An accelerated technique for casting a direct-pattern post and core restoration is presented. The entire clinical and laboratory procedure may be completed within 1 hour. The necessity for two appointments for completion of the restoration as well as the necessity of making two provisional restorations may be eliminated.
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
February 2025
Department of Data and Decision Science, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel.
For most researchers, academic publishing serves two goals that are often misaligned-knowledge dissemination and establishing scientific credentials. While both goals can encourage research with significant depth and scope, the latter can also pressure scholars to maximize publication metrics. Commercial publishing companies have capitalized on the centrality of publishing to the scientific enterprises of knowledge dissemination and academic recognition to extract large profits from academia by leveraging unpaid services from reviewers, creating financial barriers to research dissemination, and imposing substantial fees for open access.
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January 2025
School of Economics and Management, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China.
As the pace of enterprise digital transformation accelerates, intellectual capital (IC) has become a core driving force of gaining market competitive advantages and enhancing value creation capabilities. The paper aims to investigate the impact of IC and its components on financial performance of Chinese ecological protection and environmental governance companies during 2018-2021. In addition, the moderating effect of digital transformation between them is examined.
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January 2025
Department of Colorectal Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Background: Exosomes, which carry bioactive RNAs, proteins, lipids, and metabolites, have emerged as novel diagnostic markers and therapeutic agents for heart failure (HF). This study aims to elucidate the trends, key contributors, and research hotspots of exosomes in HF.
Methods: We collected publications related to exosomes in HF from the Web of Science Core Collection.
J Cancer Res Clin Oncol
January 2025
Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, 899 Pinghai Road, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, China.
Objective: To investigate the synergistic effects of combined sleep interventions and enhanced nutritional support on postoperative recovery in colon cancer patients, with a focus on sleep quality, nutritional status, pain management, psychological well-being, and quality of life.
Methods: This randomized controlled trial included 290 postoperative colon cancer patients admitted to the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University between May 2021 and May 2023. Participants were randomized into two groups: the intervention group, which received standard care supplemented with sleep and nutritional interventions, and the control group, which received standard care alone.
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse
January 2025
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
There has been a dramatic rise in alcohol consumption and alcohol use disorder (AUD) among women. Recently, the field has made substantial progress toward better understanding sex and gender differences in AUD. This research has suggested accelerated progression to AUD and associated health consequences in women, a phenomenon referred to as "telescoping.
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