Effect of Preoperative Antianxiety Medications on Blood Pressure and Blood Loss in Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Case-Control Study by Zuhdi O. Elifranji, Jihad M. Al-Ajlouni, Munther G. Al-Saber, Yazan S. Hammad, Basel A. Baniatta, Sara N. Alshoubaki, Mohammad S. Jabaiti, Ahmad M. Alkhatib, Abdelrahman M. Abu awad, Abdelrahman E. Altarazi, Aseel N. Abdin, Abdallah Al-Ani, Mohammad Ali Alshrouf

“…However, the percentage of SBP in the middle of surgery did not change significantly. In addition, there was a significant difference change from the baseline in diastolic BP and mean arterial BP between the two groups in the morning of surgery, inside the theatre, and in the middle of the operation. …”
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Constructing Ubudehe? Farmers’ perceptions of drought impacts and resilience capacities in Bugesera, Rwanda by Lazare Nzeyimana, Åsa Danielsson, Veronica Brodén-Gyberg, Lotta Andersson

“…Furthermore, farmers identified collaborative opportunities as important for resilience capacity, including peer learning, and sharing best practices through knowledge exchange and on-field training. In addition, farmers brought up the need for innovative institutions that can facilitate access to markets and enable collaboration between different agricultural sectors. …”
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Preface by CTA Editorial Board

“…For example, in 1989 together with others he was awarded by the Prize of the Council of Ministers of the USSR for the development of novel ceramic cathodes for CO2-lasers, in 2000 he was awarded the State Scholarship for Outstanding Scholars of the Russian Federation, in 2001 he was awarded the Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation title. In addition to his merits and titles, the most important traits of Alexander Petrov were his outstanding humanity and decency. …”
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A nomogram for predicting neonatal acute respiratory distress syndrome in patients with neonatal pneumonia after 34 weeks of gestation by Aosong Yu, Huanhuan Hou, Huanhuan Hou, Lingyi Ran, Xiaojia Sun, Wanchun Xin, Tong Feng

“…The area under the ROC curve was 0.829 (95% CI = 0.785–0.873), indicating the model's strong predictive power. In addition, decision curve analysis showed that the model had significantly better net benefits.ConclusionIn this study, a predictive column-line plot was constructed based on six clinically accessible conventional variables. …”
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Protocol for development of an assessment tool for competency of ECG interpretation: expert consensus by the RAND/UCLA appropriateness method and cross-sectional testing using mult... by Shinji Inaba, Toshi A Furukawa, Osamu Yamaguchi, Masatsugu Sakata, Kazumichi Yamamoto, Tomohiro Kaga, Muhammad Wannous

“…Based on data collected from a predicted sample size of 438 test participants recruited from physicians, nurses, medical and nursing students, and other healthcare professionals, we plan to statistically analyse item parameters and participant performance using multidimensional item response theory. Additionally, we will attempt to detect possible latent factors in the competency of ECG interpretation. …”
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Impact of loneliness on suicidal ideation during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings from a cross-sectional online survey in Japan by Takahiro Tabuchi, Ryo Okubo, Hirokazu Tachikawa, Midori Matsushima, Haruhiko Midorikawa, Miyuki Aiba

“…The relationship between loneliness and suicidal ideation remained robust even after adjusting for depression, although there were declines in PRs. Additionally, the results showed that those who were lonely, and continued to feel lonely during the pandemic, had the highest PRs of suicidal ideation.Conclusion Loneliness had both direct and indirect effects on suicidal ideation mediated through depression. …”
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Gaps in climate health literacy: an analysis of Kosovo’s pre-university curricula and textbooks by Lira Ramadani, Lira Ramadani, Melanie Boeckmann, Carolin Klüsener, Giles B. Sioen, Giles B. Sioen

“…In 2024, a content analysis was applied to Kosovo’s Core Curricula for Pre-Primary, Primary, Lower Secondary, and Upper Secondary Education (grades 0–12), issued in 2016, along with the Subject Syllabi for each grade, issued in 2018. Additionally, six textbooks identified through our curricula and syllabi review as covering climate and health topics were analyzed using a coding guide, which was developed specifically for this study based on previous research. …”
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TAD-SIE: sample size estimation for clinical randomized controlled trials using a Trend-Adaptive Design with a Synthetic-Intervention-Based Estimator by Sayeri Lala, Niraj K. Jha

“…To estimate sample sizes, TAD-SIE implements a new TAD tailored to SI given that using it violates assumptions under standard TADs. In addition, our TAD overcomes the ineffectiveness of standard TADs by allowing sample sizes to be increased across iterations without any condition while controlling significance level with futility stopping. …”
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Effectiveness of workplace health promotion programs for industrial workers: a systematic review by Sasha Javanmardi, Ludwig Rappelt, Sascha Zangenberg, Lars Heinke, Christian Baumgart, Daniel Niederer, Jürgen Freiwald

“…Despite the considerable amount of research conducted in this field, additional well-designed studies are needed to fully confirm the effectiveness and determine the most promising types of interventions for improving and maintaining industrial health.…”
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Traffic-related-air-pollutant PM2.5 Caused Toxicity on Caenorhabditis elegans with Cotreatment of High-dose Glucose and Tempeh by Jian-He Lu, Ming-Hsien Tsai, Sen-Ting Huang, Jia-De Lee, Ta-Chih Hsiao, Wan Nurdiyana Wan Mansor, How-Ran Chao

