Formation Characteristics of PCDD/Fs in the Co-combustion and Pyrolysis Process of Coal and Sewage Sludge by Mumin Rao, Xiangbo Zou, Ji Ye, Yunfeng Ma, Tieying Mao, Xiaoqing Lin, Xiaodong Li, Jianhua Yan, Shiwei Qin, Cao Kuang

“…To well reveal it, this study carried out five parallel experiments, including the pyrolysis of SS, the combustion of SS, the co-combustion of coal and SS with the proportion of 0%, 2.5% and 5%, respectively. …”
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Maintaining operability at a high personal cost – a mixed method study on maternal healthcare workers’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic by Magnus Akerstrom, Anna Wessberg, Emina Hadžibajramović, Sofie Graner, Ylva Carlsson, Ola Andersson, Maria Jonsson, Elin Naurin, Malin Veje, Verena Sengpiel, Karolina Linden

“…It was found that between 3–7% likely experienced burn out, while another 10% were at risk of burnout during and after the pandemic. …”
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS IN TEACHING SOCIAL AND HUMANITARIAN DISCIPLINES by Anna Kyrpa, Olena Stepanenko, Viktoriia Zinchenko, Tetiana Datsiuk, Iryna Karpan, Neonila Tilniak

“…In addition, the authors found out the current level of competence of teachers of social and humanitarian disciplines. …”
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Mortality Prognostic Factors in Patients with Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma by Víctor Ernesto González Velázquez, Lázaro Roque Pérez, Elys María Pedraza Rodríguez, Lissi Lisbet Rodríguez Rodríguez, Mabel González Escudero

“…<br /><strong>Method:</strong> a retrospective cohort analytical observational study was carried out. The population consisted of all patients with cutaneous malignant melanoma diagnosed and treated at the Hospital in the study period (N = 142), and the sample was 112 patients. …”
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Determinants of handwashing practice and its associated factors among mothers of under-5 children in Kolladiba town, Northwest Ethiopia: cross-sectional study by Getayeneh Antehunegn Tesema, Maereg Wolde, Meshehsa Abate, Gebremeskel Mandefro, Ezedin Beru, Aysheshim Kassahun

“…Mothers serve as the children’s nurses and poor practice of simple hygiene increases the risk of the spread of diseases to under-5 children.Objective This study aimed at investigating the proportion of handwashing practice at critical times and associated factors among mothers of under-5 children in Kolladiba town, Northwest Ethiopia.Design, Setting, participants and outcome measures A community-based cross-sectional study design was carried out from 20 February 2020 to 12 March 2020, in Kolladiba town. …”
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Perancangan User Experience Aplikasi Bimbingan Akademik Mahasiswa FILKOM Menggunakan Metode Human-Centered Design by Farassulthana Azzahra Willary Yaasiin, Herman Tolle, Hanifah Muslimah Az-Zahra

“…This study designed a user experience application for academic guidance for FILKOM students by applying the Human-Centered Design (HCD) method to help develop solution designs that focus on the human perspective into all parts of the problem-solving process in order to help map out the right needs for stakeholders and users. …”
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Association of outpatient use of renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system blockers on outcomes of acute respiratory illness during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cohort study by Molly Moore Jeffery, Lucas Oliveira J e Silva, Fernanda Bellolio, Nathan W Cummins, Timothy M Dempsey, Vesna D Garovic, Andrew Limper

“…The ACEi/ARB cohort saw a larger increase in risk in the COVID-19 influenza season than the other HTN medication cohort for four out of five outcomes, with an additional 1.5 percentage point (pp) increase in risk of an inpatient stay (95% CI 1.2 to 1.9 pp) and of ICU/CCU use (95% CI 0.3 to 2.7 pp) as well as a 0.7 pp (0.1 to 1.2 pp) additional increase in risk of ARD and 0.9 pp (0.4 to 1.3 pp) additional increase in risk of ARDS. …”
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Sustained Impairment in Cardiopulmonary Exercise Capacity Testing in Patients after COVID-19: A Single Center Experience by Georg Evers, Arik Bernard Schulze, Irina Osiaevi, Kimon Harmening, Richard Vollenberg, Rainer Wiewrodt, Rudin Pistulli, Matthias Boentert, Phil-Robin Tepasse, Juergen R. Sindermann, Ali Yilmaz, Michael Mohr

“…Using cardiac MRI, diminished biventricular ejection fraction was ruled out in 16 patients as a possible cause for reduced O2 pulse. …”
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Nailfold Capillaroscopy in Early Stages of Mixed Connective Tissue Disease in a Sample of Egyptian Patients by Yasser A Elmotaleb Gazar, Hesham Salah Hamoud, Sherif Mohamed Ismail

“…Three of the twenty patients diagnosed with systemic sclerosis had arthritis. Out of sixty patients, 53.3% had thickened skin, 19 patients exhibited puffy fingers, six patients showed rash, and none had swollen joints. …”
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Clinical Characteristics of 31 Patients with Chest Pain Variant Asthma by Mao W, Gao Y, Sun W, Li J, Wang J, Wang Z, Zhang L, Huang K

“…The predicted values of forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1) were greater than 80% in 29 out of 31 patients, and the values of other two patients were 74% and 79%, respectively. …”
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What is the relationship between exposure to environmental pollutants and severe mental disorders? A systematic review on shared biological pathways by Pierluigi Catapano, Mario Luciano, Salvatore Cipolla, Daniela D'Amico, Alessandra Cirino, Maria Chiara Della Corte, Gaia Sampogna, Andrea Fiorillo

