Making teamwork work: enhancing teamwork and assessment in higher education by Nigel Francis, Connie Pritchard, Zoe Prytherch, Stephen Rutherford

“…These difficulties often lead to dissatisfaction with the process and poor satisfaction responses in quality assessments of their teaching. This review takes a four‐way approach to evaluate current approaches to team assessment aimed at enhancing student engagement, satisfaction and learning gain. …”
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Effect of Electroacupuncture Combined with Traditional Chinese Medicine Fumigation and Traditional Exercises in Treating Knee Osteoarthritis Rehabilitation by Fangzhou TENG, Yaju ZHU, Tangyan CAI, Lulu HUANG, Jiemei GUO, Youxin SU

“…The hierarchical quantitative score of KOA, the visual analogue scale (VAS) score, the dosage of meloxicam, five-times-sit-to-stand test (FTSST) and knee joint flexion and extension of two groups were evalued and analyzed after four weeks of treatment.Results:After the treatment, the hierarchical quantitative score of KOA, VAS score, and FTSST were lower than before, and knee joint flexion and extension of both groups were improved (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.01), the value differences before and after treatment of two groups had statistical significance (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.01).The dosage of meloxicam of the trial group was significantly less than the control group (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.01).Conclusion:Electroacupuncture combined with traditional Chinese medicine fumigation and traditional exercises could significantly relieve the pain, improve the comprehensive functions of knee joint and muscle strength of the lower limb, and increase the range of motion.…”
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Analysis of vaginal microbiota before and after treatment of high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions of the uterine cervix by Patrícia Mendonça Ventura, Isabel Cristina Chulvis do Val Guimarães, Luis Guillermo Coca Velarde, Susana Cristina Aidé Viviani Fialho, Douglas Guedes Ferreira, Matheus Madureira Fernandes, Rafael Augusto Chaves Machado

“…According to Nugent, in the initial collection of Group I, 16 women (57%) had lactobacillary microbiota, eight (28%) intermediate, and four (14%) coccus. In Group II, twenty-one (75%) were lactobacillary, one (3%) was intermediate, and seven (24%) werecoccus. …”
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Effect of Transcutaneous Electrical Acupoint Stimulation on BUN, Serum T and Serum CK-MM Concentrations in College Athletes with High-level Football Match by Shoujiang LI, Jiapeng LI, Xiangjia KONG, Yong HU, Shijing YOU

“…Objective:To observe the impact of the transcutaneous electrical acupoint stimulation (TEAS) on blood urea nitrogen (BUN),serum testosterone (T) and serum creatine kinase isoenzyme-MM (CK-MM) of college athletes in high-level football match.Methods:Twenty-four college football players were randomly divided into control group, Group 1 and Group 2,with eight athletes in each group. …”
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Resolving issues in the genus Dioxys (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae, Dioxyini) in the West Palaearctic with a new identification key by T. J. Wood

“…Dioxys pumilus Gerstäcker, 1869 is found to consist of four species, D. pumilus (eastern Mediterranean), Dioxys varipes De Stefani, 1887, sp. resurr. …”
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SICKLE CELL TRAIT, CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS AND OUTCOMES: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY by Diego A Vargas-Hernández, Adriana Catalina Uscategui-Ruiz, Andrés Jesus Prada-Rueda, Consuelo Romero-Sánchez

“…Of these, 28 (54.8%) were Afro-Colombian, and 23 (45.1%) were Colombian mestizos. Twenty-four patients (47.1%) were asymptomatic, and Twenty-seven patients (52.9%) were symptomatic (systemic complications); splenic complications were the most important (85.2%), p=0.0005, and there was a wide spectrum of splenic complications. …”
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Majority or Minority: Data Imbalance Learning Method for Named Entity Recognition by Sota Nemoto, Shunsuke Kitada, Hitoshi Iyatomi

“…Evaluation experiments on four NER datasets (Japanese and English) showed that MoM learning improves the prediction performance of the minority classes without sacrificing the performance of the majority class and is more effective than widely known and state-of-the-art methods. …”
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Explizite und implizite Regeln der modalen Solo-Improvisation in iranischer Musik. Eine vergleichende Analyse by Davoud Tavousi

“…The study is based on a comparative analysis of nine performances (five vocal and four instrumental) of a gūše called Gharache covering a broad spectrum of possibilities within a certain modal area. …”
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A parametric study of the thermo-pneumatic microvalve performance for microfluidic platforms: A finite element analysis by Alireza Mohseni, Mohammad Amin Ebrahimzadeh, Amirsaman Bahramian, Esmail Pishbin

