Microscopical and molecular investigation of Ichthyophthirius multifiliis from fish in Mosul city, Iraq by Esraa A. Altaie, Nadia N. Alhayali

“…Molecular phylogenetic analysis conducted with 18S rRNA gene confirming species identification of one positive isolate out of 13 belonging to the ectoparasite I. multifiliis under the accession number PQ012981 and according to the genetic tree analysis of I. multifiliis showed 100% match with each of the United States isolates for the same species and under the accession numbers KJ690571, KJ690572, KJ690570, KJ690568, KJ690567, KJ690566 and KJ690565 and isolates OM865867 in India and OM302501 in China. …”
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The Documentation Status Continuum and the Impact of Categories on Healthcare Stratification by Tiffany Denise Joseph

“…This scholarship lacks a framework outlining existing documentation status categories and does not fully answer three research questions I pose in this article: (1) what is the alignment of documentation status categories relative to each other, (2) how does policy (re)configure those categories over time, and (3) how have documentation status categories shaped access to health care in the United States? This article answers those questions and argues that the documentation status continuum (DSC) framework fills these gaps. …”
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Biochemical Parameters of Laboratory Animals in Iraq: A Meta-analysis Study by Ahmed A Hussein, Mohammad O Dahl, Nashaat G Mustafa

“…In conclusion, we encourage researchers to consider the values we provided in this analysis and report details of the sample size, number of animals in each group, sex, exact age, and the accurate units for the estimated values in their studies to facilitate further analyses for more reference values in further analyses‎‎‎.   …”
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Exhibiting the West at the Paris Exposition of 1867: Towards a New American Aesthetic Identity? by François Brunet, Jessica Talley

“…In 1867 the French Second Empire’s “social” doctrine staged industry and labor not only as economic values but as cultural facts, envisioned in socio-ethnographic terms if not as forms of spectacle. The United States was only a second-tier player; however, for the U.S. organizers the Paris Exposition was a crucial opportunity for the country as it just emerged from the Civil War and entered Reconstruction. …”
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A pilot randomized controlled study of integrated kidney palliative care and chronic kidney disease care implemented in a safety-net hospital: Protocol for a pilot study of feasibi... by Jennifer S. Scherer, Wenbo Wu, Chen Lyu, Keith S. Goldfeld, Abraham A. Brody, Joshua Chodosh, David Charytan

“…It causes significant suffering and disproportionately impacts marginalized populations in the United States. Kidney palliative care has the potential to alleviate this distress, but has not been tested. …”
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The Czechoslovak Crisis of 1948 in the Perception of American Diplomats and Media by A. V. Zorin

“…The author concludes that the Czechoslovak crisis of 1948 aroused considerable interest and severe reaction in the United States. It was considered as a part of growing Soviet-American contradictions and international tension. …”
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INFLUENCE OF FIRM CHARACTERISTICS ON LOAN APPROVAL FOR SMEs IN NORTH CENTRAL NIGERIA: BANKERS’ PERCEPTION by Lukman Adebayo Oke, Yusuf Olamilekan Quadri, Daud Omotosho Saheed

“…The study thus recommended among others, the need for SMEs to synergize and borrow as consortium rather than as individual units. This will facilitate improved financial access and economies of scale in terms of relatively reduced loan costs. …”
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Violence against psychiatric trainees from Asian countries: A pilot online survey by Arpit Parmar, Sundar Gnanavel, Ahmet Gürcan, Yugesh Rai, Utkarsh Karki, Mariana Pinto da Costa, Anna Szczegielniak, Victor Pereira-Sanchez

“…More than two thirds of participants (n = 325, 69.59%) reported a history of assault. Psychiatry inpatient units were the most common setting (n = 239, 73.54%). …”
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Coğrafya Önemlidir!: Nüfus Yaşlanmasına Mekânsal Bir Perspektiften Bakmak by Mustafa Yakar, Ertuğrul Murat Özgür

“…Ampirik bulgular, yaşlı nüfus oranlarına göre oluşturulan yaşlanma düzeylerinin Türkiye’de farklı mekânsal ölçeklerde değiştiğini, mekânsal ünite küçüldükçe yaşlanma örüntüsünün netlik kazandığını ve çeşitlendiğini ortaya koymuştur. …”
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Enhancing RF Fingerprint Generation in Power Amplifiers: Unequally Spaced Multitone Design Approaches and Considerations by Chengyu Fan, Junting Deng, Ethan Chen, Vanessa Chen

