The study of oat varieties (Avena sativa L.) of various geographical origin for grain quality and productivity by V. I. Polonskiy, N. A. Surin, S. A. Gerasimov, A. G. Lipshin, A. V. Sumina, S. Zute

“…Vavilov All-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic Resources) oats samples of different origin, mainly from Siberia. The hulled samples formed grains with β-glucan content from 2.9 to 5.2 %, while the naked ones, from 3.7 to 4.8 %. …”
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Blood coagulation monitoring of patients with mechanical heart valve visiting Imam by Nafiseh Montazeri, Sajad Pourmehr, Arash Ziapour, Reza Heidari Moghadam

“…Abstract Background The lacking proper regulation of International Normalized Ratio (INR) as the main problem in patients with mechanical valve replacement surgery poses the risk of thrombosis and embolism on the one hand and the risk of bleeding on the other. …”
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Pediatric Intensive Care Provider Attitudes About Children with Medical Complexity and Neurologic Impairment: A Qualitative Study by Elizabeth J. Bleed, Leonardo Barrera, Mickayla Jones, Seema K. Shah, Megan Crowley-Matoka, Carolyn C. Foster

“…Rigor was assured by using two coders. (4) Results: Four main themes were identified: (i) providers view CMC with NI as a distinct population of growing importance; (ii) CMC with NI have care needs that challenge traditional perceptions of PICU practice; (iii) PICU providers expressed ambivalence towards caring for CMC with NI; and (iv) some PICU providers have developed adaptive strategies. (5) Conclusions: This population challenges the typical notion of what pediatric critical care represents. …”
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Effectiveness of Retail Promotions in the Green Industry by Age Group: A Case Study by Hayk Khachatryan, Alicia Rihn

“…The local and ‘grow your own food’ movements are likely the main drivers of increased interest in edible and food producing plants (National Gardening Association, 2013).  …”
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Analyses of urogenital Mycoplasma hominis and Ureaplasma urealyticum infections and drug sensitivity in 296 patients by CHEN Junwei, HUANG Sheng, QIU Wei, XIAO Yupeng

“…[Conclusions] Females are more likely to have urogenital tract mycoplasma infections than males, and Uu is the main pathogen. The three types of infections are sensitive to doxycycline and minocycline. …”
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Low-density Lipoproteins and Degrees of Cardiovascular Risk in Adults over 40 Years of Age: Case-control Study by Abel Pérez Pavón, Francisco Sánchez Hernández, Karla Doriam Gámez Ávalos, Donovan Casas Patiño, Alejandra Rodríguez Torres

“…<strong>Foundation:</strong> cardiovascular diseases are the main cause of death and disability in the world. …”
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Problems of improving the national legislation on labor protection by K. Yu. Melnyk

“…At the same time, the main law in the field of labor – the Code of Labor Laws of Ukraine in Chapter XII, dedicated to the protection of women’s labor, does not use these terms, but establishes guarantees, in particular, for women who have children under the age of three, and women who have children aged three to fourteen or children with disabilities. …”
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Acute and chronic glycemic effects of aerobic training in patients with type 2 diabetes by Rodrigo Sudatti Delevatti, Nathalie Netto, Isabel Heberle, Cláudia Gomes Bracht, Éder Santiago, Salime Donida Chedid Lisboa, Rochelle Rocha Costa, Alexandra Hübner, Marco Fossati, Luiz Fernando Martins Kruel

“…The participants performed 16 weeks of interval aerobic training with three weekly sessions. The main part of each session consisted of nine blocks of five minutes, in which four minutes consisted of stimulus between 85% and 95% of the anaerobic threshold heart rate (ATHR) and one minute consisted of recovery below 85% of the ATHR, totalizing 45 minutes. …”
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Association of Asthma Control and Metered-Dose Inhaler Use Technique among Adult Asthmatic Patients Attending Outpatient Clinic, in Resource-Limited Country: A Prospective Study by Bezie Kebede, Girma Mamo, Abebaw Molla

“…It is a common chronic respiratory disease affecting 1–18% of population in different countries. It can be treated mainly with inhaled medications in several forms, including pressurized metered-dose inhaler (MDI). …”
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Assessment of ABCDE approach knowledge among residents and interns in multiple Egyptian hospitals, a cross-sectional study by Mohamed Saad Rakab, Ahmed B. Zaid, Malak Abbas Hamadein, Salma Abbas Hamadein, Mahmoud Abd Elgawad Ashour, Alaa Samir El-Shamia, Dina Ayman Mostafa, Rahma Mogahed Rateb, Marwa Abdelrahman Elashry, Mennat-Allah Mostafa El-Badawy, Rehab Shaheen Bahram Shaheen

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ASYNCHRONOUS MOTOR WITH A HOLLOW PERFORATED ROTOR by A. N. Annenkov, S. V. Sizikov, A. I. Shiyanov

“…With the rotation speed increase, due to the presence of the windows on one end face of the rotor and to the impact of the bottom of the barrel on the other one, the elementary currents of the rotor within the active length of the machine boring would be directed mainly in the axial direction, including the cases of comparatively small slippage that corresponds to the small frequency of the alternating magnetization of the rotor material. …”
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Safety Evaluation for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles’ Exclusive Lanes considering Penetrate Ratios and Impact of Trucks Using Surrogate Safety Measures by Jian Zhang, Kunrun Wu, Min Cheng, Min Yang, Yang Cheng, Shen Li

