Youth Understanding of Healthy Eating and Obesity: A Focus Group Study by Allison C. Sylvetsky, Monique Hennink, Dawn Comeau, Jean A. Welsh, Trisha Hardy, Linda Matzigkeit, Deanne W. Swan, Stephanie M. Walsh, Miriam B. Vos

“…Methods. A marketing firm contracted by Children's Healthcare of Atlanta facilitated a series of focus group discussions (FGD) to test potential concepts and sample ads for the development of an obesity awareness campaign. …”
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Isolation and Characterisation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells from Rat Bone Marrow and the Endosteal Niche: A Comparative Study by Norhayati Yusop, Paul Battersby, Amr Alraies, Alastair J. Sloan, Ryan Moseley, Rachel J. Waddington

“…This study demonstrates similarities in proliferative and mesenchymal cell characteristics between CB-MSCs and BM-MSCs, but contrasting multipotentiality. Such findings support further comparisons of human CB-MSCs and BM-MSCs, facilitating selection of optimal MSC populations for regenerative medicine purposes.…”
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Effect of salt stress on plants of wild-type <i>Nicotiana tabacum</i> L. and transformants with a choline oxidase (<i>cod</i>A) gene by I. G. Shirokikh, S. Yu. Ogorodnikova, Ya. I. Nazarova, O. N. Shupletsova

“…Under the impact of salt stress, the content of chlorophylls and carotenoids in the leaves of ‘Samsun’ plants decreased 1.5 and 1.3 times, respectively. Contrastingly, transformants under the same conditions showed a tendency to increase the pool of plastid pigments. …”
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Clinical Research Network: JHCRN Infrastructure and Lessons Learned by Rahul Kashyap, Gayane Yenokyan, Robert Joyner, Melissa Gerstenhaber, Mary Alderfer, Erika Siegrist, Joan Moore, Channing J. Paller, Hanan Aboumatar, James J. Potter, Stanley Watkins Jr, John E. Niederhuber, Daniel E. Ford, Adrian Dobs

“…With one IRB of record, a centralized contracting office, and a pool of dedicated network coordinators, it facilitates research partnerships to expand research collaborations among the differing sizes and types of hospitals/health systems in a region. …”
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The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on HIV and AIDS care provision in South Africa: an integrative literature review by James R. Seretlo, Thifhelimbilu I. Ramavhoya, Fhumulani M. Mulaudzi, Rodwell Gundo, Tintswalo V. Nesengani, Mamoeng N. Kgatla, Mmapheko D. Peu

“…Moreover, people living with HIV cancelled and/or missed their clinic appointments due to fears of contracting the virus. The aim of this paper was to explore the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on HIV and AIDS care provision in South Africa. …”
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Adaptive evolution of stress response genes in parasites aligns with host niche diversity by Armando J. Cruz-Laufer, Maarten P. M. Vanhove, Lutz Bachmann, Maxwell Barson, Hassan Bassirou, Arnold R. Bitja Nyom, Mare Geraerts, Christoph Hahn, Tine Huyse, Gyrhaiss Kapepula Kasembele, Samuel Njom, Philipp Resl, Karen Smeets, Nikol Kmentová

“…We comparatively investigated antioxidant, heat shock, osmoregulatory, and behaviour-related genes (foraging) in two model parasitic flatworm lineages with contrasting ecological diversity, Cichlidogyrus and Kapentagyrus (Platyhelminthes: Monopisthocotyla), through whole-genome sequencing of 11 species followed by in silico exon bait capture as well as phylogenetic and codon analyses. …”
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Refined Mapping of Subsurface Water Ice on Mars to Support Future Missions by G. A. Morgan, N. E. Putzig, D. M. H. Baker, A. Pathare, C. M. Dundas, M. B. Russell, M. R. Perry, M. Chojnacki, H. G. Sizemore, A. M. Bramson, E. I. Petersen, S. Nerozzi, R. H. Hoover, Z. Bain

