Global Practice Patterns and Variations in the Medical and Surgical Management of Non- Obstructive Azoospermia: Results of a World-Wide Survey, Guidelines and Expert Recommendation... by Amarnath Rambhatla, Rupin Shah, Imad Ziouziou, Priyank Kothari, Gianmaria Salvio, Murat Gul, Taha Hamoda, Parviz Kavoussi, Widi Atmoko, Tuncay Toprak, Ponco Birowo, Edmund Ko, Mohamed Arafa, Ramy Abou Ghayda, Vilvapathy Senguttuvan Karthikeyan, Giorgio Ivan Russo, Germar-Michael Pinggera, Eric Chung, Ahmed M. Harraz, Marlon Martinez, Nguyen Ho Vinh Phuoc, Nicholas Tadros, Ramadan Saleh, Missy Savira, Giovanni M. Colpi, Wael Zohdy, Edoardo Pescatori, Hyun Jun Park, Shinichiro Fukuhara, Akira Tsujimura, Cesar Rojas-Cruz, Angelo Marino, Siu King Mak, Edouard Amar, Wael Ibrahim, Puneet Sindhwani, Naif Alhathal, Gian Maria Busetto, Manaf Al Hashimi, Ahmed El-Sakka, Asci Ramazan, Fotios Dimitriadis, Massimiliano Timpano, Davor Jezek, Baris Altay, Daniel Suslik Zylbersztejn, Michael YC Wong, Du Geon Moon, Christine Wyns, Safar Gamidov, Hamed Akhavizadegan, Alessandro Franceschelli, Kaan Aydos, Nguyen Quang, Shedeed Ashour, Adel Al Dayel, Mohammed S. Al-Marhoon, Sava Micic, Saleh Binsaleh, Alayman Hussein, Haitham Elbardisi, Taymour Mostafa, Jonathan Ramsay, Athanasios Zachariou, Islam Fathy Soliman Abdelrahman, Osvaldo Rajmil, Arif Kalkanli, Juan Manuel Corral Molina, Kadir Bocu, Gede Wirya Kusuma Duarsa, Gökhan Çeker, Ege Can Serefoglu, Fahmi Bahar, Nazim Gherabi, Shinnosuke Kuroda, Abderrazak Bouzouita, Ahmet Gudeloglu, Erman Ceyhan, Mohamed Saeed Mohamed Hasan, Muhammad Ujudud Musa, Ahmad Motawi, Chak-Lam Cho, Hisanori Taniguchi, Christopher Chee Kong Ho, Jesus Fernando Solorzano Vazquez, Shingai Mutambirwa, Nur Dokuzeylul Gungor, Marion Bendayan, Carlo Giulioni, Aykut Baser, Marco Falcone, Luca Boeri, Gideon Blecher, Alireza Kheradmand, Tamilselvi Sethupathy, Ricky Adriansjah, Nima Narimani, Charalampos Konstantinidis, Tuan Thanh Nguyen, Andrian Japari, Parisa Dolati, Keerti Singh, Cevahir Ozer, Selcuk Sarikaya, Nadia Sheibak, Ndagijimana Jean Bosco, Mehmet Serkan Özkent, Sang Thanh Le, Ioannis Sokolakis, Darren Katz, Ryan Smith, Manh Nguyen Truong, Tan V. Le, Zhongwei Huang, Muslim Dogan Deger, Umut Arslan, Gokhan Calik, Giorgio Franco, Ayman Rashed, Oguzhan Kahraman, Sotiris Andreadakis, Rosadi Putra, Giancarlo Balercia, Kareim Khalafalla, Rossella Cannarella, Anh Đặng Tuấn, Amr El Meliegy, Birute Zilaitiene, Marlene Lizbeth Zamora Ramirez, Filippo Giacone, Aldo E. Calogero, Konstantinos Makarounis, Sunil Jindal, Bac Nguyen Hoai, Ravi Banthia, Marcelo Rodriguez Peña, Dharani Moorthy, Aram Adamyan, Deniz Kulaksiz, Hussein Kandil, Nikolaos Sofikitis, Ciro Salzano, Andreas Jungwirth, Surendra Reddy Banka, Tiago Cesar Mierzwa, Tahsin Turunç, Divyanu Jain, Armen Avoyan, Pietro Salacone, Ateş Kadıoğlu, Chirag Gupta, Haocheng Lin, Iman Shamohammadi, Nasser Mogharabian, Trenton Barrett, Yavuz Onur Danacıoğlu, Andrea Crafa, Salima Daoud, Vineet Malhotra, Abdulmalik Almardawi, Osama Mohamed Selim, Mohamad Moussa, Saeid Haghdani, Mesut Berkan Duran, Yannic Kunz, Mirko Preto, Elena Eugeni, Thang Nguyen, Ahmed Rashad Elshahid, Seso Sulijaya Suyono, Dyandra Parikesit, Essam Nada, Eduardo Gutiérrez Orozco, Florence Boitrelle, Nguyen Thi Minh Trang, Mounir Jamali, Raju Nair, Mikhail Ruzaev, Franco Gadda, Charalampos Thomas, Raphael Henrique Ferreira, Umit Gul, Serena Maruccia, Ajay Kanbur, Ella Kinzikeeva, Saad Mohammed Abumelha, Raghavender Kosgi, Fatih Gokalp, Mohammad Ayodhia Soebadi, Gustavo Marquesine Paul, Hesamoddin Sajadi, Deepak Gupte, Rafael F. Ambar, Emrullah Sogutdelen, Karun Singla, Ari Basukarno, Shannon Hee Kyung Kim, Mohammad Ali Sadighi Gilani, Koichi Nagao, Sakti Ronggowardhana Brodjonegoro, Andri Rezano, Mohamed Elkhouly, Rossella Mazzilli, Hasan M. A. Farsi, Hung Nguyen Ba, Hamed Alali, Dimitrios Kafetzis, Tran Quang Tien Long, Sami Alsaid, Hoang Bao Ngoc Cuong, Knigavko Oleksandr, Akhmad Mustafa, Herik Acosta, Hrishikesh Pai, Bahadır Şahin, Eko Arianto, Colin Teo, Sanjay Prakash Jayaprakash, Rinaldo Indra Rachman, Mustafa Gurkan Yenice, Omar Sefrioui, Shivam Priyadarshi, Marko Tanic, Noor Kareem Alfatlaw, Fikri Rizaldi, Ranjit B. Vishwakarma, George Kanakis, Dinesh Thomas Cherian, Joe Lee, Raisa Galstyan, Hakan Keskin, Janan Wurzacher, Doddy Hami Seno, Bambang S Noegroho, Ria Margiana, Qaisar Javed, Fabrizio Castiglioni, Raman Tanwar, Ana Puigvert, Coşkun Kaya, Medianto Purnomo, Chadi Yazbeck, Azwar Amir, Edson Borges, Marina Bellavia, Isaac Ardianson Deswanto, Vinod KV, Giovanni Liguori, Dang Hoang Minh, Kashif Siddiqi, Fulvio Colombo, Armand Zini, Niket Patel, Selahittin Çayan, Ula Al-kawaz, Maged Ragab, Guadalupe Hernández Hebrard, Jean de la Rosette, Ozan Efesoy, Ivan Hoffmann, Thiago Afonso Teixeira, Barış Saylam, Daniela Delgadillo, Ashok Agarwal

