Resilience and renewal: the personal impact of physical activity in breast cancer survivors by María-Jesús Lirola, A. Irene Hernández-Rodríguez, Cristina Cuenca-Piqueras, María Esther Prados-Megías

“…Clinical programs should celebrate individual achievements and include group-based exercises to enhance adherence and overall well-being. The study’s small sample size may limit generalizability. Future research should explore diverse populations and incorporate quantitative methods to complement qualitative findings. …”
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Comfort or hesitancy: A cross-sectional study of modifiable factors associated with co-vaccination behavior among United States and Canadian adults by Emily Frith, Sarah Deedat, E. Susanne Blazek, Amy Bucher

“…Identifying such factors may better inform interventions targeting co-vaccination. Methods: This cross-sectional study examined how capability, opportunity, and motivation (COM-B model) relate to co-vaccination comfort among United States (U.S.; N = 604) and Canadian (N = 586) adults in January 2024. …”
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Identification of Anoikis-Related Genes in Driving Immune-Inflammatory Responses in Ulcerative Colitis Based on Bioinformatics Analysis and Machine Learning by Diao W, Huang X, Huang W, Jiang J, Li W, Liu H, Yan B, Shen L

“…This study aims to explore the biological and clinical implications of anoikis-related genes (ARGs) in UC.Methods: Gene expression microarrays from normal and UC mucosal tissues focused on ARGs. …”
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Lifelong Exercise Mitigates Aging-Induced Clk2 Elevation and Attenuates Fatty Liver in Mice by In-Gyu Kim, Kyung-Wan Baek, Ying-Ying Xiang, Jong-Hwa Won, Ji Hyun Kim, Ji-Seok Kim

“…PURPOSE This study investigated how aging regulates the expression of Clk2 (Cdc2-like kinase 2) protein and genes in the liver, and how lifelong spontaneous exercise (LSE) affects this expression. METHODS Male C57BL/6 mice were housed under controlled conditions and divided into groups with (EXE) and without (CON) access to running wheels to investigate the effects of LSE on Clk2 expression in the liver. …”
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Predictive and prognostic values of serum C1q/tumor necrosis factor-related protein 9 for first-ever ischemic stroke by Yan-Qing Zhang, Yan-Qing Zhang, Hai-Feng Zhang, Xiao-Gang Liu, Rong Li

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Biomedical parameters assessed in pregnant mice receiving oral commercial nanosilver preparations by Marina N. Gapon, E. A. Ivanova, T. I. Tverdokhlebova, А. V. Kantaria, Z. T. Tagirov, I. A. Loginov, E. A. Gapon

“…Microbiological, biochemical, and histological research methods were used in the work. Empirically selected commercial colloidal nanosilver preparations (“Ajenta”, “Vitargol”) recommended for internal use in humans at a therapeutic dose were used in an in vivo experiment by 30-day watering of pregnant mice. …”
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Friendships and Family Support Reduce Subsequent Depressive Symptoms in At-Risk Adolescents. by Anne-Laura van Harmelen, Jenny L Gibson, Michelle C St Clair, Matt Owens, Jeannette Brodbeck, Valerie Dunn, Gemma Lewis, Tim Croudace, Peter B Jones, Rogier A Kievit, Ian M Goodyer

“…<h4>Background</h4>Early life stress (ELS) consists of child family adversities (CFA: negative experiences that happened within the family environment) and/or peer bullying. …”
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Side Effects and Patient Tolerance with the Use of Blood Flow Restriction Training after ACL Reconstruction in Adolescents: A Pilot Study by Jennifer Prue, Dylan P Roman, Nicholas G Giampetruzzi, Arthur Fredericks, Adel Lolic, Allison Crepeau, J. Lee Pace, Adam P Weaver

“…Further investigations are warranted to continue to evaluate patient tolerance and safety with BFRT, because while these preliminary results suggest a positive safety profile and good tolerance in the adolescent population after ACLR, they represent the experiences of only a small sample. # Level of Evidence Level 3…”
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Antibacterial Effects of Synthetic Plantaricins Against <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> by Seung-Eun Oh, Sojeong Heo, Gawon Lee, Jina Kim, Mi-Sun Kwak, Do-Won Jeong

“…The antibacterial activities of four combinations of synthetic plantaricins—spPlnA, E&F, E&J, and J&K—were identified against <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> ATCC 12692. And in this experiment, we aimed to identify the antimicrobial mechanism of the synthesized plantaricin sample against <i>S. aureus</i>. …”
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Evaluating a system-wide, safety investigation in healthcare course in Norway: a qualitative study by Carl Macrae, Siri Wiig, Veslemøy Guise, Cecilie Haraldseid-Driftland, Lene Schibevaag, Janne Gro Alsvik, Adriana Rosenberg

