The influence of sex on sleep characteristics in the adult and older adult population: findings from the EPISONO sleep study by Mayra dos Santos Silva, Priscila Farias Tempaku, Priscila Farias Tempaku, Monica Levy Andersen, Monica Levy Andersen, Sergio Tufik, Sergio Tufik, Dalva Poyares, Dalva Poyares

“…All examinations and tests were undertaken using the same protocols at both times, at baseline and 8 years later. All participants completed an institutional questionnaire and a range of other questionnaires on health and sleep parameters. …”
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Exploration of analgesic and anthelmintic activities of Artocarpus chaplasha ROXB. leaves supported by in silico molecular docking by S M Sohag, Sharmin Nur Toma, Md. Niaj Morshed, Md. Al Imran Imon, Md. Monirul Islam, Md. Ibnul Piash, Naznin Shahria, Imran Mahmud

“…In the anthelmintic tests, a 100 mg/mL concentration resulted in the lowest paralysis and death times of 14.03 and 18.03 mins, respectively. Our present study suggests that Aartocarpus chaplasha leaves can be a potential source of lead compounds for pain management and helminth infections and further advanced investigations are required in the future.…”
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Elbow Injuries Among MLB Pitchers Increased During Covid-19 Disrupted Season, But Not Other Baseball Injuries by Chelsea Martin, Jozef Palasiewicz, Jesse Grullon, Ellen Shanley, Charles Thigpen, Daniel Kline, Stefan Kluzek, Gary Collins, Garrett Bullock

“…Changes in training and seasonal time frames may be associated with higher rates of injury…”
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Highly conductive graphene@phosphotungstic acid nanocomposite for sensitive electrochemical detection of acetaminophen based on analysis induction strategy in foods by Ruiyu He, Jingjie Zhang, Shixin Li, Yuzhen Yang, Yaru Xu, Zhixiang Xu, Yufeng Sun

“…The calculated effective active area of GR@PWA/GCE was 2.22 times than that of bare glassy carbon electrode. …”
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Healthcare Resource Utilization and Costs Among Patients With Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, Barrett’s Esophagus, and Barrett’s Esophagus-Related Neoplasia in the United States... by Prateek Sharma, Gary W. Falk, Menaka Bhor, A. Burak Ozbay, Dominick Latremouille-Viau, Annie Guerin, Sherry Shi, Margaret M. Elvekrog, Paul Limburg

“…As patients progressed to more advanced stages, there was substantially higher disease-related resource utilization, with associated costs being 16 times higher in patients with EAC than those with NDBE. …”
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Clinical efficacy and safety study of vNOTES for benign ovarian tumors in obese patients by Fei Wang, Yuqin Liu, Yue Xing, Dongdong Wang, Xue Bai, Linlin Li, Chunhua Ma, Yongjuan Sun, Yufang Bai, Liehong Wang

“…Key parameters such as operative time, intraoperative blood loss, intraoperative and postoperative complications, hospitalization duration, postoperative anal exhaust time, postoperative visual analog scale (VAS) score, and SF-36 score were analyzed. …”
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Evaluating knowledge gains from structured sexual and reproductive health education among in-school adolescents in Southeast Nigeria by Chibuike Agu, Chinyere Ojiugo Mbachu, Ifunanya Clara Agu, Godstime Eigbiremolen, Ugenyi Iloabachie, Ozioma Nwankpa, Obinna Onwujekwe

“…Female adolescents were 3.2 times less likely to have good SRH knowledge compared to male adolescents. …”
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Efficacy of Kolofort in Combined Functional Gastroenterological Pathology: an Open Study by Yu. P. Uspenskiy, O. S. Mirzoev, Yu. A. Fominykh, A. A. Gnutov, S. V. Polyushkin

“…All patients received Kolofort 2 times a day, 2 tablets per dose for 28 days.Results. …”
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Managing Liver Cirrhosis: a Multidisciplinary Approach by V. M. Durleshter, S. A. Gabriel, N. V. Korochanskaya, O. V. Kovalevskaya, S. N. Serikova, P. V. Markov, O. A. Usova, D. S. Murashko, V. Yu. Dyn'ko, A. Yu. Bukhtoyarov, M. A. Basenko

“…Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunting (TIPS) was implemented in 2014 and performed 51 times in 5 years, coupled in 20 patients with simultaneous gastric variceal embolisation. …”
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Application of and research on 5G mobile nursing stations in clinical settings by Chunrong Li, Lichan Li, Jiexia Li, Rui Huang, Jianying Qin, Lirong Chen, Fujia Qin

“…This study compared the time taken by nurses in both scenarios to verify oral medicine dispensing and intravenous (IV) infusions against medical orders, as well as the time taken by nurses to input vital signs and complete nursing documentation. …”
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Geodetic data inversion to estimate a strain-rate field by introducing sparse modeling by Yohei Nozue, Yukitoshi Fukahata

