Multimodal smoking cessation treatment combining repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, cognitive behavioral therapy, and nicotine replacement in veterans with posttraumatic... by Jonathan R Young, Carri S Polick, Andrew M Michael, Moritz Dannhauer, Jeffrey T Galla, Mariah K Evans, Addison Troutman, Angela C Kirby, Michelle F Dennis, Claire W Papanikolas, Zhi-De Deng, Scott D Moore, Eric A Dedert, Merideth A Addicott, Lawrence G Appelbaum, Jean C Beckham

“…Tobacco-related deaths remain the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. Veterans suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)-about 11% of those receiving care from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)-have triple the risk of developing tobacco use disorder (TUD). …”
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Variation in human gut microbiota impacts tamoxifen pharmacokinetics by Yasmine Alam, Sheron Hakopian, Lizett Ortiz de Ora, Ian Tamburini, Julio Avelar-Barragan, Sunhee Jung, Zane Long, Alina Chao, Katrine Whiteson, Cholsoon Jang, Elizabeth Bess

“…Such differential inter-individual response has a significant socioeconomic impact as one in eight women will develop breast cancer and nearly half a million people in the United States are treated with tamoxifen annually. …”
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Thermodynamic, economic, and environmental evaluation of internal combustion engine exhaust gas-driven Organic Rankine cycles for power generation and desalination by Mohammad Waqas Chandio, Laveet Kumar, Abdul Ghafoor Memon, Mohamed M. Awad

“…The chosen configurations of ORCs are combined with reverse osmosis (RO) units to produce freshwater. The ORCs use R245fa as the working fluid. …”
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Cancer caregivers are primarily motivated by love and sense of duty by Avi Gupta, Cate Hurley, Rohan Mangal, Anjali Daniel, Latha Ganti

“…A 14-question survey was sent out to randomly selected United States cancer caretakers to analyze the social, emotional, and physical burden of their caretaking. …”
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Microbiota, Prostatitis, and Fertility: Bacterial Diversity as a Possible Health Ally by Jenniffer Puerta Suárez, Walter D. Cardona Maya

“…Fertile men present a greater variety of operational taxonomical units-OTUs in semen (67.5%) and urine (17.6%) samples than chronic prostatitis symptoms men. …”
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Automation of image processing through ML algorithms of GRASS GIS using embedded Scikit-Learn library of Python by Polina Lemenkova

“…The data are obtained from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and include the Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager/Thermal Infrared Sensor (OLI/TIRS) multispectral satellite images. …”
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Tracking Immunity: An Increased Number of COVID-19 Boosters Increases the Longevity of Anti-RBD and Anti-RBD-Neutralizing Antibodies by Ching-Wen Hou, Stacy Williams, Veronica Boyle, Alexa Roeder, Bradley Bobbett, Izamar Garcia, Giavanna Caruth, Mitch Magee, Yunro Chung, Douglas F. Lake, Joshua LaBaer, Vel Murugan

“…Arizona State University (ASU), the largest four-year university in the United States, offers a uniquely diverse setting for assessing immunity within a large community. …”
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Thoracolumbar And Lumbopelvic Spinal Alignment During The Deadlift Exercise: A Comparison Between Men And Women by Victor Bengtsson, Ulrika Aasa, Fredrik Öhberg, Lars Berglund

“…Spinal alignment and spinal range of motion were measured using three inertial measurement units placed on the thoracic, lumbar and sacral spine. …”
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Remote sensing estimation of chlorophyll content in rape leaves in Weibei dryland region of China by Xia Liheng, Zhang Panpan, Shi Lei, Wang Kun, Zhang Tingyu

“…Focusing on rapeseed crops within the northwest region, this study employed correlation analysis between Soil Plant Analysis Development (SPAD) values and spectral parameters of rape leaves to identify SPAD-sensitive spectral parameters. SPAD values are units of relative chlorophyll content and are used to determine the current relative amount of chlorophyll in a leaf. …”
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Threshold responses of freshwater fish community size spectra to invasive species by Bradley Novak, Brent A. Murry, Jeff S. Wesner, Vojsava Gjoni, Caroline C. Arantes, Erin Shepta, Justin P. F. Pomeranz, James R. Junker, Kathrine Zipfel, Andrew Stump, Levi E. Solomon, Kristopher A. Maxson, Jason A. DeBoer

“…The introduction of Silver Carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) throughout the mid‐western United States epitomizes both the impacts of AIS and the need for quantitative control targets. …”
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Mapping global annual urban land cover fractions (2001–2020) derived with multi-objective deep learning by Haoyu Wang, Qian Wang, Xiuyuan Zhang, Shihong Du, Lubin Bai, Shuping Xiong

