Factors Associated with the Severity of Stress Urinary Incontinence in Elderly Women by Suting Li, Zhi Wang, Lian Yang, Shaoying Liu, Lili Jing, Li Hong

“…Factors such as pelvic floor muscle strength, vaginal wall prolapse, uterine prolapse, and the morphology of the largest urethral opening all significantly impacted the severity of SUI symptoms in this population (p < 0.05). …”
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Trans Fatty Acids in the Hong Kong Food Supply by Stephen W. C. Chung, S. K. Tong, Violette F. P. Lin, Melva Y. Y. Chen, Janny K. M. Ma, Y. Xiao, Y. Y. Ho

“…This study aimed to examine trans fatty acids (TFA) content of 142 individual food items, including bakery, fast food, and other fatty food that may contain high level of TFA. TFA was detected in all samples, except for four samples including one plain bread, one sponge cake, and two batter-made foods (egg roll and eggette) samples. …”
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Synergistic effect of magnetic magnetite and greigite nanoparticles dispersed pinewood biochar for aqueous lead(II) and cadmium(II) adsorption by Prashan M. Rodrigo, Raghava R. Kommalapati

“…Heavy metals such as lead and cadmium cause adverse effects on all living organisms. Their remediation is complex in the aqueous phase. …”
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Concentrated growth factors promote epithelization in the mastoid obliteration after canal wall down mastoidectomy by Mengyi Liu, Lue Zhang, Quanming Zhang, Nan Zeng, Shuo Li, Shuyue Guo, Yaqin Zhao, Mingxing Tang, Qiong Yang

“…A review of the medical follow-up records of all patients was conducted, with a primary focus on the otoendoscopic imaging materials. …”
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Global cervical cancer elimination: quantifying the status, progress, and gaps by Liangru Zhou, Yi Li, Hongyun Wang, Ruixi Qin, Zhen Han, Ruifeng Li

“…The 10 countries with the highest annual opioid consumption (excluding methadone) for CC, in oral morphine equivalence per capita (2017), were all HICs. Conclusions Major inequalities persist in CC vaccination and screening across 194 countries, and access to these services is limited in most LMICs. …”
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Development of a Quinoa-Based Fermentation Medium for Propagation of Lactobacillus Plantarum and Weissella Confusa in Opaque Beer Production by Shepherd Manhokwe, Tatenda Musarurwa, Talknice Z. Jombo, Desmond T. Mugadza, Amiel Mugari, Joseph Bare, Scelo Mguni, Fidelis Chigondo, Jane Tafadzwa Muchekeza

“…The cocultured (M5p + w) synthetic media and cocultured MRS (MRSp + w) also exhibited change in pH from 4.3 to 3.2 and 4.3 to 3.3, respectively, after 72 h. Brix value in all media samples decreased after 24 h except for the uninoculated MRS sample (MRS C). …”
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A longitudinal blended learning curriculum for bedside ultrasound education in pulmonary and critical care fellowship by Harry Kuperstein, Kunal Gada, Werda Alam, Sahar Ahmad

“…Performance on these same evaluation measures was compared between learners who completed a traditionally designed curriculum, which contained a formal in-person didactic course, and learners who completed a blended learning curriculum covering the same learning objectives. Results All learners showed a significant improvement immediately after the course in both knowledge (p = 0.007) and skills (p = 0.004) with adequate retention of both knowledge and skills after 6 months. …”
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MORPHOFUNCTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF LEAVES AND FRUITS IN MALOIDEAE (ROSACEAE): b. THE ROLE OF SURFACE TISSUES IN THE FORMATION OF RESISTANCE TO FUNGAL DISEASES by T. Kh. Kumachova, O. O. Beloshapkina, A. S. Voronkov, A. S. Ryabchenko

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TO THE BASICS OF MODERN POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: FREEDOM AND JUSTICE IN THE SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORY OF T. HOBBES by L. A. Sytnichenko, D. V. Usov

“…As well as, in the unfolding of the fundamentally important both for the newest social-philosophical and philosophical-anthropological discourses of the thesis that each individual is the origin of both personal and institutional freedom and justice, making the contract first of all with himself, with his desires and sorrows and then with other people and the state. …”
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‘Subtle Instrument of Music’: Translating the Sound and Appearance of Decadence in Wilde’s Salomé by Erin Dunbar

“…In Victorian England the French language, after all, was as unacceptably decadent as the play. In fact, the aesthetic passion in the French language lends itself to the extremism of the play; Salomé would not be Salomé without it. …”
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Digital Tools, Technologies, and Learning Methodologies for Education 4.0 Frameworks: A STEM Oriented Survey by Angeliki Boltsi, Konstantinos Kalovrektis, Apostolos Xenakis, Periklis Chatzimisios, Costas Chaikalis

