Transbronchial lung cryobiopsy in the diagnosis of fibrotic interstitial lung diseases. by Gian Luca Casoni, Sara Tomassetti, Alberto Cavazza, Thomas V Colby, Alessandra Dubini, Jay H Ryu, Elisa Carretta, Paola Tantalocco, Sara Piciucchi, Claudia Ravaglia, Christian Gurioli, Micaela Romagnoli, Carlo Gurioli, Marco Chilosi, Venerino Poletti

“…<h4>Objectives</h4>To evaluate safety, feasibility and diagnostic yield of TBLC in f-DPLD.…”
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Factors related to depression and anxiety in adults with bronchiectasis by Özgün Niksarlioglu EY, Özkan G, Günlüoglu G, Uysal MA, Gül S, Kilic L, Yeter A, Çamsari G

“…Patients with confirmed diagnosis of bronchiectasis with high-resolution computed tomography were enrolled in the study. Patients that were clinically stable in the previous 4 weeks were evaluated with the Hospital Depression and Anxiety scale. …”
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Complete testing coverage for the early infant diagnosis algorithm and associated factors among infants exposed to HIV, Uganda, 2017-2019. by Rebecca Akunzirwe, Julie R Harris, Peter Chris Kawungezi, Mercy W Wanyana, Tom Lutalo, Phoebe Monalisa Namukanja, Augustina Delaney, Richard Migisha, Esther Nyamugisa, Doreen Ondo, Philip Kasibante, Daniel Kadobera, Lilian Bulage, Jane Frances Zalwango, Alex Riolexus Ario, Linda Kisaakye Nabitaka

“…IEH who were diagnosed with HIV but were tested at all recommended tests until that point were also considered to have CTC. We evaluated factors associated with CTC using modified Poisson regression.…”
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Protocol of a parallel group Randomized Control Trial (RCT) for Mobile-assisted Medication Adherence Support (Ma-MAS) intervention among Tuberculosis patients. by Zekariyas Sahile, Lua Perimal-Lewis, Paul Arbon, Anthony John Maeder

“…The trial will then evaluate the effect of SMS texts and phone calls on TB medication adherence. …”
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Treatment outcomes and associated factors of stroke in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Addisu Getie, Shirin Jahan Mumu, Amit Arora

“…This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to evaluate the treatment outcomes and associated factors of stroke in Ethiopia. …”
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Outcomes of patients receiving urgent palliative radiotherapy for advanced lung cancer: an observational study by Yang Xu, Celestee Trach, Tracey Tessier, Rishi Sinha, David Skarsgard

“…Patients who underwent radiotherapy were contacted beginning 30 days after radiotherapy to evaluate treatment response. Cluster bootstraps were used to compute confidence intervals for treatment response rate. …”
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Bronchoscopic biopsies with radial endobronchial ultrasonographic navigation in the diagnosis of tuberculosis and mycobacteriosis in patients with peripheral lung masses by I. Yu. Shabalina, A. S. Zaytseva, A. I. Popova, E. E. Larionova, O. V. Lovacheva, A. E. Ergeshov

“…The objective of the study: to evaluate the effectiveness of diagnosis of tuberculosis and mycobacteriosis in bronchobiopsy specimens obtained during navigation by radial endobronchial ultrasonography (rEBUS) in patients with peripheral lung lesions without bacterial excretion.Subjects and methods. …”
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LIPODERMATOSCLEROSIS AS A VARIETY OF LOBULAR PANNICULITIS: CLINICAL FEATURES by O. N. Egorova, B. S. Belov, S. I. Glukhova, S. G. Radenska-Lopovok

“…Chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) was evaluated in accordance with the international classification and the classification developed by V.S. …”
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Preparation and Characterization of Olmesartan Medoxomil-Loaded Polymeric Mixed Micelle Nanocarrier by Halah Talal Sulaiman, Nawal A. Rajab

“…Using iodine as a hydrophobic probe, the critical micelle concentration (CMC) of F4 was determined to be 0.0112±0.001 mg/ml, which is lower than the theoretically computed CMC of 0.01284 mg/ml calculated using an equation. …”
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Enhancing beliefs and implementation of evidence-based practice among undergraduate nurses using a multi-component educational programme: a pre–post study by Filipa Pereira, Brigitte Lehmann-Wellig, Henk Verloo

