Autonomy characterization as a key indicator of learning-to-learn skills in medical students by Yolanda Cabrera Macìas, Annia Esther Vizcaíno Escobar, José Aurelio Díaz Quiñones, Ernesto José López González, Ernesto López Cabrera

“…The research was carried out from October 2021 to March 2022 at the Cienfuegos University of Medical Sciences. …”
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Maternal Weight Gain in Pregnancy and Risk of Obesity among Offspring: A Systematic Review by Erica Y. Lau, Junxiu Liu, Edward Archer, Samantha M. McDonald, Jihong Liu

“…Electronic databases PubMed, Web of Science, CINAHL, and Academic Search Premiere were searched from inception through March 18, 2013. Included studies (n=23) were English articles that examined the independent associations of GWG with body mass index (BMI) and/or overweight status in the offspring aged 2 to 18.9 years. …”
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Factors Influencing Cecal Intubation Time during Retrograde Approach Single-Balloon Enteroscopy by Tzu-Ming Ou, Peng-Jen Chen, Yu-Lueng Shih, Meng-Ting Wang, Hsin-Hung Huang, Wei-Kuo Chang, Tsai-Yuan Hsieh, Tien-Yu Huang

“…We investigated patients who underwent retrograde SBE at a medical center from January 2011 to March 2014. The medical charts and SBE reports were reviewed. …”
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Preventing HIV Transmission in Chinese Internal Migrants: A Behavioral Approach by Xiaona Liu, Vicki Erasmus, Xinying Sun, Rui Cai, Yuhui Shi, Jan Hendrik Richardus

“…To explore important and changeable determinants of condom use and inspect effective and feasible methods to increase condom use for the target population, we conducted a three-round web-based Delphi study among a panel of 62 experts between October 2012 and March 2013. The panelists were purposely selected using a stepwise procedure to represent topic-related areas of expertise. …”
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Bruxism and familiar functioning in school-age children between 5 and 11 years by Ana Lury Morales, Clotilde de la Caridad Mora Pérez, Ivelise Álvarez Rosa, Moraima Orbea González, Jeny Fernández Martínez, Jorge A. Rodriguez López

“…<strong>Methods:</strong> Analytical control-case design, developed from March to June, 2007, including children between 5 and 11 years from three urban elementary schools included in Health Area II of Cienfuegos municipality. …”
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Evaluation of Water Quality at the Confluence Region of Diyala and Tigris Rivers Based on the Weighted Arithmetic Method by Khadeeja G. Sabeeh, Mustafa T. Mustafa, Alhassan H. Ismail, Corina Boncescu

“…In the 5 November 2021, the water quality in the study area was classified into (good, poor, very poor, and polluted) where the percentages of the above classes were 4%, 6%, 39%, and 51% respectively, while the percentages for the season 13thMarch 2022 were 1%, 41%, and 58% with very poor, polluted, and very polluted class, respectively. …”
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Analysis and impact of electrical energy consumption in the academic sector. A case study of the university of Castilla-La Mancha by Aarón Ortiz-Peña, Andrés Honrubia-Escribano, Inmaculada Gallego-Giner, Álvaro Galán, Emilio Gómez-Lázaro

“…This study aims to examine the electricity consumption of the University of Castilla-La Mancha in its entirety from 2021 to 2023, during which time energy-saving measures were established in March 2022 in response to high energy prices, thus addressing a research gap in real electricity consumption in public educational institutions and its economic impact, additionally incorporating energy efficiency measures. …”
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Structural Health Monitoring System for a Complicated Long-Span Continuous Girder Bridge: Implementation and Demonstration by Zhi-Wen Wang, Lie-Ping Xu, You-Liang Ding, Run-Zhou You, Jian-Bin Zhu, Sha Shan

“…Monitoring data from October 9, 2022, to March 16, 2023, were analyzed. The probability distributions of the daily maximum temperature differences and vehicle loads are reconstructed. …”
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Social vulnerability among Brazilian children in early childhood: a scoping review by Alcina M. Brito, Deisiane O. Souto, Luana C. Silva, Hércules R. Leite, Rosane L.S. Morais

“…Source of data: A scoping review including full articles published in Portuguese and English up to March 2023, with no temporal restrictions. Searches were conducted in the MEDLINE/PubMed, Scielo, EMBASE, Cochrane, Scopus, CINAHL, Web of Science, PEDro, and LILACS databases. …”
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Prognostic Value of Skull Base Foramen Invasion Subclassification in T Category Modification and Induction Chemotherapy Management for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma: Post‐Hoc Analysis o... by Siyu Zhu, Shuqi Li, Di Cao, Chao Luo, Zhiying Liang, Shaobo Liang, Guoyi Zhang, Qin Zhao, Guangying Ruan, Lizhi Liu, Gui Fu, Haojiang Li

“…To investigate the prognostic value of SBFI in NPC, a total of 1,752 patients with nonmetastatic NPC from two hospitals (1,320 and 432) between January 2010 and March 2014 are enrolled. The primary endpoint is overall survival (OS). …”
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Reproductive populations of the Critically Endangered bat Phyllonycteris aphylla at two new locations in Jamaica by Phillip J. Oelbaum, Ronald P. Hall, Damion L. Whyte, Ronald S. Stewart, Jan Pauel, Silvia Kouwenberg, Elizabeth R. Dumont, Kenneth C. Welch

