Overuse of medical imaging and effects of payer-provider integration: quasi-experimental evidence from Finland by Konsta Lavaste

“…I identify the overuse using the staggered difference-in-differences (DID) strategy, in which I consider patients from cities with a market entry as the treatment group and compare them to patients in other similar cities. Results I find that the market entries decreased the use of radiography and ultrasound imaging in the treatment of VPHI policyholders, suggesting that private clinics overused these imaging technologies. …”
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Food loss in Pacific Island Countries: a scoping review of the literature by Christian-Yves Amato-Ali, Viliamu Iese, Gayathri Mekala, Daniela Hidalgo, Hilda Sakiti-Waqa

“…The scoping review identified three thematic categories addressing food loss in PICs, namely., the lack of infrastructure and need for innovative technology for post-harvest management; increased vulnerability to climate change and postharvest risks of newer convenient markets. …”
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Structure Identification and Risk Assurance of Unknown Impurities in Pramipexole Oral Drug Formulation by Raymond R. Tjandrawinata, Antonius H. Cahyana, Ajeng O. Nugroho, Indra K. Adi, Joseph S. R. Talpaneni

“…The quality and safety of a pharmaceutical product are also significantly affected by these impurities content; therefore, impurities need to be identified and characterized through the use of appropriate analytical methods. …”
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Subharmonic Solutions of Nonautonomous Second Order Differential Equations with Singular Nonlinearities by N. Daoudi-Merzagui, F. Derrab, A. Boucherif

“…Our approach is based on a variational method, in particular the saddle point theorem.…”
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Thiopurines Induce Oxidative Stress in T-Lymphocytes: A Proteomic Approach by Misbah Misdaq, Sonia Ziegler, Nicolas von Ahsen, Michael Oellerich, Abdul R. Asif

“…The polymorphism of thiopurine S-methyltransferase (TPMT) influences thiopurine metabolism and therapy outcome. We used a TPMT knockdown (kd) model of human Jurkat T-lymphocytes cells to study the effects of treatment with 6-mercaptopurine (6-MP) and 6-thioguanine (6-TG) on proteome and phosphoproteome. …”
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The fibronectin-targeting PEG-FUD imaging probe shows enhanced uptake during fibrogenesis in experimental lung fibrosis by Thomas J. Harr, Nikesh Gupta, Babita Rahar, Kristen Stott, Yadira Medina-Guevara, Metti K. Gari, Angie T. Oler, Ivy Sohee McDermott, Hye Jin Lee, Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni, Ashley M. Weichmann, Amir Forati, Kelsey Holbert, Trevor S. Langel, Kade W. Coulter, Brian M. Burkel, Bianca R. Tomasini-Johansson, Suzanne M. Ponik, Jonathan W. Engle, Reinier Hernandez, Glen S. Kwon, Nathan Sandbo, Ksenija Bernau

“…These data suggest that PEG-FUD targets fibronectin associated with active fibrogenesis in this model, making it a promising candidate for a clinically translatable molecular imaging probe to non-invasively determine pulmonary fibrosis disease activity, enabling accelerated therapeutic decision-making.…”
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A Set of Actions to Improve the General Cultural Standard of First Year Transfusion Medicine Students by Dinorah Pilar Betancourt González, Mercedes Diego Cobelo, José Zabala Cuesta

“…<strong>Method:</strong> The sample consisted of all first year Transfusion Medicine students. Theoretical and empirical methods were used. <strong>Results:</strong> The sources of information students used the most were reading and cinema. …”
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Bandwidth Selection for Recursive Kernel Density Estimators Defined by Stochastic Approximation Method by Yousri Slaoui

“…We corroborated these theoretical results through simulation study.…”
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Development of a Method for Characterizing Joint Stiffness, Deadband, and Hysteresis by G.D. Ferney, S.L. Folkman

“…The load vs. displacement curves showed stiffness, deadband, and hysteresis loops consistent with theory. Vibration damping was inferred from the hysteresis loops and compared with measured data from a three bay truss.…”
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Does Industrial Agglomeration Promote Carbon Efficiency? A Spatial Econometric Analysis and Fractional-Order Grey Forecasting by Zuoren Sun, Yi Liu

“…In theory, the industrial agglomeration is a double-edged sword as there are both positive and negative externalities. …”
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A Time-Varying Coupling Analysis of Expressway Traffic Volume and Manufacturing PMI by Shuo Sun, Mingchen Gu, Yingping Wang, Rongjie Lin, Lifeng Xing, Zhiyuan Xu

