Surgical margins of the oral cavity: is 5 mm really necessary? by James Fowler, Yael Campanile, Andrew Warner, Francisco Laxague, Naif Fnais, Kevin Fung, Adrian Mendez, Danielle MacNeil, John Yoo, David Palma, Anthony Nichols

“…Demographic data, subsite, tumour staging, treatment modality, margins, and survival outcomes were analyzed. …”
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Design and Development of Monolithic Microwave Integrated Amplifiers and Coupling Circuits for Telecommunication Systems Applications by R. Makri, M. Gargalakos, N. K. Uzunoglu

“…A meander-kind design as well as shunt capacitors were implemented for a 90° quadrature coupler and a Wilkinson one in order to reduce size. Finally, a two stages low noise amplifier was designed with the use of H40 GaAs process in order the differences between the relevant designs to be explored. …”
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What Contributes to the Gender Gap? A Blinder–Oaxaca Decomposition Analysis of Hidden Workers in Australia by Sora Lee, Woojin Kang

“…This study analyses the probabilities of becoming a hidden worker between males and females in three age groups (youth, young adults, and mid-life) and identifies the extent to which these factors explain the gender gap among hidden workers in Australia. (2) Using the Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition approach, this study aims to contribute to the discussion by highlighting the impact of gender on the hidden worker population, further illustrating how the explained and unexplained impacts on hidden workers differ between the gender groups. (3) Results: Age not only raises the likelihood of being a hidden worker in both gender groups but also contributes to the widening gender gap among hidden workers, especially those in the child-rearing stage of their life. Human capital, including education, health endowment, and social capital, is negatively associated with the likelihood of being a hidden worker and reduces the gender gap. …”
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Comprehensive analysis pinpoints CCNA2 as a prognostic and immunological biomarker in non-small cell lung cancer by Liming Zhang, Shaoqiang Wang, Lina Wang

“…CCNA2 was confirmed to be highly expressed in NSCLC through qRT-PCR and IHC, with overexpression correlating with advanced pathological stages and lymph node metastasis. The area under the curve (AUC) of CCNA2 indicating high diagnostic accuracy. …”
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Setting the top 10 priorities for obesity and weight-related research (POWeR): a stakeholder priority setting process by Paul Aveyard, Susan A Jebb, Nerys M Astbury, Anisa Hajizadeh, Ailsa R Butler, Lucy Goddard, Philippa Seeber, Bruce Crawley

“…Objectives To identify and prioritise the most impactful, unanswered questions for obesity and weight-related research.Design Prioritisation exercise of research questions using online surveys and an independently facilitated workshop.Setting Online/virtual.Participants We involved members of the public including people living with obesity, researchers, healthcare professionals and policy-makers in all stages of this study.Primary outcome measures Top 10 research questions to be prioritised in future obesity and weight-related research.Results Survey 1 produced 941 questions, from 278 respondents. …”
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Eco-friendly alkali-activated nano concrete: Impact of nano-GGBFS on mechanical and microstructural properties by Samuvel Raj R, G. Prince Arulraj, N. Anand, Balamurali Kanagaraj, Eva Lubloy

“…The economic analysis and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) results collectively demonstrate the viability of nGS-enhanced AANC as a sustainable solution, offering long-term cost savings through reduced maintenance, extended service life, and energy efficiency, while significantly lowering environmental impacts across its lifecycle stages, positioning it as a high-performance and environmentally friendly alternative to traditional Portland cement-based materials.…”
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Presence of Serum Antinuclear Antibodies Does Not Impact Outcomes in HBV-Related Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure by Lin Lin, Bin Lin, Qing Lan, Longgen Liu, Jianchun Lu, Xiujun Zhang, Shuqin Zheng, Yuan Xue

“…Patients with negative ANA had a higher international normalized ratio, model for end-stage liver disease (MELD), and MELD-sodium scores than those with positive ANA (all P<0.05). …”
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Transoral endoscopic thyroid lobectomy and ipsilateral central neck lymph node dissection vestibular approach: analysis of the learning curve and clinical outcomes evaluation by Yuhang Deng, Jiaojiao Zhao, Mei Tao, Haixin Zhao, Ruoxin Fan, Xiaoming Wang, Xiubo Lu

“…Additionally, clinical parameters across different stages of the learning process were meticulously compared and analyzed.ResultsAll patients successfully completed endoscopic surgery without conversion to open surgery. …”
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Influence of spousal educational disparities on intimate partner violence (IPV) against pregnant women: a study of 30 countries by M. D. Nahid Hassan Nishan, M. Z. E. M. Naser Uddin Ahmed, Saidur Rahman Mashreky, Koustuv Dalal

“…This study utilized data from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) focusing on lower and LMIC countries. DHS employs two-stage sampling to gather comprehensive health data. …”
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Positive associations between mean ambient temperature and involuntary admissions to psychiatric facilities by Noah L. Joore, Marte Z. van der Horst, Eric O. Noorthoorn, Jurriaan F.M. Strous, Fleur J. Vruwink, Sinan Guloksuz, Peter C. Siegmund, Jurjen J. Luykx

