Impact of Early Rejection Treatment on Infection Development in Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Propensity Analysis by Simran Gupta, Juan Gea-Banacloche, Raymond L. Heilman, Reena N. Yaman, Hay Me Me, Nan Zhang, Holenarasipur R. Vikram, Lavanya Kodali

“…Clinicians should monitor patients closely for infections in the post-rejection period and have a low threshold to treat these infections while also restarting appropriate prophylaxis.…”
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Environmental drivers of Culicoides phenology: how important is species-specific variation when determining disease policy? by Kate R Searle, James Barber, Francesca Stubbins, Karien Labuschagne, Simon Carpenter, Adam Butler, Eric Denison, Christopher Sanders, Philip S Mellor, Anthony Wilson, Noel Nelson, Simon Gubbins, Bethan V Purse

“…Species-specific differences in the length of the SVFP were related to host density and local variation in landscape habitat. …”
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High-Frequency Cerebellar rTMS Improves the Swallowing Function of Patients with Dysphagia after Brainstem Stroke by Ling-hui Dong, Xiaona Pan, Yuyang Wang, Guangtao Bai, Chao Han, Qiang Wang, Pingping Meng

“…The stimulus plan for each side was 10 Hz, 80% resting movement threshold (rMT), 250 pulses, 1 s per stimulus, and 9 s intervals. …”
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An Evaluation of the Performance of Low-Cost Resin Printers in Orthodontics by Fırat Oğuz, Sabahattin Bor

“…Background/Objectives: This study evaluated the trueness and precision of three low-cost 3D printers compared to a professional-grade printer in fabricating orthodontic models. Methods: Two upper dental models, one crowded and one non-crowded, were designed using Blenderfordental and Autolign. …”
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Gut microbiota in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease varies by CT-verified emphysema status by Anders Ørskov Rotevatn, Tomas Mikal Eagan, Solveig Tangedal, Gunnar Reksten Husebø, Kristoffer Ostridge, Rune Nielsen

“…Emphysema was defined based on thoracic computed tomography (CT thorax) low attenuating areas ≥/<10% at threshold -950 and -910 hounsfield units, respectively. …”
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Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Innovative Therapies for Patients with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease by Michal Pochopien, Jakub Wladyslaw Dziedzic, Samuel Aballea, Emilie Clay, Iwona Zerda, Mondher Toumi, Borislav Borissov

“…Although it incurred higher costs (a difference of $188,771 vs. lifestyle intervention and $197,702 vs. small molecule), it generated more QALYs (a difference of 1.58 and 1.38 QALYs, respectively), resulting in an ICER below the willingness-to-pay threshold of $150,000 per QALY. …”
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Blood–brain barrier permeability changes in dogs with suspected canine cognitive dysfunction using magnetic resonance imaging subtraction enhancement analysis by Yael Merbl, Ella Mondrus, Erez Hanael, Merav H. Shamir

“…MRI scans were analyzed using SEA to determine a threshold value of “positive-permeable” voxels, which was then used to highlight suspected areas and calculate a score for BBB dysfunction (BBBD).ResultsMean BBBD scores did not differ significantly between the study and control groups. …”
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Consequences, costs and cost-effectiveness of workforce configurations in English acute hospitals by Peter Griffiths, Christina Saville, Jane Ball, David Culliford, Jeremy Jones, Francesca Lambert, Paul Meredith, Bruna Rubbo, Lesley Turner, Chiara Dall’Ora

“…We compared these ‘cost-effectiveness’ estimates for different ways of avoiding low staffing and for different patient groups. …”
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An accuracy-privacy optimization framework considering user’s privacy requirements for data stream mining by Waruni Hewage, R. Sinha, M. Asif Naeem

“…The logistic cumulative noise addition was used as the data perturbation method that has experimentally shown better performance and Hoeffding trees as the classifier. …”
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Optimizing forest stand aggregation in fragmented stands using graph convolutional networks: A case study in Japan by YangYu You, Hyun Bae Kim, Takuyuki Yoshioka

“…Unlike traditional rule-based methods that rely on fixed thresholds and static adjacency rules, the GCN framework allows stand-level attributes—such as slope, road proximity, and spatial adjacency—to influence each other through a graph structure. …”
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Effectiveness of a Telerehabilitation-Based Exercise Program in Patients with Chronic Neck Pain—A Randomized Clinical Trial by Laura Guerra-Arencibia, Cristina Santana-Déniz, Daniel Pecos-Martín, Samuel Fernández-Carnero, Nerea de Miguel-Hernando, Alexander Achalandabaso-Ochoa, Daniel Rodríguez-Almagro

“…Key outcome measures, including neck-related disability, kynesiophobia, anxiety and depression, pain intensity, pressure pain threshold, quality of life, and adherence to self-treatment, were evaluated at baseline and post-treatment. …”
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Evaluation of Selection Criteria of Clinicians in the Treatment of Osteoporosis, OSTREQ Research in Türkiye by Emir Gökhan Kahraman, Barış Önder Pamuk, Servet Akar, Aliye Tosun

