Association of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and growth hormone deficiency: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Tingting Kong, Yunpeng Gu, Lei Sun, Run Zhou, Jie Li, Junping Shi

“…The prevalence of NAFLD in GHD patients is significantly higher than that in the general population, especially NASH. …”
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Fire Propagation Performance of Intumescent Fire Protective Coatings Using Eggshells as a Novel Biofiller by M. C. Yew, N. H. Ramli Sulong, M. K. Yew, M. A. Amalina, M. R. Johan

“…The performances of thermal stability, char formation, fire propagation, water resistance, and adhesion strength of coatings have been evaluated. …”
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Inteligência artificial responsável e publicidade: pontos de atenção tecnoéticos para as demandas do presente e recodificação do futuro by Francisco Leite

“…É proposta também identificar, descrever e refletir acerca das ações e os enquadramentos éticos que as entidades brasileiras do campo publicitário, especificamente o Conselho Nacional Autorregulamentação Publicitária, vêm deliberando para fomentar e difundir princípios e recomendações-chave para uma abordagem responsável à Inteligência Artificial. …”
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Effect of Coexisting TiO2 Powder on Ionic Conduction of Highly Concentrated LiTFSA Aqueous Electrolyte (20.5 mol kg−1) by Jingchao XU, Hideshi MAKI, Hiro MINAMIMOTO, Minoru MIZUHATA

“…The conductivity increases exponentially with an increase of the liquid content up to ca. 40 vol%, and the activation energy of the conductivity increases with a decrease of the liquid content below 35 vol%. …”
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Effects of acute arm-cranking exercise with electrical muscle stimulation at different intensities on vascular endothelial function by Mizuki Nakamura, Hajime Miura, Ayako Murakami, Yasuaki Tamura

“…The mean nFMD before and 30 min after exercise was 0.8 ± 0.3 and 2.3 ± 1.8, respectively, in the A+100%EMS trial and 0.9 ± 0.4 and 1.4 ± 1.0, respectively, in the A+50%EMS trial, indicating a significant increase after exercise under both trials. No changes were observed in the A+25%EMS trial. The combination of arm-cranking exercise and 50% intensity EMS appears to be a clinically applicable program for improving vascular endothelial function, even with reduced exercise intensity.…”
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Supplementation with serine-enriched non-essential amino acids from minimum essential medium promotes blastocyst development of in vitro-fertilized bovine embryos by Nobuhiko ITAMI, Yuji HIRAO

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Dental Students’ Learning Experience: Artificial Intelligence vs Human Feedback on Assignments by Chantha K. Jayawardena, Yuvika Gunathilake, Dhammika Ihalagedara

“…Objective: This study evaluated the effectiveness of an AI-based tool (ChatGPT-4) (AIT) vs a human tutor (HT) in providing feedback on dental students’ assignments. …”
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Social media usage and cyberbullying: the moderating role of tie strength by Jinru Ni, Hongyu Fu, Yajing Zhu, Zewen Li, Shuyi Wang, Haoran Su

“…However, existing research has largely overlooked the role of tie strength on social media platforms in shaping cyberbullying dynamics. …”
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Children Who Experience Unintentional Injuries: Their Functional Profiles by Sara Rosenblum, Tal Nardi-Moses, Helly Goez, Naor Demeter

“…Parents of children who had been injured expressed significantly more concerns about their children’s daily behavior than did parents of the control group and reported their children as usually, but not always, independent and responsible. …”
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(CO) RELACIONANDO MEIO AMBIENTE E SAÚDE NO REVEZAMENTO DA TOCHA OLÍMPICA EM SÃO JOÃO DEL REI-MG: RELATO DE EXPERIÊNCIA by Bianca Andrade Carvalho, Bernardo Camara do Nascimento, Renata Cândida da Silva, Vitória da Silva do Patrocínio, Flávia Carmo Horta Pinto, Raquel Alves Costa

“…A cidade também foi escolhida para receber a Tocha Olímpica e por ser uma cidade turística há uma maior probabilidade de transmissão de várias doenças. …”
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A sombra do mundo: excesso e aprisionamento em Diomedes: a trilogia do acidente, de Lourenço Mutarelli by André Cabral de Almeida Cardoso

