Clinical phenotypes and associated factors in knee osteoarthritis in an African black population by Charles Sougué, Malick Diallo, Yannick Laurent Tchenadoyo Bayala, Ismaël Ayouba Tinni, Fulgence Kaboré, Wendlassida Joelle Stéphanie Zabsonré Tiendrebeogo, Patrick Wendpouiré Hamed Dakouré, Dieu-Donné Ouedraogo

“…The osteoporotic phenotype was more common in women and patients over 60 years while the post-traumatic phenotype was more prevalent in tibiofemoral osteoarthritis under 60 years.…”
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Oral Antibacterial Drug Prescribing in Primary Care Out-of-Hours Services: A Scoping Review by Sarah Khalid Al Hussain, Rhian Deslandes, Deborah Edwards, Karen Louise Hodson

“…Key areas identified included common oral antibacterial prescriptions, prescribing trends, presentations and conditions managed in OOH services, factors and predictors associated with prescribing, prescribing appropriateness, the impact of interventions on prescribing, prescribing in the context of COVID-19, patient satisfaction and expectations, and the challenges encountered, such as factors influencing prescribing behaviour and decision making, safety netting, and communication. …”
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Recent advances in applications of green nanocomposites in enhanced oil recovery: a comprehensive review of different characterization methods and effective parameters by Meysam Hemmati, Yaser Ahmadi

“…These substances are non-toxic, safe for humans, and harmless to other living things. Common investigations like XRD, FTIR spectroscopy, SEM, and Zeta Potential tests are used to detect and evaluate nanoparticles. …”
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Simulator and on-road testing of truck platooning: a systematic review by Telmo Costa Botelho, Sérgio Pedro Duarte, Marta Campos Ferreira, Sara Ferreira, António Lobo

“…The results reveal a commonly preferred platoon formation consisting of three trucks maintaining a constant speed of 80 km/h and a stable distance of 10 m between them. …”
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CTSK and PLAU as Prognostic Biomarker and Related to Immune Infiltration in Pancreatic Cancer: Evidence from Bioinformatics Analysis and qPCR by Yuntao Ding, Zhangzuo Li, Huizhi Wang, Qi Wang, Han Jiang, Zhengyue Yu, Min Xu

“…There is a pressing need for novel biomarkers that can facilitate early detection and serve as targets for therapeutic interventions beyond the commonly utilized CA199 marker. This study utilized microarray datasets (GSE15471, GSE62165, and GSE28735) from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) to identify differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and construct a protein-protein interaction network using STRING and Cytoscape. …”
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Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Wet Snow Accumulation on Inclined Cylindrical Surfaces by Behrouz Mohammadian, Mehdi Sarayloo, Ahmed Abdelaal, Asif Raiyan, Douglas K. Nims, Hossein Sojoudi

“…Wet snow accumulation on bridge cables and its shedding due to external phenomena such as rise in temperature, wind, and gravity is a serious threat to the safety of cars and pedestrians crossing the bridge. Commonly the accumulated snow on bridge cables is removed by external means such as mechanical removal or heat treatment which are expensive, time-consuming, and high-risk processes and are conducted based on little or no information available regarding the actual size and shape of the accumulated snow. …”
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Comparison of the Effects of Articaine and Lidocaine Anesthetics on Blood Pressure after Maxillary Infiltration Technique: A Triple-Blind Randomized Clinical Trial by Amirhossein Moaddabi, Parisa Soltani, Maryam Zamanzadeh, Kamran Nosrati, Mojtaba Mollamirzaei, Mariangela Cernera, Gianrico Spagnuolo

“…Subsequent increase in blood pressure in healthy individuals commonly occurs and may be affected by several factors such as mental and physical stress, painful stimuli, and action of catecholamines present in local anesthetic solutions. …”
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Influence of sacroiliac joint variation on clinical features of axial spondyloarthritis: a comparative analysis by Denis Poddubnyy, Torsten Diekhoff, Sevtap Tugce Ulas, Fabian Proft, Valeria Rios Rodriguez, Judith Rademacher, Juliane Greese, Katharina Ziegeler, Carolina Dominguez Aleixo, Maximilian Lindholz

“…Objectives Anatomical variation of the sacroiliac (SI) joints is common and specific variants are associated with erosions and bone marrow oedema on imaging. …”
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A study on Bacterial Infections Associated with Central Nervous System in Pakistani Population by Muneeba Afzal, Hamza Altaf, Tayyaba Faiz, Samra Mannan

