Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Has a Negative Impact on Quality of Life Compared with Other Comorbidities: An Epidemiological Cross-Sectional Study of 1862 Community-Dwelling Individuals by Koji Otani, Shinichi Kikuchi, Shoji Yabuki, Tamaki Igarashi, Takuya Nikaido, Kazuyuki Watanabe, Shinichi Konno

“…Furthermore, the presence of symptomatic LSS had a strong negative effect on all 8 physical and mental domains and the physical component summary (PCS) (OR: 1.547–2.544) but not the mental component summary (MCS). …”
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Measurement of Gallbladder Volume with Ultrasonography in Pregnant Women by Sait Kapicioglu, Sevgi Gürbüz, Ahmet Danalioglu, Ömer Sentürk, Mehmet Uslu

“…At the end of this period, all volunteers received a standard liquid test meal, and scans were performed again for 1 h. …”
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An automated adaptive trading system for enhanced performance of emerging market portfolios by Cristiana Tudor, Robert Sova

“…Emerging market (EM) investors have seen two major downturn events in the 2020s, namely the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine conflict, both of which have strongly affected EM portfolios’ risk-return profiles and increased their correlations with their developed market counterparts, eliminating much or all of EMs’ diversification benefits. This has led to major capital outflows from EM countries, further destabilizing these fragile economies. …”
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Preferential flow in soils is key to the development of nebkhas in water limited regions by Weicheng Luo, Wenzhi Zhao, Ning An, Chengpeng Sun, Hong Zhou

“…Higher soil organic matter content, total porosity, and thickness of the soil crust in LN all significantly contributed to the development of preferential flow in nebkhas especially under low precipitation conditions. …”
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Infected burn wound healing using Hydroxy-propyl-methyl cellulose gel containing bacteriophages against Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Klebsiella pneumoniae by Meysam Adibi, Kazem Javanmardi, Noor Al-Huda Ali A.H. Saeed, Mohammad Ali Mobasher, Javad Jokar, Abdolmajid Ghasemian, Niloofar Rahimian, Ava Soltani Hekmat

“…The effects of the Hydroxy-propyl-methyl cellulose (HPMC) gel containing phage were investigated compared to gentamicin. All of these actions were performed in separate groups for each bacteria and mixed group of bacteria (to test multi-bacterial infections treating) and the result were compared. …”
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Practical Minimum Sample Size for Road Crash Time-Series Prediction Models by Fady M. A. Hassouna, Khaled Al-Sahili

“…The results showed similar trends in the models’ prediction accuracy for all four countries when predicting road crashes for year 2016. …”
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Pectin fractions extracted sequentially from Cerasus humilis: their compositions, structures, functional properties and antioxidant activities by Shikai Zhang, Geoffrey I.N. Waterhouse, Tingting Cui, Dongxiao Sun-Waterhouse, Peng Wu

“…Three pectin fractions (water-soluble fraction (WSF), chelator-soluble fraction (CSF), and sodium carbonate-soluble fraction (NSF)) were obtained from Chinese dwarf cherry (Cerasus humilis) fruits. All of them were branched low methoxylated pectins with an amorphous or partially nanocrystalline nature and eight neutral monosaccharides (arabinose and galactose were most abundant). …”
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AI-Based Holistic Framework for Cyber Threat Intelligence Management by Arnolnt Spyros, Ilias Koritsas, Angelos Papoutsis, Panos Panagiotou, Despoina Chatzakou, Dimitrios Kavallieros, Theodora Tsikrika, Stefanos Vrochidis, Ioannis Kompatsiaris

“…However, in order to obtain optimal results, organisations should be able to utilise all capabilities of CTI. Therefore, in this work, we propose ThreatWise AI, a novel framework that enables the gathering, analysis, enrichment, storage, and sharing of CTI in an efficient and secure manner. …”
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Risk factors associated with pregnancy loss after single euploid blastocysts transfer by Xiaohui Dong, Juanzi Shi, Xiaohua Liu, Danmeng Liu, Wei Li, Xiaoli Zhao, Xia Xue

“…Logistic regression analysis revealed that higher LH levels(OR=1.304, 95%CI=1.054-1.613, P=0.015), low E2 levels (OR=0.438, 95%CI=0.242-0.794, P=0.007) on trigger day of fresh cycle, maternal smoking(OR=4.574, 95%CI=1.974-10.601, P<0.001), and day 6 blastocyst transfer(OR=4.610, 95%CI=1.907-11.141, P=0.001) appeared to be associated with increased risk of PL following the transfer of euploid embryos.ConclusionsMaternal smoking, day of blastocyst transferred, estradiol (E2) and Luteinizing hormone (LH) levels on trigger day of corresponding fresh cycle for transferred blastocysts are all associated with PL following transfer of euploid embryos.…”
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Design and Optimization of Power Harrow Soil Crushing Components for Coastal Saline–Alkali Land by Nan Xu, Zhenbo Xin, Jin Yuan, Zenghui Gao, Yu Tian, Chao Xia, Xuemei Liu, Dongwei Wang

“…The test results show that the soil crushing rates are all above 85%, with an average soil crushing rate of 88.66%. …”
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Confounding Risk Factors in Developing Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus among Children and Adolescents at Sulaimani Chronic Diabetes Health Center by Pary Mohammad Azize, Chia H. Sadiq

