The reliability of talonavicular uncoverage to indicate forefoot abduction in progressive collapsing foot deformity: a finite element analysis by Yulin Wei, Hua Liu, Can Xu

“…The objective of this study is to analyze the reliability of using talonavicular uncoverage percentage (TUP) as a metric for assessing the degree of forefoot abduction. Methods Seven subject-specific flatfoot models were constructed based on previous study. …”
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Comparative evaluation of localized genotoxicity between the field of focus and scatter following exposure to cone beam computed tomography using buccal mucosal micronuclei assay:... by Rajeswari Sreeenivas, Algi Nadil, Priya Thomas, Giju George Baby, Deepu George Mathew, Pooja Latti, Jiss George

“…Materials and methods: To establish the genotoxic and cytotoxic impacts of CBCT radiation on the mucosa and its effects on the basal cell layer of the epithelium, the research enlisted 35 subjects aged 18 to 60 years. Before and after CBCT exposure, samples of exfoliated oral mucosa were stained with Feulgen. …”
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Clinical and Prognostic Significance of Idiopathic Left Bundle-Branch Block in Young Adults by Pietro Delise, Luigi Rivetti, Giuseppe Poletti, Monica Centa, Giuseppe Allocca, Nadir Sitta, Arianna Cati, Giovanni Turiano, Emanuela Lanari, Paolo Zeppilli, Luigi Sciarra

“…LBBB is rare in healthy young adults, and its long-term prognosis is uncertain. Methods. 56 subjects (aged <50 years), in whom an LBBB was discovered by chance in the absence of clinical and echocardiographic evidence of heart disease, were collected in a multicenter registry. …”
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ADVERSE PREGNANCY OUTCOMES IN SICKLE CELL TRAIT: A PROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY EVALUATING CLINICAL AND HAEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS IN POSTPARTUM MOTHERS AND NEW-BORNS. by r. Salam Al-Kindi

“…Objective – This study aims to investigate pregnancy outcomes in Sudanese women with SCT. Subjects and methods – Pregnant women with (HbAS, n=34) and without (HbAA, n=60) SCT were recruited during their first trimester by El Obeid Hospital, Kordofan, Western Sudan. …”
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Are Emirati consumers in United Arab Emirates open to alternative proteins? Insights into their attitudes and willingness to replace animal protein sources by Sajid Maqsood, Feyisola Fisayo Ajayi, Hussein Mostafa, Kehinde Ganiyat Lawal, Juliet Mubaiwa, Noora Alantali, Maryam Alshihhi, Meera Aldhaheri

“…This study investigates the influence of dietary habits, objective knowledge, attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control on willingness to replace meat with alternatives by Emiratis. …”
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Clinical Evaluation of the Diagnostic Role of MicroRNA-155 in Breast Cancer by Fatemeh Hosseini Mojahed, Amir Hossein Aalami, Vahid Pouresmaeil, Amir Amirabadi, Mahdi Qasemi Rad, Amirhossein Sahebkar

“…Results. The mean age of subjects in breast cancer and control groups was 47.64±8.19 and 47.36±7.52 years, respectively. …”
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Public health programmes to promote mental health in young people: a systematic integrative review protocol by Mihiri Chami Wettasinghe, Nuwan Darshana Wickramasinghe, Tine Van Bortel, Antony Morgan, Antonis A Kousoulis, Nelum Samarutilake, Julie Feiler

“…The search strategy will include combinations of three key blocks of terms, namely: ‘young people’, ‘mental health’ and ‘public health programme’, using database-specific subject headings and text words. Two reviewers will independently screen, assess data quality and extract data for synthesis. …”
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An Electronic Frailty Index Based on Deficit Accumulation May Predict Glaucomatous Visual Field Progression by Duy W, Pajewski N, Williamson JD, Thompson AC

“…Walter Duy,1,&ast; Nicholas Pajewski,2 Jeff D Williamson,3 Atalie C Thompson3,4,&ast; 1Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA; 2Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA; 3Department of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA; 4Department of Surgical Ophthalmology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA&ast;These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Atalie C Thompson, Department of Surgical Ophthalmology, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Health, Janeway Tower 6th Floor, Winston-Salem, NC, USA, Tel +1 (336) 716-4091, Fax +1 (336) 716-7994, Email atathomp@wakehealth.eduPurpose: To investigate whether an electronic frailty index (eFI) is associated with visual field loss in glaucoma.Patients and Methods: We identified 1163 subjects ≥ 65 years old with glaucoma (1082 right eyes and 1042 left eyes) who had a calculable baseline eFI, and who had reliable visual fields at baseline and final follow-up. …”
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Molecular investigation of feline herpesvirus 1 (fhv-1) and feline calicivirus in cats with respiratory system problem by Seval Bilge Dağalp, Fırat Doğan, Touraj Aligholipour Farzani, Ali Rıza Babaoğlu, Gülizar Acar Kırmızı, Mehmet Çabalar

“…Samples with positive results were subjected to sequence analysis for molecular characterization.…”
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Real-world clinical validation of the Qatar pre-diabetes risk score: a cross-sectional study by Mohamed Ahmed Syed, Narjiss Sallahi, Abduljaleel Abdullatif Zainel, Halima None Bensmail, Abdelilah Arredouani

