Jiangzhi Granule Ameliorates JNK-Mediated Mitochondrial Dysfunction to Reduce Lipotoxic Liver Injury in NASH by Jiang Y, Xu J, Ding J, Liu T, Liu Y, Huang P, Wang Q, Zheng P, Song H, Yang L

“…Yuwei Jiang,1,* Jiaoya Xu,1,2,* Junyao Ding,1,* Tao Liu,1 Yang Liu,1,3 Ping Huang,1 Qianlei Wang,1 Peiyong Zheng,1 Haiyan Song,1 Lili Yang1 1Institute of Digestive Diseases, Longhua Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Gout, Guanghua Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China; 3Teaching Experiment Center, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Haiyan Song; Lili Yang, Institute of Digestive Diseases, Longhua Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 725 South Wanping Road, Shanghai, 200032, People’s Republic of China, Email songhy@126.com; yanglili76@126.comPurpose: Mitochondrial dysfunction mediated by c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) plays an important role in lipotoxic liver injury in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). …”
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Supporting a state in developing a working theory of improvement for promoting equity in science education by William R. Penuel, Tiffany N. Neill, Todd Campbell

“…The team also surfaced several policy changes needed to implement change strategies, only some of which team members felt they had some authority.DiscussionWhere past researchers have observed that equity can disappear as a focus during implementation of reforms, this study found that developing an aim statement and driver diagram helped energize and refocus a team’s implementation efforts geared toward a vision for science teaching and learning that is focused on ensuring all students can engage in meaningful science learning that is culturally and locally relevant to them.…”
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Estimation of Knowledge, Attitude and Prevalence of Female Sex Dysfunction in Elderly Pakistani Women by Khola Noreen, Farah Ayyaz, Lubna Meraj, Tabinda Khalid, Javara Malik, Muhammad Akram Randhawa

“…Results: A total of 150 middle-aged and elderly women were randomly included in the study.The females reporting with some medical or gynaecological problem at the teaching hospital of RMU, willing to participate and gave informed written consent where recruited. …”
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Regulation of MAP2, GFAP, and calcium in the CA3 Region Following Kainic Acid Exposure to  organotypic hippocampal slice culture [version 3; peer review: 2 approved] by Aulanni'am Aulanni'am, Kusworini Handono, Ettie Rukmigarsari, Hidayat Sujuti, Machlusil Husna

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Exploring effects of a booster workshop on progression and retention of resuscitation skills of residents when added to regular low-dose simulation by Hui-Wen Chen, Hung-Wei Tsai, Yi-Chun Chen, Yu-Jui Chiu, Enoch Yi-No Kang, Yi-Ting Hsu, S. Barry Issenberg, Jen-Chieh Wu

“…Methods This comparative study took place at a teaching hospital in Northern Taiwan from August 2019 to June 2021. …”
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Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Trends in Pakistan: Activity Survey from Pakistan Bone Marrow Transplant Group by Natasha Ali, Raheel Iftikhar, Muhammad Ayaz Mir, Syed Waqas Bokhari, Jehanzeb Ur Rehman, Uzma Zaidi, Shahzad Nasir, Salman Naseem Adil, Tariq Satti, Qamar Un Nisa Chaudhry, Muhammad Farhan, Tasneem Farzana, Tariq Ghafoor, Bushra Ahsan, Azhar S. Khan, Farrukh Ali Khan, Syeda Itrat Fatima, Shafaq Abdul Samad, Aliya Batool, Hafiz Muhammad Nadeem, Syed Nasir Abbas Bukhari, Saqib Hussain Ansari, Parvez Ahmed

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Effect of integrated case-based and problem-based learning on clinical thinking skills of assistant general practitioner trainees: a randomized controlled trial by Dingyuan Jiang, Danpei Huang, Hua Wan, Wuliang Fu, Weidong Shi, Jin Li, Huan Zou, Niannan Hou, Qing Li, Nani Li

“…Conclusion The CBL-PBL teaching method positively influenced the clinical thinking skills of assistant general practitioner trainees, with a positive correlation between these skills and course performance in the CBL-PBL curriculum. …”
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Pain Associated with Endometriosis. A Review of Quality of Life. Psychological Aspects, Career Development, Sexual Health, and Intimate Partner Relationships by Marlena Zubiak, Martyna Byrska, Hanna Barska-Kobylińska, Sara Langner, Ewa Katarzyna Malaka, Marta Janura, Jagoda Elias, Wiktor Biesiada, Sara Szydłowska, Krzysztof Błaszków

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The effect of blended learning on tacking technique improvement in preteen sailing by Mohamed Abdelkader Souissi, Linda Toumi, Omar Trabelsi, Ismail Dergaa, Ahmed Ghorbel, Adnene Gharbi, Katja Weiss, Thomas Rosemann, Nizar Souissi, Beat Knechtle

“…By facilitating a deeper understanding of technique and error correction, this technology-enhanced instructional approach shows promise as a valuable tool for teaching complex motor skills in sports. The research findings suggest that BLIV demonstrates significant improvements in sailing skills, execution time, and theoretical understanding among young sailors compared to other methods. …”
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Integrating psychiatry into basic clinical skills: A three‐year nationwide quantitative assessment of postgraduate training programs by Hidetaka Tamune, Hirohisa Fujikawa, Hiroyuki Harada, Tomoyuki Kodama, Masaaki Sasaki, Daichi Sone, Miwa Sekine, Masanobu Ito, Tadafumi Kato, Yuji Nishizaki, Yasuharu Tokuda

