Nontuberculous mycobacterium occurrence in biological material and environmental samples covered by epidemiological surveillance in the Republic of Dagestan by M. O. Baratov

“…From 405 sputum samples from tuberculosis-affected humans, 64 (15.8%) cultures were isolated, of which 55 (85.9%) were classified as Mycobacterium tuberculosis, 9 (14.1%) – as Mycobacterium bovis. Out of 248 environmental samples tested, mycobacteria were detected in 65 (26.2%) samples, of which 58 (89.2%) were atypical mycobacteria of groups II, III and IV; Mycobacterium bovis was isolated from 7 (10.8%) samples (soil and manure). …”
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Prophylactic Therapy of Silymarin (Milk Thistle) on Antituberculosis Drug-Induced Liver Injury: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials by Lina Tao, Xiaoyu Qu, Yue Zhang, Yanqing Song, Si-xi Zhang

“…Funnel plots and Egger’s tests were carried out to evaluate publication bias. Sensitivity analysis was conducted to assess the influence of each study. …”
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Biosynthesis and Characterization of Iron Nanoparticles for Effective Adsorption of Cr(VI) by Emel Simla Önal, Tolga Yatkın, Tural Aslanov, Memduha Ergüt, Ayla Özer

“…Batch adsorption experiments were carried out to investigate the optimum adsorption parameters such as the initial pH of the solution, temperature, initial Cr(VI) concentration, and adsorbent concentration. …”
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Association of Myasthenia Gravis With Autoimmune Thyroid Disease: A Bidirectional Mendelian Randomization Study by Yao Wang, Ke Wang, Jing Lu, Peng Xu, Dongmei Zhang, Xinzhi Chen, Jian Wang

“…The reliability and stability of the results were ensured through tests for heterogeneity, assessment of pleiotropy, and sensitivity analysis using the leave‐one‐out approach. Results The investigation revealed reciprocal causal associations between MG and both Graves’ disease and autoimmune hypothyroidism. …”
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Adaptability of high-protein barley genotypes under the conditions of the Volga-Vyatka region by I. Yu. Zaytseva, I. N. Shchennikova, L. V. Panikhina, E. V. Dyagileva

“…Experimental work was carried out in 2018–2020 at the Federal Agricultural Research Center of the North-East named N.V. …”
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Role of CBNAAT in the diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis: a prospective cross-sectional study by Rahul Gupta, Ashok Kumar Janmeja, Arjun Kumar, Balbir Singh, Pramod Kumar Shridhar

“…The data analysis was done using SPSS version 20 software. Results Out of 100 patients of EPTB, 55 were TPE, and 45 were TBLN patients. …”
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A novel adaptive droop-based SoC balancing control strategy for distributed energy storage system in DC microgrid by Liangliang Guo, Xinrui Liu, Xinyu Li, Rui Wang, Hanwen Ren, Zhiliang Wang, Qiuye Sun

“…In addition, the stability analysis of the proposed control strategy is carried out to ensure the stable operation of the system in theory. …”
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Product quality and price in deciding to repurchase rice Batang Girl by Hartelina Hartelina, Syifa Pramudita Faddila, Yanu Prasetyo, Thuwi Wulakrisna

“…A nonprobability sampling technique was used in this research, where 60 Karawang rice agent consumers were selected as samples. Testing was carried out using validity, reliability, mediation and hypothesis testing tools with the help of the WarPPL version 3.0 program. …”
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Responses of laying performance, eggshell quality, calcium, and phosphorus metabolism to feeding patterns and dietary available phosphorus levels in aged laying hens by Dan Shao, Liangji Liu, Haibing Tong

“…The experiment followed a 3 × 2 factorial arrangement of three feeding patterns (feeding twice a day, 1/2 daily feeding at 8:00, and 1/2 daily feeding at 14:00; disequilibrium feeding twice a day, 1/3 daily feeding at 8:00, and 2/3 daily feeding at 14:00; feeding thrice a day, 1/3 daily feeding at 8:00, 1/3 daily feeding at 14:00, and 1/3 daily feeding at 18:00) and two available phosphorus levels (0.32 %, 0.27 %) was carried out with a total of 528 Hy-Line Brown laying hens aged 62–74 weeks. …”
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Allelic and epigenetic DNA variation in relation to F1 heterosis manifestation in F1 hybrids of Capsicum annuum L. by M. N. Shapturenko, S. V. Vakula, L. A. Tarutina, T. V. Nikitinskaya, T. V. Pechkovskaya, L. A. Mishin, L. V. Khotyleva

“…We used SSR and methyl-sensitive AFLP (MSAP with HpaII and MspI izoshisomers) protocols for obtaining specific patterns for heterotic and nonheterotic F1 hybrids of sweet pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) from a Belarusian breeding program. We found out that a certain portion of heterosis for yield-related traits might be explained by the polymorphism revealed by SSR analysis. …”
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Exercise on Striatal Dopamine Level and Anxiety-Like Behavior in Male Rats after 2-VO Cerebral Ischemia by Yongzhao Fan, Xiaoyang Kong, Kun Liu, Hao Wu

