PLA-Based Electrospun Nanofibrous Mats Towards Application as Antibiotic Carriers: Processing Parameters, Fabrication and Characterization by Evi Christodoulou, Anastasia Chondromatidou, Nikolaos D. Bikiaris, Evangelia Balla, Marilena Vlachou, Panagiotis Barmpalexis, Dimitrios N. Bikiaris

“…A sum of complementary characterization techniques, including scanning electron microscopy (SEM), infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), were applied to comparatively investigate the fibers’ morphology, structural properties, and crystallinity. Drug loading, porosity, degradation, and in vitro release profiles were evaluated. …”
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Mediation Effect of Resilience Between Social Support and Depression Symptoms in Patients With Strabismus: A Cross-Sectional Study by Mo Y, Zhang H, Yu X, Xu Z, Xiao H, Gao L, Wang Y

“…Patients completed the Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS), Social Support Rating Scale, and Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale. Multiple linear regression and structural equation modeling explored the relationship between social support, resilience, and depression symptoms.Results: Of the 200 patients, 28.5% had depression symptoms (21.5% mild, 6.0% moderate, and 1.0% severe). …”
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Visual perception and cognitive functioning in MCI and mild Alzheimer’s disease: a cross-sectional study protocol from the DEM-VIS study in Germany by Elmar Graessel, Jessica Roloff, Mark Stemmler, Leonie Krakat, Johanna Weis, Hartmut Lehfeld, Julia Christin Jaščenoka, Monika Daseking

“…Data analysis will involve descriptive analyses, linear regression analyses, multivariate analysis of variance, mediation analysis and structural equation modelling.Ethics and dissemination This study has received approval from the Ethics Committee of Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, Germany (number: 2023_009). …”
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Attitudes and practices toward anxiety among haemodialysis patients: a multicentre cross-sectional study in Qingdao, China by Lin Li, Wei Jiang, Yan Xu, Bin Zhou, Li Cui, Yifan Liu, Haina Li, Guiling Yuan, Xiaoying Lai

“…For practices, attitude (β=0.281, p<0.001) and the same income category (β=1.512, p=0.011) were significant. Structural equation modelling identified anxiety’s direct effects on attitudes (β=0.218, p<0.001) and practices (β=−0.149, p<0.001), with attitudes positively affecting practices (β=0.380, p<0.001).Conclusions Patients undergoing haemodialysis exhibited high anxiety levels alongside proactive practices and negative attitudes. …”
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Investigating biological sex as a moderator of the association of nature exposure with brain health: a cross-sectional UK biobank analysis by Matt Noseworthy, Ryan S. Falck, Liisa A. M. Galea, Todd C. Handy, Teresa Liu-Ambrose

“…Residential nature exposure was estimated as the percentage of land classified as natural environment within 1000 m and 300 m buffers around each participant’s home. Structural brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) outcomes included total grey matter volume, total white matter volume, and average hippocampal volume, all normalized for head size. …”
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Petrophysical evaluation of clastic formations in boreholes with incomplete well log dataset by using joint inversion technique and machine learning algorithms by Felipe Santana-Román, Ambrosio Aquino López, Manuel Romero Salcedo (+), Raúl del Valle García, Oscar Campos Enriquez

“…., volumes of laminar, structural and disperse shale) in clastic rocks from incomplete well log data we followed three approaches which are based on a hierarchical model, and on a joint inversion technique: 1) Available well log data (excluding the incomplete well log) are used to train machine learning algorithms to generate a predictive model; 2) the first step of the second approach machine learning algorithms are used to generate the missing data which are subsequently included a joint inversion; 3) in the third approach, machine learning process is used to estimate the missing data which are subsequently included in the prediction of the petrophysical properties. …”
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Psychometric validation of the Chinese version of the nursing informatics competence scale and analysis of influencing factors by Jinrui Fei, Chunguang Liang, Weiwei Su, Yuge Wang, Kaiyan Xu, Jiaxin Cheng, Ying Ma, Yue Zhu, Zhaoquan Jiang

“…The scale’s validity was assessed in three aspects: content validity, structural validity, and criterion-related validity. …”
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Additive Manufacturing as an Alternative to Core Sampling in Concrete Strength Assessment by Darya Anop, Marzhan Sadenova, Nail Beisekenov, Olga Rudenko, Zulfiya Aubakirova, Assel Jexembayeva

“…Mixtures containing up to 30% ash-slag filler maintained structural-grade strength while reducing clinker demand, underscoring their sustainability potential. …”
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Sleep duration, sleep disturbances and skeletal muscle mass change over time: A population-based longitudinal analysis in Peru [version 4; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with... by Enrique S. Nuñez-del-Arco, Renzo A. Agurto-García, Rodrigo M. Carrillo-Larco, J. Jaime Miranda, Antonio Bernabe-Ortiz

“…Background The skeletal muscle has mainly a structural function and plays a role in human’s metabolism. …”
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Polygenic indices for cognition in healthy aging; the role of brain measures by A. Tsapanou, N. Mourtzi, Y. Gu, C. Habeck, D. Belsky, Y. Stern

