Association between estimated glomerular filtration rate, urinary albuminuria-creatinine ratio, and stroke prevalence in patients with chronic kidney disease by Jianfeng Xiang, Mengli Tong, Dongrong Yu, Yinfeng Chen

“…Background With the global increase in chronic diseases, chronic kidney disease (CKD) and stroke have become major public health concerns. …”
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The influence of the choice of foreign policy strategies of the Republic of Serbia and Montenegro on the development of their bilateral military relations by Spasojević Čedo D.

“…n a complex system of international relations and current geopolitical and security architecture at the global level, states, in accordance with their economic, military and other potentials, choose foreign policy strategies. …”
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Prevalence and predictors of severe Crohn’s disease at a tertiary hospital in South Africa by C Gounden, V Naidoo, Y Moodley

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Integration and the Diplomatic Crisis: Current Realities of the GCC by L. V. Shkvarya

“…The relevance of the research is due to the need to analyze regional economic integration processes in the subregion in the context of growing global instability. The research makes a significant contribution to understanding the nature and features of integration processes in the Middle East.…”
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Farmers’ knowledge of using flood forecast information in fish farming: A case of rural Bangladesh by Shonia Sheheli, Mst. Sharmin Akter, Md Anamul Haque, Mohammad Maruf Hasan

“…The effects of global climate change and extreme weather events are threatening Bangladesh's fish and aquaculture productivity. …”
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Estimating the Effectiveness of Pfizer and Sinopharm Vaccines and their Relationship to Occupation, Residence, Smoking, and Body Mass Index During Pregnancy Smoking by Shahad Th. Jameel, Asmaa Haseeb Hwaid, Abdulrazak SH. Hasan

“… Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) caused a rapid global demand for the development of several vaccines by the scientific community. …”
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Pediatric and adolescent cancer disparities in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region: incidence, mortality, and survival across socioeconomic strata by Ankita Shukla, Rouba Karen Zeidan, Basema Saddik

“…Materials and methods Data on cancer incidence and mortality were drawn from the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 2019 for all malignant neoplasms (including non-melanoma skin cancers). …”
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An advanced technique to adjust hull girder load: Part 1 = generalisation by Chang Hwan Jang, Do Kyun Kim

“…Each force or pressure load is referred to as a local load and the sum of forces and moments integrated with respect to the station is referred to as the hull girder load or global load. The hull girder load is composed of axial force (AF), vertical shear force (VSF), horizontal shear force (HSF), torsional moment (TM), vertical bending moment (VBM) and horizontal bending moment (HBM), each of which is related to each other by forces in the x, y and z directions. …”
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Medial and lateral vestibulospinal projections to the cervical spinal cord of the squirrel monkey by Richard Boyle

“…The VOC innervation was either uniformly distributed among the cervical segments, indicating a more global control of head and neck movement, or restricted specific spinal segments, indicating a more precise motor control strategy. …”
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Identificando atributos chave no processo de escolha de café: insights da análise Maxdiff by Paula Thaís dos Santos Soares, Carla Araujo de Brito Sass, Elson Rogério Tavares Filho, Mônica Marques Pagani, Eliane Teixeira Mársico, Adriano Gomes da Cruz, Erick Almeida Esmerino

“…A Estimativa Bayesiana hierárquica, ANOVA, teste de média de Tukey (diferença global) e o teste Kruskal-Wallis (tipo de café consumido) foram usados para interpretar os dados coletados. …”
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Synergic Renoprotective Effects of Combined ASC Therapy with RAAS Blockade in Experimental Advanced CKD by Marina P. C. Maires, Krislley R. Pereira, Everidiene K. V. B. Silva, Victor H. R. Souza, Flavio Teles, Paulyana F. Barbosa, Margoth R. Garnica, Felipe M. Ornellas, Irene L. Noronha, Camilla Fanelli

