Hubungan Keteraturan Penggunaan Kortikosteroid Inhalasi dengan Tingkat Kontrol Asma Pasien Berdasarkan ACT di Poliklinik Paru RSUP Dr. M. Djamil Padang by Wulan Prisilla Prisilla, Irvan Medison, Selfi Renita Rusjdi

“…The level of asthma control can be assessed</em><em> by </em><em> using </em><em>Asthma Control Test</em><em> </em><em> (</em><em>ACT</em><em>)</em><em> questionnaire, this method is subjective but its validity has been tested. T</em><em>he objective of t</em><em>his study  </em><em>was </em><em>to determine the association between regularity of inhaled corticosteroids application and patient’s level of asthma control based on ACT in the Lung Clinic of Dr. …”
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Tools for the Analysis of Quantum Protocols Requiring State Generation Within a Time Window by Bethany Davies, Thomas Beauchamp, Gayane Vardoyan, Stephanie Wehner

“…Here, we consider a setting in which a process generates a quantum resource state with some probability <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$p$</tex-math></inline-formula> in each time step and stores it in a quantum memory that is subject to time-dependent noise. To maintain sufficient quality for an application, each resource state is discarded from the memory after <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$w$</tex-math></inline-formula> time steps. …”
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Women Empowered to Connect With Addiction Resources and Engage in Evidence-Based Treatment (WE-CARE)—an mHealth Application for the Universal Screening of Alcohol, Substance Use, D... by Krystyna Isaacs, Autumn Shifflett, Kajal Patel, Lacey Karpisek, Yi Cui, Maayan Lawental, Golfo Tzilos Wernette, Brian Borsari, Katie Chang, Tony Ma

“…Individuals were recruited using flyers, academic listserves, and a commercial human subject recruiting company (Prolific). Upon completion of the screening instruments, women explored the educational and linkage to care features of the app and filled out a System Usability Scale to evaluate the mobile health app’s usability and acceptability. …”
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Role of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Detecting Myocardial Viability in Patients with Chronic Ischaemic Heart Disease: A Prospective Observational Study by Subhosree Dey, Parul Dutta, Bornali Dutta, Baloy Jyoti Talukdar, Sushant Agarwal, Dhiraj Baruah

“…A total of 50 patients with a prior history of MI and abnormal findings on electrocardiography and echocardiography were subjected to cardiac MRI (3 Tesla). Functional parameters like wall motion and Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction (LVEF) were evaluated along with perfusion scan. …”
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Post-COVID-19 laryngo-tracheal sequelae: a comprehensive study at a tertiary care centre by Karthik P., Rupa Mehta, Ranganath T. G., Ajoy K. Behra, Atul Jindal, Himanshi Grover

“…Methods A sample of 348 patients who were diagnosed with COVID-19 using reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction were identified retrospectively, and their demographics, comorbidities, intubation/tracheostomy, and management data were collected; then all the patients were subjected to video-laryngoscopy, and findings were noted and analysed. …”
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Mechanical properties and damage mechanism of steel fiber reinforced cemented tailings backfill by Yanbi XIONG, Xiaohui LIU, Haiyong CHENG, Shunchuan WU, Jing ZHANG, Weihua LIU, Rujun TUO, Zemin LIU

“…To explore the influence of steel fibers (SFs) on the mechanical properties and damage/failure mechanisms of backfill, fiber-reinforced cemented tailings backfill (FR–CTB) is taken as the research subject to investigate the impact of SF content on the backfill mechanical properties. …”
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Morphological characterization and yield of pepper (Piper nigrum L.) types grown in Morogoro District, Tanzania by Abdul Jafari Shango, Ramadhani Omari Majubwa, Amon Petro Maerere

“…The quantitative data for vegetative, inflorescence and berry characters were subjected to analysis of variance. Mean separation test was conducted using Turkey’s Honest Significance Test at (α = 0.05). …”
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Hubungan Konsumsi Junk Food dengan Status Gizi Lebih pada Siswa SD Pertiwi 2 Padang by Rizki Nur Amalia, Delmi Sulastri, Rima Semiarty

“…This research is an analytic study conducted in a cross sectional design using 250  students of class 1-5 in SD Pertiwi 2 Padang as subjects. The data was obtained using semi-quantitative FFQ. …”
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Assessment of Asthma Control and Quality of Life among Asthmatic Patients Attending Armed Forces Referral and Teaching Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Tesfalidet Gebremeskel Zeru, Ephrem Engidawork, Alemseged Beyene Berha

“…Asthma was uncontrolled in 67.9% subjects. There was a strong correlation between asthma control and quality of life (rs=0.772; P<0.01). …”
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The Impact of Nutritional Status and Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes (CD4+ and CD8+) on Chemotherapy Response in Colorectal Cancer Patients by Lukman K, Septianto R, Rudiman R, Ruchimat T, Sribudiani Y, Nugraha P, Primastari E, Budiman D

“…Regarding chemotherapy responses in patients with colorectal cancer, this study aims to investigate the association between nutritional status and infiltrating lymphocyte counts, specifically CD4+ and CD8+.Materials and Methods: This prospective observational study analyzed the impact of nutritional status using body mass index (BMI) and TILs levels (CD4+/CD8+) on chemotherapy outcomes in CRC patients treated at a tertiary hospital in West Java, Indonesia, from July 2023 to June 2024.Results: Thirty-six research subjects were included. Eighteen participants had high levels of TILs CD4+ and CD8+ expression. …”
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Comparative Assessment of 0.5% Levobupivacaine and 0.5% Ropivacaine for Anaesthetic Potency in Mandibular Third Molar Extractions: A Randomised Controlled Trial by Prachi Surolia, Rajanikanth Kambala, Nitin Bhola, Anchal Agarwal

