Psychological Safety in Saudi Arabian Healthcare: A Scoping Review by Yumna Ali, Roaya Alqurashi, Ahmed M. Asfahani, Mark Leonard, Catherine Elisa John, Yasuhiro Kotera

“…There is a dearth of studies in the Saudi Arabian context on the subject of mindfulness-based interventions to improve psychological safety in the workplace. …”
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Dendrochronological studies in beech stands of the Skolivski Beskydy National Nature Park by Iryna M. Koval, Nadiya V. Maksymenko, Iryna M. Shpakivska

“…The object of the study is the primary European beech forest in the Skolivski Beskydy National Nature Park. The subject of the study is the response of the radial increment of Fagus sylvatica L., to climate change. …”
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Three Types of Broadly Reacting Antibodies against Influenza B Viruses Induced by Vaccination with Seasonal Influenza Viruses by Daisuke Hirano, Nobuko Ohshima, Ritsuko Kubota-Koketsu, Ayami Yamasaki, Gene Kurosawa, Yoshinobu Okuno, Shunji Yoshida, Yoshikazu Kurosawa

“…The vaccine used in this study comprised B/Massachusetts/2/2012 (Yamagata lineage), A/Texas/50/2012 (H3N2), and A/California/7/2009 (H1N1). One month after the subject received two vaccinations, blood (200 ml) was obtained and peripheral mononuclear cells were prepared, and a large Ab library was constructed using phage display technology. …”
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Effect of Extrusion on the Functional Properties and Bioactive Compounds of Tamarind (Tamarindus indica L.) Shell by Dalia Samanta Aguilar-Avila, Hector Eduardo Martinez-Flores, Eduardo Morales-Sanchez, Rosalía Reynoso-Camacho, Ma. Guadalupe Garnica-Romo

“…The dry powdered tamarind shell was conditioned to have 32 or 39 g of water per 100 g of shell, prior to being subjected to extrusion. Subsequently, the conditioned samples were processed at 90°C, 100°C and 110°C in a single screw extruder. …”
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Electrochemical Skin Conductance as a Marker of Painful Oxaliplatin-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy by Jean-Baptiste Delmotte, Abdulkarim Tutakhail, Kahina Abdallah, Pauline Reach, Marguerite D’Ussel, Gael Deplanque, Hélène Beaussier, François Coudoré

“…These preliminary data suggest that ESC could be a useful objective marker of painful oxaliplatin-induced neuropathy and could complement the use of subjective clinical scales. This study was prospectively registered on clinicaltrials.gov (NCT02827916) before patient recruitment has begun.…”
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Intelligent Neonatal Blood Perfusion Assessment System Based on Near-Infrared Spectroscopy by Hsiu-Lin Chen, Bor-Shing Lin, Chieh-Miao Chang, Hao-Wei Chung, Shu-Ting Yang, Bor-Shyh Lin

“…But the appearance of shock is not easy to be noticed in the initial stage, and most of the clinical judgments are subjectively dependent on the experienced physicians. …”
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Targeting the activated allosteric conformation of the endothelin receptor B in melanoma with an antibody-drug conjugate: mechanisms and therapeutic efficacy by Amaury Herbet, Marie Hautière, Frédéric Jean-Alphonse, Delphine Vivier, Christophe Leboeuf, Narciso Costa, Aloïse Mabondzo, Guilhem Bousquet, Franck Denat, Eric Reiter, Didier Boquet

“…Inhibition of their signaling pathways with antagonist drugs has been the subject of numerous clinical trials, but the results have not met expectations probably due to the high endothelin concentrations in the tumor microenvironment and their unusually high affinity for their receptors. …”
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Associations between White Blood Cell Count and the Development of Incidental Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease by Goh Eun Chung, Jeong Yoon Yim, Donghee Kim, Min-Sun Kwak, Jong In Yang, Su Jin Chung, Sun Young Yang, Joo Sung Kim

“…In this retrospective longitudinal cohort study, we recruited participants who underwent abdominal ultrasonography and blood samplings during medical checkups in both 2005 and 2010. A total of 2,216 subjects were included in our analyses. Results. The prevalence of NAFLD in 2010 increased steadily in conjunction with increasing WBC counts in 2005 after adjustment for body mass index (BMI) [odds ratio (OR) 2.44, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.49–4.00 for women and OR 2.42, 95% CI = 1.61–3.63 for men, lowest quartile versus highest quartile]. …”
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Water-Matching CAM: A Novel Class Activation Map for Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation of Water in SAR Images by Kai Wang, Zhongle Ren, Biao Hou, Feng Sha, Zhiyang Wang, Weibin Li, Licheng Jiao

“…NTCM further improves the performance of water CAM by subjecting nonwater targets to feature consistency constraints, which can effectively alleviate the issue of false positives. …”
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Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Tear Samples of Patients with Systemic Sclerosis by Anikó Rentka, Jolán Hársfalvi, András Berta, Krisztina Köröskényi, Zoltán Szekanecz, Gabriella Szücs, Peter Szodoray, Ádám Kemény-Beke

“…The average collected tear fluid volume developed 10.4 μL (1.6–31.2) in patients and 15.63 μL (3.68–34.5) in control subjects. The average total protein level was 6.9 μg/μL (1.8–12.3) in tears of patients and control tears contained an average of 4.132 μg/μL (0.1–14.1) protein. …”
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The paradigm of anthropocentrism in contemporary pediatric surgery by V.О. Dubinina, І.V. Ksonz, S.М. Bilash, L.V. Abyzova, О.S. Bilanov

