Pulse oximetry at two sensor placement sites in conscious foals by Heini Sofia Rossi, Anna Kristina Mykkänen, Jouni Juho Tapio Junnila, Heli Katariina Hyytiäinen

“…Pulse oximetry in general was well tolerated and easy to perform, but as expected in conscious foals, movement and contact problems generated occasional technical difficulties in some individuals. …”
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Comparing standard treatment of moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnoea to add-on acetazolamide treatment: An open-label randomised controlled trial by Anurag Tripathi, Ved Prakash, Hemant Kumar, Mohammad Arif, Atul Tiwari, Sachin Kumar, Mrityunjaya Singh, Deepak Sharma, Shubhra Srivastava

“…Both groups reported minimal and comparable side effects, indicating the safety and tolerability of the combination therapy. Conclusion: The addition of acetazolamide to CPAP therapy improves efficacy in OSA treatment parameters among moderate-to-severe OSA, reduces total and NREM AHI as well as ODI without an increase in adverse effects. …”
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“Inclisiran: Early LDL-C target achievement in a real-life population” by Francesco Briani, Mauro Bagli, Gabriele Venturi, Francesco Bacchion, Antonio Mugnolo

“…Methods: This observational, single-center, retrospective cohort study included patients affected by dyslipidemia who could not achieve their LDL-C target despite a maximum tolerated oral lipid-lowering therapy (LLT). 284 mg Inclisiran was subcutaneously administered. …”
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One stage transanal versus one stage laparoscopic-assisted transanal endorectal pull-through in managing Hirschsprung’s disease in pediatric age group; a retrospective study by Ahmed Elrouby, Sameh Shehata, Saber Waheeb, Ahmed Khairi, Doaa AbdAl-Aziz, Baher Looka

“…The two groups were compared as regards the personal data, the operative data, and the post-operative outcomes including the time of passage of stools, time of tolerating oral feeding, the duration of hospital stay, and the development of any early postoperative complications. …”
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Hypoglycemic Effects and Myocardial Protection of Sanghuangporus vaninii Polysaccharide on Diabetes Rats by Yue CHANG, Yue WU, Jianfeng GUO, Weiyuan ZHAO, Yuantian LU, Di LIU

“…Results revealed that SP at all assessed doses could reduce weight loss in T2DM rats compared to the DM group, significantly reduce fasting blood glucose and serum insulin levels, and improve glucose tolerance (P<0.01 or P<0.05). With an increase in the dosage of SP, serum total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG), and low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels in the SP-fed rats reduced (P<0.01 or P<0.05), whereas no significant changes in high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C). …”
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Effect of Cluster Acupuncture of Scalp-point combined with Rehabilitation Training for Daily Living Ability of Patients with Parkinson's Disease by Linjing WANG, Yuan TIAN, Chunying WANG, Lu WANG, Lili SHANG, Wei AN, Hong CHANG

“…The acupoints from the top area, the front area of the top and suboccipital region were selected, and each area was treated by 3-5 acupuncture needles, acupuncture depth is about 20-25 mm, twisting about 200 turns/min after the needle, continuous twisting for five minutes, which is suitable for patients to tolerate, retaining needle 6-8 h, and carry out rehabilitation training during the period of retaining needle, once a day, five days a week, continuous treatment for six weeks. …”
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Transformer-Based Person Detection in Paired RGB-T Aerial Images With VTSaR Dataset by Xiangqing Zhang, Yan Feng, Nan Wang, Guohua Lu, Shaohui Mei

“…However, existing person detection models designed for aerial images heavily rely on numerous labeled instances and exhibit limited tolerance towards complex lighting conditions commonly encountered in search and rescue (SaR) scenarios. …”
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Water Risk and Mining Firms’ Stock Return by Maryam Davallou, Shirin Mehrali

“…Also, the results showed that the amount of rainfall and drought in the region affects the firm's stock returns only up to three seasons, and its long-term effect is zero with a slight tolerance. Additional research findings indicate that during water crises, mining companies may experience a decline in value ranging from 15 to 45 percent. …”
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The optimal treatment of invasive ductal and lobular carcinoma occurring at the same time needs to be established by Supriya Peshin, Rafi Iftekher, Rabia Iqbal, Shagun Singh, Moka Nagaishwarya

“…The complexity of this case was further heightened by a significant family history of breast and colon cancers, and comorbid conditions including borderline diabetes, hypertension and coronary artery disease (CAD), which required careful therapeutic consideration to balance efficacy and tolerability. Pathological evaluation confirmed stage II, grade 2 IDC in the right breast with one positive sentinel lymph node and stage I, grade 1 ILC in the left breast with no nodal involvement. …”
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High-throughput phenotyping of wheat root angle and coleoptile length at different temperatures using 3D-printed equipment by Nevzat Aydin, Mesut Ersin Sönmez, Tuğba Güleç, Bedrettin Demir, Hadi Alipour, Aras Türkoğlu

“…This method can be seamlessly integrated into breeding programs to enhance drought tolerance, rapidly phenotyping populations for root and coleoptile characteristics.…”
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Small Magnets, Big Future: Low-Field MRI Technology and Clinical Utility by Mohamamdreza Elhaie, Abolfazl Koozari, Iraj Abedi, Mahmoud Mohammadi-Sadr, Abbas Monsef

