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The information on several environmental public health journal homepages has been assessed for its quality and quantity, using selected key criteria. These criteria included the extent of text available, the ability to search the website, the table of contents free via email, and the presence of hyper-links. A high deg…

A venous anastomotic network is occasionally found at the base of the brain, which closely resembles the vicinal arterial circle of Willis. When present, this venous polygon is composed of the anterior cerebral and communicating veins, the basal vein of Rosenthal and the posterior communicating and lateral mesencephali…

Oxygen reduction and hydrogen peroxide reduction are technologically important reactions in energy-conversion devices. In this work, a full understanding of oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) mechanism on Au(1 1 1) surface is investigated by density functional theory (DFT) calculations, including the reactio…

As opposed to malignant secondary tumors, metastases of the colorectal carcinoma are benign tumors of the liver that are quite rare in the Czech Republic. From the 55 patients operated on since 2000 at our department for benign liver tumors, the most frequent are haemangiomas, focal nodular hyperplasia (FNH) and hepato…

OBJECTIVE: Implementing target trial emulation (TTE) studies as standardized, reproducible analytic workflows is technically demanding. We developed Text-guided Health-study Estimation and Specification Engine Using Strategus (THESEUS), which uses large language models (LLMs) to translate free-text study descriptions i…

SAPHIRE is a concept-based approach to information retrieval in the biomedical domain. Indexing and retrieval are based on a concept-matching algorithm that processes free text to identify concepts and map them to their canonical form. This process requires a large vocabulary containing a breadth of medical concepts an…

BACKGROUND: Younger people bear the heaviest burden of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Partner notification, condom use and STI testing can reduce infection but many young people lack the knowledge, skills and confidence needed to carry out these behaviours. Text messages can provide effective behavioural suppo…

Axial load-settlement (P-S) curves govern pile serviceability checks and support performance-based foundation decisions, yet full static load tests to high load levels remain expensive and are often unavailable. This paper presents PILE-STACK, a physics-guided, monotone stacked ensemble that predicts the complete P-S r…

Clinical practice requires the production of a time- and resource-consuming great amount of notes. They contain relevant information, but their secondary use is almost impossible, due to their unstructured nature. Researchers are trying to address this problems, with traditional and promising novel techniques. Applicat…

Although case reports have always had a place at the foundation of medical knowledge, established radiology journals have increasingly focused their efforts on major research studies. This de-emphasis of case reports has resulted in a dearth of opportunities to publish them. Case reports continue to mark the frontiers…

The front cover artwork is provided by the group of Prof. Armbrüster (TU Chemnitz). The image illustrates the determination of the chemical activity of elements in intermetallic compounds by corrosion-free EMF measurements. Read the full text of the Article at 10.1002/cphc.201901218.

BACKGROUND: The parasitic infection hydatidosis or echinococcosis, is a parasitic infection caused most frequently by flatworm Echinococcus granulosus. Hydatidosis is endemic in Turkey where animal husbandry is common. Eventhough, Hydatid disease can develop anywhere in the human body it is most frequently occurs in th…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between physiological, anthropometric, strength, and muscle power variables and a 5-km time trial (5kmT) in young runners. Twenty-three runners volunteered to participate in this study. Height, body mass, body fat, and fat-free mass (FFM) were measured. The…

The occurrence of segregation in dilute alloys under irradiation is a highly unusual phenomenon that has recently attracted attention, stimulated by the interest in the fundamental properties of alloys as well as by their applications. The fact that solute atoms segregate in alloys that, according to equilibrium thermo…

UNLABELLED: The aim of the study was to compare the best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) before and at the 1st day after the cataract surgery for mature or the hard nuclear cataract. The phacoprobe NeoSoniX equipment Legacy (Alcon Laboratories) was used for the cataract surgery. Trypan blue for vital staining of the ant…

OBJECTIVES: Virtual colonoscopy is less invasive than conventional colonoscopy and does not require a conscious sedation. BACKGROUND: Virtual colonoscopy using the abdominal spiral computed tomography scanning allows a total colonic evaluation with minimal invasiveness. METHODS: We studied 48 patients with a virtual…

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of cryoablation compared with the radiofrequency (RF) method in the treatment of typical atrial flutter (AFL). METHODS: 12 patients with typical counterclockwise AFL underwent cryoablation of the cavotricuspid isthmus. Cryoablation was performed with a 9F catheter with a…

Hamam (Hot Bath) culture is prevalent worldwide. The high temperature and humidity of these places have multiple effects on human health. The aim of this study was to investigate the demographic characteristics, autopsy findings and causes of death of cases who died in hamam and underwent medicolegal autopsies. The stu…

Objective. The aim of this study was to determine whether pregnancy increases the recurrence risk of cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM) in women with a history of stage I CMM. Methods. The electronic medical databases of Medline and Embase were explored. All 1084 obtained articles were screened on title and abstract us…

In this article, we show the results of a quantitative and qualitative analysis of open citations on a popular and highly cited retracted paper: "Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis and pervasive developmental disorder in children" by Wakefield et al, published in 1998. The main purpose of our stud…