Disrupted Regional Spontaneous Neural Activity in Mild Cognitive Impairment Patients with Depressive Symptoms: A Resting-State fMRI Study by Xiaozheng Liu, Yunhai Tu, Yirou Zang, Aiqin Wu, Zhongwei Guo, Jiawei He

“…It is currently unclear whether the pattern of spontaneous brain activity in patients with MCI differs between subjects with and without depressive symptoms. The current study sought to investigate the features of spontaneous brain activity in MCI patients with depressive symptoms (D-MCI) using coherence regional homogeneity (CReHo) analysis with resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rsfMRI). …”
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RELEVANSI PEMIKIRAN IRIGARAY TERHADAP ARSITEKTUR by Nurhijrah Nurhijrah, Tamiya M. S Kasman, Boyke M. Akbar

“…If the architect has been able to accommodate differences in needs between genders, then the work has recognized the two genders as subjects that are contained in an architectural product, no longer as objects. …”
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GAZE DIRECTION MONITORING MODEL IN COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT by Olesia Barkovska, Yaroslav Liapin, Tetiana Muzyka, Ihor Ryndyk, Pavlo Botnar

“…The dynamic authentication based on the sequence of eye movements proposed in the model allows error-free user's eye area detection for further analysis of the test subject's behavior. The proposed authentication method excludes the need to enter passwords or CAPTCHAs, ensures the speed of determining the user's presence. …”
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Exploring the significance of medical humanities in shaping internship performance: insights from curriculum categories by Chao Ting Chen, Anna Y.Q. Huang, Po-Hsun Hou, Ji-Yang Lin, His-Han Chen, Shiau-Shian Huang, Stephen J. H. Yang

“…Multiple variables regression revealed that MH, after controlling for the scores of other subjects, has the highest odds ratio (OR: 1.29, p < 0.0001) on internship grades. …”
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Compliance status of tobacco control laws in the university setting of Bangladesh: an analytical study followed a mixed-method approach by Nasrin Akter, Bilkis Banu, Sujana Haque Chowdhury, Tahsin Tasneem Tabassum, Sarder Mahmud Hossain

“…The study revealed non-satisfactory compliance with TCLs among 56.4% of study subjects which was strongly supported by the outcome of the qualitative approach. …”
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Effect of endoscopic sinus surgery on eustachian tube function in adult patients with chronic rhinosinusitis by Mahmoud Atef Abdelghaffar Youssef, Nassim Talaat Nassim, MohamedNourEddin Bashir Alkeeb, Tareq Muhammad Algarf

“…All selected patients were subjected to a full history taken, a full general examination, and a local otorhinolaryngology examination. …”
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Swiss Orthopaedics Minimal Dataset: First Pilot Report of Reliability and Validity by Thorsten Jentzsch, Claudio Dora, Urs Müller, Mazda Farshad

“…It is a standardized, generic, and patient-reported outcome questionnaire, comprising ten items (location of disease, pain within the past four weeks, limitations at work/leisure/sleep/autonomy, subjective value of a body part, employment status, work disability (sick leave/pension), and household support). …”
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Impact of Immunotherapies on SARS-CoV-2-Infections and Other Respiratory Tract Infections during the COVID-19 Winter Season in IBD Patients by Constanze Heike Waggershauser, Cornelia Tillack-Schreiber, Paul Weyh, Eckard Alt, Thorsten Siegmund, Christine Berchthold-Benchieb, Daniel Szokodi, Fabian Schnitzler, Thomas Ochsenkühn

“…Whilst more than 3% of all COVID-19 subjects of the general population died during the first wave, none of our IBD patients died or needed referral to the ICU or oxygen treatment. …”
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Un document: Deziluziile mele în Rusia by Emma Goldman, Cristina Deutsch

“…At the beginning of 1916, she will be arrested again under the accuse of delivering leaflets containing material that has as a subject birth control. In prison, she becomes good friend with Gabriella Segata Antolini, Luigi Galleani’s famous disciple, whom she will personally meet later on. …”
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Efficacy of uterine flushing with human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) on pregnancy rates in primary unexplained infertility: a randomized controlled trial by Parvin Hakimi, Mahshid Alborzi, Ehsan Nikkhou, Hosein Azizi

“…Methods A randomized controlled clinical trial was conducted involving 80 subjects with unexplained primary infertility at the infertility clinic of Al-Zahra Hospital in northwest Iran. …”
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Business Venturing in Regulated Markets—Taxonomy and Archetypes of Digital Health Business Models in the European Union: Mixed Methods Descriptive and Exploratory Study by Sascha Noel Weimar, Rahel Sophie Martjan, Orestis Terzidis