“…It enables the scanning of anxious patients and children who cannot tolerate enclosed high-field scanners due to discomfort. …”
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Genome-Wide Identification of the CIPK Gene Family in Jasmine and Expression Analysis Under Salt Stress by Shuang Zhang, Xin Huang, Lili Yin, Jiawei Li, Jiacan Xu, Ruigang Wu

“…These findings would lay a foundation for future functional studies of these two genes in jasmine related to salt stress and provide useful resistance genes for the molecular breeding of new varieties of salt-tolerant jasmine.…”
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Quality of Life Assessment in Diabetic Patients Using a Validated Tool in a Patient Population Visiting a Tertiary Care Center in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India by Dayanidhi Meher, Sonali Kar, Mona Pathak, Snigdha Singh

“…The pretested tool has 8-domain role limitation due to physical health, physical endurance, general health, treatment satisfaction, symptom botherness, financial worries, emotional/mental health, and diet advice tolerance. The validated tool had 34 items (questions) that were selected to represent these domains on the basis of extraction communality, factor loading, and interitem and item-total correlations. …”
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Examining the impact of probiotic Lactiplantibacillus pentosus 6MMI on inhibiting biofilm formation, adhesion, and virulence gene expression in Listeria monocytogenes ATCC 19115 by Behrooz Alizadeh Behbahani, Mostafa Rahmati-Joneidabad, Morteza Taki

“…In the next step of the study, the Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) model accurately predicted bile tolerance and acid parameters with a high R2 of 0.99 and minimal Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) values of 0.33 % and 0.21 %, respectively. …”
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Response of Crop Water Requirement and Yield of Irrigated Rice to Elevated Temperature in Bangladesh by Md. Belal Hossain, Debjit Roy, Md. Maniruzzaman, Jatish Chandra Biswas, Umme Aminun Naher, Md. Mozammel Haque, Naveen Kalra

“…Though elevated temperature will save huge irrigation water used in country-wide Boro rice cultivation, the crop developers need to introduce new heat-tolerant cultivar to minimize yield loss.…”
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Latest Advancements in Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) and Electronic Muscle Stimulation (EMS): Revisiting an Established Therapy with New Possibilities by Patel P, Green M, Tram J, Wang E, Murphy M, Abd-Elsayed AA, Chakravarthy K

“…High-frequency TENS is effective for segmental pain control, while low-frequency TENS, reliant on endogenous opioid pathways, may be less effective in opioid-tolerant patients. Additionally, TENS may influence autonomic functions, such as micro-perfusion and sympathetic tone, further broadening its therapeutic potential. …”
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The effect of cryopreservation in liquid nitrogen on the viability of flax seeds by An. V. Pavlov, E. A. Porokhovinova, N. B. Brutch, Al. V. Pavlov, V. G. Verzhuk

“…A two-factor analysis of variance showed that liquid nitrogen had significant effect on laboratory germination energy, field germination capacity, laboratory germination energy and capacity after 6 months of storage at room temperature: the effect size was 42, 11, 31, and 24%, respectively, while treatment with P(3HB) had no significant effect on any of the options of the experiment with its application.Conclusion. Flax seeds tolerated direct immersion in liquid nitrogen (t = –196°C) best of all in gauze packaging. …”
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The Genetic Expression Difference of A2058 Cells Treated by Plasma Direct Exposure and Plasma-Treated Medium and the Appropriate Treatment Strategy by Chao-Yu Chen, Chung-Hsien Chou, Yun-Chien Cheng

“…The fibroblasts showed higher tolerance to plasma treatments. From gene expression analysis, the initial observations showed that both treatments influenced transcription-related pathways and exhibited shared or unique cellular stress responses. …”
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Demographic Associations of Diabetes Status by Both Fasting Plasma Glucose Concentration and Glycated Hemoglobin in a Community Survey in Galle District, Sri Lanka by Keddagoda Gamage Piyumi Wasana, Anoja Priyadarshani Attanayake, Thilak Priyantha Weerarathna, Kamani Ayoma Perera Wijewardana Jayatilaka

“…Diagnostic tools used in detecting individuals with diabetes mellitus (DM) include fasting plasma glucose (FPG), glycated hemoglobin (HbA1C), and oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT). The present study was aimed to determine the demographic associations of diabetes status by both tests (FPG and HbA1C) in Galle district, Sri Lanka. 147 adults (30–60 years) who are having FPG ≥ 126 mg/dL underwent demographic evaluations and testing for HbA1C. …”
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Pilot study of extended-release lorcaserin for cocaine use disorder among men who have sex with men: A double-blind, placebo-controlled randomized trial. by Glenn-Milo Santos, Janet Ikeda, Phillip Coffin, John E Walker, Tim Matheson, Matthew McLaughlin, Jennifer Jain, Eric Vittinghoff, Steven L Batki

“…<h4>Conclusion</h4>We found that it is feasible, acceptable, and tolerable to conduct a placebo-controlled pharmacologic trial for MSM with CUD who are actively using cocaine. …”
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