Effects of microplastics on growth and development of Rana latastei tadpoles: A mesocosm study by Andrea Gazzola, Alessandro Balestrieri, Luca F. Russo, Giulia Gnocchi, Daniele Pellitteri-Rosa, Paolo Tremolada

“…As MPs are currently ubiquitous, the role played by MP exposure on larval growth needs to be carefully investigated to point out the potential long-term effects of the most widespread polymers.…”
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Effectiveness of Nurse‐Led Early Mobility Protocols on the Outcomes of Critical Care Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis by Jing Xu, Shengyuan Wang, Qian Zhang, Yanfen Yao, Jing Yu

“…Heterogeneity was substantial for most outcomes. Nurse‐led early mobility protocols effectively reduce ICU and hospital stay durations, suggesting their role in optimising critical care recovery. …”
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Vancomycin-resistant enterococci utilise antibiotic-enriched nutrients for intestinal colonisation by Olivia G. King, Alexander Y. G. Yip, Victoria Horrocks, Jesús Miguéns Blanco, Julian R. Marchesi, Benjamin H. Mullish, Thomas B. Clarke, Julie A. K. McDonald

“…However, mixtures of short chain fatty acids provide complete or near complete suppression of VRE growth. We show that VRE use most nutrients increased in antibiotic-treated faecal microbiomes as carbon or nitrogen sources to support their growth, where Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis have some common and some distinct preferences for the use of these specific nutrients. …”
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Cancer cells accelerate exhaustion of persistently activated mouse CD4+ T cells by Malgorzata Stachowiak, William J. Becker, Purevdorj B. Olkhanud, Paloma A. Moreno, Sergiusz Markowicz, Jay A. Berzofsky, Elzbieta Sarnowska

“…Most exhaustion studies have focused on CD8+ T cells. …”
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Diminished DEFA6 Expression in Paneth Cells Is Associated with Necrotizing Enterocolitis by Laszlo Markasz, Alkwin Wanders, Laszlo Szekely, Helene Engstrand Lilja

“…Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is the most common gastrointestinal disorder in premature infants with a high morbidity and mortality. …”
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Impact of Reset Pulse Width on Gradual Conductance Programming in Al₂O₃/TiO_x-Based RRAM by Hyeonseong Lim, Wonbo Shim, Tae-Hyeon Kim

“…At a 100 µs reset pulse width, most cycles exhibited abrupt current jumps that exceeded the target current, whereas at a 100 ns width, the programmed current increased gradually in all cycles, enabling precise conductance tuning. …”
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Features of the anatomical structure of leaves depending on the high-altitude growth of apricot in Dagestan by D. M. Anatov, Z. M. Asadulaev, Z. R. Ramazanova, R. M. Osmanov

“…Significant differences between the extreme height reference points were recorded for the number of stomata, cells of the lower epidermis, layers of the sclerenchyma, and xylem thickness. Most of the traits of the lamina decreased, and those of the petiole increased with the altitude.   …”
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Alzheimer's and dementia: Diagnosis, assessment, and disease monitoring global, regional, and national burden of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias (ADODs) and their risk fact... by Fang Wang, Dongxin Li, Xuetian Gao, Xingye Zhang, Xuanying Shi, Youquan Guo

“…In 2021, metabolic factors and high fasting plasma glucose most influenced ADODs. DISCUSSION The global ADOD burden has risen since 1990. …”
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Automatic Scene Generation: State-of-the-Art Techniques, Models, Datasets, Challenges, and Future Prospects by Awal Ahmed Fime, Saifuddin Mahmud, Arpita Das, Md. Sunzidul Islam, Jong-Hoon Kim

“…Each category is explored in detail, discussing various sub-models and their contributions to the field. We also review the most commonly used datasets, such as COCO-Stuff, Visual Genome, and MS-COCO, which are critical for training and evaluating these models. …”
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Nine Lessons for Teaching Negotiation Skills by Melissa Conley Tyler, Naomi Cukier

“…Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS) fees have increased significantly, many faculties are charging top-up fees, and some students desperate for a legal education are taking up a rising number of full-fee paying places. Most students graduating from law faculties at the present time – even those on HECS – expect to be burdened with a debt of around $40,000 when they graduate. …”
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Effects of aerobic training on brachial artery flow-mediated dilation in healthy adults: a meta-analysis of inter-individual response differences in randomized controlled trials by Armin H. Paravlic, Kristina Drole

