Ultrafine industrial aerosol as an occupational risk factor for sintering industry workers by L. P. Sharavara, N. M. Dmytrukha, I. M. Andrusyshyna

“…It was estimated that the concentration of suspended particulate matter of ultrafine size in the main part of the sintering machine ranged from 3.02 × 104 to 3.12 × 104 per cm3, in the tail part of the sintering machine – from 5.09 × 104 to 7.59 × 104 per cm3, in the sintering machine control room No. 1 – from 2.06 × 104 to 2.38 × 104 per cm3, in the workers of the control group – from 1.43 × 104 to 1.73 × 104 per cm3. …”
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Successful Treatment of Tumor-Induced Osteomalacia by Multidisciplinary Therapy with Radiation to Intracranial Fibromyxoid Tumor by Mariangela Massaccesi, Francesco Miccichè, Mario Rigante, Gianluigi Petrone, Elisabetta Lepre, Maria Antonietta Gambacorta, Vincenzo Valentini

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Problematic Internet use among resident physicians at St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Yiknashewa Solomon Mekonnen, Selamawit Alemayehu Tessema, Solomon Dhabi Bedane, Askalemariam Bikiss Ali

“…Factors such as using the Internet for five or more hours per day, having less than seven hours of actual sleep per night, and having depression were found to be risk factors for PIU. …”
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Insights gained through real-time monitoring of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus and description of temporal trends based on laboratory data in Ontario, Canada by Tatiana Petukhova, Maria Spinato, Tanya Rossi, Michele T. Guerin, Cathy A. Bauman, Pauline Nelson-Smikle, Davor Ojkic, Zvonimir Poljak

“…Most farms contributed one submission per week or per month for PRRSV testing (median: 1 submission per week; IQR: 0; max: 13; median: 1 submission per month; IQR: 1, max: 31). …”
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Fruit Detection and Yield Mass Estimation from a UAV Based RGB Dense Cloud for an Apple Orchard by Marius Hobart, Michael Pflanz, Nikos Tsoulias, Cornelia Weltzien, Mia Kopetzky, Michael Schirrmann

“…However, a good relationship to the yield mass per block was found when the estimated apple volume per block was combined with a mean apple density per variety. …”
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Colony Formation, Migratory, and Differentiation Characteristics of Multipotential Stromal Cells (MSCs) from “Clinically Accessible” Human Periosteum Compared to Donor-Matched Bone... by Heather E. Owston, Payal Ganguly, Giuseppe Tronci, Stephen J. Russell, Peter V. Giannoudis, Elena A. Jones

“…When expanded in vitro, similar growth rates up to passage 0 (P0) were seen (1.8 population doublings (PDs) per day (periosteum), 1.6 PDs per day (BM)); however, subsequently BM MSCs proliferated significantly slower by P4 (4.3 PDs per day (periosteum) vs. 9.3 PDs per day (BM), n=9, P=0.02). …”
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Energy Poverty and Its Effect on Economic Growth in Türkiye by Yahya Algül

“…According to both of the estimation techniques an increase in household electricity consumption may also lead to an increase in per capita GDP in Türkiye.…”
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Shift from chronic to episodic migraine frequency in a long-term phase 3 study of galcanezumab by Hans-Christoph Diener, Kathleen A. Day, Sarah Lipsius, Sheena K. Aurora, Nada A. Hindiyeh, Holland C. Detke

“…Results At baseline, patients had a mean of 19.4 migraine headache days per month (SD = 4.5) and 21.4 headache days per month (SD = 4.1). …”
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Comparative study of cucumber ( Cucumissativus L.) cultivars under organic fertilizer treatments in the Southern Guinea Savanna, Nigeria by A. I. Afe, A.A Olowoake, C.O Akure, M.R Babatunde

“…The  Darina hybrid had significantly longer fruit (17.8cm), thicker fruits (13.70 cm), and a higher Fruit yield per hectare (10083.23 kg) compared to other cultivars. …”
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Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for the Treatment of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: A Pilot Study by Foglia SD, Drapeau CC, Ramdeo KR, Adams FC, Soppitt DB, Rehsi RS, Shanthanna H, Nelson AJ

“…Participants took part in a 4-week induction period (5 days per week) followed by a 5-week tapering period whereby the frequency of rTMS sessions per week was reduced. rTMS was delivered at 10 hz for 2000 pulses at 80% of resting motor threshold over the primary motor cortex. …”
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Impact of Pre-existing Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Cardiovascular Disease on Healthcare Resource Utilization and Costs in Patients With COVID-19 by Chi Nguyen, Christopher L. Crowe, Effie Kuti, Bonnie Donato, Rachel Djaraher, Leo Seman, Nancy Graeter, Thomas P. Power, Rinku Mehra, Vincent J. Willey

“…Average all-cause costs during follow-up were $12 324, $7882, and $7277 per-patient-per-month after matching for patients with T2DM + CVD, T2DM-only, and neither T2DM/CVD, respectively. …”
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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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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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