Common features of environmentally and socially engaged community programs addressing the intersecting challenges of planetary and human health: mixed methods analysis of survey an... by Linda J. M. Thomson, Linda J. M. Thomson, Ailsa Critten, Victoria Hume, Helen J. Chatterjee, Helen J. Chatterjee

“…The study aimed to identify common features of environmentally and socially engaged UK community programs addressing the intersecting challenges of planetary and human health. A short survey was used to screen participants for in-depth semi-structured interviews. …”
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What are the cost-savings and health benefits of improving detection and management for six high cardiovascular risk conditions in England? An economic evaluation by Katy Cooper, Alan Brennan, David Bagguley, Helen Buckley Woods, Chloe Thomas, Penny Breeze, Michael Gillett, Edward Goka, Hazel Y Squires, Gilly Brenner, Joanna Leaviss, Mark Clowes, Laura Heathcote

“…Most benefits come from detection of high cholesterol in the short term and diabetes in the long term.Conclusions Substantial cost savings and health benefits would accrue if all individuals with conditions that increase CVD risk could be diagnosed, with detection of undiagnosed diabetes producing greatest benefits. …”
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Feminism and Faith: Exploring Christian Spaces in the Writing of Sara Maitland and Michèle Roberts by Arina LUNGU-CIRSTEA

“…Nonetheless while Maitland focused on revising Christianity by making it incorporate essential points on the feminist agenda, Roberts felt the imperious need to discard her religious identity in order to become “her own woman”; moreover, in her 2007 autobiography Paper Houses she describes her Catholic upbringing as “authoritarian and misogynistic” (16).My essay addresses questions regarding the challenge of articulating one’s spiritual identity as a concatenation of feminism and faith; with this end in mind, I am drawing a comparative perspective between Maitland’s collection of short-stories A Book of Spells, in conjunction with selected essays, on the one hand, and Roberts” acclaimed novel Daughters of the House, on the other. …”
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Efficacy and Safety of Argon Laser Peripheral Iridoplasty and Systemic Medical Therapy in Asian Patients with Acute Primary Angle Closure: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled... by Wenting Cai, Qiyang Lou, Jiaqi Fan, Donghui Yu, Tianyi Shen, Jing Yu

“…Therefore, ALPI may be a better choice for rapidly lowering the IOP in patients with APAC within a short period.…”
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Endoscopy-assisted anterior cervical discectomy and fusion with internal fixation vs conventional surgery in the treatment of cervical disc herniation by Haicun Zhang, Yanbo Lin, Canglu Wu, Fangling Cheng, Danqing Bao, Yuyan Chen

“…The general characteristics, postoperative Japanese Orthopedic Association (JOA), visual analogue scale (VAS), 12-Item Short Form Survey Physical Component Summary (SF-12 PCS), and SF-12 Mental Component Summary (SF-12 MCS) scores, physiological stress response, rate of the improved JOA score (RIS), hemoglobin level, and bone graft fusion were compared between the groups. …”
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Insight into the avidity–affinity relationship of the bivalent, pH-dependent interaction between IgG and FcRn by Johannes Reusch, Jan Terje Andersen, Ulrich Rant, Tilman Schlothauer

“…As such, we present here a more comprehensive analysis of these interactions with an emphasis on both affinity and avidity by taking advantage of switchSENSE technology, a surface-based biosensor where recombinant FcRn was immobilized via short DNA nanolevers, mimicking the membranous orientation of the receptor. …”
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Highly proliferating cancer cells function as novel prognostic biomarkers for lung adenocarcinoma with particular usefulness for stage IA risk stratification by Yanlu Xiong, Yongfu Ma, Jie Lei, Jianfei Zhu, Nianlin Xie, Feng Tian, Qiang Lu, Miaomiao Wen, Qian Zheng, Yong Han, Tao Jiang, Yang Liu

“…Abstract Background The refinement of risk stratification in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) plays a pivotal role in advancing precision medicine; however, the current staging classification falls short of comprehensiveness, particularly in the case of stage IA patients. …”
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The Secrets of Salantai Engraving Studio: Stanisław Czerski, the Mysterious Byks, and ‘The Wrong’ Plater by Alma Braziūnienė

“… In the early 19th century, the short-living Salantai Engraving Studio became an exceptional phenomenon of the culture of Lithuania: it was here that engravings with Lithuanian (Samogitian) inscriptions were being made. …”
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Realizing collective action in agency-constrained contexts: the case of the Community Fish Refuges in Cambodia by Carla Rene Baldivieso Soruco, Carla Rene Baldivieso Soruco, Carla Rene Baldivieso Soruco, Sanjiv De Silva, Pia Gleich, Yin Yan, Mark Dubois, Stefan Sieber, Stefan Sieber, Michelle Bonatti, Michelle Bonatti, Michelle Bonatti

