Postcards from Inside the Practices by Alicia Lazzaroni, Antonio Bernacchi, Enrique Espinosa Pérez, Lydia Maria Arantes, Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff

“…As an example, a series of design explorations delving into more-than-human coexistence, developed by the authors, are recalled to map out and diagram methodological feedback loops.   …”
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Factors Predicting Insecticide-Treated Bednet Use among Children under Age Five in Female-Headed Households in Ghana: An Analysis of the 2019 Malaria Indicator Survey by Desmond Klu, Grace Frempong Afrifa-Anane, Michael Larbi Odame

“…This survey was carried out between September 25 and November 24, 2019. …”
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Can Orthodontic Treatment Be Stable 20 Years after the End of the Treatment Scheme? Treatment of a Class 2, Division 1 Malocclusion with Severe Skeletal Discrepancy and Its 20-Year... by Domenico Aiello, Riccardo Nucera, Stefania Costa, Michele Mario Figliuzzi, Sergio Paduano

“…The first treatment phase involved the use of a Bass type for 12 months at the end of the functional treatment; the second phase of fixed therapy was carried out following the principles of bioprogressive techniques. …”
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An in-vivo herb-drug interaction study of IME-9 and glimepiride in nicotinamide-STZ-induced diabetic rats by Archana K. Thikekar, Asha B. Thomas, Sohan S. Chitlange

“…Toxicity assessments were carried out utilizing the MTT assay. Results: Concurrent administration of GP and IME-9 in diabetic rats resulted in elevated Cmax and AUC0-48hrs of GP, while no alteration in Tmax was noticed. …”
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Engineering Design of a Mechanical Decladder for Spent Nuclear Rod-Cuts by Young-Hwan Kim, Yung-Zun Cho, Young-Soon Lee, Jin-Mok Hur

“…The performance test of the testing device for decladding was carried out using a 2-CUT blade module and a 3-CUT blade module. …”
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Estimating the met need for emergency obstetric care (EmOC) services in three payams of Torit County, South Sudan: a facility-based, retrospective cross-sectional study by Pontius Bayo, Imose Itua, Suzie Paul Francis, Kofi Boateng, Elijo Omoro Tahir, Abdulmumini Usman

“…The frequency of each complication and the interventions for treatment were the secondary outcomes.Results Two hundred and fifty four major obstetric complications were admitted in 2015 out of 390 expected from 2602 pregnancies, representing 65.13% met need. …”
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Detection of bla NDM-1 Encoding Imepenemase among the Imipenem-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacilli Isolated from Various Clinical Samples at a Tertiary Care Hospital of Eastern Nepal:... by S. Gautam, N. R. Bhattarai, K. Rai, A. Poudyal, B. Khanal

“…Apart from performing only antimicrobial sensitivity test, phenotypic and molecular screening should be employed to find out the actual number of metallo-β-lactamase producers and the existence of the resistance gene.…”
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Cancer patients’ sense of coherence – psycho-oncological consultations and therapeutic alliance as salutogenic factors by Natalia Cecon-Stabel, Ibrahim Demirer, Holger Pfaff, Antje Dresen

“…Results One hundred patients filled out all three SoC subscales at T1 and T2 and were treated by a psycho-oncologist. …”
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Knowledge and confidence in managing obstructive sleep apnea patients in Canadian otolaryngology - head and neck surgery residents: a cross sectional survey by Saad Ansari, Amanda Hu

“…Results Sixty-six (38.4%) out of 172 residents responded (60.6% male; 80.3% English-speaking). …”
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Vaccination Against SARS-Cov-2 among Patients with Parkinson’s Disease Based on the Results of COVPARK-LT Study by R. Kaladytė Lokominienė, G. Lokominaitė

“…Methods: analysis of anonymous data from electronic patient histories obtained during consultations for Parkinson’s disease in the out-patient department (form E025). Objective: To investigate COVID-19 vaccination status and associated factors in patients with Parkinson’s disease. …”
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Clinical Features and Outcomes of Repeated Endoscopic Therapy for Esophagogastric Variceal Hemorrhage in Cirrhotic Patients: Ten-Year Real-World Analysis by Jia-li Ma, Ling-ling He, Ping Li, Yu Jiang, Ju-long Hu, Yu-ling Zhou, Xiu-xia Liang, Hong-shan Wei

“…Cox analysis was used to identify the impact factors that affect the long-term survival of patients with cirrhosis and variceal bleeding after endotherapy. Results. Out of 2665 patients with liver cirrhosis and variceal hemorrhage selected from our medical center between September 2008 and December 2017, a total of 1342 patients were included for analysis. …”
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Genetic structure of the collection of ryegrass (<i>Lolium</i>) cultivars: a study based on SSR and SCoT markers by Yu. M. Mavlyutov, E. A. Vertikova, A. O. Shamustakimova, I. A. Klimenko

