Robotic Assistance in Simultaneous Bilateral Medial Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty: A Retrospective Cohort Study of 126 Knees Demonstrating Enhanced Radiographic Accuracy and C... by Valentina Rossi, MD, Constant Foissey, MD, Andreas Fontalis, MD, MSc, MRCS, Gabriel Gaggiotti, MD, Stefano Gaggiotti, MD, Elvire Servien, MD, PhD, Sébastien Lustig, MD, PhD

“…Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted involving patients who underwent medial BUKA as a single-stage procedure between April 2016 and January 2022. The study included both conventional (36 procedures) and robotic-assisted techniques (90 procedures) with a minimum follow-up of 6 months. …”
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Diabetes Fact Sheets in Korea 2024 by Se Eun Park, Seung-Hyun Ko, Ji Yoon Kim, Kyuho Kim, Joon Ho Moon, Nam Hoon Kim, Kyung Do Han, Sung Hee Choi, Bong Soo Cha

“…Obesity affected 87.1%, and 26.9% had both hypertension and hypercholesterolemia. Among adults aged ≥65 years, the prevalence of diabetes was 29.3%, with awareness, treatment, and control rates of 78.8%, 75.7%, and 31.2%, respectively. …”
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Psychological, psychiatric, and behavioral sciences measurement scales: best practice guidelines for their development and validation by Alberto Stefana, Stefano Damiani, Umberto Granziol, Umberto Provenzani, Marco Solmi, Marco Solmi, Marco Solmi, Marco Solmi, Marco Solmi, Eric A. Youngstrom, Eric A. Youngstrom, Eric A. Youngstrom, Paolo Fusar-Poli, Paolo Fusar-Poli, Paolo Fusar-Poli

“…In the Scale Evaluation Phase, the dimensionality, reliability, and validity of the scale are rigorously tested using both classical and modern psychometric techniques. …”
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Mutation in the COL2A1 gene is associated with acetabular dysplasia by Miaomiao Xin, Xin Guan, Xin Guan, Jiangfei Yang, Yi Li, Zhentao Man, Hongsheng Sun, Min Fu

“…NGS and Sanger sequencing identified a heterozygous missense mutation in the COL2A1 gene (ex13, c.823C > T; p.Arg275Cys) in both the proband and his father, while this mutation was absent in the mother. …”
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Using Patient‐Reported Outcomes in Two Program Examples Measuring Health Status in Primary Care: An Observational Study by Allison L. Soprovich, Hilary Short, Al‐Bakir Ali, Krista Brower, Arto Ohinmaa, Jeffrey A. Johnson

“…Among those with repeated measurement (n = 212), the greatest improvement was in anxiety/depression (16%); the greatest deterioration was in pain/discomfort (26%). In both, health status was lower than the general Alberta population norms. …”
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Effect of glaucoma and cataract on daily activities in patients with sarcopenic obesity by A.E. Kopylov, N.M. Agarkov, M.V. Alymova

“…Factor analysis of the effect of cataract and SO and glaucoma and SO showed the highest factor loading on the development of dependency on others for needle threading (0.829 and 0.572 respectively) and nail clipping (0.807 and 0.469 respectively) in both groups. However, the effect of cataract and SO on the development of limitations in these activities of daily living is more significant than the effect of glaucoma and SO. …”
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Application of the DEB-TKTD model with multi-omics data: Prediction of life history traits of Chinese mitten crab (Eriocheir sinensis) under different salinities by Hanzun Zhang, Shipeng Dong, Hongwei Shan, Chao Yang, Fang Wang

“…Subsequently, tissues including the eyestalk, posterior gill, hepatopancreas, and ovary were sampled from crabs in both the freshwater control group and the 18 ‰ salinity treatment group for transcriptional and metabolomic analysis. …”
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RespiroDynamics: A Multifaceted Dataset for Enhanced Lung Health Assessment Using Deep Learning by Ahmed Sharshar, Muhammad Sharshar, Hosam Elhady, Ahmed Aboeitta, Youssef Nafea, Yasser Ashraf, Mohammad Yaqub, Mohsen Guizani

“…For the PEF 3-class model, accuracies were 97.14% for both RGB and 96.0% for thermal models. This study aims to underscore the dataset’s potential in establishing and enhancing a robust deep-learning model for lung health diagnostics.…”
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Differential Recruitment of Dendritic Cells Subsets to Lymph Nodes Correlates with a Protective or Permissive T-Cell Response during Leishmania (Viannia) Braziliensis or Leishmania... by A. K. Carvalho, K. Carvalho, L. F. D. Passero, M. G. T. Sousa, V. L. R. da Matta, C. M. C. Gomes, C. E. P. Corbett, G. E. Kallas, F. T. Silveira, M. D. Laurenti

“…Interleukin- (IL-) 4- and IL-10-producing CD4+ and CD8+ T-cells were present in both La and Lb infection; however, interferon- (IFN-) γ-producing CD4+ and CD8+ T-cells were detected only in Lb infection. …”
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Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Dermabacter hominis by Tim Kintzinger, Dennis Knaack, Sören Schubert, Uwe Groß, Robin Köck, Frieder Schaumburg

“…Due to limited variances in both MIC values and inhibition zone diameters, no disk diffusion breakpoint could be deduced for gentamicin and benzylpenicillin in our dataset. …”
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Sibling Species Composition and Susceptibility Status of Anopheles gambiae s.l. to Insecticides Used for Indoor Residual Spraying in Eastern Uganda by Julius Iga, Stephen Ochaya, Richard Echodu, Elizabeth A. Opiyo, Alex K. Musiime, Angella Nakamaanya, Geoffrey M. Malinga