“…It is recommended that such a curriculum be co-created with independent investigators, safety scientists, patients and users, and healthcare professionals to ensure a strong methods repertoire and a sound theoretical backdrop for investigatory practice.…”
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Inter-subject variability in human atrial action potential in sinus rhythm versus chronic atrial fibrillation. by Carlos Sánchez, Alfonso Bueno-Orovio, Erich Wettwer, Simone Loose, Jana Simon, Ursula Ravens, Esther Pueyo, Blanca Rodriguez

“…Three populations of over 2000 sampled models were generated, based on three different human atrial AP models. …”
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Assessment Of The Impact Of Alcohol Intake On Cognition – A Cohort Study by Deekshitha Alla

“…AIMS: To evaluate cognition ability in alcoholics with a prolonged history of alcohol intake using blinded Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and to compare cognition between alcoholics and non-alcoholics. METHODS: The study includes 30 alcoholic males without any comorbidities (experiment), attending the outpatient department and 30 healthy appropriate non-alcoholics (control) within the age group of 18-45 years of age. …”
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Outcomes of Genetic Testing-Based Cardiac Rehabilitation Program in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention by Xing Yu, Yuxuan Fan, Xiaopeng Sun, Xiaojing Wang, Qi Guo, Zhiqing Fan

“…Biological samples from all participants underwent DNA testing. …”
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Effects of tumour-associated macrophages on cardia carcinoma progression by Zhixiong Zhang, Zihong Xu, Yaowu Cai, Xintong Chen, Chaoqing Huang, Xuefeng Xu

“…Abstract Objectives To explore the role of tumour-associated macrophages (TAMs) in cardia carcinoma progression and the related mechanisms. Methods Cancer tissue and pericancer tissue samples from 80 patients with cardia carcinoma who underwent D2 radical surgery between January 2014 and January 2015 at Putian First Hospital were selected. …”
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Spatial-Spectral Contrastive Graph Neural Network for Few-Shot Hyperspectral Image Classification by Zhaoxia Xue, Zhiwei Liu, Zhaohui Xue, Tingqiang Song

“…By constructing positive/negative edge pairs through spectral-spatial similarity metrics, it regularizes the graph structure to emphasize class-discriminative connections and suppress noisy inter-node relationships. Extensive experiments on four benchmark HSI datasets&#x2014;University of Pavia (PU), Salinas Valley (SA), WHU-Hi-HanChuan (WHU-HH), and WHU-Hi-LongKou (WHU-HL)&#x2014;demonstrate SSCGNN&#x2019;s superiority over state-of-the-art few-shot learning methods. …”
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Effect of miR-1285-3p as a diagnostic biomarker for chronic heart failure on vascular endothelial cells by Chongyang Zhang, Jiazhen He, Dan Xiong, Yi Mei, Yao Zhu, Pan Deng, Yang Duan

“…At the same time, we investigated the effect of miR-1285-3p on vascular endothelial cells. Methods Total RNA was extracted from plasma samples of 106 CHF patients and 106 healthy individuals. …”
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Clinicians’ view on non-adherence: sharing expert opinion by Ngiap Chuan Tan, Shashank R. Joshi, Enrique De-Madaria, Enrique De-Madaria, Badr Eldin Mostafa, O. Nuri Özgirgin, Tommaso Simoncini, Lale Tokgözoğlu

“…This study aims to document the individual experiences of seven international physicians across diverse medical fields, highlighting barriers, detection methods, and strategies employed to address NA in their daily practice.MethodologyA structured qualitative approach was employed, incorporating semi-structured interviews and written questionnaires to capture expert insights. …”
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Admissions in the age of AI: detecting AI-generated application materials in higher education by Yijun Zhao, Alexander Borelli, Fernando Martinez, Haoran Xue, Gary M. Weiss

“…We also utilize an open-access GPT-wiki-intro dataset to further validate our hypothesis regarding the feasibility of constructing domain-specific AI content detectors. Our experiments yield promising results in developing classifiers tailored to a specific domain when provided with sufficient training samples. …”
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Does the trans-provincial immediate reimbursement reduce health gap between urban and rural floating population? Evidence from China by Jun Tian, Zuopeng Chen, Yu Wang, Yue Zhu

“…The sample includes 47,803 individuals and 66 cities. …”
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Incidence and Management of Severe Muscle and Tendon Injuries in Elite Korean Badminton Players: A Focus on Gender-Specific Patterns by Munku Song, Sangcheol Yoo, Kwangnam Kim, Chaofan Chen

“…METHODS This study included 126 athletes aged 19–23 years with an average age of 21.1±1.4 years, providing 135 injury data points (65 male and 70 female). …”
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