A Comparison of Urine Dilution Ability between Adult Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease, Other Chronic Kidney Diseases, and Healthy Control Subjects: A Case-Control Study by M. H. Malmberg, F. H. Mose, E. B. Pedersen, J. N. Bech

“…Blood samples were drawn four times (at baseline, 2 h, 4 h, and 6 hours after the water load) for analyses of plasma osmolality, vasopressin, renin, angiotensin II, and aldosterone. …”
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Impact of lay health worker programmes on the health outcomes of mother-child pairs of HIV exposed children in Africa: A scoping review. by Kathrin Schmitz, Tariro Jayson Basera, Bonaventure Egbujie, Preethi Mistri, Nireshni Naidoo, Witness Mapanga, Jane Goudge, Majorie Mbule, Fiona Burtt, Esca Scheepers, Jude Igumbor

“…Community awareness on Mother to Child Transmission of HIV (MTCT), proper and consistent use of condoms, clinic attendance and timely HIV testing of HEIs, as well as retention in care for infected persons, have all improved because of LHW programmes.…”
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Weekend effect on in-hospital outcomes of transcatheter aortic valve replacement: insights from a propensity-matched national analysis by Guangzhi Cong, Bo Shi, Xueping Ma, Congyan Ye, Rui Yan, Shizhe Fu, Kairu Wang, Haowei Li, Ru Yan, Shaobin Jia, Israel Gitangaza, Abdul Rehman

“…Significant heterogeneity in mortality was observed based on admission urgency, with a 3.27 times higher increased risk of death observed for elective admissions on weekends than on weekdays (P for interaction = 0.001). …”
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Association between inflammatory indices and preoperative deep vein thrombosis in patients undergoing total joint arthroplasty: a retrospective study by Xiaojuan Xiong, Peng Hu, Ting Li, Shuang Yu, Qingxiang Mao

“…Multivariate binary regression analysis revealed that the risk of preoperative DVT in TJA patients with SII ≥ 470*109/L, MLR ≥ 0.306, PLR ≥ 127, and NLR ≥ 2.08 increased by 2.26 (P < 0.001, 95% confidence interval (CI) [1.52–3.37]), 1.92 (P = 0.002, 95% CI [1.28–2.9]), 2.1 (P < 0.001, 95% CI [1.4–3.16]), and 1.94 (P = 0.002, 95% CI [1.29–2.92]) times, respectively. Age, P < 0.001, odds ratio (OR) = 1.08, 95%CI [1.05–1.10]; corticosteroid use, P = 0.002, OR 3.8, 95% CI [1.94–9.22]). …”
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Guar gum-modified magnetic palladium nanocatalyst: C–N coupling reaction and STAT3-Mediated breast cancer therapy by Junrui Luan, Xin Dong, Shuwen Zhou

“…In addition, the new accelerator bears the ability to be recuperated and recycled 7 times. The MTT test was then used to investigate the extent to which Fe3O4@guar gum/Pd NP-treated cells suppressed human breast cancer. …”
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Amino acid profiles and growth performance of spiny lobster Panulirus ornatus fed on combination of three mollusk meals by Agus Kurnia, Wellem Henrik Muskita, Muhaimin Hamzah, Laode Baytul Abidin, Ruslaini Ruslaini, Suaida Suaida, Rahel Amanda

“…Feeding the lobster two times a day (08.00 a.m and 05.00 p.m) in dosage of 8% total biomass weight for 60 days of rearing period. …”
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Life-course socioeconomic status and breast and cervical cancer screening: analysis of the WHO's Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE) by Dejana Braithwaite, Tomi Akinyemiju, Kemi Ogunsina, Swati Sakhuja, Valentine Ogbhodo

“…Women with higher parental SES were almost 10 times more likely to receive breast cancer screening (OR 9.84; 95% CI 1.75 to 55.5) compared with women with low parental SES. …”
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Sex Reversal on Congo Tetra Fish (Micraleptus intterruptus ) Larvae by Harton Arfah, , Alimuddin, K. Sumantadinata, Julie Ekasari

“…The 2 mg/l and 1 mg/l MT treatments obtained 77,53% and 69,86% male respectively, two times higher than control, 38,96%.  On the other hand, the 4 mg/l MT treatment also resulted the highest percentage of hermaphrodite fishes, 17,58%.  …”
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Density of bacteria in Limnodrilus sp. culture fertilized by fermented chicken manure by Y. Hadiroseyani, . Nurjariah, D. Wahjuningrum

