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Bhatia SK, Abdullah Q · 2026 · BDJ open
Background Importance of non-cognitive skills such as Grit is being increasingly recognised. Grit is the perseverance and passion needed to achieve long-term goals in the face of challenges. This study examines the relationship between…
View details →Aldhorae K, Ishaq R, Alhaidary S et al. · 2025 · BMC oral health
Background Multiple factors contribute to mandibular incisor crowding. However, the role of wisdom teeth in these irregularities remains a controversial issue among clinicians. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the potential…
View details →Dudorova N, Belan B, Kotel'nikov S · 2026 · Toxics
A correlation between the near-surface ozone concentration in the urban atmosphere and hospitalizations of community-acquired pneumonia patients has been analyzed based on a long-term (five years) series of observations in the warm season…
View details →Lanssens A, Tuts N, Welkenhuyzen L et al. · 2025 · Applied neuropsychology. Adult
Many activities in daily life rely on the ability to continuously keep attention on task requirements. Patients with acquired brain injury often suffer from deficits in sustained attention that impact quality of life and complicate…
View details →Schultz JC, Body MJA, Edger PP et al. · 2025 · The New phytologist
Galls are structures formed by plants in response to stimuli by parasitic insects. Because galls require altered gene expression to change cell fates, their initiation requires pluripotent or 'reactive' cells. We used RNA sequencing to…
View details →Kealey MR, Urakami J, Henderson K et al. · 2023 · Applied ergonomics
We report on a series of four studies that investigated how user experience design (UXD) can improve printed educational materials (PEMs). We examined the perceived usability of an existing PEM for breast cancer screening and observed the…
View details →Minzer S · 2021 · Nutrition and cancer
Cancer is the second most prevalent disease worldwide and it presents characteristic hallmarks common to all its types. Within these, it has been described a reprogramming of its energy metabolism, characterized by the preferential use of…
View details →Starr MC, Cater DT, Wilson AC et al. · 2022 · Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies
Objectives To describe a single-center experience of pediatric patients with hyperammonemia not due to inborn errors of metabolism and determine the association between use of continuous kidney replacement therapy (CKRT) treatment and…
View details →Song B, Sommer W, Maurer U · 2025 · The European journal of neuroscience
Repetition suppression (RS) refers to the reduction of neuronal responses to repeated stimuli as compared to nonrepeated stimuli. The predictive coding account of RS proposes that its magnitude is modulated by repetition probability…
View details →Liu H, Holland RW, Blechert J et al. · 2022 · Cognition & emotion
Consistently not responding to stimuli during go/no-go training leads to lower evaluations of these NoGo stimuli. How this NoGo-devaluation-effect can be explained has remained unclear. Here, we ran three experiments to test the hypothesis…
View details →Kornfield SL, Henry NM, Waller R et al. · 2026 · Archives of women's mental health
PURPOSE: This longitudinal investigation examined the association between traumatic birth experiences (measured via self-report and clinician-report) and caregiving behaviors and attitudes and any race-related differences in these…
View details →Lisan Q, Marques-Vidal P, Hausler N et al. · 2023 · Sleep medicine
Objective while obstructive sleep apnea is strongly associated with incident cardiovascular diseases (CVD), the underlying mechanisms remain to be elucidated. This study aimed to compare the patterns of microRNAs expression between OSA and…
View details →Zhang Q, Yang G, Xiong Y et al. · 2023 · American journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989)
Problem The impact of antibiotic-cured chronic endometritis (CE) on perinatal outcomes of patients conceived with frozen embryo transfer (FET) was unclear. Method This study was to re-evaluate the perinatal outcomes of a cohort of…
View details →Rocha de Souza L, Ramos Amorim MM, Souza AS et al. · 2024 · Medicine
Although studies evaluated placental involvement in Covid-19 patients, few have assessed its association with clinical repercussions. The study aimed to determine the association between the clinical status and maternal and perinatal…
View details →Fogt JS, Schornack M, Shorter E et al. · 2026 · Eye & contact lens
Objectives Fluid reservoir (FR) depth is an important parameter in the evaluation of scleral lens fitting, yet the range of depths compatible with successful wear, clinicians' ability to estimate depth, and implications of FR depth on…
View details →Kim B, Lee J, Park S et al. · 2023 · Vision research
