Assist-linked brief intervention to reduce risky pattern of substance use in male workers employed at a tertiary care hospital in India: A randomized controlled trial by Sambhu Prasad, Debasish Basu, Surendra K. Mattoo, B. N Subodh

“…Aim: To evaluate the efficacy of World Health Organization (WHO) alcohol, smoking, and substance involvement screening test (ASSIST)-linked brief intervention (ALBI) for reducing risky patterns of substance use in male workers at a tertiary-care hospital in North India. …”
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Did Turkey Experience Reductions in Air Pollution During The Covid-19 Lockdown and Partial Lockdown? by İsmet Yener, Kazım Onur Demirarslan

“…The novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has caused widespread illness and fatalities. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a state of emergency at the end of December 2019 following the first recognition of the virus in Wuhan. …”
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Introduction of mini-Clinical Evaluation Exercise as a mode of assessment for postgraduate students in medicine for examination of sacroiliac joints by Anuj Singhal, Shankar Subramanian, Sonal Singh, Arun Kumar Yadav, Anup Hallapanavar, B Anjali

“…We found a statistically significant improvement in the domain of medical interviewing (P < 0.001), physical examination (P = 0.003), professionalism (P = 0.001), clinical judgment (P = 0.003), counseling skills (P < 0.001), and organizing efficiency (P < 0.001). Overall clinical competence improved from a scale of 5 (1.7) to 6.7 (0.8). …”
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GIOS ONLINE PLATFORM AS A TOOL FOR OVERCOMING LEARNING LOSSES IN MATHEMATICS by Daryna V. Vasylieva, Tetiana L. Hodovaniuk

“…These technologies can be used to organize synchronous or asynchronous learning. The article examines the effectiveness of students' independent use of GIOS platform materials to overcome learning losses in mathematics. …”
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Dynamic changes and influencing factors of quality of life of empty nest elderly in cadre ward by Chao Ding, Guangjin Qu

“…[Methods] Clinical data of 116 empty nest elderly aged ≥60 years old in the ward of senior cadres admitted to the First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University from March 2020 to June 2021 were retrospectively analyzed.All elderly people were assessed by the World Health Organization Quality of Life Measurement Brief, and the scores were compared between the initial survey and the final follow-up 2 years later.Single factor and multiple linear regression analysis were used to explore the high risk factors affecting the quality of life of empty-nest elderly in the wards of elderly cadres. …”
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Gene Expression Analysis of Deduced Protein Sequence from the FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC) Homolog during Vegetative and Reproductive Phases in Lepidium sativum L. by Parissa Jonoubi, Farkhondeh Rezanejad, Fatemeh Mahyapoor

“…The expression of LsFLC in different plant organs was analyzed at various phenological stages, namely two days (early stage of vegetative development), 13 days (early vegetative stage), 28 days (vegetative maturity or transition stage), and during reproductive development stages, which fall on 33 days (early reproductive stage) and 34 days (flowering stage). …”
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Comparison of BTX Profiles and Their Mutagenicity Assessment at Two Sites of Agra, India by Vyoma Singla, Tripti Pachauri, Aparna Satsangi, K. Maharaj Kumari, Anita Lakhani

“…In the present study, the concentrations of three volatile organic compounds (VOCs), namely, acronym for benzene, toluene, and xylenes (BTX) were assessed because of their role in the tropospheric chemistry. …”
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Electronic Study Guides for Applied Bachelor’s Degree Programs by D. V. Maltsev, E. M. Genson, D. S. Repetskiy

“…Classroom lessons consist of lectures, laboratory and practical classes, additionally, coursework was provided. The difficulty of organizing and maintaining a laboratory in working condition is due to high labor and material costs for fuels and lubricants, electricity, forced-air ventilation, maintenance and repair of internal combustion engines, etc. …”
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Professional context of teaching reading to foreign economics students by Olena Titarenko, O. Kopylova

“…The authors propose fundamental approaches to organizing educational content and various strategies for working with professionally oriented texts. …”
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An Investigation of Presumptive Synergism of Oil Palm Bunch Ash and Sawdust Amendments in Remediation of crude oil Spiked Soil by Ejikeme Albert, Di Anyanwu

“…Percentage total petroleum hydrocarbon contents reduced by 65% for TC, TD and 52% for TE. Total organic carbon increased from 7.6±0.7 to 8.5±0.5%%, reduced from 4.0±0.1% to 3.7±0.3% and from 4.1±0.1% to 2.2±1.0% TC, TD and TE respectively. …”
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DETECTION OF PORCINE CIRCOVIRUS TYPE 3 IN RUSSIAN PIG HOLDINGS by M. V. Biryuchenkova, A. M. Timina, A. V. Shcherbakov

