Global, regional, and national survey on burden and quality of care index (QCI) of nasopharyngeal cancer: A systematic analysis of the Global Burden of disease study 1990–2019 by Saba Ilkhani, Sahar Saeedi Moghaddam, Delaram Sakhaei, Mohammad-Mahdi Rashidi, Sina Azadnajafabad, Mohammadreza Azangou-Khyavy, Naser Ahmadi, Ozra Tabatabaei-Malazy, Mohammadreza Naderian, Erfan Ghasemi, Parnian Shobeiri, Sahar Mohammadi Fateh, Farzad Kompani, Bagher Larijani, Farshad Farzadfar

“…Young people (<40) receive the best care at almost all SDI levels, and the gender gap is shrinking in lower SDI quantiles with time. Conclusion: The quality of care in all nations and regions has increased over time. …”
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Fatty Acids of Erythrocyte Membranes and Blood Serum as Possible Predictors of Exacerbation in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases by M. V. Kruchinina, M. F. Osipenko, A. I. Valuyskikh, E. Yu. Valuiskikh, I. O. Svetlova

“…Aim: to study the levels of fatty acids in the membranes of erythrocytes and blood serum in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) examined over time, as possible predictors of exacerbation of the disease.Materials and methods. …”
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MOKSLO VERTYBINIO NEUTRALUMO PROBLEMA XX A. FILOSOFIJOJE (M. WEBERIS, ANALITINĖ MOKSLO FILOSOFIJA IR METAETIKA, KRITINĖ TEORIJA) by Zenonas Norkus

“…A special attention is paid to Weber's statement that "sciences of culture" have value presuppositions which time to time undergo a radical change (this thesis is most strongly stated in Weber's astronomic metaphor of constellation change in "Objektivität" article). …”
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Editorial by Daniel Halliday

“…A slightly different, though perhaps complementary view is that the practice of inheritance may, over time, be among the factors maintaining an objectionable class hierarchy. …”
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Analysis of the risk of oncological adverse events associated with infliximab in combination with azathioprine compared to monotherapy: insights from the FAERS database by Qian Qiao, Qian Qiao, Qian Qiao, Jiachen Sun, Jiachen Sun, Jiachen Sun, Ya Zheng, Ya Zheng, Yingying Mi, Yingying Mi, Yingying Mi, Yanan Gong, Yanan Gong, Jiahui Liu, Jiahui Liu, Jiahui Liu, Wenyue Rui, Wenyue Rui, Wenyue Rui, Yumei Ma, Yumei Ma, Yumei Ma, Yongning Zhou, Yongning Zhou, Min Liu, Min Liu

“…Furthermore, we analyzed the median time to onset and cumulative incidence rates, revealing no significant differences in median time to tumor onset or cumulative incidence rates between the combination therapy and the single agent.ConclusionAfter adjusting for age, sex, and body weight, combination therapy did not significantly increase tumor development risk compared to the azathioprine-only group. …”
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Pharmacogenetic and pharmacokinetic factors for dexmedetomidine-associated hemodynamic instability in pediatric patients by Yanping Guan, Bilian Li, Yiyu Zhang, Hao Luo, Xueding Wang, Xue Bai, Zhuoling Zheng, Yaying Huang, Wei Wei, Min Huang, Xingrong Song, Guoping Zhong

“…LASSO regression was used to identify significant factors, and a Cox’s proportional hazards model-derived nomogram for hemodynamic instability was developed.ResultsHemodynamic instability was observed in 52 out of 270 patients (209 events), resulting in a cumulative incidence of 16.30% at 90 min, as estimated by Kaplan–Meier estimation, and it was associated with a median time to event of 35 min. The interval time between DEX initiation and propofol induction was 16 min (IQR: 12–22 min). …”
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Barriers and Facilitators to Adherence to a Healthy Diet Across the Spectrum of Chronic Kidney Disease by Trigueros-Flores XB, Luna-Hernández G, Santos-Lopez MF, Pérez-Galván L, Flores-Camacho KJ, Díaz-Canchola LM, Cueto-Manzano AM, Chávez-Chávez HE, Cerrillos-Gutiérrez JI, Rojas-Campos E, Martín-del-Campo F

