The Rise of SARS-CoV-2 Variants and the Role of Convalescent Plasma Therapy for Management of Infections by Keneth Iceland, Kasozi

“…The SARSCov- 2 virus has undergone multiple mutations since its emergence in 2019, resulting in changes in virulence that have impacted on disease severity globally. …”
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Community Health Insurance Schemes and Access to Quality Health Services in Rural Areas: A Case of Kasaana Sub-County, Sheema District, Uganda by Ronald, Nuwagaba

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Community Health Insurance Schemes and Access to Quality Health Services in Rural Areas: A Case of Kasaana Sub-County, Sheema District, Uganda by Nuwagaba, Ronald, Moses, Agaba

“…Finally, a sequence of Multiple Regression Analyses was employed to test the hypothesis and to identify the nature and extent of relationship. …”
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Research on the Spatio-temporal Characteristics and Driving Factors of Smart Farm Development in the Yangtze River Economic Belt by GAO Qun, WANG Hongyang, CHEN Shiyao

“…In addition, the spatio-temporal characteristics of smart farms in the Yangtze River Economic Belt are the result of the comprehensive action of multiple factors, with the explanatory power of factors ranked from high to low as follows: Technological innovation > urbanization > agricultural mechanization > human capital > internet infrastructure > industry dependence > special fiscal support. …”
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Machine Learning Models for Predicting the Compressive Strength of Concrete with Shredded PET Bottles and M-Sand as Fine Aggregate by Altamashuddinkhan Nadimalla, Siti Aliyyah Masjuki, Abdullah Gubbi, Anjum Khan, Imran Mokashi

“…Cubic specimens were cast and cured for 7, 28, and 90 days. The study employs Multiple Linear Regression (MLR), Artificial Neural Network (ANN), and Decision Tree (DT) models, using the experimental data for predictive analysis. …”
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Investigate of preoperative hope level and analysis of influencing factors in elderly patients with femoral neck fracture (老年股骨颈骨折患者术前希望水平及影响因素分析)... by ZHANG Caixia (张彩侠), LI A Min (李阿敏), PAN Rusheng (潘如胜), LI Ling (李玲), CHE Xia (车侠)

“…Medical staff should pay attention to the relevant factors that affect the patients’ level of hope before surgery, and focus on influencing factors such as advanced age, multiple complications, financial difficulties, living alone, and low self-efficacy. …”
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Acute Care Practice in the United States: The Roles of Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy in Early Rehabilitation by Suzanne E. Holm, Kelly Nelson, Angela Patterson

“…., post-acute care, for continued recovery of medical issues and rehabilitative deficits. Multiple levels of post-acute care are available in the U. …”
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A Scalable Real-Time SDN-Based MQTT Framework for Industrial Applications by E. Shahri, P. Pedreiras, L. Almeida

“…MQTT traffic across multiple edge networks is propagated by selected brokers using multicasting. …”
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Analysis of Uneven Settlement of Long-Span Bridge Foundations Based on SBAS-InSAR by Kaixuan Zhang, Weifo Xiao, Haojie Zhu, Shaowei Ning, Shenjiang Huang, Dongxing Jin, Rong A, Bhesh Raj Thapa

“…Current remote sensing methods have not been thoroughly evaluated for their capability to detect and analyze complex foundation settlement patterns in challenging environments with multiple influencing factors. Here, we applied Small Baseline Subsets Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (SBAS-InSAR) technology to monitor foundation settlement of a long-span bridge. …”
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Transcatheter Closure of Patent Ductus Arteriosus in Elderly Patients: Initial and One-Year Follow-Up Results—Do We Have the Proper Device? by Michal Galeczka, Malgorzata Szkutnik, Jacek Bialkowski, Sebastian Smerdzinski, Mateusz Knop, Adam Sukiennik, Roland Fiszer

“…NYHA class improved in all but two patients (with multiple comorbidities). Conclusions. Transcatheter PDA closure in elderly patients is safe and efficient with a high complete closure rate and few complications. …”
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Mortal consequences of a cooperative action between Takotsubo syndrome and increased intracranial pressure by Gennaro Alfano, Deasy Ciervo, Teresa Migliore, Antonia Sorbo, Manuela Ariello, Andrea Vitale, Mikko O. Laukkanen, Salvatore Del Gaudio

“…Brain MRI indicated (vi) aqueductal stenosis and (vii) multiple gliomatotic foci demonstrating hydrocephalus caused by gliomatosis cerebri. …”
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Use of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and alpha tocopherol (vitamin E) as adjuvants in the treatment of neuropathic pain by Fernando Antonio Silva de Azevedo-Filho, Yasmim Machado Chaves de Castro, Marcos Pinho Cerqueira, Thiago Arruda Rodrigues, Yussef Ali-Abdouni, Patrícia Maria de Moraes Barros Fucs

