Sociodemographic Risk Factors for Mental Health Disorders Among School Children in Umuahia, South-East Nigeria by Ikechukwu F. Ogbonna, Chizoba F. Achor, Joseph Ezeogu

“…Children aged 10–13 years were eight times more likely to have MHD than children in the other age groups (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] = 7.68, 95% CI = 2.43–24.26, P = 0.001); female children were three times more likely to have MHD than their male counterparts (aOR = 2.75, 95% CI = 1.20–6.27, P = 0.016), while children of the lower SES were three times more likely to have MHD compared to children from other SES (aOR = 3.27, 95% CI = 1.04–10.25, P = 0.042). …”
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Quantifying uncertainties in satellite NO₂ superobservations for data assimilation and model evaluation by P. Rijsdijk, P. Rijsdijk, P. Rijsdijk, H. Eskes, A. Dingemans, A. Dingemans, K. F. Boersma, K. F. Boersma, T. Sekiya, K. Miyazaki, S. Houweling, S. Houweling

“…Often the modelling system has a lower spatial resolution than the satellites used, with a model grid size in the range of 10–100 km. …”
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Population dynamics of the mouflon (Ovis aries musimon) in South-West Poland in 1981–2020 by Grzegorz Kopij

“…The pattern of population growth in the whole of Poland was similar to that in Lower Silesia. Up to 1987 mouflons were restricted in Poland to Sudety Mts. and Świętokrzyskie Mts. …”
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Factors Influencing the Development of Metachronous Fractures in Patients with Osteoporotic Vertebral Fractures Treated with Conservative Management or Vertebroplasty by Fernando Ruiz Santiago, Lucía Bueno Caravaca, Francisco Garrido Sanz, Paula María Jiménez Gutiérrez, David Luengo Gómez, Mario Rivera Izquierdo, José Manuel Benítez, Antonio Jesús Láinez Ramos-Bossini

“…<b>Conclusions:</b> The presence of intravertebral cleft, a difference in posterior height loss between X-rays and CT equal to or lower than 2.4%, higher grades of Genant’s numerical classification, and application of CM instead of PV are predictors of MFs. …”
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A comparison of drug‐eluting stent and coronary artery bypass grafting in mildly to moderately ischemic heart failure by Kun Wang, Le Wang, Hongliang Cong, Jingxia Zhang, Yuecheng Hu, Yingyi Zhang, Rui Zhang, Wenyu Li, Wei Qi

“…Conclusions Considering the higher long‐term survival rate and lower repeat‐revascularization rate, CABG may be superior to DES implantation in patients with mildly to moderately reduced EF (35–50%) and significant CAD.…”
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Quantifying Time-Lag and Time-Accumulation Effects of Climate Change and Human Activities on Vegetation Dynamics in the Yarlung Zangbo River Basin of the Tibetan Plateau by Ning Li, Di Wang

“…Spatially, climate change accounted for 85% of the changes in LAI in the upper YZR basin, while vegetation dynamics in the lower basin was primarily driven by human activities, contributing 63%. …”
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Analysis of Factors Related to Pulmonary Nodules in Patients With Fatty Liver: A Large-Scale Cohort Study Based on a Physical Examination Population by Qin Y, Huang X, Lin J, Pan L, Liang Q, Li W

“…Age, gender, systolic and diastolic blood pressure were significantly higher in the pulmonary nodule group, while body weight, waist circumference, hemoglobin, uric acid, and glutamyltransferase were lower. Multifactorial logistic regression analysis showed that male gender, body weight, age, and diastolic blood pressure were significant factors influencing lung nodule development in fatty liver patients.Conclusion: Fatty liver disease is independently associated with an increased incidence of pulmonary nodules, highlighting its importance in lung cancer screening and prevention.Keywords: pulmonary nodules, fatty liver, health checkup, influencing factors, retrospective cohort study…”
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The Cost-effectiveness of Celecoxib versus Non-steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs plus Proton-pump Inhibitors for Treating Osteoarthritis in Algeria by Nadir Hammoumraoui, Sid Ahmed Kherraf, Joaquin Mould-Quevedo, Tarek A. Ismail

“…The ICER of celecoxib+PPI was lower than that of comparators over all time horizons. …”
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Utilization and quality of primary and specialized palliative homecare in nursing home residents vs. community dwellers: a claims data analysis by Juliane Poeck, Franziska Meissner, Bianka Ditscheid, Markus Krause, Ulrich Wedding, Cordula Gebel, Ursula Marschall, Gabriele Meyer, Werner Schneider, Antje Freytag

“…This may also explain higher rates of PPC and lower rates of SPHC in nursing home residents, and why the relationship with both PPC and SPHC are smaller in nursing home residents. …”
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Constructing age-structured matrix population models for all fishes by Masami Fujiwara

“…For example, species with longer generation times, like the greater barracuda (Sphyraena guachancho), have lower damping ratios, indicating prolonged transient dynamics. …”
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Stimulation of Alpha1-Adrenergic Receptor Ameliorates Cellular Functions of Multiorgans beyond Vasomotion through PPARδ by Yong-Jik Lee, Hyun Soo Kim, Hong Seog Seo, Jin Oh Na, You-Na Jang, Yoon-Mi Han, Hyun-Min Kim

