Design of a wasp-inspired biopsy needle capable of self-propulsion and friction-based tissue transport by Jette Bloemberg, Suzanne van Wees, Suzanne van Wees, Vera G. Kortman, Aimée Sakes

“…Percutaneous pancreatic core biopsy is conclusive but challenging due to large-diameter needles, while smaller-diameter needles used in aspiration methods suffer from buckling and clogging. Inspired by the ovipositor of parasitic wasps, which resists buckling through self-propulsion and prevents clogging via friction-based transport, research has led to the integration of these functionalities into multi-segment needle designs or tissue transport system designs. …”
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Enhanced multiscale human brain imaging by semi-supervised digital staining and serial sectioning optical coherence tomography by Shiyi Cheng, Shuaibin Chang, Yunzhe Li, Anna Novoseltseva, Sunni Lin, Yicun Wu, Jiahui Zhu, Ann C. McKee, Douglas L. Rosene, Hui Wang, Irving J. Bigio, David A. Boas, Lei Tian

“…Traditional histology reveals micro- and meso-scale brain features but suffers from staining variability, tissue damage, and distortion, which impedes accurate 3D reconstructions. …”
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Mid-urethral sling with proper sling tension is an effective treatment for stress urinary incontinence in women after pelvic radiotherapy: a pilot study of case series by Xing Guan, Fei Wang, Di Zhang, Peng Qiao, Yan Qin, Biao Wang

“…All the patients who suffered from SUI had a history of gynaecological malignancies and received pelvic radiotherapy. 21 patients (80.77%, 95% CI: 0.621–0.915) were considered to have successfully improved after surgery, the ICI-Q-SF scores were lower than the pre-operative at 2 weeks, 6 months and 1 year postoperatively (P < 0.01). …”
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Study on external treatment of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the treatment of opioid-induced constipation (中医外治法在阿片类药物相关性便秘中的研究) by LI Guomin (李国敏), GONG Yang (龚杨), FU Yanli (付艳丽), ZHONG Yinqin (钟印芹), DENG Jinfeng (邓金凤), LIU Ying (刘莹), CHEN Jie (陈洁)

“…Cancer patients frequently experience pain as a result of their cancer treatment. opioid-induced constipation (OIC) is a highly prevalent side effect in cancer pain sufferers that hurts their quality of life and enhances their risk of developing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disorders. …”
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Acupuncture as prophylaxis for chronic migraine: a protocol for a single-blinded, double-dummy randomised controlled trial by Claire Shuiqing Zhang, Bin Li, Lin Zeng, Lu Liu, Luo-peng Zhao, Kelun Wang, Jingxia Zhao, Linpeng Wang, Xianghong Jing

“…Introduction Approximately 1.4%–2.2% of the global population suffers from chronic migraine. Acupuncture may serve as an alternative management for chronic migraine, where pharmacological prophylaxis is not suitable. …”
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Optimizing longifolene production in Yarrowia lipolytica via metabolic and protein engineering by Yi-Tong Yao, Xiao Zhang, Chen-Yu Wang, Yu-He Zhang, Da-Wei Li, Wei-Dong Yang, Hong-Ye Li, Li-Gong Zou

“…Traditional extraction methods from plants suffer from low titer and lengthy production cycles, while chemical synthesis is hampered by the compound's complex structure, leading to high costs and insufficient market supply. …”
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Peste Des Petits Ruminants (PPR) in Dromedary Camels and Small Ruminants in Mandera and Wajir Counties of Kenya by R. N. Omani, G. C. Gitao, J. Gachohi, P. K. Gathumbi, B. A. Bwihangane, K. Abbey, V. J. Chemweno

“…This study establishes that camels in the study area suffer with PPR manifest clinical signs that are mainly characterized by inappetence, loss of body condition, and general weakness terminally leading to diarrhea, conjunctivitis, and ocular nasal discharges preceding death. …”
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Joint Source-Channel Coding for Multi-Channel Vibrotactile Sensors by Tom Ogura, Shogo Kitamura, Takuya Fujihashi, Shunsuke Saruwatari, Takashi Watanabe

“…However, these methods often suffer from severe quality degradation due to bit errors and the unrecoverable source coding distortion. …”
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Floods’ Impact on Cities’ Critical Infrastructure: A Case Study on Dubai by Diaa Addeen Abuhani, Raghad Aldamani, Imran Zualkernan, Reem Alali, Himanshu Grover

“…Our quantitative analysis was capable of determining that the Al Quoz area suffered the most from floods due to issues related to the city’s connectivity and critical infrastructure distribution. …”
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Building a reliable 16S mini-barcode library of wild bees from Occitania, south-west of France by Anaïs Marquisseau, Kamila Canale-Tabet, Emmanuelle Labarthe, Géraldine Pascal, Christophe Klopp, André Pornon, Nathalie Escaravage, Rémi Rudelle, Alain Vignal, Annie Ouin, Mélodie Ollivier, Magalie Pichon

