Sun-Tanning Perceptions of a New Zealand Urban Population (1994–2005/6) by A. I. Reeder, G. F. H. McLeod, A. R. Gray, R. McGee

“…The development, pretesting, and evaluation of messages for those groups most likely to endorse ProTan statements should be considered for the New Zealand skin cancer prevention program. …”
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Evaluating the Performance of Large Language Models on the CONACEM Anesthesiology Certification Exam: A Comparison with Human Participants by Fernando R. Altermatt, Andres Neyem, Nicolás I. Sumonte, Ignacio Villagrán, Marcelo Mendoza, Hector J. Lacassie

“…Item difficulty significantly predicted the model accuracy, while discrimination did not. Most errors occurred in application and understanding tasks and were linked to flawed reasoning or knowledge misapplication. …”
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Endoscopic Balloon Dilation for Primary Obstructive Megaureter in Children: Early Outcomes and Complications—A Case Series by George Vlad Isac, Nicolae Sebastian Ionescu

“…<i>Background and Objectives</i>: Congenital urological malformations are among the most frequent causes of pediatric chronic kidney disease. …”
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Epidemiological Profile of Ocular Trauma in A Mid-Zonal Hospital of Armed Forces in North-East Region of India by Ravi Chauhan, Abhinav Singh, Sanjay Mishra, VK Baranwal

“…In gender distribution male outnumbers females 69% and 31% respectively. Most of the cases were belonging to age groups of 30 years and younger 58%. …”
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Energy Community Surplus Sharing: Solidarity Strategies for Energy Commons Governance by Robert Wade, Francesco Pasimeni, Naud Loomans, Floor Alkemade

“…This provides an opportunity for ECs to exchange with actors or households in the local area, but who are not formally involved in the EC. However, most scholarship has assumed a limited subset of prosumer energy exchange possibilities, namely market exchange. …”
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Isolation and Identification of Infection-Causing Bacteria in Dairy Animals and Determination of Their Antibiogram by Safia Arbab, Hanif Ullah, Weiwei Wang, Ka Li, Ali Akbar, Jiyu Zhang

“…Farm hygiene, management, and milking procedure were listed through a questionnaire. The most common pathogens detected in this study was E. coli 88 (58%) and S. aureus 81 (54%), followed by Salmonella spp. 32 (21%), and Shigella spp. 44 (29%), respectively. …”
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K/Ka-band compact low-profile dual differential-fed split ring resonator magnetic-dipole antenna with UWB-frequency-tuning and broad scanning capabilities by Amir Reza Dastkhosh, Zhong-Xiang Zhang, Mehdi Naseh, Véronique Moeyaert, Fujiang Lin

“…The suggested antenna enables ultrawide-frequency tuning, achieving a 67% tuning range, the most among comparable designs which encompasses the whole K/Ka band from 20 GHz to 40 GHz by adjustments to the capacitances of the structure. …”
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Analysis of Mechanisms of Mandible Fractures by Lateral Impact: A Biomechanical Approach Using Finite Element Models by Takahiro Tomioka, Daisuke Ito, Takato Murai, Arisa Takeda, Mami Nakamura, Shinya Koshinuma, Kazuki Takaoka, Masahito Hitosugi

“…Results: Significant differences with <i>p</i>-values less than 0.001 were found for the following factors: pitch angle, lateral bending angle, impact object, combination of pitch angle and lateral bending angle, and combination of pitch angle and impact object. In most cases with higher values of effective plastic strain, which can cause mandibular fractures, the site was found at the condylar process or mandibular angle of the attacked side. …”
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Quantitative anatomy of the infraspinatus muscle in the human foetus by Maciej Biernacki, Michał Szpinda, Magdalena Grzonkowska, Mateusz Badura, Katarzyna Bogacz, Mariusz Baumgart

“…BACKGROUND: The study presents one of the 6 scapulohumeral muscles, which occupies most of the osteofibrous infraspinatus compartment. …”
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An Adaptation of Nonlinear Aerodynamic Models for Non-Traditional Control Effectors by Christian R. Bolander, Douglas F. Hunsaker

“…However, such a design introduces complex nonlinear longitudinal and lateral aerodynamic interactions, not typically accounted for in most fixed-wing aircraft aerodynamic models below stall. …”
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Cost effectiveness of cryptococcal antigen screening as a strategy to prevent HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis in South Africa. by Joseph N Jarvis, Thomas S Harrison, Stephen D Lawn, Graeme Meintjes, Robin Wood, Susan Cleary

