Formulation and In Vitro Evaluation of Oral Capsules from Liquid Herbal Antimalarials Marketed in Ghana by Christina Osei-Asare, Fredrick William Akuffo Owusu, Philomena Entsie, Ama Kwansima Annan, Rita Akosua Gyamaa, Edem Makafui Amenuke

“…The amount of dry extract per dose of each herbal antimalarial preparation and the wavelength of maximum absorption (λmax) of aqueous solutions of Agbeve, Time, Givers, Masada, and Rooter extract were determined. …”
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Career calling and safety behavior among nurses: a cross-sectional study based on latent profile analysis by Linli Xie, Sijia Xie, Yan Yu, Jie Jing, Min Shi, Lingli Dai

“…Gender and number of night shifts per month were identified as factors influencing the latent profiles of nurses’ career calling. …”
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Multi-Year Pseudo-Persistence, Mobility, and Degradation of Glyphosate and Its Degradation Product (AMPA) in a Gleysol in Quebec (Canada) by Stéphane Petit, Marc Lucotte, Gilles Tremblay

“…Levels ranged between 0.09 and 0.46 μg.g⁻¹. The molar balance per hectare over the first 40 cm showed that the amount of glyphosate present in the form of AMPA in the soils sometimes exceeds the amount of glyphosate applied during the previous season (10.54 or 5.27 mol glyphosate.ha⁻¹). …”
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Patterns of paternity: insights into mating competition and gene flow in a recovering population of humpback whales by Franca Eichenberger, Emma L. Carroll, Claire Garrigue, Debbie J. Steel, Claire D. Bonneville, Luke Rendell, Ellen C. Garland

“…Paternity analysis of 177 mother–offspring pairs and 936 males revealed low variation in male reproductive success (average 1.17 offspring per father) relative to other polygynous species. …”
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Factors affecting rental use in the lower Silesia province during the pandemic period by Olena Ivashko, Kamila Urbańska, Arkadiusz Górski, Agnieszka Parkitna, Olgierd Jeż

“…During the pandemic period, the number of divorces in Poland increased from 13.4 per 10,000 people in 2020 to 15.9 in 2022. The research was carried out in the cities of the Lower Silesian province, which is mainly populated by young people living away from the family home, unable to nest with their parents after the breakup of a relationship.…”
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Technology to improve reliable access to oxygen in Western Uganda: study protocol for a phased implementation trial in neonatal and paediatric wards by Graham Moore, Hamish Graham, Rami Subhi, Sheillah Bagayana, Joseph Mugerwa, David Peake, Eleanor Nakintu, Daniel Murokora, Roger Rassool, Marc Sklar, Bryn Sobott

“…Standardised baseline data collection and needs assessment will be conducted, followed by implementation of the FREO2 Oxygen System in combination with pulse oximetry in 1–2 facilities per month over a 16-month period, with a total 23-month data collection period. …”
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Prevalence and Imaging Characteristics of Palatine Tonsilloliths Detected by CT in 2,873 Consecutive Patients by Akira Takahashi, Chieko Sugawara, Takaharu Kudoh, Daisuke Uchida, Tetsuya Tamatani, Hirokazu Nagai, Youji Miyamoto

“…The number of tonsilloliths per palatine tonsil ranged from one to 18. The size of the tonsilloliths ranged from 1 to 10 mm. …”
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Neonatal Bacterial Meningitis: Single Reference Center Experience and Review of Current Literature: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Alper Aykanat, Hasan Tolga Celik, Gulsen Hazirolan, Sule Yigit, Murat Yurdakok

“…The incidence of culture-proven NBM among suspected patients was 5.7% (n=15/264); while the incidence is 3.1 per 1000 (15/4574) at all Neonatal Intensive Care Unit admissions. …”
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Effects of Opened and Closed Spillway Operations of a Large Tropical Hydroelectric Dam on the Water Quality of the Downstream River by Fiona-Annilow Wera, Teck-Yee Ling, Lee Nyanti, Siong-Fong Sim, Jongkar Grinang

“…Furthermore, as the water flows downstream, the unhealthy DO level (<5 mg/L) extended up to 165 km and the linear model showed an increasing DO rate of 0.09 mg/L per km. With opened spillway, DO decreased exponentially from 9.74 mg/L towards the downstream direction to 7.67 mg/L. …”
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Effectiveness of dry needling combined with eccentric strength training in lateral epicondylalgia with trigger points by Sukumar Shanmugam, Lawrence Mathias, Ramprasad Muthukrishnan, Praveen Kumar Kandakurti, Satheeskumar Durairaj

“…Methods For four weeks, the experimental group ( n = 19) received DN with weekly one session, and the control group ( n = 19) received therapeutic ultrasound combined with deep friction massage for 2 sessions per week at the active sites of active MTrPs. Both groups performed two eccentric exercises sessions from the 5th to the 6th week. …”
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A retrospective study on potential drug‒drug interactions in patients with severe asthma receiving biological therapy: a single-center experience by Mirna Momcilovic, Petra Turcic, Franka Butkovic, Sanja Popovic Grle

