Prevalence of Risk Factors of the Female Athlete Triad among Young Elite Athletes of Pakistan by Jaweria Syed, Anam Jamil, Nazma Namroz, Madiha Shakeel, Ayesha Malik, Sumaira Kanwal, Huma Riaz

“…# Background Female athletes who are not vigilant about their food choices and choose extraneous physical activities may head towards negative health effects…”
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Peer Social Support and Career Decision-Making in Adolescents from Broken Homes: A Career Counseling Perspective by Maria Jessica Gultom, Doddy Hendro Wibowo

“…However, over-reliance on peers who lack sufficient knowledge may lead to suboptimal decisions. …”
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Investigation of personality characteristics of hearing impaired athletes participating in 2nd European youth hearing impaired athletics championships by Erdal Demır, Kursad Sertbas, Mustafa Vural, Ugur Senturk

“…The scale was applied with face to face technical to athletes by two experts who know the language of the hearing impaired. In the analysis of the research data, frequency and percentage distribution, t-test, Kruskal-Wallis test and Mann-Whitney U tests were performed. …”
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Features of conservative therapy of benign prostatic hyperplasia in patients with metabolic syndrome: " Treat to Target " by V. B. Filimonov, P. V. Vasin, V. N. Panchenko

“…Patients were randomized into two comparable groups: Group 1 included 52 men who were prescribed tamsulosin in combination with targeted correction of metabolic disorders; Group 2 consisted of 51 men who were prescribed tamsulosin monotherapy. …”
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Individual characteristics influencing the general population’s level of knowledge of end-of-life practices: a cross-sectional study by Diane Tapp, Gina Bravo, Catherine Filion, Vincent Couture, Sophie Dupéré, Marianne Beaulieu, Audrey Chouinard, Pauline Roos, Marie-Pierre Gagnon, Anouk Bérubé, Ariane Plaisance

“…The questionnaire also assessed participants’ individual characteristics such as their experience as caregivers for someone who received palliative care, their perception of health, and their financial situation. …”
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Aerobic-exercise training effects on immunological markers in individuals on highly active antiretroviral therapy in Uganda by Constance Adron Nakayiza Nsibambi, Mshilla Maghanga, Edward Ojuka, Mwebaze Nicholas

“…Participants were Human Immunodeficiency Virus positive clients who had been on treatment that is, Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy for at least 12 months. …”
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EUS Morphology Is Reliable in Selecting Patients with Mucinous Pancreatic Cyst(s) Most Likely to Benefit from Surgical Resection by Siddharth Javia, Satish Munigala, Sushovan Guha, Banke Agarwal

“…These criteria were derived from the evaluation of surgical pathology in patients with pancreatic cysts who underwent surgery. Reliability of these criteria when evaluated by EUS in identifying lesions which require surgery has still not been established. …”
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Validation of the Arabic Version of Medication Regimen Complexity Index Among Older Patients - Validation of the “MRCI-Arabic” by Nilay Aksoy, Nur Ozturk, Betul Okuyan, Mesut Sancar

“…Methods: This methodologic study was conducted in older patients (≥ 65 years old) who were native Arabic speakers at a community pharmacy located in Istanbul, Turkey. …”
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Use of Badges as Achievements to Enhance Online Learning by B. V. Swaroop Raj, C. Divya

“…Conclusion: The digital badges were positively received by students who commented favorably about digital badges in their learning. …”
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Success and Challenge When Returning to Clinical Practice: A Case Series in Anesthesiologist Re-Entry by Michael S. Green, Usama Iqbal, Christopher R. Hoffman, Parmis Green, Nielufar Varjavand

“…This individualized program re-educates physicians who left clinical practice for any reason and are seeking to return. …”
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Factors Associated with Favorable Tuberculosis Treatment Outcomes Determined Using Multiple Regression Analysis in Lusaka, Zambia, 2022 by Samuel Daka, Masaki Ota, Graham K Samungole

“…Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted, focusing on patients who were either cured or completed treatment, defined as having favorable treatment outcomes. …”
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Subjective assessment of sedentary behavior between theory and practice: Pilot study using the “Sedentary meter” by Ana Cikač, Kaja Teraž, Saša Pišot