“…The COI (Cytochrome Oxydase subunit 1) gene, the most used in barcoding/metabarcoding of arthropods, suffers from primer bias and difficulties for covering all wild bee species using the classical Folmer primers.We present here a curated database for a 250 bp mini-barcode region of the 16S rRNA gene, suitable for low-cost metabarcoding wild bees in applications, such as eDNA analysis or for sequencing ancient or degraded DNA. …”
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Effect of hydrophobic corrosion inhibitor on the cement hydration and leaching resistance of shotcrete by Wei Wang, Junsong Chen, Shuang Zhao, Luping Zeng, Jingshun Cai, Song Mu, Jinxiang Hong, Min Qiao

“…In some water-rich mountain tunnels and submarine tunnels, the primary lining shotcrete often suffers from calcium leaching damage. This study designs a hydrophobic corrosion inhibitor mainly composed of hydrophobic ingredients and nanoparticles, and explores its impact on the cement hydration and leaching resistance of shotcrete. …”
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Research on Optimization of Large-Scale Heterogeneous Combat Network Based on Graph Embedding by Xianzheng Meng, Changrong Xie, Hui Li, Guangjun Zeng, Kebin Chen

“…Currently, large-scale research on HCN suffers from significant time costs and poor convergence results. …”
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PdRu bimetallic nanoalloys with improved photothermal effect for amplified ROS-mediated tumor therapy by Yujia Liang, Shufang Ning, Mekhrdod S. Kurboniyon, Khaiyom Rahmonov, Zhengmin Cai, Shirong Li, Jinling Mai, Xiaojing He, Lijuan Liu, Liping Tang, Litu Zhang, Chen Wang

“…However, existing nanozymes suffer from limitations such as low reactivity, poor biocompatibility, and limited targeting capabilities, hindering their therapeutic efficacy. …”
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Impedance Controller Analysis for a Two-Degrees-Of-Freedom Ankle Rehabilitation Machine with Serious Game Interactions by Oscar I. Cirilo-Piñon, Agustín Barrera-Sánchez, Cesar H. Guzmán-Valdivia, Manuel Adam-Medina, Rafael Campos-Amezcua, Andrés Blanco-Ortega, Arturo Martínez-Mata

“…In many cases, the patient’s ankle suffers severe or permanent damage that requires rehabilitation to return to its initial state. …”
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The Prevalence of Dental Anxiety Associated with Pain among Chinese Adult Patients in Guangzhou by Jiali Yu, Rui Jiang, Er-Min Nie, Chun-Yuan Zhang, Xiang Li

“…The mean total score for dental anxiety on the MDAS was 13.63 (3.1). 80.3% of participants suffered from moderate or high dental anxiety. Age must show a strong association with dental anxiety among the participants (p=0.011). …”
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How Much Time Should Be Waited and What Are the Main Findings to Evaluate the Hepatocellular Carcinoma Response to Regorafenib? A Real-Life Experience by Gustavo Hideki Kawanami, Leopoldo Katsuda, Thiara Barcelos Rocha, Fabio da Silva Yamashiro, Leonardo Pelafsky, Xingshun Qi, Fernando Gomes Romeiro

“…Since he had no signs of liver dysfunction and suffered tumor progression during sorafenib treatment, regorafenib was initiated. …”
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Mental Disorders in Children and Adolescents in Crisis Situations: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Armed Conflicts - Types of Disorders, Effects, and Intervention Strategie... by Katarzyna Gadżała, Sabina Przygodzka, Maciej Rutkiewicz, Karolina Garbino, Katarzyna Brudniak, Antoni Szuścik, Magdalena Czyczerska

“…In every part of the world, children and adolescents suffer from mental health problems, and their needs are not adequately taken care of. …”
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Anatomical, functional, and blood-born predictors of severity of brachycephalic obstructive airway syndrome severity in French Bulldogs by Claudia Schmid, Claudia Schmid, Claudia Schmid, Aline R. Steiner, Léonie Spielhofer, Léonie Spielhofer, Meltem Galfetti, Meltem Galfetti, Nikki Rentsch, Nikolay Bogdanov, Johannes Vogel, Regina Hofmann-Lehmann, Regina Hofmann-Lehmann, Sonja Hartnack, Georgy Astakhov, Reinhard Furrer, Anna Bogdanova, Anna Bogdanova, Iris Margaret Reichler

“…Brachycephalic breeds suffer from respiratory distress known as brachycephalic obstructive airway syndrome (BOAS) and the multiple comorbidities associated with it. …”
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Loss-of-function variant in MAGT1 leading to XMEN disease in a Colombian patient with a common variable immunodeficiency by Sebastián Gutiérrez-Hincapié, Julio César Orrego, José Luis Franco, Claudia M. Trujillo-Vargas

“…Results. The patient suffered from upper respiratory and urinary tract infections, autoimmune hemolytic anemia, and hepatopathy. …”
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Preoperative D-dimer level predicts adverse events after coronary endarterectomy combined with coronary artery bypass grafting: a retrospective cohort study by Lianxin Chen, Xieraili Tiemuerniyazi, Ziang Yang, Liaoming He, Yifeng Nan, Yangwu Song, Wei Zhao, Wei Feng

“…More patients in the high DD group suffered from perioperative MACCE than the low DD group (13.2% vs. 3.9%, P = 0.004), even after multiple adjustment (odds ratio [OR]: 2.93, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.07–8.04, P = 0.036) in the multivariable logistic analysis. …”
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