Association of XRCC3, XRCC4, BAX, and BCL-2 Polymorphisms with the Risk of Breast Cancer by Emre Ozoran, Fadime Didem Can Trabulus, Duygu Erhan, Bahadir Batar, Mehmet Guven

“…The risk of metastasis was 11 times with this genotype. It was associated with 6 times more risk of having a tumor larger than 2 cm. …”
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Hyperhomocisteinemia, hypercysteinemia, glutamate excitotoxicity, taurine deficiency at hepatitis C by V. K. Pozdeev, N. V. Pozdeev, O. Ye. Nikitina

“…Total statistical data processing at hepatitis C revealed: hyperhomocisteinemia (2,5 times increase in tHCy level), hypercysteinemia (1,5 times increase in tCys level), glutamate excitotoxicity (2,75 times increase in Glu level on a background of relative decrease of levels of tGSH and Gln), deficiency of taurine (level was decreased 1,4 times), increase of Gln, Asp, Asn, Ser levels 1,56, 1,75, 1,32, 1,4 times respectively. …”
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Clearing Up Charitable Giving by Lynda M. Spence

“…   Life is filled with uncertainty and when a disaster or hard times occur often times individuals and families are rendered vulnerable with feelings that include helplessness and confusion. …”
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Caesarean section rates and indications in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: The case of Mbandaka City by Patrick Bongbanga Mundembe, Roger Mwimba Mbungu, Félicien Kandolo Tshimungu, Jules Moti Kangite, Jean Claude Efoloko Likulu, Guillin Boboko Bikoko, Monizi Mawunu, Jean-Paul Koto-Te-Nyiwa Ngbolua

“…Several factors significantly increased the likelihood of caesarean delivery, including macrosomia (16.4 times more likely), a scarred uterus (28.91 times), a shrunken pelvis (27.8 times), fetal distress (16.8 times), transverse presentation (32.1 times), and twin pregnancies (144.6 times). …”
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Anomaly Detection for Aviation Safety Based on an Improved KPCA Algorithm by Xiaoyu Zhang, Jiusheng Chen, Quan Gan

“…Performed on Nvidia GeForce GTX 660, the computation of the proposed GPU-based RBF parameter is 112.9 times (average 82.6 times) faster than that of sequential CPU task execution. …”
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A Vector-Like Reconfigurable Floating-Point Unit for the Logarithm by Nikolaos Alachiotis, Alexandros Stamatakis

“…Under double precision, one LAU is 20 and 2.6 times faster than the respective GNU and MKL functions and 1.4 times faster than the FloPoCo logarithm. …”
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Resolvent Positive Operators and Positive Fractional Resolvent Families by Nan-Ding Li, Ru Liu, Miao Li

“…This paper is concerned with positive α-times resolvent families on an ordered Banach space E (with normal and generating cone), where 0<α≤2. …”
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Clearing Up Charitable Giving by Lynda M. Spence

“…   Life is filled with uncertainty and when a disaster or hard times occur often times individuals and families are rendered vulnerable with feelings that include helplessness and confusion. …”
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Utilization, Demand, And Willingness to Pay for Telehealth Services: A Study of Patients in Selected Vietnamese Provinces by Hung Ta, Hoan Van Vu, Thu Xuan Mai, Hieu Thi Minh Nguyen, Toan Thanh Thi Do, Hoat Ngoc Luu

“…For lower-cost services (100,000 VND to 500,000 VND), low-income households were 2.7 times more likely to pay (OR: 2.7, 95% CI: 1.41-5.00, p<0.01); familiarity with telehealth services increased the likelihood of spending by 1.6 times (OR: 1.6, 95% CI: 1.10-2.54, p<0.05); and those with less convenient access to healthcare were 1.79 times more likely to pay (OR: 1.79, 95% CI: 1.00-3.13, p<0.05). …”
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Cervical cancer screening by cotesting method for Vietnamese women 25–55 years old: a cost-effectiveness analysis by Hien Thu Bui, Van Nu Hanh Pham, Thang Hong Vu

