The role of the behavioral immune system in the expression of short and long-term orientation in young Chilean men during the COVID-19 pandemic by Oriana Figueroa, Pablo Polo, Daniel Torrico-Bazoberry, Gabriela Fajardo, Carlos Rodríguez-Sickert, Nohelia Valenzuela, Abigail Arenas, Paula Pavez, Montserrat Belinchon, Gabriela Valdebenito, José Antonio Muñoz-Reyes

“…Methods and materials We compared data from two cross-sectional studies carried out in the laboratory with convenience sampling methods in the pre-pandemic period (in the years 2016 and 2018 with a sample size of N = 463) and pandemic (face-to-face panstudy N = 234,data online, N = 182), considering possible differences between samples of the same period. …”
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Artificial intelligence-based, non-invasive assessment of the central aortic pressure in adults after operative or interventional treatment of aortic coarctation by Renate Oberhoffer, Peter Ewert, Harald Kaemmerer, Nicole Nagdyman, Oliver Dewald, Frank Klawonn, Michael Huntgeburth, Andreas Eicken, Christian Meierhofer, Sebastian Freilinger, Martin Middeke, Pinar Bambul Heck, Annika Freiberger, Frank Harig, Manuel Lösch, Fritz Mellert, Fabian von Scheidt, Elsa Ury, Nicole Wolfrum, Ann-Sophie Kaemmerer-Suleiman, Mathieu N. Suleiman

“…This study evaluated the use of artificial intelligence-based pulse wave analysis (AI-PWA) to assess central aortic blood pressure (CABP) and related parameters in post-treatment CoA patients.Methods This exploratory, cross-sectional study enrolled 47 adults with CoA, between June 2023 and May 2024. …”
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Characterization of RAP Signal Patterns, Temporal Relationships, and Artifact Profiles Derived from Intracranial Pressure Sensors in Acute Traumatic Neural Injury by Abrar Islam, Amanjyot Singh Sainbhi, Kevin Y. Stein, Nuray Vakitbilir, Alwyn Gomez, Noah Silvaggio, Tobias Bergmann, Mansoor Hayat, Logan Froese, Frederick A. Zeiler

“…To identify artifacts, (a) ICP <i>q</i>-order, AMP <i>p</i>-order, and RAP <i>p</i>-order and <i>q</i>-order, (b) residuals of ICP, AMP, and RAP, and (c) cross-correlation between residuals of RAP and AMP proved to be useful at the minute-by-minute resolution, whereas, for the 10-min-by-10-min data resolution, only the <i>q</i>-order of the optimal ARIMA model of ICP and AMP served as a distinguishing factor. …”
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Spatial and temporal changes of breast-conserving surgery rates and its influential factors among Chinese patients with breast cancer from 2013 to 2019: a registry-based study by Pengpeng Ye, Yuan Yang, Wei Hu, Lingyan Dai, Erwei Song, Shunrong Li, Liling Zhu, Kai Chen, Yanjie Xu, Xiaoyu Wang, Jianli Zhao, Jianrong He, Queran Lin, Tongrui Shang, Xiujuan Gui, Ziliang Zhong, Qianru Chen, Qing Yan, Xiaoliang Huang, Zijian Liang

“…Patients who were employed (vs unemployed, 1.58, 95% CI 1.49 to 1.68), received cross-city surgery (vs local surgery, 1.37, 95% CI 1.31 to 1.44), lived in a high-income city (vs low-income city, β=4.40, 95% CI 1.55 to 7.24) or in a city with a higher number of physicians per 100 000 residents (0.57, 95% CI 0.31 to 0.82) were more likely to receive BCS.Conclusions and relevance This study suggests a significant increase in BCS rates from 2013 to 2019 in Guangdong, China. …”
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Harnessing Human-Centered Design for Evidence-Based Psychosocial Interventions and Implementation Strategies in Community Settings: Protocol for Redesign to Improve Usability, Enga... by Aaron R Lyon, Sean A Munson, Michael D Pullmann, Brittany Mosser, Tricia Aung, John Fortney, Alex Dopp, Katie P Osterhage, Helen G Haile, Kathryn E Bruzios, Brittany E Blanchard, Ryan Allred, Macey R Fuller, Patrick J Raue, Ian Bennett, Jill Locke, Karen Bearss, Denise Walker, Elizabeth Connors, Eric Bruns, Jenna Van Draanen, Doyanne Darnell, Patricia A Areán

“…We will collaborate with teams to use methods and centerwide measures that facilitate cross-project analysis of the effects of DDBT-driven redesign on outcomes of interest. …”
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Cigarette smoking and perceived risk of cardiovascular disease in Iran by Fatemeh Zarghami, Abdolhalim Rajabi, Reza Abed-Tazehabadi, Abdurrahman Charkazi, Ali Shahryari

