Prelabour Caesarean Section following IVF/ICSI in Older-Term Nulliparous Women: Too Precious to Push? by E. Gillet, E. Martens, G. Martens, H. Cammu

“…An anonymous postal questionnaire is sent to all Belgian gynaecologists. Result. Both groups are comparable with respect to maternal age, gestational age, and birth weight. …”
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Optimal Bounds for Neuman Mean Using Arithmetic and Centroidal Means by Ying-Qing Song, Wei-Mao Qian, Yu-Ming Chu

“…We present the best possible parameters α1,α2,β1,β2∈R and α3,β3∈(1/2,1) such that the double inequalities α1A(a,b)+(1-α1)C(a,b)<NQA(a,b)<β1A(a,b)+(1-β1)C(a,b),Aα2(a,b)C1-α2(a,b)<NQA(a,b)<Aβ2(a,b)C1-β2(a,b), and C[α3a+(1-α3)b,α3b+(1-α3)a]<NQA(a,b)<C[β3a+(1-β3)b,β3b+(1-β3)a] hold for all a,b>0 with a≠b and give several sharp inequalities involving the hyperbolic and inverse hyperbolic functions. …”
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Diffusion and usage patterns of Internet services in the European Union by José Manuel Ortega Egea, Manuel Recio Menéndez, María Victoria Román González

“…</b> Telephone survey, using a random method, in order to guarantee the representativity of each national sample for its universe. Citizens from all European countries (EU-15) were surveyed about their Internet usage patterns. …”
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Survey of the Factors Associated with a Woman's Choice to Have an Epidural for Labor Analgesia by Jennifer Harkins, Brendan Carvalho, Amy Evers, Sachin Mehta, Edward T. Riley

“…Over a one-month period, we surveyed all patients who labored, the day after their delivery. …”
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Disaster health literacy for diabetics: A scoping review towards a framework by Somayeh Panahi, Golrokh Atighechian, Maryam Heidarpour, Zahra Heidari, Hasan Ashrafi-rizi

“…The study emphasized the importance of integrating health literacy assessment and training initiatives throughout all stages of the disaster cycle, with a specific emphasis on individuals with diabetes. …”
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Developing Sino- Israeli Relations in the Post-Cold War Era: Analyzing Desecuritization Scenarios for Iran by A. P. Fariborz, J. S. Seyed, A. Hossein

“…From this article's point of view, the development of China-Israel relations in all areas has been on an upward trajectory and hence have substantial implications at the national (threatening China-Iran relations in the field of energy and weakening Iran-China military relations and enfeebling Iran's position in the Silk Road project), regional (changing the balance to the detriment of Iran, Iran's containment and normalization of Arab-Israeli relations) and international levels (China's accompanying pressures on Iran, Israel's use of China's capacity in international institutions and efforts to legitimizing and reinforcing the notion of Iran's threat and continuing Iranophobia) for Iran's security.…”
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Molecular analysis of zoonotic pathogens in free-ranging six-banded armadillos (Euphractus sexcinctus) from the Brazilian semiarid region by Ilanna Vanessa Pristo de Medeiros Oliveira, José Artur Brilhante Bezerra, Gabriela Hémylin Ferreira Moura, Ana Carolina Yamakawa, Mariana Guimarães Nilsson, Jéssica da Silva Ferreira, Amanda Haisi, Felipe Fornazari, Hélio Langoni, João Marcelo Azevedo de Paula Antunes

“…Infection with four pathogens was subsequently evaluated: Leishmania infection was investigated by spleen and liver Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR); Leptospira spp. infection was evaluated by kidney PCR and serologically by microscopic agglutination test; T. gondii infection was assessed by PCR of the heart, lung, and spleen; and T. cruzi infection was investigated by heart and whole blood PCR and hemoculture. All tests presented negative results apart from whole blood PCR to detect T. cruzi, which was positive in one of the 20 animals tested and confirmed by genetic sequencing. …”
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Effect of bagasse ash and filter cake amendments on wheat (Triticum turgidum L.var. durum) yield and yield components in nitisol by Assefa Gonfa, Bobe Bedadi, Anteneh Argaw

“…Results At 100 tons/ha, both inputs resulted in the highest values of all the investigated traits. It was also found that yield and yield components that were obtained from bagasse ash overwhelmed those from filter cake treatments, except in tillers, dry biomass, and straw yield. …”
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Increased matrix metalloproteinase-1 expression by coexposure to UVA and cigarette sidestream smoke and contribution of histone acetylation by Ryoma Ito, Yukako Komaki, Yuko Ibuki

