Cranioplasty infection in porous hydroxyapatite: Potential antibacterial properties by Ismail Zaed, Corrado Iaccarino, Francesca Faedo, Laura Grillini, Elisabetta Galassi, Alessandro Dotti, Angelo Nataloni, Francesca Carolina Mannella, Andrea Cardia

“…A variety of biomaterials, from autologous bone to polymethylmetacrylate, polyether ether ketone, titanium, and calcium-based ceramics are used in cranioplasty. …”
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How Did the COVID‐19 Pandemic Change Cigarette Smoking Behavior? by Jason Semprini

“…Methods Following a preregistered plan, we accessed population‐based data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (2010–2023) to analyze three primary outcomes: (1) currently smoking, (2) number of cigarettes per day, and (3) quit smoking in the past year. …”
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Investigating the effect of the teaching method of peer education in medical students of surgical internship on satisfaction, grade at the end of the section, and implementation ab... by Keivan Sabooni, Madjid Shafiayan, Farzaneh Zarei, Behzad Khalafi

“…To evaluate the clinical knowledge, the final exam score and the degree of satisfaction, feasibility, and validity of the training were used from a researcher-made questionnaire that was psychometrically evaluated after completing the internship. …”
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The sex differences in diseases progression and prognosis among persons with HIV and HBV coinfection by Rongrong Yang, Qianhui Chen, Fangzhou Jiao, Xingxia Yu, Yong Xiong

“…At each assessment point, the female group showed a significantly greater rise in CD4+ T lymphocyte counts than the male group based on their respective baseline values. …”
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Comparison of specialist ataxia centres with non-specialist services in terms of care access and organisation, health services resource utilisation and costs in Germany using patient-reported data by Julie Vallortigara, Julie Greenfield, Barry Hunt, Holm Graessner, Carola Reinhard, Andreas Nadke, Bart-Jan Schuman, Deborah Hoffman, Steve Morris, Paola Giunti

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Characteristics of certain types of control over the activities of higher educational institutions of Ukraine by О. О. Avdieiev

“…The practical orientation of control over higher education institutions has been studied and the classification "depending on the subjects exercising control" has been determined. Based on these conclusions, it has been proposed to amend the current regulations that provide for the control procedure. …”
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MFBTFF-Net: A Novel Multi-Frequency Brightness Temperature Feature Fusion Network for Global Lunar Surface Oxides Abundance Estimation With Chang'e-2 Lunar Microwave Sounder... by Yu Li, Zifeng Yuan, Sarah Mazhar, Zhiguo Meng, Yuanzhi Zhang, Jinsong Ping, Ferdinando Nunziata

“…However, there are still some shortcomings in existing studies. First, the majority of these studies rely on spectral data and used in situ (drilled) ground truth samples collected by satellite missions. …”
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Violências e violações do corpo feminino na novela “Sabela”, de Conceição Evaristo by Juliana Franco Alves-Garbim

“…Na análise, as bases epistemológicas contam com teóricos como Stuart Hall (2003), Lélia González (2020), dentre outros pesquisadores da temática afro-brasileira e culturalista. …”
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Diagnosis dan Penatalaksanaan Tragus Asesorius dan Stenosis Liang Telinga pada Hemifasial Mikrosomia by Al Hafiz ., Jacky Munilson, Effy huriyati, Yan Edward, Sylvia Rachman, Gunawan Yudhistira

“…The diagnosis is based on history, physical examination, and radiological finding. …”
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Simulation of Flow Around a Finite Rectangular Prism: Influence of Mesh, Model, and Subgrid Length Scale by Xutong Zhang, Maxime Savoie, Mark K. Quinn, Ben Parslew, Alistair Revell

“…The shear-layer-adapted (SLA) subgrid length scale (<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mo>Δ</mo><mi>SLA</mi></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula>) displayed consistently superior performance compared to the more widely used length scale based on local cell volume, particularly for moderate mesh resolutions commonly employed in industrial settings with limited resources. …”
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Riqueza de especies de mariposas (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) en un área de bosque tropical en Zarumilla, Tumbes, Perú by Euder J. Juárez-Nima, Pedro S. Castillo-Carrillo, Gerardo Lamas

