Prevalence of Elevated Alanine Aminotransferase by Diagnostic Criterion, Age, and Gender among Adolescents by Jing Zhang, Zheng-Ying Wang, Jing-Ping Zhang, Hua Zhou, Zan Ding

“…Based on the Shenzhen census and Chinese national census population, the adjusted prevalence of elevated ALT was 7.65% (boys 7.19% and girls 8.21%) and 6.79% (boys 6.07% and girls 7.56%) by criterion I and 2.85% (boys 4.20% and girls 1.16%) and 2.43% (boys 3.49% and girls 1.29%) by criterion II. …”
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Estudio comparativo del impacto de la urbanización sobre la calidad de agua en Tres Arroyos Pampeanos del Centro Bonaerense de Argentina by Ignacio Masson, José Gonzalez Castelain, Rosario Barranquero, Natalia Nothax, Alejandra Krüger, Juliana González, Fabio Peluso

“…A través del análisis de variables fisicoquímicas, niveles guía, índice de calidad de agua de la National Sanitation Foundation e indicador 6.3.2 de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible se determinó que los dos arroyos urbanos se encontrarían mayormente impactados en sus tramos posturbanos, producto de los vuelcos que reciben. …”
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Partner Choices in Long Established Migrant Communities in Belgium by Emilien Dupont, Amelie Van Pottelberge, Bart Van de Putte, John Lievens, Frank Caestecker

“…Our data comprise an extraction of the Belgian national register (2001-2008) and focus on first marriages among first, 1.5, and second generation migrants of Moroccan, Turkish, Algerian, and Congolese origin (N=52,142). …”
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Chantiers de reconstruction politique en comparaison : La « décentralisation » en période post-révolutionnaire en Tunisie et en Libye by Sami Yassine Turki, Chiara Loschi

“…In this sense, it is even more promising to analyse how local groups are positioned in the two different contexts, between national institutional reconfiguration, development programs and reorganization of local interests that precede the Revolution.…”
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Assessment of the Knowledge and Perception Regarding Breast-feeding and Immunization Among the Post-natal mothers at a Tertiary Care Hospital, Bangalore - A Cross-sectional Study by Chaithra S, Ranganath T S

“…Mothers also showed strong commitment to following the National Immunization Schedule.Conclusion The study revealed that most postnatal mothers had good knowledge of breastfeeding and immunization with a strong commitment to exclusive breastfeeding and timely immunization. …”
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Effect of exposure to environmental phenols and parabens on folate concentrations among 3–19 years old children and adolescents: A cross-sectional study in NHANES 2005–2016 by Meng Ni, Zhenying Lin, Ze Chen, Ziwen Xu, Qianqian Zhang, Jiuru Zhao, Wei Li, Yanan Tang, Zelin Cao, Baihe Li, Dongting Yao, Chunyu Cheng, Yi Hu, Xiaorui Liu, Jiji Chen, Zhiwei Liu

“…We utilized data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2005–2016. …”
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Toward Sustainable Biocultural Ecotourism: An Integrated Spatial Analysis of Cultural and Biodiversity Richness in Colombia by Alejandra Echeverri, Natasha M. Batista, Stacie Wolny, Guido A. Herrera‐R, Federico Andrade‐Rivas, Allison Bailey, Anaid Cardenas‐Navarrete, Armando Dávila Arenas, Andres Felipe Díaz‐Salazar, Katherine Victoria Hernandez, Kelley E. Langhans, Bryam E. Mateus‐Aguilar, Dallas Levey, Andrew Neill, Oliver Nguyen, Andres Felipe Suárez‐Castro, Felipe Zapata, Natalia Ocampo‐Peñuela

“…By mapping areas of sports fisheries, birdwatching destinations, national park annual visitors and airport arrivals we also estimated spatial demand. …”
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Barriers and facilitators to engagement with between-session work for low-intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)-based interventions: a qualitative exploration of practition... by Mia Bennion, Amy Blakemore, Karina Lovell, Penny Bee

“…Using interpretive description methodology, 22 Psychological Well-being Practitioners (PWPs) from UK National Health Service (NHS) Talking Therapies services were interviewed. …”
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Arsenic and fifteen other metal (loid)s exposure of children living around old mines in the south of France by Igor Pujalté, Zeno Loi, Alice Bernard, Lionel Moulis, Sophie Delpoux, Jacques Gardon

“…Overall, metal exposure levels were comparable to or lower than national averages. Access to clean water, mine closures, and health awareness likely kept exposure low. …”
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Preparation and transfer of Burkholderia mallei production strain 5584 in accordance with the biosafety requirements by E. A. Artemeva, L. A. Melnikova, A. P. Rodionov

