Prevalence of Intestinal Schistosomiasis and Associated Factors among School Children in Wondo District, Ethiopia by Mustafa Geleto Ansha, Kemal Ahmed Kuti, Ephrem Girma

“…The prevalence of S. mansoni was moderate as per the World Health Organization standard, since it was in the range of 10%–50%. …”
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Environmental maternal exposures and the risk of premature birth and intrauterine growth restriction: The Generation Gemelli study protocol of newborn exposome. by Leonardo Villani, Angelo Maria Pezzullo, Roberta Pastorino, Alessandra Maio, Francesca Stollagli, Chiara Tirone, Marta Barba, Angela Maria Cozzolino, Denise Pires Marafon, Martina Porcelli, Annamaria Sbordone, Maria Letizia Patti, Anthea Bottoni, Angela Paladini, Simona Fattore, Domenico Marco Romeo, Ornella Parolini, Wanda Lattanzi, Guido Rindi, Luca Tamagnone, Marco Marazza, Maurizio Genuardi, Elisabetta Tabolacci, Eugenio Maria Mercuri, Antonio Chiaretti, Tina Pasciuto, Maurizio Sanguinetti, Vincenzo Valentini, Giovanni Scambia, Walter Ricciardi, Giovanni Vento, Antonio Lanzone, Stefania Boccia

“…With approximately 4,000 annual deliveries, we aim to enroll 140 cases (newborns with IUGR and premature birth) and 280 controls per year, from September 2022. A comprehensive questionnaire will be used to gather information about various types of maternal environmental exposures before and during pregnancy. …”
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A novel tool for assessing pediatric emergency care in low- and middle-income countries: a pilot study by Sonia Y. Jarrett, Andrew Redfern, Joyce Li, Camilo E. Gutierrez, Priyanka Patel, Olurotimi Akinola, Michelle L. Niescierenko

“…The majority, 44%, of these hospitals saw pediatric patient volumes of 2,000–4,999 patients per year. Dedicated pediatric triage spaces and resuscitation spaces were available at 37.5% and 56.3%, respectively. …”
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Anti-inflammatory effect of sea buckthorn in an HCl-induced cystitis rat model by Hyun Suk Yoon, Juyeon Yu, Shinhoon Kang, Hana Yoon

“…Pathologic inflammation grade (H&E staining), number of mast cells per square millimeter (toluidine blue staining), fibrotic changes (Masson’s trichrome staining), and apoptosis (terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick end labeling staining) of bladder tissue samples were compared among the groups. …”
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Treat-to-target strategy with secukinumab as a first-line biological disease modifying anti-rheumatic drug compared to standard-of-care treatment in patients with active axial spon... by Xenofon Baraliakos, Denis Poddubnyy, Ludwig Hammel, Marvin Heyne, Justyna Veit, Claudia Jentzsch

“…The primary endpoint is the proportion of patients achieving an Assessment in SpondyloArthritis International Society 40% (ASAS40) response at week 24.Ethics and dissemination The study is being conducted as per the ethical principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and after approval from independent ethics committees/institutional review boards. …”
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Eficacia de inhibidores de nitrito de calcio (CNI) en concreto agrietado by Pedro Montes-Garcia, H. Z. López-Calv, T. W Bremner

“…The slabs were exposed to a natural marine environment during five years with two cycles of wetting and drying per day at the Fundy Bay Maine, U. S. A. The specimens were also visually inspected on regular basis and the surface damage was recorded. …”
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Variability of daily feed intake as an indicator of resilience in Pietrain pigs by C. Casto-Rebollo, P. Nuñez, S. Gol, J. Reixach, N. Ibáñez-Escriche

“…A total of 111 121 DFI records of 1 634 healthy purebred Pietrain boars were used, ranging from 47 to 90 days, with an average of 69 DFI records per boar. Three RIs were calculated: residual variance, RMSE and logarithm of the variance of the deviations from an expected pattern (LnVar). …”
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EFFECT OF IRRIGATION INTERVAL ON GROWTH AND ARTEMISININ CONTENT OF WORMWOOD (Artemisia annua L.) CHEN YOUNG VARIETY IN SOKOTO by Lawal Gandi ABDULKADIR, Adamu Aliyu ALIERO, Hassan Muhammad MAISHANU, Abdullahi Yahaya ABBAS

“…The calibration curve was constructed by plotting the peak area against the concentration by the external standard method on five concentration levels of artemisinin standard (5, 10, 15, 20, and 25 µg/ml), with three injections per level. Linear regression was used to establish the calibration curve. …”
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Feeding levels during early gestation in a group-housing system for primiparous sows: impact on piglet birthweight and litter uniformity by Natchanon Dumniem, Thomas D. Parsons, Padet Tummaruk

“…At farrowing, data were collected on the total number of piglets born per litter, piglet birthweights, and the coefficient of variation of piglet birthweights. …”
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Dynamics of the biodiversity of black and white cattle influenced by cross-breeding by N. A. Zinovieva, E. A. Gladyr, V. A. Bagirov, G. Brem