“…Although little is known about its ecology, the species is presumed to be a cave-obligate rooster and to rely exclusively on so-called hot caves, which are defined by high ambient temperatures and low air quality. In March–April 2023, we surveyed bats at seven caves throughout Jamaica. …”
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Population Based Trends in the Incidence of Hospital Admission for the Diagnosis of Hepatorenal Syndrome: 1998–2011 by Manish Suneja, Fan Tang, Joseph E. Cavanaugh, Linnea A. Polgreen, Philip M. Polgreen

“…Hospital admissions with a diagnosis of hepatorenal syndrome increased markedly between September of 2007 and March of 2008. Comparing patients who were admitted with a diagnosis of hepatorenal syndrome prior to 2008 with those after 2008, we found that length of stay increased while the mortality of patients admitted for hepatorenal syndrome decreased. …”
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The role of artificial intelligence in aortic valve stenosis: a bibliometric analysis by Shanshan Chen, Shanshan Chen, Changde Wu, Zhaojie Zhang, Lingjuan Liu, Yike Zhu, Dingji Hu, Chenhui Jin, Haoya Fu, Jing Wu, Songqiao Liu, Songqiao Liu, Songqiao Liu

“…PurposeTo explore the expanding role of artificial intelligence (AI) in managing aortic valve stenosis (AVS) by bibliometric analysis to identify research trends, key contributors, and the impact of AI on enhancing diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for AVS.MethodsA comprehensive literature review was conducted using the Web of Science database, covering publications from January 1990 to March 2024. Articles were analyzed with bibliometric tools such as CiteSpace and VOSviewer to identify key research trends, core authors, institutions, and research hotspots in AI applications for AVS.ResultsA total of 118 articles were analyzed, showing a significant increase in publications from 2014 onwards. …”
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Modelling COVID-19 in the North American region with a metapopulation network and Kalman filter by Matteo Perini, Teresa K. Yamana, Marta Galanti, Jiyeon Suh, Roselyn Kaondera-Shava, Jeffrey Shaman

“…Results: This model-inference system provides estimates of transmission dynamics, infection rates, and ascertainment rates for each of the 96 locations from January 2020 to March 2021. The results highlight differences in disease dynamics and ascertainment among the three countries. …”
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Socioeconomic dynamics of beedi rolling in a Southern Indian state: implications for tobacco control by Praveen Kumar, Muralidhar M. Kulkarni, Eshwari K., Yash Alok, Satish Kumar, Rohith Bhagawath, Radhika Nayak, Priyanka Bantwal, Ambigai Rajendran, Mark Goodchild, Praveen Sinha

“…Key insights were obtained through 14 semi-structured Focus Group Discussions with beedi rollers and 11 In-Depth Interviews with stakeholders comprising of government officials in three districts of coastal Karnataka between January and March 2023. The study identified two types of beedi rollers, registered and unregistered, who differed in payments and benefits. …”
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Modulation of behavior before COVID-19, in contact patients treated at the Villa Azucarera isolation center by Isela Casas Olazabal, Enia Lorenzo Pérez, Maria Cristina Pérez Guerrero, Jaqueline García Rodríguez, Ricardo Vázquez Casas

“…<br /><strong>Methods:</strong> Observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study in the Villa Azucarera de Camagüey isolation center for patient contacts of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus patients during February and March 2021. Theoretical methods were used: analysis-synthesis and inductive-deductive and empirical: observation, epidemiological survey and interviews.…”
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Correlation between Chest CT Severity Scores and the Clinical Parameters of Adult Patients with COVID-19 Pneumonia by Ghufran Aref Saeed, Waqar Gaba, Asad Shah, Abeer Ahmed Al Helali, Emadullah Raidullah, Ameirah Bader Al Ali, Mohammed Elghazali, Deena Yousef Ahmed, Shaikha Ghanam Al Kaabi, Safaa Almazrouei

“…Data of consecutive symptomatic patients who were suspected to have COVID-19 infection and presented to our hospital were collected from March to April 2020. All patients underwent two consecutive RT-PCR tests and had a noncontrast HRCT scan done at presentation. …”
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Osteomyelitis of the Mandible Caused by Late Fracture following Third Molar Extraction by Shinsuke Yamamoto, Naoki Taniike, Daisuke Yamashita, Toshihiko Takenobu

“…A 38-year-old Japanese man was referred to the surgery department with chief complaints of dull pain and swelling in the right masseteric region and paresthesia of his lower lip and mental region in March 2018. A family dentist removed his lower third molar in the right side in January 2018. …”
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Predatory ability of <i>Sycanus annulicornis</i> Dohrn. (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) on nettle caterpillar prey (<i>Setora nitens</i> Walker.) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in the laboratory by Rusli Rustam, Dwi Yuwanda Nasution, Yunandra Yunandra, Mukhlis Ibrahim

“…The research was conducted at the Plant Pest Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Riau University, from March to July 2023. The experiment was designed using a completely randomized design method consisting of three treatments with seven replications. …”
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Effect of Weather on COVID-19 Transmission and Mortality in Lagos, Nigeria by Christian Ogaugwu, Hammed Mogaji, Euphemia Ogaugwu, Uchechukwu Nebo, Hilary Okoh, Stanley Agbo, Andrew Agbon

“…Correlation analysis was performed using incidence data on COVID-19 and meteorological data for the corresponding periods from 9th March to 12th May, 2020. Our results showed that atmospheric temperature has a significant weak negative correlation with COVID-19 transmission in Lagos. …”
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