Perioperative gum-chewing training prevents a decrease in tongue pressure after esophagectomy in thoracic esophageal cancer patients: a nonrandomized trial by Reiko Yamanaka-Kohno, Yasuhiro Shirakawa, Aya Yokoi, Naoaki Maeda, Shunsuke Tanabe, Kazuhiro Noma, Kazuyoshi Shimizu, Toshiharu Mituhashi, Yoshihide Nakamura, Souto Nanba, Yurika Uchida, Takayuki Maruyama, Manabu Morita, Daisuke Ekuni

“…Thirty-two patients of 40 in the gum-chewing group (GCG) were completed perioperative GCT in 3 times daily. Propensity score matching was performed with covariates related to TP including preoperative age, sex, body mass index, and the repetitive saliva swallowing test result, and yielded a matched cohort of 25 case pairs. …”
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Room Temperature Gas Sensor Based on GaN/PANI Micro Composite with Ultrahigh NH3 Gas Sensibility by LIU Xiaoru, JIA Zhengyang, GUANG Juxu, HAN Dan, SANG Shengbo

“…In experimental conditions, the response of GaN/PANI gas sensor to 100×10-6 NH3 is 80.73%, which is 1.7 times that of pure GaN to the same concentration of NH3 and the limit of detection of GaN/PANI is determined to be 1×10-9 while that of pure GaN is 1×10-6 level. …”
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Thyroid Autoimmunity in the Context of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Implications for Vitamin D by Konstantinos Toulis, Xanthippi Tsekmekidou, Evangelos Potolidis, Triantafyllos Didangelos, Anna Gotzamani-Psarrakou, Pantelis Zebekakis, Michael Daniilidis, John Yovos, Kalliopi Kotsa

“…In an elderly population of diabetic patients and controls with a high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency/insufficiency, a patient with T2DM was found to be 2.5 times more likely to have thyroid autoimmunity compared to a nondiabetic individual and the higher the serum 25(OH)D levels were, the higher this chance was.…”
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Multilayer Shielding Design for Intermediate Radioactive Waste Storage Drums: A Comparative Study between FLUKA and QAD-CGA by Wenqian Li, Xuegang Liu, Ming Li, Yilin Huang, Sheng Fang

“…In FLUKA calculation, with optimized setting and VRT adopted, the calculation efficiency can be improved more than 20 times. The results of this study provide not only suggestions for the design of the ILW storage drums but also useful references for other similar work.…”
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Tripartite organization of brain state dynamics underlying spoken narrative comprehension by Lanfang Liu, Jiahao Jiang, Hehui Li, Guosheng Ding

“…Our study suggests that the brain underlies narrative comprehension by switching through a tripartite state space, with each state probably dedicated to a specific component of language faculty, and effective narrative comprehension relies on engaging those states in a timely manner.…”
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Insights from a cluster of tuberculosis outbreak in a psychiatric hospital—Shandong Province, 2024 by Shulei Wang, Peilin Diao, Jingyu Liu, Shiwen Wang, Yuelei Wang, Xiaomin He

“…To enhance outbreak prevention, medical institutions should clarify whether TB patients with a history of mental illness have been admitted in psychiatric hospitals and, if so, initiate timely outbreak alerts. Additionally, psychiatric hospitals should improve healthcare worker training to recognize TB symptoms and promptly report cases involving patients with mental illnesses.…”
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PERILAKU OKSIDASI ISOTERMAL PADUAN 68,5Fe-14Ni-9Al-7,5Cr-1Mo PADA TEMPERATUR 800, 900, DAN 1000°C by Fadhli Muhammad, Eddy Agus Basuki

“…Measurements of oxide thickness indicated an accelerated growth phase during the first 10 hours of exposure, which was subsequently followed by a gradual slowing down in growth rates over more extended periods of time…”
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Case Report: The first Korean familial case of BCAP31-related deafness, dystonia, and cerebral hypomyelination by Yoong-A Suh, Jisun Hwang, Go Hun Seo, Rin Khang, Jang Hoon Lee, Moon Sung Park, Young Bae Sohn

“…Early genetic evaluation via next-generation sequencing is crucial for timely diagnosis and intervention, particularly in VLBW infants with genetic disorders. …”
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20 kHz X-ray diffraction on Cu thin films explores thermomechanical fatigue at high strain-rates by T. Ziegelwanger, M. Reisinger, B. Vedad, K. Hlushko, S. Van Petegem, J. Todt, M. Meindlhumer, J. Keckes

“…Heating the Cu film for 500°C at the rapid heating rate of 106 K/s induced a compressive stress of up to –276 MPa, which is almost five times higher than the values measured using the wafer curvature method at the heating rate of 10−1 K/s. …”
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A Comparison of the Clinical and Epidemiological Profile of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever with Dengue and COVID-19 in Hospitalized Children, Sonora, México, 2015–2022 by Gerardo Álvarez-Hernández, Cristian Noé Rivera-Rosas, Jesús René Tadeo Calleja-López, Jehan Bonizú Álvarez-Meza, Maria del Carmen Candia-Plata, Denica Cruz-Loustaunau, Antonio Alvídrez-Labrado

