Salivary Cortisol as a Biomarker to Explore the Role of Maternal Stress in Early Childhood Caries by Sharat Chandra Pani, Deena Abuthuraya, Hadia M. AlShammery, Dalal AlShammery, Hind AlShehri

“…Sixty-four college-educated, working mothers from middle income families with no history of anxiety disorders and their first born children aged between 48 and 71 months were included in the study. …”
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Magnetically Guided Capsule Endoscopy in Pediatric Patients with Abdominal Pain by Mingping Xie, Yuting Qian, Shidan Cheng, Lifu Wang, Ruizhe Shen

“…We enrolled 48 patients with abdominal pain aged 6–18 years. All patients underwent MGCE to evaluate the gastric cavity and small intestine. …”
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Effects of Diet on Brain Plasticity in Animal and Human Studies: Mind the Gap by Tytus Murphy, Gisele Pereira Dias, Sandrine Thuret

“…In particular, we evaluate the gap in mechanistic understanding between recent findings from animal studies and those human studies reporting that these dietary factors can benefit cognition, mood, and anxiety, aging, and Alzheimer’s disease—with focus on the enhancement of structural and functional plasticity markers in the hippocampus, such as increased expression of neurotrophic factors, synaptic function and adult neurogenesis. …”
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The Dysexecutive Syndrome Associated with Ischaemic Vascular Disease and Related Subcortical Neuropathology: A Boston Process Approach by Melissa Lamar, Cate C. Price, Tania Giovannetti, Rod Swenson, David J. Libon

“…The introduction of diagnostic criteria for vascular dementia has helped to re-define the impact of various subcortical neuropathologies on aging; however, state-of-the-art neuroimaging techniques and autopsy studies suggest that not all structural brain alterations associated with vascular dementia are exclusive to this neurodegenerative process alone. …”
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Mechanical Behavior and Chloride Penetration of Precracked Reinforced Concrete Beams with Externally Bonded CFRP Exposed to Marine Environment by Yan Xie, Kunhua Guan, Lei Zhan, Qichen Wang

“…Therefore, to evaluate the service life of the strengthened beams, this study investigates the behavior of precracked RC beams strengthened with CFRP sheets exposed to marine environment. Accelerated ageing experiments were carried out by exposing specimens to cyclic wetting in sea water and drying in 40°C air for 3 months and 6 months, respectively. …”
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Approach for designing and modelling of nanoscale DG MOSFET devices using Kriging metamodelling technique by Toufik Bentrcia, Fayçal Djeffal, Elasaad Chebaki

“…The elaboration of such models is made possible through the generation of computer experiments using ATLAS‐2D simulator, where the numerical simulations or experimental measurements, account for the accurate behaviour of the device including the ageing phenomena, short channel and quantum confinement effects. …”
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Development of flexibility in 17–18-year-old Savat boxers by Anastasiia Konovalchuk, Мykola Mordyk, Ihor Bakiko, Oleh Hrebik

“…The research was conducted at Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University in Lutsk with ten healthy students aged 17-18, who had 1-2 years of Savate training experience and voluntarily participated with informed consent. …”
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Bifidobacterium adolescentis-derived nicotinic acid improves host skeletal muscle mitochondrial function to ameliorate sarcopenia by Zeng Zhang, Quan Guo, Zhihan Yang, Yukai Sun, Shuaiming Jiang, Yangli He, Jiahe Li, Jiachao Zhang

“…This finding was validated in aged mice. Metabolomics analysis identified nicotinic acid as a key metabolite produced by B. adolescentis, linked to improvements in muscle mass and functionality in individuals with sarcopenia. …”
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Non-drinking and social life in adolescence: a qualitative study in Switzerland by Lorraine Chok, Joan-Carles Suris, Lucie Vittoz, Diana Fernandes Palhares, Yara Barrense-Dias

“…Our study included 63 young people divided into 12 focus groups aged 14 to 20 years. Results Overall, young non-drinkers would be a minority in their peer groups, leading some of them to feel out of the norm. …”
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Self-Esteem and Family Communication as Predictors of Satisfaction with Studies in University Students from the Southern Region of Peru by Victor Canqui, Josue Edison Turpo-Chaparro, Oscar Mamani-Benito, Ronald Castillo-Blanco, Nancy Casildo-Bedón, Renzo Carranza-Esteban

“…The methodology consisted of a cross-sectional and predictive design; 538 Peruvian university students of both sexes participated (69.1% men and 30.09% women) in 2022, whose ages ranged between 17 and 37 years (M = 20.43 and SD = 3.22). …”
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Spiradenoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Jia-Ying Chang, Yen-Chang Chen, Dah-Ching Ding