“…Multiple 3-bit resistive digital-to-analog converters (RDACs) are applied to control body biasing units within the two-stage PA, facilitating the generation of massive and distinguishable RFFs. …”
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Efficacy of Lockdowns in Africa by Daglous Makumbe

“…The death toll in Asia and Europe was astronomical, whilst that of the United States of America, Brazil and India was unprecedented. …”
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Performance Analysis of a Compressor Rotor Dedicated to Low-Power Drive Systems by Natalia Kapela, Karolina Wyżkiewicz, Andrzej Frąckowiak

“…This study investigates the efficiency evaluation of a compressor rotor designed for drive units requiring compressors with a power demand of less than 30 kW. …”
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Relationship between Biological and Qualitative Indices in Surface Waters Receiving the Effluent of Fish Farms in the Northwest of Iran by Farhad Pourfaraj, Malek Abazari, Eslam Moradiasl, S. Amad Mokhtariai

“…The activity of fish farms and discharging their effluents into water sources, can change the physical, chemical and biological parameters of re­ceiving waters, therefore it is recommended that the location of these units be reviewed and also the appropriate treat­ment for such effluents should be considered, so that the health risks caused by them can be effectively reduced. …”
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Epidemiologic characteristics, the length of hospital stay, and mortality of patients with organophosphate poisoning: A systematic review by Janet Alva, Elsa Sanatombi Devi, Ramesh Chandrababu, Julliet Abraham, Jayraj Mymbilly Balakrishnan

“…Background: Organophosphate poisoning is continuing to be a rising cause for the presentation to emergency department and admission to the Intensive Care Units in India. Objective: The objective of this review was to quantitatively synthesize the data to identify the epidemiologic characteristics, the length of hospital stays, and mortality of patients with organophosphate poisoning. …”
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Hybrid Deep-Learning Framework Based on Gaussian Fusion of Multiple Spatiotemporal Networks for Walking Gait Phase Recognition by Tao Zhen, Jian-lei Kong, Lei Yan

“…Human gait phase detection is a significance technology for robotics exoskeletons control and exercise rehabilitation therapy. Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) with accelerometer and gyroscope are convenient and inexpensive to collect gait data, which are often used to analyze gait dynamics for personal daily applications. …”
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Seroprevalence of Hepatitis C, Hepatitis B, Cytomegalovirus, and Human Immunodeficiency Viruses in Multitransfused Thalassemic Children in Upper Egypt by Ramadan A. Mahmoud, Abdel-Azeem M. El-Mazary, Ashraf Khodeary

“…It is therefore important to implement measures to improve blood transfusion screening, such as polymerase chain reaction, in order to reduce TTIs from blood donor units.…”
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Neutralization by Insulin of the Hypertensive Effect of Dermcidin Isoform 2: An Environmentally Induced Diabetogenic and Hypertensive Protein by Rajeshwary Ghosh, Sarbashri Bank, Rabindra Bhattacharya, Nighat N. Khan, A. Kumar Sinha

“…Incubation of kidney cortex cells with 0.2 μM dermcidin-inhibited synthesis of (r)-cortexin, an antihypertensive protein, and the basal (r)-cortexin level was reduced from 33 nM to 15 nM. Addition of 25 μunits of insulin/mL was found to reverse the inhibition of cortexin synthesis. …”
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Unsuccessful Peace-making: the Mission of Francesco da Collo and Antonio de Conti to Moscow (1518-1519) by O. F. Kudriavtsev

“…The mission aimed to mediate between Moscow and the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth, seeking to align both states for a planned united Christian campaign against the Ottoman Empire, whose expansion in Southeastern Europe posed a serious threat. …”
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Problems and contradictions of international migration statistics by B. B. Loginov

“…International organizations, including United Nations bodies, haven’t worked out single recommendations on proceeding migration statistics, stratification of migration flows. …”
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Ultrasound-Guided Genicular Nerve Thermal Radiofrequency Ablation for Chronic Knee Pain by Joshua Wong, Nicholas Bremer, Paul D. Weyker, Christopher A. J. Webb

“…Osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee is one of the most common joint diseases affecting adults in the United States. For elderly patients with multiple medical comorbidities who do not wish to undergo total knee arthroplasty (TKA), lifestyle modification, pharmacologic management, and injections are the mainstay of therapy. …”
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