Burden of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in China: A Global Burden of Disease Study on Temporal Trends, Risk Factor Contributions, and Projected Disease Burden from 1990 to... by Jiaman Liao, Longsheng Zeng, Xueliang Huang, Hao Huang, Cuina Shen, Jing Li, Yiqiang Zhan

“…Projections suggest a decreasing trend for most age groups, while the 30–39 and ≥80 age groups will experience an increase in age-standardized incidence rates. …”
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Recent advances of edible marine algae-derived sulfated polysaccharides in antiviral treatments: challenges vs. opportunities by Xiaoying Dong, Yusong Qiu, Nan Jia, Nan Jia, Yinfeng Wu, Qing Nie, Jiahui Wen, Jiahui Wen, Chao Zhao, Chao Zhao, Yongzhen Zhai

“…Although these findings highlight the antiviral potential of marine polysaccharides, most studies have been conducted in vitro or in animal models. …”
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Multimorbidity is associated with low functional ability in older adults living in a German-colonized city in southern Brazil: a population-based study by Ernani Tiaraju de Santa Helena, Pedro Henrique Ferreira de Souza Trindade, Fernanda Nunes Barbosa, Ana Beatriz dos Santos, Cleide Gessele, Clovis Arlindo de Sousa, Henry Völzke, Marcello Ricardo Paulista Markus

“…Conclusion: Identifying the most vulnerable older adults and providing them with appropriate health care could help prevent loss of functional ability.…”
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High Impedance Fault Location in Distribution Systems: A Novel Approach With Enhanced Metrics and Intelligent Algorithms by Gabriela Nunes Lopes, Pedro I. N. Barbalho, Jose Carlos Melo Vieira, Denis V. Coury

“…Despite of the numerous papers addressing HIFs, there is still a lack of consensus on the most effective metrics and techniques for their detection and location. …”
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Using Lead Concentrations and Stable Lead Isotope Ratios to Identify Contamination Events in Alluvial Soils by Diane Saint-Laurent, Julien St-Laurent, Marlies Hähni, Bassam Ghaleb, Camille Chapados

“…The highest values of trace elements (As, Pb and Zn) were detected in the hydrocarbon layer (C10–C50), most often located at the bottom of the profiles (160, 200, and 220 cm in depth). …”
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Trends in hypertension diagnosis and control in Lagos, Nigeria from May measurement month 2023 by Casmir Amadi, Olagoke Ale, Ugochi Okorafor, Chiamaka Okorafor, Amam Mbakwem, Jayne Ajuluchukwu

“…Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted via opportunistic participant recruitment at three sites across Lagos, Nigeria’s most populated urban area. Participants were 18 years and older, and data were collected from May to July 2023. …”
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Valuing the reciprocating services that humans can provide to ecosystems by Natalie Stoeckl, Robert Costanza, Namgay Dorji, Ida Kubiszewski, Bassie Limenih, Jing Tian, Satoshi Yamazaki

“…Comprehensive assessments of the expected value of proposed projects, could fill information gaps and guide investments towards projects that are likely to generate the most benefit. But these are difficult to do well. …”
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A Case of Liver Metastasis from Small Intestinal Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor 25 Years after Surgery including Autopsy Findings by Yuichi Takano, Masataka Yamawaki, Jun Noda, Tetsushi Azami, Takahiro Kobayashi, Fumitaka Niiya, Eiichi Yamamura, Naotaka Maruoka, Kuniyo Gomi, Yuichiro Kuroki, Yorimasa Yamamoto, Tomoko Norose, Nobuyuki Ohike, Masatsugu Nagahama

“…Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) is the most common mesenchymal tumor in the digestive tract. …”
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Gastroprotective effect of Ferulopsis hystrix (Bunge) Pimenov in ethanol-induced gastropathy by S. M. Salchak, Ya. G. Razuvaeva, A. A. Toropova, K. D. Arakchaa, D. N. Olennikov, I. G. Nikolaev

“…The F. hystrix extract prepared with 30% and 40% ethanol shows the most pronounced pharmacotherapeutic effect in ethanol-induced gastropathy.…”
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Lifelong Whole Slide Image Analysis: Online Vision-Language Adaptation and Past-to-Present Gradient Distillation by Doanh C. Bui, Hoai Luan Pham, Vu Trung Duong Le, Tuan Hai Vu, Van Duy Tran, Khang Nguyen, Yasuhiko Nakashima