“…A total of 280 samples of biological materials of different types (organs, tissues, stillborn piglets) collected from domestic pigs with respiratory, reproductive and neurological disorders, dermatitis and from emaciated pigs were tested and PCV-3 genome was detected in 11 samples from 9 holdings located in 5 regions of the Russian Federation. …”
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Dengue severity by serotype and immune status in 19 years of pediatric clinical studies in Nicaragua. by Federico Narvaez, Carlos Montenegro, Jose G Juarez, José Victor Zambrana, Karla Gonzalez, Elsa Videa, Sonia Arguello, Fanny Barrios, Sergio Ojeda, Miguel Plazaola, Nery Sanchez, Daniel Camprubí-Ferrer, Guillermina Kuan, Gabriela Paz Bailey, Eva Harris, Angel Balmaseda

“…According to the 1997 World Health Organization (WHO) severity classification, both DENV2 and DENV3 caused a higher proportion of severe disease compared to other serotypes, whereas DENV3 caused the greatest percentage of severity according to the WHO-2009 classification. …”
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Getting more by asking for less: Linking species interactions to species co-distributions in metacommunities by Barbier, Matthieu, Bunin, Guy, Leibold, Mathew A.

“…One of the more difficult challenges in community ecology is inferring species interactions on the basis of patterns in the spatial distribution of organisms. At its core, the problem is that distributional patterns reflect the 'realized niche', the net result of a complex interplay of processes involving dispersal, environmental, and interaction effects. …”
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The presence of risk factors in the home environment that influences the fall of people of the third age by Ratko Zlatičanin, Amila Jaganjac, Arzija Pašalić, Amra Mačak Hadžiomerović

“…According to the World Health Organization, falls are the second leading cause of unintentional injury death in the world and represent a major global public health problem. …”
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The piRNA protein Asz1 is essential for germ cell and gonad development in zebrafish and exhibits differential necessities in distinct types of germ granules. by Adam Ahmad, Yoel Bogoch, Gal Shvaizer, Noga Guler, Karine Levy, Yaniv M Elkouby

“…Increased transposon expression and mis-organized piRNA granules in asz1 mutants, argue that zebrafish Asz1 functions in the piRNA pathway. …”
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Comparative gametogenesis and genomic signatures associated with pollen sterility in the seedless mutant of grapevine by Siddhi Chavan, Satish Phalake, Sujata Tetali, Vitthal T. Barvkar, Ravindra Patil

“…Conclusion The study showed the downregulation of transcription factors and their target genes involved in cell division, gibberellin biosynthesis and signalling, cell wall development, organization, and pollen germination. This study represents a comprehensive attempt to identify putative candidate genes associated with parthenocarpic pollen sterility in grapes using genomic approaches.…”
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Associations of infection burden with Kawasaki disease in a population-based setting during 30 years by Johannes Mofors, Håkan Eliasson, Gunnar Bergman, Sven-Erik Sonesson, Marie Wahren-Herlenius, Göran Elinder, André Rudolph, Bodil Schiller

“…Infections were classified by organ system, infectious agent and by temporal proximity to Kawasaki disease diagnosis date. …”
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Construction of a Multimodal Neuroimaging Data Fusion System and Evaluation of Mental Fatigue Using Nonlinear Analysis by Rui Chen, Zhenzhong Li, Yi Lai

“…Based on electroencephalogram (EEG) and fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging), the four-dimensional consistency of local neural activities (FOCA) and local multimodal serial analysis (LMSA) are first introduced to fuse EEG and fMRI organically. Second, the eigenspace maximal information canonical correlation analysis (emiCCA) is introduced to construct the multimodal neuroimaging data fusion system. …”
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Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria: Biofilm Formation and Corrosive Activity in Endodontic Files by Fabiano Luiz Heggendorn, Aline Guerra Manssour Fraga, Dennis de Carvalho Ferreira, Lucio Souza Gonçalves, Viviane de Oliveira Freitas Lione, Márcia Teresa Soares Lutterbach

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Multiple Roles of the Y Chromosome in the Biology of Drosophila melanogaster by Roberto Piergentili

“…This is due to the intrinsic nature of this genetic element, namely, (1) its molecular composition (mainly transposable elements and satellite DNA), (2) its genetic inertia (lack of recombination due to its heterochromatic nature), (3) the absence of homology with the X (with the only exception of the nucleolar organizer), (4) the lack of visible phenotypes when it is missing (indeed, except for their sterility, X0 flies are normal males), and (5) its low density as for protein-coding sequences (to date, only 13 genes out of approximately 14,000 have been mapped on this chromosome in D. melanogaster, i.e., ~0.1% of the total). …”
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