Cardiovascular Disease and Its Implication for Higher Catastrophic Health Expenditures Among Households in Sub-Saharan Africa by Folashayo Ikenna Peter Adeniji, Taiwo Akinyode Obembe

“…Households who reported having CVD were 3 times more likely to incur CHE compared with households without CVD (OR, 3.002; CI, 1.013-8.902). …”
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Influence of sulfate-reducing bacteria on the biocorrosion of mild steel coated with hybrid polyetherimide-ZnO or CuO bilayer composites by Rahali, Emna, El-Bassi, Leila, Bousselmi, Latifa, Alves, Marta M., Montemor, Maria de Fátima, Akrout, Hanene

“…The higher PEI-CuO resistivity value of $2.17\times 10^{6}~\Omega {\cdot }\mathrm{cm}^{2}$ contrasted with the decrease to $1.5\times 10^{5}$ and $1.6\times 10^{3}~\Omega {\cdot }\mathrm{cm}^{2}$ for PEI-ZnO and PEI coatings, respectively. …”
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Impact of tourist and recreational activities on the indicators of soil-ecological monitoring of the adjacent territory of Lake Teletskoe (Altai Mountains) by Olga A. Elchininova

“…Recreational loads were responsible for the 1.2–1.7 times increase in soil density of the upper (0–5 cm) layer, accompanied by a decrease in soil porosity and air supply. …”
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Clinical and Cost Burden of Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome: Descriptive Analysis Using a US Administrative Claims Database by Sue Perera, Liyuan Ma, Raj Punwaney, Sulabha Ramachandran

“…Patients with extra glandular disease also incurred greater average annual costs (2.9 times) contributing to ≥2 times/year more resource use for outpatient services than patients with glandular disease only. …”
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Synergistic cryoprotective effects of mannan oligosaccharides and curdlan on the grass carp surimi by Yanxin Lin, Lingzhi Zhang, Wanting Tang, Jing Ren, Yijie Mo, Xiao Guo, Lizhong Lin, Yuqin Ding

“…Moreover, the MOS-CU mixture demonstrated cryoprotective effects equivalent to those of commercial cryoprotectant on grass carp surimi from zero to five times FTCs and even outperformed CC after seven times FTCs.…”
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The impact of nationality status and place of residency on health-related social needs and quality of life among Palestinian Refugees in Jordan by Hamza Alduraidi, Rahaf Issam Abu Zayid, Noor Mahmoud Jaber, Bassam Saleh Hijazi, Sa'ed Radwan Khamis, Hasan Fahed Awad, Marah Al-Khateeb, Saif alnour Mahmoud Aldhirat, Ahmad Amjed Toubasi

“…A Palestinian refugee who lives in Gaza camp is four times more likely to have safety needs, six times more likely to have financial needs, and over twice more likely to have employment needs than a refugee outside camps. …”
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Representation of the Expression of Ndebele Customary Law of Inheritance in Selected Educational Works in Zimbabwean Schools by Cordial Bhebe, Bekithemba Dube

“…The study contributed that in spite of these inevitable challenges, the custom should be dynamic and appreciative of modifications in accordance with the prevailing socio-economic changes of the times.…”
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Clinico-demographic factors affecting mortality in COVID-19 patients at a health care facility, Western Uttar Pradesh by Swati Singh, Anupam Sisodia, Meghna Athwani

“…In hazard analysis, geriatric patients had 4.358 times more hazard of death. Patients with diabetes and hypertension had two times higher hazard of death than patients without these comorbidities. …”
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VERDI AND WAGNER IN EARLY VICTORIAN LONDON: THE VIEWPOINT OF “THE MUSICAL WORLD” by Massimo ZICARI

“…Notwithstanding this disparity, a first glance at the reviews that appeared in The Times, The Musical World, The Athenaeum, The Sunday Times and The Spectator, and that were then reproduced in the columns of The Musical World, shows the extent to which, between 1845 and 1855, both composers became object of severe critical scrutiny. …”
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The spectrality of symmetric additive measures by Ai, Wen-Hui, Lu, Zheng-Yi, Zhou, Ting

“…., \begin{equation*} \rho =\frac{1}{2}(\mu \times \delta _0+\delta _0\times \mu ), \end{equation*} where the component measure $\mu $ is the Lebesgue measure supported on $[t, t+1]$ for $t\in \mathbb{Q}\setminus \lbrace -\frac{1}{2}\rbrace $ and $\delta _{0}$ is the Dirac measure at $0$. …”
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Analysis of the efficacy of multidisciplinary integration based on 3D reconstruction technology for the treatment of gout stone by Shizhe Zhou, Zengxiao Zhang, Tian Liu, Yijun Xu, Yuehai Pan, Ying Chen

