Visible Goiter among Pregnant Women Attending Antenatal Clinic in Public Health Facilities of Debre Markos Town, East Gojjam, North West Ethiopia by Yihun Endalamaw, Haji Kedir, Tadesse Alemayehu

“…Low household income (AOR = 4.5, 95% CI: 1.1–18.7), cabbage intake (AOR = 5.2, 95% CI: 1.2–22.3), and poor knowledge about the benefits of iodized salt (AOR = 2.4, 95% CI: 1.1, 5.2) were factors associated with visible goiter. …”
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Prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder in orthopedic trauma patients and a call to implement the Injured Trauma Survivor Screen as a prospective screening protocol in the Unit... by Victoria J. Nedder, Mary A. Breslin, Vanessa P. Ho, Heather A. Vallier

“…Results Sample 1 (n=285) had significantly fewer patients with gunshot wounds than sample 2 (n=45) (8.1% vs. 22.2%, P=0.003), nonsignificantly fewer patients with a fall from a height (17.2% vs. 28.9%, P=0.06), and similar numbers of patients with motor vehicle collision (40.7% vs. 37.8%, P=0.07). …”
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The Effect of Information Therapy Program of Quitting Smoking in Parents of Children with Asthma by Nicotine Replacement by Sedigheh Mohammadesmaeili, Nahid Ramzanghorbani, Shiba Kianmehr

“…Smoking cessation using nicotine gum can improve the quality of life of parents and children. …”
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Rehabilitation Therapy Utilization in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease in Korea by Han Gil Seo, Sang Jun Park, Jiah Seo, Seong Jun Byun, Byung-Mo Oh

“…The numbers of physiatrist visits per person were 0.58, 0.96, 1.97, and 2.91, in the respective periods. Among the patients, 35–40% had claims for physical therapy, 16–19% for occupational therapy, and 4–6% for swallowing therapy. …”
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Correlation of intracranial and extracranial carotid atherosclerotic plaque characteristics with ischemic stroke recurrence: a high-resolution vessel wall imaging study by Shengyu Shao, Tianle Wang, Li Zhu, Yin Gao, Xian Fan, Yu Lu, Chengqun Qian, Manyu Zhang, Jinhua Qian

“…Kaplan–Meier survival curves were used to compare the probability of stroke recurrence.ResultsDuring the 12-month follow-up, stroke recurrence occurred in 35 of the 169 patients. Multivariate Cox regression analysis revealed that the total number of intracranial and extracranial carotid plaques (p = 0.010) and coexisting extracranial carotid plaques and intracranial significantly enhanced plaques (p = 0.047) were independent risk factors for recurrent ischemic stroke. …”
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Serological Survey and Factors Associated with Toxoplasma gondii Infection in Domestic Goats in Myanmar by Saw Bawm, Wint Yi Maung, Myat Yee Win, May June Thu, Hla Myet Chel, Tin Aye Khaing, Soe Soe Wai, Lat Lat Htun, Tin Tin Myaing, Saruda Tiwananthagorn, Makoto Igarashi, Ken Katakura

“…The infection was associated with the presence of cats at the farm (odds ratio [OR] = 4.66, 95% confidential interval [CI] = 1.03–21.06), farming with different animal species (sheep, cattle, and pigs) (OR = 4.33, 95% CI = 1.57–11.94), and farming without good management practices (OR = 0.23, 95% CI = 0.06–0.83). …”
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Immobilization of NTPDase-1 from Trypanosoma cruzi and Development of an Online Label-Free Assay by Felipe Antunes Calil, Juliana Maria Lima, Arthur Henrique Cavalcante de Oliveira, Christiane Mariotini-Moura, Juliana Lopes Rangel Fietto, Carmen Lucia Cardoso

“…Kinetic studies on the substrate ATP gave KM of 0.317 ± 0.044 mmol·L−1, which still presented high affinity compared to in solution. …”
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Development of a Robust UPLC Method for Simultaneous Determination of a Novel Combination of Sofosbuvir and Daclatasvir in Human Plasma: Clinical Application to Therapeutic Drug Mo... by Naser F. Al-Tannak, Ahmed Hemdan, Maya S. Eissa

“…The proposed UPLC-DAD method was found to be accurate with % bias ranging between -10.0-7.2 for SF and -6.9-8.0 for DC. Also it was proved to be precise with % CV for intraday precision ranging between 3.8-9.6 for SF and 2.8-9.2 for DC whereas interday precision ranged between 5.1-9.3 for SF and 3.7-9.1 for DC. …”
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Kiwifruit and Kiwifruit Extracts for Treatment of Constipation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Mohamed Eltorki, Russell Leong, Elyanne M. Ratcliffe

“…Additionally, compared with placebo (n = 119), kiwifruit or its extracts reduced abdominal pain (SMD: −1.44, 95% CI −2.83, −1.66) with moderate certainty of the evidence and improved frequency of straining (SMD: −0.29; 95% CI: −1.03, 0.47). …”
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Association between Dietary Total Antioxidant Capacity and Odds of Preeclampsia: A Case-control Study by Mahshid Taherkhani, Farzaneh Montazerifar, Azita Hekmatdoost, Bahram Rashidkhani, Abolfazl Payandeh, Mansour Karajibani