“…The intervention group presented superior results compared to the control group. Multiple comparisons between groups and moments for the evaluated scores demonstrated a mean difference from pre-treatment to post-treatment only in the intervention group (p < 0.05), with a mean reduction in Quick-DASH and VAS and a mean increase from WHOQOL. …”
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Effect of non-pharmacological interventions for overweight/obese women with polycystic ovary syndrome on ovulation and pregnancy outcomes: a protocol for a systematic review and ne... by Juan Li, Jie Yang, Fan-rong Liang, Jun Zhou, Gui-Xing Xu, Han Yang, Yan-qun Xiao, Jia-jia Liu, Zhi-yong Xiao, Xiao-yan Zheng, Li-ying Liu, Zheng Yu

“…Live birth, ovulation, pregnancy loss, multiple pregnancy and adverse events related to interventions will be considered as the secondary outcomes. …”
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Responses of fungal communities at different soil depths to grazing intensity in a desert steppe by Xiangjian Tu, Paul C. Struik, Shixian Sun, Zhang Wenbo, Yong Zhang, Ke Jin, Zhen Wang

“…HG showed much higher relative abundance of Glomeromycota. Results of a multiple regression tree (MRT) analysis revealed that TN and nitrate nitrogen affected the fungal α-diversity in top- and subsoils, respectively; the main driving factor regulating fungal community changes was soil water content (SWC) in the topsoil, while it was ammonium nitrogen and nitrate nitrogen in the subsoil. …”
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Informing grassland ecosystem modeling with in-situ and remote sensing observations by Johny Arteaga, Melannie D Hartman, William J Parton, Maosi Chen, Wei Gao

“…For this study we developed new methods for informing DayCent-UV of growing season length and validating its plant productivity estimates for grasslands by utilizing a wide range of data sources at multiple scales, from field observations to remotely sensed satellite data. …”
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Prognostic Value of Plasma Pentraxin-3 Levels in Patients with Stable Coronary Artery Disease after Drug-Eluting Stent Implantation by Liu Haibo, Guo Xiaofang, Wang Chunming, Yuan Jie, Chen Guozhong, Zhang Limei, Cao Yong, Fang Yu, Bao Yingchun, Yu Wangjun, Ge Junbo

“…We found that the post-PCI plasma PTX3 levels were significantly higher at 24 h after PCI than pre-PCI, patients with MACEs had higher post-PCI PTX3 levels compared with MACEs-free patients, patients with higher post-PCI PTX3 levels (median > 4.384 ng/mL) had a higher risk for MACEs than those with PTX3 < 4.384 ng/mL, and post-PCI PTX3, cTnI, multiple stents, and age but not high-sensitivity CRP (hsCRP) were independently associated with the prevalence of MACEs after DES implantation. …”
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Enhanced intestinal epithelial co-culture model with orbital mechanical stimulation: a proof-of-concept application in food nanotoxicology by Mattia Santoni, Giovanni Piccinini, Giovanni Piccinini, Giovanni Liguori, Maria Roberta Randi, Massimo Baroncini, Liliana Milani, Francesca Danesi

“…Here, we developed an enhanced Caco-2/HT29-MTX-E12 co-culture model incorporating orbital mechanical stimulation to better replicate intestinal conditions and investigate nanoparticle interactions.MethodsWe established co-cultures under static and dynamic conditions, evaluating their development through multiple approaches including barrier integrity measurements, gene expression analysis, and confocal microscopy. …”
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A Research Synthesis of Therapeutic Interventions for Whiplash-Associated Disorder (WAD): Part 4 – Noninvasive Interventions for Chronic WAD by Robert W Teasell, J Andrew McClure, David Walton, Jason Pretty, Katherine Salter, Matthew Meyer, Keith Sequeira, Barry Death

“…A systematic review was conducted to evaluate the strength of evidence for various WAD therapies. Multiple databases (including Web of Science, EMBASE and PubMed) were searched to identify all studies published from January 1980 through March 2009 that evaluated the effectiveness of any clearly defined treatment for acute (less than two weeks), subacute (two to 12 weeks) or chronic (longer than 12 weeks) WAD. …”
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Dietary phytochemicals alleviate the premature skin aging: A comprehensive review by Harpreet Singh, Y.T. Kamal, Jessica Pandohee, Arun Kumar Mishra, Aritra Biswas, Sourav Mohanto, Arvind Kumar, Sagnik Nag, Amrita Mishra, Mhaveer Singh, Himanshu Gupta, Hitesh Chopra

“…Skin aging, often called as premature skin aging, is the hastened deterioration of the skin resulting from multiple factors, including UV radiation, environmental contaminants, inadequate nutrition, stress, etc. …”
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Transcriptional regulation of miR528-PPO module by miR156 targeted SPLs orchestrates chilling response in banana by Xiangjin Kong, Kuan Peng, Youxia Shan, Ze Yun, Tamas Dalmay, Xuewu Duan, Yueming Jiang, Hongxia Qu, Hong Zhu

“…In summary, our results suggest that the miR156c-MaSPL4 module can mediate the chilling response in banana by regulating the miR528-MaPPO module and multiple other pathways, which provides evidence for the crosstalk between TFs and miRNAs that can be used for the molecular breeding of fruit cold tolerance.…”
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