The effectiveness of non-exposure to incarceration in preventing COVID-19 and mitigating associated events: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Elida Lucia Carvalho Martins, Patrícia Constantino, Gustavo Laine Araújo de Oliveira

“…Conclusion Non-exposure to incarceration can be a strategy for preventing the spread of COVID-19 and reduces COVID-19 mortality in younger populations. …”
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Numerical Simulation Study of Fines Migration Impacts on an Early Water Drainage Period in Undersaturated Coal Seam Gas Reservoirs by Xiaolong Peng, Suyang Zhu, Zhenjiang You, Zhimin Du, Peng Deng, Chaowen Wang, Mingwei Wang

“…Then, two dewatering strategies, including fast and moderate depressurization, are compared using the proposed models to study their effects on coal properties and following production. …”
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Pilot-Scale Enzymatic Conversion of Low Stability, High Free Fatty, Squid Oil to an Oxidatively Stable Astaxanthin-Rich Acylglyceride Oil Suitable for Nutritional Applications by Asavari Joshi, Brendan Holland, Moninder Sachar, Colin J. Barrow

“…Thus, lipase treatment offers an effective strategy for reducing FFA levels and producing oxidatively stable, astaxanthin-rich acylglyceride squid oil with DHA retained at the nutritionally favored sn-2 position.…”
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Feeding Behavior of Mice under Different Food Allocation Regimens by Hiroshi Ueno, Shunsuke Suemitsu, Shinji Murakami, Naoya Kitamura, Kenta Wani, Yu Takahashi, Yosuke Matsumoto, Motoi Okamoto, Takeshi Ishihara

“…Social interaction, a basic survival strategy for many animal species, helps maintain a social environment that has limited conflict. …”
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Additively manufactured functional cylindrical metastructures with controllability in both thermal expansion and Poisson’s ratio by Ye Zhou, Qidong Yang, Jiaxin Chen, Rongzheng Huang, Hao Zhou, Zhonggang Wang, Kai Wei

“…Herein, a series of new multi-functional cylindrical metastructures are designed by a curling strategy to exclusively integrate the controllability in both CTE and PR. …”
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The combined effect of bed-to-nurse ratio and nurse turnover rate on in-hospital mortality based on South Korean administrative data: a cross-sectional study by Hyun-Young Kim, Yunmi Kim, Jiyun Kim

“…It is necessary to create a comprehensive improvement plan that integrates policies aiming to improve nurse staffing levels and reduce turnover rates into a single strategy.…”
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Peripheral Tumor Location Predicts a Favorable Prognosis in Patients with Resected Small Cell Lung Cancer by Yina Gao, Yangyang Dong, Yingxu Zhou, Gongyan Chen, Xuan Hong, Qingyuan Zhang

“…Patient stratification by tumor location should inform the therapeutic strategy. The role of surgical resection for limited-stage SCLC patients must be reevaluated, as this may be appropriate for some patients.…”
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Policies on mental health in the workplace during the COVID-19 pandemic: A scoping review. by David Villarreal-Zegarra, C Mahony Reátegui-Rivera, Iselle Sabastizagal-Vela, Miguel Angel Burgos-Flores, Nieves Alejandra Cama-Ttito, Jaime Rosales-Rimache

“…Workplaces are conducive spaces for implementing strategies and interventions to promote mental health. …”
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Effect of cold atmospheric plasma on common oral pathogenic microorganisms: a narrative review by Jiajun Xin, Hao Zhang, Yushen Li, Yifei Dai, Xiantao Chen, Jiatong Zou, Rui Wang, Zhihui Liu, Bowei Wang

“…Developing a new antimicrobial strategy to deal with the increasing microbial variability and resistance is important. …”
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Acute Deterioration of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) in a Patient with Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1) by Seiya Tanaka, Fuko Kawahara, Taro Miyamoto, Satoshi Tsurusaki, Yoshihito Sanuki, Kiyoshi Ozumi, Takashi Harada, Hiromi Tasaki

“…The current therapeutic strategy is almost identical to that of idiopathic PAH; however, there is no clinical evidence. …”
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Programmable Multiplexed Nucleic Acid Detection by Harnessing Specificity Defect of CRISPR‐Cas12a by Xin Guan, Rui Yang, Jiongyu Zhang, Jeong Moon, Chengyu Hou, Chong Guo, Lori Avery, Danielle Scarola, Daniel S. Roberts, Rocco LaSala, Changchun Liu

“…By harnessing the specificity defect of the CRISPR‐Cas12a enzyme, a dual‐mode detection strategy is designed, which includes approximate matching and precise querying of target sequences and develop a programmable multiplexed nucleic acid assay. …”
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Assessing the language availability, readability, suitability and comprehensibility of heat-health messaging content on health authority webpages and online resources in Canada by Emily J. Tetzlaff, Kristina-Marie T. Janetos, Katie E. Wagar, Farah Mourad, Melissa Gorman, Victor Gallant, Glen P. Kenny