“…Interactions of level C, D and X were recorded in, as follows: 83.33%, 25% and 33.33% patients with an average of 4.66, 1.53 and 1.9 interactions per patient. Only 13.33% of the patients had none of the potential clinically significant DDI. …”
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Controlled Fabrication of Native Ultra‐Thin Amorphous Gallium Oxide From 2D Gallium Sulfide for Emerging Electronic Applications by AbdulAziz AlMutairi, Aferdita Xhameni, Xuyun Guo, Irina Chircă, Valeria Nicolosi, Stephan Hofmann, Antonio Lombardo

“…The ultrathin nature of the produced oxide enables low operation power with energy use as low as 0.22 nJ per operation while maintaining endurance and retention of 350 cycles and 104 s, respectively. …”
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Changing patterns of global nitrogen deposition driven by socio-economic development by Jianxing Zhu, Yanlong Jia, Guirui Yu, Qiufeng Wang, Nianpeng He, Zhi Chen, Honglin He, Xianjin Zhu, Pan Li, Fusuo Zhang, Xuejun Liu, Keith Goulding, David Fowler, Peter Vitousek

“…The gross domestic product per capita is found to be highly and non-linearly correlated with global nitrogen deposition dynamic evolution, and reduced nitrogen deposition peaks higher and earlier than oxidized nitrogen deposition. …”
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Achieving Hepatitis C Micro-Elimination in Chinese Injecting Drug Users: A Dynamic Network Modeling Study by Ying Chen, Yun Bao, Mengxia Yan, Huajie Jin, Kaijie Yao, Chi Zhang, Wen Li, Bin Wu

“…The intervention is dominant, with a cost-effectiveness ratio of − $3482.29 (95% CI  − $3982.73 to  − $3020.11) per quality-adjusted life year. Conclusion Achieving the WHO’s hepatitis C virus elimination targets among people who inject drugs in China is feasible and cost-saving.…”
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SSMM-DS: A semantic segmentation model for mangroves based on Deeplabv3+ with swin transformer by Zhenhua Wang, Jinlong Yang, Chuansheng Dong, Xi Zhang, Congqin Yi, Jiuhu Sun

“…Using GF-1 and GF-6 images, taking mean precision (mPrecision), mean intersection over union (mIoU), floating-point operations (FLOPs), and the number of parameters (Params) as evaluation metrics, we evaluate SSMM-DS against state-of-the-art models, including FCN, PSPNet, OCRNet, uPerNet, and SegFormer. The results demonstrate SSMM-DS's superiority in terms of mIoU, mPrecision, and parameter efficiency. …”
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First-Line Helicobacter pylori Eradication with Vonoprazan, Clarithromycin, and Metronidazole in Patients Allergic to Penicillin by Soichiro Sue, Nobumi Suzuki, Wataru Shibata, Tomohiko Sasaki, Hiroaki Yamada, Hiroaki Kaneko, Toshihide Tamura, Tomohiro Ishii, Masaaki Kondo, Shin Maeda

“…Both the intention-to-treat and per-protocol effectiveness of VPZ-based eradication were 100% (95% CI: 86.1–100%; n=20). …”
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CAREER GUIDANCE EXPERIENCE ABROAD by Sergey N. Tolstoguzov

“…Firstly, the higher the income level per capita in the country, the greater attention is given to vocational guidance. …”
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Virgin coconut oil lessens trichloroacetic acid assault on the stomach and intestine of rats via enhancement of Nrf2 but inhibition of TNF-α, IL1β/NF-kB signalling pathway by OO Oladokun, KO Ajeigbe, MA Adelakun

“…Materials and Methods: Rats received TCA (250 mg/Kg b.wt, p.o) for ten days, followed by either 5 % or 10 % VCO per gram feed alone or in combination with 5FU (50 mg/kg, i.p) for another ten days. …”
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Brain Hemodynamic Intermediate Phenotype Links Vitamin B12 to Cognitive Profile of Healthy and Mild Cognitive Impaired Subjects by Luca Cecchetti, Giada Lettieri, Giacomo Handjaras, Andrea Leo, Emiliano Ricciardi, Pietro Pietrini, Silvia Pellegrini, The Train the Brain Consortium

“…Crucially, the activity of this area significantly predicted subjects’ visual search and attention abilities (p value=0.0023), whereas B12 levels per se failed to do so. Our results demonstrate that the relationship between blood biochemistry and elders’ cognitive abilities is revealed when brain activity is included into the equation, thus highlighting the role of brain imaging as intermediate phenotype.…”
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A simple model of HIV epidemic in Italy: The role of the antiretroviral treatment by Federico Papa, Francesca Binda, Giovanni Felici, Marco Franzetti, Alberto Gandolfi, Carmela Sinisgalli, Claudia Balotta

“…A further compartment is added to represent infected people under antiretroviral therapy. The per capita exit rate from treatment, due to voluntary interruption or failure of therapy, is assumed variable with time. …”
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