The Knowledge, attitude, and practice of oral hygiene among pregnant women attending antenatal clinic in Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado, Ekiti State, Nigeria by Adeshola Adelekan Ajetunmobi, Anuoluwapo Deborah Ajijola, Adebayo Adeneye Sheyin

“…Descriptive statistics summarized the data, while Pearson correlation examined associations between KAP scores. Results Most respondents (69.6%) had moderate knowledge of oral hygiene, and attitudes were generally positive (mean score = 3.78). …”
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A novel TGFβ modulator that uncouples R-Smad/I-Smad-mediated negative feedback from R-Smad/ligand-driven positive feedback. by Wenchao Gu, Rui Monteiro, Jie Zuo, Filipa Costa Simões, Andrea Martella, Charlotte Andrieu-Soler, Frank Grosveld, Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, Roger Patient

“…As some of the most widely utilised intercellular signalling molecules, transforming growth factor β (TGFβ) superfamily members play critical roles in normal development and become disrupted in human disease. …”
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Prevalence and predictors of substance use as a factor in suicide in the USA, 2015–2020: a repeated cross-sectional analysis by Julie A Phillips

“…The detection of alcohol, the substance most identified in toxicology reports, remained stable over the period. …”
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EU Energy Markets and Renewable Energy Sources—Are We Waiting for a Crisis? by Tomasz Sieńko, Jerzy Szczepanik

“…Furthermore, this work refutes the most frequently proposed solution to the problem of excessively low prices based on energy storage systems. …”
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CEEMDAN-Based Permutation Entropy: A Suitable Feature for the Fault Identification of Spiral-Bevel Gears by Lingli Jiang, Hongchuang Tan, Xuejun Li, Liman Chen, Dalian Yang

“…Their respective diagnostic accuracies are 100%, 88.33%, and 83.33%, which indicate that the CEEMDAN-based permutation entropy is the most sensitive feature for the fault identification of spiral-bevel gears.…”
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Assessment methods for bicycle environment safety and comfort: A scoping review by Tufail Ahmed, Ali Pirdavani, Irene Febryana Sitohang, Geert Wets, Davy Janssens

“…Questionnaires (evaluation platforms), bicycles, GIS, and video cameras were the most commonly used equipment/resources. Roughness index assessments relied on objective data, such as acceleration values, and some studies validated their findings using cyclists' subjective comfort perception. …”
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Cervical Cancer Genetic Susceptibility: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses of Recent Evidence. by Gabriela A Martínez-Nava, Julián A Fernández-Niño, Vicente Madrid-Marina, Kirvis Torres-Poveda

“…This study suggests the urgent need for more replication studies focused on GWAS identified CC susceptibility variants, in order to reveal the most informative genetic susceptibility markers for CC across different populations.…”
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Relationship Between Narcissism and Unforgiveness Among Indian Adults: A Mixed Methods Investigation by Ajit Kumar Singh, Gyanesh Kumar Tiwari

“…In contrast, people with low narcissism scores tended to forgive most offenses. Still, they cited serious crimes such as harassment, sexual assault, and physical or verbal abuse as significant reasons for their unforgiveness. …”
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Spontaneous, pro-arrhythmic calcium signals disrupt electrical pacing in mouse pulmonary vein sleeve cells. by Katja Rietdorf, Martin D Bootman, Michael J Sanderson

“…These cells autonomously generate action potentials that propagate into the left atrial chamber and cause arrhythmias resulting in atrial fibrillation; the most common, often sustained, form of cardiac arrhythmia. …”
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Study of Frequency and Nosology of Clinical Varieties of Retinal Dystrophies in Children and Adolescents by O. V. Kolenko, E. L. Sorokin, A. V. Sergeeva

“…To study frequency and structure of clinical forms of RD in children of different age groups to find out most typical age of their primary formation, to assess the proportion of their prognostically hazardous forms. …”
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Entrustable professional activities in nursing education: a scoping review by Jan Kottner, Asja Maaz, Jonas Pietsch