“…Results: The mean age of subjects in the study sample was 27.26±6.13 years in Group B and 27.23±5.24 years in Group A. …”
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Identifying Touchpoints for Foreign Tourists in the Customer Journey through 5 A's Approach by Mostafa Esmaeili Mahyari, Mohammad Ghaffari, Hamid Reza Irani, Elham Ebrahimi

“…Data was collected through in-depth interviews, allowing participants to share their experiences, which were then subjected to thematic analysis. This involved repeated examination of the interviews, coding similar statements, and categorizing them into sub-themes, which ultimately yielded 23 themes that were further grouped into five overarching themes: awareness, appeal, ask, act, and advocacy. …”
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Age-associated microglial transcriptome leads to diminished immunogenicity and dysregulation of MCT4 and P2RY12/P2RY13 related functions by Martin Škandík, Lara Friess, Guillermo Vázquez-Cabrera, Lily Keane, Kathleen Grabert, Mireia Cruz De los Santos, Mercedes Posada-Pérez, Austeja Baleviciute, Mathilde Cheray, Bertrand Joseph

“…However, the specific phenotype adopted by microglia during aging remains a subject of debate and is contingent on the chosen experimental model. …”
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一种降低南极磷虾油酸值的工艺研究 Technology of reducing acid value of Antarctic krill oil by 胥亚夫，俞存兵，余奕珂，郭忠，吴微，吕晶，郝兰 " XU Yafu, YU Cunbing, YU Yike, GUO Zhong, WU Wei, LYU Jing，HAO Lan"

“…In order to provide technical reference for improving the quality of Antarctic krill oil, using Antarctic krill oil as the raw material and food-grade magnesium silicate as the deacidification agent, the oil was subjected to deacidification treatment. The most critical five indicators (yield of Antarctic krill oil, phospholipid content, acid value, fluidity and transparency）for assessing the production cost and product quality of Antarctic krill oil were used as indicators, and the optimal deacidification process conditions were determined through single factor experiments and orthogonal experiments. …”
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Characteristics and long-term health outcomes of the first domestic COVID-19 outbreak cases in Da Nang, Vietnam: a longitudinal cohort study by Miyuki Tsuruoka, Mai Kim Huynh, Michiko Toizumi, Thanh Tien Hoang, Trieu Bao Nguyen, Anh The Dao, Luong Dinh Nguyen, Huy Xuan Le, Chung Thanh Le, Anh Quang Dang, Hung Thai Do, Lay Myint Yoshida

“…Methods We conducted an ambidirectional cohort study. Study subjects were all hospitalised cases with positive real-time PCR test of SARS-CoV-2 in the three major hospitals in Da Nang from 25 July to 28 August 2020. …”
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Unique thermal architecture integrating heliostat solar fields with a dual-loop power generation cycle employing thermoelectric; thermal/financial study and GA optimization by Amr S. Abouzied, Xiaoming Guo, Azher M. Abed, Mohammed A. Alghassab, Fahad M. Alhomayani, Baseem Khan, Yasser Elmasry, Ahmad Almadhor, Salem Alkhalaf, Albara Ibrahim Alrawashdeh

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TC2N maintains stem cell-like characteristics to accelerate lung carcinogenesis by blockade of dual specificity protein phosphatase 3 by Jing Gu, Yang-fan Lv, Ji-ying Xia, Fu-hai Bai, Ji Gong, Guang-qiang Pan, Bo Liu, Lu Huang, Qiao-nan Guo, Xiang-lin Hao

“…Tumor tissues of 395 lung cancer patients were subjected to tissue microarray and further assessed the associations of TC2N expression with tumor differentiation degree. …”
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The influence of scapular orientation on the medial scapula corpus angle in snapping scapula syndrome by Brittany Percin, BS, MS4, Joseph Featherall, MD, Robert Z. Tashjian, MD, Peter N. Chalmers, MD, Christopher D. Joyce, MD, Alexander J. Mortensen, MD, Heath B. Henninger, PhD

“…Results: Scapula type commonly changed and the MSCA varied up to 104° within a subject depending on the imaging plane, regardless of location below or above the reference plane. …”
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Hubungan Infeksi Soil Transmitted Helminth dengan Status Gizi pada Murid SDN 29 Purus Padang by Reshka Renanti M, Selfi Renita Rusdji, Elmatris SY

“…The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between soil transmitted helminth infections and nutritional status.This cross sectional study was conducted at the SDN 29 Purus Padang from October 2014 until February 2015. The subjects were 78 students of SDN 29 Purus. Sampling by multistage sampling. …”
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Hubungan Konsumsi Makanan Sumber Antioksidan dan Omega-3 Terhadap Tekanan Darah Masyarakat di Sumatera Barat by Harris Putra Reza, Nur Indrawati Lipoeto, Husnil Kadri

“…This study used secondary data from research by Lipoeto et al (2008) in "Determinant Factors of Hypertension in West Sumatra". Subjects were 400 people who were interviewed using Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) form and examination of blood pressure using mercury sphygmomanometer. …”
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