The growing season of broccoli in the southern region of Dagestan by E. G. Gadjimustapaeva

“…To obtain a marketable head in broccoli, the main limiting factors are the temperature and humidity of soil and air. …”
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Community knowledge, perceptions and practices around COVID-19 in Sierra Leone: a nationwide, cross-sectional survey by Maike Winters, Helena Nordenstedt, Mohammad B Jalloh, Paul Sengeh, Nance Webber, Ibrahim Ngobeh, Thomas Samba, Harold Thomas

“…Objectives To assess the public’s knowledge, attitudes and practices about the novel coronavirus in Sierra Leone to inform an evidence-based communication strategy around COVID-19.Design Nationwide, cross-sectional Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices survey.Setting 56 randomly selected communities in all 14 districts in Sierra Leone.Participants 1253 adults aged 18 years and older of which 52% were men.Main outcome measures We calculated proportions of core indicators (awareness, knowledge, risk perception, practices). …”
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The Association between Antihypertensive Medication Use and Blood Pressure Is Influenced by Obesity by Jash S. Parikh, Arshdeep K. Randhawa, Sean Wharton, Heather Edgell, Jennifer L. Kuk

“…Linear regression analyses were used to examine the main effects and interaction between antihypertensive use and BMI. …”
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Role of comprehensive geriatric assessment in healthcare of older people in UK care homes: realist review by Claire Goodman, Tom Dening, Neil H Chadborn, Maria Zubair, Lídia Sousa, John R F Gladman, Adam, L Gordon

“…We used realist review to develop a theory-driven account of how CGA works in care homes.Design Realist review.Setting Care homes.Methods The review had three stages: first, interviews with expert stakeholders and scoping of the literature to develop programme theories for CGA; second, iterative searches with structured retrieval and extraction of the literature; third, synthesis to refine the programme theory of how CGA works in care homes.We used the following databases: Medline, CINAHL, Scopus, PsychInfo, PubMed, Google Scholar, Greylit, Cochrane Library and Joanna Briggs Institute.Results 130 articles informed a programme theory which suggested CGA had three main components: structured comprehensive assessment, developing a care plan and working towards patient-centred goals. …”
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Nurse worry as a trigger for rapid response team activation improving outcomes: a retrospective cohort study in non-critical units by Luana L.S. Gentil, Milena S. Nascimento, Michele Jaures, Leonardo P. de Carvalho, Claudia R. Laselva, Simone Brandi

“…Analyzed variables included demographic characteristics, MEWS score, and causes for activating the rapid response team, such as changes in vital signs and nurse worry. Main outcomes assessed were transfer to the ICU, medical procedures, and drug administration. …”
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Clinical features and choice of the revascularization method in patients with stable coronary heart disease and preserved left ventricular ejection fraction by Yu.A. Borkhalenko, О.J. Zharinov, K.O. Mikhaliev, О.А. Yepanchintseva, А.V. Khokhlov, B.М. Тоdurov

“…According to the coronary angiography, CABG group patients more often had unprotected left main (UPLM) disease (28.2 % vs 4.6 %, p = 0.004), and three-vessel disease without UPLM (45 % vs 31.8 %, p < 0.001). …”
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Prevalence and influencing factors of regular physical activity among community-dwelling adults in Shaanxi province, 2018: an analysis of surveillance data by Yali TAO, Rina SA, Weihua WANG, Meng WU, Rong LIU, Lin QIU

“…Complex weight processing and unconditional multivariate logistic regression models were used in the data analysis to investigate the prevalence and main influencing factors of regular physical activity among the participants. …”
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Prevalence of diabetic retinopathy and its associated factors among adults in East African countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis. by Habtamu Wagnew Abuhay, Tigabu Kidie Tesfie, Meron Asmamaw Alemayehu, Muluken Chanie Agimas, Getaneh Awoke Yismaw, Gebrie Getu Alemu, Nebiyu Mekonnen Derseh, Bantie Getnet Yirsaw

“…It is one of the most prevalent eye complications associated with DM, and it is the main cause of vision loss. Even though East African countries face a growing burden of diabetes and DR, no study depicts the regional prevalence and its associated factors. …”
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Retrospective Observational Study on the Characteristics of Pain and Associated Factors of Breakthrough Pain in Advanced Cancer Patients by Rongrong Fan, Xuying Li, Siyu Yang, Xiaofan Bu, Yongyi Chen, Ying Wang, Cuiling Qiu

“…Intramuscular injection of hydromorphone hydrochloride was the main medication for BTP onset. Younger age, background pain, anorexia, and constipation were independently associated with the presentation of BTP. …”
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The Performance of Irrigation Schemes in Sudan Affected by Climate Variability and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam by Shamseddin M. Ahmed, Khalid G. Biro Turk, Hassan Ali Dinar

