The Comparison of Cost-Effectiveness Between Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Provocative Discography in the Identification of Chronic Low Back Pain Surgery Candidates by Wilson L, Beall DP, Eastlack RK, Berven S, Lotz JC

“…Our aim is to conduct a cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) to compare the economic value of these two diagnostic procedures. Subjects were part of a multicenter study of 139 patients who received MR imaging and PD for chronic low back pain. …”
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Analyzing Expressions of the Design Argument and Answering Doubts Attributed to it Based on the Type of Logical Reasoning by Shokoh Monazzam, Abbas Abbaszadeh, Naser Forouhi

“…What distinguishes the current study from other works related to this subject is that it separates doubts attributed to its major and minor aspects by focusing on logical reasoning in terms of argument, induction, and analogy. …”
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Editorial by Daniel Halliday

“…They emphasise that any legislation, including tax legislation, is bound by the constitutional order and subject to the decisions of the rulings of the constitutional court. …”
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Vibration therapy as an intervention for trochanteric hip fractures – A randomized double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial by Ronald Man Yeung Wong, Pui Yan Wong, Chaoran Liu, Chun Sing Chui, Wing Hong Liu, Ning Tang, James Griffith, Ning Zhang, Wing Hoi Cheung

“…The balancing ability test could not be performed in most of the subjects at the baseline measurement. However, from week 6 to week 26, LMHFV group had significantly improved balancing compared to placebo group for overall stability index (week 26: 1.6 ± 1.1 vs. 3.4 ± 2.6; p = 0.006), anteroposterior stability index (week 26: 1.1 ± 0.7 vs. 2.1 ± 1.9; p = 0.048) and medial-lateral stability index (week 26: 0.9 ± 0.7 vs. 2.2 ± 2.2; p = 0.008). …”
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Barriers and Facilitators to Adherence to a Healthy Diet Across the Spectrum of Chronic Kidney Disease by Trigueros-Flores XB, Luna-Hernández G, Santos-Lopez MF, Pérez-Galván L, Flores-Camacho KJ, Díaz-Canchola LM, Cueto-Manzano AM, Chávez-Chávez HE, Cerrillos-Gutiérrez JI, Rojas-Campos E, Martín-del-Campo F

“…Nutritional evaluation included subjective global assessment, anthropometry, quality of food consumption (Mini-ECCA v.2), self-perception about diet and willingness to change. …”
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Serum biomarkers in the metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver fibrosis diagnosis in children by Yu.M. Stepanov, N.Yu. Zavhorodnia, I.A. Klenina, O.M. Tatarchuk, O.P. Petishko

“…The presence of steatosis and liver fibrosis was determined by transient elastography (Fibro­Scan® 502 touch F60156, Echosens, France). All subjects underwent anthropometric studies to determine body mass index. …”
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Effect and Mechanism of Electroacupuncture at the Affected Side of Quchi （LI 11） and Yanglingquan （GB 34） Acupoints in Rats with Limb Spasms after Cerebral Infarction by ZHAN Sheng, HUANG Linxing, YI Lizhen, CHEN Ruixue, HUANG Huiyuan, YUE Zenghui

“…The rats in the model group were fixed with the rat plate without intervention, while those in the electroacupuncture group were subjected to electroacupuncture intervention. Yanglingquan (GB34, left) and Quchi (LI 11, left) acupoints on the affected side were selected, and each acupoint was directly punctured with one needle, dense wave pattern, the frequency at 100 Hz, and the intensity based on the slight shaking of rat limbs, 30 minutes a time, once a day, and the treatment lasted for 7 days. …”
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Effect of Traditional Chinese Medicine nursing combined with continuous nebulization in nursing of elderly patients undergoing tracheostomy (中医护理联合持续雾化吸入在老年气管切开患者护理中的应用效果观察)... by HUANG Ning (黄宁)

“…Methods Totally 60 patients aged 60 years or older with cerebral hemorrhage, respiratory failure, coma and other diseases were included as research subjects. According to the order of tracheotomy, 30 patients with odd numbers were included as the control group and 30 patients with even number were included as the study group. …”
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Effect of Traditional Chinese Medicine fumigation combined with acupoint massage in the prevention of deep venous thrombosis of lower limbs in elderly hospitalized patients in the... by DONG Fangfang (董芳芳), ZHANG Linying (张林英), HE Yan (贺艳), XU Man (许曼), LIU Zijing (刘紫荆), XIONG Qiuwan (熊秋婉)

“…Methods A simple random sampling method was used to select 80 elderly inpatients (age ≥65 years old) who met the inclusion criteria in the general medical department of a certain hospital in Wuhan from June 2020 to May 2022 as the subjects of this study, and were randomly divided into control group and study group, with 40 patients in each group. …”
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Human hair biochar to remove malachite green dye and bisphenol-A contamination by M. Kamaraj, P. Kamali, R. Kaviya, K. Abishek, B. Navinkumar, T.G. Nithya, L.S. Wong, J. Aravind