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Research Progress on Neural Processing of Hand and Forearm Tactile Sensation: A Review Based on fMRI Research by Chen H, Fu S, Zhi X, Wang Y, Liu F, Li Y, Ren F, Zhang J, Ren L, Wang Y

“…Hao Chen,1,* Shifang Fu,2,* Xiaoyu Zhi,2 Yu Wang,2 Fanqi Liu,2 Yuetong Li,2 Fengjiao Ren,2 Junfeng Zhang,1,3,4 Longsheng Ren,1 Yanguo Wang2 1Graduate School, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, 301617, People’s Republic of China; 2Rehabilitation Department, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Second Affiliated Hospital, Tianjin, 300250, People’s Republic of China; 3Rehabilitation Center, First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, 300193, People’s Republic of China; 4National Clinical Research Center for Chinese Medicine Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Tianjin, 300381, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Yanguo Wang, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Second Affiliated Hospital, Tianjin, 300250, People’s Republic of China, Email tjwangyanguo@163.comAbstract: Tactile perception is one of the important ways through which humans interact with the external environment. …”
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Neurotransmitters crosstalk and regulation in the reward circuit of subjects with behavioral addiction by Zhenlei Peng, Qiyu Jia, Junxiong Mao, Xiao Luo, Anqi Huang, Hao Zheng, Shijie Jiang, Qi Ma, Qi Ma, Chuang Ma, Qizhong Yi

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Students with disabilities in higher education call for personal empowerment, equitable inclusive systems, and individualized accommodations by Paul A. Bartolo, Michelle Borg, Anne-Marie Callus, Liberato Camilleri, Alistair De Gaetano, Marchita Mangiafico, Edward Mazzacano D'Amato, Carmen Sammut, Ramona Vella Vidal, Jonathan Vincent

“…Secondly, students called for the teaching system to be more pedagogically effective and sensitive to diverse student needs and for their involvement in the development of appropriate facilities for students. …”
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THE COLLABORATIVE DESIGNING OF A PERSONALIZED HYBRID LMS USING A VIRTUAL MACHINE IN A CLOUD ENVIRONMENT by Lina Čeponienė, Péter Galambos, Tamás Haidegger, Dariusz Mikulowski, Branislav Mišota, Oliver Moravcik, Enikő Nagy, Mariya P. Shyshkina, Pavel Smolka, Stefan Svetsky

“… A teacher currently needs to acquire a huge amount of educational information and knowledge as part of his/her practice for the purposes of teaching, self-study, publishing, research, language support and related activities. …”
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Future-proofing quality education using integrated assessment systems by Lucy Tambudzai Chamba, Namatirai Chikusvura

“…The study recommends that the government should redress the teaching-learning environment in schools for effective implementation of integrated assessment systems so that not only one regime of intelligence is tested and future-proofing of quality is guaranteed. …”
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Evaluation of the level of tumor necrosis factor-alpha and lactate dehydrogenase in acute lymphoblastic leukemia patients by Raghad Yaarob Ahmed, Zainab Issam Al Hatem

“…PATIENTS, MATERIALS, AND METHODS: This was an observational–analytical study, which was done in Ibn-Sina Teaching Hospital in the period between May 2023 and November 2023. …”
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Approaches to the usage of machine translation systems for the organization of independent work of students of a pedagogical university with English-language scientific texts by Tatiana N. Suvorova, Lyubov A. Shunina, Ivan V. Shunin

“…Results . As a result of teaching students of the pedagogical university the basics of using machine translation systems of English-language texts in their independent work, the following results were achieved: students formed an idea about the features of translating scientific texts from a foreign language into Russian; studied the possibilities of modern machine translation services; compiled a terminological glossary; acquired skills in machine translation of scientific texts using specialized CAT programs. …”
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Attitudes of polish medical students toward organ donation by Marzena Mikla, Anna Maria Cybulska, Antonio Rios, Mariusz Panczyk, Kamila Rachubińska, Artur Kotwas, Beata Karakiewicz, Elżbieta Grochans, Daria Schneider-Matyka

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An Educational Web-Based Expert System for Novice Highway Technology in Flexible Pavement Maintenance by Abdalrhman Milad, Nur Izzi Md. Yusoff, Sayf A. Majeed, Zainab Hasan Ali, Mohmed Solla, Nadhir Al-Ansari, Riza Atiq Rahmat, Zaher Mundher Yaseen

“…Furthermore, the system was tested by an array of users engaged in highway engineering, namely, experts, teaching experts, novice engineers, and students. The mean values of the overall system evaluation performed by 20 users using a five-point Likert scale were 4, 4.5, 3.75, 4.25, 5, 4, and 3.5. …”
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Patient-derived xenografts from circulating cancer stem cells as a preclinical model for personalized pancreatic cancer research by Benedikt J. Wagner, Andreas Ettner-Sitter, Nicolas A. Ihlo, Merle Behr, Sebastian Koelbl, Stefan M. Brunner, Florian Weber, Bettina M. Rau, Hans J. Schlitt, Christoph Brochhausen, Rebecca Schoenmehl, Annalena Artinger, Dorothea Schott, Monika Pizon, Katharina Pachmann, Thiha Aung, Silke Haerteis, Christina Hackl

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