“…The time-varying parameters of TVP-VAR are estimated using the Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) theory. Finally, the model is validated using examples from China. …”
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Sargachromenol from Sargassum micracanthum Inhibits the Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Production of Inflammatory Mediators in RAW 264.7 Macrophages by Eun-Jin Yang, Young Min Ham, Kyong-Wol Yang, Nam Ho Lee, Chang-Gu Hyun

“…In conclusion, to our knowledge, this is the first study to show that sargachromenol isolated from S. micracanthum has an effective anti-inflammatory activity. Therefore, sargachromenol might be useful for cosmetic, food, or medical applications requiring anti-inflammatory properties.…”
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Soot Particle Agglomeration Inlet (SPAI) for Enabling Online Chemical Composition Measurement of Nanoparticles with the Aerosol Mass Spectrometer by Sampsa Martikainen, Sanna Saarikoski, Paxton Juuti, Hilkka Timonen, Jorma Keskinen, Panu Karjalainen

“…Hence, we developed the Soot Particle Agglomeration Inlet (SPAI), an addition to the SP-AMS that enables it to detect and analyze nanoparticles by attaching them to the surfaces of artificially generated soot particles. …”
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Some Peculiarities of the Tactics of Investigative (Search) Actions while Investigating Murders Committed in Relation to Domestic Violence by K. A. Shapoval

“…Most homicides are investigated and prosecuted without any evidence of domestic violence. Therefore, there is a need to develop a methodology for investigating murders committed in connection with the use of domestic violence, which would contain practical recommendations for conducting certain investigative (search) actions during the investigation of this category of cases. …”
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Comparison of Biological Properties and Clinical Application of Mesenchymal Stem Cells from the Mesoderm and Ectoderm by Zhenning Wang, Meng Huang, Yu Zhang, Xiaoxia Jiang, Lulu Xu

“…This summary provides a theoretical basis for the better application of MSCs from both ectoderm and mesoderm in the future.…”
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Divergence in the Morphology and Energy Metabolism of Adult Polyphenism in the Cowpea Beetle <i>Callosobruchus maculatus</i> by Zhong Du, Xiaokun Liu, Sipei Liu, Lei Jiang, Le Zong, Wenjie Li, Weili Fan, Lijie Zhang, Fengming Wu, Siqin Ge

“…This knowledge can also provide a theoretical basis for biological control strategies. …”
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Effect of chiral imbalance on the electrical conductivity of hot and dense quark matter using Green–Kubo method within the 2-flavour gauged NJL model by Snigdha Ghosh, Nilanjan Chaudhuri, Sourav Sarkar, Pradip Roy

“…The thermal widths of the quarks/antiquarks that appear in the expression of electrical conductivity are calculated by considering the $$2\rightarrow 2$$ 2 → 2 scattering in the NJL model. …”
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YOLO-TumorNet: An innovative model for enhancing brain tumor detection performance by Jian Huang, Wen Ding, Tiancheng Zhong, Gang Yu

“…Specifically, YOLO-TumorNet integrates the InceptionNeXt architecture, Multi-Scale Spatial Pyramid Attention (MSPA), and Bidirectional Feature Pyramid Network (BiFPN) modules to enhance multi-scale feature extraction and channel attention mechanisms, thereby improving the model’s accuracy and robustness in brain tumor detection. …”
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Hepatic transcript profiling in beef cattle: Effects of rumen-protected niacin supplementation. by Gastón F Alfaro, Valentino Palombo, Mariasilvia D'Andrea, Wenqi Cao, Yue Zhang, Jonathan Beever, Russell B Muntifering, Wilmer J Pacheco, Soren P Rodning, Xu Wang, Sonia J Moisá

“…Several metabolic pathways revealed potential positive effects to the animal's liver metabolism due to administration of rumen-protected niacin; for example, a decrease in lipolysis, apoptosis, inflammatory responses, atherosclerosis, oxidative stress, fibrosis, and vasodilation-related pathways. Therefore, results from our study showed that the liver transcriptional machinery switched several metabolic pathways to a condition that could potentially benefit the health status of animals supplemented with rumen-protected niacin. …”
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Gamma Radiation-Induced Damage in the Zinc Finger of the Transcription Factor IIIA by XiaoHong Zhang, YuJi Miao, XiaoDan Hu, Rui Min, PeiDang Liu, HaiQian Zhang

“…Zinc finger motifs, therefore, may be a target of ionizing radiation. The effect of gamma radiation on the zinc finger motifs in transcription factor IIIA (TFIIIA), a zinc finger protein, was investigated. …”
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