“…People perceived dietary restrictions, lack of nutritional counseling and knowledge, economic constraints, lack of social and family support, negative effects of food on their health, dislike or aversion to healthy foods, lack of time and environment limitations as the main barriers to adhere to a healthy diet.Additionally, since diets are considered complicated (especially renal diets), strategies to improve willingness to eat healthy, counseling about food variety and preparation, some liberalization of dietary restrictions (when possible) and considering family support could help people with CKD to increase skills to adhere to a healthier diet. …”
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Longitudinal association between DNA methylation and type 2 diabetes: findings from the KORA F4/FF4 study by Liye Lai, Dave Laurence Juntilla, Monica Del, Monica Del C Gomez-Alonso, Harald Grallert, Barbara Thorand, Aiman Farzeen, Wolfgang Rathmann, Juliane Winkelmann, Holger Prokisch, Christian Gieger, Christian Herder, Annette Peters, Melanie Waldenberger

“…Few large-scale investigations have explored these associations longitudinally over multiple time-points. Methods In this longitudinal study, we examined data from the Cooperative Health Research in the Region of Augsburg (KORA) F4 and FF4 studies, conducted approximately seven years apart. …”
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Effect of Body Weight Supported Treadmill Training on Motor Function of Rats with Spinal Cord Injury Based on AMPK-Autophagy Signaling Pathway by CAI Jili, ZHAI Chenyuan, WANG Zun, WU Qi, FANG Lu, WANG Yu, WANG Tong

“…Compared with the model group at the same time, the BBB score of the exercise group was significantly higher at the 14th, 21st and 28th days after modeling, and the differences were statistically significant (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05). …”
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Ultrasound-assisted extraction of polysaccharide from Allium chinense G. Don epidermal waste: Evaluation of extraction mechanism, physicochemical properties, and bioactivities by Jiangfei Li, Guanjun Ye, Zhilong Zhou, Jianlong Wang, Jiayu Wang, Ting Ju, Alejandro Cifuentes, Elena Ibañez, Denis Baranenko, Haitian Zhao, Weihong Lu

“…The results suggested that the optimal conditions of UAE were temperature 53 ℃, time 34 min, power 280 W, liquid–solid ratio 22 mL/g, and the yield of ACGDP was 30.08 ± 0.21 %. …”
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Vascular e-Learning in the MENA Region during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Nikolaos Patelis, Sean Matheiken, Theodosios Bisdas, Zaiping Jing, Jiaxuan Feng, Matthias Trenner, Paulo Eduardo Ocke Reis, Stephane Elkouri, Alexandre Lecis, Dirk Le Roux, Mihai Ionac, Marton Berczeli, Vincent Jongkind, Kak Khee Yeung, Athanasios Katsargyris, Efthymios Avgerinos, Dimitrios Moris, Andrew Choong, Jun Jie Ng, Ivan Cvjetko, George A. Antoniou, Phillipe Ghibu, Alexei Svetlikov, Harm P. Ebben, Hubert Stepak, Sviatoslav Kostiv, Stefano Ancetti, Niki Tadayon, Liliana Fidalgo-Domingos, Eduardo Sebastian Sarutte Rosello, Arda Isik, Kyriaki Kakavia, Sotirios Georgopoulos

“…National societies and social media played a major role in disseminating activity-related information. Lack of time, increased workload, differences in time zone, and technical issues were the main obstacles cited. 84.7% of the participants had a positive impression. …”
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Wild grasses as the reservoirs of infection of rust species for winter soft wheat in the Northern CaucasusWild grasses as the reservoirs of infection of rust species for winter sof... by E. I. Gultyaeva, L. A. Bespalova, I. B. Ablova, E. L. Shaydayuk, Zh. N. Khudokormova, D. R. Yakovleva, Yu. A. Titova

“…The most common is leaf rust, but in the last decade the frequency of its epiphytotic development has significantly decreased. At the same time, an increase in the harmfulness of stripe rust (P. striiformis) is noted. …”
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Comparative Analysis of the Enzymatic, Coagulant, and Neuromuscular Activities of Two Variants of <i>Crotalus durissus ruruima</i> Venom and Antivenom Efficacy by Poliana J. Demico, Isabele N. Oliveira, Vitória S. Proença-Hirata, Samuel R. Dias, Hugo A. Ghirotti, Elisangela O. Silva, Inês C. Giometti, Francis L. Pacagnelli, Kristian A. Torres-Bonilla, Stephen Hyslop, Nathália C. Galizio, Karen de Morais-Zani, Manuela B. Pucca, Anderson M. Rocha, Jéssica B. Maciel, Marco A. Sartim, Wuelton M. Monteiro, Rafael S. Floriano

