Unlocking breast cancer in Brazilian public health system: Using tissue microarray for accurate immunohistochemical evaluation with limitations in subtyping by Rubia Denise Ruppenthal, Emily Ferreira Salles Pilar, Jordan Boeira dos Santos, Rafael Correa Coelho, Carina Machado Costamilan Henriques, Diego de Mendonça Uchôa, Marcia Silveira Graudenz

“…However, we do not recommend the use of TMA in the subtyping of BC, where analysis of the whole section remains necessary for more accurate results. We advocate more studies using the TMA approach in the Brazilian public health system to advance women’s health care.…”
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Increasing engagement of Hispanics/Latinos in clinical trials on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias by David X. Marquez, Adriana Perez, Julene K. Johnson, Michelle Jaldin, Juan Pinto, Sahru Keiser, Thi Tran, Paula Martinez, Javier Guerrero, Elena Portacolone

“…We leveraged in‐depth qualitative methods to elucidate barriers and facilitators to participating in ADRD clinical trials in a large and diverse sample of Latinos; and to provide timely and actionable strategies to accelerate representation of Latinos in clinical trials on ADRD. …”
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Is Toxoplasma Gondii Infection Related to Brain and Behavior Impairments in Humans? Evidence from a Population-Representative Birth Cohort. by Karen Sugden, Terrie E Moffitt, Lauriane Pinto, Richie Poulton, Benjamin S Williams, Avshalom Caspi

“…However, these studies are often conducted in clinical samples or convenience samples.<h4>Methods/results</h4>In a population-representative birth-cohort of individuals tested for presence of antibodies to T. gondii (N = 837) we investigated the association between infection and four facets of human behavior: neuropsychiatric disorder (schizophrenia and major depression), poor impulse control (suicidal behavior and criminality), personality, and neurocognitive performance. …”
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Association between human cytomegalovirus infection and incidence of severe orofacial clefts: a series of rare cases by Mohamed Abd-El-Ghafour

“…All the patients’ mothers were evaluated for the amount of HCMV IgG in blood samples. Results All the five mothers of the included infants had a positive HCMV IgG results in the collected blood samples with the value of 908.8 (± 400.6). …”
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Microarray Core Detection by Geometric Restoration by Jimmy C. Azar, Christer Busch, Ingrid B. Carlbom

“…Furthermore, the algorithm is more efficient than existing methods based on the Hough transform for circle detection. …”
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An acoustic microscope for microflaw inspection and subsurface imaging by J. Litniewski

“…., a single line of time behaviour, is widely applied in ultrasonic flaw inspection. Much more information on the material can be gained by creating an image in the B representation mode from a large number of A-scan lines. …”
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Trustworthy Inverse Molecular Design via Alignment with Molecular Dynamics by Kevin Tirta Wijaya, Navid Ansari, Hans‐Peter Seidel, Vahid Babaei

“…TrustMol first constructs a latent space with a novel variational autoencoder (VAE) and trains an ensemble of property predictors to learn the mapping from the latent space to the property space. The training samples for the ensemble are obtained from a new reacquisition method to ensure that the samples are representative of the latent space. …”
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Portuguese Teachers’ Perceptions of Girl-Friendly Strategies in Physics Education: What Are the Challenges? by Ana Maia Fernandes, José Luís Araújo, Fátima Simões, Sandra Guimarães

“…Further research with a more diverse sample is needed to generalize these findings.…”
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Personality characteristics of security police male employees with «pre-disease» somatic health disorders by V. V. Bocharov, K. S. Denisova

“…Clinical psychology method and test psychodiagnostical methods were used in the research. …”
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Differentiating Individual Characteristics Associated with Suicidal Ideations, Plans, and Attempts among low-Income Veterans by Jack Tsai, Jie Liang, Vahed Maroufy

“…Background Low-income veterans are a group that are at high risk for suicidal behaviors and require clinical attention and research. Methods This brief report analyzed data from a nationally representative sample of 985 low-income veterans participating in the National Veteran Homeless and Other Poverty Experiences (NV-HOPE) study in 2021. …”
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The Employee Cybersecurity Awareness Framework by Laura M. Bishop, Phoebe M. Asquith, Phillip L. Morgan

“…With cyberattack methods becoming increasingly sophisticated and end-users of targeted technology continuing to be the weakest link, it is crucial to develop more optimal ways to measure and better understand human cybersecurity behaviour risk. …”
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A Clinicomycological Analysis of Fungi Involved in Otomycosis by Dianitta Devapriya Veronica

