Regulation of human papillomavirus E6 oncoprotein function via a novel ubiquitin ligase FBXO4 by Arushi Vats, Luca Braga, Nezka Kavcic, Paola Massimi, Edoardo Schneider, Mauro Giacca, Laimonis A. Laimins, Lawrence Banks

“…Interestingly, E6AP not only aids in the E6-directed degradation of cellular substrates but also stabilizes the E6 protein by protecting it from proteasome-mediated degradation. …”
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CLP-Net: an advanced artificial intelligence technique for localizing standard planes of cleft lip and palate by three-dimensional ultrasound in the first trimester by Guangzhi He, Zhou Li, Zhiyuan Zhu, Tong Han, Yan Cao, Chaoyu Chen, Yuhao Huang, Haoran Dou, Lianying Liang, Fangmei Zhang, Jin Peng, Tao Tan, Hongmei Liu, Xin Yang, Dong Ni

“…Conclusions CLP-Net accurately locates three planes for CLP screening, aiding radiologists and enhancing the efficiency of ultrasound examinations.…”
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Quality of life among residents of informal urban settlements during the COVID-19 pandemic in Salvador, Brazil by Albert I Ko, Federico Costa, Hammed Mogaji, Nivison Nery, Hernan D Argibay, Jaqueline S Cruz, Ianei O Carneiro, Ricardo Lustosa, Mike Begon, Hussein Khalil

“…Food insecurity was 69.6%, and only 27.1% received government aid. Those retaining employment during the pandemic had better physical (β: 4.02, 95% CI 1.34 to 6.69, p<0.001) and mental (β: 3.08, 95% CI 0.60 to 5.56, p<0.001) health. …”
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Quantifying the potential of using Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) soil moisture variability to predict subsurface water dynamics by A. K. Nayak, X. Xu, X. Xu, S. K. Frey, S. K. Frey, O. Khader, O. Khader, A. R. Erler, D. R. Lapen, H. A. J. Russell, E. A. Sudicky, E. A. Sudicky

“…This work demonstrates SMAP SM measurements as a potentially useful aid when predicting root zone SM and GW dynamics and validating fully integrated hydrologic models across different spatial scales. …”
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A prospective observational cohort study of HIV infection in Indonesia: baseline characteristics and one-year mortality by Tuti P. Merati, Evy Yunihastuti, Rudi Wisaksana, Nia Kurniati, Dona Arlinda, Muhammad Karyana, Nugroho H. Susanto, Dewi Lokida, Herman Kosasih, Aly Diana, Lois E. Bang, Melinda Setiyaningrum, Desrinawati M. Amin, Eppy Eppy, Wiwit A. S. N. Cahyawati, Emon W. Danudirgo, I Made Gede Darmaja, Nur Farhanah, Carta A. Gunawan, Usman Hadi, Kurnia F. Jamil, Sudirman Katu, Tambar Kembaren, I Gede Rai Kosa, Danang L. Norosingomurti, Asep Purnama, Ida S. Laksanawati, Adria Rusli, I Ketut Agus Somia, Yanri W. Subronto, Ivan L. Toruan, Renee Ridzon, C. Jason Liang, Aaron T. Neal, Ray Y. Chen, INA-PROACTIVE Study Group

“…Despite this progress, AIDS-related deaths among people living with HIV (PLWH) increased from 3.4% in 2010 to 4.8% in 2020. …”
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Preference for HIV testing among community residents in Yunnan Province, China: results from a discrete choice experiment by Jingwen Yang, Chenquan Qiu, Renhai Tang, Wenbin Dong, Enlong Yao, Huyunzhao Wang, Shuwen Lin, Minyang Xiao, Zuyang Zhang, Jin Niu, Liru Fu, Lijun Song, Xuehua Li, Yuhua Shi, Xiaowen Wang

“…Abstract Background The detection and early identification of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH) and their rapid engagement in antiretroviral treatment are indispensable for fighting HIV transmission. …”
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Designing a Policy Making Model in Iran' Sport with the Approach of Sport for All Development by Behdad Sadeghi, Rahmatollah Gholipour, Mojtaba Amiri, Marjan Saffari

“…The primary categories of the sport policy-making model in Iran for the development of 'sport for all' include contextual factors, mediating factors, role players and influential institutions, executive requirements, environmental complexities, risks, legal problems, external organizational factors, costs and expenses, and interorganizational challenges. With the aid of interpretive structural modeling, conceptual modeling was conducted. …”
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Seasonal Mathematical Model of Salmonellosis Transmission and the Role of Contaminated Environments and Food Products by Mohammed H. Alharbi, Fawaz K. Alalhareth, Mahmoud A. Ibrahim

“…Parameter estimation for the model was accomplished with the aid of Latin hypercube sampling and least squares methods on Salmonella outbreak data from Saudi Arabia ranging from 2018 to 2021. …”
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Developing a Prototype Machine Learning Model to Predict Quality of Life Measures in People Living With HIV by Mercadal-Orfila G, Serrano López de las Hazas J, Riera-Jaume M, Herrera-Perez S