“…Therefore, the study aimed to determine the perceived risk of Myocardial Infarction (MI), Hypertension (HTN), and Stroke among current smokers in Iran. Methods This cross-sectional study was conducted between January and May 2023, and recruited 380 smokers by convenience sampling who smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their lifetime. …”
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Genetic diversity of Plasmodium falciparum reticulocyte binding protein homologue-5, which is a potential malaria vaccine candidate: baseline data from areas of varying malaria end... by Angelina J. Kisambale, Dativa Pereus, Salehe S. Mandai, Beatus M. Lyimo, Catherine Bakari, Gervas A. Chacha, Ruth B. Mbwambo, Ramadhan Moshi, Daniel A. Petro, Daniel P. Challe, Misago D. Seth, Rashid A. Madebe, Rule Budodo, Sijenunu Aaron, Daniel Mbwambo, Abdallah Lusasi, Stella Kajange, Samwel Lazaro, Ntuli Kapologwe, Celine I. Mandara, Deus S. Ishengoma

“…Robust and intensive studies of this and other candidate genes are crucial to support the prioritization of the Pfrh5 gene for potential inclusion in a broadly cross-protective malaria vaccine.…”
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Spontaneous high clonal expansion of Wilms’ tumor gene 1-specific cytotoxic T-lymphocytes in patients with Wilms’ tumor gene 1-expressing solid tumor by Soyoko Morimoto, Yukie Tanaka, Jun Nakata, Fumihiro Fujiki, Kana Hasegawa, Hiroko Nakajima, Sumiyuki Nishida, Akihiro Tsuboi, Naoki Hosen, Naoki Kagawa, Motohiko Maruno, Akira Myoui, Takayuki Enomoto, Shuichi Izumoto, Mitsugu Sekimoto, Naoya Hashimoto, Toshiki Yoshimine, Atsushi Kumanogoh, Yusuke Oji, Yoshihiro Oka, Haruo Sugiyama

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Application of artificial neural networks for predictive model of municipal solid waste collection in tourist cities by T. Kridakorn Na Ayutthaya, N. Jakrawatana, D. Rinchumphu, V. Owatsakul

“…Preventative actions were enacted in order to decrease the risk of microplastic cross-contamination.FINDINGS: It was determined through analysis that 93.75 percent (150 out of 160) of the fish studied contained microplastics, which were detected in samples obtained from both the gut and gill samples. …”
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Determining dry oak lumber consumption for the production of solid edge-glued panels by Volodymyr Mayevskyy, Rostislav Moroz, Serhiy Kopynets, Oleh Ferents, Roman Shchupakivskyy, Yevstakhii Myskiv

“…The operating consumption of oak dry edged lumber per 1 m3 of solid edge- glued panels from solid and spliced billets is as follows: lengthwise cutting of dry edged lumber – 1.093 m3/m3; roughing planing – 1.272; cross-cutting of wood sections, with cutting out defects, into billets of fixed lengths and of different lengths – 1.381 m3/m3; finishing planing of solid billets – 1.215 m3/m3; splicing of billets (finger-joining of billets) – 1.037 m3/m3; finishing planing of spliced billets (finger-joined billets) – 1.354 m3/m3; calibration of glued panels – 1.097 m3/m3; trimming of glued panels along the perimeter – 1.047 m3/m3. …”
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Studying the Beneficial Indicators of Intercropping of Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) with Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik), and Bitter Vetch (Lath... by Amin Yari, Farzad Mondani, Alireza Bagheri, Hamid Reza Chaghazardi

“…The beneficial indicators of intercropping, including Land Equivalent Ratio (LER), Relative Crowding Coefficient (RCC), System Productivity Index (SPI), and Actual Yield Loss (AYL) were calculated. …”
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Ethnic and racial discrimination in maternal health care in Mexico: a neglected challenge in the search for universal health coverage by Edson Serván-Mori, Sergio Meneses-Navarro, Rocío García-Díaz, Diego Cerecero-García, David Contreras-Loya, Octavio Gómez-Dantés, Arachu Castro

“…Methods We conducted a population-based, pooled cross-sectional, and retrospective analysis for 2009–2023, using data from the last three waves (2014, 2018, and 2023) of a nationally representative demographic survey (ENADID). …”
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Analisis Klasifikasi Sentimen Ulasan pada E-Commerce Shopee Berbasis Word Cloud dengan Metode Naive Bayes dan K-Nearest Neighbor by Josua Josen Alexander Limbong, Irwan Sembiring, kristoko dwi hartomo

“…This indicates that positive or negative reviews left by users greatly influence other users in choosing the services or products they are looking for. …”
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Associations Between Complement C4, Habitual Constipation, and Sleep Disturbance in Oldest-Old and Centenarian Chinese Adults by Sun Z, Nie Y, Pei J, Gao M, Luan Z, Zhao Y, Li Z, Fu S

