A Preliminary Investigation into the Neural Correlates of Knee Loading during a Change of Direction Task in Individuals after Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction by Adam Culiver, Dustin Grooms, Nathan Edwards, Laura Schmitt, James Oñate

“…Involved limb pKEM during the SV condition was positively correlated with BOLD signal in the contralateral precuneus and superior parietal lobe (Voxels: 53; p = .017; z-stat max: 6.47; MNI peak: 6, -50, 66). # Conclusion There is a positive association between involved limb pKEM in the SV condition and BOLD response in areas of visual-sensory integration. …”
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Investigation the Services Provided to Disabled in Çanakkale by Orkun Dalyan, Mehmet Pişkin, Leyla Yeşilçinar

“…Of the participants, 23 (38.3%) were physical, 8 (13.4%) were mental, 7 (11.7%) were auditory, 2 (3.3%) had speech disorders, 2 (3.3%) had learning disabilities, 2 ' of them (3.3%) had visual impairment and 16 (26.7%) had disability in the other category.The data obtained focused on the safe passage zones for the disabled, sports field-sports guidance and the insufficiency of the disabled staff in public institutions. …”
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Spatiotemporal Variation of Abattoir Operation on Soil Quality Dynamics in Umuahia South, Abia State, Nigeria by M.U. Chikwendu, U.I. Uchendu, N.O. Ochor

“…The exchangeable cations were observed to be 0.53Cmol/kg, 2.31Cmol/kg, 0.49Cmol/kg and 0.67Cmol/kg for Potassium, Sodium, Calcium and Magnesium respectively. …”
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Association Between Passive Hip Range of Motion and Pitching Kinematics in High School Baseball Pitchers by Hillary A. Plummer, Nicole M. Bordelon, Kyle W. Wasserberger, Tyler J. Opitz, Adam W. Anz, Gretchen D. Oliver

“…Understanding the relationships between PROM and mechanics can assist in the development of injury prevention protocols…”
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Synthesis, Characterization and Application of 2-Line and 6-Line Ferrihydrite to Pb(II) Removal from Aqueous Solution by N Abdus-Salam, FA M’civer

“…J. Appl. Sci. Environ. Manage, Dec, 2012, 16 (4)327-336…”
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Hypertension and Associated Factors in Rural and Urban Areas Mali: Data from the STEP 2013 Survey by Hamidou Oumar Bâ, Youssouf Camara, Ichaka Menta, Ibrahima Sangaré, Noumou Sidibé, I. B. Diall, Souleymane Coulibaly, Maiga Asmaou Kéita, Georges Rosario Christian Millogo

“…Female sex was protective with OR of 0.45 [0.29–0.71] and using normal weight as reference OR for overweight was 1.54 [1.04–2.27] and 2.67 [1.64–4.36] for obesity. Conclusion. …”
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Synthesis, Characterization and Application of 2-Line and 6-Line Ferrihydrite to Pb(II) Removal from Aqueous Solution by N Abdus-Salam, FA M’civer

“…J. Appl. Sci. Environ. Manage, Dec, 2012, 16 (4)327-336…”
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Spirometric alterations in post-COVID-19 patients treated on an outpatient. Ibarra, January–December 2021 by Paulina Marilú Puedmag Rueda, Pedro René Torres Cabezas, Jorge Luis Anaya González

“…In isolation, the FEV1/FVC ratio was significantly associated with moderate (p=0.027) and severe (p=0.017) COVID-19. Furthermore, in these same groups an increase in systolic blood pressure was evident during the presentation of their clinical symptoms (p=0.009 and p=0.004, respectively).…”
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Circulating Galectin-3 and Atrial Fibrillation Recurrence after Catheter Ablation: A Meta-Analysis by Guangping Zhang, Yongquan Wu

“…Pooled results showed that baseline circulating Gal-3 levels were significantly higher in patients with AF recurrence compared to those without (standardized mean difference: 0.74; 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.21 - 1.27; p = 0.007; I2 = 89%). Moreover, higher baseline Gal-3 levels were independently associated with a significantly higher risk of AF recurrence after catheter ablation (risk ratio: 1.17 per unit of Gal-3; 95% CI: 1.01 - 1.35; p = 0.03; I2 = 40%), which was independent of age, gender, and left atrial dimension. …”
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Association of ABO Blood Group and Body Mass Index: A Cross-Sectional Study from a Ghanaian Population by Samuel Smith, Isaac Okai, Chrissie Stansie Abaidoo, Emmanuel Acheampong

“…Blood group O was the most prevalent (51.2%), while Rhesus-positive individuals constituted 90.3%. 6.3% of the participants were obese, while 18.7% were overweight. There was significant (p=0.006) higher prevalence of obesity in females (10.3%) than in males (3.4%). …”
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Acceptance and commitment therapy reduces perceived ostracism in suicidal patients by Emilie Olié, Manon Malestroit, Véronique Brand-Arpon, Philippe Courtet, Deborah Ducasse

