Clinical Holistic Medicine: Holistic Pelvic Examination and Holistic Treatment of Infertility by Søren Ventegodt, Mohammed Morad, Joav Merrick

“…There is, therefore, a need for a procedure that is familiar to and safe for the patient, for all work that involves therapeutic touching of sexual organs over and beyond what is standard medical practice. …”
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Assessment of sleep problems in patients with Kawasaki disease: a survey-based study by Samar Tharwat, Mohammed Kamal Nassar

“…To identify the presence of sleep disturbances, all participants completed Children’s Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ). …”
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RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE IN CONTEMPORARY INDONESIA: The Contributions of Al Washliyah Madrasahs and Scholars to the Development of Hadith Studies by Ja'far Ja'far, Umar Muhammad Noor

“…The findings indicate that hadith has been introduced and taught across all Al Washliyah educational institutions from the Dutch colonial period to the present. …”
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Real-World Effectiveness and Safety of Isavuconazole Versus Amphotericin B for Patients with Invasive Mucormycosis by Jiayuan Qin, Hongxia Bi, Guangmin Tang, Xinyao Liu, Junyan Qu, Xiaoju Lv, Yanbin Liu

“…However, there were no significant differences in all-cause mortality or mucormycosis-attributable mortality rates between the two groups. …”
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Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth in Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Clinical Characteristics, Psychological Factors, and Peripheral Cytokines by Hua Chu, Mark Fox, Xia Zheng, Yanyong Deng, Yanqin Long, Zhihui Huang, Lijun Du, Fei Xu, Ning Dai

“…In total, 94 patients with IBS and 13 healthy volunteers underwent a 10 g lactulose hydrogen breath test (HBT) with concurrent Tc99m scintigraphy. All participants also completed a face-to-face questionnaire survey, including the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, Life Event Stress (LES), and general information. …”
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Pengujian Usability Google Classroom Berdasarkan Model Use-Questionnaire by Suci Ramadhani Arifin, Etha Gustin Merdekawati

“…Based on the results of usability measurements on Google Classroom, the average value for all variables of Usefulness, Ease of Use, Ease of Learning, and Satisfaction is 459.1 or 76 %. …”
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Application of Cyclodextrins Stabilized Pickering Emulsion in Gluten-free Rice Bread by Xuehong LI, Jingjing GONG, Minjie LI, Dijia XIN, Lu ZHANG, Yong LU

“…Results showed that the three kinds of CDs-stabilized corn oil Pickering emulsions all had good stability. When they were used in rice bread, it was found that compared with the blank group, both CDs and CDs-stabilized emulsions could increase the specific volume of bread, improve the internal structure and texture characteristics, promote the water holding capacity and delay the aging of rice bread, but the application effects of CDs-stabilized emulsion were more obvious. …”
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Automated Indirect Immunofluorescence Evaluation of Antinuclear Autoantibodies on HEp-2 Cells by Jörn Voigt, Christopher Krause, Edda Rohwäder, Sandra Saschenbrecker, Melanie Hahn, Maick Danckwardt, Christian Feirer, Konstantin Ens, Kai Fechner, Erhardt Barth, Thomas Martinetz, Winfried Stöcker

“…The system missed out none of the 272 antibody-positive samples and identified 77 out of 79 visually negative samples (analytical sensitivity/specificity: 100%/97.5%). Moreover, 94.0% of all main antibody patterns were recognized correctly by the software. …”
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Adaptation and uptake evaluation of an SMS text message smoking cessation programme (MiQuit) for use in antenatal care by Felix Naughton, Stephen Sutton, Tim Coleman, Sue Cooper, Jo Leonardi-Bee, Katharine Bowker, Katarzyna Campbell, Melanie Sloan

“…Of those activating MiQuit, and invited to complete tailoring questions (used to tailor support), 6 (67%) completed all 12 questions by text or website and 5 (56%) texted a quit date to the system. …”
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Evaluation of the structures of the optic nerve and chiasm in patients with skull base tumors using high-resolution MRI by Ekaterina S. Egorova, Valeriia V. Musulevska, Mykola O. Guk, Oksana Y. Skobska

“…MRI of the brain was conducted on all patients using high-field scanners (1.5 and 3.0 Tesla), and measurements of the optic nerve (ON) diameter in the intraorbital and intracranial parts, as well as the height and width of the chiasm. …”
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A Hybrid Efficient U-Net Framework for Detection of Anterior Belly of the Digastric Muscle on Ultrasonography by Sule Erdem, Suheda Erdem, Muammer Turkoglu, Abdulkadir Sengur, Nebras M. Sobahi

