Divisive Refinement of Metal Fiber at the PM0.1 Classification Stage for PM0.5–0.1 Sampling with Nanosampler by Yuta Kurotsuchi, Kazuhiko Sekiguchi, Yohei Hayakawa

“…The PM0.1 classification efficiency test was conducted, and a linear analysis of the total filling mass of SUS wool fiber along with classifying efficiency of 100 nm PM was performed. …”
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Cefazolin Alone Versus Cefazolin With Tobramycin or Gentamicin as Intraoperative Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Total Joint Arthroplasty by Meera M. Dhodapkar, MD, MHS, Scott J. Halperin, MD, MHS, Zachary Radford, MD, Lee E. Rubin, MD, FAAOS, FAOA, Jonathan N. Grauer, MD, Mengnai Li, FAAOS, MD, PhD

“…Five-year implant survival was assessed using Kaplan-Meier analysis and log-rank tests. Results: For THA, 32,882 patients were identified, prophylactic cefazolin alone was given to 30,527 (92.8%), and cefazolin + gentamicin/tobramycin was given to 2355 (7.2%). …”
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Ocular Surface Disease Severity in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: is This Really Significant in Daily Life? by Demet Yabanoglu, Funda Gode

“…Ocular surface disease grading was performed using the Ocular Surface Disease Index questionnaire, slit lamp examination, meibomian gland secretion scoring, tear film breakup time, staining scores of ocular surfaces, the Schirmer's test, and tear osmolarity assessment. RESULTS: The study observed no significant difference in age (p=0.896). …”
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Treatment and outcomes of high-risk neuroblastoma in Southeast Asia: a single-institution experience and review of the literature by Anselm Chi-Wai Lee, Chan Hon Chui, Robert Kwok, Kim Shang Lee, Chee Meng Fong, Wilfred Hing-Sang Wong

“…There were 31 survivors, with 27 patients surviving in first remission, and the five-year overall survival and event-free survival rates were 52.5% and 47.4%, respectively. On log-rank testing, only the group of 17 patients who were exclusively treated at our centre had a survival advantage. …”
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Application of hypertension clinical guidelines among family medicine doctors in primary health care centers in Riyadh City, Saudi Arabia by Abdulaziz Alhussain, Tarek El Said, Abdulmajeed Aloraini, Abdulelah Alhussain, Turki B. Alqahtani, Mostafa Kofi

“…Descriptive statistics and appropriate statistical tests were used for data analysis. Results: The demographic profile of participants revealed a comprehensive representation of age, marital status, nationality, job title, qualification, and years of practice. …”
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Prevalence and risk factors of gestational diabetes mellitus among pregnant women in northern Vietnam: a cross-sectional study by Hieu Minh Le, Thi Ai Nguyen, Dang Kien Nguyen, Ditte Søndergaard Linde, Ib Christian Bygbjerg, Jens Søndergaard, Thanh Duc Nguyen, Bay Quang Nguyen, Ngoc-Anh Thi Dang, Xuan Bai Nguyen, Dan W. Meyrowitsch, Christina A. Vinter, Tine M. Gammeltoft, Vibeke Rasch

“…A 2-hour 75 g oral glucose tolerance test was conducted at 24–28 weeks of gestation. GDM was diagnosed according to the World Health Organization 2013 criteria. …”
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Prospective Evaluation of 24 h/2 Days’ Monitoring of Systemic Blood Pressure in Patients with Traumatic Paraplegia – A Single-center Study by Vandana Chaudhary, N S Verma, Bhupendra Kumar, Kumar Rahul, Satish Kumar

“…The continuous variables were statistically analyzed and compared by t-test. Results: The night dipping (Systole) and morning surge (Systole) were significantly lower on 12th day as compared to within 7 days (P = 0.002) whereas the diurnal index (diastole) and diurnal index (mean arterial pressure) were comparable in between within 7 days and 12th day. …”
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Reproductive Risk Factors Associated with Female Infertility in Sonepat District of Haryana: A Community Based Cross-Sectional Study by Deepika Kataria, Babita Rani, Anita Punia, S. K. Jha, M. Narendran, Jagmohan Singh

“…After taking written informed consent, all the participants were interviewed using a pre-designed, pre-tested semi-structured questionnaire for desired information. …”
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I tweet, therefore I am: a systematic review on social media use and disorders of the social brain by Nancy Yang, Bernard Crespi

“…Current evidence also suggests that increased social media usage, via its disembodied and isolative nature, may be associated with psychotic spectrum phenotypes, especially delusionality, by the decoupling of inter and intra-corporeal cues integral to shared reality testing, leading to the blurring of self-other boundaries.…”
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Optimizing Photovoltaic Panel Performance: A Comparative Study of Meta-Heuristic Algorithms by M. Sundar Rajan

“…Our findings indicate that the HPSGWO algorithm achieves the lowest error rates and the highest efficiency, accuracy, and convergence speed across all tested PV models. This method was compared against other well-known algorithms such as Artificial Bee Colony (ABC), Dragonfly Algorithm (DA), Grey Wolf Optimizer (GWO), Cuckoo Search (CS), Composite Grey Wolf Optimizer (CGWO), and the standalone PSO and GWO methods. …”
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Evaluation of microleakage of three different types of pit and fissure sealants using invasive and non-invasive techniques (An in-vitro study) by Hiwa S. Khidir, Hemn M. Suleman

