Examining Specific Theory-of-Mind Aspects in Amnestic and Non-Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment: Their Relationships with Sleep Duration and Cognitive Planning by Areti Batzikosta, Despina Moraitou, Paschalis Steiropoulos, Georgia Papantoniou, Georgios A. Kougioumtzis, Ioanna-Giannoula Katsouri, Maria Sofologi, Magda Tsolaki

“…Mediation analysis applied to examine potential direct and indirect effects of sleep duration on ToM tasks indicated that total sleep time had significant indirect effects through cognitive planning—mainly as rule violation total score—on specific ToM aspects. Hence, besides the effects of MCI pathologies and especially of naMCI, sleep duration seems also to be associated with ToM performance in aging via specific executive functioning decrements. …”
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Factors Associated With Reflective Practice Among Specialist Nurses in China: A Latent Profile Analysis by Lichun Xu, Liyu Lin, Aixuan Guan, Qingqing Wang, Feng Lin, Weicong Lin, Jing Li

“…According to univariate analysis, reflective practice of specialist nurses was associated with marital status, participation in nursing consultations, feelings of lack of competence, perceived low patient recognition of specialist nurses, and perceived low physician recognition of specialist nurses. …”
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Asymmetric smooth transition autoregressive model in forecasting finance rate on consumer installment loans at commercial banks by Sedigheh Zamani Mehreyan

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Preparation and quality assessment of innovative gluten-free biscuit enriched with galangal (Alpinia galanga Linn.) powder by Eatemad M. El-Sayed, Essam Mohamed Elsebaie, Shaymaa A. Hozifa, Marwa Fawzi Ahmed El-Farsy, Dalia M. El-Mesiry, Soher Abd-Elfattah ElMeslamy, Heba Ali Yousef Shaat, Rehab A. Shehata, Marwa A. Ahmed, Amira Lotfy Abd Allah, Suzan S. Ibraheim

“…Also, the nutritional value of free gluten biscuits was enhanced, with increased moisture content, crude protein, ether extract, ash, crude fiber, energy value, total phenolic, and total flavonoid, along with a decrease in carbohydrate content when the amount of galangal powder was increased. …”
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Development and Validation of RP-HPLC Method for Simultaneous Estimation of Ramipril, Aspirin and Atorvastatin in Pharmaceutical Preparations by Rajesh Sharma, Sunil Khanna, Ganesh P. Mishra

“…Total run time was less then 12 min; retention time for Ramipril, aspirin and Atorvastatin were 3.620, 4.920 min and 11.710 min respectively. …”
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A Rare Case of a Pregnant Woman with Severe Thrombocytopenia Associated with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus by Gitanshi Arora, Gauri Abhishek Prabhu

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Robert G. Sutter.The United States and Asia: Regional Dynamics and Twenty First Century Relations. by Hang Thuy Thi Nguyen

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Serum levels of Wnt5a in Egyptian women with obesity and their association with toll like receptor 2 Arg753Gln gene polymorphism in a pilot case control study of obesity as a state of metaflammation by Shaimaa H. Fouad, Mai Eldeeb, Shereen A. Baioumy, Sara I. Taha, Rehab Ali Ibrahim, Aya Elgendy, Azza Omran, Marwa Hamdy, Raed A. Alharbi, Abdulmajeed A. A. Sindi, Sylvia W. Roman

“…Only TNF-α and leptin were associated with metabolic syndrome (MetS) among the obesity group. …”
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Chronic Unexpected Mild Stress Destroys Synaptic Plasticity of Neurons through a Glutamate Transporter, GLT-1, of Astrocytes in the Ischemic Stroke Rat by Dafan Yu, Zhenxing Cheng, Abdoulaye Idriss Ali, Jiamin Wang, Kai Le, Enkhmurun Chibaatar, Yijing Guo

“…CUMS evidently reduced the level of astroglial GLT-1 in the hippocampus of the ischemic rats (p<0.05), resulting in smaller amount of glutamate being transported into astrocytes surrounding synapses (p<0.05), and then expression of synaptophysin was suppressed (p<0.05) in hippocampal dentate gyrus. …”
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Multicentre study conducted across centres in the USA, Europe and Australia to assess the safety and effectiveness of a bilateral hypoglossal nerve stimulation system for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnoea in adults: a protocol for a pivotal, multicentre, open-label, single-arm study by B Tucker Woodson, Maria V Suurna, M Boyd Gillespie, Tod C Huntley, Melyssa Hancock, Angela Santos, Jeyakumar Subbaroyan, Fatima Makori, Grégoire Fesneau, Clemens Heiser, David T Kent

