Comparative Direct Compression Property of a Novel Pregelatinized Starch in Paracetamol Tablets by Tamrat Balcha Balla, Nisha Mary Joseph, Anteneh Belete

“…Taro Boloso-I starch was pregelatinized, and its properties including amylose to amylopectin ratio, densities, flow properties, swelling power, water solubility index, particle morphology, moisture content, and moisture sorption profile were evaluated. …”
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Diagnostic Accuracy of Physical Examination Tests for Suspected Acute Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Shigeharu Tanaka, Yu Inoue, Yuki Masuda, Hui Tian, Hungu Jung, Ryo Tanaka

“…For the domain of flow and timing in the QUADAS-2, three studies did not assess the timing between the reference and index tests. The pooled sensitivities were 0.79, 0.78, 0.55, and 0.82 in the Lachman, anterior drawer, pivot shift, and lever sign tests, respectively, and the pooled specificities were 0.91, 0.91, 0.96, and 0.88, respectively. …”
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Oral Hyaluronic Acid Supplementation for the Treatment of Dry Eye Disease: A Pilot Study by Yeseul Kim, Chan Hee Moon, Bo-Yeon Kim, Sun Young Jang

“…The inclusion criteria were as follows: (1) >18 years of age; (2) distance best-corrected visual acuity ≥ 20/40 Snellen equivalent in each eye; (3) IOP ≤ 21 mmHg in both eyes; (4) ocular surface disease index (OSDI) score of ≥18 and <65; (5) <10 seconds of tear break up time (TBUT); (6) >5 corneal spots of corneal fluorescein staining (CFS); and (7) ≤ 10 mm/5 min of the Schirmer test. …”
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Hybrid Gel as a Substitute for Hard Fats in Confectionery by Vasilissa S. Kutsenkova, Nataliia V. Nepovinnykh, Samira A. Yeganehzad

“…The samples were tested for strength, adhesive power, viscosity index, consistency, and Young modulus using a TA-XT Plus texture analyzer (Stable Micro Systems Ltd., UK). …”
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Quantitative impacts of climate change and human activities on grassland growth in Xinjiang, China by Hanyi Rui, Beier Luo, Ying Wang, Lin Zhu, Qinyuan Zhu

“…., Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), to analyze the spatial trends of grassland changes from 1982 to 2015, and the correlation between NDVI and climate factors. …”
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Assessment of Dynamic Balance, Muscle Strength and Pain in Young Women with Generalized Joint Hypermobility by Rosita Mikalauskaitė, Algė Daunoravičienė, Ernesta Aukštuolytė – Bačienė, Vilma Tamulionytė, Erenesta Gurskienė

“…Participants: Twenty-fve young females (age: 22(18–28; 21,16) years; body mass index: (23, 19,2–24, 23,2) kg/m²) participated in this study. …”
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Social isolation in the young and middle-aged patients with stroke: role of social support, family resilience and hope by Xiao Jia Wu, Ke Ke, Hui Liu, Shao Ping Zhan, Lei Wang, Juan Feng He

“…Perceived social support scale, General isolation Scale, Chinese version of Family Resilience Assessment Scale and Herth hope index were adopted to assess patients’ social, family and personal factors. …”
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Bug off or bug out: mapping flight secrets of Triatoma garciabesi (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) through climate, geography, and greenery by Thaiane Verly, Thaiane Verly, Federico G. Fiad, Ana Laura Carbajal-de-la-Fuente, Ana Laura Carbajal-de-la-Fuente, Sebastián Pita, Romina V. Piccinali, Romina V. Piccinali, Patricia A. Lobbia, Paz Sánchez-Casaccia, Paz Sánchez-Casaccia, Paz Sánchez-Casaccia, Antonieta Rojas de Arias, María José Cavallo, Gisel V. Gigena, Claudia S. Rodríguez, María C. Vega-Gómez, Miriam Rolón, Julieta Nattero, Julieta Nattero, Julieta Nattero

“…The size and shape components and the geographic, climatic, and/or vegetation indexes explained covariation in all flight-related traits.DiscussionT. garciabesi appears to be a species sensitive to vegetation cover and landscape features. …”
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Assessment of stress hyperglycemia ratio to predict all-cause mortality in patients with critical cerebrovascular disease: a retrospective cohort study from the MIMIC-IV database by Yuwen Chen, Jian Xu, Fan He, An’an Huang, Jie Wang, Bingchen Liu, Qucheng Wei

“…The predictive ability of SHR for mortality risk was evaluated using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves and the C-index. Results We included a total of 2,461 patients, with a mean age of 70.55 ± 14.59 years, and 1,221 (49.61%) being female. …”
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Improvement of Citrus Yield Prediction Using UAV Multispectral Images and the CPSO Algorithm by Wenhao Xu, Xiaogang Liu, Jianhua Dong, Jiaqiao Tan, Xulei Wang, Xinle Wang, Lifeng Wu

“…Finally, the Shapley additive explanations (SHAP) method was used to reveal the importance of the normalized difference chlorophyll index (NDCI) and the red band mean feature (MEA_R) when constructing the prediction model. …”
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Telehealth interventions for substance use disorders in low- and- middle income countries: A scoping review. by Margaret Isioma Ojeahere, Sarah Kanana Kiburi, Paul Agbo, Rakesh Kumar, Florence Jaguga