“…Associations were not explained by brain-structural markers of brain aging. Genetics uncovered in GWAS of cognitive performance may contribute to individual differences established relatively early in life and may not reflect genetic mechanisms of cognitive aging.…”
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Automated Deep Learning Based Cardiac Quantification in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: A Comparative Study with Manual Segmentation by Shivam Angiras, Deb Kumar Boruah, Pranjal Phukan, Kalyan Sarma, Prince Das, Rajeev Bharadwaj, Harshit Jain, Ajmal Roshan

“…Incorporation of DL algorithms can substantially streamline the clinical workflow, although careful validation remains necessary in structurally complex cases such as HCM. …”
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Carry-over effects in Culex species along a land use gradient with differences in microclimatic conditions by Carmen Villacañas de Castro, Johann Musculus, Esther Timmermann, Renke Lühken, Ellen Kiel, Felix Gregor Sauer

“…Results A piecewise structural equation model (SEM) was employed to simultaneously estimate the linear regression coefficients for various predicted relationships. …”
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Parameter Optimization of MALDI-TOF MS Based on Improved Whale Optimization Algorithm by Yu-peng ZHANG, Yu-gong DANG, Hui-yuan YANG, Zhi-gang ZHOU, Gao-hang JIANG

“…A mass spectrometer with higher resolution can provide more accurate measurement results, which is particularly important when analyzing and identifying the components in complex samples and distinguishing similar structural ions. In order to optimize the design of MALDI-TOF MS and improve the resolution of the instrument, the following steps were adopted. …”
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Damping of dynamic forces by materials used in the construction of ballast and ballastless railway tracks. Crushed stone by V. M. BEL’KOV

“…An increase in the ambient temperature, especially above 30 °C, reduces the elastic properties and structural viscosity of viscousplastic materials that fill the pore space of a crushed stone prism, thereby reducing its strength. …”
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Research on a Damage Assessment Method for Concrete Components Based on Material Damage by Hongjun Wang, Xiaodan Ren, Zhi Li, Mingsheng Tang

“…With the popularization of the concept of seismic performance-based design, the correct and quantitative evaluation of post-earthquake damage to structural components has become a research focus. Referring to the concrete constitutive relationship mentioned in the Chinese national standard GB/T 50010-2010, this study proposes a damage assessment method for concrete components based on material damage. …”
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Atrophy related neuroimaging biomarkers for neurological and cognitive function in Wilson disease by Ann Carolin Hausmann, Christian Rubbert, Silja K. Querbach, Vivien Lorena Ivan, Alfons Schnitzler, Christian Johannes Hartmann, Julian Caspers

“…Methods In this study, 30 WD patients and 30 age- and sex-matched healthy controls were enrolled prospectively and underwent structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Regional atrophy was evaluated using established linear radiological measurements and the automated workflow volumetric estimation of gross atrophy and brain age longitudinally (veganbagel) for age- and sex-specific estimations of regional brain volume changes. …”
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Ten‐Year Outcomes and Predictors of Mortality Following Catheter Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia by Laura Rottner, Andreas Metzner, Matthias Hochadel, Jochen Senges, Stephan Willems, Hüseyin Ince, Lars Eckardt, Thomas Deneke, Patrick Lugenbiel, Johannes Brachmann, Julian Chun, Roland Tilz, Andreas Rillig

“…It plays a key role in acute therapy of electrical storm, treatment of VTs in patients with structural heart disease (SHD), and can reduce VT burden. …”
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Progress in silicon-based reconfigurable and programmable all-optical signal processing chips by Jing Xu, Wenchan Dong, Qingzhong Huang, Yujia Zhang, Yuchen Yin, Zhenyu Zhao, Desheng Zeng, Xiaoyan Gao, Wentao Gu, Zihao Yang, Hanghang Li, Xinjie Han, Yong Geng, Kunpeng Zhai, Bei Chen, Xin Fu, Lei Lei, Xiaojun Wu, Jianji Dong, Yikai Su, Ming Li, Jianguo Liu, Ninghua Zhu, Xuhan Guo, Heng Zhou, Huashun Wen, Kun Qiu, Xinliang Zhang

“…Abstract Taking the advantage of ultrafast optical linear and nonlinear effects, all-optical signal processing (AOSP) enables manipulation, regeneration, and computing of information directly in optical domain without resorting to electronics. …”
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Assessing the performance of novel and sustainable electrochemical sensor based on cobalt sulfide/upcycled reduced graphene oxide from plastic waste by Arafat Toghan, N. Roushdy, Sami A. Al-Hussain, Mohamed S. Elnouby, Samah M. Yousef, A.A.M. Farag, M. Elsayed Youssef, Noha A. Elessawy

“…In this study, a cobalt sulfide/reduced graphene oxide (CoS/rGO) nanocomposite was synthesized via a straightforward, low-cost method that integrates thiourea and cobalt acetate to form CoS, with rGO derived from recycled plastic waste. The structural and electrochemical properties of the composites were systematically investigated using cyclic voltammetry (CV) and linear sweep voltammetry (LSV). …”
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Increasing the noise immunity of radio receiving paths with automatic sensitivity control by Р. V. Zayats, I. Y. Malevich

“…To overcome the disadvantages of attenuating ASCs, structures that implement the exchange of the transmission coefficient of the RRP to DR and linearity are proposed. …”
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