“…HbA1c test revealed that 21.9% of the 797 subjects had pre-diabetes (HbA1c between 5.7% and 6.5%) while 3.3% had undiagnosed diabetes (HbA1c≥ 6.5%). …”
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The Role of Gender in the Importance of Risk Factors for Coronary Artery Disease by Farshid Gheisari, Melika Emami, Hadi Raeisi Shahraki, Saeid Samipour, Parastoo Nematollahi

“…Previous myocardial infarction (MI), diabetes mellitus (DM), hypertension (HTN), and hyperlipidemia (HLP) had a strong correlation with IHD in our female population. Regarding the male subjects, previous MI and HLP had a lower correlation with IHD. …”
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ZÂRÎ’NİN MÂNZÛME-İ ŞEMÂİL-İ ŞERÎF’İNDE HZ. PEYGAMBER’İN AHLAKI by Hakan Temir, Muhammed Karaca

“…Biz de bu araştırma makalesinde onun kaleminden çıkan beyitleri inceleyerek müellifin dikkate aldığı yönleri tahlil edilmeye çalışacağız.THE MORALITY OF THE HOLY PROPHET IN ZÂRÎ’S MÂNZÛME-İ SHAMAİL ŞERÎFSince the life of holy Prophet, who was sent as a mercy to all humanity, is a subject of curiosity and need, every frame of his life has been investigated and the aspects identified have been examined through the works of verse or prose. …”
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Cardiovascular wellness in low-resource settings: A mobile app-based risk prediction study among fuel filling station employees in Puducherry district by Divyabharathy Ramadass, Jyothi Vasudevan, Madonna J. Dsouza, Baalaji Subramanian

“…Results: Out of 212 subjects, 170 (80.2%) were males, out of which 116 (54.7%) were between 40 and 50 years old. …”
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AN INVESTIGATION ON THE EFFECTIVE PARAMETERS OF LOOSE SANDS LIQUEFACTION POTENTIAL USING IMPROVED HYPERCUBE SAMPLING METHOD by S. Golmoghani Ebrahimi, A. Noorzad, H. Javaheri Koupaei

“…Currently, there is a less reliable procedure to account for all pertinent uncertainties in predicting the occurrence of soil liquefaction phenomena when subjected to strong ground motion. In this research, liquefaction reliability analysis was performed by considering the soil and earthquake loading uncertainties using the latest modifications provided by Idris and Boulanger (2014) for the simplified method and using the improved hypercube sampling (IHS) method. …”
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Mechanical and Thermal Properties of Shale Ceramsite Concrete: Experimental Study on the Influence Law due to Microencapsulated Phase-Change Material Content and Phase-Change Cycle... by Weihua Ding, Lin Zhu, Hu Li, Bin Hou, Fan Yang

“…The other group includes specimens with the same MPCM content, but the specimens are subjected to different phase-change cycle numbers of 50, 100, 150, and 200 at the environment temperature of −10–60°C to study the thermal properties of MPCM-LWAC. …”
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Behavioral analysis of steel I-beams under repeated dynamic loads: Impact of various impactor head types by Zeynep Yaman, Yusuf Sümer, Elif Ağcakoca, Mahyar Maali, Abdulkadir Cüneyt Aydın

“…A 2000 mm long IPE160 section simply supported beam is subjected to impact load in the weak axis direction. …”
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Role of CBNAAT in the diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis: a prospective cross-sectional study by Rahul Gupta, Ashok Kumar Janmeja, Arjun Kumar, Balbir Singh, Pramod Kumar Shridhar

“…Fine needle aspirate and pleural fluid samples were collected from all suspected TPE and TBLN patients respectively and were subjected to CBNAAT investigation. All other recommended investigations used for diagnosis of TBLN and TPE were also performed including ZN stain, FNAC, biochemical analysis of pleural fluid, Mantoux test, radiological imaging, and other routine investigations. …”
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Effect of temperature and humidity environment on the microstructure and physicochemical properties of SBS modified asphalt by Xiang Ma, Chaolin Zhang, Rui Li, Lisha Zheng, Jiachen Xu

“…First, asphalt samples were subjected to damp-heat aging conditions using a custom-made environment chamber. …”
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Research on Business Environment Risk Governance Based on Occupational Claims: 1784 Cases of Food Safety Disputes by Jiangjie Sun, Yufei Gao, Xueli Jiang, Yan Li, Mengyao Yang, Ziyan Zhao, Hangzhou Yang, Jinliang You

“…How to manage the risk of occupational claims in the business environment is the subject of urgent research, especially COVID-19 is ravaging the world and the risk of economic crisis is increasing dramatically. …”
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Pipeline for development of acylated peptide based CGRP receptor antagonist with extended half-life for migraine treatment by Jens Bjelke Kristensen, Lisbeth Elster, Morten Lundh, Borja Ballarín-González, Flora Alexopoulou, Martin Kræmer, Ditte Marie Jensen, Ulrike Leurs, Jens Christian Nielsen, Henrik H. Hansen, Kristian A. Haanes, Matilda Degn

“…An hαCGRP8-37 analogue conjugated with a C20 diacid at position 25 was subjected to an amino acid substitution scan to identify mutations that could further enhance hCGRP receptor antagonism. …”
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