Smart Drug Delivery Systems Based on Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes Loaded with Nanocurcumin Extract for Cancer Therapy and Toxicity by Marwa R. Jwameer, Sabah A. Salman, Farah T. M. Noori

“…After exposure to a variety of produced SWNTs and PEG-PEI-SWCNTs at concentrations ranging from 6.25 to 100 g/ml for 72 hours, the rate of growth inhibition in cancer cells including the liver cancer HepG2 cell line—was assessed. …”
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Physical activity simultaneously improves working memory and ripple-spindle coupling by Xinyun Che, Benedikt Auer, Paul Schmid, Christoph Reichert, Annemarie Scholz, Tom Weischner, Robert T. Knight, Stefan Dürschmid

“…Neurophysiologically, PA scaled the ripple rate with the number of items to be kept in WM and strengthened the coupling between ripple events and wake spindle events. …”
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Research on disaster information dissemination based on social sensor networks by Shanshan Wan, Zhuo Chen, Cheng Lyu, Ruofan Li, Yuntao Yue, Ying Liu

“…Evaluation matrix is applied to test the performance of social sensor information dissemination model, such as event dissemination coverage, event delivery time, and event delivery rate. With the comparisons to epidemic model, social sensor information dissemination model shows excellent performance in improving the efficiency and accuracy of information transmission in disaster events.…”
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Somatic pathology in residents of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug – Yugra by L. N. Verizhnikova, O. L. Aryamkina, N. N. Terentyeva

“…The study identified patterns in different flows of the Russian population in and from the North, the incidence rate (defined by the leading group of diseases) and its dynamics, characteristic of the territories equated to the Far North. …”
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Role of Genetic and Epigenetic Factors and Mechanisms Involved in the Occurrence of Congenital Heart Diseases (CHD) by Fateme Tabrizi, Mehri Khatami, Mohammad Mehdi Heidari

“…Conclusion: Due to modern surgical techniques, the survival rate of affected infants is increasing. Deeper insight into the exact causes of this disease is crucial for diagnosing and identifying high-risk patients and improving preventive and therapeutic strategies for CHD. …”
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Indentation Relaxation Behavior of the Austenitic Heat-Resistant Steel Sanicro25 by Lin Tong, Cao Tieshan

“…The results show that: the hardness/stress and time patterns of indentation relaxation at different depths are in accordance with the relationship similar to that proposed by Choi; the stress index is about 7 according to the power rate relationship, and the relaxation coefficient μ is about 0.3, whose inverse matches well with the stress index obtained from the indentation creep test; there is a pile-up phenomenon at the edges of the residual indentation on the surface of the specimen, which is caused by plastic flow of the material along the direction of the indenter after the formation of a completely plastic region at the bottom of the indenter. …”
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Sexual behaviors and associated factors among first-year undergraduates at overseas Chinese-oriented universities in China by Zulin Chen, Zulin Chen, Yikun Zheng, Lihan Lin, Lihan Lin, Yongjun Chen, Yunting Zheng, Hongmiao Chen, Hongmiao Chen

“…The rate was significantly higher among students from Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan compared to those from Mainland China and abroad (p < 0.05), which was corroborated by the logistic regression (OR = 3.737, 95% CI: 2.846–4.908). …”
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Passive Sensing for Mental Health Monitoring Using Machine Learning With Wearables and Smartphones: Scoping Review by ShiYing Shen, Wenhao Qi, Jianwen Zeng, Sixie Li, Xin Liu, Xiaohong Zhu, Chaoqun Dong, Bin Wang, Yankai Shi, Jiani Yao, Bingsheng Wang, Xiajing Lou, Simin Gu, Pan Li, Jinghua Wang, Guowei Jiang, Shihua Cao

“…These findings underscore the technology’s potential to transform mental health care through objective, continuous monitoring—particularly for depression (heart rate and step count biomarkers) and anxiety (sleep and social interaction patterns). …”
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Investigation on the Use and Preauthorization of Carbapenems at A National Hospital in Vietnam: A Cross‐Sectional Study by Han Ngoc Bao Pham, Nhi Truc Y. Nguyen, Nhu Quynh Tran, An Thi Thanh Nguyen, Cam Thi Le Pham, Nhan Thi Thanh Dang, Hien Thi Thu Pham, Thong Duy Vo, Mai Thi Phuong Tran, Quynh Thi Huong Bui

“…Optimizing dosing was the most common intervention in preauthorization. The rate of patients whose preauthorization process of all restricted antimicrobials complied with the hospital's protocol was 73.28%. …”
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Analysis of COVID-19 prevalence in Belarus, Thailand, and Lithuania utilizing the SIR model during the COVID era by Zahra Shirmohammadi, Khosro Rezaee, Mehdi Gheisari, Mojtaba Farmani, Fatemeh Aali, Reza Soltani, Hossein Razghandi

“…Instead of relying on static or globally derived estimates, the model parameters—infection rate (β) and removal rate (γ)—were dynamically calculated for distinct time periods in each country, using country-specific data extracted from Worldometer. …”
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Comparative transcriptome analysis of the effect of different heat shock periods on the unfertilized ovule in watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) by Ying-chun ZHU, De-xi SUN, Yun DENG, Guo-lin AN, Wei-hua LI, Wen-jing SI, Jun-pu LIU, Xiao-wu SUN

