Does syndromic surveillance assist public health practice in early detecting respiratory epidemics? Evidence from a wide Italian retrospective experience by Giovanni Corrao, Andrea Stella Bonaugurio, Giorgio Bagarella, Mauro Maistrello, Olivia Leoni, Danilo Cereda, Andrea Gori

“…Signals that occurred during periods labelled as free from epidemics were used to measure positive predictive values (PPV) and false negative values (FNV) in anticipating the epidemic wave. …”
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TPDTNet: Two-Phase Distillation Training for Visible-to-Infrared Unsupervised Domain Adaptive Object Detection by Siyu Wang, Xiaogang Yang, Ruitao Lu, Shuang Su, Bin Tang, Tao Zhang, Zhengjie Zhu

“…Finally, a distillation training strategy that utilizes pseudodetection labels to calculate target information. By minimizing the Kullback–Leibler divergence between the probability maps of the teacher and student networks, the channel activations are transformed into probability distributions, thereby achieving knowledge distillation. …”
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Booster Vaccination against Yellow Fever in Gambian children-(BoVY) -a Phase 3 clinical trial to establish safety and immunogenicity of repeated YF vaccination in healthy Gambian c... by David Jeffries, Caitlin Pley, Beate Kampmann, Mam Nabou Leigh, Julia Strandmark, Ed Clarke, Peter Ndow, Ebrima Kanteh, Amadou Faal, Elishia Roberts

“…Recent observational data demonstrate waning immunity following single primary vaccination and suggest that children in endemic areas may require booster vaccination. Methods This open-label, non-randomised clinical vaccine trial (ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT05332197, registered on 31 March 2022, URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05332197) will assess the safety and immunogenicity of a booster dose of the licensed 17D YF vaccine in Gambian children. …”
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How can the buffalo carcass be used rationally? by Ricardo Alexandre Silva Pessoa

“…The ground trimmings can be sold as ground meat or used in the preparation of hamburgers, sausages, meatballs, kafta, among others. Cuts that can be labeled premi- um make up approximately 25.0% of the carcass. …”
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Social media discourse and internet search queries on cannabis as a medicine: A systematic scoping review. by Christine Mary Hallinan, Sedigheh Khademi Habibabadi, Mike Conway, Yvonne Ann Bonomo

“…Forty-two studies were included in this review, twenty-two studies used manually labelled data, four studies used existing meta-data (Google trends/geo-location data), two studies used data that was manually coded using crowdsourcing services, and two used automated coding supplied by a social media analytics company, fifteen used computational methods for annotating data. …”
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The Relationship of Attitudes toward Other Religious Groups with Perceived Islamophobia, Intergroup Contact, and Social Identity: A Study among Muslims Living in Western Countries by Kenan Sevinç, Metin Güven

“…Muslims, who make efforts to survive within the given population as a minority group, may encounter negative attitudes and behaviors in different life venues such as exclusion, discrimination, prejudice, labeling or stigmatization, hatred, anger, and violence. …”
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The subventricular zone neurogenic niche provides adult born functional neurons to repair cortical brain injuries in response to diterpenoid therapy by Ricardo Pardillo-Díaz, Patricia Pérez-García, María Ortego-Domínguez, Ricardo Gómez-Oliva, Nora Martínez-Gómez, Samuel Domínguez-García, Francisco García-Cózar, Juan Pedro Muñoz-Miranda, Rosario Hernández-Galán, Livia Carrascal, Carmen Castro, Pedro Nunez-Abades

“…Using green fluorescent protein expressing vectors we have labeled SVZ cells and have studied the migration of newly generated neuroblasts toward the injury in response the treatment. …”
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Evaluation of topical 1% posaconazole therapy in refractory fungal keratitis by Murugesan Vanathi, Devendra K Yadav, Thirumurthy Velpandian, Nishat Hussain Ahmed, Manu Muraleekrishna, Abhijeet Beniwal, Neiwete Lomi, Noopur Gupta, Radhika Tandon, Maroof A Khan

“…Methods: Prospective longitudinal non-randomized open label dual-cohort study of 70 eyes of refractory fungal keratitis, 35 were recruited as posaconazole treatment (PCZ) group for topical 1% posaconazole therapy and compared to 35 eyes on conventional antifungal therapy. …”
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Inosine enhances the efficacy of immune‐checkpoint inhibitors in advanced solid tumors: A randomized, controlled, Phase 2 study by Haiqing Zhao, Wei Zhang, Yuting Lu, Yin Dong, Zhihao He, Hongchao Zhen, Qin Li

“…Methods This single‐center, prospective, randomized, open‐label study was conducted, from January 2021 to December 2022, in Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, and participants were randomly assigned (1:1) to either the inosine (trial) or non‐inosine (control) group that received inosine (dosage: 0.2 g, three times/day) + PD‐1/PD‐L1 inhibitor or only PD‐1/PD‐L1 inhibitor ± targeted ± chemotherapy, respectively. …”
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Profiles of physician follow-up care, correlates and outcomes among patients affected by an incident mental disorder by Marie-Josée Fleury, Louis Rochette, Zhirong Cao, Guy Grenier, Victoria Massamba, Alain Lesage

