Review of Postgraduate Dissertations on Alzheimer's Patients in Nursing Care by Fadime Toru

“…It is recommended to increase the number of studies with patients diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and caregivers, to conduct randomized controlled studies, to improve the quality of postgraduate education, and to increase the number of doctoral thesis studies, which are currently limited in number.…”
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Prevalence, influencing factors, and perspectives on bulimia, anorexia, and binge eating among university students in northern Morocco: A cross-sectional study by Karima Sammoud, Fadila Bousgheiri, Saloua Lemrabett, Imane Agdai, Ouissal Radouan, Meftaha Senhaji, Adil El Ammouri, Adil Najdi

“…Methods: Using a cross-sectional design, including students from eight institutions affiliated with Abdelmalek Essaadi University in Tangier, Morocco, were randomly selected through stratified sampling. A questionnaire comprising sections on demographics, childhood history, and the Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI) was employed. …”
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Valorization of various sources of rabbit manure in agro-piscicultural system in Benin (West Africa): dynamics and effect of mineralization upon quality of fresh water by Richard Adande, Hervé Kouessivi Janvier Bokossa, Mouhamadou Nourou Dine Liady, Emile Didier Fiogbé

“…Indeed, experimental design was a completely randomized block design with three replications. 6 g in 10 L of water from the different manures from each diet was followed during 50 days. …”
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An Assessment of Usual Salt Intake among Older Normotensive Adults in Atonsu, a Suburb of Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana by Rufai Safianu, Jacob Plange-Rhule

“…Methods. Participants were randomly selected from five churches which constituted cluster samples. …”
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Research status of east Asian traditional medicine treatment for chronic cough: A scoping review. by Boram Lee, Chan-Young Kwon, Ye Ji Kim, Jae Hyun Kim, Kwan-Il Kim, Beom-Joon Lee, Jun-Hwan Lee

“…<h4>Results</h4>Among 474 included studies, the study designs were mainly randomized controlled trials (72.4%), and the population was evenly distributed between children and adults. …”
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Two Postpartum Blood Collection Devices: The Brass-V Drape and MaternaWell Tray—As Experienced by Birth Attendants and Birthing Women—A Questionnaire-Based Randomised Study by Jade Esau, Timothy Morris, Chris Muller, Christine Els, Liesl de Waard

“…After informed consent was obtained, participants were randomly assigned to the Brass-V drape or the MaternaWell tray, which the birth attendant placed after the birth of the baby. …”
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Establishment of a Comprehensive Platform for Sustained Delivery of Yoga Therapy for Sickle Cell Anemia in Rural and Remote Tribal Pocket in India by Thota Neeraja, Ramesh Nanjundaiah Mavathur, Himanshu Anirudhbhai Shukla, Manmath Gharote

“…Objective: The objective was to set up a yoga-based lifestyle intervention (YBLI) center that is sustainable, accessible, affordable, and acceptable as the part of the Integrated Sickle Cell Anemia Research Program (ISCARP) randomized control trial study. Methodology: By analyzing previous government screenings, the study identified remote, high-prevalence areas. …”
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A Network Meta-Analysis to Compare Effectiveness of Baricitinib and Other Treatments in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients with Inadequate Response to Methotrexate by Walid Fakhouri, Xiaofei Wang, Inmaculada de La Torre, Claudia Nicolay

“…**Methods:** A systematic literature review was conducted to identify randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of the interventions of interest. …”
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A Meta-Analysis on the Effect and Safety of LCZ696 in the Treatment of Hypertension by Li Zheng, Binbin Xia, Xuqian Zhang, Yan Zhao

“…We searched PubMed, Cochrane, Web of Science, and Ovid, collected randomized controlled trials (RCTs) about the effect and safety of LCZ696 and ARBs in hypertensive patients, extracted relevant data and evaluated the quality of the included literature according to the RCT quality evaluation standard recommended by Cochrane Reviewer’s Handbook, using RevMan 5.3, and performed meta-analysis. …”
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Influence of indole acetic acid, arginine and mango fruit waste biochar on nutrients, chlorophyll contents and antioxidants of Fenugreek in salt affected soil by Misbah Hareem, Sammina Mahmood, Subhan Danish, Rana Khalid Iqbal, Abdullah A. Alarfaj, Sulaiman Ali Alharbi

“…Four treatments (control, 2mM IAA, 250 mg/L AN, and 250 mg/L AN + 2mM IAA) study were conducted in four replications using a completely randomized design. Results demonstrate that the 250 mg/L AN + 2mM IAA with MFWB treatment led to a significant rise in fenugreek plant length (30.26%), plant fresh weight (36.37%), and plant dry weight (15.78%) over the control under salinity stress. …”
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Influence of Different Strength Training Protocol on Breaststroke Performance in Competitive Swimmers by Nimrot Manalu, Syarifah Fathynah SS, Ivan Reano Panjaitan, Alifian Dwi Putra Situmorang, Deo Rivaldi, Muhammad Farhan Tumanggor

