Space use and movements of inland wintering Whooping Cranes in the Aransas-Wood Buffalo population by Carter G Crouch, Andrew J Caven, Matti R. Bradshaw, Katrina M Fernald, Matthew J Butler, Michael A Kalisek

“…Continued use of inland areas has implications for how we manage, monitor, and plan for this population’s recovery.…”
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What are the Thoughts of Women Whose Husbands’ Frozen Testicular Sperm Is Thawed for in vitro Fertilization on the Day of Oocyte Retrieval? A Qualitative Study by He Y, Wei Q, Chen X, Zhang C, Wang Z

“…Additionally, establishing and strengthening social support, reinforcing privacy protections and safety measures, promoting effective communication between partners, and managing treatment outcome expectations are crucial steps forward.Immediate Practical Implications: Women prioritize treatment efficacy, privacy preservation, and the necessity of acquiring comprehensive professional knowledge when employing their partner’s testicular sperm for in vitro fertilization. …”
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Alphabetical ordering of author surnames in academic publishing: A detriment to teamwork. by Steven T Joanis, Vivek H Patil

“…<h4>Methods</h4>To address our objectives, we accessed data from 21,353 articles published over a 20-year period across the four main business subdisciplines. …”
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Treatment outcomes of multi-drug-resistant and rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis with and without isolation of nontuberculous mycobacteria between 2018-2021: A retrospective cohort... by Elizabeth Tabitha Abbew, Roger Laryea, Ama Owusuaa Kwakye, Yaw Adusi Poku, Dorcas Obiri-Yeboah, Lutgarde Lynen, Tom Decroo, Leen Rigouts, Natalie Lorent

“…Demographic, clinical, and diagnostic data were collected under the National Tuberculosis Control Program framework. …”
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CLINTERVENTIONAL protocol: a randomized controlled trial to evaluate clinical consultations and audiovisual tools for interventional radiology by Pedro Blas García Jurado, Juan José Espejo Herrero, María Sagrario Lombardo Galera, María Eugenia Pérez Montilla, Sara Barranco Acosta, José García-Revillo, Pilar Font Ugalde, Marina Álvarez Benito

“…The primary outcomes are patients’ knowledge, satisfaction with the information and communication, and anxiety. Data collection will involve specific questionnaires and scales. …”
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Assessing relative contributions of climate and socio-environmental factors to ecosystem health through space–time interpretable machine learning by Xiaoliang Meng, Junyi Wu, Yichun Xie, Yongfei Bai, Chenghu Zhou, Yuchen Li

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The association between adiposity, mental well-being, and quality of life in extreme obesity. by Alison C Jagielski, Adrian Brown, Marzieh Hosseini-Araghi, G Neil Thomas, Shahrad Taheri

“…In a retrospective analysis, routinely collected baseline clinical examination data and self-report questionnaires (Impact of Weight on Quality of Life: IWQOL-Lite, EQ5D-3L, and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale: HADS) were analysed to examine the cross-sectional association between adiposity and quality of life.…”
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Association of micronutrient status with thyroid function in adolescent Afghan refugees; a cross-sectional study by Saima Shaheen, Muhammad Shahzad, Nabila Sher, Muhammad Shabbir Khan, Khalid Iqbal, Habab Ali Ahmad, Simon C Andrews

“…A randomised, community based, cross-sectional study design was employed to recruit 206 adolescent (both male and female) Afghan refugees aged 10–19 years. Sociodemographic data, anthropometric assessments and blood samples were collected using standard methods. …”
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Understanding the role of temporary epicardial pacemakers after heart transplantation in the cardiac intensive care unit by Goyal Umadat, MD, Jennifer Lee, DO, Bria Rice, MD, Shahyar Michael Gharacholou, MD, Parag Patel, Rohan Goswami, MD

“…However, there is little data regarding optimal postoperative pacing modality and its implications on intensive care unit (ICU) length of stay (LOS).We conducted a single-center retrospective cohort study of 187 patients who underwent heart transplantation from January 1, 2019 to February 28, 2023 and had postoperative epicardial pacemaker wires placed. …”
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Assessing the impact of building footprint dataset choice for health programme planning: a case study of indoor residual spraying (IRS) in Zambia by Heather R. Chamberlain, Derek Pollard, Anna Winters, Silvia Renn, Olena Borkovska, Chisenga Abel Musuka, Garikai Membele, Attila N. Lazar, Andrew J. Tatem

“…The choice of dataset potentially has substantial implications for campaign planning, implementation and coverage assessment. …”
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Air Pollution and Agricultural Economic Resilience in China: The Moderating Role of Environmental Regulation by Xinwen Ye, Jie Zhou, Yujie Zhang, Dungang Zang

