Impact of Insecticide Resistance on P. falciparum Vectors’ Biting, Feeding, and Resting Behaviour in Selected Clusters in Teso North and South Subcounties in Busia County, Western... by Edward K. Githinji, Lucy W. Irungu, Paul N. Ndegwa, Maxwell G. Machani, Richard O. Amito, Brigid J. Kemei, Paul N. Murima, Geoffrey M. Ombui, Antony K. Wanjoya, Charles M. Mbogo, Evan M. Mathenge

“…Blood meal, species identification, and kdr Eastgene PCRs were also performed on adult mosquitoes sampled using mosquito collection methods [3448]. …”
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Microstructure and mechanical properties of aluminum alloy laser welded joint assisted by alternating magnetic field by Honglin Mu, Shuncun Luo, Lei Wang, Zhenxing Li, Mingrui Chen, Xiaonan Wang, Hiromi Nagaumi, Zengrong Hu

“…Magnetic field-assisted laser welding is an effective method to improve the quality of laser-welded joints. …”
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Diversification and banks’ funding costs in Africa: The role of financial regulations by Simon Kamau, Beatrice D. Simo-Kengne

“…Method: This study employs fixed effects model as the main estimation approach, along with two-stage least squares (2SLS) and generalised method of moments (GMM) estimation technique for robustness test. …”
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The Role of Women in Social Development: Field Research in Erbil by Sozan Taha Rasool, Aram Ibrahem Hussen

“… The main objective of this study is to understand the role of women in social development. The research method used is descriptive, employing the social survey method. …”
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The Effect of CEOs' Financial Knowledge on Unsystematic Risk, Considering the Moderating Effect of Managerial Ability by Bahram Ghanizadeh, Mohsen Dastgir, Afsaneh Soroushyar

“…The statistical population of this study is the companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange and the statistical sample size includes 147 companies for the years 2011 to 2020, which have been selected by the systematic elimination method.­ …”
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3F-PT technique in improving the spelling and vocabulary skills of grade 2 pupils at Sta. Rita Elementary School by Ivy Hipolito Casupanan, Lady Grace FabeliÑa Madriaga

“…The research focused on 138 Grade 2 pupils during the academic year 2020 - 2021 and investigated the level of spelling and vocabulary skills on the pre-test and post-test of the experimental group taught using the 3F-PT technique and the control group taught using the traditional method. Mean scores, standard deviations, paired t-test and t-test for independent samples were used as statistical tools for analysis. …”
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Association of religiosity on anxiety and depressive symptoms in the Brazilian population: A cross-sectional study by Lucas Lima Galvão, Anne Sulivan Lopes da Silva Reis, Claudio Andre Barbosa de Lira, Marilia Santos Andrade, Katja Weiss, Beat Knechtle, Barbara Juliana Pinheiro Borges, Paulo Gentil, Thomas Rosemann, Rodrigo Luiz Vancini

“…Methods: Study cross-sectional involved 1017 participants (669 women). …”
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Mycological profile of dermatomycoses in Macedonian patients by Gordana Mirchevska, Emel Dauti Jahja, Sanja Kostova-Ilieva, Nadica Krsteva, Aleksandra Kacarska, Marija Kostovska-Micevska, Elena Trajkovska-Dokic, Zorica Zafirovik

“…Forty-seven percent of the samples were found to be culture positive. Samples from females were positive more frequently (192/317) than in males (125/317). …”
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Deciphering differential biomarkers for anti-interleukin-6 receptor and anti-tumour necrosis factor-α treatment response in rheumatoid arthritis by multiomics analysis by Emilie Gerard, Michel Didier, Matthias Herrmann, Inoncent Agueusop, Daniel Margerie, Anne Remaury, Raphaël Brard, Francesca Frau, Gilbert Thill, Yaligara Veeranagouda, Markus Kohlmann, Nadine Biesemann

“…The study evaluated predictive biomarkers to anti-IL-6R and anti-TNF-α treatments at baseline and week 2 and pharmacodynamic biomarkers at week 2 and week 24 using Olink proteomics analysis (n=804 serum samples from 268 patients). Change in gene expression levels (n=522 peripheral blood samples from 261 patients) by both treatments was assessed using RNA sequencing analysis.Results Serum biomarkers most predictive to anti-IL-6R were different from those of anti-TNF-α; predictive biomarkers for anti-IL-6R were correlated with innate immune activation and synovial inflammation, while predictive biomarkers for anti-TNF-α seemed to be more T-cell and neutrophil-related. …”
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Campylobacter in Raw Chicken Meat at Retail Level: Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment, Genomic Profiling, and Comparison With Isolates From Human Infections by Lucien Kelbert, Karen Barmettler, Jule Anna Horlbog, Marc J.A. Stevens, Nicole Cernela, Magdalena Nüesch-Inderbinen, Roger Stephan

“…A total of 300 different chilled or frozen chicken meat samples and 50 chilled marinated meat samples were analyzed by qualitative (enrichment) and quantitative (plating) ISO 10272-1:2017 and ISO 10272-2:2017 methods. …”
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On the fence: Factors associated with COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among sexually Minoritized men who use substances in the United States by Renessa S. Williams, Acklynn M. Byamugisha, Leah Davis-Ewart, Omar R. Valentin, Samantha E. Dilworth, Christian Grov, Adam W. Carrico

“…Methods: A cross-sectional analysis was performed using data from a national sample of 2753 SMM in the United States between May 2021–July 2022. …”
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Exploration of severe early childhood caries microbiota through a novel developed nutrient enriched microbiological medium, high through-put 16S rRNA sequencing and culturomics by Yixin Zhang, Yang Chen, Chang Diao, Haojie Lin, Jingqi Zhu, Ruiqing Sun, Meng Wang, Yuke Chen, Hanzhang Zhou, Zixi Dong, Bin Xia, Yixiang Wang

