The Role of Oral Biomarkers in the Assessment of Noncommunicable Diseases by Gustavo Sáenz-Ravello, Marcela Hernández, Mauricio Baeza, Patricia Hernández-Ríos

“…<b>Background/Objectives</b>: Oral biomarkers have gained attention as non-invasive tools for assessing systemic diseases due to their potential to reflect physiological and pathological conditions. …”
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Research involvement among undergraduate medical students in Bangladesh: a multicenter cross-sectional study by Mohammad Jahid Hasan, Salwa Islam, Hasnat Sujon, Fahmida Islam Chowdhury, Muna Islam, Mostak Ahmed, Mahbuba Shabnam, Mahbub Mayukh Rishad, Mohammad Nurunnabi, Md Marufur Rahman, Jannatul Fardous, Mir Susmita Zaman, Mir Paramita Zaman, Mir Ahsan Ali, Md Rabiual Awal, Taha Choudhury, Ahmed Ullah Shuvo, Sabrina Sultana, Tanjina Tabassum, Monjur Rahman, Anindita Das Barshan, Tamanna Tabassum, Md. Abdur Rafi, Sharmeen Yasmeen

“…Approximately 7% (n = 205) had undergone formal research training, and 6.5% (n = 187) had experience in publications in peer-reviewed journals as first authors or coauthors. A total of 45.5% of the students faced multiple challenges during participating in research, with the two most difficult tasks being designing a study (26.7%) and data collection and recruitment of study participants (19.6%). …”
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Ciencia abierta e innovación abierta en Malasia by José Luis Solleiro Rebolledo, Rosario Castañón Ibarra

“…Es este contexto en el que se desarrollan políticas de ciencia abierta para mejorar el acceso al conocimiento y las de innovación abierta para propiciar la interacción y colaboración interinstitucional, todo esto con el objetivo central de convertir a Malasia en una economía basada en la innovación.…”
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Machine Learning–Based Predictive Farmland Optimization and Crop Monitoring System by Marion Olubunmi Adebiyi, Roseline Oluwaseun Ogundokun, Aneoghena Amarachi Abokhai

“…The study concluded that the approach aided decision making and also assisted in the design of a mobile application using Appery.io. This Appery.io then took in some user input parameters, thereby offering various optimization sets. …”
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Rheumatoid Arthritis Effects on Kidney and Liver and their Correlations with CDAI by Tamara Salman Mohammed, Raya Ezat Maroof, Ali Hussein Al-Hafidh

“…This study collected a total of 150 blood samples. 100 samples for RA patients (61 were seropositive, 39 were seronegative), and 50 for healthy Control. throughout the period from November 2021 to February 2022. …”
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Longitudinal Utilization of Invasive Pain Treatment Procedures Among Veterans with Chronic Pain Following Use of Whole Health Services and Complementary and Integrative Health Ther... by Zeliadt SB, DeFaccio R, Carey EP, Etingen B, Rosser EW, Suri P, Chen JA, Bokhour BG, Coggeshall S

“…School of Public Health, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA; 6Seattle Epidemiologic Research and Information Center (ERIC), VA Puget Sound Healthcare System, Seattle, WA, USA; 7Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, VA Bedford Healthcare System, Bedford, MA, USA; 8Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, USACorrespondence: Steven B Zeliadt, VA Center of Innovation (COIN) for Veteran-Centered and Value-Driven Care, VA Puget Sound Healthcare System, 1660 South Columbian Way, S-15, Seattle, WA, 98108, USA, Tel +1 206 277-4175, Fax +1 206 764-2935, Email steven.zeliadt@va.govObjective: To assess whether Whole Health, a system of care that emphasizes non-pharmacological approaches for chronic pain management, is associated with changes in downstream utilization of invasive pain treatment procedures.Methods: Longitudinal retrospective cohort analysis of VHA administrative data. A total of 53,412 Veterans with chronic pain were identified between April and September 2018, with 584 initiating Whole Health and 3794 initiating a complementary and integrative health (CIH) therapy independent of Whole Health (CIH-only). …”
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Metrics and Methods for Evaluation of Over-The-Air Performance of MIMO User Equipment by Yifei Feng, Werner L. Schroeder, Christoph von Gagern, Adam Tankielun, Thomas Kaiser

“…The variety of different MIMO operating modes and the almost unlimited choice of possible multipath channel conditions under which UE performance may be evaluated are not accounted for by established Single Input-Single Output (SISO) Over-The-Air (OTA) performance metrics like Total Isotropic Sensitivity (TIS) and Total Radiated Power (TRP). …”
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Virtual Force-Based Swarm Trajectory Design for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Assisted Data Collection Internet of Things Networks by Xuanlin Liu, Sihua Wang, Changchuan Yin

“…These forces guide UAVs toward sensors requiring data transmission while reducing communication overlap. …”
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Production of Rice in Nigeria: The Role of Indian-Nigerian Bilateral Cooperation in Food Security by I. U. Lucky

“…Despite the fact that Nigeria is not yet selfsufficient in rice production with the gap of around 2.5 million tonnes, the agricultural programs initiated within the framework of the Nigeria-India bilateral agreements and realized as large-scale agriculture programmes including investments, training, supply of better seedlings, land cultivation promoted by powerful corporations have significantly changed the economic and social environment in Nigeria.…”
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Simmering Innards: Does Irritable Bowl Syndrome Have an Immunological Basis? by Christopher N Andrews, Eldon A Shaffer