“…Objectives: Heat-health communication initiatives are a key public health protection strategy. Therefore, understanding the potential challenges that all Canadians and specific groups, such as those facing literacy barriers and non-native language speakers, may experience in accessing or interpreting information, is critical. …”
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Spatial patterns and driving forces of sand-binding shrubs in sand-blown and sand hazard regions of northern China by Dinghai Zhang, Haidi Qi, Yanli Wang, Ting Ning, Ruyun Tang, Yanchen Ye

“…The spatial patterns of AO are likely influenced by its reproductive strategy and high adaptability to arid environments. …”
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Development and validation of a high-throughput qPCR platform for the detection of soil-transmitted helminth infections. by Nils Pilotte, Victor Omballa, Monica Voss, Leah Padgett, Malathi Manuel, Jeanne L Goodman, Tim Littlewood, Zayina Zondervenni Manoharan, Lisette van Lieshout, Jaco J Verweij, Manigandan Sekar, Ajith Kumar Muthukumar, Gretchen Walch, Abriana Warren, Mariyam Sheikh, Andrew Gonzalez, Sean R Galagan, Sitara Swarna Rao Ajjampur, Moudachirou Ibikounlé, Steven A Williams, Doug Rains, Ushashi Dadwal, Judd L Walson

“…<h4>Background</h4>Historically, soil-transmitted helminth (STH) control and prevention strategies have relied on mass drug administration efforts targeting preschool and school-aged children. …”
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Transformer-based travel time estimation method for plateau and mountainous environments by Guangjun Qu, Kefa Zhou, Rui Wang, Dong Li, Yingpeng Lu, Zhihong Lv, Dequan Zhao, Aijun Zhang, Qing Zhang

“…The model simultaneously integrates positional encoding and multi-head self-attention mechanisms with the objective of enhancing the accuracy of travel time predictions based on a substantial number of trajectory points in wilderness settings. A meta-learning strategy was employed to improve the model’s generalization ability, thereby ensuring its applicability for accurate travel time estimation across a range of challenging environments. …”
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Deep learning in gonarthrosis classification: a comparative study of model architectures and single vs. multi-model methods by Sahika Betul Yayli, Kutay Kılıç, Salih Beyaz

“…Seven CNN architectures (NfNet-F0/F1, EfficientNet-B0/B3, Inception-ResNet-v2, VGG16) were trained with and without CLAHE augmentation.ResultsThe single-model approach achieved an F1-score of 0.763 and accuracy of 0.767, outperforming the multi-model strategy, which scored 0.736 and 0.740. Different models performed best across tasks, underscoring the need for task-specific architecture selection. …”
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Analytical Quality by Design approach in development and optimization of HPLC method for assay of angiotensin – converting enzyme inhibitor in tablets by Veronika Popovska Jakimovska, Ana Atanasova, Filip Gogu, Maja Stevanoska, Emilija Arsovska Popovska, Packa Antovska, Suzana Trajkovic Jolevska, Jasmina Tonic Ribarska

“…This model is perfect strategy for analytical method development, in order to reduce outof-trend (OOT) and out-of-specification (OOS) results and to achieve high degree of robustness, providing cost-effective analytical method. …”
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Targeting chondrocytes for arresting bony fusion in ankylosing spondylitis by Fenli Shao, Qianqian Liu, Yuyu Zhu, Zhidan Fan, Wenjun Chen, Shijia Liu, Xiaohui Li, Wenjie Guo, Gen-Sheng Feng, Haiguo Yu, Qiang Xu, Yang Sun

“…These findings suggest that blockade of chondrogenesis by sonidegib would be a drug repurposing strategy for AS treatment.…”
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Profiling protease cleavage patterns in plasma for pancreatic cancer detection by Morgan R. Stewart, Arnaud Quentel, Elise Manalo, Jose Montoya Mira, Srivathsan Ranganathan, Bruce P. Branchaud, Jared M. Fischer, Eugene Tu, Fehmi Civitci, Yu-Jui Chiu, Adem Yildirim

“…This work represents a novel strategy for identifying peptide substrates for the detection of PDAC and other cancers.…”
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Therapeutic Evidence of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplantation for Cerebral Palsy: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials by Baocheng Xie, Minyi Chen, Runkai Hu, Weichao Han, Shaobo Ding

“…In recent years, human mesenchymal stem cell (hMSC) transplantation has become a promising therapeutic strategy for CP. However, clinical evidence is still limited and controversial about clinical efficacy of hMSC therapy for CP. …”
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