Color Stability and Roughness of Ocular Prosthesis Between Heat-Cured Acrylic and 3D Printed Acrylic After Artificial Weathering by Shahad Fadhil Bunyan, Shahad Mohammed Shakir, Faraedon Mohidden Mostafa Zardawi

“…Descriptive statistics were used, followed by one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), independent sample t-tests were used, and the significance level was α = 0.05. …”
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Arab Nationalism in Palestine in the Beginning of the 20th Century by L. M. Samarskaia

“…At the same time, the emergence of the regional groups had its own specifics; originally belonging to the Pan-Arab movement, although with their own features, after the First World War these groups became largely independent.…”
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The NIN transcription factor coordinates CEP and CLE signaling peptides that regulate nodulation antagonistically by Carole Laffont, Ariel Ivanovici, Pierre Gautrat, Mathias Brault, Michael Anthony Djordjevic, Florian Frugier

“…C-terminally Encoded Peptides (CEPs) and CLAVATA3-like (CLE) peptides positively and negatively regulate nodulation, respectively, through independent systemic pathways, but how these regulations are coordinated remains unknown. …”
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Effectiveness of Centrality Measures for Competitive Influence Diffusion in Social Networks by Fairouz Medjahed, Elisenda Molina, Juan Tejada

“…We perform an empirical study in a two-player game under the competitive independent cascade model with three different seed-tie-breaking rules using four real-world SNs. …”
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Stromal Expression of Hypoxia Regulated Proteins Is an Adverse Prognostic Factor in Colorectal Carcinomas by Arjen H. G. Cleven, Manon van Engeland, Bradly G. Wouters, Adriaan P. de Bruïne

“…In the Cox proportional hazard model, stromal HIF-2α expression was an independent prognostic factor for survival. Conclusion: These observations show, that expression of hypoxia regulated proteins in tumor-associated stromal cells, as opposed to their expression in epithelial tumor cells, is associated with poor outcome in colorectal cancer. …”
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The Association between Noncommercial Partnerships and Risk of HIV among Female Sex Workers: Evidences from a Cross-Sectional Behavioral and Biological Survey in Southern India by Renuka Pulikallu Somanath, Ram Manohar Mishra, Niranjan Saggurti, Prabhakar Parimi

“…Participants were asked about their sexual partnerships, condom use, and vulnerability factors and tested for HIV and sexually transmitted infections. The key independent variables considered were presence of a noncommercial sexual partner (no, yes) and the nature of such partnerships (regular, nonregular). …”
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Significant abundance of bacterial flagellin and expression of its surface localized receptor toll-like receptor 5 and cytokine interleukin-22 in South African infants with poor or... by Nontlantla J. Haindongo, Mapaseka Seheri, Cliff A. Magwira

“…Abstract Bacterial flagellin, a potent intestinal innate immune activator, prevents murine rotavirus (RV) infection independent of adaptive immunity and interferons. The flagellin-induced immunity is mediated by Toll-like receptor (TLR5) and Nod-like receptor C4 (NLRC4), which elicit the production of interleukins 22 (IL-22) and IL-18, respectively. …”
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Survey situation of mental health of pregnant women with breast cancer: A systematic review study by Nasim Khademi, Farzaneh Rahimi, Shadi Goli

“…The screening process was conducted by two independent authors. The selected articles were checked regarding inclusion and exclusion criteria. …”
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Implementation of the project to strengthen the profile of pancasila students in primary schools by Nadia Rahma, Dea Mustika

“…This research is important to carry out because in the era of the independent curriculum there is more emphasis on P5 activities as an effort to instill the dimensions of the Pancasila student profile in students so that it can have a positive impact on the world of education.…”
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Best Evidence Summary for the Improvement and Management of Disorders of Consciousness in Patients With Severe Brain Injury by Miaoyuan Lin, Qiongna Lu, Sheng Yu, Wenjuan Lin

“…Methods Following the evidence summary report standard of Fudan University Center for Evidence‐Based Nursing, clinical guidelines, expert consensuses, systematic reviews, and evidence summaries were systematically retrieved from UpToDate; BMJ Best Practice; Guidelines International Network; the Cochrane Library; Embase; PubMed; Sinomed; Web of Science; CNKI; WanFang database; American Academy of Neurology (AAN); American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM); European Academy of Neurology; and National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). …”
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‘You Choose No Time to Live and Die’: Dinmukhamed A. Kunayev and His Time by Ziyabek Y. Kabuldinov, Konstantin V. Cherepanov, Didar B. Kassymova

