Brain Functional Connectome Gradients Analysis Study of Chronic Back Pain by YANG Junchao, YIN Xiaolong, HUANG Li, JIANG Feng, LI Zuanfang, LIANG Shengxiang

“…ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between changes in functional network hierarchy and pain in patients with chronic back pain (CBP) by analyzing the differences in functional network connectivity gradients between the CBP group and the healthy control group.MethodsData (including basic clinical information such as VAS scores, years of pain, and resting functional MRI images) from the patients with CBP and healthy controls (HC) were obtained from the OpenPain database. …”
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The Epidemiology of Injuries and Illnesses During SailGP Season 4: A Prospective Cohort Study by Thomas Fallon, Hélène Rousselon, Neil Heron

“…Sail Grand Prix (SailGP), inaugurated in 2019, epitomises a transformative approach to professional sailing. This study aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of injury and illness epidemiology among SailGP elite sailors, comparing injury and illness types and locations across different sailing activities. …”
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Association between CRP-Albumin-Lymphocyte (CALLY) index and Asthma-COPD overlap: analysis of NHANES 2015–2018 data by Shasha Fu, Zongcun Chen, Hongchuan Wu

“…Participants were categorized into quartiles based on natural logarithmic transformed (ln) CALLY index. ACO was defined as self-reported physician-diagnosed asthma and COPD. …”
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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

“…Vegetation carbon storage is affected by slope and human activities. There are differences in vegetation carbon density in different slope ranges. …”
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Assessing the impact of a potential canine vaccine for the control of Chagas disease: a mathematical modeling study by Edem Fiatsonu, Aniruddha Deka, Martial L. Ndeffo-Mbah, Martial L. Ndeffo-Mbah

“…As dogs are important reservoirs in the disease’s spread, developing a canine vaccine could be transformative for controlling disease transmission to dogs and humans.MethodsWe developed a compartmental Susceptible-Infected model to simulate the transmission dynamics of Trypanosoma cruzi, considering interactions among dogs, humans, cats, rodents, and triatomine vectors. …”
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CHRONIC ENDOMETRITIS: CURRENT ASPECTS by V. E. RADZINSKY, Yu. A. PETROV, M. L. PОLINA

“…To broaden the understanding of chronic endometritis (CE) pathogenesis on the basis of the reception study of steroid hormones and markers of cell proliferation/apoptosis in its different types depending on the nature of microbial colonization of the uterine mucosa.Materials and methods. …”
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Determinants of growth differentiation factor 15 plasma levels in outpatients with peripheral arterial disease by Emma Skau, Philippe Wagner, Jerzy Leppert, Johan Ärnlöv, Pär Hedberg

“…The relations between GDF-15 concentrations (transformed with the natural logarithm) and the different determinants were evaluated using uni- and multivariable linear regression models. …”
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From Fact Drafts to Operational Systems: Semantic Search in Legal Decisions Using Fact Drafts by Gergely Márk Csányi, Dorina Lakatos, István Üveges, Andrea Megyeri , János Pál Vadász, Dániel Nagy, Renátó Vági

“…To address this, the study employs manually created fact drafts for legal cases, enabling reliable ranking of original cases within retrieved documents and quantitative comparison of various vectorization methods. The study compares twelve different text embedding solutions (the most recent became available just a few weeks before the manuscript was written) identifying Cohere’s embed-multilingual-v3.0, Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence’s bge-m3, Jina AI’s jina-embeddings-v3, OpenAI’s text-embedding-3-large, and Microsoft’s multilingual-e5-large models as top performers. …”
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Examiner workload comparison: three structured oral examination formats for the European diploma in anaesthesiology and intensive care by Mikhail Dziadzko, Andrey Varvinskiy, Rodolphe Di Loreto, Hugues Scipioni, Bazil Ateleanu, Markus Klimek, Joana Berger-Estilita

“…The COVID-19 pandemic triggered transformations in academic medicine, rapidly adopting remote teaching and online assessments. …”
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Breast cancer diagnosis using radiomics-guided DL/ML model-systematic review and meta-analysis by Nazmul Ahasan Maruf, Abdullah Basuhail

“…The sensitivity value was pooled and transformed using a random-effects model to estimate the performance of DL techniques in the classification of breast cancer. …”
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DEVELOPMENT OF ENTREPRENEURIAL COMPETENCE IN DESIGN EDUCATION by L. Bazyl, V. Orlov, O. Fursa, L. Оruzha

