Serum NT-Pro-BNP versus Noninvasive Bedside Inotropic Index in Paediatric Shock: A Contest of Myocardial Performance in Response to Fluid Loading by Antonius Hocky Pudjiadi, Tuty Rahayu, Stephanie Wijaya, Fatima Safira Alatas

“…Higher median NT-pro-BNP (preloading NT-pro-BNP of 1175.00 (254.50–9965.00) ng/mL vs. 196.00 (65.00–509.00) ng/mL, p=0.002) was associated with fluid nonresponders (subjects >12 months old). Preloading NT-pro-BNP <242.5 ng/mL was associated with fluid responders (AUC: 0.768 (0.615–0.921), p=0.003), 82.1% sensitivity, and 68.7% specificity for subjects >12 years old. …”
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Revisiting teacher educators' training in Ethiopia: Implications for a new approach to curriculum development by Haftu Hindeya Gebremeskel, Ahmed Yibrie Ahmed, Dawit Asrat Getahun, Meskerem Lechissa Debele, Dawit Tibebu, Dereje Taye Wondem

“…They reported they have sufficient subject matter knowledge but in pure disciplines that are not very much relevant for someone who pursues a career as a teacher educator. …”
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Myocardium Assessment by Relaxation along Fictitious Field, Extracellular Volume, Feature Tracking, and Myocardial Strain in Hypertensive Patients with Left Ventricular Hypertrophy by Seyed Amir Mirmojarabian, Eveliina Lammentausta, Esa Liukkonen, Lauri Ahvenjärvi, Juhani Junttila, Miika T. Nieminen, Timo Liimatainen

“…Single institutional case control. Subjects. 9 HTN LVH (age, 69±10 years) and 11 control subjects (age, 54±12 years). …”
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Emergency Department Screening for Unhealthy Alcohol and Drug Use with a Brief Tablet-Based Questionnaire by Joshua W. Elder, Evan F. Wu, James A. Chenoweth, James F. Holmes, Aman K. Parikh, Aimee K. Moulin, Tommie G. Trevino, John R. Richards

“…However, only a minority of subjects screening positive using this interface believed a face-to-face meeting with the CADC for further SBIRT would be helpful.…”
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Personalized auricular vagus nerve stimulation: beat-to-beat deceleration dominates in systole-gated stimulation during inspiration - a pilot study by Johannes Tischer, Jozsef Constantin Szeles, Eugenijus Kaniusas

“…Modulation of RR is expected to reveal the aVNS efficiency since the efferent cardiac branch of the stimulated afferent vagus nerve governs the instantaneous RR. Five healthy subjects were subjected to aVNS. Each subject underwent two 25-min sessions. …”
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The Effects of Active Teaching and Learning Methods on The Pupils' Academic Performance in Four Selected Primary Schools in Bugamba Sub-County in Rwampara District. by Ampurire, Motion

“…Chapter five portrayed the summary of findings, recommendations were made and there was a need to invite more teachers and orient them to use active teaching methods in primary schools and show them that active teaching should be used in all classes of primary schools, the school administration needs to have frequent meeting with the subject teachers and find out the solutions to the problems faced by them with the view of solving them while using active teaching and the school administration also needs to give the subject teachers first priority by getting good trained and committed teachers and also show them the best teaching approaches and their importance of the subject where active teaching method can be used more effectively.…”
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A novel method for solving fuzzy parabolic PDE by using the SG-Hukuhara differentiability by Pegah Moatamed, Mahnaz Barkhordari Ahmadi

“…In this paper, the method of Crank-Nicolson is proposed for approximating the solution of  a fuzzy parabolic PDE by applying the subject of  SG-Hukuhara differentiability where the initial and boundary conditions are fuzzy numbers. …”
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Influence of Thermal Treatment on the Adsorption Ability of Amorphous Alloys by O.M. Hertsyk, M.O. Kovbuz, L.M. Bednars'ka, B.Ya. Kotur

“…It was shown that the extent of piperidine adsorption on an AMA surface subjected to thermal treatment correlated with the results of X-ray structural analysis.…”
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Petit précis de subjectivation : retour sur Un cœur simple by Boris Lyon-Caen

“…Such is the case for the disappearance of the children in the first Trois contes. This disappearance subjects the servant Félicité to the laws of transfer and the syndrome of equivalence. …”
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Food Safety: High-Risk Foods by Jennifer Hillan

“…FCS8802, a one-page fact sheet by Jennifer Hillan, features a crossword puzzle on the subject of food safety that will help elders understand which foods may be high-risk. …”
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Food Safety: High-Risk Foods by Jennifer Hillan

