A checklist of indigenous flora in the Richtersveld National Park confirms high plant diversity in the arid north-western tip of South Africa by Pieter van Wyk, Hugo Bezuidenhout, Norbert Jürgens

“…The role of the peculiar biogeographical position and the high diversity of unique habitats within extreme environmental gradients were discussed in a review of published evidence. Reference to distribution and habitat was presented for each species in the appendices. …”
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Respiratory Muscle Strength Training for Athletes: A Narrative Review by Thiagarajan Subramanian, Manu Goyal

“…The review included studies published in English, which were peer-reviewed and focused on RMT interventions in sports players. …”
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Role of cardiac CT in the diagnostic evaluation and risk stratification of patients with myocardial infarction and non-obstructive coronary arteries (MINOCA): rationale and design... by Konstantinos Tsioufis, Haralambos Karvounis, George Giannakoulas, Theodoros Karamitsos, Ronny R Buechel, Konstantinos Kouskouras, Ioannis Vogiatzis, Konstantinos Toutouzas, Nathaniel R Smilowitz, Georgios P Rampidis, Polydoros Ν Kampaktsis, Athanasios Samaras, Georgios Benetos, Andreas Α Giannopoulos, Alexandros Kallifatidis, Antonios Samaras, Stavros Hadjimiltiades, Antonios Ziakas, Catherine Gebhard, Panagiotis Prassopoulos, Harmony Reynolds

“…Results will be disseminated at national meetings and published in peer-reviewed journals.Trial registration number NCT4186676.…”
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Systematic review of surface disinfection: Spraying versus wiping for COVID-19 prevention by Babasola 0. Okusanya, Muzzammil Gadanya, Anthony Nlemadim, Victoria Adaramoye, David O. Akeju, John Ehiri, Martin M. Meremiku

“…Three studies with indirect evidence, published between 2021 and 2022 in Japan, South Korea and Spain, were included. …”
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Blended Educational Technologies in Higher Education: Systematic Review of Domestic Publications by N. V. Bordovskaya, E. A. Koshkina, M. A. Tikhomirova, L. A. Melkaya

“…The authors have analyzed 180 papers published between 2016 and 2021 in peer-reviewed scientific journals approved by the Higher Attestation Commission. …”
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Arrested Puberty in an Adolescent Male with Anorexia Nervosa Successfully Resumed with Multidisciplinary Care by Diana Simão Raimundo, Carolina Figueiredo, Ana Raposo, Bernardo Dias Pereira

“…The normal development of puberty depends on the specific pulsatility of gonadorelin, which is finely regulated by genetic and environmental factors. In the published literature, eating disorders figure as a cause of pubertal delay/arrest in females but are rarely considered in males with disordered puberty. …”
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„Samopublikowanie”: stara metoda – nowy sens w dobie e-science by Piotr Nowak

“…Autor przewiduje, że budowa nowych systemów informacyjnych spopularyzuje samopublikację (self-publishing) tekstów naukowych, która zdynamizuje rozwój repozytoriów o otwartym dostępie (open access). …”
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The progress in the field of clinical staging for mental disorders within the last decade: an updated systematic review by Sharon L. Clarke, Sharon L. Clarke, Nicole Soons, Arjan C. Videler, Arjan C. Videler, Sebastiaan P. J. van Alphen, Sebastiaan P. J. van Alphen, Henricus Van, Linda Dil, Laurens Pappijn, Sven Corbeij, Beau Broekhof, Beau Broekhof, Andrew M. Chanen, Andrew M. Chanen, Joost Hutsebaut, Joost Hutsebaut

“…The first systematic review on this topic, published a decade ago, included 78 papers, and identified separate staging models for schizophrenia, unipolar depression, bipolar disorder, panic disorder, substance use disorder, anorexia, and bulimia nervosa. …”
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Exercise stress echocardiography shows impaired left ventricular function after hospitalization with COVID‐19 without overt myocarditis: A pilot study by Robert E. Goldstein, Edward A. Hulten, Thomas B. Arnold, Victoria M. Thomas, Andrew Heroy, Erika N. Walker, Keiko Fox, Hyun Lee, Joya Libbus, Bethelhem Markos, Maureen N. Hood, Travis E. Harrell, Mark C. Haigney

“…To clarify status post‐hospitalization, we related exercise stress echocardiography (ESE) in 15 recovering patients (RP) age 30–63 without myocarditis to matching published data from healthy subjects (HS). RP exercise, average duration 8.2 ± 2.2 SD, was halted by dyspnea or fatigue. …”
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Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision's (VMMC) strategy for HIV prevention in Sub-Saharan Africa, prevalence, risks, costs, benefits and best practice: A scoping review study protoco... by Charles Maibvise, Takaedza Munangatire, Nestor Tomas, Daniel O Ashipala, Priscilla S Dlamini

