Impact of Ramadan fasting on kidney function and related outcomes in chronic kidney disease and kidney transplant recipients: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Julia Kurzawa, Michelle E Olah, Anita Lloyd, Syed Habib, Uwais Qarni, Soroush Shojai, Mohamed Abdullahi Osman, Aminu Kasarawa Bello, Thane Chambers, Zahraa Habeeb, Robert Peter Pauly

“…Its consequences on kidney-relevant outcomes in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and kidney transplant recipients remain unclear.Design Systematic review and meta-analysis.Data sources MEDLINE, Embase, Global Health, CINAHL (EBSCOhost), Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar were searched up to 18 September 2023.Eligibility criteria We included observational studies among non-dialysis CKD and kidney transplant recipients who fasted during Ramadan and examined changes in kidney function.Data extraction and synthesis Standardised methods were used by two independent reviewers to screen, select and extract data. …”
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Patterns and risk factors of falls among older adults: a systematic review by Tetiana Yermakova

“…The Web of Science Core Collection database was selected as the data source. The search included publications from the last 10 years (2014–2024). …”
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Numerical Analysis of Transient Burn Injury Grading Through Coupled Heat Transfer and Damage Integral Modeling by Chao Zhang, Xinbin Ma, Mengxi Li, Yubin Qiu, Moon Keun Kim, Jiying Liu

“…Under the working conditions selected in this paper, the heat source mainly affects the epidermis and dermis directly below, and has less influence on the area above, which is in convective heat transfer. …”
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Efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine nursing in stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Yanling Chen, Hongyan Li, Zhe Wu, Mingyuan Jiao

“…Meta-regression and subgroup analyses indicated that nursing model, stroke type, and risk of bias were not sources of heterogeneity.ConclusionCompared to conventional care, TCM nursing techniques can significantly improve spasticity in stroke patients, and also provide some benefits for limb motor function and ADL. …”
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Prebiotic properties and antioxidant effect of crude extracts and polysaccharides from Agaricus bisporus and Pleurotus ostreatus mushrooms by Yousra A. El-Maradny, Amr S. Abouakkada, Aleya Abdel Gawad Abbass, Amani Farouk Abaza, Esmail M. El-Fakharany

“…These findings demonstrate that polysaccharides from A. bisporus and P. ostreatus are promising candidates for functional food development. These extracts offer a multifaceted approach to promoting gut health and reducing oxidative stress through selectively stimulating beneficial Lactobacillus species while inhibiting the growth of pathogens and exerting significant antioxidant effects.…”
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Finding RB/Rpi-blb1/Rpi-sto1-like sequences in conventionally bred potato varieties by O. Y. Antonova, N. S. Klimenko, Z. Z. Evdokimova, L. I. Kostina, T. A. Gavrilenko

“…At the same time there is a high probability of finding geno types with the Rpi-sto1 gene (functional homologues of  Rpi-blb1) among conventionally bred varieties because for about 40 years S. stoloniferum has been used in breeding as a source of the Rysto and Ry-fsto genes of the extreme resistance to the most important viral pathogen PVY. …”
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Functional heterogeneity of mesenchymal stem cells and their therapeutic potential in the K18-hACE2 mouse model of SARS-CoV-2 infection by Kátia Nunes da Silva, Fernanda Martins Marim, Gisele Vieira Rocha, Zaquer Suzana Munhoz Costa-Ferro, Luciana Souza de Aragão França, Carolina Kymie Vasques Nonaka, Bruno Diaz Paredes, Erik Aranha Rossi, Erick Correia Loiola, Corynne Stephanie Ahouefa Adanho, Rachel Santana Cunha, Mayck Medeiros Amaral da Silva, Fernanda Ferreira Cruz, Vivian Vasconcelos Costa, Dalila Lucíola Zanette, Clarissa Araújo Gurgel Rocha, Renato Santana Aguiar, Patricia Rieken Macedo Rocco, Bruno Solano de Freitas Souza

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Microgrid Reliability Incorporating Uncertainty in Weather and Equipment Failure by Sakthivelnathan Nallainathan, Ali Arefi, Christopher Lund, Ali Mehrizi-Sani

“…This study employs two methods to assess and contrast the reliability of a standalone microgrid (SMG) system in order to achieve this goal: (i) random uncertainty within a selected confidence interval and (ii) splitting the cumulative distribution function (CDF) into five regions of equal probability. …”
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Analysis of Factors of High-tech Industries Growth: A Case Study of the Late USSR by D. V. Didenko, N. V. Grineva

“…The key hypothesis is that in the high-tech industries in the 1960s and 1980s, the institutional environment appeared to be a more significant factor than the technological level. The variety of the sources utilized includes calculations and estimates from the research literature and selected indicators from the official statistics. …”
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Pre-design optimization of the manipulation system with hydraulic drive for mobile transport-technological machine by Lagerev I.A.