“…While emphasizing extended project funding and informed external intervention strategies, the study underscores doubts about short-term CA feasibility. It highlights the critical influence of contextual factors and policymakers’ assumptions in achieving effective collective governance. …”
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Cohort profile: Anhui Maternal–Child Health Study in China by Yunxia Cao, Ruoling Chen, Weiju Zhou, Xiaofeng Xu, Xiaoqing Peng, Jiaqian Yin, Chunmei Liang, Ranjit Khutan, Fang-Biao Tao

“…Participants receive a standard long pituitary downregulation or a short protocol with an antagonist for the treatment. …”
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Intestinal Permeability Measured by Urinary Sucrose Excretion Correlates with Serum Zonulin and Faecal Calprotectin Concentrations in UC Patients in Remission by C. A. M. Wegh, N. M. de Roos, R. Hovenier, J. Meijerink, I. Besseling-van der Vaart, S. van Hemert, B. J. M. Witteman

“…This should not discourage further studies because effects might be present during active disease or shortly after a flare up.…”
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UK multiple sclerosis risk-sharing scheme: a new natural history dataset and an improved Markov model by Jacqueline Palace, Martin Duddy, Thomas Bregenzer, Mike Boggild, Joel Oger, Helen Tremlett, Charles Dobson, Fheng Zhu

“…Objectives In 2002, the UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence concluded that the multiple sclerosis (MS) disease modifying therapies; interferon-β and glatiramer acetate, were not cost effective over the short term but recognised that reducing disability over the longer term might dramatically improve the cost effectiveness. …”
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Postural imbalance without visual input is associated with specific neuropsychological deficits in older adults – results from the LIFE-adult study by Eva Grill, Andreas Zwergal, Andreas Zwergal, Dorothee Saur, Julian Klingbeil, Christopher Fricke, Florian Schöberl, Karim Felfela, Karim Felfela, Andrea Zülke, Steffi Riedel-Heller, Joseph Classen

“…Assessment of visuospatial abilities was based on the short form of the Judgment of Line Orientation Test (JLO). …”
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Co-creating and hosting PxP: a conference about patient engagement in research for and by patient partners by Dawn P. Richards, Hetty Mulhall, Joletta Belton, Savia de Souza, Trudy Flynn, Alex Haagaard, Linda Hunter, Amy Price, Sara Riggare, Janice Tufte, Rosie Twomey, Karim M. Khan

“…We present the work and processes we undertook throughout 2023 to create and produce a free conference called “PxP: For patients, by patients” or PxP for short, with a tagline of “Partnering to make research stronger.” …”
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Combination therapy of intravitreal ranibizumab and sub-tenon triamcinolone for treatment of resistant diabetic macular edema: a clinical study in Egypt by Hossam Eldin M. A. Khalil, Hazem E. Haroun, Alaa A. I. Shalan, Waleed M. Mahran

“…However, this elevation is usually just transitory lasting for short periods of time and is within the safe, insignificant rise ranges. …”
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The Imprint of the War in Ford Madox Ford’s Critical Writings by Isabelle BRASME

“…It focuses on Ford’s “Literary Portraits”; the pair of essays “A Day of Battle”, written in the Ypres Salient; “War and the Mind”, composed shortly after Ford’s return from the front; and the dedicatory letters to No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up—, and Last Post. …”
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Reliability, Objectivity, Validity and Reference Levels of the Austrian Balance Check (ABC)—A Novel Balance Field Test for Children, Adolescents and Young Adults to Assess Static B... by Gerald Jarnig, Reinhold Kerbl, Mireille N. M. van Poppel

“…To develop an effective field test to assess static balance with minimal cost, little spatial requirement and short testing time, a cross-sectional pilot study was conducted in three different school types (primary school, secondary school, and high school) and the reliability, objectivity and validity of the novel Austrian Balance Check (ABC) were assessed, with the generation of age- and gender-specific reference values. …”
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A land-cover-assisted super-resolution model for retrospective reconstruction of MODIS-like NDVI data across the continental United States by blending Landcover300m and GIMMS NDVI3... by Zhicheng Zhang, Zhenhua Xiong, Xuewen Zhou, Kun Xiao, Wei Wu, Qinchuan Xin

“…The model exacts moderate-resolution class features from annual Landcover300m data at the target year, incorporates GIMMS NDVI3g time series to capture seasonal fluctuations, and employs the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) method to mitigate sensor differences. …”
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Optimizing the selection of quantitative traits in plant breeding using simulation by Rafael Augusto Vieira, Ana Paula Oliveira Nogueira, Roberto Fritsche-Neto

“…Evaluating genomic selection reveals a balance between short-term gains and long-term potential and rapid-cycling genomic programs excel. …”
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A novel ViT-BILSTM model for physical activity intensity classification in adults using gravity-based acceleration by Lin Wang, Zizhang Luo, Tianle Zhang

“…Abstract Aim The aim of this study is to apply a novel hybrid framework incorporating a Vision Transformer (ViT) and bidirectional long short-term memory (Bi-LSTM) model for classifying physical activity intensity (PAI) in adults using gravity-based acceleration. …”
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