Twelve-Month Retention in and Impact of Enhance®Fitness on Older Adults in Hawai‘i by Michiyo Tomioka, Kathryn L. Braun, Yan Yan Wu, Kay Holt, Paula Keele, Lori Tsuhako, Johnny Yago

“…Asian or Pacific Islander), to self-report depression as a chronic condition, and to have lower levels of fitness at baseline. Common reasons for dropping out were illness, relocation, time conflicts, lost interest, and transportation issues. …”
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Do meteorological variables impact air quality differently across urbanization gradients? A case study of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, China by Bohan Wu, Shuang Zhao, Yuxiang Liu, Chunyan Zhang

“…The results revealed that: (1) Suburban areas exhibited significantly better air quality than urban and near-urban areas, with annual AQI values of 59.58 in Meinong (outskirts), 67.86 in Renwu (suburbs area), and 76.73 in Qianjin (urban area), showing a progressive improvement in air quality from urban to suburban areas, primarily due to lower levels of urbanization and abundant forest resources; (2) Temperature and relative humidity emerged as key meteorological variables influencing AQI, with Granger causality tests indicating that temperature significantly affects AQI, especially in urban areas. …”
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Limb Dominance Does Not Affect Y-Balance Test Performance in Non-Athlete Adolescents by Carissa A. Stoddard, Sharon Wang-Price, Satoko E. Lam

“…# Background The Lower Quarter Y-Balance Test (YBT-LQ) has been shown to be reliable for assessing dynamic balance in children and adolescents. …”
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Visual and Refractive Outcomes of Cataract Surgeries Performed in One Year in a Private Practice Setting: Review of 2714 Procedures by Laureano A. Rementería-Capelo, Jorge L. García-Pérez, Juan Gros-Otero, Aida Morán, José M. Sánchez-Pina, Inés Contreras

“…In 86.4% of eyes, the difference between target and residual spherical equivalent difference was of 0.50 D or lower; 88% of eyes had a spherical equivalent ±0.50 D. …”
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Assessment of Brushing Techniques in School Children and Its Association with Dental Caries, Omdurman, 2019 by Rugaia Eltayeb Hag Maki Ibrahim, Maha O. Helaly, Ehab Mohamed Abdelhlim Ahmed

“…Due to a lack of awareness consequent of lower socioeconomic status, only a few percentage of the Sudanese population knows how to implement the correct oral hygiene practices to combat dental caries. …”
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Sensitivity of Dynamical Downscaling Seasonal Precipitation Forecasts to Convection and Land Surface Parameterization in a High-Resolution Regional Climate Model by Yuan Li, Guihua Lu, Hai He, Zhiyong Wu

“…In contrast, the combination of BMJ and SSiB schemes shows a less unstable atmospheric environment in summer, which explains the lower forecast skills compared with other schemes. …”
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Factors and barriers to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine uptake for intermittent preventive treatment during pregnancy in Ghana by Akua Kumi Yeboah, Patrick Ohemeng Gyaase, Richmond Bediako Nsiah, Regina Amoa-Tutu, Saida Abdul-Rahman Zakaria, Lynna Naa Adede Obeng, Frank Prempeh, Phenihas Kwadwo Opoku, Amos Andoono, Gilbert Elara Dagoe, Kwame Kusi Agyemang, Jonathan Mawutor Gmanyami, Dominic Nyarko, Paul Kofi Awuah, Gifty Sefaah Owusu, Solomon Anum-Doku

“…Fewer antenatal care (ANC) visits (≤3 times) were strongly associated with lower odds of receiving three or more doses (AOR = 0.03, [95% CI 0.01–0.83], p < 0.001). …”
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Heterogeneous Acupuncture Effects of Taixi (KI3) on Functional Connectivity in Healthy Youth and Elder: A Functional MRI Study Using Regional Homogeneity and Large-Scale Functional... by Linlu He, Guangxiang Chen, Ruwen Zheng, Yan Hu, Xiu Chen, Jianghai Ruan

“…Compared with the resting state, the HY group in the postneedling state showed lower mean intranetwork FC in sensory/somatomotor and subcortical network. …”
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Oral delivery of bovine tuberculosis vaccine to free-ranging white-tailed deer by Kurt VerCauteren, Abigail Feuka, Michael Lavelle, Michael Glow, Keely Kohen, Patrick Ryan, Tony Aderman, Anthony Duffiney, Mitchell Palmer, Paola M. Boggiatto, Carly Kanipe, Hayden Hamby, Emily Ruell, Melinda Cosgrove, Michael Vanderklok, Nathan Snow, Kim M. Pepin, Henry Campa

“…IntroductionFree-ranging white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) are a self-sustaining reservoir for bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in northeastern lower Michigan, (United States) continually putting the area’s cattle industry at risk. …”
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Improving birth preparation with the hypnosis online course “The Peaceful Birth”: a randomized controlled study by Luisa Motz, Rosa Marie Brückner, Barbara Schmidt

“…However, we found no significant group differences in the experience of pain (p = 0.08).ConclusionPregnant women preparing for birth with the hypnosis online course “The Peaceful Birth” showed significantly improved birth preparation showing lower stress, more positive birth expectation and experience compared to a control group. …”
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Spatiotemporal Variation and Driving Factors of Carbon Sequestration Rate in Terrestrial Ecosystems of Ningxia, China by Yi Zhang, Chunxiao Cheng, Zhihui Wang, Hongxin Hai, Lulu Miao