“…The activities health status assessment, care measures, leadership/management, diagnoses, care plans and protocols, emergency care measures and participation in diagnostics and/or therapy were described most often. In 4 out of 13 cases, EPAs were implemented. …”
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Harnessing algae oil as a sustainable DHA source for parenteral nutrition in vegan patients by Joanna Czerniel, Aleksandra Gostyńska-Stawna, Natalia Urbaniak, Karina Sommerfeld-Klatta, Maciej Stawny

“…Among the formulations, NE P100, prepared using non-GMO soybean-derived phospholipids containing over 90% phosphatidylcholine, exhibited the most favorable properties, indicating its potential for further development. …”
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Performance of machine learning versus the national early warning score for predicting patient deterioration risk: a single-site study of emergency admissions by Darren Green, Mark Holland, Pinkie Chambers, Matthew Watson, Noura Al Moubayed, Stelios Boulitsakis Logothetis

“…We found that models including free-text triage notes outperform structured tabular data models, achieving an average precision of 0.92, compared with 0.75 for tree-based models and 0.12 for NEWS.Conclusions Our findings suggests that machine learning models using free-text data have the potential to improve clinical decision-making in the ED; our techniques significantly reduce alert rate while detecting most high-risk patients missed by NEWS.…”
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Retention in HIV care between testing and treatment in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review. by Sydney Rosen, Matthew P Fox

“…The median proportion retained in Stage 1 was 59% (35%-88%); Stage 2, 46% (31%-95%); and Stage 3, 68% (14%-84%). Most studies reported on only one stage; none followed a cohort of patients through all three stages. …”
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The method of trophy assessment of capercaillies by V. V. Kolesnikov, D. P. Strelnikov, N. S. Sukhanova

“…The capercaillie as one of the most important hunting objects in Russia has not yet been included in the list of esti-mated hunting trophies due to the lack of an acceptable assessment methodology. …”
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Life‐history traits of a tropical bagrid catfish, Mystus mysticetus Roberts, 1992, caught from the Mekong Delta, Vietnam by Thu Quynh Phan, Lam Thi Thao Vo, Anh Ngoc Tran, Quang Minh Dinh

“…A collection of 741 individual fish was used for analysis and showed that most fish size groups ranged from 9.0 cm to 12.0 cm, and the asymptotic length was 16.8 cm for both CRCT and LPST populations. …”
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Gastrointestinal safety of semaglutide and tirzepatide vs. placebo in obese individuals without diabetes: a systematic review and meta analysis by Moaz Safwan, Mariam Safwan Bourgleh, Shahad Abdullah Alotaibi, Eman Alotaibi, Abdulsalam Al-Ruqi, Fathiya El Raeya

“…CONCLUSION: Compared to placebo, both Semaglutide and tirzepatide are associated with increased GI adverse outcomes, with most cases being mild. Clinicians should carefully monitor patients for potential adverse outcomes.…”
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The Global Plastics Treaty must include strict global controls on plastic waste trade by Sedat Gündoğdu, Jim Puckett, Kenan Gedik, Yahya Terzi, Rafet Çağrı Öztürk

“…Ultimately, meaningful progress demands upstream solutions: the GPT must prioritize reducing plastic production at its source, especially for the most harmful and unnecessary applications.…”
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Natural genetic variation impacts expression levels of coding, non‐coding, and antisense transcripts in fission yeast by Mathieu Clément‐Ziza, Francesc X Marsellach, Sandra Codlin, Manos A Papadakis, Susanne Reinhardt, María Rodríguez‐López, Stuart Martin, Samuel Marguerat, Alexander Schmidt, Eunhye Lee, Christopher T Workman, Jürg Bähler, Andreas Beyer

“…We identified a genetic variation of swc5 that modifies the levels of 871 RNAs, with effects on both sense and antisense transcription, and show that this effect most likely goes through a compromised deposition of the histone variant H2A.Z. …”
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Factors affecting the prevalence of endoparasites in pre-weaning calves in a warm humid climate of Mexico by León-González C. Y., González-Garduño R., Hernández-Domínguez J. M., Peña-Escalona F. L., Villa-Mancera A., Aguilar-Marcelino L.

“…Nematode prevalence exceeded 30 % for most of the year, while trematode prevalence ranged from 12 % to 20 %.…”
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