Designing and explaining the improvement model of women's employability capacity with emphasis on the 7th development plan by Mahsa Vahidpour, Akbar Etebarian Khorasgani, Mehrban Hadi Peykani, Saeed Daei-Karimzadeh

“…The challenge of investigating the development of women's employment capacity with emphasis on the seventh development plan lies in the existing gender inequalities in the workforce. Women often face barriers to employment and career advancement, including limited access to education and training, discriminatory hiring practices, and unequal payment. …”
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Multicentre Harmonisation of a Six-Colour Flow Cytometry Panel for Naïve/Memory T Cell Immunomonitoring by Iole Macchia, Valentina La Sorsa, Irene Ruspantini, Massimo Sanchez, Valentina Tirelli, Maria Carollo, Giorgio Fedele, Pasqualina Leone, Giovanna Schiavoni, Carla Buccione, Paola Rizza, Paola Nisticò, Belinda Palermo, Stefania Morrone, Helena Stabile, Aurelia Rughetti, Marianna Nuti, Ilaria Grazia Zizzari, Cinzia Fionda, Roberta Maggio, Cristina Capuano, Concetta Quintarelli, Matilde Sinibaldi, Chiara Agrati, Rita Casetti, Andrea Rozo Gonzalez, Floriana Iacobone, Angela Gismondi, Filippo Belardelli, Mauro Biffoni, Francesca Urbani

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The Effect of Systemic Inflammation and Clinicopathologic Features on Survival in Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma: A Multicenter Analysis by Nadiye Sever, Sedat Yıldırım, Ali Fuat Gurbuz, Delyadil Karakaş Kılıç, Esra Zeynelgil, Yunus Emre Altintaş, Berivan Deniz Çimik, Yeşim Ağyol, Ali Kaan Güren, Pınar Erel, Erkam Kocaaslan, Burak Paçacı, Mustafa Alperen Tunç, Abdussamet Çelebi, Nazım Can Demircan, Selver Işık, Rukiye Arıkan, Murat Araz, Serdar Karakaya, Murat Sarı, Osman Köstek, İbrahim Vedat Bayoğlu

“…<i>Materials and Methods:</i> This retrospective, multicenter study included 217 patients diagnosed with MPM between January 2009 and March 2024. Data on age, gender, histology, disease stage, treatment modalities, and inflammatory markers such as the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and C-reactive protein/albumin ratio (CAR) were collected. …”
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Modified minimally invasive chevron osteotomy versus traditional incision chevron osteotomy by Run Tang, Jie Yang, Xiao Jun Liang, Yi Li, JunHu Wang, MiaoLuo Jin, Yang Du, Tong Lu, YiXiang Hao

“…There were no significant differences in age, gender, side classification, course of the disease, degree of hallux valgus deformity, and postoperative complications between the two groups (P > 0.05). …”
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Automatic approach-avoidance tendency toward physical activity, sedentary, and neutral stimuli as a function of age, explicit affective attitude, and intention to be active by Farajzadeh, Ata, Goubran, Miriam, Beehler, Alexa, Cherkaoui, Noura, Morrison, Paula, de Chanaleilles, Margaux, Maltagliati, Silvio, Cheval, Boris, Miller, Matthew W., Sheehy, Lisa, Bilodeau, Martin, Orsholits, Dan, Boisgontier, Matthieu P.

“…Results accounting for age, sex, gender, level of physical activity, body mass index, and chronic health condition confirmed a main tendency to approach physical activity stimuli (i.e., faster reaction to approach vs. avoid; p = .001) and to avoid sedentary stimuli (i.e., faster reaction to avoid vs. approach; p < .001). …”
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Effects of fine particulate matter and its chemical constituents on influenza-like illness in Guangzhou, China by Keyi Wu, Weidong Fan, Jing Wei, Jianyun Lu, Xiaowei Ma, Zelin Yuan, Zhiwei Huang, Qi Zhong, Yining Huang, Fei Zou, Xianbo Wu

