Spinally targeted paired associative stimulation with high-frequency peripheral component induces spinal level plasticity in healthy subjects by Anna Nätkynmäki, Leena Lauronen, Piia Haakana, Erika Kirveskari, Janne Avela, Anastasia Shulga

“…The H/M ratio (maximal H-reflex normalized to maximal M-wave) also showed a significant increase from PRE to POST30 timepoint in the SPINAL session when compared with the CORTICAL equivalent. These results confirm that spinally targeted high-PAS with individualized ISIs indeed has an effect at the spinal level in the sensorimotor system. …”
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Sex-related Anthropometrics in a Lower-Body Mobility Assessment Among Professional Soccer Athletes by Corbin A. Hedt, Jessica T. Le, Tyler Heimdal, Justin Vickery, Erin Orozco, Patrick C. McCulloch, Bradley S. Lambert

“…A two-tailed t-test was used to compare YBT between sexes. Chi-square was used for sex comparisons of FMS™ scores. …”
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Energy management education for persons living with long COVID-related fatigue (EMERGE): protocol of a two-parallel arms target trial emulation study in a multicentre outpatient in... by Emilia Riggi, Marco Barbero, Gian Luca Di Tanna, Ruth Hersche, Andrea Weise

“…Disease-related and productivity cost data will be collected, and a cost-effectiveness profile of the EME intervention will be compared with standard care.Ethics and dissemination Ethical approval has been obtained from the competent Swiss ethics commission.Findings will be reported (1) to the study participants; (2) to patient organisations and hospitals supporting EMERGE; (3) to funding bodies; (4) to the national and international occupational therapy community and healthcare policy; (5) will be presented at local, national, and international conferences and (6) will be disseminated by peer-review publications.…”
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Reliability of the Tuck Jump Assessment Using Standardized Rater Training by Kevin Racine, Meghan Warren, Craig Smith, Monica R. Lininger

“…These findings suggest that the total score may not be as accurate when compared to individual technique flaws and should be used with caution…”
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Blood Lipid Levels and Their Value as Markers of Disease Activity in Severe Ulcerative Colitis by Zhu L, Tian L, Li S, Huo L

“…We divided the patients with UC into non-severe and severe groups, analyzed the relationship between blood lipid levels and severe UC, and evaluated the early predictive value of blood lipid indicators for severe UC.Results: Compared with healthy individuals, patients with UC had lower total cholesterol (TC), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), and non-HDL-C levels (P< 0.05). …”
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No major impact of new grape varieties on Bordeaux wine typicity: expert assessments in blind and non-blind tastings by Marc Plantevin, Sophie Tempère, Cécile Thibon, Lucile Dijkstra, Julien Lecourt, Agnès Destrac-Irvine, Cornelis van Leeuwen

“…Recently, a study investigating the typicity of 26 red varieties isolated five potential candidates (Fer Servadou, Duras, Manseng noir, Vinhão and Arinarnoa) sharing similar sensorial spaces compared to classical Bordeaux varieties. Varietal mix is strictly regulated by protected denomination of origin (PDO) rules, although these can change over time. …”
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Band Pull-Apart Exercise: Effects of Movement Direction and Hand Position on Shoulder Muscle Activity by Takumi Fukunaga, Connor Fedge, Timothy Tyler, Michael Mullaney, Brandon Schmitt, Karl Orishimo, Malachy McHugh, Stephen Nicholas

“…Peak normalized EMG activity in each muscle was compared in two-way (hand position x direction) repeated-measures ANOVA…”
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Biologic Cost per Effectively Treated Rheumatoid Arthritis Patient in a Large Managed Care Population: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Tao Gu, Neel Shah, Gaurav Deshpande, Derek H. Tang, Debra F. Eisenberg, David J. Harrison

“…**Background:** Until recently, the lack of clinical outcomes information for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in administrative claims databases limited their use in comparative effectiveness research. A validated claims-based algorithm has been developed to estimate the effectiveness of biologics for RA, allowing for estimation of cost and effectiveness in the same database. …”
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The carbon cost of impaired welfare on sheep farms by L. Lanzoni, M.C. Reeves, K. Waxenberg, R. Ramsey, A.S. Atzori, J. Bell, R.M. Rees, G. Vignola, C.M. Dwyer

“…Total GHG emissions and emission intensities (EI) in kg of CO2 equivalent per kg live weight were compared across the baseline and the scenarios. Gross farm emissions and product-level EIs demonstrated divergent patterns in response to impaired welfare. …”
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Mt or not Mt: Temporal variation in detection probability in spatial capture-recapture and occupancy models by Sollmann, Rahel

“…I simulated data under different scenarios of temporal and spatio-temporal variation in detection, analyzed data with the data-generating model and an alternative model ignoring temporal variation in detection, and compared estimates between these two models with respect to relative bias, coefficient of variation (CV) and relative root mean squared error (RMSE). …”
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Descomposición de Vigna unguiculata (caupí) en un Argiudol Típico de Colonia Benítez, Chaco by M. M. J. F. SHINDOI, J. PRAUSE, P. L. JOVER

“…En un Argiudol Típico se realizó la incorporación de caupí a los 74 días después de su siembra, se determinó su tasa de descomposición empleando la técnica de litterbags y cada 30 días se determinaron peso seco y N, P y K foliar. Se calcularon los porcentajes de masa seca remanente (%MSR), la tasa de descomposición y liberación de los nutrientes analizados. …”
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Circular RNA encoded by PPARG in the peripheral blood and a lipopolysaccharide-induced cardiomyocyte inflammation model is identified as a marker of fulminant myocarditis by Shasha Huang, Shumin He, Fei Xiao, Yang Zhou, Su Lyu