“…After air drying for 24 hours, it was carbonized in a hot air oven at 200 degrees Celsius for 3 hours to obtain the human hair biochar. The biochar was subjected to various instrumental analyses to ascertain the characteristics of the biochar. …”
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Lightweight Daylily Grading and Detection Model Based on Improved YOLOv10 by JIN Xuemeng, LIANG Xiyin, DENG Pengfei

“…[Methods]The dried daylilies selected from the Qingyang region of Gansu province as the research subject. A large number of images of dried daylilies, categorized into three grades superior, medium, and inferior, were collected using mobile phones under varying lighting conditions and backgrounds. …”
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Tax Exemptions and R;D Expenditures in Iran Saeed Dorokhshi Moghaddam by Saeed Dorokhshi Moghaddam, Bahram Sahabi, Hassan Heydari, Sajad Barkhordari

“…Tax incentive: For those companies subject to this exemption, the variable amount is 1, and for the rest, it is 0. …”
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Investigation on health behavior of middle-aged and elderly patients with ischemic stroke and analysis of its influencing factors (中老年缺血性脑卒中患者健康行为现状调查及影响因素分析)... by LONG XinLing (龙鑫伶), YANG Mingchun (杨鸣春), ZOU Airong (邹爱容)

“…Methods A total of 203 inpatients with ischemic stroke in the Department of Neurology of TWO Grade III Grade A general hospitals were selected as subjects. The questionnaire of health behavior, health knowledge, self-efficacy and general data were collected by self-filling questionnaire and enquiry methods. …”
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Presenting a Framework of Effective Factors on the Implementation of Policies in the Field of Protection and Exploitation of Forests in the North of the Country by Davoud Hosseinpoor, Seyed Mahdi Alvani, Hossein Aslipour, Aghil Ghorbani Paji

“…In the qualitative section, the study utilized thematic analysis to convert raw codes into discernible patterns, offering deeper insights into the subject matter. The quantitative portion of the research employed the Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA) model, a well-established tool that allows for the examination of the significance of each index and facilitates the ranking of these indices based on their relevance and impact. …”
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Doctrinal Approaches on determining the Content of Intellectual Property Right by O. V. Pikhurets, A. O. Pikhurets

“…The essence of the system of рersonаl non-рroрerty rіghts іs determіned. Thus, the subjectіve rіght to the result of іntellectuаl, creаtіve аctіvіty аnd objects equаted to them cаn be eіther рroрerty (exclusіve) or рersonаl non-рroрerty, but not both аt the sаme tіme. …”
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The Study of Relative Clauses in Azeri Turkish and Persian: A Typological Approach by Anita Bazian, Arsalan Golfam, Hayat Ameri

“…Additional findings reveal that both Persian and Turkish are SOV (subject-object-verb) languages. However, Persian is a head-initial language, while Turkish is head-final. …”
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Prevalence and Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Bacterial Uropathogens Isolated from Pediatric Patients at Yekatit 12 Hospital Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Yamirot Merga Duffa, Kumera Terfa Kitila, Dereje Mamuye Gebretsadik, Adane Bitew

“…Of the 185 females, 36 (19.5%) came up with positive cultures, while 25 (12.6%) of the 199 males had significant bacteriuria, and the largest number of study subjects were below the age of 3 years, and the largest positive culture was obtained from this age group, accounting for 35 (57.4%.) out of 61 positive cultures. …”
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Effects of Jianpi therapy for cancer-related fatigue:a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials by Jiaxing Dai, Jiaxing Dai, Huili Shui, Huili Shui, Huili Shui, Yuan Wu, Huanghui Zhang, Huanghui Zhang, Yuanyin Li, Yuanyin Li, Shaowang Zhang, Shaowang Zhang, Bing Yang, Bing Yang, Bing Yang, Dongxin Tang, Dongxin Tang, Dongxin Tang

“…The extracted data were subjected to analysis using Stata (Version 15.1), with the selection of either a random-effects or fixed-effects model based on the heterogeneity among studies. …”
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Application of platelet-rich plasma therapy combined with 5E rehabilitation nursing mode for patients with knee osteoarthritis (富血小板血浆联合5E康复护理模式在膝骨性关节炎患者中的应用)... by AN Linjing (安林静), ZHAO Chen (赵晨), CHANG Yueyuan (常月圆), PAN Yaying (潘亚英), CHEN Yanqi (程艳琪), ZHANG Bing (张兵), CHEN Weinan (陈炜楠), GAO Bei (高蓓), NIU Jing (牛静), ZHANG Ting (张婷)

“…Methods Totally 80 patients with knee osteoarthritis admitted to the orthopedics department of the hospital from March 2021 to March 2023 were selected as subjects. They were divided into test group and control group according to ward odd and even numbers, with 40 cases in each group. …”
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Providing digital human resource management model by Seyed Reza Akramian, amin nikpour, Hamid Reza Mollaei, Mohammad Jalal Kamali, Hojjat Talebi

“…Sampling in this research was snowball type. Based on the subject of the desired data; through preliminary studies, semi-structured interviews, collection, and sampling continued until reaching theoretical saturation. …”
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