The association between waist-to-height index and prostate cancer risk: evidence from the NHANES study by Qinghe Gao, Zongqi Lin, Yihua Zhang, Jiantong Cai, Shaopeng Li

“…WWI may reflect the distribution of body fat more accurately. However, it is unclear whether WWI is associated with the risk of developing PCa.MethodsSeventy thousand one hundred and ninety participants took part in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). …”
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Epidemiology of Antibiotic Resistance in Culture-positive Hospitalized Patients in Selected Hospitals in Khartoum, Sudan by Nagwa M. El Amin, Einas A. Osman, Leena Al-Hassan, Ihab B Abdalrahman

“…Cultures in our study were mainly from urine (36.7%), blood samples (37.2%), and wound cultures (19%). More than 90% of the tested isolates were resistant to cefuroxime; 54% and 73.8% of Gram-positive and Gram-negative isolates, respectively, were resistant to ceftazidime. …”
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Active nudging towards digital well-being: reducing excessive screen time on mobile phones and potential improvement for sleep quality by Thao Hanh Vu, Marco Tagliabue

“…Increasingly, digital users are becoming more aware of how smartphone use impacts their productivity and well-being. …”
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Furosemide’s Preventative Role in Contrast-Induced Nephropathy among ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Patients undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention by Mostafa Ariafar, Parvin Ghorbani, Seyed Masoud Seyedian, Farzaneh Ahamdi, Leila Sabetnia, Elham Farhadi

“…Further studies with a larger sample size in the future are needed to better understand the effects of this combination.…”
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Utilizing transformative learning theory to enhance professional identity formation by Christine Pan, Jennie B. Jarrett, Kathryn Sawyer

“…Three PSIQ-9 questions, communication, using patient records, and teaching others, were significant at baseline and midpoint.ConclusionThe TLT-based toolkit had a minimal impact on students’ self-evaluation of PIF based on the PSIQ-9 and MCPIS-9 questionnaires over a 15-week course. Studies with larger sample sizes and longer durations are needed to provide more conclusive results.…”
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Flexibility in Pragmatic Nuance: The Cognitive Edge of Bilingualism in Language Comprehension and Production by Nurasia Natsir, Nuraziza Aliah

“…Thematic analysis highlighted their higher metalinguistic awareness and cognitive flexibility, enabling them to navigate complex pragmatic contexts more effectively. Factors such as language exposure, age of acquisition, socioeconomic status, motivation, and language complexity were identified as influential in these outcomes. …”
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Examining the Causes of Poor Performance in Primary Schools in Rubanda District by Arineitwe, Obadia.

“…The objectives were to assess current academic performance trends, explore methods for controlling poor performance, and propose recommendations to enhance educational outcomes. …”
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The Impact of the “Green Transition” in the Field of Food Packaging on the Behavior of Romanian Consumers by Alexandru Jurconi, Ioana Maria Popescu (Iacobescu), Daniela-Ioana Manea, Mihaela Mihai, Rodica Pamfilie

“…The validation of the research hypotheses was done with methods of non-parametric analysis of the interdependencies between the identified variables, the results obtained highlighting the need to study this issue on a representative sample, using a more complex questionnaire. 81% of the study respondents identified as the main benefit for the use of sustainable packaging the possibility of living in a less polluted environment, an essential component of the development of ecological and sustainable food systems, being identified in the ability of producers and traders to communicate the placement on the market of sustainable packaging for marketed products…”
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Realistic in silico generation and augmentation of single-cell RNA-seq data using generative adversarial networks by Matteo Marouf, Pierre Machart, Vikas Bansal, Christoph Kilian, Daniel S. Magruder, Christian F. Krebs, Stefan Bonn

“…Augmenting few real observations with generated in silico samples could lead to more robust analysis results and a higher reproducibility rate. …”
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In silico discovering relationship between bacteriophages and antimicrobial resistance by Maya Zhelyazkova, Roumyana Yordanova, Iliyan Mihaylov, Stefan Tsonev, Dimitar Vassilev

“…The approach used in our analyses consists of several different methods which assess the differential abundance of phages, their diversity across samples, the impact on AMR categories and associations with AMR genes. …”
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In Vitro Analysis of the Accuracy of Intraoral Scanning in Children by Eloá Cristina Passucci Ambrosio, Aliny Bisaia, Thiago Cruvinel, Natalino Lourenço Neto, Thais Marchini Oliveira, Maria Aparecida Andrade Moreira Machado

