Relationship between functional movement screening (FMS) scores and balance and strength performance in young male athletes by Şükran İribalcı, Mert Aydoğmuş, Serkan Revan, Harun Genç

“…Male athletes (n = 41, mean age 13.5 ± 1.7 years) interested in team sports participated in the study voluntarily. …”
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Self-Care Practices and the Associated Socio-Demographic Variables of Persons with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2dm) in Southeast, Nigeria. by Okafor, Christiana Nkiru, Okonkwo, Uchenna Prosper, Ani, Kenneth Umezulike, Onuora, Ethel Ogoemeka, Nwokike, Mathew, Byabagambi, Jane Turyasingura, Tamu, JohnBosco Munezero, Mfitumukiza, Valence, Nwankwo, Mercy Chinenye, Tumusiime, Alex

“…Responses on SDSCA were ranked and rated as poor, moderate, and good self-care behavior. …”
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SOM neural network-based port function analysis: a case study in 21st-century Maritime Silk Road by Fahao Xie, Le Zhang, Shanshui Zheng, Aijun Xu, Zhitao Li, Jiaxin Dai, Lang Xu

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Psychometric properties of the arabic version of occupational value with pre-defined ítems by Mona Eklund, Lisa Ekstam, Mariam Hassan, Pablo Bellosta-López

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Microbial and Inflammatory Salivary Biomarkers of Periodontal Diseases by Aram Mohammed Sha, Hayder Raad Abdulbaqi, Syed Saad Bin Qasim

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Development of a territory-wide household-based composite index for measuring relative distribution of households by economic status in individual small areas throughout Hong Kong by Eva L.H. Tsui, Philip L.H. Yu, K. F. Lam, Kelvin K.Y. Poon, Adam C.M. Ng, K. Y. Cheung, Winnie Li, Michael L.H. Leung, David H.Y. Lam, James L.Y. Cheng, Sharon P.W. Ng

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WeiFu: A Novel Pan-Cancer Driver Gene Identification Method Using Incidence-Weighted Mutation Scores by Yanjie Ren, Azlan Mohd Zain, Yan Zhang, Rozita Abdul Jalil, Mahadi Bahari, Norfadzlan Bin Yusup, Mazlina Abdul Majid, Azurah A. Samah, Didik Dwi Prasetya, Nurhafizah Moziyana Mohd Yusop

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Efficacy of root canal treatment for autotransplanted third molars: a 6-Year cohort study of 167 teeth in southern China by Bangfeng Han, Liu Liu, Zhishen Jiang, Li Ye, Yubin Cao, Jian Pan

“…Patients underwent autogenous tooth transplantation to replace non-retainable molars with upper or lower third molars with Moorrees tooth development stage ≥5. All surgical procedures were performed by an experienced surgeon. …”
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Avoidable factors associated with maternal death from postpartum haemorrhage: a national Malawian surveillance study by Arri Coomarasamy, Maria Lisa Odland, Luis Gadama, David Lissauer, Fannie Kachale, Chifundo Ndamala, Abi Merriel, Catriona Waitt, Hussein H Twabi, Annie Kuyere, Marthe Onrust, Jennifer Riches, Yamikani Chimwaza, Rosemary Bilesi, Lumbani Makhaza, Regina Makuluni, Laura Munthali, Owen Musopole, Deborah A Phiri, James Jafali

“…Detailed reviews identified that deaths from PPH were more likely to be associated with factors such as ‘lack of obstetric lifesaving skills’ (26.7% vs 10.1%, p<0.001), ‘inadequate monitoring’ (51.5% vs 40.7%, p=0.012) and ‘communication problems between facilities’ (11.5% vs 6.2%, p=0.019) than deaths from other causes.Conclusions Our analysis represents the largest published review of maternal deaths from PPH. …”
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Evaluating quality of life improvements in endometriosis patients following laparoscopic surgery using EHP-30 scale by Yuyan Guo, Penghui Huang, Chaobin Liu, Zhenna Wang, Yi Wang, Wei Qi, Xi Xie, Zhenhong Wang, Jinna Zhang, Shunhe Lin

