Editorial by Christian Gütl

“…Thanks to the combined efforts of the Pensoft team and the J.UCS publishing team, we are listed and indexed in more than 40 indexing services worldwide, including DOAJ, Web of Science, and Scopus. …”
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From plants to patterns: Constructing a comprehensive online strontium isoscape for Belgium (IsoBel) using high density grid mapping by Amanda Sengeløv, Giacomo Capuzzo, Sarah Dalle, Hannah F. James, Charlotte Sabaux, Elisavet Stamataki, Marta Hlad, Carina T. Gerritzen, Emma M. Legrand, Barbara Veselka, Guy De Mulder, Rica Annaert, Mathieu Boudin, Kevin Salesse, Eugène Warmenbol, Nadine Mattielli, Christophe Snoeck, Martine Vercauteren

“…Sixty-four previously published plants from 21 locations are also included in this study, bringing the total amount of plant samples used to 604 from 220 locations. …”
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Inferior vena cava diameter in patients with chronic heart failure and chronic kidney disease: a retrospective study by Jianan Li, Chi Wang, Hui wu Dong, Jing Qi, Chongyou Rao, Qiuyang Li, Kunlun He

“…No studies about the association between inferior vena cava (IVC) diameter and all-cause mortality in patients with the comorbidity of CKD and CHF has been published. Methods In this retrospective cohort study, a total of 1327 patients with CHF and CKD were included. …”
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Meta-analysis of the association between overexpression of RAD51 family genes and prognosis and clinical features in breast cancer by Yong-Cheng Liu, Jun Shen

“…PubMed, EMBASE, OVID, Web of Science, Scopus, and Cochrane Library were systematically searched for relevant studies published up to August 25, 2024. Two independent researchers screened the literature according to predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria and extracted relevant data. …”
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Acute administration of NLX-101, a Serotonin 1A receptor agonist, improves auditory temporal processing during development in a mouse model of Fragile X Syndrome by Xin Tao, Katilynne Croom, Adrian Newman-Tancredi, Mark Varney, Khaleel A. Razak

“…Results Saline-injected Fmr1 KO mice showed increased N1 amplitudes, increased STP and reduced phase locking to auditory gap-in-noise stimuli versus wild-type mice, reproducing previously published EEG phenotypes. An acute injection of NLX-101 did not alter ERP amplitudes at either P21 or P30, but significantly reduces STP at P30. …”
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Bone Density, Geometry, and Mass by Peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography and Bone Turnover Markers in Children with Diabetes Mellitus Type 1 by Maciej Jaworski, Elżbieta Wierzbicka, Edyta Czekuć-Kryśkiewicz, Paweł Płudowski, Maria Kobylińska, Mieczysaw Szalecki

“…Studies on the lower leg in children with T1DM by pQCT have generated conflicting results, and most of the studies published so far focused only on a selected features of the bone. …”
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BeatProfiler: Multimodal In Vitro Analysis of Cardiac Function Enables Machine Learning Classification of Diseases and Drugs by Youngbin Kim, Kunlun Wang, Roberta I. Lock, Trevor R. Nash, Sharon Fleischer, Bryan Z. Wang, Barry M. Fine, Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic

“…Of signals accurately detected by published methods (PMs), BeatProfiler's extracted features showed high correlations to PMs, confirming that it is reliable and consistent with PMs. …”
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Oral health risks in adults who use electronic nicotine delivery systems and oral nicotine pouches: a critical review of the literature and qualitative synthesis of the available e... by Gerhard Scherer, Nikola Pluym, Max Scherer

“…Methods This review evaluates published human studies on detrimental oral health effects in people who use NCPs compared to those smoking cigarettes and those not using any tobacco/nicotine product (NU). …”
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Survival status of women with cervical cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis, 2024 by Tadele Emagneneh, Chalie Mulugeta, Betelhem Ejigu, Abebaw Alamrew, Aynalem Yetwale Hiwot, Sefineh Fenta Feleke

“…Six researchers independently screened and extracted data from the articles. All studies published in English were included without restriction and assessed for quality using the adapted Newcastle–Ottawa Scale for cohort and cross-sectional studies. …”
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Effects of Fermented Pomegranate Peel Polyphenols on the Growth Performance, Immune Response, Hepatopancreatic Health, and Disease Resistance in White Shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) by Zhoulin Yu, Guangye Liu, Sijie Li, Yucong Hong, Shuyan Zhao, Meng Zhou, Xiaohong Tan

“…Compared with FP0 group, the expression levels of SOD, CAT, glutathione S-transferase (GST), LZM, prophenoloxidase (ProPO), penaeidin-3 (Pen3), Crustin, immune deficiency (Imd), Toll, and Relish genes were significantly upregulated in the hepatopancreas of shrimp in FP3 and FP4 groups (p<0.05). …”
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Comparison of Robot-Assisted, Laparoscopic, and Open Radical Prostatectomy Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis from KSER Update Series by Do Kyung Kim, Young Joon Moon, Doo Yong Chung, Hae Do Jung, Seung Hyun Jeon, Seok Ho Kang, Sunghyun Paick, Joo Yong Lee

