AI Can Be a Powerful Social Innovation for Public Health if Community Engagement Is at the Core by Alessandra N Bazzano, Andrea Mantsios, Nicholas Mattei, Michael R Kosorok, Aron Culotta

“…This viewpoint proposes a multifaceted approach to ensure safer and more effective integration of AI in public health with the following call to action: (1) include the basics of AI technology in public health training and professional development; (2) use a community engagement approach to co-design AI technologies in public health; and (3) introduce governance and best practice mechanisms that can guide the use of AI in public health to prevent or mitigate potential harms. …”
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OIE and FAO join forces to counter ASF by N. V. Lebedev, A. S. Igolkin, K. N. Gruzdev

“…The many-year efforts resulted in the establishment of the FAO/OIE/GF-TADs platform as a progressive mechanism to combat such transboundary disease as African swine fever.…”
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Urbanização e novas relações cidade-campo: os processos com a criação do estado do Tocantins e de sua capital Palmas na Amazônia Oriental by Kelly Bessa

“…More recently, agribusiness has triggered new relations among urban, rural, and regional spaces, fostering enormous investment within the real estate sector and other segments of the urban economy. These are all mechanisms that aim to accumulate capital, whether in the real estate sector or in the urban functional structure, hence attracting surpluses from the countryside and the wider region. …”
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Understanding the role of metabolic syndrome in prostate cancer risk: A UK Biobank prospective cohort study by Shing Fung Lee, Maja Nikšić, Miguel Angel Luque-Fernandez

“…Further research is needed to understand the underlying mechanisms behind these relationships. Prostate cancer prevention strategies might benefit from targeting modifiable risk factors, particularly hypertension and obesity.…”
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New System for the Classification of Epiphyseal Separation of the Coracoid Process: Evaluation of Nine Cases and Review of the Literature by Takamitsu Mondori, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Shimpei Kurata, Shuhei Fujii, Takuya Egawa, Kazuya Inoue, Yasuhito Tanaka

“…Data on sex, age, cause and mechanism of injury, separation type, concomitant injury around the shoulder girdle, treatment, and functional outcomes were obtained. …”
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Repurposing of Metformin to Improve Survival Outcomes in Patients With Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma by Hsiang Ying Lee, Po‐Hung Lin, See‐Tong Pang, Jen‐Kai Fang, Chung‐You Tsai, Yao‐Chou Tsai, Yung‐Tai Chen, Wei‐Chieh Chen, Hsin‐Chih Yeh, Wei‐Ming Li

“…Conclusion The study suggests that metformin use in UTUC patients with diabetes is associated with improved OS and CSS but not BRFS. The underlying mechanisms warrant further investigation. Repurposing metformin, a well‐established and safe drug, may develop new therapeutic strategies for UTUC.…”
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Acoustic Features of Vowels in Patients with Dysarthria by Jing XU, Yalin XU, Zhiwei MOU, Jianliang LU, Chenyin JIANG

“…Doctors and therapists can find the pathology differences of acoustic features between patients and normal speech and understand the internal mechanism through extracting acoustic parameters with the technique of linear predictive coding with computer. …”
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Innovative zero-valent cobalt decoration on MIL-88 A(Fe)@β-CD for high-efficiency and reusable cr(VI) removal by Eman M. Abd El-Monaem, Nouf Al Harby, Mervette El Batouti, Abdelazeem S. Eltaweil

“…In addition, the XPS spectra and zeta potential results supposed that the process inside the Cr(VI)/ZVCo-MIL-88 A(Fe)@β-CD system proceeded through reduction reaction, coordination bonds, electrostatic interactions, and pore-filling mechanisms.…”
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Assessment of the Vanillin Anti-Inflammatory and Regenerative Potentials in Inflamed Primary Human Gingival Fibroblast by Erica Costantini, Bruna Sinjari, Katia Falasca, Marcella Reale, Sergio Caputi, Srinivas Jagarlapodii, Giovanna Murmura

“…Furthermore, in presence of mechanical injury, the Vanillin preincubation, wound closure may be reducing the expression and release of IL-6 and TNF-α and upregulation of COX-2 and IL-8. …”
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YOLOv8n-CA: Improved YOLOv8n Model for Tomato Fruit Recognition at Different Stages of Ripeness by Xin Gao, Jieyuan Ding, Ruihong Zhang, Xiaobo Xi

“…The model is based on the YOLOv8n architecture, incorporating the coordinate attention (CA) mechanism into the backbone network to enhance the model’s ability to capture and express features of the tomato fruits. …”
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Association between weight-adjusted waist index and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis: insights from NHANES 2007–2012 by Xiaoyong Wen, Xiaoyong Wen, Yu Mao, Yu Mao, Zeyu Li, Zeyu Li, Guangji Chen, Shiwei Zhou

