Fear avoidance beliefs and quality of life quality after lumbar disc surgery by Dogan Gucluhan Guclu, Omer Senormanci, Oya Gonullu, Musa Cirak, Guliz Senomanci, Furuzan Kokturk

“…Sociodemographic questionnaire, Visual Analog Scale (VAS), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Fear and Avoidance Beliefs Qquestionnaire (FABQ), Oswestry Disability Index (ODI), and Short form-36 (SF-36) Health Survey Questionnaire were used. …”
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Semiactive Control of High-Speed Railway Vehicle Suspension Systems with Magnetorheological Dampers by Yingying Liao, Yongqiang Liu, Shaopu Yang

“…To evaluate the effect of these semiactive controls and the different kinds of time delay on the lateral ride index of a high-speed railway vehicle, a 3D surface in a rectangular coordinate system is described. …”
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Development, reliability and validity testing of the Supportive Care Needs Scale for Patients with Bladder Cancer Undergoing Urostomy by GUO Can, CAO Ying, TANG Liping, YI Huarong, YI Jiqun, MEI Ziwei, Cai Shiying, XU Shuangying

“…The cumulative variance contribution rate of the factors was 70.221%. The content validity index at the item level was 0.78-1.00, S-CVI/Ave was 0.95, the total Cronbach's α coefficient of the scale was 0.909.Conclusion The Supportive Care Needs Scale for Patients with Bladder Cancer Undergoing Urostomy has good reliability and validity, and can serve as an effective assessment tool for measuring the supportive care needs of patients.…”
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Lung Cancer with Skin and Breast Metastasis: A Case Report and Literature Review by Bikash Bhattarai, Marie Frances Schmidt, Meenakshi Ghosh, Abhisekh Sinha Ray, Saveena Manhas, Vikram Oke, Chidozie Charles Agu, Md. Rawshan Basunia, Danilo Enriquez, Joseph Quist, Catherine Bianchi, Ravi Hans, Saroj Kandel

“…The patient is male and a chronic smoker; therefore the diagnosis is made as lung carcinoma with metastases to the breast and skin. Conclusion. A high index of suspicion for cutaneous metastases should be cast when investigating cutaneous pathologies in patients at risk for primary lung malignancy.…”
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An analytical disquisition on the nonlinear optical responses of carbon quantum dots engineered by diverse synthesis methodologies by Rashi Mahendra Patil, Akshay Raj R, Shyamal Mondal, Tejashree Bhave, Appala Venkata Ramana Murthy

“…The z-scan technique was employed for measuring the corresponding nonlinear absorption coefficient and nonlinear refractive index. Hydrothermal synthesis produced CQDs with strong NLO responses (χ(3) = 4.14 × 10–7 esu) due to high crystallinity and significant surface functionalization, whereas microwave-assisted synthesis resulted (χ(3) = 3.97 × 10–7 esu) in size-dependent NLO variability. …”
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Spatial Patterns and Temporal Variability of Drought in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Metropolitan Areas in China by Wanyuan Cai, Yuhu Zhang, Qiuhua Chen, Yunjun Yao

“…The modified Reconnaissance Drought Index (RDI) was applied to capture the drought patterns and to estimate the drought severity at 33 meteorological stations. …”
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Detectability of Liver Steatosis and Fibrosis with Transient Elastography and Controlled Attenuation Parameter in Residents of St. Petersburg by V. P. Kovyazina, K. L. Raikhelson, M. K. Prashnova, E. V. Pazenko, L. K. Palgova, E. A. Kondrashina

“…The growth of body mass index and waist circumference significantly correlated in women with pronounced liver changes. …”
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Tourism-Related CO2 Emission and Its Decoupling Effects in China: A Spatiotemporal Perspective by Zi Tang, Shizhen Bai, Changbo Shi, Lin Liu, Xiaohong Li

“…In addition, the decoupling index was applied to analyze the decoupling effects between tourism-related CO2 emissions and tourism economy from 2000 to 2015. …”
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Quadrant categorization of spillover determinants of sovereign risk of BRICIT nations: a Bayesian approach by Pawan Kumar, Vipul Kumar Singh

“…The quadrant categorization indicates that the Indonesian stock market index is most interconnected with BRICIT CDS, while the Turkish long-term interest rates send the highest intensity spillover across BRICIT nations.…”
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Are There Differences in the Anthropometric, Hemodynamic, Hematologic, and Biochemical Profiles between Late- and Early-Onset Preeclampsia? by Márcia Aires Rodrigues de Freitas, Alice Vieira da Costa, Luciana Alves de Medeiros, Mario da Silva Garrote Filho, Angélica Lemos Debs Diniz, Nilson Penha-Silva