“…None of the venoms altered the prothrombin time (PT), but all of them decreased the activated partial thromboplastin time (aPPT); this activity was neutralized by antivenom. …”
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Intelligent recognition algorithm and application of coal mine overhead passenger device based on multiscale feature fusion by Beijing XIE, Heng LI, Hang DONG, Zheng LUAN, Ben ZHANG, Xiaoxu LI

“…The intelligent recognition technology for Coal mine overhead passenger devices(Cmopd) plays a crucial role in achieving automated inspection, real-time monitoring, and warning tasks for cmopd, thereby promoting the intelligent development of coal mines. …”
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Identifying falsified COVID-19 vaccines by analysing vaccine vial label and excipient profiles using MALDI-ToF mass spectrometry by Benediktus Yohan Arman, Rebecca Clarke, Tehmina Bharucha, Laura Gomez Fernandez, John Walsby-Tickle, Michael Deats, Sara Mosca, Qianqi Lin, Sneha Banerjee, Shrikrishna R. Chunekar, Kundan D. Patil, Sunil Gairola, Susanna Dunachie, Hamid A. Merchant, Robert Stokes, Rutendo Kuwana, Alexandrine Maes, Jean-Philippe Charrier, Fay Probert, Céline Caillet, Pavel Matousek, James McCullagh, Paul N. Newton, Nicole Zitzmann, Bevin Gangadharan

“…We demonstrate for the first time that analysis of spectra from the vaccine vial label and its adhesive could be used as a novel approach to detect falsified vaccines. …”
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Analytical treatment of proton double-quantum NMR intensity buildup: multi-spin couplings and the flip-flop term by N. Fatkullin, I. Brekotkin, K. Saalwächter

“…In this way, an analytical result is derived for multi-spin systems for the first time. It is shown that in the initial stages of DQ intensity buildup, the probability of flip-flop processes in DQ experiments is half as large as in analogous Hahn echo or free induction decay experiments. …”
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Transcriptomic Profiling and Tumor Microenvironment Classification Reveal Unique and Dynamic Immune Biology in HIV-Associated Kaposi Sarcoma by Jihua Yang, Ayse Ece Cali Daylan, Aleksei Shevkoplias, Ekaterina Postovalova, Meng Wang, Andrey Tyshevich, Matthew Lee, Hiba Narvel, Ksenia Zornikova, Nara Shin, Nikita Kotlov, Luca Paoluzzi, Changcheng Zhu, Balazs Halmos, Xingxing Zang, Haiying Cheng

“…This study investigates the tumor microenvironment (TME) of KS through whole-transcriptomic profiling, analyzing changes over time and differences based on HIV status. The TME was categorized into four subtypes: immune-enriched (IE), non-fibrotic, immune-enriched/fibrotic (IE/F), fibrotic (F) and immune-depleted (D). …”
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Prevalence and factors associated with burnout syndrome in resident physicians: A cross-sectional study in Italy by Luca DI GIAMPAOLO, Andrea ROSSETTI, Teresa GALANTI, Simone DE SIO, Luca COPPETA, Hector NIETO, Hiroo WADA, Niu QUIAO, Younes RAMI, Hicham KHABBACHE, Driss AIT ALI, Amelia RIZZO, Kavita BATRA, Murat YILDIRIM, Mahmood BAHRAMIZADEH, Francesco CHIRICO

“…Additionally, we assessed work-life balance using questions related to Free-time satisfaction (FTS), Free-Time Satisfaction Reduction (FTRS), and Work-problems pervasiveness (WPP). …”
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Effect of gender on the ocular surface after trabeculectomy by A.V. Antonova, V.P. Nikolaenko, V.V. Brzheskiy, A.Ya. Vuks

“…</p> <p> <b>Keywords: </b>gender, glaucoma, trabeculectomy, ocular surface, dry eye disease, OSDI, tear film break-up time, TBUT, Norn's test, Schirmer's I test. </p> <p> <b>For citation:</b> Antonova A.V., Nikolaenko V.P., Brzheskiy V.V., Vuks A.Ja. …”
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Torrefaction of bamboo pellets using a fixed counterflow multibaffle reactor for renewable energy applications by W. Hidayat, B.A. Wijaya, B. Saputra, I.T. Rani, S. Kim, S. Lee, J. Yoo, B.B. Park, L. Suryanegara, M.A.R. Lubis

“…Torrefaction was conducted at 280 degrees Celsius with a 3–5 minutes resident time, and the gas flow rate was 4.25 cubic meters per minute. …”
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