A Cross Sectional Study of Assessment of Hearing in Infants of Gestational Diabetes Mothers by Srikanth Gopinath, Arulmozhi Sakthignanavel, Atul Mukul Bage, Rajan ND, Sasmita Mishra

“…Material & Methods: This study was conducted among 100 pregnant mothers who gave birth in Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department in a medical college in Pondicherry from December 2020 to July 2022. 50 pregnant women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) were assigned to Group 1 and 50 pregnant women who had no GDM were assigned to Group 2. …”
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Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control of Hypertension and Its Associated Risk Factors: Results from Baseline Survey of SWADES Family Cohort Study by M. D. Saju, Komal Preet Allagh, Lorane Scaria, Shinto Joseph, Jotheeswaran Amuthavalli Thiyagarajan

“…Prevalence was lower among persons who did regular vigorous intensity exercise versus those who did moderate intensity exercise (32% vs. 45.7%) and among nonsmokers versus smokers (42.2% vs. 46.6%). …”
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The Determinants of Sexual Intercourse Before Age 16 Years Among Rural Jamaican Adolescents by Olaniyi J. Ekundayo, Joana Dodson-Stallworth, Michele Roofe, Inmaculada B. Aban, Laura H. Bachmann, Mirjam C. Kempf, John Ehiri, Pauline E. Jolly

“…Female gender (OR = 0.16, 95%CI = 0.07-0.36) and older age at time of survey were protective (OR = 0.40, 95%CI = 0.32-0.52). Girls who were early starters were more likely to have been initiated by partners who were not steady boyfriends. …”
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Nonunion of a Stress Fracture at the Base of the Second Metatarsal in a Soccer Player Treated by Osteosynthesis with the Bridging Plate Fixation Technique by Futoshi Morio, Shota Morimoto, Shintaro Onishi, Toshiya Tachibana, Tomoya Iseki

“…In this case study, we report a nonunion of a stress fracture at the base of the second metatarsal in a female soccer player who had persistent pain despite continued conservative treatment, who then was treated with the bridging plate fixation technique. …”
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Immagini migranti, immagini in-discriminanti Latenze e valenze nell’uso di foto e filmati in ambito migratorio by Alberto Baldi

“…They were a mean to better define their new status of citizens of the world, who freed themselves from the poverty of the rural and southern contexts they left. …”
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3 years survival of patients with multiple myeloma. by Julio Dámaso Fernández Águila, Alexander García Blay, Luis Alberto Corona Martínez, Maritza Cabrera Zamora, Leovaldo Prieto Jiménez., Tamara Guerra Alfonso

“…There were no alarming differences in response percentage and in survival among those who received Melfalan-prednisona and those who were treated with schemes that combined both drugs. …”
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Determination of Mammalian Target of Rapamycin Hyperactivation as Prognostic Factor in Well-Differentiated Neuroendocrine Tumors by G. Lamberti, C. Ceccarelli, N. Brighi, I. Maggio, D. Santini, C. Mosconi, C. Ricci, G. Biasco, D. Campana

“…Archival material should be available for revision according to WHO 2010 neuroendocrine tumor classification and for p-mTOR, SSTR2A, and IGF-1R immunostaining, calculating a quantitative score (QS). …”
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Economic value of HPC experience for new STEM professionals: Insights from STEM hiring managers by Winona Snapp-Childs, Winona Snapp-Childs, Claudia M. Costa, Daniel Olds, Daniel Olds, Addison Snell, Julie A. Wernert, Craig A. Stewart

“…We used data from the XSEDE project to determine how many undergraduate and graduate students it enabled to acquire practical proficiency with HPC.ResultsPeople with such skills who had completed an undergraduate or graduate degree received an initial median hiring salary of approximately 7%–15% more than those with the same degrees who did not possess such skills. …”
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Essence, purpose and objectives of pre-trial investigation: theoretical and legal characteristics by V. V. Matus, V. V. Ablamska

“…The following key tasks of the pre-trial investigation have been identified: to find out the circumstances of the criminal offence (time, place, method of its commission, information about the person who committed the crime); to collect evidence that undoubtedly proves that a particular person committed the crime (testimony, photo and video materials that can help establish the facts of the crime and identify the person who committed it); to establish the circle of suspects, etc. …”
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Magnitude, Characteristics, Maternal and Feto-Neonatal Outcomes of Obstetric Emergencies in Western Ethiopia, Nekemte, Ethiopia by Ashenafi Habte Woyessa, Jote Markos Caffo, Thanasekaran Palanichamy

