Pulmonary function among stone quarry workers in India: The effect of duration of exposure, smoking status and job profile on pulmonary function tests by Junaid Aziz Sheikh, Zahid Ali Khan, Tazeen Khan, Sumaira Chowdhary

“…This study was designed to analyse the effect of duration of exposure, job profile and smoking on lung function of stone quarry workers from Jammu city, Jammu and Kashmir State, India. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out among 100 male stone crusher workers, selected through multi-stage random sampling technique. …”
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BMI trajectories are associated with NAFLD and advanced fibrosis via aging-inflammation mediation by Haiyang Peng, Zhibo Zhao, Jianping Gong, Kun He

“…Abundant studies revealed the association between high body mass index (BMI) and NAFLD but overlooked the BMI patterns across life stages. We aimed to explore how BMI trajectories over age relate to NAFLD. …”
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Impact of Helicobacter pylori infection on neoadjuvant chemotherapy in locally advanced gastric cancer: a retrospective analysis by Bin Zhong, Zhizhong Xiong, Jiabo Zheng, Saddam Ahmed Mohamed, Jiachen Sun, Dayin Huang, Zijian Deng, Jianping Guo, Junsheng Peng, Huashe Wang, Lei Lian

“…Multivariate analysis showed that factors related to major pathological response included; age ≤ 50 (OR: 0.423, 95% CI: 0.194–0.925), H. pylori infection (OR: 0.396, 95% CI: 0.183–0.854), pathological stage T 3/4 (OR: 0.524, 95% CI: 0.288–0.954), and CA12-5 > 35 U/mL (OR: 0.345, 95% CI: 0.132–0.904). …”
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Induced resistance to the greenbug aphid Schizaphis graminum Rond. in species of the genus Triticum by S. D. Rumyantsev, S. V. Veselova, G. F. Burkhanova, I. V. Maksimov

“…Nevertheless, modern literature describes some mechanisms associated with changes in the redox state of colonized plants. Besides, attention is being increasingly focused on the study of mechanisms that underlie inducible resistance to aphids in wheat and are regulated by hormonal signaling systems. …”
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Tracing microbial community across endophyte-to-saprotroph continuum of Cinnamomum camphora (L.) Presl leaves considering priority effect of endophyte on litter decomposition by Jiamin Xiao, Zaihua He, Xingbing He, Yonghui Lin, Xiangshi Kong

“…All identified bacterial keystone taxa during the saprophytic phase originated from endophytic sources, and around 80% of the fungal keystone taxa in the initial stages of decomposition were similarly endophytic in origin. …”
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Effects of melatonin supplementation on oxidative stress, and inflammatory biomarkers in diabetic patients with chronic kidney disease: a double-blind, randomized controlled trial by Sara Sadeghi, Amirahmad Nassiri, Monir Sadat Hakemi, Fatemeh Hosseini, Fatemeh Pourrezagholie, Fatemeh Naeini, Aylar Nadiri Niri, Hossein Imani, Hamed Mohammadi

“…Materials and methods This trial included 41 diabetic patients with CKD (stages 3–4) from Shariati Hospital, Tehran, Iran. …”
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Predictive value of enhanced CT and pathological indicators in lymph node metastasis in patients with gastric cancer based on GEE model by Ling Yang, Yingying Ding, Dafu Zhang, Guangjun Yang, Xingxiang Dong, Zhiping Zhang, Caixia Zhang, Wenjie Zhang, Youguo Dai, Zhenhui Li

“…Conclusion The predictive model constructed based on lymph node enhancement pattern, Ki67 level, and lymph node long-axis diameter exhibited good performance in predicting LNM in gastric cancer and should aid the lymph node staging of gastric cancer and clinical decision-making.…”
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Multiplexed SSR marker analysis of Diplocarpon coronariae reveals clonality within samples from Middle Europe and genetic distance from Asian and North American isolates by Thomas Oberhänsli, Anna Dalbosco, Virginie Leschenne, Anne Bohr, Sascha Buchleither, Lucius Tamm, Lukas Wille, Srđan G. Aćimović, Fatemeh Khodadadi, Young-Hyun Ryu, Bruno Studer, Hans-Jakob Schärer, Andrea Patocchi

“…Based on the lack of linkage disequilibrium observed, there is evidence that Dc undergoes regular cycles of sexual recombination in the European population, although the sexual stage (apothecia) has not been observed in Europe. …”
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Rare Presentation of Hypoglycemia in a Patient with Anaplastic Large-Cell Lymphoma by Raed Aldahash

“…Thus, involvement of other organs is very rare as we found in a 54-year-old male patient, a known case of hypertension and end-stage renal disease who was on hemodialysis, who presented to the emergency department with a history of generalized weakness and weight loss of about 20 kg for two months. …”
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ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF ORGANIC SOY PRODUCTION IN UKRAINE by Hanna Pantsyreva