“…Not so long ago, physicians construed the irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) as being a neurotic trait: it was all in the head. Today most clinicians believe that the main abnormality lies in the brain (and spinal cord), which reacts abnormally to stimuli from the gut. …”
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Why We Can't Help but Call Ourselves (All) ‘Sartorians’ by Marco Giuliani

“…The article also underscores Sartori's dedication to bridging theory and practice, advocating for political science as a tool for addressing real-world challenges. In conclusion, it calls for greater public engagement within the discipline, proposing initiatives like a political science festival to further Sartori’s vision of a socially impactful academic field. …”
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Case Study of Ground-Based Glaciogenic Seeding of Clouds over the Pyeongchang Region by Ha-Young Yang, Ki-Ho Chang, Sanghee Chae, Eunsil Jung, Seongkyu Seo, Jin-Yim Jeong, Jung-Ho Lee, Yonghun Ro, Baek-Jo Kim

“…However, in three of four cases, the vertical reflectivity from micro rain radar, total concentration, and average size of snow particles observed at PARSIVEL and precipitation increased in the seeding effect time. …”
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Scrub typhus in pregnancy: A 10-year multicenter study in resource-limited settings in China. by Peilin Zhao, Tieyong Dong, Hongbin Lu, Rui Zhu, Shanshan Zhao, Wuqian Tao, Li Li, Chunmei Liu, Shuwei Pu, Ling Mo, Huanhuan Wang

“…<h4>Methods</h4>We conducted a retrospective, multicenter study by collecting 260 pregnant women with ST in China across a 10-year time period to evaluate how clinical characteristics changed over this time and identify risk factors for poor fetal outcome.<h4>Results</h4>In total, 78.5% (n = 204) presented with pathognomonic eschars or ulcers, and 75.4% (n = 196) had Weil-Felix test, in which 46.4% (n = 91) had a titer of ≥1:160 for OXK. …”
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Site-Specific Immunosuppression in Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation: Prospects and Potential by Jonas T. Schnider, Matthias Weinstock, Jan A. Plock, Mario G. Solari, Raman Venkataramanan, Xin Xiao Zheng, Vijay S. Gorantla

“…However, there are no commercially available topical formulations for other widely used systemic immunosuppressive drugs such as mycophenolic acid, sirolimus, and everolimus. …”
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Exploring the impact of health literacy on pregnant women from ethnic minority groups: A scoping review. by Sarah E Feldman, Laura Lennox, Natasha Dsouza, Keivan Armani

“…Objectives included evaluating health literacy improvement tools, engaging stakeholders through co-production, and identifying persisting health inequalities.…”
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A Comparative Study of the Effect of Sutureless Versus Multiple Sutures Technique on Complications following Third Molar Surgery in Nepalese Subpopulation by Arun Kr. Mahat, Ram Yadav, Anjani Kr. Yadav, Pradeep Acharya, Ashok Dongol, Alok Sagtani, Mehul R. Jaisani

“…Though mean duration of surgery, swelling as measured from tragus to commissure, trismus, NRS score except on the 1st postoperative day, total number of analgesics consumed, and complications were noted more in the multiple sutures group, the difference was not statistically significant. …”
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Hsa_circ_0001304 promotes vascular neointimal hyperplasia accompanied by autophagy activation by Shi-Qing Mu, Jia-Jie Lin, Yu Wang, Li-Yun Yang, Sen Wang, Zhao-Yi Wang, An-Qi Zhao, Wen-Jun Luo, Zi-Qi Dong, Yu-Guang Cao, Ze-An Jiang, Si-Fan Wang, Shan-Hu Cao, Li Meng, Yang Li, Shu-Yan Yang, Shao-Guang Sun

“…Subsequently, the YTHDF2 protein promotes the degradation of mTOR mRNA by binding to the latter’s m6A modification sites. …”
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Cognitive Engagement Involvement as a Basis for Designing the Educational Process in the Preparation of Students of Pedagogical Directions by N. V. Garashkina, A. A. Druzhinina

“…The developed diagnostic and technological tools can be used to manage, design, assess the quality of pedagogical activity, the educational result of a student and develop priority educational modes of training, learning technologies in higher pedagogical education, and can also serve as the basis for monitoring conducted by quality assessment units, auditing educational innovation at the university.…”
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Comparative evaluation of marginal fit accuracy of two different designs of endocrown manufactured through CAD-CAM system: An in vitro study by Khushbu Rakesh Gupta, Deepesh Kumar Gupta, Anumeha Jha, Shivam B. Shukla, Aayush Mukund Dubey

“…Materials and Methods: Total of 30 typodont were sectioned 3 mm above the cemento-enamel junction, and central cavity was prepared to depict a severely destructed tooth. …”
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Regulation of pyroptosis by NF-κB signaling by Ling Yang, Yan Zhang, Zhuodong Chai, Yuqi Zhou, Zhenyu Li, Yinan Wei

“…Various immunologically relevant ligands and their receptors can activate the NF-κB pathway to promote pyroptosis, with Toll-like receptors (TLRs), IL-1 receptors (IL-1Rs), and TNF receptors (TNFRs) being the most prominent. …”
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