The state of cancer care in Russia: breast cancer. Epidemiology and survival of patients. The impact of the SARS-CoV-2-beta-coronavirus epidemic (clinical and population study) by V. M. Merabishvili, V. F. Semiglazov, A. V. Komiakhov, T. Yu. Semiglazova, P. V. Krivorotko, А. M. Belyaev

“…The one-year and five-year survival rate of breast cancer patients continues to grow.…”
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Dual Task Interference in Young, Middle-Age and Older Adults During Different Functional Mobility Tasks: A Cross Sectional Study by Tamara R. L. P. Tolotti, Ana Paula O. Barbosa, João Vítor E. H. Szortyka, Adriana T. de Lemos, Felipe de S. Stigger

“…The time taken to complete the mobility tasks was measured, while performance on secondary tasks was assessed based on the CTT rate, number of errors (SCWT and DST), and rate of recalled words (SVFT). …”
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Efficacy of Tuina Versus the Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF) Technique in Patients With Nonspecific Chronic Neck Pain: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial by Kaiqi Fan, Aicheng Wang, Hainan Gao, Ting Yu, Xiangyu Zhu

“… BackgroundNonspecific chronic neck pain (NCNP), characterized by a long course, a high recurrence rate, and a young age of onset, causes a huge economic burden. …”
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A Case of Severe Septicemia With Chromobacterium violaceum in Bangladesh by Tuhin Sadique, Asif Reza Khan, Dilruba Ahmed, Fazlul Kabir, Anup Chowdhury, Nazrul Islam, Farhana Halim, Nasrin Akter, Shoeb Bin Islam

“…Infections with C. violaceum have rarely been reported in humans, with an exceptionally high mortality rate, particularly when linked to septicemia. We report the case of a 45‐year‐old female farmer from Bangladesh who developed severe septicemia following an insect bite and subsequent self‐drainage of an abscess. …”
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Nodal Status Assessment in Breast Cancer: Strategies of Clinical Grounds and Quality of Life Implications by Paolo Orsaria, Dimitrios Varvaras, Gianluca Vanni, Giampiero Pagnani, Jacopo Scaggiante, Federico Frusone, Alessandra Vittoria Granai, Giuseppe Petrella, Oreste Claudio Buonomo

“…The exclusion of node involvement using noninvasive methods could reduce the rate of axillary surgery, thereby preventing from suffering complications. …”
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Integrating Dimensional Analysis and Machine Learning for Predictive Maintenance of Francis Turbines in Sediment-Laden Flow by Álvaro Ospina, Ever Herrera Ríos, Jaime Jaramillo, Camilo A. Franco, Esteban A. Taborda, Farid B. Cortes

“…Key variables, including power output, water flow rate, and operational time, were extracted and analyzed to identify patterns and correlations affecting turbine performance. …”
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Diagnosis and management of endometrial hyperplasia: A UK national audit of adherence to national guidance 2012-2020. by Ian Henderson, Naomi Black, Hajra Khattak, UKARCOG Working Group Authors, Janesh K Gupta, Michael P Rimmer

“…By 2 years, follow-up to histological regression without hysterectomy increased from 38% (95% CI [33%, 43%]) to 52% (95% CI [47%, 58%]) for those with NEH (rate ratio (RR) 1.38, 95% CI [1.18, 1.63] p < 0.001). …”
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A cross-sectional study of evaluating cervical spondylotic myelopathy based on gait and plantar pressures by Xuhong Zhang, Zichuan Wu, Hanlin Song, Aochen Xu, Junbin Liu, Junzhe Sheng, Baifeng Sun, Min Qi, Chen Xu, Yang Liu

“…Gait parameters were obtained by capturing video of the patient while walking via a smartphone-based computer vision algorithm (using the OpenPose framework), and plantar pressure distributions were measured using wireless sensor-equipped insoles (sampling rate 50–100 Hz). Gender, age, and body mass index were employed as matching variables, resulting in 102 matched pairs. …”
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PREACT-digital: study protocol for a longitudinal, observational multicentre study on digital phenotypes of non-response to cognitive behavioural therapy for internalising disorder... by Christine Knaevelsrud, Sebastian Burchert, Till Langhammer, Leona Hammelrath, Annette Brose, Manuel Heinrich, Pavle Zagorscak

“…We collect passive data on heart rate, physical activity, sleep and location patterns. …”
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Guideline Utilization in Oncology: Addressing Barriers and Facilitators in Latin America and the Caribbean by Yanin Chavarri-Guerra, Luis Corrales, James D. Morgante, Henry Gomez, Alba Kihn-Alarcón, Rodrigo Munhoz, Els Dams

“…Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data.RESULTSOf the 1,265 invited physicians, 140 responded (11% response rate). Most respondents reported frequent use of guidelines, with 47.9% using them often and 40.7% always. …”
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Identification of Yellow Pigmentation Genes in Brassica rapa ssp. pekinensis Using Br300 Microarray by Hee-Jeong Jung, Ranjith Kumar Manoharan, Jong-In Park, Mi-Young Chung, Jeongyeo Lee, Yong-Pyo Lim, Yoonkang Hur, Ill-Sup Nou

