Change and Stability in Sibling Resemblance in Obesity Markers: The Portuguese Sibling Study on Growth, Fitness, Lifestyle, and Health by Sara Pereira, Peter T. Katzmarzyk, Donald Hedeker, José Maia

“…Hence, this study aims to (1) describe mean changes in obesity markers (body fat (%BF), body mass index (BMI), and waist circumference (WC)) across sib-ships; (2) analyze tracking of individuals within their sib-ship in these markers during 2 years of follow-up; (3) probe consistency in sibling resemblance in these markers; and (4) analyze the joint influence of individual and familial characteristics in these markers. Subjects/Methods. The sample comprises 168 biological Portuguese siblings (brother-brother (BB), sister-sister (SS), and brother-sister (BS)) aged 9–17 years. …”
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Aspects of patient rights in a developing country: a qualitative study by Deedat Safeer, Sanduni Wijerathne, Pumudu Weerasekara, Udari Wickramasinghe, Sanidi Edirisinghe, Anuki Hewavithana, Nadeeka Chandraratne, Saroj Jayasinghe

“…Future studies should include larger, multi-center samples, to gain a more comprehensive understanding of patient rights in Sri Lanka. …”
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New Species of Herbal Medicines in the Russian Pharmacopoeia: Nomenclature and Quality Requirements (Review) by O. V. Evdokimova, A. S. Alekseeva

“…The requirements for the quality of herbal drugs have undergone changes: in qualitative and in quantitative determination, analysis of substances with therapeutic activity is more and more often used; qualitative reactions have been mainly replaced by chromatographic methods of analysis using standard samples of active substances or markers (active or analytical). …”
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Call for Decision Support for Electrocardiographic Alarm Administration Among Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Staff: Multicenter, Cross-Sectional Survey by Xiaoli Tang, Xiaochen Yang, Jiajun Yuan, Jie Yang, Qian Jin, Hanting Zhang, Liebin Zhao, Weiwei Guo

“…Compared to nurses, physicians had more negative perceptions. Individuals with higher education levels and job titles had more negative perceptions of alarm systems than those with lower education levels and job titles. …”
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Thyroid nodule segmentation in ultrasound images using transformer models with masked autoencoder pre-training by Yi Xiang, Rajendra Acharya, Quan Le, Jen Hong Tan, Chiaw-Ling Chng

“…However, overall improvements are modest: the model achieves Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC) scores of 0.63, 0.64, and 0.65 on AIMI, TN3K, and DDTI, respectively, highlighting limitations under small-sample conditions. Furthermore, adding cross-attention did not yield consistent gains, suggesting that data volume and diversity may be more critical than additional architectural complexity.DiscussionMAE pre-training notably reduces training time and helps themodel learn transferable features, yet overall accuracy remains constrained by limited data and nodule variability. …”
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Socioeconomic factors and feeding in the first two years of life associated with molar incisor hypomineralisation by Sara Ortega-Luengo, María Nieves Ábalos-Sanfrutos, María Isabel Calama-Fraile, Verónica Carballo-Tejeda, María Trinidad García-Vázquez, Antonia M. Caleya-Zambrano, Antonia M. Caleya-Zambrano

“…PurposeThe main objective of this study was to evaluate the relationship between Molar Incisor Hypomineralisation (MIH) and socioeconomic factors in a sample of children in the Community of Madrid.MethodsAn observational, descriptive, cross-sectional, and multicentre study was designed. …”
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Evaluating refrigeration and antibiotic treatment for maintaining urine electrophysiology. by Rashedul Hoque, Fatima H Labeed, Srdjan Cirovic, Michael Pycraft Hughes

“…Treated samples took more than 48 hours to show changes in both chemical parameters. …”
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Adherence to Mediterranean Diet Pattern among Spanish Adults Attending a Medical Centre: Nondiabetic Subjects and Type 1 and 2 Diabetic Patients by Concepción Vidal-Peracho, José Miguel Tricás-Moreno, Ana Carmen Lucha-López, Maria Orosia Lucha-López, Ana Cristina Camuñas-Pescador, Alberto Caverni-Muñoz, Pablo Fanlo-Mazas

“…The youngest ate less olive oil (p=0.002) and more pastries (p=0.007). Conclusions. The sample presented moderate adherence to Mediterranean diet in all subgroups. …”
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The research contribution of the Schistosomiasis Collection at the Natural History Museum (SCAN): highlights, challenges and future directions by Aidan M. Emery, Muriel Rabone, Toby Landeryou, Fiona Allan, David Rollinson

“…Multiple author nationalities demonstrate the collaborative nature of research using the Collection, although more may need to be done in future, both to promote work led by developing countries and to ensure effective collaboration and sample sharing. …”
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Development of a m6A- and ferroptosis-related LncRNA signature for forecasting prognosis and treatment response in cervical cancer by Kaiting Wen, Lili Wang, Huancheng Su, Lijun Yu, Sanyuan Zhang, Meiyan Wei, Yaling Wang, Le Zhao, Yan Guo

