The scholarly and practice profile of respiratory therapists in Canada: A cross-sectional survey by Marco Zaccagnini, André Bussières, Peter Nugus, Andrew West, Aliki Thomas

“…Future national surveys could employ random sampling strategies to achieve a more representative sample of the profession.…”
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The Role of Lifestyle Factors in Controlling Blood Pressure among Hypertensive Patients in Two Health Facilities in Urban Ghana: A Cross-Sectional Study by Emefa Modey Amoah, Darlene Esinam Okai, Adom Manu, Amos Laar, Joseph Akamah, Kwasi Torpey

“…Similarly, 52.5% of patients that had not achieved blood pressure control lacked knowledge of causes or complications of hypertension. …”
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Gender bias in urology: The role of gender in selecting urology as a medical specialty by Mansour Alnazari, Abdullah K. Aljohani, Emad S. Rajih, Abdulaziz Bakhsh, Ghadi S. Alghamdi, Faris S. Sebaa, Ali A. Alraddadi, Adel Moalwi

“…Addressing these issues is crucial to achieving gender equality within the field.…”
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Implementation effectiveness of ‘Problem solving for better health’ training in Lesotho using mixed methods and the reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation and maintenance (... by Doris Akolbire, Lora L. Sabin, Paballo P. Lethunya, Abhinav Sharma, Howard J. Cabral, Brian W. Jack, Nancy A. Scott

“…Mainly medium or high-quality scores were achieved for the project designed. However, among 79 participants, only 49.4% reported initiating their projects. …”
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CAREER GUIDANCE EXPERIENCE ABROAD by Sergey N. Tolstoguzov

“…The most typical characteristics of foreign career-oriented schemes are the following: the organisation of continuous training lasting throughout all school; supervision over students’ achievements, propensities and hobbies; portfolio or cumulative files drafting and recording data of all pupil’s results while professional consulting and selection of entrants for vocational training continuation in colleges or high schools. …”
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How efficient are specialized public health services in China? A data envelopment analysis and geographically weighted regression approach by Qian Bai, Qian Bai, Lieyu Huang, Yan Guo, Xin Xu, Zhouyixin Zhang, Yuan Wang, Hao Chen, Ying Bian, Ying Bian

“…On the other side, the ratio of older population, the sex ratio and the Nitrogen Oxides emission volume had positive impacts on technical efficiency with variations in coefficient magnitude across different geographic areas.ConclusionThe efficiency of specialized public health facilities has not achieved the optimal status, particularly in terms of the pure technical efficiency. …”
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Generating evidence on screening, diagnosis and management of non-communicable diseases during pregnancy; a scoping review of current gap and practice in India with a comparison of... by Theophilus Lakiang, Sonali Abner Daniel, Kauma Kurian C, Minashree Horo, Shumayla Shumayla, Sunil Mehra

“…Similarly, to keep this momentum, the current United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG: 3.1) aims at reducing the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births by 2030, and this can be achieved by addressing high-risk pregnancy contributing to significant mortality and morbidity. …”
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RUSSIA'S RELATIONS WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION AND CHINA: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MUTUAL PERCEPTION IN THE BORDER REGIONS by R. H. Simonyan, T. M. Kochegarova

“…Today, therefore, Russia should not deifying the West, than succeeded ones and not the deification of exclusivity, what more you want to succeed others, but strong awareness of the reality and the pursuit of maximum expediency, pragmatism in the development of the achievements of Western civilization. If Asian countries are to successfully adopt the European (Western) modernization experience, then Russia as a European country should be more favorable conditions. …”
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Integration of artificial intelligence and advanced optimization techniques for continuous gas lift under restricted gas supply: A case study by Leila Zeinolabedini, Forough Ameli, Abdolhossein Hemmati-Sarapardeh

“…However, the challenge lies in balancing gas availability constraints to achieve maximum efficiency in an oil field. This study utilizes the integrated production modeling (IPM) software to simulate an oil field operation in Iran. …”
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Nursing of a patient with COPD complicated with type II respiratory failure treated by sequential non-invasive positive pressure ventilation via nasal high-flow oxygen therapy (经鼻高... by QIAO Xinli (乔新立), MA Hailian (马海莲), LI Na (李娜), CHEN Hong (陈宏), TANG Ling (唐玲), ZHANG Ning (张宁), WANG Jingjing (王晶晶), ZHANG Tingting (张婷婷), ZHOU Jie (周洁)

“…The application of sequential treatment with transnasal high-flow oxygen therapy has achieved positive therapeutic results in patients with hypoxic respiratory failure. …”
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Manganese ferrite-graphite oxide-chitosan nanocomposite for efficient dye removal from aqueous and textile wastewater under UV and sunlight irradiation by Nazila Mohammad Hosseini, Shabnam Sheshmani, Ashraf S. Shahvelayati

