Preliminary survey of forest elephant crossings in Sangha Trinational Park, central Africa by Karen Weinbaum, Zacharie Nzooh, Leonard Usongo, Melinda Laituri

“…We used a reconnaissance survey technique and dung counts combined with a GIS analysis to survey elephant crossings on the Sangha River. At present, radio-collaring elephants in dense forest is both logistically difficult and expensive, and therefore ground surveys provide a cheaper alternative method for identifying major elephant movement corridors. …”
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Comparing Stenting with Medical Therapy Versus Medical Therapy Alone in Patients with Intracranial Atherosclerotic Stenosis: A Current Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Khalid Bin Aziz, Hussam Alhathlol, Fahad Bin Aziz, Mohammed Alshammari, Mohammed Ali Alhefdhi, Abdulrahman M. Alrasheed, Nawwaf Alfayez, Thamer S. Alhowaish

“…The consistency of this message across multiple RCTs provides a high level of evidence to guide practice. At present, aggressive medical therapy alone should be the default management for most patients. …”
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Els ‘Disability Studies’ i el gir hermenèutic de la discapacitat Disability studies and the change in the hermeneutics of disability Los ‘Disability Studies’ y el giro hermenéutico... by Assumpció Pié Balaguer

“…Il pose les difficultés ainsi que les défis qui doivent être relevés pour parvenir à un modèle social du handicap, de même que leurs points de convergence epistémologiques. …”
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Validation d'une version française du NADL-F : mesure de l'impact dans l’utilisation financière au quotidien chez des adultes avec des difficultés en mathématiques. by Marion Lavest, Jessica Bourgin, Anne Lafay

“…Objectifs : L’objectif était de comparer les capacités de manipulation des concepts financiers et de compréhension des situations d’achats chez des individus avec et sans difficulté en mathématiques. Méthode : La présente étude inclut 171 volontaires ne présentant pas de trouble neurologique acquis. …”
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Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Identification and Management of Frailty: A Scoping Review Protocol by Clare Liddy, Daniel I McIsaac, Sathya Karunananthan, Sabrina T Wong, Bishwajit Ghose, Nadia Sourial, Howard Bergman, Hui Yan, Ramtin Hakimjavadi, Samira Abbasgholizadeh Rahimi, Arya Rahgozar, Kunal A Dalsania, Jim LaPlante, Tess McCutcheon, Manpreet Thandi

“…While early identification and management of frailty may limit adverse health outcomes, the complex presentations of frailty pose challenges for clinicians. …”
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Impact of CYP3A5 1* and 3* single nucleotide variants on tacrolimus pharmacokinetics and graft rejection risk in pediatric kidney transplant patients by Lesly Yanira Xajil-Ramos, Lesly Yanira Xajil-Ramos, Lesly Yanira Xajil-Ramos, Lesly Yanira Xajil-Ramos, Jesús Alonso Gándara-Mireles, Jesús Alonso Gándara-Mireles, Rodrigo José Vargas Rosales, Rodrigo José Vargas Rosales, Rodrigo José Vargas Rosales, Oscar Kevin Sánchez García, Andrea Mariela Ruano Toledo, Amy Kateleen Aldana de la Cruz, Ismael Lares-Asseff, Ismael Lares-Asseff, Leslie Patrón-Romero, Horacio Almanza-Reyes, Randall Lou-Meda

“…The CYP3A5 *3/*3 genotype was most prevalent (66.7%), followed by *1/*3 (26.7%) and *1/*1 (6.7%). …”
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The Effects of Microplastics and Heavy Metals Individually and in Combination on the Growth of Water Spinach (<i>Ipomoea aquatic</i>) and Rhizosphere Microorganisms by Jing-Yi Wang, Meng Wang, Jian-Wei Shi, B. Larry Li, Ling Liu, Peng-Fei Duan, Zhao-Jin Chen

“…Microplastics (MPs) and heavy metals are commonly present in soil at significant concentrations and can interact in complex ways that pose serious threats to environmental and ecological systems. …”
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Environmental gamma dose rate measurements using cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) detectors by S. Kreutzer, L. Martin, D. Miallier, N. Mercier

“…Despite high relative detection efficiency, their small volume may pose different challenges, resulting in impractical measurements in routine studies, and therefore need investigation. …”
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Difficultés diagnostiques de la tuberculose cérébrale by Chahrazed Benrabah

“…L’objectif de cet article était de présenter un cas atypique de tuberculose cérébrale dont le diagnostic a été tardif, posé par l’examen anatomopathologique avec une revue de la littérature. …”
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Difficultés diagnostiques de la tuberculose cérébrale by Chahrazed Benrabah

“…L’objectif de cet article était de présenter un cas atypique de tuberculose cérébrale dont le diagnostic a été tardif, posé par l’examen anatomopathologique avec une revue de la littérature. …”
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Clinical characteristics of pulmonary sarcoidosis in China: a retrospective, multicenter study by Kaige Wang, Linhui Yang, Zhen Kang, Zhuang Luo, Dan Liu, Fen Tan, Weimin Li

