Impact of brain damage on moral judgment by Miho Suganami, Keisuke Takahata, Yu Mimura, Masahiro Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Uchida, Taro Muramatsu, Masaru Mimura

“…Results Compared to HCs, individuals with brain damage judged protagonists to be more blameworthy than did HCs in vignettes where harmful intentions were absent (No Negligence, p = 0.02; No Harm, p = 0.02). …”
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Effect of a Plant-Based Nootropic Supplement on Perceptual Decision-Making and Brain Network Interdependencies: A Randomised, Double-Blinded, and Placebo-Controlled Study by David O’Reilly, Joshua Bolam, Ioannis Delis, Andrea Utley

“…These changes not only resulted in localised increases in the redundancy among brain network interactions but also more significant and widespread increases in synergy, especially within the delta frequency band. …”
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Vaginal microbiome distinction in women with HPV+, cervical intraepithelial neoplasia, and cervical cancer, a retrospective study by Yuanyue Li, Yuanyue Li, Xiaomei Wu, Xiaomei Wu

“…This study aimed to investigate the correlation between the vaginal microbiota, HPV infection, cervical intraepithelial neoplasias (CINs), and cervical cancers in 69 women.MethodsDNA was extracted from vaginal samples, followed by HPV genotyping through PCR and sequenced of the16S rRNA gene.ResultsOur results revealed that Lactobacillus was the predominant bacterium across all groups, with prevalence rates of 60.2% in women with HPV+, 63.9% in CINI, 97.7% in CINII, 52.0% in CINIII, 36.9% in cervical cancer, and 70.9% in NILM (normal cytology). …”
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Two-Stream Proximity Graph Transformer for Skeletal Person-Person Interaction Recognition With Statistical Information by Meng Li, Yaqi Wu, Qiumei Sun, Weifeng Yang

“…Compared with RGB data, skeletal data can more accurately depict articulated human movements due to its detailed recording of joint locations. …”
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Panic disorder: Epidemiology, disability, and treatment gap from nationally representative general population of India by Pavithra Jayasankar, Suhas Satish, Hari Hara Suchandra, Narayana Manjunatha, Girish N. Rao, Gopalkrishna Gururaj, Mathew Varghese, Vivek Benegal, NMHS National Collaborators Group

“…These findings are paramount to the development of more inclusive and effective mental health policies and interventions to tackle the current burden due to PD.…”
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Meta-analysis of the efficacy of camel milk consumption for improving autism symptoms in children in randomized clinical trials by Mahmoud Kandeel, Mohamed A. Morsy, Khalid M. Al Khodair, Sameer Alhojaily

“…Aim: This study aimed to gather evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on the effectiveness of camel milk consumption in improving symptoms and associated measures in children with ASD. Methods: Comprehensive searches of multiple databases were conducted up to March 14, 2024, for RCTs that had evaluated whether camel milk consumption by children with ASD was more beneficial than the consumption of a control substance. …”
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Improving patient clustering by incorporating structured variable label relationships in similarity measures by Judith Lambert, Anne-Louise Leutenegger, Anaïs Baudot, Anne-Sophie Jannot

“…Objective We adapt and evaluate several weighted versions of the Cosine similarity in order to consider structured label relationships to compute patient similarities from a medico-administrative database. Materials and methods As a use case, we clustered patients aged 60 years from their annual medicine reimbursements contained in the Échantillon Généraliste des Bénéficiaires, a random sample of a French medico-administrative database. …”
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Enhancing wound healing with synthetic hyaluronic acid injection in sutured incisions on BALB/c mice by Elham Aryanfar, Mahdi Ghoncheh, Mohammad Afshar, Mahboobe Chahkandi, Elahe Allahyari, Mehri Shadi

“…Results: The experimental group demonstrated an increased number of fibroblasts, higher collagen density, and a more organized arrangement of collagen fibers when compared to the control group. …”
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Analysis of qRT-PCR Data to Identify the Most Stable Reference Gene Using gQuant by Abhay Pathak, Sukhad Kural, Shweta Singh, Lalit Kumar, Manjari Gupta, Garima Jain

“…Comparative analysis against existing tools demonstrated that gQuant delivers more stable and consistent rankings of normalizer genes. …”
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Executive function and brain development in adolescents with severe congenital heart disease (Teen Heart Study): protocol of a prospective cohort study by Beatrice Latal, Melanie Ehrler, Nadja Naef, Ruth O'Gorman Tuura

