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

“…<h4>Introduction</h4>The transition from puberty to adolescence involves significant body changes that manifest differently across young children. It is essential that adolescents become aware of these changes so that they can easily navigate puberty's physical, emotional, and interpersonal changes safely in terms of sexual and reproductive health. …”
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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

“…We believe a broader holistic scope can broaden the potential of male involvement programmes and stimulate a gender-transformative approach. Further research is recommended to develop a robust and comprehensive set of indicators for assessing male involvement in maternal health.…”
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Association between healthcare resources, healthcare systems, and population health in European countries by Cholada Kittipittayakorn

“…The healthcare system plays a key role in transforming these resources into health outcomes, which are widely used as indicators to measure population health and the performance of healthcare systems. …”
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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

“…Cancer of the cervix is associated with infection by certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV). The gene variants differ in immune responses and oncogenic potential. …”
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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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Time trends in the clinical management of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 2: A Danish register‐based study by Dina Overgaard Eriksen, Tina Hovgaard Randrup, Kathrine Dyhr Lycke, Rikke Kamp Damgaard, Johnny Kahlert, Eva Bjerre Ostenfeld, Pernille Tine Jensen, Nicolas Wentzensen, Megan A. Clarke, Anne Hammer

“…Material and Methods We conducted a Danish nationwide study using data from healthcare registries. …”
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Antifungal effect of Quillaja saponaria plant extract on biofilms of five Candida species of dental interest by Ellen Roberta Lima Bessa, Ana Bessa Muniz, Lucas de Paula Ramos, Luciane Dias de Oliveira

“…To analyze cell viability, the MTT test was used, and the optical densities were transformed into a percentage of metabolic activity. …”
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Comparing the effectiveness of implementation strategies to improve liver and colon cancer screening for Veterans: protocol for a large cluster-randomized implementation study by Shari S. Rogal, Vera Yakovchenko, Timothy R. Morgan, Jason A. Dominitz, Heather McCurdy, Anna Nobbe, Nsikak R. Ekanem, Chaeryon Kang, Rachel I. Gonzalez, Angela Park, Jennifer Anwar, Brittney Neely, Sandra Gibson, Carolyn Lamorte, Jasmohan S. Bajaj, Heather M. Patton, Yiwen Yao, Andrew J. Gawron

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Nucleus accumbens functional connectivity changes underlying alcohol expectancies in bipolar disorder and prospective alcohol outcomes: a within-subject randomized placebo-controll... by Elizabeth T. C. Lippard, Elizabeth T. C. Lippard, Elizabeth T. C. Lippard, Elizabeth T. C. Lippard, Elizabeth T. C. Lippard, Dylan E. Kirsch, Dylan E. Kirsch, Dylan E. Kirsch, Dylan E. Kirsch, Vanessa Le, Vanessa Le, Skyler Lee, Nadia Bibb, Kaitlyn Meek, Raquel Kosted, Ansley Huffman, J. R. C. Almeida, Kim Fromme, Kim Fromme, Stephen M. Strakowski, Stephen M. Strakowski, Stephen M. Strakowski

“…Fisher-transformed correlation coefficients between ROIs and seed-to-clusters showing a significant group-by-condition (placebo, pre-beverage rsfMRI) interaction were calculated. …”
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Responsiveness of European countries to the population mental health needs: A cross-national comparison study by Celso Arango, Andrea Fiorillo, Geert Dom, Javier-David Lopez-Morinigo

“…Bivariate correlations between Headway-transformed KPI scores, which were standardised in a 1–10 Likert Scale (1: worst performance; 10: best performance), tested for putative associations. …”
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Variations in salivary microbiota and metabolic phenotype related to oral lichen planus with psychiatric symptoms by Kuichi Chen, Yuqi Qin, Li Yan, Yunmei Dong, Shiping Lv, Jingyi Xu, Ning Kang, Zhuoyan Luo, Yiyun Liu, Juncai Pu, Fangchun Chen, Xin Jin

“…Abstract Background Oral lichen planus (OLP) is a common chronic inflammatory disease of the oral mucosa with a certain tendency for malignant transformation. The etiology and pathogenesis of OLP remain unclear, and the relationship between psychiatric factors and the development of OLP has attracted much attention in recent years. …”
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Meta-analyses of the effects of high-intensity interval training in elite athletes — part II: relationships between the mean effects on various performance measures by Hans-Peter Wiesinger, Hans-Peter Wiesinger, Hans-Peter Wiesinger, Will G. Hopkins, Nils Haller, Nils Haller, Julia Blumkaitis, Tilmann Strepp, Thomas Leonhard Stöggl, Thomas Leonhard Stöggl