“…Profiles differed in patient characteristics and related outcomes. Labelled “Follow-up care by usual psychiatrist”, Profile 1 (1% of sample) included younger patients with the most health and social issues. …”
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Role of p57KIP2 in Stem and Progenitor Leydig Cells of Mouse Testes by Seung Hyun Park, Kyung Noh Yoon, Yang Xu, Myung Chan Gye

“…Materials and Methods: The roles of p57KIP2 in the proliferation, differentiation, apoptosis, and steroidogenesis in SLCs and PLCs were investigated by antibodies and bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) labeling in the early neonatal testes and p57kip2 siRNA in the isolated SLCs and PLCs. …”

Identitas Komunikasi Penggemar K-Pop di Media Sosial X by Alsa Aisiyah Sutardi, Yoka Pradana, Rah Utami Nugrahani

“…The findings reveal that K-pop fans' communication identity is constructed through four interrelated layers.In the personal layer, they label themselves as either "normal" fans or "halu" fans who fantasizeabout having social relationships with their idols. …”
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Evaluating the Safety and Usability of an Over-the-Counter Medical Device for Adults With Mild to Moderate Hearing Loss: Formative and Summative Usability Testing by Megan Elizabeth Salwei, Shilo Anders, Carrie Reale, Jason M Slagle, Todd Ricketts, Matthew B Weinger

“…We concurrently conducted a test with 21 nonintended users (ie, users with contraindications to use) to ascertain if consumers could determine when they should not use the device, based on the packaging, instructions, and labeling (testing round 3). Participants were asked to complete 2‐5 tasks, as if they were using the hearing aid in real life. …”
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Giant Granular Cell Tumor of the Left Thigh, a Rare Case Report and Literature Review by Liu Q, Kong X, Yang J, Zhang D

“…Immunohistochemistry demonstrated positive staining for S100, SOX-10, Vimentin, NSE, CD56, and H3K27Me3 in the tumor cells, with a Ki-67 labeling index of approximately 15%. The postoperative pathological diagnosis confirmed giant GCT.Conclusion: We report a case of a benign giant GCT in the left thigh. …”
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Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing the Contribution of Proxabrushes with Regular Toothbrushes and Only Regular Toothbrushes to the Oral Health of Thai Elderly by Orachad Gururatana, Warangkana Vejvithee, Narisa Ekpatcha

“…Multicenter randomized controlled trial, parallel grouped, open label, blocked randomization was used at each province to allocate treatment. …”
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Detection Methods for Asparagine and Glutamine Contents in Fruits and Vegetables and Recommendations for Dietary Intake of Fruits and Vegetables in Patients with Urea Cycle Disorde... by YE Xinyu, LI Ziying, TANG Shujun, SUN Liping, ZHAO Yunxia, XIAO Weimin, GU Yaping, KUANG Huiying, CHEN Xin, YANG Guowu, HUANG Yali

“…The mass spectrometer was equipped with an electrospray ionization source and operated in the positive ion mode with multiple reaction monitoring (MRM), and quantification was achieved using stable isotope-labeled internal standards. The calibration curves for Asn and Gln showed a good linearity in the range of 10–1 000 ng/mL (R2 > 0.999), with limit of detection (LOD) and limit of quantification (LOQ) of 1.5 and 5.0 mg/100 g, respectively. …”
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Imaging Flow Cytometric Identification of Chromosomal Defects in Paediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia by Ana P. A. Simpson, Carly E. George, Henry Y. L. Hui, Ravi Doddi, Rishi S. Kotecha, Kathy A. Fuller, Wendy N. Erber

“…., expression of CD34, CD10, and CD19 antigens), we assessed for copy numbers of loci for the centromeres of chromosomes 4 and 21 and the <i>ETV6</i> and <i>RUNX1</i> regions using fluorophore-labelled DNA probes in more than 1000 cells per sample. …”
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The Use of Artificial Intelligence and Wearable Inertial Measurement Units in Medicine: Systematic Review by Ricardo Smits Serena, Florian Hinterwimmer, Rainer Burgkart, Rudiger von Eisenhart-Rothe, Daniel Rueckert

“…Impressively, 93% of the studies used supervised learning, revealing an underuse of unsupervised learning, and indicating an important area for future exploration on discovering hidden patterns and insights without predefined labels or outcomes. In addition, there was a preference for conducting studies in clinical settings (77%), rather than in real-life scenarios, a choice that, along with the underapplication of the full potential of wearable IMUs, is recognized as a limitation in terms of practical applicability. …”
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On-chip non-contact mechanical cell stimulation - quantification of SKOV-3 alignment to suspended microstructures by Sevgi Onal, Maan M. Alkaisi, Volker Nock

“…Cell alignment analysis was performed in a novel, label-free approach by measuring elongation angles of whole cell bodies with respect to micro-piston peripheries. …”
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Shift from chronic to episodic migraine frequency in a long-term phase 3 study of galcanezumab by Hans-Christoph Diener, Kathleen A. Day, Sarah Lipsius, Sheena K. Aurora, Nada A. Hindiyeh, Holland C. Detke

“…Patients could subsequently enter a 9-month open-label extension in which they received galcanezumab 120 mg or 240 mg/month per investigator’s discretion. …”
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