3D-Printed Customized Cages for Foot Arthrodesis by Iozefina Botezatu, Dan Lăptoiu, Diana Popescu, Rodica Marinescu

“…This study highlights the advantages of personalized 3D-printed implants in achieving a better anatomical fit, improving clinical outcomes, and ensuring faster recovery times, while also addressing considerations such as the cost and the need for long-term clinical data.…”
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Does the Silver Nanoparticles Production Route Affect the Proliferation of Antibiotic Resistance in Soil Ecosystem? by Jana Sedlakova-Kadukova, Miroslava Sincak, Veronika Demčakova

“…In contrast, chemically synthesized AgNPs and ionic silver substantially increased antibiotic resistance in long-term, particularly to ampicillin and chloramphenicol, where resistance levels were 11 to 13 times higher than the controls, respectively. Chemically synthesized AgNPs caused a gradual rise in resistance, while ionic silver induced consistently elevated resistance throughout the study. …”
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Implementation and Performance of Lightweight Authentication Encryption ASCON on IoT Devices by Gabriela Cagua, Valerie Gauthier-Umana, Carlos Lozano-Garzon

“…Performance metrics are analyzed, including latency, response times, and resource utilization. Additionally, ASCON is implemented on Raspberry Pi devices to validate its feasibility in real-world scenarios. …”
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Flavonoids in Juglans regia L. Leaves and Evaluation of In Vitro Antioxidant Activity via Intracellular and Chemical Methods by Ming-Hui Zhao, Zi-Tao Jiang, Tao Liu, Rong Li

“…Herein, qualitative and quantitative determination of flavonoids from J. regia leaves was carried out using high performance liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry with electrospray ionization and negative ion detection (HPLC-ESI-MS/MS) by comparison of the retention times and mass spectral fragments with standard substances or related literatures. …”
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Effect of nutrition education and iron-folic acid supplementation on anemia among pregnant women in Ethiopia: a quasi-experimental study by Anchamo Anato, Mensur Reshid

“…In this study, the odds of adherence to IFA supplementation were 2.26 (95% CI 1.55 to 3.29) times higher among those who received nutrition education interventions as compared to the control group. …”
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Regulation of the Employment Status of Seafarers by Boris Jerman

“…The situation began to improve in recent times, when the legislator and international organisations, such as the International Maritime Organization (ILO), began to adopt legislation to regulate their position. …”
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Effect of non-starch polysaccharides and butterfly pea flower on the in vitro digestibility of glutinous rice by Jamie Xiu Qing Siah, Teck Ann Ong, Oni Yuliarti, Joshua Ding Wei Teo

“…The results showed that adding C5 and BPF to GR decreased its swelling power by 4.6 % to 40.5 % and solubility index by 1.1 to 6.6 times. In addition, BPF significantly increased GR pasting viscosities. …”
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INFLUENCE OF CHANGESIN AMINO ACID COMPOSITION OF BLOOD PROTEIN HYDROLYSATE ON THE PRODUCTIVITY OF ВНК-21/2-17 CELL LINEAGE AND AMOUNT OF FMDV IMMUNOGENIC COMPONENTS by M. A. Shevchenko, M. N. Guseva, D. A. Lozovoy, M. I. Doronin, D. V. Mikhalishin, V. V. Mikhalishin

“…Cell growth stimulated by blood protein hydrolysate from raw material prepared in summer months 1.2–1.3 times exceeded cell growth stimulated by blood protein hydrolysate prepared in autumn-winter period (differences are significant, p < 0,001). …”
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Outcome and Prognostic Factors for Traumatic Endophthalmitis over a 5-Year Period by Simona Delia Nicoară, Iulian Irimescu, Tudor Călinici, Cristina Cristian

“…Initial visual acuities varied between light perception and 0.4 and the timing of treatment from a few hours to 10 days. We administered antibiotic and anti-inflammatory drugs, systemically and intravitreally, in all cases. …”
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Global, regional, and national burden of children and adolescents with acute lymphoblastic leukemia from 1990 to 2021: a systematic analysis for the global burden of disease study... by Lei Wang, Xue Yao, Linhua Yang