“…However, further high-quality studies are needed to confirm these findings and explore the underlying biological mechanisms.…”
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Biomechanics Parameters of Gait Analysis to Characterize Parkinson’s Disease: A Scoping Review by Michela Russo, Marianna Amboni, Noemi Pisani, Antonio Volzone, Danilo Calderone, Paolo Barone, Francesco Amato, Carlo Ricciardi, Maria Romano

“…Therefore, the use of quantitative information on the gait mechanisms of PD patients is a promising approach, particularly for monitoring gait disorders and potentially informing therapeutic interventions, though it is not yet a well-established tool for early diagnosis or direct assessment of disease progression. …”
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Subgroups of cognitive impairments in schizophrenia characterized by executive function and their morphological features: a latent profile analysis study by Yuyan Huang, Weiyan Wang, Gangrui Hei, Tiannan Shao, Li Li, Ye Yang, Xiaoyi Wang, Yujun Long, Jingmei Xiao, Xingjie Peng, Chuhan Song, Jingda Cai, Xueqin Song, Xijia Xu, Shuzhan Gao, Jing Huang, Dongyu Kang, Ying Wang, Jingping Zhao, Yunzhi Pan, Renrong Wu

“…The key challenge for cognitive subtyping is applying an integrated and standardized cognitive assessment and understanding the subgroup-specific neurobiological mechanisms. The present study endeavors to explore cognitive subgroups and identify their morphological features. …”
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CFD analysis of heat transfer enhancement in impinging jet array by varying number of jets and spacing by Zakia Rachdi, Nidhal Hnaien, Aboulbaba Eladeb, Badr M. Alshammari, Lioua Kolsi, Hacen Dhahri

“…Our study examines the combined effect of the number of jets (N) and the jet–jet spacing (S) on flow mechanisms and heat transfer performance, which is unique compared to previous research that frequently focuses on the individual effects of parameters. …”
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Effects of environmental factors on the phenotypic traits and seed element accumulation of wild Elymus nutans in Tibet by Jianting Long, Xianlei Gao, Yanjun Miao

“…These environmental factors are critical ecological determinants, and this research seeks to unveil the complex and diverse ecological adaptation mechanisms of the species. The research encompasses ten counties within the Tibet Autonomous Region, with sampling points distributed across seven distinct ecological environments. …”
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Is chronic urticaria or urticarial vasculitis a diagnostic dilemma? by L.I. Vakulenko, S.V. Samsonenko, K.V. Skriabina

“…The aim is to reveal the key points of pathogenetic mechanisms, differential diagnosis and therapeutic tactics of UV based on a clinical case. …”
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Drug-Induced Myoclonus: A Systematic Review by Jamir Pitton Rissardo, Ana Letícia Fornari Caprara, Nidhi Bhal, Rishikulya Repudi, Lea Zlatin, Ian M. Walker

“…Based on the main clinical constellation of symptoms and pathophysiological mechanisms found in this study, DIM can be categorized into three types: type 1 (serotonin syndrome), type 2 (non-serotonin syndrome), and type 3 (unknown).…”
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Effects of nonspecific resistance in barley genotypes obtained by cell selection by O. N. Shupletsova, S. Yu. Ogorodnikova, Ya. I. Nazarova

“…Development of regenerants with integrated resistance to soil stressors due to specific and nonspecific mechanisms is a relevant trend.The target research material was a hybrid combination of spring barley (Luly × Conrad) × 2867-80 and its regenerant forms obtained as a result of cell selection with stressors of various nature. …”
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Effect of Magnesium Borates on the Fire-Retarding Properties of Zinc Borates by Azmi Seyhun Kipcak, Nil Baran Acarali, Emek Moroydor Derun, Nurcan Tugrul, Sabriye Piskin

“…Magnesium borate (MB) is a technical ceramic exhibiting high heat resistance, corrosion resistance, great mechanical strength, great insulation properties, lightweightness, high strength, and a high coefficient of elasticity. …”
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Kinetics and Equilibrium Studies of the Adsorption of Copper(II) Ions from Industrial Wastewater Using Activated Carbons Derived from Sugarcane Bagasse by Temiloluwa E. Amoo, Kehinde O. Amoo, Opeyemi A. Adeeyo, Clement O. Ogidi

“…Here, the adsorption process was film-diffusion controlling, while being principally governed by external mass transport where the slowest step is the diffusion of the particles through the film layer. The mechanism of the adsorption process was proposed taking into cognizance of the ion exchange and surface complexation on active sites between the negatively charged surface of the BACs and the positively charged Cu(II) ions. …”
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