School-Based Intervention to Enhance Parent-Adolescent Sexual Communication: A Literature Review by Annisa Rachmawati, Widyatuti, Indah Permata Sari, Henny Permatasari

“…Conclusion: School-based interventions that involve parents and use diverse delivery methods can effectively improve parent-adolescent sexual communication. However, most studies were conducted in the United States, several were over ten years old, and some had limited methodological quality, which may affect the applicability of findings. …”
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Droplet Digital PCR Provides Highly Sensitive and Accurate Opsin Gene SNP Detection From Wild Primate Fecal Samples by Arthur G. Fernandes, Saúl Cheves Hernández, Ronald López Navaro, Shoji Kawamura, Amanda D. Melin

“…The same opsins and genotypes were derived for each monkey using Sanger and ddPCR; however, the latter method was far more sensitive and required far fewer samples to reach a definitive genotype. Overall, the most frequent phenotypes were red and green/red. …”
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Biomechanical Evaluation of Flexor Tendon Repair: Double Loop Technique with Epitendinous Suture by Sadagatullah AN, Raghu S, Paiman M, Ismail S, Jusoh MH

“…The cruciate type of repair is among the most popular methods available but is very technical and requires expertise. …”
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Length-weight Relationship, Condition Factor and DNA Barcoding of Bonylip Barb, Osteochilus vittatus (Valenciennes, 1842) in Dampelas Lake, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia by Novalina Serdiati, Samliok Ndobe, Eka Rosyida, Abdul Gani, Roni Hermawan, Muh. Saleh Nurdin, Devi Elvina Sari, Sri Herlina, Moh. Fadlan Daeng Pawaro, Astri Rahma Danty

“…DNA barcodes for Lake Dampelas bonylip barbs nested in one of four O. vittatus clades, indicating a need for reviewing Osteochilus taxonomy. Most adult females had spent gonads, indicating seasonal spawning, with implications for developing an economically viable fishery which could also help control this non-native species in Dampelas Lake. …”
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Prospective Analysis of Functional Outcome of Patella Fracture Management by a Novel Method (FiberWire Fixation): A 2-year Follow-up Study by Ravichandran Kennedy, Gopinath K Ramalingam, D Alagurajesh, KV Karthick Raj, P Velazhagan

“…Introduction: The most commonly used procedure for patella fracture fixation is osteosynthesis with Kirschner wires (K-wires) and tension band wiring. …”
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Exercise Remodels Akkermansia-Associated Eicosanoid Metabolism to Alleviate Intestinal Senescence: Multi-Omics Insights by Chunxia Yu, Xuanyu Liu, Yitong Li, Silin Li, Yating Huang, Sujuan Liu, Heng Shao, Yanna Shen, Li Fu

“…Metabolomic profiling identified eicosanoid metabolism as the most significantly perturbed pathway, and chronic exercise was found to regulate 14,15-Dhet levels. …”
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THE DEVELOPMENT STAGES OF THE RICE VARIETY ‘PARTNER’ WITH A GENE OF RESISTANCE TO RICE BLAST DISEASE Pi-B by V. N. Shilovsky, I. I. Suprun, A. M. Ogly

“…Blast disease is a widely spread and harmful disease of rice. The most reliable method to fight with it is a development of resistant varieties. …”
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The Heat Exchange Coefficient of the Cooling Tube Under the Influence of the Tube Material and Cooling Water Parameters by Hong Zhang, Qiuliang Long, Fengqi Guo, Zhaolong Shen, Xu Chen, Ran Yu, Yonggang Wang

“…Pipe diameter had the most significant impact on cooling efficiency. Additionally, it is recommended that the cooling water flow velocity is not less than 0.6 m/s to achieve the best efficiency for the cooling pipe of any pipe diameter. …”
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Home physical exercise program: analysis of the impact on the clinical evolution of patients with normal pressure hydrocephalus by Paulo Cesar Modesto, Fernando Campos Gomes Pinto

“…Conclusion: The developed program of home physical exercise was easily applied and there was good acceptance by most patients with NPH included in the research. …”
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Evaluation of different substrates in the cultivation of two varieties of Capsicum chinense Jacq. "chile habanero" Mexican chili, in a controlled environment by Marta Romero-Viacava, Saturnino Martin Tenorio-Bautista