“…Stratified subgroup analyses were performed by gender, age, and season to explore in depth the effects of these factors on disease risk. …”
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Survey on the Status and Training Demands of Capabilities for Diagnosing and Treating Common Diseases of Primary Care General Practitioners in Hunan Province by LI Lingqi, GAO Yinyan, ZHANG Yuqin, SUN Dingkui, WU Xinyin, ZHANG Weiru

“…Results A total of 337 valid questionnaires were collected from each prefecture-level city and autonomous prefecture in Hunan Province, with 128 coming from community health service centers and 209 from township health institutions. The differences in gender, age, professional title, years of service at the grassroots level, and staffing status between general practitioners in township health institutions and community health service centers are all statistically significant (P&lt;0.05). …”
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Clinical Characteristics of Fulminant Type 1 Diabetes Compared with Typical Type 1 Diabetes: One-Year Follow-Up Study from the Guangdong T1DM Translational Medicine Study by Daizhi Yang, Yongwen Zhou, Sihui Luo, Xueying Zheng, Ping Ling, Liling Qiu, Wen Xu, Hua Liang, Bin Yao, Jianping Weng, Jinhua Yan

“…The 1 : 4 propensity score matching based on onset age, duration, and gender was performed between the FT1DM and TT1DM groups. …”
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A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials: evaluating the efficacy of isokinetic muscle strengthening training in improving knee osteoarthritis outcomes by Wanqin Guo, Jingyang Gao, Dawazhuoma, Xiuling Mi, Ciwang, Bianba

“…The studies included were randomized controlled trials (RCTs) with participants from the plains who met the diagnostic criteria for KOA as outlined in the 2019 edition, with no restrictions on gender, age, or disease course, and no patients with advanced disease; studies where in the control group was either a non-intervention group or a group receiving treatment, other than IMST, and the experimental group received IMST alone or in addition to the treatment administered to the control group; and studies with at least two of the following outcome indicators: (i) knee flexors (Flex)/extensors (Ext) peak torque (PT), (ii) knee Flex/Ext total work (TW), (iii) knee Flex/Ext max rep total work (MRTW), (iv) knee Flex/Ext average power (AP), (v) visual analogue scale (VAS) for pain, (vi) Lequesne index (LI), (vii) Western Ontario and McMaster University Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC), (viii) Lysholm Knee Scoring Scale (LKSS), (ix) range of motion (ROM) of the knee joint, and (x) 6-min walk test. …”
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“Space to see the future”? A political economy analysis of child and adolescent mental health and well-being in Ethiopia including routes for change by Kibur Engdawork, Kibur Engdawork, Kibur Engdawork, Lucia D’Ambruoso, Lucia D’Ambruoso, Lucia D’Ambruoso, Lucia D’Ambruoso, Lucia D’Ambruoso, Lucia D’Ambruoso, Tsion Hailu, Tsion Hailu, Tsion Hailu, Mahlet Yared, Mahlet Yared, Girma M. Geletu, Girma M. Geletu, Semere G. Baraki, Semere G. Baraki, Elias Sebsibe, Pamela Abbott

