The Association between Hepcidin and Iron Status in Children and Adolescents with Obesity by Ekkarit Panichsillaphakit, Orapa Suteerojntrakool, Chitsanu Pancharoen, Issarang Nuchprayoon, Sirinuch Chomtho

“…A total of 63 children with obesity and 27 controls were enrolled. Complete blood count, serum iron, ferritin, transferrin saturation, and total iron binding capacity were analyzed. …”
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Could a Dolutegravir-Based Antiretroviral Therapy Lead to Clinical Obesity? A Retrospective Cohort Study Conducted at Hawassa University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital in Hawas... by By Aberash Eifa, Worku Ketema

“…In a bivariate analysis, being male was found to protect against unwanted weight gain at COR 0.531 (0.345, 0.816). A current CD4 count of more than 500 has been found to be strongly correlated with weight gain in multivariate analysis at an AOR of 0.315 (0.188, 0.527) at a P value ≤0.001. …”
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Investigation of Hydro-Geochemical Characteristics of Groundwater In Port Harcourt City, Nigeria: Implication for Use and Vulnerability by HO Nwankwoala, GJ Udom

“…Microbial analysis of the water samples to determine the presumptive coliform count of the water indicates the presence of coliform bacteria in majority of the analysed samples, indicating anthropogenic contamination of groundwater. …”
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Composition and Significance of Bacterial Microbiota and Volatile Organic Compounds of Swiss-Dutch-Type Cheese as Determined by PCR-DGGE and HS-GC by Beata Nalepa, Magdalena Anna Olszewska, Lidia Hanna Markiewicz, Marek Aljewicz

“…Season influenced the composition of both bacterial microbiota and VOCs in cheese. Counts of starter bacteria ( Lactococcus, Leuconostoc and Propionibacterium – 6.51-7.14, 3.6-3.96 and 2.88-4.72 log CFU/g, respectively) were higher in the first year of the study, likewise these of the non-starter Lactobacillus (4.12-5.69 log CFU/g). …”
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Anatomical and physiological contributions of nasal turbinate vessels and lymphatics to the pathogenesis of nasal congestion in recurrent headaches: a pilot study by Jacob M. Chmielecki, Aishwarya Vemula, Joyce G. Schwartz, Jonathan A. Gelfond, William T. Phillips

“…The scans were evaluated by region of interest (ROI) analysis of nasal and heart max pixel count ratios (NHMRs) to determine an association between nasal blood pooling activity and recurrent headaches at the time of the initial scan and in follow-up evaluations over a period of 3–6 years.ResultsSignificantly greater NHMRs were observed in 122 patients with chronic headaches at the time of referral for their initial whole-body blood pool scan when compared with those patients without recurrent headaches (p = 0.004; OR 10.5; 95% CI 2.22–56.7). …”
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Effects of Traumeel (Tr14) on Exercise-Induced Muscle Damage Response in Healthy Subjects: A Double-Blind RCT by Kerstin Muders, Christian Pilat, Vanessa Deuster, Torsten Frech, Karsten Krüger, Jörn Pons-Kühnemann, Frank-Christoph Mooren

“…Less pronounced lymphopenia (p=0.02), a trend towards a lower expression of CD69 count (p=0.07), and antigen-stimulated ICAM-1 (p=0.01) were found in the verum group. …”
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Alpha Mangostin Inhibits the Proliferation and Activation of Acetaldehyde Induced Hepatic Stellate Cells through TGF-β and ERK 1/2 Pathways by Novriantika Lestari, Melva Louisa, Vivian Soetikno, Averina Geffanie Suwana, Putra Andito Ramadhan, Taufiq Akmal, Wawaimuli Arozal

“…Sorafenib 10 μM was used as positive control. LX-2 viability was counted using trypan blue exclusion method. The effect of alpha mangostin on hepatic stellate cells proliferation and activation markers and its possible mechanism of action via TGF-β and ERK1/2 were studied. …”
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Evaluation of Hematocrit in Adults with Dengue by a Laboratory Information System by Duangjai Sahassananda, Vipa Thanachartwet, Putza Chonsawat, Benjamaporn Wongphan, Supat Chamnanchanunt, Manoon Surabotsophon, Varunee Desakorn

“…We prospectively enrolled 163 hospitalized adults with dengue, for whom 1,141 real-time complete blood count (CBC) results were obtained via a hematology analyzer and updated in the LIS database. …”
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Markers of Anemia in Children with Type 1 Diabetes by Ewa Rusak, Anna Rotarska-Mizera, Piotr Adamczyk, Bogdan Mazur, Joanna Polanska, Agata Chobot

“…In all children, anthropometric measurements, the blood count, iron turnover parameters, and vitamin B12 concentration were taken. …”
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Comparison of the fungal contamination in Rainbow trout feed in farms located in fields and mountains by Donya Nikaein, Aghil Sharifzadeh, Ahmad Erfanmaensh, Mohammad sadegh Moradi, Mohammadreza Fatahpour