“…This paper analyzes the results of the second half of the survey dealing with the management of NOA. Results have been compared to current guidelines, and expert recommendations have been provided using a Delphi process. …”

Effects of partial replacement of soybean meal with Chlorella vulgaris and lysozyme on diarrheal incidence, plasma biochemical parameters, and immunity of weaned piglets by Md. Abul Kalam Azad, Md. Abul Kalam Azad, Bowen Li, Ting Ye, Binghua Qin, Binghua Qin, Qian Zhu, Qian Zhu, Yordan Martinez, Xiangfeng Kong, Xiangfeng Kong

“…The LYSO group had increased interleukin (IL)-10 level in the jejunum and IL-1β level in the ileum while having a decreasing IL-6 level in the jejunum of piglets. …”
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Development and Validation of a Nomogram for Predicting Mortality in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation and Acute Coronary Syndrome Who Underwent Percutaneous Coronary Intervention... by Can Hua, Haitao Tian, Yubin Wang, Jianyong Zheng, Pengfei Liu, Boyang Zhang, Nannan Wang, Haihong Tang, Feng Wang, Xiufeng Xie, Haifeng Yuan, Tianchang Li

“…The predictive accuracy and discriminative ability of the nomogram were determined by a concordance index (C-index) and calibration curve and were compared using current risk scores such as GRACE, CRUSADE, CHA2DS2-VASc, and HAS-BLED. …”
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An interaction-fair semi-decentralized trajectory planner for connected and autonomous vehicles by Zhengqin Liu, Jinlong Lei, Peng Yi, Yiguang Hong

