Selection and Success in Badminton: The Role of Lobs and Smashes in Junior Athletes' Performance by Touptiolo Touptiolo, Helmina Ria Siregar, Vina Mardatila Tarigan, Yogi Suwananda, Soukaina Hattabi, Willette Nance

“…Smashes were predominantly used from the forecourt (OR = 3.842, p < 0.001), while lobs were more frequent in longer rallies (OR = 1.180 per additional shot, p < 0.001). Gender differences were observed, with female players using lobs more frequently than males (19.5% ±3.0% vs. 17.1% ±3.4%, p = 0.037). …”
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Monocyte/Lymphocyte Ratio and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients by Yueqiang Wen, Xiaojiang Zhan, Niansong Wang, FenFen Peng, Xiaoran Feng, Xianfeng Wu

“…CVD mortality rates for the lowest, middle, and highest MLR tertiles were 70.6, 78.4, and 88.9 per 1000 patient-years, respectively (P<0.001). …”
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Prevalence of eimeria species in sheep in eskişehir province by Mustafa Eser, Ahmet Göksu, Hatice Çiçek, Mahmut Sinan Erez, Hasan Çiçek

“…Fecal samples from each sheep were brought to the laboratory and examined by Fulleborn saturated salt flotation method. Eimeria oocyst number per gram of feces (OPG) was determined by the Modified McMaster method in positive fecal samples. …”
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Mother-fetus immunogenetic dialogue as a factor of progeny immune system development by L. A. Gerlinskaya, A. V. Varlachev, G. I. Krotov, G. V. Kontsevaya, M. P. Moshkin

“…Despite the advances in medicine, about 4 million children under the age of 6 months die annually around the world due to infection, which is 450 deaths per hour (UNISEF, 2009). The degree of development of the immune system of children born in time is determined by many factors, including the immunogenetic similarity or difference of mother and fetus organisms, which, in turn, is due to the genotypes of mating pairs, as well as the selection of surrogate mothers during in vitro fertilization. …”
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An Update on National Consensus Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Hepatitis C & Literature Review in Epidemiology of Hepatitis C in Pakistan - 2022 by Sibt ul Hasnain Syed, Muhammad Umar, Hamama tul Bushra Khaar, Tayyab Saeed Akhter, Tassawar Hussain, Amjad Salamat, Syed Irfan Ahmad, Rai Muhammad Asghar, Muhammad Khurram, Anwar A. Khan, Fazl-e-Hadi, Aftab Mohsin, Waseem-Ud-Din, Saleem Qureshi, Sohail Iqbal Bhutta, Javeria Zahid Khan, Sadia Ahmad, Aqsa Naseer, Anum Abbas, Misbah Noreen, Faiza Aslam, Zahid Mahmood Minhas, Asif Abbas Naqvi, Atifa Shoaib, Saima Ambreen, Gul Nisar, Mohammad Mujeeb Khan, Talal Khursheed, Mohammad Osama

“…International guidelines are being updated on regular basis as per global evidence, recommending such combinations which are not readily available to many parts of the world. …”
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Patterns of eating behaviors, physical activity, and lifestyle modifications among Bangladeshi adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic. by Most Zannatul Ferdous, Md Saiful Islam, Lakshmi Rani Kundu, Ummay Soumayia Islam, Rajon Banik, Shahina Pardhan

“…<h4>Results</h4>During the pandemic, 43.7% participants reported weight gain; and 23.5% reported an increased number of meals per day during COVID-19. Additionally, the participants' eating habits diverged from the local balanced diet principles and were more akin to 'unhealthy' eating patterns. …”
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Effects of exercise training on nigrostriatal neuroprotection in Parkinson’s disease: a systematic review by Shahid Ishaq, Iqbal Ali Shah, Shin-Da Lee, Shin-Da Lee, Bor-Tsang Wu