“…To date, cost-effectiveness studies evaluating CC screening methods in Vietnam remain limited.Objectives To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of two CC screening strategies for Vietnamese women aged 25–55 years: (1) cotesting combining cytology and HPV testing conducted three times at 5 year intervals (intervention) and (2) cytology-based screening conducted five times at 2 year intervals (comparator). …”
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FREKUENSI PEMBERIAN GROW QUICK LB TERHADAP PERTUMBUHAN BIBIT ANGGREK DENDROBIUM PADA STADIA KOMUNITAS POT by SURTINAH SURTINAH, ENNY MUTRYARNY

“… ABSTRACT This research was held at screen house of Fakultas Pertanian Unilak, this experiment is a kind of research that using 1 factor of 2 treatments which the Grow Quick LB fertilizer giving 3 times a day and the Grow Quick LB fertilizer giving 6 times a day. …”
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Doctoral training at the University of Medical Sciences of Cienfuegos using distance learning methods, in the days of COVID-19 by Miriam Iglesias León, Norma Mur Villar, Manuel Cortés Cortés, José Aurelio Diaz Quiñones, Maria Aurelia San Juan Bosch

“…<p><strong>Foundation:</strong> the need to raise health professionals´ scientific potential in the Cienfuegos province is an imperative of the current times. To achieve this purpose, a coordinated, flexible Doctoral Training Strategy is required that can be adapted to the public health context current conditions in times of pandemic.…”
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SAV Operations on a Bus Line Corridor: Travel Demand, Service Frequency, and Vehicle Size by Huang Yantao, Kara M. Kockelman, Long T. Truong

“…Results show that the use of smaller, but more frequent, SAVs leads to reduced passenger waiting times but increased vehicle travel times. More frequent services of smaller SAVs do not, in general, significantly affect general traffic due to shorter dwell times. …”
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Event-Trigger Reinforcement Learning-Based Coordinate Control of Modular Unmanned System via Nonzero-Sum Game by Yebao Liu, Tianjiao An, Jianguo Chen, Luyang Zhong, Yuhan Qian

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Utilizing Connection Usage Characteristics for Faster Web Data Transport by Gautam Raj Moktan, Nutti Varis, Jukka Manner

“…We discuss the effect of the transport protocol on object transfer, connection duration, idle times during the page load, connections, and concurrency of flows that cumulate into page load times.…”
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ACUPUNCTURE AND SELF ACUPRESSURE TREATMENT OF HEMIFACIAL SPASM: A CASE REPORT by Maya Septriana, Yudi Perdana

“…In handling hemifacial spasm, acupunture given for 15 times, taken three times a week combined with acupressure and auricular acupressure. …”
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Early mortality, epidemiological and clinical factors in seriously ill patients treated in Intermediate Care Units by Osmani Pérez Ortiz, Angel Antonio Urbay Ruíz, Elaine Teresa Gutiérrez Pérez, Lis Marlyn Rodríguez García, Ivette Irene Molina Linares, Ernesto Conyedo Vergel

“…Results: older adult patients increased the possibility of dying early 1.5 times and those with white skin three times, the latter with an 80% occurrence in this study. …”
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BIOMECHANICAL COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN TENSION BAND WIRING, DOUBLE ENDO BUTTON AND HOOK PLATE FOR ACROMIOCLAVICULAR JOINT INJURY by Erwin Ramawan, Jifaldi Afrian MDS

“…In 50 times repetition, tension band wiring 0.3111 mm (p = 0.000) with double endo button 4.7778 mm and hook plate 1.3556 mm. …”
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Factors affecting the prolongation of mechanical ventilation in patients after cardiac surgery by Mahdieh Sharifzadeh Kermani, Tania Dehesh, Shiva Pouradeli, Bahareh Soltani Esmaili

“…Risk of PMV in the patients who had cardiac dysfunctin increased by more than 2 times.[OR = 2.58, 95%; CI = (1.33.2.87); P-value = 0.042]. …”
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