Impact of low-dose CT screening for lung cancer on ethnic health inequities in New Zealand: a cost-effectiveness analysis by Sue Crengle, Giorgi Kvizhinadze, Melissa McLeod, Peter Sandiford, Karen Bartholomew

“…Health gains per capita for Māori females were twice that for non-Māori females and 25% greater for Māori males compared with non-Māori males. …”
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Redesain Aplikasi Mobile Supervisi Observasi Kelas untuk Meningkatkan Tingkat Usability by Muhammad Ifa Amrillah, Retno Indah Rokhmawati, Fitra Abdurrachman Bachtiar

“…Testing was carried out twice, namely before and after design improvements were made. …”
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Study on Mechanical Failure and PermeabilityCharacteristicsof Porous Gas-Bearing Coal under Triaxial Stress by Xue-bo Zhang, Wen-yuan Wang, Ming Yang, Hang-hang Cai, Jia-jia Liu, Shuai-shuai Shen

“…However, the change rules of permeability characteristics of the two were basically the same, except that there was a large difference in permeability value that the porous gas-bearing coal sample increases nearly twice as much as that of the conventional gas-bearing coal sample. (3) In the whole stress-strain process, the acoustic emission characteristics of the porous gas-bearing coal sample differed significantly from those of the conventional gas-bearing coal sample. …”
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Validity and Responsiveness of a Modified Balance Error Scoring System Assessment Using a Mobile Device Application in Patients Recovering from Ankle Sprain by Michael S Crowell, Eliot Thomasma, Erin Florkiewicz, Richard Brindle, Megan Roach, Donald Goss, Will Pitt

“…Cadets with ankle sprains completed their assessment twice: once within two weeks of injury (baseline) and again after four weeks of rehabilitation that included balance training. …”
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Snow-cover seasonality in Kyrgyzstan: variation and change over 20 years (2001–2021) as observed by the MODIS Terra snow product by Geoffrey M Henebry, Monika A Tomaszewska

“…To attenuate the risk of false-positive trends, we reported as ‘notable’ only those significant ( p < 0.05) nonparametric trends that were also (i) strongly asymmetric (at least twice as many significant pixels in one direction) within an elevational range of the oblast or rayon and (ii) covering at least 5% of the elevation range in oblast or rayon and more than 10 pixels. …”
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Near vision assessment for adults using the NIH Toolbox by John-Christopher A. Finley, Jerry Slotkin, Cindy J. Nowinski, Cindy J. Nowinski, Katy Bedjeti, Nicholas Volpe, Sandra Weintraub, Sandra Weintraub, Richard Gershon

“…To assess test–retest reliability, the NIH Toolbox Near Visual Acuity Test was administered twice within the same day. Additionally, two equivalent versions of the chart-based test were randomly assigned to participants.ResultsAnalyses revealed that test–retest reliability of the NIH Toolbox Near Visual Acuity Test was good (intraclass correlation = 0.87, p &lt; 0.001). …”
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The Effect of Counseling Based on Functional Analytic Psychotherapy with Enhanced Cognitive Therapy on Married Adolescent Women’s Sexual Self-efficacy: A Prospective Study by Maryam Gholami, Katayoun Alidousti, Mozhgan Taebi, Yunes Jahani, Atefeh Ahmadi

“…The counseling program for the intervention group was carried out by the researcher over 16 sessions, held twice a week for 90 minutes each. In contrast, the control group received routine education. …”
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Damoctocog Alfa Pegol, a PEGylated B-domain Deleted Recombinant Extended Half-life Factor VIII for the Treatment of Hemophilia A: A Product Review by Mark T. Reding, Shadan Lalezari, Gili Kenet, Giovanni Di Minno, Jonathan Ducore, Alexander Solms, Anita Shah, Pål André Holme, Lone H. Poulsen, Karina Meijer, Mindy Simpson, Maria Elisa Mancuso

“…Low bleeding rates were achieved across the studies, with twice weekly, every 5-day and every 7-day prophylaxis offering patients ≥ 12 years and their clinicians the chance to tailor treatment to individual needs and lifestyles, while maintaining long-term protection from bleeds and their consequences. …”
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Immediate Respiratory Warm-Up Effect on Dynamic Inspiratory Muscle Strength in Cardiac Surgery Candidates by Bahareh Mehregan Far, Sedigheh Sadat Naimi, Mohsen Abedi, Seyed Ahmad Raeissadat, Mahmood Beheshti Monfared, Alireza Akbarzadeh Baghban

“…Respiratory tests, including S-index, peak inspiratory flow (PIF) and vital capacity (VC), were assessed twice using an electronic respiratory device. Results: Covariance analysis showed no significant difference in the average and best values of the S-index, PIF or VC indices at the second tests, between two groups (P>0.05), or in the independent t test and Mann-Whitney U test for the “rate of changes,” between two tests (P>0.05). …”
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Safety and effectiveness of dual therapy for Helicobacter pylori infection and the effect on the glycated hemoglobin level in type 2 diabetes by Jie Zhang, Xin Cao, Kai Ma, Yizhou Jiang, Xiangrong Qin, Xiaoyong Wang

“…The patients were treated with the VA dual therapy regimen, which comprised of vonoprazan (20 mg, twice daily) and amoxicillin (750 mg, thrice daily), for 14 days (14-day VA dual therapy). …”
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Specificity of psychological readiness for changes and personality’s maturity of the employees of the state criminal and executive service by O. V. Mitroshkina