“…The results show that from 2001 to 2023, the CSR of the Ningxia ecosystem exhibits a spatial distribution pattern characterized by higher values in the south and lower values in the north, with a mean value of 21.95 gC·m⁻², and an overall fluctuating increasing trend, with an annual growth rate of 0.53 gC·m⁻² a⁻¹. …”
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Effect of galectin-3 and brain natriuretic peptide levels on echocardiographic parameters of left heart chamber following coronary artery bypass grafting by Yulia A. Styazhkina, Irina F. Grishina, Nina B. Poletaeva, Tatyana F. Peretolchina, Olga V. Nikolaenko

“…By Month 4 of rehabilitation, patients with a prolonged rehabilitation period had high end-diastolic and end-systolic diameters and lower left ventricular ejection fraction compared to Group 1 (p=0.01). …”
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Atezolizumab plus bevacizumab in patients with unresectable or metastatic mucosal melanoma: 3‐year survival update and multi‐omics analysis by Jie Dai, Tianxiao Xu, Lifeng Li, Meiyu Fang, Jing Lin, Jun Cao, Xue Bai, Caili Li, Xiaoting Wei, Junjie Gu, Yaoyao Liu, Xuan Gao, Xuefeng Xia, Jun Guo, Yu Chen, Lili Mao, Lu Si

“…Patients with upper site melanoma exhibited longer progression‐free survival (PFS), higher tumour neoantigen burden (TNB) and greater copy number variations (CNVs) burden compared to those with lower site melanoma. NRAS mutations were associated with enhanced angiogenesis, with five of six patients achieving partial response. …”
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Long-term effects of dupilumab on chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps: A step towards clinical remission by Mona Al-Ahmad, MD, FRCPC, Asmaa Ali, MD, PhD, Wafaa Talat, MD, PhD, Haitham A. Dawood, MD, PhD, Osama Imam, MD, PhD

“…Clinical remission was achieved in 11% of patients, with a slightly lower rate in those with asthma (7.3%). Conclusion: Dupilumab treatment can achieve clinical remission in CRSwNP. …”
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Clinical significance of plasma-free amino acids and tryptophan metabolites in patients with non-small cell lung cancer receiving PD-1 inhibitor: a pilot cohort study for developin... by Akihiko Kawahara, Tetsuro Sasada, Koichi Azuma, Hidenobu Ishii, Norikazu Matsuo, Takaaki Tokito, Tomoaki Hoshino, Yohei Miyagi, Huihui Xiang, Tomoyuki Tagami, Rika Kasajima, Yumiko Kato, Sachise Karakawa, Shinya Kikuchi, Akira Imaizumi, Kenta Murotani

“…Gene expression in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) was compared between the high-risk and low-risk patients by this multivariate model.Results On Cox proportional hazard analysis, higher concentrations of seven PFAAs (glycine, histidine, threonine, alanine, citrulline, arginine, and tryptophan) as well as lower concentrations of three metabolites (3h-kynurenine, anthranilic acid, and quinolinic acid) and neopterin in plasma were significantly correlated with better OS (p&lt;0.05). …”
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Predicting breast cancer prognosis using PR and PIK3CA biomarkers: a comparative analysis of diagnostic groups by Yuting Feng, Qingzhen Song, Lei Yan, Ruoqi Li, Mengqin Yang, Peng Bu, Jing Lian

“…Specifically, elevated PR expression was correlated with lower levels of Ki67 and low HER2 expression. The presence of a PIK3CA mutation was significantly linked to survival outcomes according to both univariate and multivariate Cox regression analyses. …”
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Do Individuals with History of Patellofemoral Pain Walk and Squat Similarly to Healthy Controls? A 3D Kinematic Analysis During Pain Remission Phase. by Diego Martins, Marcelo Peduzzi de Castro, Caroline Ruschel, Carlos Alberto Atherinos Pierri, Heiliane de Brito Fontana, Gilmar Moraes Santos

“… # Purpose To compare 3D kinematics during walking and the single leg squat (SLS) between individuals with history of PFP in remission phase and a control group without history of lower limb injuries and PFP. # Study Design Cross-sectional case-control study…”
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Deer Browsing Increases Stem Slenderness and Crown Irregularity and Modifies the Effects of Light Gradients on Architecture of Forest Tree Saplings by Cecilia Cacciatori, Anna Gazda, Jan Bodziarczyk, Kacper Foremnik, Aklilu B. Madalcho, Zbigniew Maciejewski, Remigiusz Pielech, Andrzej Tomski, Antoni Zięba, Tomasz Zwijacz‐Kozica, Jerzy Szwagrzyk

“…BI was weakly but negatively correlated with sapling height, indicating that even tall saplings (> 2 m) experience browsing, particularly in the lower crown. H/D consistently increased with BI across all height classes, with stronger effects in medium and tall saplings. …”
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Vegetal and Animal Food Proteins Have a Different Impact in the First Postprandial Hour of Impedance-pH Analysis in Patients with Heartburn by Irene Martinucci, Giada Guidi, Edoardo V. Savarino, Marzio Frazzoni, Salvatore Tolone, Leonardo Frazzoni, Lorenzo Fuccio, Lorenzo Bertani, Giorgia Bodini, Linda Ceccarelli, Vincenzo Savarino, Santino Marchi, Nicola de Bortoli

“…Vegetable proteins are associated with a lower number of refluxes, particularly acid refluxes, and with a reduced number of symptoms during the first postprandial hour. …”
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Pain Reduction in Patellofemoral Knee Patients During 3-Month Intervention with Biomechanical and Sensorimotor Foot Orthoses: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Study by Steven Simon, Andreas Heine, Jonas Dully, Carlo Dindorf, Oliver Ludwig, Michael Fröhlich, Stephan Becker

“…Custom-made foot orthoses (FOs) are a common method of medical treatment that positively influences biomechanical factors such as the kinematics of the lower extremity and reduces pain perception in patients. …”
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