“…After adjusting for confounders, multifactorial logistic regression showed that the uric acid attainment rate of patients in the MDT surgery group was 4.011 times higher than that of the drug group (OR: 4.011, 95% CI: 1.595, 10.086, P = 0.003); the proportion of patients with an increase in SF-36 in the MDT surgery group was 4.976 times higher than that of the drug group (OR: 4.976, 95% CI: 2.243, 11.040, P < 0.001); the proportion of patients treated with high-dose medication in the MDT surgery group was 1.8% of that of patients in the drug group (OR: 0.018, 95% CI: 0.002, 0.148, P < 0.001); and the proportion of patients in the MDT surgery group who developed frequent gout was 2.8% of that in the drug group (OR: 0.028 95% CI: 0.003, 0.2398, P = 0.001). the proportion of patients in the MDT surgery group who developed abnormal liver function was 0.317 times higher than that in the drug group (OR: 0.317, 95% CI: 0.121, 0.831, P = 0.019). …”
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3D-augmentation of 2D ultrasound for appendicitis diagnosis: A cross-sectional pilot study by Rebecca G. Theophanous, Elias Jaffa, Matthew R. Morgan, Carl D. Herickhoff, Erica Peethumnongsin, Joao Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci, Joshua S. Broder

“…Mean 3DUS acquisition and reconstruction times were 10.3 and 14.5 s, compared to 2DUS (41 min) and CT (22 min). …”
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Influence of volatiles (H$_{2}$O and CO$_{2}$) on shoshonite phase equilibria by Vetere, Francesco, Namur, Olivier, Holtz, Francois, Almeev, Renat, Donato, Paola, Frondini, Francesco, Cassetta, Michele, Pisello, Alessandro, Perugini, Diego

“…This result has important consequences upon the physical properties of the magma because it influences its viscosity and, as a consequence, velocity during its travel to the Earth surface.Assuming that the widths of Vulcanello conduits vary from 0.5 to 1.5 m, estimates of the ascent velocity vary in the range 1.5 ${\times }$ 10$^{-4}$–3.5 ${\times }$ 10$^{-2}$ m${\cdot }$s$^{-1}$ for CO$_{2}$ free systems and from 5.7 ${\times }$ 10$^{-4}$–1.3 ${\times }$ 10$^{-1}$ m${\cdot }$s$^{-1}$ for CO$_{2}$ bearing systems.Since shoshonitic magmas are common not only in the Italian volcanic provinces (Aeolian Arc, Campi Flegrei, Ischia Island, Pontine Islands, Monti Cimini, Monte Amiata, Capraia Island, Radicofani, Roccamonfina) but also in different volcanoes worldwide (Yellowstone, Mariana Arc, Kurile Arc, Tonga Arc, Andean Arc, Kamchatka Arc), we suggest that the new data will be useful to better understand shoshonitic magma behaviour under relevant geological scenarios. …”
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Estimation of supply and demand for public health nurses in Japan: A stock-flow approach. by Kazuya Taira, Masanao Horikawa, Takahiro Itaya, Rikuya Hosokawa, Misa Shiomi

“…If the job change rate would be 2.0 times, the supply was sufficient for all estimated years. …”
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Prioritizing information over grammar: a behavioral investigation of information density and rhetorical discourse effects on EFL listening comprehension by Mohamed A. Mekheimer, A. I. Fageeh

“…Behavioral measures, including listening comprehension scores and response times, revealed that participants demonstrated significantly higher comprehension accuracy (96% vs 44.3% accuracy) and faster processing times (37 min versus 41 min) when listening to the information-rich audio compared to the rhetorical audio (p < .005). …”
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Lifetime of patients and prognostic value of manifestations and complications of liver cirrhosis by G. K. Mirodzhov, S. A. Avezov, N. S. Tukhtayeva, A. Bakhtibekov, M. M. Giyasov

“…Alcohol-induced LC and primary biliary cirrhosis are over 10 and 5 times less frequent respectively. Lifetime and 3-year survival rate of patients depend on a phase of cirrhotic process compensation. …”
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Skillful prediction of Indian Ocean Dipole index using machine learning models by J.V. Ratnam, Swadhin K. Behera, Masami Nonaka, Kalpesh R. Patil

“…The results based on the IOD index predictions at 1–8 month lead time indicate that the AdaBoost model with Multi-Layer Perceptron as the base estimator, AdaBoost(MLP), to perform better than the other five models in predicting the IOD index at all lead times. …”
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Soot Particle Agglomeration Inlet (SPAI) for Enabling Online Chemical Composition Measurement of Nanoparticles with the Aerosol Mass Spectrometer by Sampsa Martikainen, Sanna Saarikoski, Paxton Juuti, Hilkka Timonen, Jorma Keskinen, Panu Karjalainen

“…Abstract Nanoparticles are a topic of interest because of their effects on human health and the climate, but the current options for evaluating their chemical composition—one of the key properties that determine the mechanisms of these effects—remain very limited and often require long collection times. For example, the Soot Particle Aerosol Mass Spectrometer (SP-AMS) is an instrument that measures the chemical properties of particles in real time, but sampling loss fixes its lower particle size limit at 50 nm, thus excluding nanoparticles. …”
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Ou metodes van die Satan in 'n moderne samelewing - met besondere verwysing na Openbaring 2 en 3 by AH Grové

“… It is an unequivocal fact that Satan is at work in this world and especially in the church of Christ. At times his methods are crystal clear and at other times, inexplicably, they are not. …”
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Analysis of Risk Factors for Death of Covid-19 Patients at Undata Hospital Palu by Nur Afni, Sri Rahayu

“…Patients with heart disease have a 4.319 times greater risk of dying from Covid -19 of the patients without comorbidities. …”
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