Increased behavioural problems associated with corticosteroid use in children with nephrotic syndrome: a Southeast Asian perspective by Mohamad Nizam Mahmud, Azizah Othman, Mohamad Ikram Ilias

“…Results: A total of 140 children were recruited with an equal number in the INS and control groups. …”
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Machine learning model to predict the adherence of tuberculosis patients experiencing increased levels of liver enzymes in Indonesia. by Dyah Aryani Perwitasari, Imaniar Noor Faridah, Haafizah Dania, Didik Setiawan, Triantoro Safaria

“…We used the ORANGE Data mining as the machine learning to predict the adherence. We recruited 201 patients, whereas the male participants and less than 61 years old as the dominant participants. …”
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Chemical Engineer George L. Standart – between Science and Ideology by Věra Dvořáčková

“…He was driven to do that by his leftist mindset, his conviction that there lay a more just and peaceful world behind the Iron Curtain, and also the feeling that he was at risk in his homeland, unsettled by McCarthyism. Although he was recruited as an informer first by the Soviet, and subsequently also the Czech intelligence services, they never found his work satisfactory as an agent, a situation exacerbated by his increasing academic workload. …”
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Determinants of body composition among peri-menopausal women of Bilaspur district, Chhattisgarh, India by Suman Sahu, Rajesh K. Gautam

“…A total of 200 peri-menopusal women were recruited (≥ 40 years) from rural and urban areas of the district Bilaspur (CG). …”
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Investigation of Storage and Retrieval of Records At Kisoro District Local Government. by Arinda, Rodgers

“…The study concluded that recruiting trained records management personnel is essential, as many current staff members lack proper qualifications and training in records management. …”
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Association of Inflammatory and Oxidative Stress Markers with Metabolic Syndrome in Asian Indians in India by Veena S. Rao, Radhika K. Nagaraj, Sridhara Hebbagodi, Natesha B. Kadarinarasimhiah, Vijay V. Kakkar

“…A total of 2316 individuals were recruited in Phase I of the Indian Atherosclerosis Research Study (IARS). …”
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“Don’t Forget the Whistle”: Novice Physical Education Teachers’ Reflections on Their Beliefs, Teaching Practices, and Identities by Muhammad Hamid Anwar, Herka Maya Jatmika, Caly Setiawan

“…The purpose of the current study was to investigate novice PE teachers’ reflections regarding beliefs and how they played out in teaching practices and identity formation within the settings of their profession. We recruited 31 PE teachers in their early careers to participate in this study. …”
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Quality of Life in The Community of Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS): A Phenomenology Study by Neina Qonita Istiqomah, Zainal Abidin, Agit Candoruk

“…The participants were recruited using purposive sampling from PCOS Fighter Indonesia community in the Bandung area. …”
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The reciprocal relationship between social exclusion and basic psychological needs through cross-lagged analysis by Shuyue Zhang, Xiang Luan, Ya-Nan Fu, Ruodan Feng, Shichen Liang, Shuncai Liu, Jie Meng, Qinghua He

“…Abstract Social exclusion has wide-ranging and detrimental effects. This study recruited 771 Chinese college students (Mage = 19.65 years, SDage = 1.04, 74.19% females). …”
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Predictive biomarkers of performance under stress: a two-phase study protocol to develop a wearable monitoring system by Cassandra Pattinson, Graham Kerr, Simon S Smith, Chamindie Punyadeera, Ian Stewart, Kerrie Mengersen, Karen A Sullivan, Jonathan M Flintoff, Sarah Ahamed, Shahnewaz Ali, Angus Bagley, Daniel Broszczak, Blair Crewther, Louis de Waal, Shannon L Edmed, Tharindu Fernando, Clinton Fookes, Francesca D Frentiu, Andrew P Hunt, Ottmar V Lipp, Ben McMaster, Luke Ney, Senn L Oon, Ajay Pandey, Parth Pandit, Jonathan M Peake, Muthukuttige Madusha Nuwanthi Perera, Virginie Perlo, Luke Schmidt, Kirsten Spann, Danielle Young, Tony J Parker

“…In Phase I, healthy adults aged between 18 and 45 years (n=104) will be recruited for an intervention trial that involves exposure to one of the four stressors: heat, musculoskeletal, psychosocial or sleep deprivation. …”
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The limited immunomodulatory effects of escharectomy on the kinetics of endotoxin, cytokines, and adhesion molecules in major burns by Tae-Hyung Han, Soo-Yeon Lee, Jung-Eun Kwon, In-Suk Kwak, Kwang-Min Kim