“…Significant proportions of pregnant women (11%) who reached health facility died of obstetric emergencies. …”
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Increasing Contraception Documentation in an Academic Rheumatology Clinic: A Quality Improvement Approach by Caroline H. Siegel, Deanna Jannat‐Khah, Avi L. Mikhaylov, Patrick Fritz, Erika L. Abramson, Lisa R. Sammaritano, Nancy Pan

“…Future interventions will focus on increasing contraception counseling and referrals for patients in rheumatology clinics who were high risk.…”
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Causes and Clinical Impact of Loss to Follow-Up in Patients with Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy by Hazem Abdelmotaal, Walid Ibrahim, Mohamed Sharaf, Khaled Abdelazeem

“…This prospective cohort study included 467 patients with PDR who received PRP and/or IVIs of anti-VEGF between May 2013 and June 2018. …”
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Applying Educational Programming Language-Based Learning to Enhance the Programming Skills of Non-ICT Engineering College Students by Jorge Rodas-Silva, Jorge Parraga-Alava, Mariuxi Vinueza-Morales, Ana Eva Chacón Luna, Jesennia Cárdenas-Cobo

“…The study results showed that students who received EPL-mediated learning with App Lab had significant increase in their programming skills. …”
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Prognostic and Predictive Value of CpG Island Methylator Phenotype in Patients with Locally Advanced Nonmetastatic Sporadic Colorectal Cancer by Yuwei Wang, Yadong Long, Ye Xu, Zuqing Guan, Peng Lian, Junjie Peng, Sanjun Cai, Guoxiang Cai

“…Fifty stage II/III colorectal cancer patients who received radical resection were included in this study. …”
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Construction and validation of a test of knowledge of contraceptive methods for adolescents by Karla Elisa Cervantes Jácome, Silvia Susana Robles Montijo, José Cristóbal Pedro Arriaga Ramírez, Juan José Sánchez Sosa

“…Of the 36 initial items, 31 showed discriminatory power between those who performed well on the test and those who did not. …”
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Could Selectively Skipping of the Repetitive Thinking Questionnaire among a Series of Self-Report Scales in a Study Be a Coping Strategy? by İ. Volkan GÜLÜM, İhsan DAĞ

“…Objective: Depending on an observation in which some of the subjects’ nonrandom irresponsiveness to repetitive thinking questionnaire items among fully answered others in a study of current researchers, the aims of the present study were to test that whether the ignorance of repetitive thinking items is a stress coping strategy or not, to compare people who ignore the repetitive thinking items (IRT) with people who have high repetitive thinking (HRT) and low repetitive thinking (LRT) in context of attachment patterns, sychopathological symptoms and cognitive flexibility.Method: 432 (278 women and 154 men) college students were selected from a larger research project sample pool which had funded by TÜBİTAK. …”
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Decrease in HBsAg After TAF Switching from Entecavir During Long-Term Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection by Kazuto Tajiri, Yuka Hayashi, Aiko Murayama, Nozomu Muraishi, Masami Minemura, Ichiro Yasuda

“…HBsAg loss occurred in three patients who switched to TAF. No adverse effects were observed, and TAF was well tolerated. …”
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FAN score predicts prognosis after platinum-based first-line chemotherapy in patients with metastatic urothelial carcinoma by Yu Ishizuya, Atsunari Kawashima, Yuki Horibe, Akinaru Yamamoto, Masaru Tani, Akihiro Yoshimura, Liu Yutong, Sassi Nesrine, Toshiki Oka, Yohei Okuda, Toshihiro Uemura, Gaku Yamamichi, Takuji Hayashi, Yoshiyuki Yamamoto, Taigo Kato, Koji Hatano, Norio Nonomura

“…We included 126 patients with mUC who received platinum-based first-line chemotherapy. …”
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Mitotane-Induced Hyperlipidemia: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Hassan Shawa, Ferhat Deniz, Hadil Bazerbashi, Mike Hernandez, Rena Vassilopoulou-Sellin, Camilo Jimenez, Mouhammed Amir Habra

“…We retrospectively analyzed lipid data in 38 patients with adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) who received mitotane therapy with emphasis on HDL cholesterol (HDL-c) and clinical predictors of lipid changes. …”
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Association between the use of electronic cigarettes and subsequent initiation of tobacco cigarettes in the youth population of a city: A retrospective cohort study by Khadeejah Hussain, Sancheti P. V., Agrawal M, Parande M. A., Tambe M. P., Borle P

“…Subjects were interviewed using an approved questionnaire containing sections about demographic data, details of behaviours related to E-cigarette use. Results: Those who had previous E-cigarette exposure had 7.27 times the risk of subsequent initiation of combustible cigarettes than those who did not have previous E-cigarette exposure (Relative Risk = 7.27). …”
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