Functional Analysis of Genes Encoding Juvenile Hormone Receptor <i>Met</i> and Transcription Factor <i>Kr-h1</i> in the Reproductive Capacity of <i>Coccinella septempunctata</i> Ma... by Ying Cheng, Yuhang Zhou, Cao Li

“…<i>Kr-h1</i> expression in 5-day-old adult males was lower in diets lacking JH but was higher in 10-day-old males fed on a diet lacking JH. …”
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Effects of age and circadian rhythm on vital parameters and erythrocyte osmotic fragility of donkeys during seasonal changes. by Moses Ayo-Opemipo Olorunfemi, Abdulhakeem Binhambali, Victor Olusegun Sinkalu, Mohammed Babashani, Felix Uchenna Samuel, Joseph Olusegun Ayo

“…Young donkeys exhibited the highest erythrocyte osmotic fragility during the hot-dry season, while old donkeys showed elevated fragility during the rainy season. …”
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High Healthcare Utilization in Adolescents with Sickle Cell Disease Prior to Transition to Adult Care: A Retrospective Study by Julie Kanter, Menaka Bhor, Xin Li, Frank Li, Jincy Paulose

“…**Objectives:** To describe current treatment patterns, pain crises prevalence, SCD-related complications, and healthcare resource utilization (HCRU) in 16-to-18-year-old patients with SCD. **Methods:** From 1/1/2015-6/30/2017 using MarketScan Databases, patients were included if they were 16 to 18 years old at the index date, had ≥1 inpatient or 2 outpatient SCD diagnosis claims during the identification period, and were continuously enrolled in the database for at least one year prior (baseline) and post index date. …”
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Visual-Evoked-Response-Supported Outcome of Intravitreal Erythropoietin in Management of Indirect Traumatic Optic Neuropathy by Mohammad Ahmad Rashad, Ahmed Abdel Meguid Abdel Latif, Hazem A. Mostafa, Samah Mahmoud Fawzy, Mahmoud Abdel Meguid Abdel Latif

“…Differences between recent and old trauma groups were insignificant in the three parameters. …”
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Analysis of whole-genome binding patterns of GAGA and CNC transcription factors during Drosophila melanogaster development by I. I. Brusentsov, D. A. Karagodin, E. M. Baricheva, T. I. Merkulova

“…Thus from 353 genes with overlapped GAGA and CNC binding loci on the 0–12 hour old embryos and 611 genes on the 0–12 hour old embryos only 61 genes “belong” to both stages. …”
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Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair for Blunt Thoracic Aortic Injury: A Report of Three Cases in Which Surgeries Were Performed at Different Timings by Yohei Kawatani, Hirotsugu Kurobe, Yoshitsugu Nakamura, Yuji Suda, Takaki Hori

“…Case 1 involved a 49-year-old man injured in a car accident and who went into shock. …”
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Vaccination status and hepatitis A immunity in children: insights from a large-scale study in Turkey by Metin Yigit, Furkan Kalayci

“…Patients were categorized into four groups based on vaccination status: under-vaccinated (children 6–18 months old), single-dose vaccinated (children 18–24 months old), fully vaccinated (children over 24 months old born after March 1, 2011), and unvaccinated (born before March 1, 2011, when routine hepatitis A vaccination began). …”
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Physical Activity and Sedentary Patterns among Metabolically Healthy Individuals Living with Obesity by Marika de Winter, Brittany V. Rioux, Jonathan G. Boudreau, Danielle R. Bouchard, Martin Sénéchal

“…This study includes 414 youth (12–18 years old), 802 adults (19–44 years old), and 1230 older adults (45–85 years old) living with obesity from the 2003-2004 or 2005-2006 NHANES cycles. …”
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Older people at risk in times of pandemic? A qualitative study of coping narratives that support resilience in older people by Lucía Pérez Sánchez, Beatriz Guadalupe Maza Pérez, Guiana Fernández De Lara López

“…This underlines the importance of including other ways in which old age is lived and studied, and therefore in the methodologies and proposals for intervention.…”
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Educational program on oral health aimed at families with preschool children residing in the Balboa Neighborhood by Nancy Díaz Canedo, Yanisleydi Morales Cruz, Maricelys de la Caridad Hernández Cabeza, Yety Isabel Rosado Fernández, Gilberto Salas Contreras, Yainí Frenes Pérez