“…Abstract Lately, there has been a lot of interest in game-theoretic approaches to the trajectory planning of autonomous vehicles (AVs). …”
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Female Sex as a Thromboembolic Risk Factor in the Era of Nonvitamin K Antagonist Oral Anticoagulants by Mariacarla Gallù, Giulia Marrone, Jacopo Maria Legramante, Antonino De Lorenzo, Nicola Di Daniele, Annalisa Noce

“…Sex-specific differences have been definitively demonstrated in cardiovascular (CV) diseases. …”
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One-Year Clinical Outcome in Middle Eastern Patients with Atrial Fibrillation: The Jordan Atrial Fibrillation (JoFib) Study by Ayman Hammoudeh, Yousef Khader, Ramzi Tabbalat, Yahya Badaineh, Nazih Kadri, Haneen Shawer, Eyas Al-Mousa, Rasheed Ibdah, Batool A. Shawer, Imad A. Alhaddad

“…Prevention of stroke and systemic embolism (SE) prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) has radically changed in recent years. Data on contemporary utilization of oral anticoagulants (OACs) and cardiovascular outcome in Middle Eastern patients with AF are needed. …”
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Combined Catheter Ablation and Left Atrial Appendage Closure in Atrial Fibrillation Patients with and without Prior Stroke by Bin-Feng Mo, Rui Zhang, Jia-Li Yuan, Jian Sun, Peng-Pai Zhang, Wei Li, Mu Chen, Qun-Shan Wang, Yi-Gang Li

“…Patients in the Stroke group had higher CHA2DS2-VASc scores (4.9 ± 1.2 vs. 3.2 ± 1.0, P<0.001) and higher HAS-BLED scores (3.5 ± 1.1 vs. 3.0 ± 1.0, P<0.001) compared with those in the Control group. …”
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The Coincidence of Newly Diagnosed Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus with IgM Antibody Positivity to Enteroviruses and Respiratory Tract Viruses by Murat Karaoglan, Fahriye Eksi

“…The percentages of viral IgM antibodies against most common viruses were detected in the patients as follows: influenza B (IVB) (70%), echovirus 7 (ECHO7) (45%), parainfluenza virus 4 (PIV4) (40%), coxsackievirus A7 (CAV7) (27.5%), and H3N2 (22.5%). Compared with the control group, the above viruses had a significant association with T1DM (p≤0.001, p≤0.001, p=0.035, p=0.003, and p=0.023, resp.). …”
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The In Vivo Evaluation on Total Components from Extract of Aconitum Based on a New Analytic Method of Area under Absorbance-Wavelength Curve by Miaomiao Yang, Huasong Wu, Xiaodong Li

“…However, the concentrations of total components in the fifth and sixth day were 0.32 and 0.44 µg/ml, which were lower than the value of Cav. Conclusion. The method of AUAWC is feasible for the pharmacokinetics study in vivo analysis on total components of Aconitum with good sensitivity, specificity, and repeatability. …”
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Replication Study of “Visual Fixation on the Thorax Predicts Bystander Breathing Detection in Simulated Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest” by Marco Pedrotti

“…Median diagnosis time was 17.9 seconds (range = 2-119 seconds).Conclusions: Educating lay responders on how to look for chest movement enhances breathing detection performance.Contexte: La réanimation cardio-pulmonaire (RCP) pratiquée précocement par des témoins est associée à une amélioration des chances de survie en cas d'arrêt cardiaque extrahospitalier (OHCA). …”
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EGb761 促进臂丛根性撕脱伤运动神经元功能修复的多靶点机制 by 刘佛林, 汪丽清, 周丽华, 袁群芳, 吴国珍, 吴武田

“…硝酸还原酶法检测大鼠脊髓组织 NO 含量和cNOS 酶活力, 取 C7 节段切片行胆碱乙酰转化酶( ChAT) 、神经元型一氧化氮合酶( nNOS) 免疫组化、NADPH- d酶组化和中性红活细胞染色。…”
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Pengembangan dan Penerapan Sistem Persuasif pada E-learning : Aspek Perceived System Credibility dan Social Influence by Vanya Anjani Mupti, Yohana Dewi Lulu Widyasari, Indah Lestari