“…Although CRAG screening followed by lumbar puncture in all antigen-positive individuals was the most effective strategy clinically, the incremental benefit of LPs and amphotericin therapy for those with CNS disease was small and additional costs were large (US$158 versus US$51 per person year; incremental cost effectiveness ratio(ICER) US$889,267 per life year gained). …”
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Testing autonomous vehicles and AI: perspectives and challenges from cybersecurity, transparency, robustness and fairness by David Fernández Llorca, Ronan Hamon, Henrik Junklewitz, Kathrin Grosse, Lars Kunze, Patrick Seiniger, Robert Swaim, Nick Reed, Alexandre Alahi, Emilia Gómez, Ignacio Sánchez, Akos Kriston

“…We first analyse the role of AI at the most relevant operational layers of AVs, and discuss the implications of the EU’s AI Act on AVs, highlighting the importance of the concept of a safety component. …”
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The global landscape of supportive care research for inflammatory bowel disease in children and adolescents: insights from a bibliometric study by Haowen Lv, Mary Steen, Paul Porter, Huaqiong Zhou, Haichao Huang

“…The collaboration network analysis revealed that the USA (317) and Harvard University (57) demonstrated the highest productivity, while Assa Amit (20) emerged as the most prolific author. The UK, with a total link strength of 198, showed strong collaborative ties with the US and Netherlands. …”
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Neonatal Outcomes of Spinal Versus General Anesthesia among Women Undergoing Elective Cesarean Section in Erbil City by Sahar Ismail Abdulla, Awaz Aziz Saeed, Abubakir Majeed Saleh

“…Results:  the study shows that the most (54%, 44%) of the participants in both groups general and spinal anesthesia were in the age group 20–29 years old, and 35%, 44% were  in the group 30-39 years old respectively. 25% of the general anesthesia group held a primary school degree and 30% of the spinal anesthesia group held an institute or university degree. 65% and 45% of the participants in both were in multi-gravity respectively. 87% and 53% responded that the decision to choose types of anesthesia was made by the Physician's request for both groups. …”
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Legal Guarantees of Economic Competition in the European Union Public Procurement Regulation by E. Kosiński

“…Moreover, there is a critical analysis of scholar literature. The most important in this context is to indicate mutual co-relations between competition and fair competition in area of public procurement system and to point other major principles of the public procurement process, such as non-discrimination rule, transparency, impartiality and objectiveness rule, legality rule, openness, rule of written form, primate of using tender mode (competitive mode, in another words it is a rule of extraordinary application of non-competitive modes or primate of granting public procurement in a tender mode). …”
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Associations between Metabolic Syndrome, Grip Strength, and Depressive Symptom among Community-Dwelling Older Adult: A Cross-Sectional Study by Youngyun Jin, Taewan Kim, Kunho Lee, Donghyun Kim

“…Among the various factors associated with MetS, muscle strength has the closest and most significant association with depressive symptoms. …”
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“I don’t think there’s necessarily a one size fits all” negotiating competing priorities in nurse shift scheduling: a qualitative study by Hannah Ruth Barker, Peter Griffiths, Chiara Dall’Ora

“…The study found that collaborative and compromising conflict management approaches were most effective in preventing potential conflicts from escalating into actual conflicts. …”
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Clinical Characterization According to Age Group of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis by Neima Ayde Bravo Mego, María Lucelita Silva Coronel, José Ander Asenjo Alarcón

“…<br /><strong>Conclusion:</strong> polyarticular pain was the most frequent manifestation, with positive rheumatoid factor and elevated C-reactive protein, both in adults and older adults. …”
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Reproductive-associated risk factors and incident coronary heart disease in women: an umbrella review by Khadeeja Alnefaie, Jennifer R. Dungan

“…Additionally, cardiovascular events, including ischemic heart disease, were most frequent within the first decade postpartum in women with a history of gestational diabetes. …”
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A case of Anti-Hu and Anti-Zic4 paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration in a patient with stage IV adenocarcinoma of Müllerian origin by Saad Rashid, Suneha Pocha, Nada Saleh, Erin Ozminkowski, Vijayta Geeta Bansal, Vibhav Bansal

“…It is characterized by progressive cerebellar dysfunction, including ataxia and dysarthria, and is associated with anti-onconeuronal antibodies such as Anti-Yo and Anti-Hu. While most cases of Anti-Hu-associated PCD occur in patients with small cell lung cancer, their association with gynecologic malignancies is exceedingly rare. …”
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