Association of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors (PPARs) with Diabetic Retinopathy in Human and Animal Models: Analysis of the Literature and Genome Browsers by Špela Tajnšek, Danijel Petrovič, Mojca Globočnik Petrovič, Tanja Kunej

“…Seven retrieved articles reported testing an association between PPARs with DR in human. …”
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Mass testing for discovery and control of COVID-19 outbreaks in adult social care: an observational study and cost-effectiveness analysis of 14 805 care homes in England by Ben Lambert, Sassy Molyneux, Susan Hopkins, Tom Fowler, Prabin Dahal, Kasia Stepniewska, Sheetal Silal, Sabine Dittrich, Sunil Pokharel, Siyu Chen, Bo Gao, Ricardo Aguas, Marta Wanat, Lisa White, Rima Shretta, Wirichada Pan-Ngum, Ainura Moldokmatova, Caroline Franco, Sompob Saralamba, Jared Norman, Rachel Hounsell, Reshania Naidoo, Merryn Voysey, Liberty Cantrell, Sophie Dickinson, Billie Andersen-Waine, Angus Ferguson-Lewis, Ma’ayan Amswych, Anastasiia Polner, Claire Keene, Emily Rowe, Kweku Bimpong, Muhammad Kasim, Randolph Ngwafor Anye, Richard Creswell, Sumali Bajaj, Tracy Evans, Sarah Pinto-Duschinsky, Gulsen Yenidogan, Joseph Tsui Lok Hei, Olumide Kolade, Adam Bodley, Umar Mahmood Ben Lambert, Melinda Mills, Katarzyna Przybylska, Joseph Tsui

“…We decomposed the mechanism of outbreak mitigation into outbreak discovery and outbreak control and used Poisson regressions to investigate how reported testing intensity was associated with the size of outbreak discovered and to uncover its association with outbreak control. …”
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Malaria service provision in Manicaland Province, Zimbabwe during the coronavirus pandemic: a cross-sectional survey of health facilities by John Pellegrino, Oscar Tapera, Joseph Mberikunashe, Mufaro Kanyangarara

“… # Results A total of 100 health facilities were surveyed and most were publicly managed health centers and clinics. 5% of health facilities reported testing for COVID-19, 3% reported COVID-19 related health worker absences and 1% reported disruptions to any essential health services. …”
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Curable Sexually Transmitted Infections Among a Population of South African Nonhealth Seeking Men Who Have Sex With Men Who Were Invited for Screening—A Brief Report by Matshidiso Adelaide Malefo MPH, Olalekan Abdulwahab Ayo-Yusuf MPH, PhD, Mathildah Mpata Mokgatle PhD, MPH

“…Results: Over half of the sample (58.5%; n  = 96) were in casual relationships, 81.7% ( n  = 134) had reported testing for HIV in the previous 3 months, and 68.9% tested positive for STIs. …”
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Risk behaviours among female sex workers in China: a systematic review and data synthesis. by Eric P F Chow, Kathryn E Muessig, Lei Yuan, Yanjie Wang, Xiaohu Zhang, Rui Zhao, Peng Sun, Xiaoshu Sun, Joseph D Tucker, Jun Jing, Lei Zhang

“…Increasing trends were also found in the proportion of sampled FSW who reported testing for HIV in the past 12 months (from 3.2% in 2000 to 48.0% in 2011), while drug use behaviours decreased significantly from 10.9% to 2.6%.…”
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COVID-19 prevention is shaped by polysocial risk: A cross-sectional study of vaccination and testing disparities in underserved populations. by David R Brown, Derek D Cyr, Lisa Wruck, Troy A Stefano, Nader Mehri, Zoran Bursac, Richard Munoz, Marianna K Baum, Eileen Fluney, Prasad Bhoite, Nana Aisha Garba, Frederick W Anderson, Haley R Fonseca, Sara Assaf, Krista M Perreira

“…Overall, 72.5% of participants reported COVID-19 vaccination, and 82.1% reported testing. However, disparities were evident across polysocial risk profiles. …”
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An Open Multifunctional FPGA-Based Pulser/Receiver System for Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) Imaging and Therapy by Amauri A. Assef, Paula L. S. de Moura, Joaquim M. Maia, Phuong Vu, Adeoye O. Olomodosi, Stephan Strassle Rojas, Brooks D. Lindsey

“…The results of a multicycle excitation pulse applied to a custom 550 kHz therapy transducer for acoustic characterization and a pulse-echo experiment conducted with a high-voltage, short-pulse excitation for a 19.48 MHz transducer are reported. Testing results show that the proposed system can be easily controlled to match the frequency and bandwidth required for different IVUS transducers across a broad class of applications.…”
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Hepatitis C virus cascade of care among adults in Sindh province, Pakistan: Findings from 2019-2020 household sero-survey. by Tesfa Sewunet Alamneh, Josephine G Walker, Aaron G Lim, Ejaz Alam, Saeed Hamid, Graham R Foster, Naheed Choudhry, M Azim Ansari, Huma Qureshi, Peter Vickerman

