Influence of age on voice quality after transoral CO2 laser microsurgery by Jerome R. Lechien, Stephane Hans, Lise Crevier-Buchman

“…The voice quality was assessed pre-, 1-, 3- 6- and 12-month posttreatment with voice handicap index (VHI), dysphonia, roughness, breathiness, asthenia, strain (GRBAS), maximal phonation time (MPT), F0, F0 standard deviation (STD), percent jitter, percent shimmer, noise-to-harmonic ratio (NHR), vocal fold vibration assessment and speech fluency. …”
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Long-Term Consequences of Hepatitis C Viral Clearance on the CD4 (+) T Cell Lymphocyte Course in HIV/HCV Coinfected Patients by J. Dazley, R. Sison, J. Slim

“…Variables associated with greater CD4 gains were higher nadir, lower preinterferon CD4 counts, and lower body mass index (BMI).…”
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Features of Malevolent Creativity and its Prevention in Adolescents in the Modern Socio-Political Context by N.V. Meshkova, S.N. Enikolopov, M.N. Bochkova, I.A. Meshkov

“…A battery of questionnaires was used: NEO-FFI, BPAQ-24, “Behavioral features of antisocial creativity”, moral identity, “Tolerance Index” and a developed questionnaire with statements about the presence/absence of attention to the news about the situation in Russia and the world and the sources of this information. …”
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Exploring the effects of combined nostalgic activities and music therapy on Alzheimer's disease outcomes by Yunqiu Zhang, Yunqiong Wang, Qiao Liu, Jun Xiao, Ling Huang, Lan Zhou, Xuemei Liu

“…The Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE), Montreal Cognitive Assessment Scale (MOCA), Self Rating Anxiety and Depression Scale (SAS, SDS), and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) of the two groups were compared.ResultsA total of 30 cases from each group completed the study. …”
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Effects of Cu(II) on the Adsorption Behaviors of Cr(III) and Cr(VI) onto Kaolin by Juanjuan Liu, Xiaolong Wu, Yandi Hu, Chong Dai, Qin Peng, Dongli Liang

“…The solutions’ pH values played a key role in kaolin zeta potential (ζ), especially the hydrolysis behavior and saturation index of heavy metal ions. In the presence of Cu(II), qmixCr(III) reached the maximum adsorption capacity of 0.73 mg·g−1 at pH 6.0, while the maximum adsorption capacity for the mixed Cr(VI) and Cu(II) system (qmixCr(VI)) was observed at pH 2.0 (0.38 mg·g−1). …”
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Cardiac Effects of Thyrotropin Oversuppression with Levothyroxine in Young Women with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer by Kyung-Soon Hong, Jung-Woo Son, Ohk Hyun Ryu, Moon-Gi Choi, Ji Yeon Hong, Seong Jin Lee

“…Controls matched for age, sex, and body mass index (BMI) were compared in terms of the levels of serum free T4, free T3, TSH, plasma N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-pro-BNP), and cardiac functions and structures. …”
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Study on Strength Attenuation Characteristics of Residual Expansive Soil under Wetting-Drying Cycles and Low Stress and Its Relationship with Shallow Landslide by Jin Chang, Jieling Ma, Xianyuan Tang

“…The results show that the shear strength index of residual expansive soil should be obtained according to the high and low stress sections, respectively. …”
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Isolation and Screening of Highly Cellulolytic Filamentous Fungi by Ibatsam Khokhar, Muhammad Saleem Haider, Sobia Mushtaq, Irum Mukhtar

“…Fungal species were grouped as high and low celluloytic isolates on the basis of cellulase activity using Index of Relative Enzyme Activity (ICMC). Fungal species i.e. …”
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Strengthening Fire-Damaged Lightweight Concrete T-Beams Using Engineered Cementitious Composite with Basalt Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Grid by Haider M. Al-Baghdadi, Mohammed M. Kadhum

“…Key performance parameters, such as the energy absorption, cracking load, ductility index, maximum load capacity, and corresponding displacement, were analyzed. …”
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Higher Levels of High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein Is Positively Associated with the Incidence of Hyperuricemia in Chinese Population: A Report from the China Health and Retireme... by Hui-Xu Dai, Zhi-Ying Zhao, Yang Xia, Qi-Jun Wu, Yu-Hong Zhao

“…Furthermore, we conducted subgroup analyses to explore this association according to age, sex, and body mass index. Methods. A total of 5,419 healthy participants were enrolled in the final cohort analysis. …”
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A Survey on the Relationship between Ocean Subsurface Temperature and Tropical Cyclone over the Western North Pacific by Difu Sun, Junqiang Song, Kaijun Ren, Xiaoyong Li, Guangjie Wang