“…In this work, we carry out an extensive STEM oriented survey which highlights and categorizes all contemporary digital tools and technologies needed to support future graduates. …”
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Effects of a 12-Week Skipping Exercise Program on Leg Endurance in Competitive Badminton Players: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Ririn Irena, Ardila Melati, Vlad Adrian Geanta, ⁠Ayu Mayzura Simbolon, Retha Foret

“…The intervention cohort exhibited significant enhancements across all metrics relative to the control group (p < 0.001). …”
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Experiences at recovery community centers predict holistic recovery outcomes: a daily diary assessment of RCC helpfulness, meaningfulness, and recovery identity by Hannah B. Apsley, Joseph Lancaster, Wen Ren, Timothy Brick, H. H. Cleveland

“…Ultimately, participants visited their RCC on 247/799 (30.9%) of all reported study days. Multilevel models were used to assess the hypotheses.ResultsParticipants generally reported that their RCC visits were very helpful (M = 87.13 [scale of 0–100], SD = 13.26). …”
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Integrated analysis of the transcriptome and hormone metabolome elucidates the regulatory mechanisms governing walnut bud germination by Kai Zhao, Xiaofan Wu, Bo Liang, Shuang Gao, Jieyan Yang, Yan Bai, Yaru Wang, Xin Tian, Fang Wang, Xiuqing Yang

“…Our results emphasized four key biological processes—cellular response to ethylene stimulus, phenylpropanoid metabolic process, ethylene-activated signaling pathway, and monooxygenase activity—along with several relevant pathways, including plant hormone signal transduction, flavone and flavonol biosynthesis, biosynthesis of secondary metabolites, and MAPK signaling pathway, all crucial for walnut bud germination. Additionally, bud germination is closely associated with alterations in various hormone signaling pathways, including abscisic acid, auxin, cytokinin, ethylene, gibberellins, jasmonic acid, and salicylic acid. …”
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Health extension workers job satisfaction and associated factors in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Amlaku Nigusie Yirsaw, Gebeyehu Lakew, Eyob Getachew, Mulugeta Desalegn Kasaye, Ermias Bekele Enyew, Demis Getachew, Abiyu Abadi Tareke

“…The overall effect across all studies was calculated using a random-effect model. …”
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A Pilot Study Assessing Left Ventricle Diastolic Function in the Parasternal Long-axis View by Mümin Murat Yazici, Nurullah Parça, Enes Hamdioğlu, Meryem Kaçan, Özcan Yavas¸i, Özlem Bilir

“…Methods: We performed this prospective, observational, single-center study was performed in the ED of a tertiary training and research hospital. All patients who presented to the emergency critical care unit with symptoms of heart failure were evaluated by the cardiology department, had grade 1 diastolic dysfunction confirmed by the cardiology department, and did not meet any of the study’s exclusion criteria. …”
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A Novel Model Using ML Techniques for Clinical Trial Design and Expedited Patient Onboarding Process by Iyer A, Narayanaswami S

“…Model performance was evaluated using precision, recall, balanced accuracy, ROC-AUC, and weighted F1-score, with results averaged across k-fold cross-validation.Results: In the first phase, XGBoost and Random Forest emerged as the best-performing models across all five subsets, achieving an average balanced accuracy of 0.71 and an average ROC-AUC of 0.7. …”
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Community perceptions of community health worker effectiveness: Contributions to health behaviour change in an urban health district in South Africa by L S Thomas, Y Pillay, E Buch

“…Frequencies and descriptive analyses were used to report on the main study outcomes of community acceptance and satisfaction. Results. Nearly all the study households were poor and had at least one vulnerable member, either a child under 5, an elderly person, a pregnant woman or someone with a chronic condition. …”
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Economic and Clinical Impact of Stroke and Warfarin Use for Patients with Non-valvular Atrial Fibrillation by Li Wang, Elyse Fritschel, Onur Baser

“…Patients were grouped according to stroke or warfarin prescription status. For all groups, demographic, clinical, and pharmaceutical characteristics were analyzed descriptively. …”
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EXPERIENCE OF PROJECT-BASED LEARNING: AN ATTEMPT AT OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS OF RESULTS AND PROBLEMS by D. A. Trishchenko

“…In other cases, it will require a substantial restructuring of the educational process, careful prediction of its final results, change of approaches to teaching all disciplines, and accordance of the educational curricula to design technologies. …”
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