Factors associated with successful treatment outcomes among tuberculosis patients in a district municipality of Vhembe, Limpopo by Busisiwe Mkhavele, Slindile Zondi, Lindiwe Cele, Mabina Mogale, Margeret Mbelle

“…Of these, 37.0% were cured, followed by 29.0% who defaulted treatment, 22.3% who completed the treatment and 11.7% who died during treatment. …”
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A Single Perioperative Injection of Dexamethasone Decreases Nausea, Vomiting, and Pain after Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy by Shigeyoshi Yamanaga, Andrew Mark Posselt, Chris Earl Freise, Takaaki Kobayashi, Mehdi Tavakol, Sang-Mo Kang

“…We performed a retrospective cohort study of living donors who underwent LDN between 2013 and 2015. Donors who received a lower dose (4–6 mg)  (n=70) or a higher dose (8–14 mg) of dexamethasone (n=100) were compared with 111 donors who did not receive dexamethasone (control). …”
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Canadian Thoracic Society Recommendations for Management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease – 2003 by Denis E O’donnell, Shawn Aaron, Jean Bourbeau, Paul Hernandez, Darcy D Marciniuk, Meyer Balter, Gordon Ford, Andre Gervais, Roger Goldstein, Rick Hodder, Francois Maltais, Jeremy Road

“…Targeted spirometry is strongly recommended to expedite early diagnosis in smokers and exsmokers who develop respiratory symptoms, and who are at risk for COPD. …”
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Association of Biomarker Level with Cardiovascular Events: Results of a 4-Year Follow-Up Study by L. Turgunova, B. Baidildina, Y. Laryushina, B. Koichubekov, A. Turmukhambetova, L. Akhmaltdinova

“…We examined 363 people aged 30 to 65 who have been living permanently in the city of Saran, Karaganda region. …”
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Initial Experience with Robotic Retropubic Urethropexy Compared to Open Retropubic Urethropexy by Pooja R. Patel, Mostafa A. Borahay, Audrey R. Puentes, Ana M. Rodriguez, Jessica Delaisse, Gokhan S. Kilic

“…Patients. All patients who underwent robotic retropubic urethropexy from 1/1/12 to 6/1/12 by a single gynecologic surgeon were included in the case series. …”
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Sports Participation Motivation in Disabled Individuals by Havva Demırel, Bekir Furkan Tüzer

“…In addition, it was found that the internal and external motivation levels of individuals who do individual sports are significantly higher than those who do not do any sports. …”
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Earthquake effects on youth: understanding psychological challenges and support needs by Mehmet Şam, Göcan Sever, Habibe Yildiz Yüksel, Ramin Aliyev

“…Besides, the students who had to change their locations after the earthquake had significantly higher scores than those who did not have to change their locations in terms of the impact of events.…”
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Effect of Child Neglect on Learning Outcomes of Pupils of Kamwezi Sub-County Rukiga District. by Karugaba, Dickson

“…It involved respondents who gave their views, facts, and opinions that were assessed. …”
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Satisfaction by the certain subjective success in career by Janjić Ivana, Ilić Đurđijana

“…Employees who are not satisfied will not do the job properly, giving rise to direct pecuniary damage. …”
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Nominative Linkage of Records of Officials in the China Government Employee Dataset-Qing (CGED-Q) by Cameron Campbell, Bijia Chen

“… We introduce our approach to the nominative linkage of records of Qing officials who were included in the China Government Employee Datasets-Qing (CGED-Q) Jinshenlu (JSL) and Examination Records (ER). …”
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The Effect of COVID-19 Lockdown on Oral Glucose Challenge Tests and Body Mass Indexes in Türk Pregnant Women by Yildiz Akdas Reis, Fahri Burcin Firatligil, Arife Akay, Asya Kalayci Oncu, Yaprak Engin Ustun

“…Group 1 included patients who underwent a glucose challenge test in the year 2019 before the pandemic lockdown (n=604) was assessed as the control group; group 2 (n=505) included patients who underwent the same test in the year 2020 that in the pandemic lockdown period was evaluated as the study group. …”
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Factors Affecting Antenatal Corticosteroid Administration from the Obstetricians’ Viewpoint by Emel Kurtoğlu, Migraci Tosun, Ayşe Zehra Özdemir, Erdal Malatyalıoğlu

“…STUDY DESIGN: The pregnant women who delivered between 24 and 34 weeks of gestation were divided into two groups: Group 1, pregnant patients given corticosteroid therapy; Group 2, pregnant patients who were not given corticosteroid therapy. …”
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Microwave Pioneers: Mau-Chung Frank Chang, “The Power of Connections” by Peter H. Siegel

“…We are pleased to pick up this continuing series on individuals within our community who have made significant impacts in the field of microwaves, and to the world, over the course of their careers. …”
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Development of a Positive Youth Development Program: Promoting the Mental Health of Stressful Adolescents Using Principles of Problem Solving Therapy by Daniel T.L. Shek, Joyce T.W. Chow

“…The proposed project will utilize the principles of PST as the guiding framework to run two mental health promotion courses for adolescents who are experiencing disturbing stressful responses and students who want to improve their stress management style. …”
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THE ROLE OF THE «GRAND SCHOOLS» AND THE «GRAND CORPS» AS RECRUITMENT CHANNELS FOR FRENCH MINISTERS by I. A. Zarankin

“…The recruitment of ministers among high-ranking officials, who studied in the «grand schools» and worked in the «grand corps», is one of the typical traits of the Fifth republic. …”
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Russian-Turkish Official Contacts in the Azov Sea Region in the Summer of 1699 (to the Prehistory of the Mission of Envoy Extraordinary Yemelyan Ukraintsev) by Pyotr Avakov

“…Golovin, who arrived in Azov and the Beylerbey of Kefe Tatar Murtaza Pasha, who was in Kerch. …”
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Experimental Research on Gifted Students and Social Media Communication Competence Program by Naif Kara, Kadriye Kobak, Aslı İgit

“…Differences were found between the gifted students who participated in the SOMCOPGIS program and those who did not. …”
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Elles ont émigré seules pendant le franquisme : femmes galiciennes du pays de Sarria en Catalogne by Emma Rubio-Milet

“…This article traces the migration path of four Galician women from the province of Lugo, between 1940 and 1960, from the pioneer who wanted to emigrate as a child to the youngest who felt it as being forced to do so twenty years later. …”
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Home, Office or Hybrid? Which is the Ideal Working Model for Software Developers? by Hasan Hüseyin Uzunbacak, Muhammet Tortumlu

“…The study group consists of 113 software developers who have returned to working from the office after Covid-19, 163 who continue to work from home, and 131 who are hybrid working from home. …”
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