“…Furthermore, patients in the low-risk group had a more active immunotherapy response and were more sensitive to chemotherapeutic drugs such as imatinib. …”
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Correction: Application of the comprehensive complication index and Clavien–Dindo complication classification in cardiac surgery: a retrospective study by Zhen-Rong Zhang, Yang-Zheng Li, Xiao-Qing Wu, Wen-Jun Chen, Jie-Yang Yuan, Min Yan

“…Patients who underwent more complex surgeries had higher CDCC grades and CCI scores. …”
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Effects of L-carnitine and pentoxifylline on long-term preservation of the human sperms: An experimental study by Elham Aliabadi, Zohre Nateghian, Mohammad Hossein Nasr-Esfahani, Marziyeh Tavalaee, Tahereh Talaei-Khozani

“…Objective: The present study aimed to prolong preserving of the human spermatozoa by adding pentoxifylline (PT) and L-carnitine (LC) without using high-cost freezing techniques. Materials and Methods: In this experimental study, semen samples of 26 normozoospermia men aged between 28–34 yr, were firstly prepared using the swim-up technique, and each sample was divided into the following 3 aliquots: untreated control group, the LC, and PT-treated groups. …”
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Application of the comprehensive complication index and Clavien–Dindo complication classification in cardiac surgery: a retrospective study by Zhen-Rong Zhang, Yang-Zheng Li, Xiao-Qing Wu, Wen-Jun Chen, Jie-Yang Yuan, Min Yan

“…Patients who underwent more complex surgeries had higher CDCC grades and CCI scores. …”
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Investigation of gut microbiota diversity according to infectious agent in pediatric infectious acute gastroenteritis in a Korean university hospital by You Ie Kim, Sang Yong Kim, Seungok Lee, Myungshin Kim, Woo Jin Kim

“…This study aimed to investigate the diversity of the gut microbiome in Korean children hospitalized for infectious AGE at a university hospital. Methods: A total of 23 stool samples from patients aged 5 months to 11 years with AGE were analyzed. …”
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Exploring the respiratory viral landscape beyond influenza and SARS-CoV-2: a 2020–2023 study in Fujian, China by Libin You, Zhengtao Zhang, Hongjin Li, Yuwei Weng

“…Quantification fluorescence polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) was used for detection.ResultsOne or more respiratory viruses were identified in 30.2% (n = 1,010/3,345) of the collected samples. …”
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Personality Traits and Burnout in Emergency Medicine Residents by Brendan Freeman, Lukasz Cygan, Laura Melville, Theodore Gaeta

“…There was a statistically significant negative correlation between conscientiousness and EE (n = 38; Pearson r = −0.40, P < 0.001) and a positive correlation between conscientiousness and PA (n = 38; Pearson r = 0.36, P = 0.03). Conclusion: In our sample, residents who were more conscientious reported experiencing lower levels of emotional exhaustion and a greater sense of personal accomplishment. …”
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5-Methylcytosine methylation predicts cervical cancer prognosis, shaping immune cell infiltration by Luyang Su, Ren Xu, Yanan Ren, Shixia Zhao, Liyun Song, Cuiqiao Meng, Weilan Liu, Xuan Zhou, Zeqing Du

“…This analysis further stratified the samples into three distinct genomic subtypes. Survival analyses indicated that patients belonging to gene cluster C exhibited more favorable survival outcomes than those belonging to gene clusters A and B. …”
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Long-read sequencing identifies copy-specific markers of SMN gene conversion in spinal muscular atrophy by M. M. Zwartkruis, M. G. Elferink, D. Gommers, I. Signoria, L. Blasco-Pérez, M. Costa-Roger, J. van der Sel, I. J. Renkens, J. W. Green, J. V. Kortooms, C. Vermeulen, R. Straver, H. W. M. van Deutekom, J. H. Veldink, F. Asselman, E. F. Tizzano, R. I. Wadman, W. L. van der Pol, G. W. van Haaften, E. J. N. Groen

“…Progress has thus far been limited by methodological constraints. Methods To address this, we developed HapSMA, a method to perform polyploid phasing of the SMN locus to enable copy-specific analysis of SMN and its surrounding genes. …”
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Convergent laser beam shapes: Unveiling the dynamics of Laser-induced elastic waves in composite materials by Alireza Zarei, Gang Li, Farhang Pourboghrat, Srikanth Pilla

“…Various laser beam profiles are then introduced to the thermoelastic equations and solved using the finite element method. The sample under investigation is a transversely isotropic unidirectional carbon fiber reinforced plastic, characterized by anisotropic thermal expansion coefficients and thermal conductivities. …”
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A dataset of voltage and current waveforms in an electric arc under low pressure for aircraft power systems by Santiago Bogarra, Manuel Moreno-Eguilaz, Juan Antonio Ortega-Redondo, Jordi-Roger Riba

“…This dataset has the potential to be used to develop arc fault detection and identification methods for more electric and all-electric aircraft and other electric vehicles.…”
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