“…Service delivery was further complicated by widespread and normalised violence against children and young people, low knowledge and awareness among children and families, entrenched stigma and gender inequities, and ethnic tensions, conflict and displacement. …”
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Trends to shorter diagnostic delay in spondyloarthritis patients during the last decades and association with clinical presentation: data from ASAS-COMOSPA study by Robert Landewé, Désirée van der Heijde, Filip van den Bosch, Maxime Dougados, Anna Molto, Stefan Siebert, Juergen Braun, Yuko Kaneko, Adeline Ruyssen-Witrand, Martin Soubrier, Atsuo Taniguchi, Masato Okada, Alain Cantagrel, Shigeto Kobayashi, Jon Packham, Philippe Goupille, Rene-Marc Flipo, Alain Saraux, Philippe Gaudin, Roberto Caporali, Raj Sengupta, James Cheng-Chung Wei, Tetsuya Tomita, Fernando Pimentel-Santos, Alberto Ortiz, Gaëlle Varkas, Alejandro Martínez, Shigeyoshi Tsuji, Alejandro Alvarellos, José Maldonado-Cocco, Yoshinori Taniguchi, Fadoua Allali, Raquel Almodovar González, Elena Alonso Blanco-Morales, Maria Aparicio Espinar, Pamir Atagunduz, Pauline Bakker, Leila Benbrahim, Bahia Benchekroun, Alberto Berman, Pedro Carvalho, Gustavo Casado, Francisco Colombres, Eugenio del Miguel Mendieta, Vanesa Duarte, Cristina Fernandez Carballido, Manuel Fernandez-Prada, Pilar Font Ugalde, Dolors Grados Cánovas, Jordi Gratacós Masmitjá, Vittorio Grosso, Naomi Ichikawa, Hisashi Inoue, Taku Kawasaki, Manjari Lahiri, Hernán Maldonado-Ficco, Kazuo Matsui, Ramón Mazzuchelli Esteban, Corinne Micelli, Chisun Min, Mitsuhiro Morita, Juan Mulero Mendoza, Gisela Pendón, Dora Pereira, Hanan Rkain, Oscar Rillo, Carlos Rodriguez Lozano, Adrián Salas, Carlos Salinas-Ramos, Amelia Santosa, Caroline Spiegel, Carmen Stolwijk, Kurisu Tada, Naoho Takizawa, Chung Tei Chou, Lay-Keng Teoh, Wen-Chan Tsai, Olga Tsyplenkova, Kiana Vakil-Gilani, Rafael Valle-Oñate, Virginia Villaverde, Ai Yap, Pedro Zarco Montejo, Juan C Barreira, Juan D Diaz-Garcia, Michel De Bandt, Astrid van Tubergen, Rodolfo Pérez-Alamino, T Marhadour, Christian Waimann, Mari CruzFernandez Espartero, Jose Raul NogueraPons, José A PereiradaSilva

“…Age at disease onset (OR 1.02), axial symptom (OR 16.25), peripheral arthritis (OR 6.81), decade at disease onset (OR 3.80) and extra-musculoskeletal manifestation (OR 2.89) were associated with an early diagnosis, while female gender (OR 0.66) was inversely associated.Conclusions The proportion of patients with early SpA diagnosis improve from 15% before 1980 to 88% when first symptoms occurred after 2010. …”
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Circulating Soluble ST2 Predicts All-Cause Mortality in Severe Heart Failure Patients with an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator by Zhi-wei Hou, Hai-bo Yu, Yan-chun Liang, Yang Gao, Guo-qing Xu, Min Wu, Zhu Mei, Zu-lu Wang, Zhi-guo Li, Yu-ying Li, Hai-xu Song, Jia-yin Li, Ya-ling Han

“…After adjusting the model (age, gender, device implantation, prevention of sudden death, LVEDD, LVEF, WBC and CLBBB, hsTNT, etiology, and eGFR) and the model combined with NT-proBNP, the risk of all-cause death was increased by 2.5% and 1.9%, respectively, per ng/ml of sST2. …”
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Longitudinal Outcomes of Patients with Aortic Stenosis Stratified by Sex: An Asian Perspective by Joy Y. S. Ong, Aloysius S. T. Leow, Chun Yi Ng, Poay Huan Loh, Swee Chye Quek, William K. F. Kong, Tiong Cheng Yeo, Ching Hui Sia, Kian Keong Poh

“…Methods: Consecutive data with echocardiographic diagnoses of AS were stratified according to gender in a tertiary academic center between 2011 and 2021. …”
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Association between non-insulin-based insulin resistance indicators and frailty progression: a national cohort study and mendelian randomization analysis by Hui Tian, Yong-meng Li, Cheng-qiang Wang, Guo-qiang Chen, Ying Lian

“…Linear mixed-effects model was used to evaluate associations with FI development speed. Age, gender, educational level, marital status, smoking status, drinking status, life satisfaction, social activity and sleep duration were adjusted. …”
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Effects of Intrathecal Bupivacaine with Adjuvants Midazolam versus Magnesium Sulphate in Tibia Fibula Surgeries: A Randomised Clinical Study by Tejash H Sharma, Jagrati Jain, Aanal Sha, Dushyant Chavda, Dinesh K Chauhan

