Self-management of non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review. by Jason Hearn, Isaac Ssinabulya, Jeremy I Schwartz, Ann R Akiteng, Heather J Ross, Joseph A Cafazzo

“…Future strategies should include patients and clinicians in all stages of design and development, allowing for a focus on long-term sustainability, scalability and interoperability of the intervention in the target setting.…”
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The Antinociceptive Effect of Light-Emitting Diode Irradiation on Incised Wounds Is Correlated with Changes in Cyclooxygenase 2 Activity, Prostaglandin E2, and Proinflammatory Cyto... by Yuan-Yi Chia, Chien-Cheng Liu, Guan-Ming Feng, Chia-Chih Alex Tseng, Kuo-Chuan Hung, Chih-Chieh Chen, Ping-Heng Tan

“…LED therapy attenuated the decrease in thermal withdrawal latency in all the irradiated groups and the decrease in the mechanical withdrawal threshold in the L-I group only. …”
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Gated communities in mar del plata: territorial ordination and social construction of space by Alejandro Maya

“…Indeed, it is a phenomenon that has not gone unnoticed and where urban developers offer all kinds of comforts. The infrastructure available to private developments, the morphology they present and the social representations they generate transformed the local territory. …”
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Effect of Foliar Spraying with Boron and Ascorbic Acid on Growth and Yield Traits of Chili Pepper Grown in Plastic House by Adnan Ghazi Salman Al-nussirawi, Wasam Habeib Altamimi, Jamal Nathir Naji

“…The study found that the main stem diameter, plant height, branches number, leaves number, fruits number, fruit weight, and plant yield were all best increased by an interaction treatment consisting of spraying boron at 100 mg L-1 and ascorbic acid at 200 mg L-1. compared with the control group, the values reached 22.47, 74.38 cm, 5,000 branches, 170.76 leaves, 90.46 fruits, 26.38 g, and 2430.4 g plant-1 respectively..…”
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Continuous Electrical Current and Zinc Sulphate Administered by Transdermal Iontophoresis Improves Skin Healing in Diabetic Rats Induced by Alloxan: Morphological and Ultrastructur... by Lucas Langoni Cassettari, Pedro Colli Rocha Dias, Amanda Natália Lucchesi, Maurício Ferraz de Arruda, Érika Veruska Paiva Ortolan, Mariângela Esther A. Marques, César Tadeu Spadella

“…The analysis by optical and scanning electron microscopy showed a delay in the phases of wound healing in diabetic rats without treatment in all periods of the experiment; breaking strength (BS) was significantly reduced in skin scars of untreated diabetic rats when compared to other groups. …”
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The Influence of Mode-of-Injury on Psychological Readiness for Return-To-Sport Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: A Matched-Controlled Study by Jenifer Presley, Lane Bailey, Kevin Maloney, Brian Duncan, Mathew Reid, Christopher Juneau, Walter R Lowe

“…Subject matching was performed for baseline patient and surgical demographics. All statistical comparisons were performed using a one-way (group) analysis variance (ANOVA) at a significance level of α = .05…”
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Efficacy Comparison of Various Repair Techniques for Flexor Tendon Injuries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Anak Agung Gde Duta Maha Putra, Made Bramantya Karna, Anak Agung Gde Yuda Asmara, Putu Feryawan Meregawa

“…Background: Flexor tendon injuries are potentially disabling, as flexor tendons are essential to hand function, playing a vital role in all types of grip, including power and fine pinch grips. …”
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Synthesis and Characterization of Gallium Oxide/Tin Oxide Nanostructures via Horizontal Vapor Phase Growth Technique for Potential Power Electronics Application by Lester D. Bernardino, Gil Nonato C. Santos

“…However, the ε-polytype was verified to appear as a result of adding SnO2. All the samples were considered as n-type semiconductors. …”
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Projecting the Potential Budget Impact Analysis of Paliperidone Palmitate in Egyptian Adult Patients with Schizophrenia by Gihan Elsisi, Mohamed Ezzat, Mohamed Ramadan

“…The unit cost of drug acquisition for all medications was extracted from the public sector. …”
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Perioperative airway management techniques and complications in patients with temporomandibular joint ankylosis: Experience from a tertiary care teaching institute by Anjan Trikha, Ajoy Roychoudhury, Devalina Goswami, Souvik Maitra, Ongkila Bhutia, Dalim Kumar Baidya