“…WHO bioassay tests revealed that the population of mosquitoes exhibited high levels of susceptibility (24-hour post-exposure mortality 98–100%) to both insecticides tested. The median knock-down time, KDT50, ranged from 6.6 to 81.4 minutes, while the KDT95 ranged from 21.6 to 118.9 minutes for 0.25% pirimiphos-methyl. …”
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Yiqi Juanshen decoction alleviates renal interstitial fibrosis by targeting the LOXL2/PI3K/AKT pathway to suppress EMT and inflammation by Kaiyue Tan, Jingwei Deng, Yi Liu, Yudi Zhang, Yu Xiong, Su Yuan, Jun Liu, Zhiwei Chen, Yuanyuan Liu, Wenfu Cao

“…This modulation of the LOXL2/PI3K/AKT pathway contributes to the inhibition of both EMT and inflammation, highlighting a critical role in the therapeutic intervention against RIF. …”
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Association Between Weight-Adjusted Waist Index and Cognitive Function in Older Adults Without Diabetes: A Cross-Sectional Study by Wang Q, Yin Y, Liu W, Li L, Wang Z, Tian Y, Fan J

“…After adjusting for confounding factors, significant negative correlations were found between WWI and both CERAD (β: − 0.48; 95% CI: − 0.92 to − 0.05; P=0.03) and DSST (β: − 1.15; 95% CI: − 2.09 to − 0.21; P=0.017) scores, suggesting a link to cognitive decline. …”
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Association of pan-immune-inflammatory value with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: findings from NHANES 2017–2020 by Lian-Zhen Huang, Ze-Bin Ni, Qi-Rong Yao, Wei-Feng Huang, Ji Li, Yan-Qing Wang, Jin-Yan Zhang

“…When PIV was classified into quartiles, both Q3 and Q4 exhibited significantly increased risks of MASLD compared with the reference Q1 in full adjusted Model 3 (Q3: OR = 1.63, 95% CI: 1.20–2.22, P = 0.012; Q4: OR = 1.76, 95% CI: 1.28–2.41, P = 0.008; P for trend = 0.002). …”
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Microbial community succession characteristics in an anaerobic baffled reactor during phenol gradient acclimation by Yuan LI, Chunmei YU, Daqiang CANG

“…Anaerobic digestion (AD) is extensively used for treating both industrial and municipal wastewater owing to its cost-efficiency and eco-friendly nature. …”
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Evaluation of low cryptococcal antigen titer as determined by the lateral flow assay in serum and cerebrospinal fluid among HIV-negative patients: a retrospective diagnostic accura... by Xuan Wang, Jia-Hui Cheng, Ling-Hong Zhou, Jun-Hao Zhu, Rui-Ying Wang, Hua-Zhen Zhao, Ying-Kui Jiang, Li-Ping Huang, Ching-Wan Yip, Chun-Xing Que, Min Zhu, Li-Ping Zhu

“…Abstract Cryptococcosis is one of the most common opportunistic infections in both immunocompetent and immunocompromised hosts. …”
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Integrated multidisciplinary analysis of mobile digital radiographic acquisitions of the mummies of the hermits from the Sanctuary of Madonna della Corona (Trentino-Alto Adige, Ita... by Omar Larentis, Omar Larentis, Omar Larentis, Ilaria Gorini, Michele Campus, Marta Lorenzetti, Giancarlo Mansueto, Susanna Bortolotto, Emanuele Zappa, Andrea Gregorini, Laura Rampazzi, Stefano Vanin, Giuseppina Carta, Alberto Carli, Lara Simonaitis, Lisa De Luca, Enrica Tonina

“…The interdisciplinary approach in this study has unveiled new historical and biological insights about these mummies, which, though revered in popular devotion, had previously been unknown to both Italian and international scientific communities.…”
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Integrated Assessment of the Quality of Functioning of Local Electric Energy Systems by Waldemar Wójcik, Petro Lezhniuk, Cezary Kaczmarek, Viacheslav Komar, Iryna Hunko, Nataliia Sobchuk, Laura Yesmakhanova, Zhazira Shermantayeva

“…LEESs are designed in such a way that they can operate autonomously in both normal and extreme conditions in the EPS. The sources of electricity in LEESs are small hydroelectric power plants (SHPPs), photovoltaic power plants (PVPPs), and wind power plants (WPPs), whose electricity generation is unstable due to dependence on natural conditions. …”
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Increase in disturbance-induced canopy gaps leads to reorganization of Central European bird communities by Anne Graser, Claudia Frank, Friederike Kunz, Andreas Schuldt, Cornelius Senf, Christoph Sudfeldt, Sven Trautmann, Johannes Kamp

“…Here, we investigate the effect of canopy gaps resulting from both natural and anthropogenic forest disturbance on bird species. …”
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The Role of Matrix Metalloproteinases (MMP-2 and MMP-9) in Ageing and Longevity: Focus on Sicilian Long-Living Individuals (LLIs) by Patrizia Cancemi, Anna Aiello, Giulia Accardi, Rosalia Caldarella, Giuseppina Candore, Calogero Caruso, Marcello Ciaccio, Laura Cristaldi, Francesca Di Gaudio, Valentina Siino, Sonya Vasto

“…Finally, in LLIs MMP-9 values correlated directly both with cholesterol and with low-density lipoproteins. …”
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