Ovarian stimulation alternatives for in vitro production of embryos in water buffaloes by Alexis Bandeo, José Luis Konrad, Natalia Vallejos, Pablo Ponce, Marina J. Sansinena, Gustavo Crudeli, Pablo Maldonado-Vargas

“…In vitro culture (IVC) was carried out for 6.5 days, and all embryos that reached the blastocyst stage were graded and vitrified. Descriptive statistics and analysis of variance were conducted on the obtained data, considering population and follicular size, quantity and quality of oocytes, and embryo production, with a significance level (α) of 5%. …”
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Evaluating the Impact of Simulated Patients on Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes of Laypeople Following a Basic First Aid Course: Protocol for a Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial

“…Hypothesis: The null hypothesis of this research is that the use of simulated patients during basic first aid training does not result in a statistically significant change in knowledge, skills and self-efficacy concerning the first aid topics for which a simulated patient is used. …”
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A Meta-analysis of Sanyrene in preventing radiation dermatitis of head and neck tumor (赛肤润预防头颈部肿瘤放射性皮炎的Meta分析) by ZHENG Ya (郑雅), ZENG Guqing (曾谷清), PENG Lingying (彭玲英), NI Xiaoyan (倪晓燕), WANG Aoyi (王傲一), PAN Rongjia (潘荣佳), NIAN Fang (年芳)

“…Meta analysis results showed that the total incidence of radioactive dermatitis in the intervention group was statistically significant compared with the control group ［OR=0. 24, 95%CI(0. 15, 0. 37), P<0. 05］. …”
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Response of Agronomic Characteristics and Yield of Garlic Plant (Allium sativum L.) to Different Levels of Planting Density and Nutrition by Hadi khavari, Masoud Rafiee

“…The results also demonstrated that the main effects of density and nutrition, as well as their interaction, positively and statistically significantly influenced garlic weight and economic yield at the p ≤ 0.001 level. …”
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Curcumin encapsulated in PAMAM dendrimers for the therapeutic treatment of ischemic stroke in rats by Justin Stadler, Justin Stadler, Justin Stadler, Lucas G. Garmo, Lucas G. Garmo, Lucas G. Garmo, David Doyle, David Doyle, David Doyle, Chin-I. Cheng, Garrett Richardson, Garrett Richardson, Zain Waheed, Zain Waheed, Tim Tofan, Bhairavi Srinageshwar, Bhairavi Srinageshwar, Bhairavi Srinageshwar, Ajit Sharma, Robert B. Petersen, Gary L. Dunbar, Gary L. Dunbar, Gary L. Dunbar, Julien Rossignol, Julien Rossignol, Julien Rossignol

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Association of the blood urea nitrogen to serum albumin ratio and all-cause mortality in critical ill acute ischemic stroke patients: a retrospective cohort study of MIMIC-IV datab... by Yongwei Huang, Zongping Li, Jianjun Wang, Jianjun Wang, Decai Wang, Decai Wang, Xiaoshuang Yin

“…We determined the critical BAR level affecting patient survival with the use of maximum chosen rank statistics. The connection between BAR and ACM at various time intervals was ascertained with the multivariate Cox regression (MCR) models after the adjustment for covariates. …”
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A Prediction Model for External Root Resorption of the Second Molars Associated With Third Molars by Zhengwei Kou, Wuyang Zhang, Chen Li, Yu Zhang, Zijian Song, Yuzhen Zou, Haijing Wang, Zhenghua Liu, Bahetibieke Huerman, Tiange Deng, Kaijin Hu, Yang Xue, Ping Ji

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Selection of Superior Sugar Beet Genotypes using the Analysis of Quantitative and Qualitative Traits by Mahdi Hassani, Ali Saremirad, Hamed Mansouri

“…The corrected trait averages were then employed for subsequent statistical analyses. Results: The results obtained from the variance analysis of various evaluated traits, such as white sugar yield, root yield, sugar content, sodium, potassium, and alpha-amino nitrogen, revealed that the adjusted block effect non-significantly influenced all the studied traits. …”
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Urban monitoring, evaluation and application of COVID-19 listed vaccine effectiveness: a health code blockchain study by Tao Wang, Hongyan Li, Chaoqun Li, Zheheng Li

