Body Mass Index and Its Change from Adolescence to Adulthood Are Closely Related to the Risk of Adult Metabolic Syndrome in China by Bingyang Liu, Yue Li, Jiamei Guo, Yuting Fan, Ling Li, Ping Li

“…We selected 931 students from 12 to 16 years of age in Liaoyang City, China. Ninety-three participants from 18 to 22 years of age with complete baseline data were available for follow-up after 5 years. …”
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Assessment of Knowledge and Practice of Various Eye Diseases in Sulaimani: A Descriptive Study by Abdulrahman M. Ibrahem, Salah Q. Mahmood, Muhammed Babakir-Mina, Salar Ibrahim Ali, Bakhtyar Kamal Talabany

“…Aso Hospital in Sulaimani city-Iraq, from April to August 2017 by face-to-face interview through close ended questionnaire for data collecting. …”
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Regulating the Urban Commons: A Romanian Case Study of Improving Building Facades by Anamaria Vrabie, Rodica Ianole-Călin

“… This paper examines the effect of build environment regulations for facades emergency repairs and embellishment, as implemented by the city of Cluj-Napoca, the second largest municipality in Romania. …”
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PENGARUH PEMBANGUNAN JALAN TOL SUTAMI TERHADAP NILAI LAHAN DISEKITARNYA by Muhammad Harum, Sutriani Sutriani

“…The results showed that variables that have correlation to price changes around Toll Road Sutami are; Distance from road segment, road condition, land area, road width, utility network, distance to city center and accessibility    Keywords :  land price, street     …”
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Teachers’ Growth Mindset, Perceived School Climate, and Perceived Parental Autonomy Support Moderate the Relationship Between Students’ Growth Mindset and Academic Achievement by Kai Zhang, Wu-Jing He

“…A sample of 358 middle school students (53.8% female; Mage = 13.38 years, SD = 2.20) from public schools in Shanghai City, mainland China, was assessed via three validated instruments: (1) the Growth Mindset Inventory, which is used to measure students’ and teachers’ beliefs about intelligence; (2) the Delaware School Climate Survey for Students, which is used to assess students’ perceptions of the school climate; and (3) the Perceived Parental Autonomy Support Scale, which is used to evaluate students’ perceived parental autonomy support. …”
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Interpretation of COVID-19 Epidemiological Trends in Mexico Through Wastewater Surveillance Using Simple Machine Learning Algorithms for Rapid Decision-Making by Arnoldo Armenta-Castro, Orlando de la Rosa, Alberto Aguayo-Acosta, Mariel Araceli Oyervides-Muñoz, Antonio Flores-Tlacuahuac, Roberto Parra-Saldívar, Juan Eduardo Sosa-Hernández

“…In this article, a database obtained from wastewater sampling at wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) and university campuses in Monterrey and Mexico City between 2021 and 2022 was used to train simple clustering- and regression-based risk assessment models to allow for informed prevention and control measures in high-affluence facilities, even if working with low-dimensionality datasets and a limited number of observations. …”
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Development of “non-places” by means of designing small architectural forms made of metal by M. G. Kruglova, A. Yu. Tikhonov

“…Art metal, one of its three main directions — architectural metal, small architectural forms occupy an important place in the formation of a single value-semantic architectural landscape of a modern city. The redundancy of space and time inherent in our present leads to an increase in the number of “non-places” (where there is no place for an individual) in the urban landscape. …”
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Les parcs-nature de la ville de Montréal, des refuges de diversité aviaire?  by Pierre Drapeau, Maxime Allard

“…Since the early 1990’s the city of Montréal has acquired a network of 1447 ha of the last remaining natural areas on the island to create nature parks. …”
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Current practice of postoperative fasting: results from a multicentre survey in China by Qianqian Zhu, Lifei Lai, Lianghua Zeng, Zhijing Yang, Yingling Zheng

“…The present multicentre study was designed to explore the actual postoperative fasting practice, including the instructed fasting time from the ward staff and the actual postoperative fasting time.Design Multicentre survey.Setting Four tertiary hospitals in Shenzhen City, China.Participants A total of 988 patients completed a survey on instructed and actual postoperative fasting.Outcomes All patients received postoperative instructed fasting time from the ward staff. …”
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Incidence of Rod Shaped Gramnegative Hospital Acquired Bacterial Infection and Antibiotic Resistance: A Retrospective Based Population Study by Kamal Jalal Rashid

“…The presented study determined the microbial spectrum and antimicrobial susceptibility of gram-negative bacteria isolated from various infection sites in hospitalized patients in Sulaimani city. This study included 735 patients who underwent surgical and wound treatment admitted to the hospital. …”
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Investigating the Relationship Between General Anesthesia and Early Brain Atrophy: A Case-control Study by Zoubin Souri, Mahsa Eghrari Gigloo, Soheil Soltanipour, Hakimeh Sarshad, Gelareh Biazar