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Experimental investigation on thermal performance of gravity heat pipe with different pipe configurations by Xing Lu, Jie Liu, Xulei Tong, Renkun Dai, Yang Xiao, Jun Deng

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Developing a Clustering-Based Empirical Bayes Analysis Method for Hotspot Identification by Yajie Zou, Xinzhi Zhong, John Ash, Ziqiang Zeng, Yinhai Wang, Yanxi Hao, Yichuan Peng

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Risk Factors for Single and Multiple Recurrences for Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography and Open Choledochotomy in Treating Choledocholithiasis by Yao Wu, Ying Zhang, Xiao Meng Jiang, Chen Jing Xu, Yan Yan Wang, Jin Yuan Gu, Yi Li, Shun Fu Xu

“…Among the 204 patients, 74.5% relapsed within three years after surgery, of whom 39.7% (81/204) had multiple relapses (≥ 2). …”
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Impact of gingival pigmentation on laypersons’ perception of smile aesthetics: an observational study by Preethi Raj, Shweta Nagesh, Ramanarayana Boyapati

“…The differences between the pre- and post-treatment OPI scores and smile esthetic scores were assessed using Wilcoxon signed-rank test. Spearman correlation was used to evaluate the association between smile scores and OPI scores. …”
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Analysis of risk factors for surgical site infection in spinal surgery patients and study of direct economic losses by Qiuxia Zuo, Kexin Zhao, Baoji Dong, Yuan Zhou, Xiao Wang, Adila Maimaiti, Ping Tian

“…Patients with SSIs were included in the case group, and patients without SSIs were matched 1:1 based on hospital, department, age ± 5 years, primary diagnosis, and the specific surgery type. …”
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Association of Septic Shock with Mortality in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients in Wuhan, China by Shaoqiu Chen, Zitong Gao, Ling Hu, Yi Zuo, Yuanyuan Fu, Meilin Wei, Emory Zitello, Gang Huang, Youping Deng

“…Clinical outcomes were designated as nonseptic shock and septic shock. Log-rank test was conducted to determine any association with clinical progression. …”
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Self-Care Practices and the Associated Socio-Demographic Variables of Persons With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2dm) in Southeast, Nigeria. by Okafor, Christiana Nkiru, Okonkwo, Uchenna Prosper, Ani, Kenneth Umezulike, Onuora, Ethel Ogoemeka, Nwokike, Mathew, Turyasingura, Jane Byabagambi, Munezero, Tamu JohnBosco, Mfitumukiza1, Valence, Nwankwo, Mercy Chinenye, Tumusiime, Alex

“…Responses on SDSCA were ranked and rated as poor, moderate, and good self-care behavior. …”
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A Three-Stage-Concatenated Non-Linear MMSE Interference Rejection Combining Aided MIMO-OFDM Receiver and its EXIT-Chart Analysis by Jue Chen, Siyao Lu, Tsang-Yi Wang, Jwo-Yuh Wu, Chih-Peng Li, Soon Xin Ng, Robert G. Maunder, Lajos Hanzo

“…The demodulation reference signal of the 5G Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) waveform has been designed for supporting Minimum Mean-Square Error-Interference Rejection Combining (MMSE-IRC) equalization, which has become the state-of-the-art, owing to its enhanced performance in the case of dense frequency reuse, which is typical in 5G. …”
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Variability of issr markers and estimation of inheritance of diagnostic characters among StY-genome species of Elymus pendulinus, E. brachypodioides and E. vernicosus (Poaceae: Tri... by E. V. Kobozeva, S. V. Asbaganov, O. V. Dorogina, A. V. Agafonov

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Identification and Prioritizing Critical Success Factors for HR Shared Services Implementation in Multi-Business Firms Using DEMATEL Method by Fatemeh Goudarzi Hossainabadi, Mohammad Reza Akhavan Anvari, Kamyar Raissifar

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