“…Various exercise training regimens, administered 5 days per week for 6.5 weeks, were applied to MPTP, 6-OHDA, and PFF-α-synuclein-induced PD animal models.ResultsExercise training was found to downregulate the inflammatory pathway by attenuating α-synuclein aggregation, inhibiting the TLR/MyD88/IκBα signaling cascade and NF-κB phosphorylation, and decreasing pro-inflammatory cytokines IL-1β and TNF-α while increasing anti-inflammatory cytokines IL-10 and TGF-β within the nigrostriatum. …”
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De-biasing microbiome sequencing data: bacterial morphology-based correction of extraction bias and correlates of chimera formation by Luise Rauer, Amedeo De Tomassi, Christian L. Müller, Claudia Hülpüsch, Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann, Matthias Reiger, Avidan U. Neumann

“…Strikingly, this extraction bias per species was predictable by bacterial cell morphology. …”
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Detecting Fish Diversity in Urban‐Impacted Ecosystems: A Comparative Approach of eDNA Metabarcoding and UVC by Arthur Chung, Y. C. Kam, Stanley K. H. Shea, Celia Schunter

“…We employ and compare two methods: 12S rRNA eDNA metabarcoding coupled with custom built reference database and simultaneous extensive underwater visual census (UVC) surveys. eDNA detected a higher species richness per site. Yet, each survey method featured a distinct species profile with associated trophic guilds, where 98 (32.3%) species found exclusively by UVC and 120 (39.6%) species detected only by eDNA. eDNA featured species from diverse habitats and evolutionary distances, including cryptic and large mobile fishes, offering enhanced prediction on local ecosystem functions. eDNA also recorded 90 putative species that had never been recorded in additional seven yearlong UVC dataset, with seven prospective new occurrence records to the territorial waters. …”
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Price tag of glaucoma care is minor compared with the total direct and indirect costs of glaucoma: Results from nationwide survey and register data. by Petri K M Purola, Joonas Taipale, Saku Väätäinen, Mika Harju, Seppo V P Koskinen, Hannu M T Uusitalo

“…The respective additional total indirect costs were EUR 4,288, EUR 3,246, and EUR 12,902 per year. In total, the additional annual direct and indirect expenditures associated with glaucoma in Finland were EUR 202 million (0.86% of total expenditures of health care) and EUR 71 million (0.03% of the Finnish gross domestic product) arising mainly from non-eye-related hospitalizations and productivity losses, respectively.…”
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A comparative study to estimate three commercial products of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) on blood biochemistry, sexual hormones concentrations, reproductive indices, and lar... by El-Sayed I. Attia, Mohamed F. A. Abdel-Aziz, Habib Ul Hassan, Mohammad Z. Ahmed, Takaomi Arai, Hamed H. E. Saleh

“…The present study compared three common products of hCG on blood sexual hormone, reproductive performance, and fry production per kg female. Four groups were designed to be: Group1: Untreated group to (control), Group2, Group3, and Group4, the brood-stock was hormonally induced with Choriomon®, Chorionic Gonadotropin, and Epifasi®, respectively. …”
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Exercise barriers and facilitators during hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: a qualitative study by Kerry Courneya, Mi-Seong Yu, Ki-Yong An, Jiyong Byeon, Meeok CHOI, June-Won Cheong, Justin Y Jeon

“…An average of three semi-structured interviews were conducted per patient.Setting Exercise during HSCT treatment in an isolated immune room.Intervention Daily unsupervised exercise.Results A total of six patients completed a 6-week exercise programme as well as all scheduled interviews, whose compliance to the exercise programme ranged from 12% to 79%. …”
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Modeling optimal combination of breast and cervical cancer screening strategies in China by Xuewei Liu, Yanbo Wang, Bei Gao, Xinlin Lu, Yuan Wang, Wenli Lu