“…Factor analysis showed item loadings between 0.33 and 0.92, exceeding the 0.32 threshold. The overall Cronbach’s alpha was 0.855, indicating high internal consistency. …”
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Clinical efficacy of sacubitril/valsartan combined with cardiac rehabilitation in patients with heart failure after acute myocardial infarction: a single-center randomized trial by Yan-Mei Zhao, Jun-Ting Luo, Kai-Fang Pang, Ying Feng, Jian-Ping Tan, Ming Liu, Zhi-Hai Lin

“…Abstract Objective To investigate the effect of sacubitril/valsartan (ARNI) combined with cardiac rehabilitation (CR) in patients with heart failure (HF) after acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Methods A total of 118 patients with HF after AMI were screened and randomly divided into an experimental group and a control group. …”
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Integrating circuit theory and network modeling to identify ecosystem carbon sequestration service flow networks by Chen Qu, Jia Xu, Wen Li, Yucen Zhai, Yiting Wang, Baozhu Liu, Shaoning Yan

“…Current methods for mapping ecosystem service flows often fail to accurately capture the diverse biogeographical environments associated with these service flows when visualizing the structural features of ecosystem service flow networks. …”
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Effektive way of local use of essential oils in dorsopathia by L. G. Agasarov, T. V. Konchugova, T. V. Apkhanova, B. S. Bazarova, A. A. Maryanovsky

“…On the other hand, the first two groups showed differences in the pace of achieving sustained analgesia, with the advantage of the 2nd group. …”
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Relationship between ischemia-modified albumin and abdominal aortic calcification in maintenance hemodialytic patients by Yu Lan, Xu Xiao-hui, Wang Ying, Yao Ying, Liu Liu

“…Objective To explore the level of ischemia-modified albumin（IMA）in patients with maintenance hemodialysis（MHD）and examine the association between IMA and abdominal aortic calcification（AAC）.Methods An observational study was conducted for 97 hemodialytic patients.Clinical data and laboratory parameters were recorded.Serum IMA was measured by a colorimetric assay based upon albumin-cobalt binding.And AAC was evaluated by a lateral lumbar spinal radiograph.According to the degree of calcification,they were divided into the groups of non-calcification（n=19）,mild calcification（n=26）,moderate calcification（n=37）and severe calcification（n=15）.IMA levels were compared in each group.Results The serum level of IMA for MHD patients was 83.82（74.30,97.44）U/mL.IMA level was positively correlated with dialytic duration（r=0.527,P<0.01）,calcium & phosphorus product（r=0.209,P<0.05）,serum iron（r=0.245,P<0.05）and AAC score（r=0.649,P<0.01）.IMA levels were 72.04（64.12,76.39）U/mL,82.03（71.96,88.47）U/mL,88.21（81.29,97.36）U/mL and 104.07（101.43,125.20）U/mL in non-calcification,mild calcification,moderate calcification and severe calcification groups respectively.Statistically significant differences existed among the groups（P<0.01）.With a threshold value of 76.95 U/mL,IMA provided a sensitivity of 75.6% and a specificity of 89.5% for predicting AAC.Conclusions Hemodialytic patients with AAC have an elevated level of IMA and it is correlated with the severity of calcification and the serum level of iron.IMA is an effective predictor of AAC in hemodialytic patients.…”
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Anorectal function and symptoms 6 months after robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy: a single-center study by Theodoros Psarias, Susanna Walter, Martin Holmbom, Issa Khayoun Issa, Firas Abdul-Sattar Aljabery, Olof Hallböök

“…There were no other statistical significant differences in any of the physiological tests performed. …”
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Scalpel versus electrocautery skin incisions in postauricular tympanoplasty: a randomized clinical trial study by Behrouz Barati, Sara Sharifi, Matin Ghazizadeh, Mahboobe Asadi, Fatemeh Jahanshahi, Ehsan Barzanouni

“…Subjective and objective scar scores did not significantly differ between the two groups at the end of the first and sixth postoperative months. …”
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Evaluating the link between insulin resistance and cognitive impairment using estimated glucose disposal rate in a non-diabetic aging population: results from the CHARLS by Bingqing Wang, Fei Xu, Minheng Zhang

“…Restricted cubic spline analysis identified non-linear threshold effects, with risk accelerating below certain eGDR levels (P &lt; 0.05). …”
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Analgesic Efficacy of Pfannenstiel Incision Infiltration with Ropivacaine 7.5 mg/mL for Caesarean Section by N. K. Nguyen, A. Landais, A. Barbaryan, M. A. M'Barek, Y. Benbaghdad, K. McGee, P. Lanba

“…There is no significant difference in the threshold of VAS in the two series. …”
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