PSYCHOSOCIAL ILLNESS IN CHILDREN WITH THALASSEMIA: A CASE-CONTROL STUDY by Erum Afzal, Muhammad Aslam Sheikh, Sajjad Hussain Bhaba, Tanveer Ahmed, Imran Iqbal, Muhammad Khalid Iqbal

“…Prevalence ratio (ODDS ratio) with 95%confidence interval of all variables were calculated.  RESULTS: Out of 100 patients 50 were in case group (Thalassemia) and 50 control (non-thalassemic.Male female ratio was 1.2:1. 60 %( n=30) cases, 78 %( n=39) control patients were age ranges between 5 to 10 years. …”
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Nutrition Awareness and Oral Health among Dental Patients in Palestine: A Cross-Sectional Study by Manal M. H. Badrasawi, Nour H. Hijjeh, Rana S. Amer, Reema M. Allan, Mohammad Altamimi

“…The total mean score of the nutrition awareness was (9.3 ± 2.8), with higher level of nutrition awareness among females, and the highest score was 16 out of 17. The good oral health condition was reported among 44%, fair 32%, poor 16%, and bad 10% while excellent oral health was reported among only 5% of the participants. …”
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Exploration of treatment burden through examination of workload and patient capacity during transition onto kidney replacement therapy: a systematic review of qualitative research by Catrin Jones, Ross Cairns, Heather Walker, Silje Welsh, Benjamin Edgar, Karen Stevenson, Bhautesh D. Jani, Patrick B. Mark, David Kingsmore, Katie I. Gallacher

“…There were four broad categories of workload described: making sense of KRT, working out what to do and how to do it, meeting the challenges of KRT, and reflecting on work done. …”
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The financial toxicity of cancer: unveiling global burden and risk factors – a systematic review and meta-analysis by Addisu Getie, Alemu Birara Zemariam, Befkad Derese Tilahun, Ribka Nigatu Haile, Tegene Atamenta Kitaw, Molla Azmeraw Bizuayehu

“…This strain extends beyond treatment costs to include indirect expenses like lost income and out-of-pocket payments. Despite its urgency, global insights remain fragmented, often limited to specific regions with inconsistent findings. …”
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Efficacy and safety of pembrolizumab in patients with advanced endometrial cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Biqiong Pan, Xiaojun Lai, Jiefang Lu, Xiaoyan Bao, Zengke Fan, Jie Sun

“…Outcomes were progression-free survival (PFS), overall survival (OS), objective response rate (ORR), complete remission (CR), and adverse events (AEs); a subgroup analysis was carried out based on combination treatment regimens. Quality assessment of the included studies was conducted using the Cochrane Risk of Bias Tool, the Newcastle–Ottawa Scale (NOS), and the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) critical appraisal checklist.ResultsPembrolizumab reduced progression risk [hazard ratio (HR): 0.53; 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.44, 0.63; p < 0.00001] and death risk when combined with lenvatinib (HR: 0.67; 95% CI: 0.59, 0.76; p < 0.00001). …”
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Characterization of Kenyan Honeys Based on Their Physicochemical Properties, Botanical and Geographical Origin by Mary Wanjiru Warui, Lise Hansted, Mary Gikungu, John Mburu, Geoffrey Kironchi, Aske Skovmand Bosselmann

“…Melissopalynological analysis (pollen analysis) was also carried out to provide information on botanical origin of the honeys. …”
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On the art of designing effective space-times with free surface flows in Analogue Gravity by Bossard, Alexis, James, Nicolas, Jules, Valentin, Fourdrinoy, Johan, Robertson, Scott, Rousseaux, Germain

“…The relationship between both global parameters for transcritical flows turns out to be a peculiar limit of the behaviour of boats navigating in confined media like canals or locks with a generalized obstruction factor based on the ratio between the boat section and the canal section. …”
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A Temporal and Dynamic Approach to Enjambments in French Versified Poetry from the 17th to the late 19th Century by Éliane Delente

“…Observations of these constructions were carried out on an exploratory corpus based on Boileau’s and Chénier’s works. …”
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Supercritical CO2 Brayton Cycle Design for Small Modular Reactor with a Thermodynamic Analysis Solver by Pan Wu, Chuntian Gao, Yanping Huang, Dan Zhang, Jianqiang Shan

“…The optimal design of simple Brayton cycle and recompression Brayton cycle for the lead fast reactor under water-cooled and dry-cooled conditions are carried out with consideration of recuperator temperature difference constraints and cycle efficiency. …”
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Comparison of the Diagnostic Performance of Five Clinical Questionnaires for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease by Alirio R. Bastidas, Eduardo Tuta-Quintero, José S. Arias, Diana Cufiño, Diana Moya, Daniel Martin, Faure Rodríguez, Carolina Aponte-Murcia, Doris M. Pumarejo, Maria A. Bejarano, Geraldine Ospina, Lina M. Morales, Adriana M. Portella, Maria D. Barragán, Daniela A. Álvarez, José M. Hernández

