Determinants of continuation on HIV pre-exposure propylaxis among female sex workers at a referral hospital in Uganda: a mixed methods study using COM-B model by Samuel Kawuma, Rodgers Katwesigye, Happy Walusaga, Praise Akatukunda, Joan Nangendo, Charles Kabugo, Moses R. Kamya, Fred C. Semitala

“…Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has been recommended as a key component of the HIV combination prevention strategy. Although patient initiation of PrEP has improved, continuation rates remain low. …”
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Two-dimensional cell membrane chromatography guided screening of myocardial protective compounds from Yindan Xinnaotong soft capsule by Si-Min Shao, Xuan Ji, Xing Wang, Run-Zhou Liu, Yu-Ru Cai, Xiaobing Lin, Ze-Jie Zeng, Ling Chen, Liu Yang, Hua Yang, Wen Gao

“…Subsequently, the potentially bioactive compounds of YD were screened by integrating the 2D H9c2/CMC-RPLC-MS system with a high-content component knockout strategy. Additionally, an RNA-seq approach was employed to predict the targets and mechanisms of YD and the active compounds for myocardial protection. …”
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Proficiency testing and cross-laboratory method comparison to support standardisation of diatom DNA metabarcoding for freshwater biomonitoring by Valentin Vasselon, Sinziana F. Rivera, Éva Ács, Salomé Baja Almeida, Karl B. Andree, Laure Apothéloz-Perret-Gentil, Bonnie Bailet, Ana Baričević, Kevin K. Beentjes, Juliane Bettig, Agnès Bouchez, Camilla Capelli, Cécile Chardon, Mónika Duleba, Tina Elersek, Clémence Genthon, Maša Jablonska, Louis Jacas, Maria Kahlert, Martyn G. Kelly, Jan-Niklas Macher, Federica Mauri, Marina Moletta-Denat, Andreia Mortágua, Jan Pawlowski, Javier Pérez-Burillo, Martin Pfannkuchen, Erik Pilgrim, Panayiota Pissaridou, Frédéric Rimet, Karmen Stanic, Kálmán Tapolczai, Susanna Theroux, Rosa Trobajo, Berry Van der Hoorn, Marlen I. Vasquez, Marie Vidal, David Wanless, Jonathan Warren, Jonas Zimmermann, Benoît Paix

“…We propose an “all for one but prove them all” strategy, suggesting that distinct protocols can be used within the scientific community, as long as their consistency is be proven by following minimum standard requirements.…”
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Dual-targeting CRISPR-CasRx reduces C9orf72 ALS/FTD sense and antisense repeat RNAs in vitro and in vivo by Liam Kempthorne, Deniz Vaizoglu, Alexander J. Cammack, Mireia Carcolé, Martha J. Roberts, Alla Mikheenko, Alessia Fisher, Pacharaporn Suklai, Bhavana Muralidharan, François Kroll, Thomas G. Moens, Lidia Yshii, Stijn Verschoren, Benedikt V. Hölbling, Francisco C. Moreira, Eszter Katona, Rachel Coneys, Paula de Oliveira, Yong-Jie Zhang, Karen Jansen, Lillian M. Daughrity, Alexander McGown, Tennore M. Ramesh, Ludo Van Den Bosch, Gabriele Lignani, Ahad A. Rahim, Alyssa N. Coyne, Leonard Petrucelli, Jason Rihel, Adrian M. Isaacs

“…As toxicity has been associated with both sense and antisense repeat-derived RNA and DPRs, targeting both strands may provide the most effective therapeutic strategy. CRISPR-Cas13 systems mature their own guide arrays, allowing targeting of multiple RNA species from a single construct. …”
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Sustainable remediation of Cd-contaminated farmland through the rotation of rapeseed–rice varieties with different Cd accumulation potentials by Liang Wang, Qiqing Liu, Jingyi Fu, Yuxuan Xiao, Jun Yang, Xiaoyong Liao

“…In response to the safety risks posed by cadmium (Cd)-contaminated rice fields worldwide, a suitable production-and-restoration strategy is required for actual agricultural practices. …”
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Remote Monitoring of Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy by the NeuroDetect iOS App: Observational Cohort Study of Patients With Cancer by Ciao-Sin Chen, Michael P Dorsch, Sarah Alsomairy, Jennifer J Griggs, Reshma Jagsi, Michael Sabel, Amro Stino, Brian Callaghan, Daniel L Hertz