“…At the same time, there were almost twice as many interconnections between these phenomena in the group with high level of psychological readiness for changes, which indicated an active interaction between them in this group, in contrast to the low-level group, where this interaction was rather limited. …”
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Improving doublet cell removal efficiency through multiple algorithm runs by Yong She, Chaoye Wang, Qi Zhao

“…Subsequently, in simulated datasets, we proved that the multi-round removal strategy was more effective in removing doublets than a single removal, with cxds showing the best results when applied twice, and the ROC of the four methods during the two rounds of removal improved by at least 0.05 compared to single removal. …”
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Rehabilitation program for elderly to improve physical and cognitive activities using Nintendo Switch: A feasibility study in care settings by Andreia Maria Novo Lima, Maria Teresa Moreira, Maria Salomé Ferreira, Vítor Parola, Sandra Rodrigues, Ana Cristina Corucho Barbeitos Pinto, Telmo Lima Costa, Carla Sílvia Fernandes

“…Over eight weeks, 14 elderly individuals participated in rehabilitation sessions using exergames, utilizing the Nintendo Switch twice a week. Usability was assessed through the System Usability Scale, and intrinsic motivation was measured using the Intrinsic Motivation Inventory. …”
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Is the convergence insufficiency symptom survey applicable to elderly individuals? by Saeid Abdi, Haleh Kangari, Saeed Rahmani, Alireza Akbarzadeh Baghban, Zahra Kamary Rad

“…The Persian translated CISS was administered twice, once in the first session and 7 to 14 days later. …”
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Preventive Effect of Salicylate and Pyridoxamine on Diabetic Nephropathy by Tarek Kamal Abouzed, Seiichi Munesue, Ai Harashima, Yusuke Masuo, Yukio Kato, Khaled Khailo, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Yasuhiko Yamamoto

“…Treatment with long-acting insulin (Levemir 2 units/kg twice a day) was used as a control. Results. Although higher blood glucose levels were not significantly affected by pyridoxamine, early to late stage indices of nephropathy were attenuated, including kidney enlargement, albuminuria, and increased serum creatinine, glomerulosclerosis, and inflammatory and profibrotic gene expressions. …”
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RailPC: A large‐scale railway point cloud semantic segmentation dataset by Tengping Jiang, Shiwei Li, Qinyu Zhang, Guangshuai Wang, Zequn Zhang, Fankun Zeng, Peng An, Xin Jin, Shan Liu, Yongjun Wang

“…Notably, RailPC contains twice the number of annotated points compared to the largest available mobile laser scanning (MLS) point cloud dataset and is the first railway‐specific 3D dataset for semantic segmentation. …”
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Comparison of the Effects of Articaine and Lidocaine Anesthetics on Blood Pressure after Maxillary Infiltration Technique: A Triple-Blind Randomized Clinical Trial by Amirhossein Moaddabi, Parisa Soltani, Maryam Zamanzadeh, Kamran Nosrati, Mojtaba Mollamirzaei, Mariangela Cernera, Gianrico Spagnuolo

“…Systolic and diastolic blood pressure of both groups was determined twice: once before anesthetic injection and once 10 minutes after injection. …”
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Prevalence of HIV infection and uptake of HIV/AIDs services among fishermen on the shores of Lake Victoria in Kagera region, Northwestern Tanzania. by Patrick Mwanahapa, Mtoro J Mtoro, Dina Gerald, Pius Horumpende, Salaam Mujeeb

“…<h4>Conclusion</h4>HIV prevalence among fishermen was nearly twice as high as in the general population in Kagera. …”
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Preparation of Magnetic Coal-measure Kaolinite Nanomaterials and Adsorption of Cr(Ⅵ) by Yuqi ZHAO, Suling YAO, Xianshu DONG, Ruifeng GUO, Yuping FAN

“…After loading Fe3O4, the surface of MCKN becomes rough, with an obvious 30～40 nm granular coating, indicating the successful preparation of MCKN, and the specific surface area of MCKN is higher than that of coal- measure kaolinite, while the specific surface area of MCKN is about twice that of CKN. The adsorption of Cr(Ⅵ) by MCKN conforms to the quasi-second-order kinetics, the model is chemical adsorption. …”
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STUDY OF VEGF-A AND TGF-Β LEVELS IN BIOPTATES OF SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA OF THE TONGUE AND MOUTH FLOOR MUCOSA IN POLYCHEMOTHERAPY WITH MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES – CETUXIMAB by O. I. Kit, E. M. Frantsiyants, I. V. Neskubina, L. Yu. Vladimirova, A. A. Lyanova, Yu. A. Pogorelova, E. V. Shalashnaya, M. A. Еngibaryan, Yu. S. Sidorenko

“…In other patients (n = 17), the studied markers in tumor tissue bioptates were statistically significantly different from the initial values: VEGF-A was decreased by 1.46 times, TGF-β by 2.96 times, while the VEGF-A/TGF-β ratio was twice elevated.Conclusions. The results on levels of growth factors VEGF-A and TGF-β, as well as the VEGF-A/TGF-β ratio, are of a certain prognostic value and can be used as criteria for evaluating the efficacy of antitumor therapy in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue and mouth floor mucosa.…”
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