“…Materials and methods: After sampling the feed and preparing serial dilutions, surface culture was carried out in YGC medium and the total number of fungal colonies was counted. The genus and species of fungi were identified based on macroscopic and microscopic morphology and biochemical tests. …”
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An Improved YOLOv8 Model for Strip Steel Surface Defect Detection by Jinwen Wang, Ting Chen, Xinke Xu, Longbiao Zhao, Dijian Yuan, Yu Du, Xiaowei Guo, Ning Chen

“…The model has a parameter count of 5.5 M and operates at 103.1 FPS. To validate the model’s effectiveness, we conducted tests on the Kaggle steel strip dataset and our custom dataset, where the average accuracy improved by 2.3% and 5.5%, respectively. …”
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Psychological Impact on the Orthodontic Postgraduate Residents and Their Anxiety Level during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Hareem Sultan, Sameeruddin Shaikh, Sadaf Shaheen, Hana Pervez, Syed Adnan Ali, Saman Baseer

“…Results were analyzed using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) version 23.0. Counts and percentages were reported on baseline characteristics of studied samples. …”
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COVID-19 in patients presenting with malaria-like symptoms at a primary healthcare facility in Accra, Ghana. by Issabella Asamoah, Mildred Adusei-Poku, Priscilla Vandyck-Sey, Allen Steele-Dadzie, Atta Senior Kuffour, Albert Turkson, Ivy Asantewaa Asante, Kantanka Addo-Osafo, Quaneeta Mohktar, Bright Adu, Yaw A Afrane, Kwamena W C Sagoe

“…The plasma and whole blood were also used for COVID-19 antibody testing and full blood counts using hematological analyser. SARS-CoV-2 whole genome sequencing was performed using MinIon sequencing.…”
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Meta Analysis of Clinical Literature on Mental Retardation Treated by External Therapy of Traditional Chinese Medicine by Lili LIN, Qianwen WU, Qiang WU

“…According to the systematic evaluation manual provided by the Cochrane Collaboration, the random effect model was used, and the mean difference (<italic>MD</italic>) was used as the index for the continuous data. The count data was greater than the event rate 20%, using the smaller value of the risk ratio (<italic>RR</italic>) as an indicator. …”
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Genetic Types and Main Control Factors of Microfractures in Tight Oil Reservoirs of Jimsar Sag by Xiangye Kong, Jianhui Zeng, Xianfeng Tan, Haowei Yuan, Dan Liu, Qun Luo, Qianyou Wang, Rusi Zuo

“…A higher pore fluid content corresponded to a lower compressive strength of the rocks and a larger ring count, resulting in a higher probability of failure and microfracture formation. …”
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Hydrogen production with grid-connected electrolysis: scenario-based analysis of the EU criteria for renewable fuels by Bernhard Thaler, Gerhard Pirker, Nicole Wermuth

“…The European Union has set ambitious targets for the production of H _2 and defined strict rules in delegated acts to the renewable energy directive, when H _2 produced with public grid electricity can be counted as renewable. This paper analyzes two grid criteria central to these rules, renewable energy share and CO _2 emission intensity, in several future scenarios of the European energy system. …”
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DualTransAttNet: A Hybrid Model with a Dual Attention Mechanism for Corn Seed Classification by Fei Pan, Dawei He, Pengjun Xiang, Mengdie Hu, Daizhuang Yang, Fang Huang, Changmeng Peng

“…The model’s rapid inference capability and low parameter count make it an excellent technical solution for agricultural automation and intelligent systems, thereby enhancing the efficiency and profitability of agricultural production.…”
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Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 and risk factors for infection among children in Uganda: A serial cross-sectional study. by Irene Bagala, Jane Frances Namuganga, Patience Nayebare, Gloria Cuu, Thomas Katairo, Isaiah Nabende, Samuel Gonahasa, Martha Nassali, Stephen Tukwasibwe, Grant Dorsey, Joaniter I Nankabirwa, Sabrina Bakeera-Kitaka, Sarah Kiguli, Bryan Greenhouse, Isaac Ssewanyana, Moses R Kamya, Jessica Briggs

“…Pediatric infections were vastly underreported by case counts, highlighting the importance of seroprevalence surveys in assessing disease burden when testing and reporting rates are limited and many cases are mild or asymptomatic.…”
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Direct imaging with multidimensional labelling and high‐content analysis allows quantitative categorization and characterizations of individual small extracellular vesicles and nan... by Simou Sun, Sarah J. Cox‐Vázquez, Nam‐Joon Cho, Guillermo C. Bazan, Jay T. Groves

“…Furthermore, we gain insights into specific particle features within each subpopulation, including CD63 counts, relative particle size, relative concentration of cargoes, and correlations among different cargoes. …”
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CLINICAL SIGNS AND TREATMENT OF NEW-ONSET BONE MARROW FAILURE ASSOCIATED SARS-COV-2 INFECTION IN CHILDREN : A SINGLE INSTITUTION PROSPECTIVE COHORT STUD by Mervat A M youssef, Ebtisam Shawky hmed, Dalia Tarik Kamal, khalid Elsayh, Mai A Abdelfatta, Hyam Hassan Mahran Mahran, Mostafa M Embaby

“…The difference in ANC, Hg, and platelet counts between both groups was not significant. …”
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