“…Results: Three hundred seventy-two children including 85 patients of OSA were available for analysis. All patients with OSA had retrognathia. Fiber-optic bronchoscopy (FOB) guided intubation was performed in 362 (97.3%) patients. …”
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Impact of minimum bid requirement of Japan's electricity market on virtual power plant's profit by Reza Nadimi, Masahito Takahashi, Koji Tokimatsu, Mika Goto

“…This research involves the simulation of all five plans across 11 small-scale VPP systems, with capacities ranging from 0.05 MW to 1 MW. …”
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Racial/ethnic differences in the associations between social support and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) by Jeanean B. Naqvi, Taynara Formagini, Matthew A. Allison, Namratha R. Kandula, Jee Won Park, Britta A. Larsen

“…Conclusion Despite racial/ethnic differences in perceptions of support, perceived informational support was protective against CVD for participants of all racial/ethnic backgrounds.…”
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Machine Learning-Based Prediction of 2 MW Wind Turbine Tower Loads During Power Production Based on Nacelle Behavior by Soichiro Kiyoki, Shigeo Yoshida, Mostafa A. Rushdi

“…Strain measurement methods are generally used to monitor the load on a structure and are highly accurate, but their widespread implementation across all wind turbines is impractical due to cost and labor constraints. …”
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Investigating the effects of sintering additives and heating regimes on the performances of glass–ceramic proppants derived from industrial wastes by Jincai Zhang, Yueting Fan, Xubo Zhai, Vishnu Vijay Kumar

“…Furthermore, the sintering mechanism was elucidated and all possible chemical reaction were explored at the high temperature sintering process. …”
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Aniline dissociation reaction-time developed surface composites on severe plastic deformed aluminum through surface mechanical alloying by Mohamed Refaat Ebrahim, Emad Al Ashkar

“…Considering the maximum 10 min-SMA time processed Al surface contains all previously formed phases, where each formed phase after 2.5, 5 and 7.5min-SMA should have participated in forming the following phases in next SMA time range. …”
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Coloring hot-dip galvanization of steel samples in industrial zinc-manganese baths by Godzsák M., Lévai G., Vad K., Csik A., Hakl J., Kulcsár T., Kaptay G.

“…Zinc was alloyed in three steps to reach 0.1, 0.15 and 0.2 w% of Mn in liquid zinc, and galvanization of 9 different steel samples was performed in all three baths. The obtained colors change in the sequence blue - yellow - pink - green with increasing the Mn-content of the bath and with increasing the wall thickness of the steel samples. …”
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Determining Dust Sources of Middle East and Assessing Their Impact on Agricultural Lands in Euphrates-Tigris River Basin (Syria-Iraq) by Ayhan Ateşoğlu, Metin Tunay, Talha Berk Arıkan, Saffet Yıldız

“…At the same time, it also allows users to utilize all the datasets generated from mid-resolution images of Modis, Landsat 5, 7 and 8. …”
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Systematic review of interventions for improving the performance of community health workers in low-income and middle-income countries by Paul Montgomery, Madeleine Ballard

“…The review found one study showing no effect on the biological outcomes of interest, though these moderate quality data may not be indicative of all biological outcomes. It also found moderate quality evidence of the efficacy of performance improvement interventions for (1) improving behavioural outcomes for patients, (2) improving use of services by increasing the absolute number of patients who access services and, perhaps, better identifying those who would benefit from such services and (3) improving CHW quality of care in terms of upstream measures like completion of prescribed activities and downstream measures like adherence to treatment protocols. …”
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A comprehensive analysis to reveal the underlying molecular mechanisms of natural killer cell in thyroid carcinoma based on single-cell RNA sequencing data by Xiaoqiong Li, Kejiang Wang, Jiaxin Liu, Yan Li

“…The aim of this study was to explore the possible molecular mechanisms involved in NK cell in THCA to help the management and treatment of the disease. Methods All data were downloaded from public databases. …”
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Study on the Static Performance of Prefabricated UHPC-Steel Epoxy Bonding Interface by Yang Zou, Jinlong Jiang, Zhixiang Zhou, Xifeng Wang, Jincen Guo

“…The stress-displacement curves of the interface normal and tangential direction are all in the shape of a two-fold line. The ultimate displacement was within 0.1 mm, showing the characteristics of brittle failure. …”
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