“…<i>Materials and Methods:</i> A comprehensive literature search was performed in Pubmed, EMBASE, and the Cochrane library for papers published before May 2021. Only studies of patients with prostate cancer that assessed perioperative, functional, and oncological outcomes and reported outcome values were included. …”
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Detection of Masses in Mammogram Images Based on the Enhanced RetinaNet Network With INbreast Dataset by Wang M, Liu R, Luttrell IV J, Zhang C, Xie J

“…Additionally, we introduced transfer learning techniques into training process through leveraging pre-trained weights from other RetinaNet applications, and fine-tuned our improved model using the INbreast dataset.Results: The aforementioned innovations facilitate superior performance of the enhanced RetiaNet model on the public dataset INbreast, as evidenced by a mAP (mean average precision) of 1.0000 and TPR (true positive rate) of 1.00 at 0.00 FPPI (false positive per image) on the INbreast dataset.Conclusion: The experimental results demonstrate that our enhanced RetinaNet model defeats the existing models by having more generalization performance than other published studies, and it can also be applied to other types of patients to assist doctors in making a proper diagnosis. …”
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Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria in promoting sustainable agriculture by V. Dhayalan, K. Sudalaimuthu

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SHoes for Adolescent PatEllofemoral pain: study protocol for the SHAPE Australian community-based, randomised clinical trial by Kim L Bennell, Kade L Paterson, Rana S Hinman, Jo-Anne Manski-Nankervis, Adam Bryant, Karen Elaine Lamb, Peixuan Li, Sam Shearer, Anurika P De Silva

“…Outcomes will be presented at national and international scientific conferences and published in peer-review journals.Trial registration number Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry reference: ACTRN12623000042640.…”
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Gaps in Study Design for Immune Parameter Research for Latent Tuberculosis Infection: A Systematic Review by Mariana Herrera, Cristian Vera, Yoav Keynan, Zulma Vanessa Rueda

“…To determine the IP associated with LTBI, compared to active TB and individuals not infected by M. tuberculosis published in literature. Methods. We conducted a systematic search using Google Scholar and PubMed databases, combining the MeSH terms latent tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, cytokines, and biological markers, with the free terms, biomarkers and cytokines. …”
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Student nurse education and preparation for palliative care: A scoping review. by Abiola Durojaiye, Ruth Ryan, Owen Doody

“…Limited and diverse published research existing in low- and middle-income countries. …”
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Contamination and washing of cloth masks and risk of infection among hospital health workers in Vietnam: a post hoc analysis of a randomised controlled trial by Abrar Ahmad Chughtai, Chandini Raina MacIntyre, Bayzidur Rahman, Holly Seale, Tham Chi Dung

“…Background In a previous randomised controlled trial (RCT) in hospital healthcare workers (HCWs), cloth masks resulted in a higher risk of respiratory infections compared with medical masks. This was the only published RCT of cloth masks at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic.Objective To do a post hoc analysis of unpublished data on mask washing and mask contamination from the original RCT to further understand poor performance of the two-layered cotton cloth mask used by HCWs in that RCT.Setting 14 secondary-level/tertiary-level hospitals in Hanoi, Vietnam.Participants A subgroup of 607 HCWs aged ≥18 years working full time in selected high-risk wards, who used a two-layered cloth mask and were part of a randomised controlled clinical trial comparing medical masks and cloth masks.Intervention Washing method for cloth masks (self-washing or hospital laundry). …”
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Peculiarities of in-Stent Thrombosis and Restenosis in Coronary Arteries Post-COVID-19: A Systematic Review of Clinical Cases and Case Series by Pivina L, Batenova G, Omarov N, Ygiyeva D, Messova A, Alibayeva G, Jamedinova U, Kurumbayev R, Pivin M

“…In the patients with COVID-19 in intensive care units, the proportion of those with elevated troponin levels reached 25%.Objective: Evaluation of the association between COVID-19 and the development of in-stent thrombosis and restenosis of the coronary arteries based on the analysis of clinical cases and case series.Materials and Methods: We searched the PubMed and Scopus databases for relevant case reports and case series of stent restenosis and in-stent thrombosis associated with coronavirus infection (CVI) published between 2020 and the present. Thirty-eight full-text publications were screened and manually checked for analysis. …”
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The efficacy of hypothermia combined with thrombolysis or mechanical thrombectomy on acute ischemic stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Dan Wang, Dan Yan, Mingmin Yan, Hao Tian, Haiwei Jiang, Bifeng Zhu, Yu Chen, Tao Peng, Yue Wan

“…The primary objective of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of hypothermia by combining reperfusion therapy in acute ischemic stroke patients.MethodsA systematic search was performed in PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, and the Clinical Trial Registries on articles published until May 2024. The full-text articles were thoroughly reviewed, and relevant information regarding study characteristics and outcomes was extracted. …”
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Advancing the Indian cattle pangenome: characterizing non-reference sequences in Bos indicus by Sarwar Azam, Abhisek Sahu, Naveen Kumar Pandey, Mahesh Neupane, Curtis P Van Tassell, Benjamin D Rosen, Ravi Kumar Gandham, Subha Narayan Rath, Subeer S Majumdar

“…Comparative analysis with previously published pangenomes unveiled 2.8 Mb (37%) commonality with the Chinese indicine pangenome and only 1% commonality with the Bos taurus pangenome. …”
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