“…Additionally, the model demonstrated strong reliability in maintaining standardized prediction errors below 0.2 for most instruments, with probabilities of achieving this threshold being 96.43% for WHOQoL HIV Bref and 88.44% for ESTAR, while lower probabilities were observed for TSQM (44%) and WRFQ (51%).Conclusion: The results from our machine learning algorithms are promising for predicting PROMs and PREMs in AIDS settings. This work highlights how integrating ML technologies can enhance clinical pharmaceutical decision-making and support personalized treatment strategies within a multidisciplinary integration framework. …”
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United by Sports? Key Factors affecting Sports Participation in a Sports-based Initiative to Promote Social Integration in Segregated Communities by Anna Boemmel, Matthias Buser, Thomas Persson

“…This study offers valuable insights on benefits and challenges of sport-based programs in fostering social integration within segregated societies, aiding in the formulation of more effective initiatives and policies. …”
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Tools for the Analysis of Quantum Protocols Requiring State Generation Within a Time Window by Bethany Davies, Thomas Beauchamp, Gayane Vardoyan, Stephanie Wehner

“…Since it is difficult to obtain general closed-form expressions for statistical quantities describing the expected waiting time <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mathbb {E}(\tau _{(w,s)})$</tex-math></inline-formula> and the distribution <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$X_{(w,s)}$</tex-math></inline-formula>, we present two novel results that aid their computation in certain parameter regimes. …”
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Environmental, socioeconomic, and sociocultural drivers of monkeypox transmission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a One Health perspective by Guangyu Lu, Zeyin Chong, Enyu Xu, Ce Na, Kaixuan Liu, Liying Chai, Pengpeng Xia, Kai Yang, Guoqiang Zhu, Jinkou Zhao, Olaf Müller

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Racial and ethnic differences in fatal child abuse and neglect and the intersection of community poverty: U.S., 2003 to 2022 by Rebecca F. Wilson, Xin Yue, Karen E. Thomas, Krishna Kiran Kota, Carter J. Betz

“…., individual, familial, community), might aid in preventing nonfatal and fatal CAN.…”
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Identifying Touchpoints for Foreign Tourists in the Customer Journey through 5 A's Approach by Mostafa Esmaeili Mahyari, Mohammad Ghaffari, Hamid Reza Irani, Elham Ebrahimi

“…Within the tourism industry, analyzing and identifying the touchpoints of tourists throughout their customer journey can aid destination managers and businesses in developing a meaningful and enduring experience for tourists. …”
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ViTAU: Facial paralysis recognition and analysis based on vision transformer and facial action units by Jia GAO, Wenhao CAI, Junli ZHAO, Fuqing DUAN

“…Furthermore, to facilitate the observation of affected regions, we developed a visualization method that intuitively displays the impacted areas, thereby aiding patients and healthcare professionals in understanding the condition and enhancing communication regarding treatment and rehabilitation strategies. …”
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Correction: Cancer care in German centers of excellence during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic by Volker Arndt, Daniela Doege, Stefan Fröhling, Peter Albers, Hana Algül, Ralf Bargou, Carsten Bokemeyer, Martin Bornhäuser, Christian H. Brandts, Peter Brossart, Sara Yvonne Brucker, Tim H. Brümmendorf, Hartmut Döhner, Norbert Gattermann, Michael Hallek, Volker Heinemann, Ulrich Keilholz, Thomas Kindler, Cornelia von Levetzow, Florian Lordick, Ulf Peter Neumann, Christoph Peters, Dirk Schadendorf, Stephan Stilgenbauer, Thomas Zander, Daniel Zips, Delia Braun, Thomas Seufferlein, Gerd Nettekoven, Michael Baumann

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Active and Passive Smoking as Catalysts for Cognitive Impairment in Rural Indonesia: A Population-based Study by Faizal Muhammad, Afifah Syifaul Ummah, Farida Aisyah, Rivan Danuaji, Diah Kurnia Mirawati, Subandi Subandi, Baarid Luqman Hamidi, Ervina Arta Jayanti Hutabarat, Reviono Reviono, Yulie Erida Nur Rahmawati, Isa Ridwan

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Peer- and community-led responses to HIV: A scoping review. by George Ayala, Laurel Sprague, L Leigh-Ann van der Merwe, Ruth Morgan Thomas, Judy Chang, Sonya Arreola, Sara L M Davis, Aditia Taslim, Keith Mienies, Alessandra Nilo, Lillian Mworeko, Felicita Hikuam, Carlos Garcia de Leon Moreno, José Antonio Izazola-Licea

“…<h4>Introduction</h4>In June 2021, United Nations (UN) Member States committed to ambitious targets for scaling up community-led responses by 2025 toward meeting the goals of ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030. These targets build on UN Member States 2016 commitments to ensure that 30% of HIV testing and treatment programmes are community-led by 2030. …”
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Evaluation on role of the chest pain nurse in emergency management of patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (专职胸痛护士在ST段抬高型急性心肌梗死患者急救中的应用研究)... by QIAN Hongmei (钱宏梅), WEI Yingying (韦莹莹), WANG Yan (王艳)

“…Conclusion In the emergency management of STEMI patients, the establishment of chest pain nurses are helpful to shorten the period first aid in hospital, improve the efficiency of emergency treatment. …”
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