First record of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolated from the Meia Ponte River and effluent in Brazil: an analysis of 1198 isolates by Igor Romeiro dos Santos, Leandro Fonseca de Lima, Marcelino Benvindo de Souza, Isabela Náthaly Machado da Silva, Adriano Roberto Vieira de Sousa, Alexandre Melo Bailão, Cátia Lira do Amaral, Elisa Flávia Luiz Cardoso Bailão

“…Effluent samples were collected at two points in the STP (pre- and post-treatment). …”
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COVID‐19 vaccine controversy: A cross‐sectional analysis of factors associated with COVID‐19 vaccine acceptance amongst emergency department patients in New York City by Christina P. Guzman, Jamie Aron, Jennifer Egbebike, M. Claire Greene, Christopher Reisig, Michael DeFilippo, E. Brennan Bollman, Bianca R. Stefan, Bernard P. Chang, Anju Wagh, Tsion Firew

“…We aim to identify factors contributing to COVID‐19 vaccine acceptance and to assess patient attitudes surrounding offering COVID‐19 vaccines in the ED. Methods We conducted a survey of a convenience sample of patients and patient visitors over the age 18 years, who were native English or Spanish speakers. …”
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Development of A Caregiver‐Reported Scale for Pediatric Cancer Financial Toxicity (CRS‐PCFT) by Pengfei Li, Nan Zhang, Xinyue Xu, Yan Liu, Zhengyang Lu, Qian Gao, Shihong Lin, Weimin Guan, Wenxuan Yan, Boyu Liu, Youhua Lu, Jinming Yu

“…The data from 206 pilot survey samples was used to select and validate items, and a 10‐item CRS‐PCFT was developed. …”
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A proteotranscriptomic approach to dissect the molecular landscape of human retinoblastoma by Julian Wolf, Rozina Ida Hajdu, Stefaniya Boneva, Ira Godbole, Lucas Stürzbecher, Claudia Auw-Haedrich, Wolf A. Lagrèze, Hansjürgen Agostini, Thomas Reinhard, Stefan Tholen, Oliver Schilling, Günther Schlunck, Bertram Bengsch, Clemens Lange

“…This study aimed to perform an integrated proteotranscriptomic characterization of human retinoblastoma to provide a deeper understanding of disease biology and to identify novel therapeutic targets.MethodsPaired tumor and adjacent retinal tissue samples were dissected from seven eyes. …”
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Depressive and Negative Symptoms in the Early and Established Stages of Schizophrenia: Integrating Structural Brain Alterations, Cognitive Performance, and Plasma Interleukin 6 Lev... by Fabiana Corsi-Zuelli, Gary Donohoe, Siân Lowri Griffiths, Cristina M. Del-Ben, Andrew J. Watson, Tom Burke, Paris A. Lalousis, Declan McKernan, Derek Morris, John Kelly, Colm McDonald, Saahithh R. Patlola, Carmine Pariante, Nicholas M. Barnes, Golam M. Khandaker, John Suckling, Bill Deakin, Rachel Upthegrove, Maria R. Dauvermann

“…Cognitive deficits, reduced brain cortical thickness and volumes, and inflammation may contribute to depressive and negative symptoms, but pharmacological treatment and disease progression may confound the associations. Methods: We evaluated whether higher plasma interleukin 6 (IL-6) levels would be associated with more severe negative or depressive symptoms in schizophrenia and explored illness stage utilizing early (BeneMin [Benefit of Minocycline on Negative Symptoms of Psychosis: Extent and Mechanism], n = 201, 72.8% male) and established (iRELATE [Immune Response & Social Cognition in Schizophrenia], n = 94, 67.3% male) schizophrenia cohorts. …”
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Excellent microwave absorption performance of zinc-doped SrFe12O19 hexaferrite and detailed loss mechanism by N.L. Tuyen, N.T. Hue, P.T. Tho, H.N. Toan, C.T.A. Xuan, N.V. Dang, T.A. Ho, N.Q. Tuan, N. Tran

“…In this work, the SrFe12–xZnxO19 (Zn-SrM, x = 0, 0.1, 0.4, and 1.0) samples were fabricated using a combination of ball milling and heat treatment methods, which was simple and low-cost. …”
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High-risk human papillomavirus: prevalence, association with clinical and morphological characteristics of invasive cervical cancer by L. S. Mkrtchian, V. I. Kiseleva, B. V. Boyko, L. I. Krikunova, V. A. Petrov, V. R. Gusarova, S. A. Ivanov, A. D. Kaprin, I. A. Zamulaeva