“…Materials and methods. A 24-week randomized controlled trial was conducted with 48 competitive breaststroke swimmers (26 male, 22 female, aged 18–25 years). …”
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Endoscopic ultrasonography-based intratumoral and peritumoral machine learning ultrasomics model for predicting the pathological grading of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors by Shuangyang Mo, Cheng Huang, Yingwei Wang, Shanyu Qin

“…Methods Eighty-one patients, including 51 with grade 1 PNETs and 30 with grade 2/3 PNETs, were included in this retrospective study after confirmation through pathological examination. The patients were randomly allocated to the training or test group in a 6:4 ratio. …”
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Volt/VAr Regulation of the West Mediterranean Regional Electrical Grids Using SVC/STATCOM Devices With Neural Network Algorithms by H. Feza Carlak, Ergin Kayar

“…The load values used in the heuristics differ from those used in other studies in that they use a realistic load profile that varies randomly and instantaneously over the long term, as opposed to a fixed load profile. …”
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Nitrogenated Fertilization In Pasture Brachiaria Brizantha Cv. Marandu Via Organic Compounds by G. R. Soares, V. B. Tavares, A. P. Neiva Júnior, L. O. Fernandes

“…The experimental design was randomized blocks in a 4 x 2 factorial scheme. The treatments consisted of control with 0 kg/ha of N, 3 treatments with application of bovine liquid manure and 3 treatments with organomineral fertilizer in the dosages of 60, 120 and 180 kg/ha of N. …”
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Microleakage Evaluation of Two Methacrylate-Based Composites (GC Kalore and Luna SDI) in Class II Restorations: A Laboratory Study by Kooshan Moradi, Sadaf Sadat Mahmoudinezhad, Mehran Mapar

“…In this experimental study, a total of 18 intact human premolars previously extracted for periodontal and orthodontic reasons were randomly divided into two groups. Similar class II cavities (box only) were prepared on all teeth and restored with two different composites. …”
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Metabolic Differences in Neuroimaging with [¹⁸F]FDG in Rats Under Isoflurane and Hypnorm–Dormicum by Aage Kristian Olsen Alstrup, Mette Simonsen, Kim Vang Hansen, Caroline C. Real

“…Materials and Methods: Female adult Sprague Dawley rats were randomly assigned to one of two anesthesia groups: isoflurane or Hypnorm–Dormicum. …”
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Prevalence of Gastrointestinal Helminthiasis in Horses and Donkeys of Hawassa District, Southern Ethiopia by Mesfin Mathewos, Dawit Girma, Haben Fesseha, Metages Yirgalem, Eyob Eshetu

“…A total of 214 fecal samples were collected from randomly selected equines (112 donkeys and 102 horses) and examined for the presence of eggs of GI helminths using standard coprological techniques. …”
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Involvement of Neuropeptide Y within Paraventricular Nucleus in Electroacupuncture Inhibiting Sympathetic Activities in Hypertensive Rats by Qi Zhang, Yingying Tan, Xin Wen, Fangfang Li

“…Then, the rats were randomly assigned to the sham group, 2K1C group, 2K1C plus EA group, and 2K1C plus sham EA group. …”
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Parallel-group, randomised, controlled, non-inferiority trial of high-flow nasal cannula versus non-invasive ventilation for emergency patients with acute cardiogenic pulmonary oed... by Apichaya Monsomboon, Onlak Ruangsomboon, Nattakarn Praphruetkit

“…Therefore, we planned this study to investigate the effects of HFNC compared with NIPPV for emergency patients with ACPE.Methods and analysis In this single-centred, non-blinded, parallel-group, randomised, controlled, non-inferiority trial, we will randomly allocate 240 patients visiting the emergency department with ACPE in a 1:1 ratio to receive either HFNC or NIPPV for at least 4 hours using computer-generated mixed-block randomisation concealed by sealed opaque envelopes. …”
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Age-Related Trends in Body Composition among Women Aged 20–80 Years: A Cross-Sectional Study by Nirmala Rathnayake, Hasanga Rathnayake, Sarath Lekamwasam

“…In general, such studies are scarce in the South Asian region and this cross-sectional study examined the age-related trends in body composition in a selected group of healthy women aged 20–80 years in Sri Lanka. The study included randomly selected 784 healthy women aged 20–80 years from the Southern province, Sri Lanka. …”
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