Indigenous and non-Indigenous people experiencing homelessness and mental illness in two Canadian cities: A retrospective analysis and implications for culturally informed action by Brittany Bingham, Akm Moniruzzaman, Michelle Patterson, Jino Distasio, Jitender Sareen, John O’Neil, Julian M Somers

“…Indigenous participants were also nearly twice as likely as others (47% vs 25%) to have children younger than 18 years.Conclusions Among Canadians who are homeless and mentally ill, those who are Indigenous have distinct histories and current needs that are consistent with the legacy of colonisation. …”
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Effect of anti-sclerostin antibody on orthodontic tooth movement in ovariectomized rats by Hyunna Ahn, Wonse Park, Sung-Hwan Choi, Namki Hong, Jisun Huh, Seoyeon Jung

“…The ROMO group received subcutaneous injections of romosozumab twice a week, starting two weeks after OVX. Eight weeks after the OVX, an orthodontic force of 50 g was measured and applied by connecting orthodontic elastic bands between the maxillary first molar and a mini-screw to facilitate tooth movement (orthodontic treatment). …”
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Effect of a nutritional immunomodulator in dry cows heat stressed with an electric blanket model by L.T. Casarotto, L. Cattaneo, K.M. Glosson, B.D. Humphrey, J.D. Chapman, G.E. Dahl

“…Throughout the dry period, DMI, water intake, and respiration rate (breaths/min) were measured daily, and rectal temperature was measured twice daily. After calving, all the cows were cooled and managed identically, and milk yield and composition were measured at each milking. …”
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Inhibition of Corneal Neovascularization by Subconjunctival Injection of Fc-Endostatin, a Novel Inhibitor of Angiogenesis by Junko Yoshida, Robert T. Wicks, Andrea I. Zambrano, Betty M. Tyler, Kashi Javaherian, Rachel Grossman, Yassine J. Daoud, Peter Gehlbach, Henry Brem, Walter J. Stark

“…NZW rabbits were separated into groups receiving twice weekly subconjunctival injections of either saline; 25 mg/mL bevacizumab; 2 mg/mL FcE; or 20 mg/mL FcE. …”
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Effects of Functional Oligosaccharides Extracted from Straw on the Growth, Feeding, Physiology, Histology, Muscle Texture, and Gut Microbiota of Micropterus salmoides by Benli Wu, Long Huang, Cangcang Wu, Jing Chen, Xiajun Chen, Xiang Wang, Kai Cui, Zhigang Liu, Jixiang He

“…Six diets were formulated by incrementally adding mixed functional oligosaccharides (0.1, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0 mg/kg) to the control diet. 30 individuals with initial body weight of 25.1±3.5 g were randomly allocated to 6 triplicate tanks and fed to apparent satiation twice daily. The fish fed 1.0 mg/kg additives displayed maximum growth, and the feed conversion ratio decreased with the increase in additives from 0 to 1.0 mg/kg (P<0.05) but did not decline further with the addition of more than 1.0 mg/kg (P>0.05). …”
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Nocturnal sweating—a common symptom of obstructive sleep apnoea: the Icelandic sleep apnoea cohort by Thorarinn Gislason, Christer Janson, Erla Bjornsdottir, Bryndis Benediktsdottir, Erna Sif Arnardottir, Sigurdur Juliusson, Samuel T Kuna, Allan I Pack

“…The control group consisted of 703 randomly selected subjects from the general population.Intervention PAP therapy in the OSA cohort.Main outcome measures Subjective reporting of nocturnal sweating on a frequency scale of 1–5: (1) never or very seldom, (2) less than once a week, (3) once to twice a week, (4) 3–5 times a week and (5) every night or almost every night. …”
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Effect of auricular acupoint embedding therapy combined with health education on relieving insomnia symptoms in patients with chronic gastritis (耳穴埋豆联合健康宣教对慢性胃炎患者失眠症状的改善效果)... by ZHENG Weibing (郑伟兵), GUO Xueling (郭雪玲)

“…The auricular acupoint embedding therapy was performed at auricular acupoints of shenmen, spleen and stomach of unilateral ear, twice a week for two weeks. The health education program was carried out during the treatment. …”
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Immunogenicity of Type IV Pilin Proteins from <i>Clostridium perfringens</i> in Chickens by Audrey Charlebois, Nicolas Deslauriers, Lila Maduro, Martine Boulianne

“…Chickens were immunized twice with 50 µg of recombinant proteins and adjuvant, resulting in a good and specific serum antibody response. …”
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Tailoring high-performance bipolar membrane for durable pure water electrolysis by Weisheng Yu, Zirui Zhang, Fen Luo, Xiaojiang Li, Fanglin Duan, Yan Xu, Zhiru Liu, Xian Liang, Yaoming Wang, Liang Wu, Tongwen Xu

“…Incorporating the bipolar membrane into a flow-cell electrolyzer enables an ampere-level pure water electrolysis with a total voltage of 2.68 V at 1000 mA cm–2, increasing the energy efficiency to twice that of the state-of-the-art commercial BPM. …”
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MAT2A inhibitor AG-270/S095033 in patients with advanced malignancies: a phase I trial by Mrinal Gounder, Melissa Johnson, Rebecca S. Heist, Geoffrey I. Shapiro, Sophie Postel-Vinay, Frederick H. Wilson, Elena Garralda, Gerburg Wulf, Caroline Almon, Salah Nabhan, Elia Aguado-Fraile, Peng He, Mathilde Romagnoli, Mohammad Hossain, Rohini Narayanaswamy, Amel Sadou-Dubourgnoux, Michael Cooper, Vasileios Askoxylakis, Howard A. Burris, Josep Tabernero