“…The standard deviation of change scores in the intervention and control groups suggests that most of the variation in the observed change from pre-to-post intervention is due to other factors (e.g., measurement error, biological variability etc.) unrelated to the intervention itself. …”
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Assessment of Intestinal Parasites and Its Associated Factors among Fruits and Vegetables Collected from Local Markets of Bule Hora Town, Southeast Ethiopia by Tibeso Gemechu, Jemal Bona, Alqeer Aliyo, Wako Dedecha, Girma Ashenafi

“…The parasite Ascaris lumbricoides (40.1%) was found the most frequently, whereas Strongyloides spp. was found the least frequently. …”
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Prevalence and population characteristics associated with frailty in a rural low socioeconomic area in Denmark: the Lolland-Falster Health Study by Katja Kemp Jacobsen, Randi Jepsen, Charlotte Nilsson, Lau Thygesen, Ellen Astrid Holm, Charlotte Suetta, Mathilde Glud Christensen

“…The prevalence of frailty among individuals above the age of 65 varies widely with an overall weighted prevalence of 10.7%.Objectives The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence of prefrailty and frailty in community-dwelling older adults from the regions of Lolland-Falster, which is one of the most socioeconomically disadvantaged areas of Denmark with lower income and lower life expectancy compared with the general Danish population. …”
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Combined Effects of Flood Disturbances and Nutrient Enrichment Prompt Aquatic Vegetation Expansion: Sediment Evidence from a Floodplain Lake by Zhuoxuan Gu, Yan Li, Jingxiang Li, Zixin Liu, Yingying Chen, Yajing Wang, Erik Jeppesen, Xuhui Dong

“…Unlike the widespread macrophyte degradation seen in most regional lakes, this lake has maintained clear-water plant dominance and experienced continuous vegetation expansion over the past 50 years. …”
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Diabetic retinopathy screening using artificial intelligence and its predictors among people with type 2 diabetes mellitus in an urban area of Durgapur by Poulami Sarkar, Sayanti Bandyopadhyay, Rakesh Kumar, Soumit Roy

“…Dilated eye examination is the most commonly employed method to diagnose DR. Nonmydriatic artificial intelligence [AI]–based technologies are the now available to screen DR. …”
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Outcomes of Operative Treatment of Displaced Intra-articular Calcaneal Fracture in Adult by Mohammed Abdullah Abubaker, Sherwan Ahmed Ali Hamawandi, Abdulkadr Muhammed Sleman Alany

“…Results: Twenty-four pa -tients (22 unilateral and 2 bilateral), the mean age is 35.41 years (range 18-60), consisting of 3(12.5%) female and 21(87.5%) male were included in this study. Most common mode of injury was fall from height in 23(95.8%) patients, while road traffic accident was in 1 (4.16%) patients. …”
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Overcoming legal formalism and the protection of the Slovak Republic Constitutionalism by J. Ondrová, M. Úradník

“…However, the protection of the most fundamental values is important, and it must be maximal, but it cannot be hampered by the strict following of the legal norms. …”
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MicroRNA-337 inhibits cell proliferation and invasion of cervical cancer through directly targeting specificity protein 1 by Wei Dong, Baosheng Li, Juan Wang, Yipeng Song, Zicheng Zhang, Chengrui Fu

“…Cervical cancer is the fourth most commonly occurring malignancy in females worldwide. …”
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Overlap in Erotic Age Preferences: Support for the Chronophilia Theory in a Community Self-Report Sample of Males by Valerie Arenzon, Ashley Curtis, Hannah de Almeida, Crystal Evanoff

“…Findings revealed that most individuals reporting sexual attraction to multiple age categories had a higher degree of preference for one age group over others. …”
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Selective Removal of Toxic Metals like Copper and Arsenic from Drinking Water Using Phenol-Formaldehyde Type Chelating Resins by Debasis Mohanty, Shashadhar Samal

“…Of the proven methods available today, removal of arsenic by polymeric ion exchangers has been most effective. While chelating ion exchange resins having specific chelating groups attached to a polymer have found extensive use in sorption and pre concentration of Cu2+ ions. …”
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