“…FCS8802, a one-page fact sheet by Jennifer Hillan, features a crossword puzzle on the subject of food safety that will help elders understand which foods may be high-risk. …”
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Analysis of Evidence in the CAS 2019/A/6636 BC Arsenal v. Russian Basketball Federation Case and Prediction of the Position of CAS in the Case by D. A. Afanasev

“…The subject of the article is the question of responsibility of persons for match-fi activities. …”
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Numerical Modeling of a Marine Propeller Undergoing Surge and Heave Motion by Spyros A. Kinnas, Ye Tian, Abhinav Sharma

“…A boundary element method (BEM) and a vortex-lattice method (VLM) are extended in order to predict the unsteady performance of propellers subject to rigid body motions. The methods are applied in the case of prescribed surge and heave motions, and the results are compared with those from other methods.…”
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Juozas Revuckas on development of logical thinking of pupils in teaching geometry by Algirdas Ažubalis

“…He investigated development of logical thinking of pupils in teaching geometry. On this subject, he had published 4 articles and maintained a thesis. …”
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Relationship of Circulating Fetuin-A Levels with Body Size and Metabolic Phenotypes by Hye Soo Chung, Hyun Jung Lee, Soon Young Hwang, Ju-Hee Choi, Hye Jin Yoo, Ji A. Seo, Sin Gon Kim, Nan Hee Kim, Dong Seop Choi, Sei Hyun Baik, Kyung Mook Choi

“…Furthermore, fetuin-A levels were significantly increased in the metabolically abnormal (MA) group compared to the metabolically healthy (MH) group in subjects without obesity (717.1 [632.1, 769.7] vs. 599.5 [502.0, 709.3], P=0.001) and subjects with obesity (704.1 [595.5-880.9] vs. 612.2 [547.9-802.1], P=0.016). …”
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Results from the Population-Based Gutenberg Health Study Revealing Four Altered Autoantibodies in Retinal Vein Occlusion Patients by Katharina Bell, Vanessa M. Beutgen, Stefan Nickels, Katrin Lorenz, Yvonne Scheller, Hisham Elbaz, Tunde Peto, Katharina A. Ponto, Andreas Schulz, Philipp S. Wild, Thomas Münzel, Karl J. Lackner, Irene Schmidtmann, Manfred Beutel, Norbert Pfeiffer, Franz H. Grus, Alexander K. Schuster

“…Of all RVO subjects and controls, serum autoantibody profiles were measured using in-house manufactured antigen-antibody microarrays. …”
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Influence of Rapid Urbanization on Thyroid Autoimmune Disease in China by Yingchao Chen, Bing Han, Jie Yu, Yi Chen, Jing Cheng, Chunfang Zhu, Fangzhen Xia, Ningjian Wang, Yingli Lu

“…Serum TPOAb, TGAb, and thyrotropin (TSH) were measured, and ultrasonography of the thyroid was performed in all subjects. DNA was extracted from all subjects, and four SNPs were selected for genotyping. …”
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High Serum Asprosin Levels Are Associated with Presence of Metabolic Syndrome by Tao Hong, Jiao-Yang Li, Ya-Di Wang, Xiao-Yan Qi, Zhe-Zhen Liao, Poonam Bhadel, Li Ran, Jing Yang, Bin Yan, Jiang-Hua Liu, Xin-Hua Xiao

“…A total of 131 consecutive patients with MetS, and 162 age-matched, healthy subjects were recruited for this study. Serum asprosin concentrations were determined using the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. …”
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Cognitive control in individuals with heroin use disorder after prolonged methadone maintenance treatment by Wei Zhao, Fan Duan, Xiangyu Li, Junda Li, Lingling Xia, Zixuan Ren, Yegang Li, Li Song, Peipei Song, Linlin Mu, Lijin Wang, Jing Zhang, Xun Song, Ze Wang, Jinxuan Chen, Xiaochu Zhang, Dongliang Jiao

“…Methods A total of 63 HUD subjects (41 subjects with previous relapse and 22 non-relapse subjects, mean MMT duration: 12.24 ± 2.92 years) and 31 healthy controls were enrolled in this study. …”
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Assessment tuberculin skin test specificity in water buffalo using five different antigens by Alessandra Martucciello, Francesco Napolitano, Piera Mazzone, Francesco Grandoni, Maria Beatrice Boniotti, Monica Cagiola, Gabriele Di Vuolo, Felice Gerardo Giglio, Francesco Grippa, Giorgio Galiero, Federica Signorelli, Esterina De Carlo

“…Of the 100 negative subjects, 31 gave doubtful SIT results to PPDB while the number of doubtful subjects decreased to 11 with the SICT. …”
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