Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 virus antibodies and sociodemographic features of pregnant women in Mogadishu, Somalia: a cross-sectional survey study by Maryan Abdullahi Sh. Nur, Hassan Abdullahi Dahie, Nima Abdi Hassan, Bashiru Garba, Jamal Hassan Mohamoud, Najib Isse Dirie, Mohamed Hussein Adam

“…Students, teachers, employed people and individuals reported COVID-19 like symptoms were all associated with COVID-19 seropositivity outcomes.Conclusion Pregnant women and those with commorbidies should be given special preventive care and health education about COVID-19 transmission.…”
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Empire Seen from Within. Cinema Objects, Spaces and Edifices in the Limelight in Colonial India and Ceylon (1899-1950) by Vilasnee Tampoe-Hautin

“…I will linger on those cross-cultural encounters of the most serendipitous kind between objects, ideas and individuals converging to bring reels on wheels to the edge of Empire: a WW1 British Army tent, a projector, a rifle and a gramophone hoisted onto a bullock cart, travelling through the jungles of colonial Ceylon, reminiscent of Leonard Woolf’s uncelebrated novels… Finally, although beyond the scope of this volume, the question has at least to be raised of the restoration of these devices, capable of producing images whose rich nuances remain to date unequalled by digital technology. …”
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A qualitative study of how clinicians reach agreement in perioperative pathway development: the Consensus Model for Standardising Healthcare by Lisa Pagano, Janet C. Long, Emilie Francis-Auton, Andrew Hirschhorn, Gaston Arnolda, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Mitchell N. Sarkies

“…Data were analysed using coding, constant comparison, detailed memo writing and data interpretation. Results Seven individual and contextual factors crucial for building consensus, and eight mechanisms for reaching agreement were identified and integrated into a conceptual model. …”
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Interventions to reduce social isolation and loneliness among minority ethnic populations in OECD countries: A scoping review. by Emmanuel Sunday Nwofe, Amirah Akhtar, Sahdia Parveen, Karen Windle

“…Integrated research designs involving groups linked with minority ethnic populations are needed to link individual, community, and societal factors alongside population risk profiles for increased recognition of SIL as an important health factor.…”
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The Use of Granular Cyclopentanone as Alternative to Artificial Source of Carbon Dioxide in Improved Passive Outdoor Host Seeking Device (POHD) by Stella T. Kessy, Bruno A. Nyundo, Ladslaus L. Mnyone, Issa N. Lyimo

“…The POHD baited with CO2 attracted more mosquitoes than those POHDs baited with synthetic blends alone; when these blends are combined with CO2, they attracted more mosquitoes than individual blends. More importantly, such POHDs baited with cyclopentanone attracted far greater proportion of mosquitoes than the POHD baited with either Mbita or Ifakara blend alone. …”
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Contradictions of students’ motivation for participation in the activities of voluntary organisations by A. V. Starshinova

“…When analysing the individual structure of motives, a predominance of focus on one’s own requests, rather than on social problems, was recorded. …”
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Simultaneous central retinal vein and cilioretinal artery occlusion in a young female patient with progestin-only oral contraceptive use: a case report by Sardar Noman Qayyum, Risha Naeem, Faraz Azhar, Gulmeena Aziz Khan, Tehreem Zubair, Samim Noori

“…While few cases of central retinal vein occlusion and cilioretinal artery occlusion have been individually reported, concurrent occlusion of both vessels is extremely rare, particularly in younger patients without traditional vascular risk factors. …”
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Neuromuscular Excitation Pattern in Expert Indoor Skydivers by Susanna Rampichini, Eloisa Limonta, Irene Di Giulio, Marta Borrelli, Emiliano Cè, Giuseppe Coratella, Johnny Padulo, Stefano Longo, Fabio Esposito

“…The evolution of indoor skydiving from military origins to a globally recreational pursuit has attracted individuals without prior specific training, exposing them to the heightened risk of muscle–joint injuries associated with indoor skydiving. …”
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Refining and conching alter the volatile composition of dark chocolate — Revealing profile changes in aroma-active volatiles and volatile organic compounds by Yvonne Guckenbiehl, Eva Ortner, Isabell Rothkopf, Andrea Buettner

“…The influence of processing was likewise mirrored in the VOC profile where conching in particular resulted in decreased VOC intensities. Individual VOC intensities, however, were increased after refining and conching, contributing to a discrimination of the different samples drawn after each processing step. …”
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Household air pollution exposure and risk of tuberculosis: a case–control study of women in Lilongwe, Malawi by Kenneth Maleta, Robert Krysiak, Irving Hoffman, Sam Phiri, Pamela Jagger, Ryan McCord, Anna Gallerani, Charles Jumbe, Joseph Pedit

“…While household air pollution (HAP) emitted from burning these fuels has well-established links to numerous health outcomes, the relationship between active tuberculosis (TB) and HAP exposure remains inconclusive.Methods We explore the association between HAP exposure and TB among adult women in Lilongwe’s high-density suburbs using hospital and community-based health data, objectively measured exposure to HAP, and sociodemographic data controlling for individual, household and community-level confounders. …”
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Auditory attention decoding based on neural-network for binaural beamforming applications by Roy Gueta, Elana Zion-Golumbic, Jacob Goldberger, Sharon Gannot