“…This study develops a thorough index system that evaluates agricultural economic resilience in three areas: risk resistance and recovery, adaptive adjustment capacity, and restructuring innovation. Panel data from 30 Chinese provinces from 2000 to 2023 is used to achieve this. …”
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Point-of-care ultrasound reduces the impact on departmental radiology and echocardiography services: Results of 1-year service evaluation by Abraham Simon, Maryam Nasim, Mohammad Chowdry, Shilpa Rajan, Ian Oldrieve, Nicholas Smallwood

“…Where departmental requests were placed, in 34/154 (22.1%) cases they were for outpatient imaging rather than inpatient scans, meaning that, in total, in only 120 (20.1%) instances did a POCUS scan lead to a subsequent inpatient imaging request.These data show that a dedicated internal medicine POCUS service will lead to significant reductions in inpatient radiology and echocardiography requests, rather than increasing the burden as previously hypothesised. …”
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Development of a novel constitutive model incorporating phase transformation and dynamic recrystallization effects for laser-assisted machining of Ti6Al4V alloy by Binbin Xu, Xin Liu, Hongguang Liu, Shijia Shi, Yuyang Tang, Jun Zhang

“…The model is calibrated using high-temperature, high-strain-rate stress–strain data obtained from Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar (SHPB) experiments and is based on the JC–TANH framework. …”
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In Vitro Culture of Vitrified Immature Mouse Testicular Tissue in The Presence of N-acetylcysteine Antioxidant by Parmiss Nikoosokhan, Zeinab Ghezelayagh, Samira Hajiaghalou, Alireza Alizadeh Moghadam Masouleh, Bita Ebrahimi

“…Furthermore, the Bax/Bcl-2 ratio and MDA level were decreased significantly in the culture ӀӀ group, whereas Caspase-3 and Plzf gene expression were significantly increased.Conclusion: Our data revealed that the presence of 125 mM NAC improves the developmental process of vitrified-warmed immature mouse testicular fragments during in vitro culture, thus it may have potential implications for in vitro culturing of human prepubertal testicular tissues.…”
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Connecting Natural and Planted Forests: New Ecological Functions in an Agricultural Landscape in Northern Spain by Javier Brazuelo Núñez, Carlos A. Rivas, Guillermo Palacios-Rodríguez, Rafael M. Navarro-Cerrillo

“…Three scenarios were modeled across two periods (1996–2006 and 2006–2020), integrating data from the national forest inventories (IFN2, IFN3, and IFN4) and afforestation program records provided by the Junta de Castilla y León. …”
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What do we know about intratumoral functional activity: a scoping review of imaging and intra-surgery results by Ilaria Guarracino, Marta Maieron, Serena D’Agostini, Tamara Ius, Barbara Tomasino

“…We discussed the clinical implications of these aspects, as a functional intratumoral area has a high impact on both planning and outcome, and we addressed the role of intra-surgery cognitive monitoring that should encompass a wide variety of functions.…”
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Impact of the COVID-19 virus pandemic on hospitalizations for skin cancer treatment in Brazil by Isabella de Fátima Vilela, Thiago Roberto Winter de Carvalho, Leonel Ribeiro Silva, Letícia Alves Teófilo, Osíris José Dutra Martuscelli, Diego Filipe da Silva, Douglas Silva Rodrigues, Pamella Costa Andrade

“…Results: The parallelism of the data referring to the three groups selected above allowed to observe a drastic reduction in the number of hospitalizations in the SUS between the same months of 2019 and 2020: a decrease of 10.60% in general hospitalizations, 58.65% in hospitalizations for neoplasia and 156% in hospitalizations for malignant skin cancer. …”
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Comparison of the oral health indices in patients with type II diabetes with different glycemic control levels: a case-control study by Mohsen Hashemi, Shirin Hassanpour, Vahideh Sadra, Zahra Aghazadeh, Arman Amini Dehkordi, Katayoun Katebi

“…A blood test was requested to measure HbA1c. The data were analyzed using SPSS 17, and the significance level was set at P<0.05. …”
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DIGITAL AND NON-DIGITAL GAMES IN YOUNG LEARNER EFL CLASSROOMS AT WARTIME IN UKRAINE by Ilona Huszti, Enikő Nagy-Kolozsvári, Márta Fábián

“…An online questionnaire was designed to collect data from our participants aged 10-13. The questionnaire was then administered to the children, and a total of 175 completed questionnaires yielded valuable results that formed the foundation of the study’s analysis. …”
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Achieving high-accuracy skin cancer classification with deep learning optimized by ant colony algorithm by Amany M. Sarhan, Hesham A. Ali, Shady Yasser, Mohamed Gobara, Ahmed A. Kandil, Ghada Sherif, Esraa Moustafa

“…We incorporate techniques such as data augmentation and transfer learning to further refine model performance. …”
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