Effectiveness of Lateral Column lengthening in Symptomatic Flexible Flatfoot of the Pediatric and Adolescent Population: An updated Systematic Review by Karthick Rangasamy, Akash K Ghosh, Vivek P Ksheerasagar, Jai P Khatri, Nirmal R Gopinathan

“…Pre and postoperative radiological outcomes were recorded using talometatarsal angles, talonavicular coverage, calcaneal pitch, and talocalcaneal angle. …”
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Genomic diversity among drug sensitive and multidrug resistant isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with identical DNA fingerprints. by Stefan Niemann, Claudio U Köser, Sebastien Gagneux, Claudia Plinke, Susanne Homolka, Helen Bignell, Richard J Carter, R Keira Cheetham, Anthony Cox, Niall A Gormley, Paula Kokko-Gonzales, Lisa J Murray, Roberto Rigatti, Vincent P Smith, Felix P M Arends, Helen S Cox, Geoff Smith, John A C Archer

“…Furthermore, a valid differentiation between disease relapse and exogenous reinfection might be impossible using standard genotyping tools if the overall diversity of circulating clones is limited. …”
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Regional Sea Surface Skin Temperature Retrieval From HY-1C and HY-1D COCTS by Zhuomin Li, Rui Chen, Mingkun Liu, Lei Guan

“…The HY-1C/COCTS SSTs are evaluated using the sea and land surface temperature radiometer SST, and the HY-1D/COCTS SSTs are evaluated using the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite SST. …”
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Combination of Sample Preservation Approaches and DNA Extraction Methods for Long‐Read Sequencing of Nudibranchs' Genomes by Inés Alberola‐Mora, Oleanna Guerra‐Font, Omar Daniel Espinoza‐Calderón, Carles Galià‐Camps, Mária Džunková

“…Afterward, they were processed using five commercially available kits specific for high molecular weight DNA extraction, as well as a custom DNA extraction protocol. …”
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Exploring Service Users’ Experiences of a Community-Based Intervention to Improve Follow-Up at Bharatpur Eye Hospital in Nepal: Qualitative Study by Manisha Shrestha, Gopal Bhandari, Sadhan Bhandari, Gudlavalleti Venkata Satyanarayana Murthy, Ruchi Priya, Binod Pandey, Daya Shankar Chaudhary, Puspa Giri, Sureshkumar Kamalakannan

“…MethodsA qualitative study using an in-depth interview approach was used. Participants were purposively selected for this research study. …”
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The Cosmic Evolution of Fast Radio Bursts Inferred from the CHIME/FRB Baseband Catalog 1 by Om Gupta, Paz Beniamini, Pawan Kumar, Steven L. Finkelstein

“…For FRBs, these distributions are primarily estimated using the fluence and the dispersion measure (DM). …”
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Real-world survival outcomes in first-line ibrutinib-treated patients with high-risk CLL/SLL by John N. Allan, Tao Ran, Zhijie Ding, Jinghua He, Alex Bokun, Zaina P. Qureshi, Susan M. O’Brien

“…Inverse probability of treatment weighting was used to account for differences in patient characteristics between cohorts. …”
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DOI, licence and citation uptake for seismological waveform data after 10 years of implementation effort by Helle A. Pedersen, Jonathan Schaeffer, Florian Haslinger, Rob Casey, Javier Quinteros, Lesley Wyborn, Elisabetta D’Anastasio, Jonathan B. Hanson, Jerry Carter

“…In 2014, FDSN recommended using DataCite Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for seismic networks to enhance data attribution, citation, and impact metrics. …”
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Mental health care seeking behavior in Bangladesh: determinants and treatment gaps by Rumana Huque, Abul Kalam Azad, Khaleda Islam, Helal Uddin Ahmed, Mohammad Robed Amin

“…The findings indicate the urgent need to increase mental health service coverage among mental health patients.…”
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Optimising adolescents and young adults’ utilisation of sexual and reproductive health and HIV services in Chad: a sensemaking approach by Rifat Atun, Aisha Yousafzai, Esias Bedingar, Ngarossorang Bedingar, Ferdinan Paningar, Eric Mbaidoum, Naortangar Ngaradoum

