Examining a Ripple Effect: Do Spouses’ Behavior Changes Predict Each Other’s Weight Loss? by Anna E. Schierberl Scherr, Kimberly J. McClure Brenchley, Amy A. Gorin

“…Heterosexual couples (N=132) enrolled in an 18-month randomized controlled weight loss trial were weighed and completed measures of dietary intake and physical activity at baseline and 6 months. …”
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Non-Carcass Parts of Local Male Ducks Fed Commercial Feed Supplemented with Torch Ginger (Etlingera elatior) Flower Extract by Mohammad Badru Zaman, Ristika Handarini, Deden Sudrajat

“…Twenty four 2-week-old male local ducks were used. Completely randomized design with 4 treatments and 3 replicates was used. …”
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Trigonelline exerts its neuroprotective effects in experimental spinal cord injury through modulation of inflammation, apoptosis, and neurotrophic factors by Zhi-Lan Ye, Yuan Cao

“…Methods: Rats (Sprague-Dawley, male) were randomly assigned to seven groups (n=15 per group): normal, sham, SCI control (1% DMSO), methylprednisolone (30 mg/kg), and trigonelline (50, 100, and 200 mg/kg). …”
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Prospective Trial of a Novel Nomogram to Achieve Updated Vancomycin Trough Concentrations by Amber R. Wesner, Marcia L. Brackbill, Larissa L. Coyle, Robert S. Kidd

“…Prospective, open-label study in 473 patients who had a new order for vancomycin and were >18 years of age and ≤120 kg. Patients were randomized to the active group, dosed using the nomogram, or to the control group, dosed using traditional pharmacokinetic calculations already in place at our institution. …”
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Comparison of Milrinone with Sildenafil for the Treatment of Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn by Imtiaz Ahmad, Motia Javaid, Tanveer Ahmad, Imran Baloch, Nisar Khan Sajid, Abdul Razzaq Mughal

“…Methodology:  A single blinded randomized control trial was conducted in Department of Pediatrics, Aziz Fatima Hospital  Faisalabad from October 2022 to September 2023. 160 infants of persistent pulmonary hypertension were included through non probablity consecutive sampling. …”
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Effect of SiC Addition on Microhardness and Relative Density during Selective Laser Melting of 316L Stainless Steel by Raid Mohammed Hadi, Ziad Aeyad Taha

“…FESEM examination showed that the SiC microparticles were dissolved completely and they were randomly distributed in the melting basin. The samples were dissolved entirely, and the best porosity was obtained at 0.4% with influential parameters of 200 W laser power, 70 µm hatching distance, 30 µm layer thickness, and 700 mm/s velocities. …”
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Clinical Observation on Multi Spectral Irradiation for Middle and Old Aged Osteoporosis Patients with Vitamin D Deficiency by Jun XING, Zhenfang MA, Yahui WANG, Yi RU, Jianfeng LU, Li YAN, Jingke AN

“…Objective:To observe the clinical effect of multi spectral irradiation on middle and old aged osteoporosis patients with vitamin D deficiency.Methods:102 middle and old aged osteoporosis patients with vitamin D deficiency were randomly assigned to the treatment group and control group, and 51 patients were in each group. …”
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Small-sided games are more effective than instructional training for improving vertical jump performance and passing in young volleyball players by Damir Pekas, Draženka Mačak, Anja Kostić Zobenica

“…They were tested for lower body explosive power and passing accuracy. Players were randomly allocated into a small-sided games group (n = 20) and instructional training group (n = 18). …”
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Entropy, complexity, and spectral features of EEG signals in autism and typical development: a quantitative approach by Aleksandar Tenev, Silvana Markovska-Simoska, Andreas Müller, Igor Mishkovski

“…The entropy results show impaired neural synchronization, increased randomness, and noise in ASD. The Lempel–Ziv complexity results showed that it is a potential indicator of the existence of focal spikes in the EEG signals of ASD. …”
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Effects of Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation and Cognitive Training on Individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Ka Yin Chu, King Hei King Cheng

“…Materials and Methods: Following the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA) guidelines, a comprehensive literature search on PubMed, Medline, CINAHL and EMBASE was conducted to identify eligible randomized controlled trials (RCTs) published up to December 2022. …”
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Gender similarities in high school mathematics: affective and cognitive aspects by Negasi Hagos Tekola, Dawit Asrat Getahun, Hailu Hagos

“…Data were collected by self-report questionnaire and achievement test from 727 (416 females & 311 males) grade 9 students, with average age of 15 years, randomly selected from three government general secondary schools in Aksum. …”
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Computationally secure steganography based on speech synthesis by Menghan LI, Kejiang CHEN, Weiming ZHANG, Nenghai YU