“…Results: After controlling for potential confounders, a significant inverse relationship was found between ORAC and preeclampsia; individuals in the highest tertile of ORAC were 67% less likely to have preeclampsia than those in the lowest tertile of ORAC (OR: 0.33; 95% CI: 0.11-0.97; P-trend<0.05). …”
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Pelvic Radiotherapy in Rectal Cancer Patients With Synchronous Potentially Treatable Liver Metastases by Yayu Huang, Genwen Chen, Xian Zhang, Yang Qian, Jian Wang

“…The CRT + S group demonstrated significantly longer local recurrence‐free survival compared to the C + S group (median 37.5 vs. 34 months; p = 0.011). …”
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Assessment of fluoride bio-accessibility in early childhood diets by Jelena Kronic, Ralph M. Duckworth, Claudio Angione, Steven M. Levy, Fatemeh Vida Zohoori

“…Additionally, fluoride concentration of milk samples was determined using a combination of microwave-assisted acid digestion and the direct method of fluoride analysis.ResultsMean (SD) fluoride bio-accessibility for individual food samples was 44.7% (37.5%). The mean (SD) fluoride bio-accessibilities for meals created with juice, carbonated drinks, tap water, and milk were 79.0% (21.9%), 64.3% (20.7%), 40.2% (20.9%), and 71.5% (17.1%), respectively. …”
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Reduction of NOx and SO2 Emissions by Shore Power Adoption by Duy-Hieu Nguyen, Chitsan Lin, Nicholas Kiprotich Cheruiyot, Jen-Yu Hsu, Ming-Yuan Cho, Shih-Hsien Hsu, Chin-Ko Yeh

“…The maximum simulated contribution at ground level from S1 and S2 were 78.8 µg m−3 and 147 µg m−3 for NOx, and 20.1 µg m−3 and 42.5 µg m−3 for SO2, respectively; while the results for PM10 and PM2.5 were insignificant. …”
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Liver and Nutrition. An Optimal Diet for Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease by M. V. Mayevskaya, V. T. Ivashkin

“…A high-calorie diet, followed even for a short period of time, can lead to an increase in the lipid content in hepatocytes and an increase in ALT values. …”
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Design and economic viability of a hybrid solar/gas pasteurization system for developing countries by Oumaima Guizani, Nabiha Naili, Bourhan Tashtoush, Sami Kooli

“…The actual specific heat requirement for milk pasteurization is estimated at 53 kJ/kg. Concentrating parabolic and evacuated tubes yield optimal efficiency with collector fields of 36 m2 and 25 m2, respectively. …”
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A numerical assessment of ocean alkalinity enhancement efficiency on a river-dominated continental shelf—a case study in the northern Gulf of Mexico by Yanda Ou, Z George Xue, Xinping Hu

“…Scaling OAE-induced CO _2 uptake to the 25 largest rivers in the world indicates that increasing riverine alkalinity concentrations by 10% could remove 23.23 megatons of CO _2 annually, meeting 0.37%–0.61% of the 2025–2030 CO _2 removal target.…”
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Principales factores pronósticos, clínicos y epidemiológicos en pacientes con infarto cerebral total de circulación anterior by Marbelys Guevara Rodríguez

“…Se aplicaron el Test de independencia basado en la Distribución Chi-cuadrado y la Prueba t de Student. <strong><br />Resultados:</strong> el 81,82 % de los pacientes entre 75 y 85 años evolucionó desfavorablemente, y fue mayor la probabilidad de un peor pronóstico en los pacientes más longevos (X2=10,59; p=0,007). …”
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ИССЛЕДОВАНИЕ СТРУКТУРЫ И МИКРОБИОЛОГИЧЕСКИХ ПОКАЗАТЕЛЕЙ ФЕРМЕНТИРОВАННЫХ РАСТИТЕЛЬНЫХ НАПИТКОВ... by Светлана Павловна Меренкова, Оксана Владимировна Зинина

“…Не ферментированные напитки отличаются меньшим диаметром частиц и их распределением в диапазоне от 0.97 до 6.5 мкм (85–90 % частиц). Причем для напитков, стабилизированных микроэмульсией, наблюдалось уменьшение среднего диаметра гидродинамического частиц почти в 2 раза, а также монодисперсный характер системы. …”
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The Evaluation of In-Hospital Transportation of Emergency Room Critically Ill Patients by Turan Tahirli, Sercan Yalçınlı, Yusuf Ali Altuncı

“…The average transport time for patients transferred for examination, admission, or interventional procedures was 18.5 minutes. 63.3% of the transferred patients sought medical attention during the night shift. During transport, 51.7% of patients experienced problems. Among the issues encountered during transport, 48.3% were related to the system, 27% were related to equipment, and 24.7% were related to human factors. …”
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Thermocapillary convection in superimposed fluids confined within superhydrophobic surfaces of a microchannel by Radi A. Alsulami, Kanchathan Wasuwatthanakul, Kannan Premnath, Mutabe Aljaghtham, Saad Adam

“…These results elucidate the role of the competing effects of the wall shear variations due to slip and the thermocapillary motions in the bulk regions facilitated by the viscous forces, which can be exploited in modulating mixing and transport in microchannels.…”
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