“…These challenges impact access to sexual and reproductive health services and effective help-seeking.Methods This study used participatory action research with a sensemaking theoretical lens. …”
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Community perceptions of community health worker effectiveness: Contributions to health behaviour change in an urban health district in South Africa by L S Thomas, Y Pillay, E Buch

“…Members from 417 households supported by CHWs were interviewed in May 2019 by retired nurses used as fieldworkers. Frequencies and descriptive analyses were used to report on the main study outcomes of community acceptance and satisfaction. …”
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Particular sequence characteristics induce bias in the detection of polymorphic transposable element insertions by Verneret, Marie, Le, Van Anthony, Faraut, Thomas, Turpin, Jocelyn, Lerat, Emmanuelle

“…Increased sequencing coverage improved sensitivity but reduced precision. …”
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Remote sensing monitoring of vegetation and analysis of carbon storage changes in Fengshan Park, Jiaozuo by Erwen ZHENG, Zhe LI, Ping WANG, Zhonghao JIN, Libo NING

“…Since 2005, the local government has invested in ecological restoration, using engineering models such as hanging net spray seeding and fish-scale pits to plant a large number of trees and shrubs, significantly improving the vegetation cove of the park. …”
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Association of diurnal temperature range and childhood asthma: a population-based cross-sectional study in a Tropical City, China by Wangyang Gu, Yabin Hu, Qinpeng Li, Huike Feng, Yihao Xue, Linling Xu, Yang Chen, Yushi Zhou, Shilu Tong, Shijian Liu

“…Data on demographics, and asthma symptoms were collected using the validated International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) questionnaire. …”
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Clinical-epidemiological aspects of whooping cough in children in conditions of mass vaccinoprophylactics by I. V. Babachenko, Yu. V. Nesterova, Yu. Yu. Chernyshova, V. V. Karasev, L. M. Pochinyaeva, E. L. Kalisnikova

“…The DNA of the causative agents of pertussis infection was identified by PCR using a commercial kit “AmpliSens Bordetella multi-FL” (Moscow); parallel was determined the bacterial load by quantitative PCRRT (real time) using test systems production, Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology (Moscow), allowing to detect a single genome-equivalents (GE) of B. pertussis in smears from the nasopharynx. …”
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Assessing GPT and DeepL for terminology translation in the medical domain: A comparative study on the human phenotype ontology by Richard Noll, Alexandra Berger, Dominik Kieu, Tobias Mueller, Ferdinand O. Bohmann, Angelina Müller, Svea Holtz, Philipp Stoffers, Sebastian Hoehl, Oya Guengoeze, Jan-Niklas Eckardt, Holger Storf, Jannik Schaaf

“…An independent reference translation from the HeTOP database was used to validate the quality of the translation. …”
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Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Routing Method for Low Earth Orbit Mega-Constellation Satellite Networks with Service Function Constraints by Yan Chen, Huan Cao, Longhe Wang, Daojin Chen, Zifan Liu, Yiqing Zhou, Jinglin Shi

“…Low-orbit satellite communication networks have gradually become the research focus of fifth-generation (5G) beyond and sixth generation (6G) networks due to their advantages of wide coverage, large communication capacity, and low terrain influence. …”
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OCRClassifier: integrating statistical control chart into machine learning framework for better detecting open chromatin regions by Xin Lai, Xin Lai, Min Liu, Yuqian Liu, Xiaoyan Zhu, Jiayin Wang, Jiayin Wang

“…In recent years, there has been a growing interest in using plasma cell-free DNA (cfDNA) sequencing data to detect OCRs. …”
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Warnings on the inclusion of cluster randomized trials in meta-analysis: results of a simulation study by Joseph Alvin Ramos Santos, Emilia Riggi, Gian Luca Di Tanna

“…Cluster randomized trials (CRT) are increasingly used in the assessment of the effectiveness of interventions when individual-level randomization is impractical. …”
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Socioeconomic factors affecting postpartum mental health in mothers referred to a hospital in yasuj, Southwestern Iran by Leila Manzouri, Marzieh Karami, Maryam Seyed-Nezhad, Mohammad Moradi-Joo

“…To determine mental health status, the Depression, Anxiety, Stress scale 21 questionnaire (DASS21), which is a self-assessment tool for depression, anxiety, and stress, was used. Data were analyzed using ordinal regression in SPSS version 21. …”
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