Evaluating Preferences of Hospitalized Diabetes Patients for Hospital-Wide Glycemic Control Programme: A Discrete Choice Experiment by Jing Dai, Ting He, Xiaodie He, Huaying Li, Lintong Li, Jie Sun, Jie Pan, Cheng Ji

“…Conclusion: Treatment preferences of hospitalized diabetes patients are mainly influenced by antihyperglycemic effectiveness, adverse reactions, healthcare providers, and individual characteristics. Comprehensive consideration and an individualized therapy strategy should be given when constructing a hospital-wide glycemic control programme.…”
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Rural–urban and age differences in association between depression and suicidal attempt: a large retrospective clinical sample study in China by Yong Xia, Dandan Ge, Zhonghua Zhang

“…Notably, the predominant methods of suicide among individuals with depression were the utilisation of sleeping pills or antidepressants.Conclusion Our study found individuals with depression are at higher risk of SA, especially juveniles and urban individuals. …”
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Leadership in Organizations and the PR Department Work Quality by Edit Terek Stojanović, Mila Kavalić, Sanja Kovačić, Milan Nikolić, Marko Vlahović, Srđana Taboroši

“…Research Question: This paper examines the influence of individual leadership dimensions on individual public relations dimensions. …”
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Drought Adaptation and Responses of Stipa krylovii Vary Among Different Regions: Evidence From Growth, Physiology, and RNA‐Seq Transcriptome Analysis by Ziqing Gong, Zehang Qu, Yulin Liu, Tao Wang, Baijie Fan, Anzhi Ren, Yubao Gao, Nianxi Zhao

“…By Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) functional enrichment analysis on gene expressions of individuals from each treatment, unique enriched pathways were found under heavy drought. (2) The decrease in the number of tillers with the increasing drought was much lower for individuals from the western region than those from the other two regions. …”
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The causal relationship of cigarette smoking to metabolic disease risk and the possible mediating role of gut microbiota by Jingda Zhang, Lin Hou, Shanxiang Lei, Yan Li, Guogang Xu

“…Results: The phenomenon that a causal relationship between cigarette smoke (249752 individuals) and gut microbiota (7738 individuals), diabetes (406831 individuals), NAFLD (377998 individuals), hypercholesterolaemia (463010 individuals), and obesity (463010 individuals) was observed using UVMR. …”
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Prospective cohort study investigating frequency and risk factors for acute pain 1 day after refractive surgery by Anat Galor, Jodi Lapidus, Winston Chamberlain, Elyana Vittoria Tessa Locatelli, Jason Betz, Brooke M Harkness, Maricarmen Perez-Blanco, Steven J Everist, Siting Chen, Richard Stutzman, Afshan Nanji, Sue A Aicher

“…Acute ocular pain 1 day after surgery was defined as an NRS score of worst pain since surgery ≥3 and this group was compared with individuals with NRS scores<3.Results 251 individuals underwent refractive surgery (89% laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis, n=222; 11% PRK, n=29). …”
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Involvement of Different CD4+ T Cell Subsets Producing Granzyme B in the Immune Response to Leishmania major Antigens by Ikbel Naouar, Thouraya Boussoffara, Melika Ben Ahmed, Nabil Belhaj Hmida, Adel Gharbi, Sami Gritli, Afif Ben Salah, Hechmi Louzir

“…The nature of effector cells and the potential immunogenicity of Leishmania major excreted/secreted proteins (LmES) were evaluated using peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from healed zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis individuals (HZCL) and healthy controls (HC). First, we found that PBMCs from HZCL individuals proliferate and produce high levels of IFN-γ and granzyme B (GrB), used as a marker of activated cytotoxic T cells, in response to the parasite antigens. …”
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Clostridium tetani bacteraemia in the plague area in France: Two cases by M.A. Boualam, A. Bouri, M. Signoli, M. Drancourt, A. Caputo, E. Terrer, G. Aboudharam

“…In the remaining twelve individuals, no such C. tetani was recovered and further detection by PCR and palaeoculturomics of dental calculus and sediments surrounding the teeth in these two individuals remained negative. …”
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Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) Guidelines To Reduce Student Aggressiveness by Dewi Aswira Putri, Frischa Meivilona Yendi, Taufik Taufik, Verlanda Yuca