“…There were substantial differences in time-trial speed/power between studies not explained by each predictor. …”
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Identification of patient endotypes and adalimumab treatment responders in axial spondyloarthritis using blood-derived extracellular matrix biomarkers by Anne Gitte Loft, Inge Juul Sørensen, Mikkel Østergaard, Susanne J Pedersen, Morten Asser Karsdal, Ole Rintek Madsen, Anne-C Bay-Jensen, Peder Frederiksen, Signe Holm Nielsen, Helena Port, Frederik Christiansen, Sengul Seven

“…Objective To explore the potential of a panel of ECM remodelling markers as endotyping tools for axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) by separating patients into subtypes and investigate how they differ among each other in disease activity scores and response to treatment with adalimumab.Methods In three axSpA studies, a panel of 14 blood-based ECM biomarkers related to formation of collagen (PRO-C2, PRO-C3, PRO-C6), degradation of collagen by metalloproteinases (C1M, C2M, T2CM, C3M, C4M, C6M, C10C), matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-degraded prolargin (PROM), MMP-degraded and citrullinated vimentin (VICM), basement membrane turnover (PRO-C4) and neutrophil activity (CPa9-HNE) were assessed to enable patient clustering (endotyping). …”
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Evaluating the role of active TGF-β1 as inflammatory biomarker in Kashmiri (North-Indian) patients with systemic sclerosis: a case-control study by Sakeena Ayub, Tabasum Shafi, Roohi Rasool, Mushtaq A. Dangroo, Muzaffar A. Bindroo, Ayaz Gull, Lamya Ahmad Al-Keridis, Nawaf Alshammari, Mohd Saeed, Zafar Amin Shah

“…Abstract Background As a master immune system regulator, transforming growth factor β1 (TGF-β1) is closely linked to the complicated pathophysiology and development of systemic sclerosis (SSc), a multisystem fibrotic disease. …”
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A Study of Mixed Non-Motorized Traffic Flow Characteristics and Capacity Based on Multi-Source Video Data by Guobin Gu, Xin Sun, Benxiao Lou, Xiang Wang, Bingheng Yang, Jianqiu Chen, Dan Zhou, Shiqian Huang, Qingwei Hu, Chun Bao

“…To advance stochastic capacity estimation methods and provide reliable assessments of non-motorized roadway capacity, this study proposes a stochastic capacity estimation model based on power spectral analysis. …”
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Dual-stage Acting Dendrimeric Nanoparticle for Deepened Chemotherapeutic Drug Delivery to Tumor Cells by Mohammad Shahpouri, Mohammad Amin Adili-Aghdam, Hossein Mahmudi, Saeedeh Ghiasvand, Hamed Dadashi, Aysan Salemi, Sajjad Alimohammadvand, Leila Roshangar, Abolfazl Barzegari, Mehdi Jaymand, Rana Jahanban-Esfahlan

“…NPs were characterized by Zeta sizer, transmission electron microscope (TEM), Fourier transforms infrared (FTIR) and drug release kinetics. …”
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Capsaicin as a Microbiome Modulator: Metabolic Interactions and Implications for Host Health by Iván Artemio Corral-Guerrero, Angela Elena Martínez-Medina, Litzy Yazmin Alvarado-Mata, Ana Cristina Figueroa Chávez, Roberto Muñoz-García, Miriam Paulina Luévanos-Escareño, Jazel Doménica Sosa-Martínez, María José Castro-Alonso, Padma Nimmakayala, Umesh K. Reddy, Nagamani Balagurusamy

“…In addition to its systemic effects, capsaicin appears to undergo microbial transformation and influences gut microbial composition, favoring short-chain fatty acid producers and suppressing pro-inflammatory taxa. …”
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The main aspects of physical therapy in children with bronchial asthma by Т. Ye. Shumna, S. M. Nedelska, Ye. L. Мykhаliuk, S. М. Маlаkhova, Е. Yu. Doroshenko, O. Ye. Chernenko, М. А. Shyshkin, I. V. Shapovalova

“…Statistical data processing was performed by commonly used methods of variation statistics of the licensed software package Statistica for Windows 13 (StatSoft Inc., № JPZ804I382130ARCN10-J). …”
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