Sex steroid hormones mediate the association between neonicotinoids and obesity among children and adolescents by Qian Su, Jinzhu Luo, You Zhou, Miao Liu, Shaohua Zeng, Yin Li, Jieying Gao

“…Objective: To investigate the association between neonicotinoid exposure and obesity among U.S. children and adolescents and to explore underlying mechanism mediated by serum sex steroid hormones in these associations. …”
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A Novel Change Detection Method Based on Visual Language From High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images by Junlong Qiu, Wei Liu, Hui Zhang, Erzhu Li, Lianpeng Zhang, Xing Li

“…The results show that the proposed VLCD achieved state-of-the-art <italic>F</italic>1-scores and IoUs on these three datasets: LEVIR-CD (90.99&#x0025;, 83.46&#x0025;), SYSU-CD (83.05&#x0025;, 71.01&#x0025;), and S2Looking (62.75&#x0025;, 45.89&#x0025;), outperforming the results obtained through full fine-tuning while using less than one-tenth of the number of parameters.…”
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Obesity Status and Colorectal Cancer Screening in the United States by Karima A. Kendall, Euni Lee, Ilene H. Zuckerman, Linda Simoni-Wastila, Marlon Daniel, Pauline M. Green, Beatrice Adderley-Kelly, Anthony K. Wutoh

“…Findings from previous studies on an association between obesity and colorectal cancer (CRC) screening are inconsistent and very few studies have utilized national level databases in the United States (US). Methods. A cross-sectional study was conducted using data from the 2005 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey to describe CRC screening rate by obesity status. …”
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Feasibility Study of the Development of a Drinking Water Supply System (SPAM) Investment of Cibulakan Springs Perumda Drinking Water Tirta Rahaja Bandung District – West Java by Hari Sundana, Wateno Oetomo, Risma Marleno

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The large-scale whole-genome sequencing era expedited medical discovery and clinical translation by Qingxin Yang, Shuhan Duan, Yuguo Huang, Chao Liu, Mengge Wang, Guanglin He

“…Recent advancements in sequencing technology have enabled the implementation of large-scale, high-quality, diverse, multi-omics, and engineered genomic projects, including the All of Us Research Program and the Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine Program. …”
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Concept, features and types of corruption by L. I. Kalienichenko, D. V. Slynko

“…Among the special scientific methods logical-semantic and logical-legal were used. They allowed us to formulate the main features of corruption as a legal phenomenon. …”
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From a dictionary to an atlas: segmental mapping of the linguistic picture of the world by S. N. Gagarin

“…It embraces the world around us in myriads of complex ways. It is the lifeblood of every people's identity. …”
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Performance of Ultrasound in the Clinical Evaluation of Gout and Hyperuricemia by Ling Cao, Tianyi Zhao, Chunmei Xie, Shucong Zheng, Weiguo Wan, Hejian Zou, Xiaoxia Zhu

“…In patients with more than 15 years of gout history, DCS, Tophi, and HAG were found in 48.18%, 40.00%, and 6.36% of US assessed joints, respectively. In patients with gout, synovial lesion and bone erosion were found in 17.74% (192/1082) and 7.58% (82/1082) of joints, respectively. …”
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Bender–Knuth Billiards in Coxeter Groups by Grant Barkley, Colin Defant, Eliot Hodges, Noah Kravitz, Mitchell Lee

“…When W is finite, we actually prove that if $s_{i_N}\cdots s_{i_1}$ is a reduced expression for the long element of W, then $\tau _{i_N}\cdots \tau _{i_1}(W)=\mathscr {L}$ ; this allows us to determine the smallest integer $\mathrm {M}(c)$ such that $\mathrm {Pro}_c^{{\mathrm {M}}(c)}(W)=\mathscr {L}$ for all $\mathscr {L}$ . …”
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Using AI chatbots (e.g., CHATGPT) in seeking health-related information online: The case of a common ailment by Pouyan Esmaeilzadeh, Mahed Maddah, Tala Mirzaei