“…Four surrogate safety measures, including both longitudinal and lateral safety risk indexes, are employed to evaluate the overall safety impacts of setting exclusive lanes. Main results indicate that (1) setting one exclusive lane is capable to improve overall safety environment in low demand, and two exclusive lanes are more suitable for high-demand scenario; (2) existence of trucks worsens overall longitudinal safety environment, and improper setting of exclusive lanes in high trucks, low MPR scenario has adverse effect on longitudinal safety; and (3) setting exclusive lanes have better longitudinal and lateral safety improvement in high-truck proportion scenarios. …”
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The relationship between intimate partner violence reported at the first antenatal booking visit and obstetric and perinatal outcomes in an ethnically diverse group of Australian p... by Charlene Thornton, Virginia Schmied, Ana María Muñoz, Hannah Grace Dahlen

“…Objectives Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a global health issue affecting mainly women and is known to escalate during pregnancy and impact negatively on obstetric and perinatal outcomes. …”
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Perspectives of physicians on risk factors for patient aggression and violence against physicians in Chinese hospitals: a Q-methodology study by Yuhan Wu, Kees Ahaus, Jiaming Shi, Dahai Zhao, Martina Buljac-Samardzic

“…This lack of insight prohibits preventive measures being tailored to address the main risk factors. Method We conducted a Q-methodology study to investigate physicians’ perspectives on risk factors for aggression and violence from patients (and their relatives/friends) against physicians in Chinese hospitals. …”
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Effects of contralaterally controlled neuromuscular electrical stimulation on the connectivity pattern of poststroke patients with hemiplegia by ZHU Lan, SUI Youxin, WANG Qinglei, XU Sheng, SHEN Ying, GUO Chuan

“…ObjectiveThe main purpose of this study was to apply functional near-infrared spectroscopy （fNIRS） to analyze contralaterally controlled neuromuscular electrical stimulation （CCNMES） related changes in functional connectivity （FC） within a cortical network after stroke.MethodsA total of 48 stroke patients with upper limb hemiplegia who were treated in the Rehabilitation Medical Center of Changzhou De'an Hospital were included in the study from July 2021 to January 2022. …”
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Beyond averages: dissecting urban-rural disparities in skilled antenatal care utilization in Bangladesh - a conway-maxwell-poisson regression analysis by Md. Muddasir Hossain Akib, Farzana Afroz, Bikash Pal

“…Conclusion Our findings from this study indicate that the concerned authority should come forward, and policymakers should emphasize various factors that are mainly responsible for the noteworthy different SANC status of pregnant women living in rural and urban areas in Bangladesh. …”
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Do meteorological variables impact air quality differently across urbanization gradients? A case study of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, China by Bohan Wu, Shuang Zhao, Yuxiang Liu, Chunyan Zhang

“…Impulse response analysis revealed that temperature had a notable positive and negative correlation effect on AQI over lagged periods, while wind speed showed a negative correlation with AQI in suburban areas, gradually shifting to a positive correlation over time; (3) Variance decomposition indicated that temperature had the largest impact on AQI in urban areas, particularly with cumulative lag effects, while wind speed was the main variables influencing air quality in suburban areas. …”
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Trends and determinants of home delivery in Ethiopia: further multivariate decomposition analysis of 2005–2016 Ethiopian Demographic Health Surveys by Malede Mequanent Sisay, Ayenew Molla Lakew, Sofonyas Abebaw Tiruneh, Seblewongel Tigabu Yigizaw, Zemenu Tadesse Tessema

“…Antenatal care visits, educational status of the women and husband, birth order, religion, wealth index and distance from a health facility were the main sources of compositional change factors for the change of home delivery. …”
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Widening access to isotretinoin in primary care: an evaluation of New Zealand national dispensing data for isotretinoin for acne, 2008–2023 by Bruce Arroll, Diarmuid Quinlan, Peter Moodie, Rachel Petronella Roskvist, Jason Arnold

“…Objectives To identify what changes in the prescribing of isotretinoin have occurred since funded prescriber access was widened in 2009 from ‘dermatologist only’ prescribing to include ‘general practitioners (GPs) and nurse practitioners working within their scope of practice’.Design Evaluation of isotretinoin dispensing data from 2008 to 2023 using the national annual prescribing data obtained from the New Zealand Pharmaceutical National Collection database.Setting All New Zealand citizens prescribed and dispensed funded isotretinoin for acne from 2008 to 2023 were included.Main outcome measures The prescribing data were analysed to identify the total number of prescriptions per year by prescribing clinician type, patient ethnicity and deprivation levels.Results In 2008, nearly 100% (26 897) of dispensed prescriptions were written by a dermatologist, while in 2023, 79% (39 432) were written by primary care clinicians. …”
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Optimizing Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Performance Using Advanced Meta-Heuristic Algorithms by Siva Ram Rajeyyagari, Srinivas Nowduri

“…Our approach utilizes a Radial Basis Function (RBF) neural network trained with experimental data encompassing five input parameters: oxygen concentration, operating temperature, instrumentation, electrolyte thickness, and electrical current, with the goal of optimizing the single output parameter of power. The main novelty of this work lies in the application of six meta-heuristic algorithms for optimizing the weights and biases of the trained RBF network. …”
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