Exploring Bidirectional Causality between Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Chronic Kidney Disease via Mendelian Randomization by Liu X, Liu M, Zhong B, He X, Xu Y, Zhou Z, Qin P

“…Results were robust using other MR methods in sensitivity analyses.Conclusion: Through the two-sample MR analysis, we identified kidney function may have a causal relationship with OSA, but a causal relationship between OSA and CKD and kidney function remains uncertain. …”
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Inter-rater and intra-rater reliability of the Chinese version of the short orientation–memory–concentration test in people with stroke by Jiang-Li Zhao, Pei-Ming Chen, Tao Zhang, Hao Xie, Yu-Shu Zhang, Shamay S. M. Ng, Yu-Rong Mao, Yu-Rong Mao, Dong-Feng Huang, Dong-Feng Huang

“…PurposeThis study aimed to use three statistical methods to investigate the inter-rater and intra-rater reliability of the Chinese version of the Short Orientation-Memory-Concentration Test (C-SOMC) for people who have had a stroke.MethodsForty-four participants (31 men and 13 women) with a mean age of 59.05 ± 10.79 years who have had experienced a single episode of stroke were enrolled in this study. …”
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Supporting self-management with an internet intervention for low back pain in primary care: a RCT (SupportBack 2) by Adam W A Geraghty, Taeko Becque, Lisa C Roberts, Jonathan Hill, Nadine E Foster, Lucy Yardley, Beth Stuart, David A Turner, Gareth Griffiths, Frances Webley, Lorraine Durcan, Alannah Morgan, Stephanie Hughes, Sarah Bathers, Stephanie Butler-Walley, Simon Wathall, Gemma Mansell, Malcolm White, Firoza Davies, Paul Little

“…Methods The study design was a three parallel-arm, multicentre randomised controlled trial with a nested mixed-methods process evaluation. …”
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Thermal Conductivity Performance of Silica Aerogel after Exposition on Different Heating under Ambient Pressure by Israa F. Al-sharuee

“…The varied thermal conductivity (insulation) of silica aerogel with heating for different pH has been investigated, it has been depended on ambient pressure drying method in the preparing silica aerogel samples, also six different pH of samples (1, 2, 3, 7, 8 and 9) were treated under five degree of heating with (50,100,150,200 and 250) ᴼC. …”
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Open Soil Spectral Library (OSSL): Building reproducible soil calibration models through open development and community engagement. by José L Safanelli, Tomislav Hengl, Leandro L Parente, Robert Minarik, Dellena E Bloom, Katherine Todd-Brown, Asa Gholizadeh, Wanderson de Sousa Mendes, Jonathan Sanderman

“…Soil spectroscopy is a widely used method for estimating soil properties that are important to environmental and agricultural monitoring. …”
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Physically abused women's experiences and expectations of medical practitioners by M.S. Jansen van Rensburg, F.J. van Staden

“…Background: The purpose of this study was to investigate the frequency of physically abused women's medical consultations, the anatomical location of their injuries and the perceived support given by medical practitioners. Method: The sample consisted of 42 physically abused women who made use of the services of the People Opposing Women Abuse (POWA) Organisation. …”
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Nature of antimicrobial resistance of pathogens causing urinary tract infection in Bangladesh: age and gender profiles by Ferdous Jahan, Mohammed Anwer

“…Patients who were prescribed urine culture sensitivity tests as part of their treatment at a tertiary-level hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh, were included as a sample. Urine culture was done following the guidelines of CLSI, and a sensitivity test was done following the Kirby-Bauer sensitivity method. …”
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Using of brown algae Sargassum pallidum as raw materials for extraction of fucoxanthin by E. E. Fedotova, V. P. Korchagin, D. D. Vingorodova

“…The frozen preparations were stored under temperature of –18 оC no more than 30 days. For the dried preparations, fresh algae were dried in a dark room by air fan under temperature of +18–+20 оC and then crushed to powder and stored in dark place under the same temperature no more than 6 months. …”
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PERFORMANCE REFINEMENT OF CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURES FOR SOLVING BIG DATA PROBLEMS by Saud Aljaloud

“… The use of more examples than contrasted ones to compare neural network frameworks through using the MNIST database is considered a good research method. …”
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Nurses’ perception of the professional practice environment and its relation to organizational dehumanization and work passion by Shimaa Mohamed Salem, Huda Mohammed Bakeer, Hayam Ahmed El Shrief

“…Aim To assess nurses’ perceptions of the professional practice environment and its relation to organizational dehumanization and work passion. Method A descriptive correlational research design was used. …”
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Reimagining the Purpose of Vocational Education and Training: Perspectives of Bhutanese TVET practitioners on online teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic by Sangay Tshewang, Prakesh Sarki, Sonam Wangmo

“…The findings show that little more than 27% believed online teaching is effective. …”
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Changes and challenges in artisanal fishery: unpacking the impact of a mining waste disaster by Mayra Jankowsky, Jocemar Tomasino Mendonça, Rodrigo Randow de Freitas