“…The steganography theory of computing security has been proposed for a long time, but it has not been widely adopted for mainstream steganography using multimedia data as a carrier.The reason is that the prerequisite for calculating secure steganography is to obtain the accurate distribution of the carrier or to accurately sample according to the carrier distribution.However, naturally collected images and audio/video cannot meet this prerequisite.With the development of deep learning technology, various machine-generated media such as image generation and synthesized speech, have become more and more common on the Internet and then generated media has become a reasonable steganography carrier.Steganography can use normal generated media to cover up secret communications, and pursue in distinguishability from normal generated media.The distribution learned by some generative models is known or controllable, which provides an opportunity to push computational security steganography for practical use.Taking the widely used synthetic speech model as an example, a computationally secure symmetric key steganography algorithm was designed and implemented.The message was decompressed into the synthetic audio according to the decoding process of arithmetic coding based on the conditional probability of sample points, and the message receiver had the same generation model to complete the message extraction by reproducing the audio synthesis process.The public key steganography algorithm was additionally designed based on this algorithm, which provided algorithmic support for the realization of full-flow steganographic communication.Steganographic key exchange ensured the security of steganographic content and the security of steganographic behavior was also achieved.The theoretical analysis showed that the security of the proposed algorithm is determined by the randomness of the embedded message.And the steganography analysis experiment further verified that the attacker cannot distinguish the synthesized carrier audio from the encrypted audio.…”
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Neuroprotective Potentials Of Extracts From Moringa Oleifera And Musa Sapientum Against Cadmium Chloride-Induced Neurotoxicity In Rats Cerebri by Adelaja Akinlolu

“…Adult male Wistar rats totalling 24 in number, were grouped randomly into six with four rats per group. Group 1 served as the control. …”
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The evaluation of shear bond strength of denture teeth to CAD/CAM dentures acrylic after aging in gastric acid by Neslihan Güntekin, Burcu Kızılırmak

“…Each base-tooth combination was randomly divided into 2 subgroups (n = 14). One subgroup was immersed in artificial gastric acid and the other in artificial saliva solution. …”
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THE IMPACT OF TELEHEALTH ON PSYCHOSOCIAL WELL-BEING AND PATIENT SATISFACTION DURING PREGNANCY: A LITERATURE REVIEW by Ira Nurwahyu Kusuma, Farida Fitriana

“…Methods: This literature review employed the PICO method to develop the review question, focusing on randomized controlled trials published between 2020 and 2024, identified through SCOPUS, PubMed, and Google Scholar using specific keywords related to telehealth, pregnancy, and well-being. …”
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Investigating food allergy awareness and attitudes among teachers in primary schools: current status and opportunities for enhancement by Amal H. Aljohani, Abeer Mutair Alshamani, Afnan Ahmed Aljohani, Aisha Saad Almohammadi, Bushra Saad Alharbi, Deena Faraj Altarjami, Reyouf Samer Alsaedi

“…As teachers are the first responders in managing such situations in schools, this study aims to explore and measure primary school teachers' knowledge and attitudes about food allergies and their management and review the current school policy.MethodsThis cross-sectional study uses a randomly distributed online questionnaire to measure teachers' knowledge and attitudes at primary schools in Medina, Saudi Arabia.ResultsThe sample consisted of 383 primary school teachers. …”
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STATUS OF ADOPTION OF WHEAT (TRITICUM AESTIVUM L.) PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY IN WHEAT ZONE, RUPANDEHI, NEPAL by Prabin K., Aavash S., Rijwan S., Prajjwol K., Pratikshya S., Surakhsya B.

“…A total of 85 households were randomly selected for the survey. Data analysis was performed using SPSS and Microsoft Excel, employing descriptive statistics such as mean, standard deviation, frequency, and percentage. …”
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A Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of Core Stability Exercises in Patients with Non-Specific Low Back Pain by Zachary Smrcina, Sarah Woelfel, Christopher Burcal

“…The initial search yielded 229 articles and was refined using search terms ‘NOT analysis’ in order to target randomized control trials and exclude meta-analyses to narrow the search. …”
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Application of different containers on eggs hatchability of saline tilapia fish (Oreochromis Niloticus, Linnaeus 1758) by Nurhatijah Nurhatijah, Ahmad Supriatna, Indah Permatasari, Kurnia Kurnia, Humeira Humeira

“…The research method used was an experimental design, namely a non-factorial Completely Randomized Design (CRD) consisting of 4 treatments, namely A (using a gallon), B (using a teapot), C (using a chicken drinking funnel), D (using a flower pot) each carried out 5 times with test parameters including egg hatchability, larval abnormality, and water quality parameters. …”
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Cost-Effectiveness of Extracorporeal Photopheresis in Patients With Chronic Graft-vs-Host Disease by Adrian Peacock, Frances C. Dehle, Oscar A. Mesa Zapata, Francesca Gennari, Maro R.I. Williams, Nada Hamad, Stephen Larsen, Simon J. Harrison, Colman Taylor

“…Transition probabilities were obtained from Australian-specific registry data and randomized controlled evidence. Quality-of-life values were applied based on treatment response. …”
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