SSL-MBC: Self-Supervised Learning With Multibranch Consistency for Few-Shot PolSAR Image Classification by Wenmei Li, Hao Xia, Bin Xi, Yu Wang, Jing Lu, Yuhong He

“…It is observed that the different modal representations of the same instance exhibit similarity in the encoding space, with the hidden features of more modals being more prominent. Therefore, a multibranch contrastive SSL framework, without negative samples, is employed to efficiently achieve representation learning. …”
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COMPARISON OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF AROMATHERAPY OF PAPPERMINT with HAND MASSAGE ON THE PAIN OF PATIENTS AFTER CHOLELITHIASIS SURGERY : A CASE STUDY by Maya Syarivatul Azizah, Sidik Awaludin, Sidik Awaludin, Sidik Awaludin

“…Behavior modification in individuals is considered less successful, more aggressive actions (surgery) are needed. However, the majority of patients complain of pain after surgery. …”
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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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Molecular Mechanism of the Effect of Huanglian Jiedu Decoction on Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Based on Network Pharmacology and Molecular Docking by Bei Yin, Yi-Ming Bi, Guan-Jie Fan, Ya-Qing Xia

“…Differentially expressed analysis showed that AKT1, IL-6, and FOS were upregulated in T2DM samples and a significant between sample differential expression. …”
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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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MALVADA: A framework for generating datasets of malware execution traces by Razvan Raducu, Alain Villagrasa-Labrador, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Pedro Álvarez

“…Malware attacks have been growing steadily in recent years, making more sophisticated detection methods necessary. These approaches typically rely on analyzing the behavior of malicious applications, for example by examining execution traces that capture their runtime behavior. …”
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Evaluation of clinical, laboratory, radiographical and histopathological characteristics in patients with spinal tuberculosis in the context of HIV infection: An analysis of 52 pat... by J Scherer, M Locketz, S Castelein, R Dunn, M Held, F Thienemann

“…In our cohort, HIV-infected patients with STB were more likely to present with vertebral collapse, and more vertebrae on average were diseased compared with HIV-uninfected patients with STB. …”
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MicroRNA expression profile in isolated circulating tumor cells in colorectal cancer by O. I. Kit, I. A. Novikova, N. N. Timoshkina, D. Yu. Gvaldin, A. A. Pushkin, O. Yu. Kaimakchi, A. A. Maslov, A. V. Shaposhnikov

“…To investigate characteristics of microRNA expression in circulating tumor cells (CTC) of patients with colorectal cancer. Materials and methods. The study included blood samples from 299 patients with colon cancer, stages II (T3–4N0M0), III (T1–4N1–2M0) and IV (T1–4N0–2M1). …”
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Sex differences in the impact of social determinants of health on substance use disorder treatment outcomes by C. Leonardo Jimenez Chavez, MacKenzie R. Peltier, Sherry A. McKee

“…Highlights We examined social determinants of health (SDOH), and substance use disorder (SUD) severity-related predictors of substance use and treatment completion in a national sample of approximately 7 million adults. Women demonstrated more consistent vulnerability across predictors, including unemployment, co-occurring psychiatric disorders, and polysubstance use. …”
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Associations of device-measured physical activity across adolescence with metabolic traits: Prospective cohort study. by Joshua A Bell, Mark Hamer, Rebecca C Richmond, Nicholas J Timpson, David Carslake, George Davey Smith

“…In mutually adjusted models, higher MVPA and sedentary time were oppositely associated with cholesterol and triglycerides in VLDL and HDL particles (MVPA more strongly with glycoprotein acetyls and sedentary time more strongly with amino acids). …”
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The Consequence of External Part of Transparency for Performance and Disclosure of Social Responsibility by Asil Majeed Abdulnabi, Gholamreza Mansourfar, Hamzeh Didar

“…Market expectations and oversight compel firms to present information more clearly (Leuz, 2000). Such monitoring pressures encourage firms to make more informed CSR decisions and better assess risks (Bushman et al., 2004). …”
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Pan masala habits and risk of oral precancer: A cross-sectional survey in 0.45 million people of North India by Divya Mehrotra, Sumit Kumar, Shambhavi Mishra, Sandeep Kumar, Prashant Mathur, C.M. Pandey, Arvind Pandey, Kishore Chaudhry

“…A two page survey tool was used to collect the data. A three times more matched sample of non users was randomly obtained from this data to analyze and compare the final results. …”
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