Impact of Online Stress Management Training Program on the Sexual Function of Perimenopausal Women: A Clinical Trial by Leila Neisani Samani, Shima Arjmand, Naeimeh Seyedfatemi, Shima Haghani

“…They were divided into five groups of 10 and received stress management training online using WhatsApp at 8 sessions of 30 minutes, two times per week, for four weeks. They completed a sociodemographic/obstetric form and the female sexual function index (FSFI) before, immediately after, 4 weeks after, and 8 weeks after the intervention through self-reporting. …”
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The impact of technologies on the development of repetitive speed in handball, basketball and volleyball by Dana Badau, Adela Badau, Virgil Ene-Voiculescu, Carmen Ene-Voiculescu, Dragos Florin Teodor, Constantin Sufaru, Corina Claudia Dinciu, Victor Dulceata, Dan Cristian Manescu, Catalin Octavian Manescu

“…Study phasing: initial testing; implementing a 6-week experimental program using the Fitlight technology to improve manual, repetitive speed; final testing. …”
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What Time Is It? Finding Which Temporal Features is More Useful for Next Activity Prediction by Lerina Aversano, Martina Iammarino, Antonella Madau, Giuseppe Pirlo, Gianfranco Semeraro

“…In this article it is proposed a comparative analysis of temporal features, such as differences in timestamp, time of day, and day of week, extracted for each event in a prefix. Using both k-fold cross-validation for robust benchmarking and a 75/25 split to simulate real scenarios in which new process events are predicted based on past data, it is shown that timestamp differences within the same prefix consistently outperform other temporal features. …”
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Effect of a single rectal fecal microbiota transplantation on clinical severity and fecal microbial communities in dogs with chronic inflammatory enteropathy by Jorge Pérez‐Accino, Mazdak Salavati, Laura Glendinning, Silke Salavati Schmitz

“…Results Median CCECAI before FMT was 8 (range, 5‐14), decreased to a median of 3 (range, 1‐12) within 1 week and a median of 1 (range, 0‐12) by Day 30 (P < .01), with an average duration of response of approximately 10 weeks. …”
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Prophylactic Therapy of Silymarin (Milk Thistle) on Antituberculosis Drug-Induced Liver Injury: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials by Lina Tao, Xiaoyu Qu, Yue Zhang, Yanqing Song, Si-xi Zhang

“…Prophylactic therapy of silymarin is contributed to a noticeably reduced risk of development of anti-TB DILI four weeks after the initiation. In addition, silymarin significantly improved the liver function in patients who are receiving anti-TB drugs.…”
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Early Blood Gas Predictors of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia in Extremely Low Gestational Age Newborns by Sudhir Sriram, Joy Condie, Michael D. Schreiber, Daniel G. Batton, Bhavesh Shah, Carl Bose, Matthew Laughon, Linda J. Van Marter, Elizabeth N. Allred, Alan Leviton

“…To determine among infants born before the 28th week of gestation to what extent blood gas abnormalities during the first three postnatal days provide information about the risk of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). …”
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Responses of laying performance, eggshell quality, calcium, and phosphorus metabolism to feeding patterns and dietary available phosphorus levels in aged laying hens by Dan Shao, Liangji Liu, Haibing Tong

“…The experiment followed a 3 × 2 factorial arrangement of three feeding patterns (feeding twice a day, 1/2 daily feeding at 8:00, and 1/2 daily feeding at 14:00; disequilibrium feeding twice a day, 1/3 daily feeding at 8:00, and 2/3 daily feeding at 14:00; feeding thrice a day, 1/3 daily feeding at 8:00, 1/3 daily feeding at 14:00, and 1/3 daily feeding at 18:00) and two available phosphorus levels (0.32 %, 0.27 %) was carried out with a total of 528 Hy-Line Brown laying hens aged 62–74 weeks. Each group had 8 replicates of 11 hens. The results revealed that feeding patterns and phosphorus levels significantly interacted with egg production ratios, soft shell and broken egg ratios in weeks 9–12 (P < 0.05). …”
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Impact of the Ottawa model on opiate screening and smoking cessation in methadone-treated patients with opioid use disorder: A retrospective cohort analysis by Shu-Wua Lee, Po-Chung Yu, Ting-Ting Yen, Chiann-Yi Hsu, Li-Jou Lai, I-Chun Chen, Ting-Gang Chang

“…Methods In a retrospective cohort study, 53 methadone maintenance patients were divided into 16 treatment-seeking smokers (TSS) and 37 treatment-rejecting smokers (TRS) based on their participation in the Ottawa model for smoking cessation plus 16 weeks of varenicline treatment. Both groups received standard methadone treatment for 68 weeks. …”
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Active versus sham transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) as an adjunct to varenicline treatment for smoking cessation: Study protocol for a double-blind single dummy rando... by Laurie Zawertailo, Helena Zhang, Noreen Rahmani, Tarek K Rajji, Peter Selby

“…Participants will be randomized 1:1 to either active tDCS (20 minutes at 2 mA) or sham tDCS (30 seconds at 2 mA, 19 minutes at 0 mA) for 10 daily sessions (2 weeks) plus 5 follow up sessions, occurring every two weeks for 10 weeks. …”
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Probiotic Amelioration of Azotemia in 5/6th Nephrectomized Sprague-Dawley Rats by Natarajan Ranganathan, Beena Patel, Pari Ranganathan, Joseph Marczely, Rahul Dheer, Tushar Chordia, Stephen R. Dunn, Eli A. Friedman