“…The Combined Model numerically, though not statistically, outperformed either assessment strategy individually, indicating that the combination of functional and patient-reported assessment within a smartphone may be optimal to CIPN detection. …”
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Hypothermia during Surgical Treatment of Type A Aortic Dissection: A 16 Years’ Experience by Francesco Macrina, Maria Cristina Acconcia, Luigi Tritapepe, Mizar D’abramo, Wael Saade, Alessandra Capelli, Fabio Miraldi

“…We found a similar trend in other fields of investigations, so we can conclude that circulatory arrest performed at temperature ≥24°C nasopharyngeal temperature associated with ACP is a safe strategy for aortic surgery for AAD.…”
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Dynamic selectout and voting-based federated learning for enhanced medical image analysis by Saeed Iqbal, Adnan N Qureshi, Musaed Alhussein, Khursheed Aurangzeb, Atif Mahmood, Saaidal Razalli Bin Azzuhri

“…To sum up, our proposed approach uses voting and dynamic SelectOut techniques to improve FL performance on a variety of uneven, distributed, and varied datasets. This strategy has a lot of potential to improve FL across a range of applications, especially those that prioritize data privacy, diversity, and performance.…”
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Altered Atlas of Exercise-Responsive MicroRNAs Revealing miR-29a-3p Attacks Armored and Cold Tumors and Boosts Anti-B7-H3 Therapy by Jie Mei, Zhiwen Luo, Yun Cai, Renwen Wan, Zhiwen Qian, Jiahui Chu, Yaying Sun, Yuxin Shi, Ying Jiang, Yan Zhang, Yongmei Yin, Shiyi Chen

“…Thus, miR-29a-3p restoration could be an alternative strategy for antitumor therapy.…”
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Reconstructing prevalence dynamics of wildlife pathogens from pooled and individual samples by Borremans, Benny, Falvo, Caylee A, Crowley, Daniel E, Hoegh, Andrew, Lloyd-Smith, James O, Peel, Alison J, Restif, Olivier, Ruiz-Aravena, Manuel, Plowright, Raina K

“…Pathogen transmission studies require sample collection over extended periods, which can be challenging and costly, especially in the case of wildlife. A useful strategy can be to collect pooled samples, but this presents challenges when the goal is to estimate prevalence. …”
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The role of the Hygiene Department of Stephen Bathory University in the development and promotion of Public Health in Vilnius in the years 1922–1939 by Aistis Žalnora

“…The fight against social diseases involved a state-owned strategy and a broad arsenal of measures. The University’s scholars also took part in this process. …”
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Contemporary survival outcomes of congenital systemic-to-pulmonary shunt in children with borderline pulmonary vascular resistant index compared to Eisenmenger syndrome by Nalin Chaiwangyen, Chodchanok Vijarnsorn, Paweena Chungsomprasong, Prakul Chanthong, Supaluck Kanjanauthai, Ploy Thammasate, Thita Pacharapakornpong, Densiri Bositthipichet, Jantaras Sengsim, Jarupim Soongswang, Teerapong Tocharoenchok, Ekarat Nitiyarom, Kriangkrai Tantiwongkosri, Thaworn Subtaweesin, Kritvikrom Durongpisitkul

“…Most patients (88.5%) responded to acute pulmonary vasodilatory testing and underwent repair, with 158 undergoing defect closure and 12 having fenestrated closure. A treat-and-repair strategy was used in 33 children (17.1%). The 10- and 15-year survival rates for patients with ES were 79.3% and 72.4%, respectively, which was significantly inferior to children with borderline PVRi [97.3% and 87.8% (p = 0.02)]; and high PVRi [91.6% and 89.5% (p = 0.06)], respectively. …”
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Enterobacter-inoculation altered the C, N contents and regulated biomass allocation in Reaumuria soongorica to promote plant growth and improve salt stress tolerance by Xin-Guang Bao, Xin-Guang Bao, Pei-Fang Chong, Pei-Fang Chong, Cai He, Xue-Mei Lu, Xue-Ying Wang, Feng Zhang, Bing-Bing Tan, Jia-Li Yang, Li-Li Gao

“…This study provides a novel adaptive strategy for the integrated use of PGPR and halophytes in saline-alkali soil improvement and vegetation restoration efforts.…”
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Shengxue Busui Decoction activates the PI3K/Akt and VEGF pathways, enhancing vascular function and inhibiting osteocyte apoptosis to combat steroid-induced femoral head necrosis by Manting Liu, Jiexiang Ye, Runtian Wu, Dongqiang Luo, Tao Huang, Dandan Dai, Kexin Wang, Yanping Du, Junwen Ou