“…Creative and innovative ideas are transformed by entrepreneurs in the field of design into sustainable business models, various innovative approaches are introduced. …”
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The CASPAR study protocol. Can cervical stiffness predict successful vaginal delivery after induction of labour? a feasibility, cohort study. by Elizabeth Medford, Steven Lane, Abi Merriel, Andrew Sharp, Angharad Care

“…This study will explore its' potential for pre-induction cervical assessment and indication of delivery outcome following IOL.<h4>Methods</h4>CASPAR is a feasibility study of term, primiparous women with singleton pregnancies undergoing IOL. …”
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Imaging Features and Clinical Characteristics of Granular Cell Tumors: A Single-Center Investigation by Hui Gu, Lan Yu, Yu Wu

“…This study aims to elucidate the manifestations of GCTs in multimodal imaging across different anatomic locations. <b>Methods:</b> We retrospectively analyzed 66 histopathologically confirmed GCT cases (2011–2024), assessing their clinical presentations, pathological characteristics, and imaging findings from ultrasound (<i>n</i> = 31), CT (<i>n</i> = 14), MRI (<i>n</i> = 8), and endoscopy (<i>n</i> = 15). …”
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Mesenchymal stem cells from periapical lesions modulate cytokine production by local immune cells by Marković Milan, Tomić Sergej, Đokić Jelena, Mihajlović Dušan, Vučević Dragana, Gazivoda Dragan, Duka Miloš, Čolić Miodrag

“…This question was addressed in this study in which the aim was to examine the capacity of PL-MSCs for modulating cytokine production by local immune cells. Methods. PL-MSCs were isolated from asymptomatic (as) and symptomatic (sy) PLs. …”
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Autonomic modulation and skeletal muscle oxygenation with intermittent low-load blood flow restriction knee extension by Andrew R. Garner, Jacob D. Fanno, Ryan McGrath, Jacob Erickson, Kyle J. Hackney

“…Heart rate variability (HRV) metrics: logarithmically transformed (ln) square root of the mean differences of successive R-R intervals (lnRMSSD), high frequency power (lnHF), and low frequency power (lnLF), as well as SmO2%, and rating of perceived exertion (RPE) were measured. …”
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Regenerative potential of graphene oxide-chitosan nanocomposite combined with fetal bovine serum on healing of full-thickness skin wound in rats by Kamal H. Hussein, Mahmoud Soliman, Mahmoud S. Sabra, Hani Nasser Abdelhamid, Mahmoud Abd-Elkareem, Ahmed Abdelrahiem Sadek

“…In this study, the potential of graphene oxide (GO) and chitosan (CTS) biomaterial composite, with and without fetal bovine serum (FBS), was investigated to induce a full-thickness skin wound repair in rats. Methods The GO-CTS composite was characterized using X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, and Fourier transforms infrared. …”
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Explainable Predictive Model for Suicidal Ideation During COVID-19: Social Media Discourse Study by Salah Bouktif, Akib Mohi Ud Din Khanday, Ali Ouni

“…MethodsThe work was divided into 2 major phases, one to classify suicidal ideation posts and the other to extract factors that cause suicidal ideation. …”
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Role of a combination dietary supplement containing mucopolysaccharides, vitamin C, and collagen on tendon healing in rats by Halil Can Gemalmaz, Kerim Sarıyılmaz, Okan Ozkunt, Seren Gulsen Gurgen, Sena Silay

“…The biological properties of the 2 groups were assessed with a histomorphometric comparison to determine the amount of collagen type I (COL1), proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), and transforming growth factor β1 (TGF-β1) expression in 3 different tissue subgroups (collagen matrix, tenocytes, and endotenon fibroblasts). …”
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TripletA-Net: A Deep Learning Model for Automatic Railway Track Extraction from Airborne LiDAR Point Clouds by Runyuan Zhang, Qiong Ding, Alex Hay-Man Ng, Dan Wang, Jiwei Deng, Mingwei Xu, Yuelin Hou

“…Together these optimizations make TripletA-Net highly effective in track extraction, achieving a mean Intersection over Union of 94.36% on our airborne LiDAR track dataset (acquired from two geographically diverse regions, with a total track length of 2700 m), which is more surpassing than benchmark methods such as PointNet&#x002B;&#x002B; (87.87% ), RandLA-Net (91.64% ), and Stratified Transformer (89.49% ).…”
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Inspiring Social Capital Through Community Green Space: Pathways and Implications by Lin YE, Shi HE, Yinghao LI, Zhaohui YAN, Lei HUANG

“…The first involves creating different types of social networks — strengthening bonds among similar groups, building bridges between different groups, and connecting people across social levels. …”
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