Legal regulation of the circulation of pyrotechnic products in Ukraine and administrative responsibility for its violation by K. L. Buhaichuk

“…In 2017, the order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine “On approval of the Provisional Rules of Circulation of Household Pyrotechnic Products in Ukraine” was revoked, as a result of which the normative grounds for bringing to administrative responsibility those who violated the rules of trade, storage and use of pyrotechnic products disappeared. …”
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Awareness and knowledge of halitosis among students at two different dental universities in Turkey: a cross-sectional survey by Emine Nur Kahraman, Şehrazat Erensoy, Ahu Dikilitaş, Ayşe Gülşahı, Esra Özge Aydın, Funda Seher Özalp Ateş

“…The questionnaire was distributed to a convenience sample of 250 undergraduate students from two different dentistry faculties who had completed their clinical internships. All the statistical analyses were performed using SPSS for Windows 11.5 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). …”
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Disease control and quality of life in chronic spontaneous urticaria and recurrent angioedema are strongly linked, but not in all patients by Sophia Neisinger, Pascale Salameh, Annika Gutsche, Felix Aulenbacher, Frank Siebenhaar, Marcus Maurer

“…Methods We analyzed data from 445 CSU and 330 RA patients who completed both a disease control and QoL PROM as part of the clinical routine. …”
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Psychometric Validation of the German Version of the Rapid Assessment of Physical Activity (RAPA): A Secondary Analysis of Cross‐Sectional Survey Data by Hannah McGowan, Rik Crutzen, Tari Topolski, Stefan Tino Kulnik

“…Brief physical activity screening tools can support healthcare professionals in identifying patients who would benefit from physical activity promotion and counselling. …”
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Treatment for Nontype 1 Retinopathy of Prematurity by Intravitreal Injection of Antivascular Endothelial Growth Factor Drugs by Haitao Zhang, Xin Yang, Fangfang Zheng, Xiangke Yin, Suhua Wan

“…A retrospective study was conducted to screen the nontype 1 ROP from the collected ROP patients who received intravitreal injections of anti-VEGF drugs in Henan Eye Hospital from September 2018 to June 2021. …”
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The Effect of Platelet and Mean Platelet Volume Levels on Standard-dose Methylprednisolone Treatment Response in Primary Immune Thrombocytopenia by Emrah KILICASLAN, Murat YILDIRIM, Selim SAYIN, Erdem CEVIK, Meltem AYLI, Muhammet Kursat KAPTAN

“…This study investigated whether pretreatment platelet level and other hemogram indices in patients with ITP patients can be used to predict early response to standard-dose methyl-Pd treatment. Methods: Patients who received first-line standard-dose methyl- Pd therapy with the diagnosis of primary ITP were included. …”
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome: What Are the Reasons for Dissatisfaction with the Treatment of Patients and Doctors? (Based on the Experience of Medical Institutions of the Northwestern... by A. Yu. Baranovsky, T. V. Reshetova, I. S. Sakeyan

“…By assessing the number of people who noted the disappearance or significant decrease in the intensity of the main manifestations of the disease one and three months after treatment, the effectiveness of complex therapy was studied. …”
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Shepherding parents to prepare for end-of-life decision-making: a critical phenomenological study of the communication approach of paediatricians caring for children with life-limi... by Katrina Williams, Lynn Gillam, Jenny Hynson, Sidharth Vemuri, Jenny O'Neill

“…This study aims to explore how paediatricians prepare parents for end-of-life decision-making for a child with a life-limiting condition using clinical simulation.Design Individual, semistructured, post-simulation qualitative interviews of paediatricians and parent-actors.Setting Acute intensive and long-term outpatient paediatric care in Victoria, Australia.Participants 18 purposively sampled paediatricians who treat children with life-limiting conditions and the two parent-actors involved in all simulations. …”
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Evaluation of prescribing practices and treatment failure for purulent skin and soft tissue infections in patients with obesity by Mackenzie L. Miller, Destiny M. Hughson, Noah D. Blower, Andrew P. Jameson, Lisa E. Dumkow

“…Patients: Adult patients with a body mass index of ≥ 30 kg/m2 who received ≥ 5 days of oral antibiotics for purulent cellulitis were included. …”
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Selective correlation of hippocampal volumes with WADA memory scores in mesial temporal sclerosis patients by Lourdes Khalife, Wassim Nasreddine, Fatima Jaafar, Huda Abboodi, Karim Nasreddine, Ahmad Beydoun

