Emphysema is associated with thoracic vertebral bone attenuation on chest CT scan in HIV-infected individuals. by Alycia Petraglia, Joseph K Leader, Matthew Gingo, Meghan Fitzpatrick, John Ries, Cathy Kessinger, Lorrie Lucht, Danielle Camp, Alison Morris, Jessica Bon

“…The association between mean HU attenuation values across the three vertebrae and radiographic emphysema, age, sex, body mass index (BMI), steroid use, viral load, CD4 count, and forced expiratory volume in the first second (FEV1) was assessed by univariate and multivariate analyses.…”
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An emerging view of neural geometry in motor cortex supports high-performance decoding by Sean M Perkins, Elom A Amematsro, John Cunningham, Qi Wang, Mark M Churchland

“…Additionally, MINT should be competitive with expressive machine learning methods that can implicitly learn constraints from data. MINT performed well across tasks, suggesting its assumptions are well-matched to the data. …”
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Prevalence of Diabetes, Prediabetes, and Associated Factors in an Adult Chinese Population: Baseline of a Prediabetes Cohort Study by Xinjie Yu, Fang Duan, Da Lin, Hai Li, Jian Zhang, Qiuyu Wang, Xianglong Wang, Qian Zhao, Jiayu Deng, Guangwei Song, Qingqing Ji, Haihua Zheng, Xiang Chen, Guoyi Zhou

“…This study is an exploratory and cross-sectional analysis of the baseline data from a cohort study. …”
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Wastewater-based estimation of temporal variation in shedding amount of influenza A virus and clinically identified cases using the PRESENS model by Hiroki Ando, Michio Murakami, Masaaki Kitajima, Kelly A. Reynolds

“…The estimated shedding model was incorporated into an extended version of the PRESENS model to assess the variability in the relationship between IAV concentrations and case numbers across other states, including Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Utah. …”
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Baseline Serum Cholesterol Is Associated with a Response to Pegylated Interferon Alfa-2b and Ribavirin Therapy for Chronic Hepatitis C Genotype 2 by Naota Taura, Tatsuki Ichikawa, Hisamitsu Miyaaki, Yoshiko Kadokawa, Takuya Tsutsumi, Shotaro Tsuruta, Yuji Kato, Osami Inoue, Noboru Kinoshita, Kazuo Ohba, Hiroyuki Kato, Kazuyuki Ohata, Junichi Masuda, Keisuke Hamasaki, Hiroshi Yatsuhashi, Kazuhiko Nakao

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Levels and related factors of occupational stress among nurses: hospital-based evidence from China, 2023 by Xiaoying Zhong, Yan Zeng, Lin Peng, Xixi Li, Yuanli Jia, Changqing Pan, Bangjun Wang

“…For continuous variables, the mean, standard deviation (SD), median, and interquartile range were reported, while counts and percentages were used for categorical variables. …”
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Analysis of stomatal characteristics of maize hybrids and their parental inbred lines during critical reproductive periods by Changyu Zhang, Changyu Zhang, Yu Jin, Yu Jin, Jinglu Wang, Jinglu Wang, Ying Zhang, Ying Zhang, Yanxin Zhao, Xianju Lu, Xianju Lu, Wei Song, Xinyu Guo, Xinyu Guo

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The relationships of metals exposure and disturbance of the vaginal microbiota with the risk of PROM: Results from a birth cohort study by Dongyang Zhang, Rui Dong, Tingting Jiang, Shiwei Ren, Xinyu Yue, Muxin Zhai, Siyu Jiang, Bingxia He, Ran Tang, Yujie Deng, Wenjie Lyu, Baojing Zhao, Fangbiao Tao, Yuanyuan Yang, Zongzhi Yin, Zhen Yu, Dongmei Ji, Chunmei Liang

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Infections, autoimmunity and immunodeficiencies are the leading etiologies of non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis in adults from the southwest of Colombia. by Andrés F. Zea-Vera, Carlos Andrés Rodríguez, Sebastián Giraldo, Mario Alejandro Chacón, Luis Fernando Guerrero, Ricardo Mosquera, Raúl Andrés Vallejo, Fabio Samir Vargas, María Andrea García, María A. Rengifo, Anilza Bonelo, Maximiliano Parra

“…Participants underwent laboratory tests, including complete blood count, serum immunoglobulin levels, and, in some cases, additional tests. …”
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Influence of spouting period on microbiological and nutritional attribute of sesame seed flour by Joseph Oghenewogaga Owheruo, Patrick Othuke Akpoghelie, Great Iruoghene Edo, Emad Yousif, Agatha Ngukuran Jikah, Priscillia Nkem Onyibe, Ufuoma Ugbune, Endurance Fegor Isoje, Ufuoma Augustina Igbuku, Helen Avuokerie Ekokotu, Ephraim Evi Alex Oghroro, Joel Okpoghono, Arthur Efeoghene Athan Essaghah, Joy Johnson Agbo