“…Dividida entre a tentativa de representar o real e u m forte impulso de estilização, essa estética age como elemento estruturador da narrativa, criando um mundo caracterizado pelo excesso e a degradação, do qual aparentemente não há saída. Palavras - chave : f ilme noir , literatura brasileira contemporânea, história em quadrinhos, Lourenço Mutarelli. …”
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Biosecurity Practices for Reducing Antimicrobial Use in Commercial Broiler Farms in Korea by Min Beom Kim, Young Ju Lee

“…However, its relationship with antimicrobial usage can be difficult to assess because of multiple factors. …”
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Variable Absorption of Clavulanic Acid After an Oral Dose of 25 mg/kg of Clavubactin® and Synulox® in Healthy Cats by Tom B. Vree, Eric Dammers, Eri van Duuren

“…The evaluation was based on the data from plasma concentration-time curves obtained following a single-dose, open, randomised, two-way crossover phase-I study, each involving 24 female cats treated with two Amoxi-Clav formulations (formulation A was Clavubactin® and formulation was B Synulox® ; 80/20 mg, 24 animals, 48 drug administrations). …”
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Comparison of vaginal examination methods to evaluate urovagina and purulent vaginal discharge in periestrous dairy cows by Dai ISHIYAMA, Fumie MAGATA, Fuko MATSUDA

“…The incidence of urovagina tended to be higher with the gloved-hand than with the speculum method. The incidence of PVD positivity tended to be higher with the gloved-hand than with the speculum and Metricheck methods. …”
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Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet and Lifestyle Characteristics of University Students in Cyprus: A Cross-Sectional Survey by Elena Hadjimbei, George Botsaris, Vassilis Gekas, Andrie G. Panayiotou

“…About 32% of students consumed a second serving of fruit and vegetables more than once a day, whereas 26% reported going more than once a week to a fast-food restaurant and 31% consumed sweets and candy several times a day. …”
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Characterising the scale-up and performance of antiretroviral therapy programmes in sub-Saharan Africa: an observational study using growth curves by Benjamin Bigelow, Stéphane Verguet

“…Growth curves are a class of mathematical models that can parameterise dynamic phenomena and estimate rates of change summarising these phenomena; however, they are not commonly used in global health. …”
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EXPLORING AUTOMATED SUMMARIZATION: FROM EXTRACTION TO ABSTRACTION by Svetlana G. Sorokina

“…The study draws on a selection of scientific publications across various disciplines, testing the functionality and output quality of automated summarization tools such as Summate.it, WordTune, SciSummary, Scholarcy, and OpenAI ChatGPT-4. The findings reveal that the selected models employ a hybrid strategy, integrating both extractive and abstractive techniques. …”
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Mathematical Modeling of a Quasi-passive Dynamic Walker with Whole-body Tensile Connections by Hiroki NISHII, Yusuke TSUNODA, Hisashi ISHIHARA, Teruyo WADA, Koichi OSUKA

“…Humans have whole-body viscoelastic connections called anatomy trains (ATs), which include multiple muscles and connective tissues. …”
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A satisfação dos licenciados em Turismo: os novos desafios para as instituições de ensino superior e para o setor do Turismo by Sofia Eurico, João Albino Silva, Patrícia Valle

“…Este encontro de experiências representará uma fonte de informação chave para o posicionamento e gestão estratégicos das IES com oferta formativa em Turismo, bem como para a indústria do Turismo, que reconhecerá as que correspondem de forma mais assertiva às necessidades dos atuais profissionais do Turismo. …”
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A multigrained preference analysis method for product iterative design incorporating AI-generated review detection by Zhaojing Su, Mei Yang, Qingbo Zhai, Kaiyuan Guo, Yuexin Huang, Yangfan Cong

“…With the surge of generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies such as ChatGPT, some merchants might exploit them to fabricate deceptive positive reviews, and competitors may also fabricate negative reviews to influence the opinions of consumers and designers. …”
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