“…Therefore, the current study will examine all domains of executive function and brain development in detail in a large sample of children and adolescents with CHD and healthy control children.Methods and analysis A total of 192 children and adolescents with CHD aged 10–15 years, who participated in prospective cohort studies at the University Children’s Hospital Zurich, will be eligible for this study. …”
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Phenotypes of early and favorable vascular aging in young people depending on the risk factors and presence of connective tissue dysplasia by M. E. Evseveva, M. V. Eremin, M. V. Rostovtseva, O. V. Sergeeva, E. N. Fursova, V. A. Rusidi, I. Yu. Galkova, V. D. Kudryavtseva

“…To study the main risk factors and signs of connective tissue dysplasia (CTD) in young people according  to quartile analysis of cardioankle vascular index (CAVI).Material and methods. The study involved 243 young people (men, 81; women, 162) aged 18-25 years. …”
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Variability of three‐dimensional knee morphology cannot be effectively assessed using a coronal plane knee alignment classification in total knee arthroplasty patients by Ishaan Jagota, Joshua Twiggs, Brad Miles, Jonathan V. Baré

“…These 3D anatomical measurements are also evaluated across CPAK groups. Methods A retrospective analysis of the 360 Med Care computed tomography (CT) database was performed. …”
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Human intestinal helminths among HIV sero-positive and sero-negative adults in rural settings in Plateau state, Nigeria by Mark Gyang, Suleiman E Mshelia, Daniel Meshak, Danjuma Salihu, Hadiza Agbo, Halima Sule, Jonathan Daboer, Gideon Amuga, Musa Dankyau, Aboi Madaki

“…Data were collected using a structured interviewer-administered questionnaire and stool samples were screened for intestinal helminths using the Kato-Katz method…”
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Laparoscopic versus open radical cystectomy in bladder cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of comparative studies. by Kun Tang, Heng Li, Ding Xia, Zhiquan Hu, Qianyuan Zhuang, Jihong Liu, Hua Xu, Zhangqun Ye

“…<h4>Background and objective</h4>More recently laparoscopic radical cystectomy (LRC) has increasingly been an attractive alternative to open radical cystectomy (ORC) and many centers have reported their early experiences in the treatment of bladder cancer. …”
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Lipid profile in menopausal women of two ethnic groups by N. V. Semenova, I. M. Madaeva, M. A. Darenskaya, O. A. Gavrilova, R. M. Zhambalova, L. I. Kolesnikova

“…The lipid metabolism parameters were determined by the enzymatic method on a biochemical analyzer BTS-330. When analyzing the intergroup differences for independent samples, nonparametric criteria were used. …”
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Outcomes of spinal bracing and its associated factors among adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis in Sri Lanka- A lower middle-income country by Samitha Samanmalee Gowinnage, Dilani Vithanage, Duminda Munidasa, Pasyodun Koralage Buddhika Mahesh

“…Data were collected through review of retrospective medical records and with prospective follow-up phone calls. Results: The sample consisted mostly of females (n = 23, 65.7 %) who were post-menarche, with a mean Risser stage of 2.63 (SD = 1.37). …”
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Histopathological findings on endometrial biopsy in a tertiary care center of Nepal: a retrospective cross-sectional study by Amar Narayan Shrestha, Barun Babu Aryal, Anurag Adhikari, Ayusha Poudel, Ramhari Rouniyar, Bidur Khatiwada

“…Endometrial hyperplasia and malignancy are less common, and usually found in women more than 40 years in age.…”
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The role of plasma volume and fluid overload in the tolerance to ultrafiltration and hypotension in hemodialysis patients by Jesús Manolo Ramos-Gordillo, Carlos Pérez-Campuzano, Elizabeth Relles-Andrade, José Carlos Peña-Rodríguez

“…Introduction Ultrafiltration (UF) in hemodialysis (HD) patients is accompanied by irregular falls in plasma volume (PV) and blood pressure (BP).Methods We obtained in 321 patients (large cohort), body weight (BW), BP, samples of blood to determine hemoglobin (Hb) and hematocrit (Ht), Pre and Post HD. …”
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Endoscopic approach to recurrent inguinal hernia after previous open surgery by Doru Moga, Dragos Serban, Bogdan Geavlete, Crenguta Serboiu, Bogdan Serban, Ana Maria Dascalu, Valentin Oprea

“…Surgery for inguinal hernia recurrence, is often more complex and time-consuming than for a primary hernia. …”
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End-stage kidney diseases in areas of conflict: patients’ perspective and patient access to hemodialysis services in Northwest Syria by Ismail Alkhatib, Sami Alasfar, Gilbert Burnham, Nimetcan Mehmet Orhun

“…A quarter (28.7%) of patients reported being unable to access one or more hemodialysis sessions in the previous year. …”
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