Effect of Ingestion Training Guided by Volume-viscosity Swallow Test on Post-Stroke Dysphagia by DENG Li, HE Yingzi, JIN Yanping, LU Yan

“…Compared with the control group, swallowing duration of laryngeal muscle by sEMG of the observation group was significantly shorter and the maximum amplitude was significantly higher after treatment (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05). 3) Hyoid laryngeal complex mobility: compared with those before treatment, the distances of hyoid bone forward displacement and upward displacement of both groups significantly increased after treatment (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05). …”
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Nucleated red blood cells for characterization of systemic inflammatory response syndrome in dogs by ARom Cho, Hyeona Bae, Youngju Kim, Yeseul Jeon, Rankyung Jung, Minji Kim, Minjeong Kang, Sumin Cha, Kyu‐Woan Cho, Dong‐In Jung, Jinho Park, DoHyeon Yu

“…The overall survival time was shorter in nRBC‐positive dogs (95% CI, 47.35‐113.90) than nRBC‐negative dogs (95% CI, 90.92‐135.55; P = .03). …”
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Effects of Treadmill Exercise on Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity and Expression of Related Proteins in Aging Mice by WANG Sinuo, CAO Yajun, XIANG Qing, YAN Jiamin, LIN Yanting, ZHUANG Yueyang, GUO Xiaoqin, LIU Weilin

“…However, after treadmill exercise, the escape latency time of Barnes maze in the exercise group was significantly shorter than that in the aged group (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05), and the spontaneous alternation rate of T maze and the recognition rate of new objects increased (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05). …”
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Application of pediatric massage combined with Traditional Chinese Medicine application in antipyretic treatment of children with exogenous fever (小儿推拿联合中药敷贴在外感发热患儿退热中的应用)... by TANG Xianlan (汤先兰), GAN Na (甘娜), HUANG Biqiu (黄碧秋)

“…The antipyretic onset time and complete antipyretic time in the treatment group were shorter than those in the control group (P＜0. 01). …”
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Effect of Modified Duodenal Exclusion Surgery on Glucose Metabolism in Rats with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by YANG Jin, YU Shiya, LIN Nan, FANG Yongchao, ZHAO Hu, QIU Jinwei, LIN Hongming, CHEN Huiyan, WANG Yu, WU Weihang

“…Regarding intestinal mucosal morphology, the villus lengths of the biliopancreatic loops in the MDE group were significantly shorter than those in the DE and SO groups (P<0.05). …”
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How far back do we need to look to capture diagnoses in electronic health records? A retrospective observational study of hospital electronic health record data by Tom Marshall, Elizabeth Sapey, Miles D Witham, Steve Harris, Rachel Cooper, Chris Plummer, Felicity Evison, James Wason, Heather J Cordell, Suzy Gallier, Fiona E Matthews, Ewan Pearson, Avan A Sayer, Mervyn Singer, Joanne Field, Mohammed Osman, Sian Robinson, Victoria Bartle, Thomas Scharf, Jadene Lewis, Rominique Doal, Peta le Roux, Ray Holding, Paolo Missier

“…For each diagnosis, we derived the number of patients with the diagnosis recorded at least once over the full 10-year lookback period, and then compared this with shorter lookback periods from 1 year to 9 years prior to the index admission.Results Seven of the top 10 most common diagnoses in the COPD dataset reached &gt;90% completeness by 6 years of lookback. …”
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Serum proteomic and metabolomic profiling of hepatocellular carcinoma patients co-infected with Clonorchis sinensis by Zeli Tang, Zeli Tang, Zeli Tang, Caibiao Wei, Xueling Deng, Qiumei Lin, Qiping Hu, Qiping Hu, Qiping Hu, Shitao Li, Jilong Wang, Yuhong Wu, Dengyu Liu, Dengyu Liu, Dengyu Liu, Min Fang, Min Fang, Tingzheng Zhan, Tingzheng Zhan, Tingzheng Zhan

“…It also associated with shorter overall survival (OS) and recurrence-free survival (RFS). …”
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High fructose rewires gut glucose sensing via glucagon-like peptide 2 to impair metabolic regulation in mice by Eya Sellami, Paulo Henrique Evangelista-Silva, Caio Jordão Teixeira, Khoudia Diop, Patricia Mitchell, Fernando Forato Anhê

“…Our findings are positioned to inform novel early diagnostic tools and treatments tailored to counter high fructose-induced metabolic derangements predisposing to T2D and MASLD.…”
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Gender differences in robotic surgery for rectal cancer: A retrospective study by Muhammad Ali, Wei Wang, Liuhua Wang, Bin Liu, Jun Ren, Daorong Wang

“…However, males had significantly shorter hospital stays (P ​< ​0.05), while females had a higher incidence of Clavien-Dindo grade III-IV complications (48% vs. 37.8% in males). …”
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Hyperspectral estimation of chlorophyll density in winter wheat using fractional-order derivative combined with machine learning by Chenbo Yang, Chenbo Yang, Meichen Feng, Juan Bai, Hui Sun, Rutian Bi, Lifang Song, Chao Wang, Yu Zhao, Wude Yang, Lujie Xiao, Meijun Zhang, Xiaoyan Song

“…The 3 FOD calculation methods could all improve the correlation between the original spectral curve and Log(ChD) to varying degrees, but only the GL method and RL method could observe the change process of correlation with order changes, and the shorter the wavelength, the smaller the order, and the higher the correlation. …”
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Application of enhanced recovery after surgery in the perioperative nursing of elderly patients undergoing hip replacement (加速康复外科理念在老年髋关节置换术围手术期护理中的应用)... by XIN Lan (信岚), TANG Bi (唐碧), CHEN Mingying (陈明英)