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Remotely‐Sensed Game Trails Are a Behavioral Footprint That Explains Patterns of Herbivore Habitat Use by Keenan Stears, Melissa H. Schmitt, Mike J. Peel, Tsumbedzo Ramalevha, Douglas J. McCauley, Dave I. Thompson, Deron E. Burkepile

“…We also explored how patterns of game trail density compared to two known measures of herbivore habitat use (i.e., dung counts and maximum entropy modeling) and found strong quantitative fits. …”
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Multi-omics dissection of metabolic dysregulation associated with immune recovery in people living with HIV-1 by Lin-Yu Wan, Sin Man Lam, Hui-Huang Huang, Wen-Jing Cao, Xiang-Yi Cao, Xue-Meng Li, Li-Ping Zhang, Jia-Min Gao, Chao Zhang, Xing Fan, Yan-Mei Jiao, Guanghou Shui, Fu-Sheng Wang, Jin-Wen Song

“…Notably, 3-hydroxyoctanoic acid and thymine were consistently associated with CD4 T cell counts and inflammation-related markers in PLWH, regardless of ART. …”
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Spectrum and trends of cancer among HIV patients in Southwestern Uganda. by Raymond Atwine, Mitala Yekosani, Abraham Birungi, Brian Ssenkumba, Barbra Tuhamize, Richard Ezinga, Keneth Male, Taseera Kabanda

“…Having either ADCs or NADCs was different across HIV stages (p < 0.001). The median baseline CD4 count was 205 cells/μl (IQR: 90-400 cells/μl). …”
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First report on the synergy of Nepeta menthoides and Nepeta cephalotes essential oils for antimicrobial and preservation applications: A multi-ligand molecular docking simulation by Behrooz Alizadeh Behbahani, Mohammad Noshad, Fereshteh Falah, Farshid Zargari, Zahra Nikfarjam, Alireza Vasiee

“…The multi-docking simulations across E. coli and S. aureus PDBs revealed varied categories and scores, illuminating distinctive ligand-receptor interactions. …”
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Eosinophil is a predictor of severe immune-related adverse events induced by ipilimumab plus nivolumab therapy in patients with renal cell carcinoma: a retrospective multicenter co... by Yoshihiko Tasaki, Shuzo Hamamoto, Shimpei Yamashita, Junya Furukawa, Kazutoshi Fujita, Ryotaro Tomida, Makito Miyake, Noriyuki Ito, Hideto Iwamoto, Yoshihisa Mimura, Yosuke Sugiyama, Rei Unno, Atsushi Okada, Takahiro Yasui, Yoko Furukawa-Hibi

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Understanding human papillomavirus vaccine response and efficacy in people living with HIV: A systematic mixed studies review and meta-analysis. by Alvine M Akumbom, Alanna J Bergman, Howard Strickler, Chakra Budhathoki, Manka Nkimbeng, Raeven Grant, Nancy R Reynolds, Kawsar R Talaat

“…This could be influenced by the diversity of eligibility criteria across clinical trials of HPV vaccine efficacy. Precision medicine may offer novel alternatives for evaluating HPV vaccine efficacy in PWH.…”
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Composition and Significance of Bacterial Microbiota and Volatile Organic Compounds of Swiss-Dutch-Type Cheese as Determined by PCR-DGGE and HS-GC by Beata Nalepa, Magdalena Anna Olszewska, Lidia Hanna Markiewicz, Marek Aljewicz

“…The results of the study indicate that the cheese-making process has to be continuously monitored to minimize differences across manufacturing seasons.…”
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DualTransAttNet: A Hybrid Model with a Dual Attention Mechanism for Corn Seed Classification by Fei Pan, Dawei He, Pengjun Xiang, Mengdie Hu, Daizhuang Yang, Fang Huang, Changmeng Peng

“…High-resolution hyperspectral images of various corn varieties were collected, and a sliding sampling approach was employed to capture feature information across all spectral bands, resulting in the construction of a hyperspectral dataset for corn seed classification. …”
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Direct imaging with multidimensional labelling and high‐content analysis allows quantitative categorization and characterizations of individual small extracellular vesicles and nan... by Simou Sun, Sarah J. Cox‐Vázquez, Nam‐Joon Cho, Guillermo C. Bazan, Jay T. Groves

“…This high‐content analysis reveals common cargo sorting features in sEVP subpopulations across different cell types and suggests new statistics within the sEVP inherent heterogeneity that could differentiate sEVPs from two types of cancer cells and two types of normal cells. …”
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Spatial associations of Hansen's disease and schistosomiasis in endemic regions of Minas Gerais, Brazil. by Jessica L Stephens, Lucia A O Fraga, José A Ferreira, Laura De Mondesert, Uriel Kitron, Julie A Clennon, Jessica K Fairley

“…<h4>Background</h4>Brazil has the second highest case count of Hansen's disease (leprosy, HD), but factors contributing to transmission in highly endemic areas of the country remain unclear. …”
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