“…Using structural equation modeling on survey data collected from 231 respondents in the US, our study examines the hypotheses linking hedonic and utilitarian values, user satisfaction, willingness to reuse conversational AI, and intentions to take recommended actions. …”
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A Prospective Study of Lumbar Facet Arthroplasty in the Treatment of Degenerative Spondylolisthesis and Stenosis: Early Cost-effective Assessment from the Total Posterior Spine Sys... by Jared D. Ament, Amir Vokshoor, Yaser Badr, Todd Lanman, Kee D. Kim, J. Patrick Johnson

“…Secondary outcomes were health-related utility, presented as quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs), and cost, calculated in US dollars. Analysis was conducted following Second Panel on Cost-Effectiveness Health and Medicine recommendations. …”
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Advanced NGS analysis of cell-free tumor DNA supports clonal relation to primary high-grade B-cell lymphoma lesion and CNS relapse despite MRI negativity by Veronika Navrkalova, Andrea Mareckova, Jakub Porc, Samuel Hricko, Viera Hrabcakova, Jarmila Kissova, Sona Kundova, Marie Jarosova, Sarka Pospisilova, Jana Kotaskova, Andrea Janikova

“…In addition, our strategy allowed us to classify the tumor as DLBCL/HGBL-MYC/BCL2 entity. …”
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Can the Rwandan Catholic Church Overcome its History of Politicization? A Reply to Philippe Denis by Anthony Court

“…This article addresses the claim by the scholar Philippe Denis in his essay ‘Christian gacacaand official gacacain post-genocide Rwanda’ (Denis 2019:1-27of 27) that the Rwandan Catholic Church has played a leading role in the difficult process of post-genocide reconciliation. Denis provides us with an authoritative account of the emergence and functioning of the Christian gacacaand its relation to the official, state-sponsored gacaca. …”
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The Prevalence and Risk Factors of Hypokalemia in Pregnancy-Related Hospitalizations: A Nationwide Population Study by Chien-Wen Yang, Si Li, Yishan Dong

“…There are no nationwide population studies conducted to analyze the prevalence and risk factors associated with hypokalemia during pregnancy in the U.S. Method. We retrieved data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) and the National Inpatient Sample of Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) for pregnant patients with hypokalemia from 2012 to 2014. …”
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The clinical journey of belantamab mafodotin in relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma: lessons in drug development by Pralay Mukhopadhyay, Hesham A. Abdullah, Joanna B. Opalinska, Prani Paka, Eric Richards, Katja Weisel, Suzanne Trudel, Maria-Victoria Mateos, Meletios Athanasios Dimopoulos, Sagar Lonial

“…Despite the 41% response rate and durable responses observed with belantamab mafodotin in the Phase III confirmatory DREAMM-3 trial, the marketing license for belantamab mafodotin was later withdrawn from US and European markets when the trial did not meet its primary endpoint of superiority for progression-free survival compared with pomalidomide and dexamethasone. …”
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An in-vivo herb-drug interaction study of IME-9 and glimepiride in nicotinamide-STZ-induced diabetic rats by Archana K. Thikekar, Asha B. Thomas, Sohan S. Chitlange

“…Methods: The RP-HPLC technique was devised and validated in accordance with the guidelines set by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). PK and PD parameters were computed on both day 1 and 21 in vivo. …”
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The neuroendocrine stress-response in insects: the history of the development of the concept by M. A. Eremina, N. E. Gruntenko

“…Insects present unique opportunities for experimentation, which can allow us to understand the basic mechanisms of stress reactions. …”
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Validating a novel measure for assessing patient openness and concerns about using artificial intelligence in healthcare by Bryan A. Sisk, Alison L. Antes, Sunny C. Lin, Paige Nong, James M. DuBois

“…Methods We adapted the 33‐item “Attitudes toward Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare for Parents” measure for administration to adults in the general US population (AAIH‐A), recruiting participants through Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) crowdsourcing platform. …”
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Genie oder kein Genie, ist nicht die Frage. Perspektiven auf Clara Wieck Schumanns Kompetenzerwerb by Janina Klassen

“…Understanding the concept of genius in different historical periods prompts us to re-think our own explicit and implicit assumptions and to find new approaches to “post-genius” art works.…”
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Long-term variability and trends in the Agulhas Leakage and its impacts on the global overturning by H. Großelindemann, H. Großelindemann, F. S. Castruccio, G. Danabasoglu, A. Biastoch, A. Biastoch

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