“…However, V-C-B-I-S-W six kinds of ULC extraction is much more difficult than classical V-I-S extraction, especially for distinguishing non-crop vegetation and cropland, buildings and non-build impervious. …”
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Predicting bullying victimization among adolescents using the risk and protective factor framework: a large-scale machine learning approach by Ethan Low, Joshua Monsen, Lindsay Schow, Rachel Roberts, Lucy Collins, Hayden Johnson, Carl L. Hanson, Quinn Snell, E. Shannon Tass

“…Abstract Background Bullying, encompassing physical, psychological, social, or educational harm, affects approximately 1 in 20 United States teens aged 12-18. The prevalence and impact of bullying, including online bullying, necessitate a deeper understanding of risk and protective factors to enhance prevention efforts. …”
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Ear and skull base paraganglioma: review of literature by D. Abdrakhmanova, K. Niemczyk, A. Mustafin, G. Mukhamadieva, N. Papulova

“…Currently, from 500 to 1000 cases of paraganglioma or pheochromocyte are diagnosed in the United States of America annually. The combined morbidity of benign tumor forms is evaluated to be between 0.7 to 1.0 for 100000 people per year. …”
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Evaluation and adaptation of a two-way text messaging intervention in the WIC breastfeeding peer counseling program: A qualitative analysis. by Josefa L Martinez-Brockman, Josephine R Granner, Brice Buchanan, Lisbette Acosta, Marilyn Lonczak, Lori Goeschel, Xiao Xu, Leslie Curry, Marcella Nunez-Smith, Rafael Pérez-Escamilla

“…The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides BF peer counseling prenatally and up to 1-year postpartum among low-income women in the United States. The Lactation Advice Through Texting Can Help (LATCH) intervention is an evidence-based two-way text messaging intervention that provides BF education and support in the WIC peer counseling program. …”
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A novel approach for detecting Salmonella enterica strains frequently attributed to human illness—development and validation of the highly pathogenic Salmonella (HPS) multiplex PCR... by Dayna M. Harhay, Kerry D. Brader, Tatum S. Katz, Gregory P. Harhay, James L. Bono, Joseph M. Bosilevac, Tommy L. Wheeler

“…While there are over 2,600 different serovars of NTS, epidemiological data suggests that certain serovars are better at causing disease than others, resulting in the majority of reported human illnesses in the United States. To improve food safety, there is a need to rapidly detect these more pathogenic serovars to facilitate their removal from the food supply.MethodsAddressing this need, we conducted a comparative analysis of 23 closed Salmonella genomic sequences of five serotypes. …”
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Hotspots and research trends of gut microbiome in polycystic ovary syndrome: a bibliometric analysis (2012–2023) by Ruishan Wu, Zhensheng Mai, Xiaoyan Song, Wenzhong Zhao

“…This study aimed to identify the hotspots and research trends within the domain of the gut microbiome in PCOS through bibliometric analysis.MethodsUtilizing bibliometric techniques, we examined the literature on the gut microbiome in PCOS from the Web of Science Core Collection spanning the period from 2012 to 2023. …”
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Distribution of spinal damage in patients with axial spondyloarthritis as assessed by MRI: a prospective and blinded study by Andreas Haidmayer, Gabriel Adelsmayr, Christopher Spreizer, Eva Valentina Klocker, Franz Quehenberger, Michael Fuchsjaeger, Jens Thiel, Josef Hermann

“…After assessment of spinal mobility and function two blinded radiologists independently evaluated MRIs of 23 vertebral units in every patient. Non-parametric statistical methods, Spearman‘s correlation and linear regression models were used to analyze structural lesion distribution and the relationship with clinical spinal mobility and function parameters. …”
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Potentials of Presepsin as a Novel Sepsis Biomarker in Critically Ill Adults: Correlation Analysis with the Current Diagnostic Markers by Mai S. Sater, Nourah Almansour, Zainab Hasan Abdulla Malalla, Salim Fredericks, Muhalab E. Ali, Hayder A. Giha

“…<b>Background:</b> Sepsis is a major cause of patient death in intensive care units (ICUs). Rapid diagnosis of sepsis assists in optimizing treatments and improves outcomes. …”
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Assessment Of Fetal Maturity At Various Gestational Ages Using Modified Dubowitz Scoring System by Afreen, Lubna Ejaz, Shagufta Saeed Sial, Humera Noreen, Humaira Bilqis, Saman Akhtar

“…Methods: This prospective observational research was carried out at Holy Family Hospital, Rawalpindi, in units 1 and 2 of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. …”
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Dietary index for gut microbiota and its protective role against kidney stones: evidence of diabetes as a mediator from NHANES cross-sectional data by Lei Wang, Junjun Wu, Ziwen Jiang, Chao Wang, Fuxiang Lin, Yuxiang Zhong, Pengpeng Zhao, Wei Wei, Jianhua Huang, Zhanping Xu

“…Data entry and statistical analysis were performed using Empower version 4.2 (X&amp;Y Solutions, Inc., Boston, MA, United States) and R version 3.4.3 (R Foundation). …”
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