“…To further investigate the causes of this characteristic, the TC genesis potential indexes (GPI) are used to analyse the contributions of environmental factors to TC activities. …”
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Benefits of surgical obturators in oral maxillofacial rehabilitation. Review of literature by Madelaine Bárbara Jiménez Gutiérrez, José Miguel Robaina Ruiz, Iván Díaz Cal

“…<br /><strong>Methods:</strong> Study of bibliographic review in 64 publications between 1978-2019 on the use of obturator prosthesis. 153 documents from the MEDLINE, PubMed and SciELO reference systems databases were consulted, screened and indexed on the Web of Sciences, Scopus, Redalyc and Latindex, with the use of the following descriptors: oral obturator, obturator prosthesis, oral cancer. …”
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Preparation and Stability of Resveratrol-Loaded Pickering Emulsion Stabilized by Walnut Protein/Cistanche deserticola polysaccharide Composite Nanoparticles by LIU Zhanxia, LI Binbin, ZHAO Yue, WEI Changqing, FU Yini, WANG Ting, WU Hongbin, FU Xizhe

“…The nanoparticles and the Pickering emulsion were evaluated in terms of particle size, polydispersity index and zeta potential. The effect of WP/CDPS mass ratio on the interfacial tension, storage stability, thermal stability, encapsulation efficiency, microstructure and oxidation stability of the Pickering emulsion was investigated. …”
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Theoretical finishing size limitation and failure mechanism of viscoelastic abrasive media on micro-hole structure by Baocai Zhang, Xiayu Wang, Neng Jiang, Jun Tang, Fanghong Sun, Xinchang Wang

“…Furthermore, based on the pseudo-network structure and elasticity of media, as well as the interaction between continuous matrix with discrete grains, this work theoretically established the mechanics model on single grain and the total material removal model to discussed the variation tendency of material loss volume along with the key parameters (storage modulus, inlet pressure, non-Newtonian index and grain fraction), primarily detecting the theoretical size limitation (around 5 μm). …”
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Cost Analysis and Clinical Outcomes of Ambulatory Care Monitoring in Medicare Patients: Describing the Diagnostic Odyssey by Renée JG Arnold, Andrew Layton

“…The analysis was limited to patients with full benefits for 1 year prior and 2 years post the index 24- or 48-hour Holter event, no prior arrhythmia or Holter. …”
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Predictors of the occurrence of cardiovascular events in patients with atrial flutter during long-term follow-up by A.V. Aker, U.P. Chernyaga-Royko, N.S. Pavlyk, O.J. Zharinov

“…In the second group hemodynamic disorders were more frequently observed in the index episode (17.1 % vs. 3.5 %, p = 0.03) and sinus rhythm was less frequently recorded at the time of discharge from hospital 20 (48.7 %) vs 58 (68.2 %), p = 0.049) compared to patients without complications. …”
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Decline in Memory, Visuospatial Ability, and Crystalized Cognitive Abilities in Older Adults: Normative Aging or Terminal Decline? by R. Bendayan, A. M. Piccinin, S. M. Hofer, D. Cadar, B. Johansson, G. Muniz-Terrera

“…Linear mixed models with random coefficients were used to analyse change patterns and BIC indexes were used to compare models. Results showed that the time to death model was the best option in analyses of change in all the cognitive measures considered (except for the Information Test). …”
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Evaluation of the Genetic Diversity and Agro-morphophysiological Traits of Bread Wheat Varieties under Postflowering Drought Stress Using Different Statistical Methods by Mehdi Kakaei, Seyed Iman Mirmazloum

“…Factor analysis based on principal component analysis of the control plants revealed that three factors accounted for 64.68% of the total changes, including the first factor (yield), the second factor (characteristics related to height) and the third factor (harvest index), whereas the same analysis of the stressed plants at the end of the season indicated that three factors were behind 70.361% of the changes (yield and greenness, traits related to height, and plant moisture content). …”
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Enhanced bioavailability of Quercetin-loaded niosomal in situ gel for the management of Parkinson’s disease by Abhishek A. Revankar, Archana S. Patil, Reshma Karishetti, Krutuja R. Chougule, Priyanka Patil, Abhijit Salokhe

“…Male Wistar rats were utilized to assess the effects of quercetin-loaded niosomes on motor function, dopaminergic neuron protection, and oxidative stress alleviation.ResultsThe optimized niosomal formulation exhibited a particle size of 195 nm, a polydispersity index (PDI) of 0.29, a zeta potential (ZP) of −30.63 mV, and an entrapment efficiency (EE) of 82.77%. …”
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Spray drying of saffron extract-loaded coacervates by carboxymethyl cellulose/maltodextrin/saffron petal anthocyanins by Hamid Rajabi, Samineh Sedaghati, Hamidreza Farajnezhad, Seid Mahdi Jafari

“…The concentration of SBCs significantly affected the polydispersity index (0.28–0.59), particle size (295–503 nm), and encapsulation efficiency (58.62–89.19%) of the coacervates. …”
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