“…Materials & Methods: This case-control study was conducted in two academic hospitals affiliated with Guilan University of Medical Sciences (GUMS), Rasht City, Iran, from May 2024 to August 2024. Patients with early brain atrophy were included as the case group, and those who did not have early brain atrophy as the control group; 27 people in each group were studied. …”
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The relationship between insulin resistance and fibroblast growth factor 23 in patients with non-diabetic pre-dialysis chronic kidney disease: a cross-sectional study by Beyza Algul Durak, Melahat Coban

“…DESIGN AND SETTING: This research was conducted in the Ankara Bilkent City Hospital Nephrology Clinic. Ankara,Turkey. …”
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Decade-Long Changes in Disparity and Distribution of Transit Opportunity in Shenzhen China: A Transportation Equity Perspective by Qingfeng Zhou, Donghui Dai, Yaowu Wang, Jianshuang Fan

“…In this paper, we took China’s fastest urbanizing city, Shenzhen, as a case study to assess transport equity by comparing accessibility among groups. …”
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Detecting travel modes from smartphone-based travel surveys with continuous hidden Markov models by Guangnian Xiao, Qin Cheng, Chunqin Zhang

“…First, we conduct a travel survey with smartphones in Shanghai City, China. Furthermore, we use a prompted recall survey with surveyor intervention by telephones. …”
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Prevalence of Hypertension and Associated Factors among Residents Aged ≥18 Years in Ganzhou, China: A Cross-Sectional Study by Junwang Gu, Qi Wang, Wei Qiu, Fen Lin, Chunmei Wu, Ming Hao, Ping Wu

“…The study selected four county-level districts in Ganzhou City, China, as the investigation area. Permanent residents aged ≥18 years who have settled in the area for 6 months or more were selected. …”
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Trial protocol of an open-label pilot study of oral naltrexone–bupropion combination pharmacotherapy for the treatment of methamphetamine use disorder (the NABU trial) by Jonathan Brett, Paul S Haber, Nicholas Lintzeris, Didier Jutras-Aswad, Nadine Ezard, Brendan Clifford, Krista J Siefried, Adrian John Dunlop, Liam Acheson, Carl Moller, Michael Christmass, Kirsten Morley, Steven Shoptaw, Madhukar H Trivedi

“…Participants (n=20) will be outpatients of a stimulant treatment program at an inner-city hospital in Sydney, Australia. The primary endpoint is Day 84. …”
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DIAGNOSIS AND PREDICTION OF CHOLECYSTITIS DEVELOPMENT ON THE BASIS OF NEURAL NETWORK ANALYSIS OF RISK FACTORS by V. A. Lazarenko, A. E. Antonov

“…The collection of materials was held in at the hospitals of the city of Kursk and included a survey of 488 patients with hepatopancreatoduodenal diseases. 203 patients were suffering from cholecystitis, in 285 patients the diagnosis of cholecystitis was excluded. …”
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The advancement of primary care dentistry in Hungary: progress of the dental cluster model since 2021 legislation by András Sztrilich, Csilla Kaposvári, Csilla Kaposvári, Csilla Kaposvári, Gergő Túri, Gergő Túri, Gergő Túri, Rita Teller, István Vingender

“…Adult and mixed dental practices, practices from county towns, county capitals and the capital city, as well as practices from districts with more dentists in the proportion of the population were more likely to join a dental group practice.ConclusionMonitoring and evaluating of the operation, performance and impact of primary care dental clusters in the future will provide important information about the Hungarian model.…”
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Update on Surgical Techniques Best Practices to Optimize Outcomes Following Gel Stent Implantation by Vera V, Sheybani A, Panarelli JF, Grover DS, Lee J, Craven ER, Samuelson TW, Ahmed IIK

“…Vanessa Vera,1 Arsham Sheybani,2 Joseph F Panarelli,3 Davinder S Grover,4 James Lee,5 Earl Randy Craven,2 Thomas W Samuelson,6 Iqbal Ike K Ahmed7 1Allergan, an AbbVie company, Irvine, CA, USA; 2Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA; 3Department of Ophthalmology, New York University Langone Health, New York, NY, USA; 4Glaucoma Associates of Texas, Dallas, TX, USA; 5Colorado Eye Institute, Colorado Springs, CO, USA; 6Minnesota Eye Consultants, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA; 7John Moran Eye Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USACorrespondence: James Lee, Colorado Eye Institute, Colorado Springs, CO, 80924, USA, Email jlee@eyescolorado.comAbstract: The XEN® 45 Glaucoma Treatment System (gel stent; Allergan, an AbbVie company, Irvine, CA, USA) is a minimally invasive bleb-forming surgical device that was originally approved to lower intraocular pressure by diverting the aqueous humor from the anterior chamber to the subconjunctival space (like trabeculectomy) following ab-interno placement. …”
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Performance Evaluation of Ceiling Cooling with PCM in the Hot-Dry Climate of Yazd, Iran: An Experimental Analysis of Energy, Environmental, and Economic Impacts by Mehran Rabani, Mina Alafzadeh, Mehrdad Rabani

“…The present study investigates experimental cooling from the ceiling using phase change materials (PCMs) in Yazd, a city characterized by a hot and dry climate. A one-fourth scale model of a real room, measuring 4 m × 3 m × 3 m, was employed for the analysis. …”
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