“…Microleakage was analyzed by using paired t-test and ANOVA. Results: Invasive technique produced significantly less microleakage than Non-Invasive groups (P<0.05). …”
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Low-density SNP marker sets for genetic variation analysis and variety identification in cultivated citrus by Phuong Linh Nguyen, Jin-Kee Jung, Jee-Soo Park, Sung-Chur Sim

“…The resulting SNP sets are a resource to enhance the phenotype-based DUS testing by developing a DNA barcode system and thus facilitate new variety breeding and protection in citrus.…”
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Exploring cognitive and neuroimaging profiles of dementia subtypes of individuals with dementia in the Democratic Republic of Congo by Jean Ikanga, Jean Ikanga, Saranya Sundaram Patel, Saranya Sundaram Patel, Megan Schwinne, Caterina Obenauf, Caterina Obenauf, Emmanuel Epenge, Guy Gikelekele, Nathan Tshengele, Immaculee Kavugho, Samuel Mampunza, Lelo Mananga, Charlotte E. Teunissen, Julio C. Rojas, Brandon Chan, Argentina Lario Lago, Joel H. Kramer, Adam L. Boxer, Andreas Jeromin, Emile Omba, Alvaro Alonso, Alden L. Gross

“…Both cognitive and neuroimaging profiles aligned poorly with biomarker classifications in the full sample. Cognitive tests varied across dementia subtypes. The cognitive profile of the AD-only and mixed groups suggested relatively low cognitive performance, while the non-AD and other groups had the best scores on average.ConclusionConsistent with studies in other settings, our preliminary findings suggest that neurodegenerative plasma biomarkers may help to identify dementia subtypes and provide insight into cognitive and neuroimaging profiles among older adults in the DRC.…”
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Evaluación del uso de la radiación UV y ozono en la degradación de metilparabeno by Yesmmy Álvarez-Gómez, Daniel Ricardo Delgado

“…[Introducción]: Los contaminantes emergentes (CEs) son ahora tema de interés para diversas áreas de investigación científica, identificándose en su mayoría estudios internacionales, sin embargo, aún se carece de información suficiente sobre los verdaderos efectos de estos compuestos en el ambiente y en la salud de las poblaciones que estén en contacto con este tipo de contaminantes, requiriéndose a su vez la búsqueda y ejecución de tratamientos efectivos para minimizar su bioacumulación en el entorno, especialmente de aquellas sustancias de origen farmacéutico, las cuales ya están siendo reconocidas por su alto grado de toxicidad. …”
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Impacts of coal fracture roughness and aperture on the seepage of injected water: An experimental study by Gang WANG, Xuechang CHEN, Hao CHEN, Qingming LONG, Yixin LIU

“…MethodsThis study prepared coal samples containing fractures with different roughness and apertures using sandpaper and polyimide tape, calculated the fracture roughness parameters accurately using a confocal laser scanning microscope (CLSM), and tested the seepage rate of fractured coal samples. …”
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The Bronze Age Site of Tarangul (Aktobe Cis-Urals): Examining One Casting Mo by Darkhan A. Baitileu, Albina Ye. Yerzhanova, Ilaria Calgaro

“…In general, the conducted tests have well reconstructed the manufacturing techniques and stages of use for the mold from the Late Bronze Age settlement of Tarangul in the Aktobe Cis-Urals, and highlighted certain aspects in the study of molds as a specific source on metal production techniques and technologies in prehistory. …”
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Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin: a biochemical marker for acute kidney injury and long-term outcomes in patients presenting to the emergency department by Kah Hui Brian Teo, Swee Han Lim, Ying Hao, Yin Keong Daryl Lo, Ziwei Lin, Manish Kaushik, Chieh Suai Tan, Mohammed Zuhary Thajudeen, Choon Peng Jeremy Wee

“…Serum NGAL was measured as a point-of-care test. Results: A total of 784 patients were enrolled, of whom 107 (13.6%) had AKI. …”
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Stability analysis of three-dimensional slope reinforced by natural fiber include wheat straw and bamboo by Jiahua Zhang, Yunjun Wei, Yuanlei Zhu, Daobing Zhang, Biao Zhang

“…For the problem about the stability of three-dimensional slope reinforced by wheat straw and bamboo natural reinforced fiber materials, the direct shear experiments were done to study the changes in shear strength of the two kinds of natural fiber reinforced soil under different reinforcement rates and curing time, respectively. The test results were introduced into the 3D stability analysis model of reinforced slopes, and the analytical solution of the stability factor was deduced by the upper bound theorem, and an optimal upper limit solution of the stability factor was solved by the exhaustive enumeration method by Matlab software. …”
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Morphological features of autoimmune gastritis by Ye. A. Losik, L. S. Selivanova, M. Yu. Konkov, T. L. Lapina, A. S. Tertychnyi, V. T. Ivashkin

“…Thus, the diagnosis of AIG was based mainly on elevated level antiparietal cells antibodies at blood serum test.…”
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Evaluating the surgical and oncological outcomes of hepatic artery variations in minimally invasive pancreaticoduodenectomy: insights from 2023 data at a high-volume pancreatic cen... by Tianyu Li, Liangbo Dong, Dongming Zhang, Jiashu Han, Menghua Dai, Junchao Guo, Qiang Xu, Weibin Wang, Xianlin Han, Chen Lin

“…Survival analysis was performed using the Kaplan-Meier method with log-rank tests. Results HAV was identified in 26.1% of patients, and CR-HAV in 18.9%. …”
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