Reliability of Capillary Blood Gas Measurements in Paralympic Sprinters at Rest: A Pilot Study by Thiago Fernando Lourenço, Samuel Bento da Silva, Vinícius Miguel Zanetti, Ana Gabriela Almeida Maximo Pereira, João Vitor Ichikawa Quintella, Oriane Martins, Amaury Verissimo, Lazaro Alessandro Soares Nunes

“…Results: No differences were found for any parameter (<i>p</i> > 0.05). The imprecision of the method ranged from 0.1% for blood pH to 6.1% for BE. …”
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Prevalence, Severity, and Self-Medication for Dysmenorrhea among Female Adolescents in Indonesia by Handika Zulimartin, Achmad Kemal Harzif, Amalia Shadrina, Juliana Sari Harahap, Anton Tanjung, R. Muharam

“…Dysmenorrhea affects 64.5% of female adolescents in Indonesia, with the highest prevalence rates found in West Java (98.8%) and Jakarta (87.5%). Over the years, various therapy modalities have been developed for treating this condition based on its pathophysiology. …”
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Efficient coding in biophysically realistic excitatory-inhibitory spiking networks by Veronika Koren, Simone Blanco Malerba, Tilo Schwalger, Stefano Panzeri

“…The excitatory-inhibitory recurrent connectivity between neurons with similar stimulus tuning implements feature-specific competition, similar to that recently found in visual cortex. Networks with unstructured connectivity cannot reach comparable levels of coding efficiency. …”
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Changes in Voice Quality after a Pure Tone Stimulation (PTS) Program by Lady Catherine Cantor-Cutiva, Pasquale Bottalico, Juliana Codino, Eric J. Hunter, Adam D. Rubin, Maria Cristina Jackson-Menaldi

“…Statistically significant increases in fundamental frequency were found after the PTS exercises, except for males in the normal voices group. …”
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Exploring the capabilities of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in major depressive disorder: Dynamic causal modeling of the neural network by Akira Kita, Takuya Ishida, Natsuko Kita, Michiyo Tabata, Atsushi Tamaki, Shinya Uenishi, Kasumi Yasuda, Shun Takahashi, Hiroki Matsuura, Shinichi Yamada, Sohei Kimoto

“…We revealed aberrant causal connections from the left DLPFC, amygdala (AMY), nucleus accumbens (NAC), and thalamus (Thal) to the visual cortex (VIS) in MDD. We also found negative associations between depression severities and NAC-to-VIS connections, indicating that VIS plays an essential role in MDD. …”
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Haematobiochemical alterations and lesion characterization induced by haemonchosis in slaughtered sheep at Gondar ELFORA abattoir, Ethiopia by Birhan Anagaw Malede, Mersha Chanie Kebede, Asnakew Mulaw Berihun, Muluken Yayeh Mekonnen, Mohammed Yesuf, Tadegegn Mitiku, Mastewal Birhan, Ambaye Kenubih, Abraham Belete Temesgen

“…The study found significant reductions in hemoglobin, hematocrit, corpuscular volume, hemoglobin, and red blood cell counts in the infected group compared to the non-infected group. …”
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Slow-Paced Breathing Intervention in Healthcare Workers Affected by Long COVID: Effects on Systemic and Dysfunctional Breathing Symptoms, Manual Dexterity and HRV by Marcella Mauro, Elisa Zulian, Nicoletta Bestiaco, Maurizio Polano, Francesca Larese Filon

“…Results: After one month of home intervention, an overall improvement in long-COVID symptoms was observed: confusion/cognitive impairment, chest pain, asthenia, headache and dizziness decreased significantly, while only a small increase in manual dexterity was found, and no relevant changes in cardiac parasympathetic modulation were observed.…”
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The Impact of Leadership in Gender Diversity of Annual Meeting Speakers in the American Society for Surgery of the Hand by Minji Kim, BS, Ines C. Lin, MD, MSEd, FACS, Helen G. Hui-Chou, MD, FACS

“…Gender and race for each speaker were discerned based on perceived visual perceptions from photographs. Chi-square tests were performed to compare the gender and racial diversity between 2022 and 2023. …”
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The Role of Acupressure in Labor Pain Management: A Comprehensive Analysis of Efficacy and Maternal Outcomes by Meng Zhang, Yu Wang, Huixian Zhou, Siyuan Song, Jie Mu

“…However, the analgesic effects of acupressure were found to be incomplete and reliant on accurate acupoint identification. …”
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The effect of traditional Chinese exercises on low Back pain and disability in middle-aged and older adults: A systematic review by Yanan Qi, Miaoqing Zhuang, Rui Liang, Shazlin Shaharudin