“…This study uses this system and statistical simulation to analyse three urban application scenarios, namely evaluating the vaccination rate (VR) and determining the optimal vaccination strategy, evaluating herd immunity and monitoring the VE on variant.Main outcome measures The primary outcomes first establish an urban COVID-19 listed VE monitoring, evaluation and application system by using the health code blockchain, combined with the dynamic monitoring model of VE, the evaluation index system of VE and the monitoring and evaluation system of personal privacy information use, and then three measures are analysed in urban simulation: one is to take the index reflecting urban population mobility as the weight to calculate the comprehensive VR, the second is to calculate the comprehensive basic reproduction number (R) in the presence of asymptomatic persons, the third is to compare the difference between the observed effectiveness and the true effectiveness of listed vaccines under virus variation.Results Combining this system and simulation, this study finds: (1) The comprehensive VR, which is weighted to reflect urban population mobility, is more accurate than the simple VR which does not take into account urban population mobility. …”
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Practice and effective analysis of continuous quality improvement in nosocomial infection prevention and control (医院感染防控持续质量改进及效果) by XU Xu (徐旭), REN Guqun (任顾群), SU Yuqiang (苏玉强), XU Yuanle (许远乐), WANG Yuena (王岳娜)

“…Results The incidence of incision infection, skin infection, urinary system infection and respiratory system infection in the observation group were significantly lower than those in the control group, and the difference between the groups was statistically significant (P < 0. 05). In 2020, the scores of hospital infection knowledge mastery among medical and nursing staffs in our hospital, such as safety protection, aseptic operation and occupational exposure, were significantly lower than those in 2021, with a significant difference (P < 0. 01). …”
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Azithromycin to prevent acute lower respiratory infections among Australian and New Zealand First Nations and Timorese children (PETAL trial): study protocol for a multicentre, int... by Anne B Chang, Keith Grimwood, Yuejen Zhao, Gabrielle B McCallum, Catherine A Byrnes, Heidi Smith-Vaughan, Peter S Morris, Christine Connors, Adrian Trenholme, Shirley Lawrence, Joshua Francis, Kobi L Schutz, Mark D Chatfield, Nevio Sarmento, Robyn L. Marsh, Emily R Bowden, Nicholas Fancourt, Adriano Vieira, Kim M Hare, Dennis Bonney, Felicity Marwick, Bronwyn Karvonen, Carolyn Maclennan, Milena Santos Lay, Endang Soares da Silva

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Outcomes of anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction surgery from private and public healthcare services in AustraliaKey points by Thomas J. West, Andrea M. Bruder, Kay M. Crossley, Michael A. Girdwood, Laura K. To, Jamon L. Couch, Mark J. Scholes, Sebastian C.S. Evans, Melissa J. Haberfield, Christian J. Barton, Ewa M. Roos, Alysha De Livera, Adam G. Culvenor

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A study on the status quo and influencing factors of ICU nurses’ knowledge, attitude and practice towards physical restraints in general hospitals in Guangxi (广西壮族自治区ICU护士实施身体约束知信行... by MA Qiang (马强), LI Gaoye (李高叶), LIAO Tingting (廖婷婷), YU Qin (玉琴), HUANG Xiaobo (黄晓波), WEI Xiu (韦秀), XIE Haijuan (谢海娟)

“…Results The total score and scores of knowledge dimension, attitude dimension, and behavior dimension were (135. 08±18. 07), (68. 70±9. 49), (20. 73±4. 82), (45. 66±8. 95), respectively, indicating a low-to-medium level awareness of physical restraints among ICU nurses in general hospitals in Guangxi. There were statistically significant differences in the level of knowledge, attitude and practice of ICU nurses with different hospital levels, ICU working years, and ICU specialist qualifications (P＜0. 05). …”
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Pathways Through Which Green Exposure Type Influences Cardiovascular Diseases Mortality in Shanghai, China by Jianzhong HUANG, Yanting XU, Lan WANG, Zhouqian HE

