Improved Alzheimer Disease Diagnosis With a Machine Learning Approach and Neuroimaging: Case Study Development by Lilia Lazli

“…Furthermore, we applied the vision transformer (ViT)–based ANNs in conjunction with data augmentation to distinguish patients with AD from healthy controls. …”
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Microbial Succession Pattern and Spoilage Potential of Specific Spoilage Bacteria in Refrigerated Monopterus albus by LIAO E, YANG Bei, LI Han, CHEN Yu, ZHANG Ying, YANG Qian, CHEN Jiwang

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Insights Into the Future: Assessing Medical Students' Artificial Intelligence Readiness ‐ A Cross‐Sectional Study at Kerman University of Medical Sciences (2022) by Hossein Rezazadeh, Ali Madadi Mahani, Mahla Salajegheh

“…ABSTRACT Background Artificial intelligence (AI) has recently advanced in medicine globally, transforming healthcare delivery and medical education. …”
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Type-2 Neutrosophic Markov Chain Model for Subject-Independent Sign Language Recognition: A New Uncertainty–Aware Soft Sensor Paradigm by Muslem Al-Saidi, Áron Ballagi, Oday Ali Hassen, Saad M. Saad

“…Uncertainty-aware soft sensors in sign language recognition (SLR) integrate methods to quantify and manage the uncertainty in their predictions. …”
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Effect of atorvastatin on the most important mechanisms of arrhythmogenesis in patients with ST-elevated myocardial infarction by V. E. Oleynikov, M. V. Lukianova, E. V. Dushina, Yu. A. Barmenkova

“…To study the effect of the 48-week atorvastatin therapy on the mechanisms of arrhythmogenesis, determined during daily ECG monitoring, in patients with ST-elevated myocardial infarction (STEMI).Material and methods. The study included 104 people. Patients were randomized into two groups: a high-dose statin therapy group who took 80 mg of atorvastatin per day, and a comparison group who received atorvastatin 20 mg/day for 48 weeks. …”
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Evolution of Vegetation Landscape Pattern Dynamics in Ejina Delta, Northwest China—Before and After Ecological Water Diversion by Jingru Dong, Chaoyang Du, Jingjie Yu

“…Based on Landsat remote sensing images (1990–2020), runoff data, and vegetation landscape surveys, this study investigated the evolutionary patterns and driving mechanisms of vegetation degradation and restoration processes using Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), landscape metrics, and Land Use Transition Matrix (LUTM) methods. …”
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A Novel Navigation Device for Precise Percutaneous Placement of the Guidewire in Femoral Neck Fracture Cannulated Screw Fixation Surgery by Yutao Cui, Guangkai Ren, Chuangang Peng, Baoming Yuan, Dankai Wu

“…The effectiveness of the 2 methods was compared based on surgery duration, intraoperative bleeding, number of fluoroscopic examination and guidewire insertion attempts, screw parallelism, and effective fixation area. …”
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Ad hoc international arbitration is the key to improving Russian-Japanese relations by B. I. Nefedov, M. L. Entin

“…The research is based on the methods such as historical research, formal logic, including analysis, synthesis, and modeling, as well as systematic, comparative and interpretation. …”
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‘Conducting Research Amidst Hustle and Bustle’: A Qualitative Study of the Research Challenges Faced by Part‐Time Nursing Postgraduates by Jianou Xu, Fei Lv, Jun Zhang, Caifeng Luo, Zhengxia Yang, Jing Wu

“…Design A descriptive qualitative study design was applied in this study. Methods Fourteen part‐time postgraduate nursing students were recruited using a combination of purposeful sampling and snowball sampling. …”
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Life expectancy and premature mortality among insured and non-insured in India, 2019–21 by Ankita Roy, Jyoti Das, Sanjay K Mohanty

“…This paper estimated longevity and premature mortality by health insurance coverage in India. Methods We have used the latest round of the National Family and Health Survey data (NFHS-5) conducted in 2019–2021. …”
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Gene Polymorphism of MUC15, MMP14, BRAF, and COL1A1 Is Associated with Capsule Formation in Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Wei Sun, Yongchao Zhang, Bozhi Liu, Youjia Duan, Wei Li, Jinglong Chen

“…Methods. We prospectively recruited and analyzed 185 patients with HCC with or without a capsule between 2019 and 2020. …”
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GenAI exceeds clinical experts in predicting acute kidney injury following paediatric cardiopulmonary bypass by Mansour Sharabiani, Alireza Mahani, Alex Bottle, Yadav Srinivasan, Richard Issitt, Serban Stoica

