Assessing Natural Variation as a Baseline for Biodiversity Monitoring: The Case of an East Mediterranean Canyon by Meir Finkel, Ariel Leib Leonid Friedman, Hagar Leschner, Ben Cohen, Hoshen Inbar, Shai Gelbert, Agam Rozen, Eitan Barak, Ido Livne, Ittai Renan, Gilad Ben-Zvi, Orr Comay

“…Despite substantial species turnover rates between periods in all the taxa, almost no change was found regarding the biogeographical origins of plant and beetle species composition. …”
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Analyzing the Contents of a Large, Public Online Peer Support Forum for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Thematic Analysis by Nora Yanyi Sun, Christopher Pittenger, Terence Ching

“… Abstract BackgroundObsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a debilitating chronic anxiety disorder with low rates of remission. r/OCD is a peer support forum hosted by the Reddit website with over 180,000 users and 100‐200 new posts daily. …”
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Multimorbidity incidence following hospitalization for SARS-CoV-1 infection or influenza over two decades: a territory-wide retrospective cohort study by Cuiling Wei, Chor Wing Sing, Eric Yuk Fai Wan, Ching Lung Cheung, Ian Chi Kei Wong, Francisco Tsz Tsun Lai

“…Notable differences in the patterns of multimorbidity were identified between the two arms. …”
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Herbal medicine evaluation for reimbursement-based facial palsy (HERB-FP): a retrospective analysis using Korean health insurance claim data 2020–2024 by Soo-Dam Kim, Man Young Park, Eunbyul Cho, Jiyun Cha, Changsop Yang, Sungha Kim

“…Descriptive and inferential analyses were conducted to examine patient demographics, treatment patterns, symptom progression, and adverse events (AEs). …”
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Distribution of Pathogenic Bacteria and Drug Resistance in ICU of a Newly Built Hospital by Zeng H, Liu R, Cheng C, Yang N, Luo L, Long S, Zhou R, Yan K, Huang H

“…Drug sensitivity tests indicated a fluctuating resistance rate of Acinetobacter baumannii over the past five years. …”
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Thymidine kinase 1 expression in ovarian serous adenocarcinoma is superior to Ki-67: A new prognostic biomarker by Jianjun Wang, Qi Liu, Xiaodie Zhou, Yan He, Qing Guo, Qunli Shi, Staffan Eriksson, Ji Zhou, Ellen He, Sven Skog

“…Cancer is a disease with abnormally proliferating cells and therefore proliferation rate is an important index for assessing tumour growth. …”
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Global burden of liver cancer attributable to drug use: trends from 1990 to 2021 and projections to 2040 by Cong Chen, Ying Zhou, Weiwei Gu, Zhuxin Gu, Pengfei Jia, Luyi Si, Suming Zhao, Hui Zhao

“…Women exhibited higher EAPC values for ASDR (2.36) and DALYs (1.87) compared to men, indicating that the relative rate of increase in the disease burden over time is greater for women. …”
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Immunohistochemical analysis of IDH1, ATRX, p53, and Ki-67 in glioblastoma and diffuse infiltrative glioma: Therapeutic and prognostic correlation by Hasbay Bermal, Kayaselçuk Fazilet, Süner Halil İbrahim, Tufan Kadir

“…Kaplan-Meier method and Cox proportional regression model (forward model) were used to estimate the mean and median survival times, failure rates, and hazard ratios. Results. In the study, 115 (56.1%) patients were male and 90 (43.9%) were female. …”
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Definitive urine drug testing in emergency medicine: Recreational and psychiatric drug findings by Thomas G. Rosano, S.M.Touhidul Islam, John M. Rumberger, Robert M. Konetchy, Jr., Michelle Wood, Joseph A. Sorce, Karl A. Robstad, Heather Long

“…Forty percent of patients were also positive for antidepressants and 24% positive for antipsychotics. Significant patterns of co-drug use were found for cocaine, fentanyl, morphine and nicotine. …”
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Dietary strategies for preventing and managing obesity through evidence-based nutritional interventions by Stephen Olaide Aremu, Blessing Akute, Dorcas Oluwakemi Aremu, Caleb Zando, Esther Damilola Aremu, Omagu Julia Nwachukwu, Mary Omolola Omosebi, Victoria Oluwatosin Akute, Stephen Tokunbo Oluwole, Abdillahi Abdi Barkhadle, Matthew Olaleke Aremu

“…This crisis is driven by multifaceted factors, including sedentary lifestyles, urbanization, dietary transitions, and behavioral influences. As obesity rates continue to rise, dietary interventions emerge as crucial and modifiable strategies for prevention and management. …”
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Real-world effectiveness and safety of CDK4/6i in elderly and BIPOC patients with HR+/HER2- advanced/metastatic breast cancer: an updated systematic literature review by Nadia Harbeck, Adam Brufsky, Chloe Grace Rose, Beata Korytowsky, Connie Chen, Krista Tantakoun, Endri Jazexhi, Do Hoang Vien Nguyen, Meaghan Bartlett, Imtiaz A. Samjoo, Timothy Pluard