“…Individuals have the remarkable ability to differentiate between speakers and focus on a particular speaker, even amidst complex acoustic environments with multiple speakers, background noise and reverberations. …”
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Astigmatism and maternal myopia as important factors affecting success rate of DIMS lens treatment by Christof Meigen, Adrienne Csutak, Patricia Domsa, Éva M Bankó, Judit Körtvélyes, Rita Széchey, Krisztina Lantos, Zoltán Zsolt Nagy

“…Objective To assess the efficacy of myopia control spectacle lenses (defocus incorporated multiple segments/DIMS) in slowing myopia progression among a diverse Central European paediatric population and investigate the contribution of baseline parameters on treatment outcomes.Methods and analysis This retrospective observational study included 62 individuals aged 4–17 years (mean±SD: 10.21±2.70) with progressing myopia but without ocular pathology with a range of −0.88 to −8.25 D spherical equivalent refraction (SER) (−3.73±1.56), coupled with astigmatism up to −3.25 D cylindrical. …”
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Association Between Uric Acid to High‐Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Ratio and Kidney Function in Patients With Primary Aldosteronism: A Cross‐Sectional Study by Meng‐Bo Wu, Rui Wang, Qing‐Tian Zeng, Wen‐Liang Shuai, Hang‐Cheng Zhang, Yi‐Fei Dong

“…This research was conducted at the 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University and involved PA individuals hospitalized between October 2017 and April 2022. …”
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Leveraging two-dimensional pre-trained vision transformers for three-dimensional model generation via masked autoencoders by Muhammad Sajid, Kaleem Razzaq Malik, Ateeq Ur Rehman, Tauqeer Safdar Malik, Masoud Alajmi, Ali Haider Khan, Amir Haider, Seada Hussen

“…In vision, attention is used in conjunction with convolutional networks or to replace individual convolutional network elements while preserving the overall network design. …”
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‘It's about collaboration’: a whole-systems approach to understanding and promoting movement in Suffolk by A. J. Brinkley, K. M. Cusimano, P. Freeman, R. Southall-Edwards, V. F. Gladwell

“…Results The systems-map is constructed from biological, financial, and psychological individual factors, interpersonal factors, systems partners, built, natural and social environmental factors, and policy and structural factors. …”
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siRNA-mediated inhibition of hTERT enhances the effects of curcumin in promoting cell death in precursor-B acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells: an in silico and in vitro study by Muhammad Hossein Ashoub, Ali Afgar, Alireza Farsinejad, Razieh Razavi, Samira Anvari, Ahmad Fatemi

“…Results demonstrated that combined curcumin treatment and hTERT knockdown significantly enhanced cytotoxicity in Nalm-6 cells compared to individual interventions. This was characterized by the upregulation of ferroptosis promoters (lipid-ROS, Fe²⁺, ACSL4) and suppression of inhibitors (GSH, GPx, SLC7A11, GPx4). …”
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Lengths of Stay and Stopover Strategies of Western Sandpipers During Migration at Two Sites in British Columbia, Canada by Anne L. Blondin, Mark C. Drever, Scott A. Flemming, Wendy E. Easton, Mark Maftei, Yuri Zharikov, Nils Warnock, Erica Nol

“…Variation in minimum stopover length and morphology between sites suggests that individuals from different overwintering populations may use different routes along the west coast of North America. …”
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Human development II: We Need an Integrated Theory for Matter, Life and Consciousness to Understand Life and Healing by Sören Ventegodt, Tyge Dahl Hermansen, Maj Lyck Nielsen, Birgitte Clausen, Joav Merrick

“…We suggest that life utilizes an unseen fine structure of the physical energy of the universe at a subparticular or quantum level to give information-directed self-organization; we give a first sketch of a possible fractal structure of the energy able to both contain and communicate biological information and carry individual and collective consciousness. Finally, thorough our analysis, we put up a model for adult human metamorphosis.…”
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Comparing a single dose of xylanase to a double dose or cocktail of non-starch polysaccharide-degrading enzymes in broiler chicken diets by N. Morgan, M.M. Bhuiyan, A. Wallace, R. Hopcroft

“…On d 35, one male and one female were weighed individually and used to determine breast meat, thigh and drumstick weight, dry matter (DM) contents from the gizzard, jejunum and ileum, ileal protein, energy, starch and dry matter digestibility, ileal viscosity and xylo-oligosaccharide (XOS) concentration, caecal microbiota and short chain fatty acid (SCFA) composition. …”
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Epizootiological characteristics of echinococcosis in dogs, sheep and goats and measures to combat it in Caspian Sea region of Russia by S. Sh. Kabardiev, A. M. Bittirov, G. M. Magomedshapiev, Z. G. Musaev, S. A. Aygubova, N. H. Gulakhmedova

“…Based on the results of the tests performed, the complex product Prazibars administered individually one time at a dose of 15.0 mg/kg of live weight in admixture with minced meat demonstrated high effectiveness against spontaneous echinococcosis in dogs and other carnivorous animals.…”
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