“…Notably, direct associations between PM2.5 levels, extreme heat days, heat waves, and CVDs mortality are not statistically significant. Specifically, visibility of street greenery and vegetation coverage were shown to reduce CVDs mortality by promoting higher levels of physical activity among residents. …”
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Inequity and vulnerability in Latin American Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations with rheumatic diseases: a syndemic approach by Bernardo A Pons-Estel, Rosana Quintana, Ruben Burgos-Vargas, Everardo Álvarez-Hernández, John Londono, Ana M Santos, Adalberto Loyola-Sanchez, Mario H Cardiel, Maria Victoria Goycochea-Robles, Ingris Peláez-Ballestas, Ysabel Granados, Flor Julián-Santiago, Celenia Rosillo, Jose Alvarez-Nemegyei, Natalia Santana, Mario Goñi, Ligia Cedeño, Romina Nieto, Silvana Conti, María Elena Calvo, Eugenia Picco, Rosa Chacón, Jorge Delgado, Alfonso Gastelum Strozzi, Sergio Guevara-Pacheco, Vicente Juarez, Mario Alberto Garza-Elizondo, Juan Camilo Rueda, Amaranta Manrique de Lara, Nora Mathern, Marisa Jorfen, Alvaro Sanabria, Cristina Prigione, Adriana MR Silvestre, Vanina García, Julio Miljevic, Daniel Dhair, Matias Laithe, Fadua Midauar, Maria Celeste Martin, Maria Cecilia Barrios, María Elena Crespo, Mariana Aciar, Emilio Buschiazzo, Natalia L Cucchiaro, Mario Ruiz, José Adolfo Sánchez, Rodolfo Franco, Natalia Estrella, Silvia Jorge, Cinthya Retamozo, Sofia Fernandez, Martina Fay, Cecilia Camacho, Graciela Gomez, Jazmin Petrelli, Andrés Honeri, Viviana Arenas Solórzano, Ana Bensi, Marcela Valdata, Rodrigo Giraldo, Ignacio Angarita, Jesus G Ballesteros, Sofia Arias, Andres Vásquez, Lina Valero, Ani Cortes, Estafania Castañeda, Elias Forero, Astrid Feicán, Fernando Vintimilla, Jaime Vintimilla, Veronica Ochoa, Angelita Lliguisaca, Holger Dután, Jacqueline Rodríguez-Amado, Julio Casasola-Vargas, Conrado Garcia, Imelda García-Olivera, César Pacheco, Susana Aidee Gonzalez-Chávez, Hazel Garcia Morales, Arturo Velasco Gutierrez, JF Moctezuma-Rios, Eduardo Navarro-Zarza, Angelia Angulo, Rosana Flores, Janeth Galván Padrón, B Lorena Pérez, Janett Riega, Brenda Vaquez Fuentes, Miguel A Villarreal, Cassandra Skinner Taylor, Sara Marín, Dionicio Galarza Delgado, Diana Flores Alvarado, Jorge A Esquivel Varerio, Luz Helena Sanín, Marco Maradiaga Ceceño, Jorge Zamudio Lerm, Ivan Stekman, Yanira Martínez, Gloris Sánchez

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A meta-analysis of program for the reduction of physical restraint use in intensive care units in China (国内ICU患者缩减身体约束行动实施效果的Meta分析) by CHEN Zetao (陈泽涛), LI Xiaobing (李晓彬), SHI Yu (石宇), ZHANG Yanfei (张雁飞), YANG Wencai (杨文才), SHAN Miaohang (单妙航)

“…Two researchers independently screened literature, extracted data, assessed the risk of bias, and performed statistical analysis using RevMan 5. 4 software. Results A total of 13 articles were included, covering 3209 ICU patients. …”
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AlphaFold-based AI docking reveals AMPK/SIRT1-TFEB pathway modulation by traditional Chinese medicine in metabolic-associated fatty liver disease by Lulu Zhang, Yi Zheng, Mingyan Shao, Aiping Chen, Meiyi Liu, Wenlong Sun, Tianxing Li, Yini Fang, Yang Dong, Shipeng Zhao, Hui Luo, Juan Feng, Qi Wang, Lingru Li, Yanfei Zheng

