Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on treatment-seeking college students by Natalie R. Pottschmidt, Rebecca A. Janis, Brett E. Scofield, Alaina L. Cummins, Dever M. Carney, Katherine A. Davis, J. Ryan Kilcullen, Hongjun (Michael) Tan, Louis G. Castonguay, Benjamin D. Locke

“…Second, for students seeking counseling after COVID-19 onset, reported negative impacts of the pandemic across life areas are presented, along with their associations with psychological symptoms, demographics, and reasons for seeking treatment. Students who reported a negative impact of COVID-19 on their mental health were more likely to present with increased baseline symptom distress. …”
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Longitudinal investigation of albumin-to-globulin ratio for human cancers demonstrates benefit in postoperative serial remeasurement by Zhenhui Li, Chunxia Li, Ruimin You, Yanli Li, Lizhu Liu, Hongjiang Pu, Ming Lei, Wenliang Li, Tao Zhang, Dingyun You

“…In this study, 2844 CRC patients, 2267 NSCLC patients and 507 HCC patients who underwent curative resection were included. …”
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Improving air monitoring system in the city by L. O. Shtripling, V. V. Bazhenov, N. S. Bazhenova, P. E. Nor

“…The expansion of the network of air pollution observation posts allows us to improve the quality of determining background pollution, but it is not able to answer the question of who is to blame for excess air pollution. The article presents the development aimed at improving the existing monitoring system, which allows, on the one hand, to determine the level of pollution at any point in the area, and, on the other hand, to quickly respond to complaints from the population about the violation of atmospheric air quality and identify sources of excess emissions in the city.…”
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Early Hyperglycemia in Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury Predicts for Mortality, Prolonged Duration of Mechanical Ventilation, and Intensive Care Stay by Shu-Ling Chong, Sumitro Harjanto, Daniela Testoni, Zhi Min Ng, Chyi Yeu David Low, Khai Pin Lee, Jan Hau Lee

“…All patients < 16 years old who presented to the Emergency Department within 24 hours of head injury with a Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) ≤ 13 were included. …”
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Association between C-reactive protein and chronic pain in US adults: A nationwide cross-sectional study. by Chunsheng Huang, Qizhen Tong, Qiaoling Tong

“…The study incorporated individuals who successfully fulfilled chronic questionnaires and had CRP assays. …”
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ANAPUS GYVENIMO IR MIRTIES DUALIZMO: BUDISTINĖ EGZISTENCIJOS INTERPRETACIJA by Agnė Budriūnaitė

“…The existentialists noticed that recognition of one’s own death as the inseparable part of existence makes human being more authentic, free and conscious. One, who has acknowledged the inescapable interconnection between life and death, has two alternatives. …”
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Thyroid Function, Prevalent Coronary Heart Disease, and Severity of Coronary Atherosclerosis in Patients Undergoing Coronary Angiography by Yan Ling, Jingjing Jiang, Minghui Gui, Lin Liu, Qiqige Aleteng, Bingjie Wu, Shanshan Wang, Xiaojing Liu, Xin Gao

“…This was a cross-sectional study including 1799 patients who were consecutively admitted and underwent coronary angiography. …”
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Tackling Disinformation Through Public Administration Recommendations –The Czech Experience by Tomáš Svoboda

“…., administrative decisions) but by issuing recommendations to third parties, who then carry out regulatory interventions. Design/Methodology/Approach: The paper employs qualitative research methodology and a case study approach, focusing on the analysis of the specific situation in the Czech legal environment (including existing case law), which it frames as a broader issue that can be replicated and thus requires a more general solution. …”
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Inverted U-shaped association between the systemic immune-inflammation index and colorectal polyps in Chinese patients: a cross-sectional study by Jie Bao, Yajie Teng, Yingxue Yang, Qinghua Wang

“…We retrospectively collected data from 3,028 Chinese patients who underwent physical examinations, including colonoscopy, from 2018 to 2022. …”
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Global Perspectives on Addressing Systemic Issues in Music Therapy Curricula and Healthcare by Amy Clements-Cortés, Melissa Mercadal-Brotons, Hakeem Leonard, Vivian Chan, Gro Trondalen, Tao-Deva Stingl, Thomas Stegemann, Claudia Zanini

“…These were identified as important issues for the authors who desired to raise awareness on these topics to further open ongoing dialogue. …”
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Carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic human health risk assessment of some vegetables irrigated with wastewater in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria by Usman Bawa, Ahmad AbdulHameed

