Relationship between growing pig’s housing conditions, behaviours, lesions and health issues under Italian farming system by Francesco Palumbo, Diana Luise, Sara Virdis, Federico Correa, Patrizia Bassi, Paolo Trevisi

“…Regardless of tail docking, tail injuries were positively associated with negative behaviour, light intensity, and CO2, while they were negatively associated with the average body weight of the pen and the space allowance.…”
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A single-center experience involving the first 50 patients of minimally invasive cardiac surgery of coronary artery bypass grafting: at district level by Parth B. Solanki, Nivedita Vadodaria, Hitendra Kanzaria, Bharat Solanki

“…Males made up 38 of the group, while females — 12. Ejection fraction (EF) before surgery averaged 40±5%. …”
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Study on the Flow Characteristics in Meander Branch Channel with Vegetation by ZHOU Qin, WANG Sen, LIU Xingnian, ZHENG Danni, ZHANG Bin, ZHENG Ming

“…Under the same incoming flow, the flow velocity in the bending branching channel section, branching channel section, and confluence area of curved and bifurcated river sections varies due to the influence of vegetation. Specifically, the average flow velocity in the bending branching channel section increases with the increase of vegetation density, while the average flow velocity in the left channel section changes the same as that in the bending branching channel section. …”
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Entanglement and Stabilizer entropies of random bipartite pure quantum states by Daniele Iannotti, Gianluca Esposito, Lorenzo Campos Venuti, Alioscia Hamma

“…At a first approximation, entanglement determines the average magic on the Schmidt orbit. However, there is a finer structure in the average magic distinguishing different orbits where the flatness of entanglement spectrum is involved.…”
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Prevalence and determinants of vaccination intention towards routine immunizations in university students: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Ilaria Mussetto, Maria Chiara Bernucci, Anna Ewa Kaminska, Claudia Isonne, Antonio Sciurti, Giuseppe Migliara, Erika Renzi, Azzurra Massimi, Carolina Marzuillo, Corrado De Vito, Paolo Villari, Valentina Baccolini

“…By contrast, contextual influences played a minor role in both vaccinations, while vaccine-specific concerns, particularly about costs and availability, negatively influenced intention for both vaccines. …”
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Global patterns in access and benefit-sharing: a comprehensive review of national policies by Rebecca Katz, Ellie Graeden, Ciara M Weets, Gunnar V Ljungqvist, Tess Stevens, Hailey Robertson, Ryan Zimmerman

“…The increasing digitalisation of health data has brought this issue to the forefront of discussions on global health security and health equity. While originally conceptualised in supranational agreements, implementation of these treaties requires national-level legislation in each country. …”
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Mapping alpha diversity of plant species using scale effects of remote sensing by Xingchen Yang, Shaogang Lei, Jun Xu, Yibo Zhao, Yu Tian, Yingjie Guo

“…Moreover, this method is more effective under high vegetation coverage. Specifically, when the vegetation coverage exceeds 60 %, the correlation coefficient rises to 0.718. …”
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A Conversational Agent for Empowering People with Parkinson’s Disease in Exercising Through Motivation and Support by Patricia Macedo, Rui Neves Madeira, Pedro Albuquerque Santos, Pedro Mota, Beatriz Alves, Carla Mendes Pereira

“…Technical Performance Evaluation, conducted with three physiotherapists, assessed domain coverage, coherence response capacity, and dialog management capacity, achieving 100% accuracy in domain coverage and coherence response capacity and 89% in dialog management capacity. …”
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Patterns of claims and determinants of claim rejections in Kuwait's National Health Insurance for Retirees (AFYA): a comprehensive analysis by Abdullah I. Alibrahim, Abdullah I. Alibrahim, Abdullah I. Alibrahim, Abdullah I. Alibrahim, Hisham Kelendar, Abdulaziz Alhenaidi

“…AFYA's experience offers transferable lessons for high-income countries seeking to expand private-sector purchasing while containing cost.…”
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Future cost-effectiveness and equity of the NHS Health Check cardiovascular disease prevention programme: Microsimulation modelling using data from Liverpool, UK. by Chris Kypridemos, Brendan Collins, Philip McHale, Helen Bromley, Paula Parvulescu, Simon Capewell, Martin O'Flaherty

“…Optimal implementation is likely to be cost-saving but not equitable, while targeted implementation is likely to be both. …”
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The impact of retail-sector delivery of artemether-lumefantrine on malaria treatment of children under five in Kenya: a cluster randomized controlled trial. by Beth P Kangwana, Sarah V Kedenge, Abdisalan M Noor, Victor A Alegana, Andrew J Nyandigisi, Jayesh Pandit, Greg W Fegan, James E Todd, Simon Brooker, Robert W Snow, Catherine A Goodman