“…Results CircRNA expression profiling of peripheral blood samples from patients revealed 6,435 and 3,678 circRNAs with upregulated and downregulated expression, respectively, compared with healthy controls. The expression of 1,749 circRNAs did not significantly differ between the groups. …”
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In-Season Automated Mapping of Xinjiang Cotton Based on Cumulative Spectral and Phenological Characteristics by Yongsheng Huang, Yaozhong Pan, Yu Zhu, Xiufang Zhu, Xingsheng Xia, Qiong Chen, Jufang Hu, Hongyan Che, Xuechang Zheng, Lingang Wang

“…In the absence of samples, the accuracy of the CSP method was comparable to that of support vector machine and RF-supervised classification results, which could be realized 60&#x2013;70 days before cotton harvest. …”
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Efficacy of non-invasive brain stimulation interventions on cognitive impairment: an umbrella review of meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials by Minmin Wu, Wenjing Song, Xue Wang, Lili Teng, Jinting Li, Jiongliang Zhang, Xinyue Li, Donghui Yu, Huanhuan Jia, Binhan Wang, Qiang Tang, Luwen Zhu

“…To synthesize evidence from SRMAs assessing the effectiveness of NIBS techniques on cognitive and mental outcomes in AD and MCI populations. By comparing our findings to recent reviews and clinical guidelines, we highlight how this study addresses current limitations in the literature, provides a more holistic perspective on NIBS interventions, and guides future research and clinical practice. …”
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Large-scale screening of HIV-1 T-cell epitopes restricted by 12 prevalent HLA-A allotypes in Northeast Asia and universal detection of HIV-1-specific CD8+ T cells by Yan Ding, Jialai Yan, Ling Huang, Jinhong Yu, Yandan Wu, Chuanlai Shen, Anning Fang

“…In 52 people with HIV-1, the number of reactive HIV-1 specific CD8+ T cells was significantly higher in the CD4+ T-cell-high patient group compared to the CD4+ T-cell-low patient group, and it correlated with the CD4+ T-cell-low patient group (&lt;200/μL).ConclusionThis study provides a broad-spectrum CD8+ T-cell epitope library aimed at developing a T-cell-directed HIV vaccine that offers high population coverage in Northeast Asia. …”
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Associations of Long-term PM10 Exposure with Mortality in Dialysis Patients: A Population Based Cohort Study by Shih-Feng Chen, Yu-Hui Chien, Yu-Chin Lai, Pau-Chung Chen

“…Stratification analysis revealed that male patients had a significantly higher increase in mortality risk per IQR increase in PM10 compared to female patients (aHR 1.185 vs. 1.074; p-interaction < 0.001). …”
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Examining Sex Differences in Visual Reliance During Postural Control in Intercollegiate Athletes by Nicolette Ingel, Victoria Vice, Courtney Dommer, Jennifer Csonka, Tara Moore, Ariel Zaleski, Carolyn Killelea, Mallory Faherty, Jody Feld, Timothy Sell

“…Two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests were used to compare differences between sexes. # Results Males had greater EO COMP (males=7.77±3.40; females=6.48±4.61; p=0.038; Cohen’s d=0.343) and EC COMP (males=19.43±8.91; females 14.66±6.65; p=0.001; Cohen’s d=0.571) than females. …”
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Impact of fetal sex on neonatal outcomes in women with gestational diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Mahsa Maghalian, Zohreh Alizadeh-Dibazari, Mojgan Mirghafourvand

“…The results revealed a significant increase in the rates of macrosomia (RR 1.47, 95% CI 1.23 to 1.77, 6 studies, 121,230 neonates; p < 0.0001), cesarean delivery (RR 1.05, 95% CI 1.03 to 1.06, 6 studies, 127,704 neonates; p < 0.0001), large for gestational age (LGA) (RR 1.21, 95% CI 1.08 to 1.36, 6 studies, 16,863 neonates; p < 0.0001), small for gestational age (SGA) (RR 1.14, 95% CI 1.05–1.25, 6 studies, 16,863 neonates; p = 0.002), and a 5-minute Apgar score of less than 7 (RR 1.26, 95% CI 1.11 to 1.43, 2 studies, 104,881 neonates; p = 0.0003) in male neonates compared to female neonates. However, there were no significant differences in the rates of preterm delivery (p = 0.86), jaundice (p = 0.75), and a 1-minute Apgar score of less than 7 (p = 0.08) between male and female neonates in women with GDM. …”
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Exosomes and their distinct integrins transfer the characteristics of oxaliplatin- and 5-FU-resistant behaviors in colorectal cancer cells by Zeynab Vakili-Ghartavol, Hoda Deli, Amir Shadboorestan, Roxana Sahebnasagh, Elahe Motevaseli, Mohammad Hossein Ghahremani

“…A twofold reduction of ITGαv in FUR cell exosomes resulted in a threefold decrease in invasion and inhibited migration in parental cells compared to those treated with high ITGαv exosomes. …”
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Patent Ductus Arteriosus Stenting via Percutaneous Common Carotid Artery Access for Ductus Dependent Pulmonary Blood Flow in Newborns and Infants: Experience in Latvia by Zanda Grīnberga, Elizabete Zaharāne, Pauls Sīlis, Valts Ozoliņš, Normunds Sikora, Elīna Ligere

“…Conclusions: PDA stenting using the transcarotid approach is currently considered a relatively safe method and does not have a greater risk of developing postprocedural complications compared to the transfemoral approach. Transcarotidal PDA stenting in neonates and small infants with ductus-dependent critical congenital heart disease is possible in small volume paediatric cardiac surgery centre to stabilise the patient prior to definitive surgery or palliation of complex CHD. …”
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