This study investigated facial skin color differences before and after makeup. Toward this goal, a photo gauge, devised with a pair of color checkers as a reference, collected face images. In addition, color calibration and a deep-learning…
View details →Munder O, Adam GK, Nasralla K et al. · 2025 · SAGE open nursing
Introduction Adolescent pregnancy is considered a global public health problem that affects both developed and developing countries. While the obstetric and perinatal outcomes of adolescent pregnancies have been extensively studied, there…
View details →Dameron LS, Bank NC, Raghava N et al. · 2026 · Journal of hand surgery global online
Purpose The primary aim was to compare postoperative complications at 90 days and 1 year following trigger finger release (TFR) in patients with versus without glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA) exposure. GLP-1 RAs are…
View details →Chari HS, Padukone AM, Magazine R et al. · 2026 · The Journal of international medical research
ObjectiveChronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a common condition marked by significant disability and frequent exacerbations. Statins, owing to their anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory effects, may offer therapeutic benefits in…
View details →Quanz EV, Al-Nosairy KO, Stolle FH et al. · 2026 · Documenta ophthalmologica. Advances in ophthalmology
Purpose Quanz et al. (Sci Rep 14:16797, 2024) reported that participants with nystagmus had higher objective visual evoked potential visual acuity estimates (VA VEP ) by 0.12 logMAR relative compared to standard psychophysical VA (VA…
View details →Park EC, Harris LM, Sigel AN et al. · 2023 · Behaviour research and therapy
Existing evidence suggests a link between physical pain and suicide, but the nature of this relationship remains unknown. To address this critical gap in knowledge, the present study leveraged a validated virtual reality (VR) suicide…
View details →Sakreida K, Trapp NT, Kreuzer S et al. · 2025 · BMJ mental health
Background Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) is an effective non-pharmacological, non-invasive intervention for depression. However, the optimal strategy for localising…
View details →Lakhsassi L, Borg C, Briken P et al. · 2025 · PloS one
It has been proposed that acute pain can generally be reduced by sexual activity. Increasing subjective sexual arousal might thus help reduce pain during sex. Yet, in conflict with the view that subjective sexual arousal would generally…
View details →Ohmori T, Hiraoka A, Totsugawa T et al. · 2025 · Annals of thoracic surgery short reports
Background It is still controversial whether prosthesis-patient mismatch (PPM) adversely affects long-term outcomes after aortic valve replacement (AVR). The aim of this study was to examine whether flow-adjusted pressure gradient is a…
View details →Yii F, Strang N, Bernabeu MO et al. · 2024 · Ophthalmic & physiological optics : the journal of the British College of Ophthalmic Opticians (Optometrists)
Introduction Research assuming linearity has concluded that corneal biomechanics are compromised in high myopia. We investigated whether this assumption was appropriate and re-examined these associations across different levels of myopia.…
View details →Wollina U, Schönlebe J · 2023 · Acta dermatovenerologica Croatica : ADC
Dear Editor, Silicone is a hydrophobic polymer containing silicon. Silicon is an essential compound of soft tissue proteoglycans. Reports about morphea and other autoimmune connective tissue disorders in association with silicone implants…
View details →McKyton A, Marks Ohana D, Nahmany E et al. · 2023 · Current biology : CB
How will people who spent their visual lives with only rods respond to cone function restoration? Will they be able suddenly see the colors of the rainbow? CNGA3-achromatopsia is a congenital hereditary disease in which cone dysfunction…
View details →Ivimey-Cook ER, Shorr S, Moorad JA · 2023 · Evolution; international journal of organic evolution
Maternal senescence is the reduction in individual performance associated with increased maternal age at conception. When manifested on adult lifespan, this phenomenon is known as the "Lansing Effect." Single-species studies report both…
View details →Gharibian D, Medeiros M, Dion PA et al. · 2026 · Tremor and other hyperkinetic movements (New York, N.Y.)
Essential Tremor (ET) is a highly heterogeneous movement disorder with a strong genetic basis. However, the etiology of ET is unclear, largely due to its clinical heterogeneity and frequently observed comorbidities. We conducted a…
View details →Heneghan JA, Akande MY, Ramgopal S et al. · 2024 · Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies
Objectives To describe change in Functional Status Scale (FSS) associated with critical illness and assess associated development of new morbidities with PICU readmission. Design Retrospective, cross-sectional cohort study using the…
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