“…In spontaneously hypertensive rats, α1-adrenergic receptor stimulation affected mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation and ATP production by activating PPARδ, AMPK, and PGC-1α and the relevant biologic functions of multiple organs, suggesting organ crosstalk. The treatment lowered blood pressure, fat and body weight, cholesterol levels, and inflammatory activity; increased ATP content and insulin sensitivity in skeletal muscles; and increased cardiac contractile function without exercise training. …”
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Meta-analysis of efficacy and safety of pembrolizumab for the treatment of advanced or recurrent cervical cancer by Xue Zhang, Wen-Jie Yin, Ai-Li Zhang, Xiao-Xiao Zhang, Li-Juan Ding, Jiao Zhang, Shu-Ting He, Jie-Ping Yan

“…The three most common AEs were diarrhoea (0.25), anaemia (0.25), and nausea (0.21), and the incidence of grade 3–5 AEs was significantly lower, rarely surpassing 0.10.Conclusions For patients with advanced or recurrent cervical cancer, this systematic review and meta-analysis demonstrated that pembrolizumab had a favourable efficacy and tolerability. …”
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Challenges and opportunities for assessing trends of amphibians with heterogeneous data – a call for better metadata reporting by Klaus Henle, Reinhard A. Klenke, M. Benjamin Barth, Annegret Grimm-Seyfarth, Diana E. Bowler

“…Some peaks align with periods of lower sampling effort and were probably caused by shifts in the sampling locations or target species amongst years. …”
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THE BIOSYNTHESIS REGULATION OF POTATO STEROIDAL GLYCOALKALOIDS by K. A. Ivanova, S. V. Gerasimova, E. K. Khlestkina

“…In the course of potato domestication, plants with a lower SGA level were selected. The advent of approaches for manipulation with the regulation of metabolic pathways provides an opportunity to overcome the undesirable direct relationship between the potato resistance to pests and the toxicity of its tubers. …”
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Response of Crop Yield and Productivity Contribution Rate to Long-Term Different Fertilization in Northeast of China by Xingzhu Ma, Xiaoyu Hao, Yue Zhao, Xinhua Peng, Jinghong Ji, Shuangquan Liu, Yu Zheng, Lei Sun, Baoku Zhou

“…In addition, the black soil has strong phosphorus and potassium supply capacity; nitrogen was lower than those two elements, with an average natural potassium supply capacity of 94.0–97.1%. …”
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Influence of Injection Pressure on the Dual-Fuel Mode in CI Engines Fueled with Blends of Ethanol and Tamanu Biodiesel by M. Parthasarathy, P. V. Elumalai, M. Murunachippan, P. B. Senthilkumar, Saboor Shaik, Mohsen Sharifpur, Nima Khalilpoor

“…Under peak load conditions, NOx emissions of TMEE10 are 6.2% lower than those of neat TME in the CI mode. Furthermore, the experiment was conducted using TMEE10 as the primary fuel and CNG as the secondary fuel. …”
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Active Retrograde Extra Backup with a Mother-and-Child Catheter to Facilitate Retrograde Microcatheter Collateral Channel Tracking in Recanalization of Coronary Chronic Total Occlu... by Yong Wang, Xiao-Jiao Zhang, Hong-Wei Zhao, Cheng-Fu Wang, De-Feng Luo, Qing-Kun Meng, Yu Zhu, Jie Tao, Bao-Jun Chen, Yi Li, Ai-Jie Hou, Bo Luan

“…The radiation dose (223.6 ± 112.7 vs. 295.2 ± 129.3, p=0.028), fluoroscopy time (50.6 ± 21.3 vs 62.3 ± 32.1, p=0.030), and contrast volume (301.8 ± 146.7 vs 352.2 ± 179.5, p=0.032) in the ARB group were significantly lower than that in the non-ARB group. There were no life-threatening procedural complications in either group. …”
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Aminoguanidine hemisulfate improves mitochondrial autophagy, oxidative stress, and muscle force in Duchenne muscular dystrophy via the AKT/FOXO1 pathway in mdx mice by Shiyue Sun, Tongtong Yu, Joo Young Huh, Yujie Cai, Somy Yoon, Hafiz Muhammad Ahmad Javaid

“…Additionally, AGH reduced apoptosis, shown by fewer TUNEL-positive cells and lower caspase-3 expression. Histological analysis revealed decreased muscle damage and fewer embryonic and neonatal myosin-expressing fibers. …”
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Daidzein improves muscle atrophy caused by lovastatin by regulating the AMPK/FOXO3a axis by Keke Wang, Hao Zeng, Hua Yang

“…Abstract Background Lovastatin, the main lipid-lowering component in red yeast rice, is a golden anti-lipid drug, but its long-term application is continuously challenged by potential skeletal muscle atrophy. …”
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Performance evaluation of the high-throughput quantitative Alinity m Epstein-Barr virus assay by D. Yitzchak Goldstein, Mark M. Sasaki, Momka Narlieva, Nhi Nhan, Tianxi Liu, April Kegl, Tanjina Akter, Tanisha Dickerson, Eriel Thornton, Patricia Jim, Stephen Young, Danijela Lucic, Julie W. Hirschhorn

“…We evaluated the analytical and clinical performance of the quantitative Alinity m EBV assay for plasma sample testing on the fully automated Alinity m platform. Assay lower limit of detection and precision were determined using commercially available panels in plasma. …”
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