“…From 2021 to 2022, 441 semi-structured interviews were conducted with fishers in Espírito Santo municipalities, using the snowball method to sample 20% of total fishers. The interviews focused on socioeconomic aspects and post-disaster changes. …”
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Evaluation of Knowledge Management Maturity Level in Iranian Audiovisual Archives Based on the APQC Model by Sepideh Ciruskabiri, Atefeh Sharif, Saeed Rezaei Sharifabadi, Mohammad Hassanzadeh

“…The implications of these limitations are twofold: academically, they highlight the need for broader studies with more diverse samples and the exploration of alternative theoretical frameworks; practically, they underscore the necessity of improving existing structures within archival organizations to fully exploit the potential of knowledge management.Practical Implications: The practical implications of this research are highly significant for both archive managers and policy makers. …”
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Dynamic monocyte changes as prognostic indicators in operable gastric cancer: a retrospective cohort analysis by Yiwei Jiang, Xianwei Sun, Chen Yang, Dandan Song, Chongjun Zhou, Xinxin Chen, Chongquan Huang, Zhonglin Wang, Jiante Li

“…The predictive utility of MMR was assessed via time-dependent ROC curves and decision-curve analysis.ResultsThe sample distributions in both cohorts were similar. …”
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Nanostructured carbon-doped α-Al2O3 microspheres: Scalable synthesis and luminescence properties by Pankaj Singh, Jitendra Bahadur, Shiv Govind Singh, Durgesh Singh Sisodiya, Ras Bihari Rakesh, Debasis Sen, Shashwati Sen

“…Preliminary studies are also reported on the thermoluminescence measurements which indicate that the synthesized α-Al2O3:C microspheres can be tailored for high-dose dosimetry applications, with the potential for more efficient, cost-effective, and scalable production compared to traditional synthesis methods.…”
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Enhanced immunotherapy response in lung adenocarcinoma patients with COPD: insights into tumor cells and immune microenvironment characteristics by Yuji Huang, Boxuan Liang, Xuewei Chen, Zhiming Li, Yanhong Deng, Jiaxin Du, Yizhou Zhong, Xi Lin, Junjun Fu, Jieyu Xie, Xin Zhang, Zhenlie Huang

“…The immune microenvironment in these tumors was more active, with increased infiltration of NK cells, effector CD4+ T cells, and effector CD8+ T cells. …”
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Combined TNF-α and OX40L targeting as a new treatment option for hidradenitis suppurativa by Thomas Leeuw, PhD, Deimantė Šimaitė, PhD, Karen Heyninck, PhD, Clement Levin, PhD, Sigrid Cornelis, PhD, Youssef Hijazi, PhD, Heidi Rommelaere, PhD, Thomas Kreutzberg, PhD, Peter Florian, DVM, Markus Kohlmann, PhD, Theresa-Charlotte Brembach, PhD, Frank Nestle, MD, FmedSci, Kerstin Wolk, PhD, Robert Sabat, MD, PhD, Matthias Herrmann, PhD

“…Objective: We sought to compare individual versus simultaneous blockade of TNF-α and OX40L in controlling inflammation. Methods: Analysis was conducted of the murine xenograft graft-versus-host disease model, a novel cynomolgus monkey model of simultaneous T cell–dependent antibody response (TDAR) and delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) skin reaction, and samples of patients with hidradenitis suppurativa (HS). …”
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Territorial and social inequalities in mental distress and self-perceived health among schooled adolescents: a cross-sectional study in central Catalonia and Barcelona by Helena González-Casals, Carmen Vives-Cases, María José López, Belén Sanz-Barbero, Katherine Pérez, Gloria Perez, Mònica Cortés-Albaladejo, Gemma Serral, Maria A Barceló, Isabel Ruiz-Pérez, Inmaculada Mateo-Rodríguez, Andrés Cabrera-León, Marina Bosque-Prous, Cinta Folch, Albert Espelt

“…The final sample included 7,309 adolescents (51.8% were girls). …”
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Human motion similarity evaluation based on deep metric learning by Yidan Zhang, Lei Nie

“…The method trains an automatic encoder-decoder deep neural network model by means of a homemade synthetic dataset, which maps the 2D human skeletal key point sequence samples extracted from motion videos into three potential low-dimensional dense spaces. …”
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Determination of the Precision of Glucometers Used in Saudi Arabia by Shoug A. Al-Othman, Zahra H. Al-Zaidany, Shahad H. Al-Ghannam, Ahmed M. Al-Turki, Abdulrahman A. Al-Abdulazeem, Chittibabu Vatte, Alawi Habara, Amein K. Al-Ali, Mohammed F. Al-Awami

“…By spiking the plasma samples with sub-therapeutic, therapeutic, and overdose concentrations of the metabolites, we found that vitamin C had a more evident interference on glucose readings compared to acetaminophen and maltose. …”
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