“…A cross-sectional study was carried out on subjects who underwent spirometry in the third-level center. …”
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Satellite-based Emission Inventory Adjustments Improve Simulations of Long-range Transport Events by Wei-Syun Huang, Stephen M. Griffith, Yi-Chun Lin, Ying-Chieh Chen, Chung-Te Lee, Charles C.-K. Chou, Ming-Tung Chuang, Sheng-Hsiang Wang, Neng-Huei Lin

“…In order to better track these LRT events out of East Asia and optimize OMI-adjustment methodology, it is recommended to explore other satellite-based products to map unaccounted for SO2 sources upstream of Taiwan.…”
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Relationship between serum insulin-like growth factor 1 levels and ischaemic stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Jinhui Li, Simiao Chen, Lan He, Yangni Li, Weinan Yang, Yishu Zhang, Lincheng Zhang, Yuyan Zhang

“…Objective To assess the association of insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) with the risk of incident ischaemic stroke and outcome after ischaemic stroke.Design A systematic review of primary studies.Setting Hospitals in Western Sweden, Italy, China and Denmark.Methods A search was carried out in eligible studies in electronic databases (PubMed, Scopus, Embase, China National Knowledge Infrastructure and Web of Science) updated to 29 December 2020. …”
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Human phospholipases A2: a functional and evolutionary analysis by I. I. Turnaev, M. E. Bocharnikova, D. A. Afonnikov

“…Three groups of diseases turned out to be associated with the greatest number of PLA2 types: neoplasms, circulatory and endocrine system diseases. …”
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Genetic structure of the population of wild-growing vines of the Utrish Nature Reserve by E. T. Ilnitskaya, M. V. Makarkina, I. V. Gorbunov, I. V. Stepanov, T. D. Kozina, E. A. Kozhevnikov, V. K. Kotlyar

“…Statistical processing of microsatellite loci polymorphism data was carried out using the GenAlEx 6.5 program. The genetic relationships of the studied vines were evaluated using the PAST 2.17c program. …”
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The clinical characteristics and implications of acute kidney injury during induction therapy for acute promyelocytic leukemia by Kai Shen, Chenlu Yang, Jie Huang, Xiao Shuai, Ting Niu, Hongbing Ma

“…The patients’ clinical/laboratory data and outcome information were retrieved from the electronic medical records.ResultsFrom January 2011 to March 2024, a total of 26 out of 572 (4.5%) APL patients were identified as having AKI during dual induction. …”
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Penggunaan Compressive Sensing pada Pengenalan Huruf dengan Tulisan Tangan Menggunakan Metode K-Nearest Neighbor by Zalfa Alif Muhammad, Gelar Budiman, Sofia Saidah

“…The use of CS is focused on recognizing capital letters and handwritten numbers obtained from eleven students with several scenarios. To find out, the data were collected and then processed using preprocessing, CS, reconstruction with Orthogonal Matching Pursuit, and the last detection process were using K- Nearest Neighbor in which there were feature extraction using Template Matching. …”
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Providing an Anti-Marketing Model to Prevent Criminal Behaviors in Online and Digital Businesses by Ghasem Zarei, Younes Nikkhah

“…The data collection was also carried out by employing targeted sampling and semi-structured interviews. …”
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Laboratory Predictors of COVID-19 Mortality: A Retrospective Analysis from Tongji Hospital in Wuhan by Ting Zheng, Xinxin Liu, Yingying Wei, Xinlu Li, Bing Zheng, Quan Gong, Lingli Dong, Jixin Zhong

“…Retrospective analysis was carried out in 1,149 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 in Tongji Hospital, Wuhan, China, from 1/13/2020 to 3/15/2020. …”
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Investigation of the post-cryogenic regeneration ability of potato varieties under different cultivation conditions by E. S. Bespalova, Yu. V. Ukhatova, N. N. Volkova, E. V. Oves, N. A. Gaitova, T. A. Gavrilenko

“…Taking into account the obtained results, the further cryopreservation of an extended subset of 9 varieties was carried out using shoot tips, which, after freezing-thawing, were cultivated under the photoperiod of 16/8 hours. …”
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Chemical Characterization of Marine Aerosols in a South Mediterranean Coastal Area Located in Bou Ismaïl, Algeria by Sidali Khedidji, Konrad Müller, Lyes Rabhi, Gerald Spindler, Khanneh Wadinga Fomba, Dominik van Pinxteren, Noureddine Yassaa, Hartmut Herrmann

“…., alkanes, PAHs, and hopanes, was carried out by using a variety of analytical techniques. …”
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