Efficacy of biocontrol agents against damping-off and Sclerotinia stem rot diseases and their role in eliciting defense in chickpea plants by Yaser H. El-Gammal, Salama A. S. El-Blasy, Neamat A. M. Khalifa, Shereen Abu El-Maaty, Sara B. H. Awaly

“…Interestingly, all the microbial bioagents substantially enhanced chickpea growth parameters, including plant height, number of branches per plant, number of capsules per plant, number of seeds per plant, seed weight per plant, average weight of 100 seeds, and overall chickpea yield. …”
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Economic burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and post-tuberculosis sequelae in low- and middle-income countries: a database compiled from a systematic review and meta-a... by Fabrizio Tediosi, Klaus Reither, Olivia Keiser, Alexandra Walker, Yuling Lin, Marguerite Batta, Sierra Ottilie-Kovelman, Anna Duchenko, Curdin Brugger, Robert S Wallis, Marina Antillon

“…The direct medical costs of COPD ranged from $26 per hospitalisation in India to $2694 per year per patient with severe disease in Mexico, while the costs of acute exacerbation of COPD ranged from $137 to $4207 per exacerbation with both the minimum and maximum costs occurring in Turkey. …”
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Performance evaluation and stability analysis of malt barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) varieties for yield and quality traits in Eastern Amhara, Ethiopia by Abebe Assefa, Getawey Girmay, Tesfaye Alemayehu, Alemu Lakew

“…Plant height (PH, in cm), spike length (SPL, in cm), and number of seeds per spike (SPS) were measured on five randomly selected plants per plot of the central four rows. …”
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Modified Delphi expert elicitation of the clinical and economic burden of obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in England and Northern Ireland by Faizel Osman, Michael Hurst, Belinda Sandler, Taryn Krause, Carla Zema, Teresa Lemmer, Kathleen Noon, Deepak Alexander

“…Recruitment of participants to the study was limited to one expert per site.Methods Responses were collected by electronic quantitative survey. …”
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Paesaggi della memoria della Grande Guerra (1914-1918) Un cambiamento paradigmatico nella ricerca turistica sull’heritage di guerra by Myriam Jansen-Verbeke, Wanda George

“…La ricerca sui processi di turisticizzazione dei luoghi di guerra è per definizione interdisciplinare. La sfida è quella di introdurre nuovi concetti per collegare il passato e il presente, i luoghi del patrimonio culturale e gli eventi della memoria nello spazio e nel tempo, e per riflettere criticamente sui contenuti e sugli usi alla moda di un vago concetto di paesaggio in relazione all’heritage. …”
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APPRENDERE E INSEGNARE LA LINGUA DEI SEGNI ITALIANA (LIS) COME L2-M2 ALL’UNIVERSITÀ: OSSERVAZIONE E ANALISI DI UN PANORAMA ETEROGENEO by Emilia Terziani

“… La Lingua dei Segni Italiana (LIS) è stata riconosciuta ufficialmente in Italia con il Decreto Sostegni del 19.5.2021 (Art. 34 ter: Misure per il riconoscimento della Lingua dei Segni Italiana e l'inclusione delle persone con disabilità uditiva). …”
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Effect of Spine Nerves Muscle Stimulation Combined with Scalp Acupuncture on Shoulder-hand Syndrome after Early Stroke by Huazhong YANG, Yongsheng ZHOU, Haipeng JIA, Qingjun YANG, Lingjuan RAO

“…The control group was treated with scalp acupuncture(The scalp movement area was needled and the midline of the vertex, anterior and posterior oblique line of the parietal of the healthy side were located according to the brain functional area)combined with conventional physiotherapy(included passive joint activity, neural booster and neuromuscular electrical stimulation therapy), 2 hours and 45 minutes per day, 5 days per week. The observation group was treated with spine nerves muscle stimulation combined with scalp acupuncture, 2 hours and 30 minutes per day, 5 days per week. …”
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Typical and Local Diagnostic Reference Levels for Chest and Abdomen Radiography Examinations in Dubai Health Sector by Entesar Z. Dalah, Maitha M. Al Zarooni, Faryal Y. Binismail, Hashim A. Beevi, Mohammed Siraj, Subrahmanian Pottybindu

“…Local DRL (LDRL) values were established per project for the selected radiograph for the whole data (no weight band) and the 60–80 kg population. …”
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The association of public health interventions regarding both infant sleep position and pertussis immunization with sudden infant death syndrome rates: an ecological study by Jacqueline Müller-Nordhorn, Amir Hakimhashemi, Stefan N. Willich, Sylvia Binting, Thomas Keil

