Sex Difference in Risk Factors, GRACE Scores, and Management among Post-Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients in Sri Lanka by Priyadarshani Galappatthy, Vipula Bataduwaarachchi, Priyanga Ranasinghe, Gamini Galappatthy, Upul Senerath, Chandrika Wijeyaratne, Ruwan Ekanayake

“…Majority of the ACS patients had either high or intermediate risk for one-year mortality as per the GRACE score. In-hospital and 1-year mean mortality risk was significantly higher among men of less than 65 years of age (p<0.05). …”
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Epidemiological analysis of reported acute glyphosate poisoning in Malaysia: identifying risk factors and high-risk groups (2006–2023) by Yin-Hui Leong, Noor Afiza Abdul Rani, Mohd Fadhli Razali, Nurul Iffah Amir Shah Ruddin, Fahim Mohamed, Nurul Izzah Ahmad

“…The incidence rate declined from 1.17 per 100 000 in 2011 to 0.61 in 2023. Significant associations were found between intentional ingestion and sociodemographic factors. …”
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Lietuvos valstybės biudžeto skaidrumo ir atskaitingumo principų vertinimas by Giedrė Lapinskienė, Olga Buckiūnienė, Romualda Urniežienė, Rugilė Tamulytė

“…Kol kas Lietuvos visuomenė per mažai įtraukta į biudžeto sudarymo, stebėjimo bei grįžtamojo ryšio vertinimo procesus, reikėtų visuomenę labiau įtraukti didinant viešų svarstymų ir dalyvių skaičių. …”
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Exercise intensity and reliability during recreational team handball training for 50–77-year-old unexperienced women by Rita Pereira, Peter Krustrup, Carlo Castagna, Carlos Resende, Ivone Carneiro, José Magalhães, Susana Póvoas

“…Participants performed a total of 38 specific high-demanding actions per match, mainly throws (10.6±5.8) and stops (11.0±3.6). …”
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Effect of Triple Acupuncture Therapy Combined with Rehabilitation Training on CGRP Content in Peripheral Blood, Motor Function and Activity of Daily Living of Spinal Cord Injury Pa... by Yinjie CUI, Qian WANG, Yue JIANG, Anren ZHANG

“…Both groups received rehabilitation training, the treatment group was added with triple acupuncture therapy, and the control group was added with regular meridians acupuncture therapy for one time per day and one month as a course. All patients received three courses of treatment.25 healthy subjects were enrolled as normal control group. …”
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The impact of bariatric surgery on gut microbiota: a bibliometric analysis of research trends and scientific contributions by Shuaichang Gong, Xiabiao Zhang, Xiabiao Zhang, Xiaoliang Chen, Ping Wan, Longfei Zhou, Jun Zhang

“…The United States leads in both the number of publications and average citations per article. The University of São Paulo is the most active institution, whereas the University of Copenhagen has the highest average citation count. …”
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Effects of seven days’ fasting on physical performance and metabolic adaptation during exercise in humans by Kristoffer J. Kolnes, Emelie T. F. Nilsen, Steffen Brufladt, Allison M. Meadows, Per B. Jeppesen, Øyvind Skattebo, Egil I. Johansen, Jesper B. Birk, Kurt Højlund, Janne Hingst, Bjørn S. Skålhegg, Rasmus Kjøbsted, Julian L. Griffin, Anders J. Kolnes, Stephen O’Rahilly, Jørgen F. P. Wojtaszewski, Jørgen Jensen

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Efficacy of DNA vaccine encoding koi herpesvirus glycoprotein GP-25in common carp juvenile by immersion by Soko Nuswantoro, . Alimuddin, Munti Yuhana, Ayi Santika, Sri Nuryati, Zakki Zainun, Mira Mawardi

“…Fish at twenty eight days post vaccination were challenged by injecting 10-4 mL of KHV per fish. The result showed that vaccination by 1×30 minutes immersion allowed 61% of fish survived, and this was significantly higher (p<0.05) compared to control (without vaccination), but it was similar among vaccination treatments (p>0.05). …”
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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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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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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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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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Generating evidence on screening, diagnosis and management of non-communicable diseases during pregnancy; a scoping review of current gap and practice in India with a comparison of... by Theophilus Lakiang, Sonali Abner Daniel, Kauma Kurian C, Minashree Horo, Shumayla Shumayla, Sunil Mehra

“…Similarly, to keep this momentum, the current United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG: 3.1) aims at reducing the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births by 2030, and this can be achieved by addressing high-risk pregnancy contributing to significant mortality and morbidity. …”
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Association of predicted fat mass, predicted lean mass and predicted percent fat with diabetes mellitus in Chinese population: a 15-year prospective cohort by Lu Liu, Xiaoping Chen, Chao Ban, Shanshan Jia, Sen He

“…Objectives With body mass index (BMI) failing to distinguish the mass of fat from lean, several novel predicted equations for predicted fat mass (FM), predicted lean mass (LM) and predicted per cent fat (PF) were recently developed and validated. …”
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Incidence and Predictors of Pulmonary Tuberculosis among Children Who Received Antiretroviral Therapy (ART), Northwest Ethiopia: A Multicenter Historical Cohorts Study 2009–2019 by Fassikaw Kebede, Habtamu Tarekegn, Mulugeta Molla, Dube Jara, Abebe Abate

“…The overall incidence rate and the median (±IQR) time of PTB reported were determined as 5.86 per 100 child years (95% CI: 4.58, 7.5) and 17.8 (±11) months, respectively. …”
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EXamining the feasibility of exerCisE to manage symptoms of Lupus (EXCEL): a protocol for a randomised controlled pilot study by John Reynolds, Katie Hesketh, Matthew Cocks, Megan Quickfall, Alex J Wadley, Scott Green, Jet Veldhuijzen Van Zanten

“…The aim of each 12-week plan will be to complete 150 min of moderate (60–70% heart rate max, HRmax) or 90 min of vigorous exercise (&gt;70% HRmax) per week. SLE-Ex will be encouraged to exercise independently (without support) from weeks 13–18. …”
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