“…The approach enables the source to lay the subject to further design of the optimal values of the most important quantitative characteristics that determine the realization of the highest values of quality designed manipulation systems. …”
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SDDGRNets: Level–Level Semantically Decomposed Dynamic Graph Reasoning Network for Remote Sensing Semantic Change Detection by Zhuli Xie, Gang Wan, Yunxia Yin, Guangde Sun, Dongdong Bu

“…Finally, experimental results on three open-source datasets, such as SECOND, HIUSD, and Landsat-SCD, show that the proposed method achieves good performance, with an SCD score reaching 35.65%, 98.33%, and 67.29%, respectively.…”
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Spatio-temporal dynamics of ecosystem service value functions in response to landscape fragmentation in Boma-Gambella trans-boundary landscape, Southwest Ethiopia and East South Su... by Azemir Berhanu Getahun, Amare Bantider Dagnew, Desalegn Yayeh Ayal

“…Abstract The study investigates the effects of landscape fragmentation on ecosystem services in the Boma-Gambella Trans-Boundary Landscape, which spans Southwest Ethiopia and East South Sudan. The data sources include satellite imagery acquired from the United States Geological Survey. …”
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Effects of preoperative and postoperative resistance exercise interventions on recovery of physical function in patients undergoing abdominal surgery for cancer: a systematic revie... by David Stephensen, Ferhana Hashem, Kevin Corbett, Amanda Bates, Michelle George, Ralph Peter Hobbs, Malcolm Hopkins, Irena Hutchins, David Peter Lowery, Tracy Pellatt-Higgins, Charitini Stavropoulou, Ian Swaine, Lee Tomlinson, Hazel Woodward, Haythem Ali

“…Objective To systematically review the effects of preoperative and postoperative resistance exercise training on the recovery of physical function in patients undergoing abdominal surgery for cancer.Data sources A systematic review of English articles using Medline, Physiotherapy Evidence Database, CINAHL and the Cochrane Library electronic databases was undertaken.Eligibility criteria for selecting studies Studies were included if they used a randomised, quasi-randomised or controlled trial study design and compared the effects of a muscle-strengthening exercise intervention (±other therapy) with a comparative non-exercise group; involved adult participants (≥18 years) who had elected to undergo abdominal surgery for cancer; and used muscle strength, physical function, self-reported functional ability, range of motion and/or a performance-based test as an outcome measure.Results Following screening of titles and abstracts of the 588 publications retrieved from the initial search, 24 studies met the inclusion criteria and were accessed for review of the full-text version of the article, and 2 eligible studies met the inclusion criteria and were included in the review. …”
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Relationship between tooth macrowear and jaw morphofunctional traits in representative hypercarnivores by Z. Jack Tseng, Larisa R. G. DeSantis

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Extension Doping with Low‐Resistance Contacts for P‐Type Monolayer WSe2 Field‐Effect Transistors by Sihan Chen, Yue Zhang, William P. King, Rashid Bashir, Arend M. van der Zande

“…Abstract Source/Drain extension doping is crucial for minimizing the series resistance of the ungated channel and reducing the contact resistance of field‐effect transistors (FETs) in complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) technology. 2D semiconductors, such as MoS2 and WSe2, are promising channel materials for beyond‐silicon CMOS. …”
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Functional, Physicochemical, and Antioxidant Properties of Flour and Cookies from Two Different Banana Varieties (Musa acuminata cv. Pisang awak and Musa acuminata cv. Red dacca) by Nimesha K. Amarasinghe, Indira Wickramasinghe, Isuru Wijesekara, Gayan Thilakarathna, Sathsara T. Deyalage

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Waste SMD LEDs from End-of-Life Residential LED Lamps: Presence and Characterisation of Rare Earth Elements and Precious Metals as a Function of Correlated Colour Temperature by Konstantinos M. Sideris, Ioannis Katsiris, Dimitrios Fragkoulis, Vassilis N. Stathopoulos, Panagiotis Sinioros

“…Due to their structure, LED lamps are expected to generate specific waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) streams. LEDs are the main source of luminous flux, and their elemental composition is of particular interest to the recycling sector. …”
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Enhancing the quality of kinesthetic motor imagery for complex motor skills through simulated muscle activation color visualization: Evidence from time-frequency and functional con... by Xiaogang Ma, Bing Shi

“…Conversely, alpha event-related synchronization (ERS) in the parietal and occipital regions, as well as ERS in the frontal, central, and temporal regions, were significantly lower in the experimental group compared to the control group. The source-functional connectivity results revealed that the primary differences between the experimental and control groups were concentrated between the left V1 and right V1, as well as among the posterior parietal cortex (PPC), dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), and primary motor cortex (M1). …”
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Quasi-synchronous thermocompensation for ISFET-based ionometric devices. Part 2: Implementation by Alexey Pavluchenko, Aleksandr Kukla

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UniMap: Type‐Level Integration Enhances Biological Preservation and Interpretability in Single‐Cell Annotation by Haitao Hu, Yue Guo, Fujing Ge, Hao Yin, Hao Zhang, Zhesheng Zhou, Fangjie Yan, Qing Ye, Jialu Wu, Ji Cao, Chang‐Yu Hsieh, Bo Yang

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