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Pectoralis minor length index at 1 month postoperative can predict homolateral neuropathic pain 4 months after mastectomy with lymph node resection
The relationship between postoperative physical changes and the development of homolateral neuropathic pain (HLNP) following mastectomy and lymph node resection remains poorly understood. In this stud...
Feasibility trial protocol assessing the use of aerobic exercise to promote recovery from work-related concussion
Introduction Work-related concussion (WRC) is a common occupational injury that has received far less research attention compared to sport-related concussion (SRC). WRC results in prolonged lost time...
Training forecast to football athletes using Hopfield neural networks based on Markov matrix
This paper proposes a neural network based on the Markov probability transition matrix to predict the training performance of football athletes. Firstly, seven training indicators affecting the traini...
Evaluation of Protein Cards: A nutrition education tool for metabolic bariatric surgery
Background Metabolic bariatric surgery (MBS) is a safe, effective treatment for severe obesity and its associated comorbidities. However, adherence to postop...
Expansion of forest cover and coeval shifts in Later Stone Age land-use at Taforalt and Rhafas Caves, Morocco, as inferred from carbon isotopes in ungulate tooth enamel
Later Stone Age (Iberomaurusian) hunter-gatherer groups in northwestern Africa appear to have experienced a major reorganization of land-use strategies and settlement dynamics around 15–13 cal ka BP,...
Injury alters sensory, motor, and integrative elements underlying operant conditioning in the medicinal leech
Studies of pain/nociception often rely on simple reflexes to assess pain-related changes in behavior. However, there is considerable interest in utilizing more complex, self-initiated behaviors in pla...
Linalool-based silver nanoconjugates as potential therapeutics for glioblastoma: in silico and in vitro insights
Glioblastoma is the most predominant type of brain tumor, and resistance to medication has hampered the effectiveness of chemotherapy for gliomas. Acyclic monoterpene alcohol, linalool, has a range of...
Cross-modal interactive and global awareness fusion network for RGB-D salient object detection
The RGB-D salient object detection technique has garnered significant attention in recent years due to its excellent performance. It outperforms salient object detection methods that rely solely on RG...
Retraction: Anti H. pylori, anti-secretory and gastroprotective effects of Thymus vulgaris on ethanol-induced gastric ulcer in Sprague Dawley rats
Protocol for EpiCom: A phase 3b/4 study of behavioral outcomes following adjunctive cannabidiol for the management of tuberous sclerosis complex-associated neuropsychiatric disorders (TAND)
Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC)-associated neuropsychiatric disorders (TAND) affect ≈90% of individuals with TSC and significantly reduce their quality of life (QoL). However, there are limited studi...
A metagenomics survey of viral diversity in mosquito vectors allows the first detection of Sindbis virus in Burkina Faso
Arboviruses (i.e., Arthropod-borne viruses) pose a threat to human health worldwide. This taxonomically-diverse group includes numerous viruses that recurrently spread into new regions. Therefore, per...
Development and validation of a cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury prediction model using the MIMIC-IV database
Objective This study aimed to develop an innovative early prediction model for acute kidney injury (AKI) following cardiac surgery in intensive care unit (ICU) settings, leveraging preoperative and po...
Viewing of abstract art follows a gist to survey gaze pattern over time regardless of broad categorical titles
Artworks are often shown alongside informative contextual text. This can be as simple as its title and date, or it can be a more descriptive or elaborative explanation of the piece, such as describing...
Exploring the antioxidant, antiglycation, and anti-inflammatory potential of Oroxylum indicum stem bark extracts
Degenerative diseases occur when humans suffer from oxidative stress, glycation and prolonged inflammation. This study explores the antioxidant, antiglycation, and anti-inflammatory effects of extract...
Association between sarcopenia and falls in Chinese older adults: Findings from the China health and retirement longitudinal study
Falling has become a significant factor in the mortality of elderly people. Little is known about whether sarcopenia can be a risk factor for falls in older adults. This study aims to assess the assoc...
From spots to cells: Cell segmentation in spatial transcriptomics with BOMS
Imaging-based Spatial Transcriptomics methods enable the study of gene expression and regulation in complex tissues at subcellular resolution. However, inaccurate cell segmentation procedures lead to...
Has flood damage being reduced? A resident perspective on the effectiveness of flood management
Flood disasters have been studied intensively and extensively. However, studies to evaluate the long-term effectiveness of flood management from social perspectives are limited. Questions such as whet...
Syntactic complexity recognition and analysis in Chinese-English machine translation: A comparative study based on the BLSTM-CRF model
To enhance the recognition and preservation of syntactic complexity in Chinese–English translation, this study proposes an optimized Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory–Conditional Random Field (BiLS...
Mobile applications available in Saudi Arabia for the management of Primary Dysmenorrhea: A quality review and content analysis
Background Primary dysmenorrhea (PD), common in women below 25 years, occurs as pain in the absence of any identifiable pelvic pathology. Menstrual tracking applications (MTAs) may help women manage t...
Societal factors influencing the implementation of AI-driven technologies in (smart) hospitals
Introduction The introduction of AI in healthcare promises benefits, but also faces challenges. Currently, one of these challenges is the lack of information on the societal aspects of implementing AI...
ML-ROM wall shear stress prediction in patient-specific vascular pathologies under a limited clinical training data regime
High-fidelity numerical simulations such as Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) have been proven effective in analysing haemodynamics, offering insight into many vascular conditions. However, these met...
Agreement of glomerular filtration rate estimation equations for chemotherapy dosing in cancer patients at a tertiary referral hospital in Sub-Saharan Africa
Introduction Narrow therapeutic indices of chemotherapeutic agents necessitate precise dosing to ensure efficacy and minimize nephrotoxicity. Due to the complexity of directly measuring Glomerular fil...
Analysis of influencing factors and scales of agglomerate fog on expressways
To enhance the monitoring accuracy of agglomerate fog on expressways, this paper takes the frequently occurring agglomerate fog data on Shandong’s expressways as an example. Based on the analysis of t...
The role of nodes in controlling and observing complex networks
Dynamic processes on complex networks are closely associated with a variety of real-world systems. The controllability and observability of these networks are critical topics in the field of network s...
Freeze-cast SiOC ceramics supporting the growth of industrially relevant microorganisms
Investigating the compatibility of ceramic support materials with industrially relevant microorganisms is a key starting point towards utilizing innovative ceramic frameworks for microbial culture sup...