Neoadjuvant immunotherapy for DNA mismatch repair proficient/microsatellite stable non-metastatic rectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Huan Zhang, Jing Huang, Huanji Xu, Nanhao Yin, Nanhao Yin, Liyan Zhou, Liyan Zhou, Jianxin Xue, Jianxin Xue, Jianxin Xue, Min Ren

“…Non-metastatic pMMR/MSS RC receiving the short-course radiotherapy (SCRT) in neoadjuvant setting exhibited superior pooled pCR and MPR than long-course radiotherapy (LCRT) without upregulating the incidence of adverse effects. …”
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Analgesia and sedation strategies in neonates undergoing whole-body therapeutic hypothermia: A scoping review. by Mahima Joshi, Javed Muneer, Lawrence Mbuagbaw, Ipsita Goswami

“…<h4>Objective</h4>This scoping review determines the breadth of research undertaken for pain and stress management in neonates undergoing hypothermia therapy, the pharmacokinetics of analgesic and sedative medications during hypothermia and the effect of such medication on short- and long-term neurological outcomes.<h4>Methods</h4>We searched the following online databases namely, (i) MEDLINE, (ii) Web of Science, (iii) Cochrane Library, (iv) Scopus, (v) CINAHL, and (vi) EMBASE to identify published original articles between January 2005 and December 2022. …”
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Dietary β-Mannanase Affects the Growth, Antioxidant, and Immunes Responses of African Catfish, Clarias gariepinus, and Its Challenge Against Aeromonas hydrophila Infection by Ibrahim Adeshina, Bilal Ahamad Paray, Eijaz Ahmed Bhat, Shahid Sherzada, Olaolu O. Fawole, Dalhatu J. Bawa, Thais Pereira da Cruz, Lateef O. Tiamiyu

“…Therefore, feeding African catfish, Clarias gariepinus, β-mannanase enhanced growth performance, increased activity of digestive enzymes, gut morphology, enhanced generation of short-chain fatty acids, digesta potential of hydrogen (pH), and improved antioxidant profiles and immunity at the optimum dose of 5800 TMU/kg diet. …”
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Macrophage Notch1 signaling modulates regulatory T cells via the TGFB axis in early MASLD by Mengya Zhang, Kun Li, Xiaoxing Huang, Dongqin Xu, Ruobin Zong, Qintong Hu, Xiaoyu Dong, Qinyong Zhang, Chaochen Jiang, Yue Ge, Changyong Li, Jie Ping

“…Methods: A mouse model subjected to a short-term high-fat diet (HFD) to mimic early steatosis, along with liver biopsy samples from patients with simple steatosis, and macrophage-specific Notch1-knockout mice (Notch1M-KO), were used to investigate the role of Tregs in early MASLD and the effect of hepatic macrophage Notch1 signaling on Treg frequency. …”
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Ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants used in management of breast cancers in Qatar by Rasha.S.Abo El Alaa, Hend Al-Jaber, Fatima Al Zahraa Chokor, Abdullah A. Shaito, Layla Al-Mansoori

“…Despite advancements, current treatments still fall short of providing definitive solutions, particularly for triple-negative breast cancer. …”
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Efficacy and Safety of Ultrasound-Guided Radiofrequency Treatment for Chronic Pain in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Yuzhao Huang, Qiufang Deng, Liuqing Yang, Jiahui Ma, Ziyang Wang, Dong Huang, Ling Luo, Haocheng Zhou

“…Finally, most of the studies only provided short follow-up times, so we could not analyze the long-term effectiveness of ultrasound-guided RF in the treatment of patients with KOA. …”
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Adsorption, in vitro digestion and human gut microbiota regulation characteristics of three Poria cocos polysaccharides by Fangming Zhang, Hui Zheng, Tao Zheng, Pan Xu, Yao Xu, Yuxin Cao, Fan Jia, Yiqiong Zeng, Yubing Fan, Kai He, Xinwen Dai, Fengfei Hou, Yong Yang

“…The gut microbiota diversity of CMP was reduced, but the richness of probiotics, especially Parabacteroides distasonis was significantly enhanced compared with the ASP group, and the growth of harmful bacteria Klebsiella pneumoniae was inhibited after CMP treatment. The short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) analysis results showed that all three PCPs could significantly promote the production of acetic acid, propionic acid and the total acid content compared with blank control group, and SCFAs producing activity was positively correlated with the proliferative capacity of probiotics. …”
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Effect of transcranial direct current stimulation on postoperative sleep disturbance in older patients undergoing lower limb major arthroplasty: a prospective, double-blind, pilot,... by Chunyan Li, Jie Yang, He Liu, Wen Tan, Song Zhang, Hongxing Zhang, Yuan Han, Mingshu Tao, Rongguang Liu, Jiaxing Fang, Dexian Chen, Qi Wei, Xingyu Xiong, Wenxin Zhao, Junli Cao

“…No significant adverse events were reported.Conclusion In older patients undergoing lower limb major arthroplasty, a single session of anodal tDCS over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex showed a potentially prophylactic effect in improving postoperative short-term objective sleep measures. However, this benefit was temporary and was not maintained over time.…”
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Assessment of factors predicting the nutritional status of geriatric people in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia by Samar Lafi Aljohani

“…It includes demographic, habitual, and medical characteristics of the participants, anthropometric data (weight and height), and the validated short form of Mini Nutritional Assessment tool to assess their nutritional status. …”
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Study on the changes and influencing factors of depression in Chinese women with cancer: an analysis based on CHARLS panel data by Na Wang, Mengran Chang, Shidong Liu, Bing Chen

“…After data cleaning, a balanced short panel dataset containing 1,030 samples was obtained. …”
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A Digital Behavior Change Intervention for Health Promotion for Adults in Midlife: Protocol for a Multidimensional Assessment Study by Dagmar Soleymani, Dominique Pougheon-Bertrand, Rémi Gagnayre

