Colorectal cancer detection with enhanced precision using a hybrid supervised and unsupervised learning approach by Akella S. Narasimha Raju, K. Venkatesh, Ranjith Kumar Gatla, Eswara Prasad Konakalla, Marwa M. Eid, Nataliia Titova, Sherif S. M. Ghoneim, Ramy N. R. Ghaly

“…It discusses how to combine feature interpretation challenges into medical imaging for accurate localization and precise segmentation of malignant regions. A good balance between performance and generalization shall be done by hyperparameter optimization-heavy learning rates; dropout rates and overfitting shall be suppressed effectively. …”
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Biomechanical analysis of a short femoral stem used in revision total hip replacement of a standard femoral stem by Shuang G. Yan, Zhi Wang, Yiliang Cui, Fanxiao Liu, Jingtao Lu, Hui Zhang, Di Li

“…Our results show that the SHA (Tri-Lock BPS) offers good primary stability, which is similar to that of the standard THA (Corail). …”
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Prevalence and Antimicrobial Resistance of Bacteria Isolated from Marine and Freshwater Fish in Tanzania by Esther Marijani

“…According to the International Commission on Microbiological Specifications for Foods criteria, 54 (58.7%) and 38 (41.3%) samples were good and marginally acceptable, respectively. E. coli isolates were resistant to penicillin (PEN), erythromycin (ERY), gentamicin (GEN), azithromycin (AZM), and tetracycline (TET), while Salmonella spp. isolates exhibited resistance to gentamicin (CN), tetracycline (TET), penicillin (PEN), and erythromycin (ERY). …”
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Estradiol and progesterone levels in early pregnancy after natural, estradiol + progesterone or gonadotrophin stimulated frozen embryo transfer cycle: a randomised controlled trial... by Nina Freiesleben Mørch, Mette Petri Lauritsen, Pernille Fog Svendsen

“…The study will be carried out in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and monitored by a good clinical practice unit. Positive, negative and inconclusive findings will be published in international peer-reviewed journals.Trial registration number NCT04997525, 2020-001218-39.…”
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Evaluating the Accuracy, Quality, and Readability of Online Breast Cancer Information by Elsie A. Valencia, BS, Chandler S. Cortina, MD, MS, FSSO, FACS, Adrienne N. Cobb, MD, MS, Lubna N. Chaudhary, MD, MS, Tracy Kelly, MD, Amanda L. Kong, MD, MS, FSSO, FACS

“…The overall mean quality score was 50.8 (“fair”/“good” quality) with no significant differences among website affiliations (P = 0.10). …”
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Social determinants of oral health in an indigenous community of Chile: preliminary data of a mixed qualitative and quantitative study by Cynthia Cantarutti, Gerardo Yévenes, Agueda Muñoz-del-Carpio-Toia, Daniela Adorno-Farias, Ricardo Fernández-Ramires, Alan Roger Santos-Silva, Jean Nunes dos Santos, Ignacio Molina-Ávila, Wilfredo Alejandro González-Arriagada

“…Participants demonstrated good oral health knowledge and a positive attitude towards prevention, despite recalling limited education in their youth. …”
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Design of multifunctional interfaces on ceramic solid electrolytes for high-performance lithium-air batteries by Yunxin Shi, Ziyang Guo, Changhong Wang, Mingze Gao, Xiaoting Lin, Hui Duan, Yonggang Wang, Xueliang Sun

“…As a result, the DSCCE-based Li–air batteries possess high capacity/low voltage polarization (11,836 mA h g−1/1.45 V under 500 mA g−1), good rate performance (capacity ratio under 1000 mA g−1/250 mA g−1 is 68.2%) and long-term stable cell operation (∼300 cycles at 750 mA g−1 with 750 mAh g−1) in ambient air.…”
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Biological Evaluation of Platinum(II) Sulfonamido Complexes: Synthesis, Characterization, Cytotoxicity, and Biological Imaging by Charini Maladeniya, Taniya Darshani, Sameera R. Samarakoon, Frank R. Fronczek, W. M. C. Sameera, Inoka C. Perera, Theshini Perera

“…In this study, two novel platinum complexes, (C1 = [PtCl2(N(SO2quin)dpa)], C2 = [PtCl2(N(SO2azobenz)dpa)]) containing quinoline and azobenzene appended dipicolylamine sulfonamide ligands were synthesized in good yield. The singlet attributable to methylene CH2 protons of the ligands of C1 and C2 appears as two doublets in 1H NMR spectra, which confirms the presence of magnetically nonequivalent protons upon coordination to platinum. …”
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Neoadjuvant adebrelimab combined with chemotherapy (cisplatin/carboplatin and etoposide) for limited-stage small-cell lung cancer: a study protocol of phase 2 trial (NIUS) by Yan Zhang, Qian Huang, Mengxia Li, Xi Zheng, Yanyang Liu, Long Tian, Guizhi Chen, Hongyu Xu, Daxing Zhu

“…Immunotherapy has achieved good efficacy in extensive-stage SCLC and non-SCLC. …”
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Overweight and Obesity Coexist with Thinness among Lao’s Urban Area Adolescents by Katiya Ivanovitch, Sonemany Keolangsy, Nontiya Homkham

