Sex differences in DNA methylation variations according to ART conception-evidence from the Norwegian mother, father, and child cohort study by Dana Kristjansson, Yunsung Lee, Christian M. Page, Håkon Gjessing, Maria C. Magnus, Astanand Jugessur, Robert Lyle, Siri E. Håberg

“…We identified 37 differentially methylated CpGs according to ART-conception among girls, and 70 differentially methylated CpGs according to ART-conception among boys, when we used a 1% false discovery rate to account for multiple testing. Ten CpGs were differentially methylated according to conception by ART in both sexes. …”
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The growing concern of MDR/XDR bacteria in patients undergoing dialysis: a cross-sectional study by Noor S. Kadhem, Ahmed Khassaf Atya

“…The culture positivity rate was 19.0 %, with E.coli being the most frequently isolated pathogen (65.2 %), followed by K.pneumoniae (21.7 %) and E.cloacae (13.1 %). …”
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Effect of Basic Point-of-Care Ultrasound Course on Physicians’ Use in Clinical Practice: A Survey Study by Burcu Azapoğlu Kaymak, Merve Ekşioğlu, Özlem Dikme

“…Among 610 physicians with available contact information, 201 completed the electronic survey, resulting in a response rate of 33%. The survey assessed participants’ demographics, previous ultrasound training, and self-reported changes in POCUS usage before and after the course. …”
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Effects of external ankle support and dual-tasking on gait in patients with chronic lateral ankle instability by Jianing Xu, Yonglei Huang, Ming Li, Shasha Liu, Wenxin Niu, Taoli Wang

“…The study evaluated gait speed, stride time variability (STV), ankle plantarflexion and inversion angles, and the accuracy rate of serial-7 subtraction tasks. Results 60 participants were finally included. …”
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Defect Detection and Correction in OpenMP: A Static Analysis and Machine Learning-Based Solution by Norah A. Al-Johany, Fathy E. Eassa, Sanaa A. Sharaf, Eynas H. Balkhair, Sara M. Assiri

“…The tool was validated on a curated dataset of annotated OpenMP programs, achieving a 99.15% correction rate with minimal execution overhead. These results confirm the effectiveness and practicality of the proposed solution in improving the correctness and maintainability of OpenMP applications. …”
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Effects of direction and gender on lower limb biomechanics during forward lunges in badminton players: a preliminary analysis by Li Huang, Yan Zhang, Shunxiang Gao, Junxia Lin, Fei Zheng, Yaodong Gu

“…Compared with the females, the males showed significantly greater loading rate and impulse of VGRF, peak flexion, sagittal range of motion (ROM) and abduction moment of knee joint. …”
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Knowledge–Behavior Relationships and Technology Adoption Among Patients With Diabetes: A Mixed‐Methods Analysis of Smart Foot Care Technology by Ting‐Ting Yeh, Jawl‐Shan Huang, Yun‐Chieh Chou

“…Results Despite high levels of foot care knowledge (86.2% correct response rate), actual self‐management behaviors remained suboptimal, with a modest correlation between knowledge and behavior (r = 0.31 and p < 0.01). …”
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Ten-year dynamics of risk factors and total cardiovascular risk in а cohort of male intellectual workers by N. A. Chepurina, M. N. Mamedov, A. D. Deev, N. V. Кisseleva

“…Seven main CVD RFs were studied - family CVD history, hypercholesterolemia (HCH), arterial hypertension (AH), overweight and obesity, smoking, excessive alcohol consumption - as well as two additional RFs - elevated heart rate (HR) and electrocardiography signs of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH). …”
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Leveraging genomics and temporal high‐throughput phenotyping to enhance association mapping and yield prediction in sesame by Idan Sabag, Ye Bi, Maitreya Mohan Sahoo, Ittai Herrmann, Gota Morota, Zvi Peleg

“…Association mapping revealed three genomic regions in linkage groups 6, 8, and 11, conferring trait variation over time and growth rate. Furthermore, we leveraged correlations between the temporal trait and seed‐yield and applied multi‐trait genomic prediction. …”
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Growth and development characteristics of fruit and vegetative bud outgrowth of Prunus sibirica L. in relation to physiological fruit drop by Yongqiang Sun, Pengkai Wang, Ce Zhang, Biao Li, Ying Kang, Jindi Yang, Tingting Ren, Jianhua Chen, Shengjun Dong

“…The results showed that the fruit and vegetative bud outgrowth of the “Shanxing No. 1” variety exhibited an S-shaped growth pattern with three physiological stages. The flower and fruit drop of “Shanxing No. 1” lasted for about 70 days with an 89.73% total drop rate and three abscission peaks, which could be divided into the flower abscission stage mainly caused by pistil abortion, rapid fruitlet abscission stage, mainly caused by carbohydrate competition between the fruit and vegetative bud outgrowth; and slow fruit abscission stage mostly related to seed abortion. …”
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Human Activities Dominantly Driven the Greening of China During 2001 to 2020 by Xueli Chang, Zhangzhi Tian, Yepei Chen, Ting Bai, Zhina Song, Kaimin Sun

