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Anatomical education is pivotal for medical students, and innovative technologies like augmented reality (AR) are transforming the field. This study aimed to enhance the interactive features of the AEducAR prototype, an AR tool developed by the University of Bologna, and explore its impact on human anatomy learning pro…

Learning is crucial for shaping domestic dogs' behaviour through life experiences, yet not all breeds exhibit the same learning aptitude towards a particular task. The current study's objective was to identify differences in behaviour and learning performance across and within five breed clades and elucidate the underl…

BACKGROUND: Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative bacteria that causes a large range of human infections such as lung infection (cystic fibrosis) and urinary tract infection. Even worse, antibiotic resistant bacteria have become a serious health care problem throughout the last decade, and there is a need for…

Continued access to sanitation and the improvements to public health that it provides requires safe fecal sludge management (FSM). Trained service providers offer the best path to achieve safe FSM in rural communities, but this service industry is hindered by a lack of understanding household valuation of FSM services…

This paper outlines a recent PhD study that explored factors underpinning decisions of people with schizophrenia regarding neuroleptic medicine taking. Relevant studies tend to be within the world view of psychiatry, resting on traditional concepts of compliance and insight. These studies examined schizophrenia outwith…

BACKGROUND: Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within the 9p21.3 genomic region have been consistently associated with coronary heart disease (CHD), myocardial infarction, and quantity of coronary artery calcification (CAC), a marker of subclinical atherosclerosis. Prior studies have established an association betw…

Methicillin-resistant(MRSA) is the primary cause of nosocomial and animal, community-acquired infections.is a common inhabitant of the upper respiratory tract. Molecular typing methods are vital for investigations of MRSA. The MRSA has significantly increased in Iraq. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of thi…

This letter responds to the article by Yvonne S. Yang et al. (2024) on the relationship between social isolation, loneliness, and stress-related gene expression, published in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. The authors' recruitment methods and use of genome-wide transcriptional profiling to assess the Conserved Transcri…

BACKGROUND: This study's purpose was to determine if age, fall height, fall mechanism, landing surface, and landing position are associated with injury severity and hospital outcomes among pediatric fall patients. METHODS: A retrospective review was conducted of patients aged ≤18 years who sustained fall-relate…

OBJECTIVE: To characterize the population of infertile men with an incidental finding of testicular tumor diagnosed during infertility work-up and to describe their unique presentation and pathological findings. DESIGN: Retrospective study of 11 men in whom a testicular tumor was incidentally diagnosed during evaluati…

PURPOSE: This study's purpose was to characterize dental pulp cells from human primary teeth and determine their ability to induce differentiation of oral epithelial cells. METHODS: Dental pulp cells were isolated from freshly extracted primary incisors, digested with 4 mg/ml collogenase/dispase, and grown in Dulbecco…

PURPOSE: Adequate muscular strength has important implications for morbidity and early mortality prevention. There are no data on the recent trends in muscular strength across lifespan, which was this study's purpose. DESIGN: Cross-sectional. SETTING: 2011 to 2012 and 2013 to 2014 waves of the National Health and Nut…

BACKGROUND: Setting priorities in oncology is a useful way to produce a robust set of research questions that researchers can address. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this review was to describe cancer nurses and patients' main research priorities and describe their development over time. METHODS: A mixed-method systematic rev…

DATA SOURCES: The databases Medline/PubMed, EMBASE, the Cochrane Library, Chinese Biomedical Literature Database and the China National Knowledge Infrastructure were searched. Additional hand searches were conducted in the journals. STUDY SELECTION: Randomised controlled trials, prospective cohort studies and retrospe…

The article summarizes the arguments and counterarguments in the scholarly discussion about the problem of choosing a model of healthcare organization. The study's primary goal was to identify the economic efficiency of the public health system and resistance to COVID-19. The relevance of addressing this research issue…

BACKGROUND: A book entitled "Visually Memorable Regional Anatomy (VMRA)" consists of extremely schematic figures as well as concise anatomic knowledge. On the other hand, in the Visible Korean (VK) project, three-dimensional surface models of 297 head structures have been reconstructed. The study's objective was to ver…

This study aims to investigate how multidimensional Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)-covering environmental, employee, community, consumer, ethical, economic, and philanthropic dimensions-affects corporate reputation and, subsequently, sustainability performance in China. Drawing on stakeholder theory, the study e…

The rationale for the Capstone Depleted Uranium (DU) Aerosol Characterization and Risk Assessment Study and its results and applications have been examined in the previous 13 articles of this special issue. This paper summarizes the study's results and discusses its successes and lessons learned. The robust data from t…

miRNA deregulation has been found to promote carcinogenesis. Little is known about miRNA deregulation in hereditary breast tumors as no miRNA expression profiling studies have been performed in normal breast tissue of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers. miRNA profiles of 17 BRCA1- and 9 BRCA2-associated breast carcinoma…

This study's aim was to establish outcomes following cochlear implantation (CI) in patients with mitochondrial disorders associated with deafness. Systematic review and narrative synthesis. Databases searched: Medline, EMBASE, Web of Science, COCHRANE, and ClinicalTrials.gov. No limits on language or year of publicatio…