“…Consequently, the substantiation of its agrobiological potential in selected areas of sustainable production on non-irrigated land will ensure the territorial transformation of the "soybean belt". A new stage in the production of soybean crops is substantiated, which will contribute to the rational use of hydrothermal resources of the region, increase the gross production of soybean seeds, biologisation of agriculture, and production of high-quality, environmentally friendly products.…”
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Pembrolizumab plus Pemetrexed and Platinum in Metastatic Non-Squamous Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Real-Life Study at a Portuguese Centre by Maria João Santos, Filipa Ferro, Andrea Machado, Ana Sofia Vilariça, Direndra Hasmucrai, Paula Alves

“…We included patients with stage IV non-squamous non-small-cell lung cancer with programmed death ligand 1 < 50% that started pembrolizumab plus platinum and pemetrexed between July 2020 and December 2022. …”
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Modeling the Viscoelastic Behavior of Quartz and Clay Minerals in Shale by Nanoindentation Creep Tests by Jianfeng Wang, Yuke Liu, Chao Yang, Wenmin Jiang, Yun Li, Yongqiang Xiong

“…However, due to the poor fit in the initial holding stage of the three-element Voigt model and instability of the two-dashpot Kelvin model, Burger’s model is best in obtaining the regression parameters. …”
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Dynamic Parameters and Hysteresis Loop Characteristics of Frozen Silt Clay under Different Cyclic Stress Paths by Furong Liu, Zhiwei Zhou, Wei Ma, Shujuan Zhang, Zhizhong Sun

“…With an increase in the number of load cycles, the shape of hysteresis loop becoming narrows, the resilient modulus decreases at the initial stage and then gradually increases, and the damping ratio stably decreases. …”
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Professional context of teaching reading to foreign economics students by Olena Titarenko, O. Kopylova

“…However, the initial level of text comprehension among students at the onset of the main stage of learning is insufficient to effectively support the educational process in Ukrainian higher education institutions within their chosen specialties. …”
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Diş Aşınmaları Nedeniyle Dikey Boyut Kaybı Oluşan Hastanın Direkt Kompozit Restorasyonlar İle Rehabilitasyonu (Olgu Sunumu). by Yasser İsmail Al Rawi, Ali Rıza Çetin

“…These restorations will create the first stage of rehabilitation and will increase the adaptation and comfort of the patient in the planned treatment process. …”
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Advanced Restriction Imaging and Reconstruction Technology for Prostate Magnetic Resonance Imaging (ART-Pro): A Study Protocol for a Multicenter, Multinational Trial Evaluating Bip... by Madison T. Baxter, Christopher C. Conlin, Aditya Bagrodia, Tristan Barrett, Hauke Bartsch, Anja Brau, Matthew Cooperberg, Anders M. Dale, Arnaud Guidon, Michael E. Hahn, Mukesh G. Harisinghani, Juan F. Javier-DesLoges, Sophia C. Kamran, Christopher J. Kane, Joshua M. Kuperman, Daniel J.A. Margolis, Paul M. Murphy, Nabih Nakrour, Michael A. Ohliger, Rebecca Rakow-Penner, Ahmed Shabaik, Jeffry P. Simko, Clare M. Tempany, Natasha Wehrli, Sean A. Woolen, Jingjing Zou, Tyler M. Seibert

“…ART-Pro will be conducted in two stages and will include a total of 500 patients referred for multiparametric prostate MRI with a clinical suspicion of prostate cancer at the participating sites. …”
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Patch-Level and Neighborhood-Dependency Spatial Optimization Method (PNO): Application to Urban Land-Use Planning to Facilitate Both Socio-Economic and Environmental Development in... by Yuhan Cheng, Xiuyuan Zhang, Qi Zhou, Xiaoyan Dong, Shihong Du

“…., traffic congestion and urban heat islands; thus, scientific planning considering land-use trade-offs and layout optimization is highly required for resolving these issues, especially in the urban renewal stage. However, previous spatial optimization methods were weak in processing land-use patches and ignored their neighborhood dependency, leading to fragmented and inapplicable optimization results. …”
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Interleukin-10 Polymorphisms in Association with Prognosis in Patients with B-Cell Lymphoma Treated by R-CHOP by Min Kyeong Kim, Kyong-Ah Yoon, Eun Young Park, Jungnam Joo, Eun Young Lee, Hyeon-Seok Eom, Sun-Young Kong

“…Clinical characteristics, including age, performance status, stage, and extra-nodal involvement, as well as cell lineage and International Prognostic Index (IPI), were evaluated. …”
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Central Asian Nomads in the Spread of Buddhism in Russia by Baatr U. Kitinov

“…Buddhism first penetrated into Middle Asia during the era of the Macedonian campaigns and took hold due to its tolerance to and complementarity with the local cults and beliefs. There are two stages in the history of Buddhism in Central Asia: first in its western part (where it would persist until the 7th-9th centuries) mainly among the Turks, then in the eastern part (from no later than the 7th century onwards), when Buddhism would manifest itself among the Zhuzhans (a stele found in the Bulgan aimag of Mongolia). …”
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The impact of alcohol misuse in trauma patients: A scoping review protocol. by Chantae Garland, Nhayan Abdulla, Donghyun Lee, Rae Spiwak, Sarvesh Logsetty, Jordan Nantais

“…A third reviewer will act as tiebreaker at each stage of the screening process. A narrative synthesis without meta-analysis will be conducted and assessed based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) guidelines.…”
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