“…Aggressive behavior is a negative action that is intentionally done by individuals who try to hurt others both physically and verbally. …”
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New Variant of SARS-CoV-2 Dynamics with Imperfect Vaccine by Taye Samuel Faniran, Aatif Ali, Nawal E. Al-Hazmi, Joshua Kiddy K. Asamoah, Taher A. Nofal, Matthew O. Adewole

“…This is probably because individuals infected with the second variant appear to be more careful with their lives and get vaccinated more than individuals infected with the first variant.…”
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Vestibular and balance dysfunction in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and cognitive disengagement syndrome risk groups by Zuhal Koc Apaydın, Emre Soylemez, Nefise Demir

“…While right ear lateral vHIT responses were worse in individuals with high-risk CDS (p > 0.05), bilateral posterior vHIT rates were worse in individuals with high-risk ADHD (p > 0.05). …”
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The Incidence of Infection Complicating Snakebites in Tropical Australia: Implications for Clinical Management and Antimicrobial Prophylaxis by Laura K. Smith, John Vardanega, Simon Smith, Julian White, Mark Little, Josh Hanson

“…All 3 envenomated individuals diagnosed with infection were believed to have taipan (genus Oxyuranus) bites. …”
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First record of the big-scale sand smelt (Atherina boyeri Risso, 1810, Pisces: Atherinidae) from Porsuk Dam Lake, Türkiye by Benzer Semra

“…Of these specimens, 34.76% (146 individuals) were males and 65.24% (274 individuals) were females, resulting in a calculated sex ratio (females:males) of 1:0.53. …”
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Sex- and site-specific, age-related changes in bone density – a Terry collection study by Niina Korpinen, Petteri Oura, Juho-Antti Junno

“…We used a sample of 114 individuals (55 males, 59 females) from the Robert J. …”
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Multiscale correlations between joint and tissue-specific biomechanics and anatomy in postmortem ovine stifles by Aritra Chatterjee, Zachary Robert Davis, Timothy Lescun, Deva D. Chan

“…The multiscale biomechanical relationships between the whole joint and individual tissues are useful in estimating the physiological condition of the knee. …”
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Cellular Harmony Search for Optimization Problems by Mohammed Azmi Al-Betar, Ahamad Tajudin Khader, Mohammed A. Awadallah, Mahmmoud Hafsaldin Alawan, Belal Zaqaibeh

“…Structured population in evolutionary algorithms (EAs) is an important research track where an individual only interacts with its neighboring individuals in the breeding step. …”
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A novel approach in controlling the spread of a rumor within a crowd by Imane Dehaj, Abdessamad Dehaj, Abdessamad Tridane, M.A. Aziz-Alaoui, Mostafa Rachik

“…In this work, we propose a novel approach to an effective strategy for reducing the number of individuals affected by a rumor within a crowd. This strategy relies on developing control functions operating between zero and one, ensuring that the number of individuals affected by the rumor remains below a predetermined threshold at any given time. …”
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Economic Change and Cultural Evolution: The Ultimate Influence of Human Cognitive Limitations by Daniel Bordonaba-Bosque, María A. González-Álvarez, Pedro C. Marijuán, Jorge Navarro

“…How cognitive limitations of individuals may affect the dynamics of cultural evolution under the effects of economic and technological forces is explored here. …”
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Investigation of senses of sexism and religiosity in terms of sports variable by Duygu Yaralı, Erkan Bıngol, Gulsum Bastug

“…A significant difference was also found between hostile sexism, benevolent sexism and benevolent patriarchy attitudes of individuals doing and not doing exercises. It was determined that average of hostile sexism, benevolent sexism and benevolent patriarchy attitudes of individuals doing exercises was higher than that of individuals not doing exercises. …”
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Physiologically-based pharmacokinetic modeling of enantioselective hydroxychloroquine kinetics and impact of genetic polymorphisms by Gabriella de Souza Gomes Ribeiro, Leandro Francisco Pippa, Fernanda de Lima Moreira, Natália Valadares de Moraes

“…The results revealed a 1.1-fold increase in area under the curve blood concentration versus time (AUC) for CYP2D6 PM individuals and a 0.9-fold reduction for UM individuals compared to NM individuals. …”
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