“…Histone deacetylase inhibitors, sodium acetate, propionate, and butyrate, all enhanced the CSS-induced MMP-1 according to the degree of histone acetylation. …”
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A novel framework for assessing causal effect of microbiome on health: long-term antibiotic usage as an instrument by Nele Taba, Krista Fischer, Estonian Biobank Research Team, Elin Org, Oliver Aasmets

“…As simple covariate adjustment is not likely to account for all potential confounders, the idea of instrumental variable (IV) analysis is worth exploiting. …”
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INTERACTIVE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION AS A TOOL FOR TRAINING A COMPETITIVE SPECIALIST by О. Bieliaieva, Т. Skrypnikova, Т. Khmil

“…The main advantages of interactive learning are the ability to: level the contradiction between motivation and stimulation in the learning process, static and dynamic learning; form the future doctors' awareness of the importance and value of various types of communication; simulate professional situations, solving which students can demonstrate the acquired knowledge, abilities and skills in a relaxed and psychologically comfortable atmosphere, which encourages them to actively participate in all stages of an interactive class; solve real cases from medical / dental practice; implement formative assessment; regulate inter-subject relationships in the educational process; develop clinical thinking, the ability to substantiate one's own opinion and the ability to defend one's own position, critically evaluate adopted and propose alternative solutions, teamwork skills, communicative culture, positive motivation, and self-confidence.…”
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Abuse potential of fentanyl and fentanyl analogues by Anusha Thumma, Kwadwo Mfoafo, Niloofar Babanejad, Alborz Omidian, Yadollah Omidi, Hamid Omidian

“…We included only articles whose abstracts were available in English. All articles were screened using their abstracts to determine their relevance to the current review. …”
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Making Hidden Sustainable Urban Planning and Landscape Knowledge Visual and Multisensorial by Carlos J. L. Balsas

“…First glance observations may not reveal or enable the understanding of all natural, social, economic, environmental, and cultural processes taking place at a given moment or, particularly, how those places have evolved and been transformed into being what they are today. …”
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How competent are cat owners in caring for their cats? by İbrahim ŞEKER, Ömer ERTEN, Abdurrahman KÖSEMAN, Şenol KOŞAN

“…In this study, according to the answers given by the participants to the questionnaire questions, statistically significant differences were found between the options in terms of their answers to all other questions, except for the answers given by the cat owners to the questions of whether they use nets for their cats on the windows and/or balconies of their houses and the frequency of changing the litter of their cats (p<0.01). …”
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‘Viral’ Hunts? A Cultural Darwinian Analysis of Witch Persecutions by Hofhuis Steije, Boudry Maarten

“…Critics claim that the theory is either fundamentally mistaken or boils down to a fancy re-description of things we knew all along. We will argue that cultural Darwinism can indeed resolve long-standing socio-cultural puzzles; this is demonstrated through a cultural Darwinian analysis of the European witch persecutions. …”
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Fast algorithms for classical specifications of stabiliser states and Clifford gates by Nadish de Silva, Wilfred Salmon, Ming Yin

“…Remarkably, it is not necessary to read all the elements of a Clifford gate matrix to extract its stabiliser tableau. …”
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HIGH VOLUME BRICK POWDER CONCRETE SYNERGISTIC WITH METAKAOLIN: PHYSICOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND DRYING SHRINKAGE by Mahmood Fawzi Ahmed

“…In the line of durability parameters, the void content and drying shrinkage up to 90 days of all mixtures were evaluated. The findings have demonstrated that the control mixture achieved high workability (slump =180 mm), structural compressive strength (34 MPa) at 28 days, low void content (<3%), and acceptable shrinkage strain. …”
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Patterns of Isoform Variation for N Gene Subgenomic mRNAs in Betacoronavirus Transcriptomes by James J. Kelley, Andrey Grigoriev

“…The main isoform starting at TIS-L is out of frame, but two secondary dominant isoforms (present in nearly all samples) were found to restore the reading frame and likely involved in the regulation of N protein production. …”
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The Status of Data Literacy among Razi University Students by Tasa Morvarid, saleh rahimi, Gholamreza Heidari

“…Purpose: This study evaluates the data literacy status of Razi University students.Methodology: The research, employing a survey-based approach, targeted all Razi University students for the 2022–2023 academic year (N = 11,080). …”
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Explanation of entrepreneurship small business challenges in rural area, The case of study: Bijar, Iran by Hossein Farahani, Mina Alvandi

“…The results of the research show that all challenges in the entrepreneurship of small businesses have been affected, but economic factors with factor load of 0.91 have the highest impact among existing challenges and the individual and social challenges with factor load are 0.23 and 0.28, respectively. …”
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