“…The comparison of their main clinical and epidemiological manifestations in hospitalized children can help identify characteristics that improve empirical suspicion and timely therapeutic interventions. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on a series of patients aged 0 to 18 years, hospitalized between 2015 and 2022, with a diagnosis of RMSF, dengue, or COVID-19. …”
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Craniofacial Brown Tumor in Patients with Secondary Hyperparathyroidism to Chronic Renal Failure: Report of Two Cases in Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital by Diani Kartini, Maria K. Siswiandari, Gunawan Wibisana, Erwin D. Yulian, Ahmad Kurnia, Sonar S. Panigoro, Azdi Z. Albar, Muchlis Ramli

“…Dialysis is performed two times/week over the last 7 years. Our patients presented with an intraoral mass of the hard palate since 12 months ago and decreased body height of 10 cm. …”
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A Millimeter-Wave Single-Bit Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface With High-Resolution Beam-Steering and Suppressed Quantization Lobe by Aditya S. Shekhawat, Bharath G. Kashyap, Russell W. Raldiris Torres, Feiyu Shan, Georgios C. Trichopoulos

“…It consists of four metasurface tiles of 256 radiating elements (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$16\times 16$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) connected on a separate control board that houses the control unit and power supply. …”
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Efficient Production of Methyl Oleate Using a Biomass-Based Solid Polymeric Catalyst with High Acid Density by Anping Wang, Heng Zhang, Hu Li, Song Yang

“…Even if the mass of oleic acid in the reactant increased to 20 g, solid acid showed good catalytic performance, and the yield of methyl oleate was 94.4%. After four times of reuse, the yield of the catalyst can still reach 85.7%, which indicates that the catalyst has good catalytic activity and stability, and has potential application prospects.…”
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Effects of Motor Training on Accuracy and Precision of Jaw and Finger Movements by Yinan Chen, Song Wu, Zhengting Tang, Jinglu Zhang, Lin Wang, Linfeng Yu, Kelun Wang, Peter Svensson

“…Movements were repeated 10 times each. The variability in the amplitude of the movements was expressed as percentage in relation to the target position (Daccu—accuracy) and as coefficient of variation (CVprec—precision). …”
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Ferromagnetic Fe-TiO2 spin catalysts for enhanced ammonia electrosynthesis by Jingnan Wang, Kaiheng Zhao, Yongbin Yao, Fan Xue, Fei Lu, Wensheng Yan, Fangli Yuan, Xi Wang

“…Compared to conditions without an external magnetic field, the FE and NH3 yield for Fe-TiO2 under an external magnetic field is increased by ~21.8% and ~ 3.1 times, respectively. In-situ characterization and theoretical calculations show that spin polarization enhances the critical step of NO hydrogenation to NOH by optimizing electron transfer pathways between Fe and NO, significantly boosting NO3RR activity.…”
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CRISPR screen reveals modifiers of rAAV production including known rAAV infection genes playing an unexpected role in vector production by Emily E. O’Driscoll, Sakshi Arora, Jonathan F. Lang, Beverly L. Davidson, Ophir Shalem

“…However, manufacturing rAAV vectors is an expensive, timely, and labor-intensive process that limits the commercial use of AAV-mediated gene therapies. …”
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The protoplast two-way fusions and fusant characteristics of Antrodia cinnamomea and Cordyceps militaris by Wei-Kuang Lai, Yang-Chang Wu, Tai-Sheng Yeh, Chun-Ren Hsieh, Yi-Hong Tsai, Chien-Kei Wei, Chi-Ying Li, Ying-Chen Lu, Fang-Rong Chang

“…In comparison with the initial cultures of 4 fusants, the yields of adenosine, biomass, cordycepic acid, cordycepin, total polysaccharide, and total triterpenoids were increased up 1.305−50.1563 times in the optimal medium conditions. For gene stability tests, those of the four fusants and their outputs were stabilized within 10 generations.…”
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Burden and challenges in managing TB infection among people with occupational exposure to silica in India by B. Kalottee, P. Mahajan, A. Nuken, D. Nair, P. Thekkur, A.M.V. Kumar, V. Rai, M. Parmar, H. Solanki, R. Rao, S.K. Mattoo, R. Kumar

“…CONCLUSIONS: Compared to the general population, individuals with occupational exposure to silica have an almost two times higher prevalence of TBI. Further research is required to identify the threshold of silica exposure to be considered for screening for TBI. …”
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High throughput single cell metagenomic sequencing with semi-permeable capsules: unraveling microbial diversity at the single-cell level in sewage and fecal microbiomes by Meilee Ling, Judit Szarvas, Vaida Kurmauskaitė, Vaidotas Kiseliovas, Rapolas Žilionis, Rapolas Žilionis, Baptiste Avot, Baptiste Avot, Patrick Munk, Frank M. Aarestrup

“…In shallow sequencing data, we aimed for 10-times more cells and detected 12,731 and 17,909 SAGs, of which we used 2,456 and 1,599 for further analysis for sewage and fecal samples, respectively. …”
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Environmental sustainability of urban expansion: Implications for transport emissions, air pollution, and city growth by Susana Lopez-Aparicio, Henrik Grythe, Arkadiusz Drabicki, Konrad Chwastek, Kamila Toboła, Lidia Górska-Niemas, Urszula Kierpiec, Miha Markelj, Joanna Strużewska, Bartosz Kud, Gabriela Sousa Santos

“…In both city layouts, network-wide improvements of public transport travel times gave significantly reduced emissions. Combined, our findings highlight the importance of co-beneficial urban planning strategies to balance CO2 emissions reduction, and air pollution exposure in expanding cities.…”
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