Laccase-mimicking Cu@CDs-enabled bioinspired immunosensor using CuO nanoparticles for voltametric detection of serum thyroxine level in patients with hyperthyroidism or hypothyroid... by Mohammad Ali Farzin, Seyed Morteza Naghib

“…The LOD (limit of detection) of 2.8 pM, was lower compared to the values reported in previous studies. …”
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Culture Change and Quality of Care Among High Medicaid Nursing Homes: Does Earlier Implementation Matter? by Latarsha Chisholm, Akbar Ghias, Rohit Pradhan, Justin Lord, Ganisher Davlyatov, Robert Weech-Madonado

“… Context: High Medicaid nursing homes are under-resourced and associated with lower resident quality of care. Culture change initiatives, a movement to transition nursing homes to more home-like environments, are a potential process to improve residents’ quality of life and care. …”
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Use of metallic ureteric stents for chronic ureteric obstruction and its association with value-based care by Yu Xi Terence Law, Ang Zhou, David Terrence Consigliere, Benjamin Yen Seow Goh, Ho Yee Tiong

“…Mean indwelling stent duration was significantly greater for MS than for PS (228.6 ± 147.0 vs. 146.1 ± 66.0 days, P < 0.001), thereby leading to lower average number of stent changes per year in the MS group compared to the PS group (1.4 vs. 6.3 times, respectively). …”
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Enhanced Osteogenic and Vasculogenic Differentiation Potential of Human Adipose Stem Cells on Biphasic Calcium Phosphate Scaffolds in Fibrin Gels by Fransisca A. S. van Esterik, Behrouz Zandieh-Doulabi, Cornelis J. Kleverlaan, Jenneke Klein-Nulend

“…For bone tissue engineering synthetic biphasic calcium phosphate (BCP) with a hydroxyapatite/β-tricalcium phosphate (HA/β-TCP) ratio of 60/40 (BCP60/40) is successfully clinically applied, but the high percentage of HA may hamper efficient scaffold remodelling. Whether BCP with a lower HA/β-TCP ratio (BCP20/80) is more desirable is still unclear. …”
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Assessment of Awareness and Attitude Regarding Early Childhood Caries among Parents of Preschool Children Attending Pediatric Outpatient Department: A Cross-sectional Study by S. Deepak, Gaurav Mishra, Vinay Kumar Gupta, Sumit Kumar, Aman Rajput, Mohit Kumar Kanoujia

“…Educational interventions should target rural areas and parents with lower education levels to enhance oral health knowledge and practices.…”
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Predictive factors associated with short‐term mortality in cats with feline infectious peritonitis treated with remdesivir or GS‐441524 or both by Sho Goto, Tsuyoshi Kamiyoshi, Ryota Iwasaki

“…Univariate analysis identified plasma lactate dehydrogenase activity (LDH; P < .001) and bilirubin concentration (P = .001) as being significantly increased in nonsurvivors, whereas concentrations of albumin (P = .003), total protein (P = .03), sodium (P = .005), and potassium (P = .005) were significantly lower. Additionally, nonsurvivors were significantly less likely to be febrile (≥39.4°C; P = .006). …”
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Epidemiology of bacterial biofilms on polyps and normal tissues in a screening colonoscopy cohort by Julia L. Drewes, Samara B. Rifkin, Madison McMann, Sara Glass, Emma Spence, Caroline R. Wensel, Abby L. Geis, Courtney Stevens, Joell J. Gills, Hao Wang, Linda M. Hylind, Gerard Mullin, David Kafonek, David Cromwell, Louis La Luna, Francis M. Giardiello, Cynthia L. Sears

“…Lifestyle variables including greater alcohol and cigarette usage were associated with higher bacterial scores, while vigorous physical activity and diabetes mellitus were associated with lower bacterial scores. Bacterial scores on normal tissues were significantly higher in individuals with colorectal cancer but not polyps compared to dysplasia-free individuals. …”
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Green synthesized FeNPs ameliorate drought stress in Spinacia oleracea L. through improved photosynthetic capacity, redox balance, and antioxidant defense by Javeria Naseem, Anis Ali Shah, Sheeraz Usman, Shakil Ahmed, Mansour K. Gatasheh, Shifa Shaffique, Sumera Javad

“…Fe supplements further improved the antioxidant defense activities and efficiently lowered the effects of stress indicators. These effects of FeCl3 and FeNPs resulted in improved growth of S. oleracea plants in control and drought conditions. …”
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Short-term effects of argon cold atmospheric plasma on canine corneas ex vivo by Juliane Dick, Sandra Lockow, Wolfgang Baumgärtner, Holger Andreas Volk, Claudia Busse

“…A 5-min CAP application results in a lower perilimbal epithelial cell density and fewer Ki67 positive stromal cells compared to the 2-min treatment.…”
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Health Benefits of Endurance Training: Implications of the Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor—A Systematic Review by Włodzimierz Mrówczyński