“…The digital intervention aims to encourage people aged 40-55 years to look after their health in the short and medium terms by adopting small actions relating to 8 health determinants: nutrition, physical activity, smoking, alcohol, stress, cognitive health, sleep, and environmental health. …”
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Assessing the Effects of Land Use Practices on the Environment in Rugarama North Ntungamo District. by Turyahabwe, Deus

“…This should be done along with good husbandry practices such as crop rotation, and rotational grazing to avoid exhausting a particular plot of land in a short period, which in most cases forces people to encroach lands. …”
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Televizyonda Yayınlanan Sağlık Programlarıve İzleyicileri by Yasin Bulduklu

“…Bu amaçla Konya’da yaşayan 763 kişiden yüz yüze görüşme tekniğiyle ve soru formu yardımıyla veriler toplanmıştır. İkinci aşamanın sonuçlarına göre ise; sağlık programıizleyicilerinin, bu programlarıenformasyon-farkındalık %16.20 , destek bulma ve özdeşleştirme %11.60 , sosyal aktivite ve alışkanlık %9.73 , paylaşma ve güven %8.64 motivasyonlarıile izlediği gözlemlenmiştir.…”
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Diagnostic Challenges in Uncommon Firearm Injury Cases: A Multidisciplinary Approach by Andrea Vittorio Maria Failla, Gabriele Licciardello, Giuseppe Cocimano, Lucio Di Mauro, Mario Chisari, Francesco Sessa, Monica Salerno, Massimiliano Esposito

“…<b>Results</b>: The selected cases included: (1) A 56-year-old female with a thoracic gunshot wound involving three 7.65 caliber bullets, displaying complex trajectories and retained bullets; (2) A 48-year-old male with two cranial gunshot injuries, where initial evaluation suggested homicide staged as a suicide, later confirmed to be a single self-inflicted shot; and (3) A 51-year-old male was found in a car with two gunshot wounds to the head, involving complex forensic evaluation to distinguish between entrance and exit wounds and determine trajectory. …”
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Rehabilitation of an Upper Extremity Weight-Bearing Athlete with an Ulnar Collateral Ligament Injury: A Case Report by Annemieke D. Corbitt, William D. Bandy

“…The subject demonstrated 105% limb symmetry index with the return to sport (RTS) UE functional testing of one-armed seated shot-put throw (SSPT) and achieved normative values with the closed kinetic chain upper extremity stability test (CKCUEST)…”
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Trellis Decoding for Qudit Stabilizer Codes and Its Application to Qubit Topological Codes by Eric Sabo, Arun B. Aloshious, Kenneth R. Brown

“…We identify trellis edge number as a key metric of difficulty of decoding, allowing us to quantify the advantage of single-axis (<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$X$</tex-math></inline-formula> or <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$Z$</tex-math></inline-formula>) decoding for Calderbank&#x2013;Steane&#x2013;Shor codes and block decoding for concatenated codes.…”
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Sosyal Medya Araçlarının Beden Güzelliği Tahakkümü: Estetik İşlemler by Reyhan Yüksel

“…Tezin nitel alan araştırması için hazırlanmış yarı yapılandırılmış görüşme formunun sadece ilgili soru verileri kullanılmıştır. Bu sebeple görüşme formunun içinde “estetik işlemler üzerinde medya ve ünlü kişilerin etkisini” anlamak için oluşturulmuş iki sorudan elde edilen verilerden yararlanılmıştır. …”
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Dijital İçerik Üretiminde “Haber Oyunları”; Gazetecilik Öğrencileri Üzerine Bir Araştırma by Ülkü İlgi Eldem Anar

“…Araştırmada örneklem olarak sınırlı sayıda öğrenciye ulaşılabildiğinden dolayı konu hakkında genel bir değerlendirme yapmaktan çok, ilerideki araştırmalara kaynak olabilecek bir çalışma yapılmıştır. Soru formları haber oyunu ile çeşitli değişkenlerin karşılaştırılarak yorumlanması üzerine oluşturulmuştur. …”
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MEFET-Based CAM/TCAM for Memory-Augmented Neural Networks by Sai Sanjeet, Jonathan Bird, Bibhu Datta Sahoo

“…The proposed CAM is then used to build a one-shot learning MANN and is benchmarked with the Modified National Institute of Standards and Technology (MNIST), extended MNIST (EMNIST), and labeled faces in the wild (LFW) datasets with binary embeddings, giving &#x003E;99&#x0025; accuracy on MNIST, a top-3 accuracy of 97.11&#x0025; on the EMNIST dataset, and &#x003E;97&#x0025; accuracy on the LFW dataset, with embedding sizes of 16, 64, and 512, respectively. …”
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Single-session upper limb plyometric training is as effective as two sessions for improving muscle strength, power, and serve velocity in male youth tennis players: a randomized pa... by Jian Wang, Qi Xu

“…Evaluations were conducted twice—once before the intervention and once after—assessing isometric shoulder rotation strength (internal [ISRT] and external [ESRT]) with a dynamometer, the medicine ball chest throw (MBCT), seated shot-put test (SST), and serve velocity using a radar gun.ResultsIn the post-intervention, significant differences were observed between groups for the variables of ISRT (p = 0.010; ηp2 = 0.189), ESRT (p = 0.004; ηp2 = 0.226), MBCT (p = 0.012; ηp2 = 0.181), SST (p = 0.019; ηp2 = 0.164), and tennis serve velocity (p = 0.004; ηp2 = 0.226).ConclusionThe study found that ULPT significantly improves upper limb muscle strength, power, and serve velocity in young male tennis players, with both once and twice weekly training yielding similar benefits. …”
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