Assessment of Clinical Skills and Knowledge in Ophthalmology in Undergraduate Medical Students by Amna Rizwan, Muhammad Ali, Nida Khalid, Asfandyar Asghar

“…Over 70% of students reported confidence in performing basic ophthalmic skills, including extraocular muscle function, visual acuity, pupillary examination, history taking, visual fields, and squint assessment. …”
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Interaction between two timing microRNAs controls trichome distribution in Arabidopsis. by Xue-Yi Xue, Bo Zhao, Lu-Men Chao, Dian-Yang Chen, Wen-Rui Cui, Ying-Bo Mao, Ling-Jian Wang, Xiao-Ya Chen

“…The miR156-targeted squamosa promoter binding protein like (SPL) transcription factors function as an endogenous age cue in regulating plant phase transition and phase-dependent morphogenesis, but the control of SPL output remains poorly understood. …”
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Brassicaceous roots as an unexpected diversity hot-spot of helotialean endophytes by Jose G. Maciá-Vicente, Meike Piepenbring, Ondřej Koukol

“…Among the new species, only two (C. ferruginea and C. constrictospora) form phialides and conidia typical of Cadophora, three species (C. echinata, C. gamsii and C. variabilis) produce chains of swollen hyphal segments that may function as holoblastic conidia, and one species (C. fascicularis) produces chains of holoblastic ramoconidia and conidia. …”
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Lactylation-related risk model for prognostication and therapeutic responsiveness in uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma by Yupeng Yin, Min Luo

“…Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) was performed to explore the function of the IGSF1 gene. …”
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I’m still quite young: women’s lived experience of precocious or premature menopause: a qualitative study among Egyptian women by Yasmine M. Osman, Hend Reda Ali El-Kest, Majed Awad Alanazi, Mostafa Shaban

“…Fifteen women diagnosed with precocious menopause were recruited through purposive sampling from reproductive health clinics in Tanta city and surrounding areas in the Nile Delta region. Data were collected through semi-structured, in-depth interviews and analyzed using thematic content analysis. …”
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Increasing prion propensity by hydrophobic insertion. by Aaron C Gonzalez Nelson, Kacy R Paul, Michelina Petri, Noe Flores, Ryan A Rogge, Sean M Cascarina, Eric D Ross

“…Thus, insertion or deletion of hydrophobic residues provides a simple tool to control the prion activity of a protein. These data, combined with bioinformatics analysis, suggest a limit on the number of strongly prion-promoting residues tolerated in glutamine/asparagine-rich domains. …”
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Synchronous Control of a Dual-Motor Driving Rack and Pinion Module for Steer-by-Wire System by Insu Chung, Sehoon Oh, Kanghyun Nam

“…The algorithm was constructed using Matlab/Simulink, and the actual equipment was controlled using a data acquisition (DAQ) board. In order to compare the existing synchronous control structures with the proposed control structure, a model-based controller based on dynamic analysis was designed, and the results were derived through two commands. …”
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The reverse association between riboflavin intake and Helicobacter pylori infection in US adults: A cross-sectional study. by Xinyu Xu, Peizhong Chen, Yingyi Li, Xiaoxuan Chen, Yunhui Yan, Zicheng Huang

“…<h4>Methods</h4>We analyzed data from 2,895 participants in the 1999-2000 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) with complete dietary and H. pylori serology records. …”
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The Mediating Role of Activities of Daily Living in the Relationship Between Depressive Symptoms and Multidimensional Frailty in the Elderly with Multimorbidity by Mei D, Yang Y, Meng D, Hu Y, Wang X

“…Bootstrap tests confirmed the robustness of these findings.Conclusion: The findings confirm the importance of interventions targeting mental health and restoration of physical function to prevent multidimensional frailty in older adults with multimorbidity.Keywords: multimorbidity, depressive symptoms, multidimensional frailty, activities of daily living, ADL, mediating role…”
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Cross‐Frequency Couplings Reveal Mice Visual Cortex Selectivity to Grating Orientations by Zahra Ebrahimvand, Mohammad Reza Daliri

“…Previous studies have shown that the study of mouse vision can make a significant contribution to the field of neuroscience research, and also the local field potential (LFP) analysis could contain more information and give us a better view of brain function. …”
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Voronoi-cell lattice modeling of the elastic behavior of pultruded glass fiber reinforced polymers by Hadi Abbaszadeh, Yusuke Mochida, Alessandro Fascetti

