Mental state of medical students three years into the war by V. V. Ogorenko, A. V. Shornikov, V. O. Kokashynskyi, O. A. Makoviichuk, O. E. Kachan

“…The aim of the study was to assess the mental health status of higher medical education students three years into the war in Ukraine. Materials and methods. 104 students were interviewed at Dnipro State Medical University from February 24 to March 2, 2025, coinciding with the third anniversary of the martial law implementation in Ukraine. …”
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Estimating the Health-Related Quality of Life Benefit of Prophylactic Treatment for COVID-19 in Immunocompromised People: A Multimethod Valuation Study by Katy Gallop, Rebekah Hall, Michael Watt, Daniel Squirrell, Neil Branscombe, Sofie Arnetop, Andrew Lloyd

“…Vignettes were valued by a general population sample (N = 100) using a visual analog scale (VAS), time trade-off (TTO), and EQ-5D-5L. …”
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Aloe-Emodin activated by Photodynamic therapy and diode laser on carious affected dentin and survival of S. mutans. An-invitro SEM assessment by Basil Almutairi

“…To identify the CAD, visual and tactile examinations were used. Specimens were randomly assigned into four experimental cohorts based on cavity disinfection protocol (n=11) Group 1 (No disinfection), Group 2 (CHX), Group 3 (DL), and Group 4 (AE-mediated PDT). …”
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The role of high knee range of motion at discharge on functional outcome after total knee arthroplasty: a retrospective cohort study by Jimin Ma, Yakun Zhu, Zhen Dong, Ziming Guo, Rui Song, Wendan Cheng

“…Abstract Background The study aimed to investigate the impact of high knee range of motion at discharge on functional outcome after total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Methods We conducted a retrospective study of 136 patients with primary osteoarthritis who were treated between January 2022 and June 2023. …”
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How the brain memorizes the world from others’ perspectives: investigating allocentric encoding of object features during perspective taking by Nanbo Wang, Shuo Huang, Junyang Cai, Ruiyi Huang, Haiyan Geng

“…The present study aims to investigate this issue. Methods We designed a novel paradigm by integrating a change-detection paradigm with a perspective taking task to investigate these questions. …”
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Analgesic efficacy of a laparoscopic-guided transversus abdominis plane block versus no transversus abdominis plane block in bariatric gastric bypass surgery a retrospective analys... by Gianluca De Santo, Oliver Stumpf, Peter Look, Marc Abdelmalek, Rolf Lefering, René Mantke, Christoph Paasch

“…Hence, the study at hand was conducted. Methods In 2023 a retrospective single-centre analysis among patients who did or did not receive a laparoscopic (L) TAP block prior to LRYGB was performed. …”
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Bioinformatics screening of therapeutic targets in chemoresistance human colon cancer HCT8 cell line by Zohreh Jahanafrooz

“…LncRNA-miRNA-mRNA competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) network visualized using Cytoscape software. Results: A high number of common DEmRNAs (about 1780) in chemoresistance HCT8 cells were identified. …”
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Investigating the neural correlates of the left thalamus in women with fibromyalgia: A Granger causality and voxel-based morphometry approach by Elijah Agoalikum, Hongzhou Wu, Benjamin Klugah-Brown, Michael Maes

“…This study aims to investigate the structural and functional correlates of the left thalamus in fibromyalgia patients using a combined Granger causality and voxel-based morphometry approach. Methods: We analyzed functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging data from 20 female fibromyalgia patients and 20 female age-matched healthy controls. …”
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Efficacy evaluation of using hypoallergenic toothpastes in children with a burdened allergy anamnesis by I. D. Kondratenko, I. A. Nikolskaya, R. M. Kuliev, V. O. Vostrikov, V. A. Voronetskaya, A. Novikova

“…PRO Junior Creamy Pudding" in patients aged 2 to 11 years with a burdened allergy history.   Materials and methods. The study included 58 children aged 2 to 11 years with a burdened allergy history. …”
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Unilateral Endoscopic and Unilateral Biportal Endoscopic surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Kun Li, Kun Li, Zhibin Zhang, Zhibin Zhang, Jiangyu Ran, Jiangyu Ran, Liang Ma, Liang Ma, Xiangyu Meng, Xiangyu Meng

“…This meta-analysis assessed the clinical effectiveness and safety profiles of unilateral laminotomy for bilateral decompression (ULBD) via these two minimally invasive endoscopic methods, aiming to establish evidence-based clinical recommendations.Materials and methodsA thorough examination of electronic databases was performed, encompassing PubMed, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, Embase, Medline, CNKI, WanFang, and VIP. …”
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Real-Time EEG-Based BCI for Self-Paced Motor Imagery and Motor Execution Using Functional Neural Networks by Mavin Heim, Florian Heinrichs, Michael Hueppe, Fran Nunez, Alexander Szameitat, Muriel Reuter, Stefan M. Goetz, Corinna Weber