“…The MnFe2O4/GO/CS nanocomposite exhibited exceptional photocatalytic performance under UV light irradiation. It achieved 99.9 and 99.5% removal of Reactive Red 198 dye and Brilliant Blue FCF 133, respectively. …”
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Cosmetic Appeal, HRQoL, and Effectiveness of Simple and Pseudotesticular Techniques of Orchidectomy in Prostate Cancer by Ijeoma N. C. Chibuzo, Augustine O. Takure, Olayiwola B. Shittu, Linus I. Okeke

“…There was no significant difference in the procedure cost nor the PSA or testosterone nadirs achieved over the three-month follow-up period (11.3, 12.6, 15.2 ng/ml (p=0.667) and 0.44, 0.64, 0.79 nmol/l (p=0.603) respectively). …”
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On the lidar-turbulence paradox and possible countermeasures by A. Peña, G. G. Yankova, V. Mallini

“…At 175 and 241 m, the prediction accuracy reduces, and better agreement is achieved within the highest mean wind speed ranges only. …”
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The miR-23a/27a/24 − 2 cluster drives immune evasion and resistance to PD-1/PD-L1 blockade in non-small cell lung cancer by Hao Luo, Bin Hu, Xiang-Rong Gu, Jing Chen, Xiao-Qing Fan, Wei Zhang, Ren-Tao Wang, Xian-Dong He, Wei Guo, Nan Dai, Dan Jian, Qing Li, Cheng-Xiong Xu, Hua Jin

“…Notably, pharmacologic targeting of the eIF3B pathway dramatically increased sensitivity to PD-1/PD-L1 blockade in patients with high expression of the miR-23a/27a/24 − 2 cluster in NSCLC. This effect was achieved by increasing MHC-I expression while maintaining high expression of PD-L1 induced by the miR-23a/27a/24 − 2 cluster. …”
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Accumulation and Transport of Cd, Pb, As, and Cr in Different Maize Varieties in Southwest China by Qi Liu, Sheng Wang, Jijiang Zhou, Li Bao, Wenbing Zhou, Naiming Zhang

“…The yield of the tested maize varieties ranged from 7377.6 to 11,037.0 kg·hm⁻², with M5 (Haoyu 1511) achieving the highest yield. M2, M4, M5, M9, M10, M21, and M25–28 were identified as suitable varieties with low Cd, Pb, As, and Cr accumulation for popularization in HM-contaminated soils in southwestern China due to their low accumulation of HMs.…”
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Peculiarities of the special knowledge application in the investigation of taking a government official or law enforcement officer as hostage by O. Yu. Prokopenko

“…The purpose of the study is to investigate the scientific findings on the definition of the concept of “special knowledge” and to clarify its role in the investigation of criminal proceedings under Article 349 “Taking a government official or law enforcement officer as a hostage” of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. To achieve this goal, the study used the following methods: analysis, synthesis, comparison, critical thinking, and systemic and structural methods, with the aim of conducting a thorough study of theoretical developments, results of investigative and judicial practice, systematising the results and formulating conclusions. …”
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The properties of kashar cheese produced with added rennet casein by Abdullah Badem, Gürkan Uçar

“…<p> <b>Conclusion:</b> In the production of kashar cheese, it can be stated that production can be made and ripening can be achieved by adding rennet casein.…”
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Prediction of mechanical characteristics of shearer intelligent cables under bending conditions. by Lijuan Zhao, Dongyang Wang, Guocong Lin, Shuo Tian, Hongqiang Zhang, Yadong Wang

“…The results show that, compared to other predictive models, the proposed model achieves reductions in Mean Squared Error (MSE), Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE), and Mean Absolute Error (MAE) to 0.0002, 0.0159, and 0.0126, respectively, with the coefficient of determination (R2) increasing to 0.981. …”
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Organizacja i członkowie Soboru Ruskiego (1848 r.) by Marian Mudryj

“…The “Ruthenianess” (although not always real) that they “remembered” was in fact an intuitive effort, in the conditions of revolutionary uncertainty, to achieve relative stability of Galician society. In general, the “Ruthenians” were a small group in the Ruthenian Sobor. …”
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Integrating vermicompost, black soldier fly, and inorganic fertilizers enhances corn growth and yield by Riri Dayang Sari Risman, Chutima Nonkhonman, Kiriya Sungthongwises

“…To achieve good agricultural practices and maximize the economic yield of corn, farmers should reduce the use of inorganic fertilizers. …”
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