Nontyphi Salmonella Empyema with Bronchopleural Fistula in a Patient with Human Immunodeficiency Virus by Douglas Bretzing, Tasnim Lat, Andrew Shakespeare, Mary Lee, Salim Surani, Shekhar Ghamande

“…Thoracentesis yielded growth of nontyphi Salmonella species consistent with empyema; he was treated with intravenous Ceftriaxone and underwent placement of chest tube for drainage of empyema with instillation of alteplase/dornase twice daily for three days. Repeat CT chest showed a hydropneumothorax. …”
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Averting War in Northeast Asia: A Proposal by Mel Gurtov

“…It would be an outgrowth of the Six Party Talks, where all the parties twice agreed (in 2005 and 2007) to create such a mechanism. …”
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Prevalence and associated risk factors of bovine Schistosoma and Fasciola infections among cattle in South Achefer District, North West Ethiopia by Solomon Tesfaye, Mastewal Yeshambel, Amir Alelign, Tilahun Yohannes

“…Cross-bred cattle had around twice the odds of contracting Fasciola hepatica than local cattle (adjusted odds ratio, AOR: 1.87, 95 % CI: 1.02–3.43). …”
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Biomonitoring PhIP, a Potential Prostatic Carcinogen, in the Hair of Healthy Men of African and European Ancestry by Robert J. Turesky, Clarence Jones, Jingshu Guo, Kari Cammerrer, Laura A. Maertens, Emmanuel S. Antonarakis, Zhanni Lu, Logan G. Spector

“…African American (AA) men face nearly twice the risk for developing and dying from PC compared to White men. …”
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Temperature-Controlled in-situ Tensile Tests of Polymer Tape with differently shaped Single Particles by Sarah Heupl, Julia Maurer, Johann Kastner

“…Each specimen was scanned twice: at 0 % strain and 30 % strain. The findings for each particle type were as follows. …”
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Study of Structural, Dielectric, and Phase Transition of Strontium Doped BaTiO₃ by Asmaa Zouitine, Abdelhak El Ghandouri, Abdelhalim Elbasset, Farid Abdi, Taj-dine Lamcharfi, Hicham Laribou, Lamiae Mrharrab, Zouhairi Mohammed

“…Furthermore, in case of 15 mol% of Sr addition, the dielectric constant value is increased about twice. Moreover, the relationship between grain sizes and dielectric properties was also investigated. …”
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The population pharmacokinetics of dolutegravir co‐administered with rifampicin in Thai people living with HIV: Assessment of alternative dosing regimens by Baralee Punyawudho, Anan Chanruang, Thornthun Ueaphongsukkit, Sivaporn Gatechompol, Sasiwimol Ubolyam, Yong Soon Cho, Jae Gook Shin, Anchalee Avihingsanon

“…Forty HIV/TB‐co‐infected participants receiving DTG 50 mg once daily (OD) with food or DTG 50 mg twice daily (b.i.d.) without food were included in the analysis. …”
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Cecropin AD ameliorates pneumonia and intestinal injury in mice with mycoplasma pneumoniae by mediating gut microbiota by Bowen Li, Mingming Liu, Wenjing Du, Shuaidong Wang, Zekang Xu, Xiaoqian Zhang, Yang Zhang, Song Hua

“…The findings showed that mice receiving twice injections of 2.08 × 108 copies of Mccp suffered significant pathological damage to their lungs and colons. …”
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Clinical Effect on Early Rehabilitation Intervention of Patients after Coronary Artery bypass Grafting by Xin HE, Weiming ZHANG, Xin CHEN, Huijuan PAN, Yuanfeng SUN

“…The whole duration of the training last for 5 days in one week and twice in one day,30 minutes in every training. On the 7th day after the operation, quality of life assessment, pain,6-min walking test and mental status were performed to compare the health status, psychological status, and the relative walking distance were compared between the two groups.Results:On the 7th day after the operation,6-min walking test and the modified Barthel index (MBI) in the rehabilitation group were (354.75±85.83) metres and (92.79±5.34) scores respectively, which were significantly higher than the (295.60±67.83) metres and (83.82±6.22) scores in the control group (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.001). …”
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Exploring the Effects of a Neck Strengthening Program on Purposeful Soccer Heading Biomechanics and Neurocognition by Katelyn M. Waring, Edward R Smith, Gary P Austin, Thomas G Bowman

“…The experimental group completed specific cervical neck strengthening exercises twice a week for six weeks using a Shingo Imara™ cervical neck resistance apparatus while the control group did not. …”
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Effects of pharmacologic sclerostin inhibition or testosterone administration on soleus muscle atrophy in rodents after spinal cord injury. by Ean G Phillips, Luke A Beggs, Fan Ye, Christine F Conover, Darren T Beck, Dana M Otzel, Payal Ghosh, Anna C F Bassit, Stephen E Borst, Joshua F Yarrow

“…Male Sprague-Dawley rats aged 5 months received: (A) SHAM surgery (T8 laminectomy), (B) moderate-severe contusion SCI, (C) SCI+TE (7.0 mg/wk, im), or (D) SCI+Scl-Ab (25 mg/kg, twice weekly, sc). Twenty-one days post-injury, SCI animals exhibited a 31% lower soleus mass in comparison to SHAM, accompanied by >50% lower soleus muscle fiber cross-sectional area (fCSA) (p<0.01 for all fiber types). …”
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Reliability and Validity of Longshi Scale in Assessing the Activities of Daily Living of Patients with Spinal Cord Injury by Miaoling CHEN, Fubing ZHA, Fang LIU, Mingchao ZHOU, Yulong WANG, Jianjun LONG

