Analyzing Policymaking for Tuberculosis Control in Nigeria by Nura M. R. Ahmad, Cristina Montañola-Sales, Clara Prats, Mustapha Musa, Daniel López, Josep Casanovas-Garcia

“…It also reveals that the persistence of the disease is related to a large number of latently infected individuals and quantifies the lives that could be saved by increasing the notification rate using active case finding strategy. …”
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Influence of the boreal summer intraseasonal oscillation on temperature and precipitation in South Korea by Yoo‐Rim Jung, Woo‐Seop Lee

“…The combined effect of BSISOs not only amplifies the mean temperature and precipitation anomalies compared to individual modes but also increases the frequency of warmer, wetter, and drier events. …”
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Length- weight relationship, condition factor and sex ratio of Oreochromis niloticus and Chrysichthys nigrodigitatus in the lower section of Osun River, Nigeria by Adams Ovie Iyiola, Ayotunde Samuel Kolawole, Samuel Bem Umma, Tosin Iriobe

“…Monofilament gillnets were used for fish sampling for twelve months to cover both wet and dry seasons (November 2017 to October 2018). A total of 1597 individuals of both species were collected comprising 40.13% O. niloticus samples and 59.87% samples of C. nigrodigitatus. …”
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Perception of Professional Practices from the voice of the student body of Pedagogy by Rosario Ordóñez-Sierra, Mª Teresa Gómez-del-Castillo-Segurado, Margarita Rodríguez-Gallego

“…It involved an already validated online questionnaire and individual blog entries submitted by the 131 participants.   …”
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Tempol Attenuates Neuropathic Pain by Inhibiting Nitric Oxide Production by Donglin Jia, Huan Wang, Bin Han, Liping Zhang, Jianrong Guo

“…Neuropathic pain not only affects individual life quality but also increases economic burden for the society. …”
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Carboxyhemoglobin Does Not Predict the Need of Mechanical Ventilation and Prognosis during COPD Exacerbation by Shimon Izhakian, Eitan Harper, Oleg Gorelik, Assaf Frajman, Ori Mekiten, Adina Bar-Chaim, Mordechai Reuven Kramer

“…However, little is known regarding the prognostic significance of COHb among individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation. …”
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Exploring Social-Ecological Pathways From Sexual Identity to Sleep Among Chinese Women: Structural Equation Modeling Analysis by Chanchan Wu, Pui Hing Chau, Edmond Pui Hang Choi

“… Abstract BackgroundWomen and sexual minority individuals have been found to be at higher risk for experiencing poor sleep health compared to their counterparts. …”
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An Analysis of the Determinants of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Scores at the Firm level on Borsa İstanbul Companies by Sinan Aytekin, Nida Abdioğlu

“…The analyses are carried out individually, focusing on the three distinct aspects of corporate sustainability: environmental, social, and governance. …”
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Relationship between oral hypofunction and medical expenditure in older adults in Japan by Takatoshi Hiroshimaya, Yoshiaki Kawagoe, Kazuto Fukuhara, Hiroshi Ijichi, Naofumi Tamaki

“…We diagnosed oral hypofunction based on dental data obtained from oral health examinations and examined its association with several annual medical expenditures. Compared to individuals without oral hypofunction, those with oral hypofunction incurred higher total, outpatient medical, inpatient medical, dental, dispensing medical, and lifestyle-related medical expenditures. …”
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Nurses’ Behaviors, Perceptions and Diagnoses in the Diagnosing Phase of the Nursing Process within the Scope of a Case Study: A Mixed Type Study by Arzu Akman Yılmaz, Ahu Çırlak

“…As a result of the content analysis, the behaviors related to the diagnosis phase were discussed under three main themes: “data collection”, “using reference book”, and “diagnosing”.Conclusions: The case study contributed to the nurses' experience of how to deal with the diagnosis of the individuals and raising awareness of the problems they experienced in this phase.…”
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Turkish validation of a resilience scale from older people’s perspectives: resilience scale for older adults by Seher Palanbek Yavaş, Caner Baysan

“…Methods This methodological study included 566 individuals aged 65 and older. All participants completed the Resilience Scale for Older Adults, the Perceived Stress Scale, the Geriatric Depression Scale, and the Quality of Life in Older Adults Scale—Short Form. …”
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Comparing the Efficacy of Excitatory Transcranial Stimulation Methods Measuring Motor Evoked Potentials by Vera Moliadze, Georg Fritzsche, Andrea Antal