“…According to most authors, more than 88 % of patients with invasive ICC are HPV-infected. …”
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Consumer awareness and willingness to pay for halal certified of beef in Bogor area by Syafiq Alfikri, Lukman Mohammad Baga, Suprehatin Suprehatin

“…The aims of this study are, (1) analyze consumers' willingness to pay on halal-certified of beef, beef prices are currently very high (Rp 120,000 / kg), (2) analyze consumer awareness on halal-certified of beef. The research sample was taken in the Bogor area. The method used to analyze consumers' willingness to pay is Contingent Valuation Method (CVM), and the method for analyzing consumer awareness is Partial Least Square (PLS). …”
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Dementia-related stigma across age groups and perspectives: Similarities and differences suggest the need for tailored anti-stigma interventions by Ruth Brookman, Eman Shatnawi, Kristian Lukic, Sasha Sirota, Celia B. Harris

“…We aimed to understand similarities and difference in public stigma (stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination) across age groups and perspectives, including factors associated with its expression. Method: We conducted a mixed-method study with a community sample of Australians (N = 278), to examine public DR-stigma in younger (n = 163) and older (n = 115) adults. …”
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Age influences the circulating immune profile in pediatric sepsis by Grace Fisler, Grace Fisler, Grace Fisler, Mariana R. Brewer, Mariana R. Brewer, Mariana R. Brewer, Omar Yaipen, Clifford S. Deutschman, Clifford S. Deutschman, Clifford S. Deutschman, Matthew D. Taylor, Matthew D. Taylor, Matthew D. Taylor

“…Children with sepsis had more regulatory CD4+ T cells and memory CD4+ T cells and less CD4+IL-10+ and CD8+T-bet+ T cells than healthy children. …”
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Voice as a biomarker: exploratory analysis for benign and malignant vocal fold lesions by Phillip Jenkins, Rylan Harrison, Steven Bedrick, Lisa Karstens, Bridge2AI-Voice Consortium, William Hersh, Yael Bensoussan, Olivier Elemento, Anais Rameau, Alexandros Sigaras, Satrajit Ghosh, Maria Powell, Vardit Ravitsky, Jean Christophe Belisle-Pipon, David Dorr, Phillip Payne, Alistair Johnson, Ruth Bahr, Donald Bolser, Frank Rudzicz, Jordan Lerner-Ellis, Kathy Jenkins, Shaheen Awan, Micah Boyer, William Hersh, Andrea Krussel, Steven Bedrick, Toufeeq Ahmed Syed, Jamie Toghranegar, James Anibal, Duncan Sutherland, Enrique Diaz-Ocampo, Elizabeth Silberhoz, John Costello, Alexander Gelbard, Kimberly Vinson, Tempestt Neal, Lochana Jayachandran, Evan Ng, Selina Casalino, Yassmeen Abdel-Aty, Karim Hanna, Theresa Zesiewicz, Elijah Moothedan, Emily Evangelista, Samantha Salvi Cruz, Robin Zhao, Mohamed Ebraheem, Karlee Newberry, Iris De Santiago, Ellie Eiseman, JM Rahman, Stacy Jo, Anna Goldenberg

“…Acoustic features including fundamental frequency, jitter, shimmer, and harmonic-to-noise ratio (HNR) were extracted from standardized speech recordings and compared using nonparametric statistical methods. Among the overall sample, significant differences were identified in HNR and fundamental frequency between benign lesions and both healthy controls and laryngeal cancer. …”
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REPARATION SYSTEM GENES: POPULATION DIFFERENCES IN HEREDITARY OVARIAN AND BREAST CANCER DETERMINED BY NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING by O. I. Brovkina, M. G. Gordiev, R. F. Enikeev, M. O. Druzhkov, L. Kh. Shigapova, E. I. Shagimardanova, O. А. Gusev, V. V. Kosiy, D. S. Khodyrev, A. G. Kedrova, R. Sh. Khasanov, A. G. Nikitin

“…Moreover, these mutations are common in Slavic population while in other populations they are rare or altogether absent.The study objective is to perform a population analysis of mutations in the reparation system genes which must be considered during chemotherapy prescription.Materials and methods. Using next-generation sequencing (NGS), we analyzed reparation system genes in 139 blood samples of Tatar female patients with hereditary OC and BC. …”
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Effect of DNA target size on the efficiency of chimerism measurement in circulating free plasma DNA by E. E. Nikulina, N. V. Risinskaya, O. E. Dubova, O. V. Sumtsova, Ya. G. Moysyuk, V. A. Vasilieva, M. V. Soloveva, A. A. Yushkova, I. S. Fevraleva, A. S. Skripkina, A. A. Makarik, A. B. Sudarikov