“…The 47 papers included in the review were divided into two groups: those conducted on human participants (15 studies) and those utilizing animal models (31 studies); one study included both humans and animals. Studies carried out with humans, which are mainly focused on measuring the impact of particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10) exposure on mental health, showed an increased risk of depression or psychotic relapses through the inflammation and oxidative stress pathways, or through the alteration of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. …”
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Development of the genetic classification of Aegilops columnaris Zhuk. chromosomes based on the analysis of introgression lines Triticum aestivum×Ae. columnaris by A. A. Shishkina, A. Yu. Dragovich, A. S. Rouban, S. N. Sibikeev, A. E. Druzhin, E. D. Badaeva

“…Thus, based on our current data as well as on the results of earlier work, we can identify eight out of the 14 chromosomes of Aegilops columnaris.…”
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Association between some environmental risk factors and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder among children in Egypt: a case-control study by Riham Abdelhamid Hussein, Rania Hussein Refai, Aleya Hanafy El-zoka, Hanan Galal Azouz, Mohamed Fakhry Hussein

“…Methods This case-control study aimed to assess the association between some environmental risk factors and ADHD among children in Alexandria, Egypt. It was carried out at the outpatient clinics of El Shatby Pediatric University Hospital in Alexandria, Egypt, with 252 children (126 cases and 126 controls). …”
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Prevalence and Economic Impact of Acute Respiratory Failure in the Prehospital Emergency Medical Service of the Madrid Community: Retrospective Cohort Study by Ana María Cintora-Sanz, Cristina Horrillo-García, Víctor Quesada-Cubo, Ana María Pérez-Alonso, Alicia Gutiérrez-Misis

“…MethodsA multicenter descriptive study was carried out in the Madrid Community EMS. The anonymized medical records of patients treated with medical ALS, who received any of the following medical diagnoses, were extracted: ARF not related to chronic respiratory disease, ARF in chronic respiratory failure, exacerbations of COPD, APE, CHF, and bronchospasm (not from asthma or COPD). …”
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Identification and verification of autophagy-related gene signatures and their association with immune infiltration and drug responsiveness in epilepsy by Han-han He, Xiao-ge Zhang, Fen-fang Chen

“…Finally, the expression level of hub ARDEGs were further validated in hippocampus of GSE256068 to enhance the reliability of the results.ResultsTwenty ARDEGs in epilepsy were screened out by integrating DEGs and WGCNA analysis. KEGG enrichment analysis showed that the ARDEGs in epilepsy were not only involved in the autophagy, but also apoptosis, the NOD-like receptor signaling pathway, the neurotrophin signaling pathway, etc. …”
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Challenges of Engineering Skillsets Essential for Driving Circularity of Smart Cities by Benjamin Neale, Sakdirat Kaewunruen, Dan Li, Ayfer Donmez Cavdar, Rand Askar, Tatjana Tambovceva, Diana Bajare

“…This information will benefit the industry by informing businesses and councils about the key skillsets and capabilities to look out for when employing people to implement any aspect of circular practices in a smart city setting, with an emphasis on enhancing efficiency, achieving deliverables, and thinking systemically to address complex challenges they may face during the implementation. …”
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Generalizing the Brady-Yong Algorithm: Efficient Fast Hough Transform for Arbitrary Image Sizes by Danil D. Kazimirov, Ekaterina O. Rybakova, Vitalii V. Gulevskii, Arseniy P. Terekhin, Elena E. Limonova, Dmitry P. Nikolaev

“…As one of our major contributions, among the proposed algorithms, we singled out a <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$FHT2DT$ </tex-math></inline-formula> algorithm and proved that it provides a substantial compromise between accuracy and computational complexity. …”
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Evaluation of the antidiarrheal activity of the 80% hydromethanolic crude extract and solvent fractions of Terminalia brownii Fresen (Combretaceae) leaves in Swiss Albino mice by Khalid Ibrahim Kassaw, Dawit Zewdu Wondafrash, Jibril Seid Yesuf, Mestayet Geta Mengistie

“…Thus, this study aimed to investigate the antidiarrheal activities of the 80% hydromethanolic crude extract and solvent fractions of Terminalia brownii Fresen (Combretaceae) leaves in Swiss Albino mice.MethodsThis study was carried out by administering the 80% hydromethanolic crude extract and solvent fractions from the crude extract, including the n-hexane fraction (NHF), ethyl acetate fraction (EAF), and aqueous fraction (AF) at doses of 100 mg/kg, 200 mg/kg, and 400 mg/kg, respectively, to the mice. …”
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Pendekatan Soft System Methodology (SSM) untuk membangun SIMOKAUD Holistik Integratif by Erly Krisnanik, Tri Rahayu, Kraugusteeliana Tambun

“…Abstract The Government of Indonesia has issued Presidential Regulation Number 60 of 2013 concerning Integrative Holistic PAUD for use by early childhood schools which is used as a rule and guideline in carrying out PAUD work programs. The education system at Kuntum Mekar PAUD has used an integrative holistic approach in accordance with government directives. …”
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Viability of pollen in sweet cherry (<i>Cerasus avium</i>) varieties of different ecogeographic origin in the Northwestern region of Russia by S. Yu. Orlova, A. V. Pavlov, V. G. Verzhuk

“…The field sweet cherry collection maintained at Pushkin and Pavlovsk Laboratories of VIR served as the material for the study carried out in 2017 at the Plant Diversity Long-Term Storage Laboratory. …”
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