“…Of adults defined as ever treatment eligible (n = 232), 40.9% (95/232) reported a previous HCV test and 91.2% (87/95) reported testing positive. Of these, HCV treatment was reported by 69.0% (60/87) and 46.7% (28/60) of treated individuals tested HCV-RNA-negative. …”
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Generalized nonlinearity in animal ecology: Research, review, and recommendations by David R. Heit, Waldemar Ortiz‐Calo, Mairi K. P. Poisson, Andrew R. Butler, Remington J. Moll

“…Our review suggests that reporting tests for linearity are rare in recent studies employing GLMs. …”
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Social-ecological predictors of HIV testing among adult men: analysis of the 2022 Tanzania demographic and health survey data by Christopher Hariri Mbotwa, Elihuruma Eliufoo Stephano, Linus Paul Rweyemamu

“…The prevalence of ever having tested for HIV was 64.7%, while only 30.6% reported testing within the last 12 months. At the individual level, men aged 25–35 years (adjusted prevalence ratio (aPR) 1.23, 95% CI 1.03 to 1.47) and those aware of sexually transmitted infections (aPR 1.27, 95% CI 1.10 to 1.47) demonstrated a higher prevalence of recent HIV testing. …”
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Prevalence of hepatitis B surface antibody among previously vaccinated healthcare workers in Tashkent, Uzbekistan by Rafail Ibragimov, Dilyara Nabirova, Alfiya Denebaeva, Botirjon Kurbanov, Roberta Horth

“…Vaccination doses were self-reported. Testing for hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), Total hepatitis B core antibody (anti-HBc), and anti-HBs were concurrently performed. …”
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An Improved Test Method for Assaying the Inhibition of Bioflavonoids on Xanthine Oxidase Activity in vitro by Yuanyong Yao, Tao Wu, Meng Zhang, Daihua Fu, Hai Yang, Shixue Chen

“…Abstract The difference on inhibitory effects of bioflavonoids inhibiting XOD activity assayed by varying test methods cause of us to be further in consideration. The reported test method creating a micro‐environment surrounding XOD in the absence of ⋅O2−, which is seemly different from the assay in vivo. …”
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Do Not Miss the Snake in the Grass – An Interesting Case Series of Mimics in Pap Smear Cytology Which May Impact Reporting by Nidha Gaffoor, Archana Shetty

“…Pap smears are one among the commonly reported tests in gynecologic pathology. It is not infrequent to routinely come across artifactual or less significant cytological findings that closely mimic relevant reportable findings both on liquid-based and conventional Pap smear examinations. …”
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Efficient Implementation of Radar Imaging Techniques Including Time Gating Clutter Removal for Through the Walls Applications by Orlandino Testa, Stefano Pisa, Renato Cicchetti

“…The adoption of the combined technique (reconstruction algorithms and time gating) allows to remove the artifacts on both simulated and measured data with performances comparable with those of the background subtraction technique. The reported test cases evidence the ability of the considered algorithms to operate with different fractional bandwidth and with very fast execution times.…”
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Five-year Trends in Various Communicable Diseases Reported under the Integrated Disease Surveillance Program during 2014–2019 in Puducherry by K Sivaranjini, Durgesh Roy, Yuvaraj Krishnamoorthy, Ravivarman Lakshmansamy, Srividya Vissvesvaran, G Ragunathan, Mahalakshmy Thulasingam, Sitanshu S. Kar

“…This record-based study obtained disease details in terms of the number of suspected cases reported, tested, and positive for the selected diseases reported under IDSP from 2015 to 2019. …”
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Assessment of Road Vehicle Accident Approaches—A Review by Irina Duma, Nicolae Burnete, Adrian Todoruț, Nicolae Cordoș, Cosmin-Constantin Danci, Alexandru Terec

“…The addressed topics were summarized from a range of European and global strategies in the field of transportation, reports, testing protocols, as well as scientific research papers published in international databases. …”
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The Role of Earnings Management Contribution as a Moderation of Social Responsibility Disclosure, Intellectual Capital, and Risk Towards Cost of Capital by Devina Gunawan

“…The research sample was obtained through a purposive sampling method based on the company's annual report. Testing was conducted using moderated regression analysis. …”
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Firm Size Moderates the Effect of Free Cash Flow, Firm Growth, and Profitability on Debt Policy by Agus Wahyudin, Khansa’ Salsabila

“…This research used secondary data taken from annual reports. Testing of this research was done by using regression analysis with the difference absolute value test by IBM SPSS 21 version. …”
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Effectiveness of Coaching Interventions using Grammarly Software and Plagiarism Detection Software in Reducing Grammatical Errors and Plagiarism of Undergraduate Researches by Genaro V. Japos

“…The study involved a statistical analysis of data derived from software reports tested through the use of t-test and Pearson correlation. …”
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Tax Minimization Moderate Transfer Pricing by Lidya Manda Sari, Nelsi Arisandy

“…The source of data in this study is taken from  the company's published annual report. Testing in this study using E-Views 12 software. …”
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