“…Methods We calculated SIDS rates per 1000 live births per state. Live births and SIDS were available from 1980 onwards for the West German states and from 1991 onwards for the East German states. …”
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Socioeconomic indicators related to the global burden of breast cancer in women in 2020: an analysis of WHO data by Tingting XU, Ruoyu YANG, Jingjing LI, Yiying FANG

“…The mean values of the 10 selected indicators representing national socioeconomic development were as follows: 2 138.06 ± 7 465.03 million for total female population, 26.58 ± 17.12 μg/m3 for mean annual urban particulate matter concentration; 63.97 ± 57.32 per 10 000 population for density of physicians, 4.01 ± 4.11 per 10 000 population for density of pharmacists, 4.11 ± 4.32 US dollars for net official development assistance received by the medical research and basic health sector per capita, 63.65 ± 20.31 for average of 13 International Health Regulations Core Capacity Scores, 10. 41 ± 5.17% for the percentage of government health expenditure, 68.00 ± 28.65% for the percentage of the population using safely managed sanitation services, 66.05 ± 95.28 million US dollars in official development assistance (ODA) provided through government-coordinated expenditure plans specifically for water and sanitation, and 0.587 ± 0.190 for the inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (HDI). …”
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Cost-effectiveness analysis of proactive home visits compared with site-based community health worker care on antenatal care outcomes in Mali: a cluster-randomised trial by Osondu Ogbuoji, Caroline Whidden, Emily Treleaven, Youssouf Keita, Kassoum Kayentao, Ari Johnson, Jenny X Liu, Minahil Shahid, Mohamed Berthé, Armand Zimmerman, David Charles Boettiger, Coumba Traoré, Mahamadou Sogoba, Saibou Doumbia, Amadou Beydi Cissé

“…The likelihood of the intervention being more cost-effective than the control was 100% at WTP thresholds $0 per ANC utilisation outcome and between $12.5 and $50.00 per ANC utilisation outcome in the CHW- and Full ANC programme perspectives, respectively.Conclusion Our results provide evidence that proactive home visits produce more value per dollar spent as a means of improving the uptake of ANC services compared with fixed-site CHW services.Trial registration number NCT02694055.…”
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Radiation hazards from natural radionuclides contained in rice from former tin mining land by J. Mellawati, N. Madyaningarum, E.A. Fajrianshah, E.B. jumpeno, T.R.D. Larasati, N. Mulyana, E. Nurtjahya, K. Khotimah

“…The estimated risk of Indonesian people getting cancer due to rice consumption is 1.23 people per 10,000 population, lower than reference value (2.9 people per 10,000 population). …”
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Effect of Floating Needle Perfusion Therapy combined with Joint Mobilization on Shoulder Pain of Hemiplegia after Stroke by Xin WANG, Hu LI, Xiuyan LU

“…The affected muscle was taked as the needle entry point, and the needle tip was facing the shoulder joint, after inserting into the loose connective tissue, the needle body was scanned in arc, 100 times per min, one min per group, three groups each time. …”
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Community-based HPV self-collection versus visual inspection with acetic acid in Uganda: a cost-effectiveness analysis of the ASPIRE trial by Joel Singer, Angeli Rawat, Heather Armstrong, Josaphat Byamugisha, Gina S Ogilvie, Alex K Mezei, Heather N Pedersen, Stephen Sy, Catherine Regan, Sheona M Mitchell-Foster, Musa Sekikubo, Jane J Kim, Nicole G Campos

“…The model was used to assess the cost-effectiveness of each arm of ASPIRE, as well as an HPV screen-and-treat strategy (‘HPV-ST’) involving community-based self-collected HPV testing followed by treatment for all HPV-positive women at the clinic.Outcome measures The primary outcomes were reductions in cervical cancer risk and incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs), expressed in dollars per year of life saved (YLS).Results HPV-ST was the most effective and cost-effective screening strategy, reducing the lifetime absolute risk of cervical cancer from 4.2% (range: 3.8%–4.7%) to 3.5% (range: 3.2%–4%), 2.8% (range: 2.4%–3.1%) and 2.4% (range: 2.1%–2.7%) with ICERs of US$130 (US$110–US$150) per YLS, US$240 (US$210–US$280) per YLS, and US$470 (US$410–US$550) per YLS when performed one, three and five times per lifetime, respectively. …”
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Prevalence of dyslipidemia and its influencing factors among adult residents in Hebei province: a cross-sectional survey by Qianyu LI, Yajing CAO, Lijuan TANG, Yuhuan LIU, Xiaoying LU, Qi QI, Shifan WANG, Xiaoli LIU, Ze CUI

