Menstrual disorders and associated factors among rural and tribal adolescent girls in India: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Rashni Chatterjee, Suman Chakrabarty

“…Publication bias was checked using Egger’s test. A total of 61 studies (47 from rural and 14 from tribal areas) in India have been evaluated. …”
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A qualitative study exploring experiences of treatment in paediatric rheumatology - children’s, young people’s, parents’ and carers’ perspectives by Kassie Gracella Putri, Sunil Sampath, Charlotte Lucy Richardson, Alice McCloskey, Adam Pattison Rathbone

“…Data were transcribed, quality checked and thematically analysed using NVivo 12.4 to identify findings. …”
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A novel machine learning methodology for the systematic extraction of chronic kidney disease comorbidities from abstracts by Eszter Sághy, Mostafa Elsharkawy, Frank Moriarty, Sándor Kovács, István Wittmann, Antal Zemplényi, Antal Zemplényi

“…The resulting disease list and their corresponding abstracts were manually checked and a final disease list was created.FindingsThe SVM model gave the best results and was chosen for further training with active learning. …”
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Efficacy of distal peripheral nerve blocks in lumbar radicular pain: A randomized placebo-controlled triple-blinded study by Vivek Jha, Gaurav Kumar Sharma, Omeshwar Singh, Jatin Aggarwal

“…Pain Numerical Rating Scale (NRS) and SLRT were checked before and 30 min postinjection. A proportion of patients achieving minimum clinically important difference (MCID) of NRS ≤4 and MCID of SLRT ≥30° were compared. …”
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Validation of the Food Safe Zone questionnaire for families of individuals with Prader-Willi syndrome by Elisabeth M. Dykens, Elizabeth Roof, Hailee Hunt-Hawkins, Theresa V. Strong

“…Results Principal component analyses revealed that 21 FSZ items loaded onto 5 factors that were readily interpretable, accounting for 67% of test variance: Alerting Others and Food Supervision in the Community; Locking or Restricting Food Sources; Checking for Food; At Home Supervision and Meals; and Avoiding Food Settings. …”
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Co-Designing a Digital Brief Intervention to Reduce the Risk of Prescription Opioid–Related Harm Among People With Chronic Noncancer Pain: Qualitative Analysis of Patient Lived Exp... by Rachel A Elphinston, Sue Pager, Kelly Brown, Michele Sterling, Farhad Fatehi, Paul Gray, Linda Hipper, Lauren Cahill, Jason P. Connor

“…Interviews were transcribed verbatim, thematically analyzed using grounded theory, and member checked by patients. ResultsEight overarching themes were found, listed in the order of their prominence from most to least prominent: limited treatment collaboration and partnership; limited biopsychosocial understanding of pain; continued opioid use when benefits do not outweigh harms; a trial-and-error approach to opioid use; cycles of hopefulness and hopelessness; diagnostic uncertainty; significant negative impacts tied to loss; and complexity of pain and opioid use journeys. …”
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Apply IOT technology to practice a pandemic prevention body temperature measurement system: A case study of response measures for COVID-19 by Wei-Ling Lin, Chun-Hung Hsieh, Tung-Shou Chen, Jeanne Chen, Jian-Le Lee, Wei-Chung Chen

“…Among them, the measurement of body temperature is the most direct through the Forehead Thermometer, but the measurement speed is relatively slow. The cost of fast-checking body temperature measurement equipment, such as infrared body temperature detection and face recognition temperature machine, is too high, and it is difficult to build Disease Surveillance System (DSS). …”
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A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY ASSESSING THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN PERIODONTAL DISEASE AND SOCIO-BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTORS by Oana Chipirliu, Marian Viorel Crăciun, Mădălina Nicoleta Matei

“…The questionnaire was designed in four sections and presented pre-selected multiple-choice questions with a square that patients checked for the answer they considered correct. The questionnaire was used to assess oral hygiene knowledge and skills in a population group of children. …”
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Total glucosides of paeony for rheumatoid arthritis: a protocol for a systematic review by Jing Luo, Guo-Yan Yang, Di-Er Jin, Ying-Ze Zhang, Jian-Ming Wang, Wei-Ping Kong, Qing-Wen Tao

“…Possible publication bias will also be checked using funnel plots once the number of included studies is sufficient.Ethics and dissemination Ethics approval is not required, as this study will not involve patients. …”
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DATA MINING ALGORITHMS FOR PREDICTION OF STUDENT TEACHERS’ PERFORMANCE IN ICT: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW by Juma Habibu Shindo, Mohamedi Mohamedi Mjahidi, Mohamed Dewa Waziri

“…After screening and eligibility checking, 28 scholarly articles were selected and analysed through content analysis in terms of the most commonly used algorithms, the year of publication, the study purposes, and the accuracy performance metrics. …”
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Aim high, hit ×10: psychological strategies driving the success of South Korean archers by Joonyoung Lee, Suyoung Hwang

