Effect of diet containing alfalfa (Medicago sativa) powder and leaf extract on hemolymph factors of western whiteleg shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) under low salinity stress by Kobra Babanejad Abkenar, Arash Akbarzadeh, Ahmad Noori, Mohammad Niroomand

“…Materials and methods: Shrimp were fed in seven treatments with three replications, including control (without ALP and ALE), ALP (60, 120, and 180 g/kg), and ALE (6, 12, and 18 g/kg) for nine weeks. Then, the shrimp were subjected to salinity stress at five ppt for 48 hours. …”
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Perioperative outcomes of video-assisted versus right anterior thoracotomy mitral valve replacement: an observational study by Gehad Awad, Fetoh Alaaeldin Fetoh, Noureldin Noaman Gwely, Usama Hamza, Sameh Amer, Yomna Mohammed Yehya, Amr Abdellateef

“…There was a gradual reduction in VAS in both groups along the period of 3 months postoperatively without significant differences between the two groups in 2 weeks and 3 months postoperatively. Conclusions VAMVR and ATMVR could be considered safe, feasible approaches with favorable perioperative surgical and echocardiographic results. …”
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Acceptance, Safety, and Effect Sizes in Online Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: Interventional Pilot Study by Ruben Vonderlin, Tali Boritz, Carola Claus, Büsra Senyüz, Saskia Mahalingam, Rachel Tennenhouse, Stefanie Lis, Christian Schmahl, Jürgen Margraf, Tobias Teismann, Nikolaus Kleindienst, Shelley McMain, Martin Bohus

“…Self-harm behaviors decreased significantly from 80% to 28% of all patients showing at least 1 self-harm behavior in the last 10 weeks (risk ratio 0.35). A high dropout rate of 38% was observed. …”
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Preliminary Effectiveness of a Telehealth-Delivered Exercise Program in Older Adults Living With and Beyond Cancer: Retrospective Study by Emily R Dunston, Sonal Oza, Yang Bai, Maria Newton, Leslie Podlog, Kish Larson, Darren Walker, Rebecca W Zingg, Pamela A Hansen, Adriana M Coletta

“…All baseline measures were repeated after 12-weeks of telehealth exercise. Change scores were calculated for all assessments and compared to minimal clinically important difference (MCID) values for assessments with published MCIDs. …”
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Trends in depressive symptoms among high school students with and without health-risk behaviors in the United States: A population-based studyResearch in context by Tanner J. Bommersbach, Mark Olfson, Taeho Greg Rhee

“…Depressive symptoms were defined as past-year feelings of sadness/hopelessness almost every day for ≥2 weeks impacting usual activities. 24 health-risk behaviors across five categories (violence, substance use, sexual, physical/sedentary, and weight-related) were considered. …”
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Effect of Forbrain Cognitive Training Intervention Prescriptions Based on Risk Factors on Patients with Cognitive Impairment After Traumatic Brain Injury by ZHANG Xueru, WANG Hongbin, CUI Huiying, HAO Xijun, CHEN Changxiang

“…For all of the three groups, the interventions were provided for 20 minutes a time, twice a day, lasting for two weeks. Before and after intervention, the Loeweistein Occupational Therapy Cognitive Assessment (LOTCA)-Ⅱ was used to evaluate the patients' cognitive function; Barthel Index (BI) was used to evaluate the activities of daily living ability of patients.Results(1) Cognitive function: compared with that before treatment, the total score of LOTCA-Ⅱ in the observation group 1 and the observation group 2 were higher after intervention, and the differences were statistically significant (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05); compared with the control group, the scores of praxis and attention in the observation group 1 after intervention were significantly higher, and the scores of visual perception, action application score, visual movement organization time score, operation of thinking score, concentration score and LOTCA-Ⅱ total scores in the observation group 2 after intervention were significantly higher, and the differences were statistically significant (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05). …”
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Risk factor for intestinal carriage of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii and the impact on subsequent infection among patients in an intensive care unit: an observationa... by Li Wei, Lin Cai, Shan Gao, Fu Qiao, Wenzhi Huang, Shichao Zhu, Yan Kang, Chuanmin Tao, Zhiyong Zong

“…Rectal swabs were collected from ICU patients on admission and thereafter weekly. A case–control study was performed to analyse risk factors of the acquisition of CRAB intestinal carriage in ICU using multiple logistic regression. …”
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In vivo and in silico study of europinidin against streptozotocin-isoproterenol-induced myocardial damage via alteration of hs-CRP/CPK-MB/Caspase-3/Bcl-2 pathways by Khalid Saad Alharbi, Muhammad Afzal, Fahad A. Al-Abbasi, Ehssan Moglad, Salwa D. Al-Qahtani, Naif A. R. Almalki, Faisal Imam, Nadeem Sayyed, Imran Kazmi

“…Europinidin 10 and 20 mg/day was administered orally for 4 weeks after validation of diabetes (glucose > 250 mg/dl) on the 7th day. …”
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Entrepreneurship education for women through project-based flipped learning: The impact of innovativeness and risk-taking on course satisfaction by Seung-chul Yoo, Tu Anh Truong, Kwanghee Jung

“…METHODOLOGY: During the first semester of 2018, a total of 80 students enrolled in the Communication Society class were engaged in a longitudinal study, involving bi-weekly online surveys prior to the semester’s conclusion. …”
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Social Media Use and Oral Health–Related Misconceptions in Saudi Arabia: Cross-Sectional Study by Rahaf Hamdan BinHamdan, Salwa Abdulrahman Alsadhan, Arwa Zohair Gazzaz, AlBandary Hassan AlJameel