“…However, pretreatment with 200 µg of tempeh extract had the greatest improvement in the adverse effects of treatment with or without 12.74 mg L−1 TRAP PM2.5 and with or without 80 mM D-glucose on C. elegans. In addition, tempeh treatment also ameliorated the altered mRNA expression of the antioxidant gene in C. elegans treated with or without TRAP PM2.5 and with or without high-dose glucose diets. …”
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Construction process optimisation of graphene-basalt fibre asphalt mixtures by Huzhu Zhang, Wenjia Yang, Huimin Li, Chunyu Zheng, Lijuan Sun

“…During construction, asphalt should be added after the aggregate and basalt fibre are uniformly mixed, followed by the addition of the uniformly mixed graphene and mineral powder mixture. …”
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KANDiff: Kolmogorov–Arnold Network and Diffusion Model-Based Network for Hyperspectral and Multispectral Image Fusion by Wei Li, Lu Li, Man Peng, Ran Tao

“…Experimental results on the public CAVE and Harvard datasets indicate that KanDiff has achieved improvements over current high-performance methods across several metrics, particularly showing significant enhancements in the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) and the structural similarity index measure (SSIM), thus demonstrating superior performance. Additionally, we have created an image fusion dataset of the lunar surface, and KANDiff exhibits robust performance on this dataset as well. …”
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Horizontal and vertical optic disc rotation. The Beijing Eye Study. by Yuan Yuan Fan, Jost B Jonas, Ya Xing Wang, Chang Xi Chen, Wen Bin Wei

“…Horizontal optic disc rotation was associated with inferior dislocation of the fovea, in addition to a thinner superior nasal RNFL and thicker inferior nasal RNFL. …”
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A generative adversarial network with multiscale and attention mechanisms for underwater image enhancement by Liquan Zhao, Yuda Li, Tie Zhong

“…We then use the multi-scale feature extraction module along with conventional convolution modules to design the adversarial network. Additionally, we propose an improved loss function by introducing color loss into the conventional loss function. …”
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Comparison of the factors that influence the pattern of procurement and usage of antithrombotic drugs by Mohamed Mansor Manan, Aswani Yanti Baharudin, Qi Ying Lean, Jagjit Singh Dhaliwal, Sachinjeet Kaur Sodhi Dhaliwal, Muhammad Junaid Farrukh, Ching Siang Tan, Long Chiau Ming

“…For antiplatelet drugs, acetylsalicylic acid was the most utilized antiplatelet with 8.5 DDD followed by clopidogrel (1.42 DDD) and ticlopidine (0.16 DDD). …”
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Effect of Selected Nanospheres on the Mechanical Strength of Lime-Stabilized High-Plasticity Clay Soils by Ali Ghorbani, Hadi Hasanzadehshooiili, Mostafa Mohammadi, Fariborz Sianati, Mahdi Salimi, Lukasz Sadowski, Jacek Szymanowski

“…The UCS value of samples containing 6% lime and 1.5% nano-ZnO after 28 days of treatment increased by 5-fold compared to the UCS of untreated samples. In addition, the samples containing 6% lime and 2% nano-SiO2, with similar curing conditions, experienced a 5.3-fold increase in their UCS value compared to the untreated samples. …”
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A pH-responsive PROTAC-based nanosystem triggers tumor-specific ferroptosis to construct in situ tumor vaccines by Linghong Huang, Xinyuan Sun, Qinhua Zuo, Ting Song, Ning Liu, Zonghua Liu, Wei Xue

“…The MNC@Ca/MnCO3 particles, with their large specific surface area, adsorbed the tumor antigens, preventing antigen loss and enhancing antigen presentation. Additionally, Mn2+ served as an adjuvant to promote the maturation and cross-presentation of APCs. …”
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COVID-19 in the context of pregnancy, infancy and parenting (CoCoPIP) study: protocol for a longitudinal study of parental mental health, social interactions, physical growth and c... by Topun Austin, Jane Barlow, Ezra Aydin, Staci M Weiss, Kevin A Glasgow, Mark H Johnson, Sarah Lloyd-Fox

“…It is designed to identify the longitudinal impact of the pandemic from pregnancy to 2 years of age as assessed using a range of parent- and self-report measures, with the aim of identifying if stress-associated moderators (ie, loss of income, COVID-19 illness, access to ante/postnatal support) appear to impact parental mental health, and in turn, infant development. In addition, we aim to document individual differences in social and cognitive development in toddlers who were born during restrictions intended to mitigate COVID-19 spread (eg, social distancing, national lockdowns).Ethics and dissemination Ethical approval was given by the University of Cambridge, Psychology Research Ethics Committee (PRE.2020.077). …”
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Boosting Cyberattack Detection Using Binary Metaheuristics With Deep Learning on Cyber-Physical System Environment by Alanoud Al Mazroa, Fahad R. Albogamy, Mohamad Khairi Ishak, Samih M. Mostafa

“…The ACAD-BMDL method uses Z-score normalization to scale the input dataset. In addition, the binary grey wolf optimizer (BGWO) model is utilized to choose an optimal feature subset. …”
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Structural and dynamic changes in mixed forests of beech and fir on Mt. Goč by Snežana Obradović, Damjan Pantić, Milan Medarević, Biljana Šljukić, Biljana Pešić

“…A relatively large number of trees per hectare and the described distribution by diameter classes have resulted in the high values of basal area and stand volume. In addition, a high volume increment has also been recorded. …”
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