“…Patients received AG-270/S095033 once daily (QD) or twice daily (BID) in 28-day cycles. The primary objective was to assess the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of AG-270/S095033. …”
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Seeking abortion medications online: experiences from a mystery client study in Colombia by Daniel Arango Arango, Alice F Cartwright, Ava Braccia, Ann Moore, Maria M Vivas

“…We attempted to contact each unique seller twice.Results Almost all sellers screened for gestational age using last menstrual period. …”
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A DFT study of lithium intercalation and metallization on oxygen-vacancy containing TiO2(110) by J. Juan, M.G. Sandoval, P. Bechthold, E.A. González, P.V. Jasen

“…In the case of Li intercalation, the sum of the bond order of all atoms is higher than in the adsorbed case, while for the Li atom, it is almost twice as high. When more Lithium is considered, new Li-O bonds are formed. …”
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Swiss Orthopaedics Minimal Dataset: First Pilot Report of Reliability and Validity by Thorsten Jentzsch, Claudio Dora, Urs Müller, Mazda Farshad

“…In the test-retest study population, the same questionnaire was completed twice (at days 0 and 7). In the test study population, only the first questionnaire was included (to avoid duplicates). …”
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Management of sustainable land use projects in accordance with EU requirements by Elena Shebanina, Iurii Kormyshkin, Alona Kliuchnyk, Georgiy Reshetilov, Oleksandr Zhebko

“…In the area of restoration of degraded land, it was found that the area of restored land in Ukraine (8.4% of the total area of degraded land) is almost twice less than the average of the EU countries studied (16.8%). …”
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Ammonia-induced CuO/13X for H2S removal from simulated blast furnace gas at low temperature by Erping Cao, Yuhua Zheng, Hao Zhang, Jianshan Wang, Yuran Li, Tingyu Zhu, Zhan-guo Zhang, Guangwen Xu, Yanbin Cui

“…Evaluation on H2S adsorption performance of the adsorbent was carried out using simulated BFG, and the results showed that NH3–CuO/13X-3 has better breakthrough sulfur capacity, which was more than twice the sulfur capacity of CuO/13X. It is proposed that the enhanced desulfurization performance of NH3–CuO/13X is attributed to an abundant pore of 13X, and combined action of 13X and CuO. …”
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Reliability and Validity of the ActivForce Digital Dynamometer in Assessing Shoulder Muscle Force across Different User Experience Levels by Christos Karagiannopoulos, Sean Griech, Brian Leggin

“… # Methods A convenience sample of 29 healthy adults were assessed twice by each of three testers (two experienced clinicians and a novice PT student) on shoulder external rotation (ER), internal rotation (IR), and forward elevation (FE) using both the AF and MF2 devices. …”
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Benefits of Virgin Coconut Oil in Diet to Colossoma macropomum (Cuvier, 1818) by Márcia Valéria Silva do Couto, Natalino da Costa Sousa, Higo Andrade Abe, Joel Artur Rodrigues Dias, Carlos Alberto Martins Cordeiro, Peterson Emmanuel Guimarães Paixão, Thays Brito Reis Santos, Fernanda dos Santos Cunha, Juliana Oliveira Meneses, Ricardo Marques Nogueira Filho, Carol Nunes Costa Bomfim, Cláucia Aparecida Honorato, Bruno Trindade Cardoso, Rodrigo Yudi Fujimoto

“…Triplicate groups of 20 fish were fed twice daily throughout 90 days. Monthly, we evaluated the tambaqui growth performance, weight and biomass gain, specific growth ratio, apparent feeding conversion, relative condition factor, fish weight uniformity, and final survival. …”
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The Usability and Effect of a Novel Intelligent Rehabilitation Exergame System on Quality of Life in Frail Older Adults: Prospective Cohort Study by Chien-Hsiang Chang, Chun-Chun Wei, Wei-Chih Lien, Tai-Hua Yang, Bo Liu, Yimo Lin, Poh Thong Tan, Yang-Cheng Lin

“…MethodsFrail older adults were invited to use the IRES for rehabilitation using lower limb training twice per week for 4 weeks. Participants were required to have no mobility or communication difficulties and be willing to complete the 4-week study. …”
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Effect of acupuncture on primary hypothyroidism and irregular menstruation in infertile women: a randomised controlled study by Eman Sedky Abdullah, Abeer Mohamed ElDeeb, Eman Ahmed Sultan, Hassan Omar Ghareib, Salwa Mostafa EL-Badry

“…The study group was given the same treatment and acupuncture sessions, twice a week for four months. BMI, waist, waist-to-stature ratio (WSR), free thyroxine (FT4), thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), luteinising hormone (LH), follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), LH/FSH ratio, menstrual cycle period, and a health-related quality-of-life questionnaire (PCOSQ) were evaluated for all patients. …”
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The impact of major congenital anomalies on obstetric outcomes in the United Arab Emirates: the Mutaba’ah Study by Hiba Adam, Nadirah Ghenimi, Anne F Minsart, Hassib Narchi, Shamsa Al Awar, Omniyat M Al Hajeri, Iffat Elbarazi, Rami H. Al-Rifai, Luai A. Ahmed

“…The association with cesarean delivery was significant among multiparous below 35 years, where mothers of neonates with any MCAs had twice the odds of cesarean delivery (AOR = 2.1, 95% CI: 1.3–3.4). …”
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