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Open AccessDevelo** an entrustable professional activity for providing health education and consultation in occupational therapy and examining its validity
Entrustable Professional Activities (EPA)-based assessment is easily and intuitively used in evaluating the learning outcomes of competency-based medical education (CBME). This study aimed to develop an EPA fo...
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Open AccessIn vitro and in vivo studies on exogenous polyamines and α-difluoromethylornithine to enhance bone formation and suppress osteoclast differentiation
Exogenous polyamines, including putrescine (PUT), spermidine (SPD), and spermine (SPM), and the irreversible inhibitor of the rate-limiting enzyme ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) of polyamine biosynthesis, α-dif...
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Open AccessMacrophages as determinants and regulators of systemic sclerosis-related interstitial lung disease
Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is the primary cause of mortality in systemic sclerosis (SSc), an autoimmune disease characterized by tissue fibrosis. SSc-related ILD (SSc-ILD) occurs more frequently in female...
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Open AccessImproved prediction of anti-angiogenic peptides based on machine learning models and comprehensive features from peptide sequences
Angiogenesis is a key process for the proliferation and metastatic spread of cancer cells. Anti-angiogenic peptides (AAPs), with the capability of inhibiting angiogenesis, are promising candidates in cancer tr...
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Open AccessUpdate to: Assessing the efficacy of male Wolbachia-infected mosquito deployments to reduce dengue incidence in Singapore
This trial is a parallel, two-arm, non-blinded cluster randomised controlled trial that is under way in Singapore, with the aim of measuring the efficacy of male Wolbachia-infected Aedes aegypti deployments in re...
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Open AccessChanging how the third 95 is counted: suitable indicators for measuring U = U with findings from Taiwan
The World Health Organisation has implemented multiple HIV prevention policies and strived to achieve the 90-90-90 goal by 2020, achieving the 95-95-95 goal by 2030, which refers to 95% of patients living with...
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Open AccessImproved resilience and proteostasis mediate longevity upon DAF-2 degradation in old age
Little is known about the possibility of reversing age-related biological changes when they have already occurred. To explore this, we have characterized the effects of reducing insulin/IGF-1 signaling (IIS) d...
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Imitate? Or be Imitated? The Sustainable and Unique Competencies and Structure of Theme-Based Hotels
This study explores the sustainable competitive advantages of theme hotels. The research examined and compared 11 theme-based brand hotels in China and Taiwan as they all possess value as practical management ...
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Integrating online partial pair programming and socially shared metacognitive regulation for the improvement of students’ learning
Many universities around the world were forced to lock down and students had to continue their learning in online environments in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Teachers thus had to adopt effective and app...
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Open AccessBurnout during the COVID-19 pandemic among nurses in Taiwan: the parental role effect on burnout
During the COVID-19 pandemic, medical workers were concerned about the care of their children or family members and the impact of being separated from them. This increased stress could harm the relationship be...
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ASO Visual Abstract: Long-Term Outcomes of Orthotopic Neobladder versus Ileal Conduit Urinary Diversion in Robot-Assisted Radical Cystectomy (RARC): Multicenter Results from the Asian RARC Consortium
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Open AccessReal-World Efficacy and Safety of Universal 8-Week Glecaprevir/Pibrentasvir for Treatment-Naïve Patients from a Nationwide HCV Registry in Taiwan
Eight-week glecaprevir/pibrentasvir (GLE/PIB) is indicated for treatment-naïve (TN) patients with chronic hepatitis C (CHC), with or without compensated cirrhosis. Given that the Taiwanese government is commit...
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Earthquake precursory study using decomposition technique: time series soil radon monitoring data from the San-Jie Station in Northern Taiwan
Soil-gas radon concentration data recorded for one year at the San-Jie monitoring station in northern Taiwan has been analysed in this study. To detect genuine pre-seismic anomalies, the hourly radon data was ...
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Associations of Smoking and Alcohol Consumption with Loneliness, Depression, and Loss of Interest Among Chinese Older Males and Females
As China experiences a rapidly aging population, the prevalence of Chinese older adults suffering from mental health issues also increases. Because cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption are two major publi...
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Open AccessCirculating small extracellular vesicles mediate vascular hyperpermeability in diabetes
A hallmark chronic complication of type 2 diabetes mellitus is vascular hyperpermeability, which encompasses dysfunction of the cerebrovascular endothelium and the subsequent development of associated cognitiv...
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Open AccessPopulation-Based Prognostic Models for Head and Neck Cancers Using National Cancer Registry Data from Taiwan
This study aims to raise awareness of the disparities in survival predictions among races in head and neck cancer (HNC) patients by develo** and validating population-based prognostic models specifically tai...
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The effect of morphology of polyaniline on photodegradation of reactive black 5 dyes
Photocatalysis is widely used for wastewater treatment as it is environmentally friendly through elimination of harmful organic compounds by mineralizing it to carbon dioxide and water under light illumination...
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Open AccessHypothesis testing for performance evaluation of probabilistic seasonal rainfall forecasts
A hypothesis testing approach, based on the theorem of probability integral transformation and the Kolmogorov–Smirnov one-sample test, for performance evaluation of probabilistic seasonal rainfall forecasts is...
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Open AccessLong-Term Outcomes of Orthotopic Neobladder Versus Ileal Conduit Urinary Diversion in Robot-Assisted Radical Cystectomy (RARC): Multicenter Results from the Asian RARC Consortium
Robot-assisted radical cystectomy (RARC) has gained traction in the management of muscle invasive bladder cancer. Urinary diversion for RARC was achieved with orthotopic neobladder and ileal conduit. Evidence ...
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Open AccessInvasive pulmonary aspergillosis among patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia and influenza in ICUs: a retrospective cohort study
The prevalence, clinical characteristics, and outcomes of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in intensive care units remain underestimated because of th...