“…Seventeen ASA physical status II or status III adult surviving major burn patients were recruited. When the escharectomy was scheduled, a series of blood samples was obtained at −3 and −1 days preoperation, and +1 and +3 postoperation. …”
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The Role of −786T/C Polymorphism in the Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase Gene in Males with Clinical and Biochemical Features of the Metabolic Syndrome by Blazej Misiak, Marta Krolik, Anna Kukowka, Anna Lewera, Przemyslaw Leszczynski, Joanna Stankiewicz-Olczyk, Ryszard Slezak

“…Based on International Diabetes Federation 2005 criteria, we recruited randomly 152 subjects with MS and 75 subjects without MS. …”
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Communication between DNA polymerases and Replication Protein A within the archaeal replisome by Markel Martínez-Carranza, Léa Vialle, Clément Madru, Florence Cordier, Ayten Dizkirici Tekpinar, Ahmed Haouz, Pierre Legrand, Rémy A. Le Meur, Patrick England, Rémi Dulermo, J. Iñaki Guijarro, Ghislaine Henneke, Ludovic Sauguet

“…Abstract Replication Protein A (RPA) plays a pivotal role in DNA replication by coating and protecting exposed single-stranded DNA, and acting as a molecular hub that recruits additional replication factors. We demonstrate that archaeal RPA hosts a winged-helix domain (WH) that interacts with two key actors of the replisome: the DNA primase (PriSL) and the replicative DNA polymerase (PolD). …”
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A multi-modal deep learning model for prediction of Ki-67 for meningiomas using pretreatment MR images by Chaoyue Chen, Yanjie Zhao, Linrui Cai, Haoze Jiang, Yuen Teng, Yang Zhang, Shuangyi Zhang, Junkai Zheng, Fumin Zhao, Zhouyang Huang, Xiaolong Xu, Xin Zan, Jianfeng Xu, Lei Zhang, Jianguo Xu

“…A total of 1239 patients were retrospectively recruited from three hospitals between January 2010 and December 2023, forming training, internal validation, and two external validation cohorts. …”
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Validation of the Arabic eHealth literacy questionnaire: a factor and Rasch analysis study by Walid Al-Qerem, Osama N. Fadhil, Anan Jarab, Anan Jarab, Alaa Hammad, Fawaz Al-Asmari, Rahaf Zidan, Judith Eberhardt

“…This study focused on the validation of an Arabic version of the eHealth Literacy Questionnaire (eHLQ), a tool to facilitate patient engagement and health outcomes in digital healthcare.MethodUsing a convenience sampling method, the study recruited a diverse sample of 657 participants from Jordan (58.9% females and 41.1% males).ResultsConfirmatory Factor Analysis and Rasch analysis supported a six-factor model and demonstrated satisfactory item performance within established thresholds. …”
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Predictors of Patient Satisfaction with Tertiary Hospitals in Korea by Hye-Sook Ham, Eun Hee Peck, Hee Soo Moon, Hye-A Yeom

“…The subjects were 1,194 outpatients recruited from 29 outpatient clinics of a university medical center in Korea. …”
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Gestational Medication Use, Birth Conditions, and Early Postnatal Exposures for Childhood Asthma by Yang-Ching Chen, Ching-Hui Tsai, Yungling Lee

“…We conducted a matched case-control study based on the Taiwan Children Health Study, which was a nationwide survey that recruited 12-to-14-year-old school children in 14 communities. 579 mothers of the participants were interviewed by telephone. …”
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Hyaluronan Regulates Cell Behavior: A Potential Niche Matrix for Stem Cells by Mairim Alexandra Solis, Ying-Hui Chen, Tzyy Yue Wong, Vanessa Zaiatz Bittencourt, Yen-Cheng Lin, Lynn L. H. Huang

“…After binding, proteins are recruited and messages are sent to alter cellular activities. …”
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Evidence for Individual Face Discrimination in Non-Face Selective Areas of the Visual Cortex in Acquired Prosopagnosia by Laurence Dricot, Bettina Sorger, Christine Schiltz, Rainer Goebel, Bruno Rossion

“…This observation indicates that following prosopagnosia, areas that do not respond preferentially to faces such as the ventral part of the LOC (vLOC) may still be recruited to subtend residual perception of individual faces.…”
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Serum Kisspeptin and AMH Levels Are Good References for Precocious Puberty Progression by Jiang Xue, Wei Song, Min Si, Chao Sun, Kailin Li, Wei Wang, Shuang Liang, Yanfeng Xiao

“…Methods. 38 Chinese children with central precocious puberty (CPP), 38 Chinese children with premature thelarche (PT), and 75 controls were recruited. Results. In CPP girls, AMH levels decreased significantly compared to control girls at T2 stage. …”
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