“…Según el índice de Shannon (H), la mayor diversidad se encontró en el sector Uña de Gato. El índice de diversidad de Simpson (ʎ) fue alto en los sectores de Matapalo, Uña de Gato, Papayal, Lechugal, Manglares y La Coja.…”
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Prognostic models of immune-related cell death and stress unveil mechanisms driving macrophage phenotypic evolution in colorectal cancer by Hao Liu, Chuhan Zhang, Sanfei Peng, Yuhan Yin, Yishi Xu, Sihan Wu, Liping Wang, Yang Fu

“…Furthermore, we performed enrichment analyses and deconvolution algorithms to elucidate the complex interactions between immune cell infiltration and the processes of PCD and stress within a substantial array of transcriptomic data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and Gene Expression Omnibus data base (GEO) related to CRC. …”
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Effect of Intelligent Reflecting Surface on WSN Communication With Access Points Configuration by Mahmoud Z. Iskandarani

“…As signal quality and communication channel reliability is critical for wireless communication, and to overcome some of the negative effects affecting the transmitted signals and data, due to environment and line-of-sight problems, and to enable internet based, on-line, and IoT applications, the use of Intelligent Reflecting Surface devices (IRS) become critical. …”
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Association between mixed exposure of non-persistent pesticides and liver fibrosis in the general US population: NHANES 2013–2016 by Shuge Shu, Yuan Li, Xiangyu Yu, Xinting Chen, Ummara Abdullah, Yongquan Yu

“…Liver fibrosis was determined based on the alternative noninvasive tests Fibrosis-4 index (FIB-4) and Hepamet Fibrosis Score (HFS). …”
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Análise combinatória de escoamento de fluido: estudo de caso em atomizadores tipo canhão bananeiro by Cassiano Rodrigues Moura, Joel Stryhalski, Valério Paholski

“…O trabalho foi desenvolvido através de uma pesquisa exploratória em campo, também conhecida como “pesquisa de base”. Nos resultados pode-se observar que dentre as condições analisadas de trajetória, temperatura e pressão, que o melhor conjunto de turbina e ventilador, que oferece os melhores resultados é a turbina com saída de ar central e ventilador de pás retas, com diferença de temperatura de 1,7°C menor, para as temperaturas coletadas em campo e 0,36°C menor, para as temperaturas das análises computacionais. …”
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Satisfaction and Preferences for Infusion Therapies in Advanced Parkinson’s Disease—Patient Perspective by Julia Węgrzynek-Gallina, Tomasz Chmiela, Michał Borończyk, Aleksandra Buczek, Patrycja Hudzińska, Hubert Bigajski, Damian Waksmundzki, Justyna Gawryluk, Joanna Siuda

“…<i>Background and Objectives:</i> The rapid growth of the number of advanced Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients has caused a significant increase in the use of device-aided therapies (DATs), including levodopa–carbidopa intestinal gel (LCIG) and continuous subcutaneous apomorphine infusion (CSAI). …”
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Cystatin C as a Predictor of Mortality and Cardiovascular Events in a Population with Chronic Kidney Disease by Ana Vigil, Emilia Condés, Luis Vigil, Paloma Gallar, Aniana Oliet, Olimpia Ortega, Isabel Rodriguez, Milagros Ortiz, Juan Carlos Herrero, Carmen Mon, Gabriela Cobo, Juana Jimenez

“…Data were obtained for 180 patients, with a diagnosis of chronic renal failure based on serum creatinine estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFRcreat) <90 mL/min/1.73 m2. …”
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circRNA_101277 Influences Cisplatin Resistance of Colorectal Cancer Cells by Modulating the miR-370/IL-6 Axis by Qing Lv, Qinghua Xia, Anshu Li, Zhiyong Wang

“…Luciferase assays were used to detect circRNA_101277 and miR-370 binding sites or miR-370 and IL-6 binding sites. …”
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Factors Associated with Anemia among People Living with HIV/AIDS Taking ART in Ethiopia by Ketema Bizuwork Gebremedhin, Tadesse Bedada Haye

“…Structured checklist was used to gather information from charts of patients selected by simple random sampling method. …”
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Therapeutic Approaches in Mitochondrial Dysfunction, Inflammation, and Autophagy in Uremic Cachexia: Role of Aerobic Exercise by Yumei Zhang, Yuqing Liu, Xiao Bi, Chun Hu, Feng Ding, Wei Ding

“…CKD-induced muscle atrophy is highly prevalent, and exercise is well known to enhance muscle function in these cases, although the exact mechanism remains unclear. …”
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