“…The relatives were between 20 and 34 years old. The main risk factors identified were poor oral hygiene, incorrect tooth brushing and cariogenic diet. …”
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Interplay between Body Size Measures and Thyroid Cancer Aggressiveness: A Retrospective Analysis by Thaís Gomes de Melo, Ligia Vera Montali da Assumpção, Denise Engelbrecht Zantut-Wittmann

“…Patients aged <45 years old with extrathyroidal invasion tumor had greater baseline body weight and BSA than those without extrathyroidal invasion (median 79.5 kg versus 67 kg and 1.85 m2 versus 1.74 m2). …”
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SAPHO Syndrome Mimicking Infectious Spondylodiscitis and Bone Metastasis by S. Biuden, K. Maatallah, H. Riahi, H. Ferjani, M. D. Kaffel, W. Hamdi

“…We described three cases where the diagnosis was difficult. A 46 year-old woman presented with cervical pain. The cervical X-ray showed the aspect of an ivory C5 vertebra. …”
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Subdural empyema in patient with SARS-CoV-2 positivity: A rare case report of 3 patients by Hamidreza Aghadoost, MD, Ghazaleh Salehabadi, MD-MPH, Esmaeil Fakharian, MD

“…The first case is a 17-year-old female presented with a 1-week history of severe progressive headache, right-sided ptosis, and left-sided hemiplegia with a history of COVID-19 in about 40 days before admission. …”
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Food insecurity increases the risk of overweight and chronic diseases in adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Chong Zhou, Hongrui Miao, Yingjun Zhao, Xiaohong Wan

“…The pooled OR indicated no significant association between FI and OW/OB, when the adolescents were stratified into those under 6 years old and those between 6 and 18 years old. Eleven studies assessed the relationship between FI and the risk of chronic diseases. …”
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Reversible Manifestations of Hypothyroidism causing Diagnostic Dilemma: A Case Series by Kaushik Hazra, Somnath Maitra, Sunetra Roy, Isha Ghosh

“…Hereby the authors present a combination of three cases (50-year-old female, 22-year-old female, 56-year-old female): ascites, congenital hypothyroidism and myxoedema coma, respectively. …”
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Examining the Role of Preserving Medical Records at Kamuganguzi HCIV. by Mugabirwe, Gift

“…Records management staff should be trained in the old and new system formats, to ensure they have the skills needed to recommend the right system and can implement and test migration efficiently and the government should adopt a community cloud that would be managed and used by the institutions concerned to ensure access to and the reuse of the same or old data from the old system in the new technological system.…”
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Quale posto per il passato nella città? Narrazioni e pratiche di recupero nella città vecchia di Taranto by Vincenzo Luca Lo Re

“…This contribution results from ethnographic research on the reuse practices of abandoned spaces, conducted between 2019 and 2021 in the context of the old city of Taranto, a historic urban centre characterised by depopulation phenomena and a long history of settlement and sedimentation of meanings and practices. …”
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Adolescent Weight Status and Self-Reported School Performance in South Korea by Young Kyung Do, Eric Andrew Finkelstein

“…Using a nationally representative sample of 142 783 middle school (13–15 years old) and high school (16–18 years old) students in South Korea, this study examined whether (1) overweight and obesity are more likely to be associated with lower self-reported school performance; (2) overweight and obese students are more likely to enrol in a vocational high school as opposed to a general high school; (3) the association between obesity and poorer self-reported school performance is mediated through body image stress and health status. …”
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Laparoscopic Nephrectomy with Adrenalectomy for Synchronous Adrenal Myelolipoma and Renal Cell Carcinoma by Kallappan Senthil, Manickam Ramalingam, Karpagam Janardhan, Anandan Murugesan, Mizar Ganapathy Pai

“…Case Report. A 60-year-old old gentleman presented with incidental right upper polar mass with right adrenal mass. …”
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Predicting real-world navigation performance from a virtual navigation task in older adults. by Sarah Goodroe, Pablo Fernandez Velasco, Christoffer J Gahnstrom, Jan Wiener, Antoine Coutrot, Michael Hornberger, Hugo J Spiers

“…In a previous study with young participants (18-35 years old), we were able to predict navigation performance in real-world tasks in London and Paris using this mobile app. …”
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