Effect of Pulmonary Rehabilitation on Dyspnoea, Functional Capacity and Thoracic Excursion in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Case Report by Priyanka K Chilhate, Lajwanti Lalwani (Adwani)

“…This study focuses on a 67-year-old man who visited a respiratory clinic with breathing problems for the past 15 days and chest pain for the past week. He also had a yellowish cough and occasional fever in the last week. …”
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Patient Preference for Once-Weekly Dosing in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Japan by Rohini Sen, Alan L. Shields, Koichiro Atsuda

“…Patients with T2DM were categorized into one of the three groups: (1) patients on treatment with oral hypoglycemic agent(s) only, (2) patients on combination treatment with oral hypoglycemic agent(s) and insulin, and (3) patients diagnosed with or suspected to have T2DM with no current or past experience with T2DM drug treatment (treatment naïve). …”
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Distribution and Conservation of Ephedra rhytidosperma by Chao Tan, David Kay Ferguson, Yong Yang

“…We used the MaxEnt model to predict the potential geographic distribution of E. rhytidosperma under past, current, and future climatic scenarios based on distributional occurrences and environmental data and investigated the conservation status and its effectiveness. …”
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The prevalence and correlates of biomarker positive unhealthy alcohol use among women living with and without HIV in San Francisco, California. by Jennifer P Jain, Yifei Ma, Carol Dawson-Rose, Glenn-Milo Santos, Alvina Han, Jennifer Price, Judith A Hahn, Phyllis C Tien

“…Using multivariable logistic regression, we identified the correlates of PEth levels suggestive of unhealthy alcohol use (>50 ng/ml) among the 168 women who reported no or low-risk drinking (<7 drinks per week) in the past six months, while controlling for age in years and race/ethnicity. …”
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Empirical prediction intervals applied to short term mortality forecasts and excess deaths by Ricarda Duerst, Jonas Schöley

“…Methods Using weekly death data from the Short-term Mortality Database (STMF) for 23 countries, we propose empirical prediction intervals based on the distribution of past out-of-sample forecasting errors for the study of weekly expected and excess deaths. …”
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Recurrent Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus Preceded by Anabolic Steroids and High-Dose L-Arginine by Stephen A. LoBue, Adam Goldman, Richard A. Giovane, Stacy M. Carlson, Michael Bivona, Sinan Albear, Thomas D. LoBue

“…The patient had no significant past medical or past ocular history, including systemic immunosuppressive agents or HIV. …”
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Improving Child Oral Health: A Qualitative Study of Dental Service Provision and Enhancement Strategies by Hossein Jabbari Beyrami, Salar Mohammaddokht, Mahsa Zohdi, Milad Baseri

“…Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate dental services for children in Tabriz over the past five years and to propose strategies for improvement. …”
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Controversial Roles of Regenerating Family Proteins in Tissue Repair and Tumor Development by Luting Yu, Qingyun Wu, Shenglong Jiang, Jia Liu, Junli Liu, Guoguang Chen

“…<b>Background</b>: Over the past 40 years since the discovery of regenerating family proteins (Reg proteins), numerous studies have highlighted their biological functions in promoting cell proliferation and resisting cell apoptosis, particularly in the regeneration and repair of pancreatic islets and exocrine glands. …”
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Multi-level lag scheme significantly improves training efficiency in deep learning: a case study in air quality alert service over sub-tropical area by Benedito Chi Man Tam, Su-Kit Tang, Alberto Cardoso

“…Abstract In environmental monitoring, deep learning models are used where we can either use past observations or extrapolated values with high uncertainty as input. …”
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Forest planning, rural practices, and woodland cover in an 18th-century Alpine Valley (Val di Fiemme, Italy): A geohistorical and GIS-based approach to the history of environmental... by Nicola Gabellieri, Ettore Sarzotti

“…The importance of past human activities in determining the extent and composition of current woodland cover has long been recognized. …”
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Epidemiology of Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Mimi C Yu, Jian-Min Yuan, Sugantha Govindarajan, Ronald K Ross

