Effects of Smoking on Intima-Media Thickness of the Common Carotid Artery Using Ultrasonography by Asmaa Mustafa Alsiddig, Ibrahim Abdelrhim Ali

“…The study showed that there was a significant positive correlation between IMT and the number of cigarettes per day in chronic smokers (p < 0.05), whereas peak systolic velocity (PSV) and end-diastolic velocity (EDV) were not affected in chronic smokers. …”
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Comparison of airway pressure release ventilation (APRV) versus biphasic positive airway pressure (BIPAP) ventilation in COVID-19 associated ARDS using transpulmonary pressure moni... by Sandra Emily Stoll, Tobias Leupold, Hendrik Drinhaus, Fabian Dusse, Bernd W. Böttiger, Alexander Mathes

“…In APRV, mean tidal- volume per body- weight (7.05 ± 1.28 vs. 5.03 ± 0.77 ml; p < .01) and mean airway- pressure (27.08 ± 1.67 vs. 22.68 ± 2.62mbar; p < .01) were higher. …”
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Knowledge of mothers on diaper dermatitis management and associated factors in Ethiopia by Atoma Negera, Midekso Sento, Gemechu Tola

“…The majority (83.6%) of mothers uses disposable diapers only, and 84.8% change 0–2 times per day. The output of logistic regression shows that being a 7–12 month-old child (aOR = 4.03; 95% Cl (1.41–11.50)), being a male child (aOR = 2.16; 95% Cl (1.14–4.06)), and being firstborn (aOR = 5.95; 95% Cl (1.39, 25.53)) variables had a significant association with knowledge of mothers. …”
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Optimal Dispatch of Reactive Power Using Modified Stochastic Fractal Search Algorithm by Thang Trung Nguyen, Dieu Ngoc Vo, Hai Van Tran, Le Van Dai

“…Compared to SSFS, the three modifications can bring advantages to MSFS such as using smaller number of produced solutions per iteration, spending shorter execution time, finding better optimal solutions, and owning more stable search ability. …”
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Synthesis of Potato Starch-Acrylic-Acid Hydrogels by Gamma Radiation and Their Application in Dye Adsorption by Md. Murshed Bhuyan, Nirmal Chandra Dafader, Kazuhiro Hara, Hirotaka Okabe, Yoshiki Hidaka, Md. Mizanur Rahman, Mohammad Mizanur Rahman Khan, Nazia Rahman

“…The optimum dye adsorption was found to be 576 mg per g of the hydrogel having 7.5 starch and 15% AAc composition. …”
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Prevalence and density of Elaphostrongylus rangiferi larvae in faecal samples of semi-domestic reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus) in Norway 2013-16 by Terje Domaas Josefsen, Torill Mørk, Ingebjørg Helena Nymo, Javier Sanchez Romano, Morten Tryland

“…The density of larvae was measured by counting and calculating number of larvae per gram faeces (LPG) in positive samples. Results E. rangiferi larvae were found in 109 of 355 faecal samples (31%). …”
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Deaths in children in England from SARS-CoV-2 infection during the first 2 years of the pandemic: a cohort study by Shamez N Ladhani, Peter Fleming, Tom Williams, Karen Luyt, Godwin Oligbu, David Odd, Sylvia Stoianova, Anna Thursby-Pelham

“…Overall mortality rate due to COVID-19 in CYP was 3.59 (2.88–4.42) per 1 000 000 person years, being highest in the youngest (&lt; 5 years; 4.68 (3.16–6.68)) and oldest (16/17 years; 4.83 (2.57–8.26)) CYP. …”
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Characterization of Hazelnut Trees in Open Field Through High-Resolution UAV-Based Imagery and Vegetation Indices by Maurizio Morisio, Emanuela Noris, Chiara Pagliarani, Stefano Pavone, Amedeo Moine, José Doumet, Luca Ardito

“…A dataset of 4112 images, each having 2Mpixel resolution per tree and covering RGB, Red Edge, and near-infrared frequencies, was obtained from 185 hazelnut trees located in two different orchards of the Piedmont region (northern Italy). …”
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Studying yield components and attractions indices in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) accessions in the Northern Zone of the Volga-Akhtuba Floodplain by A. P. Ivakin, A. A. Grushin

“…Strong positive correlations were observed between the seed weight per one plant and such characters as the number of pods, aggregate weight, weight of pods, and weight of valves. …”
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Time to Reach Full Enteral Feeding and Its Predictors among Very Low Birth Weight Neonates Admitted in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Follow-Up Cohort Study by Belay Alemayehu Getahun, Sileshi Mulatu, Hailemariam Mekonnen Workie

“…The overall incidence rate of full enteral feeding was 7.8 per 100 person day observations. The median survival time was 7 days. …”
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“I think we're on a cusp of some change:” coping and support for mental wellness among Black American women by Terika McCall, Terika McCall, Terika McCall, Meagan Foster, Holly Tomlin, Holly Tomlin, Bolatito Adepoju, Mckenzie Bolton-Johnson, Chyrell D. Bellamy