“…Objective: To evaluate the accuracy of intraoral scanning in maxillary dental arches of children. Material and Methods: Twenty-five edentulous dental models (Group 1) and 25 dental models with complete deciduous dentition (Group 2) comprised the sample sets. …”
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An outbreak of Clostridium perfringens infection on a training ship anchored in Busan, Korea by Seonmi Kim, Hyunjin Son

“…This was an epidemiological investigation with the aim of improving infection prevention activities and group meal service practices on board ships. METHODS In this study, a case was defined as an individual who experienced diarrhea more than twice a day during their training period aboard the training ship. …”
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The community of marine alveolate parasites in the Atlantic inflow to the Arctic Ocean is structured by season, depth, and water mass by Elianne Egge, Daniel Vaulot, Aud Larsen, Bente Edvardsen

“…Mesopelagic samples were more similar across months, and may harbor parasites of deep-dwelling organisms, little affected by season.…”
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Hirschsprung’s Disease Diagnosis: A Comparison of Calretinin and CD56 Immunohistochemistry by Dalya Sabah Najm Aldeen, Rafal Abdulrazaq Al-rawi, Kalthuma Salih Hamad Amen

“…This study aims to evaluate the testing role of calretinin and CD56 immunohistochemistry and correlate the results to routine hematoxylin & eosin stained samples. Methods: This retrospective study was conducted in Rizgary Teaching Hospital, Erbil, Kurdistan region, Iraq. …”
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The Relationship between Lean Practices and Organizational Performance: An Analysis of Operations Management in a Public Institution by Patricia Inês Schwantz, Leander Luiz Klein, Eugênio de Oliveira Simonetto

“…<i>Background</i>: This study aims to analyze the relationship between lean practices and organizational performance in a public institution, specifically, a military organization. <i>Methods</i>: The research has a quantitative approach with a descriptive character, having as a sample the members of a military unit located in Rio Grande do Sul. …”
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Dissemination of helminth eggs in the environmental objects (soil and water) in the territory of the Siversky Donets terraces by N. O. Sierykh, S. S. Boieva, N. V. Strizhak, O. Yu. Taller, O. S. Sharshakova

“…The purpose of the work is to determine the species composition and distribution of helminth eggs in the environment of the Siversky Donets terraces territory. Materials and methods. The soil samples of the terraces (I – up to3 meters above the floodplain level, II – up to100 meters above the floodplain level, III –150 meters above the floodplain level) and the Siversky Donets floodplains, farmlands and children's playgrounds were examined. …”
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Psychological symptoms and quality of life in a population living in the "New Towns" of L'Aquila after he 2009 earthquake by Iolanda Grappasonni, Fabio Petrelli, Enea Traini, Giuliana Grifantini, Massimo Mari, Carlo Signorelli

“…Background: Following the earthquake in L'Aquila of 04.06.2009 more than 65,000 people lost their homes. In order to provide rapid accommodation to those people, the Italian Government implemented the CASE project (Complex Anti-seismic Sustainable Environment-friendly), with the construction of 19 "New town" in the surrounding areas of the city. …”
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Gender differences in functional somatic disorders of indigenous adolescents in Khakassia by Natalya Yu. Grishkevich, Lidia S. Evert, Svetlana A. Bakhshieva, Yuliya R. Kostyuchenko

“…Asthenic syndrome was more common among girls – 42 (17.2%) vs. 14 (6.5%) in boys. …”
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Effect of progesterone on preventing preterm birth and adverse perinatal outcomes in women in the risk group: A prospective clinical trial by Pareshan Faris Asaad, Ariana Khalis Jawad

“…The study sample was 200 pregnant women with a short cervix and a risk of preterm birth; the sample was divided into two groups. …”
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Genetic resources as initial material for developing new soft winter wheat varieties by В. М. Кір’ян, М. В. Кір’ян, Р. С. Вискуб

“…Yuriev, NAAS of Ukraine for a complex of economic traits. More than 400 new sources with high adaptive properties were selected that combine traits of high productivity and high quality of grain, early ripening, resistance to biotic and abiotic fac- tors (the assessment of samples for 16 valuable traits is given). …”
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