“…Global prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) has increased considerably in the recent decades. …”
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Adaptation Strategies for Hemp in Alkaline Salt Environments: Fertilizer Management for Nutrient Uptake and Optimizing Growth by Yunshu Ye, Haoyu Wang, Panpan Zhang, Yuhong Zhang

“…Global soil salinization has become an increasingly severe challenge for agricultural production, particularly affecting the cultivation of economic crops in marginal lands. …”
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Central obesity is a burden even in normal weight adolescents of a non-metropolitan Indian City: A case for alarm and action for prevention and control by Tabassum Nawab, Zulfia Khan, Iqbal M. Khan, Mohammad A. Ansari

“…Methods: Totally, 660 adolescents, selected using systematic random sampling, in four urban schools in Aligarh were interviewed using pre-designed questionnaire and Global Physical Activity Questionnaire. Height, weight, and waist circumference (WC) were measured. …”
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Tanshinlactone triggers methuosis in breast cancer cells via NRF2 activation by Wanjun Lin, Zifeng Huang, Xuening Zhang, Dayuan Zheng, Yanchao Yang, Meina Shi, Dongfang Yang, Tong Chu, Wenzhe Ma

“…Breast cancer is the most prevalent malignancy among women globally. While significant strides have been made in breast cancer management, these interventions are often impeded by substantial adverse effects that undermine patients’ quality of life and confront limitations due to the eventual development of multi-drug resistance. …”
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Association of Prehypertension with Renin Angiotensin System: A Cross-Sectional Study on Tribal Population of Northern India by Vani Kandpal, Mohinder Pal Sachdeva, Kallur Nava Saraswathy

“…Introduction: Hypertension (HTN), the third risk factor driving death and disability as per Global Burden of Disease 2019, is a major public health concern. …”
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Rabies transmitted from vampires to cattle: An overview. by Diego Soler-Tovar, Luis E Escobar

“…Rabies is a zoonotic infectious disease of global distribution that impacts human and animal health. …”
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Racialized migrant women’s discrimination in maternal care: a scoping review by Jasmine Therese Arcilla, Alexandra Nanou, Sarah Hamed, Fatumo Osman

“…This scoping review aims to give an overview of the state of current research on the discriminatory experiences of racialized migrant women when utilizing maternal healthcare and its gaps to ensure equity in global maternal healthcare. Methodology This scoping review mapped out all available English-language scientific empirical literature published between 2012 and 2023. …”
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Testing of Ferarabivac anti-rabies live vaccine for wild carnivores for its immunogenicity and protectivity by A. V. Shishkov, D. A. Lozovoy, A. V. Borisov, D. V. Mikhalishin

“…Rabies is one of the most important human and animal viral diseases, being one of the most dangerous zoonoses, causing damage to the central nervous system with an inevitable fatal outcome. This disease is of global concern, and it attracts special attention of international organizations (WHO, OIE, FAO, GARC) and of veterinary services in many countries around the world. …”
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Estructura factorial, invarianza de la medida y propiedades psicométricas del Inventario de Sexismo Ambivalente en Costa Rica by Vanessa Smith-Castro, Catalina Argüello-Gutiérrez

“…La muestra estuvo conformada por 968 participantes, con edades entre 16 y los 92 años (M = 23 años, DE = 11.62 años) de los cuales el 58.7% fueron mujeres. De forma global, los datos indicaron que la estructura factorial del instrumento se sostiene en poblaciones distintas, a lo largo del tiempo y tanto en hombres como mujeres. …”
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Análise da produção científica do Programa Antártico Brasileiro (PROANTAR) by Paula Carina de Araújo, Roberto Dantas de Pinho, Andrea Cancela da Cruz Kaled

“…Utiliza os dados obtidos por meio do Arquivo da Marinha do Brasil, dados públicos do Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, o Currículo Lattes, o ORCiD e a Global Research Identifier Database como fontes de dados para a identificação dos pesquisadores do programa, o que levou a um total de 3.660 nomes identificados. …”
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