“…Results The optimal combination strategy was biennial breast ultrasonography (BUS) and mammography (MAM) in parallel screening and quinquennial human papillomavirus (HPV) for breast and cervical cancer screening under the threshold of the annual per capita social cost investment (PCSCI) (18.80 USD) in China. …”
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A Seizure Attributed to Ofloxacine in a Woman Undergoing Detoxification for Alcohol Dependence by Pierre Lahmek, Laurent Michel, Nadine Meunier, Henri-Jean Aubin

“…She was currently prescribed diazepam 30 mg per day. This treatment was continued without modification following admission. …”
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Does hospital strategic alliance affect the paediatric service capacity of local hospitals? A difference-in-differences econometric analysis by Zhanchun Feng, Qian Fu, Li Zhang, Xiaolu Yu, Cuiping Xiao, Cuili Yang

“…The ‘available beds’ and the ‘health personnel per 1000 resident population’ were chosen as the control variables.Results The cross-over Treat×Post coefficient was significantly positive at a 1% level in Models 1 and 3, with or without control variables. …”
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Clinical and Economic Outcomes in Low-risk Pulmonary Embolism Patients Treated with Rivaroxaban versus Standard of Care by W. Frank Peacock, Craig I. Coleman, Phil Wells, Gregory J. Fermann, Li Wang, Onur Baser, Jeff Schein, Concetta Crivera

“…However, rivaroxaban users had fewer outpatient (15.9 vs 20.4; p=0.0002) visits per patient as well as lower inpatient ($765 vs $2,655; p<0.0001), pharmacy ($711 vs $1,086; p=0.0033), and total costs ($6,270 vs $9,671; p=0.0027)…”
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Assessing the Influence of High Population Growth Rate on Food Security in Nyamweru Subcounty Rubanda District. by Twinamasiko, Derrick

“…The study recommends that family planning programs should be designed to provide information, services, and modern means of fertility control to those who are interested, the study recommended that the government should use several methods to control high population growth such as one or two children per family policy, girl child education through giving them scholarships and the researcher recommended that there should be sensitization of people through mass media about the dangers of high population so that people can reduce on early marriages.…”
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Public-Private Partnership and Early Childhood Education in Kasese District, Uganda. by Kategaya, Raymond Mwesigye, Adyanga, Akena Francis, Ocan, Johnson

“…Also, results showed that PPP in ECD enhanced communication ability whereby children were able to put up two words together as per caregiver guidance. It also led a child to pay attention to a simple story being narrated and thereafter answer questions from the account. …”
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Local Anesthesia Versus Saddle Block for Open Hemorrhoidectomy: Cost-Analysis From a Randomized, Double Blind Controlled Trial. by Sikakulya, Franck Katembo, Ssebuufu, Robinson, Okedi, Xaviour Francis, Baluku, Moris, Lule, Herman, Kiyaka, Sonye Magugu, Muhumuza, Joshua, Selamo, Fabrice Molen, Bassara, Godefroy Nyenke, Waziri, Musa Abbas, Kithinji, Stephen Mbae, Mugisho, Munyerenkana Leocadie, Byamungu, Pahari Kagenderezo, Munihire, Jeannot Baanitse, Vahwere, Bienfait Mumbere, Kiswezi, Ahmed, Kyamanywa, Patrick

“…Results Findings of fifty-eight patients were analysed including 29 participants per group. There was a significant difference in operating time and cost among the two groups (p<0.05). …”
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Effects of Covid-19 Pandemic on School Dropout in Selected Primry Schools in Nyarusiza Sub-County Kisoro District. by Sibo, Dusabe Chris Jackson

“…., The recommendations of the study included the following: The government should increase spending for immediate health-related expenditures such as supplies including masks, gloves, and other personally productive equipment, in addition to ICU beds (as Uganda currently has only 55 functional ICU beds, resulting in approximately 1.3 ICU beds per million Ugandans) and ventilators. Also, the government should ensure that some of this health sector budget reallocation is also earmarked to support non-coronavirus health concerns, from basic to emergency healthcare. …”
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