Natural durability of five amazonian species in two different decay environments by Júlio Henrique Germano de Souza, Rafael Quirino dos Santos, Patrícia Aparecida Rigatto Castelo, Janaína De Nadai Corassa

“…After exposure, the health and resistance to compression parallel to the fibers were evaluated. Parkia pendula (0.56 ± 0.02 g/cm³) and Rauvolfia paraensis (0.70 ± 0.05 g/cm³) had the lowest densities, while Aspidosperma populifolium (0.72 ± 0.02 g/cm³), Goupia glabra (0.79 ± 0.03 g/cm³) and Mezilaurus itauba (0.80 ± 0.06 g/cm³) had the highest. …”
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COOLFACADE by Alejandro Prieto Hoces

“…The third part of the dissertation consists of two chapters that incorporate previous outcomes for the evaluation of selected solar cooling technologies in terms of current possibilities and constraints for the development of integrated façades. …”
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ENHANCE-D: protocol for a pragmatic, 3-arm, randomised controlled trial comparing the impact of enhanced smoking cessation interventions to very brief advice for adult smokers in d... by Richard Holliday, Nina Wilson, Vicky Ryan, Chrissie Butcher, Tara Homer, Philippa Watts, Dorcas Kareithi, Paul Blaylock, Laura Ternent, Roland Finch, Susan M. Bissett, Adam Todd, Helen Hancock, Fiona Ellwood, David I. Conway, Nicholas S. Jakubovics, Ralf Kist, Richard D. Holmes, Linda Bauld, Philip M. Preshaw, Elaine McColl

“…An economic evaluation will include a cost-effectiveness analysis and a cost–benefit analysis. …”
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Private Affairs, Public Office: Reading the Body of Virgília in The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by David Jackson, Apsara Iyer

“… As Machado de Assis’s The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (1881) reflects on the life of a single man, two dominant forces emerge within the narrative: Brás Cubas’s desire for a family and his quest for political office.  These parallel efforts coincide in the form of the political wife, the woman who enables both domestic and public glory. …”
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The global leadership initiative on malnutrition criteria for the diagnosis of malnutrition in patients with chronic liver diseases: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Zhiming Wang, Yuping Cao, Yumei He, Menghao Hao, Shiyan Wu, Lu Li, Qiong Wang, Xiaobin Sun, Xiaobin Sun, Liping Wu, Liping Wu

“…Furthermore, certain validation studies that are parallel and predictive may have methodological limitations. …”
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The Acute VertEbRal AugmentaTion (AVERT) study: protocol for a randomised controlled, feasibility trial of spinal medial branch nerve block in hospitalised older patients with vert... by Avril Drummond, Opinder Sahota, Simon Bishop, Dritan Pasku, Apostolos Fakis, Anastasios Bastounis, Chia Wei Tan, Maribel Cameron, Yuriy Arlachov, Michal Czernicki

“…Embedded within the trial will be a health economic evaluation to understand resource utilisation and implications of the intervention and a qualitative study of the experiences and insights of trial participants and clinicians. …”
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CT changes in a randomized trial comparing early therapies in an outpatient population at high risk of severe COVID19 disease by Ilaria Mastrorosa, Alessandro Cozzi-Lepri, Giulia Matusali, Francesca Colavita, Simone Lanini, Martina Rueca, Alessandra Oliva, Giulia Berno, Alessandra Vergori, Silvia Rosati, Jessica Paulicelli, Enrico Girardi, Emanuele Nicastri, Fabrizio Maggi, Andrea Antinori, Valentina Mazzotta, the MONET Clinical Trial Group

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A cluster randomized trial of a Multicomponent Clinical Care Pathway (MCCP) to improve MASLD diagnosis and management in primary care: study protocol by Kyler M. Godwin, Larissa Grigoryan, Aaron P. Thrift, Hao Duong, Fasiha Kanwal, Traber Giardina, Himabindu Kadiyala, Andrew Zimolzak, Kavish R. Patidar, Hashem B. El-Serag

“…Methods A two-arm, parallel, cluster-randomized trial will assess the effect of the MCCP intervention comprised of an e-trigger and structured provider education on screening, diagnosis, referral, and treatment for MASLD. …”
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Conditional diffusion-generated super-resolution for myocardial perfusion MRI by Changyu Sun, Changyu Sun, Neha Goyal, Yu Wang, Darla L. Tharp, Senthil Kumar, Talissa A. Altes

“…While techniques like parallel imaging and compressed sensing have significantly advanced perfusion imaging, they still suffer from noise amplification, residual artifacts, and potential temporal blurring due to the rapid transit of dynamic contrast vs. the temporal constraints of the reconstruction.MethodsThis study introduces a conditional diffusion-based generative model for myocardial perfusion MRI super resolution, addressing the trade-offs between spatiotemporal resolution and slice coverage. …”
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RESTORATION AND EXPANSION OF THE FUNCTIONAL POTENTIAL OF HUMAN BODY BY MEANS OF AEROCRYOTHERMAL TRAINING by S. N. LINCHENKO, A. O. IVANOV, V. A. STEPANOV, YU. E. BARACHEVSKIY, V. G. ABUSHKEVICH, S. E. BUGAYAN, N. V. KOCHUBEYNIK, S. M. GROSHILIN