“…The Gezira, Rahad, and El-Gunied irrigation schemes depend mainly on the Blue Nile as their primary water source. …”
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Dissolution of Different Reservoir Rocks by Organic Acids in Laboratory Simulations: Implications for the Effect of Alteration on Deep Reservoirs by Jian Chen, Jie Xu, Susu Wang, Zhenyu Sun, Zhong Li, Wanglu Jia, Ping’an Peng

“…The volume increase in all three reservoir types is mainly attributed to the dissolution of carbonate minerals. …”
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Powdery mildew resistance of apple clonal rootstocks from the collection of the Michurinsk State Agrarian University by I. N. Shamshin, M. L. Dubrovsky, A. A. Trifonova, K. V. Boris, A. M. Kudryavtsev

“…The results of a three-year field evaluation of powdery mildew resistance of 80 rootstocks allowed us to distinguish five main groups ranging from very low to highly resistant. …”
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Evaluation of the impact of PEPFAR transition on retention in care in South Africa’s Western Cape Province by J Chiliza, R Laing, F G Feeley, A T Brennan

“…We used aggregate data from 61 facilities supported by four non-governmental organisations from 2007 to 2015. The main outcome was RIC 12 months after antiretroviral therapy initiation for two periods – during PEPFAR and post PEPFAR. …”
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Comparison of Deep-Learning-Based Segmentation Models: Using Top View Person Images by Imran Ahmed, Misbah Ahmad, Fakhri Alam Khan, Muhammad Asif

“…The second model is based on FCN called U-Net with Encoder-Decoder architecture. The encoder is mainly comprised of a contracting path, also called an encoder, which captures the context in the image and symmetric expanding path called decoder to enable accurate location. …”
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Exploring the Effect of Asperity Order on Mechanical Character of Joint Specimen from the Perspective of Damage by Zhouhao Yuan, Yicheng Ye, Binyu Luo

“…The damaged area, damage volume, AE energy rate, and accumulative AE energy of the joint specimen with unevenness are larger than those of the specimen with only waviness, and this difference increases with the normal stress increase; (3) the difference between the joint specimen with unevenness and specimen with only waviness mainly exists in the prepeak nonlinear stage and the postpeak softening stage. …”
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Quality of life in people with syndromic heritable thoracic aortic disease and their relatives: a qualitative interview based study by Gry Velvin, Heidi Johansen, Gunnbjørg Aune, Kerstin Fugl-Meyer, Amy Østertun Geirdal

“…Significant themes were identified, extracted, and organised undergoing content analyses. Results The two main themes and 10 subthemes identified; I. Psychosocial well-being; (i) Social engagement and activity, (ii) Self-sufficient in daily living, (iii) Participation in education and work life, (iv) Coping with fear related to the disease, (v) Being able to control and accept fatigue and pain, (vi) Maintaining active engagement with family and friends (vii) Finding health-promoting physical activities. …”
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Bokvalg i norske barnehager - hva som leses sammen med barn og hvorfor by Agnes-Margrethe Bjorvand, Monica G. Mitchell, Katarzyna A. Tunkiel, Marianne Undheim

“…However, when teachers mainly read books that children find enjoyable, that is books already known to the children, we find that there is an untapped potential in ECEC institutions to promote newer books, both individual titles and series.  …”
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Determining Factors and Zootechnical Output of Biosecurity Practices in Fish Farms in the Wouri Division, Cameroon by Fonkwa Georges, Makombu Judith Georgette, Kamdem Alex Henri, Kametieu Djamou Franck, Nack Jacques, Awah-Ndukum Julius, Tomedi Eyango Minette, Tchoumboue Joseph

“…The lack of finance (57.57%) was the main constraint to the biosecurity practice. The high fish mortality rate (>15%) was recorded in 66% of the farms. …”
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Research hotspots and trends in lung cancer STAS: a bibliometric and visualization analysis by Xiuhua Peng, Hupo Bian, Hongxing Zhao, Dan Jia, Mei Li, Wenhui Li, Pengliang Xu

“…Keyword clustering categorized the research into four main areas: pathological studies of lung cancer STAS, biological mechanisms, prognostic assessment, and imaging analysis. …”
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An Efficient 3D Convolutional Neural Network for Dose Prediction in Cancer Radiotherapy from CT Images by Lam Thanh Hien, Pham Trung Hieu, Do Nang Toan

“…<b>Objectives</b>: The main objective of this study is to build a high-performance deep learning model for predicting radiation therapy doses for cancer and to develop software to easily manipulate and use this model. …”
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