“…T he off-bed time was (9. 45±2. 53) d in the observation group, which was shorter than (13. 83±3. 91) d in the control group (P＜0. 05). …”
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AI-Driven Innovations for Early Sepsis Detection by Combining Predictive Accuracy With Blood Count Analysis in an Emergency Setting: Retrospective Study by Tai-Han Lin, Hsing-Yi Chung, Ming-Jr Jian, Chih-Kai Chang, Hung-Hsin Lin, Chiung-Tzu Yen, Sheng-Hui Tang, Pin-Ching Pan, Cherng-Lih Perng, Feng-Yee Chang, Chien-Wen Chen, Hung-Sheng Shang

“…The dataset incorporated both basic hematological factors and advanced neutrophil characteristics (side scatter light intensity, cytoplasmic complexity, and neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio), with data from September to November used for training and data from December used for validation. …”
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Discontinuation of immune checkpoint inhibitors for reasons other than disease progression and the impact on relapse and survival of advanced melanoma patients. A systematic review... by Konstantinos Lallas, Eftychia Chatziioannou, Derya Durak, Georg Frey, Lina Maria Serna-Higuita, Marie-Lena Rasch, Athanassios Kyrgidis, Eleni Timotheadou, Zoe Apalla, Ulrike Leiter, Lukas Flatz, Lukas Flatz, Aimilios Lallas, Teresa Amaral, Teresa Amaral

“…Treatment duration before cessation was not associated with risk and time to relapse, while mucosal melanomas and non-CR as BOR during treatment led to increased risk for relapse and shorter time to PD compared to other histologic subtypes or CR. …”
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Evaluation of Bian Que Flying Rescue system in rescue and emergency care of acute stroke patients (“扁鹊飞救”系统在脑卒中患者急诊救治中的应用) by MA Hong (马红), OU Lianhua (偶莲花)

“…Results The Call to Needle Time, Reception to CT Diagnosis time, Door-to-Needle Time(DNT), Onset-to-Treatment time(OTT) and time to the clinical ward in the observation group were shorter than those in the control group respectively (P＜0. 01). …”
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Low-activity [18F]-somatostatin receptor (SSTR) imaging using [18F]SiTATE on a long axial field-of-view PET/CT scanner by Nils F. Trautwein, Eduardo Calderón, Pia M. Linder, Gerald Reischl, Philippe Driessen, Wenhong Lan, Andreas S. Brendlin, Thorben Groß, Helmut Dittmann, Martina Hinterleitner, Christian la Fougère, Fabian P. Schmidt, Lena S. Kiefer

“…PET list-mode data were rebinned for shorter frame durations to simulate 5 min scans with lower activities of injected radiotracer. …”
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Early initiation of intravenous cyclophosphamide and one‐year outcome in super‐refractory cryptogenic‐new onset refractory status epilepticus by Yasufumi Yorichika, Shuichiro Neshige, Hideaki Sakahara, Narumi Ono, Megumi Nonaka, Yuichiro Tagane, Tomoaki Watanabe, Keisuke Tachiyama, Haruka Ishibashi, Masahiro Nakamori, Takeo Shishido, Shiro Aoki, Hiroki Ueno, Yu Yamazaki, Takahiro Iizuka, Hirofumi Maruyama

“…Early‐treated patients exhibited shorter sedation periods (median 29 vs. 75 days) and better 1 year functional status (mRS 1–2 vs. mRS 4) compared to the late‐treated patient. …”
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Pre-Hospital Point-of-Care Troponin: Is It Possible to Anticipate the Diagnosis? A Preliminary Report by Cristian Lazzari, Sara Montemerani, Cosimo Fabrizi, Cecilia Sacchi, Antoine Belperio, Marilena Fantacci, Giovanni Sbrana, Agostino Ognibene, Maurizio Zanobetti, Simone Nocentini

“…Patients in the Atellica VTLi group experienced significantly shorter times to diagnosis and discharge from the emergency department compared to the control group (Elecsys). …”
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Direct anterior approach (DAA) vs. conventional approaches in total hip arthroplasty: A RCT meta-analysis with an overview of related meta-analyses. by Philip Lazaru, Simon Bueschges, Nikolai Ramadanov

“…THA through DAA had a shorter incision length, a tendency towards a lower pain VAS 1 day postoperatively and better early postoperative functional outcome than THA through CAs. …”
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Collagen turnover biomarkers to predict outcome of patients with biliary cancer by Leonard Kaps, Muhammed A. Genc, Markus Moehler, Stephan Grabbe, Jörn M. Schattenberg, Detlef Schuppan, Rasmus Sund Pedersen, Morten A. Karsdal, Philipp Mildenberger, Annett Maderer, Nicholas Willumsen

“…Patients with high levels (cohort separated by median split) of PRO-C8 (HR 2.85, 95% CI 1.42; 5.73) followed by C3M (HR 2.33, 95% CI 1.2; 4.5), PRO-C3 (HR 3.09, 95% CI 1.5; 6.36) and CA 19–9 (HR 2.52, 95% CI 1.37; 4.64) as reference biomarker had a shorter OS. Notably, only the novel marker PRO-C8 was also predictive of PFS (HR 3.26, 95% CI 1.53; 6.95). …”
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UltraTimTrack: a Kalman-filter-based algorithm to track muscle fascicles in ultrasound image sequences by Tim J. van der Zee, Paolo Tecchio, Daniel Hahn, Brent J. Raiteri

“…Furthermore, UltraTimTrack’s processing time (0.2 s per image) was at least five times shorter than that of these recently-proposed algorithms. …”
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