“…This study aimed to gain a better understanding of Black women's: (1) past and current causes of stress, anxiety, and depression, and coping skills used; (2) their attitudes and perceptions toward mental health and receiving mental health treatment; and (3) times in their life they felt anxious or depressed, and what type of support or resources would have been helpful to have access to.MethodsFocus groups were conducted with 20 women (mean age 36.6 years, SD 17.8 years), with 5 participants per group. Descriptive qualitative content analysis of the focus group transcripts was conducted.ResultsResults consistently showed that intersectional identities of being both Black and a woman resulted in feelings of both hypervisibility and invisibility, representation matters when it comes to mental health providers, an increased openness to therapy across age groups, and a willingness to try digital health tools (e.g., smartphone app) for mental health needs. …”
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Brodalumab: Six-Year US Pharmacovigilance Report by Mark G. Lebwohl, John Y. Koo, April W. Armstrong, Bruce E. Strober, Soo Han Yoon, Nicole N. Rawnsley, Earl L. Goehring, Gina D. Mangin, Abby A. Jacobson

“…Methods Crude adverse event (AE) reporting rates per 100 patients were calculated for common AEs and AEs of special interest reported to Ortho Dermatologics by US patients and healthcare providers from August 15, 2017 through August 14, 2023. …”
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The Cost-effectiveness of Celecoxib versus Non-steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs plus Proton-pump Inhibitors for Treating Osteoarthritis in Algeria by Nadir Hammoumraoui, Sid Ahmed Kherraf, Joaquin Mould-Quevedo, Tarek A. Ismail

“…These ICERs are <1 gross domestic product per capita in Algeria (US$7,500). Over 1-year, 3-year and 5-year horizons, celecoxib with/without PPI co-therapy showed higher QALYs/patient versus comparators, and decreasing ICERs. …”
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Determinants of children ever born among ever-married women in Bangladesh: evidence from the Demographic and Health Survey 2017–2018 by Atikur Rahman, Zakir Hossain, Mohammad Lutfor Rahman, Enamul Kabir

“…Mixed logistic regression modelling approach for binary responses was adapted to accommodate clustering effects via the generalised linear mixed model framework.Participants The study is based on 15 924 ever-married women in BDHS 2017–2018 (14 119 in BDHS 2014) of Bangladesh.Results As per the latest BDHS 2017–2018, 42.1% of reproductive women had three or more children. …”
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Predicting nonequilibrium Green’s function dynamics and photoemission spectra via nonlinear integral operator learning by Yuanran Zhu, Jia Yin, Cian C Reeves, Chao Yang, Vojtěch Vlček

“…Besides significant savings per each time step, the new methodology reduces the temporal computational complexity from $O(N_t^3)$ to $O(N_t)$ where N _t is the number of steps taken in a simulation, thereby making it possible to study large many-body problems which are currently infeasible with conventional KBE solvers. …”
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Modelling for deriving management plan for production and environment of marine fish cage farm by Woo Sung Jung, Sok Jin Hong, Sang Pil Yoon, Dae In Lee, Won Chan Lee, Dong Myung Kim

“…Notably, the model reproduced the phenomenon in the 2-year-olds fish of reduced production per cage followed by an increase due to the consideration of density-dependent mortality. …”
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Effect of ethanol extract of nigella sativa L seeds and propofol on BDNF protein level as neuroplasticity and neuroprotection of traumatic brain injury in rats [version 2; peer rev... by Kulsum Kulsum, Syahrul Syahrul, Kartini Hasbalah, Ummu Balqis

“…Results The average BDNF protein levels per group, namely G1 (221,243 pg/mL), G2 (172,139 pg/mL), G3 (255,483 pg/mL), G4 (227,089 pg/mL), and G5 (272,603 pg/mL) respectively. …”
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The Effect of a Patient Activation Tailored Intervention on Type 2 Diabetes Self-Management and Clinical Outcomes: A Study from Saudi Arabian Primary Care Settings by Nasser Almutairi, Vinod Gopaldasani, Hassan Hosseinzadeh

“…The intervention consisted of monthly face-to-face sessions for three months and a telephone follow-up per month for three months postintervention. Descriptive statistics, a paired sample t-test for scale variables, and Wilcoxon’s signed-rank test for categorical variables were used for data analysis. …”
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An Efficient Frequency Encoding Scheme for Optical Convolution Accelerator by Gongyu Xia, Jiacheng Liu, Qilin Hong, Pingyu Zhu, Ping Xu, Zhihong Zhu

“…However, most convolution computations currently require the execution of two-dimensional matrix convolutions, and existing encoding schemes suffer a drop in terms of effective computations per second when performing two-dimensional matrix convolutions. …”
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Teachers’ responses to racism and racist bullying in Dutch primary schools by Karen M. A. Sieben-Aduful, Roy A. Willems, Trijntje Völlink, Nico van der Wiel, Maria Sapouna, Pieter de Bruijn, Gemma Blok, Gemma Blok, Arjan E. R. Bos, Arjan E. R. Bos, Giel van Lankveld

“…While teachers expressed that they talked about racism in the classroom, it seemed that they primarily talked about cultural diversity and not racism per se.ConclusionDealing with racism and racist bullying is an important but complicated task for teachers. …”
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