Regional variation of risk factors among diabetic retinopathy patients in India: Findings from the INDO EYE study by Gopal S Pillai, Bibhuti Prassan Sinha, C. S. Sheeba, Manabjyoti Barman, Alok Sen, Natarajan Sundaram, Merin Dickson, Ashid Salim, Geethu Paul, Deepthi Geetha KrishnanNair, Manjisa Choudhury, Aniket Kumar, Poonam Jangidm, Anjana Abhilash

“…Chi-square tests assessed associations between categorical variables, and one-way ANOVA evaluated continuous variables across zones. Statistical significance was set at P < 0.05, with analysis performed using the IBM SPSS Statistics 28. …”
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Evaluating Knowledge, Attitude, and Behavior of Dentists on HIV/AIDS in West Java, Indonesia, in the COVID-19 Era by Irna Sufiawati, Muhammad Arib Rafi, Fidya Meditia Putri

“…About half of the dentists in West Java have good knowledge, positive attitudes, and behavior towards HIV/AIDS, but the others lack knowledge, negative attitudes, and behavior. Continuing HIV/AIDS education and training programs for dentists are still needed to keep improving their knowledge and awareness to support disease prevention and control in this COVID-19 era.…”
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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: MODERNIZING THE CURRENT MODEL OF STATE MANAGEMENT by E. V. Ohotskii

“…Taking into consideration the logic, historical continuity, nonlinearity of modernization reforms and logical determinacy of social systems it looks like we are to integrate the best of the global public administration practice, especially those elements that will actually facilitate the rise of Russia as a modern democratic social law-governed state.…”
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Peptic ulcer: does it changed identity? by Ye. A. Pyatenko, A. A. Sheptulin

“…Overall 79 case records of patients with PUD of the stomach (PUS) (16 men, 33 women), PUD of duodenum (PUD) (15 men, 9 women) and PUD of combined localization (1 man and 5 women) were included in the study by continuous sampling method. Symptom frequency at PUD relapse and accompanying changes was estimated independently for male and female groups. …”
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Soil Properties as Affected by Soil Conservation Practices and Soil Depths in Uwite Watershed, Hadero Tunto District, Southern Ethiopia by Mulugeta Hadaro, Tuma Ayele, Sharma Parshotam Datt, Rahel Teshome

“…Both practices of soil bund and Fanya juu terrace merit their continuation on the existing lands and upscaling to other degraded areas for sustained land productivity and socioeconomic-environmental stability in the region…”
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Immunopathology of Airway Surface Liquid Dehydration Disease by Brandon W. Lewis, Sonika Patial, Yogesh Saini

“…In particular, the mucociliary escalator provides an effective mechanism for the continuous removal of inhaled insults including pathogens. …”
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Evaluation of Satellite Rainfall Products over the Mahaweli River Basin in Sri Lanka by Helani Perera, Shalinda Fernando, Miyuru B. Gunathilake, T. A. J. G. Sirisena, Upaka Rathnayake

“…Thereafter, statistical analysis was carried out using continuous and categorical evaluation indices to evaluate the accuracy of SRPs. …”
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Clove oil as a neuromodulator in environmental cadmium cognitive impairment on the prefrontal cortex of Wistar rats by Obinna O. Uchewa, Chinedu B. Egwuagu, Ogugua A. EGWU, Augustine O. Ibegbu

“…The discrimination index reduced in the untreated group (p < 0.05) while the reduction continued in groups C and E (0.14±0.09 and 0.27±0.02), and group D increased (0.81±0.02). …”
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Intertextuality in Selected Narrative Poems of Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí by Arinpe Adejumo, Adefemi Akinseloyin

“…Using intertextuality approach, this paper, therefore, examines the interplay of the text, context and the writer in selected poems of Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí with a view to determining the correlation between the Yorùbá oral poetic genres and the written form in Fálétí’s poetry and determining the continuity of the oral poetic genre in the written form. …”
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RATIONALIZATION OF THE NUSANTARA TAFSIR AND THE MIDDLE EAST: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE INTERPRETATION OF AL-FĀTIHAH BY KH. ZAINI MUN’IM AND AHMAD MUST{AFĀ AL-MARĀGHĪ by Mas'ud Ubaidillah