“…Zhigao Sun,1,&ast; Yan Nie,2,&ast; Jianqiu Pei,3,&ast; Ming Gao,4,&ast; Zhe Luan,5,&ast; Yali Zhao,6 Zhaoxing Li,7 Shihui Fu8,9 1Traditional Chinese Medicine Department, Hainan Hospital of Chinese People’s Liberation Army General Hospital, Sanya, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Gastroenterology, Hainan Hospital of Chinese People’s Liberation Army General Hospital, Sanya, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; 4School of Engineering Medicine, Beihang University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; 5Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, The First Medical Center of Chinese People’s Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; 6Central Laboratory, Hainan Hospital of Chinese People’s Liberation Army General Hospital, Sanya, People’s Republic of China; 7Department of General Surgery, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, People’s Republic of China; 8Department of Cardiology, Hainan Hospital of Chinese People’s Liberation Army General Hospital, Hainan Geriatric Disease Clinical Medical Research Center, Hainan Branch of China Geriatric Disease Clinical Research Center, Sanya, People’s Republic of China; 9Department of Geriatric Cardiology, Chinese People’s Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China&ast;These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Zhaoxing Li, Department of General Surgery, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, People’s Republic of China, Email lizhaoxing1984@hebmu.edu.cn Shihui Fu, Department of Cardiology, Hainan Hospital of Chinese People’s Liberation Army General Hospital, Hainan Geriatric Disease Clinical Medical Research Center, Hainan Branch of China Geriatric Disease Clinical Research Center, Sanya, People’s Republic of China, Email xiaoxiao0915@126.comBackground: Sleep disturbance is an immune-related disease, and the gut–brain axis is an important regulatory pathway. This cross-sectional study was designed to address these associations between complement C4, habitual constipation, and sleep disturbance and presents a reference for prevention and treatment of sleep disturbance.Methods: Based on the China Hainan Centenarian Cohort Study, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) was used to evaluate sleep disturbance following standard procedure. …”
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Risk Factors for Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction: Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study by Yanqi Kou, Shicai Ye, Yuan Tian, Ke Yang, Ling Qin, Zhe Huang, Botao Luo, Yanping Ha, Liping Zhan, Ruyin Ye, Yujie Huang, Qing Zhang, Kun He, Mouji Liang, Jieming Zheng, Haoyuan Huang, Chunyi Wu, Lei Ge, Yuping Yang

“…A total of 7 ML algorithms—logistic regression, k-nearest neighbors, support vector machine, decision tree, random forest (RF), extreme gradient boosting, and neural networks—were trained using 10-fold cross-validation. The models were evaluated for the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, recall, F1-score, and decision curve analysis. …”
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Dietary and lifestyle patterns identified through reduced rank regression and their association with insulin-related disorders: a prospective analysis from the Tehran Lipid and Glu... by Ebrahim Mokhtari, Hossein Farhadnejad, Farshad Teymoori, Mitra Kazemi Jahromi, Mehrnaz Nikkhah, Parvin Mirmiran, Fereidoun Azizi

“…In the final adjusted model of cross-sectional analysis, the odds of hyperinsulinemia(OR:1.23,95%CI:1.08–1.41,Ptrend=0.002) and IR(OR:1.52,95%CI:1.25–1.86,Ptrend<0.001) were elevated with increasing each quartile of RRR-derived dietary pattern score. …”
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The Influences of Rootstock on the Performance of Pinot Noir (Vitis vinifera L.): Berry and Wine Composition by Yipeng Chen, Zijian Liang, Mark Krstic, Peter Clingeleffer, Kate Howell, Deli Chen, Pangzhen Zhang

“…The findings offer guidance to vignerons in choosing suitable rootstocks to manage berry and wine acidity, phenolic accumulation and composition, and volatile profile, thereby improving the wine quality. …”
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Impact of quality of root canal fillings and coronal restorations on the prevalence of apical periodontitis in an adult Saudi subpopulation by Muhammad Zubair Ahmad

“…Objectives: This cross-sectional study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of apical periodontitis among healthy Saudi adult patients and to examine the impact of root canal filling quality and coronal restoration quality on periradicular health. …”
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Time Interval for Diagnosis of Tuberculosis and Related Expenditure in Selected Health Centers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Ezra Shimeles, Melaku Tilahun, Tsegaye Hailu, Fikre Enquselassie, Abraham Aseffa, Alemayehu Mekonnen, Getachew Wondimagegn

“…Therefore, the study aimed to assess the time interval between developing TB symptom until patients start anti-TB treatment and associated cost incurred by patients and families. Methods. This cross-sectional study was conducted among pulmonary TB patients who are bacteriologically confirmed, whose age is above 15 years and diagnosed at health centres in Addis Ababa. …”
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The Metempiricism of Margins: Professor Anthony Aṣiwaju and the Circumference of Knowledge by Toyin Falola

“…No doubt, his origin became the bedrock of his successful career. A scholar from cross-border parents with an upbringing in a borderland who specializes in borderland studies, which was initially focused on the Nigeria/Benin limitrophe states, then blossomed continentally and intercontinentally. …”
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