Analysis of Brain Activation and Effective Connectivity During Self-paced Unilateral and Bilateral Finger Tapping Using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients with Tempo... by Bazli Md Yusoff, Mohd Ezane Aziz, Aini Ismafairus Abd Hamid, Husbani Mohd Amin Rebuan, Muhammad Riddha Abdul Rahman

“…Results: Comparing the two groups, using two samples t-test, familywise error rate p<0.05. Healthy subjects showed more areas of significant activation. …”
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Dynamics of cerebral blood flow following sertraline treatment in adolescent depression by Wenyu Ren, Wenyu Ren, Xiao Liu, Zhiwei Zhang, Xiaoqin Zhang, Wei Wu, Xingyu Wang, Zhihui Yu, Chuan Liu, Renqiang Yu

“…Furthermore, Pearson correlation analysis was employed to examine associations between changes in regional CBF and clinical improvement, as measured by changes in the 17-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAMD-17) scores.ResultsAt baseline, adolescents with depression exhibited increased CBF in the posterior cuneus and decreased CBF in the middle temporal gyrus (MTG), right middle orbitofrontal gyrus, and the left middle frontal gyrus (MFG), compared to healthy controls. …”
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Real-Time, Risk-Based Clinical Trial Quality Management in China: Development of a Digital Monitoring Platform by Min Jiang, Shuhua Zhao, Yun Mei, Zhiying Fu, Yannan Yuan, Jie Ai, Yuan Sheng, Ying Gong, Jingjing Chen

“…Quality findings from the early-stage, interim-stage, and conclusion-stage QC rounds of clinical trials were rated by using 3 severity grades (minor, major, or critical) and classified into 5 categories (with 4 taxonomy levels under each category). …”
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Criminal legal penalties, substance use, and overdose: a concept mapping study examining Colorado’s criminal legal penalties by Katherine LeMasters, Samantha K. Nall, Cole Jurecka, Betsy Craft, Paul J. Christine, Ryan Goodman, Jessie Henderson, Robert Haywood-James, Angela Williams, Grace Wittner, Joshua A. Barocas

“…Participants — recruited from community-based organizations — identified, rated, sorted, and categorized factors affecting criminal legal involvement, substance use, and/or overdose in their community. …”
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Functioning in patients with major depression treated with duloxetine or a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor in East Asia by Novick D, Montgomery W, Haro JM, Moneta MV, Zhu G, Yue L, Hong J, Duenas H, Brugnoli R

“…Depression severity was assessed using the 16-item Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology-Self Report. PPS were rated using the modified Somatic Symptom Inventory. …”
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Exploring adolescents’ indirect financial and non-financial barriers to dental care non-attendance: the role of payment methods by Alla T. Alsharif, Saba Kassim

“…Regression analysis showed that being male, using publicly funded dental services, and self-rating poor oral health were significantly associated with non-dental attendance (AOR = 2.42; 95% CI: 1.39–4.20; p = 0.002; AOR = 2.00; 95% CI: 1.07–3.75; p = 0.030; AOR = 2.32; 95% CI: 1.05–5.10; p = 0.037, respectively). …”
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Beta-adrenergic reactivity of erythrocyte membranes in adolescents with supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias before and after radiofrequency ablation by Т. Yu. Rebrova, Yu. E. Perevoznikova, E. F. Muslimova, L. I. Svintsova, S. A. Afanasiev, O. Yu. Dzhaffarova

“…The study showed the possibility of using β-ARM to assess the state of the sympathetic nervous system in patients with methodological limitations in analyzing heart rate variability.…”
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Composite microbeads of cellulose acetate upcycled from waste for water remediation by Lorenzo Antonelli, Susanna Grasso, Massimo Giuseppe De Cesaris, Nina Felli, Chiara Dal Bosco, Stefano Cinti, Alessandra Gentili

“…An experimental 2³ factorial design was performed to define the best operational conditions of the instrumental setup, defining the flow rate, amount and chemical nature of the packed microbeads. …”
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Investigation of farmers’ awareness of water conservation and its determinants in arid regions: A case study of the Turpan-Hami Basin by Dongping Guo, Abdugheni Abliz, Yue Kong, Jialin Li, Xianhe Liu, Buasi Nurahmat

“…The results revealed that: (1) From 2005 to 2024, the water conservation rate in the Turpan–Hami Basin showed a fluctuating upward trend, surpassing 80 %, yet significant regional disparities in farmers’ water conservation awareness remained; (2) Areas with low levels of awareness were spatially associated with regions of low satisfaction with conservation outcomes and high levels of farmland investment. …”
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Direct scribing of metal microgratings using sawtoothed cemented carbide tools with Johnson-Cook model-based plastic deformation simulation by Minwook Kim, Dae Bo Sim, Yong Tae Kim, Bo Hyun Kim, Jong G. Ok

“…The process achieves a material removal rate of ∼36.4 mm3/min while maintaining groove-to-groove repeatability within ±8 % and limiting tool wear to less than 6 µm after ∼1.2 m of scribing. …”
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East Asian aerosol cleanup has likely contributed to the recent acceleration in global warming by Bjørn H. Samset, Laura J. Wilcox, Robert J. Allen, Camilla W. Stjern, Marianne T. Lund, Sharar Ahmadi, Annica Ekman, Maxwell T. Elling, Luke Fraser-Leach, Paul Griffiths, James Keeble, Tsuyoshi Koshiro, Paul Kushner, Anna Lewinschal, Risto Makkonen, Joonas Merikanto, Pierre Nabat, Larissa Narazenko, Declan O’Donnell, Naga Oshima, Steven T. Rumbold, Toshihiko Takemura, Kostas Tsigaridis, Daniel M. Westervelt