“…However, because of low repeatability, embryoid induction rate and quality, the molecular mechanisms remain poorly understood. …”
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Neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy versus neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in patients with borderline resectable esophageal squamous cell carcinoma by Jun-Peng Lin, Feng-Nian Zhuang, Wei-Jie Chen, Zhou Lin, Yu-Jie Chen, Xiao-Feng Chen, Hui Lin, Hao He, Peiyuan Wang, Hang Zhou, Wen-Wei Wei, Peng-Qiang Gao, Shuo-Yan Liu, Feng Wang

“…After PSM, the R0 resection rate (85.7% vs. 90.5%, P = 0.341) and pCR rate (19.0% vs. 26.2%, P = 0.269) were comparable between two groups, while the MPR rate in the NACI group was significantly lower than in the NCRT group (32.1% vs. 56.0%, P = 0.002). …”
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Serrated Lesions of the Colon-Rectum: A Focus on New Diagnostic Tools and Current Management by Gianluca Cassese, Alfonso Amendola, Francesco Maione, Mariano Cesare Giglio, Gianluca Pagano, Marco Milone, Giovanni Aprea, Gaetano Luglio, Giovanni Domenico De Palma

“…The high risk of incomplete resection, together with the high rate of postcolonoscopy interval cancers, suggests the need of an extra care when facing this kind of lesions. …”
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Daily night-time lights reveal prolonging global electric power system recovery times following tropical cyclone damage by Yu Mo, Fred Thomas, Jianan Rui, Jim W Hall

“…We also found that blackout durations have significantly ( P < 0.05) increased over the study period across all levels of urbanization, at a similar rate of 0.9 ± 0.1 d per decade. The temporal variations (i.e. annual means) of blackout duration of high and low density urban clusters negatively correlated with storm travel speed, while those of low density urban clusters and rural areas positively correlated with pre-storm NTL ( P ⩽ 0.05 in all cases). …”
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Preferences for life-sustaining treatments in advance decisions: a cross-sectional survey of Taiwanese general public by Daniel Fu-Chang Tsai, Yu-Chen Juang, Chun-Tung Kuo, Ping-Hsueh Lee, Duan-Rung Chen

“…However, given the low completion rate and prevalent preference patterns, policymakers should increase efforts to ensure that those in need have access to appropriate resources and consider implementing a tiered signing process.…”
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Subgroup analysis of treatment pathways and clinical outcomes in Hodgkin lymphoma in Latin America from the retrospective B-HOLISTIC study by Alvaro Hernandez-Caballero, Ruben Salazar, Marta Zerga, Silvia Rivas-Vera, Zhongwen Huang, Amado Karduss

“…Median PFS and OS in the RRHL group was 20.2 and 87 months, respectively; the 5-year PFS rate was 27.1%. Survival outcomes were improved in patients who underwent SCT than those without SCT. …”
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New perspectives under heterogeneity: mechanism of nutrient heterogeneity on Cd-induced hormesis of soil respiration by Qian Gao, Jiangshan Yang, Junyang Wu, Yongli Zhu, Yongli Zhu, Diwu Fan, Jiangang Han, Jiangang Han

“…To examine the effects of nutrient spatial heterogeneity on the hormesis of soil ecosystem under cadmium (Cd) stress, we constructed three patches with different spatial nutrient distribution but the same total nutrient content through different spatial discharge patterns. Different levels of Cd stress were applied to the patches, and after incubation, soil respiration rate, content of dissolved organic matter (DOM) and metagenomic characteristics were measured. …”
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Independent and joint impacts of high body mass index and aging on global burden of chronic kidney disease: insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Yao Ma, Shun Chen, Yuanli Shen, Xiang Wang, Xinning Xie, Weihong Zhao

“…IntroductionWe aimed to evaluate the levels and trends of CKD burden associated with high body mass index (BMI) from 1990 to 2021 and to investigate the role of aging.MethodsFrom the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021, we retrieved data and estimated CKD-related deaths, disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), age-standardized mortality rate (ASMR), and age-standardized DALYs rate (ASDR) attributable to high BMI by age, sex, socio-demographic index (SDI), and geographical regions. …”
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Epidemiological characteristics and spatial clustering analysis of human brucellosis in Zibo City, Shandong Province, China, 2006–2024 by Rongtao Zhao, Ruixuan Sun, Feng Zhang

“…From 2006 to 2021, a total of 2,176 brucellosis cases were reported in Zibo City, with an average annual incidence rate of 2.50 per 100,000. Middle-aged and older adult populations (aged 35–74 years) were the primary affected groups, accounting for 86.76% (1,888/2,176) of all reported cases. …”
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The Heavy‐Tailed Inverse Power Lindley Type‐I Model: Reliability Inference and Actuarial Applications by Amal S. Hassan, Diaa S. Metwally, Mohammed Elgarhy, Rokaya Elmorsy Mohamed

“…Bayesian estimators for the parameters and reliability functions (survival and hazard rate) are derived using gamma priors and both symmetric and asymmetric loss functions. …”
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