“…n order to demonstrate the importance of nutrients, the present research work was carried out with the following objectives: to determine the production of the orange (V1) and red (V2) varieties using different organic substrates, to identify the most appropriate substrate for the cultivation of the two varieties and to compare the quantity of fruits of V1 and V2 of Capsicum chinense Jacq. …”
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Predicting Knee Cartilage Degradation and Osteoarthritis Onset Using a Hybrid Mathematical Modeling and Machine Learning Framework by F. Mekrane, R. Ouladsine, A. Barkaoui, R. Ghandour

“…Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most prevalent form of arthritis, commonly affecting the knee joint and characterized by the progressive degeneration of articular cartilage (AC). …”
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Plasmodium falciparum var genes expressed in children with severe malaria encode CIDRα1 domains by Jakob S Jespersen, Christian W Wang, Sixbert I Mkumbaye, Daniel TR Minja, Bent Petersen, Louise Turner, Jens EV Petersen, John PA Lusingu, Thor G Theander, Thomas Lavstsen

“…Abstract Most severe Plasmodium falciparum infections are experienced by young children. …”
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The impact of polypharmacy and oral nutritional supplementation on nutritional status in patients residing in a long-term care facility by Lucyna Ścisło, Judyta Pluta, Anna Kliś-Kalinowska, Michał Górski, Marta Buczkowska

“…IntroductionNutritional disorders and polypharmacy are among the most important problems facing the older adults in long-term care facilities. …”
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LPS-Induced Inflammation Potentiates the IL-1-Mediated Reduction of LH Secretion from the Anterior Pituitary Explants by Andrzej Przemysław Herman, Agata Krawczyńska, Joanna Bochenek, Elżbieta Dobek, Anna Herman, Dorota Tomaszewska-Zaremba

“…Acting at the level of the brain, interleukin- (IL-)1β is considered to be one of the most potent downregulators of reproduction processes during immune/inflammatory challenge. …”
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Adverse events following 9-valent human papillomavirus vaccine (GARDASIL® 9) reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), 2015–2024 by Qiong Liu, Guojun Liang, Yang Song

“…Among reported events, most were non-serious and consistent with known reactogenicity patterns, including syncope, headache, and injection site reactions. …”
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Tree semantic segmentation from aerial image time series by Venkatesh Ramesh, Arthur Ouaknine, David Rolnick

“…Our best model achieves a mean Intersection over Union (mIoU) of 55.97%, outperforming single-image approaches particularly for deciduous trees where phenological changes are most noticeable. Our findings highlight the benefit of exploiting the time series modality via our Processor module. …”
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210 Addressing burnout in radiologists: Causes, impact on patient care, and potential solutions by Pardaman Setia, Linette Penney, Vedant Shukla, Mikhail Lobo

“…Emotional exhaustion and depersonalization emerge as the most reported symptoms as consistently highlighted in previous studies. …”
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All together now: building resilient citizen energy communities through collaborative learning by Paul Tobin, Breffní Lennon

“…The study also highlights major challenges, including a lack of social democracy, regulatory issues, and uncertainty about benefits, with social engagement emerging as the most effective strategy for building resilience, or the capacity of communities to adapt and sustain participation. …”
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Spatio-temporal patterns of health service delivery and access to maternal, child, and outpatient healthcare in Volta region, Ghana: a repeated cross-sectional ecological study usi... by Winfred Dotse-Gborgbortsi, Kristine Nilsen, Ortis Yankey, Anthony Ofosu, Thomas Ankomah, Eric Tweneboah, Ignatius Aklikpe, Chrysantus Kubio, Alberta Biritwum-Nyarko, Andrew Tatem, Jim Wright

“…Changes in healthcare provision, travel time to services and population coverage were estimated. Results Most health facilities (60.6%) provided the same range of services or added new services between 2016 and 2022. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Automated Machine Learning for Hyperparameter Optimization and Explainable Artificial Intelligence Models by Muhammad Salman Khan, Tianbo Peng, Hanzlah Akhlaq, Muhammad Adeel Khan

“…Artificial intelligence (AI) has been increasingly applied to solve complex real-world problems. One of the most significant challenges in AI lies in selecting and fine-tuning the optimal algorithm for a given task. …”
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