“…Kunayev played a remarkable role in the development of all spheres of Soviet Kazakhstan, and either did he for the development of the whole Soviets, which also provided certain grounds for subsequent successful development of independent Kazakhstan. …”
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Optimisation of Ultrasound-Assisted Extraction of Total Phenolics and Flavonoids Content from <i>Centella asiatica</i> by Vimolpa Hiranpradith, Nantawan Therdthai, Aussama Soontrunnarudrungsri, Oumaporn Rungsuriyawiboon

“…The relationship between responses (TPC and TFC) and independent parameters could be expressed as the quadratic models fitted with a Predicted R² of 0.8263 for TPC and 0.9006 for TFC. …”
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Limb-Kinetic apraxia of legs in Parkinson’s disease: Prospective clinical investigation by Yacov Balash, Evelin D. Mate, Riyad Idries, Anda Eilam, Amos D. Korczyn

“…We aimed to prospectively investigate whether limb-kinetic apraxia in legs (LKA-L) is a heretofore unrecognized manifestation of PD independent of bradykinesia and rigidity. Methods: Patients with PD and healthy controls (HC) performed bipedal reciprocal coordination (BRC) and monopedal reciprocal coordination (MRC) tests as a foot modification of the Oseretzky exam (originally alternate antiphase clenching and unclenching of the fists of the right and left hands). …”
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Assessing the Inter-Rater and Inter-Trial Reliability of the NeurOptics Pupillary Light Response-3000 Pupillometer by Deborah A Jehu, Lori A Bolgla, Samantha Armas, Forest Dutton

“… # Study Design: Observational, reliability study Methods: Forty-eight healthy adults (age 18-40 years) without a history of neurological injury, optical surgery, or cognitive impairment participated. Two independent raters used the NeurOptics PLR-3000 to measure PLR parameters in the left and right eyes of each subject. …”
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Efektivitas Pemberian Mobilisasi Dini terhadap Tonus Otot, Kekuatan Otot, dan Kemampuan Motorik Fungsional Pasien Hemiparise Paska Stroke Iskemik by Reni Prima Gusty Gusty

“…It is suggested that early mobilization exercise therapy be used as an independent nursing intervention, performed 3 times/day or 2 times/day to help speed recovery and prevent further weakness complications. …”
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Mesh Exposure and Associated Risk Factors in Women Undergoing Transvaginal Prolapse Repair with Mesh by Elizabeth A. Frankman, Marianna Alperin, Gary Sutkin, Leslie Meyn, Halina M. Zyczynski

“…When mesh was placed in the anterior compartment, the frequency of mesh exposure was higher than that when mesh was placed in the posterior compartment (8.7% versus 2.9%, P=0.04). Independent risk factors for mesh exposure were diabetes (AOR = 7.7, 95% CI 1.6–37.6; P=0.01) and surgeon (AOR = 7.3, 95% CI 1.9–28.6; P=0.004). …”
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Blood Pressure Variability Is Associated with Hearing and Hearing Loss: A Population-Based Study in Males by Minghui Bao, Yongjian Song, Jun Cai, Shouling Wu, Xinchun Yang

“…Based on five annual BP measurements, BPV was estimated by standard deviation of BP (SD), coefficient of the variation of BP (CV), and variation independent of mean of BP (VIM). Hearing was estimated by pure-tone average threshold (PTA) at low, intermediate, and high frequencies in the year of 2014. …”
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Does structural compromise of the aorta in patients with aortic pathologies predict increased spinal and vascular complications and reoperations in patients undergoing anterior app... by Neil V. Shah, Pelin Çeliker, Cirous Sadeghi, Rachel Baum, Juhayer S. Alam, Chibuokem Ikwuazom, Peter L. Zhou, Benjamin Krasnyanskiy, David Kim, Rohan Desai, Sandeep Bains, Jeffrey M. Schwartz, Bassel G. Diebo, Carl B. Paulino

“…Multivariate binary stepwise logistic regression identified independent predictors of these outcomes. Results: Ninety-nine and 64 patients were included at 90-day and 2-year follow-ups, respectively. …”
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The effect of offline student conferences on the levels of satisfaction, learning and performance of medical intern students on the basis of the Kirkpatrick’s educational model by Ezatolah Rahimi Rahimi, Nasrin Moghimi, Solmaz Derakhshan, Roonak Mohajerpour, Khaled Rahmani, Yadolah Zarezadeh

“…The relationship between variables was analyzed based on the type of variable. Independent t-tests and one-way analysis of variance were used to compare the difference in mean scores in two-mode (gender) and more than two-mode (percentage of viewing offline conferences) variables. …”
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Coupling of alternative splicing and alternative polyadenylation by Zhang Xueying, Liu Feiyan, Zhou Yu

“…There have been extensive independent studies of these regulated processing events, including alternative splicing (AS) and alternative polyadenylation (APA). …”
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