“…Anthropocentrism is one of the leading trends in philosophy, which, at different historical stages, from ancient times to the present, defines topical issues, including deontological ones. Subject-object relations in medicine are relations in the “person-to-person” and “healthcare professional-to-patient” systems. …”
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Enhancement of a SWIPT Based Amplify and Forward Cooperative Relaying Protocol for Wireless Communication System by Festus Kehinde Ojo, Nafiu Olayiwola Akintoye, Samson Iyanda Ojo, Oluwatobi Omolola Oyedokun

“…However, WC system is subjected to severe multipath propagation due to obstruction in the medium of transmission thereby resulting in signal fading that degrades system performance. …”
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Transcriptomic-Based Identification of miR-125a Novel Targets in Human Hepatocarcinoma Cells by Ilenia De Leo, Nicola Mosca, Mariaceleste Pezzullo, Danila Valletta, Francesco Manfrevola, Vincenza Grazia Mele, Rosanna Chianese, Aniello Russo, Nicoletta Potenza

“…In particular, two different HCC cell lines were subjected to a miRNA boosting by mimic transfections, and consequently many genes were de-regulated, as observed by a transcriptomic approach. …”
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Restriction Enzyme Analysis of DNA Methylation in “Condensed” Chromatin of Ha-Ras-Transformed NIH 3T3 Cells by Maria Luiza S. Mello, Ann F. Chambers, Benedicto C. Vidal, Wolfgang Planding, Ulrich Schenck

“…The DNA evaluation was performed by video image analysis in Feulgen‐stained cells previously subjected to treatment with Msp I and Hpa II restriction enzymes, which distinguish between methylated and non‐methylated DNA. …”
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Microscopic Observation of Proliferative Membranes in Fibrocontractive Retinal Disorders by Rino Frisina, Francesco Tessarolo, Ivan Marchesoni, Federico Piccoli, Emiliana Bonomi, Patrizio Caciagli, Edoardo Midena, Giandomenico Nollo

“…Sixty-nine specimens from 64 eyes of 64 consecutive patients were collected at surgery and subjected to a multilevel analysis by means of optical and electron microscopy. …”
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Something Old and Something New—A Pilot Study of Shrinkage and Modern Imaging Devices by Josephine V. W. Hearing, Raymund E. Horch, Rafael Schmid, Carol I. Geppert, Maximilian C. Stumpfe

“…Skin flaps were collected, marked, and subjected to shrinkage in vitro, with wound dimensions recorded before and after shrinkage. …”
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The Effect of Cesarean Delivery Skin Incision Approach in Morbidly Obese Women on the Rate of Classical Hysterotomy by Brian E. Brocato, Edwin M. Thorpe, Luis M. Gomez, Jim Y. Wan, Giancarlo Mari

“…Women undergoing supraumbilical incisions had a higher risk of classical hysterotomy (OR, 24.6; 95% CI, 9.0–66.8), surgical drain placement (OR, 6.5; 95% CI, 2.6–16.2), estimated blood loss greater than 1 liter (OR, 3.4; 95% CI, 1.4–8.4), and longer operative time (97 ± 38 minutes versus 68 ± 30 minutes; ) when compared to subjects with Pfannenstiel incisions (controls). There was no difference in the risk of wound complication between women undergoing supraumbilical or Pfannenstiel incisions (OR, 2.7; 95% CI, 0.9–8.0). …”
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Decreased Expression of Thyroglobulin and Sodium Iodide Symporter Genes in Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis by Anna Popławska-Kita, Beata Telejko, Katarzyna Siewko, Maria Kościuszko-Zdrodowska, Natalia Wawrusewicz-Kurylonek, Adam Krętowski, Justyna Hryniewicka, Janusz Dzięcioł, Witold Bauer, Robert Milewski, Małgorzata Szelachowska, Maria Górska

“…The aim of the study was to compare the expression of sodium iodide symporter (NIS), thyroglobulin (Tg), tumor necrosis factor-α (TNFα), and interleukin-1β genes in patients with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT) and healthy individuals. Subjects and Methods. Thyroid cells were obtained from 39 patients with HT and 15 controls by an ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration biopsy. …”
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Impact of trapping on tritium self-sufficiency and tritium inventories in fusion power plant fuel cycles by Samuele Meschini, Rémi Delaporte-Mathurin, George R. Tynan, Sara E. Ferry

“…This, coupled with the replacement of components subject to significant tritium trapping, slows down fuel cycle dynamics, resulting in an extended tritium doubling time (50% increase), higher start-up inventory (30% increase), and higher required tritium breeding ratio (2%–5%) compared to a scenario without tritium trapping.…”
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Sp17 Protein Expression and Major Histocompatibility Class I and II Epitope Presentation in Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma Patients by Kamel Ait-Tahar, Amanda P. Anderson, Martin Barnardo, Graham P. Collins, Chris S. R. Hatton, Alison H. Banham, Karen Pulford

“…No significant responses were detected in the HLA-A⁎0201-negative DLBCL patients or four healthy subjects. A novel immunogenic 20-mer CD4 Th Sp17 peptide was detected in 8/17 DLBCL patients. …”
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