“…Study design: Observational study Materials and methods:               Samples were collected from 200 patients who were suspected clinically of otomycosis and were subjected to mycological analysis. …”
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Remediation of Crude Oil Polluted Soil Using Biochar and Nanocomposites Prepared From Bread Fruit Seed Husk by K. C. Ukeje, O. Achugasim, K. Okorosaye-Orubite

“…FeNPs and CuNPs were synthesized and characterized using standard methods, including SEM, UV-Vis, and FTIR. The study examined the degradation of TPH in three soil samples (A, B, C) treated with biochar, FeNPs, and CuNPs, both individually and in combination. …”
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Understanding patient pathways to Mother and Baby Units: a longitudinal retrospective service evaluation in the UK by Nikolina Jovanović, Žan Lep, Giles Berrisford, Aysegul Dirik, Julia Barber, Bukola Kelani, Olivia Protti

“…Patients of Asian ethnicity had more emergency admissions compared to those of Black and White ethnicities. …”
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Contribution of Other Respiratory Viruses During Influenza Epidemic Activity in Catalonia, Spain, 2008–2020 by Nuria Torner, N. Soldevila, L. Basile, M. M. Mosquera, P. de Molina, M. A. Marcos, A. Martínez, M. Jané, A. Domínguez, The Working Group for the Catalan Influenza and Acute Respiratory Infection Sentinel Surveillance Network (PIDIRAC)

“…Of these, 73.7% (4298) of samples were positive for at least one respiratory virus; 79.7% (3425 samples) were positive for the influenza virus (IV), with 3067 samples positive for one IV type, 8 samples showing coinfection with two types of IV, and 350 showing coinfection of IV with more than one virus. …”
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Transmissible Viral Proventriculitis in Broiler Chickens from Bosnia and Herzegovina by Jovana Dervović, Šejla Goletić, Alma Šeho-Alić, Senad Prašović, Teufik Goletić, Amer Alić

“…A representative number of proventriculi samples (<i>n</i> = 50) that exhibited histopathologic changes were processed for molecular detection of chicken proventricular necrosis virus (CPNV), girovirus (GyV3), chicken anemia virus (CAV), and infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) by PCR-based methods. …”
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Distribution and antibiotic susceptibility profiles of Aeromonas spp. from different aquatic environments in north Lebanon by Rayane Rafei, Imad Al Kassaa, Marwan Osman, Fouad Dabboussi, Monzer Hamze

“…This work aims to explore the presence of four clinically relevant species in Lebanese waters and to study their susceptibility to antibiotics. Methods: One hundred water samples are collected in northern Lebanon from different sources (river, springs, wells, ponds, sea, chlorinated water and sewage) and analyzed by culture methods. …”
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Dietary quality and adherence to dietary recommendations in Chinese patients with chronic kidney disease by Wenwei Ouyang, Wenwei Ouyang, Bingjie Xiao, Huifen Chen, Lizhe Fu, Fang Tang, Gaetano Marrone, Xusheng Liu, Yifan Wu, Yifan Wu, Juan Jesús Carrero

“…ObjectivesThere is a lack of data regarding the quality of the diet and the adherence to dietary guidelines of patients with non-dialysis-dependent CKD (NDD-CKD) in China.Design and methodsSingle-center cross-sectional study of 261 patients with CKD stages 3–5, who responded to 3-day dietary records and undertook 24-h urine samples along with clinical, laboratory, and anthropometric assessments. …”
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Clinical performance of the fully automated Lumipulse plasma p‐tau217 assay in mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia by Adam H. Dyer, Jean Dunne, Helena Dolphin, Laura Morrison, Antoinette O'Connor, Sarah Fullam, Tara Kenny, Aoife Fallon, Sean O'Dowd, Nollaig M. Bourke, Niall P. Conlon, Sean P. Kennelly, for the TIMC‐BRAiN Study Group

“…We assessed the performance of a fully automated plasma p‐tau217 immunoassay to detect Aβ pathology in mild cognitive impairment (MCI)/mild dementia. Methods Paired plasma and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples were obtained at time of diagnostic lumbar puncture (LP) in a specialist memory service. …”
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A scoping review of emotional contagion research with human subjects: identifying common trends of previous research and potential areas for future research by Barret Michalec, Chad E. Forbes, Kevin Pardon, Bella Ayala, Diego Guevara Beltran, Clarice Douille, Kaitlyn Felix, Samantha Gnall, Michael Hoenack, Brooke McKeever, Daniel Nguyen, Nicole Piemonte, Sarah Portle

“…Moreover, the EC research reviewed heavily relies on college-aged, predominantly white participants, indicating a need for more diverse samples.DiscussionFuture EC research should explore processes and nuances associated with EC among older adults, minoritized groups, and diverse contexts (e.g., healthcare, schools), using novel triggers and multiple measurement methods.…”
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