Advanced photodetector for hybrid PET-MRI systems [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by K Isayev, N Sadigova, O Rasulov

“…With MIMOS' state-of-the-art facilities, the project aims to meet stringent medical diagnostics standards. …”
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Protocol for the Tallaght University Hospital Institute for Memory and Cognition-Biobank for Research in Ageing and Neurodegeneration by Eimear Connolly, Shane Lyons, Cliona O’Farrelly, Graham Knight, Antoinette O’Connor, Adam H Dyer, Sean P Kennelly, Emily Killeen, Christine Gaffney, Helena Dolphin, Laura Morrison, Gavin Sedgwick, Aoife McFeely, Conal Gallagher, Naomi Davey, Conor Young, Ruth Ennis, Cathy McHale, Jasmine Joseph, Emmet Kelly, Nollaig M Bourke, Aoife Fallon, Sean O’Dowd

“…Participants undergoing venepuncture/lumbar puncture as part of the clinical workup will be offered the opportunity to donate additional blood (serum/plasma/whole blood) and cerebrospinal fluid samples for longitudinal storage in the TIMC-BRAiN biobank. …”
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Exploring associations among pro-inflammatory cytokines, osteoarthritis, and gut microbiome composition in individuals with obesity using machine learning by Cameron Kurz, Liubov Arbeeva, M. Andrea Azcarate-Peril, Delisha A. Stewart, B. Duncan X. Lascelles, Richard F. Loeser, Amanda E. Nelson

“…Design: Johnston County OA Project participants (n ​= ​64) with (cases) and without (controls) OA in hands and knees, with age ≥55 years and obesity (BMI ≥30 ​kg/m2), provided samples for multiplex cytokine, LPS, and fecal microbiota analysis. …”
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Childhood adversities and 5-HTTLPR polymorphism as risk factors of substance use disorders: retrospective case-control study in Murcia (Spain) by Ronald C Kessler, Jose Maria Huerta, Fernando Navarro-Mateu, Mari Paz Quesada, Teresa Escámez, Mª José Alcaráz, Catherine Seiquer de la Peña, Diego Salmerón, Gemma Vilagut, Maria Dolores Chirlaque, Carmen Navarro, Mathilde Husky, Jordi Alonso, Salvador Martínez

“…Controls were randomly selected among individuals without substance use disorders who participated in the Psychiatric Enquiry to General Population in Southeast Spain-Murcia (PEGASUS-Murcia) project, a cross-sectional study of a representative sample of the adult general population. …”
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A Normative Model Representing Autistic Individuals Amidst Autism Spectrum Phenotypic Heterogeneity by Joana Portolese, Catarina Santos Gomes, Vinicius Daguano Gastaldi, Cristiane Silvestre Paula, Sheila C. Caetano, Daniela Bordini, Décio Brunoni, Jair de Jesus Mari, Ricardo Z. N. Vêncio, Helena Brentani

“…Results: Three PCs embedded 72% of the normative sample variance. PCA-projected dimensions supported normative modeling where a multivariate normal distribution was used to calculate percentiles. …”
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Assessing the impact of two forms of PACAP-38 (pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide) on Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) immune response following challenge with... by E Fajei, WC Cai, SK Whyte, B Despres, B Dixon, Y. Carpio, M Estrada, MD Fast

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Integrated GIS, statistical modeling, and CMIP6-based assessment of groundwater irrigation quality in north-central Bangladesh for sustainable management by Md Touhidul Islam, Nilima Das, Md Rakibul Islam, Mahadi Hasan Joy, Mst Rimi Khatun, Nusrat Jahan, Nahidul Islam, Md Mazharul Islam, Sujan Chandra Roy, A.K.M. Adham

“…Pre-monsoon results showed IWQI values between 50.49 and 79.72 (mean: 67.83), with 83.33 % of samples classified as ''moderate restriction.'' Post-monsoon conditions improved significantly (82.74–88.20, mean: 85.07), with 54.17 % classified as ''no restriction.'' …”
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Arterial Stiffness in Heart‐Healthy Indigenous Tsimane Forager‐Horticulturalists by Tianyu Cao, Edhitt C. Linares, Raul Quispe Gutierrez, Daniel Eid Rodriguez, Juana Bani Cuata, Michael I. Miyamoto, Christopher R. von Rueden, Daniel K. Cummings, Paul L. Hooper, Benjamin C. Trumble, Jonathan Stieglitz, Randall C. Thompson, Gregory S. Thomas, Hillard Kaplan, Daniel A. Duprez, David R. Jacobs, Michael Gurven

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Causal impact of elevated body mass index on diabetic kidney disease: an integrated Mendelian randomization and Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 analysis by Ye-xin Chen, Dong-sen Hu, Mao-xuan Lin, Zi-heng Gao, Han-zhang Hong, Yu-xin Hu, Ling-zi Yao, Gai-wen Cui, Lin Wang

“…By 2049, HBMI-T2DKD-related disease burden were projected to continue rising.Conclusions Elevated BMI is a significant causal risk factor for T2DKD. …”
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The Long-lived Broadband Afterglow of Short Gamma-Ray Burst 231117A and the Growing Radio-detected Short Gamma-Ray Burst Population by Genevieve Schroeder, Wen-fai Fong, Charles D. Kilpatrick, Alicia Rouco Escorial, Tanmoy Laskar, Anya E. Nugent, Jillian Rastinejad, Kate D. Alexander, Edo Berger, Thomas G. Brink, Ryan Chornock, Clecio R. de Bom, Yuxin Dong, Tarraneh Eftekhari, Alexei V. Filippenko, Celeste Fuentes-Carvajal, Wynn V. Jacobson-Galán, Matthew Malkan, Raffaella Margutti, Jeniveve Pearson, Lauren Rhodes, Ricardo Salinas, David J. Sand, Luidhy Santana-Silva, Andre Santos, Huei Sears, Manisha Shrestha, Nathan Smith, Wayne Webb, Simon de Wet, Yi Yang