“…We evaluate various text embedding algorithms such as Doc2Vec, top-performing sentence transformers on Hugging Face, and commercial LLMs from Google and OpenAI. …”
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Adolescent awareness and experience of the pubertal changes: A qualitative study from Rwanda. by Kellen Muganwa, Oliva Bazirete, Marie Chantal Uwimana, Marie Grace Sandra Musabwasoni, Olive Tengera, Joy Bahumura, Hellen Nwanko Chinwe, Emmerence Uwingabire, Elyse Muteteri, Francoise Mujawamariya, Emmanuel Habyarimana, Eugenie Mukeshimana, Baudouine Ndimurukundo, Verene Abagirinana, Richard Nsengiyumva, Christine Mbila Wabenya, Vincent Mugisha, Gerard Kaberuka, Marie Laetitia Ishimwe Bazakare, Thierry Claudien Uhawenimana

“…The findings aim to enhance the sexual education curriculum in Rwanda, with a particular emphasis on day students in rural regions who may be vulnerable to peer and societal pressures that can potentially expose them risky sexual behaviours.<h4>Methods</h4>A qualitative study was conducted with 120 school-going adolescent girls and boys. …”
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Systematic review of the concept ‘male involvement in maternal health’ by natural language processing and descriptive analysis by Kristien Roelens, Nafissa Bique Osman, Sally Griffin, Anna Galle, Gaëlle Plaieser, Tessa Van Steenstraeten, Olivier Degomme

“…This systematic review aims to examine the conceptualisation of male involvement in maternal health globally and review commonly used indicators.Methods PubMed, Embase, Scopus, Web of Science and CINAHL databases were searched for quantitative literature (between the years 2000 and 2020) containing indicators representing male involvement in maternal health, which was defined as the involvement, participation, engagement or support of men in all activities related to maternal health.Results After full-text review, 282 studies were included in the review. …”
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Association between healthcare resources, healthcare systems, and population health in European countries by Cholada Kittipittayakorn

“…However, the association between healthcare resources as a whole has yet to be widely examined. Methods This study utilized multilevel regression analysis to explore the association between healthcare resources, healthcare systems, and population health outcomes across 25 European countries. …”
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E6 and E7 Gene Polymorphisms in Human Papillomavirus Types-58 and 33 Identified in Southwest China. by Zuyi Chen, Yaling Jing, Qiang Wen, Xianping Ding, Tao Wang, Xuemei Mu, Yuwei Chenzhang, Man Cao

“…Phylogenetic trees were constructed by Maximum-likelihood and the Kimura 2-parameters methods by MEGA 6 (Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis version 6.0). …”
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Probing artificial intelligence in neurosurgical training: ChatGPT takes a neurosurgical residents written exam by A. Bartoli, A.T. May, A. Al-Awadhi, K. Schaller

“…Research question: to assess how a generative language tool (Generative Pretrained Transformer 3.5, ChatGPT) performs at both generating questions and answering a neurosurgical residents’ written exam. …”
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Human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells induction in peri-implantitis Rattus norvegicus accelerates and enhances osteogenesis activity and implant osseointegration by Nike Hendrijantini, Mefina Kuntjoro, Bambang Agustono, Ratri Maya Sitalaksmi, Muhammad Dimas Aditya Ari, Marcella Theodora, Rudy Effendi, Ivan Setiawan Djuarsa, Jennifer Widjaja, Agung Sosiawan, Guang Hong

“…Material and methods: The research design implemented during this study represented a true experimental design incorporating the use of Rattus norvegicus (Wistar strain) as subjects. …”
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Mendelian randomization study of B-type natriuretic peptide and type 2 diabetes: evidence of causal association from population studies. by Roman Pfister, Stephen Sharp, Robert Luben, Paul Welsh, Inês Barroso, Veikko Salomaa, Aline Meirhaeghe, Kay-Tee Khaw, Naveed Sattar, Claudia Langenberg, Nicholas J Wareham

“…Using a Mendelian randomization approach, we compared the observed association between rs198389 and T2D to that expected from the NT-pro-BNP level to T2D association and the NT-pro-BNP difference per C allele of rs198389. In participants of our case-cohort study who were free of T2D and cardiovascular disease at baseline, we observed a 21% (95% CI 3%-36%) decreased risk of incident T2D per one standard deviation (SD) higher log-transformed NT-pro-BNP levels in analysis adjusted for age, sex, body mass index, systolic blood pressure, smoking, family history of T2D, history of hypertension, and levels of triglycerides, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. …”
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Transcriptomic analysis of neural stem and progenitor cells in comparison with glioblastoma stem cells by V. E. Shevchenko, N. E.  Arnotskaya, T.  I. Kushnir, A. S. Bryukhovetskiy

“…To conduct a comparative transcriptomic analysis of CD133+-NSPCs and CD133+-GSCs to study the molecular genetic differences between the phenotypes of these cells and identify potential targets for therapeutic effects on GSCs.Materials and methods. …”
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