“…It was found that the increase in Holstein’s blood could lead to the observed decrease in genetic diversity evaluated by the average number of effective alleles per loci (from 4,59 ± 0,46 to 3,87 ± 0,53), by the value of the Shannon index (from 1,60 ± 0,13 to 1,46 ± 0,14) and by the observed heterozygosity degree (from 0,779 ± 0,053 to 0,687 ± 0,055). …”
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Threshold effects of sleep duration and cognitive function in older adults with BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2 by Kunyu Qiu, Kunyu Qiu, Yilei Liu, Chengwei Hu, Jie Gu, Yanyan Huang

“…When sleep duration was less than 5 and 6 h per day, sleep duration was positively correlated with CERAD test scores [ß (95% CI): 2.11 (1.17, 3.05), p < 0.0001], AFT scores [β (95% CI): 0.25 (−0.17, 0.67), p = 0.2376], and DSST scores [ß (95% CI): 0.49 (−0.57, 1.56), p = 0.3654]. …”
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Prevalence and factors associated with water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facilities deprivation among children in Nigeria by Chima Victor, Joseph Ayodeji Kupoluyi, Funmilola Folasade Oyinlola, Victor Ojoajogwu Sule

“…In Nigeria, children under 18 years are most deprived of WASH, with about 70 per cent lacking access to facilities. There is paucity of information on factors associated with WASH facilities deprivation in Nigeria, especially in the context of children. …”
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Alpine vegetation community patterns in the Khumbu region, Nepalese Himalaya by Ruolin Leng, Stephan Harrison, Elizabeth A. Byers, Mahesh Magar, Harkrei Rai, Ram Raj Rijal, Karen Anderson

“…Here we use fine spatial resolution satellite imagery from WorldView-2 (2 m2 per pixel) coupled with elevation model data from the Copernicus GLO-30 product to produce a land cover classification for the HAZ. …”
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Indirect contacts between Danish pig farms – what are the frequencies and risk-reducing measures, and how can they be used in simulation models? by Mette Fertner, Beate Conrady, Anne Sax Røgind, Elisabeth Okholm Nielsen, Anette Boklund

“…Results The questionnaire for veterinarians stated that the majority of veterinarians specialized within pig practice would visit > 3 pig farms per day, with pig farms being located with an average distance between the farms of 15 km. …”
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Torque visuomotor feedback training versus standard eccentric exercise for the management of patellar tendinopathy: protocol for a randomised controlled trial by David Evans, Francesco Negro, Michail Arvanitidis, Eduardo Martinez-Valdes, Ragul Selvamoorthy, Patricio Pincheira

“…The EE group will perform their exercises two times per day, while the TF group will do so 2–3 times a week. …”
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The effect of thymus vulgaris extract and probiotic on growth performance, blood parameters, intestinal morphology, and litter quality of broiler chickens fed low-protein diets by Ali Golshahi, Mahmoud Shams Shargh, Behrouz Dastar, Enayat Rahmatnejad

“…TVE improved protein efficiency ratio (PER) and energy efficiency ratio (EER), while both TVE and probiotics enhanced European production efficiency factor (EPEF) to levels like normal-CP diets (P < 0.05). …”
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EMNet: A Novel Few-Shot Image Classification Model with Enhanced Self-Correlation Attention and Multi-Branch Joint Module by Fufang Li, Weixiang Zhang, Yi Shang

“…Traditional models require a large amount of labeled data for training, while few-shot learning trains models using only a small number of samples (just a few samples per class) to recognize new categories. EMNet shows its potential for bio-inspired algorithms in optimizing feature extraction and enhancing generalization capabilities. …”
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The impact of Ramadan fasting on oxidative stress levels in the second trimester of pregnancy by Esin Kasap, Raziye Torun, Sema Kardeşler, Gökşen Görgülü, M. Bora Bozgeyik, Yılmaz Güzel, Ebru Şahin Güleç

“…The fasting hours were about 14 h per day in that season. Pregnant women in the second trimester were enrolled in the study. …”
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Mechanisms and thresholds of land use affecting surface water quality in Hangzhou City’s residential areas by Qianhu Chen, Jinye Huang

“…However, we can successfully control this negative impact by increasing the degree of green space dominance and aggregation. (3) To meet the standards for Class III water quality, various types of residential areas must adopt distinct control indicator thresholds: Compared to multi-story residential areas’ dispersed green spaces, small high-rise residential areas feature highly interconnected and clustered green spaces, which increases surface runoff pooling and spillover. Green spaces per unit area must perform environmental purification in high-rise residential areas due to their higher population density, which puts more demands on their design and ecological service activities. …”
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How patients and informal caregivers can be trained to effectively contribute to improved quality of healthcare services: action research on the development of the Dutch Patient As... by Carolin Sehlbach, Sjim Romme, Max Hermans, Matthijs Hugo Bosveld, Angela Plak, Marloes Amantia van Bokhoven

“…Evaluation methods varied per development cycle and included open-ended questionnaires (N=27) and semistructured interviews (N=35) as well as agile evaluation sessions of all 15 training sessions.Setting and participants We purposively sampled patients and informal caregivers who had prior experience in patient and public involvement. …”
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