“…Searches were conducted in five bibliographic databases: PubMed, Psych INFO, Web of Science, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Professionals and the Cochrane database of systematic review. …”
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Effect of Four Grape Varieties on the Physicochemical and Sensory Properties of Unripe Grape Verjuice by Najiba Salah Eddine, Sami Tlais, Ali Alkhatib, Rasha Hamdan

“…Results showed that “Black” grape verjuice has the highest density (1.01±0.003 g/L), titratable acidity (4.51 g/L±0.03), total soluble solids (5.38°Brix±0.3), and polyphenol content (676.1 mg/L±6.8); verjuice processed from the Baytamoni grape variety has the highest browning index (0.432±0.002) and color intensity (1.18±0.007); “Obeideh” grape verjuice has the highest pH (2.55±0.006); and “Tfayfihi” grape verjuice has the highest radical scavenging potential (91.76%±0.43) and moisture content (95.85%±0.19). …”
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Occurrence of severe cognitive impairment in elderly individuals with poor glycemic control Vs elderly individuals with good glycemic control or no DM: a case control study” by Basma Salman, Fatima Jehangir, Aroosa Jahan, Saira Aslam, Nadra Ansari

“…We also assessed frailty index and incorporated it into our result interpretation. …”
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dP/dtmax: An underestimated prognostic factor in large animal infarction model by Rita Garamvölgyi, Dénes Kőrösi, Ottó Tátrai, Emőke Bodor, Dániel Fajtai, Kornélia Farkas, András Vorobcsuk

“…To monitor the cardiac function, measurements were made by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (cMRI), invasive pressure monitoring, and a Pulse index Continuous Cardiac Output (PiCCO) hemodynamic system at 0, 72, and 720 h during the follow‐up period. …”
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Duration of External Neck Stabilisation (DENS) following odontoid fracture in older or frail adults: protocol for a randomised controlled trial of collar versus no collar by John Norrie, Julie Woodfield, David J Lowe, Paul M Brennan, Catriona Keerie, Julia Lawton, Matthew J Reed, Andrew Stoddart, Julia Boyd, Helen Eborall, Gina Cranswick, James Tomlinson, Polly L Black, Sadaquate Khan, Patrick Statham, Ellie Edlmann, Phillip Correia Copley, Angela Niven, Susan Deborah Shenkin

“…Secondary outcomes include pain scores, neck disability index, health and social care use and costs, and mortality.Ethics and dissemination Informed consent for participation will be sought from those able to provide it. …”
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An epidemiological assessment of health status among a cohort of tuberculosis survivors: prospective research in a western Indian city by Venu Shah, Viral Dave, Vaidehi Gohil, Hardika Khanpara

“…Factors significantly associated with recurrence were age (p=0.01), body mass index (p=0.02), and socio-economic status (p=0.03) of the study population. …”
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Echinococcosis of dogs in the North Caucasian Subjects (infrastructural, epizootological and sanitary-hygienic analysis) by S. Sh. Kabardiev, A. M. Bittirov, S. A. Aigubova, N. Kh. Gyulakhmedova

“…As a result, it was determined that the average frequency index of echinococcosis occurrence was 85.07%. The moderate fecal egg count in 1,400 samples was 22.73 ± 1.49 eggs per 10 grams of dog feces. …”
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Relationship of Hyperglycaemia, Hypoglycaemia, and Glucose Variability to Atherosclerotic Disease in Type 2 Diabetes by Caroline Jane Magri, Dillon Mintoff, Liberato Camilleri, Robert G. Xuereb, Joseph Galea, Stephen Fava

“…Subjects with T2DM of <10 years duration and on stable antiglycaemic treatment underwent carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT), ankle-brachial index (ABI), albumin-creatinine ratio (ACR), and HbA1c measurement, as well as 72-hour continuous glucose monitoring. …”
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Inguinal Lymph Node Dissection for Advanced Stages of Plantar Melanoma in a Low-Income Country by Ollo Roland Somé, Malick Diallo, Damien Konkobo, Nassirou Yabré, Valentin Konségré, Issouf Konaté, Sidy Ka

“…We found high Breslow index tumor thickness (>3 mm) and an advanced Clark IV stage (n = 20). …”
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Significant Ionospheric Hole and Equatorial Plasma Bubbles After the 2022 Tonga Volcano Eruption by Ercha Aa, Shun‐Rong Zhang, Philip J. Erickson, Juha Vierinen, Anthea J. Coster, Larisa P. Goncharenko, Andres Spicher, William Rideout

“…(c) Various acoustic‐gravity wave modes due to volcano eruption were observed by accurate Beidou geostationary orbit (GEO) TEC, and the huge ionospheric hole was mainly caused by intense shock‐acoustic impulses. TEC rate of change index revealed globally propagating ionospheric disturbances at a prevailing Lamb‐wave mode of ∼315 m/s; the large‐scale EPBs could be seeded by acoustic‐gravity resonance and coupling to less‐damped Lamb waves, under a favorable condition of volcano‐induced enhancement of dusktime plasma upward E×B drift and postsunset rise of the equatorial ionospheric F‐layer.…”
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