“…Meanwhile, gait and motor coordination evaluations were carried out to eliminate the influence of non-specific motor problems. …”
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HEAL-Dengue: Hospital- based Exploration, Analysis and Learning about Dengue Outcomes (HEAL-D-ALDO) by Aijaz Zeeshan Khan, Omer Sabir, Adnan Hussain Shahid, Muhammad Bilal Basit, Syeda Arzinda Fatima Shah, Qamar Sajad

“…Clinical course of the patient was monitored and outcomes were recorded. Results: Out of 215 patients, 11 (5.1%) expired. A significant association between female gender and the necessity for packed cell volume and fresh frozen plasma transfusion was observed (OR (95% CI: 10.26 (2.23 – 96.24), p =0.0005).The significant risk factors for mortality were: presence of ascites, pleural effusion, organ dysfunction, need for PCV, FFP and platelet megaunit transfusion. …”
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Evidence for spinal disinhibition as a pain-generating mechanism in fibromyalgia syndrome by Anne Marshall, Jamie Burgess, Andreas Goebel, Bernhard Frank, Uazman Alam, Andrew Marshall

“…Longitudinal studies are warranted to tease out the precise contribution of these mechanisms.…”
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Acceptance and adoption determinants of telemedicine in public healthcare institutions by Kokisa E. Phorah, Lovemore Motsi

“…In order to ensure that the instrument was accurate, a pilot study was carried out prior to the main investigation. Both the alpha and power values were set at 0.05 for the statistical analysis. …”
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Male involvement in prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, and its association with knowledge and residence in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Mastewal Arefaynie, Yitayish Damtie, Bereket Kefale, Melaku Yalew, Bezawit Adane, Habtamu Shiferaw, Yesuf Ahemed, Abel Shiferaw, Tenaw Yimer, Hasab Tibebu

“…Material and methods Searching of articles was carried out from March 10 to April 20, 2020. Quality of each article was assessed by Newcastle-Ottawa scale for observational studies. …”
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Design and Validation of the Flipped‐Learning Assessment Scale for Undergraduate Nursing Education by Fernando Urcola‐Pardo, Ana Belen Subiron‐Valera, Isabel Anton‐Solanas, Aintzane Orkaizagirre‐Gomara, Dolores Torres‐Enamorado, Juan Diego Gonzalez‐Sanz

“…Methods A cross‐sectional study was carried out in three phases ((1) item selection, rephrasing and translation; (2) content analysis through expert panel and (3) confirmatory factor analysis). …”
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Reassessing Nutritional Supplementation Program: The Impact of Maternal Vitamin B12 Levels on Feto-Maternal Outcomes by Pranjali Dhume, Reshu Rawal, Ashish Vadhera, Ankur Shah, Madhusudan Dey, Sunil Chawla, Suyash Goel, Simran Gilhotra, Ankita Sharma

“…STUDY DESIGN: In this prospective cohort study a total of 300 antenatal women were screened for vit B12 levels in the late first trimester and were followed up to find out co-existent folic acid deficiency, development of pregnancy complications like anemia, gestational hypertension/pre-eclampsia, fetal growth restriction (FGR), second-trimester abortions, gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and preterm deliveries. …”
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ANN-based software cost estimation with input from COCOMO: CANN model by Chaudhry Hamza Rashid, Imran Shafi, Bilal Hassan Ahmed Khattak, Mejdl Safran, Sultan Alfarhood, Imran Ashraf

“…The domain of software cost estimation has witnessed a prominent surge in research activities in recent years and being an evolving process, it keeps opening new avenues, each with advantages and disadvantages, making it important to work out better options. This research aims to identify the factors that influence the software effort estimation using the constructive cost model (COCOMO), and artificial neural networks (ANN) model by introducing a novel cost estimation approach, COCOMO-ANN (CANN), utilizing a partially connected neural network (PCNN) with inputs derived from calibrated values of the COCOMO model. …”
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ETHICS OF LIABILITY K.-O.APELY IN THE LANDSCAPES OF CONTRACTUALISM by Dmytro V. Usov

“…The purpose of the article is clearly defined and productive methodological principles consistently enabled the author to find out that Apel perceives the source of social agreement in rational desire of each participant to obey voluntarily the relevant rules and procedures. …”
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Phenotypic and Genotypic Identification of Antimicrobial Resistance amongst the Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli Strains Isolated from Raw Milk of Animal Species by Gholamreza Banisharif Dehkordi, Mohammad Hossein Marhamatizadeh, Hassan Momtaz

“…Phenotypic and genotypic patterns of antimicrobial resistance were assessed using disk diffusion and PCR, respectively. One hundred and ten out of 850 (12.94%) raw milk samples were contaminated with Campylobacter spp (95% confidence interval). …”
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