“…Study included 64 patients of either gender, classified as American Society of Anaesthesiologists (ASA) grade I/II, undergoing tibia-fibula surgeries. …”
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Evaluating the controlled reopening of nightlife during the COVID-19 pandemic: a matched cohort study in Sitges, Spain, in May 2021 (Reobrim Sitges) by Mercè Marzo-Castillejo, Joan Colom, Betlem Salvador-González, Josep Basora, Oriol Cunillera Puértolas, Sara Contreras-Martos, Darío López Gallegos, Mateo Acedo Anta, Jesús Almeda Ortega

“…A control group was paired by exact age, gender, residence municipality, socioeconomic index, previous SARS-CoV-2-confirmed infection and vaccination status, in a 1:5 ratio, from the primary care electronic health records.Primary outcome Evidence of infection at electronic health records by SARS-CoV-2 at 14-day follow-up.Results Among the 391 participants (median age 37 years; 44% (n=173) women), no positive SARS-CoV-2 cases were detected at 14 days, resulting in a cumulative incidence estimation of 0 (95% CI 0 to 943) per 100 000 inhabitants. …”
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Knowledge towards health impacts of climate change among Amhara Sayint community, Northeastern Ethiopia by Genanew Mulugeta Kassaw, Asmamaw Malede, Adinew Gizeyatu, Metadel Adane, Asha Embrandiri, Awoke Keleb, Gete Berihun, Abebe Kassa Geto, Belachew Tekleyohannes Wogayehu, Gebremeskel Kibret Abebe, Tibebu Habtie Zewde, Sisay Abebe Debela, Solomon Seyoum, Amana Ogeto Luke, Gashaw Wondaya, Atitegeb Abera Kide, Mekonnen Moges, Denise Metoyer, Mesfin Gebrehiwot

“…Proportional odds model analysis result indicated that gender (female) (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 1.49; 95% CI: 1.053, 2.13), wealth status (poorest) (AOR = 1.97; 95% CI: 1.01, 3.83), educational status (unable to read and write) (AOR = 4.13; 95% CI: 1.25, 13.68) and participation status in environmental protection activities (not) (AOR = 1.78; 95% CI: 1.17, 2.71) were factors that significantly associated with inadequate and medium levels of knowledge towards the health impacts of climate change. …”
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Analysis of Genetic Variation in CD40 and CD40L: Relationship with mRNA Relative Expression and Soluble Proteins in Acute Coronary Syndrome by D. E. Martínez-Fernández, J. R. Padilla-Gutiérrez, F. Casillas-Muñoz, Emmanuel Valdés-Alvarado, Brenda Parra-Reyna, Maricela Aceves-Ramírez, J. F. Muñoz-Valle, U. Zalapa Flores, J. C. Chávez Herrera, Y. Valle

“…Plasma levels of sCD40L can be affected by gender and the clinical spectrum of acute coronary syndrome. …”
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從「無感」到「五感」的環境意識啟蒙：特定場域劇場教學之批判教育學實踐 From “Indifference” to Environmental Conscientization Through Critical Sensory Pedagogy: A Critical Pedagogy Praxis in a University Site-Specifi... by 藍貝芝 Betsy Lan, 楊佳羚 Chia-Ling Yang

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Mitigating overconfidence bias: A cross-sectional pilot study of male maintenance workers in the engineering sector by Luca DI GIAMPAOLO, Federica MARINO, Claudia GIURGOLA, Piergiorgio ASTOLFI, Luca COPPETA, Simone DE SIO, Paola BORRELLI, Teresa GALANTI, Laura FORCELLA, Maria Elisa MAIOLO, Kavita BATRA, Murat YILDIRIM, Hicham KHABBACHE, Amelia RIZZO, Mahmood BAHRAMIZADEH, Hiroo WADA, Qiao NIU, Hector NIETO, Francesco CHIRICO

“…The purpose of the work is to investigate the level of overconfidence in 186 maintenance workers and identify those most at risk of injury based on certain characteristics such as gender, age, educational qualification, and task performed. …”
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