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Radiological abnormalities persist following COVID-19 and correlate with impaired health-related quality of life: a prospective cohort study of hospitalised patients by Rhian M Touyz, Ninian N Lang, Kevin G Blyth, Naveed Sattar, Patrick B Mark, Stefan Siebert, Colin Berry, Iain McInnes, Giles Roditi, Neil Basu, David Corcoran, Kenneth Mangion, Alex McConnachie, David Carrick, Jaclyn Carberry, Stuart Watkins, Paul Welsh, Sabrina Nordin, Katherine Scott, Christian Delles, Bernard Kelly, Fraser Goldie, John GF Cleland, Sharon Kean, Peter Kellman, David J Lowe, Andrew J Morrow, Antonia Ho, Rosemary Woodward, Tracey Hopkins, Ryan Wereski, Massimo Palmarini, Alasdair McIntosh, Campbell Rogers, Ammani Brown, Catherine Bagot, Kathryn Scott, Robert Sykes, Colin Church, Claire Rooney, Nicola Ryan, Clare Orange, Dirk Husmeier, Xiaoyu Luo, PETER W MACFARLANE, Heerajnarain Bulluck, Iain Findlay, Evonne McLennan, Michael Briscoe, Oliver Peck, Alastair J Rankin, Gruschen Veldtman, Varun Sharma, Kathryn McLaren, Elaine Butler, Sarah Mullen, Andrew Morrow, Patrick Mark, Daniel Doherty, Alexander Payne, Jennifer S Lees, Kaitlin J Mayne, Louise Inglis, Anna Kamdar, Hannah Bayes, Vivienne B Gibson, Lynsey Gillespie, Douglas Grieve, Pauline Hall Barrientos, Christopher McGinley, Connor Mckee, Sarah Allwood-Spiers, Sarah Weeden, Laura Knox, Lynn Abel, David Stobo, Andrew Dougherty, Liam Peng, David Barrie Stobo, Sylvia Wright, Stephen Dobbin, Keith Gillis, Sarah A Spiers, Ian Fergus, Kirsty Fallon, Lesley Gilmour, Chloe Cowan, Jurgen Van-Melckebeke, Kim Moran-Jones, Debra Stuart, Maureen Travers, Laura Dymock, Fiona Savage, Nicola Tynan, Sau Lee Chang, Mhairi Dupre, Lindsey Norton, George Bruce, Rosario Gonzalez-Lopez, Rebecca Stace, Dionne Russell, Jean Watt, Shahid Latif, Nick Hill, Amy Collinsworth, Ross McGeoch Vera Lennie, Robin P Weir

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Effect of Traditional Chinese Medicine decoction cupping combined with wet compress therapy in the treatment of hemiplegia caused by stroke (中药水罐联合溻渍法治疗中风偏瘫临床疗效观察)... by YANG Juhang (杨俊行), HU Zhe (胡哲), SU Rong (苏容), WANG Xin (王欣), ZHAO Ning (赵宁)

“…In comparison between groups, the FMA and MBI scores of patients in group C after treatment were significantly higher than those in groups A and B (t=-3. 871, P＜0. 001; t=-5. 646, P＜0. 001; t=-3. 661, P＜0. 001; t=-2. 131, P=0. 036), while the recovery of muscle strength on the affected side of group C was not statistically different from that in groups A and B (P>0. 05). …”
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An interpretable machine learning tool for in-home monitoring of agitation episodes in people living with dementia: a proof-of-concept studyResearch in context by Marirena Bafaloukou, Ann-Kathrin Schalkamp, Nan Fletcher-Lloyd, Alex Capstick, Chloe Walsh, Cynthia Sandor, Samaneh Kouchaki, Ramin Nilforooshan, Payam Barnaghi

“…Key features for identifying agitation included low nocturnal respiratory rate, heightened alertness during sleep, and increased indoor illuminance, as revealed by statistical and feature importance analysis. Using our interactive tool, we identified indoor lighting and temperature adjustments as the most promising and feasible intervention options within our cohort. …”
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