“…Fertilization was carried out 2 times daily at the dose of chicken manure 130, 160 and 190 g/container.  …”
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Teleconnections detection of land use carbon emissions beyond geographical proximity promotes the construction of cross-city networks by Lei Shen, Yinghong Jiang, Duanqiang Zhai, Peng Wang

“…The total LUCE from land use in the YRDUA increased by 3.96 times, while the growth rate decreased from 100.62% to 10.38%. (2) The intensity of the associations between cities is continuously rising, with large cities exerting an increasing influence on smaller cities. …”
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Comparative analysis of lactaptin activity when produced in bacterial or eukaryotic expression systems by O. A. Koval, O. Y. Volkova, A. A. Gorchakov, S. V. Kulemzin, A. V. Tkachenko, A. A. Nushtaeva, E. V. Kuligina, V. A. Richter, A. V. Taranin

“…Given that lactaptin is of human origin and is not immunogenic, it can be administered to patients multiple times without running the risk of immune response that could dampen the therapy efficacy. …”
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Bio-oil production by pyrolysis of Azolla filiculoides and Ulva fasciata macroalgae by S. Pourkarimi, A. Hallajisani, A. Alizadehdakhel, A. Nouralishahi

“…Furthermore, the energy recovery from U. fasciata pyrolysis was calculated as 56.6% which was ‎almost 1.5 times higher than the energy recovery from A. filiculoides pyrolysis. …”
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Growth performance of 3-g Anguilla bicolor bicolor at different density by Sufal Diansyah, Tatag Budiardi, Agus Oman Sudrajat

“…Analysis of the blood profile and blood glucose level were done every ten days, while cortisol measurement was performed three times on the day-0, 30, and 60. Results showed that stocking density affected biomass growth. …”
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Determinants of Mortality in Patients with Nosocomial Acinetobacter baumannii Bacteremia in Southwest China: A Five-Year Case-Control Study by Shuangshuang Yang, Jide Sun, Xianan Wu, Liping Zhang

“…The Cox regression analysis showed that patients with CRAB bacteremia had 2.72 times higher risk for 30-day in-hospital mortality than did those with carbapenem-susceptible A. baumannii (CSAB) bacteremia (95% confidence intervals (CIs) 1.14–6.61, P=0.016). …”
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Millimeter-Wave All-Digital Phase-Locked Loop Using Reference Waveform Oversampling Techniques by Teerachot Siriburanon, Chunxiao Liu, Jianglin Du, Robert Bogdan Staszewski

“…This article proposes an mm-wave fractional-N all-digital phase-locked loop (ADPLL) employing a reference-waveform oversampling (ROS) phase detector (PD) that increases its effective rate four times, consequently improving jitter at lower power consumption while using a low-frequency reference of 50 MHz. …”
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Sexual dimorphism related to growth in climbing perch Anabas testudineus by Rahmat Hidayat, Odang Carman, , Alimuddin

“…Fish were fed on commercial feed (30% protein) three times a day at 10% feeding rate. Body weight and body length were individually recorded every 15 days, sex was determined at the end of the experiment by surgering the fish and gonad was weighed to calculate gonadosomatic index (GSI). …”
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Safety and tumour-specific immunological responses of combined dendritic cell vaccination and anti-CD40 agonistic antibody treatment for patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer:... by Joachim G J V Aerts, Sjoerd H van der Burg, Martijn P Lolkema, Sai Ping Lau, Freek R van ’t Land, Marjolein Y V Homs, Casper H J van Eijck

“…This combination-immunotherapy regimen will be administered three times every 2 weeks, and booster treatments will be given after 3 and 6 months following the third injection. …”
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El concepto de tragedia en Sigmund Freud by Ivan Andreé Victoria Vargas

“…The consistency judgment is traversed by psychoanalytic theory without inconvenience, since the different ideas, belonging to different times, are correctly sewn together, allowing and facilitating the objective of this article. …”
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Addressing palliative care and end-of-life issues in patients with advanced cancer: a systematic review of communication interventions for physicians not specialised in palliative... by Corinna Bergelt, Karin Oechsle, Nele Harnischfeger, Hilke M Rath

“…Target group should also be organ-specific oncologists, as all primary caring physicians are responsible for timely communication. Our risk-of-bias assessment revealed some weaknesses, indicating that more high-quality studies for evaluation are needed.PROSPERO registration number CRD42020191054.…”
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Evaluation of plasma cell sorting methods in multiple myeloma patients: flow cytometry versus magnetic beads by Yu Jeong Choi, Jaeguk Choi, Yehyun Kang, Saeam Shin, Seung-Tae Lee, Jong Rak Choi

“…The established gold standard for cell sorting is fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS), which is associated with lengthy processing times, substantial cell quantities, and expensive equipment. …”
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