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Can the development of cooking skills influence nutritional status and diet in healthy adults? A systematic review and meta-analysis protocol
Cooking skills are defined as the individual knowledge, confidence, and attitude required to perform culinary tasks, which have been studied as a strategy to improve diet and health outcomes. This art...
miRNome profile in blood samples upstream and downstream of the coronary lesion and arterial aortic root before and after angioplasty in subjects with chronic and acute coronary syndrome: A pilot observational study protocol (Plaque study)
Currently the mechanisms that lead an atherosclerotic plaque to become unstable and those that trigger the coagulative/thrombotic processes leading to acute coronary syndrome have yet to be clarified....
Prognostic impact of HER2-low expression in triple-negative breast cancer of high-grade special histological type and no special type
Interest in HER2-low breast cancer has grown in recent years due to advancements in novel anti-HER2 antibody-drug conjugates. This study examined the impact of HER2-low expression on survival outcomes...
Same-model and cross-model variability in knee cartilage thickness measurements using 3D MRI systems
Purpose Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) based three-dimensional analysis of knee cartilage has evolved to become fully automatic. However, when implementing these measurements across multiple clinica...
Brain volumes are related with motor skills at late childhood in children born extremely preterm
Background This study had three aims. First, we wanted to explore if there was difference in motor performance at 12 years of age in children born extremely preterm (EPT < 28 weeks of gestation) an...
Validity of a 6-item movement control test battery for evaluation of movement control impairment in the lumbar spine
Background Patients with chronic non-specific low back pain (CNLBP) demonstrate movement control impairment (MCI) based on a 6-item motor control test (MCT) battery, suggesting its potential clinical...
Longitudinal, prospective cohort study of social relationships and self-rated health in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study cohort and ARIC/Jackson Heart Study (JHS) shared cohort
Introduction Social isolation and low social support are associated with low self-rated health (SRH) cross-sectionally, but few studies have assessed longitudinal associations. Aims Assess the assoc...
BI-SENT: bilingual aspect-based sentiment analysis of COVID-19 Tweets in Urdu language
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in over 600 million cases worldwide, and significantly impacted both physical and mental health, fostering widespread anxiety and fear. Consequently, the extensive use o...
Whole-genome sequencing of Hyphopichia burtonii from isolated yeast recovered from zebra dove droppings in Thailand
This study aimed to characterize zoonotic yeasts from zebra dove (Geopelia striata) droppings in small farms in Songkhla province, Thailand. Four out of thirty-one isolates were found with morphology...
Mediating role of grip strength between depression symptoms and cognitive function: A cross-sectional study among older adults with diabetes in rural areas
Older adults with diabetes are at an increased risk for both depression and cognitive decline. Depression symptoms have been linked to poorer cognitive function. Grip strength, an indicator of physica...
The effects of multimodal cocktail analgesic local injection in postoperative pain control after laminoplasty: A study protocol of a prospective randomized controlled trial
Background Laminoplasty is the most widely used surgical technique for cervical spondylotic myelopathy. This surgery can cause severe postoperative pain; if not controlled, recovery or rehabilitation...
Spatio-temporal patterns of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in the aboveground parts of plants in alpine grasslands on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau: Insights from a multi-faceted analysis
Uncertainties in spatio-temporal patterns of nitrogen, phosphorus, especially carbon of the aboveground parts of plants limit our predictions of plant carbon sequestration capacity, nitrogen and phosp...
Dynamic economic emission dispatch of combined heat and power system based on multi-objective differential evolution algorithm
Engineering frequently deals with multi-objective optimization problems. In the scheduling of combined heat and power systems, the competing goals of economic cost and pollutant emission are challengi...
Differences in soil nutrient and microbial characteristics between invasive Ageratina adenophora and native plant communities
Much emphasis has been placed on the negative consequences of alien species on resident ecosystems. Nevertheless, quantitative studies on the effects of invasive and native plant communities on soil n...
Spatial distribution of stunting among breast feeding children in Sub-Sahara Africa
Background Malnutrition is still a major global public health issue, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where millions of children suffer from stunting, a chronic form of the disease. In addition...
New fixed points of mixed monotone operators with applications to nonlinear integral equations
In this paper, first we recall and present some basic results about cone and partial order within the framework of Banach spaces. Next, by means of the properties of cone and monotone iterative techni...
Experimental and theoretical investigation on the conductivity of complex fracture network in unconventional gas reservoirs
With the depletion of conventional oil and gas resources, unconventional oil and gas resources have become crucial as alternative hydrocarbon sources. Unconventional gas reservoirs typically have low...
Correlations of gait kinematics and cognitive skills in Parkinson disease
Cognitive impairments and gait disturbances are often concurrent in Parkinson disease (PD), but the extent to which specific cognitive deficits relate to gait abnormalities remains unclear, especially...
Association between the ferritin level and risk of gestational diabetes mellitus: A prospective cohort study
Objective Iron is increasingly recognized to influence glucose metabolism. However, evidence about the linkage between body iron stores and the risk of developing gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) i...
Fast photostable expansion microscopy using QDots and deconvolution
Expansion microscopy (ExM) enables sub-diffraction imaging by physically expanding labeled tissue samples. This increases the tissue volume relative to the instrument point spread function (PSF), ther...
The sports nutrition knowledge of large language model (LLM) artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots: An assessment of accuracy, completeness, clarity, quality of evidence, and test-retest reliability
Background Generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are increasingly utilised in various domains, including sports nutrition. Despite their growing popularity, there is limited evidence on the...
3D-MRI brain glioma intelligent segmentation based on improved 3D U-net network
Purpose To enhance glioma segmentation, a 3D-MRI intelligent glioma segmentation method based on deep learning is introduced. This method offers significant guidance for medical diagnosis, grading, an...
Correction: The evolution of bone-eating worm diversity in the Upper Cretaceous Chalk Group of the United Kingdom
Correction: Monitoring the appropriate prescription of low molecular weight heparins and Fondaparinux through administrative data. A retrospective observational study in the Tuscany region
Exploring knowledge sharing intention of digitalization of rural intangible cultural heritage (DRICH): Integrating stimulus-organism-response (SOR) theory and social exchange theory (SET)
In the digital age, knowledge sharing is gaining increasing significance, but its contribution in promoting the protection and transmission of rural intangible cultural heritage is still not fully app...