“…The purpose of the study is testing and evaluation of aerocryothermal training for the restoration and expansion of the functional potential of human body. …”
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Implementation of the Cognitive Daisy (COG-D) for improving care planning and delivery for residents with dementia in care homes: results of a feasibility randomised controlled tri... by Petra M. J. Pollux, Claire Surr, Judith Cohen, Chao Huang, Emma Wolverson, Pauline Mountain, Rebecca Clarke, Emma Hawkesford-Webb, Bethany Winter, John M. Hudson

“…This study explored the feasibility of implementing the Cognitive Daisy (COG-D) intervention, which provide a visual summary in the shape of a 15-petal flower derived from the scores on a neuropsychological assessment battery, in care homes for older adults. Methods A parallel-group feasibility cluster randomised controlled trial (cRCT) was conducted over 24 months. …”
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Group education for adolescents with type 1 diabetes during transition from paediatric to adult care: study protocol for a multisite, randomised controlled, superiority trial (GET-... by Elham Rahme, Elise Mok, Melanie Henderson, Kaberi Dasgupta, Mohammad Hajizadeh, Lorraine Bell, Melinda Prevost, Jennifer Frei, Meranda Nakhla

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Spontaneous recanalization following subtotal proximal LAD occlusion: a case report by Pedro Pallangyo, Smita V. Bhalia, George Longopa, Happiness L. Kusima, Henry A. Mayala, Zabella S. Mkojera, Makrina Komba, Peter R. Kisenge

“…Cardiac markers were found to be elevated, while electrocardiographic and echocardiographic evaluation revealed features in keeping with anterior wall myocardial infarction. …”
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Learning models for predicting pavement friction based on non-contact texture measurements: Comparative assessment by Xiuquan Lin, You Zhan, Zilong Nie, Joshua Qiang Li, Xinyu Zhu, Allen A. Zhang

“…To assess the proposed methods, data from 45 pavement sites in Oklahoma, including 6 major preventive maintenance (PM) treatments and 7 typical types of aggregates, are collected. Parallel data acquisition is conducted at highway speeds using a grip tester and a high-speed texture profiler to measure pavement skid resistance and surface macro-texture, respectively. …”
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A new Simple Endoscopic Score for Ulcerative Colitis – the SES-UC by Viktoria Bergqvist, Viktoria Bergqvist, Peter Gedeon, Erik Hertervig, Erik Hertervig, Jan Marsal, Jan Marsal, Jan Marsal

“…Background & objectivesEndoscopy is the current gold standard for evaluation of disease activity in ulcerative colitis. …”
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Design and Development of a Novel Universal Gripper Having Rigid Mechanics With Self-Adaptable Fingers for Industrial Applications by Muhammad Usman Khalid, Michal Jilich, Mattia Frascio, Benoit Levesque, Alessandro Zanella, Matteo Zoppi

“…From this perspective, the design, kinematic analysis, and experimental evaluation of a novel three-finger universal gripper are presented in this paper. …”
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Treatment-specific interrupted time series analyses of judicial deference to health technology assessment in Brazil by Mathieu JP Poirier, Tina Nanyangwe-Moyo, Natalia Pires de Vasconcelos, Daniel Wang, Gigi O Lin, Ana Luiza Chieffi, Cauê Freitas Monaco, Zun Ge Mao, Steven J Hoffman

“…Abstract Background The use of health rights litigation as a parallel decision-making venue to bypass health technology assessments (HTA) has resulted in unintended inequitable impacts on Latin American health systems since the 1990s. …”
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THANTD: Triplet Hybrid Attention Network for Hyperspectral Target Detection by Ju Liu, Haoqian Wang, Xiangai Cheng, Zhongyang Xing, Zhongjie Xu

“…It features a backbone with three parallel, weight-sharing hybrid attention blocks that integrate the multihead self-attention mechanism and the channel attention module. …”
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Elevated urinary monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 levels in children with Henoch-Schonlein purpura nephritis by Jiapei Wang, Qianqian Ying, Shiling Zhong, Yuanling Chen, Yazhen Di, Xiahua Dai, Jika Zheng, Mengjiao Shen

“…The levels of urinary MCP-1 increased in parallel to the enhancement of total urine protein in 24 h in HSPN patients. …”
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Toward a Clinical Decision Support System for Monitoring Therapeutic Antituberculosis Medical Drugs in Tanzania (Project TuberXpert): Protocol for an Algorithm' Development and Imp... by Yann Thoma, Annie E Cathignol, Yuan J Pétermann, Margaretha L Sariko, Bibie Said, Chantal Csajka, Monia Guidi, Stellah G Mpagama

“…A cross-sectional study will be conducted to define the best way to display information to clinicians. In parallel, a rifampicin popPK model will be developed taking advantage of the published literature, complemented with data provided by existing literature data from the Pan-African Consortium for the Evaluation of Antituberculosis Antibiotics (panACEA), and samples collected within this project. …”
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