Initial Development and Validation of a Transition Readiness Scale for Adolescents with Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Oded Hammerman, Areej Bayatra, Dan Turner, Arie Levine, Raanan Shamir, Amit Assa, Michael Wilschanski, Yaacov G. Bachner, Eran Israeli

“…Correlations between patient/parent/physician TR between each of the domains and the overall TR score to age were assessed. Results. 63 subjects (average age 16.6 yrs/79% Crohn’s disease/44% male) participated in this study. …”
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Thermal Convective Instabilities and Chaos in a Rotating Hybrid Nanofluid Layer with Cattaneo–Christov Heat Flux Model by Sèmako Justin Dèdèwanou, Adjimon Vincent Monwanou, Aimé Audran Koukpémèdji, Amoussou Laurent Hinvi, Clément Hodévèwan Miwadinou, Jean Bio Chabi Orou

“…The different results showed that the addition of hybrid nanoparticles (alumina-copper) to a thermal fluid (water) subjected to the rotation force in the presence or absence of the thermal relaxation time allows control of the chaotic convection in the base fluid. …”
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Effect of Spent Button Mushroom Substrate on Yield and Quality of Baby Spinach (Spinacia oleracea) by Forbes B. Muchena, Charity Pisa, Moses Mutetwa, Chido Govera, Wonder Ngezimana

“…Disposal of spent mushroom substrate (SMS) generated after mushroom cultivation is a subject of great concern. Unplanned disposal causes land, water, and air pollution together with the nuisance in the surroundings. …”
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Single-Lung Transplant Results in Position Dependent Changes in Regional Ventilation: An Observational Case Series Using Electrical Impedance Tomography by Kollengode Ramanathan, Hend Mohammed, Peter Hopkins, Amanda Corley, Lawrence Caruana, Kimble Dunster, Adrian G. Barnett, John F. Fraser

“…A mixed model with random intercept per subject was used for statistical analysis. Results. …”
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Persistent Sepsis-Induced Hypotension without Hyperlactatemia: A Distinct Clinical and Physiological Profile within the Spectrum of Septic Shock by Glenn Hernandez, Alejandro Bruhn, Ricardo Castro, Cesar Pedreros, Maximiliano Rovegno, Eduardo Kattan, Enrique Veas, Andrea Fuentealba, Tomas Regueira, Carolina Ruiz, Can Ince

“…A subgroup of septic shock patients will never develop hyperlactatemia despite being subjected to a massive circulatory stress. Maintenance of normal lactate levels during septic shock is of great clinical and physiological interest. …”
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Late pregnancy analysis with Yunban’s remote fetal monitoring system by Qiuping Wang, Weihua Yang, Lie Li, Guokai Yan, Huihui Wang, Jianqiang Li

“…To analyze the effect on using remote fetal monitoring on women in the late pregnancy, we selected women in the late stage of pregnancy in our hospital as research subjects. They were randomly divided into two groups: the experimental group, which engaged in remote fetal monitoring, and the control group, which adopted traditional cardiac monitoring. …”
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The Tree-Drawing Test (Koch’s Baum Test): A Useful Aid to Diagnose Cognitive Impairment by Michelangelo Stanzani Maserati, Corrado Matacena, Luisa Sambati, Federico Oppi, Roberto Poda, Maddalena De Matteis, Roberto Gallassi

“…Trees drawn by cognitively impaired patients are different from those drawn by healthy subjects with a progressive differentiation from mild to more relevant degrees of cognitive impairment.…”
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Prosocial behavior in convicted offenders: A scoping review by Liliana HUREZAN, Sara Maria JUGANARU, Ioana-Anastasia GORAN, Elena Emanuela VELICEA, Laura VISU-PETRA

“…A first set of studies aimed to assess prisoners' self-reported prosocial behavior, while a second set of studies provided a less subjective approach to offender prosociality by using a variety of games that allowed for the investigation of two main types of actual prosocial behavior: resource sharing and reciprocal prosocial behavior (cooperation). …”
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Improved motor imagery skills after repetitive passive somatosensory stimulation: a parallel-group, pre-registered study by Kyoko Kusano, Masaaki Hayashi, Masaaki Hayashi, Seitaro Iwama, Junichi Ushiba, Junichi Ushiba

“…The non-dominant left hand was subjected to neuromuscular electrical stimulation above the sensory threshold but below the motor threshold (St-NMES), along with passive movement stimulation using an exoskeleton. …”
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A Single-Center 7-Year Experience with End-Stage Renal Disease Care in Nigeria—A Surrogate for the Poor State of ESRD Care in Nigeria and Other Sub-Saharan African Countries: Advo... by Datonye Dennis Alasia, Pedro Emem-Chioma, Friday Samuel Wokoma

“…Results. Over 80% of the subjects funded dialysis treatments from direct out of pocket payment. …”
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The Age-Specific Association of Waist Circumference and Risk of Chronic Kidney Disease in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Shandong, China by Lingling Xu, Weihong Yu, Ping Huang, Chunying Li, Yan Li, Meng Wang, Qun Xu, Jing Wang, Caixia Zheng, Bin Qu, Yanping Zhao, Meng Niu, Ou Wang, Fengying Gong