“…Furthermore, the study explores various auto-labeling methods within the self-paced environment, analyzing their impact on the classification performances of both architectures. …”
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Sustainable AI for plant disease classification using ResNet18 in few-shot learning by Fareeha Naveed, Adven Masih, Jabar Mahmood, Moeez Ahmed, Aitizaz Ali, Aysha Saddiqa, Mohamed Shabbir Hamza Abdulnabi, Ebenezer Agbozo

“…Addressing the critical challenge of reduced crop production caused by plant diseases is essential to safeguard agricultural yield and quality. Conventional methods like visual inspection and laboratory testing are both time-consuming and costly. …”
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The comparative study of chondrogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stromal cells allocated from different sources by Yu. B. Basok, A. M. Grigoriev, L. A. Kirsanova, I. V. Vakhrushev, A. V. Tsvetkova, A. A. Gryadunova, K. N. Yarygin, V. I. Sevastianov

“…Morphological study was performed using histological and immunohistochemical staining methods.Results. Cultures of MSCs from all sources had similar phenotypes CD29+, CD34–, CD44+, CD49b+, CD45–, CD73+, CD90+, HLADR. …”
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Assessment of public literacy in TB prevention and control in the National 13th Five-Year plan for Tuberculosis Prevention and Control (2016–2020) in China by Shuaihu Ni, Gang Chen, Jia Wang, Yuhong Li, Hui Zhang, Yan Qu, Yanlin Zhao, Xiaofeng Luo

“…In the future, audiovisual media and the Internet should be the main methods of public education on TB for all people. …”
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Neuropsychic manifestations in the Kyrgyz cohort of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus by G. M. Koylubaeva, T. M. Reshetnyak, E. A. Aseeva, K. S. Solovyov, A. S. Dzhumagulova, N. P. Tkachenko, E. R. Karimovа, A. Zh. Zhumakadyrova, E. Zh. Dzhishambaev, K. A. Dzhailobayeva, E. L. Nasonov

“…The aim of the investigation was to study neuropsychic manifestations (NPM) of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in the Kyrgyz cohort of patients. Material and methods. The prospective study included 460 patients with a reliable diagnosis of SLE, verified according to the diagnostic criteria ACR (1997) and SLICC (2012), observed in the clinic of the Academician M. …”
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The median Effective Dose (ED50) and the 95% Effective Dose (ED95) of alfentanil in inhibiting responses to cervical dilation when combined with ciprofol during hysteroscopic proce... by Run Gao, Shu-Xi Li, Yan-Hong Zhou, Li Xing, Jin-Peng Fu, Jian-Jun Shen, Xin-Zhong Chen, Li-Li Xu

“…The requirement of ciprofol, the emergence time, the visual analogue scale score of pain at five time points, and the incidence of adverse events were recorded. …”
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Cross-sectional study of the perceived wellbeing of children in palliative care by Daniel Toro-Pérez, Ester Camprodon-Rosanas, Catalina Bolancé, Montserrat Guillen, Sergi Navarro Vilarrubí, Joaquin T. Limonero

“…Objective: To describe the perceived wellbeing (pWB) and the psychological characteristics of young people with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions (LLTCs). Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study in young people aged 8 years or older with collection of data on demographic and disease-related variables from the health records. …”
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Effect of intraoperative mitomycin C application at different concentrations on corneal densitometry after SmartSurfACE transepithelial photorefractive keratectomy by Taorui Yu, Chunxiao Yan, He Wang, Lin Jin, Xiaoyu Liu, Wenjia Li, Jiliang Ning, Siyu Sun, Zequn Xing, Qiaosi Zhang, Lijun Zhang

“…Corneal haze, uncorrected distance visual acuity (UDVA), and spherical equivalent (SE) were assessed preoperatively and at 2 weeks, 1 month, and 3 months postoperatively. …”
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Recommendations for the optimization of student led free vision screening programs by Nirupama Devanathan, Melanie Scheive, Amrish Selvam, Baraa S. Nawash, Alec Murphy, McKenna Morrow, Shruti Anant, Jessica S. Kruger, Chi-Wah Rudy Yung, Thomas V. Johnson

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Radiomics in the differential diagnosis of glioblastoma under the primary neurooncoimaging conditions by Nikita E. Maslov, Daria A. Valenkova, Alexander M. Sinitсa, Gennadiy E. Trufanov, Vladimir M. Moiseenko, Alexander Yu. Efimtsev, Vera V. Chernobrivtseva

“…The aim of our study is to develop a radiomics model for IDH mutation status prediction, which can be applied to primary diagnostic imaging in patients with suspected adult-type diffuse gliomas. Materials and methods. We conducted a retrospective comparative statistical analysis of radiomic features extracted from 46 conventional brain MR images of the patients with adult-type diffuse gliomas and identified IDH mutation status using the Random Forest algorithm of machine learning in combination with various preprocessing methods of the source imaging data and a semi-automated LevelTracing tool used for segmentation of the regions of interest (ROI). …”
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