“…However, there is a need to improve healthcare prevention and timely standardized treatment in developing countries and less developed regions.…”
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Anthropological Dimension of Commemorative Practices: The Phenomenon of Bodily Memory by I. M. Bondarevych

“…The commemorative practices are a social instrument known since archaic times, which had different ways of use in different epochs. …”
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Prevalence of Oral Manifestations and Their Association with CD4/CD8 Ratio and HIV Viral Load in South India by Sharma Gaurav, Pai M. Keerthilatha, Nagpal Archna

“…Patients having EC had 4 times greater chance of having CD4/CD8 ratio <0.30. …”
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Impacts of social restrictions on mental health and health behaviours of individuals with multimorbidity during Covid-19 pandemic by Valérie Chauvin, Resti Tito H Villarino, Paquito Bernard, Hanan Yazbek, Laurence Kern, Marie Hokayem, Lama Mattar, Gayatri Kotbagi, Melissa Rizk, Yannick Morvan, Aurélie Baillot, Ahmed Jérôme Romain

“…While social restrictions were imposed, people with multimorbidity were 2 to 3 times more likely to experience psychological distress, depressive symptoms, increased stress or isolation than those without multimorbidity. …”
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Individual well-being and national determinants of screening mammography among women over fifty by Boaz Hovav, Shuli Brammli-Greenberg

“…Abstract Background Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer among women worldwide, causing over 400,000 cases of premature death annually. Timely screening mammography (SM) could have prevented most death. …”
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Patient and caregiver perspectives of select non-communicable diseases in India: A scoping review. by Sindhu Nila, Eliza Dutta, S S Prakash, Sophy Korula, Anu Mary Oommen

“…Although there are increasing reports of user experiences regarding health care in India in recent times, there is a lack of evidence from Indian healthcare settings on the care provided for patients with chronic diseases.…”
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The Impact of Cognitive Anxiety and the Rating of Pain on Care Processes in a Vigilance Task: The Important Part Played by Age by Luis Pinel, Miguel A. Perez-Nieto, Marta Redondo, Luis Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Leticia L. Mateos

“…There was also a positive and significant correlation with age and another negative and significant correlation with cognitive anxiety regarding the overall performance times during the undertaking of the experimental task. …”
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Assessment of Clothing and Teacher Credibility among Lecturers in Universities in South-East Nigeria by Ginika Hope Amaefule, Oluwaleyimu Olufunke Opeyemi, Udochukwu Mmaduabuchi Emeghebo

“…Major findings include: Twenty-three (23) constituents of teacher credibility among lecturers in South East Nigeria which includes that lecturers should dress decently and professionally at all times among others, Seven (7) ways teachers’ clothing can affects learning including that students pay attention to lecturer’s clothing, students are interested in the subject areas taught by properly dresses lecturers among others. …”
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Conceptual and Simulated Semi-Automatic Urban Waste Management System using Global Systems for Mobile Communication and Customer Reliability Indices by L. Ogunwolu, A.D. Omiyale, O.O.E. Ajibola

“…The cost saving potential and environmental benefits of timely waste disposal of this scheme is thus demonstrable. …”
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Variability of nutrient transport and associated upper ocean primary production induced by Kuroshio meanders in the Enshu-nada Sea, Japan by Namazue Gaku, Uchiyama Yusuke, Zhang Xu, Masunaga Eiji

“…A prominent difference was found in nitrate transport processes between for a period when the Kuroshio took a meandering path and for a non-meandering period, leading to about 1.5 times higher surface primary production measured by chlorophyl-a concentration during the non-meandering period than during the meandering period. …”
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First-principles based data-driven strain engineering for ferroelectrics via active machine learning: A nonlinear piezoelectric constitutive equation by Susumu MINAMI, Yasuaki MARUYAMA, Yoshimasa ABE, Tomohiro NAKAYAMA, Takahiro SHIMADA

“…We also carried out strain optimization of piezoelectric response using the machine learning model and found that a large piezoelectric response is five times larger than without strain loading. We showed that the physical property explorer framework constructed in this study makes it possible to optimize strain for various material properties in a vast strain space by calculating only a small number of data points. …”
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