“…The interpretation of the Qur’an continues to develop following the social, cultural, and geographical context—the interpretations of KH. …”
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An Experimental Study on Coal Fines Migration during Single Phase Water Flow by Wenlong Han, Yanbin Wang, Jingjing Fan, Yong Li, Xiang Wu, Yun Yu

“…Coal fines migration and intrusion in coal fractures affect coalbed methane (CBM) wells performance by reducing reservoir permeability and production continuity. Physical simulations are conducted to investigate the permeability variation under different diameter coal fines intrusion at various flow velocities and confining pressures. …”
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Provision of veterinary services in livestock holdings in the Russian Federation by M. A. Shibayev, A. S. Oganesyan, A. Selyanin, A. V. Belchikhina, I. M/ Klinovitskaya, A. K. Karaulov

“…Being the primary link in the disease notification system, specialists of the veterinary service in livestock holdings ensure continuous monitoring and control of animal health. …”
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Failure Mechanism of Salt Barrier in Saline Soil Subgrade in Cold and Arid Plateau Areas by Yurong Zhang, Wen Zhang, Yanbin Fan, Shiyi Liu, Yunxiu He, Yi Zou

“…When no water barrier geotextile layer is set in the subgrade structure, there is frequently a high headwater and salt transport in the soil layer of the subgrade structure for a long time. There is continuous vapor and salt transport in the large pores of the coarse-grained salt barrier. …”
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Forecasting mental states in schizophrenia using digital phenotyping data. by Thierry Jean, Rose Guay Hottin, Pierre Orban

“…Previous research focused on binary classification and continuous regression, disregarding the often ordinal nature of prediction targets derived from clinical rating scales. …”
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Potential for eliminating COVID-19 in Thailand through third-dose vaccination: A modeling approach by Pannathon Kreabkhontho, Watchara Teparos, Thitiya Theparod

“…The COVID-19 pandemic continues to pose significant challenges to global public health, necessitating the development of effective vaccination strategies to mitigate disease transmission. …”
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Stratégies organisationnelles pour fournir des services d’enseignement des langues étrangères aux adultes de plus de 45 ans by Iryna Rudnyeva

“…Whether through social services, formal education systems, informal educational channels, or self-organization, each country’s approach highlights the importance of adapting educational services to meet the needs of an adult population seeking continued personal and professional growth.…”
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‘There’s a Little Bit of Tension There’: perspectives of mothers and early childhood educators on breast-feeding in child care centers by Jill R Demirci, Rachel Dieterich, Melissa Glasser, Caroline Harpel, Timothy Shope

“…Improving breast-feeding outcomes for this population requires structural/policy changes that: (1) maximise opportunities for continued, direct breast-feeding and maternal/infant proximity and (2) enforce evidence-based CCC feeding protocols and standards and EC educator lactation training. …”
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Acoustic and perceptual impact of face masks on speech: A scoping review. by Gursharan Badh, Thea Knowles

“…The findings of the scoping review provided evidence that facial coverings negatively impacted speech intelligibility, which is likely due to a combination of auditory and visual cue degradation. Due to the continued prevalence of mask use, how facial coverings affect a wider variety of speaker populations, such as those with communication impairments, and strategies for overcoming communication challenges should be explored.…”
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A novel bladder cancer surveillance schedule using bladder Cx for patients on annual surveillance by Arjun Guduguntla, Thomas Whish‐Wilson, Lauren Chandler, Dennis Gyomber

“…All suitable patients consented to continuing with the CxM protocol. The hospital surveillance cystoscopy waitlist was reduced by approximately 59% and CxM was approximately $850 AUD cheaper than a cystoscopy. …”
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Dermatologic Adverse Events Following Afatinib in a Woman with Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer: A Case Report by Tsaqilah L, Putri AD, Avriyanti E

“…The administration of afatinib was continued and the patient was treated with moisturizer, sunscreen, and mild cleanser, topical antibiotic, and topical steroid along with oral doxycycline and oral cetirizine for four weeks. …”
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