“…The visual results showed that the segmentation masks of the MultiResUNet-Fusion models provided predictions close to the real labels, and all models generally localized the region of interest accurately. …”
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Monitoring Salivary Levels of Interleukin 1 Beta (IL-1β) and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) for Two Years of Orthodontic Treatment: A Prospective Pilot Study by Hülya Çevik-Aras, Fadimana Isik-Altun, Hatice Kilic-Tok, Julia Naoumova

“…A total of 134 stimulated and 134 unstimulated saliva samples were collected during two years of treatment: before tooth extractions (baseline) and then every 6-8 weeks at follow-up appointments. All saliva samples were analysed by the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. …”
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Effects of long-term fertilizer practices on rhizosphere soil ammonia oxidizer community structure under the double-cropping rice field by Haiming Tang, Li Wen, Lihong Shi, Kaikai Cheng, Geng Sun, Mei Sun, Weiyan Li

“…Rhizosphere soil AOB and AOA community composition was dominated by Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria and Acidobacteria with all fertilizer treatments. There had significantly positively correlation between the abundance of AOA and SOC, total N, and NH4-N contents. …”
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Inception and Evolution of Nitrogen Sorption Hysteresis Loops by Thermally-Induced Nanopore Drilling in TiO Xerogel Microspheres: UV Photoreduction of Methyl Orange by Celso Velásquez, M. Luisa Ojeda, Antonio Campero, J. Javier Sánchez-Mondragón, J. Marcos Esparza, Fernando Rojas

“…Electron release took place from the external area of the microglobules rather than from the surface of the internal pores of the microspheres; as a consequence, significant photocatalytic activity was displayed by all the samples. Two concomitant effects influenced the properties of a given TiO 2 sample: (i) an increase in the annealing temperature led to a higher crystallinity; and (ii) the surface area and porosity decreased with temperature due to increased sintering.…”
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One-year mortality and re-admission rate by disease etiology in National Heart Failure Registry of India by Sivadasanpillai Harikrishnan, Ajay Bahl, Ambuj Roy, Animesh Mishra, Jayesh Prajapati, CN Manjunath, Rishi Sethi, Santanu Guha, Santhosh Satheesh, RS Dhaliwal, Meenakshi Sharma, Sanjay Ganapathy, Panniyammakal Jeemon

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The Initial Assessment of Daily Insulin Dose in Chinese Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes by Jing Ma, Huan Zhou, Hua Xu, Xie Chen, Xiangyu Teng, Qianjing Liu, Wei Liu

“…Research Design and Methods. 65 newly diagnosed patients with type 2 diabetes (39 males/26 females; HbA1c ≥ 11.80 ± 0.22%) were investigated. All patients had random hyperglycaemia (at 21.8 ± 3.9 mmol/L) on the first day of admission and received insulin infusion intravenously (5 U/per hour). …”
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Antimicrobial Effectiveness of Clove Oil in Decontamination of Ready-to-Eat Spinach (<i>Spinacia oleracea</i> L.) by Abigail A. Armah, Kelvin F. Ofori, Kenisha Sutherland, Emmanuel Otchere, Winter A. Lewis, Wilbert Long

“…Additionally, 5% CO completely inactivated all bacterial strains on spinach samples and in the wash water except for <i>S. aureus</i>. …”
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A grounded theory study on medical students’ proxy online health information seeking behavior by Pan Minghao, He Leyun, Yang Jingying, Huang Wanyu, Wang Fan, Wang Linlin, Shen Meiyu

“…Students’ individual traits, information itself and the search platform all exercise influences on their seeking behavior. …”
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Real-Time Voltage Stability Assessment With a Novel Bus Index Considering Impact of Connection to Distribution Networks by Sasan Azad, Mohammad Taghi Ameli, Mohammad Mehdi Amiri, Hossein Ameli, Mohammad Reza Shadi, Goran Strbac

“…At the same time, for accurate evaluation, the set of lines and the received power of all lines should be considered together in formulating the index. …”
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Aspects of Growth Hormone and Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I Related to Neuroprotection, Regeneration, and Functional Plasticity in the Adult Brain by N. David Åberg, Katarina Gustafson Brywe, Jörgen Isgaard

“…Plasticity in the central nervous system (CNS) may be viewed as changes in the functional interplay between the major cell types, neurons, astrocytes, and oligodendrocytes. GH and IGF-I affect all three of these cell types in several ways. Apart from the neuroprotective effects of GH and IGF-I posited in different experimental models of CNS injury, IGF-I has been found to increase progenitor cell proliferation and new neurons, oligodendrocytes, and blood vessels in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus. …”
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