“…Outpatient Department. Subjects. T2D patients who were treated between October 2012 and May 2013. …”
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Smart furniture using radar technology for cardiac health monitoring by Ali Gharamohammadi, Mohammad Omid Bagheri, Serene Abu-Sardanah, Michael M. Y. R. Riad, Hajar Abedi, Ahmad Ansariyan, Kang Wang, Ashish Saragadam, Dmytro Chumachenko, Shahabeddin Abhari, Plinio Pelegrini Morita, Amir Khajepour, George Shaker

“…In this paper, we introduce a millimeter (mm)-wave radar system positioned strategically behind a seat, featuring an algorithm capable of identifying unique cardiac waveform patterns for healthy subjects. These patterns are characterized by two peaks followed by a valley in each cycle, which can be correlated to Electrocardiogram (ECG), enabling effective cardiac waveform monitoring. …”
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Effect of cooling and freezing on the kinematic parameters of ram spermatozoa sexed by modified protocol with TLR7/8 ligand R848 by Yotov Stanimir, Kistanova Elena, Atanasov Anatoli, Ivanova Boyana, Zaimova Darina

“…Each part of semen at each step of the experiment was subjected to computer assisted semen analysis for evaluation of motility and speed parameters of spermatozoa. …”
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X-linked ubiquitin-specific peptidase 11 (USP11) increases susceptibility to Cushing’s disease in women by Tao Zhang, Yanting Liu, Fang Liu, Kaiyu Guo, Runhua Tang, Jingwei Ye, Li Xue, Zhipeng Su, Zhe Bao Wu

“…In this study, we analyzed the expression of deubiquitinating enzymes in functioning ACTH PitNETs from both male and female subjects using RNA sequencing and identified USP11 as a potential susceptibility factor contributing to the higher prevalence of these PitNETs in females. …”
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Neuroprotective Effects of Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells on Bilateral Common Carotid Arteries Occlusion Model of Cerebral Ischemia in Rat by Bagher Pourheydar, Sara Soleimani Asl, Mostafa Azimzadeh, Adel Rezaei Moghadam, Asghar Marzban, Mehdi Mehdizadeh

“…We performed neuromuscular and vestibulomotor function tests to assess behavioral function and, finally, brains were subjected to hematoxylin and eosin (H&E), anti-Brdu immunohistochemistry, and TUNEL staining. …”
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The Increase of Circulating PD-1- and PD-L1-Expressing Lymphocytes in Endometriosis: Correlation with Clinical and Laboratory Parameters by Monika Walankiewicz, Ewelina Grywalska, Grzegorz Polak, Izabela Korona-Glowniak, Elzbieta Witt, Agata Surdacka, Jan Kotarski, Jacek Rolinski

“…Peripheral blood (PB) samples from 25 female patients and 20 healthy age and sex-matched subjects serving as controls were used in the study. …”
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Depression after Stroke and Risk of Mortality: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Francesco Bartoli, Nicoletta Lillia, Annamaria Lax, Cristina Crocamo, Vittorio Mantero, Giuseppe Carrà, Elio Agostoni, Massimo Clerici

“…Thirteen studies, involving 59,598 subjects suffering from stroke (6,052 with and 53,546 without depression), had data suitable for meta-analysis. …”
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Panretinal Photocoagulation Using Short-Pulse Laser Induces Less Inflammation and Macular Thickening in Patients with Diabetic Retinopathy by Yoshihiro Takamura, Shogo Arimura, Seiji Miyake, Takehiro Matsumura, Makoto Gozawa, Kentaro Iwasaki, Masaru Inatani

“…Forty-two eyes of 42 patients were subjected to PRP using the conventional argon laser (Conv group) or SPL (SPL group). …”
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Rationale and design of a prospective study evaluating population pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of rivaroxaban in Chinese patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation by Ming-Ming Yan, Xiao-Qin Liu, Yu-Fei Zhang, Hong-Yan Ding, Ming-Kang Zhong, Chun-Lai Ma

“…Different individual exposures exist for Asian and non-Asian populations, and dose selection is different for Japanese and non-Japanese subjects. Few studies have investigated the pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD) of rivaroxaban in Chinese patients and provided a solid reference for dose selection and individualised therapy.Methods and analysis This is a single-centre prospective study. …”
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Exploring coupling effects of rainfall and surface roughness on the sheet flow velocity by Enshuai Shen, Gang Liu, Qiong Zhang, Chenxi Dan, Chang Liu, Hairu Li, Ya Liu, Xueming Qu, Xiaolin Xia, Dandan Liu, Zhen Guo, Xining Zhao

“…In addition, α was not a constant when the SF was subjected to raindrop impact. The rainfall was found to increase α, while the roughness of the bed surface reduced α for all cases. …”
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