“…Significant effects of each individual stimulation method have been published; however, conclusive direct comparisons of many of these methods are rare. …”
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Estimation Markov Decision Process of Multimodal Trip Chain between Integrated Transportation Hubs in Urban Agglomeration Based on Generalized Cost by Min Yue, Shu-Hong Ma, Wei Zhou, Xi-Fang Chen

“…The findings of this study are as follows: (1) long-distance travelers always prefer to choose the unimodal fewer transfers trip chain between hubs; (2) long-distance travelers are more likely to choose the trip chain with more transfers more than long waiting time; (3) individual income difference affects the generalized cost of trip chains and also influences the optimal choice of trip chain through the MDP framework. …”
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Caractéristiques rythmiques du chant de l'indri et nouvelles perspectives pour une évaluation comparative du rythme chez les primates non humains by Marco Gamba, Valeria Torti, Chiara De Gregorio, Teresa Raimondi, Longondraza Miaretsoa, Filippo Carugati, Walter Cristiano, Rose M. Randrianarison, Giovanna Bonadonna, Anna Zanoli, Olivier Friard, Daria Valente, Andrea Ravignani, Cristina Giacoma

“…Rhythmic patterns are a valuable tool for species discrimination, mate choice, and individual recognition. A recent study showed that bird songs and human music share rhythmic categories when a signal's temporal intervals are distributed categorically rather than uniformly. …”
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The meaning of the concept of “crime prevention in the customs sphere” by R. A. Cherkasskyi

“…It is generalized that crime prevention is aimed at those factors that potentially or actually lead to the manifestation of crime in society as a complex phenomenon or its individual types and kinds. These are, in particular, drug addiction, alcoholism of the population, popularization of the criminal subculture, prostitution, low level of legal awareness of the population and education in general, shortcomings in the work of public authorities and more.…”
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Assessing the impact of drought on Zlatar Lake area changes using Random Forest with Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 multispectral data by Nikolić Ratko R.

“…The study achieved high overall accuracy (OA) and Kappa values in classifying individual scenes, with Sentinel-1 reaching an OA of 96.47% and a Kappa coefficient of 92.71, while Sentinel-2 showed an OA of 99.14% and a Kappa coefficient of 98.20. …”
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Impact of combiner aerobic and resistance training on depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials by Hai Wang, Qinzheng Liu, Yingxu Pan

“…Abstract Objective To summarize the existing literature and evaluate the efficacy of combined resistance and aerobic training in alleviating depressive symptoms among individuals with depression. Subgroup analyses were conducted based on study region, age, depression severity, intervention duration, intervention frequency, and whether the intervention was supervised or unsupervised. …”
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Effect of synthesis on the purity and particle size of ZrB2 powder by Gadakary S., Davidson M.J., Veerababu R., Khanra A.K.

“…To understand the synthesis process, the individual synthesis of ZrO2-Mg and H3BO3-Mg are also performed.…”
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The Construction of Regulatory Network for Insulin-Mediated Genes by Integrating Methods Based on Transcription Factor Binding Motifs and Gene Expression Variations by Hyeim Jung, Seonggyun Han, Sangsoo Kim

“…In the present study, we used previously published gene expression microarray datasets of human skeletal muscle samples collected from 20 insulin sensitive individuals before and after insulin treatment in order to construct insulin-mediated regulatory network. …”
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Association between chronic pain and attrition: a prospective analysis of a national sample of midlife adults in the USA, 2004–2014 by Yunlong Liang

“…Multinomial logistic regression was employed to examine these relationships and to explore the moderation effects of sociodemographic variables and multiple chronic conditions on these associations.Results High-interference pain was associated with a 162% increased risk (RR 2.62, 95% CI 1.12 to 6.16, p=0.026) of being physically and mentally unable to participate in MIDUS 3. Individuals reporting the presence of CP (RR 0.65, 95% CI 0.45 to 0.95, p=0.028) and those with three or more CP sites (RR 0.48, 95% CI 0.27 to 0.87, p=0.016) were less likely to refuse participation in MIDUS 3. …”
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