“…Here we show, using a large set of simulations from eight Earth System Models, how a time-evolving 75% reduction in East Asian sulfate emissions partially unmasks greenhouse gas-driven warming and influences the spatial pattern of surface temperature change. We find a rapidly evolving global, annual mean warming of 0.07 ± 0.05 °C, sufficient to be a main driver of the uptick in global warming rate since 2010. …”
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Effect of Different Commercial Fertilizers, Harvest Date, and Storage Time on Two Organically Grown Blackberry Cultivars: Physicochemical Properties, Antioxidant Properties, and Su... by George Cavender, Mingyang Liu, Javier Fernandez-Salvador, Deborah Hobbs, Bernadine Strik, Balz Frei, Yanyun Zhao

“…In this study, “Obsidian” and “Triple Crown” blackberries (both Rubus hybrids) were cultivated organically and fertilized with either soy meal, fish emulsion/hydrolysate blend, or processed poultry litter fertilizers at a fixed rate. Fruits were hand-harvested three times during their peak production period and stored at 4°C and 85% RH for up to 12 d. …”
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Comprehensive investigations of mixed convection of Fe–ethylene-glycol nanofluid inside an enclosure with different obstacles using lattice Boltzmann method by Chenqi Fu, Amin Rahmani, Wanich Suksatan, S. M. Alizadeh, Majid Zarringhalam, Supat Chupradit, Davood Toghraie

“…Consequently, in each state where a better flow mixture and lower depreciation of fluid velocity components, due to the penetration of lid movement and buoyancy force, occurs higher heat transfer rate is accomplished. Furthermore, it is shown that when Ri = 0.1, the effect of cavity angle is more important but when Ri = 10, the effect of the position of obstacle is more visible.…”
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Dynamic relationship among China's economic development, food safety and health production from a global perspective by Minjie Teng, Minjie Teng, Hua Wei, Hua Wei, Qunshan Tao, Qunshan Tao

“…Such a model is essential to gain deeper insights into the complex interplay among economic development, food safety, and health production.MethodsUsing panel data from 30 provinces in China (2017–2020), we integrated economic development, food safety, and health production into a unified efficiency assessment framework.ResultsOur findings reveal that China's overall efficiency is low (0.504), with significant regional heterogeneity, presenting a pattern of high in the east and low in the west; the efficiency of economic development (0.288) significantly lags behind the efficiency of health production (0.694); and the efficiency of food safety risk control is weak (the efficiency of food inspection failure rate, the number of foodborne illness incidents and patients are 0.694, 0.368, and 0.428, respectively).DiscussionThe DNSBM model breaks through the limitations of traditional static analysis and provides a dynamic assessment tool for emerging economies to reconcile the contradiction of “economic growth resource consumption public health”. …”
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Influence of Introduction and Cultivation on the Content of Active Ingredients and Elements in Gastrodia elata by Weijin HUANG, Yufan LIANG, Dan TANG, Qi ZHANG, Dongdong LIU, Qiuying WANG

“…The heavy metal content of G. elata from various regions complied with national standards, and there was no universal pattern in element across different production areas. …”
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Modulatory effect of dianthrone rich alcoholic flower extract of Cassia auriculata L. on experimental diabetes by Syed Zameer Ahmed Khader, Sidhra Syed Zameer Ahmed, Senthil Kumar Balasubramanian, Thanga kumar Arunachalam, Geetha Kannappan, Mohamed Rafi Mahboob, Ponmurugan Ponnusamy, Kishore Ramesh

“…Background: Diabetes is rapidly rising all over the world at an alarming rate and has changed from a mild disorder to major causes of mortality and morbidity in the youth and middle-aged people, and the prevalence is seen especially in six inhabited continents of the globe. …”
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Interobserver variability in the preoperative assessment of future liver remnant function using hepatobiliary scintigraphy by Kirsten de Vries, Jelmer E. Oor, Suomi M. G. Fouraschen, Marieke T. de Boer, Maarten W. Nijkamp, Erik Groot Jebbink, Gilles N. Stormezand, Simeon J. S. Ruiter

“…Abstract Background Post-hepatectomy liver failure (PHLF) is a serious complication following hepatic resection and associated with a high mortality rate. The risk of PHLF can be estimated pre-resection by assessing the function of the future liver remnant (FLR) using hepatobiliary scintigraphy (HBS). …”
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The Human IL-23 Decoy Receptor Inhibits T-Cells Producing IL-17 by Genetically Engineered Mesenchymal Stem Cells by Masoumeh Rostami, Kamran Haidari, Majid Shahbazi

“…The green fluorescent protein (GFP) positive transduction rate was up to 90%, and real-time PCR showed the expression level of RIL-23R. …”
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The Role of Spectral Focused Imaging (SFI) in Diagnosing Subtle Mucosal Changes in Patients with Ulcerative Colitis by Andreea DOBROMIRESCU, Simona-Andreea BALOSU, Adrian DUMITRU, Lucian NEGREANU

“…Conclusions: This pilot study showed that image-enhanced endoscopy using SFI might increase the rate of detection and demarcation for subtle inflammatory changes in the mucosa, correlating with potential histologic activity. …”
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Mesenchymal stromal cell therapy compared to SGLT2-inhibitors and usual care in treating diabetic kidney disease: A cost-effectiveness analysis. by Luke E Barry, Grainne E Crealey, Paul Cockwell, Stephen J Elliman, Matthew D Griffin, Alexander P Maxwell, Timothy O'Brien, Norberto Perico, Ciaran O'Neill

“…A threshold of $47,000 per quality-adjusted life year and a discount rate of 3% were used. The primary outcome measure was incremental net monetary benefit (INMB). …”
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