Food habit, physical activity and nutritional status of adolescents in selected schools of Madhyapur Thimi municipality, Nepal: A cross-sectional study. by Samiksha Baral, Anil Kumar Singh, Arjun Aryal, Jwala Subedi, Utsav Dhakal, Anita Khanal

“…Factors showing a statistical association with being overweight included the mother's occupation, fruit avoidance, exposure to mass media advertisements, junk food consumption. Almost all the participants (93%) consumed junk food with (57.5%) consuming daily or alternately. …”
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Emulsion electrospinning of lemongrass essential Oil-Loaded Ferula haussknechtii gum/ Polyethylene oxide as bioactive coating by Saeedeh Jafari, Abdollah Hematian Sourki, Safoora Pashangeh

“…SEM analysis confirmed the formation of uniform, bead-free electrospun fibers across all LGEO concentrations. FTIR analysis validated the successful incorporation of emulsified LGEO into the electrospun fibers. …”
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Carboxylated Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes as Dispersive Solid-Phase Extraction Sorbent to Determine Eighteen Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Vegetable Samples by Gas Chromatography-Ma... by Tengfei Liu, Daifeng Yang, Jian Mao, Xueming Zhang, Minghui Dong

“…Satisfactory linear relationship was observed for all PCBs across a concentration range of 5–500 μg/kg with correlation coefficients no less than 0.9993. …”
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Systematic review of educational interventions to improve the menstrual health of young adolescent girls by Frances Griffiths, Bronwyn Harris, Chinwe Onuegbu, Rebecca Lane Evans

“…The number of participants varied from 1 to 2564. All studies reported improvements in menstrual KAP. …”
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Musikalisches Zitat als kulturelle Assoziation. Die ästhetische Bedeutung des musikalischen Zitats in der koreanischen Musik des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts by Hee Sook Oh

“…However, several differences were found as well. First of all, there are only a few works with the quotation technique employed by Korean composers, probably due to the prevailing influence of the modernist aesthetics yet in Korea. …”
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QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF A USER INTERFACE BASED ON THE MENTAL TIME OF PERFORMING THE USER TASKS OF THE SUBJECT AREA by V. K. Grigoriev, A. S. Ilyushechkin, M. A. Ovchinnikov

“…The overall development of information systems and their increasingly significant impact on all areas of the society expressed in such terms as "information society", etc., determines the increasing importance of user interfaces. …”
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Determinants of inappropriate antibiotic prescription in primary care in developed countries with general practitioners as gatekeepers: a systematic review and construction of a fr... by Mattijs E Numans, Frederike L Büchner, Martijn Sijbom, Nicholas H Saadah, Mark G J de Boer

“…Objectives This study aimed to identify determinants of inappropriate antibiotic prescription in primary care in developed countries and to construct a framework with the determinants to help understand which actions can best be targeted to counteract development of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).Design A systematic review of peer-reviewed studies reporting determinants of inappropriate antibiotic prescription published through 9 September 2021 in PubMed, Embase, Web of Science and the Cochrane Library was performed.Setting All studies focusing on primary care in developed countries where general practitioners (GPs) act as gatekeepers for referral to medical specialists and hospital care were included.Results Seventeen studies fulfilled the inclusion criteria and were used for the analysis which identified 45 determinants of inappropriate antibiotic prescription. …”
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Identification of Spectrally Similar Materials From Multispectral Imagery Based on Condition Number of Matrix by Maozhi Wang, Shu-Hua Chen, Jun Feng, Wenxi Xu, Daming Wang

“…Technically, this new method achieves the purpose by adding supplementary features to all the original spectra including similar materials, which can be further used as indicative signatures to identify these materials. …”
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Machine Learning Based Method for Insurance Fraud Detection on Class Imbalance Datasets With Missing Values by Ahmed A. Khalil, Zaiming Liu, Ahmed Fathalla, Ahmed Ali, Ahmad Salah

“…Moreover, the proposed methods outperform all of the existing methods on the accuracy metric.…”
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In vitro characterization the antioxidant and antibacterial properties of hemp (Cannabis sativa spp.) varieties cultivated in Northern Alabama by Aaron Dudley, Lamin S. Kassama, Armitra Jackson-Davis, Ernst Cebert, Xianyan Kuang

“…The results of the antibacterial studies showed that ethanolic hemp extracts exhibited significantly higher growth inhibition against all foodborne pathogens > 70% (p ≤ 0.05). The results show that the ethanolic extracts has significant extraction yield and bioactivity, highlighting ethanolic extract utilization in future antimicrobial nanofiber application.…”
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Analysis of anthropogenic transformation of the hydrographic network in the northern part of Lviv according to cartographic sources by Ye. Іvanov, O. Pylypovych

“…After the World War II, the operation of all water mills was stopped. The conducted analysis of the degree of transformation of the hydrographic network is aimed at correcting the development plan of the northern part of the city and implementing the environmental management system…”
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Drug consumption and treatment costs of the glaucoma therapy in the Republic of Serbia by Ćoškov Aleksandra D., Savanović Dijana R., Todorović Nemanja B., Lalić-Popović Mladena N., Tomić Nataša Z., Milijašević Boris Ž.