“…Experimental results show that ADaFGrad outperforms both state-of-the-art WSI-specific and conventional continual-learning methods after only a few training epochs, exceeding them by up to +5.068% in the class-incremental learning scenario while exhibiting the least forgetting (i.e., retaining the most knowledge from previous tasks).…”
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Study on the Mechanical Properties of Coal Gangue Materials Used in Coal Mine Underground Assembled Pavement by Jiang Xiao, Yulin Wang, Tongxiaoyu Wang, Yujiang Liu, Yihui Wang, Boyuan Zhang

“…The findings suggest that hexagonal coal gangue blocks with a side length of 20 cm and a thickness of 16 cm meet the structural requirements of most underground mine tunnels, offering a reference model for cost-effective paving and efficient roadway maintenance in coal mines.…”
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A Comparative In Vitro Analysis of Attachment and Enhanced Structural Features for Molar Distalization in Clear Aligner Therapy by Youn-Kyung Choi, Min-Jeong Jee, Sung-Hun Kim, Seong-Sik Kim, Soo-Byung Park, Yong-Il Kim

“…Groups 3 and 4 (with enhanced structures) demonstrated significant intrusive forces (<i>p</i> < 0.05). Most groups exhibited mesiodistal angulation, lingual inclination, and distal rotational moments. …”
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Predicting Strength Properties of High-Performance Concrete Modified with Natural Aggregates and Ferroslag under Varied Curing Conditions by Muthumani Soundararajan, Sridhar Jayaprakash, S. K. Maniarasan, Ravindran Gobinath

“…The findings of the analysis of variance (ANOVA) indicate that the most significant factors influencing the variables CSWD,CSAT, and CSST are natural aggregate, ferro slag, and curing period. …”
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Las fuentes de financiamiento en las microempresas de puebla, México. The founding sources in SME’s of Puebla, Mexico by Alfredo Pérez Paredes, Amado Torralba Flores, José Aurelio Cruz de los Ángeles, Itzel de los Ángeles Martínez Martínez

“…Finally, in the conclusion are listed the most relevant characteristics of the micro-enterprises, and some recommendations are included.…”
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Toward optimizing new nurse anaesthetist training: a qualitative study of perceptions, experiences, and systemic challenges by Tingting Yang, Xueyan Xing, Ying Sun, Jiale Hu, Jiamin Kang, Shumin Tu

“…Abstract Background In China, most new nurse anaesthetists graduate from general nursing programs and initially lack anaesthesia-related knowledge, skills, and abilities. …”
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Enhancing CI engine performance and emissions through PCCI and sustainable combustion solutions with waste cooking oil biodiesel blends a comparative study by Medhat Elkelawy, Hagar Alm-Eldin Bastawissi, E. A. El Shenawy, Mahmoud A. M. El-Gamal, P. V. Elumalai, Dhinesh Balasubramanian, Manzoore Elahi M. Soudagar, Nasim Hasan

“…Abstract The limited availability of petroleum fuels and pollution concerns has led to the search for alternative energy sources. The most advantages of utilizing biodiesel are the simultaneous decrease of HC as well as CO emissions. …”
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Gut microbiota: a novel strategy affecting atherosclerosis by Lingshuang Yang, Juan Yang, Tiantian Zhang, Xinqiang Xie, Qingping Wu

“…It is increasingly evident that gut microbes and their byproducts play a crucial role in the development of atherosclerosis. The most representative feature of microbial dysbiosis in coronary artery disease patients is the reduction of the abundance of the phylum Bacteroidetes and the increase of the abundance of the phylum Firmicutes, which may cause changes in functional genes and metabolites. …”
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Cultural adaptation of the pharmacy services questionnaire (PSQ) to the context of Angola by Bernardo Nicodemo Chimbuco, João Rui Pita, Edson Zangiacomi Martinez, Claudia Benedita dos Santos, Eduardo Ekundi-Valentim

“…The majority found it clear and easy to understand, and most considered the questions relevant and important. …”
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Bone Cement Augmentation for Cervical Vertebrae‐Ossification of the Posterior Longitudinal Ligament Complex Contributes to Anterior Controllable Antedisplacement and Fusion in Pati... by Qilin Lu, Xugui Li, Bin Zhang, Jiangang Shi, Jingchuan Sun

“…The controllable antedisplacement of the vertebrae‐OPLL complex (VOC) through screws is both the most critical and technically challenging procedure, especially in osteoporosis (OP) condition. …”
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Accelerating Oncology Drug Reimbursement in Canada: Impact of the CDA-AMC Time-Limited Recommendation and pCPA Temporary Access Process by Catherine Y. Lau, Arif Mitha, Allison Wills

“…A stepwise analysis indicates that the most significant accelerator within the TLR-pTAP pathway is the pCPA’s prioritization and processing of the file in parallel to the CDA-AMC’s health technology assessment (HTA) review process, rather than subsequently. …”
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