Quantifying the potential value of entomological data collection for programmatic decision-making on malaria control in sub-Saharan African settings by Nora Schmit, Hillary M. Topazian, Matteo Pianella, Giovanni D. Charles, Peter Winskill, Penelope A. Hancock, Ellie Sherrard-Smith, Katharina Hauck, Thomas S. Churcher, Azra C. Ghani

“…The median expected value of perfect information on the entomological indicators was US$0.05 (range 0.02–0.23) and US$0.17 (range 0.09–1.43) per person at risk at thresholds of US$75 and US$1000 per DALY averted, respectively. …”
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Dynamics of movement amplitude indicators in joints of patients with rheumatoid arthritis by I.M. Grygus, A.O. Nogas, V.V. Zdanyuk

“…In the patients of the experimental group, the active dorsiflexion in the ankle joint was 27.7±1.4º, the plantar flexion was 41.3±1.8º, which was significantly better than in patients of the control group in which the observed dorsiflexion was 23.4±1.7º, and plantar flexion – 41.3±1.8º (р<0.05). …”
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Intermittent Preventive Treatment of Malaria in Pregnancy: Assessment of the Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine Three-Dose Policy on Birth Outcomes in Rural Northern Ghana by Francis Anto, Ibrahim Haruna Agongo, Victor Asoala, Elizabeth Awini, Abraham Rexford Oduro

“…Uptake of three-five doses of SP was IPT3 =76.4%, IPT4 =37.3%, and IPT5 = 16.0%. Receipt of first dose of SP at 16, 17-24, and 25-36 weeks of gestation was 16.9%, 56.7%, and 26.4%, respectively. …”
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Diferencias en el perfil de diámetro de fibras, largo de mecha y resistencia a la tracción de la lana, en ovejas de una majada by D.M. Sacchero, J.P. Mueller

“…Para la majada TEST, los valores de LM fueron 2,4 mm menores (P<0,05) y los de RT 3,7 N/ktex mayores (P<0,01) que los de la majada SELE. …”
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Predicting the risk of cardiovascular disease in adults exposed to heavy metals: Interpretable machine learning by Meiyue Shen, Yine Zhang, Runqing Zhan, Tingwei Du, Peixuan Shen, Xiaochuan Lu, Shengnan Liu, Rongrong Guo, Xiaoli Shen

“…Urine cadmium (Cd), blood lead (Pb), urine thallium (Tl), and urine tungsten (W) were identified as the most significant predictors of CVD, with importance scores of 0.062, 0.057, 0.051, and 0.050, respectively. …”
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Correlation between ellipsoid zone thickness and the presence of subretinal drusenoid deposits in age-related macular degeneration by Richard B Rosen, Roland Theodore Smith, Gerardo Ledesma-Gil, Oscar Otero-Marquez, Yuehong Tong, Katy Tai, Gareth M C Lema, Raymond Matthew Bellis, Yang Fei, Brandon Le

“…Univariate testing was performed using two-tailed t-tests with Bonferroni correction.Results The mean EZ thickness differences between the SDD+D and drusen-only groups were (in μm) 1.10, 0.67, 1.21, 1.10 and 0.50 at the foveal, nasal, temporal, superior and inferior locations, respectively (p=0.08 inferiorly, otherwise p≤0.01); between the SDD-only and drusen-only groups, the differences were 3.48, 2.48, 2.42, 2.08 and 1.42 (p≤0.0002). …”
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Nachbarn oder Nachkommen? by Colin von Negenborn

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STING agonist-based treatment promotes vascular normalization and tertiary lymphoid structure formation in the therapeutic melanoma microenvironment by Walter J Storkus, Ronald J Fecek, Manoj Chelvanambi, Jennifer L Taylor

“…In vitro assays were performed on CD11c+ BMDCs treated with 2.5 µg/mL ADU S-100 or CD11c+ DCs isolated from tumor digests and associated transcriptional changes analyzed via qPCR or profiled using DNA microarrays. …”
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A Retrospective Study to Investigate the Relationship Between Body Mass Index and Hemodynamic Characteristics in Hypertensive Patients by Wenqi Xiao, Ping Han, Liping Song, Jingwen Yang, Lin Zhou, Xiangning Deng, Zheng J. Ma, Yukun Lang, Hai Zhao, Yuzhuo Zhao, Hui Chen, Wenjing Zhang, Huixian Huang, Ningling Sun

“…In this cohort, the average BMI across all hypertension patients was 26.859 ± 3.897 (kg/m2), with obese patients (BMI ≥ 28 kg/m2) averaging 31.01 ± 2.87 kg/m2 and non‐obese (BMI<28 kg/m2) averaging 24.70 ± 2.28 kg/m2. …”
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Antioxidant Activity of Pomegranate Husk Ellagitannins in Enhancing Oxidative Stability of Canola Oil During Frying by Mariela R. Michel, Maritza Pacheco-Lara, Romeo Rojas, Guillermo Cristian G. Martínez-Ávila, Juan Alberto Ascacio-Valdés, Mayra Aguilar-Zárate, Pedro Aguilar-Zárate

“…VCO oxidation was assessed at 145 °C, 160 °C, and 190 °C, with frying experiments conducted at 160 °C for five 10 min cycles. …”
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超声引导浅层胸骨旁肋间平面阻滞对胸骨切开心脏手术患者术后恢复质量的影响 by 廖怡, 李琪, 王晓娥, 詹明盈, 肖力, 陈宇

