Cardiovascular Risk and Metabolic Syndrome Characteristics in Patients with Nonfunctional Pituitary Macroadenoma by Guadalupe Vargas-Ortega, Baldomero González-Virla, Lourdes Balcázar-Hernández, Oriana Nieto-Guzmán, Ana Pamela Garrido-Mendoza, Marco Antonio Flores-Maya, Victoria Mendoza-Zubieta

“…NFPMA patients showed a significant increase risk for high total cholesterol (SMR 1.68, 95% CI 1.28–2.17, p=0.001) and diabetes (SMR 3.19, 95% CI 2.19–4.49, p=0.01). …”
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Effect of oodev and turmeric powder dietary supplementations on the reproductive performance of sunset platy fish Xiphophorus maculatus by Harton Arfah, Odang Carman, Muhamad Fathurrizki Darmawan, Fajar Maulana, Lina Mulyani

“…Hasil menunjukkan bahwa penambahan oodev, tepung kunyit, dan kombinasi keduanya pada pakan setiap satu minggu dapat meningkatkan rata-rata produksi larva yang dihasilkan. Produksi larva total diurut dari yang terbanyak adalah perlakuan D (428 ekor), B (251 ekor), C (209 ekor), dan terendah adalah A (93 ekor). …”
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Improvement of Specific Multi-target Tracking Algorithm in Cross-domain Environment by MU Xiaofang, LI Hao, LIU Jiaji, LIU Zhenyu, LI Yue

“…The difficulties of this task lie in the frequent occlusion between the objects in video frame, the unknown start and end time of the trajectory, the too small sized targets, the interactions between the objects, the apparent similarity, and the camera angle changes. …”
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NIH funding for the pediatric surgeon-scientist: An analysis of current trends by Colton D. Wayne, MD, Zachary Dumbauld, BS, Ethan Mills, BS, Diana L. Farmer, MD, Gail E. Besner, MD

“…Academic productivity: Assessment revealed 7197 total publications (range = 0–207, mean = 49.6). …”
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Shakespeare revisité, entre fidélité et parodie : de La Nuit des Rois à Shake de Dan Jemmett by Isabelle Schwartz-Gastine

“…It is called Shake, with a modest sub-title « around Twelfth Night », but which is indeed at the heart of the topic.Through the exploration of three themes: symmetry (of situations, of twin binarities), love’s misunderstanding, and music, I will argue that this comedy, whose title is a mix between the name of the Bard and the etymological meaning of the verb “to shake” as far as traditions are concerned, is faithful to the spirit (rather than the letter) of the Shakespearean original in a very healthy comic vein.It is not worth wondering if the spectators fully understood the meaning of this comedy in which the four actors change roles all the time: their frequent bursts of laughter clearly showed that they enjoyed the spirit of the comedy, whether they knew Twelfth Night or not.…”
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Lifting Techniques: Why Are We Not Using Evidence To Optimize Movement? by Nicholas B. Washmuth, Abby D. McAfee, C. Scott Bickel

“…When applying this clinical framework, clinicians should consider metabolic, biomechanical, physical stress tolerance, and pain factors in order to address the movement system. …”
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Empresas familiares multigeneracionales by Gonzalo Gómez-Betancourt, José Bernardo Betancourt Ramírez, Natalia Zapata Cuervo

“…Este documento es el resultado de una investigación en la cual se estudiaron diferentes modelos y teorías de los autores: Gallo, Amat, Klein, Montemerlo, Tomaselli, Cappuyns, Miller, Le Breton – Miller, Pérez López, Ward, Gómez-Betancourt, quienes definían los factores claves que en su criterio influyen en la longevidad y éxito de las empresas familiares. …”
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Current Experiences with Internet Telepathology and Possible Evolution in the Next Generation of Internet Services by V. Della Mea, C. A. Beltrami

“…Different initiatives have been aimed at an amelioration of the Internet protocols, in order to have quality of service, multimedia support, security and other advanced services, together with greater bandwidth.…”
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Mayor Erythropoietic Response after Deferasirox Treatment in a Transfusion-Dependent Anemic Patient with Primary Myelofibrosis by Del Corso Lisette, Balleari Enrico, Arboscello Eleonora, Ghio Riccardo, Mencoboni Manlio, Racchi Omar

“…Both anemia and transfusion-dependence are associated with a poor outcome, at least in part because of toxic effects of iron overload (IOL). Iron-chelating therapy (ICT) is increasingly used in order to prevent IOL in this setting. …”
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Efficacy of Virtual Reality Distraction in Reduction of Pain and Anxiety of Pediatric Dental Patients in an Iranian Population: A Split-Mouth Randomized Crossover Clinical Trial by Zahra Bahrololoomi, Javad Zein Al-Din, Nahid Maghsoudi, Samira Sajedi