“…Conclusion Mean ambient temperature is consistently but weakly associated with involuntary psychiatric admissions. Our findings set the stage for further epidemiological and mechanistic studies into this topic, as well as for modeling studies examining future involuntary psychiatric admissions. …”
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Training Technologies as Means for Forming the Professional Identity of Police Officers during Professional Genesis by O. Y. Shlomin

“…It is expedient to use the received results of the research for drawing up the programs of psychological support of police officers at various stages of the professional genesis.…”
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A survey of the commercial traits and antioxidant status of goat milk in Mediterranean pastoral farms by Manuel Delgado-Pertiñez, Juan M. Mancilla-Leytón, Eduardo Morales-Jerrett, Sara Muñoz-Vallés, Verónica Cruz, Yolanda Mena

“…Principal changes were observed in the milk composition in different months due to the variation in the lactation stage and differences in feeding regimens. The negative correlation between the TAC and the somatic cell count contributes to the important role of antioxidants in maintaining optimal udder health. …”
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Moving from monitoring to real-time interventions for air quality: are low-cost sensor networks ready to support urban digital twins? by Nicole Hannah Cowell, Nicole Hannah Cowell, Lee Chapman, David Topping, Philip James, Daniel Bell, Thomas Bannan, Ettore Murabito, James Evans, Mark Birkin

“…To date, there are few examples of true digital twins of environmental challenges with many limited to the ‘digital shadow’ stage of development, characterized by lack of bi-directional feedback between the digital model and physical world. …”
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DGAT1 Expression Promotes Ovarian Cancer Progression and Is Associated with Poor Prognosis by Leilei Xia, Ye Wang, Shengyun Cai, Mingjuan Xu

“…We analyzed the correlation between DGAT1 and ovarian cancer staging, grading, vascular invasion, and prognosis by collating the information of ovarian cancer specimens from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database. …”
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Role of Regulatory B Cells in the Progression of Cervical Cancer by Zhifang Chen, Yuejie Zhu, Rong Du, Nannan Pang, Fengbo Zhang, Di Dong, Jianbing Ding, Yan Ding

“…In addition, the Breg cell percentage was closely related to the FIGO stages, lymph node metastasis, tumor differentiation, HPV infection, and the tumor metastasis of cervical cancer (P<0.05). …”
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Expression evaluation of exogenous and endogenous alcohol dehydrogenase genes in transgenic Arabidopsis by Haoqiang Yu, Hong Lv, Fengzhong Lu, Qingqing Yang, Huaming Duan, Wanchen Li, Fengling Fu

“…However, almost all of these transgenic events remain at the testing stage. Most of the singular transgenic events of crops approved for commercial release are developed by the transformation and heterologous expression of exogenous genes from distant species. …”
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Algorithm of management of patient with alcohol-induced liver disease by M. V. Mayevskaya, M. A. Morozova

“…At application of alcohol within several days there is a probability of liver steatosis development – the state at which in hepatocytes gather macrovesicular triglyceride inclusions. …”
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Novel fingerprint key generation method based on the trimmed mean of feature distance by Zhongtian JIA, Qinglong QIN, Li MA, Lizhi PENG

“…In recent years, biometrics has become widely adopted in access control systems, effectively resolving the challenges associated with password management in identity authentication.However, traditional biometric-based authentication methods often lead to the loss or leakage of users’ biometric data, compromising the reliability of biometric authentication.In the literature, two primary technical approaches have been proposed to address these issues.The first approach involves processing the extracted biometric data in a way that the authentication information used in the final stage or stored in the database does not contain the original biometric data.The second approach entails writing the biometric data onto a smart card and utilizing the smart card to generate the private key for public key cryptography.To address the challenge of constructing the private key of a public key cryptosystem based on fingerprint data without relying on a smart card, a detailed study was conducted on the stable feature points and stable feature distances of fingerprints.This study involved the extraction and analysis of fingerprint minutiae.Calculation methods were presented for sets of stable feature points, sets of equidistant stable feature points, sets of key feature points, and sets of truncated means.Based on the feature distance truncated mean, an original fingerprint key generation algorithm and key update strategy were proposed.This scheme enables the reconstruction of the fingerprint key through re-collecting fingerprints, without the need for direct storage of the key.The revocation and update of the fingerprint key were achieved through a salted hash function, which solved the problem of converting ambiguous fingerprint data into precise key data.Experiments prove that the probability of successfully reconstructing the fingerprint key by re-collecting fingerprints ten times is 0.7354, and the probability of reconstructing the fingerprint key by re-collecting fingerprints sixty times is 98.06%.…”
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Digital Laser-Sintered Expander in Adolescent Patient with Hyperdontia and Molar Impaction by Greta Roussanova Yordanova-Kostova, Emanuel Emiliyanov, Nikolay Yanev

“…Each clinical case is highly individual, and patients seek orthodontic treatment at different stages of dentition development and corresponding development of the supernumerary teeth.…”
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Study on the Diffusion Law of Fluidized Filling Gangue Slurry in Goaf of Coal Mine Underground by Baoning Wei, Qingxiang Huang, Dengdeng Zhuang, Xin Cao, Bo Hui, Xiao Zuo, Mengbo Zhu

“…The study highlights four distinct flow stages in the process: stable laminar diffusion, transition from advection to turbulence, turbulence, and stoppage. …”
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