Estimates of Total Dietary Folic Acid Intake in the Australian Population Following Mandatory Folic Acid Fortification of Bread by Jacinta Dugbaza, Judy Cunningham

“…In June/July 2010 one hundred samples from seven bread categories were purchased from around the country and individually analysed for the amount of folic acid they contained. …”
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Clinical Profile And Liver Functions In Dengue Fever by Saeeda Sadiq, Amna Mobeen, Naveed Ashraf, Fasih Hashmi, Shahzad Munir, Anam Ahmad

“…It becomes clear that monitoring liver function in dengue-infected individuals is essential for prompt intervention and improved clinical care. …”
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Crop pangenomes by A. Yu. Pronozin, M. K. Bragina, E. A. Salina

“…These genomic variations play an important role in the functional set of genes and the gene composition in individuals of the same species and provide the genetic determination of the agronomically important crops properties. …”
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Preemptive Circular Defence of Immature Insects: Definition and Occurrences of Cycloalexy Revisited by Guillaume J. Dury, Jacqueline C. Bede, Donald M. Windsor

“…We review the literature and propose three criteria that are sufficient and necessary to define the behaviour: (1) individuals form a circle; (2) defensive attributes of the individuals are positioned on the periphery of the circle, and as a result, the periphery of the circle uniformly contains either heads or abdomens; (3) animals preemptively adopt the circle as a resting formation, meaning it is not necessary to observe predation. …”
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Poor quality of life in indian ankylosing spondylitis patients by Latika Gupta, Sakir Ahmed, Gautam Dhar Choudhury, Durga Prasanna Misra, Vikas Agarwal

“…Conclusion: Indian AS patients have poorer quality of life than patients with rheumatoid arthritis and healthy individuals, possibly due to poor control of disease activity.…”
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Role of nutritional factors at the irritable bowel syndrome by Yu. O. Shulpekova, A. V. Sedova

“…To discuss effect of certain types of food at irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and options of reduction of symptom intensity by individual adjustment of ration.Key points. Undoubtedly, dietary habits in the most cases influence severity of IBS symptoms: pain, flatulence, stool disorders. …”
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A phenomenological model of non-genomic variability of luminescent bacterial cells by S. I. Bartsev

“…When growing on rich media, the luminescence intensity of individual cells of brightly luminous strains of the luminescent bacteria Photobacterium leiognathi and Ph. phosporeum reaches 104–105 quanta/s. …”
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Parkinson’s Disease and Home Healthcare Use and Expenditures among Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries by Sandipan Bhattacharjee, Aaron Metzger, Cindy Tworek, Wenhui Wei, Xiaoyun Pan, Usha Sambamoorthi

“…This study estimated excess home healthcare use and expenditures among elderly Medicare beneficiaries (age ≥ 65 years) with Parkinson’s disease (PD) compared to those without PD and analyzed the extent to which predisposing, enabling, need factors, personal health choice, and external environment contribute to the excess home healthcare use and expenditures among individuals with PD. A retrospective, observational, cohort study design using Medicare 5% sample claims for years 2006-2007 was used for this study. …”
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Exploring barriers to parent-adolescent sexual-risk communication among adolescents in Port Harcourt Nigeria: Adolescents' and parents' perspective. by Chidinma Joycelyn Okpalaku, Chigozirim Ogubuike

“…The barriers identified from the adolescents' perspective were parental factors (parents being too busy, judgmental, low knowledge), individual factors (discomfort to initiate communication, lack of trust), religious and cultural factors. …”
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Long-Term Trends in Marriage Timing and the Impact of Migration, the Netherlands (1650-1899) by Charlotte Störmer, Corry Gellatly, Anita Boele, Tine De Moor

“…A closer look at regional variation reveals clear differences between the provinces and between urban and rural settings with those in the western part of the country and in urban centers marrying earlier. Migrating individuals married on average later than non-migrating individuals both compared to men and women in the receiving community, as to the ‘stayers’ in the location of origin. …”
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It is not just your opinion. Gender equity endorsement of Latin American students and their peers at school by Natalia López-Hornickel, Diego Carrasco, Siugmin Lay, Ernesto Treviño

“…Fitting different regression models, we explore the relationships between individual socioeconomic status, classroom practices, and school-wide ideological climates on gender equity endorsement. …”
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Public-Private Partnership as a Model of Public Infrastructure Development by A. S. Bednyakov

“…Even though PPP as the phenomenon of the modern economy appeared not too long ago, it had objective prerequisites, including the prior forms of cooperation between the state and individuals. The study of these prerequisites reveals the development patterns of PPP development, including its effectiveness, that allows politicians to harness them to develop an optimal state policy in the area. …”
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Understanding the maternal-infant nexus from dental histology and high-resolution compositional biogeochemistry: implications for bioarchaeological research by Alessia Nava

“…Information about this nexus, which is driven by both biological and cultural characteristics, can be derived from the study of mineralised dental tissues, since teeth preserve a permanent record of an individual’s biological life history from intra-uterine life to the first years after birth and up to early adulthood. …”
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Arithmetic-Like Reasoning in Wild Vervet Monkeys: A Demonstration of Cost-Benefit Calculation in Foraging by Sayaka Tsutsumi, Tomokazu Ushitani, Kazuo Fujita

“…This suggests that vervet monkeys are capable of spontaneously deploying mental manipulations of numerosity for cost-benefit calculation of foraging but that the extent of such capacity varies among individuals. Different foraging strategies might be deployed according to different levels of mental manipulation capacity in each individual in a given population. …”
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Enhancing lane detection in autonomous vehicles with multi-armed bandit ensemble learning by J. Arun Pandian, Ramkumar Thirunavukarasu, L. Thanga Mariappan

“…The results overcome the performance of the individual CNN models and state-of-the-art ensemble techniques. …”
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Generating context-specific sports training plans by combining generative adversarial networks. by Juquan Tan, Jingwen Chen

“…Personalized sports training plans are essential for addressing individual athlete needs, but traditional methods often need to integrate diverse data types, limiting adaptability and effectiveness. …”
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Exploring the associations between the biomechanical and psychological mechanistic pathways of lower back pain development amongst persons with lower-limb amputation: A study proto... by Alexandra Withey, Dario Cazzola, Abby Tabor, Elena Seminati

“…Thus, there is a pressing need to understand the bio-behavioural, psychological, and social features of individuals with lower-limb amputation in the presence of lower back pain.…”
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Defining the Value of a School Subject by Alison Hardy

“…Most values identified focused on how D&T helped individuals prepare for life beyond school. Additionally, the values reflected the economic justification for education, inasmuch that pupils learn skills in D&T they can use in future careers. …”
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The multiple self and psychological openness by Hubert Suszek, Maciej Kopera, Andrzej Jakubczyk

“…We distinguish between the unitary self-mode, where individuals perceive themselves as cohesive, stable entities, and the multiple self-mode, where they recognize their diverse, context-dependent aspects. …”
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A Multilevel Analysis of Farmers’ Adoption of Water-saving Irrigation Technology: Evidence From the North China Plain by Yibei Guo, Kunpeng Zhang, Xiaohu Jia

“…However, decisions to adopt such technologies are shaped by both individual and structural factors across multiple levels. …”
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