“…Descriptive, comparative, correlational and regression statistics were computed to evaluate nurses’ responses and scores. …”
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Petrographic image classification of complex carbonate rocks from the Brazilian pre-salt using convolutional neural networks by Mateus Basso, João Paulo da Ponte Souza, Guilherme Furlan Chinelatto, Luis Augusto Antoniossi Mansini, Alexandre Campane Vidal

“…Our dataset comprises 800 thin sections, corresponding to 1,600 high-resolution scanned images (6,400 dpi), from six wells across three different oilfields, strategically selected to ensure representativeness across distinct structural domains of the reservoir. We evaluated five computational models: EfficientNet, MobileNet v3, RegNet, ResNet, and ShuffleNet v2. …”
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Oil-Painting Style Classification Using ResNet with Conditional Information Bottleneck Regularization by Yaling Dang, Fei Duan, Jia Chen

“…We implement this conditional term using a matrix-based Rényi’s entropy estimator, thereby avoiding costly variational approximations and ensuring computational efficiency. We evaluate our method on two public benchmarks: the Pandora dataset (7740 images across 12 artistic movements) and the OilPainting dataset (19,787 images across 17 styles). …”
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What will it take to eliminate pediatric HIV? Reaching WHO target rates of mother-to-child HIV transmission in Zimbabwe: a model-based analysis. by Andrea L Ciaranello, Freddy Perez, Jo Keatinge, Ji-Eun Park, Barbara Engelsmann, Matthews Maruva, Rochelle P Walensky, Francois Dabis, Jennifer Chu, Asinath Rusibamayila, Angela Mushavi, Kenneth A Freedberg

“…<h4>Methods and findings</h4>We used a computer model to simulate a cohort of HIV-infected, pregnant/breastfeeding women (mean age, 24 y; mean CD4, 451/µl; breastfeeding duration, 12 mo). …”
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Precision analysis of NGC 2158 with Gaia DR3 by Nasser M. Ahmed, A. L. Tadross

“…The key focus of this investigation is our new method of evaluating membership probability based on the radius of each shell in the studied cluster, rather than applying a single probability value to the entire cluster. …”
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Effects of Conservative Oxygen Therapy versus Conventional Oxygen Therapy on the Mortality in ICU Patients: A Meta-Analysis by Xinyu Jiang, Dong Qiu

“…We have two researchers evaluating the quality of the literature included and extracting data as per the inclusion and exclusion criteria and then analyzed it with RevMan 5.4 statistical software. …”
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The Interplay of Systemic Inflammation and Oxidative Stress in Connecting Perirenal Adipose Tissue to Hyperuricemia in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Mediation Analysis by Wang W, Tu M, Qiu XP, Tong Y, Guo XL

“…Monocyte to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio (MHR) was computed to assess systemic inflammation and oxidative stress. …”
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Unveiling size-selective host-guest interaction of photoresponsive nanorings with carbon nanotubes and fullerenes by Saswathy R., Mohamad Akbar Ali

“…., M06-2X/6-31G(d) level with Grimme’s dispersion correction, we evaluate interaction energies, binding constants (Ka), electrostatic potentials, frontier molecular orbitals, and the nature of non-covalent interactions within these complexes. …”
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Advancing patient care: Machine learning models for predicting grade 3+ toxicities in gynecologic cancer patients treated with HDR brachytherapy. by Andres Portocarrero-Bonifaz, Salman Syed, Maxwell Kassel, Grant W McKenzie, Vishwa M Shah, Bryce M Forry, Jeremy T Gaskins, Keith T Sowards, Thulasi Babitha Avula, Adrianna Masters, Jose G Schneider, Scott R Silva

“…Brachytherapy, often used as a boost to external beam radiotherapy, is integral to treatment. Advances in computation, algorithms, and data availability have popularized the use of machine learning to predict patient outcomes. …”
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Isoliquiritigenin Alleviates Periodontitis by Suppressing Inflammation via NF-&amp;kappa;B Signaling Pathway of Immune Cell by Wang X, Zhao T, Liang B, Fang J, Dong Q, Chen Q

“…Micro-computed Tomography (Micro-CT) and hematoxylin and eosin (H&amp;E) staining analyzed periodontal tissue recovery. …”
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Global trends in esophageal cancer: sex and age disparities in health inequalities from 1990 to 2021, with projections to 2050 by Ying Liu, Ying Liu, Erman Wu, Erman Wu, Fang Cheng, Meng Zhang, Qian Rou, Zenati Nuertai, Maorong Xu, Shanshan Xu, Minghui Li, Lei Zhang, Aheli Nasiroula

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