“…As a result, the proposed method estimates about $$1.0\times {10}^{-8}$$ 1.0 × 10 - 8 /yr faster strain rates near the fault zone than the L2 regularization method, which corresponds to a 20–30% greater strain-rate concentration. …”
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Boosting the thermal efficiency of a flat-tube parabolic trough solar collector with the introduction of innovative slashed triangular prism turbulators by Sultan Alshehery, Qasem Al Mdallal, Ahmed A. Altohamy, Lotfi Ben Said, Mohamed Bouzidi, Turki Alkathiri, Lioua Kolsi

“…Utilizing TPT with varying lengths revealed that the l = 15 mm configuration produced a pressure drop of 18.3 times and enhanced heat transfer by 525 %, yielding a PEC of 2.37, thereby outperforming all other lengths tested. …”
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Room Temperature Gas Sensor Based on GaN/PANI Micro Composite with Ultrahigh NH3 Gas Sensibility by LIU Xiaoru, JIA Zhengyang, GUANG Juxu, HAN Dan, SANG Shengbo

“…In experimental conditions, the response of GaN/PANI gas sensor to 100×10-6 NH3 is 80.73%, which is 1.7 times that of pure GaN to the same concentration of NH3 and the limit of detection of GaN/PANI is determined to be 1×10-9 while that of pure GaN is 1×10-6 level. …”
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Risk Factors for Stress Fractures in Female Runners: Results of a Survey by Therese E Johnston, Allison E Jakavick, Caroline A Mancuso, Kathleen C McGee, Lily Wei, Morgan L Wright, Jeremy Close, Ayako Shimada, Benjamin E Leiby

“…The odds of having a stress fracture were 1.43 times higher for going ≥ 6 months without a menstrual period. …”
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Study on flexural cracking characteristics of polypropylene fiber reinforced concrete beams with BFRP bars by Huayi Wang, Ming Zhou, Bingyan Wei, Chao Wu, Zhiyi Tang, Sitian Zhang, Jia He

“…PP fibers can increase the ultimate strain of coordinated deformation between the concrete in the flexural zone and BFRP bars by 8.77–12.79 times. PP fibers can significantly delay the damage of the concrete in the compression zone, increase the ultimate compressive strain by 60.6 % - 120.3 %, and raise the ductility coefficient by 76.9 % - 153.9 %. …”
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Tissue-friendly dentin treatments as a potential element in revascularization protocol (ex-vivo study) by Hala Fayek Khalil, Nadia Ezz El Din Metwalli, Sara Magdy, Mohamed Shamel

“…Cytotoxicity was assessed using the MTT assay, with optical density measured at the specified times. Cell proliferation was evaluated via the Trypan blue exclusion test, with viable cells counted using a hemocytometer. …”
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Global Perspectives on Addressing Systemic Issues in Music Therapy Curricula and Healthcare by Amy Clements-Cortés, Melissa Mercadal-Brotons, Hakeem Leonard, Vivian Chan, Gro Trondalen, Tao-Deva Stingl, Thomas Stegemann, Claudia Zanini

“…Our aim is to contribute to the establishment of dialogues between music therapy educators, allied health professionals, researchers, and students for the implementation of new courses and the updating of existing programs, expanding views on possible music therapy interventions in contemporary times.   Acknowledgement Marisol Norris and Hyun Ju Chong were also part of this working group, and we want to thank them for their contributions to our work. …”
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Efficacy of osmotic laxative polyethylene glycol 4000 in treatment of constipation in pediatrics by S. I. Erdes, B. O. Matsukatova, S. A. Revyakina, Ye. V. Casanave

“…All children complained of hard stool. Complaints of long time spent in lavatory (67%) and «scybalous stool» (60%) had about half of all patients in the study. …”
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Environmental Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in Two Restaurants from a Mid-scale City that Followed U.S. CDC Reopening Guidance by Hongwan Li, Sripriya Nannu Shankar, Chiran T. Witanachchi, John A. Lednicky, Julia C. Loeb, Md. Mahbubul Alam, Z. Hugh Fan, Karim Mohamed, Jessica A. Boyette, Arantzazu Eiguren-Fernandez, Chang-Yu Wu

“…The samples were analyzed by real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 genomic RNA. …”
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Design of double oxygen vacancy-rich Bi2O2S0.8F0.4/BiOBr S-scheme heterojunction via tuning band structure for CO2 photoreduction by Xifeng Hou, Chenbin Ai, Songyu Yang, Jianjun Zhang, Yanfeng Zhang, Jingze Liu

“…The experiment results revealed that the evolution rate of CO from CO2 photoreduction for optimal Bi2O2S0.8F0.4/BiOBr heterojunction was 219.3 μmol⸱g−1⸱h−1, being 9.8 times greater than that of pure BiOBr. The S-scheme band structure was shown to promote sunlight utilization, raise the reduction power of photogenerated electrons, and improve the separation and transfer of photogenerated charge carriers. …”
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