“…First, the manuscript introduces the analytical derivations required to evaluate the elastic properties to assign to the lattice elements as a function of the geometrical relationships between the material planes of symmetry and the element orientation. …”
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TWEAK promotes peritoneal inflammation. by Ana Belen Sanz, Luiz Stark Aroeira, Teresa Bellon, Gloria del Peso, Jose Jimenez-Heffernan, Beatriz Santamaria, Maria Dolores Sanchez-Niño, Luis Miguel Blanco-Colio, Manuel Lopez-Cabrera, Marta Ruiz-Ortega, Jesus Egido, Rafael Selgas, Alberto Ortiz

“…There is no information on the expression and function of the cytokine TWEAK and its receptor Fn14 during peritoneal injury. …”
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Clinical outcomes of the pilot project Nephrology Liaison Clinic in a primary care clinic: A retrospective observational study by Tiong Lim Low, Rohayah Ismail, Sunita Bavanandan, Mohamad Zaimi Abdul Wahab, Wan Hazlina Wan Mohamad

“…Patients who were lost to follow-up, deceased or transferred to other clinics were excluded. Data analysis included descriptive statistics, the chi-square test, Fisher’s exact test and McNemar test. …”
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Sustitución parcial de alimento balanceado comercial por saccharina rústica en pollo de engorde by Dixon Fabián Flórez-Delgado, Jesús Esteban Fonseca-García, Dubel Reinaldo Cely-Leal

“…During the development of the study, productive indicators such as feed intake, weight gain (WG), feed efficiency (FE), feed conversion ratio (FC), carcass yield (CY), productivity index (PI), European production efficiency factor (EPF), and feed costs were measured. Analysis of variance was used for data processing under a completely randomized design, and the Tukey test was used to compare means with a significance level of 5%. …”
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MALT1 auto-proteolysis is essential for NF-κB-dependent gene transcription in activated lymphocytes. by Mathijs Baens, Luca Bonsignore, Riet Somers, Charlotte Vanderheydt, Stephen D Weeks, Jenny Gunnarsson, Ewa Nilsson, Robert G Roth, Margot Thome, Peter Marynen

“…Mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue 1 (MALT1) controls antigen receptor-mediated signalling to nuclear factor κB (NF-κB) through both its adaptor and protease function. Upon antigen stimulation, MALT1 forms a complex with BCL10 and CARMA1, which is essential for initial IκBα phosphorylation and NF-κB nuclear translocation. …”
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Characterisation of the fibroblast growth factor dependent transcriptome in early development. by Peter A Branney, Laura Faas, Sarah E Steane, Mary Elizabeth Pownall, Harry V Isaacs

“…<h4>Conclusions</h4>We have undertaken a detailed analysis of FGF target genes which has generated a robust, well validated data set. …”
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Animal Origin Compost Potential and Optimum Facility Locations in Samsun by Sinan Dündar, Hüdaverdi Bircan, Hasan Eleroğlu

“…In terms of animal distribution in Samsun province, 27 cluster numbers were preferred through Elbow method and f(K) Function method. The location of most suitable compost production centres according to the distance and the total number of animals was determined by the K-Means clustering analysis method using geographical coordinates. …”
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The mediation effect of social participation in the relationship between Internet use and health behaviors among middle-aged and older individuals by Xinmei Yang, Yang Chen, Tuo Qiu, Xingyue Zhu

“…This population-based study elucidated the dynamic linkage between Internet use (IU) and health behaviors (HBs), particularly emphasizing the intermediary function of social participation (SP) in middle-aged and older adults (MOA) in China. …”
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A study to determine the relationship between sleep quality and socioeconomic status of the nursing officers working in a selected hospital, Bhubaneswar by Indrani Sen, Anannya Chatterjee, Ishita Bhattacharya, Soudamini Pahi, R Asokan, Chandan Pradhan, Minati Das, Nibedita Mohanty

“…Exclusion criteria included officers on maternity leave, those with a history of sleep disorders, chronic illnesses affecting sleep, and those on sleep-inducing medication. Data analysis was performed using SPSS version 29, with descriptive statistics and Kruskal-Wallis tests used to examine bivariate associations. …”
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Dynamic bone recognition for robotic vertebral plate cutting via unit energy consumption and SVM optimized by PSO by Heqiang Tian, Jing Zhao, Ying Sun, Jinchang An

“…The data was normalized, and an SVM-based bone identification model was developed, optimized by PSO. …”
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