“…Curcumin, berberine, and diosgenin are likely key contributors to these effects, highlighting SBD as a potential therapeutic strategy for SONFH.…”
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Early determination of potential critical quality attributes of therapeutic antibodies in developability studies through surface plasmon resonance-based relative binding activity a... by Shuai Wang, Yanqiu Wang, Zhenzhen Li, Ye Hong, Zhaohui Wang, Jiteng Fan, Qiong Wang, Yuanjie Ge, Xiaofeng Zhao, Guangcun Cheng, Changyan Chen, Yadan Wu, Yayuan Fu

“…The current developability assessment strategy provided comprehensive, precise characterization of antibody binding activity in the stability studies, enabling us to perform correlation analysis and establish the structure–function relationship between relative binding activity and quality attributes. …”
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A method for evaluating the accessibility of underground auxiliary transportation vehicles in coal mines based on multi feature fusion by Fan JIANG, Yifan LIU, Zhencai ZHU, Chaofan ZHANG, Gongbo ZHOU, Yuxing PENG

“…Progressive probability Hough transform and Catmull Rom spline curve with improved feature point selection are used to fit the straight track and curved track separately, forming a railway track detection method based on a switchable model; Secondly, based on the color attributes of coal mine underground tunnel wall pipelines, a pipeline feature detection strategy is constructed through HSV color space transformation, edge detection, and least squares fitting algorithms; Once again, a weighted fusion method based on pipeline and rail feature points is proposed to extract the centerline trajectory of auxiliary transportation vehicles, and to construct rules for generating safe passage areas for auxiliary transportation vehicles; Then, for the over-segmentation problem in the traditional watershed algorithm, two-dimensional edge and area feature extraction of static obstacles is carried out by using improved watershed segmentation based on markers and GraphCut algorithm, and a small-sample classification support vector mechanism is selected to build a pedestrian detection model based on the fusion of HOG (Histograms of Oriented Gradients)features and LBP(Local Binary Pattern) features for underground coal mine, so as to realize the comprehensive detection of dynamic and static obstacles in front of auxiliary transportation vehicles; Finally, the positional relationship between obstacles and safe passage area is judged by Euclidean distance to determine the obstacle invasion, and the results of auxiliary transportation vehicle passability assessment are obtained. …”
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Glypican-3 is a key tuner of the Hedgehog pathway in COPD by Laure M.G. Petit, Lynda Saber Cherif, Maëva A. Devilliers, Sarah Hatoum, Julien Ancel, Gonzague Delepine, Anne Durlach, Xavier Dubernard, Jean-Claude Mérol, Christophe Ruaux, Myriam Polette, Gaëtan Deslée, Jeanne-Marie Perotin, Valérian Dormoy

“…The modulation of GPC3 may represent a novel experimental strategy to tune HH signalling in therapeutic perspectives.…”
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Comparative outcomes of corticosteroids, neuromuscular blocking agents, and inhaled nitric oxide in ARDS: a systematic review and network meta-analysis by Zhiyuan Xu, Xiao Liu, Liang Zhang, Xianliang Yan, Xianliang Yan

“…Vecuronium bromide was the most effective strategy for reducing 28-day mortality compared to conventional treatment, iNO, methylprednisolone, and placebo (OR 0.38, 95% CI 0.15–1.00, and OR 0.30, 95% CI 0.10–0.85 and OR 0.25, 95% CI 0.08–0.74 and OR 0.23, 95% CI 0.08–0.65; SUCRA: 96.6%). …”
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Efficacy of yeast beta-glucan 1,3/1,6 supplementation on respiratory infection, fatigue, immune markers and gut health among moderate stress adults in Klang Valley of Malaysia: pro... by Suzana Shahar, Kalavathy Ramasamy, Norhayati Ibrahim, Nur Nadia Mohamad Habibullah, Munirah Ismail, Mohd Zul Amin Kamaruddin, Shirley Gee Hoon Tang, Mohd Faisal Abdul Hamid

“…Given the global prevalence and impact of upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs) on productivity and healthcare costs, YBG has shown promise as a potential therapeutic and preventive strategy for recurrent respiratory tract infections. …”
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Pengembangan Automated Image Analysis untuk Menentukan Jumlah Bakteri Tahan Asam (BTA) pada Kasus Tubercolosis by Safri Adam, Puji Astuti, Puspa Amalia, Fadli Sukandiarsyah

“…Metode HCA yang dikombinasikan dengan strategi seleksi objek dapat melakukan segmentasi objek BTA dengan baik. …”
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