“…This study aims to explore the correlation between automated measures of hippocampal volume and WADA memory scores and to evaluate whether these volumetric measurements can reliably predict WADA memory scores.MethodsThis study included patients who underwent a comprehensive presurgical assessment along with bilateral WADA testing. …”
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Task shifting healthcare services in the post-COVID world: A scoping review. by Shukanto Das, Liz Grant, Genevie Fernandes

“…We analysed data thematically and utilised the WHO health systems framework and emergent themes to frame findings. …”
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Limitations of temporal (forehead) temperature readings as a screening method for covid-19 by Luis Fernando Aragón-Vargas

“…Finally, screening for fever is part of the World Health Organization recommendations for management of ill travelers at international borders (World Health Organization [WHO], 2020). Apparently, the method of choice for this fever screening is to measure temporal artery (forehead) temperature with different infrared, contactless devices which provide for a practical, reasonably safe, and quick reading. …”
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Using Milk Urea Nitrogen to Evaluate Diet Formulation and Environmental Impact on Dairy Farms by J.S. Jonker, R.A. Kohn

“…The average MUN across all farms in the study increased in the spring, but the increase was 0.52 mg/dl lower for farmers receiving MUN results compared to those who did not participate in the program. This change indicated that participating farmers reduced N feeding compared to nonparticipants. …”
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Pre-Hospital Point-of-Care Troponin: Is It Possible to Anticipate the Diagnosis? A Preliminary Report by Cristian Lazzari, Sara Montemerani, Cosimo Fabrizi, Cecilia Sacchi, Antoine Belperio, Marilena Fantacci, Giovanni Sbrana, Agostino Ognibene, Maurizio Zanobetti, Simone Nocentini

“…<b>Methods</b>: This is a prospective study comparing patients who underwent pre-hospital point-of-care troponin testing (Atellica VTLi) with a control group that underwent standard hospital-based troponin testing (Elecsys). …”
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Biochemical failure-free survival of 18F-rhPSMA-7 and 18F-flotufolastat PET-guided salvage radiotherapy for patients with recurrent prostate cancer by Marco M. E. Vogel, Isabel Rauscher, Jürgen E. Gschwend, Türkay Hekimsoy, Nicola Gabler, Charlotte Olufs, Calogero D’Alessandria, Jan C. Peeken, Stephanie E. Combs, Matthias Eiber

“…We evaluated biochemical failure-free survival (bFS) and overall rates of bFS in 110 evaluable patients with recurrent PC after radical prostatectomy who received SRT. 82 patients received 18F-rhPSMA-7/18F-flotufolastat-PET-guided SRT and 28 received C-SRT. …”
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RADIO PLAYS AS A SPECIAL GENRE IN THE WORK OF E. JELINEK by Tatiana V. Akasheva, Alexandra D. Zharkova

“…However, the author is known not only as a talented novelist and playwright, but also as a public figure who always openly expresses his own point of view on topical and controversial issues and events of today's era. …”
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Application of Logistic Regression and Decision Tree Models in the Prediction of Activities of Daily Living in Patients with Stroke by Qile Zhang, Zheyu Zhang, Xiuqing Huang, Chun Zhou, Jian Xu

“…We retrospectively collected and analyzed the clinical data of 190 patients with stroke who underwent rehabilitation therapy at our hospital between January 2020 and July 2020. …”
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The predictive value of optic nerve sheath diameter measurement via ultrasound for intracerebral hemorrhage complicated by cerebral-cardiac syndrome by Wei-Ze Fan, Jun-Rong Jiang, Hui-Ling Zang, Hui Cheng, Xiao-Hui Shen, Wen-Juan Yang, Hui Wang, Li-Xing Jing

“…Methods Patients with ICH and who were treated in the intensive care unit (ICU) at Shijiazhuang People’s Hospital between October 2021 and November 2022 were included in this study. …”
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Relationship Between Bi-Caudate Ratio and White Matter Atrophy in Brain MRI of Multiple Sclerosis by Hussein Soleimantabar, Shno Hosseini

“…Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, which was conducted to determine the relationship between BCR and white matter atrophy in brain MRI patients with MS, patients with MS who were evaluated by MRI at Imam Hossein Hospital (Tehran-Iran) in 2022 were assessed. …”
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Effect of Oral Vasopressors Used for Liberation from Intravenous Vasopressors in Intensive Care Unit Patients Recovering from Spinal Shock: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Ahmed Talaat Ahmed Ali, Mervat Anwar Abd EL-Aziz, Ahmed Mohamed Abdelhafez, Amr Mohamed Ahmed Thabet

“…A randomized controlled trial was conducted in the trauma ICU at the Assiut University Hospital in Egypt in patients with spinal shock who required intravenous vasopressor for ≥24 h. …”
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