“…Rates of HCC in the United States have increased by 70% over the past two decades. Registry data in Canada and Western Europe show similar trends. …”
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Electroconvulsive Therapy in a Renal Transplantation Patient: A Rare Combination of Disease and Treatment by Giovanni Malaty, Kerilyn Godbe, Mehdi Elmouchtari, Gurjot Malhi, Justin White, Azziza Bankole, Tracey Criss

“…A 57-year-old Caucasian male with a past psychiatric history of schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type, and a past medical history of end-stage renal disease with recent right renal transplantation was admitted to the inpatient psychiatry unit. …”
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An Update Review to Cast Light on the Possible Role of Altered Oropharyngeal Microbiota in Differentiating True Psychosis from Malingered Psychosis in a Forensic Psychiatric Settin... by Mohsen Khosravi, Domenico De Berardis, Sahel Sarabandi, Sakineh Mazloom, Amir Adibi, Negin Javan, Zahra Ghiasi, Mohammad Nafeli, Negar Rahmanian

“…Over the past few years, malingered psychosis has had a progressive occurrence since a great deal of attention has been directed to the closures of long-stay psychiatric institutions and care in the community. …”
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Association between purpose in life and healthcare use among women and men in Germany: cross-sectional analysis of the nationally representative German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP)... by Hans-Helmut König, André Hajek

“…Adjusting for various potential confounders, regressions revealed that higher purpose in life was associated with an increased frequency of outpatient physician visits in the past 3 months among women (IRR 1.16, 95% CI:1.03 to 1.30), but not men (IRR 0.96, 95% CI 0.87 to 1.07). …”
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A comparison of the parasitoid wasp species richness of tropical forest sites in Peru and Uganda – subfamily Rhyssinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) by Hopkins, Tapani, Tuomisto, Hanna, Gómez, Isrrael C., Sääksjärvi, Ilari E.

“…The global distribution of parasitoid wasp species richness is poorly known. Past attempts to compare data from different sites have been hampered by small sample sizes and lack of standardisation. …”
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Yoon Suk Yeol’s policy towards Japan: Reasons for changing approach and prospects by К. V. Asmolov, О. S. Pugacheva

“…On the other hand, Yoon’s administration emphasizes its intention to develop future-oriented relations with Tokyo, expressing its readiness not to raise controversial issues of the historical past. However, the issue of assessing the colonial past of the ROK as well as ones of building relations with Japan are an extremely sensitive matter in South Korean domestic political life. …”
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Economic aspects of conflicts in the global economy in the conditions of the New Cold War by Оlena Baula, Оksana Urban

“…The main goal is to study past conflicts and compare them with the current geopolitical situation, in order to determine the causes and nature of the modern phenomenon of economic conflict and its connection with the political situation, predict the further development of world events and describe the problems and prospects for the EU and Ukraine in this context. …”
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Romantic balticphilia in Latvian istoriography by Zenonas Butkus

“…Between the First and Second World Wars, Balticphilic idealization of the past was almost unprecedented, because Latvia didn't have international territorial problems. …”
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Academic Philosophy as a Way of Life by Eli Kramer, Marta Faustino, Hélder Telo

“…Preview: Over the past few decades, the idea of philosophy as a way of life (PWL) has gained undeniable prominence in contemporary debates about the nature and function of philosophy. …”
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Level measurement, regional variations, and the dynamic evolution of active aging in China—analysis based on CHARLS tracking data by Jiru Guo, Xiaoli Zhang, Xiaoli Zhang, Longyin Chen, Hong Yang

“…Exploring the current state and evolutionary trends of active aging over the past decade is a fundamental prerequisite and the primary task for implementing this strategy.MethodsBased on data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (2011-2018), this study primarily employs methods such as the entropy method, Gini coefficient, Moran index, and Kernel density estimation to analyze the development level, regional differences, and dynamic evolution of active aging in China.Results(1) From a general point of view, the overall level of active aging in China has not been high in the past decade, but has shown a rising trend year by year. …”
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