Burden of pertussis in infants in the Eastern Mediterranean Region and the impact of maternal vaccination: a systematic review by Randa K. Saad, Yousef Khader, Flor M. Munoz, Faris Lami, Ezzeddine Mohsni, Nadine Haddad

“…The incidence of PCR-confirmed pertussis among children with suspected pertussis varied significantly, from 6.7% to 8.9% (Morocco 2018–2019) to 50.4% and 51.6% (Palestine 2004–2008) among children < 12 and < 6 months, respectively, and between 16.3% (Tunisia 2007–2016) to 73.0% (Morocco 2013–2015) in children < 2 months. …”
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A Digital-based Talent Acquisition Framework for Start-ups: A Qualitative Multiple Case Study by Mohammad Hosein Kenarroodi, Hasan Boudlaie

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REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL OF POTATO ACCESSIONS FROM THE VIR COLLECTION IN MURMANSK PROVINCE by S. N. Travina, Т. Е. Zhigadlo

“…Knowledge of the reproductive potential in plants is of vital importance for potato cultivation in the Arctic environments.Materials and methods. From 2008 through 2017, 1594 potato cultivars with diverse maturation schedules from VIR’s collection were studied at the Polar Experiment Station of VIR. …”
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The complete mitochondrial genome of Gyrodactylus pseudorasborae (Platyhelminthes: Monogenea) with a phylogeny of Gyrodactylidae parasites by Xinyi Zeng, Ye Li, Yang Liu, Yaoying Chen, Yajing Liu, Mengwei Song, Tao Chen

“…Phylogenetic analyses show that G. pseudorasborae and Gyrodactylus parvae You, Easy & Cone, 2008 cluster together with high nodal support based on 12 PCGs sequences and amino acid sequences, Gyrodactylidae forms independent monophyletic clade within Gyrodactylidea. …”
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Safety, Efficacy, and Predictive Factors of Conventional Epithelium-Off Corneal Crosslinking in the Treatment of Progressive Keratoconus by Rebecca Farhat, Mohamad Khaled Ghannam, Georges Azar, Joseph Nehme, Marwan Sahyoun, Najib Georges Hanna, Mariana Abi Karam, Charbel El Haber, Alexandre Schakal, Alexandre Jalkh, Ameed Samaha

“…All patients with progressive keratoconus who underwent CXL between January 2008 and January 2016, with minimal 3-years follow-up were included. …”
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Petrogenesis of Intrusive body in Northeast of Joveinan, North of Isfahan, Urumieh- Dokhtar magmatic zone by Shahzad Sherafat, Majid Zeidi, Mahnaz Khodami

“…The variations in the composition and origins of the melts at different periods have been demonstrated in previous research (Omrani et al., 2008; Chiu et al., 2013; Honarmand et al., 2014). …”
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Factores de riesgo asociados con las gastropatías. Trinidad, Sancti Spíritus by Kirenia Castellanos Sánchez, Francisco Reinaldo Lorenzo Castillo, José Andrés Cabrales Escobar, Emilio Carpio Muñoz, Kendra Carrazana Román

“…<strong><br />Métodos:</strong> se diseñó un estudio de casos y testigos los cuales fueron seleccionados a partir de los pacientes que asistieron a la consulta de gastroenterología de un policlínico de Trinidad, Sancti Spíritus, durante el año 2008. Se incluyeron 104 casos de gastropatías diagnosticadas por endoscopia y 208 testigos. …”
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qPRF: A system to accelerate population receptive field modeling by Sebastian Waz, Yalin Wang, Zhong-Lin Lu

“…BOLD response can be fitted using the population receptive field (PRF) model to reveal how visual input is represented on the cortex (Dumoulin and Wandell, 2008). Fitting the PRF model costs considerable time, often requiring days to analyze BOLD signals for a small cohort of subjects. …”
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Transition of clinical biomarker status from childhood into adolescence-A prospective study in children from eight European countries. by Anna Floegel, Paola Russo, Toomas Veidebaum, Michael Tornaritis, Dénes Molnár, Lauren Lissner, Stefaan De Henauw, Luis A Moreno, Wolfgang Ahrens, Manuela Marron, Claudia Börnhorst

“…Clinical blood biomarkers including glycated hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-cholesterol), triglycerides, C-reactive protein (CRP), interleukin 6, ferritin, leptin and insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) were repeatedly measured in 2007/2008 (age range: 3.0 to <10.0 years) and in 2013/2014. …”
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The impact of the objective state and self-esteem of health on academic performance in senior students of medical and humanitarian specialties, taking into account various environm... by V. V. Kuznetsov, K. V. Kosilov

“…Information on demographic parameters, social conditions of study, residence, subjective data on morbidity and appeal was collected using: a comprehensive questionnaire on student status of a university (Pozdeeva, 2008; with additions of authors). The objective state of health and the comorbidity index were investigated when studying the medical documentation of medical institutions attached: Form 025 / y; 001–1 / y; 062 / y. …”
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Hospitalisation rates for epilepsy, asthma and insulin-dependent diabetes in 796 190 school-aged children and young people with and without intellectual disabilities: a record-link... by Angela Henderson, Sally-Ann Cooper, Craig Melville, Michael Fleming, Gillian S Smith, Jill Pell, Deborah Cairns