“…Background Patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis or intrathoracic lymph node tuberculosis (TB) may present with comparable clinical manifestations that pose challenges in differentiation. …”
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Gastric adenosquamous carcinoma producing granulocyte-colony stimulating factor: a case of a rare malignancy by Kazuki Moro, Masayuki Nagahashi, Tetsuya Naito, Yu Nagai, Tomohiro Katada, Masahiro Minagawa, Jun Hasegawa, Tatsuo Tani, Naohiro Shimakage, Hiroyuki Usuda, Emmanuel Gabriel, Tsutomu Kawaguchi, Kazuaki Takabe, Toshifumi Wakai

“…Due to the rarity of this lesion, a standard treatment for the disease has not been established. Case presentation We describe a case of a 66-year-old male with a G-CSF-producing gastric ASC who presented with severe anemia and leukocytosis. …”
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A discourse analysis of six stories based on the thematic progression factor: Halliday and Matthiessen's functional grammar approach (2014) by seyed abbas navabi sohi, ferdous aghagolzade, ahmad mohseni

“…For example, Marfuaty and Wahyudi (2015), in their investigation of thematic progression patterns in the opinion section of the Jakarta Post, concluded that the most frequent pattern and theme were linear pattern and topical theme. …”
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Biobank-scale genetic characterization of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias across diverse ancestries by Marzieh Khani, Fulya Akçimen, Spencer M. Grant, Suleyman Can Akerman, Paul Suhwan Lee, Faraz Faghri, Hampton Leonard, Jonggeol Jeffrey Kim, Mary B. Makarious, Mathew J. Koretsky, Jeffrey D. Rothstein, Cornelis Blauwendraat, Mike A. Nalls, Andrew Singleton, Sara Bandres-Ciga

“…Abstract Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (AD/ADRDs) pose a significant global public health challenge. …”
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Age‐Associated Increase in Growth Differentiation Factor 15 Levels Correlates With Central Arterial Stiffness and Predicts All‐Cause Mortality in a Sardinian Population Cohort by Richard Oppong, Valeria Orru, Michele Marongiu, Yong Qian, Carlo Sidore, Alessandro Delitala, Marco Orru, Antonella Mulas, Maria Grazia Piras, Christopher H. Morrell, Sandra Lai, David Schlessinger, Myriam Gorospe, Francesco Cucca, Edoardo Fiorillo, Jun Ding, Edward G. Lakatta, Angelo Scuteri

“…Serum levels of GDF‐15, which can be reliably measured repeatedly over time, increase with age; are associated with a stiffer aorta; “mediate” a large proportion of the age‐associated increase in arterial stiffness; pose risks because of their association with greater mortality; and are significantly associated with the variant rs11549407, which causes thalassemia major in homozygosity. …”
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Harnessing advanced computational approaches to design novel antimicrobial peptides against intracellular bacterial infections by Yanpeng Fang, Duoyang Fan, Bin Feng, Yingli Zhu, Ruyan Xie, Xiaorong Tan, Qianhui Liu, Jie Dong, Wenbin Zeng

“…Intracellular bacterial infections pose a significant challenge to current therapeutic strategies due to the limited penetration of antibiotics through host cell membranes. …”
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Field-Based Characterization of Peste des Petits Ruminants in Sheep in Romania: Clinical, Pathological, and Diagnostic Perspectives by Romică Iacobescu-Marițescu, Adriana Morar, Viorel Herman, Emil Tîrziu, János Dégi, Kálmán Imre

“…Peste des petits ruminants is a highly contagious transboundary viral disease that poses a serious threat to small ruminant populations worldwide. …”
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea by Ted E. Bunch, Malcolm A. LeCompte, A. Victor Adedeji, James H. Wittke, T. David Burleigh, Robert E. Hermes, Charles Mooney, Dale Batchelor, Wendy S. Wolbach, Joel Kathan, Gunther Kletetschka, Mark C. L. Patterson, Edward C. Swindel, Timothy Witwer, George A. Howard, Siddhartha Mitra, Christopher R. Moore, Kurt Langworthy, James P. Kennett, Allen West, Phillip J. Silvia

“…Tunguska-scale airbursts can devastate entire cities/regions and thus, pose a severe modern-day hazard.…”
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Listening to the bats of Carajás: Bioacoustics in a mosaic of forests, savannas, and industrial mining in the Brazilian Amazonia by LIDIANE GOMES, ENRICO BERNARD

“…Abstract Bats emit echolocation calls for orientation, foraging, and social interactions. These calls are mostly species-specific, making them reliable for inventories and assessing habitat use – characteristics particularly useful in large, species-rich, but poorly sampled areas. …”
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Visceral Arterial Pseudoaneurysms—A Clinical Review by Ashita Ashish Sule, Shreya Sah, Justin Kwan, Sundeep Punamiya, Vishal G. Shelat

“…They have an estimated incidence of 0.1–0.2%, with the splenic artery most commonly affected. Their management poses unique challenges due to the high risk of rupture. …”
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