Intervención de salud bucal en escolares con hábitos deformantes bucales by Ivette Álvarez Mora, Yuritza Lescaille Castillo, Clotilde de la Caridad Mora Pérez, Kirenia Pieri Silva, Boris Abel González Arocha

“…<br /><strong>Métodos:</strong> estudio cuasiexperimental con intervención antes y después, realizado desde octubre de 2008 a abril de 2009, que incluyó niños portadores de hábitos deformantes bucales en las edades de cinco a once años pertenecientes a la escuela primaria Guerrillero Heroico del Área II del Municipio Cienfuegos. …”
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Núcleo Especial do Programa Segundo Tempo na ESEF – UFPel by Angélica Xavier Kalinoski, Laura Jung, Gabriela Hax, Alexandre Marques, Gabriela Xavier

“…Em sua nova remodelação, com intenção de atingir vários segmentos excluídos no contexto social, o PST desenvolveu núcleos especiais, entre eles um núcleo para jovens com deficiência. A partir de 2008 a UFPel, por intermédio da ESEF, formou uma parceria com a Secretaria Nacional de Esporte, Educação, Lazer e Inclusão Social do ME para o desenvolvimento de um núcleo Piloto Especial, visando atender preferencialmente crianças e jovens com deficiência com idades entre 12 e 21 anos. …”
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An Analysis of Lexical Coherence in Fereydoun Tavallali’s Al-Tafasil from the perspective of functional Linguistics by Gholamreza Salimi, Zahra Rafie, Alireza Biaban Navard Sarvestani

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Clinical characteristics, complications and satisfaction of megameatus intact prepuce (MIP) hypospadias variant: a 15 year retrospective study by Meng He, Songqiao Fan, Ning Sun, Jun Tian, Minglei Li, Hongcheng Song, Weiping Zhang

“…Methods A retrospective analysis was performed for 31 patients with MIP admitted to our hospital from January 2008 to February 2023. All enrolled patients underwent telephone follow-up and a survey was conducted on the satisfaction of patients and their families. …”
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Predicting Factors Affecting the Behavior of Healthcare Employees in the Use of Personal Protective Equipment During Epidemics Based on Godin et al’s Model: A Study in Iran by Milad Ahmadi Marzaleh, Peivand Bastani, Abolfazl Raeyat Mohtashami, Payam Farhadi, Saeed Ghanbari, Ramin Ravangard

“…After reviewing the related articles and interviewing the experts and based on the model of Godin et al. (2008), a questionnaire was developed, validated, and tested for reliability using face and content validity as well as Cronbach’s alpha. …”
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Challenges of Research Performance Evaluation in Iran: A Qualitative Study by Nadia Saniee, Shahram Sedghi, Abdolreza Noroozi chakoli, Salime Goharinezhad, Leila Nemati anaraki

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MOSQUITO-BORNE PARASITES IN PATIENTS NEWLY INFECTED WITH HIV IN RELATIONSHIP WITH CD4 COUNT AND TNF ΑLPHA by Mathew Folaranmi Olaniyan

“…Result: A lower frequency of 25.8% (Rajan, 2008) Plasmodium spp. and 6.5% (James et al., 2015) W. bancrofti was obtained in newly infected HIV patients compared with 32% (Zeitlmann et al., 2001) Plasmodium spp. and 8% (WHO, 2019) W. bancrofti obtained in the non-HIV infected control subjects. …”
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A new ASAP Scoring System and Risk Table to predict second prostate biopsy outcomes by Ediz Caner, Akan Serkan, Kaya Neslihan, Ihvan Aysenur

“…Material and methods The study reviewed the data of 2,845 patients; who underwent transrectal ultrasonography-guided prostate biopsy in the period between January 2008 and May 2019. A total of 128 patients with ASAP were included in the study. …”
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Microstructural analysis and preliminary wear assessment of wire arc additive manufactured AA 5083 aluminum alloy for lightweight structures by Prasanna Nagasai Bellamkonda, Maheshwar Dwivedy, Kaushik N.Ch

“…Tensile testing shows that horizontal samples (X-direction) have a UTS of 295 ± 5 MPa and elongation of 20.08 ± 0.8 %, while vertical samples (Y-direction) have a UTS of 267 ± 10 MPa and elongation of 16.43 ± 2.1 %. …”
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Impact of Online Stress Management Training Program on the Sexual Function of Perimenopausal Women: A Clinical Trial by Leila Neisani Samani, Shima Arjmand, Naeimeh Seyedfatemi, Shima Haghani

