Differences between private and public primary health care centers and differences between men and women in antihypertensive care and cardiovascular prevention in all patients with... by Per Wändell, Anders Norrman, Julia Eriksson, Charlotte Ivarsson, Hrafnhildur Gudjonsdottir, Maria Hagströmer, Lena Lundh, Jan Hasselström, Boel Brynedal, Christina Sandlund, Axel C. Carlsson

“…Small differences in preventive measures between public and privately run PHC suggest generally consistent care across healthcare ownership models.…”
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Impact of a pharmaceutical care service for patients with rheumatoid arthritis using a customised mobile device (the PROUD trial): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial by Jung-Yoon Choe, Hwajeong Lee, Yun-Kyoung Song, Seong-Kyu Kim, Ji-Won Kim, Ji-Eun Park, Ju-Eun Lee, Bo-Kyung Moon, Sung-Hoon Park

“…Introduction Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) generally requires lifelong treatment; however, its medication complexity might affect non-adherence. …”
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Refining and conching alter the volatile composition of dark chocolate — Revealing profile changes in aroma-active volatiles and volatile organic compounds by Yvonne Guckenbiehl, Eva Ortner, Isabell Rothkopf, Andrea Buettner

“…Overall, flavor dilution (FD) factors of up to 6 561, which refers to the maximum dilution of the distillates at which the odorants could be perceived, were determined, whereas dimethyl trisulphide, 2,3-diethyl-5-methylpyrazine, 3-(methylthio)propanal, 3-isobutyl-2-methoxypyrazine, 3-methylbutanoic acid, 4-hydroxy-2,5-dimethylfuran-3(2H)-one, γ-decalactone, 3-hydroxy-4,5-dimethylfuran-2(5H)-one, acetic acid, and 3-phenylpropanoic acid were among the aroma-active compounds eliciting the highest FD factors in the samples. Generally, the number of compounds detected, and the FD factors determined decreased along the processing steps, whereas FD factors of aldehydes partially increased as these are generated, inter alia, by lipid oxidation. …”
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Cosmic jurisdictions: quod lege naturae, moribus et consuetudine inductum est by M. I. Myklush, V. K. Marinich

“…Within the structure of the “domestic room”, the following two types of spaces have been formed: the “unified and sovereign spatial-territorial domains of states”, to which the exclusive jurisdiction of states extends, and “Res Communis Humanitatus”, to which generally recognized international law extends. …”
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Construction of Shoot Apical Meristem cDNA Yeast Library of <i>Brassica napus</i> L. and Screening of Proteins That Interact with the Inflorescence Regulatory Factors BnTFL1s by Lingxiong Zan, Haidong Liu, Xutao Zhao, Dezhi Du, Kaixiang Li

“…However, the mechanism underlying the effects of the BnTFL1 proteins remains unclear. Further, proteins generally interact with each other to fulfill their biological functions. …”
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Evaluation of Functional Outcomes and OCT-Biomarkers after Intravitreal Dexamethasone Implant for Postoperative Cystoid Macular Edema in Vitrectomized Eyes by Sigrid Freissinger, Efstathios Vounotrypidis, Armin Wolf, Karsten U. Kortuem, Mehdi Shajari, Filippos Sakkias, Tina Herold, Siegfried G. Priglinger, Wolfgang J. Mayer

“…Correlations between OCT measures and visual outcomes were analyzed by the generalized estimating equations procedure. Results. …”
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The Utah Population Database. A Model for Linking Medical and Genealogical Records for Population Health Research by Ken R. Smith, Alison Fraser, Diana Lane Reed, Jahn Barlow, Heidi A. Hanson, Jennifer West, Stacey Knight, Navina Forsythe, Geraldine P. Mineau

“…UPDB is also linked to Medicare claims data, a federal health insurance program generally for persons age 65 or older. The UPDB provides access to information on more than 11 million individuals and supports nearly 400 research projects. …”
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Are preschool Kosovar children anxious on the edge? Validating the Preschool Anxiety Scale by Samire BLLACA BALAJ, Merita SHALA, Mimoza SHAHINI, Pranvera JETISHI ÇOLLAKU

“…For the subscales there were no differences in values from Cronbach’s α and McDonald’s Omega ωt: obsessive‐compulsive subscale (.71), social phobia (.78), physical injury fears (.72), and separation anxiety (.79) were in fair range, while it was in poor range for the generalized anxiety (0.55). 16.3% of children were found to have significant anxiety symptoms. …”
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Transitioning of protein substitutes in patients with phenylketonuria: a pilot study by Ozlem Yilmaz Nas, Ozlem Yilmaz Nas, Ozlem Yilmaz Nas, Catherine Ashmore, Sharon Evans, Alex Pinto, Anne Daly, Nurcan Yabanci Ayhan, Anita MacDonald

“…No significant differences were found in child neophobia, maternal anxiety, or child behavior (p &gt; 0.05). Mothers generally reported satisfaction with the stepwise transition process.ConclusionA stepwise transition to third-stage protein substitutes in PKU is effective, but is dependent on child metabolic control, parental education, and nursery/school support.…”
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Risks to human and animal health from the presence of bromide in food and feed by EFSA Scientific Committee, Susanne Hougaard Bennekou, Ana Allende, Angela Bearth, Josep Casacuberta, Laurence Castle, Tamara Coja, Amélie Crépet, Thorhallur Halldorsson, Laurentius (Ron) Hoogenboom, Helle Knutsen, Konstantinos Koutsoumanis, Claude Lambré, Søren Nielsen, Dominique Turck, Antonio Vicent Civera, Roberto Villa, Holger Zorn, Vasileios Bampidis, Jacqueline Castenmiller, Marie‐Christine Chagnon, Bruce Cottrill, Keyvin Darney, Jürgen Gropp, Secundino Lopez Puente, Martin Rose, Marco Vinceti, Maria Bastaki, Petra Gergelová, Luna Greco, Matteo Lorenzo Innocenti, Judit Janossy, Anna Lanzoni, Andrea Terron, Diane Benford