“…At 12 months, the two coprimary effectiveness endpoints are the percentage of responders based on reduction in the Apnoea-Hypoponea Index, with hypopnoeas associated with 4% oxyhaemoglobin desaturation, and the Oxygen Desaturation Index, using drops in oxygen concentration &gt;4% from baseline (ODI4). …”
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Physical behaviours during pregnancy may alter the association of maternal insulin sensitivity with neonatal adiposity: a prospective pre-birth cohort of mother-child pairs by Piraveena Satkunanathan, Catherine Allard, Myriam Doyon, Patrice Perron, Luigi Bouchard, Marie-France Hivert, Tricia M. Peters

“…We also observed potential interactions of sleep and sedentary behaviour at V2 with Matsuda index for the association with birthweight z-score. We did not observe effect modification by levels of physical behaviours assessed at V1. …”
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Engineering performance and environmental assessment of sustainable concrete incorporating nano silica and metakaolin as cementitious materials by Namitha Raveendran, Vasugi Krishnan

“…Subsequently, the environmental impact of micro and nano materials was assessed using embodied carbon emissions and eco-strength efficiency. …”
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Assessment of the potential and application of Be12O12 nanocage for removal of ciprofloxacin from water employing density functional theory by Qaisar Ali, Abdul Shakoor, Gul Rehman, Munir Ur Rehman, Momin Khan, Rashid Ahmad, Iftikhar Ahmad, Abdullah F. AlAsmari, Fawaz Alasmari

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Estimating the Asphalt Binder Film Thickness Using Scanning Electron Microscope and Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy by Fazli Karim, Jawad Hussain, Imran Hafeez

“…The image analysis showed that the asphalt mixtures mostly contain asphalt mortar and asphalt mastic, occurring in irregular shape. …”
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VOCAL HANDICAP AND ASSOCIATION WITH PHYSICAL INACTIVITY AND JOB DISSATISFACTION AMONG TEACHERS by Lilian Souza Melo, Josiane Santos Brant Rocha, Viviana Maia Santos, Leonardo Rodrigues de Souza, Rosângela Ramos Veloso Silva, Desirée Sant´Ana Haikal, Adriane Mesquita Medeiros, Luiza Augusta R. Rossi-Barbosa

“… This study aimed to verify the association between voice handicaps, physical inactivity, and job dissatisfaction among public school teachers in Minas Gerais, Brazil. …”
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An Iodine-Based Starch Test to Assist in Selecting Leaves for HLB Testing by Ed Etxeberria, Pedro Gonzalez, William O. Dawson, Timothy Spann

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Retracted: Biochemical Behaviours of Salmeterol/Fluticasone Propionate in Treating Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases (COPD) by Emergency Medicine International

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A novel ddPCR™ assay for eDNA detection and quantification of Greater Amberjack Seriola dumerilli and three congeners in US waters: challenges and application to fisheries independent surveys by P. Joana Dias, Ryan Lehman, Bryan L. Huerta-Beltrán, Ana Wheeler, Crystal L. Hightower, Jessica Heise, Theodore Switzer, Clint Rhode, J. Marcus Drymon, Lynne Stokes, Mark A. Albins, Sean Powers, Nicole Phillips

“…Methods We developed and validated a novel tetraplex ddPCR™ assay able to detect and distinguish between S. dumerili, S. fasciata, S. rivoliana, and S. zonata from seawater eDNA samples. …”
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Evaluation of Real-Life Investigational Use of Enoximone in Asthma, the Third Step in Drug Repurposing: A Preliminary Report by Jan Beute, Pieter Boermans, Alex KleinJan

“…The population of uncontrolled asthma patients represents a large therapeutic burden. …”
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Secure and energy-efficient inter- and intra-cluster optimization scheme for smart cities using UAV-assisted wireless sensor networks by Niayesh Gharaei, Aliaa M. Alabdali

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