“…Poor eating habits were noted in 67.0% of adolescents, even though 78.0% of them had a good knowledge of nutrition. Factors significantly associated with the overweight/obesity were low physical activities (aOR = 18.3; 95% CI: 5.51–60.66) and adolescents living with their guardians (aOR = 0.25; 95% CI: 0.08–0.79). …”
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Effects of Homogeneous Doping on Electron–Phonon Coupling in SrTiO₃ by Minwoo Park, Suk Bum Chung

“…To describe the very low doping concentration, we tuned the homogeneous background charge, from which we obtained a first-principles result on the doping-dependent phonon frequency that is in good agreement with experimental data for Nb-doped STO. …”
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Bacteriological Analysis of Raw Beef Retailed in Selected Open Markets in Accra, Ghana by Michael Olu-Taiwo, Prince Obeng, Akua Obeng Forson

“…Therefore, more training in safe food handling and good hygiene practices is required for beef retailers. …”
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Novel Osteo Refurbishment Method and Choice of Colouring Materials for Anatomy Specimens by Dibakar BORTHAKUR, Rajesh KUMAR, Neerja RANI, Rima DADA

“…Conclusions: Acrylic colour holds a good place in coloring both specimens and models in anatomy. …”
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Online tools to predict individualised survival for primary oesophageal cancer patients with and without pathological complete response after neoadjuvant therapy followed by oesoph... by Jie Zhang, Xiang Chen, Dong Dong, Lijie Tan, Yajie Zhang, Hecheng Li, Yuqin Cao, Binhao Huang, Han Tang, Tianzheng Shen, Xijia Feng, Jiahao Zhang, Liqiang Shi, Chengqiang Li, Heng Jiao

“…The predictive models for pCR and non-pCR patients demonstrated good calibration and clinical utility, with acceptable discrimination that surpassed that of the current tumour, node, metastases staging system.Conclusions The web-based dynamic nomograms for pCR (https://predict-survival.shinyapps.io/pCR-eso/) and non-pCR patients (https://predict-survival.shinyapps.io/non-pCR-eso/) developed in this study can facilitate the calculation of OS probability for individual patients undergoing neoadjuvant therapy and radical oesophagectomy, aiding clinicians and patients in making personalised treatment decisions.…”
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Describing team development within a novel GP-led urgent care centre model: a qualitative study by Azeem Majeed, Geva Greenfield, Sarah Morton, Shamini Gnani, Agnieszka Igantowicz

“…Traditionally these two groups do not work alongside each other within an emergency setting. Although good teamwork is crucial to better patient outcomes, there is little within the literature about the development of a team consisting of different healthcare professionals in a novel healthcare setting. …”
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High-Risk Genotypes Associated with Poor Response to Controlled Ovarian Stimulation in Indian Women by Anuradha Udumudi, K. Chaitra Lava, Vandana Hegde

“…Based on the number of oocytes retrieved upon COS, a patient may be classified as a good responder or poor responder. The genetic aspect of response to COS has not been elucidated in the Indian population. …”
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Extraction, Characterization and Epoxidation of Cotton Seed Oil by Abdullahi Muhammad, Fai Frederick, Chiroma Muhammad

“…Epoxies can potentially be chemically altered in order to replace raw materials with industrial goods. The following conclusions were drawn from the cottonseed oil characterisation results: the specific gravity is 0.923g, peroxide content is 10.42mEq/kg, pH is 4.1, iodine value is 114.7gI2/100g, acid value is 0.66mgKOH/g, and saponification value is 191.2mgKOH/g. …”
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Evaluation of the Desire to Avoid Pregnancy Scale in the UK: a psychometric analysis including predictive validity by Geraldine Barrett, Jennifer Hall, Corinne Rocca

“…Item response and classical test theory methods were used.Results The scale was acceptable, understandable and showed good targeting with the full range of scores captured. …”
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Partial weight bearing and long-term survival outcomes in extracapsular hip fractures treated with trochanteric Gamma3 nails by Carlos Hernández-Pascual, José Ángel Santos-Sánchez, Jorge Hernández-Rodríguez, Carlos Fernando Silva-Viamonte, Carmen Pablos-Hernández, Pablo Alonso-Rodríguez, José Antonio Mirón-Canelo

“…According to Baumgaertner-Fogagnolo classification (138 good, 71 acceptable and 9 poor) a postoperative protocol was applied. 116 cases bore weight before discharge (Immediate Partial Weight Bearing, IPWB = 116; Not-IPWB = 102), and 118 did it after a month (Early PWB, EPWB = 118; Not-EPWB = 100). …”
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Study on Layered-Backfill-Based Water Protection Technology of Thick Coal Seam in the Ecologically Fragile Mining Area in Western China by Lei Zhu, Tianqi Song, Wenzhe Gu, Kai Xu, Zhicheng Liu, Fengqi Qiu, Xinfu Zhang

“…The results indicated that when the slicing mining method was adopted with the roof naturally caving, the maximum development height of the water conducted fracture zone was 220.0 m (developed to the Yan’an Formation), and the water conducted fracture zone could only develop to the Yan’an Formation without crossing the Zhiluo Formation when the backfill ratio reached 80%. …”
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