“…Scotland’s Pupil Census, 2008–2013, was used to identify pupils with and without intellectual disabilities and was linked with the Prescribing Information Service to identify pupils with epilepsy, asthma and insulin-dependent diabetes, and the Scottish Morbidity Records-01 to identify hospital admissions.Setting The general child population of Scotland.Participants School pupils aged 4–19 years; 18 278 with intellectual disabilities and 777 912 without intellectual disabilities.Outcomes Overall, emergency and non-emergency hospitalisations for epilepsy, asthma and/or diabetes; and length of stay.Results Epilepsy and asthma were more prevalent in pupils with intellectual disabilities (8.8% and 8.9%, respectively, compared with 0.8% and 6.9% among pupils without intellectual disabilities, p&lt;0.001), whereas insulin-dependent diabetes was not (0.5% prevalence). …”
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طراحی مدل پایدار زنجیره تأمین در صنایع غذایی و کشاورزی با تأکید بر ابعاد اقتصادی، اجتماعی، زیست‌محیطی: کاربرد روش مدل‌سازی ساختاری تفسیری... by جمشید ابراهیم پور سامانی, ناصر خانی, بیتا یزدانی, سید محمد رضا داودی

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Presencia y severidad de calcio coronario: su relación con la aparición de eventos coronarios agudos by Lázaro E. de la Cruz Avilés, Yanier Coll Muñoz, Félix R. Jorrín Román, Juan J. Navarro López, Dayan García Cuesta, Suleidy Castillo Fernández

“…Gustavo Aldereguía Lima de Cienfuegos, entre enero y diciembre de 2008. La serie estuvo conformada por 137 pacientes, en los que se estudió: sexo, antecedentes patológicos personales, cifras de glucemia en ayunas, creatinina, colesterol total y triglicéridos. …”
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The impact of successive Montessori programmes on cognitive achievement by Maria Angelica Paez-Barrameda

“…The study spanned academic years 1999 to 2015, involving 105 students who graduated from the school’s adolescent programme beginning from 2007−2008. Students were categorized based on their exposure to Montessori programmes: Group A (37 students) attended all three programmes (Casa, Cosmic Education, Erdkinder), Group B (48 students) attend­ed Cosmic Education and Erdkinder, and Group C (20 students) attended only Erdkinder. …”
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Adrenal hemorrhage in neonates: Incidence, perinatal characteristics and follow-up outcomes by Tek-Jū Tân, Yi-Li Hung, Chung-Min Shen, Wu-Shiun Hsieh

“…Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study in a single institute from April 2008 to August 2018. All neonates who received abdominal ultrasonogram within seven days-of-life were recruited and divided in to 2 groups according to the presence of NAH. …”
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Evaluation of Siemens Healthineers’ StrokeSegApp for automated diffusion and perfusion lesion segmentation in patients with ischemic stroke by Lynnet-Samuel J. Teichmann, Ahmed A. Khalil, Kersten Villringer, Jochen B. Fiebach, Stefan Huwer, Eli Gibson, Ivana Galinovic

“…PurposeThis study aimed to evaluate the perfomance of Siemens Healthineers’ StrokeSegApp performance in automatically segmenting diffusion and perfusion lesions in patients with acute ischemic stroke and to assess its clinical utility in guiding mechanical thrombectomy decisions.MethodsThis retrospective study used MRI data of acute ischemic stroke patients from the prospective observational single-center 1000Plus study, acquired between September 2008 and June 2013 (clinicaltrials.org; NCT00715533) and manually segmented by radiologists as the ground truth. …”
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LA GEOGRAFÍA, LOS GEÓGRAFOS Y LA GESTIÓN. APORTES PARA LA DEMOCRATIZACIÓN DEL TERRITORIO by Javier Martín Ordoqui, Facundo Martín Hernández

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The prediction value of serum anion gap for short-term mortality in pulmonary hypertension patients with sepsis: a retrospective cohort study by Jinhua Zhu, Zeying Zhang, Yefei Lei, Zhenrong Ouyang, Shelby Kutty, Qiming Liu, Yunbin Xiao, Yunbin Xiao

“…BackgroundThe relationship between anion gap (AG) and short-term mortality of pulmonary hypertension (PH) patients with sepsis in the intensive care unit (ICU) remains unclear.MethodsThis study involved a retrospective analysis of incident PH patients with sepsis first admitted to the ICU in the MIMIC IV database (2008 to 2019). Short-term outcomes include in-hospital mortality and 28-day mortality. …”
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Ecological risks in downstream lakes exacerbated by the three Gorges reservoir by Xinxin Chen, Yaxin Guo, Junhong Zhang, Xiao Han, Weiya Huang, Yao Yue

“…In this paper, the ecological impacts of TGD on downstream large lakes are explored in terms of hydrological alteration degree, biodiversity, connectivity, and ecological surplus and ecological deficit by building a 1/2-dimensional nested model to simulate the hydrological processes with and without the TGD from 2008 to 2011. The results showed that (1) TGD storage led to a decrease in the number of high pulses at downstream stations, resulting in wetland degradation in the riverine region; (2) the SI (Shannon’s diversity index) based on hydrological calculations became smaller, indicating that the downstream biodiversity showed a decreasing trend; (3) the diversion ratio and the confluence ratio of Dongting Lake and the Yangtze River decreased at the same time, and the connectivity decreased, which would lead to an increase in the degree and frequency of droughts during the dry season;(4) after the regulation of the TGD, the low-risk months were transformed into medium-risk months of the Dongting Lake basin, indicating a deterioration of the ecological situation in this region. …”
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What Affects Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity in China? A Configurational Perspective Based on Dynamic Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis by Danni Lu, Xinhuan Zhang, Degang Yang, Shubao Zhang

“…Major economic events, such as the 2008 financial crisis and policy shifts, including the 2012 “Ecological Civilization” strategy, significantly altered the effectiveness of existing configurations. …”
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