“…Low to middle-in- come patients with limited education were prevalent. Common symptoms included headache, nausea, neck stiffness, fever, seizures, and photosensitivity. …”
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Air Quality Assessment by Moss Biomonitoring and Trace Metals Atmospheric Deposition by Pranvera Lazo, Alda Kika, Flora Qarri, Lirim Bekteshi, Shaniko Allajbeu, Trajce Stafilov

“…The elements Fe, Cd, Cu, Pb, and Zn look likely to be homogenously distributed by indicating a common natural origin on a national scale. It is confirmed by the association of these elements with iron which is a typical crustal element that originates mostly from lithogenic dust in sparsely vegetation regions. …”
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LincRNA Cox-2 Regulates Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Inflammatory Response of Human Peritoneal Mesothelial Cells via Modulating miR-21/NF-κB Axis by Yaoyao Bian, Lili Yang, Bin Zhang, Wen Li, Sen Wang, Shuling Jiang, Xi Chen, Wenlin Li, Li Zeng

“…Postoperative peritoneal adhesion (PPA) is a common postoperative complication caused by any peritoneal inflammatory process. …”
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Neuroscience Literacy and Academic Outcomes: Insights from a University Student Population by Abeer F. Almarzouki, Arzan I. Alqahtani, Jumana K. Baessa, Dhuha K. Badaood, Rwdyn R. Nujoom, Raneem W. Malibari, Elaf M. Aljared, Reema S. Alghamdi

“…<b>Results:</b> Students showed significant awareness of and interest in neuroscience; this was highest among students in health science programmes and lowest among students in computer and engineering programmes. The most common sources of general neuroscience knowledge were internet articles. …”
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ENERGY RECOVERY FOR CONTINUOUS DYEING PROCESS IN TEXTILE INDUSTRY ENTERPRISES by V. N. Romaniuk, D. B. Muslina

“…The paper ascertains and presents alteration in the energy consumption as a consequence of utilizing the low-temperature waste streams commonly used in the lines of continuous dyeing at the finishing shops of textile enterprises of Belarus. …”
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Steatohepatitis Is Not Associated with an Increased Risk for Fibrosis Progression in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease by Hannes Hagström, Olof Elfwén, Rolf Hultcrantz, Per Stål

“…Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common liver disease globally. The majority of NAFLD patients have fatty liver without inflammation (nonalcoholic fatty liver, NAFL), whereas a minority develop steatohepatitis (nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, NASH). …”
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Administrative Contract as a Legal Form of Public Administration: Updating Doctrinal Approaches by V. R. Bila

“…The author has established the correlation between administrative contracts and other types of legal forms, including with administrative acts, the common legal acts. The perspectives for improving the list of types of administrative contracts have been stated. …”
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Strategic Stability: Dynamics and Factors of Transformation by K. V. Bogdanov

“…Its basic principles are confined to the stability of nuclear deterrence in any realistic scenarios and do not provide for practical action. …”
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Desmoglein-2 was a novel cancer-associated fibroblasts-related biomarker for oral squamous cell carcinoma by Jin Liu, Zhonghao Sun, Shihui Cao, Hao Dai, Ze Zhang, Jingtao Luo, Xudong Wang

“…Abstract Background Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is the most common type of oral cancer with alarmingly high morbidity. …”
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The Usefulness of Genotyping of Celiac Disease-Specific HLA among Children with Type 1 Diabetes in Various Clinical Situations by Grazyna Deja, Dominika Sikora, Aleksandra Pyziak-Skupien, Karolina Klenczar, Rafał Deja, Przemysława Jarosz-Chobot

“…Allele DRB1∗04 (linked with HLA DQ8) was significantly less common in children with diabetes and CD (group I versus groups II and III, 56.5% vs. 24.5%; p=0.001). …”
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Rock fracture mode and acoustic emission characteristics under true triaxial single-sided unloading path by Longpei Ma, Longpei Ma, Chongyan Liu, Guangming Zhao, Guangming Zhao

“…In this study, a combination of the true triaxial disturbance unloading rock testing system and the acoustic emission system was adopted to conduct true triaxial single-sided unloading tests on several common rock types, including coal, siltstone, fine sandstone, and granite. …”
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Heterogeneity of cancer-associated fibroblast subpopulations in prostate cancer: Implications for prognosis and immunotherapy by Chen Ding, Jiange Wang, Jie Wang, Jiqiang Niu, Zhikai Xiahou, Zhou Sun, Zhenzhen Zhao, Dongyang Zeng

“…Background: Prostate cancer stands as the second most common malignancy among men, notorious for its intricate heterogeneity, especially evident in metastatic disease. …”
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