“…The postintervention NTS score was greater (lower social distress) in the ACT group than in the PRT group (group × time interaction; β = 0.47, p < 0.05), even after controlling for depressive symptoms (β = 0.27, p < 0.05). …”
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Harnessing synergy of machine learning and nature-inspired optimization for enhanced compressive strength prediction in concrete by Abba Bashir, Esar Ahmad, Shashivendra Dulawat, Sani I. Abba

“…The RF model optimized with CSO, MFO, and WOA consistently performed well across various metrics having R2 = 0.98, RMSE = 0.03 during training and R2 = 0.87 and RMSE = 0.07 during testing. …”
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<i>Ginkgo biloba</i> Extract Prescriptions Are Associated with Slower Progression of Dementia Severity—Analysis of Longitudinal Real-World Data by Jens Bohlken, André Hajek, Martin Burkart, Karel Kostev

“…Gbe prescription was associated with a significantly decreased risk of dementia severity progression (hazard ratio: 0.50; 95% CI: 0.27–0.95), both in patients with mild (HR: 0.44; 95% CI: 0.22–0.90) and moderate dementia (HR: 0.24; 95% CI: 0.06–0.98). …”
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Linking citation and retraction data reveals the demographics of scientific retractions among highly cited authors. by John P A Ioannidis, Angelo Maria Pezzullo, Antonio Cristiano, Stefania Boccia, Jeroen Baas

“…Eventually, 39,468 eligible retractions were linked to Scopus. Among 217,097 top-cited scientists in career-long impact and 223,152 in single recent year (2023) impact, 7,083 (3.3%) and 8,747 (4.0%), respectively, had at least 1 retraction. …”
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Helicobacter pylori infection is not associated with portal hypertension-related gastrointestinal complications: A meta-analysis. by Yu Kyung Jun, Ji Won Kim, Byeong Gwan Kim, Kook Lae Lee, Yong Jin Jung, Won Kim, Hyun Sun Park, Dong Hyeon Lee, Seong-Joon Koh

“…H. pylori infection had no significant association with esophageal varices [relative risk (RR) = 0.96, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.87-1.06 for all selected studies; RR = 0.95, 95% CI = 0.84-1.07 for cohort studies; odds ratio (OR) = 0.96, 95% CI = 0.60-1.54 for case-control studies]. …”
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Delayed Bone Age Might Accelerate the Response to Human Growth Hormone Treatment in Small for Gestational Age Children with Short Stature by Jung-Eun Moon, Cheol Woo Ko

“…However, height SDS increased significantly in the group with >2 years of BA delay after 6 months of GH therapy (−2.50 ± 0.61 vs −1.87 ± 0.82; p=0.037) and 12 months (−2.27 ± 0.70 vs −1.63 ± 0.65; p=0.002). …”
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Prevalence and Factors Associated with Low Birth Weight and Preterm Delivery in the Ho Municipality of Ghana by Wisdom Kudzo Axame, Fred Newton Binka, Margaret Kweku

“…However, caesarean section (AOR: 1.94; 95% CI: 0.1.16–3.27) and hypertension (AOR: 2.06; 95% CI: 1.27–03.33) significantly increased the likelihood of low birth weight. …”
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Comparative Bioavailability of Four Marketed Sparfloxacin Formulations in Healthy Human Volunteers by K. Ravindra Rao, J. Vijaya Ratna, T. Manikya Rao

“…The Cmax and t1/2 of the sparfloxacin was 0.98±0.07 μg/mL, 14.91±1.30 h, 0.80±0.06 μg/mL, 15.75±2.37 h, 0.78±0.11 μg/mL, 16.01±1.98 and 0.81±0.04 μg/mL, 13.91±3.59 h respectively for the products A, B, C and D. …”
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Fulminant Diabetes in a Patient with Advanced Melanoma on Nivolumab by Nora Chokr, Hafsa Farooq, Elizabeth Guadalupe

“…Labs revealed potassium 9.5 mmol/L, sodium 127 mmol/L, bicarbonate <10 mmol/L, blood glucose 1211 mg/dL, anion gap >31 mmol, arterial blood pH 7.14, and beta-hydroxybutyrate 13.7 mmol/L. …”
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Phenotypic Variation in Fruit Morphology among Provenances of Sclerocarya birrea (A. Rich.) Hochst. by Idah Mkwezalamba, Chimuleke R. Y. Munthali, Edward Missanjo

“…Mangochi and Moamba provenances from Malawi and Mozambique were the most outstanding in the other parameters measured attaining the mean fruit weight of 20.89 ± 0.25 g and 25.67 ± 0.67 g, pulp weight of 25.70 ± 0.08 g and 21.55 ± 0.83 g, seed weight of 4.81 ± 0.35 g and 4.12 ± 0.18 g, fruit length of 2.61 ± 0.14 cm and 2.33 ± 0.07 cm, and fruit diameter of 2.33 ± 0.15 cm and 1.97 ± 0.08 cm, respectively. …”
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