“…The scoping review will target all scientific literature published on the Web of Science, Cochrane Library, Scopus, Science Direct, PubMed as well as grey literature from Google Scholar and WHO Institutional Repository for Information Sharing (IRIS) from the inception of the campaigns. …”
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The role of polymorphic variants of arginase genes (<i>ARG1, ARG2</i>) involved in beta-2-agonist metabolism in the development and course of asthma by O. N. Savelieva, A. S. Karunas, Yu. Yu. Fedorova, R. R. Murzina, A. N. Savelieva, R. F. Gatiyatullin, E. I. Etkina, E. K. Khusnutdinova

“…Beta-2-agonists are some of the major class of bronchodilators used for asthma management. According to published data, allelic variants of the arginase ARG1 and ARG2 genes are associated with a risk of asthma development, spirometry measures and efficacy of bronchodilator therapy. …”
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The impact of death and caring for the dying and their families on surgeons - an AI assisted systematic scoping review by Jun Rong Tan, Yun Ting Ong, Victoria Jia En Fam, Annushkha Sinnathamby, Nila Ravindran, Yaoyi Ng, Lalit Kumar Radha Krishna

“…This review included articles published between 1st January 2000 and 2nd September 2024 on Pubmed, Embase, Scopus, Google Scholar, ERIC databases. …”
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‘If one doesn't happen, the other will’: forensic mental health service patients’ experiences of co-occurring self-harm and aggression by Matina Shafti, Peter Taylor, Andrew Forrester, Louise Robinson, Sandeep Mathews, Daniel Pratt

“…These behaviours also fulfilled distinct purposes at times (e.g. self-harm as punishment, aggression as defence). The impact of contextual factors within FMHSs, including restrictive practices and institutionalisation, were emphasised. …”
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Role of brain tissue oxygenation (PbtO2) in the management of subarachnoid haemorrhage: a scoping review protocol by Mauro Oddo, Fabio Silvio Taccone, Marco Fiore, Jacques Creteur, Elisa Bogossian

“…Additional dissemination will occur through presentations at conferences, such as courses and science education conferences, regionally and nationally, and through articles published in peer-reviewed journals.Scoping review registration Open Science Framework Registration: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/ZYJ7R.Trial registration numberClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03754114.…”
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THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: PAST AND FUTURE by I. P. Smirnov

“…Those functions come down to providing a qualified expert evaluation of drafts of regulations, state programs, pedagogical technologies and innovations, and also to implementation of publishing and printing activities – to publication and wide circulation of results of scientific researches.…”
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Access improvement in healthcare: a 12-step framework for operational practice by Allen M. Chen

“…A literature search of prospective peer-reviewed publications was undertaken to identify studies pertaining to healthcare access. Articles published from January 2014 to January 2024 were included. …”
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Estimation of the Oil-in-Place Resources in the Liquid-Rich Shale Formations Exploiting Geochemical and Petrophysical Data in a 3D High-Resolution Geological Model Domain: Baltic B... by Krzysztof Sowiżdżał, Tomasz Słoczyński, Weronika Kaczmarczyk

“…The first one was approximated on the basis of published results and known properties of crude oil, while the second one was addressed with laboratory experimental procedure which combines Rock Eval pyrolysis and rock sample extraction with organic solvents. …”
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General Approach to Identifying Potential Targets for Cancer Imaging by Integrated Bioinformatics Analysis of Publicly Available Genomic Profiles by Yongliang Yang, S. James Adelstein, Amin I. Kassis

“…Particularly, cell surface- or membrane-bound proteins are attractive imaging targets for their aberrant expression, easily accessible location, and unique biochemical functions in tumor cells. Previously, we published a literature mining of potential targets for our in-house enzyme-mediated cancer imaging and therapy technology. …”
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The GWAS-MAP platform for aggregation of results of genome-wide association studies and the GWAS-MAP|homo database of 70 billion genetic associations of human traits by T. I. Shashkova, D. D. Gorev, E. D. Pakhomov, A. S. Shadrina, S. Zh. Sharapov, Y. A. Tsepilov, L. C. Karssen, Y. S. Aulchenko

“…The results of GWAS are often published in the form of summary statistics. Information from summary statistics can be used for multiple purposes – from fundamental research in biology and genetics to the search for potential biomarkers and therapeutic targets. …”
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Associations between changes in the gut microbiota and liver cirrhosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Ye Liu, Ziwei Chen, Chang Li, Tianhan Sun, Xuanmei Luo, Boyue Jiang, Meilan Liu, Qing Wang, Tong Li, Jianfu Cao, Yayu Li, Yuan Chen, Lu Kuai, Fei Xiao, Hongtao Xu, Hongyuan Cui

“…Methods We searched PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, and the Cochrane Library and collected related articles published before March 10, 2024. Ratio of autochthonous to non-autochthonous taxa was calculated as the cirrhosis dysbiosis ratio (CDR). …”
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