“…The new mapping incorporates both an enhancement in our mapping of geomorphic features and surveys of thermal contraction crack polygons. Our results demonstrate the highly variable nature of the spatial distribution of the shallowest ground ice, with the most equatorward excursions occurring below 30° latitude N/S, locations thought to be out of equilibrium with the current climate.…”
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Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin in Kidney Transplantation Is an Early Marker of Graft Dysfunction and Is Associated with One-Year Renal Function by Isabel Fonseca, José Carlos Oliveira, Manuela Almeida, Madalena Cruz, Anabela Malho, La Salete Martins, Leonídio Dias, Sofia Pedroso, Josefina Santos, Luísa Lobato, António Castro Henriques, Denisa Mendonça

“…Shortly after KTx (3–6 h), uNGAL values were higher in DGF recipients (on average +242 ng/mL, considering mean dialysis time of 4.1 years) and rose further in following days, contrasting with prompt function recipients. Day-1 uNGAL levels accurately predicted DGF (AUC-ROC = 0.93), with a performance higher than serum creatinine (AUC-ROC = 0.76), and similar to cystatin C (AUC-ROC = 0.95). …”
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Subtle changes in Purkinje cell firing in Purkinje cell-specific Dyt1 ΔGAG knock-in mice by Hong Xing, Pallavi Girdhar, Yuning Liu, Fumiaki Yokoi, David E. Vaillancourt, Yuqing Li

“…DYT1 dystonia is an inherited early-onset generalized dystonia characterized by sustained muscle contractions causing abnormal, repetitive movements or postures. …”
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SSL-MBC: Self-Supervised Learning With Multibranch Consistency for Few-Shot PolSAR Image Classification by Wenmei Li, Hao Xia, Bin Xi, Yu Wang, Jing Lu, Yuhong He

“…Therefore, a multibranch contrastive SSL framework, without negative samples, is employed to efficiently achieve representation learning. …”
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The Overaction of the Inferior Oblique Muscle and Associated Vertical Strabismus: Prevalence, Etiology and Diagnosis by Masoud Khorrami-Nejad, Huda Karim, Wisam Hatem, Mustafa Abdullah, Ali Gheibi, Mohammad Ghasemi Boromand

“…The mechanism of action of the IO muscle is complex and varies with the globe's position during contraction. Beyond horizontal and vertical movements, the IO muscle also contributes to torsional eye movements, impacting the diagnosis and treatment of vertical strabismus and cyclotropia. …”
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Which Positions Optimize Pelvic Floor Activation in Female Athletes? by Elena Sonsoles Rodríguez-López, Luz María Martín-Márquez, María Barbaño Acevedo-Gómez, África López-Illescas, María Benito-de-Pedro, Cristina Ojedo-Martín

“…The percentage of maximum voluntary contraction also differed according to each position (<i>p</i> = 0.001). …”
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Compound lactic acid bacteria enhance the aerobic stability of Sesbania cannabina and corn mixed silage by Muhammad Tahir, Tianwei Wang, Jiaqi Zhang, Tianqi Xia, Xian Deng, Xiaofeng Cao, Jin Zhong

“…The high aerobic stability of the LAB-treated mixed silages especially S7C3 contrasted with the low acetic acid concentrations in the CK mixed silages (processed with sterilized water), concomitant with increased Kazachstania humilis abundance. …”
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Tritordeum, barley landraces and ear photosynthesis are key players in cereal resilience under future extreme drought conditions by Ander Yoldi-Achalandabaso, Aitor Agirresarobe, Artūrs Katamadze, Giulia Burini, Omar Vergara-Díaz, Mariana Mota, Cristina Oliveira, Usue Pérez-López, Rubén Vicente