“…Monitoring data exceeded the current MRLs for some food commodities, generally with a low frequency. A conservative safety screening of the MRLs indicated that the TDI and ARfD are exceeded for some EU diets. …”
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Rare Taxa Are Key Links in Regional Antimicrobial Resistance Profiles in Dusts Across Diverse North American Regions by Paul B. L. George, Florent Rossi, Marc Veillette, Amélia Bélanger Cayouette, Samantha Leclerc, Cindy Dumais, Nathalie Turgeon, Caroline Duchaine

“…Measures of α‐diversity were generally greater in the western regions of Canada than in the east and the north. …”
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Dynamic Prediction Research of Silicon Content in Hot Metal Driven by Big Data in Blast Furnace Smelting Process under Hadoop Cloud Platform by Yang Han, Jie Li, Xiao-Lei Yang, Wei-Xing Liu, Yu-Zhu Zhang

“…In order to explore a dynamic prediction model with good generalization performance of the content of [Si] in molten iron, an improved SVM algorithm is proposed to enhance its practicability in the big data sample set of the smelting process. …”
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Quality of Life in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Mild Dementia Associated with Alzheimer’s Disease: A Systematic Review by Joanna Campbell, Louis Lavoie, Mariana Farraia, Rachel Huelin, Quanwu Zhang, Amir Abbas Tahami Monfared

“…QOL-AD scores ranged from 33.8 to 42.5 for MCI and from 32.4 to 38.1 for mild AD, equally reflecting the greater impairment in QoL with disease advancement. Interventions were generally associated with smaller declines in PROs compared to placebo, suggesting a positive impact of treatment in mitigating QoL deterioration. …”
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Novel Intuitionistic Fuzzy Fault Tree Analysis for Effective Infectious Medical Waste Management by Rocky Khajuria, Komal, Morteza Yazdani

“…To prevent the spread of such diseases in a healthy civil society, an effective medical waste management system is required to be developed. Generally, to develop an effective medical waste management system, identification of the most critical incidents is needed, which requires a large quantity of data that may not be available. …”
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Analysis of differentially expressed genes in hypertension and hypertensive cerebral hemorrhage via RNA-sequencing by Hongwu Qi, Min Qiao, Yansong Liu, Weijun Zeng, Lizhao Zhang, Hongjun Guo

“…The RT-qPCR validation results in human subjects and cell models were generally consistent with the sequencing results. Our study may make a contribution for the understanding of the specific mechanisms of HT and HCH. …”
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Treatment-related toxicity, utility and patient-reported outcomes of head and neck cancer patients treated with proton therapy: A longitudinal study by Yi Hsuan Chen, Michiel Kroesen, Mischa Hoogeman, Matthijs Versteegh, Carin Uyl-de Groot, Hedwig M. Blommestein

“…The questionnaires were distributed pre-treatment, and 0, 6, 12, 24 months post-treatment. The generalized estimating equations method was used to analyze the utility change and negative impact of the radiation-related toxicities. …”
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Symptom network analysis of insomnia-depression-anxiety-stigma in tuberculosis patients by Xiangmin Liu, Xue Qiu, Huizhen Lan, LiuYue Diao, Wei Huang, Yan Wen, Mei Feng, Mei Feng, Xiangdong Tang

“…The levels of insomnia, depression, anxiety, and stigma among TB patients were assessed using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7), and the TB-Related Stigma Scale (TRSS). …”
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Diagnosis of Malignant Endometrial Lesions from Ultrasound Radiomics Features and Clinical Variables Using Machine Learning Methods by Shanshan Li, Jiali Wang, Li Zhou, Hui Wang, Xiangyu Wang, Jian Hu, Qingxiu Ai

“…Accuracy, precision, sensitivity, F1-scores, area under the curve (AUC), cross-validation average score and bootstrap average accuracy were also used to evaluate algorithm performance, classification accuracy, and generalization capability. …”
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An intelligent lithology identification method for sandstone and mudstone strata and its applications: A case study of the Jurassic strata in the Lunnan area, Xinjiang, China by Ming CAI, Qingwen ZHOU, Cong YANG, Feng CHEN, Dong WU, Wang LIN, Chengguang ZHANG, Yuanjun ZHANG, Yuxin MIAO

“…However, traditional identification methods generally utilize the interactive relationships between only 2‒3 logging parameters, suffering from low utilization rates of logging information and low identification accuracy for strata with small differences in logging responses. …”
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Rancang Bangun dan Studi Eksperimental Pengaruh Perbedaan Jarak Pitch dan Kemiringan Poros terhadap Kinerja Mekanik Model Turbin Ulir 2 Blade Pada Aliran Head Rendah by Yul Hizhar, Bambang Yulistianto, Suryo Darmo

“…The result of research showed that generally screw turbine model pitch of 2Ro produced the higher mechanics performance (output power and efficiency) than pitch of 1.6Ro and 1.2Ro. …”
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