“…Trustworthiness was ensured through multiple rounds of coding, expert validation, and member checking.ResultsThe findings revealed several key themes across four phases of archery performance. …”
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Magnitude and Associated Factors of Unintended Pregnancy among Pregnant Women at Saesie Tsaeda Emba Woreda Eastern Zone of Tigray, North Ethiopia, 2018 by Gebrehiwot Gebremariam Weldearegawi, Kidanemaryam Berhe Tekola, Berhane Fseha Teklehaymanot

“…Model goodness of fit was checked using Hosmer lemeshow test. Result. The overall magnitude of unintended pregnancy was 24.9%. …”
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Medial and Lateral Meniscus Posterior Root Tears with an Intact Anterior Cruciate Ligament by Yuki Okazaki, Takayuki Furumatsu, Yuya Kodama, Yoshinori Matsumoto, Motoki Takahashi, Toshifumi Ozaki

“…The stability of the repaired menisci was checked by probing during second-look arthroscopy at one year after the primary surgery, and no meniscal signs and symptoms were present at the last follow-up one year after the surgery. …”
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Intra-rater and Inter-rater Reliability of the KangaTech (KT360) Fixed Frame Dynamometry System During Maximal Isometric Strength Measurements of the Knee Flexors. by Ellie Woolhead, Richard Partner, Megan Parsley, Ashley Jones

“…Participants performed each test twice, building to a maximal isometric contraction holding over a 5 second period with 30 second rest between sets. Data were checked for normality using a Shapiro-Wilk test. Intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC), standard error of measurement (SEM) and minimal detectable change (MDC) were calculated. …”
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The Role of Using Motorized Diamond Burr Polisher Instrument in Minimizing the Recurrent Rate of Pterygium Excision by Sakar Abdulkarim Nidhamalddin

“…After follow-up of average six months the outcomes and recurrent rate were checked, recurrent rate was in group A 1(2.2%) while in group B was 6(13.3%) patients. it significantly decreased. …”
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The effect of anesthesia on postoperative cognitive dysfunction in adults undergoing cataract surgery: a systematic review by Elaheh Foroughi, Etrusca Brogi, Francesco Forfori, Seyyed Taghi Hashemi

“…After full-text screening and checking the quality assessment of each article using the JBI checklist, 9 relevant articles were included in this study. …”
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The effect of l-ergothioneine and fetuin on blastocyst development rates by Sakine Ülküm Çizmeci, Dursun Ali Dinç, Mustafa Numan Bucak, Ömer Faruk Yeşilkaya, Vahit Ağır, Maide Gölbaşı, Ayşe Sarı, Hasan Ali Çay

“…The 6th and 7th-day blastocysts development were checked. Differences in in vitro embryo production stages were evaluated with the Chi-square test.…”
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The Effect of Parents’ Socio-Economic Status on Girl Child Dropout in Selected Primary Schools in Ntungamo Municipality by Annah, Turinawe

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Comparison of precision of a paperless electronic input method versus the conventional paper form in an andrology laboratory: a prospective study by Kevin K. W. Lam, Percy C. K. Tsang, Connie C. Y. Chan, Evans P. K. Ng, Tak-Ming Cheung, Raymond H. W. Li, Ernest H. Y. Ng, William S. B. Yeung

“…One disadvantage of this approach is the chance of post-analytical transcription errors, which can be reduced by checking the computer entries before reporting by another technician. …”
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MỘT SỐ ĐẶC ĐIỂM CỦA QUÁ TRÌNH HỢP TÁC VIỆT NAM - LIÊN BANG NGA TRÊN LĨNH VỰC KINH TẾ GIAI ĐOẠN 2001 - 2018 by Bui Thị Huyen

“…Bài viết nghiên cứu về quan hệ kinh tế Việt-Nga giai đoạn 2001-2018 trên các lĩnh vực: Thương mại, đầu tư, hợp tác năng lượng dầu khí và rút ra những đặc điểm như sau: (i) Quan hệ kinh tế Việt-Nga được kết nối từ quá khứ đến hiện tại, được thúc đẩy bởi quan hệ chính trị - ngoại giao tốt đẹp; (ii) Quan hệ kinh tế Việt-Nga diễn ra giữa hai nền kinh tế thị trường chuyển đổi nhưng có sự chênh lệch rất lớn về quy mô, trình độ phát triển và sự khác biệt các giá trị, chiến lược; (iii) Đặc điểm nổi bật của quan hệ kinh tế song phương Việt-Nga đã có sự thay đổi tổng thể, chuyển từ nguyên tắc ý thức hệ sang nguyên tắc tin cậy lẫn nhau và bình đẳng cùng có lợi; (iv) Quan hệ kinh tế Việt-Nga mặc dù đã đạt được kết quả tích cực, xong chưa tương xứng với tiềm năng, lợi thế của mỗi nước, với quan hệ hữu nghị truyền thống và đối tác chiến lược toàn diện, hiệu quả hợp tác kinh tế chưa đạt tầm với mục tiêu chính trị đề ra.…”
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