“…Results: Eleven of the 856 studies that were found through a search of seven electronic databases satisfied the requirements for inclusion. …”
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Exploring AR hand augmentations as error feedback mechanisms for enhancing gesture-based tutorials by Catarina G. Fidalgo, Catarina G. Fidalgo, Catarina G. Fidalgo, Yukang Yan, Mauricio Sousa, Joaquim Jorge, Joaquim Jorge, David Lindlbauer

“…Furthermore, despite users’ preferences for adjacent placement for the feedback representation, superimposed placement significantly reduces replication time. We found no effects on accuracy for short-time recall, suggesting that while these factors may influence task efficiency, they may not strongly affect overall task proficiency.…”
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The Evaluation of Efficacy of Calcitriol on Bone Mineral Density, Pain and Quality of Life in Postmenopausal Osteoporotic Patients With or Without Depression by Halil Koyuncu, İlknur Aktaş, Ahmet Dinç, İmdat Özkul, Teoman Aydın, Erdal Yücel, Ömer Kocaman, Halime Toros

“…Negative correlations between Hamilton score and L1-L4 z-score (R=-0.432, p=0.024), femur neck t-score (R=-0.528, p=0.005) were found before treatment. Improvement of pain in both groups were similar. …”
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1-year results of lumbar spinal stenosis surgery in Finland: a national FinSpine register study by Juho Hatakka, Inari Laaksonen, Joel Kostensalo, Keijo T Mäkelä, Henri Salo, Katri Pernaa

“…Conclusion: Most of the LSS patients experienced significant improvement after LSS surgery. We found no clinical differences between decompression surgery with and without fusion. …”
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Color Doppler imaging features in patients presenting central retinal artery occlusion with and without giant cell arteritis by Catalin Jianu Dragos, Jianu Silviana Nina, Munteanu Mihnea, Vlad Daliborca, Rosca Cosmin, Petrica Ligia

“…The B-scan ultrasound evaluation of the first patient found a small round, moderately reflective echo within the right optic nerve, 1.5 mm behind the optic disc (emboli of cholesterol). …”
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Improving the efficiency of bladder cancer diagnostic cystoscopy with 5-ALA hexyl ester by A. D. Kaprin, A. A. Trushin, M. P. Golovachenko, V. I. Ivanova-Radkevich, V. I. Chissov, E. V. Filonenko

“…Additionally, a total of 37 (33.6%) patients was found to have 63 foci of fluorescence with a diameter of 2.5 to 3.0 mm. 59 of these were morphologically confirmed to contain cancer cells.…”
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Assessment of the impact of training tools on healthcare workers for PCV introduction in Maharashtra, India during the COVID-19 pandemic by Syed Quadri, Pravin Vedpathak, Puskarr Deshmukkh, Arup Deb Roy, Abida Sultana, Amanjot Kaur, Rashmi Mehra, Rhythm Hora, Shyam Kumar Singh, Seema Singh Koshal

“…Healthcare workers appreciated the clear content, visual appeal, and practical application of the training materials. …”
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Optimizing Tenebrio molitor powder as ingredient in breadmaking: Impact of enzymatic hydrolysis on dough techno-functional properties and bread quality by Michela Verni, Giacomo Squeo, Giuseppe Perri, Chiara Demarinis, Carlo Giuseppe Rizzello, Francesco Caponio, Luigi Faino, Erica Pontonio

“…The fortification also impacted bread visual-textural features (hardness, color) in a more pronounced manner as the inclusion rate increased.…”
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Clinical efficacy and safety study of vNOTES for benign ovarian tumors in obese patients by Fei Wang, Yuqin Liu, Yue Xing, Dongdong Wang, Xue Bai, Linlin Li, Chunhua Ma, Yongjuan Sun, Yufang Bai, Liehong Wang

“…Key parameters such as operative time, intraoperative blood loss, intraoperative and postoperative complications, hospitalization duration, postoperative anal exhaust time, postoperative visual analog scale (VAS) score, and SF-36 score were analyzed. …”
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Functionalisation of AgInS2/ZnS TQDs with 4-aminophenyl boronic acid for the development of a spectrofluorometric method for digoxin determination in pharmaceutical samples by Jose A. Rodriguez, Alfredo Guevara-Lara, Carlos Ángel-Jijón, Raybel Muñoz

“…Spectrofluorometric methodology was applied for the determination of digoxin of 3 pharmaceutical formulations and concentrations found in the samples were in the range of 242.98–250.63 μg per tablet exhibiting an adequate performance for pharmaceutical matrices. …”
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The reversible impairment of behavioral variant frontotemporal brain sagging syndrome: Challenges and opportunities by Wouter I. Schievink, Marcel Maya, Zachary Barnard, Rachelle B. Taché, Ravi S. Prasad, Vikram S. Wadhwa, Franklin G. Moser, Miriam Nuño

“…Results Nine patients (42.8%) were found to have a CSF‐venous fistula, a recently discovered type of CSF leak that cannot be detected on conventional spinal imaging. …”
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