“…For that, we conducted an innovative approach combining a late-sowing field trial with two contrasting water regimes to simulate future extreme drought conditions, the use of high-throughput phenotyping devices and an infrared gas analyser to characterise leaf and ear photosynthesis, biochemistry, growth, and stress responses during the reproductive stage, and a novel linear mixed-effects model to integrate these results with final agronomical data. …”
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Impact of Long COVID on Lung Function in Children by Zeynep Reyhan ONAY, Sinem CAN OKSAY, Deniz MAVI TORTOP, Gulay BILGIN, Yetkin AYHAN, Ferit DURANKUS, Saniye GIRIT

“…Methods: We conducted a prospective, single-center cohort study focusing on children experiencing prolonged respiratory symptoms after contracting COVID-19. Spirometry, 6- minute walk tests (6MWTs), and tests of lung volume, the diffusing capacity of the lungs for carbon monoxide (DLCO), and fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) were performed on COVID-19 survivors at least 4 weeks after infection and a group of healthy control subjects. …”
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Correlation of susceptibility to ortho-aminoazotolueneinduced hepatocarcinogenesis with Car and Ahr signaling pathway activation in mice by N. V. Baginskaya, E. V. Kashina, M. Yu. Shamanina, S. I. Ilnitskaya, V. I. Kaledin, V. A. Mordvinov

“…In this study, we investigated the effect of chronic OAT administration on the mRNA expression levels of Ahr, Car and their target genes Cyp1a1 and Cyp2b10 in the liver of DD/He (DD) and CC57BR/Mv (BR) mouse strains contrasting in sensitivity to hepatocarcinogenesis. …”
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Discrete Fractional-Order Modeling of Recurrent Childhood Diseases Using the Caputo Difference Operator by Yasir A. Madani, Zeeshan Ali, Mohammed Rabih, Amer Alsulami, Nidal H. E. Eljaneid, Khaled Aldwoah, Blgys Muflh

“…The existence theory is established using Brouwer’s fixed-point theorem and the Banach contraction principle, providing a comprehensive mathematical foundation for the model. …”
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Rap1 and mTOR signaling pathways drive opposing immunotoxic effects of structurally similar aryl-OPFRs, TPHP and TOCP by Bilin Zhao, Shuang Zheng, Gaoxiang Yang, Zhijun He, Jiewei Deng, Lijuan Luo, Xinyan Li, Tiangang Luan

“…Triphenyl phosphate (TPHP) and tri-o-cresyl phosphate (TOCP), two structurally similar aryl-OPFRs, were observed in our previous study to exhibit contrasting immunotoxic effects on THP-1 macrophages, yet the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. …”
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A novel approach for accurate SOC estimation in Li-ion batteries in view of temperature variations by Abdelhakim Tabine, El Mehdi Laadissi, Hicham Mastouri, Anass Elachhab, Sohaib Bouzaid, Abdelowahed Hajjaji

“…Simulation results utilizing the MATLAB/Simulink tool demonstrate that the proposed FPSOC method achieves highly precise SOC determination with significantly lower RMSE errors of 0.72 and 0.84, compared to 7.98 and 7.81 for the CC method, respectively, under real and simulated temperature profiles (from -20 °C to 80 °C). Contrasting with established techniques such as TBCC-APF, TBCC-AEKF, APF, AEKF, HMM, TBCC, Multi-Time, Scale DEKF, FF-LSTM, EKF-CCD, EKF-FUDS, OCV-SOC, and ASVDUKF, the proposed FPSOC method showcases exceptional performance, yielding a remarkably low average error of 0.72 in battery SOC estimation. …”
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Spatiotemporal range dynamics and conservation optimization for endangered medicinal plants in the Himalaya by Fu-Lv Liu, Winnie Wanjiku Mambo, Jie Liu, Guang-Fu Zhu, Raees Khan, Abdullah, Shujaul Mulk Khan, Lu Lu

“…Our results showed that the habitat of most medicinal plants in the Himalaya have expanded their habitat range from the Last Glacial Maximum to the present, with a substantial contraction projected in both future scenarios. Six species migrated northwards towards high elevation, while four species migrated southwards. …”
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