“…Finally, training-evoked increase of the BDNF/TrkB leads to a change in a manner of regulation of skeletal muscles, causes a reduction of motor deficits observed in the Parkinson disease, and lowers weight, glucose level, and blood pressure, which accompany the MetS. …”
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Interface effects in the phase determination of Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 epitaxial thin films by Jesse Schimpf, Wang Zhang, Mahir Manna, Sandhya Susarla, Xue-Zeng Lu, James M. Rondinelli, Lane W. Martin

“…First-principles calculations suggest that forming oxygen vacancies in Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 lowers its work function, driving electrons away and helping to stabilize the ferroelectric phase. …”
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Seismic Signature of Transition Zone (Wolf Ramp) in Shale Deposits with Application of Frequency Analysis by Anna Kwietniak, Tomasz Maćkowski, Kamil Cichostępski

“…Within the survey area, there exists one formation, the Pasłęk Formation, (Lower Silurian—Llandovery), that exhibits a linear change of velocity. …”
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Nucleos(t)ide Analog Treatment Discontinuation in Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection: A Systematic Literature Review by Robert Gish, Kosh Agarwal, Anadi Mahajan, Supriya Desai, Saifuddin Kharawala, Rob Elston, Joyeta Das, Stuart Kendrick, Vera Gielen

“…There was adequate evidence for lower HBsAg level at baseline and end of treatment as a significant and consistent predictor of HBsAg loss. …”
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A Novel Real Time Framework for Cluster Based Multicast Communication in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks by Waqar Farooq, Muazzam Ali Khan, Saad Rehman

“…In addition, the vehicles cluster head election (VCHE) procedure is proposed to reduce the number of CHs and CMs switches which results in lower overhead of maintaining the clusters. Moreover, another novelty of the framework is that the CTV of VCHE can be adjusted by speed adjustment factor (SAF) to achieve the desired cluster stability depending upon the required VANET application. …”
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Failure Mechanism and Control Technology of Thick and Soft Coal Fully Mechanized Caving Roadway under Double Gobs in Close Coal Seams by Shengrong Xie, Xiaoyu Wu, Dongdong Chen, Yaohui Sun, En Wang, Xiaowei Wu, Xiaobo Duan, Zaisheng Jiang, Pengyu Qi, Songhao Shi

“…The surrounding rock of the roadway under double gobs in the lower coal seams is partially damaged by the mining of the upper coal seam and the stress superimposition of the stepped coal pillars. …”
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Global metabolomic profiling of tumor tissue and paired serum samples to identify biomarkers for response to neoadjuvant FOLFIRINOX treatment of human pancreatic cancer by Manoj Amrutkar, Sander Johannes Thorbjørnsen Guttorm, Anette Vefferstad Finstadsveen, Knut Jørgen Labori, Lars Eide, Helge Rootwelt, Katja Benedikte Prestø Elgstøen, Ivar P. Gladhaug, Caroline S. Verbeke

“…In general, DAMs associated with amino acid and nucleotide metabolism were lower in NAT compared to TN. Four DAMs—3‐hydroxybutyric acid (BHB), 3‐carboxy‐4‐methyl‐5‐propyl‐2‐furanpropanoic acid (CMPF), glycochenodeoxycholate and citrulline—were common to both tissue and serum and showed a similar pattern of differential abundance in both groups. …”
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Machine Learning for Promoting Environmental Sustainability in Ports by Meead Mansoursamaei, Mahmoud Moradi, Rosa G. González-Ramírez, Eduardo Lalla-Ruiz

“…Maritime transportation is one of the essential drivers of the global economy as it enables both lower transportation costs and intermodal operations across multiple forms of transportation. …”
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Identification of natural phytochemicals as AKT2 inhibitors using molecular docking and dynamics simulations as potential cancer therapeutics by Jibon Kumar Paul, Mahir Azmal, Md Naimul Haque Shohan, Mohua Mrinmoy, ANM Shah Newaz Been Haque, Omar Faruk Talukder, Ajit Ghosh

“…Notably, uzarigenin's superior stability, as evidenced by its lower root mean square deviation (RMSD), which measures structural stability, and solvent-accessible surface area (SASA), which indicates molecular compactness, highlights its promise as a potent inhibitor of AKT2. …”
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Impact of Serum Uric Acid Levels on Outcomes following Renal Artery Revascularization in Patients with Renovascular Disease by Xiao-jun Chen, Alfonso Eirin, Garvan C. Kane, Sanjay Misra, Stephen C. Textor, Amir Lerman, Lilach O. Lerman

“…Compared to patients with normal basal SUA levels (≤5.7 mg/dl), patients with very high SUA (≥8.7 mg/dl) had lower baseline estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), more extensive use of antihypertensive and diuretic drugs, increased baseline systolic blood pressure (SBP), and elevated left ventricular mass index. …”
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Low-cost and scalable machine learning model for identifying children and adolescents with poor oral health using survey data: An empirical study in Portugal. by Susana Lavado, Eduardo Costa, Niclas F Sturm, Johannes S Tafferner, Octávio Rodrigues, Pedro Pita Barros, Leid Zejnilovic

“…The proposed models are inherently explainable, broadly applicable, which given the context, could compensate their lower performance (Area Under the Curve = 0.64-0.70) compared to similar approaches and models. …”
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