“…We present multiwavelength observations of the Swift short γ -ray burst GRB 231117A, localized to an underlying galaxy at redshift z = 0.257 at a small projected offset (∼2 kpc). We uncover long-lived X-ray Chandra X-ray Observatory and radio/millimeter (VLA, MeerKAT, and ALMA) afterglow emission, detected to ∼37 days and ∼20 days (rest frame), respectively. …”
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TOI-880 is an Aligned, Coplanar, Multiplanet System by Elina Y. Zhang, Huan-Yu Teng, Fei Dai, Andrew W. Howard, Samuel P. Halverson, Howard Isaacson, Ryan A. Rubenzahl, Xian-Yu Wang, Songhu Wang, Benjamin J. Fulton, Louise D. Nielsen, Jack Lubin, Steven Giacalone, Luke B. Handley, Erik A. Petigura, Emma V. Turtelboom, Alex S. Polanski, Steve R. Gibson, Kodi Rider, Arpita Roy, Ashley Baker, Jerry Edelstein, Christopher L. Smith, Josh Walawender, Joshua N. Winn

“…TOI-880 joins a growing sample of well-aligned, coplanar, multitransiting systems. …”
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Initiation of China Alliance of Research in High Myopia (CHARM): protocol for an AI-based multimodal high myopia research biobank by Tien-Yin Wong, Zi-Bing Jin, Hai-Long He, Yi-Xin Liu, Hao Song, Tian-Ze Xu

“…This initiative stands out not only for its extensive scope but also for its innovative application of artificial intelligence (AI) to assist in diagnosis and treatment decisions. The CHARM project has been carried out using a ‘three-step’ strategy. …”
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Increasing the availability of long-acting reversible contraception and medical abortion in primary care: the Australian Contraception and Abortion Primary Care Practitioner Suppor... by Danielle Mazza, Angela Taft, Deborah Bateson, Kevin McGeechan, Wendy V Norman, Kirsten Black, Sharon James

“…Changes in the knowledge attitudes and practices will be gleaned through an online survey with 500 individuals from each professional group at baseline and 12 months after members have joined AusCAPPs; and experiences of the AusCAPPS Network will be evaluated using interviews with the project team plus a convenience sample of 20 intervention participants from each professional group. …”
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Comprehensive genomic study of Plasmodium falciparum in Sierra leone: genetic variation and resistance patterns by Xin-jie Zhan, Shen-Bo Chen, Tian-yu Wang, Yi-wen Duan, Hai-Mo Shen, Jun-Hu Chen, Jing-jing Xie

“…Methods We collected P. falciparum samples from Freetown, Sierra Leone, between December 2022 and March 2023. …”
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Surveillance of omicron variant in Kangra District of Himachal Pradesh, India during the 3rd disease wave of COVID-19 by Suresh Kumar, Sahdev Choudhary, Sharad Thakur, Arbind Kumar, Sanjay Kumar

“…Methodology: In vitro diagnostic real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) was performed using Tata MD CHECK RT-PCR Omisure kit (Tata Medical and Diagnostics Limited, Maharashtra, India), to detect the presence of Omicron in target samples. A total of 400 samples were analyzed in this study; 200 each for the second and third waves, respectively. …”
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Machine-Learning-Algorithm-Assisted Portable Miniaturized NIR Spectrometer for Rapid Evaluation of Wheat Flour Processing Applicability by Yuling Wang, Chen Zhang, Xinhua Li, Longzhu Xing, Mengchao Lv, Hongju He, Leiqing Pan, Xingqi Ou

“…The robustness and reliability of the two SOA-SVR models were further validated using 50 independent samples per index, a statistical two-sample F-test, and a <i>t</i>-test. …”
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The Size of the Continuum Emission Region and Its Scaling Relations with Active Galactic Nucleus Luminosity and the Broad-line Region Size by Amit Kumar Mandal, Jong-Hak Woo, Shu Wang

“…We present a continuum lag analysis for a sample of 37 relatively high-luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGNs) from the Seoul National University AGN Monitoring Project (SAMP), utilizing the light-curve data in B and V bands from SAMP and in g , r , i bands from the Zwicky Transient Facility. …”
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Dynamics of <i>Lingulodinium polyedra</i> Development in the Bulgarian Part of Black Sea (1992–2022) by Daniela Klisarova, Dimitar Gerdzhikov, Petya Dragomirova, Nina Nikolova, Martin Gera, Petya Veleva

“…An analysis of the distribution of the dinoflagellate <i>L. polyedra</i> is based on a total of 5126 phytoplankton samples collected during the period between 1992 and 2022 under projects led by the Institute of Fish Resources, Varna. …”
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Analysis of Minerals Using Handheld Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Technology by Naila Mezoued, Cécile Fabre, Jean Cauzid, YongHwi Kim, Marjolène Jatteau

“…The datasets were collected from 170 pure mineral samples in the form of crystals, powders, and rock specimens, during three research projects: NEXT, Labex Ressources 21, and ARTeMIS. …”
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Training on the Creation and Digitalization of Financial Reports for the Success of MSMEs in the Future by Vinny Stephanie Hidayat, Oktavianti Oktavianti, Aurora Angela, Lauw Tjun Tjun, Elyzabet Indrawati Marpaung, Nunik Lestari Dewi

“…Case studies and training are the techniques employed in this community service project. Prior to working on comprehensive sample questions for the financial statement preparation process and doing discussion sessions (questions and answers), the speaker first provided information about MSME financial statements. …”
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