“…To investigate the effect of target length on the amplification efficiency of Y-chromosome markers from cfDNA.Material and methods. Fifty cfDNA samples were obtained from 39 patients: patients after liver transplantation (n=19), patients with acute leukemia after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (n=10), and pregnant women (n=10). …”
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SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies in Response to COVID-19 Vaccination in Underserved Racial/Ethnic Minority People Living with HIV by Yongjun Huang, Haley R. Fonseca, Leonardo Acuna, Wensong Wu, Xuexia Wang, Samantha Gonzales, Manuel Barbieri, David R. Brown, Marianna K. Baum

“…Blood samples were collected and SARS-CoV-2 spike (trimer) total Ig was quantified. …”
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Relación entre la actividad física escolar y extraescolar en estudiantes de escuelas públicas chilenas (Relationship between school and out-of-school physical activity in Chilean... by Michelle Marambio Miranda, Tamara Núñez Fernández, Jaime Ramírez Guajardo, Pablo Ramírez Eyraud, Ximena Alejandra Palma Leal, Fernando Rodríguez-Rodríguez.

“…Results: By gender, physical activity presented values similar levels, except for that performed in the afternoons, where girls were more physically active (p= .006). In addition, on Saturdays, boys performed more physical activity than girls (p = .001). …”
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Metabolism-associated marker gene-based predictive model for prognosis, targeted therapy, and immune landscape in ovarian cancer: an integrative analysis of single-cell and bulk RN... by Lele Ling, Bingrong Li, Boliang Ke, Yinjie Hu, Kaiyong Zhang, Siwen Li, Te Liu, Peng Liu, Bimeng Zhang

“…Furthermore, predictions from the TIDE database revealed that individuals in the high-risk group were more prone to immune evasion when treated with ICIs. …”
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Comparison of the Performance Between the Montbiliard × Holstein Crossbred and Holstein Calves in Hot and Humid Areas by Pirouz Shakeri, Hassan Khamisabadi, Mehdi Bahrami Yekdangi, Mahdi Abasy Firouzjaei, Amir Ali Shakeri

“…Extended Abstract Background: A reason for crossbreeding is to combine desirable traits from two or more different breeds, and a specific beef breed may transfer superior genes of growth, feed efficiency, and dressing percentage to crossbred animals, leading to the superiority of the resulting hybrid animals over purebred animals due to heterosis. …”
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Comparison of Hyperbaric 0.5% Levobupivacaine and Hyperbaric 0.75% Ropivacaine for Intrathecal Use in Infraumbilical Surgeries: A Randomised Clinical Study by Tejash H Sharma, Jagrati Jain, Priya Kishnani, Richa Tailor, Sara Mary Thomas

“…Aim: To compare the sensory and motor blockade, time of two-segment regression, time for rescue analgesia, haemodynamic effects and sedative effects between hyperbaric 0.5% levobupivacaine and hyperbaric 0.75% ropivacaine. Materials and Methods: This prospective, double-blinded and randomised clinical study was conducted in the Department of Anaesthesiology, Shrimati Bhikhiben Kanjibhai Shah Medical Institute and Research Centre (a tertiary care institute), Sumandeep Vidyapeeth Deemed to be University, Piparia, Vadodara, Gujarat, India, from September 2023 to July 2024, with a sample size of 40 patients. …”
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Bridging the gap: experiences in researching Latinx representation in PK-12 educational leadership by Donna Cooner Gines, Wendy Barnes

“…Limitations: The study’s small sample size and focus on one institution limit generalizability. …”
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Paradoxical Effect of Myosteatosis on the Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Response in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma by Jiwoong Yu, Hyeonju Ahn, Kyung Yeon Han, Wan Song, Hyun Hwan Sung, Hwang Gyun Jeon, Byong Chang Jeong, Seong Il Seo, Seong Soo Jeon, Se Hoon Park, Woong‐Yang Park, Ji Hyun Lee, Minyong Kang

“…Single‐cell RNA sequencing revealed higher CTLA‐4 expression in regulatory T cells and more effector memory CD8+ T cells in patients with myosteatosis, whereas patients without myosteatosis had more anti‐tumoural non‐classical monocytes. …”
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