“…We systematically analyzed four critical design parameters: heating chamber geometry, gas composition, working fluid properties, and membrane materials. …”
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Physicochemical and Catalytic Properties of Vanadia/Titania Catalysts. III. Acidic Properties by Th. El-Nabarawy, M.N. Alaya, S.A. Sayed Ahmed, A.M. Youssef

“…FT-IR spectral studies of titania calcined at 400°C or 600°C indicated the presence of four important absorption bands with maxima located at 1630, 2920, 3670 and 3740 cm −1 , respectively. …”
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Late-Onset Glaucoma-Filtrating Bleb Leak in a Penetrating Keratoplasty Patient: A Case Report by Zuleyha Yalniz-Akkaya, Ayse Burcu, Firdevs Ornek

“…Postoperatively, intraocular pressure stabilized around 16 mmHg. After four months, phacoemulsification and intraocular lens implantation were performed. …”
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Revisiting the effectiveness of a performance decision tree-style rubric compared to a grid-style rubric by Yuichiro Yokouchi

“…Five raters (two English lecturers and three student raters) then scored 64 Japanese university students’ performances in four English-speaking tasks. Next, analyses were conducted using the many-facet Rasch measurement and generalizability theory to observe the validity and reliability of the PDT. …”
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Survival Analysis of Diabetic Colorectal Cancer Patients on Metformin by Alex Brandon Wong, Ravi Patnaik, Li Ling Chaw, Shir Kiong Lu, Long Chiau Ming, Wen Han Chooi, Ya Chee Lim

“…An association between metformin use and lower incidence of stage IV colorectal cancer (p = 0.046) was observed, but no significant difference between the metformin group and the non-metformin group in terms of survival probability (log rank p = 0.13) was shown. …”
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Safety Considerations When Dry Needling the Multifidi in the Thoracolumbar Region: A Cadaveric Study by Christi L. Williams, Christian R. Falyar, Ryan C. McConnell, Stacey Lindsley

“… # Level of Evidence Level IV.…”
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Machine Learning-Based Classification of Turkish Music for Mood-Driven Selection by Nazime Tokgöz, Ali Değirmenci, Ömer Karal

“…This study seeks to employ machine learning-based methods to classify four different music genres using a minimal set of features. …”
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Relationship Between Nurses’ End of Life Spiritual Care Knowledge and Attitudes With Religious Attitudes by Maryam Khandan, Aminreza Askarpoorkabir

“…Data were collected using a reasearcher-made questionnaires containing four sections. Data analysis, which included descriptive and inferential statistics, was performed using SPSS software, version 24. …”
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Traditional Treatment of Tuju Disease (Rheumatism) in Lontar Usada Based on Bali Local Wisdom by İ Ketut Ardhana, Putu Lakustini Cahyaningrum

“…There are thirteen types of diseases and characteristics of diseases in lontar usada. There are four ways traditional health workers acquire their expertise, including Balian Kapican, Balian Katakson, Balian Usada, and Balian Campuran. …”
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Biological properties of swine vesicular disease virus strain 2348 Italy/2008 by Ye. N. Kalinina, S. N. Fomina

“…The paper demonstrates data on experimental infection of pigs with SVDV strain 2348 Italy/2008 that belongs to the most recent one of the four known phylogenetic groups. The virus was kindly provided by the World Reference Laboratory for Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Pirbright, Great Britain), and it was adapted to the monolayer continuous cell cultures of porcine origin (IB-RS-2 and PGSK-30). …”
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The Effect of Free Time Management Skills upon Smartphone Addiction Risk in University Students by Deniz Mertkan Gezgin, Can Mihci, Sinem Gedik

“…A glance at the findings indicate that the overall smartphone addiction risk in the study group is relatively low and that a statistically significant yet weak and negative relationship exists between smartphone addiction risk and free time management skills. Three out of the four sub-dimensions of free time management scale; namely "scheduling", "leisure attitude" and "goal setting" were found to be have statistically significant correlations with smartphone addiction risk at moderate, weak and weak levels respectively. …”
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Study on Drainage of Pavement Layers and Improvement Strategies: Case Study by Hosein Zanjirani Farahani, Atiye Farahani

“…To prevent water permeation into the pavement body, destruction of the bottom layers, and pumping the paving materials, four strategies have been suggested and applied to improve the drainage performance.…”
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