“…However, the health care industry is complex, involving numerous stakeholders, and subject to extensive regulation. Within the European Union, medical device regulations impose stringent requirements on various ventures. …”
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Is middle East pain syndrome (MEPS) a variant of fibromyalgia syndrome or a distinct disease? by Mona H. Elhamamy, Adel A. Elbeialy, Maha S. Mohamed, Sabah E. Abdelraheem, Hala M. Elzomor

“…They were divided into two groups, group [1] 1 of 40 FMS patients with low vitamin D levels and secondary hyperparathyroidism, which were diagnosed as MEPS, and group [2] of 40 primary FMS patients. They were subjected to full medical history taking, clinical examination and laboratory assessment including serum IL-17 by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay technique, as well as assessment of Madrid Sonographic Enthesitis Index (MASEI) using musculoskeletal ultrasound and nailfold capillaroscopic pattern assessment. …”
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Quality of Life Assessment in Diabetic Patients Using a Validated Tool in a Patient Population Visiting a Tertiary Care Center in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India by Dayanidhi Meher, Sonali Kar, Mona Pathak, Snigdha Singh

“…A qualitative endeavour was attempted at the diabetic clinic of a tertiary care set up in the capital city of Bhubaneswar to create a diabetic surveillance data assembly, wherein subjects above 18 years of age and newly diagnosed or on follow-up, after obtaining informed consent, were made to respond to a quality of life (QOLID) validated tool. …”
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Evaluating the Impact of Preclinical and Clinical Exposure to the Pediatric Pulpotomy Procedure on Confidence Among Senior Dental Students: An Analytical Survey Study by Alzain I, Albqmi SS, Alkatheeri SM

“…The association between knowledge and practical/clinical experience and the competency grade was performed using an independent sample t-test and ANOVA (α = 0.05).Results: Of the targeted subjects, 215 responded to the questionnaire, yielding a response rate of 66.3%. …”
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The Russian-Indian Scientific and Technological Cooperation in the First Decade of the 21st Century by Konstantin P. Kurylev, Larisa A. Chereshneva, Mariia N. Starikova, Liudmila A. Belousova

“…This is to enable the countries to collectively address the emerging challenges associated with human-induced, climatic and socio-cultural threats, as well as terrorism and religious extremism. The subject is an analysis of the legal framework and content of Russian-Indian cooperation in scientific and technological fields. …”
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Benefits of Virgin Coconut Oil in Diet to Colossoma macropomum (Cuvier, 1818) by Márcia Valéria Silva do Couto, Natalino da Costa Sousa, Higo Andrade Abe, Joel Artur Rodrigues Dias, Carlos Alberto Martins Cordeiro, Peterson Emmanuel Guimarães Paixão, Thays Brito Reis Santos, Fernanda dos Santos Cunha, Juliana Oliveira Meneses, Ricardo Marques Nogueira Filho, Carol Nunes Costa Bomfim, Cláucia Aparecida Honorato, Bruno Trindade Cardoso, Rodrigo Yudi Fujimoto

“…At end of experiment, the fish were subjected to bacterial challenge and blood analysis (glucose, lactate, plasmatic protein, and red cell blood). …”
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Practice and effectiveness evaluation of integrated teaching of life education and hospice & palliative care for undergraduates in a medical college in Shanghai by JING Limei, WANG Jingrong, WANG Hui

“…The Wilcoxon rank sum test was used to quantitatively analyze the objective teaching effect while the thematic analysis method was used to evaluate the subjective learning effect of students.ResultsThrough the integrated teaching practice, the quantitative analysis found that students’ overall evaluation of the course was higher. …”
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Association between medication adherence and disease outcomes in patients with hepatitis B-related cirrhosis: a population-based case–control study by Vivian Chia-Rong Hsieh, Kuo-Yu Fu, Meng-Lun Hsieh, Jou-An Chen

“…Two prognosis endpoints (decompensation and mortality) are used, respectively, to classify subjects into two different case–control sets. Study groups are propensity-score matched. …”
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“…The developed layered controllers are numerically and experimentally validated for the robust locomotion of the A1 quadrupedal robot subject to various disturbances and uneven terrains. …”
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Age-related differences in eye blink-related neural activity and functional connectivity during driving by Emad Alyan, Stefan Arnau, Stephan Getzmann, Julian Elias Reiser, Melanie Karthaus, Edmund Wascher

“…Herein, we investigated age-related differences and differences between reactive and proactive driving in blink behavior-related potentials, and source-level functional connectivity. Seventy-six subjects participated in two experiments with reactive (19 young, 28 older) and proactive (16 young, 13 older) driving scenarios, consisting of a lane-keeping task with either varying levels of crosswind or curve road, respectively. …”
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