“…These results indicate that the yellow leaves accumulate high levels of both lutein and β-carotene due to stimulation of synthesis and that the degradation rate is inhibited. A large number of responsible genes as novel genes were specifically expressed in yellow inner leaves, suggesting the possible involvement in pigment synthesis. …”
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Non-invasive dual-brain stimulation facilitates social cooperation through enhancing interpersonal neural synchronization by Lifen Zheng, Chunming Lu

“…Moreover, compared to sham dual-brain tDCS, the active dual-brain tDCS significantly increased the rate of cooperative strategic behaviors as well as the dyadic economic gains. …”
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miR-276 and miR-182013-5p modulate insect metamorphosis and reproduction via dually regulating juvenile hormone acid methyltransferase by Jiasheng Song, Wanwan Li, Lulu Gao, Qiang Yan, Xinyan Zhang, Mingzhi Liu, Shutang Zhou

“…We found that Jhamt, a rate-limiting enzyme in JH biosynthesis, mirrors JH titer patterns in the migratory locust. …”
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Vegetation structure and soil organic carbon storage across northern forest-tundra ecotones in continuous permafrost by H. Travers-Smith, N.C. Coops, T.C. Lantz, M. Hamp, D. Ignace, M.A. Wulder, J. van der Sluijs

“…Between treeline types, we observed differences in C:N ratios and organic matter depth related to the rate of soil carbon turnover and SOC storage. Overall, SOC showed small positive relationships with tree stem density and average canopy height. …”
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Detecting Black-Box Model Probing Attacks Through Probability Scores by Yongzhi Wang, Ahsan Habib, Likhitha Reddy Kesara, Brahmarshi Jasti, Renjie Hu, Tejasv Singh

“…Compared with existing defense methods, our classifiers can reduce the Attack Success Rate (ASR) of the OARS-enhanced attacks from 93% to 1.78%. …”
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Expression of toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 gene of Staphylococcus aureus in milk: Proof of concept by Milijana Babić, Marija Pajić, Aleksandra Nikolić, Vlado Teodorović, Milorad Mirilović, Lazar Milojević, Branko Velebit

“…The results of experiments showed the dependence of the growth rate and consequent up-regulation of TSST-1 encoding gene on storage time-temperature and type of milk. …”
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Coupling Coordination Development Between Cultivated Land and Agricultural Water Use Efficiency in Arid Regions: A Case Study of the Turpan–Hami Basin by Yue Kong, Abdugheni Abliz, Dongping Guo, Xianhe Liu, Jialin Li, Buasi Nurahmat

“…A coupling coordination degree model was constructed to evaluate their coordinated development level, with spatial autocorrelation and other methods used to examine spatiotemporal patterns. Key findings include: (1) The overall utilization efficiency of both resources was relatively low, with mean values of 0.516 and 0.596, showing a fluctuating upward trend and significant spatial heterogeneity; (2) The mean coupling coordination degree (CCD) ranked as follows: Barkol Kazakh Autonomous County (0.587) > Yiwu County (0.563) > Gaochang District (0.494) > Shanshan County (0.437) > Tuokexun County (0.417) > Yizhou District (0.342), with an annual growth rate of 4.6%; (3) Regional disparities were dominated by intra-regional differences (42.0%), followed by transvariation density (30.64%). …”
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Design of a Methodology to Evaluate the Energy Flexibility of Residential Consumers to Enhance Household Demand Side Management: The Case of a Spanish Municipal Network by Caterina Lamanna, Andrés Ondó Oná-Ayécaba, Lina Montuori, Manuel Alcázar-Ortega, Javier Rodríguez-García

“…Climate change and global warming are causing growing environmental concerns, prompting many countries to increase investments in renewable energies. The high growth rate of renewables in the energy systems brings significant intermittency challenges. …”
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Genome-wide analysis of the KCS gene family in Medicago truncatula and their expression profile under various abiotic stress by Peng Lv, Jiaqi Lv, Yawen Zhan, Ning Wang, Xinyan Zhao, Qi Sha, Wen Zhou, Yujie Gong, Jing Yang, Hang Zhou, Pengfei Chu, Yongwang Sun

“…Abstract Very long-chain fatty acids (VLCFAs) are indispensable constituents of cuticular wax and exert pivotal functions in regulating plant growth, development and response to stress. β-Ketoacyl-CoA synthase (KCS) represents the rate-limiting enzyme for the biosynthesis of VLCFAs. …”
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Efficacy of human heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor in healing experimental chemical burns by L. M. Dronko, T. M. Lutsenko, O. I. Golembiovska, T. Yu. Trokhymchuk, M. A. Arkhypova, V. A. Dibrova, Yu. V. Dibrova, S. L. Rybalko, S. A. Myakushko, A. A. Siromolot, O. Yu. Galkin

“…The preparations (100 μl, 1.5 mg of rhHB-EGF) were applied to burn wounds daily for 5 days. Wound area, healing rate and histological patterns of skin samples were estimated. …”
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