“…Key outcomes for synthesis were effectiveness, treatment patterns, and safety.ResultsThis review included 23 unique studies. …”
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Ultrasound-activated miR-195-5p/shikonin nanobubbles remodel immunosuppressive microenvironment via immunogenic cell death to potentiate PD-1/PD-L1 blockade in hepatocellular carci... by Yandi Tan, Qiao Xu, Yezi Chen, Yun Liu, Chaoqi Liu, Xinwu Cui, Yun Zhao

“…Concurrently, SK—a naphthoquinone compound repurposed as a potent ICD inducer—overcame the systemic toxicity and solubility limitations through NBs-mediated delivery, triggering robust release of damage-associated molecular patterns, including adenosine triphosphate, surface-exposed calreticulin, and secreted high-mobility group box 1 protein. …”
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Development of a PPP1R14B-associated immune prognostic model for hepatocellular carcinoma by Ligang Zhao, Xiaoling Jin, Qiushi Yu, Yigang He, Facai Yang, Weihu Ma, Zhengqing Lei, Jiahua Zhou

“…The analysis revealed distinct variations in immune scores and multiple immune cell enrichment patterns between elevated and reduced PPP1R14B expression categories, suggesting immune status connections. …”
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Antitumor power of oncolytic HSV engineered with IL-12 and IL-15 by Lei Zhang, Yanbin Zhu, Kunpeng Zheng, Xinyu Zhang, Chunxue Fu, Dan Wang, Xinqiang Zhang, Tong Wu, Shuxin Han, Zhenghai Ma

“…The engineered oHSV-1 demonstrated growth patterns comparable to wild-type HSV-1. The viral titers exhibited consistency within the same tumor cells. …”
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Deep learning enhanced road traffic analysis: Scalable vehicle detection and velocity estimation using PlanetScope imagery by Maciej Adamiak, Yulia Grinblat, Julian Psotta, Nir Fulman, Himshikhar Mazumdar, Shiyu Tang, Alexander Zipf

“…Satellite-based approaches provide broad spatial coverage, but face challenges, including high costs, low frame rates, and difficulty detecting small vehicles in medium-resolution imagery. …”
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Global trends and hotspots of adolescent eating disorders: a bibliometric study and visual analysis by Qian Ye, Qian Ye, Yiling Yang, Yue Qi, Jiale Li, Huijuan Lei, Lina Sun, Jie Zhang

“…BackgroundAdolescent eating disorders represent a category of mental illness, marked by elevated mortality and morbidity rates and a significant adverse impact on the quality of life of both patients and their families. …”
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Improvement of Oral Anticoagulant Prescription and Long‐Term Clinical Outcomes of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation After Implementation of a Clinical Decision Support System in Ou... by Po‐Tseng Lee, Mu‐Hsiang Huang, Ting‐Chun Huang, Pi‐Shan Sung, Chi‐Hui Hsu, Ya‐Ling Huang, Sheng‐Hsian Lin, Ping‐Yen Liu

“…Results OAC prescription rates increased from 47.3% to 67.5% after CDSS implementation. …”
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Molecular Epidemiology and Genetic Context of <i>optrA</i>-Carrying Linezolid-Resistant Enterococci from Humans and Animals in South Korea by Younggwon On, Sung Young Lee, Jung Sik Yoo, Jung Wook Kim

“…<i>optrA</i>-positive linezolid-resistant isolates were less frequent, with rates of 0.1%, 1.4%, 0.9%, and 1.0%, respectively. …”
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Global burden and trend of substance use disorders, self-harm, and interpersonal violence from 1990 to 2021, with projection to 2040 by Jia An, Qiang Wang, Zihao Bai, Xueying Du, Di Yu, Xuming Mo

“…Abstract Background Alcohol use disorders (AUD), drug use disorders (DUD), interpersonal violence, and self-harm are a major public health concern globally, with high rates of disability, morbidity, and mortality associated with this. …”
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The changes in health service utilisation in Malawi during the COVID-19 pandemic. by Bingling She, Tara D Mangal, Anna Y Adjabeng, Tim Colbourn, Joseph H Collins, Eva Janoušková, Ines Li Lin, Emmanuel Mnjowe, Sakshi Mohan, Margherita Molaro, Andrew N Phillips, Paul Revill, Robert Manning Smith, Pakwanja D Twea, Dominic Nkhoma, Gerald Manthalu, Timothy B Hallett

“…Two datasets were prepared: unadjusted and adjusted; for the latter, unreported monthly data entries for a facility were filled in through systematic rules based on reported mean values of that facility or facility type and considering both reporting rates and comparability with published data. Using statistical descriptive methods, we first described the patterns of service utilisation in pre-pandemic years (2015-2019). …”
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