“…<b>Background and Clinical Significance:</b> Spiradenoma is a rare benign skin adnexal tumor with unknown incidence and prevalence, typically affecting young to middle-aged adults without a sexual predilection. <b>Case Presentation:</b> A 59-year-old woman presented with a palpable lesion in the suprapubic region that had been there for 20 years and had become enlarged over the past 2 months. …”
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The effects of clinical and pharmacological factors on the ratio of clozapine to norclozapine in psychiatric patients by Anna Mach, Anna Wnorowska, Marcin Siwek, Marcin Wojnar, Marcin Wojnar, Maria Radziwoń-Zaleska

“…The purpose of this study was to assess the factors modifying the CLO/NCLO ratio (CNR).MethodsA total of 446 blood samples (233 of which were drawn from females and 213 from males, aged from 18 to 77 years) were analyzed in this study. …”
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Multiple imputation to deal with missing objectively-measured physical activity data: findings from two cohorts by Rafaela Costa Martins, Bruna Gonçalves C. da Silva, Cauane Blumenberg, Luiza Isnardi Ricardo, Shana Ginar da Silva, João Pedro Ribeiro, Alicia Matijasevich, Ana Maria Baptista Menezes, Helen Gonçalves, Fernando César Wehrmeister, Iná dos Santos, Inácio Crochemore-Silva, Aluísio JD Barros

“…Two birth cohort studies from Pelotas (Brazil) with participants aged 22 and 11-years old assessed objectively measured physical activity differences between complete and imputed cases. …”
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Fluvial terrace formation in mountainous areas: (1) Influence of climate changes during the last glacial cycle in Albania by Guzmán, Oswaldo, Mugnier, Jean-Louis, Vassallo, Riccardo, Koçi, Rexhep, Carcaillet, Julien, Jouanne, François

“…An allostratigraphy study of the fluvial terraces is combined with new numerical dating. 30 $\mbox {}^{14}$C and 4 $\mbox {}^{10}$Be new dated sites along four rivers and 45 ages previously acquired along three other rivers were used to define terrace chronologies at the scale of the whole Albania. …”
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Translating time: Challenges, progress, and future directions by Christine J. Charvet, Alexandra A. de Sousa, Tatianna Vassilopoulos

“…We also discuss a tool called Translating Time, an online resource (www.translatingtime.org) that equates corresponding ages across model systems and humans. The translating time resource can be used to bridge the gap across species and make predictions when data are sparse or unavailable as is the case for human fetal development. …”
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Pain Management of Pediatric Musculoskeletal Injury in the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review by Sylvie Le May, Samina Ali, Christelle Khadra, Amy L. Drendel, Evelyne D. Trottier, Serge Gouin, Naveen Poonai

“…Electronic databases were searched systematically for randomized controlled trials of pharmacological and nonpharmacological interventions for children aged 0–18 years, with musculoskeletal injury, in the emergency department. …”
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Muscle Wasting and Resistance of Muscle Anabolism: The “Anabolic Threshold Concept” for Adapted Nutritional Strategies during Sarcopenia by Dominique Dardevet, Didier Rémond, Marie-Agnès Peyron, Isabelle Papet, Isabelle Savary-Auzeloux, Laurent Mosoni

“…Sarcopenia, the muscle mass loss observed during aging, has been chosen to illustrate this concept but it may be kept in mind that it could be extended to any other catabolic states or recovery situations.…”
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A study on the causes and the ir treatment results of the dystocia in cows observed between 1985- 1992 years in elazığ region by Cahit Kalkan, Hüseyin Deveci, A. Mükremin Apaydın, Halis Öcal, Hüseyin Timurkan, Hayrettin Çetin, Erdal Kaygusuzoğlu

“…In the study, 195 cows and heifers aged 2-10 years were use d as material. These animals were treated aither in the Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynecology Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Fırat University or in the places where the animals are held.…”
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The rs1634330 Polymorphisms in the SOST Gene Are Associated with Body Composition in Chinese Nuclear Families with Male Offspring by Luyue Qi, Lianyong Liu, Li Li, Weiwei Hu, Wenzhen Fu, Ji Hu, Youjia Xu, Zhenlin Zhang

“…The nuclear families consist of at least one male offspring aged 18 to 44. We genotyped the 10 tagged single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in SOST gene (rs7220711, rs865429, rs851057, rs1708635, rs2023794, rs1234612, rs74252774, rs1634330, rs851058, and rs1513670) in all the above people. …”
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Embryo selection through non-invasive preimplantation genetic testing with cell-free DNA in spent culture media: a protocol for a multicentre, double-blind, randomised controlled t... by Jie Qiao, Yan Wang, Rong Li, Ping Liu, Liang Hu, Lin Zeng, Guimin Hao, Jin Huang, Bing Yao, Junzhao Zhao, Juanzi Shi, Liyi Cai, Xiu-Xia Wang, Yanwen Xu, Yuanqing Yao, Yichun Guan, Weiping Qian, Sijia Lu

“…A multicentre randomised trial is needed to verify whether ni-PGT can be an new effective tool for evaluating embryos.Methods and analysis Overall, 1148 couples aged 35~42 (women) receiving in vitro fertilization–intracytoplasmic sperm injection are planned to be enrolled. …”
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