“…The study group consisted of 36 nephrectomized and 7 non-nephrectomized (control) rats. After two-week nephrectomy stabilization, cohorts of six nephrectomized rats were fed casein-based diet plus one of the following regimens: (A) Control, (B) Placebo (casein-based diet without probiotics), (C) Bacillus pasteurii, (D) Sporolac®, (E) Kibow cocktail, (F) CHR Hansen Cocktail, and (G) ECONORMTM. …”
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Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging of Fracture Healing in the Normal Mouse by Hans Gollwitzer, Xu Yang, Lyudmila Spevak, Lyudmila Lukashova, Allina Nocon, Kara Fields, Nancy Pleshko, Hayden William Courtland, Mathias P. Bostrom, Adele L. Boskey

“…Animals were sacrificed at 1, 2, 4, and 8 weeks to obtain callus tissue at well-defined healing stages. …”
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Wild pea (<i>Pisum sativum</i>Pisum sativum L. subsp. <i>elatius</i> (Bieb.) Aschers. et Graebn. s.l.) at the periphery of its range: Zagros Mountains by O. E. Kosterin, V. S. Bogdanova, A. V. Mglinets

“…In such regions, wild pea populations are rare, small in size and suffer from climatic change and land exploitation, hence their focused search is strongly desirable. A two-week-long expedition to Iran in May 2017 revealed two small populations of the wild pea (Pisum sativum subsp. elatius) in the Zagros Mts, in Aligudarz and Khorramabad Districts of Lorestan Province, Iran, at elevations of 1841 and 1971 m a.s.l., respectively. …”
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Association between drinking patterns and diabetic kidney disease in United States adults: a cross-sectional study based on data from NHANES 1999–2016 by Xusheng Yang

“…Drinking patterns were categorized by frequency (weekly, monthly, or yearly) and quantity (light, moderate, or heavy, based on daily consumption). …”
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Beneficial Effects of Ursodeoxycholic Acid on Metabolic Parameters and Oxidative Stress in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Randomized Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Cli... by Biljana Lakić, Ranko Škrbić, Snežana Uletilović, Nebojša Mandić-Kovačević, Milkica Grabež, Mirna Popović Šarić, Miloš P. Stojiljković, Ivan Soldatović, Zorica Janjetović, Anastasija Stokanović, Nataša Stojaković, Momir Mikov

“…Conclusions. The eight-week UDCA administration showed beneficial effects on metabolic and oxidative stress parameters in patients with T2DM. …”
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Impact of topical cetylated fatty acid cream on hand osteoarthritis: a randomized, double-blind clinical trial by Sitthiphong Suwannaphisit, Nitiphoom Sinnathakorn, Pormes Suwanno, Warangkana Fongsri, Boonsin Tangtrakulwanich

“…Patients received topical CFA (n = 36) or placebo (n = 36) twice daily for six weeks. The primary outcome was the Functional Index for Hand Osteoarthritis (FIHOA) at 2, 4, and 6 weeks. …”
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One-year outcomes of traumatic injuries among survivors in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study on the employment outcomes and functioning state by Ayalew Zewdie, Adamu Addissie, Marcia Finlayson, Ansha Nega Ahmed, Rosemary Lysaght

“…Descriptive statistics were used to characterize the outcomes.Results Of the 254 participants, 78% were men, 48% were young adults (age 25–39 years), 41% were injured by road traffic collision, 52% were admitted to the hospital for up to a week and only 16% received compensation for the injury. …”
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Host Susceptibility to Brucella abortus Infection Is More Pronounced in IFN-γ knockout than IL-12/β2-Microglobulin Double-Deficient Mice by Ana Paula M. S. Brandão, Fernanda S. Oliveira, Natalia B. Carvalho, Leda Q. Vieira, Vasco Azevedo, Gilson C. Macedo, Sergio C. Oliveira

“…Herein, IFN-γ and IL-12/β2-microglobulin (β2-m) knockout mice were used to determine whether CD8+ T cells and IL-12-dependent IFN-γ deficiency would be more critical to control B. abortus infection compared to the lack of endogenous IFN-γ. At 1 week after infection, IFN-γ KO and IL-12/β2-m KO mice showed increased numbers of bacterial load in spleens; however, at 3 weeks postinfection (p.i.), only IFN-γ KO succumbed to Brucella. …”
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Gastrostomy uptake in motor neurone disease: a mixed-methods study of patients’ decision making by Natalie James, Emma Power, Anne Hogden, Julie Labra, Victoria M Flood

“…Participants took days, weeks or months to consider their preferences, with lengthy hospital waiting times for the procedure. …”
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Reliability and concurrent validity of the iHandy level mobile application to measure thoracolumbar range of motion in low back pain patients by Nimra Ijaz, Saima Riaz, Tahreem Raza, Sidra Ali

“…Measurements were taken at baseline and one-week follow-up. Results In asymptomatic participants, the mobile application had ICC values of 0.81, 0.70, 0.79, and 0.85, while in symptomatic, regarding intra-rater reliability, these were 0.80, 0.78, 0.81Regarding the concurrent validity of mobile apps in asymptomatic patients, ICC values were 0.94, 0.93, 0.84, and 0.89, while in symptomatic patients, the ICC values were found to be 0.92, 0.89, 0.83, and 0.85 for flexion, extension, RLF, and LLF, respectively. …”
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Impact of Soft Drink Intake on Bone Development and Risk of Fractures in a Danish Cohort of Schoolchildren by Helene Hermansen, Mina Nicole Händel, Malene Søborg Heidemann, Niels Wedderkopp

“…Participants (<i>n</i> = 529) were recruited from intervention schools offering 270 min of physical education (PE) per week (active arm) and control schools with 90 min of standard PE. …”
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