“…Results: Concentrations of Cd, Pb, and Cr in all the vegetables exceeded the WHO’s permissible limits while Cu and Zn did not. …”
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A Cost-Effective and Robust Cell-Based Bioassay Method for Evaluating the Bioactivity of Trastuzumab-like Antibodies by Pooja Bharali, Subhash Chand, Harish Chander

“…The biological activity of different trastuzumab biosimilars was found to be comparable to the WHO primary reference standard of trastuzumab in terms of its relative potency using the IOP assay and binding assay by flow cytometry. …”
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Anaemia in the Hospitalized Elderly in Tanzania: Prevalence, Severity, and Micronutrient Deficiency Status by Clara Chamba, Ahlam Nasser, William F. Mawalla, Upendo Masamu, Neema Budodi Lubuva, Erius Tebuka, Pius Magesa

“…Blood samples were collected, and a complete blood count, serum cobalamin, serum ferritin, and serum folate levels were measured to assess anaemia and micronutrient deficiency status in all participants who had anaemia. Results. The prevalence of anaemia was 79.5% (124/156) with severe anaemia in 33.9% (42/124) of participants, moderate anaemia in 42.7% (53/124) of participants, and 23.4% (29/124) of all participants had mild anaemia. …”
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Up against the System: A Case Study of Young Adult Perspectives Transitioning from Pediatric Palliative Care by Karen Cook, Harold Siden, Susan Jack, Lehana Thabane, Gina Browne

“…Advances in pediatric care have not provided the interdisciplinary support services required by those young adults with pediatric life-threatening conditions (pedLTCs) who live beyond childhood but have limited expectations to live past early adulthood. …”
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Postoperative extraperitoneal bladder injury after metal pelvic osteosynthesis for pelvic injury by Khalid Abdullahi, Obadele Olusegun George, Ajiboye Lukman Olalekan, Abubakar Isiyaku, Muhammad Abubakar Sadiq, Aljannare Bashir Garba, Okezie Chukwuebuka Kingsley, Agwu Ngwobia Peter

“…This article discusses the case of a 60-year-old farmer who sustained polytrauma in a road traffic crash, including pelvic fracture and urethral distraction injury, among others. …”
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Schoenberg – Schenker – Bach. A Harmonic, Contrapuntal, Formal Braid by Matthew Arndt

“…This article follows on the heels of one by Holly Watkins, who argues that music, “a subsystem of the social system of communication,” can evoke the organic (the bodily and the psychic) not by forming a self-contained unity of parts and whole but through the “internal recursiveness” of musical works, their external “recursiveness vis-à-vis other music,” and – crucially – “the knowingness the music displays toward its own operations.” …”
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Neonatal outcomes and resuscitation practices following the addition of heart rate-guidance to basic resuscitation. by Jackie K Patterson, Daniel Ishoso, Adrien Lokangaka, Pooja Iyer, Casey Lowman, Joar Eilevstjønn, Ingunn Haug, Beena D Kamath-Rayne, Eric Mafuta, Helge Myklebust, Tracy Nolen, Antoinette Tshefu, Carl Bose, Sara Berkelhamer

“…The increase in death before discharge and unchanged perinatal mortality may be due to resuscitation of newborns with a higher risk of mortality who were previously presumed stillborn. A cluster-randomized trial of heart rate-guided basic resuscitation is needed to evaluate its impact on neonatal mortality in low-resource settings.…”
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Association between prognostic nutritional index and all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease mortality in American adults with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease by Yuqing Lei, Shaohong Tao, Yubo Yang, Fang Xie, Weining Xie

“…BackgroundThe current research was to investigate the relationship between prognostic nutritional index (PNI) and mortality, with a focus on all-cause and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality, for those with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).MethodsData from 20,142 patients who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), which was carried out between 2005 and 2014, were included in this research. …”
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Comparative Study of Diode Laser Versus Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) for the management of Hirsutism in Sulaimani Government by Burhan Tahir Saeed

“…The present cross-sectional prospective study was carried out on 66 patients with hirsutism who regularly visited a dermatology clinic in Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region-Iraq over a period of 8 months from February to October 2020. …”
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Cost-effectiveness of watchful waiting versus immediate emergency department transfer after epinephrine autoinjector use in Canada by Yiwei Yin, Moshe Ben Shoshan, Marcus Shaker, Matthew Greenhawt, Kate M. Johnson

“…Methods We developed a probabilistic Markov model of individuals starting at age of one year who are at risk of severe food-related allergic reactions requiring epinephrine. …”
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