“…Pregnant women with LOPE presented greater weight gain and borderline increase in body mass index at the end of gestation in relation to the other groups, which is compatible with the metabolic origin, associated with obesity, attributed to this form of the disease. …”
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Simultaneous gains for negatively correlated traits of interest in plantain by Geferson Rocha Santos, Letícia Casseano de Souza Santos, Rafael Nunes de Almeida, Hércules dos Santos Pereira, Inês de Moura Trindade, Irany Rodrigues Pretti, Dimmy Herllen Silveira Gomes Barbosa, Edson Perito Amorim, Sávio da Silva Berilli, Ana Paula Candido Gabriel Berilli

“…Therefore, correlations between yield, plant height, and SS posed a challenge for the development of plantain cultivars. The index of Mulamba & Mock was applied, which allowed of obtaining simultaneous gains in the target traits. …”
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Adaptation Of The Food Craving Questionnaire-Trait Into Turkish by Sadiye Akkurt, Gizem Kose, Aslihan Donmez

“…The questionnaires used comprise form of demographical data, food craving scale (including 39 articles) and eating attitudes test (including 40 articles). 39 articles and 9 sub-dimensions of Food Craving Scale were studied by confirmatory factor analysis and it was determined that factor loads and error variances of all articles are proper but fit indexes are not at allowable levels. Reliability and validity studies of Food Craving Scale were carried out using confirmatory factor analysis AMOS 22.0 program and total item correlation, Cronbach Alpha and equivalent (parallel) form reliability tests were carried out using SPSS 15.0 program. …”
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Charles Sanders Peirce's semiotic analysis of human values in the film sound of freedom by Frans Fandy Palinoan, I Made Markus Suma, Patrio Tandiangga, Arwin Dama

“…Researchers took Peirce's formula regarding objects which are classified into three, in the form of icons, indexes and symbols which are applied to each scene of the film Sound of Freedom. …”
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Effective Semiactive Base Isolation System under Multiple Earthquakes by Mohtasham Mohebbi, Hamed Dadkhah

“…To select appropriate value for force related weighting parameter, defined in performance index, a range has been suggested for each design objective. …”
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The Effect of High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Keratoplasty on Rabbit Anterior Segment by Menglei Wang, Meixuan Li, Pisong Yan, Qiang Luo, Yu Zhang, Zhiyu Du

“…Collagen type I, MMP-2, and MMP-9 levels were altered after the operation but returned to normal within 90 days. The apoptotic index (AI) of the corneal cells decreased from 1 to 30 days gradually. …”
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The role of nurses in child abuse situations: a systematic review by Bomi Kim, Sunyeob Choi

“…A literature search was conducted using PubMed, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), PsycINFO, and Scopus databases. …”
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Listeria Rhombencephalitis Complicating Anti-TNF Treatment during an Acute Flare of Crohn’s Colitis by L. Stratton, G. R. Caddy

“…Clinicians must always have a high index of suspicion for opportunistic infection in such immunocompromised patients.…”
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Aktivitas Insektisida Campuran Ekstrak Air Buah Piper aduncum L. (Piperaceae) dan Batang Cymbopogon ciratrus (Dc.) Stapf (Poaceae) Terhadap Larva Crocidolomia pavonana F. (Lepidopt... by Eka Candra Lina, Adventus Supriadi, Yunisman Yunisman, Martinius Martinius

“…The results show that LC50 and LC95 value of mixture extract are 2.83% and 5.79% respectively. Based on index combination analysis, P. aduncum and C. citratus mixture extract  were antagonistic at LC50  and additive  at LC95 . …”
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Patient-reported outcomes of esthetics, function and oral hygiene with single dental implants 10–15 years after placement: a cross-sectional study by Viveca Wallin Bengtsson, Christel Lindahl, Sven Scholander

“…One dentist reviewed the photographs using the pink esthetic score/white esthetic score (PES/WES) index.  Results: For chewing and for speaking, the scores were 8.8 and 9.9 respectively on a VAS (best 10). …”
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Risk Factor to Chronic Disease no Transmitted In Cienfuegos, Cuba 2010. Preliminaries results of CARMEN II by Mikhail Benet Rodríguez, Alain Morejón Giraldoni, Alfredo Dario Espinosa Brito, Orestes Orlando Landrove Rodríguez, Dania Peraza Alejo, Pedro Ovidio Orduñez García

“…Studied variables included: hypertension; obesity, measured by the body mass index, smoking and diabetes mellitus. <strong><br />Results</strong>: 33.7% of interviewed persons were smokers, slightly lower than the first measurement, obesity BMI&gt; = 30 kg/m2 was 18.8%, almost 8% higher than the baseline survey, the arterial hypertension to 35.5% and diabetes mellitus to 6.8%, both well above the measurement of 2001-2002. …”
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