“…Unconditional multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that among adult residents, age ≥ 25 years, current smoking, overweight, obesity, central obesity, body fat percentage ≥ 27.2%, and basal metabolic rate ≥ 1 504 kcal were risk factors for dyslipidemia, whereas female gender, rural residence, and sedentary time of 2 – 4 hours per day were protective factors against dyslipidemia; age ≥ 25 years, college education or higher, current smoking, central obesity, and body fat percentage ≥ 37.9% were risk factors for hypercholesterolemia, whereas a basal metabolic rate of 1 199 – 1 503 kcal was a protective factor; age 25 – 64 years, current smoking, consumption of animal and poultry meat 300 – 500 g per week, overweight, obesity, central obesity, and body fat percentage ≥ 27.2% were risk factors, whereas female gender was a protective factor for hypertriglyceridemia; age ≥ 25 years, central obesity, sedentary time ≥ 2 hours per day, and body fat percentage ≥ 37.9% were risk factors, whereas basal metabolic rate 1 199 – 1 503 kcal was a protective factor for hyper-LDL-C; ethnic minority, current smoking, overweight, obesity, central obesity, physical inactivity, body fat percentage 33.0% – 37.8%, and basal metabolic rate ≥ 1 327 kcal were risk factors, whereas being female, aged 45 – 54 years, living in rural areas, drinking alcohol, consuming livestock and poultry meat > 500 g per week, and being sedentary for ≥ 2 hours per day were protective factors for hypo-HDL-C. …”
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Effects of effluent recirculation on two-stage anaerobic digestion in treatment of biodegradable municipal solid waste by P.V. Dinh, T. Fujiwara, A.N. Peni, C.K. Tran

“…Then, the liquid part was collected and pumped into the methane reactor at an organic loading rate of 7.64 grams of total solids per liter per day at 36 degrees Celsius. The methane reactor was an up-flow reactor that contained both granular sludge and suspended sludge. …”
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Evaluation of Yield, Yield Component and Usefulness Indices of Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) and Maize (Zea mays) Intercropping under Inoculation with Rhizobium phaseoli by Ebrahim Zolfagari Kotbehsara, Peyman Sharifi, Mohammad Hossein Ansari

“…The analysis involved variance assessment, mean comparisons, and calculations of intercropping usefulness indices, all performed using R software.Results and DiscussionIn bean, the effect of inoculation were significant on plant height, number of pods per plant, number of seeds per pod, pod length, hundred seed weight, biological yield, seed yield, harvest index and the effect of intercropping were significant on plant height, number of pods per plant, number of seeds per pod, biological yield, seed yield and harvest index and the interaction effects of two factor were significant on plant height, biological yield and seed yield. …”
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Global comparison of the economic costs of coronary heart disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Lan Gao, Susan Brumby, Crystal Man Ying Lee, George Mnatzaganian, Suzanne Robinson, Helen Brown, Rachel Huxley, Anna Peeters, Dan Xu, James Boyd, Sean Randall, Adrienne O’Neil, Sangita Shakya, Sarah Gauci, Anita Shrestha, James Lucas

“…In most countries, the annual cost of CHD exceeds many times the total health expenditure per capita. The pooled direct annual cost of CHD per patient varied from 4.9% to 137.8% of GDP per capita (Int$ purchasing power parity), with pooled percentage of 21.7% (95% CI 15.3, 28.1) for those with CHD. …”
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Do doctors in dispensing practices with a financial conflict of interest prescribe more expensive drugs? A cross-sectional analysis of English primary care prescribing data by Ben Goldacre, Carl Reynolds, Anna Powell-Smith, Alex J Walker, Tom A Yates, Richard Croker, Liam Smeeth

“…Total cost savings in England available from all four classes are £628 875 per month or £7 546 502 per year.Conclusions Doctors in dispensing practices are more likely to prescribe higher cost drugs. …”
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THE IMPACT OF THE ADDITIONAL CREDIT ON THE ECONOMIC GROWTH AND PERSONAL INCOME. IS IT ALWAYS POSITIVE? by Sylwester Kozak

“…The paper presents results of the analysis on relationship between credit growth and the GDP growth and growth of personal income (GDP per capita) in 2004-2011. The test was based on a panel regression model using data from the World Bank. …”
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