“…Based on PCoA, carried out using summarized data of SSR and SCoT analyses, a multidimensional diagram of genetic relationships among ryegrass cultivars was constructed.Conclusions. …”
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CaGe: A Web-Based Cancer Gene Annotation System for Cancer Genomics by Young-Kyu Park, Tae-Wook Kang, Su-Jin Baek, Kwon-Il Kim, Seon-Young Kim, Doheon Lee, Yong Sung Kim

“…The main hurdle in cancer genomics is to identify the real causative mutations or genes out of many candidates from an HGT-based cancer genomic analysis. …”
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Causal Association Between Skin Microbiota and Malignant Melanoma: Genetic Insights From Mendelian Randomization by Li X, Wu S, Pan Y, Wu Z, Du Z, Xie W, Zhou Q

“…Furthermore, we performed sensitivity analysis employing the intercept test of MR-Egger, the Cochran’s Q test, the MR-PRESSO approach, and a leave-one-out method.Results: By conducting MR analysis on the KORA FF4 cohort, we identified several skin microbiotas (ASV003 [Staphylococcus (unc).], ASV016 [Enhydrobacter (unc).], and ASV021 [Micrococcus (unc).]) related with an elevated risk of MM. …”
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Effects of different doses of skt-b vibrio probiotic bacteria addition on survival and growth rate of tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon) larva by . Widanarni, M.A. Lidaenni, Dinamella Wahjuningrum

“…This experiment was carried out to study the effects of probiotic bacteria SKT-b Vibrio addition at different doses on survival and growth rate of tiger shrimp larva.  …”
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Antimicrobial Efficacy of Five Wound Irrigation Solutions in the Periprosthetic Joint Infection Microenvironment In Vitro and Ex Vivo by Anja L. Honegger, Tiziano A. Schweizer, Yvonne Achermann, Philipp P. Bosshard

“…<b>Conclusions:</b> All solutions achieved complete bacterial eradication in all tested ex vivo sonication fluids, except Granudacyn, which was ineffective in 33% of the samples (2 out of 6). Advanced wound irrigation solutions have the potential to reduce bacterial burden in the PJI microenvironment during revision surgery. …”
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Translation, cultural adaptation and validation of the SCHNOS in French by Marie-Renée Atallah, Daniel Milad, Youcef-Hamza Benamer, Mikhail Saltychev, Sam P. Most, Sami P. Moubayed

“…The F-SCHNOS-C total score was defined by mostly four out of six items. Conclusions The SCHNOS was translated, adapted, and psychometrically validated for use in a French-speaking population.…”
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Studies on humoral immunity in dogs after use of rabies inactivated vaccines formulated with Montanide ISA 70 VG and GEL 01 adjuvants by A. N. Balashov, M. I. Doronin, A. V. Borisov, D. A. Lozovoy, D. V. Mikhalishin, V. A. Starikov

“…Rabies prevention in dogs around the world is carried out by counting the number of these animals, their mandatory routine immunization and evaluating the effectiveness of vaccination against the accumulation of rabies virus-neutralizing antibodies. …”
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Evaluation of Melongosides as Potential Inhibitors of NS2B-NS3 Activator-Protease of Dengue Virus (Serotype 2) by Using Molecular Docking and Dynamics Simulation Approach by Partha Biswas, Ommay Hany Rumi, Dhrubo Ahmed Khan, Md Nasir Ahmed, Nusratun Nahar, Rownak Jahan, Md Nazmul Hasan Zilani, Tridib K Paul, Anamul Hasan, Tohmina Afroze Bondhon, Khoshnur Jannat, Md Nazmul Hasan, Mohammed Rahmatullah

“…The blind molecular docking studies carried out gave binding energies (ΔG = −kcal/mol) of melongosides B, F, G, H, N, O, and P as 7.7, 8.2, 7.6, 7.8, 8.3, 8.0, and 8.0, respectively. …”
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Theoretical impact of a bedside decision-making tool on antibiotic use for suspected neonatal healthcare-associated infection: an observational study by Lizel Georgi Lloyd, Mirjam Maria van Weissenbruch, Adrie Bekker, Cecilia Ferreyra, Birgitta Gleeson, Angela Dramowski

“…Results We recruited 180 neonates with 214 episodes of suspected HAI, of which 22 (10.3%) were proven HAI, 56 (26.2%) were presumed HAI and 136 (63.6%) had HAI ruled out. The median observed antibiotic LOT was three days (9 days for proven HAI, 7 days for presumed HAI, and 3 days for no HAI). …”
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