“…Objective:To evaluate the reliability and validity of Longshi daily living ability rating scale(Longshi scale)in patients with spinal cord injury, and to provide objective basis for its wide application.Methods:A total of 412 patients with spinal cord injury(SCI)were selected from 60 medical institutions in China for the activities of daily living(ADL)assessment.Each patient was evaluated twice by both professionals(rehabilitation physician or therapist)and non-professionals(family member or companion of the patient).The Longshi scale and Barthel index were used for each assessment, and all assessments were required to be completed within the same day.The intraclass correlation coefficient(ICC)was used to analyze the correlation of scores on Longshi scale in different evaluators; the Kappa test was used to analyze the consistency of ADL rating in different evaluators; Barthel index was used as the criterion, and Pearson correlation analysis was used to evaluate the criterion validity of Longshi scale;and compare the time spent in the evaluation of the two scales.Results:A total of 406 patients completed the scale evaluation effectively, with an effective rate of 98.5%.①The results of reliability test: Kappa test was used to evaluate the ADL level of the Longshi scale by professionals and non-professionals, with k value of 0.878 and 95%confidence interval(<italic>CI</italic>)of 0.839-0.917, with statistically significant difference(<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.01).Intraclass correlation coefficient analysis was used to analyse the different of the scores of Longshi scale in different evaluators, with ICC value was 0.836, 95%<italic>CI</italic> was 0.805-0.863, with statistically significant difference(<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.01).②The results of validity inspection: the Pearson correlation coefficient r value between the total scores on Longshi scale of the bedridden, domestic, and community groups and Barthel index was 0.711, 0.596 and 0.610, respectively, with statistically significant difference(<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.001).③The results of time spent evaluation: compared with Barthel index(BI), both professionals and non-professionals took less time to evaluate Longshi scale than Barthel index, with statistically significant difference(<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05).Conclusion:The Longshi scale has the advantages of being easy to understand and less time to evaluate.It is good reliability and standard validity in the evaluation of ADL for SCI patients, and it has better feasibility and can be popularized and applied in clinical practice.…”
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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 twice as likely to incur CHE at 5% threshold (odds ratio [OR], 1.946; confidence interval [CI], 0.965-1.095), 3 times as likely at 10% threshold (OR, 2.710; CI, 1.401-5.239), and 4 times more likely to experience CHE at both 25% and 40% thresholds, (OR, 3.696; CI, 0.956-14.286) and (OR, 4.107; CI, 1.908-8.841), respectively. …”
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Deformation of Threaded Metal – Composite Couplings Under the Action of Gas-Dynamic Loads by Kostiantyn V. Avramov, Maryna V. Chernobryvko, Volodymyr V. Kombarov, Sergiy I. Plankovskyy, Yevgen V. Tsegelnyk

“…The magnitude of plastic deformations in couplings with an inner metal shell is twice less when using fiberglass than when using carbon fiber reinforced plastic. …”

Water Model Study on Alloy Melting and Mixing in RH Refining Process by XU Zhibo, CHEN Chao, WANG Jia, LI Yihong, CAO Ruiyun, ZHAO Yansong, XUE Liqiang, FAN Jinping

“…The mixing time of schemes of particles is much higher (nearly twice) than that of the schemes of solution with the same salinity. …”
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A Pregnant Woman with Excess Vasopressinase-Induced Diabetes Insipidus Complicated by Central Diabetes Insipidus like Lymphocytic Infundibulo-Neurohypophysitis by Shinnosuke Yanagisawa, Yoichi Oikawa, Mai Endo, Kazuyuki Inoue, Ritsuko Nakajima, Shigemitsu Yasuda, Masayasu Sato, Naoko Iwata, Haruki Fujisawa, Atsushi Suzuki, Yoshihisa Sugimura, Masashi Isshiki, Akira Shimada

“…Her resected placenta weighed 920 g, nearly twice the normal weight. Immediately following delivery, intranasal 1-desamino-8-D-arginine vasopressin was administered, and her symptoms promptly disappeared. …”
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Primipaternity in multiparas as a predominant high risk factor for preeclampsia over prolonged birth intervals: A study of 33,000 singleton pregnancies in Reunion Island. by Pierre-Yves Robillard, Silvia Iacobelli, Simon Lorrain, Francesco Bonsante, Malik Boukerrou, Marco Scioscia, Phuong Lien Tran, Gustaaf Dekker

“…Smoking was associated with an AdjOR of 0.85 (non-significant),primipaternity multiparas were twice as likely to be smokers (23.8% vs 13.4%, p< 0.0001) compared with controls. …”
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Risk factors for Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales infections: A case-control study by Sibongakonke Mbele, Sandeep D. Vasaikar

“…CRE cases compared to controls were almost twice as likely to demise or have an extended hospital stay of more than one month. …”
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The Influence of the Farming System and Forecrop on the Yield and Chemical and Health-Promoting Composition of Spring Wheat Grain by Elżbieta Harasim, Cezary A. Kwiatkowski, Jan Buczek

“…In the organic system, the organic fertilizer Humac Agro was applied and the fields under the wheat were harrowed twice. No plant protection products were used under organic farming conditions. …”
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Does outsourcing enable the survival of good care homes? A longitudinal analysis of all care homes in England, 2011–2023 by Anders Malthe Bach-Mortensen, Michelle Degli Esposti, Benjamin Goodair

“…Ownership was a key determinant of care home closure; public and third sector care homes were almost twice as likely to close than for-profit providers (OR 1.8; 95% CI 1.44 to 2.24, p&lt;0.001 and OR 1.6; 95% CI 1.37 to 1.76, p&lt;0.001, respectively). …”
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