“…At the first treatment visit, pulpotomy was performed for 15 children using VR glasses distraction while the other 15 children received a pulpotomy without any VR glasses; this trend was reversed at the second session and pulpotomy was performed for the contralateral tooth. Pulse rate (PR) and Modified Child Dental Anxiety Scale (MCDAS) measured the anxiety levels. …”
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Optimized recovery of phenolic and flavonoid compounds from medicinal plant extracts for enhanced antioxidant activity: A mixture design approach by Faiza Imtiaz, Dildar Ahmed, Osama A. Mohammed, Umer Younas, Munawar Iqbal

“…The current study was carried out to compare total phenolic content (TPC), total flavonoid content (TFC), and antioxidant activities of extracts/ fractions of nine medicinal plants including Quercus infectoria (QI), Fagonia arabica (FA), Embelia ribes (ER), Cichorium intybus (CI), Ipomoea nil (IN), Acacia nilotica (AN), Psoralea corylifolia (PC), Tinospora cordifolia (TC), and Thuja orientalis (TO). …”
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Modeling Tick Populations: An Ecological Test Case for Gradient Boosted Trees by Manley, William, Tran, Tam, Prusinski, Melissa, Brisson, Dustin

“…The results highlight the potential of gradient boosted models to discover novel ecological phenomena affecting pathogen demography and as a powerful public health tool to mitigate disease risks. …”
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Study on the Evolutionary Characteristics of Spatial and Temporal Patterns and Decoupling Effect of Urban Carbon Emissions in the Yangtze River Delta Region Based on Neural Network... by Xichun Luo, Chaoming Cai, Honghao Zhao

“…The results show that the CO₂ emissions in the YRD region show a spatial distribution pattern of “low in the west, high in the east, and developing towards the west”. There exists a spatial dependence of carbon emissions in the cities from 2001 to 2022, except for the year 2000, and the local spatial autocorrelation test shows that high-high is concentrated in Shanghai and Suzhou, and low-low is mainly centered in Anqing, Chizhou, and Huangshan in southern Anhui. …”
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Mixed Red-Complex Bacterial Infection in Periodontitis by N. Suzuki, M. Yoneda, T. Hirofuji

“…These bacteria are usually found together in periodontal pockets, suggesting that they may cause destruction of the periodontal tissue in a cooperative manner. …”
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Unboundedness of Solutions of Timoshenko Beam Equations with Damping and Forcing Terms by Kusuo Kobayashi, Norio Yoshida

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Comparative analysis of phytonutrients of Moringa oleifera leaves from South Africa and Nigeria, and their antimicrobial and antioxidant potentials by UPLC-ESI-QToF-MS and OPLS-DA... by Jonathan Kayembe, Cosa Sekelwa, Kokoette Bassey

“…This study should serve as a benchmark toward the phytonutrients and marketing implications on the quality of products formulated with samples harvested from different growth environments and exists as a reference for further research into the cultivation and marketing of M. oleifera leaves in South Africa.…”
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Growth, Development and Reproduction of Meadow Moth <i>Loxostege sticticalis</i> Fed on Pea Seedlings Grown Under Elevated CO₂ by Jingxian Zhou, Zun Xu, Zuoheng Yu, Huirong Mai, Jiacheng Huang, Xiaoli Chang, Fajun Chen

“…In addition, total phenol (TP), ethylene (ET) and jasmonic acid (JA) contents grown under eCO₂ increased significantly by 20.60%, 71.72% and 36.22%, respectively, under eCO₂ compared to aCO₂. …”
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Reoperation after radical correction tetralogy of Fallot: results and prospects by M.F. Zinkovskyi, A.G. Goryachev, S.O. Dykukha, L.R. Naumova, O.A. Pishchurin, M.Yu. Atamanyuk, V.M. Hondoga, S.O. Yakubyuk, R.M. Vitovsky

“…Depending on the predominance of one or other complications and its causes we observed: 1) residual defects – 25 (40.4 %) cases; right ventricular dysfunction – 23 (37.0 %) cases; valve pathology – 5 (8.0 %) cases; other rare complications – 9 (14.6 %) cases. In total, 100 complications were identified and eliminated in 62 patients. …”
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On a mathematical model of bone marrow metastatic niche by Ana Isabel Muñoz, J. Ignacio Tello

“…We propose a mathematical model to describe tumor cells movement towards a metastasis location into the bone marrow considering the influence of chemotaxis inhibition due to the action of a drug. …”
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Comparison of the safety and efficacy between minimally invasive cardiac surgery and median sternotomy in a low-risk mixed Asian population in Singapore by Zhi Xian Ong, Duoduo Wu, Haidong Luo, Guohao Chang, Faizus Sazzad, Jai Ajitchandra Sule, Peggy Hu, Theo Kofidis

“…The results of this study provide further evidence and support towards adopting the minimally invasive approach to cardiac surgery in a carefully selected group of cardiac patients in Singapore.…”
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