre-processing steps such as Stop Word Filtering, WordNet processing, Removal of non-alphanumeric characters, stemming Segmentation, and Tokenization, which is standardized and improves its quality. The pre-processed text was fed into a feature extraction model like the Robustly Optimized BERT –Whole Word Masking model. …”
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Part 4. Clinical Practice Guideline for Surveillance and Imaging Studies of Trauma Patients in the Trauma Bay from the Korean Society of Traumatology by Sung Wook Chang, Kang Kook Choi, O Hyun Kim, Maru Kim, Gil Jae Lee, Korean Society of Traumatology (KST) Clinical Research Group

“…Chest AP and pelvic AP should be performed as the standard initial trauma series for severe trauma patients (1B). …”
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Superior bioavailability of EPA and DHA from a L-lysine salt formulation: a randomized, three-way crossover study by Christiane Schön, Antje Micka, Vishnupriya Gourineni, Roberta Bosi

“…Objective: This study aimed to compare the pharmacokinetics and bioavailability of EPA and DHA in AvailOm® omega-3-lysine salt (Lys-FFA) versus standard ethyl ester (EE) and triglyceride (TG) formulations after a single oral dose in healthy subjects. …”
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Fruit and seed diversity of introduced Phoenix dactylifera in Yuanjiang of Yunnan Province by DING Bing, LI Lianfang, WANG Kanglin, WANG Wenjun, YANG Liying, WU Chengpeng

“…A comprehensive score of ≥1.000 was identified as the breeding standard for improved varieties, with 5 plants selected from 32 individual plants, which accounting for 15.6% of the total plants. …”
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Evaluation of centering ability of XP endo shaper, Edge Evolve and Hyflex CM in simulated curved canals by Van B. Werdina, Ihsan N. Bahnam

“…Pre-and postoperative images of the canals were taken at a standardized position by a digital camera (Nikon D810 – 36 Megapixels, Japan) with 60mm macro lens. …”
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LoVE4MUM Mobile App to Prevent Postpartum Depression: Protocol for a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial by Siti Sabrina Kamarudin, Idayu Badilla Idris, Shalisah Sharip, Norfazilah Ahmad

“…ConclusionsBy examining the LoVE4MUM app alongside standard postpartum care, this pilot randomized controlled trial seeks to offer preliminary evidence on the potential of mHealth tools to improve maternal mental health as well as to reduce postpartum depression symptoms. …”
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Terminalia catappa Extract Palliates Redox Imbalance and Inflammation in Diabetic Rats by Upregulating Nrf-2 Gene by Franklyn Nonso Iheagwam, Gaber El-Saber Batiha, Olubanke Olujoke Ogunlana, Shalom Nwodo Chinedu

“…Antioxidant enzyme activities, plasma glucose concentration, protein concentration, oxidative stress, and inflammation biomarkers were assayed using standard methods. Hepatic relative expressions of tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α), interleukin-six (IL-6), and nuclear factor-erythroid 2 related factor 2 (Nrf-2) were also assessed. …”
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Carboxylated Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes as Dispersive Solid-Phase Extraction Sorbent to Determine Eighteen Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Vegetable Samples by Gas Chromatography-Ma... by Tengfei Liu, Daifeng Yang, Jian Mao, Xueming Zhang, Minghui Dong

“…Each matrix was spiked at concentrations of 5, 10, and 100 μg/kg to evaluate recoveries, which ranged from 84.5% to 116.5% with relative standard deviations (n=6) between 0.6% and 17.6%. The limits of detection and the limits of quantification ranged from 0.3 to 1.4 μg/kg and 0.8 to 4.5 μg/kg, respectively. …”
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Static and Dynamic Routing, Fiber, Modulation Format, and Spectrum Allocation in Hybrid ULL Fiber-SSMF Elastic Optical Networks by Kangao Ouyang, Fengxian Tang, Zhilin Yuan, Jun Li, Yongcheng Li

“…Traditional standard single-mode fibers (SSMFs) are unable to satisfy the future long-distance and high-speed optical channel transmission requirement due to their relatively large signal losses. …”
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QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF A USER INTERFACE BASED ON THE MENTAL TIME OF PERFORMING THE USER TASKS OF THE SUBJECT AREA by V. K. Grigoriev, A. S. Ilyushechkin, M. A. Ovchinnikov

“…In the GOMS method some standard numerical characteristics are used to estimate mechanical time. …”
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In vitro characterization the antioxidant and antibacterial properties of hemp (Cannabis sativa spp.) varieties cultivated in Northern Alabama by Aaron Dudley, Lamin S. Kassama, Armitra Jackson-Davis, Ernst Cebert, Xianyan Kuang

“…Data were expressed as mean ± standard error (n = 3) and ANOVA (P ≤ 0.05). The ethanolic extracts exhibited the the highest extraction yield at 25.29 ± 0.70% (RE), while the antioxidant result demonstrated that the ethanolic extracts had the highest DPPH free radical scavenging activity at 64.03 ± 0.26% (RE). …”
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