“…The results show that from 2001 to 2020, vegetation in China showed a fluctuating but predominantly increasing trend, with a significant annual kNDVI growth rate of 0.002. The significant greening pattern was observed in over 48% of vegetated areas, exhibiting a clear spatial gradient with lower increases in the northwest and higher amplitudes in the southeast. …”
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Persistent dyspnea in post-coronavirus disease 2019 patients: value of cardiopulmonary exercise test by Aliaë A.R. Mohammed Hussein, Ahmad M. Shaddad, Alaa S.A. Mohammad, Maiada K. Hashem

“…Oxygen consumption per minute (VO2), VO2/kg, VO2%, heart rate, oxygen pulse%, ventilatory equivalent for oxygen, and oxygen saturation were significantly higher in the nondyspneic group. …”
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Spatial optimization of hierarchical healthcare facilities driven by multi-source data: a case study of Shenyang, China by Yifei Wang, Duanqiang Zhai, Duanqiang Zhai, Wuqi Xie, Shan Huang

“…The planning intervention recommends the addition of six tertiary and six secondary/primary hospitals, along with the spatial reconfiguration of 260 community health service stations, increasing the overall population coverage rate to 98.98%. This research offers empirical evidence and a transferable planning framework for improving healthcare spatial equity through a “core decongestion–periphery reinforcement” approach. …”
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Parenting styles and adolescent coping methods: a comparative study of non-suicidal self-injury and distinct groups by Beini Wang, Lixian Chen, Changzhou Hu, Zhenyu Hu, Wenwu Zhang, Fang Cheng, Lingjiang Liu

“…Abstract Background The global incidence rate of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) is increasing year by year, especially in the adolescent population, where it is highly correlated with parental rearing patterns and adolescent coping styles. …”
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Extravillous trophoblast invasion and decidualization in cesarean scar pregnancies by Lufen Gao, Hui Chen, Jing Liu, Minghua Wang, Fangfang Lin, Guang Yang, Gendie E. Lash, Ping Li

“…Abstract Introduction The increasing cesarean section rate has led to an increase in the number of subsequent pregnancies resulting in a cesarean scar pregnancy. …”
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Enrichment, domestication, degradation, adaptive mechanism, and nicosulfuron bioremediation of bacteria consortium YM2 by Yufeng Xiao, Meiqi Dong, Xian Wu, Shuang Liang, Ranhong Li, Hongyu Pan, Hao Zhang

“…During the degradation process, reactive oxygen species, oxidative stress, cell membrane permeability, cell surface hydrophobicity, and apoptosis rate exhibited initial increases followed by decreases. …”
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The landscape of pediatric genetic white matter disorders at a tertiary referral hospital in Upper Egypt and the report of 31 novel variants by Mahmoud M. Noureldeen, Maha S. Zaki, Karima Rafat, Mohamed S. Abdel-Hamid, Aida M. S. Salem

“…Thirty-one novel variants were identified, comprising 10 for LDs and 21 for GLEs. The mortality rate was 39.3% and 22.1% among patients with LDs and GLEs, respectively. …”
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Finite Element Analysis of Patellofemoral Contact Pressure with Varying Fixation of Transverse Patella Fractures by Farid Amirouche, PhD, Majd Mzeihem, MD, Jasper Hoag, BA, Rohan Wangikar, BS, Jason Koh, MD, FAOA

“…Models were analyzed and evaluated at 0°, 45°, and 90° flexion under quadriceps force to assess peak pressure, contact pattern, and pressure irregularity. Results:. The plate and wire fixation models exhibited distinct stress distribution patterns at 45° and 90° flexion angles. …”
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Global Aerosol Climatology from ICESat-2 Lidar Observations by Shi Kuang, Matthew McGill, Joseph Gomes, Patrick Selmer, Grant Finneman, Jackson Begolka

“…Despite ICESat-2’s design primarily as an altimetry mission with a single-wavelength, low-power, high-repetition-rate laser, ICESat-2 effectively captures global aerosol distribution patterns and can provide valuable insights to bridge the observational gap between the Cloud–Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) and Earth Cloud, Aerosol and Radiation Explorer (EarthCARE) missions to support future spaceborne lidar mission design. …”
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Abemaciclib in combination with endocrine therapy for the treatment of HR-positive/HER2-negative locally advanced/metastatic breast cancer in the UK: an observational study by Judy King, Walid Fakhouri, Rosalind Jarvis, Waleed Badreldin, Gavin Harper, Carlo Palmieri, Mark Nathan

“…Abemaciclib was associated with a 12-month TTP rate of 81.1% (first line), 68.2% (second line) and 58.2% (third line). …”
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