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Twelve-Year Trends of PM10 and Visibility in the Hefei Metropolitan Area of China by Lin Huang, Mindong Chen, Jianlin Hu

“…PM10 shows fluctuating variation in 2001–2007 and has a slightly decreasing trend after 2008. The annual average visibility range is generally lower than 7 km and shows a worsening trend from 2001 to 2006 followed by an improving trend from 2007 to 2012. …”
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نگرش فازی به مفهوم جنون و آثار آن by رضا پورمحمدی, محمد مهدی یوسفی

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Occupational disparities in survival in Korean women with cancer: a nationwide registry linkage study by Ichiro Kawachi, Hye-Eun Lee, Eun-A KIM, Masayoshi Zaitsu

“…Objectives We sought to examine occupational disparities in survival among Korean women diagnosed with cancer.Design Population-based, registry-linkage study.Setting South Korea.Participants Our study population comprised female workers registered in the Korean national employment insurance programme during 1995–2000 and diagnosed with cancer between 1995 and 2008. A total of 61 110 women with cancer diagnoses was included in analysis. …”
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The Dynamics of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Prevalence and Management Rates among Rural Population in Henan Province, China by Xiaotian Liu, Ling Wang, Panpan Wang, Ruihua Liu, Kaili Yang, Xinling Qian, Jingjing Fan, Songcheng Yu, Yuqian Li, Chongjian Wang

“…The rural prospective study was conducted for 20194 Chinese population ≥18 years in 2007-2008 and followed during 2013-2014. A total of 14009 individuals were recruited for the prospective analysis ultimately. …”
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Salvage Brachytherapy for Castration-Resistant and External Beam Radiotherapy-Resistant Local Recurrence 17 Years after Radical Prostatectomy by Shogo Hosogoe, Osamu Soma, Teppei Matsumoto, Atsushi Imai, Shingo Hatakeyama, Takahiro Yoneyama, Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Takuya Koie, Chikara Ohyama, Masahiko Aoki

“…Nine years after operation, he was diagnosed with local recurrence of prostate cancer and he received postoperative external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) (70 Gy). By May 2008, the PSA dropped to 0.33 ng/mL, and a CT scan showed that the mass had disappeared. …”
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Monitoring and assessment of a eutrophicated coastal lake using multivariate approaches by U.G. Abhjna

“…Multivariate statistical techniques such as cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling and principal component analysis were applied to evaluate the temporal and spatial variations in water quality data set generated for two years (2008-2010) from six monitoring stations of Veli-Akkulam Lake and compared with a regional reference lake Vellayani of south India. …”
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Población y salud mental en México. Reflexiones y un ejercicio de aproximación mediante las variaciones de la mortalidad por suicidio by Carolina Martínez Salgado

“…Acompaña a estas reflexiones un ejercicio exploratorio de las variaciones de la mortalidad por suicidio en México de 1990 a 2008, como una modalidad de defunción que ha sido vinculada con cierto tipo de trastornos mentales. …”
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Sotchi/Сочи 2014 : des Jeux Olympiques d’hiver entre haute montagne et littoral by Kurt Scharr, Ernst Steinicke, Axel Borsdorf

“…La décision du C.I.O. d’accepter que les Jeux olympiques d’hiver de 2014 aient lieu à Sotchi a offert au gouvernement russe une chance de se repositionner au niveau international ; la guerre du Caucase en août 2008 peut aussi être reliée à cette décision. Depuis le tout début de la République soviétique, la région de Sotchi a gagné une réputation de station offrant aussi bien des services thermaux que de loisirs. …”
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Symmetry-invariant quantum machine learning force fields by Isabel Nha Minh Le, Oriel Kiss, Julian Schuhmacher, Ivano Tavernelli, Francesco Tacchino

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Exploring the Causal Relationship Between Frailty and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Insights From Bidirectional Mendelian Randomization and Mediation Analysis by Cheng Z, Wu J, Xu C, Yan X

“…Zewen Cheng,1 Jian Wu,1 Chun Xu,2 Xiaokun Yan1 1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Suzhou Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215000, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215000, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Xiaokun Yan, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Suzhou Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215000, People’s Republic of China, Email yanxk2008@126.comBackground: Observational studies have underscored a robust association between frailty and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), yet the causality remains equivocal.Methods: This study employed bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis. …”
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