“…The quiz questions were formulated based on the WHO definition of SB. The participants’ task was to subjectively estimate the amount of sedentary time in various types of SB on a typical day. …”
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Visual Hallucinations as Incidental Negative Effects of Virtual Reality on Parkinson’s Disease Patients: A Link with Neurodegeneration? by Giovanni Albani, Elisa Pedroli, Pietro Cipresso, Daniel Bulla, Veronica Cimolin, Astrid Thomas, Alessandro Mauro, Giuseppe Riva

“…We followed up a series of 23 Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients who had performed an immersive virtual reality (VR) protocol eight years before. …”
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Glioblastoma with Both Oligodendroglioma and Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor-Like Components in a Case with 9-Year Survival by Ying-Tso Chen, Shu-Shong Hsu, Chi-Man Yip, Ping-Hong Lai, Huai-Pao Lee

“…Here, we report a long-term survival patient who presented this rare form of GBM in the disease course. …”
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Chlorfenapyr-related delayed rhabdomyolysis: a case series by Lina Xu, Qian Zhou, Yan Li, Sisi Ren, Yubin Hu, Jieru Wang

“…Patient 2 was a 43-year-old man who consumed approximately 50 mL of chlorfenapyr without seeking medical care for 6 days. …”
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The art of non-verbal communication in perlocutionary giftedness by Adam Świątek

“…On the other hand, almost simultaneously, Austin (1962) introduced the tripartite division of a speech act, with locutions, illocutions, and perlocutions as the integral components, later developed by Searle (1969), who shed new light on the Speech Act Theory (SAT). …”
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Signaling, Constraining and Coercing in US sanctions policy towards Russia in the context of the Ukraine crisis by O. I. Rebro

“…The deficiency of such an approach is accentuated by the comparison with the European Union who paid a higher price for its sanctions and, despite a popular in Russia notion of a unified “West”, not only resisted the will of the US, but acted as a deterrent for its actions.…”
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Increased diagnosis of hepato-biliary-pancreatic cancer after cholecystectomy: a population-based study by Young Ae Kim, Hak Jun Kim, Mee Joo Kang, Sung-Sik Han, Hyeong Min Park, Sang-Jae Park

“…The data for this cohort study was obtained from the National Health Insurance Service database in Korea. 715,872 patients who underwent cholecystectomy between 2004 and 2020 were compared to 1,431,728 individuals who did not underwent cholecystectomy after age, sex, and year of cholecystectomy was matched. …”
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Effect of Intervention in Subjects with High Risk of Diabetes Mellitus in Pakistan by Muhammad Zafar Iqbal Hydrie, Abdul Basit, A. Samad Shera, Akhtar Hussain

“…Around 2300 persons filled the questionnaire and 1825 subjects were identified as high risk. Of 1739 subjects who took the oral glucose tolerance test, 317 subjects were identified as IGT. …”
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Protocol for a Randomized Hybrid Type 2 Trial on the Implementation of Group Problem Management Plus (PM+) for Venezuelan Women Refugees and Migrants in Colombia by Manaswi Sangraula, M. Claire Greene, Diany Castellar, Jean Carlos Flechas de la Hoz, Jennifer Diaz, Valeria Merino, Lucy Miller-Suchet, Maria Cristobal, Ana Maria Chamorro Coneo, Luisa Morales, Marcela Venegas, Abel Guerrero Gonzalez, Marilyn DeLuca, Miguel Uribe, Sara A. Romero, Monica Ferrer, Leslie Snider, Lisa A. Marsch, Zelde Espinel, James M. Shultz, Peter Ventevogel, Brandon A. Kohrt, Camilo Ramirez, Annie Bonz, Ana Maria Trejos Herrera, Adam D. Brown

“…Methods: This study utilises a type-2 hybrid implementation design to compare participant-level outcomes when the intervention is delivered by nonspecialists who receive technical support by psychologists versus nonspecialised support by lay providers. …”
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