Functioning in patients with major depression treated with duloxetine or a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor in East Asia by Novick D, Montgomery W, Haro JM, Moneta MV, Zhu G, Yue L, Hong J, Duenas H, Brugnoli R

“…Depression severity was assessed using the 16-item Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology-Self Report. PPS were rated using the modified Somatic Symptom Inventory. …”
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Spatio-temporal mapping reveals changes in soil organic carbon stocks across the contiguous United States since 1955 by Chenconghai Yang, Feixue Shen, Xiang Li, Wenkai Cui, Lei Zhang, Lin Yang, Chenghu Zhou

“…Abstract Understanding spatio-temporal patterns of soil organic carbon (SOC) is critical for global climate change mitigation and sustainable soil management. …”
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Effects of Hole Irrigation Device Parameters on Soil Water Characteristics Under Different Biogas Slurry Ratios by Peng Xiang, Jian Zheng, Yan Wang, You Wu

“…The lateral and vertical wetting front migration distances exhibited a well-defined power function relationship with the soil’s stable infiltration rate and infiltration time (<i>R</i>² ≥ 0.977). …”
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Assessment of predictors and mitigation strategy for therapeutic inertia in the management of hypertension: a quality improvement project by Ananyan Sampath, Shreya Deshpande, Rashmi Verma, Rajnish Joshi

“…When patient adherence was disregarded, TI increased to 49.7%. The total error rate in BP management ranged from 53.29% to 61.5%. …”
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Applying mortality data to improve emergency care planning for haemodialysis patients: a quality improvement project by Lisa Tang, Usha Appalsawmy

“…Cases involving cardiac arrest underwent further analysis, examining factors including their Clinical Frailty Score4 and the presence of a ReSPECT form.2 This review identified the underutilisation of ReSPECT forms in frail haemodialysis patients.Phase 2: we expanded the review of ReSPECT form use beyond cardiac arrest cases to include all haemodialysis patients who underwent an SJR in the same time frame, thus providing a broader perspective on ReSPECT form usage within the whole cohort.Phase 3: an intervention in the form of a departmental educational campaign, emphasising the high mortality rate among frail haemodialysis patients and, thus, the importance of advance care planning, was carried out. …”
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Epigenetic dysregulation-induced metabolic reprogramming fuels tumor progression in bladder cancer by Jian Zhang, Xiaosong Fan, Xu Xu, Yichao Han, Weixing Yu, Bicheng Yang, Yanling Chen, Shaolin Zhang

“…BackgroundBladder cancer remains a significant global health challenge with a high mortality rate despite advancements in treatment modalities. …”
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Mechanisms behind grouting pressure jumping in low-permeability limestones and techniques for grouting pressure control by Zhenli FAN, Lutong CAO, Yong CUI, Zhiwei ZHANG, Fengda ZHANG

“…Therefore, such grout was prone to block fractures, and the pressure rise rate was approximately 10 times greater than that of the cement grout. …”
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Assessment of Water Resources Carrying Capacity and Analysis of Its Coupling Coordination in the Yangtze River Economic Belt by XIONG Ying, JIANG Yi-xin, CHEN Si-xuan

“…Analysis of influencing factors identified the proportion of tertiary industry, urbanization rate, and per capita daily domestic water consumption as the three factors most strongly correlated with water resources carrying capacity. …”
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Assessment of heavy metal pollution sources and environmental capacity of typical farmland soils in northwestern Zhejiang based on the geological background of black rock series by Mei-hua Wang

“…Principal component analysis extracted four principal components with a cumulative contribution rate of 78.92%, and the spatial distribution differences were obvious. …”
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Eco-friendly QbD-optimized chromatographic method for simultaneous analysis of metronidazole and nicotinamide with applications in permeation, stability, and sustainability evaluat... by Kanaka Parvathi Kannaiah, Mohamed A. M. Ali, Hemanth Kumar Chanduluru, Anis Ahmad Chaudhary, Mahmoud El-Maghrabey, Reem H. Obaydo, Galal Magdy, Mohamed A. El Hamd

“…The in vitro permeation curve, constructed by plotting mass flux in. μg/cm2.hour against mid-time in hours, showed similar permeation patterns for both drugs over time. The permeation coefficient (Kp) values for MTZ and NCT were 0.016 and 0.012 × cm−2. hour−1, respectively. …”
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Longitudinal evaluation of common and unique brain-networks in variants of primary progressive aphasia by Rajan Kashyap, Rose Dawn Bharath, Changsong Zhou, Kyrana Tsapkini, John E. Desmond, SH Annabel Chen, Kaviraja Udupa, PT Sivakumar, Sagarika Bhattacharjee

“…To validate the rsfMRI networks and the longitudinal changes, we evaluated the grey matter (GM) volume, GM atrophy and the rate-of-atrophy of the brain areas. To corroborate the findings, we applied persistent homology on the structural networks derived from diffusion tensor images. …”
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Development-oriented foreign policy; a framework for analyzing Nordics relations by Reza Rahmati