“…同时，罗哌卡因组患者术后24 h阿片药物使用总量明显减少［14.15 （4.95～30.00） mg <italic>vs</italic> 40.50 （19.25～68.18） mg， <italic>P</italic>=0.002］，补救镇痛需求亦明显减少［0.00 （0.00～0.00）mg <italic>vs</italic> 0.00 （0.00～100.00） mg， <italic>P</italic>=0.007］。结论超声引导浅层胸骨旁肋间平面阻滞可通过提升术后镇痛效果及减少阿片药物使用量，提高胸骨切开心脏手术患者术后24 h的总体恢复质量，利于术后早期康复。…”
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The Status of Wild Grapevine (<i>Vitis vinifera</i> L. subsp. <i>sylvestris</i> (C.C. Gmel.) Hegi) Populations in Georgia (South Caucasus) by Gabriele Cola, Gabriella De Lorenzis, Osvaldo Failla, Nikoloz Kvaliashvili, Shengeli Kikilashvili, Maia Kikvadze, Londa Mamasakhlisashvili, Irma Mdinaradze, Ramaz Chipashvili, David Maghradze

“…Repeated expeditions across various regions of Georgia in the early 2000s led to the identification of 434 wild grapevine individuals (<i>Vitis vinifera</i> L. subsp. <i>sylvestris</i> (C.C. Gmel.) Hegi) across 127 different sites, with 45% of these sites containing only a single vine and only 7% more than 9 vines. …”
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Mezőgazdaság és foglalkoztatás a klímaváltozás szorításában by Bálint Koós, Katalin Kovács, Monika Mária Váradi, Eszter Hamza

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One Single Amino Acid for Estimation the Content of Total Free Amino Acids in Qingkailing Injection Using High-Performance Liquid Chromatography-Diode Array Detection by Li Zhang, Xue Wang, Jiankun Su, Haiyu Liu, Zhixin Zhang, Lingling Qin, Cheng He, Long Peng, Mingxing Guo, Xiaoyan Gao

“…The results showed that the precision (RSD < 4.88%), the robustness (RSD < 4.04%), and the average recoveries (94.11%–107.94%) of this newly proposed method all met the requirements for content determination. …”
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In vitro degradation of non-starch polysaccharide residues in the digesta of broilers offered wheat-soy or maize-soy diets by feed enzymes by E. Kim, N.K. Morgan, A.F. Moss, A. Solbak, L. Li, P. Ader, M. Choct

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How can competencies in minor surgery in general practice be increased?... by Joachim Szecsenyi, Jonas D Senft, Katja Krug, Simon Schwill, Aaron Poppleton, Dorothee Reith, Sandra Stengel

“…GP trainees who did not attend a seminar (non-attendees) were recruited for CG after the 13th intervention.Intervention Attendees took part in an interactive, GP-oriented short course incorporating 270 min of focused minor surgery/injuries training (compact intervention) on the second day of the 2-day seminar.Results 326 GP trainees (IG: n=257; CG: n=69) participated in the study. 17 attendees were interviewed. …”
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Adherence to prehospital thoracostomy practice guidelines for traumatic cardiac arrest: A retrospective study by Nicolas Beysard, Tara Agudo, Peter Serfozo, Tobias Zingg, Perrine Truong, Roland Albrecht, Vincent Darioli, Mathieu Pasquier

“…Results: Among 3206 cardiac arrests during the study period, 473 (15%) were TCAs. Among the 247 patients with resuscitation attempts, thoracostomy was judged as indicated in 223 (90%) and performed in 148 (66%). …”
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Real-world effectiveness of hemodialysis modalities: a retrospective cohort study by Yan Zhang, Anke Winter, Belén Alejos Ferreras, Paola Carioni, Otto Arkossy, Michael Anger, Robert Kossmann, Len A. Usvyat, Stefano Stuard, Franklin W. Maddux

“…Methods In this retrospective cohort study, we analyzed pseudonymized data from 85,117 adults receiving in-center care across NephroCare clinics in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa during 2019–2022. …”
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Enhancing furcation involvement classification on panoramic radiographs with vision transformers by Xuan Zhang, Enting Guo, Xu Liu, Hong Zhao, Jie Yang, Wen Li, Wenlei Wu, Weibin Sun

“…Results Among the evaluated models, the ViT model outperformed all others, achieving the highest precision (0.98), recall (0.92), and F1 score (0.95), along with the lowest cross-entropy loss (0.27) and the highest accuracy (92%). ViT also recorded the highest area under the curve (AUC) (98%), outperforming the other models with statistically significant differences (p < 0.05), confirming its enhanced classification capability. …”
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The clinical impact of recent amphetamine exposure in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage patients by Jeffrey R. Vitt, Roger C. Cheng, Jason Chung, Travis Caton, Bo Zhou, Nerissa Ko, Karl Meisel, Edilberto Amorim

“…A trend toward more isolated posterior circulation vasospasm was observed in the amphetamine present group (16.7% vs. 4.8%, p = 0.06), while there was higher incidence of anterior circulation vasospasm in the amphetamine absent group (79.2% vs. 94.3%, p = 0.03). …”
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