“…MethodsA cross-sectional survey was conducted over 10 weeks, targeting adults aged 15 years and older in Saudi Arabia. …”
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Burnout in New Zealand resident doctors: a cross-sectional study of prevalence and risk factors by Denys Shay, Susanna Every-Palmer, Alex B Boyle, Tanushk Martyn, Earle Savage, Simon B M MacLean

“…Having a manageable workload protected against emotional exhaustion (OR 0.23, CI 0.13 to 0.37) and depersonalisation (OR 0.39, CI 0.24 to 0.61). Increasing weekly exercise was protective for personal accomplishment (OR 0.846, CI 0.73 to 0.98). …”
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Effects of sexual counseling and education based on self-efficacy theory on the sexual function of women with breast cancer by Azadeh Jamshidi, Farzaneh Noroozi, Razieh Bagherzadeh, Tayebeh Gharibi

“…Data collection utilized demographic information forms and a sexual function index for women, which consists of 19 questions that assess six domains of women’s sexual function (desire, arousal, lubrication, orgasm, satisfaction, and pain during intercourse) over a period of 4 weeks and completed by participants during the pre-test, post-test, and follow-up stages. …”
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Automated classification of stress and relaxation responses in major depressive disorder, panic disorder, and healthy participants via heart rate variability by Sangwon Byun, Ah Young Kim, Min-Sup Shin, Hong Jin Jeon, Hong Jin Jeon, Chul-Hyun Cho, Chul-Hyun Cho

“…This study evaluated the feasibility of using machine-learning algorithms to detect stress automatically in MDD and PD patients, as well as healthy controls (HCs), based on HRV features.MethodsThe study included 147 participants (MDD: 41, PD: 47, HC: 59) who visited the laboratory up to five times over 12 weeks. HRV data were collected during stress and relaxation tasks, with 20 HRV features extracted. …”
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A Live Video Resiliency Dyadic Intervention for Persons With Dementia and Their Care-Partners Early After Diagnosis: Protocol for Open Pilot of Resilient Together for Dementia by Sydney McCage, Kristin Walker, Talea Cornelius, Robert A Parker, Kristen Dams-O'Connor, Brad Dickerson, Christine Ritchie, Ana-Maria Vranceanu, Sarah Bannon

“…Dyads will then participate in 6 weekly RT-ADRD sessions together (30-60 minutes each). …”
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Modeling Stock High-Low Price Range: Fractional Cointegrating VAR Approach (FCVAR) by Elham Farzanegan

“…These findings are robust to different time frequencies, including daily, weekly, and monthly. Finally, the results affirm the time-varying cointegrating relationship between high and low stock prices. …”
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Sensorimotor Robotic Measures of tDCS- and HD-tDCS-Enhanced Motor Learning in Children by Lauran Cole, Sean P. Dukelow, Adrianna Giuffre, Alberto Nettel-Aguirre, Megan J. Metzler, Adam Kirton

“…A KINARM robotic protocol quantifying proprioception, kinesthesia, visually guided reaching, and an object hit task was completed at baseline, posttraining, and six weeks later. Effects of the treatment group and training on changes in sensorimotor parameters were explored. …”
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Study protocol of a randomised controlled trial on SISU, a software agent providing a brief self-help intervention for adults with low psychological well-being by Harald Baumeister, Ann-Marie Küchler, David Ebert, Natalie Bauereiss, Eileen Bendig, Benjamin Erb, Lena Weger, Echo Meißner

“…Assessment takes place before (t1), during (t2) and after (t3) the interaction with SISU, as well as 4 weeks after randomisation (t4). Primary outcome is psychological well-being (WHO-5). …”
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Effects of dietary selenium nanoparticles, selenomethionine and sodium selenite on growth performance, levels of thyroid hormones and antioxidant status of rainbow trout, Oncorhync... by Fardin Shaluei, Somayeh Hadadi, Shafigh Shafiei, Hossein Rahimi, Mehrdad Fattollahi

“…Fish with an average weight of 29.25 ± 1.70 g were fed with experimental diets for 8 weeks. The fish were fed twice a day (at 9:00 AM and 2:00 PM) at the rate of 4% of their biomass.Results and discussion: The results showed that selenium nanoparticles had no significant effect on growth indices compared to organic and inorganic forms (p<0.05). …”
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Linear Programming as a Tool for Managing the Training Process of Esports Teams by Oksana Shynkaruk, Nataliia Byshevets, Alla Aloshyna, Olena Iakovenko, Kostiantyn Serhiienko, Valerii Pinchuk, Oleksandr Petryk, Ivan Lut

“…It incorporates constraints such as the total weekly training hours, the minimum required time for each type of training, and other limitations. …”
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The Petri Dish-N2B27 Culture Condition Maintains RPE Phenotype by Inhibiting Cell Proliferation and mTOR Activation by Hui Lou, Chunpin Lian, Fanjun Shi, Liqun Chen, Sicheng Qian, Hui Wang, Xiaoyun Zhao, Xiaoyan Ji, Jingfa Zhang, Guoxu Xu

“…RPE cells were divided into four groups and cultured for several weeks, that is, (1) in cell culture dishes with 10% FBS containing medium (CC dish-FBS), (2) in petri dishes with 10% FBS containing medium (Petri dish-FBS), (3) in cell culture dishes with N2 and B27 containing medium (CC dish-N2B27), and (4) in petri dishes with N2 and B27 containing medium (Petri dish-N2B27). …”
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