“…Norway, on the other hand, has the highest level of GDP per capita, while only Denmark has shown a positive GDP growth rate since the 2008 financial crisis. Accordingly, a look at the statistics and data on foreign trade, the total value of exports and imports, and the economic performance of these countries helps to a great extent to formulate development-oriented approaches based on institutional patterns, the embedding of the economy in politics, elite perception, and a development-oriented foreign policy. …”
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Exploring oral hygiene practices, nutritional habits and caries risk among children, adolescents and young adults: a multiregional perspective in the post-COVID-19 era by Azhar Iqbal, Osama Khattak, Yasir Dilshad Siddiqui, Saud Hamdan Almaeen, Saeed Alqahtani, Saleh Ali Alqahtani, Saeed Awod Bin Hassan, Faisal Hasan Alshehri, Ali Y. Alsaeed, Mahmoud K. AL-Omiri

“…Results There was a notable increase in the caries experience rate, which escalated from 26.1% before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic to 45.0% during the pandemic (P < 0.001). …”
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Metal–organic nanostructures based on sono/chemo-nanodynamic synergy of TixOy/Ru reaction units: for ultrasound-induced dynamic cancer therapy by Tao Jiang, Zixiang Tang, Shumiao Tian, Haitian Tang, Zhekun Jia, Fangjian Li, Chenyue Qiu, Lin Deng, Lang Ke, Pan He, Gang Liu, Chengchao Chu, Yongfu Xiong

“…Remarkably, ultrasound irradiation induced substantial oxidative stress and immunogenic cell death, promoting the release of damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs), which elevated the maturation rate of tumor-infiltrating dendritic cells (DCs) and significantly increased the proportion of CD8⁺ T cells. …”
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Wastewater-based epidemiology of influenza A virus in Shenzhen: baseline values and implications for multi-pathogen surveillance by Xiuyuan Shi, Shisong Fang, Chen Du, Guixian Luo, Yanpeng Cheng, Zhen Zhang, Qiuying Lv, Xin Wang, Zhigao Chen, Bincai Wei, Ziqi Wu, Bingchan Guo, Panpan Yang, Miaomiao Luo, Weihua Wu, Liping Zhou, Ting Huang, Xuan Zou, Xiaolu Shi, Songzhe Fu, Zhanwei Du, Xinxin Han, Yinghui Li, Qinghua Hu

“…Influenza A virus (IAV) has become increasingly unpredictable in its seasonal patterns following the COVID-19 pandemic. A key challenge remains identifying optimal moments for public health interventions to inform evidence-based decisions. …”
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Neural signatures underlying the effect of social structure on empathy and altruistic behaviors by Xia Tian, Zixin Zheng, Renhui Li, Yue-Jia Luo, Chunliang Feng

“…Afterwards, participants rated the pain experienced by these innocents and shared money with other innocents. …”
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Temperature-VPD-evapotranspiration interactions modulated asynchronous dynamics of vegetation photosynthesis and net ecosystem production in Eurasia by Rui Yang, Hao Yuan, Ruohua Du, Litao Zhou, Jianjun Wu, Liang Gao, Ting Mao

“…The results showed that the rate of increase in NEP standardized anomalies (0.004 yr−1, p < 0.05) lagged behind NDVI/SIF/GPP standardized anomalies (0.009 − 0.014 yr−1, p < 0.01), particularly after 2000, and it was more pronounced in drylands. …”
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The role of hypoxia-senescence co-related molecular subtypes and prognostic characteristics in hepatocellular carcinoma by Fuqing Chen, Yifan Cai, Xiangmei Chen, Changzhou Chen, Qinliang Fang, Jianming Liu, Yibin Zhang, Jianyin Zhou

“…A total of 184 HSCRGs were identified. The expression pattern and functional characteristics of MLH1 gene in HCC were verified. …”
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An epigenome-wide association study in the case-control study to explore early development identifies differential DNA methylation near ZFP57 as associated with autistic traits by Ellen M. Howerton, Valerie Morrill, Rose Schrott, Jason Daniels, Ashley Y. Song, Kelly Benke, Heather Volk, Homayoon Farzadegan, Aimee Anido Alexander, Amanda L. Tapia, Gabriel S. Dichter, Lisa A. Croen, Lisa Wiggins, Genevieve Wojcik, M. Daniele Fallin, Christine Ladd-Acosta

“…We sought to identify DNA methylation patterns in child blood associated with Social Responsiveness Scale score, Second Edition (SRS). …”
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Interest groups in Lithuania: dynamics of development and characteristics of institutionalization by Alvidas Lukošaitis

“…Author expresses doubts whether the pattern of interaction of the State and the interest groups in Lithuania could be described as pluralistic. …”
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