“…Between 2015 and 2020, prices for all medications generally decreased and the most affordable choice was timolol.…”
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A Critical Review of Proteomic Studies in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus by Tao Zhou, Lu Huang, Min Wang, Daozhen Chen, Zhong Chen, Shi-Wen Jiang

“…Functional analysis of all the combined significant proteins also showed that a small number of proteins are known to be involved in the regulation of insulin or indirect signaling pathways. …”
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Preoperative Retinal Detachment Variables Causing Macular Detachment by Nishimura S, Okuda T, Higashide T, Sugiyama K

“…The purpose of this study is to evaluate the association between the preoperative characteristics and macular status of the eyes with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD).Methods: This is a retrospective cohort study. All patients with RRDs who underwent initial pars plana vitrectomy or scleral buckling were included. …”
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The Potential for Observing African Weather with GNSS Remote Sensing by Olalekan A. Isioye, Ludwig Combrinck, Joel O. Botai, Cilence Munghemezulu

“…When compared to the wide range of atmospheric sensing techniques, global navigation satellite system (GNSS) offers the advantage of operating under all weather conditions, is continuous, with high temporal and spatial resolution and high accuracy, and has long-term stability. …”
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The effect of knowledge, attitude, and practice model-based health education on psychological well-being and self-efficacy of patients with concurrent cerebrovascular stenosis and... by Qiyu Zhou, Yuli Qian, Dan Zhang, Huan Xu, Bei Yuan, Wenfeng Tian, Qiong Li

“…The intervention group achieved higher knowledge, attitude, and practice scores at all three time points compared to the control group (p < 0.05).ConclusionThe results suggest that the application of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice Model in patients with cerebrovascular stenosis and coronary heart disease can effectively enhance psychological well-being, improve self-efficacy, and enhance understanding of the disease.…”
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Mendelian Susceptibility to Mycobacterial Diseases (MSMD) in a 13-Year-Old Ethiopian Girl with Autosomal Dominant Interferon Gamma Receptor 1(IFN-γ R1) Defect: A Clinical Diagnosti... by Netsanet Azene Gebeyehu, Solomie Jebessa Deribessa, Freeman Alexandra, Messay Tesfaye Demissie, W Mihretu Gebre, Aklilu Melaku Gebremariam, Dagmawit Mitiku Engliz, Tizita Yosef Kidane, Lidya Million Bekele, Abate Yeshidinber Weldetsadik

“…She had tuberculosis affecting lymph nodes, skin and soft tissue, bone and joints, the lungs, and epidural and paraspinal regions. She has taken all the childhood vaccines, including BCG. She has been treated four times with first-line and once with second-line antituberculosis drugs. …”
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Herbal Mouthwash Containing Extracts of Baccharis dracunculifolia as Agent for the Control of Biofilm: Clinical Evaluation in Humans by Vinícius Pedrazzi, Mateus Freire Leite, Reisla Cristina Tavares, Sandra Sato, Glauce Crivelaro do Nascimento, João Paulo Mardegan Issa

“…After one week (t=2), there was no difference between the four products evaluated (P=0.674), so, all research individuals completed the study with a similar reduction in dental biofilm between themselves but it was different from initial state (Friedman test). …”
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Source apportionment, ecological and health risks of potentially toxic elements in street dusts across different land uses in city of Kermanshah, Iran by Ali Asgari, Soheil Sobhanardakani, Mehrdad Cheraghi, Bahareh Lorestani, Maryam Kiani Sadr

“…The mean hazard index (HI) values for the analyzed potentially toxic elements (PTEs) for both adults and children were all within the safe limit (< 1). Furthermore, the total carcinogenic risk (TCR) values showed that the carcinogenic risks associated with As, Cd, Cr, and Ni for both target populations were at tolerable to unacceptable levels. …”
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A Five-Year Data Report of Long-Term Central Venous Catheters Focusing on Early Complications by Harald Lenz, Kirsti Myre, Tomas Draegni, Elizabeth Dorph

“…This study is based on a quality registry including all long-term central venous catheter insertion procedures performed in patients >18 years at our department during a five-year period. …”
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