“…Usability testing of 76.46% state that e-learning is communicative, effective, and efficient measured by the use of e-learning that can provide benefits, users can interact with e-learning and have a positive impact on the learning process undertaken. …”
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Nicotinic α7 receptors on cholinergic neurons in the striatum mediate cocaine-reinforcement, but not food reward by Michael Fritz, Michael Fritz, Michael Fritz, Priscila Batista Rosa, Daniel Wilhelms, Daniel Wilhelms, Maarit Jaarola, Johan Ruud, David Engblom, Anna M. Klawonn, Anna M. Klawonn, Anna M. Klawonn, Anna M. Klawonn

“…Mice with conditional deletion of α7 nAChRs in ChAT-neurons (α7 nAChR-ChATCre) exhibited decreased cocaine place preference and intact place preference for food, while α7 nAChR-D1RCre mice had no changes in reward learning to neither food nor cocaine. …”
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Exploring the Analgesic Effect of Acupuncture on Knee Osteoarthritis Based on MLT/cAMP/PKA/CREB Signaling Pathway by Zhang C, Yu M, Zhang L, Zhou X, Han J, Fu B, Xue H, Zhang C

“…Chao Zhang,1,2,&ast; Man Yu,3,&ast; Longyao Zhang,1,2 Xin Zhou,1,2 Jinchang Han,1,2 Bifeng Fu,1,2 Hongfei Xue,1,2 Chao Zhang1,2 1Orthopedics Department, The First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, 300380, People’s Republic of China; 2National Clinical Research Center for Chinese Medicine Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Tianjin, 300380, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Nephrology and Rheumatology, Second Hospital Affiliated to Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, 300250, People’s Republic of China&ast;These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Hongfei Xue; Chao Zhang, The First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, 300380, People’s Republic of China, Email 2538287036@qq.com; zhangchao2004.love@163.comBackground: Acupuncture is an effective treatment for knee osteoarthritis (KOA), reducing pain and improving function. …”
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Lifestyle risk factors for overweight and obesity among rural Indian adults: a community-based prospective cohort study by Rajesh Kumar Rai, Sabri Bromage, Jan-Walter De Neve, Anamitra Barik

“…India’s nutrition transition has led to an increased burden of overweight/obesity (body mass index of ≥23 kg/m2), driven by lifestyle factors like poor diet, inactivity, and substance use, prompting public health interventions. …”
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Automated chest CT three-dimensional quantification of body composition: adipose tissue and paravertebral muscle by Akinori Hata, Yohei Muraguchi, Minoru Nakatsugawa, Xinan Wang, Jiyeon Song, Noriaki Wada, Takuya Hino, Kota Aoyagi, Masami Kawagishi, Takuo Negishi, Vladimir I. Valtchinov, Mizuki Nishino, Akihiro Koga, Naoki Sugihara, Masahiro Ozaki, Gary M. Hunninghake, Noriyuki Tomiyama, Mark L. Schiebler, Yi Li, David C. Christiani, Hiroto Hatabu

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Prognostic Prediction Value of qSOFA, SOFA, and Admission Lactate in Septic Patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Emergency Department by Haijiang Zhou, Tianfei Lan, Shubin Guo

“…The prognostic prediction value of sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) and quick SOFA (qSOFA) scores in CAP in ED has not been validated in detail. The aim of this research is to investigate the prognostic prediction value of SOFA, qSOFA, and admission lactate compared with that of other commonly used severity scores (CURB65, CRB65, and PSI) in septic patients with CAP in ED. …”
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Metabolic reprogramming and macrophage expansion define ACPA-negative rheumatoid arthritis: insights from single-cell RNA sequencing by Yafeng Jiang, Zhaolan Hu, Roujie Huang, Kaying Ho, Pengfei Wang, Jin Kang, Jin Kang

“…Cell-cell communication was explored using CellChat and MEBOCOST, while scFEA enabled metabolic flux estimation. …”
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Investigation of gut microbiota in pediatric patients with peanut allergy in outpatient settings by Shouming Li, Jingyi Huang, Yunyun Xie, Di Wang, Xin Tan, Yufan Wang

“…Alpha diversity indices, including the sob, ace, chao, shannon, and simpson indices, were calculated to assess microbial community richness and diversity. …”
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On the stability of one characterization of the stable distributions by Olga Yanushkevichiene, Romanas Yanushkevichius

“…The idea of using linear combinations of random variables to cha­racterize the stable distributions has been extended by P. …”
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