“…In order to produce such medicinal products, biofactories use production and reference strains with stable biological properties, which are stored in national collections of microorganisms. The only keeper of glanders strains is the Laboratory for Collection of Strains of Microorganisms in the FSBSI «FCTRBS-ARRVI», subordinated to the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation. …”
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Financial and Non-Financial Support of Export by A. A. Naryshkin

“…The Russian government has developed the national project "International cooperation and export", it sets the goal to ensure export growth through effective interaction of existing institutions. …”
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THE DEMOCRACY RHETORIC: A RESEARCH ON THE GRADUATE DISSERTATIONS by Mehmet Çakır

“…Juntas,memorandums, coups, post modern coups and civilian coups can be defined asoverall actions have the characteristics of social, political and militaryorganizations; which are bloody, hurtful, restrictor the individual rights andfreedoms; we have experienced many times since Turkey was established, ignorethe national will. Besides, the sociological achievements, experiences ofindividuals bring them to the ‘most ideal order is the democratic order’solution in spite of the point of view ‘democracies are less tyrant than theregimes antidemocratic’. …”
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Association of Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase C677T Gene Polymorphisms with Mild Cognitive Impairment Susceptibility: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Jiahui Sun, Xuefan Jiang, Ming Zhao, Lina Ma, Hui Pei, Nanyang Liu, Hao Li

“…PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, and China National Knowledge Infrastructure databases were searched from their inception to March 21, 2021, with language restricted to English or Chinese. …”
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Classification, Processing Procedures, and Market Demand of Chinese Biscuits and the Breeding of Special Wheat for Biscuit Making by Xin Hu, Lejia Hu, Jing Zheng, Junkang Rong

“…China’s total annual pastry import bill increased 5 times and the gap between import and export bill of pastry has been increased more than 7 times from 2010 to 2020, suggesting the strong demand of the national pastry market. This research also provides a direction for the future breeding of special soft wheat for biscuits in China.…”
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Evaluation of Quality Parameters and Shelf Life of Thai Pork Scratching “Kaeb Moo” by Thanapon Kitpot, Sujinda Sriwattana, Sergio Angeli, Prodpran Thakeow

“…The increase of rancidity was observed even if the peroxide values of frying oil were under the national regulation. At the end of shelf life, the properties of Kaeb Moo samples from predicting equations were as follows: 3.67–6.01% moisture contents, 0.396–0.503 µg/g MDA contents, 0.342–0.481 mg/kg hexanal contents, 50.01–60.08 kg·s linear distances (crispness), 36.01–48.83 mm rancid rating, and 43.72–45.38 mm crispness rating.…”
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Development and validation of a dynamic nomogram to predict alexithymia in young and middle aged stroke patients by Tinglin Zhang, Feiyang Sun, Xiaodie Ma, Yaoyao Liu, Fangyan Li, Lei Zhang

“…Predictive factors for alexithymia, such as Activities of Daily Living (ADL) scores, social support levels, lesion location, educational background, and National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) scores, were identified through univariate and multivariate analyses. …”
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Regional Disparities in Measles Vaccination Coverage and Their Associated Factors: An Ecological Study in Japan by Masaki Machida, Shinji Fukushima, Takahiro Tabuchi, Tomoki Nakaya, Wakaba Fukushima, Shigeru Inoue

“…Methods: In this ecological study, the measles vaccination coverage in FY 2022; population density; area deprivation index (ADI; an indicator of socioeconomic status); proportion of foreign nationals, single-father households, single-mother households, and mothers aged ≥30 years; and number of medical facilities, pediatricians, and non-pediatric medical doctors in 1,698 municipalities were extracted from Japanese government statistics. …”
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Synergy of governance, finance, and technology for sustainable natural resource management by Md. Mominur Rahman, Md. Emran Hossain

“…Using a panel dataset of 18 nations for 2013–2019 years, we employ a hybrid methodology that integrates Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA), Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA), and econometric modeling. fsQCA is employed to uncover and examine intricate combinations of causal conditions of the researched variables that together contribute to natural resource management. …”
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Economic Council of Mongolia: on the 100th Anniversary of its Establishment by Keemya V. Orlova

“…The article uses materials from the State National Archive of Mongolia, published scientific literature. …”
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Consistent patterns of LiDAR-derived measures of savanna vegetation complexity between wet and dry seasons by Zhengyang Wang, Jenia Singh, Andrew B. Davies

“…We used repeat ultrahigh-resolution LiDAR data (>100 points/m2) acquired in the wet and dry season in Kruger National Park, South Africa, to evaluate the consistency of the spatial distribution of vegetation structural complexity across the landscape. …”
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