“…To explore S-ECC microbiota, a new bacterial medium, nutrient-enriched microbiological medium (NEMM) was designed in this study. Methods Eleven fresh S-ECC dental plaque samples were collected and cultivated in both NEMM and SHI medium (reference medium) for 0, 1, 3, 6, 9, 15, 21 and 28 days under aerobic and anaerobic conditions. …”
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The Economic and societal burden associated with drug-resistant epilepsy in the Netherlands: an AIM@EPILEPSY burden-of-disease study protocol by Ruud Houben, Ghislaine A P G van Mastrigt, Albert Colon, Silvia Evers, Olaf E M G Schijns, Marian H J M Majoie, Darin Elabbasy, Laura M’Rabet, Vivianne H J M van Kranen-Mastenbroek, Daniëlle B P Eekers, Marc Hendriks

“…These challenges include the physical and mental implications of epilepsy on both caregivers and patients with epilepsy. For the more than 120 000 individuals living with this neurological disorder in the Netherlands, along with their families, daily activities become hazardous, limited and costly, significantly affecting their health-related quality of life (HRQoL). …”
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Association between root canals and gingival sulci microbiota in secondary and persistent endodontic infections by Dong Hyun Park, Euon Jung Tak, Ok-Jin Park, Hiran Perinpanayagam, Yeon-Jee Yoo, Hyo-Jung Lee, Yun-Seok Jeong, Jae-Yun Lee, Hyun Sik Kim, Jin-Woo Bae, Kee-Yeon Kum, Seung Hyun Han

“…These insights provide a foundation for more accurate and targeted diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for management of SPEIs.…”
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Longitudinal gut microbiota dynamics in Antarctic research mission crews by Min-Jung Lee, Seung-Hwan Lee, Huitae Min, Huitae Min, Tae-Wook Nam, Tae-Wook Nam, Soon Gyu Hong, Bumjo Oh, Joo Hyeong Kim, Yeon-Ran Kim, Bong-Soo Kim, Yeong-Jae Seok

“…However, our understanding of how the Antarctic environment affects the gut microbiota remains limited due to small cohort sizes and short study durations.MethodsWe analyzed 467 fecal samples collected longitudinally from 48 participants who stayed at Antarctic stations for up to 16 months.ResultsBefore departing to the Antarctic bases, male participants exhibited three distinct types of gut microbiota, which were differentially altered during and after the stay, depending on the pre-existing microbiota type. …”
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Surveillance and genotyping of tick-borne pathogens in ixodid ticks in the east of Western Siberia (Russia, 2023) by Ekaterina N. Ilyinskikh, Maria R. Karpova, Olga V. Voronkova, Alina V. Reshetova, Evgenia N. Filatova, Mikhail Yu. Kartashov, Ekaterina I. Krivosheina, Ksenia R. Belichenko, Vladimir A. Ternovoi, Valery B. Loktev

“…Detection of genetic material of tick-borne pathogens was carried out by PCR and RT-PCR in individual ticks with subsequent sequencing and phylogenetic analysis of nucleotide sequences. Results. More than fourfold dominance of I. pavlovskyi and D. reticulatus ticks over the taiga tick was observed. …”
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A Preliminary Analysis of Circulating Tumor Microemboli from Breast Cancer Patients during Follow-Up Visits by Hung-Chih Lai, Hsing-Hua Huang, Yun-Jie Hao, Hsin-Ling Lee, Chiao-Chan Wang, Thai-Yen Ling, Jen-Kuei Wu, Fan-Gang Tseng

“…Methods: Eighty samples from eleven patients with breast cancer during follow-up visits were examined. …”
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A Framework for Promoting Passive Breast Cancer Monitoring: Deep Learning as an Interpretation Tool for Breast Thermograms by Mohamad Firouzmand, Keivan Majidzadeh, Maryam Jafari, Shahpar Haghighat, Rezvan Esmaeili, Leila Moradi, Nima Misaghi, Mahsa Ensafi, Fatemeh Batmanghelich, Mohammadreza Keyvanpour, Seyed Vahab Shojaedini

“…This study aims to introduce a dataset of breast thermograms.Material and Methods: In this study, thermographic images of breast cancer from Iranian samples were prepared and confirmed due to the limited number of breast thermogram databases.  …”
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Leveraging Large Language Models for Predicting Postoperative Acute Kidney Injury in Elderly Patients by Hanfei Zhu, Ruojiang Wang, Jiajie Qian, Yuhao Wu, Zhuqing Jin, Xishen Shan, Fuhai Ji, Zixuan Yuan, Tingrui Pan

“…The framework was tested on 2,649 samples from 2 private Chinese hospitals and one public South Korean dataset, which were divided into internal and external datasets. …”
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BDNF gene polymorphisms and BDNF serum concentration in schizophrenia patients: a pilot study by Anastasiia S. Boiko, Irina A. Mednova, Ekaterina V. Mikhalitskaya, Diana Z. Paderina, Dmitry A. Petkun, Elena G. Kornetova, Elena G. Kornetova, Nikolay A. Bokhan, Nikolay A. Bokhan, Svetlana A. Ivanova, Svetlana A. Ivanova

“…The distribution of rs6265 genotypes differed significantly between the groups of schizophrenia patients and healthy individuals. The TT genotype was more common among the patients and had a predisposing effect on schizophrenia. …”
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