“…This study in western Kenya aimed to evaluate the impact of providing subsidized artemether-lumefantrine (AL) through retail providers on the coverage of prompt, effective antimalarial treatment for febrile children aged 3-59 months.…”
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The 2024 resurgence of Bordetella pertussis in Brazil and a decade-long epidemiological overview by Nathália Mariana Santos Sansone, Nathália Mariana Santos Sansone, Nathália Mariana Santos Sansone, Matheus Negri Boschiero, Matheus Negri Boschiero, Fernando Augusto Lima Marson, Fernando Augusto Lima Marson, Fernando Augusto Lima Marson

“…Despite a slight improvement in vaccination coverage, it remains below the World Health Organization’s recommended threshold of 90%. …”
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Technology and Continuous Glucose Monitoring Access, Literacy, and Use Among Patients at the Diabetes Center of an Inner-City Safety-Net Hospital: Mixed Methods Study by Gaëlle Sabben, Courtney Telfort, Marissa Morales, Wenjia Stella Zhang, Juan C Espinoza, Francisco J Pasquel, Kate Winskell

“…ResultsMost participants were African American (66/75, 88%), over half (39/75, 52%) were unemployed or working part time, and 29% (22/75) had no health insurance coverage, while 61% (46/75) had federal coverage. Smartphone ownership and use were near universal; texting and email use were common (63/75, 84% in both cases). …”
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Real-world phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomer treatment patterns in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: a claims-based analysis by Shannon Grabich, Brian Ung, Aalok Nadkar, Kathryn DeYoung, James Signorovitch, Aravindhan Veerapandiyan

“…This study assessed treatment patterns among patients with DMD receiving PMOs using administrative claims data while accounting for limitations in claims data for these therapies. …”

How does asymmetric sibling rivalry respond under environmental metal pollution? A case study of the Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus) by Jian Ding, Shengnan Wang, Wenzhi Yang, Huijie Zhang, Ni Wang, Yingmei Zhang

“…Fledgling rate was significantly positively related to the incubation period and nestling period, while negative relationship with mean spotting coverage ratio was found at the polluted site. …”
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Iceberg-like pyramids in industrially textured silicon enabled 33% efficient perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells by Daoyong Zhang, Tao Wu, Biao Li, Degong Ding, Ruilin Li, Jiyao Wei, Hengyu Zhang, Chenxia Kan, Yuxin Yao, Pengjie Hang, Zhiguo Yu, Zhenyi Ni, Kaifu Qiu, Deren Yang, Xuegong Yu

“…This architecture facilitates the complete coverage of solution-processed perovskites on ITS substrates while substantially reducing interfacial recombination losses and enhancing charge carrier transport. …”
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A novel soil moisture evaluation framework incorporating brightness temperature and a high-resolution 1 km summer brightness temperature dataset by Ziyue Zhu, Runze Zhang, Bin Fang, Hyunglok Kim, Hoang Hai Nguyen, Venkataraman Lakshmi

“…Coarser resolution SM products, although beneficial for broader area coverage, often struggle to capture fine-scale variations influenced by local hydrological processes, land use, vegetation cover, and microclimates. …”
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Behavioural and Social Drivers of Seasonal Influenza Vaccination (BeSD IN) in Jordan by Ayman Bani Mousa, Nizar Maswadi, Zaid Al-Hamdan, Mohammad Alhawarat, Lora Al Sawalha, Raid Anwar Al-Shboul, Feras Ibrahim Hawari

“…Healthcare workers had the highest vaccination rates (65 %), while pregnant women (30 %) and the elderly (25 %) exhibited lower rates, primarily due to concerns about vaccine safety and accessibility challenges. …”
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Unveiling biodiversity: The current status of marine species barcoding in Red Sea Metazoans by Carlos Angulo-Preckler, Christopher Hempel, Sofia Frappi, Kah Kheng Lim, Tullia Terraneo, Dirk Steinke, Lotfi J. Rabaoui, Francesca Benzoni, Carlos M. Duarte

“…While over 6000 metazoan species from 22 phyla are known to inhabit the Red Sea, only 49.77 % appear to be barcoded. …”
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Automated VMAT planning for short-course radiotherapy in locally advanced rectal cancer. by Qiong Zhou, Liwen Qian, Chong Shen, Xinyan Bei, Gaojie Liu, Xiaonan Sun

“…<h4>Results</h4>Compared to MPs, the APs achieved similar target coverage and conformity, while providing more rapid dose fall-off. …”
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