“…The finding show that, 39.4 %  of samples were aged between (9-13) years old, which stated as the highest rate among all age groups, while the minority of age was between (1-4) years old, which was equal to 8.2% of the total and the (Mean ±S.D) was equal to 10.44±4.04 respectively. …”
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Profile of maladaptive and normative eating behaviors in correlation with rumination: a cross-sectional study among Lebanese adults by Emmanuelle Awad, Diana Malaeb, Mirna Fawaz, Lara Youssef, Anna Brytek-Matera, Souheil Hallit, Sahar Obeid

“…The research team used a snowball sampling method to recruit volunteers from all governorates of Lebanon. Results Beta values were used to compare independent variables in order to infer those that have the strongest effect on the dependent ones. …”
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Anti-DENV-ED3 antibody cross-talks generate immune interference among the four DENVs by Md. Din Islam, Sanjida Yesmin, Tahmina Sharmin, Md. Ayoub Khan, Yutaka Kuroda, M. Monirul Islam

“…Such intrinsic features of DENV1~4 ED3s may lead to ‘antigen interference’, limiting both the understanding of dengue etiology and the success of dengue vaccine development, which needs to neutralize all four DENV serotypes equivalently.…”
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How does a social norms-based intervention affect behaviour change? Interim findings from a cluster randomised controlled trial in Odisha, India by Hagere Yilma, Erica Sedlander, Satyanarayan Mohanty, Ichhya Pant, Jeffrey Bingenheimer, Lipika Patro, Rohini Ganjoo, Rajiv Rimal

“…These components, separately and together, accounted for most of the overall effect of treatment assignment on IFA use.Conclusions All intervention components increased iron supplement use to differing degrees of magnitude. …”
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Characterization of Urine-Derived Stromal/Stem Cells from Healthy Dogs and Dogs Affected by Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) by Anna Lange-Consiglio, Filippo Tagliasacchi, Fausto Cremonesi, Claudia Gusmara, Claudia Pollera, Paola Scarpa, Giulia Gaspari, Pietro Riccaboni

“…Isolated cells were cultured in the presence of platelet-rich plasma and studied for their proliferative capacity (growth curve, doubling time, and colony forming unit), differentiation properties, expression of mesenchymal markers, and Klotho protein. Morphologically, all cells were elongated and fibroblast-like. USCs isolated from samples collected by spontaneous micturition and bladder catheterization failed to proliferate, whilst USCs obtained by cystocentesis showed a doubling time of 2.04 days in healthy dogs and 1.7 days in dogs with CKD (<i>p</i> < 0.05). …”
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Causality Analysis of Air Quality and Meteorological Parameters for PM2.5 Characteristics Determination: Evidence from Jakarta by Tri Istiana, Budhy Kurniawan, Santoso Soekirno, Alberth Nahas, Alvin Wihono, Danang Eko Nuryanto, Suko Prayitno Adi, Muhammad Lukman Hakim

“…We found that the PM2.5 concentration is affected by PM10, SO2, and NO2 pollutant and is negatively correlated with precipitation, relative humidity, and the wind speed in all variations of the season. Causality analysis using CCM showed that PM2.5 coupling patterns differ for every season. …”
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Toxicological Assessment of Pseudospondias microcarpa (A. Rich.) Engl. Hydroethanolic Leaf Extract in Rats: Haematological, Biochemical, and Histopathological Studies by Donatus Wewura Adongo, Priscilla Kolibea Mante, Kennedy Kwami Edem Kukuia, Charles Kwaku Benneh, Robert Peter Biney, Eric Boakye-Gyasi, Nicholas Akinwale Titiloye, Eric Woode

“…Except for lymphocytes (%) that showed a significant decrease (F5,23=3.93, P=0.013), all other haematological parameters remained unaffected by the extract. …”
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Proximate and distant determinants of maternal and neonatal mortality in the postnatal period: A scoping review of data from low- and middle-income countries. by Preston Izulla, Angela Muriuki, Michael Kiragu, Melanie Yahner, Virginia Fonner, Syeda Nabin Ara Nitu, Bernard Osir, Farahat Bello, Joseph de Graft-Johnson

“…Given risks inherent in pregnancy and childbirth, adverse outcomes can occur among dyads without obvious risk factors; providing timely PNC to all is critical. Efforts to reduce the prevalence of risk factors could improve maternal and newborn outcomes. …”
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Law Studies by G. P. Tolstopiatenko

“…First generations of MGIMO students studied international law according to this textbook. All subsequent books on international law, published in the USSR, were based on the approach to the teaching of international law, developed in the textbook by S.B. …”
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Effect of Denosumab on Bone Mineral Density of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Recipients by Chaiho Jeong, Hee-Je Kim, Seok Lee, Moo Il Kang, Jeonghoon Ha

“…Significant increases in bone mineral density were observed in all measured skeletal sites including 4.39 ± 6.63% in the lumbar spine (p=0.014), 3.11 ± 7.69% in the femoral neck (p=0.048), and 1.97 ± 6.01% in the total hip (p=0.138). …”
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